ffi t&f&tifoqutm. BEBFQgP PA FRIDAY/MIFZ lß6gl GLIMPSES AT THE PAST, THE PRESENT, ANI> THE FUTURE. Four years of bloody fratricidal war are about drawing to a close. During that long night of terror, devastation and bloodshed we have not, indeed, seen the invader withita our own immediate vicinity, but we have seen our own brave soldiers march through our streets to meet him on the border; we have also seen the scattered fragments of Milroy's gallant little army, foot-sore and dis heartened, enter our streets and claim our .sympathy and assistance. And most gladly was it given ; the old. the middle aged and the young vied with each other in providing for the wants of our brave defenders. Our lady friends have labored continually since the war began for the comfort of our gallant soldiers in field, camp and hospital. Thou sands at their country's call have gone forth from our midst to do battle for the preserva tion of our national integrity. Disaster af ter disaster befel our armies, and at one time the army of the rebellion even threatened our State Capital, but it was soon followed by the ever memorahle victory of Gettys burg. When the tide of war set in our fa vor, victory followed victory as our conquer ing hosts advanced, and now we rejoice over the capture of the last rebel army. To day when the white-winged angel of Peace is hovering over our land, and about to take up her abode with us once more, the over flowing gratitude of our hearts may be ex cused if it find expression in highly colored, or even extravagant language. But why talk of extravagance at a time when words cannot express the feelings of a true and pa triotic heart. It is eminently befitting such an occasion, that we should rejoice over the near approach of Peace, the restoration of our national integrity, the disenthralment of a race and the consummation of the great idea, first promulgated the 4th of Ju ly, 76, that all men are, and of right ought to be, free and equal. Ye 3, to-day we may look all the world in the face and declare that the clanking of the chains of sla very is not heard within the limits of our wide domain, that we are in deed and in truth a free people. No apology will be ne cessary if in our exultation we give way to a lively fancy and a glowing imagination, in descanting upon our future prospects. The past has been a dark and bloody page in our country'B history, upon which none of us can look with any but feelings of deepest sorrow—sorrow for the national honor, that those, our countiy so fondly cherished .should turn upon her with parracidal hands and use all the advantages she had so generously be stowed upon them, for her own destruction —sorrow that freedom' B.spij sh mild-nurture to fife and strength such perfidious traitors —and last but not least, sorrow for the loved and lost, for those dear ones who have gone forth never to return, who have sacrificed their lives upon the altar of our liberties, who have fallen in the bloody fray mid the roar of cannon, or have languished and starved amid the gloom and filth of South ern prisons. Aye, who has not lost a father, a son, a husband, a brother or a friend in this fratricidal war, and for these our tears are mingled with the smiles of rejoicing, but they have fallen in a glorious, a sacred cause, their memories shall be green through all coming time, and we may truly say •'■When Spring, with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She then shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod." But from such sorrowful memories let us turn to the contemplation of brighter scenes and happier prospects. It is tree that in the beginning we aimed not at abolition, but there's a divinity that shapes our end. The madness of the South drove us to arms, and the stern necessity of an unavoidable war, forced upon us the abolition of Slavery. How striking the similarity between our first and second wars for liberty. The one, be ginning with an effort to preserve colonial rights and privileges, ended in the establish ment of a free and independent nation. The other, beginning in the defence of our na tional integrity, an overruling and all-wise Providence has led us by a #ay we knew not until to-day we stand an enfranchised people. England has been in both our chief enemy. Surely, perfide Albion must, to-day, feel doubly humbled, while the nation she has thrioe essayed to destroy, stands forth, vic torious, triumphant over all her enemies, without a peer among the nations of the earth. Before us spreads in the dim vista of the future such a prospect of wealth, pow er, granduer and prosperity, as the imagi nation of man never conceived this side of the fabled Elysium. When Alexander wept for another world to conquer, his im magination had not pictured so fair a heri- < tage as we this day enjoy. There are those among us no doubt, who will, now that they can no longer frighten timid ones with the gloomy side of war, en deavor to prove that what did not come of war will come of peace, that ruin, financial, if not national, is now imminently threatning us. But let us listen not to such (to use no harsher term) unwise counsels. They are born of the gloom of defeated and disap pointed political ambition. With the re turn of our strong-armed warriors to the peaceful pursuits of life and the opening up of the whole country to foreign immigration, over the fair fields of the sunny South will soonbe heard the whistle of the iron horse, the hum of busy manufactories, the clatter of furnaces, foundries and workshops, while the industry, born of labor well rewarded, will cause the hitherto sterile fields and bar ren wastes to bud and bloom as the rose. The national debt will necessitate the pro tection required for the development of our