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EDFOBfI PA., FKIBAI, JPSI 1, YB6S.
A RECORD OF UNPARALLELED
CRIME.
That three hundred and twenty-five thou
sand brave and loyal men have suffered and
died, because of the treason of a few bad
men, is a faet awful to contemplate; but the
fact, that sixty-four thousand or one fifth
of these have been systematically starved
and murdered by these same traitors, betrays
an amount of wickedness and depravity, a
parallel for which cannot be found in the
annals of crime. From the refined cruelties
at the Inquisition to the tortunes of savage
Indians we search in vain for anything to
compare with this most awful record. It has
revealed to the world a class of men, who,
while arrogating for themselves a superiori
ty, which they claimed should elevate them
above the level of ordinary mortals, have
shown themselves capable not only of
the cool and deliberate murder of those,
who, by the vicissitudes of war were thrown
in their power, but of inaugurating a plan
of systematic torture, to which, martyrdom
at the stake bears no comparison. Well
might we hope that the men who were ca
pable of such deeds bad reached the lowest
depth of human wickedness and crime. But
in the perusal of the testimony, in the as
sassination trials, we find that the blackness
of this infamy pales before the more awful
crimes they had in contemplation and which
they were diligently prosecuting. After
calm and mature deliberation they set their
mercenary crew to work, to assassinate, to
poison, to burn, and to destroy by the in
troduction of loathsome disease, not soldiers j
only, not men alone, but helpless women
and innocent children. The tottering foot
steps of feeble age and of prattling childhood
were to be horned to a common grave. No
thought of mercy for the innocent end help
less could find place in their hard hearts.
Mends incarnate, nothing but indiscriminate
slaughter by fire, by sword, by the assassins'
dagger, by dire disease, and by cold blooded
murder could satiate their thirst for blood.
And yet, for such as these, apologists are to
be found in our own midst. Men, profes
sing to be christians and gentlemen, who,
though they had no word of sympathy for
the widow and the orphan, who could lend
no helping hand to the maimed and suffer
ing heroes, whose faces were lighted by no
smile of joy at the country's triumph, who
could show no sign of sorrow when a nation
wept its chief, can still trace in such harden
ed criminals a similarity to our own loved
Washington and immortal Jefferson, and
now plead for mercy for these worst of
criminals. 0 temporal O mores! What,
a record for the Chivalry. W hat a comment
on the Divine Institution and the exalted
virtues it engenders. How consoling it must
be to the admirers of this school of stern
statesmen to peruse these incontrovertible
records of the gallant deeds, the unsullied
honor, the delicate feeling and tender mercy
of these high-toned gentlemen.
NOTES OF THIRD SERIES OF 7-30's
NOW REAJDY.
The demand for the Second Series of the
7-30 Notes was so great that the Treasury
Department was unable to print them with
sufficient rapidity to fill the orders. It will
be remembered that a hundred millions were
subscribed and paid for in a single week.
The printing presses have finally surmounted
the difficulty, and on Wednesday, June 7th,
the deliveries of the Third Series commen
ced, and will be continued with the same
promptness that marked the supply of the
notes of the first and second series. It has
been this interruption of delivery at the
time of subscription which has given an ap
pearance of a falling off in the popular taking
of the loan—the great body of small takers
beiDg unwilling to pay their money unless
they receive their notes right in hand to car
ry them home. It is expected that after
this week the daily subscriptions to the Sev
en-Thirties will run up into millions as they
will undoubtedly be stimulated by the open
ing of the farmers' wool markets East and
West. It is not at all likely that the Gov
ernment will ever again offer so desirable a
security as these notes, and about two hun
dred millions only remain to be taken.
With the close of the war the national ex
penses will be vastly reduced, and investors
must look for a sharp reduction in the rate
of interest as soon as the present loans be
come due, and can be paid off. There is no
reason why the United States credit for
money should ever again fall below its credit
for courage. The same spirit that preserved
the geographical integrity of the country
will place its pecuniary integrity on a par
with that of the most favored nations —and
that will represent a rate of interest under
rather than over four per cent.
MAXIMILIAN 'B tenure in Mexico grows
every day more precarious. A party of
guerrillas recently attempted to kidnap the
Empress from the city of Mexico.
