gfrdfwd |nqirr. BEDFORD PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1865. THE EHD. The end has come. The rebellion is com pletely crushed and destroyed. With the sur render of the rebel forces in Texas under Magruder and Smith, ends the most terrific and bloody rebellion ever recorded in the annals of time. Victory, glorious and com plete, crowns the arms of the republic. Out of four years of bloody fratricidal war, she comes not only victorious, but with re newed strength and vigor. Phoenix like from her old ashes she rises plumed for a higher flight, for a more glorious future. To-day stands demonstrated before the world the great fact, that republican institutions are a triumphant success. For four long weary years have we endured the fiery trial. The smoke of battle is now clearing away and reveals us to the world, battle scarred it Is true, but purified, renewed, strengthened and prepared to enter upon the new field before us, with the wisdom gained from expe rience, with the self-reliance resulting from success, and with purer, higher, nobler views of the destiny before us. We can now go forth with the fullest as surance to preach civil and religious liberty to all the world. The hopes of Europe's toiling millions have been realized, their prayers have been answered, and we are able to invite them now to the fairest, freest land on earth and to give homes to them and theirs as fast as steam can bring them to our shores. The time is near at hand when the industrial interest of our country no longer shackled by the legislative machinations of Southern slave drivers, shall rapidly advance to such a degree of prosperity as has never yet been seen. With the complete restora tion of peace and tranquility to our land, Europe will experience such an exodns and this country such a tide of immigration as the world has never witnessed. There is no limit to the prospect of wealth, grandeur and prosperity which stretches out before us in the future. We have but to go forth and possess the land. No pent up Utica contracts our powers the whole boundless continent is ours. Let us give honor then to the stout hearts and strong arms of our brave sold? .rs who have sacrificed their lives upon the altar of our country's liberties — to the gallant Generals who have led them— to the wise statesmen, who have guided the ship of state through the storm-to our martyr President, the magnanimuous Lincoln, and above all to Him who rules the destinies of nations, and who has brought us once more to the haven of Peace and has granted unto us the prospect of a more magnificent and glorious future than has ever been vouchsaf ed to any people. THE UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE QUES TION. This is the most important question now before the American people, or that will be submitted to them for the next four years to come. It may, in all probability, be the leading feature of the next presidential can vass. If we can devine the political future by tbo notions of the politicians of the pres ent, unquestionably, politics are drifting rapidly in this direction. The policy of the administration can alone set at nought the tendency of this question to become the lead ing principle in the next presidential canvass. Should the administration determine to give the loyal colored population of the South, a voice in the selection of representatives to Congress, the movements of many leading men of the nation will be handsomely anti cipated. This question, looming up so for midably as it does, calls forth the candid consideration of every freeman. Let him weigh the issue likely to be presented, without prejudice, without that repulsive feeling toward a different race that so fre quently controls us, without that display of vanity which unfortunately for us, in one of our leading peculiarities. Let magnanimity, patriotism and the best interests of our coun try prompt our actions, and if we can then oppose Uie principle, let us do it, if on the other hand we come to the conclusion that all m en are entitled to the expression of their sentiments at the ballQt box, let us say so. It is the privilege of every citizen of the United States to express his views pro or con, upon any and every leading question, j it therefore becomes necessary for him to prepare his mind to act intelligently, and to enable our readers to do this, we intend to present the views of leading journals and statesmen through these columns as often as they appear. This was our object wljen we published the article from the Pittsburgh Gazette two weeks ago, and the extracts from the New York World and Herald a week or two previous. We desire to make our paper the reflector of all the leading ideas of the country, we do not expect that all will endorse our articles and selections, it would be very singular, indeed, if it were so when there is so much diversity of opinion. The Copperheads will blindly and fiercely oppose the enfranchisement of the negro. They have advocated the enslavement of the whole race with a persistency worthy of a bet ter cause, and now having to yield to the decrees of abolition, they will throw every obstacle in the way of the elevation of these unfortunates. They will appeal to the low prejudices of the masses, and endeavor to create greater hatred in the breasts of their adherents towards them. This may be con sistent, but we doubt whether it is in strict, accordance with the dictates of manliness. to be plain, we know several dozen of colored men that we would sooner see march to the ballot box and cast their ballots than an equal number of Copperheads we can f name. And we are satisfied that the facts will warrant the assertion. According to Copperhead ethics cowards and traitors, who aided and abetted the rebellion as long as thera was a rebellion to aid and abet, who burned barns and saw mills, intimidated Union men, who held