fUiferd BSD FORI) FA., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1865. THE LATE COMPROMISES WITH THE REBELS. The reader will smile at the above caption, and ridicule the idea of any sane man, great or small, insinuating that there was a com promise with any of the numerous rebel lea ders in the late surrenders. The disposition to laugh, however, at.such puerile and ri diculous stupidity, will not remove from our midst the impression endeavored to be cre ated among the ignorant and credulous by certain unscrupulous partisans. It is a prom inent article of the faith of the valiant and hapless leaders of the Copperhead Democ racy of Bedford county, to maintain the very semblance of consistency to be a jewel. They believe that the desertion of an up-- rooted political principle would breed a lack of confidence in their disciples, which might lead to results involving the very existence of the Party, or its entire overthrow. This has been their dogmatic course for a number of years. We are happy to be able to tell them now, however, that this game is ex hausted, that the people are becoming ac quainted with the exploded dogmas which they have so long, and with so much hardi hood, foisted upon them. The policy which has long been followed, that of making the people believe any thing, and do anything in the name of the Democracy, is about in the same stages of dissolu tion as the rebellion. Though it will take years to convince the leaders of this potent truth; they have been so long accustomed to misleading the masses, belieing and de ceiving them, and when they do settle down to facts and principles they will be as closely scrutinized and suspected by the intelligent of their own party, as the convict who has just returned from Cape Colony or Van Die man's Land. If we undei stand the term compromise, it means a mutual agreement to settle differen ces with concessions of claims by the parties. A mutual agreement without the consequen ces of fear, compulsion, or other unwilling motive. And we assert here without fear of contradiction, when an arrangement is entered into readily by a beaten party, to avoid a worse alternative, it is no compro mise., it is a surrender. The word compro mise has covered a multitude of sins, but no one has ever, until now, so roundly abused it. As an illustration of our idea, Gen. Lee asks Gen. Grant on what terms he will receive the surrender of the army of Nor thern Virginia. These are almost the pre cise words. Gen. Grant encloses his terms. Gen. Lee scrutinizes them closely. He sees that he not only surrenders himself and ar my, but Slavery, State Rights. Southern Confederacy, and everything but life and private property, but to save the latter , it must be done, the terms must be accepted. And this i 3 a compromise, forsooth ? How much like a compromise, indeed ! The one contracting party asks for the terms upon which he will be permitted to surrender his army, the other dictates the terms upon which he will grant him life, and then the poor miserable toady, who has been unfortu nate enough to have claimed at the outset of the rebellion, that our troubles could only be settled by compromise, for consistency, tells his ignorant and deluded followers that the SURRENDER was a COMPROMISE. The man who can be duped in this way, we have no doubt, will die a Copperhead, and he ought to. THE CAPTURE OF JEFF. DAVIS. The capture of Jeff. Davis has been the principal excitement of the week. Full de tails will be found in this paper. With this capture ends the last remnant of the rebel government For four long years this na tion has contended for this consummation, with a singleness of purpose which has won for us the admiration of our enemies. And to-day we have the proud satisfaction of seeing upon our banners, in letters of living light, the triumph of our sacred cause. Heaven be praised! The valiant men and true, who have braved death for their coun try's salvation will soon return to the pcace avocatious of life and all will go on again as ' 'meriy as a marriage bell.'' How cheer ing the thought Oh America : "There is no other land like thee, No dearer shore. Thou art the shelter of the free, The home, the port of liberty, Thou hast been, and shall ever be - Till time is o'er. Ere I forget to think upon My land, shall mother curse the son She bore." The capture of this noted character, whose name will be handed down to future genera tions as the most horrid ingrate that ever attempted parricide, will blast the hopes of every traitor throughout the world. And we are happy to say that the ridiculous ca per cut by this fallen culprit at the time of his capture, is a fit finale to the slave-holders rebellion. The details will be read by his many adherents with mortification and shame and they will curse, with bitter oaths, the day they followed the lead of this man. We have heard men assert over and over again that the rebel President, like Hannibal, would administer his own potion, or die sel ling his life as dearly as possible. But alas, Jeff is only human, and his friends bad prophets. He will arrive in Washington in a few days, it is hoped, and he will be placed on trial for Treason or for being accessory to the assassination of President Lincoln. It is quite probable that there is a rope in store for him. It should be a strong one, and our hope is that he will find the end of it TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS.