OUR FAILURE tY 'Mt AUT/I9R Or Rol TIIRORI fes, we here failed ; That Inm wonl Drove never home its bolt of fate More ruthlesely than when it barred All egress (ruin the prison gate That eloped upon our sad estate And left is powerlese—in the dark. A tworld'a Teproaah—o nation'o math Failed s.Aye, . criertioual_Elhat pain Is put arida In pure amaze As, at our weary length of oboinf And eteel•gtrt path, we stand Sgate With dark distrust or miming Gaye, Mid marvel if we be the same Who lit the Chriatiuti world to dame. The same who owned this forely lend How lying was tyrant's spoil, And saw its stately ings eland ' qMid was ' e soil Enriched by earthy eons of t P ` . The princesat a proud est.o. Now stricken, sterile, flautist.' The 111010 r Whore be our legions now, Where allude our bones sytecir and mina: - Where rings each step, where beams each brber Of those we loved, our martyred creed To borne and qountry nobly vowed, - Of sons and brothers—where the hopo That wreathed our splendid horoscope '' And whim the banner which on high ,{Ye flung with all tho pride of owe An emblem from our Southern sky Snatched from its sovereign dwelling, playa Our deeds or arms to gild anti grare, The flag our breezes loved to to toss- Our ark of strength—our Southern Cron. An buried in one common grave, Are these the glories or the pent ' Let the swamp cypress o'et it wave The bitter writ—the °dee rave. " The etymon ...veep the midnight bind Make rainier!. meet • the die is cant, And we, who counted ill the cost, Who ventured all, haae staked and lost. What marvel, then, if in she burst Of en incredulous despair, When fate has seemed to do its worst, And all proves false that seamed so lair, Such words as these should mock the our And that, mistrusting fate and fame, We question, "Are wo still the same?" Oh. morbid doubt' Oh, words of wind' I mot ye forth an little worth. Forgive them, Own ipreseent mind' Forgive them, brothrrn, bound on earth To one poor heritage of dearth, And hear enovietion'n vole. proclaim The potent troth, "We are the come." The same who faced the northern Imes With dauntless hearts and shining spears The same who laughed to ecorn their boasts, And proved the few the many's peers, And did in days the work of years; O'enchelmed—not conquered—overrun, And deeola . te3 and undone I Yet still the same, the very same, Believe it, tremble and believe, The, tyrants, who, with sword and theme Advanced to slaughter and bereave, Then stayed to torture sect deceive, Am we, who, with a faith sublime finders our fate—abide our time! =l3 CONSPIRACY! Stirtiting Metal Documents Tromthe At torney-General.--Alleged Conspiracy to Fabricate Impeachment Testimony. --Full Details of the Plot.--Terrible Charges against Congressman Ashley and Butler.--Mr. Johnson to be Impli cated by Suborned Witnesses in the Lincoln Assassination.--Holt's Endorse. . 4 %miet of the Informer.--The whole Di- abolleal Scheme Revealed hi Extenso WASHINGTON. Miguel 9.—The following document hoe bison obtained from glEolol ATTOPNRY OgNIIRALII OPIUM, . August 5, 1887. liejscst palsy The application of Chan. A. Dunham having been referred to this office, in the customary order of Executive business, for the extmination and advisory action of the Attorney General, it has be come my duly, during the iodispoeition and alumnae of the distinguished incumbent of the Law Department, carefully to oonsid er the case. In respectfully declining, es I de, to offer at precept any recommendation to the preintes, I beg to submit for your eonaideration the reasons which constrain me to reser'e advice and euspend judgment until I shall have been further instructed by your Excellency. Dunham the person applying for pardon, is the lame who has become notoriona un der thb name of Sanford Conover. lie was recently convicted of perjury in theDistriat of Columbia, and is, as lam informed, now inearotrrated, in scoordance with the sen tence of the court. fin application seems to be predicated, in part, upon a aupposed technical irregularity in the constitution of the jury, and is supported mainly by the services which he is alleged to have render ed the cause ofjustice in aiding the prase outing counsel in tho colleotion of evidence and otherwise upon the trial of John 11. Murrill for murder. The papers upon which bie application is grounded, and by whlolt it is sustained, nougat or four in a parcel, which, by en. , : tfilrsdingot, appear to have reached the Er aouti•e office on Saturday, the 27th ofJtvly, 1867. The first is dated the 22d of July, and is written upon the ordinary notepaper used by members of the House of }tore feentatives, with an engraved vignette cap tiort. The following is a copy : FORTINTU CONCIRSOO lieu's Or RNPBN.NNTATIVItI, Il C July 22, IB67.—Gentlemen. I sug gest that rt petition something hke the en closed be prepared and signed by you for the pardon of Mr. Dunham. I think be is clearly eatitled to it, and hope you will aid him all you can. Rwapsotfully, J M. Astinny Zion. J. Holt, Hou, A. 0. Riddle. It would seem troth an Fxpinesion used in this note that a draft of a petition stag enolosed. It dolts not appear what petition woe 01111 &Mowed. The next paper is the followingfrom e Into Representative in Congress from Ohio, now a member of the Washington bar Waswittarox, July 23, 1837.---To the Prestdent of the United States—Sir: I was early in April lint retained to aid the Gov ernment in the prosecution of J 11.8ur riot, and tool* the general management of the preparatiob of the case. The labor and difficulties of the oisto were great, and the Government Is under great übligatious to Charles A. Dunham for much valuable-lnfilinationlioth an to the facts and witnesses of the United States and for Alie.itiotory of and foots concerning the wit ....lateen called (or the defence. Although to jail be managed to keep Wormed of the ,progress of the case, and from time to time ,ionitounmsted important facts and awes- Cons, and ssemiugly for the cola purpose of fair inveitigation of the cue, whether it would work for his bereft or not, ft semi to me that for his sorvioes to this WWII am Government eiould mark Its "appreciation of them Ina way ant fo be Mistaken. Baspeetfullp, A. Cl. RIDDLE. Nothing is among the papers from the aloe of the District Auorney or from any of the counsel in the Sarratt came,esoepthn Mr. Riddle. The next recommendation is from the Vilma of Mllit►ry Justice: Wasatiaiost, July 24. f 1865.