meetings and organ ized resistance to the draft, who when draf ted, skedaddled to Canada or other parts un known, who organised Knights of the Gol den Circle and confederated with the agents of the rebels to assassinate the President, should vote, while the loyal colored man, who at the call of his country, rushed to the field, a willing sacrifice for the axiom of the Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equaland under the eye of his officer and the flag of his country charged to the cannon's wide mouth, filled as it was, with the missies of death, to be carried away a wreck for life, mangled and bleeding, is to be disfranchised. Reader, which do you think is entitled to vote ? SLAVERY—IS IT DEAD ? One of the greatest errors committed by the great and good founders of our nation and fraruers of our constitution, was the ta king it for granted, that slavery languishing and apparently dying, would soon be dead. So thinking they passed it by and left it to revive and grow to life and strength, and eventually to bring upon us all the horrors of one of the most terrific rebellions ever re corded in the pages of history. Are we in no danger of a similar error ? Our noble President, in the exercise of the moßt won derful magnanimity, was stricken down bv the bloody hand of an assassin, driven to his foul deed by the fiendish spirit of slavery. Let us beware of over-leniency. The de praved spirit of slavery cannot he affected by considerations of gratitude, it is wholly depraved and ineapable of being moved by any of the finer feeling 3 usually pertaining to humanity. We see this spirit already showing itself in the legislation of Tennessee where the lower house has passed a bill ma king separate laws for the freedmen, with a clause providing for returning them to other States, which looks very much like a fugi tive slave law. We must remember that the Amendment is notyet ratified. Already the enemies of freedom are plotting mis chief. Let us not dismiss the work half done. liet it be kept before the people un til it is completely finished. Let not the question be dismissed until the amendment has been fully ratified and slavery forever and irrevocably abolished. Rest not until its foul stain is purged forever from our stat ute books. Shall States be permitted to re turn to our national councils, with the con taminating influence of slavery still clinging to their skirts, and possibly containing the germ of some future rebellion ? Let us not forget that there are those who still cling to this fruitful source of all our troubles —this vampyre that, for years, has sucked the life blood of the nation —this moral Upas-tree, which, for more than half a century, has blighted with ignorance and poverty the fair fields of the sunny south —this Pandora's box, that has brought war into our land with all its woes—that has caused so many fields to be drenched with fraternal blood —that has brought mourning to almost every household in the land. There are those who in the face of the widows and orphans it has made —in full view of a nation groaning un der the debt it has imposed upon us —nay more, of murdered and starved fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, whose bones lie bleaching on southern plains, will and do plead for its preservation in some form. There may be no danger of a reinstatement of slavery in its old form, but there is already an effort being mad 7 * to preserve it in the modified form of caste or serfdom. Let us be watchful and see that not the least ves tige of the accursed institution be permifted to remain. We have had a bitter experi ence. Let us see to it, not only that the snap of the slave-driver's whip and the clankinar of chains and shackles, be no more heard in the land, but, that not the slight est shadow of the vile system be permitted to remain. Then, indeed, shall a new era arise in the history of these United States— an era of true freedom. THE SHERMAN STANTON DIFFICITTY The governments' disapproval of the ar mistice and negotions generally, of Gen'l. Sherman with Gen 1. Joe. Johnston, has called down all the wrath of that veteran up on the head of Secretary Stanton. The in telligence of Sherman's negotiations fell up on the country with about the same effect that a disastrous defeat in the field would have been received. There was only one voice to be heard in regard to this Gene ral's bungling, and that was the voice of dis approval and condemnation. Every one felt great respect for the man who had won so many battles and completed the greatest march recorded in modern warfare, and when it was reported that Johnston had surrendered to the terms dictated by Gen. Grant, all with one accord said let General Sherman rest. The tongue that had been ready to condemn, now, in respect for the illustrious man, was hushed, and the coun try had come to the conclusion that it was only a blunder, and the least said in regard to it the better. But since Gen. Sherman's arrival in Washington, it appears this is not to be the case. He has written a letter to a Col. Bowman, in which he pronounces Secretary Stanton an assassin with as much coolness as though sueh things were ordina ry occurrences with him, and hints that his official position will not shield him, etc. It is very true that Secretary Stanton can endure about as much abuse as one man should endure, and we hope that he will treat this attack of Gen. Sherman with his usual indifference. If Sherman is determin ed to write himself down an idiot, and thus ovorohinlow a bright military caicer. as nut a few other Generals have done, we hope that he will have only himself to blame. JohnSherman, the brother of the General, we learn, is out in an explanation of three or four columns to explain the General's position. It is quite probable it will take fourty and four columns to satisfy the Amer ican public that the General was justifiable