CONGRESSMAN Harris, of Maryland, tried
for persuading rebel soldiers not to take the
oath of allegiance, was sentenced to three
years imprisonment and the forfeiture of all
political rights. The President approved
the finding, but remitted the sentence, it is
said, on the ground that Congress should
take care of his case.
THE State 'election in Kentucky, which
takes place on the first Monday in August,
bids fair to be one of more than ordinary
interest The leading question will be the
ratification of the Constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery. The LouuviUe Journal
though not able to see the moral wrong of
slavery, is strongly advocating the ratifica
tion on the ground of the unprofitableness of
slavery, and enforces its argument with an
array of statistics that forcibly reminds one
the efforts of H. R. Helper, of "Impending
Crisis" notoriety, in the same good cause.
ALABAMA and Georgia, according to the
latest advices, are in a deplorable state of
social and industrial disorganization. The
people white and black are starving. The
whites are too proud to work and there is
nobody from whom they can beg. The col
ored people are bitterly persecuted and mal
treated by their former masters. Five men
came into Montgomery in one day day with
their ears cut off and in an almost nude
state. Cases of the ears, noses and lips of
Hie negroes being cut off by these fiends are
of almost daily occurrence,
THE REBEL LEADERS.
Their CempUeity in the Assassination
Very Important Suppessed Testimony.
The Murder ofOor Principal Men Arran
ged in Canada.
Thf Snnirrvrti t* Kwfix' Commissions
from Richmond.
Booth Speeiallr Authorized.
A Scheme to Cot the Croton Dam.
The following is the testimony, hitherto
suppressed relative to the Rebel leaders, ta
ken at the assassination trial at Washing
ton :
Sandford C'onover testified as follows: I
1 am a native of New York; have resided in
i Canada since October last; was conscripted
into the Confederate army, and detailed to
sendee in the War Department of the Con
federacy, at Richmond, under James A.
Seddon, Secretary of War; while in Canada
was intimately acquainted with G. N. San
ders, Jacob Thompson, Dr. Blackburn, Tuc
ker, Wm. C. Cleary, Capt. Castleman, Mr.
Cameron, Porterfield, Capt. Magruder, and
others; I also knew Clement C. Clay, and
Gen. Carroll of Tennessee; I knew .Mr. Sur
ratt, also, and J. W. Booth, and visited these
gentlemen in Canada; saw Surratt there on
several occasions, last April, in Mr. Jacob
Thompson's room, also in company with
George N. Sanders, and other Rebels in
Canada; Surratt is about five feet nine or
ten inches high, a fair-complexioned man
with light hair; I saw him about the 6th or
7th of April, with Thompson, Sanders and
Booth; at that time he delivered to Thomp
son in his room in my presence, dispatches
from Richmond to Thompson, from Benja
min and Jeffersou Davis; the latter either a
cipher dispatch or a letter. Benjamin was
Secretary of State of the Confederacy. Pre
vious to this, Thompson conversed with me
upon the subject of a plot to assassinate
President Lincoln and his Cabinet, of which
I gave notice, before the assassination, in
the New York Tribune, the paper for which
I corresponded. I had been invited by Mr.
Thompson to participate in that enterprise.
When Surrat delivered these dispatches from
Davis, Thompson laid his hand upon the
papers and said, referring to the assassina
tion and to the assent of the Rebel authori
ties, "This makes the thing all right/' The
dispatches spoke of the persons to be assas
sinated : Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Johnson, the Sec
retary of War. the Secretary of State, Judge
Chase and Gen. Grant. Mr. Thompson
said on that occasion, or on the day before
that interview, that the assassination pro
posed would leave the Government of the
United States entirely without a head ; that
there was no provision in the Constitution
of the United States by which they could
elect another President. Mr. Welles was
also named, but Mr. Thompson said it was
not worth while to kill him; |he was of no
consequence. My first interview with
Thompson on this subject of assassination
was in the early part of February, in Thomp
son's room in St. Lawrence Hail, Montreal.