national resources, and the prosperity conse quent thereupon will be such, that with the gold and the silver, the iron, the coal, the oil, the wheat and the corn Scattered with such lavish profusion over our land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Si Law rence to the Gulf, our debt will not only sit lightly upon us, but by many will be regar ded as a blessing, inasmuch as it has given us a safe and substantial national currency. Away then with these groundless fears. The future spreads brightly before us with out a cloud upon the horizon. Let us re joice as those who have come up out of great tribulation, and while we give honor to our brave soldiers and generals, the indomita ble Grant, the dashing Sheridan, and the daring Sherman, let us not forget to send up our tribute of thanksgiving and praise to the Great Ruler ofNations, who has vouch safed unto us so great a deliverance and the prospect of so glorious a heritage. RICHAf|I) COBDEN. The English Liberals bewail in the death of Richard Cobdenoneof the great English men ; even the London Times confesses that his eminence must remain unquestionable : and the Emperor Louis Napoleon orders his bust to be placed in the gallery at Versailles. Yet he held no office ; he had refused to be made a baronet; but he was universally honored for the sincerity of his life and char acter, and for the devotion of noble powers to the welfare of his country. Richard Cobden was what is called a self made man. which means simply that he used his Opportunities, and had the happy gift of knowing when and how to use them. In this he was like Mr. Lincoln. There are plenty of poor boys, sons of small farmers in England, like Richard Cobden, or of poor Western settlers in America, like Abraham Lincoln, who are thrown upon the world, but after a desperate struggle succeed in liv ing respectable lives. But it is a peculiar energy, clearness, tenacity, and purity of purpose which enables them to become what Lincoln and Cobden were. It is the good fortune of England at this time that she never had an abler group of liberal leaders. They are a distinct body from the Whig chiefs. In the days of Sir Francis Burdett the folly of the radical par ty defeated its best purposes. But the lib eral leaders of to-day, such men as Richard Cobden, John Stuart Mill, John Bright, with their immediate allies, bellittle both the Whig and Tory Giants. They represent what is noblest, best, and most humane in English political thought and progress. Mr. Cobden's signal and most illustrious service was bis advocacy of free trade. In 1839 he led the movement for establishing the Anti-Corn-Law League, and after a tre mendous and incessant agitation, wich exas perated the agricultural, as the anti-slavery agitation had exaspe: ated the commercial, interest in England. Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister, yielded to the inevitable logic of the reformers, and brought in the bill repealing the dutiesupon imported corn, which was approved on the 26th of June, 1846. It was one of the greatest political triumphs in history. It reversed the tra ditional and cherished policy of a nation, and the result was achieved by solid argument. The grateful nation enriched Mr. Cobden as a recognition of his patriotic service. But his political independence was never disturbed. He never courted a majority. His constituents approved the war with Russia. He opposed it. England made war upon China. Mr. Cobden, with the majority in Parliament, voted to censure Lord Palmerston. and his constituents re fused to re-elect him. Like all the English liberals, Mr Cobden has been one of our firmest and truest friend during the rebellion. He had been twice in this country and understood our politics. Still better, he understood the eternal law that prevents injustice in an enlightened people from being permanently profitable ; and although not of a sanguine temperament and knowing the condition of the country and the spirit of the rebellion, he was con scious of the terrible task before us, yet he sincerely believed it would be accomplished. Cobden did not live to hear of the fall of Richmond, nor of the surrender of Lee, nor of the final sealing of the coast by the oc cupation of Mobile. But he did live to see the insurrection of a system, which, as a political economist, he knew to be disastrous to any nation, tottering and falling ; and the great principle of equal justice before the laws, which as a statesman, he knew to be the only sure foundation of states, ascen ding to its complete victory. Happily for him he died before he heard that the wise ! and patient and practical statesman, who was | the characteristic product of institutions which Cobdeh trusted with all his heart, had suddenly rested from his labors amidst the tears of a nation. The two men lived for the same great purpose. The true interests of the people of England and of America, have lost two of their noblest friends in Abraham Lincoln and Richard Cobden. — Harper's Weekly. THE INGERSOLL AFFAIR. The disreputuable proceedings in the Thir teenth and Fourteenth wards, yesterday? were a logical result of the failure of the Federal authorities to bring aiders and abet tors of treason to justice. Almost, or quite ever since the war began, the Ingersoll brothers have declaimed against the national authorities and expressed their sympathy with a-med traitors upon every favorable opportunity. One of the brothers publicly urged in the darkest days of the war that the Federal Government must be put down, and upon another occasion he suggested, at a public meeting, that if any member of the Democratic party should be arrested by or der of the Secretary of War in the future, the person of the President of the United States should be seized and held as a hos tage until the original captive should be set at liberty. The treasonable speech of Ed ward Ingersoll, in New York, on the eve of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, is too re cent an occurrence to need more than refer ence to it. While every good citizen must deplore the excesses of yesterday, there is nothing in them to excite surprise. The fault lies with the Federal authorities who have failed to vindicate the majesty of the law, and the event shows that such indulgence leads to infractions of the public peace. We trust that for the future all utterers of treason may be promptly arrested and made to an swer for their crimes, and not be allowed to go on maddening the passion? of loyal men and inciting to riot and disorder.