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AND STlit THS COME. 7~ f
The leaders of the rebellion are being raft
idly picked up and put in secure quarters,
whence they may be forthcoming at the call
of the Government to answer for their
crim Almost every day witnesses, BOiae
addition to the numbers <■ tJeff. Davis.' Clem
ent C. Clay and General',Wheeler have re- j
eently arrived,at Fortress Monroe where
quarters we being prepared for their safe
keeping. The rebel Post Master General,
Regan, Gov. Vance of N. C. and Goveror
Brown of Georgia have been iti the custo
dy of the Government for sometime; Qov.
Harris of Tenn. is now added to the num
ber. Breckenridge. Treflhotm, Benjamin
and others are still fugitives front justice aud
liable to be picked up at any molnent.—
These worthier who once prated so loudly
of the weakness of our Government, are
beginning to experience the legitiinatc fruits
of'their ioliy, arid see a development of
strength and vigilance, that bodes them no
good. Instead of the rope 0/ mind, of which
they onfe spoke so contemptuously, these
valiant representatives of ih chivalry .are
beginning to be troubled with unpleasant
visions of a rope of hemp. - n
ENGLAND AND THE TARIFF SYS
TEM. 1
The'following extract of a letter from ode
of our most distinguished representative in
England was received here to-day, and will
attract considerable attention.— New York
Tribune.
"Great efforts will now be made by English
capitalists and nunufacturers to induce us to
reduce our tariffs, and permit them to do all
our manufacturing : they are beginning to Stir
this matter already. Our warm, personal
friends will be put forward to move the mat
ter, such men as John Bright, Goldwin Smith
and others who have stood by us through this
war. I have seen decisive evidepee of this
purpose here. Personally we owe them very
much, but we may frightfully abominate their
free trade principles. Thw will struggle hard
to break down our tariff. See if this does not
prove, truei There wijl be a terrible pressure
put ou the Government."
The abovp extract the source
From which our industrial interests are like
ly to suffer, now that the rebellion is 'over,
and the. incidental protection furnished by
the premium on gold is taken "away. Our
old enemy and rival, since the day the
Stamp Act was passed, has never ceased her
efforts to break down OUr manufacturing in
terests and monopolize our markets. Here
tofore she has been so successful that her
friendship has been more prejudicial to us
than her ennrity, She "preaches tree trade
to the world, hut keeps her own counsel;
and practices what she preaches, only in
those productions which she can famish
cheai>er than other countries. She practices
free-trade ih iron and cotton manufactures,
because "her immense capitalists anil skilled
workmeh ,enable her to manufacture cheap
ly. All-articles that are produced more
cheaply 'by other nations are compelled to
pay heavy duties before they can he sold in
British markets. Suchis British free- trade..
If the advocates of free-trade in oui country
would only take lessons in political economy
from British practice, instead of from Brit
ish preaching, we might long ago have been
able to compete with British, wares not only
in our own, but also in foreign markets.
Just at this time "it is of the highest impor
tance to us, to guard carefully against eyery
attempt toiiyure our manufacturing inter
eats. On them we must depend for a large
portion of the revenue for paying our na
tional debt, and nothing will so surely and
speecfily bring us to national bankruptcy as
neglecting to protect and foster our manu
factures. We are in more danger to-day
from the preaching of British fVee-trade than
from all the cannon and bayonets of England
and France combined.
THE THIRD SERIES OF SEVEN
THIRTIES.
The great success of the 7; 30 Loan must
always be looked upon as one of the most
powerful evidences of the strength of the
United States Government, and of its strong
hold Upon the confidence and affections of
the people. On Saturday, May 13th the
subscriptions were over thirty million dol
lars, and for the week ending on that day,
over ninety-eight million dollars, and in the
three months that the loan has iMen in
charge of Mr. Jay Uooke, >mr five-hundred
million dollars.. These large receipts will'
enable the Treasury to. pay off our armies as
they are disbanded, and to rapidly discharge
the various obligations that have been in
curred during the war. History will show
that a great war debt to individuals ■ has
never before been so promptly paid; and
we all will agree that Secretary MeOtiHoeh
deserves great ctpditfor the ability he has
manifested, not only in securing the mean*,
but for the financial skill he has displayed
in so directing these vast receipts and dis
bursements as not for a moment to disturb
the equilibrium of commerce, embarrass in
dividuals, or in any way tighten the money
market It is ddubtless true that the Sec
retary of the Treasury liiight havd negotia
ted the remainder of his loans at six per
cent interest, instead 0f7:30, bat so much
•valuable time would necessarily have been
lost in popularizing a new loan that the
great object of the viz : an'
immediate supply of money sufficient to pay
all the debts incident to the war, wouldhave
been defeated .and besides, the difference
of interest would not have been equal to
three days' expenses. 'The policy may have
looked "penny-wise," buyhe best financial
authorities, as well as common sense, pro
nounced it '"pound-foolish." As it is—and
will be, no soldier will go home without his
greenbacks, and the floating debt in the
shape of vouchers; requisitions. &a, will be
wiped out as rapidly as the proper officers
can audit and adjust the accounts.
The Second Series of the 7;30 Loan was
exhausted on" Saturday, May. 13th On
Monday, the Secretary of the Treasury au
thorized Jay Cooke, the General Subscrip
tion-Agent for lL .S*Securitiea, ta. t/mYJB
subscriptions for #230,000,000 of a Third
Series, which is all that is authorized by'
Congress, and is without doubt tlie last loan
at this high rate of interest that 1 will be of
fered by the Government.
is nochangejn tha terms or condi
tio* of this Third Series, except tbit the
Government reserves the right of paying in
freest at six per cent, lu goH of aw--'
en and three-tenths in currency—a right
which would presuppose a return to specie
payments, and make as per cent, in gold
i even better than the high rate in currency—
a consummation most devoutly to be wished.