He then spoke of a raid on Ogdensburg,
New York, it was abandoned, but that was
because the United States Government re
ceived information of it, he said he would
have to drop it for a time,but added."We'U
catch them asleep yet," and to nie he said,
"There is a better opportunity to immortal
ize yourself, and save your country,'' mean
ing the confederacy. I told them I was
ready to do anything to save the country,
and asked them what was to be done ; he
said, "some of our boys are going to play a
grand joke on Abe and Andy," which he
said was to kill them; his words were "re
move them from office," and he said that
the killing of a tyrant was not murder; that
he had commissions for this work from the
iiebel authorities, and conferred one on
Booth, or would confer one: that everybody
engaged in this enterprise would be commis
sioned, and if they escaped to Canada they
could not be successfully claimed under the
Extradition Treaty; I know that Thompson
and the others held these commissions in
blank: they commissioned Bennett Young,
the St Albans raider; it was a blank com
mission filled up and conferred by Mr. Clay;
as it came from Richmond, it was only sign
ed "James A Seadon, Secretaay of War;"
Mr. Thompson called me to examine these
blanks so that I might testify to the genu
ineness of Seddon's signature in the ease of
Bennett Young, before Judge Smith. The
signature was genuine. In a subsequent
conversation, after the first referred to in
February, Thompson told me that Booth
had been commissioned, and every man who
would engage in it would be. 1 had a con
versation with Wm. C. Geary, on the day
before, or the day of the assassination, at
St. Lawrence Hall. We were speaking of
the rejoicing in the States over the surren
der of Lee and the capture of Richmond.
Geary said they would nave the laugh on
the other side of the mouth in a day or two.
I think this was the day before the assassi
nation. He knew I was in the secret of the
conspiracy. It was to that he referred.—
The assassination was spoken of among us
as commonly as the weather.
Before that. Sanders asked me if I knew
Booth very well, and expressed some appre
hension that Booth would make a fizzle of
it—that he was desperate and reckless, and
he was afraid that the whole thing would be
a failure. I communicated to The Tribune
the intended raid on St. Albans and the
proposed assassination of the President :
but they refused to publish the letter. I
did this in March last, as to the President's
assassination; also in February, I think
certainly before the 4th of March. Surratt
delivered the dispatches in Thompson's room
four or five days before the assassination.
The whole conversation showed that iSurratt
was one of the conspirators to take the
President's life. That was the substance of
the conversation. It was also understood
that there was plenty of money when there
was anvthing to be done. The conversation
indicated that Surratt had a very few days
before left Richmond—that he was "just
from Richmond."
While I was in Canada, I was a corres
pondent for The Tribune , and received no
compensation except from The Tribune. I
have not received one cent from our own
Government, nor the promise.
They never supposed I was a correspond
ent for any paper; I only said I was seeking
items; they supposed I was a Rebel and I
was in their confidence; theproposed Ogdens
burg raid was printed in The Tribune ; I did
not communicate this matter directly to the
for the reason that 1 supposed
the communication in The Tribune would
be seen by the Government officials, and I
did not choose to have the information go
to the Government directly from me; I re
quested Mr. Gay, of The Tribune to give
the information to the Government, and I
believe he did so. I saw Surratt in Canada
three or four days in successi ->n in April last.
1 had conversation with him personally
about Richmond. I was introduced to him
by Sanders. I WAA expected to participate
with these Rebels in the raid on Ogdens
burg; 1 never received any pay from them
for any services. 1 heard the capture of the
President talked of in February. When
Mr. Thompson first suggested the assassi
nation to me, I asked him if it would meet
with the approbation of the Government at
Richmond; he said he thought it would, but
he would know in a few days. This' was
early in February
Thompson did not say in April, when
these dispatches were delivered, that this
was the first approval they had received of
this plot from Richmond, but I know of no
others ; I only inferred that that was the
first approval; Thompson aid in his conver
sation with me, that killing a tyrant in such
a case was no murder, and asked me if I had
read a letter called "Killing, no murder,"
addressed by Titus to Oliver Cromwell; this
was in February; Mr. Hamlin was also
named in February as one of the victims of
'this scheme; in April, the parties before
named were mentioned, but Mr. Hamlin
was omitted, and Vice-President Johnson
put in his place; I ran the blockade from
Richmond; these commissions were all blank
but the signature; they were to be given i
oover, so that in case of detection, the par
ties employed could claim that they were
Rebel soldiers, and would, therefore, claim
to be treated as prisoners of war; it was un
derstood that they would be protected as
such; Thompson said if the men who were
engaged in tnis enterprise were detected and
executed, the Confederate Government
would retaliate; that it was no murder, only
killing; I think Booth was specially com
missioned for this purpose; I saw Booth in
Canada in the latter part of October, with
Sanders, at Mr. Thompson's at the St. Law
rence Hall, where he was strutting about,
dissipating and playing billiards; I have
heard these men talk of the burning of New
York, and other enterprises which they have
under consideration now.