— Philti. Bulletin, 26th ult. MR. LINCOLN'S LAST INAUGURAL.—The last inaugural address by President Lincoln made a strong impression in England. .The British Standard speaks of it as ' 'the most remarkable thing of the sort ever pronoun ced by any President of the United States from the nrst day until now. Its Alpha and its Omega is Almighty God, the God of jus tice and the Father of mercies, who is work ing out the purposes of his love. It is in vested with a dignity and pathos which lifts it high above everything of thekind, wheth er inthe Old World or the New. The whole thing puts us in mind of the best men of the English Commonwealth ; there is ; in fact, much of the old prophet about it" PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Another Npwfc bv President Johnson—- Mis Response to the Loyal Southerner*. The following is President Johnson's re ply to the loyal Southerners who waited up on him on Monday, April 24th. It is hardly necessary for me on this occa sion to say that my sympathies and impulses in connection with this nefarious rebellion beat in unison witb yours. Those who have passed through this bitter ordeal, and who participated in it to a great extent, are more competent, as 1 think, to judge and determ ine the true policy which should be pursued. [Applause.) I Have but little to say on this Juestion in response to what has been said, t enunciates and expresses my own feelings to the fullest extent; and in much better language than I can at the present moment summon to my aid. The most that I can say is that, entering upon the duties that have devolved upon me under circumstances that are perilous and responsible, and being thrown into the position I now occupy unex jiectedly, in consequonee of the sad event, the heinous assassination which has taken place—in view of all that is before me and the circumstances that surroitnd me—l can not but feel that your encouragement and kindness are peculiarly acceptable and appro priate. Ido not think you, who have been familiar with my course—you who are from the South, deem it necessary for me to make any profession as to the future on this occa sion, nor to express what my course will be upon questions that may arise. If my past life is no indication of what my future will be, my professions were both worthless and empty : and in returning you my sincere thanks for this encouragement and sympa thy, I can only reiterate what I have said before, and, in part, what has just been read. As far as clemency and mercy are concerned, and the proper exercise of the pardoning power, I think I understand the nature ana character of the latter. In the < exercise of clemency and mercy the par doning power should be exercised with cau tion. Ido not give utterance to my opin ions on this point in any spirit of revenge or unkind feelings. Mercy and clemency have been pretty large ingredients in my com po rtion, having been the Executive of a State, ind thereby placed in a position in which it was necessary to exercise clemency and mer cy. I have been charged with going too far. being too lenient, and nave become satisfied that mercy without justice is a crime, and ;hat when mercy and clemency are exercised by the Executive, it should always be done in view of justice, and in that manner alone is properly exercised that great perogative. The time has come, as you who have nad to drink this bitter cup are fully aware, when the American people should be made to un derstand the true nature of crime—of crime generally, oir people have a high under standing, as well as of the necessity for its punishment; but in the catalogue of crimes there is one and that the highest known to the laws and the Constitution, of which, since the days of Jefferson and Aaron Burr, they have become oblivious ; 'That is— treason. Indeed, one who has become dis tinguished ia treason, and in this rebellion -aid that "when traitors become numerous enough treason becomes respeet&Ue, and to '>econie a traitox-was nTconstitute a portion of the aristocracy of the country. God protect the people against such au aristocra cy. Yes. the time has come when the peo ple should be taught to understand the ength and breadth, the depth and hight of treason. An individual occupying the high est position among us was lifted to that po sition by the free offering of the American people—The highest position on the habi able globe. This man we have seen, revered ind loved —one who, if he erred at all, err d ever on the side of clemency and mercy. That man we have seen treason strike, hrough a fitting instrument, and we have :>eheld him fall liho a bright star tailing from its sphere. Now, there is none but vould say, if the question came up. what hould be done with the individual who as sassinated the Chief Magistrate of the na tion —he is but a man —one man after all ; buf if asked what should be done with the assassin, what should be the penalty, the forfeit exacted ? I know what response dwells in