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Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 72, 24 August 1865, Page 9

The negroes in the south are likely tp.gire .great trouble, and they have excited so much bad feeling in the North that in some places they are very harshly treated. In the South, they demand the franchise. In Kentucky*the white refuse to employ them, and they have, in consequence, appealed to the President. The following description of their conduct we take . from the intelligence brought by the mail which' left New York on June 10 : — The condition of the freedom at the South is said to be far from what their friends desire. They are flocking to cities and large towns in such numbers that employment even for those, seeking work cannot be secured, while, from the same cause, labor in the agricultural districts is becoming scarce. The negroes also hang about the military camps, a fact which has called forth from military commanders a number of orders requiring the blacks to work, and refusing to issue to them rations to be eaten in idleness* In some sections the negroes are perpetrating gross outrages. The • Macon (Georgia) Telegraph' of the 23rd May states t bat certain fanatical persons have in that section been inciting negroes to plunder. The same paper ot later date give an account of an' outrage perpetrated in Talbot county by a party of 45, headed by a white man. They burned several gin-houses and a quantity! of cotton and and wheat. They also robbed people of money and jewellery, and committed outrages of a more diabolical character. A party of citizens finally went against them, and secured a number of the offenders, The leader and four others were shot, three who had committed rape were' hurned, and one hung. A. few days later 15 negroes were found lying dead within a few hundred yards on the banks of the river, near Macon. No marks of violence were found on their bodies, nor was it known how they came to their death. Outrages by organised bands of negroes in various other portions of the; South are reported- In South Carolina the people were in fear of general insurrection among the blacks, and isolated plantations without , mili- ~ tary guards were in many cases abandoned. A vigorous retrenchment is progressing in the national expenditure. A large 'number of naval vessels are announced to be sold, and the number retained in commission is to be reduced to the actual requirement. Most of the iron-clads are to be laid up but of com-' mission in the Delaware lliver. The home squadron is to consist of.loQ vessels. < Publicfeeling in the North ..is strongly in. favor of putting down the Mexican monarchy, and of insisting upon the demands made upon ; England respecting the Alabama.