— The Court for the trial of the Washington as sassination conspirators convened on Wed nesday. The prisoners arraigned are Har old, Atzerot, Payne, Arnold, McLaughlin, Mudd, and Mrs. Suratt.—Each of the pris oners designated counsel but none appeared except the gentleman named by Dr. Mudd. The prisoners respectfully plead not guilty. THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIR CLE BROUGHT TO GRlEF.— President John sou has signed the death warrant of Bowles, Mulligan and Hersey, leaders of the knights of the golden circle. They were tried at Indianapolis, and convicted of treasonable conspiracy. They are to be executed on the 19th inst THE 7.30s AND THE END OF THE WAR. The greatest war in modern history has ended in triumph. The country has demon strated the vastneas of its power. We knew it was great ; now all the world knows it. Our neighbors across the water, who said our very greatness was our weakness—that we shonid never hold together—that we must fall to pieces, and very small pieces at that— note take off their hats and beg to assure us of their "most distinguished consideration." Verily? a young nation that can raise two millions of fighting men and two thousand millions of money, just for the asking, is worthy of being "considered." They told us we could not carry on the war six months without begging for loans in European mar kets. We did carry on such a war as they neyer dreamed of, for four years, and never asked for a dollar ; and they now wish to buy our bonds at an advance of fifty per cent, over last year's prices. Government stocks are quoted as brisk and in demand, and well they may be, for the time will soon come when no more will be offered. The national expenses will soon be down to a peace footing, and, instead of a Treasury budget of nine hundred millions, Secretary McCulloch will ask us for about a third of that sum. And how much easier it will be to raise this in peace than in war! The millions of soldiers who have so long made it a business to destroy life and property will return to pursuits of industry, and the now ravaged fields will whiten with new harvests. Instead of reading every morn ing that so many miles of railroad have been destroyed , it will be that ' 'so many new ave nues to material wealth have been opened. " The South itself will be compelled to bear its share of the burden it imposed on the country, and its cotton —so' much greater than gold, and stiil so muchless than king— will have no attribute of royalty but what it pays into the revenue. A tax on South ern cotton will be quite as easily collected as on Northern petroleum or manufactures, and besides the articles must be had —the world wants it Iff would take but a fraction of our prop erty to pay the national debt; but if we do not pay a dollar of the principal in ten years, that fraction will be reduced one-half —by the development of the national re sources. We shall doubtless wind up the war and square all accounts with a national debt of three thousand millions on about 18 per cent of the present national wealth ; but, according to its rate of increase (127 per cent) from 1850 to 1860, —in 1875 this debt will be less than nine per cent. But our ability to pay the national debt needs no demonstration; but as some of us have looked upon the dark side, we may as well have a glance at the sunshine. The national loans will soon be oat of the market, —but for a short time the Gov ernment will need money to pay off the ar my and settle up the expenses of the war. Only about two hundred millions more of the second series of the 7-30 Loan remain to be taken, and when it is finally with drawn, there is no doubt that it will rise to a handsome premium, and at the rate it is now going, some time within the next sixty days will see the last of this series. Mr. Jay Cooke, the subscription agent, announ ced in February "that the first two hundred millions of 7-30's will probably be taken in at par from three to four months" —but they were taken in less than two. So that parties who desire to invest at par in the U. S. Loan, beariug seven and three-tenths annual interest, and in three years, convert ible into a 6-20 six per cent, gold interest bond should make their preparations accor dingly. Many of the best financial author ities believe that the Government will be able to fund such portions of its debt, as it may