The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-27


both in the Congress and csbneL The address OF
Jaatcx and tie reply OF Molez the OF the
| rcaaemhlns, Outline OF which given in our
specia fees a@ are Published in fun this morning.
Additional particulars received OF the loss OF the
steamer Raleigh. third boat arrived at Charleston
yesterday with thirteen persons in from tho
week The purser makes = statement which confirms
tho news already published concerning the fire. Mao
persons are known to have boen lost only or whom
was passenger .he fate Of Captain Marsnman Is stn
enveloped in mystery. list OF los, and saved As
lar as eau DO made out Is published elsewhere. There
we're only three cabin aud fifteen Storage passengers
board, and the ships complement was forty-Hvs.
An estimate compiled from statistics collected by the
governors OF Southern States places tho number of
whites and blacks IN louisans, Mississippi Alabama
Georgia and the Caroiuas who arc in starving condi-
ton at thrce millions
difficulty occurred between major general and an
ex-capain At the opera Washington on Monday even
ing On account OF the refusal of general TO permit
the captain TO pass out Il s since reported that the
captain has challenged the general aud intends post
him II he docs not accept
Ex.sscreary stanton In Washington, busy II is said,
In preparing his defence for Senate additional
reasons for hm removal Is stated that be divulged
Cabinet secrets which the President had declined fur
nsh ct the request Of Congress and also connived tho
circulation OF SANDERS relative 10 the connection OF the
President with the assassination Of Mr.. Lincoln.
II is stated in Washington that General Meade has
quescd TO DO assigned 10 the command Of General
fope's district
Several serious crevasses have occurred In Louisiana
and . general overflow OF the lover parishes on the
eastern side is feared General Hancock has requested
permission to the starving negroes work upon the
levees and TO issue rations to them.
The enjoyment Of Christmas by the Canadians wss
somewhat alleged account OF fearful reports Of a
Fenisn uprising on that day and = probable blowing
up OF the English Cathedral at Montreal. Men we're
sent TO guard the water works. and the troops wsro
kept in readiness; but as usual nothing of the sort
occurred.
An ARRAY occurred ia the Connecticut state Hospital
at New Havon yesterday, when tho steward Joseph
Cotton was stabbed Eve times. although without bong
dangerously wounded
Jen Davis and his wife arrived In Havana yesterday
on their way to New Orleans.
Disturbances are reported in Greenvlls Demopolis
and Camden Ala, troops boon ordered 10 those
points.
The killing OF . policeman, . German lad, and negro
boy, aud the wounding OF about dozen other persons
were among the Christmas festivities In Memphis
Tenn
A negro shot and killed white man in Washington
on Christmas night for running UP against him they
turned corner going in opposite directions. The
murderer escaped
We are informed that tho nrm Of Perry rettiman,
OF North Adams. Mass manufacturers OF wooen goods,
have failed their liabilities beng about $685. 0Oo
Tho Dreadful Condition Of the South
What Is the Duty Of Congress. ~ /
The roliicking Christmas festivities which |
from the old colonial times down to the late |
disastrous rebellion made the interval FROM |
/" the night before Christmas {" TO the day after |
New Year an annual African jubilee
Away down South, in Dixie.
have been swept away, and will only exist
hereafter In history. From Virginia to Texas
the blacks who were slaves have not only
become freemen, but have been invested by
Congress with equal rights as citizens and
superior political privileges over the whites,
their late masters. But still these emanci-
pated blacks are to be pitled. Masters Of their
own movements, they take to work only by |
fits and starts, and have ceased to DO reliable
as laborcrs. They spent this year as last year,
too much OF the summer working season in
idleness or in dancing attendance at political
and 80 with tho return Of the Christ
mas holidays they have had no Christmas
roast pig turkey or chicken for the family din
ner 10 The cabin, or they have obtained it by
stealing or "confiscation " OF the property Of
their white neighbors.
We had anticipated this season some reports
OF serious holiday disturbances and collisions
between the whites and blacks in the cotton
States, instead OF the old time Christmas Hastings !
and diversions; but so far we have no accounts Of
any unusual breaches OF the peace. A special |
despatch from New Orleans yesterday says that
Christmas there was unprecedentedly quiet; that |
instead OF tho mcrrymakinys heretofore at
tending the day there were mourning, want and
dcsolation; that the day was like summer. the
thermometer rising to seventy-eight degrees;
that the churches, decorated with exquisite
flowers. were throngcd with worshippers: but
that these congregations expressed not The joys
and bright hopes OF the millennium, but the sore
Il stresses OF a most unhappy people and their
fears or d coming conflict OF races, with it,
reign Of terror.
General Hancock had asked Tor authority
from Washington to put the sta wing negroes
of Louisiana at work upon the levees, which
were beginning again to give way under the
pressure Of the rising waters. In the interior
parishes negro deprcdati ons Qor food) con-
timed TO give alarm, although one very om-
nous asscmblage OF armed blacks had been
quietly disoanled by the United States milf
tsry forces. General Hancock's district, or
ut least the Louisiana part Of IL. we thus per-
ceivc. is in m better condition than the district
Of General Ord, embracing Mississippi aud
Arkansas. All three of these Statcs-the glory
of tue lower Mississippi having been drowned
ont lass spring by unprecedented foods AMI
eaten out by the worms In the summer-are
now most mis- ,rably des.isut, OF the neccssaries
OF life and OF the means whcrewith 70 procure
them. General Ord and General Hancock