AMERICA.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 79, 12 October 1865, Page 8

AMERICA.

'■] ' The Military Commission on the great jsdtiSpiracy 1 j*i<ft£- hay'S 'agreed on the VSrdict; : biitthe not yet been published.. : ; \# ■' l*he Judge- Adivocate asserted that four oi the "prisoner*? wefe fcedlok-conspirators with J Bobth^ -° a!nil ; contended that Davis, Sander^ Tucker,': and others, planned and assisted in. President Lincoln's assassination. ■-■*■■. - .. , ,' A "seijiJous -' : : ¥fia^y.' ptsctirtedi at Ponts-'taouth^'"-Vifgama^_\|iei;weeii the white and the coloured population, and many were wounded. ; General Herron, commanding in North Ijouisiana, has ibrbidden 'slaves^ to leave the plantations.. The Govewior of 1 Kentucky 'adaresseil the people, Mplaring' siayery dead, ;and urging the aaoption of a constitutional amendment. .. : Secretary M^Cullddh dif ected the subordinates in the Southern States appointed under the late commercial . restrictions, to adjust the official business and transfer it to regularly appointed -officers. Mr.Trenholnjy the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, has been released from confinement. ■> . A' great famine is existing , in Atlanta. Government sent supplies to relieve the inhabitants. ' lt),00©! rebel prisoners, exclusive of officers, remain in Federal hands, to be released in ten days. , . Thei estimated; loss of the Confederates during K the late war is five billions of dollars. Washington, Bth July., . !Payne>, Harrold, Atzoriait, ahdvMrs.Sur" ratt were hung yesterday. The Judge of the Supreme Court previously served a writ of habeas corpus on General Hancpck in Mrs. Surratt's case, which, by, President Johnston's order/ was iot obeyed.. . , . Large numbers of " Federal troops are lahdihg'south of Rio Grande. Six thousand colored troops arrived at Brazos, and occupied Table Pass, Large quantities of ' cqtton are' still in South' Carolina, planters hblcling' back .iiithe t. Jbelieit .that., another crop cannot '_ be raised under tlie new labor system. ; . It is reported officially that Spain ; will 'surrender the' Stonewall to the United States.. ■'■ / ' '. ;'" ' "■'"'"','' 1 1 ' . . '"" '' / .' 12thauly, : ' h(^eni^ntVorders "of the Potomac to be mustered, ' " s

" PreSfderit Johnstoapersists: m- refusing an> anlties\y 'pEdcjanKfttidn, 'excluding rebels :■■ ; ;•- • Tiki rniiMiy i A In- 'KeiUuckjr arrested ( J Emerspii. and Dobheridge,'.:fbr having- niaa'e incendiary speeches at Tennessee. - ,