. /'The rivilegn of converting the notes into 1
5:20? six per cent, gold bonds at the end of
three years, or receiving payment at matu
rity, at the holder's option, is retained.
' The first day of the Third Series opened
with a subscription within a fraction of five
millions, and the month of June will certain
ly see the last of the 7:30s out of market.
Hovf early in June we cannot predict, but
parties who wish to make sure of a portion
would Jo wiell to be in time.
Fill particulars may be found in our ad
vertising columns.
ft THESE FOUR YEARS.
It would be well to look back over these
last four years, and review what we have
learned in the terrible school through which
we have passed.
1. : We have leaVned a lesson of trust in
God; It was hard work to believe that we
could do and bear all we have and live- We
knew that God was just, our sins were great
and punishment our desert Why should
he spare us, and sustain us, and save us
from our and bring us out into a
grou| and wide pliieo ? In OUV distic.-wie,
reverses, divisions and embarrassments, it
has iometimes appeared as if we were for
sakefi of God and were going on the rocks.
What awful disasters hare attended our
arms ? How many times has rebellion wax
ed vaiu-glorious and confident ? But in the
darkest hours God has been with us in infi
nite mcrcv, holding us up when we were
ready to faß, and at last bringing our ene
mies to lay down the weapons of their re
bellion and submit to the Government they
sought to destroy. Unless God had been
on our side, the cause would have beep .lost
He was with us because right was with us.
God is Bight We will always try to be
right and then always trust God.
2. We have learned our own strength. It
Is a great thing to kuow that we are able to
carry on war, under the most trying and
dangerous circumstances, tor four years ; to
put a million of men into the field ; to sus
tain them and pay them; to pursue all the
ordinary and many extraordinary branches
of business with success; to enjoy unexam
pled pecuniary, moral and intellectual pros
perity, and finally to pass through a civil
war of gigantic proportions and come out of
it with all our energies unimpaired; our
public and private, religious and education
al institutions flourishing; and all this in,
through and after four years of unparalleled
draft upon our resources.
3. "We have learned that this is to be one
nation, one people, one government, one
Union, now and forever. The men of the
East, or the West, or the Middle, or the
North, or the South, may go wild on the
theory qf self-government, and imagine that
our original principle of independence teach
es the right of revolution whenever a stab 1
or section chooses to set up for itself, but
we have fought that radical doctrine down.
We have spent 2,000,000,0QQ dollars and
sacrificed half a million of human lives to
settle the principle that self-government
means the right of the majority of the A
uieriican people to elect their own rulers,
and the duty of the whole to submit to the
government and laws. That radical and
disorganizing doctrine which has often been
taught on the floor of Congress and in
Fourth of July orations, that any portion
of a people may throw off their allegiance
to the existing government, and set up an
other whenever they are able and disposed,
has been trampled into the dust by the heels
of a million American soldiers in arms. It
is dead and buried, we pray God it may
have no resurrection.
4. The same lesson is the eternal repudi
ation of the doctrine of nullification and
secession. That is only another name for
revolution or rebellion. Webster was sup
posed to have annihilated this heresy.—
Jackson thought he had slain the monster
by his Proclamation. But it lived. The
evil was scotched, not killed. We have ju
dicially put it to death now. We brought
it to trial. We gave it a fair chance for its
life. We arraigned, tried, convicted, senten
ced, and executed it. It was abloody work.
We fattened the worn out lands of the
South with the blood of secession. We
buried the monster deep in the earth.—
Whcq Lee and Johnston surrendered and
Davis fled, the last grasp of secession was
given. It has been a long, fearful, awfnl
argument But conclusive. Secession is
dead.
So is slavety. We all knew that sla
very was a great evil and a fearful curse,
the incubus of the South and the reproach
of the land. We formed the Union with
it, an existing evil, and we of the North
stood by the compact, and intended to stand
by it We had sworn to our hurt, but we
wouM not go back. But the ways of God
are past finding out. The Slaveholders re
belled, and the rebellion was the kn4ll of
slavery. It was the worst possible way of
' putting an end to slavery, but God permit
ted the wrath of men to work out this
grapd exodus, and then he restrained the
remainder. We have learned that foqr
yeaks of war could do what forty years of
argutnhnt feiled to do, and when men would
not do the right thing in the right way, he
organised a machinery that has suddenly
revkilutiomxed the whole system of South
ern labor, and grren to four millions of
slaves the stati<?n of freemen.
Other lessons we have learned, and we
mqan to read them, together with the duties
that result. A wide field of research is be
fore Ufr— A". V. (Jl,server.
, Whijv Prince Charles made his escape
after his father's execution,' he assumed a
disguise, but it was that of a man. When
Louis Phillippe escaped in 184*. he dressed
like a gentleman, and assumed the gentle
mini)' name of John Smith. When Na
poleon was ruined he threw himself on the
generosity of the English nation. None of
these men did anything beneath their dig
nity. But when Davis felt called upon to
leave the country, he unsexed himselfand;
became a woman.— Washington Chronicle.
i ; 1 ' # •
RCssixn Intelligence.—A telegraph
dispatch from St. Petersburg says the break
ing lip of the ice on the Neva is expeeted.
