fedfvttl gmptiro. BKBFORD PA., FRIDAY, J865. GUERRILLA WARFARE. Our trans-atlantic cousins, backed by the Copperheads, were wont to tell us on ail oc casions, since the rebellion began to decline, that the overthrow of the rebel armies would only be the commencement of the horrors of war. The armies of the Con federacy they claimed would spread over the entire Southern territory as one vast swarm of locusts carrying death and destruction to every antagonistic obstacle. Armies were to be swept out of existence by detachments, loyal and patriotic citizens murdered, prop erty destroyed, the nation scarred until the whole land bore the appearance of the pas sage of the angel of destruction. Happiiy for us, however, the aristocratic savans of Europe, and their tory allies in this country are no better at divining the future than persons who have not set themselves up as prophets. For our part we have never supposed for a moment that guerrilla war fare could be successfully carried on after the destruction of the great armies which were its neueleus, and the individual who could eome to this conclusion, understand ing the topography of our country, did so because be desired the inauguration of such a system of murder and rapine. The last few weeks have entirely solved this much cherished and skillfully cultivated theory. Since the surrender of the armies of Lee and Johnston the guerrilla chiefs have given up all hope of success, and abandoned their ignominious eause by surrendering or disbanding their cut-throats. This is the case of Jeff. Thompson and Mosby. A few short weeks ago and these worthies commanded the admiration of every sympathizer throughout the world, to-day there are ' 'none to do them reverence.'' To these characters pre-emanently did the rebels at heart look for the great feats which were to tire out the Government and compel it to acknowledge Southern Rights ; and we may justly-assert that no men in the country understood what could be done in this respect than the two chieftains above nam ed. They were acquainted with every foot of territory, had the confidence ol the Southern masses and the daring to execute the most hellish designs. They have seen the futility of such a course and they have abandoned the cause. In the next sixty days not an armed foe of any magnitude will be found from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. So much for the last speculation of the enemies of the republic; the last hope is gone, and the United States to-day, stands the proud mistress of the continent. PUNISHMENT OF REBEL LEADERS. The war is virtually at an end. Peace is at hand, and with its return, come grave questions of state to be discussed and deci ded. Prominent among these is the dispo sition to be made of the leaders of the re bellion. There are those among us, who are ready and willing to advocate a general pardon and restoration to political privileg es. Leading journals have not hesitated to speak approvingly of such a scheme. Fawn ing, sycophantic, newspaper correspondents have hastened to pay their respects to the Arch Traitor Lee, and with characteristic eagerness their employers have published, without a word of disapproval, his misera blejplea of the exploded State Rights doc trine, as an excuse for his treason. We are not of the number of those who harbor feelings offrevenge, but in a spin justice, tempered with mercy, we would demand, that the leading officers and instigators of the rebellion be punished to the full extent merited by the magnitude of their crimes. Some will no doubt say that General Lee is an honorable man, that Jeff. Davis is a high-toned gentleman, and therefore they mftlb dealt with. Hon contradictions in terms. Let there be no such sickly sentimentality in our dealings with perjured traitors. Let there be a full, free pardon and exemption from confiscation and disfranchisement for the well meaning but ignorant and misguided masses; for their intelligent but wicked, peijurud, trait orous, leaders a gallows high as Hainan's. Let them be divided into three classes, and * the most prominent, such as Lee and Davis, be punished with the most ignominious death known to our laws, so that the most fertile imagination may not he able to throw about them the slightest film of romance. Let treason be made odious. Let the peo ple be taught that it is not only a crime, but the highest crime known to civil laws. Let the second class be expatriated and the third disfranchised. These three classes should include every unrepenting rebel who is likely to exercise an influence prejudicial to peace and good will. The punishment of the first is necessary, in order, that a wholesome fear and respect for the laws may be engendered, that of the second and third, that those, who have been in open and wiliing rebellion, may not be able to seize the reins of state government and wield them to the prejudioe of the Union and of Loyal citizens, but that loyal men may be able to control them and shape their poliqy in the interest of freedom, education and industry. In such a policy alone can we have any guarantee of future peace and tranquility. NEGRO SUFFRAGE. The New York papers are discussing the expediency of conferring the right of suf frage upon the freedom of the South. As an instance of the astonishing progress made by that class of newspapers, which was until recently the strenuous advocates of the "divine institution" and was sorely exercised with vague fears of amalgamation and miscegenation, we print the following extracts from the New York World , and the HeraliL The World says: If, after order and stability are restored in the