There was a proposition before the agents
of these rebels in Canada to destroy the
Croton Dam. by which the city ot New
York is supplied with water. It was sup
posed it would not only damage manufac
tures, but distress the people generally Mr.
Thompson remarked that there was plenty
of force, and the city would be destroyed by
a general conflagration, if they had thought
of this sooner, they might have saved a great
many necks. This was said a few weeks
ago. Thompson, Sanders, Castleman and
General Carroll were present. They had
arms concealed, and a large number of men
; concealed, in Chicago—some eight hundred
—for the purpose of releasing the rebel
prisoners there. The Dr. Blackburn,
charged at Nassau with importing yellow
fever into this country, is the same person
referred to by me as intimate with Thomp
son, in Canada ; 1 saw him in company with
him, G. N; Saunders. Louis Sanders, Castle
man, Wm. C. Cleary, Porterfield, Captain
Magruder and a number of other Rebels of
less note; Blackburn was recognized there as
an agent of the Confederate States, and so
represented himself; in January last l)r.
Blackburn employed a person named Came
ron to accompany him, for the purpose of
introducing yellow fever into the Northern
cities, to wit: the cities of New York, Phil
adelphia and Washington; he went from
Montreal to Bermuda, about a year ago last
fall, for the purjKise of getting the clothing
infected with yellow fever ; I saw him after
his return, in Canada, and heard Jacob
Thompson and Wm. C. Cleary say that they
favored his scheme, and were mueh inter
ested in it; this was last January.
About the same titnc it was proposed to
destroy the Croton Dam, Dr. Blackburn
proposed to poison the reservoirs, and made
a calculation ot the amount of poisonous
matter it would require to impregnate the
water, so as to make an ordinary draught
poisonous and deadly. He had the capacity
of the reservoirs and the amount of water
generally kept in them. Strychnine, arse
nic, prussic acid, and a number of other
things Ido not remember were named. Mr.
Thompson feared it would be impossible to
collect so large a quantity of poisonous mat
ter without suspicion, and leading to detec
tion. Thompson approved of the enterprise
and discussed it freely. Mr. Clean- did the
same; it was also spoken of by a Mr. Mont
rose A. Fallen, of Mississippi, and a person
who bad been a medical purveyor in the
rebel army; John Camdron, who lived iu
.Montreal, told me that he was offered large
compensation: I think Mr. Thompson was
the moneyed agent for all the other agents;
I think they all drew on him for ali the
money they required ; 1 know some of them
did ; when Thompson said it would be diffi
cult to collect so much poison. without detec
tion, Pollen and others thought it could lu
managed in Europe : Fallen is a physician ;
I think I have heard Harris also mentioned
in connection with the pestilence importa
tion ; I think he lived in Toronto; there
were other parties in Montreal that Black
burn employed, or endeavored to employ,
but I don't remember their names.
I saw Dr. Stewart Robinson, a doctor of
divinity, residing in Toronto ; he edited a
paper in Kentucky ; I have seen him with
Thompson and Blackburn, and he was pres
ent when some of these schemes were dis
cussed ; he approved them ; he said any
thing that could be done under heaven would
justify them under the circumstances ; he
appeared upon very intimate terms with
Blackburn and Thompson; three or iour
days after the assassination of the President
I saw John H. Surratt in Canada, with
Porterfield, a Southern Rebel, now declared
a British subject by the Canadian Parlia
ment ; 1 learned immediately afterward that
Surratt was suspected, was pursued, and had
decamped; I had a knowledge that Jeff.