in adopting the policy which he did. The letter has been so little appreciated that up to this moment we have not had the pleasure of perusing a copy, nor do we expect to have until the Copperheads open up their columns to receive it. The Copperheads will hail this disaffection of Gen. Sherman as a god-send, and we expect that he will be trotted out for President without delay. But it will take long to convince our people that the man who conducted such a beauti ful piece of diplomacy is a fit man for the high position of chief magistrate of the American people. For the credit of the General, we hope the matter will be drop ped by both he and his friends, and the peo ple, who ever stand ready to forgive and forget, will wipe out of their recollection the humiliation which they felt on the receipt o? the intelligence of Sherman's negotiations with Johnston. A gentleman requests us to say that he has ordered several hundred of the new style Jeff. Davis' Petticoats for the Copperheads of Bedford county. The style will be varied for a few of the patriarchs. TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS. The great length of the testimony submit ted to the Court in these cases makes it ut terly impossible for a weekly journal to pub lish it The government closed its testimo ny several days ago, reserving the right to open again at will. Booth, it appears, was the chief conspirator, employed by the rebel agents in Canada, who acted under instruc tions from Richmond. Davis, Sanders, Seddon and other leading rebels are dearly implicated. The conspiracy was first organ ized in August, 1863, for the purpose of abducting the President but when the dif ferent times fixed upon arrived they were foiled. The persons on trial are Dr. Samuel Mudd, Mrs. Surratt, Atzcrott, O'Laughlin, Spangler, Harrold, Payne and Arnold. Dr. Mudd set Booth's leg after the assassina tion. He was a confederate of Booth for some time as is clearly shown. Mrs. Sur ratt was one of the leading characters. The conspirators met at her house. On the day of the assassination she rode out to Surratts- ville, a distance of ten miles, and stated that certain parties would be out there for cer tain weapons deposited with a hotel keeper named Lloyd. Payne, the hardest wretch of them all, was clearly identified as the man who attempted to assassinate the Sew ard family. He is said to be a Kentuckian. Atzerott was to kill "Vice President John son but proved too great a cowaid for the task. O'Laughlin was to kill Gen. Grant, but the General left the city before the hour fixed for the assassination. Spangler was a stage carpenter and assisted Booth to ar range the President's box, and arranged the scenery of the stage in such a manner that Booth could escape. Harrold was with Booth when he was caught. He frequently boasted that "we are the assassins of the President." Arnold, though originally in the plot to abduct the President, appears to have backed out of, the assassination some three weeks prior to its consummation. He is the only one likely to escape the penalty of death. Let the law be strictly enforced and every one of them receive the deserts which he so justly merits. OUR DEBT—FREE TRADE. Suppose our debt to be three thousand millions of dollars, bearing an average in terest of six per cent, per annum, and the ordinary expenses of our government to be one hundred and twenty millions of dollars per annum; we will have to provide three hundred millions a year by duties or foreign imports and internal taxes. The Philadel phia North American illustrates the diffi culties which attend the collection of so much revenue, and the fallacy of the free trade theory in this manner: u To raise $300,000,000 a year by duties on imports, at an average rate of duty of 30 per cent., would require the importation of one thousand millions per annum. To state the question in this form is to give it this emphatic answer; We cannot pay the thirteen hundred millians a year for the privilege of dealing with foreigners. The importation of articles that we cannot raise or make ourselves to the extent of two hun dred, and possibly three hundred millions a year, we can bear; and such a sum will be sufficient to give proper energy to our mer cantile marine, and to knit us in peaceful intercourse with other nation*." This amount will be paid, too, by the ex port and sale of our surplus products of agri culture and mining, and in this way will be of importance in the adjustment of our na tional economy. But we must not permit ourselves to go beyond this wholesome limit by heeding the sophistries of the free trade men of England and France. Their free trade will not suit us. It is well enough for them to admit our grain and flour and In dian corn and cotton free of duty, because they cannot do without them or raise enough of them for their own purposes; and to pro fess a willingness to admit our textile and metalic fabrics free, because they can pro duce them at home as cheap, or & little cheaper than we can, aided as they are by overflowing capital and abundant labor ers. But while they were in the same stage of national existence that we now are, they were ardent protectionists, nay, strict pro hibition men, and by perseverance in such policy for centuries they have earned the power they now wield. They exercise this power mainly by sticking close to the prin ciple that gold is the only standard of value, and that everybody shall pay them in gold; but at the same time they encourage every body to put themselves in their jfower by contracting debts in paper issues, in order that what they sell may bring paper prices and be paid for in gold. This enables them to hold all our banks, bankers and currency in subjection to the money power of London and Paris, and by this unhealthy dependence on them, they make or break us at their pleasure. Hence the present concern of the London Times and other English and French journals that we shall speedily resume sjwcie payments, and that Mr. McCulloeh will shape the movements of the Treasury of the United States so as to put our agriculture, com merce and manufactures in their keeping. The people of this country should on this point take a lesson out of not very ancient English history, and profit by it. They should recollect that specie payments were suspended in England in 1797, and not re sumed until 1825, although the great Euro pean war closed in 1815. It took England ten years to set her house in order after a great war, and it certainly will not take u& less to close the accounts of our war for the suppression of a gigantic rebellion and the preservation of the national life.