every bosom. It is, that he should pay the forfeit with his life. And hence wc see there are times when mercy and clemen cy, without justice, become a crime. The one should temper the other, and bring about that proper mean. And if we should say this when the case was the simple mur der of one man by his fellow man, what should we say when asked what should be done with him, or them or those who havo raised impious hands to take away the life of a nation composed of thirty millions of people ? What would be the reply to that question? But while in mercy we remem ber justice, in the language that has been uttered I say, justice toward the leaders, the conscious leaders; but I also say amnesty, conciliation, clemency, and mercy to the thousands of our countijmen whom you and 1 know have been deceived or driven into this iufernal rebellion. And so I return to where I started from, and again repeat, that it is time our people were taught to know that treason is a crime, not a mere political difference, not a mere contest between two parties, in which one succeeded and the other has simply failed. They must know it is treason ; for if they had succeeded the life of the nation would have been reft from it —the Union would have been destroyed. Surely the constitution sufficiently defines treason. It consists in levying war against the United States, and in giving theic ene mies aid and comfort. With this definition it requires the exercise of no great acumen to ascertain who are traitors. It requires no great perception to tell who have levied war against the United States; nor does it require any great stretch of reasoning to as certain who has given aid to the enemies of the United States ; and when the Govern ment of the United States does ascertain who are the conscious and intelligent trait ors, the penalty and the forfeit should be paid. [Applause.] I know how to appre ciate the condition of being driven from one's home. I can sympathize with him whose all has been taken from him—with him who has been denied the place that gave his children birth. But let us, withal, in the restoration of true Government, pro ceed temperately and dispassionately, and hope and pray that the time will come, as I believe, when all can return and remain at our homes, and treason and traitors be driv en from our land—[Applause—when again law and order shall reign, and the banner of our country be unfurled over every inch of territory within the area of the United States. [Applause.] In conclusion, let me thank you most profoundly for this encour agement and manifestation of your regard and respect, and assure you that I can give no greater assurance regarding the settle ment of this question, than that I intend to discharge my duty, and in that way which shall, in the earliest possible hour, bring l ack peace to our distracted country. And 1 the time is not far distant when our people can all return to their homes and firesides and resume their various ovoca- ' tions. SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR NATIONAL FLAG. —ln the last number of the Lutheran and Missionary edited by Dr. Krauth, we find this beautiful idea: "Our country's faith has learned a new interpretation of her standard. The white typifies the purity of purpose which belongs to her true ruler; the red points to the crim son tide in which life flows forth a willing offering; the blue reminds her of a home in Heaven to which the good are gathered. The stars in her banner toll of light in dark ness, and she shall learn to range them in a new and beautiful order, as the Constellation of the Cross." IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER. Army Expenses to be Reduced. Soldiers In Hospitals to be Discharged. Official From Secretary Stanton. The following important order has just been issued by the YYar Department: WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OF FICE, WASHINUTON, April 28.— General Orders Ho. 77. For the reducing of the exoenses of the military establishment, ''' s ordered, Ist. That the chief respective bu reaus of this Department proceed immedi ately to reduce the expenses of their respective departments to what is ab solutely necessary in view of the immediate reduction of the forces in the field and in garrison, and the speedy termination of hos tilities, and that they "severally make out statements of the reductions they deem practicable. 2d. That the Quartermaster General dis charge all ocean transports not required to bring home troops in remote departments. All river and inland transportation will be discharged' except that required for neecssa ry supplies to troops in the field. Purchas ers of horses, mules, wagons, and other land transportation will be stopped also. Pur chases of forage, except what is required for immediate consumption, all purchases for railroad construction and transportation will also he stopped. 3d. That the Commissary General of Sub sistence discontinue the purchase of sup plies in his department, except of such as may with what is on hand be required for the forces in the field to the first of June next. 4th. That the Chief of Ordnance stop all purchases of arms and ammunition, and ma terials therefore, and reduce the manufacture of arms and ordnance stores in the Govern ment arsenals as rapidly as can lie done without injury to the service. sth That the Corps of Engineers stop work on all field fortifications and other works, except those for which specific ap propriations have been "made by Congress for completion, or that may be required for proper protection of the works in progress. 