South, the Southern people shall see fit to admit the freedmen to a participation in the elective franchise, it may be wise and politic for them to do so. But this is a mat ter of which they are the exclusive judges. As a question of State policy it is one of the very first magnitude. We are of opinion thai; the next generation of nearoet vriU other luwe the mffrage or perturb tn* State. If the negro population of the South was as small in proportion as that of the Northern states, the question might be decided either way without peril to the public tranquility. In different Northern States it has been decided variously, and there is nothing on the face of society to show that one mode of deriding it u not fust as good as another. In some of the Northern States we have universal negro suffrage ; in others, negro suffrage with a property qualification; in others, no negro suffrage at all Our negro population is so insignificant that all these methods are equally and perfectly safe. But in some of the Southern States, the negroes approxi mate in numbers to the whites. We do not believe that, in such States, the colored population, when possessing freedom and the means of education can be permanently excluded from the dectivefranchise. The Herald remarks : The exclusion of free negroes from the right of suffrage is a necessity of negro sla very, but where slavery does not exist there is no such necessity. Give the emancipated negroes of the rebol States, then, in the re construction of those States, the right to vote along with the whites.. There need be no fear that this concession will lead to ne gro social equality. Negroes vote in New York, and yet in New x ork there is no ap proach to negro social equality. Society will take care of itself in the matter, as it does in everything else affecting its peace and harmony. After such sentiments from such sources what will Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison and Gerret Smith do, their occupation will be gone, their thunder stolen, their mission ended. We confess that we had not expec ted,-and were somewhat surprised at so sudden and radical a change, but as it is, so be it THE BREAKING UP OF OUR ARM V. The great volunteer army of the Union is in process of disruption. The old Army of the Potomac has already ceased to exist as a unitary body, and the ranks of its various corps are in process of depletion. The old Army of Sherman is terminating its long battle march which began at Atlanta one year ago, by marching into Virginia, where in a short time its body will be regularly dis solved. All over the land —in the hospitals at the recruiting rendezvous, and in the camps—soldiers are receiving honorable dis charges from the service in which they have done such noble and effective work. We suppose the month of May will not have passed before our army will be reduced to one-quarter of the strength at which it has been maintained during the last three years. It is an immense work that this American Volunteer Army has achieved. Immense suffering they have borne ; sublime heroism they have exhibited. Immortal honors they have won. They return to their homes with the grand consciousness that they have effected their work, that they have crushed the Rebellion, saved the Union, and won for themselves and for us a country. The army will be resolved into the great body of the citizens of the republic. For eign critics —ignorant of America and the character of its people and its army—have often told us what a dangerous body this army would be to the country at large if ev er it achieved victory in the South. We knew this to he nonsense ; and now we will show its falsehood to the world. The men who left their farms, their workshops, tneir stores and their offices to don the army blue and shoulder the musket, will now doff their military costume and return to the peaceful avocations of civil life —never again to take up arms, unless their country is again men aced, when they will do it with an alacrity equal to that they have already exhibited. We welcome home our brave soldiers. Let their country receive them with pride and gratitude, and let every one do all in his power to give them place and practical aid in the pursuits and professions which they may desire to enter. — Tribune. STABILITY OF THE REPUBLIC. There can be no doubt that the absolutist statesmen of Europe have looked toward the United States for an exemplification of their dogma, that the fatal weakness of a this theory, they have confidently predicted a failure of the present war, as an effort to maintain national unity. They have asser ted its cause to have been the original want of a sufficiently cohesive element. They have been quick to accept our rapid growth as an unnatural one, only awaiting a suffi cient test to be annihilated at a blow. Their surprise will be great when they hear that the rebel generalissimo has laid down his arms;—that the rebel president wanders for a hiding place without capital or cabi net; —that the war office has lost its army, the treasury its doubtful treasurers, the ter ritory its every port But we doubt if any fact will obtrude itself with such startling significance upon their minds as the fact that the republican system has recovered within a week from a shock which would probably have been fatal to any monarchical polity—the successful assassination of the executive. We are taught from experience what has been the fate of those European nations whose sovereignshave fallen beneath the sudden blow of conspirators. If they have not become the immediate prey for an anarchy which has overturned every vestige of law and regular succession, they have in variably groped along in confusion and con stant danger for months, sometimes for years. We have presented to them the distasteful but potent truth, that the execu tive officer of a republic, as well as the po litical existence of a king, never dies ; nay, that its existence is never so vigorous as when encompassed by a great danger.