-1 tumour with the Hon. A. G. Riddle in his esthetes of the 'taloa !mid importance of tie 'service rendered by Charles A Dun Lam ,, as set forth in the romping letter to the Presi dent. A principle of public policy load sovoromooto to onootarimo by all hanotoblo. thr ~ ProStratit 'VoliiithinAn, VO!A. xn. menus, 111°4 charged with crimes to make disclosures which mny and often do, result in unmasking often greater offenders than these who make 'them i and house ;ten they stro l Oitud lON noted voluntarily mean gotollattc, th; k 4ughtst public con eide.roM tons require that their conduct shall nerouely appreciated The .orrice of Uunlient, with the details of which Mr Riddle must he entirely familiar, MI one of the counsel in the case, seem to have been performed without solioitation, and in the Interests of !nab and justine, in connection with one ot the most important criminal (male which has occurred in the history of the country; and although his disclosures, were not directly connected with the crimi nality of which be himself has been convic ted, yet it is believed that they do not tbo lees bring his ease within the spirit and Tenon or the rule of polio, referred to, and hence it is for the Executive to determine bow far they shall be accepted at onoe as a proof of his repentance, anti as atonement to the law, for whose violation he stands condemned Jostrii IIoLT It way bo proper to remark that the rec ommendation of the Judge Advocate Gener al to written upou ono leaf of the same abort with that of Mr Itlddle,/ind not upon official paper. It will ho observed that, notwithstanding atilt man stood condemned for perjury, Mr Riddle by aotstai experience, and Judge Holt, upon eatiefootory grounds of belief, have fully realised bin usefulbee in promo ting by his 000per►tion with public agents of justice the case of truth, on the occasion of an investiAtion of national lutportauce and also, that the latter intimates hie opin ion that he had fairly ►toned to the offended law, and bad' satisfactorily demonstrated hie repentance It is remarkable that lion ham himself, in his petition (which pur ports to be Sn hie own handwriting) men tions no such grounds, but trusts mainly to a technicality. Itiß position Is an follows : Wssuiitotott, July 2.6, 18117 —To his Es nelleney Andrew Johnson, President of the United states: The petition of Charles A, Dunham reepentfully shows that in the month of January last he was trled,convic ted. and sentenced to the penitentiary for perjury, alleged to have been comujitted be fore the Judteiery Committee of the Rouse of Representatives, during the investigation by said committee of charges against Jeff. Davis of complicity in the conspiraey to as sassinate President [Almelo- That the perjury assigned in the indiel ment against your petitioner was in baring falsely testified that he bail no reason to doubt, and did not doubt, the truthfulness of certain depositions made by two persons called Campbell and Bnevel, at the time mild depositions were given by them in the Bureau of Military Justine, and in testify ing that he had beat seen said Campbell in Canada in June 1865, and said Snevel in Wilmington, N. C., in August, 180. That on the trial of your petitioner, said Campbell add Snevol deolared that their real names were house and &Marts, and that the depositions they had made and sworn to in the Bureau of Military Justice were absolutely melee from beginning to end, and were known to be so by ►our peti : . dotter, and that they were not at —; said Campbell in Canada in June, 1865, or said SnaTel in Wilmington in August, 1865, the places at which your petitioner claimed to have last seen them. That it was entirely upon this testimony of said self-convicted perjurers that your petitioner was oonvioted, and that without the said testimony of said permute, the jury before whom your petitioner fifia `Med could sot have Pounds verdict of guilty. Your petitioner further says that he was tried and oonvicied by a jury not qualified to try him. That the jurors before whom he was so tried and opiedomnixi were illegally selected and drawn, as deoided by the Court in the ease of John ll i .fitirratt—the manner and form of seleoting the jurors in the case of Surratt, and your petitioner being pen. tioal—that In the discussion on the opening of the trial of Surratt, as to the legal quali fication of the jurors who had,heen empan netted to try him, It was contended by the prosecution and decided by the Court, that said jurors were informally and irregularly militated and drawn, and that any verdlot they might render upon Any trial would be absolutely void. • Your petitioner further soya that uglier the rules and practioe of the Supreme Court of this District the above informally in the selection and drawing of a jury does not• after sentence under a verdict found by such a jury, constitute a ground for a new trial or oilier relief by the oourt, and that the only remedy for snob en illegal oonviction lice In an application to the Executive for pardon CAARse A. DUNEIAX The above are all the papers which hay, come to my knowledge in relation to th e application for pardon. When considered in connection with other papers, adventi dowdy received, they ezoite peculiar Inter est and command careful attention, and it is the extraordinary gravity of the Import of these paperi I ask Men Uoned in oonneotton with the SOU the whence they Game, which makes it my delicate duty to submit e thetit contests for your studious consideration. and suggest that some proper disposition ought to be made of them in eimacTnatee with the dignity of the tilosernment sad in justice to all poetise.. Untroducp them as toll owe : sir Pint. A oommunication eddrassed to the President of the United States, bearing date Washington, July 20th, 1887, and signed Charles A. Dunham. It will be seen that this person,who-is testified to by gentlemen of official and profeessional respontibility acid of dtatinguished.pagaelty to by capable of great sad valuable servionin.theillsolinv urea otorlme, makes startling tissevarstiocui dimody against prominent members of the nearest Legislature. WAISUOTON, jig, 29, 1887.