A few days ago the frozen surface began to
crack, ana ieeordnit to custom, cannon were
fited to warn the inhabitants. At the same
eipie advices wen*sent to the Chamber of
Commerce informing them that navigation
Would be resumed in a few days.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE GRAND REVIEW.
WASHINGTON, May 23.
A more beautiful 'lav has hardly been
witnessed this season. The sunshines out
brightly, and the air clear and cool. Busi
ness has been entirely suspended, and the
whole population of the city is in the streets,
together with at least fifty or sixty thousand
strangers, to dee the great review.
Pennsylvania Avenue is lined with people
from pavement to house top ; flags are dis
played all along the route, and the scene is
one of the most brilliant and imposing ever
witnessed here.
The avenue has been swept from curb to
curb, and guards posted at each alley and
street, so as to prevent any one from intru
ding outside the curbstones on the Ave
nue.
In front of the President's house, before
nine o'clock, the scene was magnificent in
deed. The long terraced rows of seats on
each side of the street were occupied by
thousands of ladies, while lour stands were
for distinguished people. *
At stand number one, the President and
Cabinet, Lieutenant General Grant. Gen.
Sherman,' General Meade, General Logan
and others were seated. •
Their first appearance was greeted by
long and continued shouts of thousands, in
terspersed with waving of flags, handker
chiefs. etc.
At nine o'clock precisely, the grandest re
view ever witnessed on this continent com
menced.
First came Sheridan's famous cavalry
corps, commanded by Major-Gen. Merritt,
in the absence of Gen. Sheridan.
All along the Avenue the advance of the
cavalry was greeted with cheers. The hor
ses were gaylv caparisoned and marched
with the regularity of veterans.
First came the 3d Cavalry Division, com
manded by Gen. Custar, who rode a little in
advance of his column, literally overwhel
med with wreaths of flowers, presented by
ladies along the route. Bands were playing
for every brigade.
! GeneralSherman and Staff rode up Pen-
Bytvania Avenue beside Custar's Division
to the stand at the White House. Wherev
er he was recognised he was received with
intense enthusiasm.
Shortly after nine o'clock the bead of the
column reached General Grant's stand,
whete all the motmted officers saluted him.
The immense concourse of spectators rent
the air with shouts.
The marching was very fine. The troops
had c-Ican bright uniforms. The guns were
brightly polished, and the artillery reflected
the sunbeams brilliantly.
SURRENDER Of THE REBEL NAVAL
! FORCES OFF MOBILE.
WASHINGTON, May 21.
The navy department this morning re
ceived a communication from Acting Rear
Admiral Thatcher, under date of May 6th,
off Mobile, in which he savs :
"I have the honor to inform the Depart
ment that on the night of the 4th instant I
received written propositions from Commo
dore Ebenezer Farrand, commanding the
Confederate forces in these waters, to sur
render to me all the naval forces, officers
and men and public property yet afloat , un
der his command, and now blockaded by a
Kortion of our naval forces in the Tonihig
ee river, and desiring a meeting with me to
arrange terms of'surrender to the United
States.
I accordingly met Commodore Farrand at
Citronville, a point about 25 miles above
Mobile, and accepted his proposal on the j
same basis as granted to General Richard
Taylor by Major General Canby, the latter i
having taken place at the same point and
time, Gen. Canby being present. Some j
j days will elapse before all the arrangements j
will becomplete for the reception of the Con- I
federate officers, men, vessels and property j
when further details, with copies of all cor I
respondence, and the written agreementand j
obligations will be officially made known to j
the department."
PROCLAMATION BYTHE PRESIDENT
Raising of the Blockade Along the Whole
Atlantic and Pott of the Gulf ('oast—
A Feic Ports on the Texas ('oast only
Excepted—Legal Trade Allowed, to In
Commenced in all the States East of the
Mississippi.
WASHINGTON, May 22.
By the President'of the United Stales:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEKKAH, By the proclamation of the
President of the 11th day of April last, cer
tain ports of the United States therein spec
ified, which had previously been subject to
blockade were, for objects of public safety,
declared, in conformity with previous spe
cial legislation of Congress, to be closed
against foreign commerce during the nation
al will to be thereafter expressed and made
known by the President;
And whereas, Events and circumstances
have since occurred which, in my judgment,
render it expedient to remove that restric
tion, except to the IKMTS of Galveston.
Lasalle, Brazos de Santiago, Point Isabel,
and Brownsville, in the State of Texas;
Now, therefore, be it known that I, An
drew Johnson, President of the United
States, do hereby declare that the ports
aforesaid, not excepted as above, shall be
open to foreign commerce from and after the
first day of July , that commercial inter
course with the said ports may from that
time be carried on, subject to the law- of
the United States, and in pursuance of such
regulations as may be prescribed by the Sec
retary of the Treasury. If, however, any
vessel from a foreign port shall enter any of
the before named excepted ports in the state
of Texas she will continue to be held liable
to the penalties prescribed by the act of
Congress, approved on the 13th day of July,
1861, and the persons on board of her to
such penalties as may be incurred, pursuant
to the laws of war for trading or attempting
to trade with the enemy.
And L Andrew Johnson. President of the
United States, do hereby declare and make
known that the_ United States of America
do henceforth disallow all persons trading, or
attempting to trade, in any ports of the
United States, in violation of the laws there
of, all pretence of beligerant rights and
privileges, and give notice that from the date
of this proclamation all such offenders will
he held and dealt with as pirates.
