The Sun. — 1865-11-04 (London, England)

AMERICA.  (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) (Per the China.)  Nnw YORK, Oct. 24 (Evening).  The news from the South is meagre, but satisfactory. Business is being rapidly revived and Northern capital largely invested. The question of labour still, however, engrosses serious attention, and fears are entertained that the crops for several seasons, pending the effectual organisation of free labour, must be far below their former average. In some quarters the negroes are said to be discontented, idle, and turbulent to an extent justifying fears of an insurrection ; but should any such outbreak occur, it is presumed that it would be confined to some not very extended locality, and would be speedily quelled by the military. The Freedme" Bureau have, however, taken important measures to prevent such occurrences. General Bennett, at Charleston, South Carolina, issued an order instructing the Federal troops to avoid interfering with the approaching election, and to keep away from the vicinity of the polls. The results of the election are as yet unknown. General Wade Hampton and J. C. Orr were candidates for the Governorship. General Hampton's friends were confident of his election. Great animosity is said to exist in some parts of the State between the whites and negroes ; this is particularly the case on the coast where the freedmen are established upon abandoned plantations under the protection of the Freedmen's Bureau. It is alleged that the negroes are allowing the land to run to waste, although they will not relinquish them, and that they are merely raising enough to sustain themselves, and are making no provisions for regular crops. Most of the negroes are armed and serious collisions were apprehended. General 0. 0. Howard, chief of the Freedmen's Bureau has gone to South Carolina for the purpose of effecting an adjustment of the existing difficulties and averting any serious consequences of the antipathy developed in the section between the races.  In Mississippi the excitement attending the election had passed away without any disturbance, and the people were earnestly aiding the authorities in their efforts to restore the prosperity of the State, and to secure political harmony. Governor Humphreys is said to be very popular, as also are all the recently elected officials.  Thd Wirz trial has at last closed, and the decision of the court will be rendered in a few days. Colonel Chipman, Judge-Advocate, concluded his argument for the prosecution on the 21st. He claimed that Wirz had, according to the evidence, perpetrated eighteen murders with his own hands. At the conclusion of the argument Wirz, at his own request, underwent a medical examination for purpose of showing that he could not have been in a physical condition to commit the violence attributed to him. The examination showed his right arm to have suffered severely from prolonged necrosis, and his system to be severely shattered by scurvy and gangreen sores. The Fenian Congress at Philadelphia has nearly closed its present session. The office of Head Centre has been abolished and that of President created, Col. John O'Mahony being elected unanimously president of all the brotherhood in North America. A so. called Superior Council has been created likewise. Rumours are current to the effect that Sir F. W. Bruce has filed a serious protest against the encouragement of the Fenian movement by American citizens, or its toleration by Federal authorities. President Johnson on Saturday pardoned nearly 200 South Carolinians. Among those who yesterday had private interviews with the President were Hon. Pierre Soule, Hon. R. M. S. Hunter of Virginia, and the Confederate General Richard Taylor. The latter is a brother-in-law to Mr. Davis. The following important proclamation was issued at Mexico on the 2d of October .  " Mexicans,—The cause which Benito Juarez upheld with so much valour and constancy succumbed some time since, not only to the national will, but to the very law which that leader invoked in sup