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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."
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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, ~ ~
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April 7, 1865.
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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.
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