— With what surprise will those statesmen regard our quick recovery from the shock of assassination, (who fear or hope for a more successful Orsini, as they desire the per petuity or the downfall of the French Em pire ! The events of the last two weeks are prolific with experience ; and if they teach any thing, they teach that the fate of the American Union hangs not on a single life, that its fabric rests not upon a founda tion which even a united South can loosen. To the chagrin of the Roebucks and the Bonapartes, it will now be said in Europe, that the test has come, and the model re public emerges triumphant from its trial. The lat phase of revolution was added to our lot when President Lincoln fell by an assassin's hand. The only crisis before not experienced was then experienced. That peril—perhaps the most formidable of all— the peril of a nation without a directing hand in the midst of civil war—we have passed with no misfortune, thanks to that republican stability, the existence of which monarchical Europe haa thought to deny, but which is now no longer a theory yet un trie3, but a fact of history. If Lincoln's death has filled us with an universal grief, it has also had this good result, that we can now claim to have undergone with success every test of stability known to the experi ence of nations. — Boston Daily Advertiser. NATIONAL DEBT AND U. S. STOCKS. The creation of' national debts is not a modern improvement, but the ability of a great nation to provide for a great debt, and to make it the most convenient and best form of personal property, is a modern wondei. The debt of Great Britain was begun by raising a million sterling by loan in 1692, and when her great contest with Louis XIV, was terminated, the debt had reached fifty millions. Many statesmen and economists were then alarmed at the great burden which had been imposed upon the industry of the country, but when the war of the Austrian succession had swelled this amount to eighty millions, Maeauly says that historians and orators pronounced the ca; to be desperate. But when war again broke out, and the national debt' was rapidly carried up to one hundred and forty millions, men of theory and business both pronounced that the fatal day had certainly arrived David Humasaid that, although, by taxing its energies to the utmost, the country might possibly live through it, the experiment must never be repeated,—oven a small increase might be fatal. Granville said the nation must sink under it unless some portion of the load was borne by the American Colonies, and the attempt to im pose this load produced the war of the revo lution, and instead of diminishing, added another huudred millions to burden. Again, says Macaulay, was England given over, but again she was more prosperous than ever before. But when at the close of her Na poleonic wars, in 1846, this debt bad been swelled up to the enormous sum of over 'eight hundred millions sterling, or four thousand three hundred million dollars, or nearlv one half the entire property of the United Kingdom, the stoutest heart, the firmest believer in National progress and national development, might well have been appalled. But in the very face of this mountain obligation, —to say nothing of Ker vast colonial possessions,—the property of the British nation has been more than treb led, and her debt is now a charge of but 12* per cent, against it. All that Great Brit ain has done in paying her debt, we shall do, and more, with ours. We have vast territories untouched by the plow, mines of all precious metals of which we have hardly opened the doors, a population full of life, energy, enterprise and industry, and the ac cumulated wealth of money and labor of the old countries pouring into the lap of our giant and ever-to-be-united republic. Du ring the fiercest and most exhausting of all possible wars, we have demonstrated our national strength—and all the world over, national strength is but another name for national credit. "As good as United Stocks'" will soon be synonymous the world with "as eood as British Consols." For our part, we think a IT. ts. i reasury note, bearing seven and three-tenths annual interest , is just as much better than British Consols as the rate of interest is higher. Some of our timid brethren, who shipped their gold to London and invested in con sols, are now glad to sell out and invest at home at a round loss,—and serves them right. A CHANGE OF BASE.—The individual, who recently wrote a letter explanatory of the Poor House report, has come to the conclusion that letters of explanation are not his forte. He has now fallen back upon his dignity and appeals to the public for a vindication of his character. We think that with his report and letter of explana tion before them, the public will have no great difficulty in making up their verdict. PITIABLE.