—T0 his Bx oellanoy, Andrew Johnson, Prelideneof the United Btatee: In 'applying to your Exoal limey for pardon,l had not intended tearer any &talon:urea coneeratag the plotting of your instals. againation whiob could be regarded uau indnetitnent for granting my application. I Insinineted my wife, in pre senting ttok petition;, t/ to the conepir ,acy of Ashley and csompany so far only a. ,appeared neoesaary to recoove affiynntritutd ly f.eligg thsantight hint %own engendered within gip toward me , t• 7: the conrsgcrog report. that I had sniped ' to mocha your nnem les in their nefarious designs. 1 adop led thin reserve in the belief that the Per ♦ice, 1 Lad rendered ale Government. os certified ro by Judge Holt, the lion Mr. Riddle and Mr Anhley, would,in your ore and judgmlenk render me dererving eoutive lietneney ; and because 1 lucked me to col that it should appear on the record, and on Changes , otid necessary ex p i4lllOllllll 111 wt the face of my pardon, that clemency had lug to enable them to incorporate 01° , 0 been imparted to me lintel, Weousidetution change. , in their original statements with of toy services to the Government, and ex- , out leading to contusion or contratlietion, elusively on the recommendation of proud- t wits found necessary fat somebody else 1 neut ttadietala,to the end that,when I shoo ld 'take toy office of preceptor, &c Thin with come to expose the ntrocionv plot of Ashley , slight hesitation, was done by Ilr Ashley, and company, the Radicals would tot be in mt toy sionranee that the pieties were gad • position or able to charge me with doing wale, , l) e.l in the wool. and men of honor, so in oonstderatton of is pardon. m that the in-whom Ito Coll ItLassfely repose confidence President had pardoned toe on condi:ion of tee trained both front Ashley nod the my implitmling his enemies in an nifitnoic, •. themselves what was said and done conspiracy. Ind ireeni . innii in the [Limier , The statements pop the moment Ives forced tub need- they nor; desired to make werorevised and elation with these traitors and oonspirators„ Mr \ 4111ey anti they were assured by hint I deierminedeas soon as I shouldbo colons- mini In 0n,3 It %iota,' be detArnkned to ox en], to plane in the hand of ymlr Excellencl utunte t:.t.to before ihr comanteethey rheum Id or lay before the public a complete ropes- tm vientlidly rewarded uro of their diabolical de'signs and 01001 , Atiltley 11.130 dISCOIII,mI to them on astounding proceeding,. This, I believe, ' the propriety andinvice of the cause IL would be my sawed ditty '', for, although was prop.ried ijuisue to mate rent tin of 11 accused orerimo, IRN not to destitute of , the 1111WiabziFI of the President node honor and patriotism as 1101 10 feel Settle In- clared that yoo were a traitor to your par terest in and obligations to my country ty and conotty, Sc 'fund t 10.4 was no The interest those person have fell, and , doubt of yam Lomplicily 10 the .li...esti., the effort they have made (which would lion conspiracy, but that the evidence oes Anse suomiedod ere this but for the blunder in the hands of your tetentle and could not of one of them), and which they still pro ell be got .it That enough, howe•er, had rose to make for my releas e (II 0), lice. bocuied to selliify ILr 11109 t reasonable know were prompted by the most aolfi th, men ofyeerguitti but thatut order to satisfy motives, in order that they might use me e.oetlng. the `,Thl'en.l.ll" of 'h"" an instrument to accomplish their devilish j e'utintit'oe Auld be re designs: and I not, therkie, he 1 1 0.011 e Thal t'a't telly ~uonfiou Iho guilty of ingratitude in abandoning and ex- Ittoooli and root curry mat wh"cootelbnied posing their •illaniy. 'in This wity to tie impeachment of III 1• Pre.- My wife ben, I believe, explained to you ident wouhl deter , ' well of the rotatory:" how _Ashley, first through his man Friday, Dud that he (Th "4.'1) would we iLcm klatchelt arArrwards in person. MILO- lowa . led tenfold when your sue,iiiisr aged to 11111 0 nown to me his 1114811e.1. Mlllll , l 01004 ono. , it to Dower and purposes. and enlist me, tar far its 1116 Were pi 1 4ented forced promise worldno. in I+olerpri,. 1, . end dun I shall, therefore, only advert hem to ” 0111 . 11,0 11..e4 by lion, wire 11111,411teil liv him things which nave been said and done by 1104 \.411,y 10 %embers the nonspirsters, which ore susceptible of `it the House, who, it was understood, boil being provel against them lip the 0001 ir. hitherto &nide., the ex buyinie or 1,01..110e reputiblo evidence s imphr sting you iu !lie assassination tun After obtaining my promises to render i spkrocy met who mforomily inn errogl tell all the ansisstaoce In my power. Mr Ash- them as lo the mat tore uponwhlch Mee Lnd ley explained h., me the kind of evidence he been ins,: uel ml j X thought it roost advisable I. present “Al r, it e per desired to hoer mken tho against you. Ile thought it would be very depo.itioler of these men nt the time, but plausible to pro, . r would riot consent to its being done nut tl I First That Booth had on several nowt- 01nold br irtenved, no at first up...d elimis paid you familiar visits at the Kirk- '. • floor facts can he proved by then.. Ihi cr wood• This. it was hoped, I might be able nervous, and alto by toy wife, whove char. to indoor some of the old female servants actor for It uth.,and varnoity is not tufermr to testify to. If This could not be done, to Mr and I ell" tae li7. 1 e""" , then it should be proved by some of my if at libe•riy, in producing thorn before any friends who happened to be at the house nt 00MM at, nr tribunal for the impeachment the time, who knew Booth, ,Qt-• , and Raw nl the•impcuchero the visit •• But the evidence ofthia conspiracy doen Secondly Thatyour correspondence with_ bet depot, entirely upon oral proof The Booth, which should he shown by one or letters froni kehley. limewith enclosed, is more persons who had taken notes fre t . themselves Que,,lt "chimes What statement Booth to you, and your replies (contents (11) trout me could he have wanted, and for unknown) thereto to Booth. The wttnesses wits , Perresc AnYtt.eg tt wat ,, in lily should be persons who would profesd to power to stns. 10 61111 could have been VI, have been intimate with Booth, and to have tel to him °tally a doe to times during his been enlisted by him to take port iit the previous snits in 111 e assassination. stattneui he want was this, and for Third. That the planing of A scroll. Ilse purtimie. Tito, were many prominent weapons, at the Kirkwood House wan only Iladicals. and eato•cially among 111, 1.11 a sham—to make it appear that you, were ennetitueni,, who ,were luke-werto on the intended as a victitn, and then distract all subject of impeachment, anti who were lint suspicion from you oftionniving at Linooln's prepared to belicie that you were privy to murder. This. a lso. It was suggested. th e murder of Lincoln, and whose to opera could be proved by persons who could Le.