The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-12

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New YORK, July 1.-THE Herald S
Louisville correspondent has received
a reliable telegram from Ellis Cliffs,
twenty-five miles below NatcEez,
and says the army worm has appear red
two months earlier than usual. threat
ening destruction to all the cotton
plantations on overfowed lands.
The Heralds New Orleans special
says there has been an unusual de-
preston in city scrip to-day, brokers
refusing to take it atany price, and an
obscure rumor is afoat that the city
notes once redeemed to be burned,
have been cautiously given out again.
Under the new order of General
Sheridan, the registration is progress
ing feebly, and with no animation.
More whites are being registered in
proportion to the blacks at present
than heretofore.
An order will be promulgated to-
morrow directing the Board of. Reg
istration to proceed to select suitable
persons for Commissioners thereof
A generalization of reports at head
quarters shows that out of 111,53f
persons registered in Louisiana, there
have been only 81 .42S whites against
"a, 116 blacks From a few sub-d
tricts no reports have been filed since
July; but nothing to come will mate
rally alter the above figures. The
blacks stand to the whites nearly two
to one, and will SO continue. a1 sta.-
An official report transmitted to
the Mexican Consul here, states that
President Juarez and his Cabinet left
San Luis Potesi. on the 1st inst, for
the Capital, where he. would be re-
ceived with great pomp and eclat, as
the deiverer of his country and the
defender of republican principles in
Mexico.
The Wilderness left this morning,
having on board Madame Juarez, Sc
nor Romero, brother of the Mexican
Minister and bearer of important dis
patches to President Juarez, Senior
.Santocillo, son-in-law of the, Presi-
dent, and others.
Mr.. Robinson of New Orleans, Re-
publican, and Emil Lazere and an ex-
confederate, at one time an agent of
Macmillan, and of. Tehuantepec and
Rio Grande notoriety, were the bear
ers of United States dispatches. The
so-often and o-mysteriously- alluded
to Lazere, it is understood, is still In
the interest of the railway scheme
and represents Marshal O. Roberts,
of New York, in securing that which
Santa Anna failed to secure for want
of power to fulfill his obligations.
The officers and men of the imperi-
al army, recently landed at Mobile,
have arrived here and will be furn-
ished transportation to New York, if
desired
The HeraldAs correspondence says
Santa Anna was still in prison. He
refused food for three days, and was
continually enquiring if they intended
to shoot him. He asked for a con-
fessor.
The Tribune's Washington special
says Mr.. Ould, late Confederate Com
missioner for the exchange of prison
ers, has been before Batler's Con-
spiracy Commission, and was exam
ined with reference to the response
bility of various Federal officers
regarding the exchange of prisoners.
He was closely examined by General
Butler as to the acts of the General
Government.
Gov Flanders, of Louisiana, arrived
here this morning. to consult with
Congress in regard to repairing the
levees of the Mississippi River, and
also in regard to reconstruction.
The Times special says that large
delegation of both white and black
Unionists have arrived here from
North Carolina, and are here for the
purpose of urging upon Congress the
necessity of entirely abolishing the
present State Government in the
South. In their petitions set forth
it is said that the Union men of the
South will have better opportunity
of controlling the registration OF
voters, &C., if the present organiza-
tions are utterly abolished in North
Carolina.
The delegation is headed by an In.
telligent colOred man, named Harris
who is President of the Equal Rights
League of that State, and. in behali
of that organization, he will present
to Congress a petition for the relief o.
ex Governor Holden from the. polit
ical disabilities imposed upon him by
his active participation in the rebel
lion.
New York, July IA dispatch
from Fort Wallace says the Indian;
made another attack and were re-
| pulsed. Thirteen soldiers were killed