—The case of the man about town who write editorials on ajnipromi.se. From the London News of April Vlth. American Claims on England. At length it seems to be admitted that the tide ot fortune in America has changed. Our public men and public writers no lon ger speculate upon tne establishment of a new Confederacy of Southern slave owners. Even journals who have been most constant to the cause of secession assume that the game is lost, and that before long the icon tending parties will come to some agreement and lay down their arms. The question which now occupies publicattention is, what course the American Government will pur sue towards this country when the war is over. Will the vast armies which have overrun the Slave States, and threaten to overwhelm the last hope of the Confederacy quietly dissolve, each man returning to the held of peaceful labor ; or, intoxicated with success, will they pour across the St. Law rence, and strive to inflict upon this country a crushing humiliation? The question is indeed momentous, and the recent debates on the Canada defences prove that the opin ions of the most prominent men in Parlia ment furnish slight consolation for those who look for united counsel in a great emer gency. It may be fairly assumed that no reasona ble man, either on this or on the other side of the Atlantic, would desire war. No doubt if any such danger should threaten the two countries, the effort of every statesman in the world wo.'ld be directed to avert so terrible a calamity. The real question is whether the statesmen on either side would be as powerful as they would be willing, and this can only be solved by considering the nature of "the fierce democracy'' which is so much dreaded by some people in this country. But even if the people of the United States were more disposed to engage in war than they appear to be, it is difficult to discern any signs of the coming stonn. What are the wrongs of which these quarrelsome peo ple of the Union complain, and which shoui'd lead to hostilities ? It is singular that the only question upon which any difficulty is now felt is that of the losses inflicted by the Alabama. Our New York correspondent distinctly says that there is a general feel ing on this subject in America, and he hits no doubt that a demand will be made upon the English Government for a sum of money to compensate the losses inflicted by that cruiser There was indeed, a time when this might have led to disagreeable consequences.— \\ ith a rashness scarcely pardonablo, states men and public writers declared that the questions connected with the Alabama were settled, and that_ they should never even be referred to arbitration. But fortunately these expressions have been withdrawn. The Prime Minister in his place in Parlia ment has admitted that there are claims on either side, and that they ought, of coarse to be referred to some impartial tribunal; and some of tho 'most violent ad versaries of the United States in the press have adopted the same view. It would be strange indeed if it were otherwise. 1- or be itobserved, there is no dispute as to any le gal principle. The law is admitted by both governments. The American Government uoesnot, of course, insist thata neutral power is always responsible for the acts of hostile cruisers equipped in its ports. There may be cases in which a neutral government may have failed to arrest au aimed cruiser, not withstanding the utmost But a neutral government is re-ponsiblc if it ne glects to exercise due vigilance, and by this neglect an armed cruiser is permitted to es- !rhese are legal principles admitted .by both governments. The whole question is simply whether there was or was not neglect in tnc ease of the Alabama. It is a question of fact, which in a dispute between individ uals would be determined by a jury, and in a dispute between nations ought to be de termined by some impartial judges, selected by both parties. It is idle to suppose, after what has been said in Parliament, that the people of this country would engage in war rather than refer this question of disputed fact to arbitration, and the Americans are of much the same way of thinking. With two people so bent upon keeping the peace as the people of this country and the people of the United States appear to be and with the only matter of dispute reduced to a simple question of fact, which both sides are ready to refer arbitration, it Is surely not unreasonable to believe that the peace be tween this country and America may be pre served, though the civil war were to cease to-morrow. NAFOLEON'S PROPOSED ALLIANCE. i' J The following is tlie full statement of the London Morning concerning the reported alliance betteen France and Eng land for the "protection of Mexico" —al- ready referred to : I "On receipt of the- news of the fall of Richmond, Louis Japoleon proposed to Lord Cowley, that ; England and France should, by a treaty offensive and defen'ive, make common cause against the United States of America; that in the event of Can ada being attacked by them, France should assist England with al her land and sea for ces and that in tho 'vent of the Unitffl States "openly or overtly attacking the Emperor Maximillian. or in any wise en dangering his throne,' England should, in conjunction with Fraiee, "defend and sup port Maximillian in fie simc manner arid on the same a- they sustained the Sultan of Turkey agahst the aggression of Russia." "I do not know how thi very cool overture has been received by our government, hut we know what its empta'ic answer ought to to be. On the re-asserut ing of Parliament next week, this important subject is sure to receive immediate atten' ion, and the idea will be denounced in the strongest language which Parliamentary not ons of propriety will allow. Still mori d< p will be the in dignation of the coujtn at the proposal : for the whole nation still smarts at the re membrance of the maont • in which Louis Napoleon treated us ij our unfortunate alli ance with him in the case of the Crimean war. Were ministers to entertain