- non who greatly needed Ashley therefore lift' that they had hoentMuceil to enter in- • deitirrl to be able to place before them on to the /epapiracy with Booth, and hid per- 0111 1,10,0 111.11 lill l 14041 141111411 1 8110111.11/I‘. rvl formed a part. In organising it, etc , which denim at your guilt could be produced lie perions, it was to he understood, worn m therefore t ei t iie4terl one to prepare an Oahe dotted to testify under an assuranoe from rate paper, setting rot th that such titui ouch the Government that . they should not be persons catnt be produced who knew and prosecuted (or any part they had token, would testify to Ihle, 11161 and the other ''The resolution under which Butler's thing. 1110111 d lug Inn prctenstons that liooth committee was ilippoiated, it will be obsers - • bail Mom seen so your room nevem! imbue : ed, provides for the protection of such per- that you had oorreaponded with hint and sons—who are nitat.hed with a good "- with parties w ItiClittiond and that the once for not coming forward beforo—by offering immunity to all who were somatic- permits whocould testify tu these lucto were of the most respectable Wending, and tent with t he 00.1. 1 31,4. 1 -1,10 will now °°.° would corer forward and tell all they knew. forward and disclose their knowledge on i if protected by the government fie washed the subject. ,hail to put it in a otylo and tone that would .'Fourthly, That Itcoth, just after tint ;he auto to curry conviction with it 110 de 4th of Maroli, stated to intimate friend. in sir ed th,g, w g,ddgggogg to th e p o ints of eei- New York, whom he endeavored to en h o d conferred a bout, t oy m a ternal the conspiracy, that he was acting with the n contain ethers, and lie gave MA a knowledge of the Vice President, and that memor . o a lum of other point., which he re it had been arrauged to kill Lioc.!, on the quested n o . to incorporate in lily statement day of the inaugural ion, which would tic- i(tt„) This inemoatindum I enclose, and I count for Mr Johne.m's strange coaduct on believe it is in Malchett's hand-writing (A ) that occasion, which had provoked so much A (ter pi...paring the statement I sent it to comment in the preen . That y ou expected ' hint at Toledo when he wished to make use the tragedy to be enacted then, and had f of it ) tilted several potations to compose and verve There is anoilfer note from Ashley to. you for the event ; and that you were not chwoot worthy of httohthm, It Itt to po w 2 :d7 uch inL°lleated Ito nervous snd "c". ant wise wmtem. ut. the cane ofJudgh Car, ter, tE. F.) after the failure, through the "I feel much delicacy in referring to blundertng of Matchett, to secure my re , Such topics. but I cannot inform you el, lease lathe thueprototed because I was au your enemies, plane and projects without gry r ind used pretty severs language to being plain, and lam obliged to write in t Itatelit•i I lie went to Ashley anibilutlerin too great haste to be elioinein my language 1 I alarm and reported that I was going to ex' ^I assured Ashley that I should have no pone the entire scheme to you. difficulty in finding persons•Sfgood standing , 'After the persons I hid sent for to New end moral charseterto prove these matters, 1 ork . w itneasethit ad returned,lllttioltett 'n and it was agreed that I would do seas soon • 6:Avenel without my knowledge topereuaile as roles/Md. [A :' - ii'. O.] ' fifilm to come beroaglitr, end in his letters "As em earnest that I possessed the shill- - to two of them he thoughtlessly suggested ty to do what I engaged, and in order to some ed,,,,,eee that it was desired they satisfy tome of their partl• who doubted the should make to Choir statements. He made existence of evidence to connect you with these suggestions by letter, midis letters ex the sem "' in"i " censPirl ' eY• Ashley owl ' plained because he was not certain that he Bailee , denited and pressed me to send for , „, u , xatonta h o whim they arrived, or they" "r° or '11". preens of Wh°Se lutellidelree +eight meet Judge Bingham, or some other and qualifications they could astisfy them- pereos they had been introduced to when selves. and whom they could parade before reviously here, before he could see them their ineredulous friends. itud give them pfiints, and he therefore wen ..l oonsen led, end Ashley supplied the tod teem „ posted. " feats it was desired they *quid know and , .A fter my 'milting tu him op severely on repast, And I forwarded them to a trusty account of the failure to have Me released friend, with esaret explantatitum as to my ; at the lime promised, D. F. Matokett beam. own purposes, sod lastraatf " a for him to t frightened, and seemed to get the idea that proouro trio other, ~frisade to commit to I had h i s letter . ~, those parties, and ha d memory the statanient enolostsd to Nat, and Cent them, or copies of them, to you. rossi- 1 When tent for to some here andrspeat them bly,in my anger,/ thus uttered as numb. (but not under Mtn) to smelt persons as / Het en made known his fears to Ashley should ladloate- and Butler, and Ambler endeavored by this - - - "After allowing iny friends sugloient note to obtain the letters. time to learn their parte, the g e e. Mr, have just been ordered to get ready for 11th:het (11).wse sent for then, to order the penitentiary. . that it might be said that he, agent for the "Clients' A. DoauAr•" impeachers, had found the Witnesses, and The following are the 1 papers that their character for vei►oit7 was above which aecempany the above. The letters suspicion. ' or referenae imagist' in the foregoing tad "On arriving hero these persons were in- . annexed to the auttesweling are not open the specked by Ashley and Butler, and were original, but are Introdused solely tbr your found to p the requisite gaalldntlon ' convenience in perusing the report. as to Intolllgepoe and peraonel appearance The enhjoined paper, headed nunnorandiute but unfortunately for the inepootore, It was 1 by the band that wrote It bears internal iirente4 leavasary to tasks sons obtain, satdasaa at balsa be* Rltillited as a "S'liTr. EIGHTS AND PEDAL lINXOII/." BELLEFONTE, PA:, FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 1867 WO a 111(.1111004'111 110010 114141 14111101000 t 0 01114 or porlions of their statetociiht. before pre venting them to the hike -leant , . 