It is also ordered that all restrictions uj>on
trade heretofore imposed in the territory of
the United States, east of the Mississippi
river, save those relating to contraband of
war, to the reservation of the rights <of the
United States, to property purchased in the
territory of the enemy, and to twenty-five
per cent, upon the purchases of cotton, are
removed.
All provisions of the internal revenue law
will be carried into effect under the proper
officers.
[L. S.J In witness whereof I have hereun
to set my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city of Washington, this, the twenty-sec
ond day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
five, and of the independence of the Uni
ted States of America the eighty-ninth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By order of the President:
W. HUNTER,
Assistant Secretary of State.
WHAT intense anxiety Mr. Buchanan, the
amiable "O. P. F.," displayed in his letter
to Henry A Wise, lest poor, demented
John Brown should by any means be allotted
to die a natural death. Of course he will
now be equally concerned to have Davis
stretch the rope—he fs so just, so virtuous,
so consistent ! — Philadelphia Press s
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Kirby Smith .Assassinated —-1 i.oyal ojtl
err .Iccidt nily shol—The TeUgrraph
Hriurtn eVrte Orleans and Vrw \'ork
JVearly Completed—Malls from .11 oh lie
NEW ORPHAN'S. May 15. )
via CAIRO, May 21. }
The True Delta of yesterday published a
report that Kirby Smith had been assassi
nated by Major M'Kee. with whom a diffi
culty growing out of cotton speculation has
occurred. ,
The Delhi of this morning saVs the report
has beCn Sfthfirmed by a rebet soldier from
Jackson.
Acting Master Fred. Washburne of the
steamship Port Royal. while riding in a car
riage, was shot and killed by a sentry on
Lion Street.
The telegraph between New Orleans and
New York will be completed in three or four
days, the only gap being between Montgom
ery and Operlouza.
The first direct mail from Mobile to New
York trill leave to-dav on the steamer Eh ode
T-lnnd.
The steamer St, John was burned near
Mobile on the 15th. The boat and baggage
are a total loss.
General Hereon has occupied Clinton and
Osyka, and is rebuilding the telegraph 'to
Clinton, whence the rebels have a Knework
ing north almost to our line.
The utmost pood feeling is exhibited
throughout Louisiana. The people are
overjoyed at, the termination of the war.
THe railroad between Bayou Sara and
Woodhill will bo repaired.
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FROM TENNESSEE^
NKW YORK, May 22.
A special dispatch from Nashville to the
Times says it is reported that Isham G.
Harris has been captured.
It is certain that souie of the state aich
ives were captured, and all the State bonds
with S<)UU,(XH) in specie bylongiug to (he
State Treasury.
Our Colored Troops Remember the
Massacre at Fort Pillow, r~ A Plot for
Revenge.
MEMPHIS, May 19, b
viat Aina. May 21. }
The influx of panted prisoners haseanscd
a great excitjfcim nt among the colored trrtops
here. A pint to rise and mufderovefy rebel
in Memphis in revenge for the Fort pillow
massacre was discovered last night, and the
white tronj* were put on gnard during the
night. The negroes attempted to come out
of the fiirt. but were resisted by the White
ttoops, and after a sharp skirnfish. in which
twenty were killed or wounded, were driven
back. They are now under a strong guard.
FROM MEXICO.
NKW YORK May 20.
The steamer Evening Star, from New
< Means on the loth, arrived at this port
this morning. Her advices have been an
ticipated by telegraph from Cairo. j
The papers contain some Mexican news, i
When Colonel Towiskisky went out to. at- j
tack the Liberals, at Nava, the greater part i
of his cavalry deserted when ordered to
charge. He fired upon them with his in
fantry, and ooiuuienced retreating, hut he
fell into an ambush and was killed. The
remainder of his troops surrendered imme
diately.
The Liberals had marched within eight
miles of Piedras Negras,
Maximillian's native troops cannot tie
trusted. A letter from Rio Grande city
says: Anew revolution is breaking out on
the frontier. Both of the (Jorfcinesaes have
joined their forces with Leon and Cathargo,
and are expected to attack Matmnoras.
Cruel Treatment of our Prisoners.
Jell', itavis and Cabinet Kesporisiblc.
Statement of the Rein / Senator i'oote.
NEW YORK, May IK
f The Herald's Washington correspondent
'
lhe question which has long been agita
ted as to who is responsible for the cruel
treatment of bur prisoners confined in Libby
and other prisons in the South, may now be
considered as definitelysettled, througln no
less a : person than the rebel Kx-Senator
Foote. It appears that Mr. Foote was a
member of the committee in the Senate to
examine intri the treatment of the prisoners
aud the reports of their harsh usage and
starvation. ' <
II is story, as told by his own relations,
shows deeper intention than has been een-1
crally supposed, aud fastens upon Jeff. Ha
vis and cabinet a crime both startling and
appalling in its details. Mr. Foote. it is
said, states that the investigations showed
conclusive evidence that it Was decided in a
cabinet meeting to reduce the rations served
out to the prisoners, that it should so weak
en their constitution, in connection with the
confinement, that it would destroy them as
soldiers, and make thenn when exchanged,
worthless.
Senator Ffiote determined to report these
facts to the Senate, but the balance of the
committee overruled him, and suppressed
the facts.