- Pittsburgh Chronicle. NORTHERN COURAGE. A Virginia letter writer says: "One good effect of the war on the Southern mind is very manifest; the people, and more espe cially the soldiers, have been thoroughly dis abused of the notion that Northern men are lacking in fighting qualities. An incident related to us by a member of the Ninth Vir ginia Cavalry will serve as an illustration. He was scouting with two comrades last spring in the vicinity of Spottsylvania. They lay baok in the woods while a cavalry col umn of ours was passing, and seeing two men of the First Michigan Cavalry a short distance in the rear, pounced' upon them and demanded their surrender. The Michigan dere made no reply, but commenced feeling for their pistols, seeing which the rebels fired but missed their aim, and directly af terwards heard pistol bails whizzing in un qpmfortable proximity to their own heads. After the exchange of a few more shots, the greybacks were fain to return to the woods without the coveted prisoners. Our infor mant concluded with the remark, that he had never known a man of Custar's Michigan brigade to be captured without a fight, what ever might be the odds against him."— Pittsburgh Chronicle. OUR BOOK TABLE. The Edinburgh Review for April has just made its appearance upon our table. Though late it is ever welcome and its content* never spoil by keeping. The articles in the pres ent number are:—Taine's History of English Literature, Heraldic Manuals, The Australi an Colonies, Madame Poland, Leckey's In fluence of Rationalism, The Church and Mosque of St. Sophia, Memories of Dumont de Bostaquet, Tuscan Sculpture, Guizot's Meditations on Christianity, The Law of Patents, and ail display the scholarly ability, extended range of thought and research, and brilliant discussion characteristic of the English Quarterlies. Leonard Scott & Co., are entitled to tie thanks of all lovers of English Literature, for the fine style in which they get up their reprints of these val uable the liberal terms at which they furnish them. The Westmins ter, Edinburgh, North British, London Quarterly and Blackwood arc all furnished at fifteen dollars per annum. HARPERS MAGAZINE for June contains its usual variety of illustrated articles, stories, poetry, tales and anecdotes. It fills its pe culiar sphere in our periodical literature without a rival To all who want pleasant and interesting reading matter for recreation, we would say by all means buy Ilarper s. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for June comes to us frieghtcd with a variety of able and in terestiug artides in its various Departments of Art, Literature and politics. Among which—A Letter about England, John Brown's Eaifl, Richard Cobden, Modern Improvements and Our National Debt. Late Scenes in Richmond and The Place of Abra ham Lincoln in History are first to attract attention. OI'R YOUNG FOLKS. The June number of this excellent magazine makes its appear ance upon our table with a great variety of interesting reading for the little folks. Among the contents we note —Among the Lions, The Robin, Three Days in Camp Douglass concluded, Lessons on Magic, The Wild Goose, A Busbies- Letter, Our Dogs continued, Fanning for Boys continued and Winnning his Way continued &c., &e. ARTHUR'S HOME MAGAZINE. —From the first engraving, Recollections of Love, to the end of the Editor's Department, engra vings and all. the contents of the June num ber, are good and well worth a careful pe rusal. [From the New York lieralil of May 24.] The Grandest Military Display in the World. Yesterday the magnificent review at Wash ington began. The vast army of two huu dred thousand American soldiers comnieu ced to pass before the President and the Lieutenant General. Washington was, of course, crowded with strangers from all parts of the Union, and their cheers expressed to the brave veterans the gratitude which the country feels toward them for its preserva tion. There have been many great military displays in the past; but never before has there been one so grand as this. Neither Napoleon or Wellington ever saw so many veterans in oae army at one time. When Napoleon reviewed his army of two hundred thousanu men at the opening of his first Russian campaign, many of his soldiers were young conscripts fresh from the farm and the counter. The great Russian army, re viewed by thi Duke of Wellington after the capitulation of Paris, in 1814, numbered on ly one hundred and sixty-thousand. But our army, which is, in fact, but a part of our force, since the commands of Thomas, Schofield, Curtis, Ord, Canby, Foster, and others, are notrepiesented, is composed en tirely of veterans, and is quite two hundred thousand strong. It is not mere numbers however which make the display at Washington so grand. This review is a review of triumph. The troops which file before the thousands of spectators at Washington are not preparing for battle. They have come out of the war triumphant, and all their battles are over. Leading them we see Peace and Vbtory hand in hand. The gallant conquerors of many a hard fought field are going home to share the blessings they have won for