4 1 111144 11i01r iniontiou to inflame It brio • linpractioeble fur the met. to err toe IA it 4 jail MI a itch 11111111.1e,5, orol equally en fur guide to Mono perloll or person. who were .... 1 1 1,,te& to fabricate corresponding teoti. norandiun —Shortly before the toll 01 I..noolii and Junnson. the oiigh or in connootion with Ilegth augur,' Cr, 01, lettere to the Confederacy,' one of which. was intended for - Jefferson Davis These letters were borne by a messenger named Allen, who had been noting as a spy for one of the Union generals Allen was provided with it it ate conitlict through our picket lines, on 1 was supposed to have been, sent un secret duty in oouoecl•ou with his command lle was also provided with pa pers from a rebel emissary at the North to insure his proper treatment when lie should crater the Confederate line. After deriver his mail in Ihdhmond, no returned, hearing several letters. whion Ins g enereel from J it, Benjamin These letters were enclosed to Booth " ..On returning to Washington. Allen call ed on Booth and delivered the the package and Itooth,after examining sm. o rthe letters went out, as he said in s..nroli of hi. me., rouser. Thu messenger could not be found and Booth asked Allen if lie was too tired to walk as far as the Kirkwood house Allen replied itt the negative, WHIM Booth, draw ing forth the package winch had Mum brought from Ittchinond, selected a letter addressed to Andrew lolinerin.pißbei dent of the Untied States, land asked Allen to deltvor it. Allen promised to do no, and then accompanied (tooth to the barroom to first take .a drink ••llorei Allen met a friend, who wan to•i ed to join them itt taking a drink, and after wards accompanied him in the Kirkwood Ilmise, and hea-d him inquire , if Mr John son was In, !Lod caw Finn gn'into his (John eon's) room friend waited until Alen onme nitwit at airs when he asked him joculaily, with in Old bitines4 he Ladle do with Johnson, if he was already Legging for an office "Allen man he produced as well as the friend who .tectinui trued him to the Kirk wood House with itnoth before go ing in Richmond had It •ou led by Booth to behave that he was it confidential and so- Orel agent of the (lo•etanneln, and Baal the letters born by him nod reference in peace propositions which would speedily rend to a suspension of hoNttlittes and ilie rcator, Lion tit the Union. toil abut, nh tt can further he proved by two persons, torrnorly rebel soldiers. that 1400111, Oil the first or iteeond day before his death, fell in with them near fisrretrs, and asked their advice and assistance in his efforts to escape Ife ,ufortned theta that he had ktlloil Lincoln, and thereby made a good Southern man President "One of the wiles, whose name is Daw son, said to him that if he meant that he made Andy Johnson President. he had done the worst possible thing for the worth• as he woe more extreme in his views, and a greater enemy to the South titan Linooln. Booth replied that it was . 6161414 e; that Johnson no a candidate or otfice•eeeter bad to say a great many things, but that as President he could do as he pleased, iltathe watt hound to be a triend to the Routh, and that if Ito went back on him I Booth) he would have him hung higher than Haman. These men belong to good families and have excelent oheireoters, and can be produced as witnesses " More the 'toper Jah but the following which Was originalfy the final clause and to now cancelled, is still doaible "For the cameo of Dawson and I.llen, is etl abate, leave blocks, ur subeoltifle the umnee of such pervous so you know will tithe their parte " , illl3 Timmins , )4100.1,111, Da4n Stn . —.l telegram cells tue to phil adelputa, and I go on the II 0' olock u m. train-. I therefore send you an evenlope to which you can send me by mail your stnte nl ...4 .. p0p0 you win be able to put it in the °Omthin evening, nn trot 10111 get it next Ilunclny Wl4l4ing you every SIMCOII9. I 11111 yrs t ruly. \f Aent.n (At sod Mier the Word n /lIalelllelit"nboo the words incorporating verbal " ure stricken studiously out ] Tourno, Ohio, Aprile 28, mu WIAR Sin . —On my return home to day I found your favor isud the pt outised statement inclosed. I expect lobe in Wash ington on Thursday, end witi not you that day or the next morning —Trttly your friend, J M AMILET." :4" A. Dunham, Eaq , Washington " "Thit letter seetna4n hare come here in a common eave'ope subscribed "C. :4. Dun ham, Pres iden t," and is much Hooked-soiled Tht mine applies to the following "DRAB. trite :—Your note ie just received Let your counsel sot as be deem best, tak ing advantage of every legal point which may be presented, I think the course pro poeed by them la all that we want Truly, AI Ammer " Neat we have the following : 'Hove' or^ illtraidaNTArivice, _y 4 July 8, 1847 "My n•ka Bta I bare font Been your wife, abd hare your letter. You may rest fissured that I do not credit the fain and *Ovid repots made against you lt you had the let I know you would never coed oopies J—. If you coo put the originals in may baud. I will soy that no one shall take or destroy them without tour express order is writing. exoept you, Ire released Will see your wife again this evening. Respectfully , J. M. Ammar 'C. A. Duoham This note is not written in tak, but in pencil, ►ud though tinted ''Hpuse !tops " is upon a half sheet of pinln note paper, ap• panuttly torn form soots note whloh had been earrled in his pooket. It comes here in an envelope, subloribed “0. A. Dunham. Esq , Prestent." The envelOpe also shows some apparently Idle scribbling ?aram,26, '67, ..Dunham: It li all rigth. The matter will mat for the present, or until the thing isytrgued in May. You will not Imre the ,elky ad interim. Mr. A. will return next week, when Shy other matter* will be ad- justed. Yours, W. B. DI." This is •eitton on o mall early, In Ink, anbutortbed •C. A. Denham, Provident.' On a mill smaller end mob solid scrap, In wail. bat evidently by the mum band, Is this memorandum, or ..planation s "1. The (Watt cannot loot without helot o partfeart 2 Congirtot rII. ✓ the proper limr ionrease its powtir —3 Witnesses wnll•be fires a tHeil hotllre III!!!1=1 19,1... sir. vompleten the full find literal rectal of all the papers or other adhering 'data beiere toe The parcel noinprising all but the nardon plp-r9 +Med this office in an envelope from the l'Aecut ire Manition endorsed, ••Iteceived from Mrs Dunham, July 30, 184 " The papers haring some front tlto hands of a person whose &prams lion fur p.rd , r wan itlede . rgoing ofsmal (mammalian Dire, Were, for ovary obvious reason., agsomateti with it in constilering the matter Struck by the thiiir extraordi nary character, yet remembering in bow unexpected and casual a manner they had been receive,( at the Ex - t i l l :if office, immediately determined that ill I should ha•o made this report, their quality and eiguificance, vrliaterer these may he, ehould remain unchanged by inveinigation, or by any Catralleolla CUOUtC,IIOII Or association whaler., not only of record, luit, an far as practicable in toy own mind Thin course it m necesslty to bear in recollection lathe act of einitunting the probable weight or valqe4f the allegations Never haying tees the inind.writinglite lion Mr Ash ley, I thought it due to him that I !Mould nut prance! without aeriutrtaz a aOttea of 111.9 genuine chirography I, therefore, exhibaed that letter, which was written m oy Mr Ashley to recomend the pardon of Dunham to a gentleman acquainted with hie handwriting. The latter witlion) hesitation recognised the letter S. genuine The inh erit strikingly resemble it In conclusion. I hog lance to'esprelti ;he profound sentibilities with which I find my self obliged to bring to the serum notice of the President of the United Staten no. eusations and papers which must occasion him painful embarrassment They espose prominent members of the Legislature of the Union to the shocking suspicion of hnrutg conspired with a consOoted perjurer for a stupendous implisitipn. first upon the 11 on nie of Representative,. 'then open the people and Nen upon the Senate of the United Slates, for the purpose of effecting the I limeachinent and removal from office of rronotiont of the United States, solely upon subunned re — siiinony. I need not say how greatly ostonuthed mankind would be, was it charged that 4.llPbellie no abonmiable woe beightetimi by the peculiar wialreekese of entlemptfdg to Maitre the intended elation litcriself,=Through appmnis to lute aiqmency, to nimbly by a portion, with consequent competency to act end testify, the principal instrument of tho imposture. lint, impommible an the existence of snob conspiracy tiny seem, in not the Provident exposed to a grave neeounlibliily for what ever consequences moy possibly follow an incredulity far too generone in the promises to be indulged merely because these adven titious data have been thrown upon hie cas ual notiocaby a party who has been dishon ored by nacritninal 'enlist, but who is still, in the expressed opinion of competent pro fessional persons, qualified to be a vehicle of truth in a court of justice! • 1 thus hay the whore wetter before your Excellency for your bettor judgement he the meantime it., application for pardon will be suspended Very respectfully. your obed't servant John TI. DimwitLin' ksetetnnt Attorney (loners' To Andrew Johnson, President of the United States 111,1111.113 or Musiinsi,iss —JAUltlioa, coca the glory of }lector Hall, and “Mural idement," furnishes taeandant °videoce of what may be expected to this country, should the people submit to the domination of niongrelists A private let ter, partly printed in the hal Mof Urartte, says that the writer, who to an old resident, "never knew Jamaica in such a state of de spondency. None of the better clams—no Mlucated person—would remain 11 they could manage to get away The country le deeply in debt, no effort Is made to develop her resources, and taxation is largely in creased " Regret Is expreamod that the colonist no longer possess "anything Me self government," The Parish of St, Ann. that in IS4O contained thirty sugar estates, now has thirteen, tuad of these several ate on the pOitit of abandonment. Of fifty-three coffee properties, there are only four re ma inin g. —There is lid market for horses, mules, and cattle The prinoiple crop, pi menta..peonsises to perish ungsthered. Jamaica has been '•reconstrueied " It presents a faint picture of the point to which Radicalism ie endeavoring to reduce our own once wealthy and thriving Souht ern States.— Watchaar Jcfersonian. Niercdtua. s very common expression, when the Mongrele undertook to doctor the Banking system, that National Banks could not tail. The following fiat embraces some of the suspensions and fail ures 'wile January 1867 M►rob 2.—The National Bank of Newton, Mass , tailed with liabilities amounting to $llO,OOO. March 2. 2 -The National Bank ollillson, N. Y.. dleoovered an embezzlement by the oat/tier to the amount of $60,000. The con cern revived after several week. suspension, and resumed business March 4.—ltirst National Bank of hied lbw kfo., felted with liabilities of $82,000. Keret 4 —The kfeehaeles'ilationalßabk of Baltimore, broke dow from the effebte of • aeries of tlefalentions.Neeweisd on for • long time by two °Moms of the iaelltutlon. July 24 —The Weedsport (Cayuga Conn ty) National Bank olosed doors, Its liablll. ties being $1126,000, July 28.—The kiatjonal Bank of Thad Ills, Otsego County, foiled, its liabilities being $200,000. ' July.27.—The Pequonnook Bank of Bridge port, Conn., suspended business and offered • reward of $6OO for Site fugitive snakier, W. Hamilton Barnum, wko Amended whb $50,000. In the above brief statement. the lessons for the difficulties of the National Banks, in quastiou are too lomeotably obvious to mood farther (lomat:tut.