6th. That all soldiers in hospitals who re quire no further medical treatment, be hon orably discharged from service with imme diate payment. All officers and enlisted men who have been prisoners of war, and are now on furloughs or in parole camps ; and all recruits in readiness except those for the regular army, will likewise be honorably discharged. Officers whose duty it is under the regulations of the sen ice to make out rolls and other final papers connected with the discharge and payment of soldiers are directed to make them ou' without delay, so that this order may be carried into effect immediately. 7th. The" Adjutant General of the army will cause immediate returns to be made by all commanders in the fie d, garrisons, de tachments and posts of their respective forces with a view to their immediate reduc tion. Bth. Quartermasters, subsistence engi neers and provost tnarsha s, generals of the departments, will reducy the number of clerks and employees to t lat absolutely re quired for closing the bus iness of their res pective departments, and will without delay report to the Secretary oi War the number required of each class or rrade. The Sur geon General will make si lilar reductions of surgeons, nurses and attei dants in his bu reau. 9th. The Chief of the i espective bureaus will immediately cause proper returns to be made out of the public iroperty in their charge, and statements ol the property in each that may be sold uj m advertisement and publication, without prejudice to the service. lotb Oouiniuarjr I-msi/ina Will liaVO rolls made out of the nanus, residence, time and place of capture, and occupation of all prisoners of war who will take the oath of allegiance to the United of the : are < f upon the publi<'safety. By orde- ot^H A-si-faiit THE RE BEL RA M She Escapes Down He Mi>sisß Jeff. Davis Supposed to be on Her Career Endedl She Passes Mew Orleans. Her Machinery Gives Gut. She i Abandoned and Blown lp. MEMPHIS, April 28, via CAIRO, 29. The Vieksburg Ilerahl Extra of the 25th, has a dispatch dated off the mouth cf Red river, April 23d, stating that at nine o'clock that evening the famous rebel ram "Webb" ran out of Red river passing all the gun boats and iron clads there, and descended the Mississippi river with lightning speed. When first discovered she had no lights, emitted no smoke, and appeared like a nuge mass. She was fired on from the monitor Manhattan, when she immediately showed signs of life and shot past the Manhattan, who signalled the fleet. The Lafavette started m pursuit. The oScers of the Man hattan estimates the speed of the Webb at twenty-five miles per hour while passing them. The steamer Saratago, from New Orleans met the Webb at Tunica lend at a quarter to ten. She then attempted to run down the Saratago, but was unsuccessful and con tinued down. It is believed she intends de stroying our commerce on the Mississippi and probably make an attempt to escape to the Gulf. Some assert that Jeff. Davis is very probably on board, making his escape to Havana or other foreign port. If noth ing happens the Webb, she can reach New Orleans at daylight to-morrow and the mouth of the Mississippi by noon. CAIRO, April :>o. —The steamer Mississip pi, from New Orleans, has arrived. She re ports that the Rebel Rain Webb passed New Orleans in broad day, disj laying the Stars and Stripes. She hoistei the Rebel flag a few miles above Fort St 1 'hillip. Her con densers got out of order. ; tid she was deser ted and blown up. As flu as known she in flicted no damage save cut ting the telegraph wires. A portion of her < rew had arrived at New Orleans. The r< mainder left for parts unknown. FROM SELMA, ALABAMA. Capture of 15J Officers. Destruction of Jackson's Forces. NEW YORK, April 29.—The Herald's Selma, Alabama, dispatch says: Among Prisoners captured here, are 150 officers" Lieut. General Dick Taylor made his escape on a steamer. N. B. Forrest, Dan. Adams, Roddy, Armstrong and MeCausland, escap ed also. Forrest's ordnance officer, Capt. Bond, is reported wounded. Croxhan and McCook attacked Jackson's front and rear, at Tryou, and having travel led by different roads, their attacks were si multaneous. He must have been destroy ed. The destruction of the Centreville bridge and Croxham's movement' towards Tusca loosa, rendered it impossible for Forrest to carry out his plans. The Cawhaba started yesterday. About seventy-four prisoners were released; they had been well treated. MOVEMENTS OF JEFFEBSON DAVIS HIS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE, lie i accompanied by other Notable#. Objwt to Escape to Trans-Mississippi. He pmed through Charlotte. S.C. Ap'l23 Hampton's Cavalry Escorting Him. (leu. Wilson, will probably prevent his Escape. A dispatch dated New York, April 27 says the Richmond Whiff, of the 25th. says: Jeff Davis was at Hillsboro, North Caroli na, from the 12th to the 14th instant. He then went by rail to Greensboro, whence with an escort of two thousand picked cav alry, selected from Hampton's and Wheel er's command, started on horseback due South to Ashboro and Cheraw. By this route he left Salisbury and Stoneman about forty miles to his right From Cheraw he probablv went Southwest to Columbia S. C. i'roro which place the country was open be fore him until he reached the lines of Gens. Cauby and Wilson. His only object now is to escape totbeTrans-Missisisppi, and hecan not regard himself out of extreme danger un til he has run the gauntlet of the United States armies, now operating in Alabama. Davis, Beauregard, Breckermdge, Tren holm, St. John and Regan, all nde in the centre of that forlorn band of two thousand cavalry. NEW YORK. April 29. —lntelligence ofthe arrival of Jeff Davis aud his accompanying fugitives as far South as South Carolina, has been received in Washington. It is thought he will bo caught before reaching the Mis sissippi river. NEW YORK, April 30th. The Heralds Newborn