The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-13
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News via. New York.
New YORK. July ID

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men continues to give both civil and military
authorities much trouble Many of the plant
ers it is said are desirous of getting rid of
| the negroes altogether, and supplying their
places with white laborers from the North
| and Europe.
| The committee of Richmond men who vis-
| tied President johnson to endeavor to induce
him to rescind the $4,000 exemption in the
amnesty proclamation, have returned without
meeting with any success.
| The old Virginia State Banks are now in
process Of liquidation, and it is thought that
| holders of their notes will not realize over
twenty cents on the dollar.
| Henry A. Wise has made application to the
military authorities for restoration of his
former estate, near Norfolk with rather a
poor prospect of succeeding.
| Some of the Nirgnlans propose to again
| put up Wise as a candidate for Governor.
| There is great destitutlon among the inhab-
tants Of Spottsylvania county, and il has
| been proposed to send agents to the cities of
| Philadelphia and Baltimore to solicit aid for
| them.
| The Times Washington special says Gen.
Hooker will at once assume command of the
Department of the East, vice General Dix.
| There were pardons granted to-day to per-
sons coming under the $4,000 exception.
| ded in them were no persons of notoriety.
| Assistant Commissioner Fisk, of the Freed
| mems Bureau now at Nashville, writes that
| the rebels returning from the disbanded ar
| mics avow openly their intention to re-es.ab-
| lsh slavery a. soon as the L mon soldiers
are Withdrawn from them. In general no at
| tempt is made By the white people TO con
vince the blacks that slavery i abolished; as
| q consequence the colored pe0Yle in large
numbers have lett aud are Leaving their EN-
| plovers and the latter were complaining to
| the Commissioners that the negroes would
not fulfill their contracts for labor. General
| tiske attended a convention of about 1000
| colored people, where the subject of emanci-
patton was discussed, and assured the blacks
| that their freedom was beyond doubt. The
| negroes were then assured that they would
not again be made slaves, and promised TO re-
| turn 10 their late employers and resume labor.
| Gen. Hancock and staff will remove their
| headquarters from this city to Baltimore on
| Friday or Saturday OF this week, when the
| General will assume command OF the Middle
Department.
The troops Of the First Army Corps viii he
removed from Calup Stoneman to some point
in Mary land. probably near Monocacy Junc-
| tion.
In very short time there will be no troops
| in the vicinity of Washington, but the bare
garrison of thirty.
Orders have beep issued for mastering ont
| the balance of the Ninth Army Corps. Bat
| little more than 4 division Of this corps is
! left
The regular cavalry brigade. which has done
such effective service during the war, will
probably soon be flied to its maximum
strength. The regiments are at present very
much scattered. The first regiment is in
j, Texas with Sheridan, part Of it acting as his
| body guard. he second is at Winchester,
Va. The third at Little Rock. Ark. The
| fourth with Gen. Wilson in Tennessee The
| fifth at Cumberland, and the sixth at Frede-
rick, Nd.
The Tribune Washington special says one
| Of the prominent counsel engaged in the late
conspiracy trial, asserts positively that spir-
| ituai attendants were denied admission to
Mrs. Surratt's $ cell on the day OF the execu-
tion, until Secretary Stanton had received
from them promise that they would not on
the scaffold proclaim their belief in her inno-
cence.
| A gentleman just from Fortress Monroe re-
ports the health of jeff Davis much better
! than it has been at any time duripg his incar-
ceration. His meals are sent direct from the
| table of DR. Craven, his attendant physician,
| by his daughter and by her delivered to the
| officer having immediate charge over him.
The Doctor is keeping An accurate journal
| of his professional interviews with Mr.. Davis
which will hereafter throw some interesting
| rays of light on the imprisonment of the arch
| traitor
| The following is a copy of letter addressed
| to his excellenev, President Davis. and re-
| Gently received by the commandant of the
! Fortress:
NJ Dear old Friend You must by this
| time be nearly ont of money. In send you
| the enclosed. Take it and pay your fare TO
| hell with it.
| The enclosure consisted of one thousand
dollars in Confederate money. The writer of
the letter is an exrebel soldier, and if slight
y heartless, aud triae profane, his letter
serves to show the feelings Of thousands Of j.
| ID. dupes and victims.
| The report that jeff Davis and C. c. Clay
would be tried BY Military Commission does
| not seem to be without confirmation. 1t is on
| good authority that at least one of the mem
| bers of the former Court has received an or
| der assigning him as one of the n~w Com
| mission. !
Gen. Howard has received report from G..
B. Fiske, Assistant Commissioner of the Bu-
reau of Freedmen and Refugees, at Nashville,
Tennessee. He says the insolence and ILL
| treatment from the returning rebel soldiers
has very much TO do with the reluctance with
| which the eololored people continue work on
| the plantations.
The Herdlds Washington special says the
receipts ofthe Treasury from the Internal Rev
enue Bureau, fell alittle below half million
| daily.
| The sale of 7-30s cannot be expected to
| keep pace with the unprecented expenditure,
| the Secretary has therefore decided to pay
| but twenty-five per cent Of allowed claims in
| currency and to tender the creditors of the
government the remaining seventy-fve per
cent in certificates Of Indebtedness. The op-
GRAFTON of this rule began this morning
Mr.. Gentry, of the Tennessee rebel Legisla-
| ture, some times styled the eagle orator, who
contested the governorship of the State with
Andy Johnson in 1858, is in the city desiring
pardon. Among other rebels of greater or
lesser magnitude, sid to be now in Washing
ton for the same purpose, are Senator Gar
land and Congressman R0ylston, Of Arkansas
Golmer and Bridges, Of the Lower House,
from North Carolina; Mr. Smith, not grum-
bling Bill, an ex-menber Of the kederal Con-
gress and member Of the rebel Congress
| from the beginning ofthe war, and Col Hunt, Of
Shelby county, Tennessee, late Of the rebel
ordnance department.
w. 7. Avery, member ofthe Federal Con-
press from the Meyuryh;a t1ietrick fnosSS 1874