My informant further states that it was
on this point that the quarrel between Da
vis and Foote broke out afresh, which re
sulted in the larter leaving Richmond, and
seckirir some sequestered spot, where such
horrid deedsare not committed:
Herd then is the evidence conclusive, of
Jeff. Davis, and his associates' guilt in the
diabolical deed of starving our prisoners, a
deed which makes the most stoical person
shudder to contemplate. Men who will
coolly and delilicrately plan a scheme like
that will conspire to assusinatea President or
any other person. It is fitting 1 that such men
should end their careers in a cowardly man
ner, dressed in petticoats. No wonder Jeff
Davis' cloven feet revealed who he was.
A BAP STATE OF THINGS,— The following
is an extract from the letter of an officer,
dated at Headquarters in Richmond, Va.,
April 12, IS(>4:
"The state of affairs is utterly beyond
comprehension to one riot on the spot. * *
* An officer applied to one of the comman
ding generals ror quarters, and told him he
would like to take a certain house. 'Whose
is it It is that of an avowed secessionist
of the blackest kind —the most infernal vil
lain in the Confederacy.' Oh, certainly re
plied the general, 'you shall have it. If
he's a rebel, of course vou ban have it for
Government use. What is his name ?'
Brigadier-Ueheral Windsor, of the rebel
army !' 'No-o-o-o !' said the General ;
'No; you. can't have his house. Why, he
was a classmate of mine at West Point !'
* * * "If you wish a favor from head
quarters here, put on a gray uniform, and
you can get what you like."
The officers of the late rebel army swag
ger about the streets, sneering at the Union
officers and coddled by the women of
the town.
> "There appear to be more rebels in the
city than Union men."
There can be no doubt of the truth of this
representation, coming as it does directly
from an officer of position and character ;
and declaring what he peisonully knew. It
reveals a state of things that demands the
instant intervention ottliC V\ ar Department,
and the removal of the officers who allow
them, and much more of those who prompt
them by their conduct and opinions.—N.
Y. Tim e*.
mm ■. _ ''
THE stages in Kansas caunot accommo
date the crpwds that are pressing their way
to the gold Wrine* of the Northwest.
Rebel Ideas of Education.
A CURIOUS GEOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Standard* of
Tmnday, says: 'The managers of the late
Jjouthern Confederacy took all pains to em
buc the rising Confederate generations with
a due spirit of nationality and sense of the
importance of the position of the Confeder
acy among the nations of the world, not to
cy in the universe at large. Among other
means of promoting this Feeling they caused
to be prepared a series of school books, one
of which is of a 'Palmetto series,' being a
vuography for beginners, by the Rev. K. J.
Stuart, with a vignette in which the Palmet
to is the most prominent object. It purports
to be printed in Richmond, and is very neat
ly printed and illustrated with maps and en
gravings. After the preliminary definitions,
and some lessons in physical geography, we
como to what interests us most, political
geography, and we learn that
"The division of mankind into nations is
as follows: 'ln America: The Confederate
States, the United States,' Ac., Ac.
"Turning over a page or two we find
Richmond, Ya., placed next to London and
Paris among the cities of the globe, and as
'remarkable for the elegance and refinement
of its people, who, like the citizens of Nor
j tbik. are as hospitable as they are intelligent
and noble. : In reference to the history of
the Confederate States, we learn that when
Virginia adoDted the Federal Constitution
in 17*8 the Commissioners of the State were
directed to annex the condition and reserva
tion of the right to withdraw from the fed
eration at will,' and that in the exercise of,
this reserved right she withdrew from the
United States in 1861, and also refused -to
allow the troops of the Northern States to
pass through her territory to subjugate the
other States which had already seceded, and
that she became the principal* seat of war of
! Southern independence. The first collision
| of this war, we learn, occurred at Charles
| ton, and was occasioned by the President,
I ulectcd by citizens of the Northern States,
i attempting to seize, provision and occupy
| the forte in the harbor, and turn their guns
• on the city they were designed to protect
; We also learn that 'every effort that human
i ingenuity could contrive, by immense re
! -lourcos of money and vast armaments on
I sea, and land, was made by the Northern
| Government, to capture the capital and oth
er important [daces, and break up the po
litical organization of the Confederacy; but
that "hv the constant, evident, and acknowl
i edged aid of the God of battles and King of
j nations their efforts have all failed; ami at
| vast expense of suffering and blood the
people of the Southern States have fought
: their way to political independence, and the
: respect and amity of the great nations of
i the world.
"Then we have seyeral pages devoted to
i the productions, flora, scenery, launa, and
| manufactures of the Confederate States. In
I reference to Great Britain, we learn that its
j common law is embodied from the great
: principles of the book of Leviticus, and that
; the crown 'derives its authority from the
| acknowledged Supreme Ruler of the universe,
by Divine right, & statement which is con
firmed by quotations from the pyayer book
i in a foot-note. The Emperor of France is
l highly eulogized as a brave general, humane
i and wise Governor, and sagacious statesman,
| who, without interfering with the relfgious
! and spiritual jurisdiction of the Papal court,
j and the Mohammedan divan, has gradually
j emancipated the people who were under
I their political thraldom.'
| "In a note in reference to the Dead Sea
j we learn that it was explored Dy an Ameri
{ can exploring party under the command of
| Commodore Lynch, of the Confederate
States navy, leaving it to be inferred that
I the expedition was inaugurated by the Cou-
I federate States.
j "Passing over to the United States we
learn that there are hut nine of them, be
| sides what remain of the original thirteen,
and that in the year 1861 the Federal Gov-
I ernnient ol these States, by a sectional mi- j
nority ol one million seven hundred thou
j sand (out of a total vote of five millions),
j attempted to subjugate'the Southern States
j by military occupation,' which occasioned the
j final separation of those States, and the for
; mation of the Confederate States of Amer
i ica aSj&n independent Government."