the nation. They are net only heroes, but tinw are the heroes of the sublimest conflict in all history. They have been battling for that great principle of democracy for which so many valiant martyrs in former times have fallen in vain, and they have secured the perpetuity of that Union upon which the hopes of the oppressed of all climes and countries depend. They are the champions of free government throughout the world. The applause which greets them comes not from the Washington crowds alone, nor from the millions of their fellow-citizens in all the States ; but we can hear it ringing across the Atlantic, echoed alike from the Alps and the Andes, and swelled by the ma jestic chorus of republican voices from Mex ico to Denmark. From one end of the world to the other the people thank our soldiers for having conquered in the people's cause. Two hundred thousand American soldiers are marching on through Washington to day. Every regiment, brigade, and divi sion has its proud record, which the specta tors eagerly recalL Those fine fellows fought at Antietam, and those at Atlanta. Here are the men who held Lee in a vice, and yonder come Sherman's legions who passed like a sword through the vitals of the rebel lion. We leave to our correspondents the gTateful task of noting the achievements of the troops in line, and pause to ask ourselves where their march is to end. They ai-e go iig heme ; but will they stay there long ? With one quarter of the number Scott cap tared Mexico. With one half of that tre mendous army Canada would be ours. Wit h such a body of veterans our generals could humble the pride of combined Europe. Where will their grand march end? This is a question which no one can answer now. One thing is, nevertheless, sure. These t housands of soldiers may fight no more ; their remaining years passed in qui et usefulness at their homes; one by one they may pass away honored and beloved by a.ll, like the patriots of the Revolution; scat tered far and wide, their bodies may rest sweetly beneath the flowers and the grasses; but all this while their souls and those of their slain comrades will be marching on. On —till thrones shake and crumble it the sound of their coming, and are crushed be neath their steady tramp- On —till the peo ple everywhere rise and-demand their liber ties with invincible voices. On—till no des pot tyrranizes over his fellow-men, and no aristocracy lords it over the down-trodden masses. On— till every nation is a republic and every man a freeman. On—till the sol diers of Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan have saved the world as they have saved the Union. On, and on, and on! FROM THE SOUTHWEST. CAIRO, May 27. Major General Wilson has ordered all the the Confederate States, mules, horses, har ness, wagons and leather, not required for the use of his cavalry corps, to be turned over to Col. Foster, Q. M. G., to be distri buted amongst the poor people as a loan from the United States, but. returnable whenever called for by the properauthority. Two hundred and fifty bales of cotton passed up to-night for Cincinnatti, and 130 far St. Louis. A Memphis dispatch of May 26 says that telegraphic communication has been opened to New Orleans. Gen. Forrest is on his plantation at Ta homa, Miss. Jackson advices state that the rebel Leg islature met there on the 20th, and instruc ted Gov. Clark to appoint Judges Fisher and Gorgas commissioners to \Y ashington and confer with President Johnson on the subject of calling a convention with a view to restore Mississippi to the Union. Surrender of Kirby Smith's Forces. The Memphis Bulletin's New Orleans special of the 23d says: Gens. Price, Buck ner, Brent and 9 staff officers arrived to-day as commissioners from Kirby Smith to Ne gotiate with Canby for terms of surrender. Price, Buekner and Dick Taylor, on the part of rebels, had a consultation with Can by and Herron, the result of which, was re ported to be the surrender of all the rebels in the trans-Mississippi department, on the same terms as were accorded to Johnston and Lee. FROM MEXICO. The New Orleans Times Brazos corres pondence of the 12th says : The Liberal force which captured Montery was < ,000 strong. . General Negrete, after occupying the place levied a loan of $400,000 in specie. In the fight at Saltillo the Imperialists Gens. Victorians, Lepedo and Fierro were wounded, but escaped in the fight. Corti nas captured $50,000 in specie while Ne grete was attacking Matamoras on the 29th. The rebel Gen. Slaughter fortified the left bank of the Rio Grande and opened an artil lery fire to prevent his troops from reaching the river for water. A party of guerrillas recently attempted to kidnap the Empress from the City of Mexico. The unpopularity of Maximilian is still further confirmed. The interior of Texas is in a terribly dis organized condition. A telegraph line has been constructed from San Antonio and Austin to Mata moras. The French and English war vessels off the Rio Grande, joined the United States sloop of war, Oneida, in firing half-hour guns on the announcement of the death of President Lincoln. FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, May 27. The Post office Department has contract ed for the conveyance of the mails, daily and back on the route from Lincoln, California, to Portland Oregon, including intermediate points, the service to commence on the first of July, at a compensation of $225,000 an nually. Alabama has been divided into three in ternal revenue districts, but no appoint ments of assessors and collectors have yet been made. , John T. Ford, of Ford's Theatre was ye-torday unconditionally released from the Old Capital prison, where he had been con fined since his return from Richmond a few days after the assassination of President Lincoln. The Indictment Agaitutt Jeff, Davis find John C. Breckinridge—Proba ble Indictment of General Lee. WASHINGTON