correspondent says the last positive information of Jeff Davis' movements was that he passed through Charlotte on his way southward, escorted Dy a brigade of cavalry, probably Wade Hamp ton's, on the 23d instant. As General Wil son was at Macon on the 20th, and virtually held all southern Georgia, the chances are that Davis cannot escape. LATEST FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Arrival of Oeneral Grant. He Effectually Stops the Armistice. Johnston Notified to Surrender. Johnston Surrenders. Terms Same as Those of Grant and Lee. Secretary Stanton's Official Bulletin. FORTRESS MONROE, April 27. —A steam er arrived here this morning from Moorhead City, bringing advices from Newbern that Gen. Grant had effectually put an end to the armistice agreed upon between Sherman and Johnston. Grant had given Johnston up to 6 o'clock yesterday, Wednesday morn ing, to surrender his army. Conditions are unknown. General Grant announced that after that hour hostilities would at once be resumed. Gen Johnston is said to have replied that if Jefferson Davis and the lea ding general officers of the Confederacy were pardoned and permission given them to leave the country, he would be authori- j zed to accept the terms proposed. A telegram dated War Department, Washington, April 28th, to Major General Dix, says: A dispatch from Gen. Grant, dated at Raleigh, April 26th, 10 P. M., states: "Johnston surrendered the forces in his command, embracing all from here to Chattahoochi®, to General Sherman, on tliu ha.-is agreed upon between Lee and m vself for the Army of Northern Virginia." P; \j sim Avw ar. vices other the ing. -fied ng ■ n of tfn Hatchie and one from Fulton. Tennessee. They returned on the 22d, having been successful in capturing several officers and men. General Shelby's adjutant was killed. One of the men captured was a fellow who has been passipg for Luxton. He confess ed having burned the St. Paul, and killing one man on board of her. Gen. Osborne hung him from a cotton wood tree at Randolph, and left his body hanging. His proper name was Wilcox. Our Captures in Men and Material in Mobile. NEW YORK. April 30. —The Mobile cor respondence of the same journal says our forces captured there 215 heavy guns, 2,000 stand of arms, and 30,000 bales of cotton, besides immense quantities of corn and oth er grain, and it is also estimated that 100,- Otto bales of cotton and 75,000 barrels of rosin are hidden in the swamps along the Alabama, most of which is within reach of our forces. Over 10,000 stragglers from the rebel army have given themselves up. Guer rilla bands infest the neighborhood of our lines, and one party of them went to the Battle House on the night of the 14th, in tending to assassinate General Granger, who fortunately was not there. NEW YORK, May 1. —The Post's special says: President Johnson and Cabinet are considering measures for the restoration of order throughout the South. Another proclamation will be issued in a few days for the purpose of encouraging trade and com merce. Propositions for retrenchment are going on. Sherman's army is preparing te march homeward. Part of Sherman's staff arriv ed here to-day. The troops will return by land. The authorities of Prince Georges coun ty. Maryland, offer two hnndred dollars re ward for the arrest of any accomplices of Booth's within the limits of that county. The Commercials Washington corres pondent says : Sheridan's troops say they are en route for Texas. Robberies by Paroled Rebel Officers and Soldiers. NEW YORK, April 29. —The Times says : Paroled officers and soldiers are robbing the inhabitants in the vicinity of Fredericks burg. The officers, members of former wealthy families who never did a day's work, declare they will not earn their liv ing. A PHYSICIAN in Springfield, Mass., was recently called to attend a soldier's widow through a long and severe attack of pneumo nia. He rode six miles for every visit du ring some of the severest weather of the past winter, and on her recovery presented ner with his bill of nearly tffty dollars, re ceipted in full "in consideration of servicrs rendered to his, country by her lamented husband.'' CONCEEHING THE BOOTH AFFAIE. There will be no Funeral Ceremonies, DETAILS OF THE COXSPIBACT DETELOPD. NEVKKAL STATEMENTS ERRONEOUS. Booth was'shot through the Neck. WASHINGTON, April 28. It is not known what will be done with Booth's body. There will be no funeral cer emonies. A rumor prevails that he was sunk in the Potomac river during the night. Highly important details of the conspiracy are being developed, but no publicity is de sired for the present Several statements of the capture of Booth turn out erroneous. Colonel Baker states that Booth was unable to say but very little after he was shot. The autopsy shows Booth was shot through the neck and not the head. NEW YORK, April 29. The Heralds Washington special says: The post mortem examination of Booth shows that the ball did not reach the brain, but striking the spinal column, produced instant paralysis. The opinion of the sur geons is that he must have died a horrible death, the brain being active and conscious ness complete up to the very moment of dis solution. Nearly all the parties directly implicated are now in custody. Payne, the Seward assassin is a brother of the St. Alban raider. There are six brothers, all reckless and da ring. Two were with Walkerin Nicaragua. Edwin Booth arrived here to-day to ask for his brother's body. The request will not be granted. MOST START U\G*DEVELOPMENTS. Unparalleled Murderous Plot discovered. Many Unsuspected Parties Involved. Result of the Search for the Assassin. NEW YORK, April 29. —The Heralds Washington special says : The search after the assassin of President Lincoln and