not be ready to pay as it falls due, at 4£ per cent. THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE. The spirit of slavery—for that spirit was by no means confined to the slaveholding States —wrote the word "white' 1 in the con stitution of Pennsylvania, excluding an en tire class of her citizens from the ballot box —a class, all of whom were natives of the country, and a large proportion of them worthy, intelligent, honest men —while for eigners, however ignorant, vicious and de based, utter strangers to the genius and spirit of our institutions, and incapable of understanding them even if they had tried, were, after a short delay, admitted to all the privileges of citizenship. We were go ing to say "after a short probation ," but there was no probation about it. The question was not "Are you fit to be a citi zen ?'' but, "How long have you been in the country?" We say nothing against our laws of natu ralization. Many good citizens have come in through that door, and we do not wish to see it shut; but we desire to unbar an other door in our State, and restore to those of our citizens who, although not white, have proved themselves to be loyal, patri otic and brave, privileges which they once enjoyed, but of which they were uiy'ustly deprived by the Conventional Convention of 1836. At that time well-dressed gentle men and scholars united with coarse and brutal mobs to sustain slavery, and at that time it was agreed by the common consent of all these classes, representatives of the pulpit, the forum, the top-room and the brothel, that abolitionists should not talk, and that negroes should not vote. But now, since abolitionists have regained the right to talk as much as they please and where they please ; since William Lloyd Garrison has walked the streets of Charles ton, and made speeches there, and since black men wear the livery of the nation, and battle valiantly in its defence, we say that in all fairness we must let them vote. When the right was taken away from them in Pennsylvania, the advocates of the meas ure contended that it was expedient ; but even this miserable plea cannot be urged now. Let the word "white," therefore, be expunged from our State Constitution, and let it drift down among the cast-off barbar isms and follies of a by-gone era, along with that infamous judicial dictum, that a colored man "has no rights which a white man is bound to respect." We do not say that the word LOYAL ought to be inserted in its stead in Pennsylvania ; but there are plenty of States, in the con stitutions of which it ought to be inserted ; it would be a good word in all the border States, while in those which composed the late confederacy it is indispensible. This, of course, would admit all the colored men to the ballot-box, but it would exclude many white. This, it seems to us, is the dictate of reason, prudence and common sense ; while to exclude an entire class, merely be cause they have not as white skins as the rest of us, can be referred to nothing but to a blind and slavish prejudice. Let us imag ine that two men are pefore us—one has fought and bled in the service of his coun try , but his skin is black; the other's soul is black with treason, and hands red with the blood of his murdered countrymen ; but his skin in white—which shall vote ?—Pitts burgh Gazette. THE CAPTURE OF JEFF. DAVIS! HE IS SURPRISED AT IR. WIIiVILLE, OA., OI THE lOtli IAKT. HIS PERSONAL STAFF SECURED. THE REBEL POST-M AS TER-GENERAL TAKEN. JEFF TRIES TO ESCAPE IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES HIS IDEAS ON "MAGNANIMITY." I WHAT 31RS. DAVIS SAYS. A PAINFUL MISTAKE. The Ex President to be brought direct ly to Washington. OFFICIAL. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 13. Maj. Gen. Dix: —The following dispatch just received from Gen. Wilson, announces the surprise and capture of Jefferson Davis and his staff, by Col. Pritchard and the Mi chigan Cavalry, on the morning of the 10th inst., at Irwinsville, in Irwin County, Geor- EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. MACON, Ga., May 12,1865 —11 a. m. Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant and Hon. Secre tary of War ; I have the honor to report that at day light of the 10th inst., Col. Pritchard, com manding 4th Michigan Cavalry, captured Jeff Davis and family, with Reagan. Post- Master-General ; CoL Harrison, Private Secretary; Col. Johnson, A. D. C. ; Col. i Morris, Col. Lubbock, Lieut. Hathaway and others. Col. Pritchard surprised their cauip at Irwinsville, in Trwin count}-, Ga.. 75 miles south-east of this place. They will be here to-morrow night, and will be forwarded under strong guard without delay. I will send further particulars at once. J. H. WILSON, Brevet Major-General. SECOND DISPATCH. WAB DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 14. Maj. Gen. John A. Dix : —The following details of the capture of Jefferson