the idea of the proposed alliane :ven for a day, it would kindle a flame in tl e national bosom which would be producti e of more serious effect than the overthrow of a cabinet." Important Decision. A decision involving the liability of a rail road company for the baggage of a passen ger, lost in passing over t mnecting roadsfor which the ticket was sold has recently been decided lor the ctfnpanj. Thom Richmond on one of the last trains froq the doomed city, asserts that he was in change of all the specie which was removed from Richmond ; that when his train broke dojrn, and he found it im possible to get it oi the track and off again, and seeing our Dices approaching, he or dered it set on file, and t lat all his efforts to save the spade were unavailing : that the soldiers broki open the kegs, and antid the excitement aid tumult, soldiers and cit izens appropriatcc all there was. He asserts that he knows tint no other amounts of spe cie, not in the pickets ol its owners, were taken from Richiaond, ai d that this lot was all stolen. He states urther that the amount hasjbeen lastly o\ cr-estiniated, and confirms the statement heretofore made by General Grant, that it ■. mounted only to about $200,000. Colonel Clark was an old regular army otfier, pre\ ions to the break ing out of the war and is a near relative of one of our most distinguished naval officers, to whom he comnunicated the above state ments. He is stil a prisoner in our hauds, and his truthfulmss is not doubted by any. PRICES IN RAIEIGH, N. C.—Among the many sudden chsnges of the last few days, that in prices it very ,-triking. We can scarcelj* realize saying so many cents for so many dollars, ant then the occasional clink of silver almost astonishes our ears, so long unaccustomed to such sounds. As yet there has been nothing brought to market; but bacon formerly $lO per p mnd can now be had for 10 cents. Coffe< is 50 cents per pound, instead ofsso, aid so on. These figures seem strange to us and it will take us some days to become familiarized with them, but no doubt we sh ill become adapted to them with wonderful fa ibty. Tt is some thing agreeable to learn, and we shall prove apt scholars.# Greenbacks, with a sprink ling of coin, have already made their appear ance among our citizens, and we feel that we have money once more in our midst. The bringing our money to market in a basket and carrying home our purchase in our pock et, we expect to reverse the order. In fact starvation no longer stares us in the face as it did, and we feel a sen -e of security we have not felt for a long time. — Raleigh Pro gress. THE county tax for 1865 in Montgomery county has been fixed at four mills on the dollar ; bounty tax, two per cent, and per capita or head tax $1 to each person. Last year the bounty tax in this county was three per cent. MOVEMENTB OF JEFFEESOH DAVIS. Operations of Htone man's Force#* The pursuit of Jeff Davis to be con tinued "as tony as there is a horse left."—Direct Telegraph communi cation icith Macon. KNOXVIIXE, May 2. A man on one of the railroad trains cap tured byStoneman's cavalry, between Greens burg and Salisbury, says J elf Davis was on the same train, on his way to Charlotte, S. C., but learning the railroad was cut above and below, he, with other passeagers, es caped and returned to Greensburg. Stoneman's cavalry is now in the valley of of the Saluda river, with headquarters at Andersonville, S. C., and are scouting from there towards Augusta, Ga., with instruc tions that if they can hear of Jeff Davis and his treasure, to follow him as long as there is a horse left. The infantry portion of Stoneman's com mand is engaged in clearing the mountains of bushwhackers, guerrillas and horse thieves and arc making clean work. KNOXVILEK, May 2—lo P. M. Information from Stoneman's cavalry states that Jeff Davis was at Yorkville, S. C., on the29th ult.. and Stoneman's forces came in on the following day. Davis has one day's start of Stoneinan. WASHINGTON, May 3. A distinguished army officer this morning mentioned as a fact that there is now tele graphic communication between Macon and Washington, a portion of tho lines extending through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, where we have no troops. He also stated that the same wires which were but recently used by the rebels, are now used in transmitting the President's proclamation offering rewards for the arrest of Jeff Davis and others. The Navy Department will, in a short time, sell many of the wooden vessels which were purchased to meet pressing emergen cies. Narrow Escape of Davis. —He and Ilis parti/ surrounded.—News of his capture soon expected. WASHINGTON, May 8. Official intelligence has reached Washing ton, that on the 4th inst., Jeff. Davis and his confrerees were surprised and nearly cap tured by Stoneman's forces, at Washington. Ga., that this rebel party beat a confused and hasty retreat before Stoneman's men came upon them, and that although Jeff, and his company for the time eluded the pursuit of our troops, they are entirely sur rounded, and there is scarcely a possibility of escape. News is momentarily' expected of the capture of the rebel President and party. THE THE KTJRDER Indignant disclaimer by Beverly Tocher. — The assassins to be sur rendered by Canada. MONTREAL, May 4. Beverly Tucker, for whom a reward of $25,000 has been offered by the United States Government, publishes a letter saying that whoever asserts that he had anything to do with the assassins, or knowledge of the plot to capture Lincoln or Seward, blackens his soiil with perjury. He never heard of Booth or any of the others arrested, before