GENERAL SUMMARY.

North Otago Times, 17 August 1865, Page 5 (Supplement)

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The attempted enlistment* for Mexico are a complete failure. President .Johnson intends to preserve friandly relations with Europeans ; is said to intend to restrict rights of blacks, and that they will not be allowed to appear as witnesses against whites. The French Emperor has returned from Algeria to Paris. He has censured Prince Napoleon for his speech at the inauguration of the Neapolitan statue at Ajjachio. Prince Napoleon has resigned the VicePresidency of the Council of Stake, and the Presidency of the Commission of the Universal Exhibition. The Austrian Ministry have resigned. A Gaeette has been published withdrawing from (word illegible) of the Confederate States «ll recognition of belligerent rights, to ftr tt England is concerned. Frmnee *nd Spain issued notifications. Parliament will fee prorogued «bo«t the lOtk July. The Ctnadian IMegatet , m. tiair Tftum to Qanftd*, reported thtjt there was a eoAplete agreement between their views *nd those of tho JImperial Government on the defence of Canada.

AMERICA. Lee, Longstreet, Letcher and others have been indicted for treason. Davis was put in chains in Fort Munro, but has been since released from chains and sent to the Capitol Prison at Washington. Kirby Smith surrendered all. President Johnston has proclaimed amnesty to all except civil diplomatic officers, Governors, superior army and naval officers, pirates, border raiders, and persons with property above twenty thousand dollars. All military prisoners below Major-Gen., and naval prisoners below Captain, were released. All the Legislators of Georgia and Mississippi have been forbidden to assemble. The State of Alabama has asked permission to call & Convention and restore the Union by solemn vote. All the great meetings are in support of Johnson. The Couper Institute meeting in favor of Secession being punished as treason ; Negro suffrage, and the Munro [}) doctrine of demanding indemnification from Great Britain, for Alabama. Giant refused to speak at meeting. Government evidence is published of Davis' and Southern leaders' intention to burn New York «rad Northern cities, introduce yellow fever, and poison the water in resesrvoirs. The testimony is throughout false. Jk.ll ports of States, except Texas, open to foreign trade after 1st July. Negroes are badly treated in the States, and are committing great outrages. A party of two hundred soldiers attacked a csltlement at Washington, burnt the furniture, and drove the negroes out. The negroes i allied and a fight ensued. Firearms were used, and several persons wounded. Negroes have been beaten for attempting to ride in street cars in Philadelphia. Sereral thousand tons of ammunition have been blown up at Chattanoga. A large store burnt at Nashville, worth nine million 'dollais/ Torpedo discovered in Custom-house at Mobile. Two hundred thonsand black and colored people in Virginia are starving, and depending on the Government for food. Eleven thousand rations served out daily in Richmond. The Confederate commander Maury offered to4Wrrender to Admiral Gordon in same terms as those of General Loo. It ii thought that Secretary Benjamin has escaped to Bermuda ; Treasurer Treaurn (r) to the West Indies ; and Breckaridge to Cuba. Gold, 145.