Davis, while attempting to make his escape in his wife's clothes, have been received from Ma jor Gen. Wilson. EDWIN M. STANTON. MACON, Ga., May LIT—LL a. m. RJH. E. M. Stantq/n. Sec. of War: The following dispatch announcing the capture of Jeff Davis has just been handed me by Cel. Minty, commanding Seeond Division: HT>. QRS., 4TH MICHIGAN CAVALRY, 1 CCMBERLANDVILLK, Ga., May 11, 1865. } To Capt. T. IF. Scott, A. G. Second Di vision ■' SIR : I have the honor to report that at daylight yesterday, at Irwinsville, 1 sur prised and captured Jeff Davis and family together with his wife, sisters and brother ; his Postmaster-General, Reagan; his Pri vate Secretary, Col. Harrison ; Col. John son, Aid-de-Camp on Davis's Staff; Col. Morris Lubbeck, and Lieut. Hathaway ; al so several important names, and a train o five wagons and three ambulances, making a most perfect success. Had not a most painful mistake occurred, by which the 4th Michigan and Ist Wiscon sin came in conflict, wo should have done better. This mistake cost us two killed and Lieut. Boutle wounded through the arm in the 4th Michigan, and four men wounded in the Ist Wisconsin. This occurred just at daylight, after we had captured the camp. By the advance of the Ist Winconsin they were mistaken for the enemy. I returned to this jioint last night, and shall move right on to Macon, without wait ing orders from you, as directed, feeling that the whole object of the expedition is ac complished. It will take me at least three days to reach Macon, as we are 75 miles out and our stock much exhausted. I hope to reaA Hawk insville to night. I have the honor, &c., B. 1). PRITCHARD, Lieut Col. 4th Michigan Cavalry. The Ist Wisconsin belongs to Lagrange's Brigade of McCooke's Division, and had been sent due east by Gen. Croxton, via- Dublin. Coj. Minty had distributed his command all along the south bank of the Ocmulgee and Altamaha. This accounts for the collision between parts of the First and Second Divisions, and shows the zeal of the command in the pur suit. I have directed increased vigilance on the part of the command, in the hope of catch ing the other assassins. Our dispositions of men are good, and so far none of the Rebel chiefs have been able to get through. Breckinridge's son was captured on the night before last, 11 miles south of here. Will send further details as soon as re ceived. J. 11. WILSON, Brevet Major-Gen. MACON, GA., May 13—9:30 a. m. Hon. E. M Stanton Sec. of War: Lieut. Col. Hardee, commanding the Ist Wisconsin has just arrived from Irwins ville. He struck the trail of Davis at Dub lin, Laurens county, on the evening of the 7th, and followed him closely night and day through the pine wilderness of Aligator Creek and Green Swamp, via CumberTand ville, to Irwinsville. At Cumberlandville, Col. Harden met. Col. Pritchard with 150 picked men and horses of the 4th Michigan. Harden followed the trail directly south, while Pritchard, having fresher horses, pushed down the Ocmulgee toward Hope well, and thence by House Creek to Irwins ville, arriving there at midnight of the 9th. Jeff Davis had not arrived. From a citizen Pritchard learned that his party were encamped two miles out of the town. He made dispositions of his men, and surrounded the camp before day. Harden had camped, at 9 p. m. within two miles, as he afterwards learned, from Davis. The trail being too indistinct to follow, he pushed on at 3 a. m., and had gone but little more than one mile when his advance was fired upon by men of the 4tb Michigan. A fight ensued, both parties exhibiting the greatest determination. Fifteen min utes elapsed before the mistake was discov ered. The firing in this skirmish was the first warning that Davis received. The captors report that he hastily put on one of his wife's dresses and started for the woods, closely followed by our mcu, who at first thought him a woman, but seeing his boots while he was running, they suspected his sex at once. The race was a short one, and the Rebel President was soon brought to bay. He brandished a bowie-knife and showed signs of battle, but yielded promptly to the per suasions of Colt's revolvers, without com pelling the men to fire. He expressed great indignation at the en orgy with which lie was pursued, saying that he had believed our Government more mag nanimous than to hunt down women and children. Mrs. Davis REMARKED to Col. Hardeu after the excitement WAS over that tho men had better not provoke the President, or ''lie might hurt some of'cm.' Reagan behaves himself with dignity and resignation. The party, evidently, were making for the coast. J. H. WILSON, Brevet Major General. FROST EUROPE. The Horrors Over the Assassinatio-- A Great. Sympathy Meet say in London—Speeches by Prominent Englishmen—A Letter of Condo lence to Afmerica from Austria. HALIFAX, May 10. —The steamship Asia has arrived, with Liverpool advices of April 30th. SYMPATHY FROM THE PEOPLE OF LONDON. LONDON, April 30.