the would-be murderer of Secretary Seward, has developed a well-laid and deliberately matured plan of assassination and infamous rascality, mm der and arson, unparallelled in the history of crime. Their investigations have not yet reached a point where it is proper to disclose the in tent and various ramifications of this mur derous plot. Many unsuspected and unsus pecting parties are involved. The evidence is compiete to show that it was neither the freak of a mad man nor an act of individual hate, but a scheme concoc ted by the leaders of the rebellion, and re lied upon by them in the hour of their most desperate need, and one of the means of success in their great treasonable enterprise. Interesting From Washington. WASHINGTON, May 1. —The Surgeon General reports that Secretary Seward still continues to improve, and that F. W. Sew ard had a slight hemorage from the scalp last night, but is slowly regaining strength. Acting Assistant Surgeon John A. Hall, of Lincoln general hospital, was to-day ejec ted in disgrace. An intercepted letter to a person in Canada from him, referring in scun ilous terms to the death of the late President was the cause. Gen. Lee, after his surrender, wrote to General Johnston that further resistance would be useless, and advising him to fol low suit, &c. It is said that a large number of Union soldiers are going to Mexico to enlist in the Liberal cause, and several recruiting agents are here quietly at work for that purpose. The army of the. Potomac is coming to this city byway of Fredericksburg. A large number of this army is to be mustered oht of the service. Sherman's army is to come j to Richmond and there be mustered out. Seventy-six rebel flags, captured from the rebel army in Northern Virginia, were for mally presented to the War Department to day by General Gibbon. Information has been received here that Jake Thompson and his co-conspirators have left Canada for Europe. , An attempt was made early this morning by an incendiary to burn Ford's theatre.— Ihe fire was discovered in time to prevent any serious damage. A letter from New Orleans, received here to-day by a prominent member of Congress, says: The pro-slavery Union men of that city are gravitating toward the secessionists, and that they will act together hereafter against the unconditional anti-slavery Union party, unless some change is made in the city government. Forty-nine rebel officers were sent from here to-day to Sundusky, Ohio. Mrs. Lincoln is still unable to leave her room, in fact scarcely able to rise from her • bed. She looks nale and haggard, and fears are entertained if she will ever regain her former health. It will probably be several weeks before President Johnson takes up his quarters in the White House. The building is to be refurnished and repainted. FRIGHTRTTL ACCIDENT. A HiMisslppi Steamer blown up with two thonsand soldiers on board.--Nearly Fiiteen Hundred killed, wounded and drowned. ST. Lons, April 28. A telegram has been received by the mil itary authorities from New Madrid, that the steamer Sultan, with two thousand paroled prisoners, exploded her boilers, and that fourteen hundred lives were lost. SECOND DISPATCH. CARIO, April 28. The steamer Sultanna, from New Orleans on the evening of the 21st instant, arrived at Vicksburg with her boilers leaking bad ly. She remained there thirty hours re pairing, and had took on 1,996 Federal sol diers and thirty-five officers, lately released from Catawba and Andersonville prisons. She arrived at Memphis last evening, and, after coaling proceeded. About two o'clock a. m., when seven miles above Memphis, she blew up, and immediately took fire, burning to the water's edge. Of 2,106 souls aboard, not more than 700 have been rescued. Five hundred were rescued, and are now in the hospital. Two or three hun dred uninjured are at the Soldiers' Home. Captain Mason, of the Sultanna, is supposed to be lost. | At 4a. in., to-day the river in front of Memphis was covered with soldiers strug gling for life, many of them badij* scalded. Boats immediately went to their rescue, and are still engaged in picking them up. Gen. Washburne immediately organized a board of officers, and they are now at work inves tigating the affair. Surrender of morgan's old command. Eastern Kentucky Clear of Eebel Troops LEXINGTON, April 3<).-One hundred and five officer s and one thousand m< n of Morgan s old command, surrendered to General Hobson at Mount Sterling to-dav. Twelve hundred Rebels also surrendered to Hobson s troops Several hundred deser ters from the Rebel army also took the oath <• PUBLIC opinion, as represented by the press, severely'censures Gen. Sherman, for the terms agreed upon with Joe Johnson.— It is a gaeat pity one who fought so well, 'should prove so poor in diplomacy. CONSTANT EMPLOYMENT.—'The man who is obliged to be constantly employed to earn the necessaries of life and support his fami ly, knows not the unhappiness he prays for when he desires wealth and idleness To be constantly busy is to bo always happy.