May 25. Ihe Trial of Jiff. Davit. The indictment against Jeff, Davis for high treason, of which you had the first in formation on Tuesday, has not yet been made public, but will probably be to-morrow. It includes John C. Breckinridge, and will probably be pushed to trial at once. The Court is composed of Chief Justice 1). K. Carter, formerly of Ohio; Judge Olin, for merly of New York, and Judge Wiley, of this district. Genera] Robert E. Lee will be indicted by a grand jury in Richmond within a few days for treason. The moment he is indict ed his parole is of no further use to him, and he will find himself in the same pre dicament as Jeff. Davis. Official Declaration of the End of the War. WASHINGTON. May 27. The following order has just been issued by the War Department : That in all cases of military sentences by military tribunals during the war, the sen tence be remitted and the prisoners be dis charged. The Adjutant General will issue immedi ately the necessary instructions to carry this order into effect. By order of the President. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Decision by the Attorney General. NEW YORK, May 27.—A special to the Tribune , from Washington on the 26th says: The Attorney General has just made a most important decision. He affirms that the amnesty proclamation was a means only to secure a specified purpose, which was the suppression of the rebellion. The rebellion being ended, the amnesty is void. It does not restore citizenship, property or vested rights. The President has no power to par don except for what is past. The executive clemency cannot stretch to the future; there fore the decree of confiscation must stand. The decision will be given in a few days. The Last of the rebel army Surrendered. WASHINGTON, May 27—8:30 p. m. Major Gen. Dvr : A dispatch from General Canby, dated at Now Orleans yesterday the 25th inst, states that arrangements for the surrender of the Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department have been concluded. They include the men and material of both the army and navy. E. M. STANTON. Secretary of War. Terrific Explosion at Mobile. CHICAGO, May 29. The Tribune has a special dispatch from New Orleans, dated the 26th inst., which says: The ordnance depot and magazine at Mobile, exploded at 2 o'clock yesterday. The shock was terrific, and the whole city was shaken to its foundation. Eight squares of buildings were destroyed, and five hun dred persons were buried in the ruins. The origin of the explosion has not yet been as certained. SCHOOL OF MINES. —A school of Mines was established last year in connection with Columbia College, in this city, the first terms ot which during the winter have been very fully attended. The ability of the corps of professors connected with the institution, the advantages of its location, and the rapid development of mining enterprise in the country, are such as will probably enable the trustees to reuder this fully equal to many foreign schools of the kind now frequented by American students.— N. E Observer. THE story of A plot at Memphis among the negro soldiers to massacre the paroled rebel prisoners is now said to be a hoax.— Gen. Washburne says it is false in every particular. Annexation of the British Provinces. There are unmistakable signs in the neigh boring Provinces of a revival of the annexa tion feeling of 1849. The reaction caused by the failure of the scheme for uniting all the provinces, has had its influence in this direction. The proposal to spend the trifle (£150,000 sterling a year for roar years) vo ted by the British Parliament, in forts at and around Quebec, while nothing has been voted fcr the West, has naturally provoked unamiable feelings in the peninsular districts of Upper Canada. The fear that no com mensurate gain would accrue to the Western tax payer —who contributes three-fourths of the customs' dues—for building a military railroad from Quebec to Halifax, has grown stronger every day as the prospect of a po litical imion with the maratnue Provinces has declined. And .some of the local j° ur ~ nals of the Upper Provinces are not back ward in giving emphatic expression to sen timents strongly derogatory to the impor tance and value of continued British connex ion. The industrial interests of the country east and west, are in a more backward con dition than they have been for many years. And there is a large and steady emigration both from Lower and Upper Canada to the United States. These are facts which we record with anything but pleasure. The people of this country were satisfied to see the colonists make an experiment in federa tion, either as the dependency of the mother country or otherwise, as they might deem most profitable. Their failure —if failure it must he —is a matter for regret. — New York Times. Texas to feel the War. What is in store for the unhappy people of Texas may be seen by the instructions of Grant to Sheridan for the campaign about to be inaugurated in that State. These au thorize him to lay waste the whole country within the scope of his operations, in order to cut off the resources upon which the rebel generals in that quarter rely to enable them to carry on the war. Ainore effectual meth od of bringing the enemy to a realizing sense of the folly of protracted resistance has not been discovered during this contest ; and although it seems harsh and cruel, it is ne cessary and unavoidable. It will save the effusion of blood and much suffering, to make this struggle in Texas as short ana se vere as possible. Nothing less than the same wholesome experience of the horrors of this conflict endured by other rebel States will curb the haughty spirit of these Texan rebels.