—0n Saturday evening an immense public meeting convened, under the auspices of the Emancipation Society, in St James' Hall, to express their feelings of grief and horror at the assasination of President Lincoln, and sympathy with the Government and people of the Qnited States, and with Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, and his family. The galleries of the Hail were draped in black, and over the end gallery hung the American flag. The hall was crowded with an audience who manifested not merely warm admiration for the c haracter and ca pacity of the late President, and sincere sympathy with the people of the United States in their loss, but their hearty approv al of the great cause Mr. Lincoln represent ed. The platform contained an array of Par liamentary gentlemen and many leading cit izens of the metropolis. Many ladies were present, a majority of whom were in mour ning. Various resolutions were carried, not merely with unanimity, but with an in tense feeling rarely seen at public meetings. The chair was occupied by Wm. Evans, president of the Emancipation Society. Messrs. Foster, Stansfield, Leathean, Tay lor. Potter, Baxter, and Baines, members of Parliament, commenced the proceedings with expressions of their deep sympathy with the American Government and people, and their entire confident ■ in the Adminis tration of President Join son. The chair man was supported by wenty* influential members of parliament ai d a large array of distinguished vice-presidents, representing every section of the coi imunity. Letters of sympathy were read rom Sir Charles Lyell, Lord Iloulton. and others. W in. E. Foster, M. P., moved tin first resolution: "That this meeting desires to give utter ance to the feelings of grief and horror with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln and the murderous attack on Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lin coln and the United States Government and people the expression of its profound sym puthv HID! iionuu Mr. Foster said this wa*a time when tße tic of blood binding Englishmen to Ameri cans was indeed truly felt -a thrill of grief, horror and indignation, which had passed through the length and I. eadth of Europe, and especially possesses the heart of every Englishman, as though some painful calam ity had fallen on himself. [Cheers. | This •meeting would, he hoped, send by the ship which left their shores th:.t night its sympa thy with the widows and orphans and tho country who had lost thei faith for the fu ture. He was confident in the belief they had so learned the lesson >f common history that they could prove what strength a fiee and Christian people have to bear up against every blow like this, though it be such a blow as had rarely fallen upon any common wealth. He expressed his. convictions that President Johnson would continue Presi dent Lincoln's work of restoring peace to the country; and ensuing freedom to all who dwell in it [Cheering. ] P. A.Taylor, M. P., seconded the reso lution, arid expressed his deep sympathy with the American nation, which had lost a worthy successor of Washington. Lincoln's great task had been fulfilled. He had crushed the rebellion of the slaveholders, and the destroyer had not withered one loaf in the ehaplet of his glory. lie had no fear that the Government of the United States would fall into a career of revengeful retri bution. He asked the audience to remember that for years a portion of the press and people had heaped every epithet of abuse upon Lincoln, and wen' now trying to do tho same thing bv Johnson. |Cries of shame.] He felt confident that the efforts of the new Government would lie continued in the same direction as Lincoln's, and that it would soon effect a complete restoration of the Union, with the complete emancipation of the negro. Mr. Lincoln died for that prin ciple, but his death was not the symbol of its defeat. But of its glorious triumph. [Cheers.] Mr. Leathern, M. P., brother-in-law of John Bright, concurred in the hearty trib ute paid to the character and services of President Johnson. They had seen Ameri ca pass triumphantly through gigantic per ils, and they confidently expected she would come out with equal fortitude and equal dignity from what was perhaps, the last and greatest of her triumph. Mr. Stransfield M P.) moved the next resolution, viz: "That this meeting desires to express its entire confidence in the deter mination and power of tin' people and Gov ernment of the United St; tes to carry out to the • fullest extent the policy of which Abraham Lincoln's Presi lential career was the embodiment, and to establish free in stitutions throughout the whole American Republic." Mr. Stransfield said the >' had met not only to give expression of their horror at a deed so foul that history could produce no paral lel,hut to show their sympathy for the cause which