The Sentence of Arguilles and his Con
federates.
i Arguilles, the Spaniard, whose surrender
j to the Spanish authorities created so much
j feeling in the country to the prejudice of the
j State Departm 'nt, has been tried, convicted
i and sentenced to nineteen years'confinement
at hard labor, a fine of SSO,(KX>. and perpet
ual loss of civil rights and functions ; and
for nineteen years thereafter, should he live
so long, he is to he subject to the vigilance
of the police. At the time of his offence,
Arguilles was Lieutenant Governor of the
District of Colin, in the Island of Cuba,
and it was thought the exercise of his offi
cial functions that he took from a slave ihip
a number of negroes, sold them into slavery
and pocketed the proceeds dividing of course |
with his confederates, fri addition to his
sentence, he is ordered to restore to the
purchasers of the negroes the price he re
ceived for them, indemnify all who suffered
damage by his proceedings, and [jay three
ninths of the costs of the whole judicial
proceedings against him.
The Presbyter, D. Jose Hilario Vaides,
who gave a certificate, of the burial of the
negroes sold out of the slave ship is con
demned to eight years of imprisonment and
forfeiture of parochial benefice, and to pay
two-ninths, of the cost of judicial proceed
ings.
The remaining confederates in the scheme
are sentenced to imprisonment for terms va
rying from five to nine years, indemnifica
tion to purchasers, and payment of the re
maining costs of prosecution.
The speculation in the slave trade has
proved a very dear business to all concerned.
The ship was fitted out, and the slaves im
ported by Arguilles as a matter of specula
tion, and the certficate of death employed
to covet- up the transaction. It was the
abuse of his official position as much as the
nefarious character of the traffic, that ag
gravated the character of the crime.— Cm.
Coin.
ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURES. —The testi
mony taken before the Washington Milita
ry Commission reveals some extraordinary
facts. In that evidence, which goes over
nearly two years in time, and includes the
sworn statements of a large number of per
sons who can have had no collusive purpose
in view, there is, we take it, superabundant
proof that the serine of assassination, in
somefonn , was agreed to and approved in
rebel military circles twenty months ago;
that the Richmond authorities hired and
j naid the conspirators money; that Booth,
' besides being a hired assassin himself, was
engaged to hire others; that he was empow
: ered to offer thousands of dollars for the aid
; of a single confederate; that he did offer
this for the co-operation of a New York
actor named Chester, who, fortunately for
himself, refused the bribe; that Sanders,
and the gang who act with him in the Prov-
were privy to the plot; and that every
step in the conspiracy was with the cogni
zance of Confederate officials.
The business in which Booth engaged was
opened near Swift Run Gap, (in the Shenan
doah Valley,) shortly after tne rebel defeat
at Gettysburg in 1863. Booth first offered
j his suggestions in a rebel camp; and Beall,
who was hung the other day, was the first
volunteer for what was to be thereafter
1 known as the "detached service." Shortly
! after this, Booth was found "in funds,
| and upon thfese he made various essays in
1 perfecting the conspiracy, until the thing
took the shape it did on the 14th of April
' last.
APPREHENDED SLAVE INBTIRJUTCNON IN
CUBA.— The Colonial StandardUpt Jamaica
has the following startling intelligence : I
Prom a conversation which we nave had
with a gentleman who returned to this city
from Cuba in the Jamaica packet, we learn (
that matters in Ctlbn have begun to assume ,
a threatening aspect. There was evidently a i
deep and bitter feeling of revenge slumber- i
ihg among the negroes, which only awaited 1
a favorable moment to burst forth with irn- '
measurable fury. Already had several es- j
tates been burned by the torch of the iucen- \
diary ; and so deep add silent was the plot
that no clue to the perpetrators had as yet
been discovered. At Guantanamo, where
the first two fires occurred, an overseer of a
large property had been murdered, and two
companies of troops had been sent thither
from St. Jago, in order to suppress any at
tempt, at rebellion. On the departure from
St. Jago, on the evening of the 22d of March
of the Jamaica packet, t wolargt fires were
plainly seen from deck. Little doubt is en
tertained by our informant that they will be
found to be the further acts of incendiarism.
Our next advices from Cuba, then, may be
anxiously looked for, although the Govern
ment is most watchful in keeping from the
public the least information which might
give a clue to the present wide-spread dis
affection.
CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.—AS a measure
of warning to foreigners intending to "emi
grate'' to Mexico, under the prouiiee of
grants of land, etc., from President Juarez,
the agents of Maximilian publish an impe
rial decree, made in July, 1864. which de
clares that all contracts made by J uarez after
his departure from the Capital were void,
and that all that he might thereafter make
would be Void, and not only that, but the
person entering into ,them would be liable
to punishment. The pronuuetarnento is
republished because it has come to the
knowledge of the Emperor that settlements
are proposed to be made out on the Pacific
coast under contracts made with Juarez.
"Emigrants" will, therefore, take notice that
to get possession of the promised land they
must not only go to Mexico, but fight for
their heritage. We suppose that many of
them are going for no other purpose. This
proclamation will sound to them as harm
less as Chinese thunder.
A SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM. —The Suez Ca
nal is not yet by any means finished. The
two ends of the canal, that is to say, the
works required for the entry from the two
seas, remains yet to be built, and it is exact
ly these which the English engineers decla
red to be the most important and impractic
able part of the enterprise. There never
was any doubt in any one's mind that the
ditch through the level sands of Egypt
could be dug from one end to the other, if
the money was provided to- pay the work
men, nor even that water enough could be
found to supply it; this, in fact, has been
accomplished, and it is only to see its cen
tral ditch, with three or four feet of water
in it, that M. De Lessen has invited dele
gates from all parts of tne world. The ends
in the two seas are yet to be built, and the
practicability of their serving as entries is yet
to be proven.
ONE or THE RESULTS OF ABOLITION. —
The abolition of slavery in the Southern
States, which will become a reality as rapid
ly as our armies advance and take posses
sion. will practically nullify that clause of
the Constitution which restricts representa
tion in Congress to "three-fifths' of •all
other persons," thereby meaning the slaves.
The effect will be to increase the represen
tative population of the South to the extent
of two-fifths of the emancipated blacks, or
about one million souls. This augmenta
tion of numbers, however, cannot be felt in
Congress, though all the rebel States should
at onee be reorganized, until another appor
tionment shall T>e made under the census of
1870. But when that event shall occur it
will strengthen Southern influence in the
national councils very materially; and those
States which had the largest number of
slaves will be the greatest gainers.— Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
MEXICAN SILVER.— The New Orleans
True Delta in a late article says: "The
question is asked where do all the specie
go from Mexico ? The receipts at
New York are very trifling. We, however,
can give some information on the subject..
The British West India mail steamer, the
February packet, landed at Southampton
with about $1,970,000 earlv in March. The
greater part of this was Mexican dollars re
ceived from Vera Cruz. We also observed
another shipment of nearly one million dol
lars a short time since. Euglaud realizes all
the profit and advantages from her cordon
of mail steamships ramifying in eVery quar
ter of the world, under subsidies for mail
service. The steam marine of great Britain
is monopolizing the passenger and carrying
trade of the world.
THE FRENCH MINISTER.— The Marquis
De Montholon. the new French Minister at
Washington, does not come to this country
an entire stranger, unacquainted with the
habits and feelings of our people. He has
resided much in the United States, having
been attached to the French Embassy many
years ago, having also been Consul at Nor
folk. and at the Beginning of the rebellion
and for some months afterwards, Consul-
General at New York, When we complete
his record by stating that he has been mar
ried fQ£ many years to an American lady,
the daughter of General Gratiot, we say
enough convince our readers that the Em
peror Napoleon has made the selection of his
Minister with tact, and chosen a representa
tive who will be agreeable to the American
people.
MEXICAN NEWS. —Late reports byway
of the Mississippi river from Matamoras.
are to the effect that between four and five
thousand republican troops appeared before
that town on the 29tli ultimo ; that its sur
render was demanded and refused, and that
a spirited fight between the imperialists and
republicans ensued. Business was suspen
ded, the streets were barricaded, and many
of the citizens were fleeing afiross the Rio
Grande to Brownsville, Texas. A report
reached the mouth of the Rio Grande on the
4th instant, that the Republicans were iu
full retreat. We have heretofore had ru-!
mors that they had occupied Matamoras.
Later advices will have to DC waited for in
order to decide upon the true state of affairs
in that region.
EMIGRATION EROM IRELAND.— Letters
from various parts of the Dish provinces i
show that the people ore already preparing |
in considerable numbers to emigrate during j
the spring, their friends in America haviug j
assured tnem already that the war is nearly
over, and that the restoration of peace will
be followed by a brisk demand.for labor.
; One communication from the county of
Longford states that there are five of the
. female for one of the male sex quitting the
country. In every instance the moDev to
pay the passage or a fVee ticket came from
.relatives on the other side of the ocean.
A LETTER from Paris, received in Wash
, ington, shows clearly that there is no truth
in the report of English Journals that Na
poleon has proposed an alliance defensive or j
offensive with England, for protection I
against the T - nited States in Mexico or Can-!
ada. ,j
is sta £fd that the representatives of the :
c hristian Commission, who paid a "visit of I
ceremonv and respect" to the rebel General
Lee, at Richmond, nave been recalled, and
theft authority to act as delegates revoked!
by the Commission at Philadelphia.
Three View*.
THex AXB sow.
From the Lou- From the Lon-iFroin the Lon
don Time* on do* Time* of. don Time* of
Nov. 26,180.j Sept. 14,1884.| April 10,!85.
"It if evident, "The public "Theeataatro.
on the mnallextj will admit that phe wem* oom
refteetion that < thej have not 'piste, Jtnd in all
the South, even been miagnidedit* accessories
if united, could by ourrotumeaUicaJcolntcd toiro
never resist, for We ai(l that the press people
three months the north could nev- with a feeling
greatly prepon- er subdue the that the work
derating power south, and the is accomplished,
of the north." north baa now and that the civ.
proclaimed the 11 war i* really
same conclu- at an end."
sion."
THE FRENCH ACADEMY.— The establish
ment of an Academy in the republic of let
ters may be, as some suppose, an Utopian
scheme, and the United efforts of Acade
micians may have produced but little ; but
it is certain that the French Academy has
made an imposing appearance in Europe.