— Phil. N. American. A CONVERTED REBEL—RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH. —At a meeting of Southern men in Memphis, recently, Colonel Grace, of Arkansas spoke as follows ; FELLOW-CITIZENS: —I am the man who drew up the ordinance of Secession in the Legislature of Arkansas; I have been in the field fighting against the Union for nearly four years, hut now I am a conquered and whipped man. As I was gallant in going out to fight. I now propose to be gallant at surrendering and submitting to the arms of the Government that we cannot whip. I have no contempt for Federal authority now, if I ever had. Ldo not think there is a manly bosom in the South but that has high er resject for Northern gallantry than when we went into the fight. There may be some men in the North who think that the South had a hand in the death ofour lamen ted President, but I know that the people of the South mourn over his death, and feel that they have lost a friend. The North has maintained this conflict nobly, and the South has nothing to be ashamed of. lam proud of the South—there is something in the very atmosphere that makes men great. So I say that, the South is not an insignficant people; and if so great a people as they are cannot whip the world, who cannot come to the inevitable conclusion that the North is greater? And lam not going to stultify myself by saying I have been w hipped bv nobody. Now it is our duty to repent and go back to this great national church—re pent, get absolution, and be baptized afresh. 1 know we will receive honorable and just terms. When 1 had an interview with the President, his heart seemed to be over flowing with love toward the Southern peo ple. We first went out of the Union and threw down the gage of battle, and the North picked it up ; we fired the first gun, and took the first fort —Fort Sunipter— which was taken back a few days ago. The North seemed to be unwilling to fight; they did not think we would fight, and so we thought of them, but to our sorrow, we have found out different: they seemed to spring up like mushrooms from all parts of the earth. Before this war I never saw a Fed eral officer hardly. I never felt the slightest oppression of the Federal Government; in fact, I never thought we had one until I went out to fight; then I found we did have a Government THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE QUESTION.—The question of extending the right of suffrage to negroes in re-organizing the state Gov ernments of the South is receiving a num ber of adherents since it was broached in Congress by Judge Kelly. The N. Y. Her alds. day or two since came out squarely for giving the right of voting to colored men. The New York WWW (democratic) says it is necessary to give the blacks suffrage or the States will be perturbed. The New York Commercial Advertiser (Conservative) of Friday also favors the idea, and says: "It would be a wise departure from the system of almost universal suffrage adopted in this country, to limit the right of voting by an ordained standard of education and intelligence— to decree the accomplishment, of reading or writing as a condition prece dent to the exercise of the simplest right of citizenship but to make suffrage dependent upon the possession of property, or the col or of the skin, or the hue of the hair, is an absurdity that has but to be named to be ex ploded. Where shall the line be drawn ? Shall two hundred and fifty dollars vote, and forty-nine be excluded? And who shall de termine the precise variety of shade that makes citizenship, or decide whether the brunette complexion or the kinky hair comes from an African an Asiatic or a European source? The only just rule is to follow the guidance of principle, and to yield to man hood or intelligence, common, civil, and po litical rights, and leave to men the determi nation for themselves of the rank they may hold, or yield to others, in the general order of society. The miserable theories of abso lute inferiority are unworthy of discussion. If this inferiority be real, it will make itself manifest, and the 'master grace' will still be the master."— Exchange, PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENTS TO BE MUS TERED OIT. —The following Pennsylvania regiments belonging to the Army of the Po tomac, took part in the grand review at Washington and will be mustered out of the service upon their arrival in this State. CAVALRY— Ist, 2d, 6th, 17th and 20th regiments. INFANTRY— Ninth Corps.—lsth, 47th 48th, 50th, 51st, 100 th, 200th, 207 th, 208 th' 209 and 211 th regiments. Fifth Corps—llth, 56th, 83d, 88th, 91st 107 th, 117 th, 118 th 121 st 142 nd, 155 th' 190 th, 191 st, 198 th and 210 th regiments Second Corps.—3lst, 53d, 57th, 69th, 90th, 105 th, 106 th, IlOth, 116 th, 140 th 141 st, 145 th, 148 th, 183 d and 184 th regi ments. Total Pennsylvania regiments from the Army of the Potomac—lnfantry, 41 : Cav ahy, 5. The following Pennsylvania regiments connected with General Sherman's army, participated in the review at Washington, and will no doubt reach home in a few days. Twentieth Corps.—2Bth, 29th, 46th, 73d, 111 th and 147 th regiments. Fourteenth Corps.—79th regiment. JEFF'S Pern COAT DISGUISE.—A corres pondent of the New York Herald, in giving the details of the capture of Jeff. Davis, says that when our troops came to the tent occupied by the ex-President, they were met by Mm. I>avis, en dkhabiUe, with; "Please, gentlemen., don't disturb slic pri vacy of ladies, before they have time to dress!" 1 "AH right, madame," said the corporal, "we will wait till you have on your duds. Presently there api>earod at the tent door an ostensible old lady, with a bucket on her arm, escorted by Mrs. Davis and her sister. '' I'lease let my old mother go to the spring for some water to wash in! " said Mrs. Jeff in a pleading tone. "It strikes me your mother wears very big boots," said the guard, as he hoisted the old lady's dress with his sabre, and discov ered a pais of number thirteen calfskins. "And whiskers, too!" said the sergeant, as he pulled the hood from her face, and Jo! Jeff. Davis, in all his littleness, stood before them. A " Spencer was immediately pointed at his ear, and he was marched back to the tent and placed in durance vile. "How are the mighty fallen " The great leader of the confederacy trying to escape the clutch es of justice in his wife's petticoats! " BUSINESS PROSPECTS IN RICHMOND.