the as sassination, and he was not here when Booth was. He has sent for a eopy of the evi dence so as to disapprove it The Herald's Washington special says : Our Consul-General in Canada has given notice to the authorities that all the crimi nals connected with tne assassinaiiun of President Lincoln must be surrendered to the United States authorities. The Assassination Abroad. FATHER POINT, L. C., May 8. The Hibernian arrived off this point this morning. The news by the IYava Scotia of the as sassination of Mr. Lincoln was published throughout England on the 26th of April, and created profound sensation. The stron gest feelings of sympathy, indignation and horror were universally expressed, and those who sympathized with the South evinced quite as much indignation as the warmest iriends of the North. In all places it was the .all-pervading topic, and caused almost a total suspension of Business, particularly in Liverpool and Manchester. On Wednesday there tras only a day ses sion of Parliament. The attendance was very slim, only about 60 members being present. They all signed the following ad dress which was presented the same evening to Mr. "We, the undersigned, incmbcio of tV. House of Commons, nave learned with the deepest regret and horror that the President of the United States has been deprived of life by an act of violence, and we desire to express our sympathy at the sad event to the American Minister now in London, as to declare onr hope and confidence in the future of that gecat country, which we trust will couiinue to beassociated with enlighten ed freedom, and peaceful relations with this and every other country." The Times of the 27th says : "This eve ning it may be expected that the leaders of the great parties in the House of Commons will take the opportunity of expressing, in ths name of the nation, the horror which is everywhere felt at crime, and of assuring the American people that, whatever differ ence of opinion may exist in this country as to the present war, there is but one feeling of sympathy with them at the loss of an hon est and highminded Magistrate." The London and provincial journals alike describe the intense excitement which the news created, and all unite in warm eulogi ums upon Mr. Lincoln, and bitter denunci ations of the assassination. Rebel attempt to introduce the Yellow Fever into the North. , HALIFAX, N. S., May 6. Bermuda papers contain long accounts of the judicial investigations now being held at St. George's of theattempt of Dr. Black burn to introduce the yellow fever into New York, Philadelphia and other Northern cities. Blackburn visited Bermuda ostensibly on a philanthropic mission, in connection with the causes of tho yellow fever, and the evi dence shows he collected while there, bed ding and clothing taken from fever patients, that he purchased and infected new eloth iug, which he packed in trunks and left in chaige of parties, with orders to forward them to i\ew York in the spring. One witness testified that Blackburn rep resented himself as a Confederate agent, whose mission was the destruction of the Northern masses. It was also shown that several persons connected with the agency of the Confeder ate States were cognizant of these facts. There were ton trunks, three of which have been found and the contents buried by the board of health. Blackburn is well known in these provinces as a leading and ultra Reliel. Til E most extensive glassware factories in the United States are located at Pittsburg. In that city are fifteen bottle and vial facto ries, doing a business of $2,100,000 per year ; fifteen window-glass factories, avera ging 400,000 boxes of glass per year, worth $2j600,000 ; and fifteen flint-glass factories, doing an annual business of $2,000,000. Total value of their business nearly $7,000 000. PROCLAMATION BY THE BBESI DEFT. The Bay of Humiliation and Prtiy er I'ostjHmeil— Tin- First of June Appointed Instead of tlw 'l!ith of By the President of the United States : A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by my proclamation of the 25th instant, Thursday, the 25th day of next month, was recommended as a day of spe cial humiliation and prayer, in consequence of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States; but whereas my attention has since been called to the fact that the day aforesaid is sacred to a large number of Christians as ope of rejoicing for the ascension of the Savior. Now. therefore, be it known that I, AN DREW JOHNSON, President of the do hereby suggest that the religious services aforesaid should be post poned until, Thursday, the first day of June next. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Uni ted States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 29th day of April in the year of our Ijord 1865, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. PENNS YLNA NIA, SE.: In the Name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Pendsyl vania, Andrew G. Curtin, Govern or of the Said Commonwealth. A PROCLAMATION. , , WHEREAS, The President of the | r- s. [ United States has, by his procla -1 > —.—■ > liiation, fixed the Ist day of June next as a day of humiliation and mourning for the deatn, by assassination, of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, and for humbling ourselves before Almighty God, in order that the bereavement may be sanctified to the nation. And whereas, It is mo3t fit and meet that said proclamation, harmonizing as it does with all our feelings and spmpathies, should be everywhere respectfully obeyed : Now, therefore, I, ANDREW G. CUR TIN, Governor of the said Commonweolth, do issue this my proclamation, earnestly recommending the people of this Common wealth to set apart THURSDAY, the first day of June next, as a day of humiliation and mourning, and in conformity with the President's proclamation, then to assemble in their respective places of worship, there to unite in solemn service to Almighty God, in memory of the good man who has been removed ; so that all shall be occupied at the same time in contemplation of his vir tues and in sorrow for his sudden and vio lent end. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of State, at Hairisburg. this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five and of the Commonwealth the eighty-ninth. By the Governor : _ _ ELI SLIFER. See'y of the Commonwealth. IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION. lie*rants for Prominent Rebels— Jeff. Doris, Clay, Thompson, San ders, Cfeary, and Tucker. A Washington dispatch of May 3d gives the following important proclamation : WHEREAS, It appears from evidence in the Bureau of Military that the atrocious murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assas ..inaoion of" VVm FT Steward, Secretary of State, was incited, concerted and procured by and between Jeff. Davis, late of Rich mond, Virginia, and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, George N. Sanders, W. C. Clearv, and other reb els and traitors, against the Government of the United States, harbored in Canada — Now. therefore, I. ANDREW JOHN SON, President of the United States, do offer for said persons, or either of them, the following : Fifty thousand dollars for the arrest of Jeff. Davis, $25,000 for the arrest of Clem eut C. Clay, $25,000 for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi, $25,000 for the arrest of George N. Sanders, $25,000 for the arrest of Beverly Tuckor, and $ 10,000 for the arrest of William C. Clearj', late clerk of Clement C. Clay. The Provost Marshal General is directed to cause a description of said persons, with a notice of the above rewards, to be pub lished. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal to be affixed. Done at Washington this second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred uud sixtj-fivo. ANDREW JOHNSON. By W. HUNTER, Acting See'y ofState. The Return of the Pennsylvania Troops to their Homes. HARRIS BTTRG, May 5. Governor Curtin goes to Washington to day, for the purpose of arranging with the War Department the localities at which Pennsylvania troops are to be mustered out of the service and paid. The Pennsylvania regiments in Sherman's army, it is now understood, will be brought to Harrisburg, where they will be mustered out and paid. The object of the Governor is to prevent the delay and embarrassment which have heretofore attended the muster ing out and payment of troops at this post, and make arrangements by which the men will be able to reach their homes in different parts of the State, with the least possible delay. Health of Secretary Seward and Son. WASHINGTON, May 6—9 p. m. To Hon. E. M. Stanton: I have the honor to report that the Sec retary of State is better than at any time since his injury. Mr. F. Seward's condition is most encour aging. [Signed.] J. K. BARNES, Surgeon General. NEW YORK, May 6.—The Times Wash ington special says: The condition of Mr. Seward is such that there is every prospect of his resuming his official duties within a week or ten days. tef*Twenty-one States, including Louisi ana, Tennessee and Arkansas, have now, through their Legislatures, ratified the Con stitutional Amendment abolishing slavery. There is no doubt but that New Hampshire, Connecticut, lowa, Oregon and California will follow their example in due season. The assent of but one more member of the Union will then be required to make the Amendment the law of the land, provided Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas are rec ognized as organized States. Some ex-slave State will in that case, have the honor of gmngthe casting vote for freedom. Will it be Kentucky, North Carolina or Florida? As to Delaware and New Jersey, they oc cupy the unenviable position of dogs in the manger, endeavoring to delay what tnev can not hope to prevent. The Amendment will be passed in spite of them, and by the votes ot states a thousand times more deeply in terested in the perpetuity of the accursed institution, and more vitally affected by its abolition, than these free and semi-free me nials of the slave power have ever been or ever can be.—-JV. ¥. Tribune. FRO* FOBTH CAROLIFA ITie Beginning of Prosperous Peaee in the State—Stave* Declared Free in North Carolina—A Pnulatna tion by Gov. Vance. NEW YORK, May 7. Raliegh letters of April 28th and 30th, state that General Sherman and staff left that day for Charleston and Savannah, thence going to Richmond to meet his army which was to leave Raleigh the next Monday.