It was specially charged with the composi
tion of the dictionary, and the extension and
purification of the language. Yet, when
l hey published their dictionary, that of Fu
retiere appeared as a formidable rival; and
Dr. Johnson did single handed for England
as much as the forty "immortals" did for
France. Furetiere (born in 1620. and died
at the age of sixty-eight) began life as a
lawyer, and ended as a monk. He was
elected to the Academy, but for having prof
ited by the labors of bis colleagues in com
posing the dictionary which bears his name,
tie revenged himself by writing tutting sa
tires, in yerse and prose, on his late col
leagues, and often had the laughers on his
side. Voltaire confesses that the great char
acters of the literary republic were formed
without the aid of academies. "Forwhat
he asks, "are they necessary? To preserve
and nourish the fire which great geniuses
have kindled." The Academy published
the first edition in 1694, and the sixth, and
1 believe the last, iu 1835.
PECUNIARY RESULT OF THE REBELLION.
—The foreign holders of Confederate hoods
will feel "darkly, deeplv, beautifully blue"
on the next advices from this country. An
intercepted letter from the rebel Adjutant-
General at Richmond, complains that the
writer has nothing but Confederate money,
and is starving for food, and an an old darkey
in the rebel capital refused a hatful of this
money for a drink of Jamaica ruin, but on
the presentation of a five dollar greenback
managed to procure enough liyuor to satis
fy the thirsty throats of his patrons. These
gentlemen abroad, who have staked their
pile on Le< and Beauregard, will head the
insolvent lists shortly, and t here will he no
pleasanter music for loyal ears than the
sound of the auctioneer's hammer in their
Bouses. Let them reap as they have sown.
IT is represented that the interest in the
Mexican emigration scheme, in New York,
is unabated, and the rush of young and able
bodied men to the different stations for the
purpose of registration and learning the par
ticulars of the expedition has not yet serious
ly decreased witnin the past few days.
Many of the immigrants from Europe, now
arriving in considerable numbers by each
steamship, are absorbed by the expedition
as well as residents of our own country,
whose term of service has expired, and an
occasional butternut is found who will enter
his name for riches and honor in the land of
the Montezumas.
WHO IS PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERA
CY. —We are in the receipt of numerous
communications raising the constitutional
question as to who is acting President of
the Confederacy, now that Jeff. Davis is in
our possession, and Mr. Stephens will not
assume the responsibilities of the office.
The query is a timely one. but a moment s
reflection would have satisfied our corres
pondents that Mrs. Davis is the legitimate
successor to ber husband's duties. When
he ran off with her jietticoats she had no al
ternative but to put on the breeches. And
iu view of the language she used on the oc
casion, we venture to predict that foreign
nations will make all haste to recognize her
as a beligerent.— N. l r . Times.
THE petition circulated among the color
ed people of North Carolina, to be presen
ted to President Johnson, after referring to
the friendship of the late President Lincoln
and the proverbial kindness of President
Johnson, their love for the old flag, and
the services they have peiformed both un
der and tor it, a-sk that the elective franchise
be extended to them, saying they cannot
see the justice of denying that privilege to
those who have been fighting for the coun
try, while it is freely granted to men who
have returned from four years fighting a
gainstit. Then call attention to the fact
that up to 1835 free colored men voted in
North Carolina without detriment to the in
terest of the State.
THE INCOME OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
—The friends of the Prince of Wales repre
sent that thisyoung gentleman is in needy
circumstances, iu consequence of the in
creased duties devolving on him, since the
was called into retirement by domes
tic affliction. His gross income does not
much exceed SSOO, <XH) per annum, including
the receipts from the Duchv of Cornwall, a
Parliamentary grant, (which when approved
some people were foolish enough to believe
adequate, and the rents of the Sandrighani
estate. There are a few other trifling a
niounts within reach, of which, perhaps, the
largest is $50,000 pin money voted to the
Princess.
JAMES H. WILSON, who has lately dis
tinguished himself by the capture of Davis,
is a native of lower Illinois, aiid was born
about 1840. He graduated at West Point
June 30, 1863, fifth in bis class. He is
yoqng looking, about five feet eight inches
in height, light hair and eyes, and rather
boyish in manner. The latter peculiarity,
however, does not detract from his merits
as a soldier. He has the reputation of
good judgment in the disposition o( troops
and the management of isolated expedi
tions. Gen. Wilson's present rank in the
regular army is Captain iu the corps of en
gineers, dating from May 7, 1863.
—— ♦ • •
, GEN. FORREST. —The Nashville Press has
a doubtful rumor, derived from a rebel of
! ficer from Dalton, Ga., that Gen. Forrest
was killed the other day bv Captain Walker
of the rebel army. The Captain's son was
on Forrest's staff, and failing to get a leave
of absence, took one. Upon returning he
w:is shot by Forrest. His father, learning
this, found the General, and in revenge shot
i and killed him.
I - 0 i • 1 K * 4
j TRYING TO STEAL GRANT'S HORSES.—
| Gen. Grant being down to the War Depart
ment, a "man appeared at his house "with an
order from him for his two most valuable
horses, the Jeff. Davis pony and the choice
bay trotter, but some suspicion arising, the
horses were not defivercd. The man, t here
upon went away, leaving the order, which
proved to be a forgery.
SHERMAN'S RETURN. —The advance of
Gen. Sherman's army, hitherto announced
as having arrived at Alexandria, consisted
only of those who from illness and fatigue
could not keep up with their columns, and
; were brought to Alexandria from Richmond
iby l>0t. Yesterday, however, the long lines
| of his advancing columns were plainly visi-
I ble, marching down the crests oi hills upon
I the opposite Bank of the Potomac.
! THE Dispatch, a paper published at Aui
ador. California, has been surpressed by
General McDowell for exulting over the
murder of the President. The editors were
I arrested.