—A Richmond correspondent of the Baltimore American speaking of the emigration to that city from the North for purposes of business says:—The pecuniary exhaustion of the peo ple of Virginia is hardly yet understood at the North. The people have absolutely no money. Those who have been among the most opulent have nothing left but their lands and houses, and they are loth to part with these. The long established dislike of the Southern people to part with landed es tate is now exaggerated by the fact that this is all they have left, and this is mixed also with an indisposition on the part of many to encourage the settlement of Northern men here. Rut necessity has no law, and much of the land of Virginia will probably change owners within the coming year. The owners in the burnt district hold very high views as to the value of their land, and ap pear to think that the city is to at once pass from an exhausting war to a career of unex ampled prosperity. NEW COCKTERFEITS. —Peterson's Bank Note Reporter for May gives the following among some twenty new counterfeits issued since the issue of April: Bank of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N. J., 5s altered from Is —vig. oval portrait of Columbus. Bank of Montgomery county, Pa.. 10s and 20s, altered —vig. building and gardens; por trait each side. Belvidere Bank, New Jersey, 5s imitation —vig. two houses, wagons, cattle, horses, trees, &c.; male portrait on both lower cor ners; look out. Counterfeit Postal Currency, New Issue 50 cent notes. On the top of the bill the words ''Furnished only by the Assistant Treasurer and Designated Depositors of the United States," observe the two words l 'ot the." on the genuine there is a little space between them not so in the imitation. 50 cent notes; the engraving is good, but the guilt frame around the head is very bad. The paper has, however, the appearance of common print paper, and is very whitish. The whole of it is a little smaller than the genuine. Six barrels on the right of Wash ington are very indistinct. 25 cent notes; poorly engraved, on good pa per, and the guilt frame around the head don't show any guilt. 10 cent notes; very coarsely done, and the green ink very pale. Farmers' Bank, Lancaster, Pa.. 2s altered —vig. female and two cows. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. EN ROUTE FOR TEXAS.— General Phil. Slleridan and staff passed through Erie on Tuesday evening, 23d ult., on their way to Texas. A large number of people assem bled at the depot to see the gallant General and on his appearance on the platform of the car he was greeted with ' 'three times three'' and a "tiger." _ THE story of the assassination of Kirby Smith is contradicted, apparently on the au thority of his wife, who has arrived at Mem phis. But he is between two fires—a por tion of his men threaten to leave him if he persists in holding out. while others declare they will kill him if he attempts to surren der. IT is understood in New-Orleans that the rebel Gen Hood recently escaped across the Mississippi at Tunica Bend. A pursuing party captured his baggage at Semmsport. A FEW nights ago an unsuccessful attempt was made at Staunton. Ya., to assassinate Brigadier General Duval, of the United States forces. ON the 3d ult. the rebel Governor Watts, of Alabama, was arrested at Union Springs, in that State, and reached Montgomery, un der guard, on the sth ult. I RAP HAWLEY. of New York, and large ly identified with the Pennsylvania coal trade, died recently in Rome. GEN. CCSTAR takes command of the De partment of Missouri, which embraces the States of Missouri and Arkansas. W. H. HURBERD, one of the oldest mer chants of Richmond, Va., died & lew days ago. DISCHARGE OF WORKMEN.—Since the Ist of May 806 workmen have been discharged from the Charlestown (Mass.) navy-yard, making a saving of $600,000 a year. IN the Tennessee Senate a bill has been introduced requiring all persons elected to office to take an oath that they have in no way aided the rebellion. GEN. BUTLER has been invited to deliver the Fourth of July oration in Fall Biver, Mass., but declines on account of prior en gageinents. LAST week 28,000,090 feet of lumber ar rived at Chicago, being 10,000,000 feet more than ever before received in one week. TnF, salary of a New York Common Councilman is $2,000, but his "pickings"arc illimitable. POLES of the Grand Dutchy of Posen, ac cused of high treason, are now being tried before the high criminal court of Beriin. ENGLISH sportsmen now name many of their race horses after the famous battle fields of our civil war. A LETTER from Munich announces the death ot Franklin Webster, United States consul. MAJOR GEN. Sedgwick's sword, worn by him on the day of his death, has been pre sented to the Connecticut Legislature. A POLITICAL revolution has taken place in Hayti. Cape Haytien, Gonaives and St. Marks have been taken by the rebels. IN Northern Alabama meetings are con stantly held, with a view of returning the States to the Union, and are largely attend ed. THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania gave a decision affirming the constitutionality of legal-tender notes. OVER three million dollars has been dis bursed in Chicago by the Government for horses and mules within the past year. THERE is a woman in Quebec 113 years old. Her children, grandchildren ahd great - grandchildren number 226. THE rapadity with which President John son dispatches public business is remarked by all who visit the Executive office.
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