— WesteAssier J{da• —ls (11mrsling a aim bony foil oat of ■ 'dude , unit nearly WWI • gagman naming along Um stmt. NO: 33 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT The nom.; river leaped add snug Full hitt/lel, in the perfect weather. All crown) the litoUllt4loll echoer ram;, Ent blue and green were gla.ltugerber. This rains out light from every part, And that with singe of joy was thrilling,. Sol in the hollow amp heart There .irked a place that walip44llln . ,ir„ . Secure the 11.11Tb/et meat, AS4l.l.appl ;lonia are wet and glisten, I heard n wolnd of laughter ravel, And pawed to like It, and to listen I heard the chanting waters flow, The cushat's note, the bee's low humming— Then turned the beige, and did not know— How caul.' I—that my time was coming. A girl upon the nighrot atone, Half doubtful of the deed wait 'landing, tf far the shadow flood had down Beyond the 'euet.unad leap of landing She knew not any need of me, Yet macho wanted all entreating: We thought not I had ,rooleti the gee, And half the vphere to give her meet lag I traded out. her eye. I met. t I ached the mnmentr had been batter leek her in my arum, and net Her dainty feet altlong the flower, fellessAnable in copse and lane, etlll methinks. I hear them rellinK The srintl's soft whisper in the plain, That ru.hrt'e r((((, the iirate , li felling Hilt now it is a year ago, But now possession crowns enilsai or T took her In my heart to grow And fill the hollow place forever. -i.,.0.1 qr THIS, THAT A , !/2THE OTHER --"Ca•h ndroncor'' cilorting a rich young orOlour —The uterriage hrokere of Parid guarantee haypfneas fur a year —Cholera and .mall-part are ravaging the English army to India. --There are eight or ten eirgrrtem in the Conneetteut Legialature. --There now reline.) ond irpored of 4a0,000, scree of U. S , public lends. --It is not whet we read, btu Whitt we re rnember,tbst make. ue w terrible earthquake lon 'occurred at lljokflea, Java Numerous line were loot.. --To prorout your hair from rowing out, never let your wife catch you kissing another ---1 S: tiovernor Jehnsen ,of deorgla, µM oee the people not to •ooept the despot hill. Ile is right. --Advice, like snow, the softer It f.lls, the longer a dwells upon, and the deeper It etoke tnlo, the wand, --A negro Had ica I has offered h Impair aa candidate fur Coerces from the Cheney distriet 1,1 South Carolina. --Wo are told that our Gorerument Is the beet la the world, It ought to he if Ito extol )0I1141 is .cording.totto —Th e aeveateen year locust has duly made its appearance to Virginia, and is doing consid erable damage, mainly to the forests. —A Radical &tate convention. composed of SOO nevus's and 100 whites was held in Rich mond last Wednesday. "Sick is life." --"Show we the man," says Prentiee,"wbo lost hts ell In the late war eed VII show yOn &asp niggers who never net their (•) vent." —The cost of supportintg the army in the Southern States during the present year a esti mated by the Treasury Department at V 5 ,000 000, to $40,000,000 --The bfougrele do coy hke to hear :hat they were eo hard up, a. to he compelled to im port a Connecticut Yankee. for their candidate for Supremo Judge. --Among the latest arrivals at Asratoga, set two young ladles from Rev.., known se the "Charms of Cuba," and wearing diamonds to the value of $250,000. —The Phut Africa, Church In ,Richmond is supposed to be the largest on the continent. It has over 4,000 names on its record, and over 3,000 resident members. --The population of China is about four hundred millions; that of Japan forty millions more. These two eountriea coolant nearly half the population of the globe. —no freedmen of Colombia, ?disc, song the 'Bonnie Moe Flag" on the Fourth with all the gusto, of the "rebels" themselves. They were trying to be white won. —An individual who was sent to jail for marrying two wires, exonstd him elf by saying that when he had one rho fought him,but when he had two they fought each other. —Wendell Phillip. my. that he would rather aoot he then irritate-the Booth. Proutlee reepond• ; "Oh ye., he would no doubt rockher to rat Just u wu done to St. Stephen. —Twirl, during the Teenagee canvass the Stars and Stripe. hive been tyro frota the gaud where Etheridge wu to .peak sod trampled In to ebrede by the Halm& Nilo support Brown low. —Mr. Sudden, the ex-Confederate Secreta ry or Was is working his hue form to Hooch land County, Vs. He does not meddle with public Maim, and goys he Is out of the polities' ring. —The editor of the Dossier (lAttillana Donee, say. that when be gets through with ►4 exper lane° of District No. 5, ender Gamed Sheridan, he will bo able "to stand hell-Les yin readily," —A Missouri editor says tbat the Balm& to Congress wilt O(1011 1111tet s law sequtriag mimes sloths* to be made without pockets, than will be so use of them. That editor besets sound. "you bat." ---.4 WTI) boy leas driving a male is Ja mauls, what the animal suddenly stopped and Mused to badge. , Won't you go eh ?' said the boy. Teel grand do you / I Wove you you forgekyor (adder nu a Jaokam. ' -4oeepl R. Bolton, • funelsont nenleer Azt. 4 of the Temperanee', order le Phnedelphia . bse been arreated fee entneellng Rev thounud 1- nes of the Widows sad Oephase feud, of le Odd Fellows lodge, o(whtohla Lea Pent" • --Lord Lyttletan prat/Nod $ mad t- Musty amendment to the • Intgltalt Redone bill which, If tt paned would ellsfroooltee It We nilsorlry of the rested men In the kingdom. No one In to vote who cannot unto * legibb bind. —The Radical, and negnoes hold Arrow *Wing at Charlesteaiath %relish hat wash, as "nisi and brethren," and resorrad for Congresstonal retionstruotion. ollowlecid and how pleasant it is for blethrou to dwell torah. Sr in unity' —A emanates or ► newspoper, spentini of a oontemporsay, Wok: Irma tonnerly 11 issesbor or Ooniposs, etc midi" ross till Ise Wood • esspisstaig. position as to editor—a onbloosuunpin of persoyeesase vain dapssonsf olosankanness." "RECONSTRUCTION ,KIOISISFE", Several leading m in the South, it is mild, have followed the source of Oen. Longstreet, and gone in for the "Military Recenstruction 11111," on the pretence or 'yeller that it le the 'hottest way Legit back Into the' "Union," The Union forsooth!— Mr Union ii utterly and f Impound* of neeeeeity, under that bill. The Union ie a union . 