Davis was the head of the co-called Confed
erate States, was called its President, and
had control ofits civil administration. Gen.
Carroll was present when Surratt brought
the dispatches from Richmond, and when
they were read by Thompson. I believe
there were one or two others ; Gen. Carroll
of Tennessee then si id he was more anxious
that Mr. Johnson should be killed than any
one else ; he said : "If the damned prick
louse was not killed by somebody " he would
kill him himself; he referred to Vice-Presi
dent Johnson ; his expression was a word of
contempt for a tailor; it means a tailor's
louse; Booth was known in Canada by the
nickname of "Hetl have heard Thomp
son so name him, certainly Cleary ; Kenne
dy, who fired the city of New York and was
executed, was spoken of as having performed
that deed by the authority of the Rebel
Government, under the direction of Thomp
son; this was communicated to me by
Thompson himself, or in conversation in his
presence, Thompson said Kennedy deserved
to be hanged, and he was devilish glad he
was hanged, for he was a stupid fellow, and
had managed things very badly.
James B. Merritt testified—l am a phy
sician, and have been in Canada about a
vear; m October and November last was in
Toronto; met George Young there, a rebel
from Kentucky; also, CoL .Steele from Ken
tucky ; Young said to me, "We have some
thing of much more importance than any
raids; ' he told me it was determined that
'Old Abe' should never be inaugurated,
that they had plenty of friends in Washing
ton, and called Mr. Lincoln "a damned old
tyrant;" I afterward saw George N. San
ders and Col. Steele together ; Col. Steele
said, 'The damned old tyrant never will
serve another term if he is elected;" San
ders said, at the same time, * 'He would keep
himself mighty close if he did serve another
term;" in Montreal, in February last, 1
heard name a number of persons
ready and willing to remove the President,
V ice-President, the Cabinet and some of the
leading Generals of the United States ; and
he added that there was any amount of mon
ey to accomplish this purpose, meaning the
assassination of these persons ; he then read
a letter, which he said he had received from
t xr resident of our Confederacy, meaning
Jefferson Davis, and which letter justified
him in making any arrangements that he
could; to accomplish such object; there was
a meeting at that time of these Rebels, and
a letter was read to them, the Bubstancc of
which was. that if the Southerners in the
Canada* and the States were willing to lie
governed by such a tyrant as Lincoln, he
(Davis) did not wish to recognize them as
friends, and that he approved of the propo
sition to assassinate him: CoL Steele read
the letter, also Cant. Scott, George Young
and Hill, all Rebels; this meeting was about
the middle of last February ; at Die meeting
banders named some of the persons who
were to accomplish the assassination, and
among them he named J. W. Booth, whom
1 had seen in Montreal in October ; he also
named George Harper, Charles Caldwell,
Randall and Harrison ; Harrold went by the
name of Harrison ; I heard Suratt's name
also mentioned, and Harrold ; there was a
person named whom whom they called
Plug Tobacco." I saw Harrold in Toron
to ; Sanders and Booth were heart and soul
in this matter; he was a cousin to Beaie,
who was hanged in New-York ; he added
that if they could dispose of Lincoln it would
be an easy matter to dispose of Mr. John
son in some of his drunken revelries; that
if they could dispose of the President, Vice-
Presiaent and Cabinet, and that if Mr. Sew
ard could be disposed of it woijid satisfy the
people North, and that a peace could be ob
tained ; that they had endeavored to bring
about a war with England, but Mr. Seward
through his energy and sagacity, had thwar
ted their efforts, and for that, reason they
wanted to get rid of him.
On the sth or 6th of April last, I met
Harper, who said they were going to the
States to "kick up the damndest row, such
as.had never been heard of; he added that
if I did not hear of the death of Old Abe,
the V ice-President and of Gen. Dix, in less
than ten days, I might put him down as a
damned fool; that was on the (sth of April ;
he mentioned the name of Booth as one of
their friends there : he said they had plenty
of friends in Washington, and that fifteen or
twenty were going. He had started to go to
Washington as early as the Bth, together
with others; I communicated this fact on
the 10th of April to a justiee of the peace,
named Davidson, who, after the assasina
nation, communicated it to the Government;
Harper returned to Canada after the assas
sination : I had a conversation with C. C.
