10 JUNE 1865, Page 2

Dr. Blackburn, the man accused of attempting to send over

yellow fever from the Bahamas by infecting clothes with it and then selling them to the Northern people or soldiers, has been seized and examined in Canada, and the evidence against him seems to be weighty. One of the Confederates accused by the Government of a share in the assassination, Mr. Thompson, re- ceived, it is admitted, and rejected angrily, the proposals of Dr. Blackburn, but he did not attempt to give such information as -would put the United States Government on their guard against this diabolic scheme.