— Sherman "has issued an order announcing the final agreement of surrender by Johns ton. He prohibits all foraging, and pro vides certain ways to relieve the pressing wants of the inhabitants. The 10th and 23d Corps remain in the Department of North Carolina, together with KDpatrick's cavalry. Stoneman s cav alry is ordered to East Tennessee, and Wil son's to the Tennessee river, near Decatur, Alabama. General Howard and the Army of the Tennessee will march to Richmond. Gen. S locum and the Army of Georgia will also march to Richmond. The rebel army are all leaving for their homes, many taking their arms with them, and some trouble is apprehended from those who took their arms and went away on their own hook. Gen. Johnston has endeavored to carry out the terms agreed upon, but the time in tervening- between tue first and second i agreements caused some demoralization. A movement is on foot to recognize the State government. WASHINGTON, May 7. Gen. Schofield has issued the following important order : HEADQUARTERS DEPART MENT OP NORTH CAROLINA, ARMT OF THE OHIO— RALEIGH, N. C., April 28, 1865. To remove a doubt which seems to exist in the minds of some of the people of North Carolina, it is hereby declared that by virtue of the proclamation of the President of the United States, dut.ed January Ist, 1863, all persons in this State, heretofore held as slaves, are now free, and that it is the duty of the army to maintain the freedom of guch persons. It is recommended to former mas ters of freedmen to employ them as hired servants at reasonable wages, and it is rec ommended to freedmen. that when allowed to do so, they remain with their former mas ters, and labor faithfully so long as they shall be treated kindly, and paid reasonable wages, or that they immediately seek em ployment elsewhere iD the kind ol work to which they are accustomed. It is not well for them to congregate about towns or mili tary camps. They will not be supported in idleness. By command of Major General Scho field. J. A. CAMPBELL, A. A. G. The following is published in the Raleigh papers of the 3d inst.: STATE OP NORTH CAROLINA EX.DEPT., ) GREENSBOROUQH, April 28,1865. ) Whereas, By the recent surrender of the principal armies of the Confederate States, further resistance to the forces ol' the United j States has become vain and would result in i a useless waste of blood. And Whereas, All the natural disorders atten dant upon the disbanding of large armies are upon us, and the country is filled with numerous hands of citizens and soldiers dis posed to do violence to persons and proper ty. Now, therefore, I, Izbnlon D. Vance, Governor of the State of North Carolina, in the sincere hope of averting som4 of the many evils which threaten us, do issue this, my proclamation, commanding all such persons to abstain from any and all acts of lawlessness: to avoid assembling together in crowds in all towns and cities or doing anything whatsoever calculated to cause ex citement. and earnestly appealing to all good citizens who are now at home, to remain there, and to all soldiers of this State to re tire quietly to their homes, and exert them selves in preserving order, should it become necessary for the protection of citizens. I aho appeal to the good and true soldiers of North Carolina, whether they have been surrendered and paroled, or otherwise, to unite themselves together in sufficient num bers in the various counties of the State under the superintendence of the civil mag istrates thereof to elect or stay any bodies of lawless and unprincipled men who may be committing depredations upon the per sons or property of peaceable citizens, assu ring them that it will be no violation of the parole to do so; and I would assure mv fel low-citizens generally that under God I will do all that may be in my power to settle the government of the State, to restore the civil authority in her borders, and to further the great ends of peace, domestic tranquili ty aud the general welfare of the people. Without their aid I am powerless to do anything. By the Governor. M. McPHETORS, Private Secretary. FROM THE MISSISSIPPI. AM indefinite Armistice declared be tween tntr Forces and Kirbi/ Smith's.—Surrender of Dick Tay lor.—A Crevasse on tfie Mississippi. Thirty-fire Miles of Country Inun dated. ST. LOUIS, May 3. It is officially contradicted that there are any of Jeff. Thompson's troops in southeast Missouri, and the rumors of an invasion of the State are without foundation. The A ick sburgiAm Id says that the head quarters of the Department of the Missis sippi grants them permission to state that an indefinite armistice through the depart ment, beginning at 9 o'clock, on the 28th ult.. was agreed upon by General Dana, of the United States forces, and Genera] Hodge commanding the rebels in that section. NEW ORLEANS, May 3, via Cario, May 8 Gen. A. J. Smith, with his command, oc cupied Montgomery, Alabama, on the 25th ult., and General Steele occupied Selma on the 27 th. On Sunday last Gen. Canby met Dick Tay lor 15 miles from Mobile, and opened nego tiations for the surrender of the rebel for ces. Nothing decisive was determined up on* but Taylor was allowed several days to consider the proposition. It is believed he has acceded to the terms before this, as he must have been influenced to that end by the surrender of Johnston. WASHINGTON, May 8. Information was received at army head quarters to-day of the final and eomplete sur render of Dick Taylor' B forces in Alabama and .Mississippi to General Canby. NEW ORLEANS, April 29, via Cario, May 5, Twobundred and sixty-seven officers, rank ing as officers from colonels to lieutenants, who were captured at Mobile, arrived here to-day. The river continues rising, though the levee six miles below the break at Algiers was repaired to-dey, and little damage was done. The Times correspondent says that the country on the east side of the Tunica landing to Bayou Sara was completely inun dated for thirty-five miles, causing great Suffering. Many of the inhabitants arc in a starving condition. Fears were entertain ed of a more destructive overflow than had ever occurred. THE gross earnings of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad for the last year were sl4, 759,066, and the expenses $10,093,944, leav ing a balance of over four millions. NEW two-dollar counterfeit bills on the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster are in circula tion.