begins by being honorable and great, to be righteous, and which, by the acts and by the life of its martyr President, had now become sacred in their eyes. [Loud cheers] The South had been fighting for the avowed and deliberate purpose of promoting and perpetuating human slavery. It attempted to found its subsistence upon a national crime, and had met the deserved fate of those who set themselves against the laws of God and man. The North had been fight ing for a common country, which they could share, but which they would not allow to be torn asunder. Step by step the North rose to the height of the great and holy ar gument on which its cause was founded. Each delay, each defeat seemed only to make their resolve juer, higher and purer. When the South has finally abolished sla rery throughout the States, then victory would finally crown the cause. Throughout ill this period Lincoln guided his country with honor. If anything could strengthen the States in their trial it would be the deep felt, spontaneous, universal sympathy now traveling to them from Europe. He was sure ail prayed that the Govern ment and the people might be true to the example of him who wag the guide of their cause. Mr. J. B. Potter, M. P., seconded the motion, and said he now stood in Parliament the successor of Richard Cobden, whose object was equalled with that of Lincoln, to dignify labor. Mr. Lincoln destroyed sla very in America, and it should be their wish to destroy serfdom at home. He trusted the result of the conflict of America would be to give an impetus to the cause of reform in Europe. Mr. Baxter, M. P., supported the reso lution, and expressed his hearty concurrence with the eloouent tributes paid to the mem ory of President Lincoln. All the events of the last four yaers dwindled into insignifi cance before the issue involved in the great contest in America. Not only was the great question of slavery involved in the contest, but the question of constitutional govern ment all over the world. He did not believe the great cause depended on any single life, and felt confident the American people would hurry to a triumphant issue the policy and principles of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Stanley, second son of Lord Stanley, of Aldersly, member of the Cabinet expres sed his admiration of the character of Mr. Lincoln. Professor Fawsett also supported the res olutions. Mr. Shaw Le Fevre, M. P., said the men who elected Lincoln could not be wrong in their choice of Johnson. Mr. Caird, M. P_, moved that copies of the foregoing recolutions be placed in the hands of Mr. Adams for transmission to the President of the United States, Mrs. Lin coln, and Mr. Seward. He paid a warm complinientto the American minister, whose moderation, firmness, and conciliation had been the best preservation of peace between the two countries. The resolutions were supported by Messrs. Greepfell, Curren. and Ewing, members of Parliament, and the Revs. Neuman Hall and Mason Jones. § Cyrus W. Field was called for, and was received with great applause. He thanked the Chairman and the meeting, on behalf of the American people, for their deep sympa thy with the thirty millions on the other side of the Atlantic who were mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln. The weekly papers all coincide with the daily press in remarks of Lincoln's assassi nation. The Army and Navy Gazette, says: ''Nothing for many years has moved Eng land like the telegram announcing the event.'' It pays a warm tribute to Lincoln's memory, ana says the more one looks at the facts the more one sees that, although Pres dent Lincoln is dead, the Confederates are hopelessly beaten. The assassination continues to be the all pervading topic. Addresses of sympathy and indignation are most numerous. Par liament will vote an address on the Ist of M ay. Napoleon sent a messenger to the Ameri can minister. The Prussian Government and Chamber also give expression of their sympathy. In the House of Lord's on the 27th. Earl Russell gave notice that on the Ist of May be would move an address to the Crown ex pressing the sorrow and indignation of the House at the assassination of the President of the United States, and praying her Maj esty to convey an expression of those feel ings to the Government of the United States. Earl Derby hoped the Government had taken pains to ascertain whether there was nothing in the form of the motion rendering it in the slightest degree doubtful whether unanimous assent would be given by the House to the motion. As proposed, the matter was unprecedented. He was quite certain the expression of sorrow and indig nation for the atrociona C'IMUIITU-,1 would not only meet with the unanimous assent of the House, but would represent the feelings of every man. woman, and child in her Majesty s dominions. Earl It us-ell said the Earl of Derby was correct in saying the circumstances