— Persona who have suddenly acquired wealth broken up their active pursuits, and begun to live at their ease, waste away and die in a very short time. Thousands would have been blessings to the world, and added to the common stock of happiness, if they had been content to remain in an humble sphere, and earned every mouthful of food that nourished their bodies. But, no j fashion and wealth took possession of them, and they were completely ruined. They ran away from peace and pleasure, and embra ced a lingering death. Ye who are sighing for the pomp and splendor of life, beware T Y know not what ye wish. Persons who are always busy and go cheerfully to their tasks, are the least disturbed by fluctuations of business, and at night sleep with perfect composure. The idle and the rich are seld om ever contented. They are petulant, fearful, irascible. Bid them" good morning, and they scowl. Nature and art appear to have few attractions for them. They are entirely out of their views. While in this state the springs of life are rusting out, and the decay of death has commenced under mining their constitutions. MR. LINCOLN'S SELF DEVOTION. -The memories of the countless noble words and deeds of the Martyr President, already be gin to flow in thick upon us. We read the glowing words—alas ? that they are now made prophetic ! —with which he raised the flag over Independence Hall, on Wash ington s Birthday, four years ago. On that memorable occasion, looking forward to the official responsibilities and the personnl per ils that were before him he uttered these re markable words: "I have often inquired of myself what S-eat principle or idea it was that kept this onfeaeracy so long together. It was something in the Declaration of Independ ence giving liberty not only to the people of this country, but to the world for all rature time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. * * * * * * * Now, my friends, can this coun try be saved upon that basis ? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it— But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle— l was about to say 1 would rather he assassinated upon this spot than to surrender it. WELL SAID AND TRUTHFUL.— The New York Times gives utterance to the following concerning Gen. Grant: The grim patience and almost sublime self-forgetfulness which has kept him for so many months on a slow wearisome, compar atively unbrilliant task of holding Lee and his army as in a vice in Virginia, while his subordinates made the brilliant marches and won the easy victories, is something not much admired by the crowd, but which his tory u ill never forget or cease to celebrate. It is the union of these patient and self contained qualities with the highest dash and daring—it is the exhibition of the most remarkable energy and sagacity in seizing the opportune moment for the execution of his purpose —it is the combination in his intellect of an all comprehensive vision with the most extraordinary power of co-ordina tion, which have already placed Gen. Grant in a foremost position among the great mili tary leaders of all ages. IF some enterprising publisher would eollect from the London Times, for the past four years, the predictions in behalf of the rebellion, he would have the "materials for a highly entertaining book. We wish it might be done, In England there is a class who would not care to buy; we mean those who, on the strong assertions of the Times, invested in the rebel loan. We have not the slightest idea they would be glad to be thus reminded of their folly. By them the loan and the Times are probably regarded with about equal favor. ONE cent's worth of stout wire, bent in the shape of the letter U, is a very good protection against hurglars. Hang the eui ved part of the wire on the door knob, and let the two extremities pass through the bow of the key after the door is locked. Then the burglars may rage in vain, unless they break the door down. or ice, ~ ~ HUNTINGDON and BROAD TOP R. R. TRAINS LEAVE MT. DALLAS: 9:25 A. 51. and 3:40 P. M. LEAVE HUNTINGDON: 8 A. H. and 4 P. 51. April 7, 1865. TO TRESPASSERS. All persons are hereby forbidden from fishing, hunting, driving cattle, or otherwise tresspassing on our premises, as the law will be rigidlv enfor ced against all who are thus found violating, wit h out respect to person. D. C. MeCORMICK. 6. T. McCORMICK, and others, Heirs of the late Dr. Shoenberver. *pl7:tf. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Eetate of Geo rye Sharp, late of Middle Woodberry tp., deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Adminis tration have been granted to the undersigned by the Register of Bedford county, on the said estate. All persons indebted to said estate will make im mediate payment, and those having claims against the same must present them properlv authentica ted for settlement. DAVID M. REPLOGLE, mar.Tl :• Administrator. AUDITORS NOTICE.—The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the Orphans* Court of Bedford County, to distribute the money in the hands of the Executors of the last will,. Ac of FREDERICK BERKHEIMER, dee'd., to 'and amongst legatees and devisees, will attend to the duties of his appointment on FRIDAY, the 31st day of March, instant, at his office, in the Bor ough of Bedford, when and where all parties in- . terested can attend. ■WI? J NO. T. REKD, Auditor. 0 YES ! 0 YES! The undersigned having taken out Anctioneer and Sale License, is now ready to CRY SALES on the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable I , t t W be , that no one is legal ly entitled to act as a cryer of Sales, unless he procures a license. arfr dr s S lSfii tf LBVI ? Bedford, Pa QTEAM WEEKLY TO LIVERPOOL, kY touching at QUBENSTOWN, (Cork Harbor.; v w We " known St©auaors of the Liverpool, New lork and Philadelphia Steamship .Compaaj* r Jn man Line) carrying the If. S. Mails, arc intended to sail as follows; CITY OF WASHINGTON. Saturday, May 16, CITY" OF LONDON, Saturday, May 13. CITY OF MANCHESTER. Saturday. May 20, and every succeeding Saturday, at Noon, "from l'ier 41, North River. RATES OF PASSAGE: PAT.iBLE IX 001.11, OU ITS KtJUtVAUSNT IS CVtfllEXCr FIRST CABIN, s*s 00 STEERAGE, S3O 00 do. to London, 90 00 do. to London, 34 00 dq-.to Paris, 100 'do. to Paris. 40 00 do. to Hamburg, 103 00 do. to Hamburg, 31* 00 Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Bremen, Kotteruaui, Antwerp, at equally low rates i /-T" .of bl „ V . er P 00 ' or Queenstown: Ist Cab in, s