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 <iu combat as follows :
' Whatever may have been the deficiencies
of the I nited States iathe instance alluded
to, compensation therefor has been made to
and her full release has been given
1 under the sanction of her hand to a solemn
treaty. Whenever her Majesty's Government
shall acknowledge itself prepared to perfect
the parallel, the example may be cited
against the United States but not till then.
THE NEW PRESIDENT of theUnitedStates,
Hon. Andrew Johnson, is in the fifty-sixth
year of his age. His family cousisting at
present of his wife, two sons and two
daughters, are residing at Nashville, having
been driven from their homes in East
Tennessee. Charles Johnson, a third son,
while acting as surgeon in the army, was
thrown from his horse and killed about two
ye ; ars ago. Judge Patterson, a son-in-law
of the President, also lives in Nashville, and
Colonel Stover, the other son-in-law, was
killed on the 18th of December last, while
leading the 4th Tennessee (loyal) Infantry
in the battle in front of that citv, be we.-n
the forces of Thomas and Hood Mr-
Johnson being in delicate health, it is
probable that Mrs Stover will mainly do
the honow oftheftesidcntialmansion.
GENERAL SCOTT took his place in the ;
\vfv P rocess, , Ml at Madison Square,
nmnrJ tr- at the head of the
mourners. His carriage was escorted into j
line by General Hall and Colonel Hamilton, |
divu-ion ]nsnector on General Saaford's ;
stan. the American flag was draped on j
either side of the General's carriage, and his '
presence was greeted with loud aeelama-!
tions. —Pittsburgh Pott.
KENTUCKY.
Hon. Henry Wilson in his speech before
the American Anti-Slavery Society in New
York on Wednesday, said:
I have received a letter from an eminent
and distinguished military man in Ken
' tacky. He fays that slavery surrendered in
Kentucky on the 2-'4d ©f April. They have
enlisted in that State under the law giving
freedom to the black man who will enlist it)
the service of the United States, about 25,-
000 men. This officer says he has given to
wives and children more than 500 free pa-
Grs in a day. The Governor has called big
gislature together on the 15th, and I have
no doubt they will adopt the constitutional
amendment. This amendment I regard to
day as an achieved fact. It will be adopt
ed ; slavery will perish. Let us see to it
let us see to it that the thing itself perishes
forever.
THE O NT.- YEAR MEN.—A Washington
telegram to the New York Tribune states
that an order from the War Department
was read on Monday to the troops stationed
at Fairfax, announcing that the names of
1 all one-year men were to be reported within
ten days, to bo returned to their State Cap
itals and mustered out of service. The or
der is supposed to be generaL
XT. S. 7-80 LOAN.
The sale of the first scries of $300.000,000 of the
7-30 Loan was completed on the 31t of March,
1865. The sale of the second aeries of Three Hun
dred Millions, payable three years from the 15th
day of June, 1865, was begun on the Ist of April,
IK the short space of thirty DAG*, over Ojie Hun
dred Millions of this series have been sold—leav
ing this day less than Two Hundred MiHiona te he
disposed of. The interest if payable semi-annual
ly in currency on the 15th of December and 15th
of June by Coupons attached to each note, which
are readily cashed anywhere. It amounts to
One cent per day on a SSO note.
Two cents " " " SIOO "
Ten " " " SSOO "
20 " " " SIOOO .
$1 " SSOOO "
MORE AND MORE DESIRABLE.
The Rebellion is suppressed, and the Govern
ment has already adopted measures to reduce ex
penditures as rapidly as possible to a peace foot
ing, thus withdrawing from market as borrower
and purchaser.
This is the
OXLY LOA-Y IX MARKET
now offered by the Government, and constitutes
the
Great Popular Loan of the People,
The Seven Thirty Notes are convertible on their
maturity, at the option of the holder, into
U. S. 5-20 SIX PER CENT.
GOLD BEARING BONDS.
Which are always worth a premium.
FREE FROM TAXATION.
The 7-30 Notes cannot be taxed by Towns, Ci
ties. Counties or States, and the interest is not
taxed unless on a surplus of the owner's income
exceeding six hundred dollars a year. This fact
increases their value from one to three per cent,
per annum, according to the rate levied on other
property.
SUBSCRIBE QUICKLY.
' Less than $200,000,000 of the loan authorized
by the last Congress are now in the market. This
amount, at the rate at which it is being absorbed,
will all be subscribed for within two months,
when the notes will undoubtedly com
mand a premium, as has uniformly been the case
on closing the subscriptions to other Loans. It
now seems probable that no considerable amount
beyond the present series xciU be offered to the pub
lic.
In order that citizens of every town and section
of the country may be afforded facilities for taking
the loan, the National Banks, State Banks, and
Private Bankers throughout the country have
generally agreed to receive subscriptions at par.
Subscribers will select their own agents, in whom
they have confidence, and who only are to be res
ponsible for the delivery of the notes for which
they receive orders.
JAY COOKE,
SUBSCRIPTION AGENT, PHILADELPHIA.
SUBSDBIPTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED by the
Ist NATIONAL BANK of HOLLIDAYSBURG.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALTOONA.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of HUNTINGDON.
NATIONAL BANK OF CHAMBERSBI'RG.
RUPP, SHANNON A CO., Bedford.
REED A SCHELL,
May 12:3 m
J. R. BUR BORROW JOHN LUTZ.
BEDFORD, PA.,
U.S. ARMY CLAIM AGENCY
FOR TNA COLLECTION OP
BOUNTY, BACK PAY, PENSIONS,
and other Claims against the Government.
BOUNTY AND BACK PAY.
To enable those who may have claims upon the
United States for moneys due deceased officers and
soldiers on account of military services rendered,
while in the regular or volunteer service, we pub
lish the following order of payment:
FIRST. —If the deceased was Married, payment
will be made: Ist. to the widow; 2d, if no widow,
to his child or children (if minors, to a guaadian.)
SECOND. —If he died an married: Ist, to the
father; 2d, if the father is dead, to the mother; 3d,
if both parents are dead, to the brothers and sis
ters, collectively; lastly, to the heirs general (to
be distributed in accordance with the laws of the
State in which the deceasd had his domicile.)
In the number entitled to Bounty may be added
the pro rata Bounty due soldiers discharged for
i wounds received in actual battle.
PENSIONS.
. ' n^er Congress, approved July 14th,
Ifi_. pensions are granted to the following classes
of persons:
Ist. Invalids disabled since March 4th, 1861, in
the military and navai service of the United States
in the line of duty.
2d. Widows of officers, soldiers, or seamen, dv
ing of wounds received or of disease contracted in
'he military or naval service as abuvc,
3d. Children under sixteen years of age, of such
deceased persons, if their bo no widow surviving,
or trorn the time of the widow's second marriage.
4th. Mothers (who have no husband living) of
officers, soldiers, or seamen, deceased as aforesaid,
provided tho latter have left neither widow nor
children under sixteen years of age; and provided
also, that tho mother was dependent, wholly or in
part, upon the deceased for support.
s"h. Sisters under sixteen years of age of such
deceased persons, dependent on tho latter, wholly
" r ' n J )a .' t > 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."