were happily unprecedented, and he hoped there would l>e nothing in the form of the motion which would cause objection to be taken to it. In the House of Commons Sir George Grey, in the absence of Lord Palmerston, srave5 rave notice similar to that given by Earl lussell in the House of Lords, adding the address. The Common Council of London, the American Chamber of Commerce, of Liv erpool, and public bodies in various parts of England have adopted resolutions of sym pathy and indignation. Large numbers of Germans in London also presented an address to Minister Ad ams. The Americans in London, at the call of Fernando Wood, assembled iu considerable numbers at the Grosvenor Hotel, on the 27th to give expression of their sentiments, but at the suggestion of Mr. Adams, who sent a message to that effect, the meeting ad journed till the Ist of May, when a great meeting of Americans will take place at St James's Hall, under the Presidency of Mr. Adams. The Times of the 28th. says: It is not using language of hyperbole in describing the prevailing manifestations of feeling as unexampled. President Lincoln was only chief of a foreign State with which we were not unfrequently in diplomatic or political collision. He might have been regarded as not much more to us than the head of any friendly Government, yet his end lias already stirred the feelings of the public to the ut most depths, as the space of twenty-four hours has sufficed to fill the country not only with grief and indignation, but to evoke al most unprecedented expressions of feeling from the constituted authorities. The Confederate Mason writes to the In dex to repel the assertion of Secretary Stan ton, in'a letter of Mr. Adams', that the acts were planned and set on foot by the rebels under pretence of avenging the South and aiding the rebel cause. He denies that Mr. Stanton has any evidence to substanti ate his assertion, and says none will view the crime with more abhorrance than the people of the South. The Times, editorially referring to this letter, rejoices to see Mason repudiate the crime, and says if the Southern States them selves do not utterly and even more emphat ically renounce it and its authors, they will*' forfeit all the sympathy which remains as the solace of their misfortunes. A despatch from Paris says that Napole on, on receiving tho news of Mr. Lincoln's death, sent one of his aides-de-camp to call on Minister Bigelow. and to request him to convey to President Johnson the expression ot profound affliction and sorrow with which the odious crime had inspired the Emperor. It is reported that Queen Victoria will send a letter of condolence to Mrs. Lincoln, and express her sympathy with tho Ameri can people. Herrvon Bismark, Prince Minister of Prussia, has addressed a letter to the Uni ted States minister at Berlin, and it was personally delivered by an under Secretary of State. CONDOLENCE FROM AUSTRIA. Addresses of condolence to the American people have passed the lower house of the Austrian Reiclisrath unanimously. The Austrian and Swiss Government have forwarded addresses. The New York Tribwte calls upon President Johnson to order a general jail delivery of all persons committed for talk- ] ing treason; but to hold on to all assassins * and conspirators to murder, hcuse-burners i and highway robbers, and to give the latter i a speedy trial and execute theni promptly if j convicted. That is just what is being done, \ SURRENDER OF DRK TAYLOR. CINCINNATI, MAV 1 ] .—A special despatch to the Cincinnati Gazette, dated Cain; 9th says : The following despatch has been received at Headquarters, Memphis, from General Canby, via Senatolia on the 6th. HD. QRS. MILITARY Drv. OF WEST ) MISSISSIPPI, CITRONELLE, May 4, 1865. J Lieutenant General Taylor has this day surrendered to me with the forces under his command on substantially the same terms accepted by General Lee. (Signed.) . E. K S. CANBY. General \V aahburne has also received a dispatch of the same import from General Canby, dated Mobile, May sth. THE FATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. —Some of our Democratic cotemporaries take in ill part our good-natured allusions to the sad figure now presented by the Chicago platform. They call it ungenerous to twit the party about that, when it is now so lustily shouting glory for the national triumph. Well, we are sorry. We did not think they were so sensitive. Henceforth we will try to remember that even the smallest pleasantry upon that subject is a f eat cruelty, and there shall be no moreofit. et our friends must not imagine that the American people are going to forget that action of the Democratic party at Chicago. They may be, and we trust they will be chari table toward their fellow-citizens individual ly, who were so discouraged and demoral ized in the dark period of the war. Forti tude in adversity is not within every man's power. It depends largely upon