11 moque 1 States, °emptied of wintepeofe, and its i refterstlon only Reedit withdrawal or the arfeY, abolition of ik. Nigger Bares% In • word, only need' the removal of the northern princeeret from the South, nod thus permitting' the Slater to regulate their owe &Noire, jinn ae the Con-, ititution provider, and just an they did from 1787 to 1880. If, therefore, some su pernatural power were to instantly annihi late Steklen, Sheridan, Howard, the eeboo maim' and the ' rota eneeokbld , r lunatics traitors and vitiate/ that now oppress the - South, Ma lino. would !pootaaroustpror store itself in a weeek, ju•t as a 03 , 61,1 of good constitution, kept down on hi. bed by the dosing of an infernal quick, would get up and walk when the fool was kicked oat of the house .But the r atrocious villains who hero eartelliced • 11110109 01 lives. un der pretence of restoring the Union, keep Sickles. and Meriden. and Howard, and the accursed thing they calla Bureau, In the South, for the very and sole potpies of pre venting its restoration. Still they 'Wit a Union, and dream of a Union, a Mongrel Union, a Union where whiten and °ernes "enjoy" "impartial freedom," and they are at work with •11 their might to do • thing that, to the nature of thistgecennot be dons If a man were sink, nick unto death, not from defective constitution, but from quilt ery,all that weruipeded to reaterehisher.lth would be e to diroharge she quack, bat U some professed friend were to any, "I want you to get well, but hereafter, inetead of • white man you must be • timbales and a better twin that ever, " then such professed friend would correnpond exactly with the advocates of ttrreonstruci ion." It cannot be done . the utuo may die, as the nation may perish but he cannot bee mulatto. nor can reconstruction" one Mongrel basis every be possible; ' , the Union as it was" or na tional death are the sole possibilidlec—Dity Book. IMPORTATION OF NEGRO VOTERS. The Cleveland Phaedraler say. the resid ence's Bureau is busy now sending large numbers of future colored oithens Into the Western Stoles. Care is taken to put them into the hands of toys! Radiants, who will are that they ail rote right. This hi a game which could be worked to decided advan tage in Penurylrouta. With the Vallee Williams un the bomb of our Supreme Court an act of Cougress mskiog Negroes Tonna to Penusylven in would at once be declared to be constitutional aid binding. Thoughts Radicals would not only be relators:red by 16,000 or 20.000 adult mete smarms already in this Suite, but es moot' ore eis might be needed in any emergency trould be at ones imported from the South Along the bor ders they would be crowded into the noun ties of Lancaster, Chester. Lebanon, Dela ware, Somerset and Allegheny, and would • be pushed north into Bradford, Tinge and 6ther radicaledistriote Let no man suppose the party now in power would hesitate for moment about ti eking an attempt thus to overpower the will of the white voters of this State Such action Or the Radloile would be made perfectly legal the moment 'the right of the negro to vote In Pennsylva nia woe recognised, The Pillage Record, a radical paper very well known In Southern and Central Penneyltanist, bee openly de clared that a resolution pledging the Re publican party to advocate the enfranchise meat of the *egress in this State, failed to be reported by Wm Committee on Iteaalo- Lions, tweeter it wes there aullorUalioely eta• fed that Crowe** would sows paw a general law waken/ Negroes voter, en every Mote. The seventh resolution of the Radical platform biudo Judge Willlants,should be be sleeted, to decide such a law to be cenatitutiottal. The whitemen of Pennsylvania OMR DUMP whet is in store for . them should Judge Shorewood be defeated Not only will all the negroes now In the Stale ber made vo tere by the sot of Congress, but the Freed men's Bureau will be ready to ell any or der for negro vetch whenever called upon. We think the white men of the Keystone Stale will hesitate a long lima before they elevate to the bench of the Supreme Court • Connecticut Yankee who stand, pledged to carry out sued a programtne.—Lonender Intellegeneer. The spectacle which the United Steles presents to the eyeof mankind at the present moment, we me, taxes both the en ? Los ity and amazement of European journal lots They have been familiar with the names of Weds, Sumner, Phillips , and their like, and they knew that they were without character and without inflow*. But now these men, like devilestartimg up out of the earth, seem to rule the lead with absolute I sway. The thing ismoreinexplicible from O. toot that these evil sprits are without great ability. But the morel is, that the 1 people bane been, to a great *steak &SU complies' of them malcontents. The meet isoapnble, usrracious, prelligsle, and now ' ardlY wratehes, lavrated with priedr sad masters of the purse, wilt be sulkiest for any work where the people are statempliess. 1 Avarice or luxury is rapaeloom ; let them feed it. The mere It is fed, the more pre fuse it will grow. Want Is the tooneognease 1 of profusion,' or, venality of weak, end de pendence- of both. By thisprevesaioa, the drat men in the nation became the pongee ascot o,lemet, and he who has toilets the elmpleit tool of him who has none. The distemper soon descends, not Indeed lo make • deposit betas, bat to speed itnelfellivoed pervade the wholi body. This l e the Phil osophy of the power which ''anal 111-bad wretches as the malisasata of Cliamgrem wield. It Is preolnly &spree's' **him many tattoos have UM their libertj. English nation \ has been brawn to pfeein, two or three times in the same way. pi. devil ofßemtdMadJsw belonged he the same flatly as this devil of eat, at Ile present time. Be le no itsempres this ale, end has net bees for dues mud floe litemtend peen ef !Astarte slas.--Atif Niue DisoßlDlziell AID DIAII6-4 Adaliond dont happened to s boy maned Webber, at • pia -111, at Milan MIN, bit hostitgAiiiid weak. The bey', ditbai bed obasetwil to his *midis* tie pbrabe Mid Lally toe • *l luotluks •••••••• edraktliigelaseift• Obit Lis mos Aisle twaimsP. the joratalovel tto oho, loiltiopei aulitee oldther Amp* we olliee.ohil Ake pisestal laristat lid slidbidol6lllo 46, Purim" Of .IPutilie - Alws •U4katig pep* anal! IM11044. 1 01• 411 0 chili ogoi.lol444,lPotiefik sads•varlag MA killetKl!* 41 " /4 1 0" . .** 04* inmpoleopi"mr peamoiss.offlorowleavaoPqr IW, f:VI)00 1 141u MO le : 14 1: 1""10 .1t$ 4 :Ott= r1. , 10=1 •Pil4 1 #1 7 :01, • ',lt