a man's natural temperament, and upon his previous cultivation of the great moral element, faith. A person, last August, might have conceived the war "a failure," and have favored negotiations with the Richmond Govern ment, without any positively bad motive. It might come from weakness, and not at all from wickedness. But though individual Democrats may be judged ever so liberally, the Democratic party itself cannot be. Party organizations are judged by their acts solely, and never get the benefit of charity. Striving for the rule of the country, their title to that trust is always strictly scanned; and if wrong, they are repudiated. The Chicago platform stands, before all the world, as the authentic, deliberate exposi tion of the sentiments and policies of the Democratic party in the last and most trying year of the war. It is so distinct and explic it that all attempt to mystify or evade its true meaning is vain. Every man in the country knows that it condemned the war as a ''failure, ' and that it demanded that "immediate efforts be made |for the cessa tion of hostilities." In that regard the Democratic party is irreversibly doomed. The peonle, in the very thick of the war, punished that act by the most withering rebuke known to our political history. The fate they will hereafter visit upon the party will be as much more severe as the false hood of its assumptions and the fatal conse quences of its policy is more distinctly revealed by the actual resujt of the war. No expiation will be accepted short of utter destruction. The sooner that individual Democrats recognize this, and prepare themselves for some other political organi zation, the better for their own credit and for the good of the country. — N. Y. times. THE WAY TO SPIKE THE ABOLITION GUN! —The New York Herald never leads, but only follows public opinion upon all questions relating to slavery and the negro, ft came out for the Anti-Slavery Pro hibitory Amendment to the Constitution iust as soon as it became clear that it would tie carried; and now it Is out flat-footed for Negro Suffrage—a pretty sure sign that the measure will soon be adopted. We quote from the Herald of Tuesday : "But there is another matter upon which proiidont John. -ton ,seeins tu he hesitating, and where he need not hesitate at all. We refer to the question of negro suffrage. The exclusion of free negroes from the rig it of suffrage is a necessity of negro slavery but where slavery does not exist there is nc such necessity. Give the emancipated u groes of" the rebel States, then, in the recon ■itrtic tion of those States, the right to vote along with th whites. There need be no fear that this concession will lead to negro social equality. Negroes vote in New York, and yet in New York there is no approach negro social equality. Society will take eaire of itself in this matter, as it does in every thing else affecting its peace and harm on'". On the other haud, the concession of negro suffrage in the reconstruction of the insur gent States, will effectually spike the last gun of Northern Abolitionists, and will expel or neutralize the fire-eating political elements of the South for all time to come. Indeed, nothing half so effective could be employed as negro suffrage to weed out the intractable secessionists from the Southern States. Put them to that test of loyalty, and there will be no necessity for notices to quit or oaths of allegiance; but, best of all, the political agitation of the negro question, in every shape and form, will be ended North and South.'' This mode "of spiking the guns of the Abolitionists' wdl afford them the highest satisfaction, and we will guarantee that it will prove effectual. Let the Adminis tration try it THE RETORT COURTEOUS.—THE Secretary of State instructed Mr. Adams, our Minister to the Court of St. James, to further remonstrate with the British Government against the continued fitting out of pirates in English ports to prey upon American commerce,and he accordingly addressed Earl Russell on the subject, who replied: 'T cannot refrain from observing that Her Majesty s Government have been for more successful in preventing breaches of neu trality with regard to the fitting out of cru isers to take part in the civil war in North America, than the Government of the United States were in preventing the fitting out of ships-of-war to aid the South American Republic, in their revolt against Spaiu, which, however, then stood in the relation of a central authority resisting insurrec tion.'' W hereupon Mr. Adams placed the Earl horn support; provided there are no right ful claimants of either of the last preceding classes. * IVEN CLAIMS FOR IXSS Ur HOxibEo. • Applications by mail attended to as if made in person. charge made until the LI aim ig adjusted. "TSaj. Information given free of charge. April 38< 1865:tt BLANK DEEDS—A splendid assortment for sale at the "Inquirer Office."