Clay in Toronto in February last; he spoke
of the letter of Davis, which Sanders had
exhibited ; he seetaed to understand the char
acter of the letter perfectly, and said he
thought the end would justify the means ;
iSurratt was pointed out to me in Toronto,
last February. I think ; I saw Booth there
two or three times, and sat at table with him
once, at the St Lawrence, with Sanders,
Scott and Steel; they were conversing with
Booth, and driaking wiine with him at San
der's expense; I saw Harrold in Canada,
in February.
Riehard Montgomery testified —I knew
Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, whom
I have met in Canada a number of times
since the summer of 1854 up to this time;
also, George N. Sanders, J. P. Holcome.
Beverly Tucker, W. C. Cicury, Harrington,
Hicks, and others, under fictitious names.
Thompson had several names; one was Car
son ; Clay was Holt, and Lacv, and Tracy;
Jacob Thompson said he had friends of the
Confederacy all over the Northern States,
willing to go any lengths, and that he could
at any time, have the tyrant Lincoln, and
any of hi- advisers, put out of the way , that
his friends would not consider it a crime,
and that it would be done for the cause of
the Confederacy ;in January, 1805, Thomp
son said, at Montreal, that a proposition had
been made to him to rid the world of the
t\ rants, Lincoln, Stanton, Grant, and some
others; he knew the men who made it were
hold, daring men able to execute anything
they would undertake ; that he was hi favor
of the proposition but deferred his answer
until he had consulted his Government at
Richmond ; that he was then only waiting
their approval. He thought it would be a
blessing to the people, both North and South
to have them {the tyrants) killed. In the
Summer of 18641 repeated what Mr. Thomp
son first told me, to 0. C. Clay, who said
that he was really devoted to our cause, and
ready to go any lengths, to do anything un
der the sun to save it. I have seen Payne,
the prisoner, a number of tirnetf in Canada,
about the Falls, in the Summer of 1864,
and also at the Queen's Hotel, at Toronto,
Cauada A\ est. where I conversed with hitfj.
1 had an interview with Mr. Thompson;
several others had sought an interview while
I was closeted, and had been refused. On
leaving Thompson's room, I saw Payne in
the passage wav, near the door, with Clem
ent C. Clay taiking to him. Mr. Clay stop
ped me, and finished his conversation with
this man in an undertone. When he left
me, he said, "wait for me; I will return."
He soon came hack and bade me good-bye,
and asked where he could see me after a
time. J told him, and appointed a meeting.
I spoke to this man Payne in Clay's absence
and asked him who he was. He said, "Oh,
I'm a Canadian" —which wa-to say, I don't
wish you to ask me anything more. I men
tionc 1 him to Clay when I met him lifter a
time. Clay asked, "What did he say?"
I told him, and Clay answered, "That's so ;
he is a Canadian," and laughed. He added
"Wetrust him. "Canadian" is an ex
pression for their friends, and his conduct
was an indication that their intercourse was
of a very confidential nature.
I have been in Canada since the assassi
nation; a few days after. I met Beverly
Tucker at Montreal. He said "Mr. Lincoln
deserved his death long ago," that "it was
a pity he did not die long ago," and that "it
was too bad the boys had not been allowed to
go when they wanted to." He referred to
the men who weie to assassinate him.
I had a conversation with Win. C. Cleary,
and told him what Mr. Thompson said in
January, He said that Booth was one of
the parties to whom Thompson had refer
red; he said also that it was too bad, that
the whole work had not been done, referring
to the assassination. Cleary. who was a
confident of Mr. Thompson, told me so. —
Thompson said Cleary was a very close
mouthed man. Cleary also said that "they
had better look out, we have not done yet:"
He remarked that they would never be con
quered; would never give up. He also said
that Booth had visited Thompson in the
Winter and in the Summer. These parties
knew they were suspected of the assassina
tion a few days after, and were destroying a
great many papers, so they told inc.
I acted as a Government detective in Can
ada, and assumed the name of James Thomp
son, though I never registered it, but always
some other name. My whole object was to
serve the Government. I saw this cipher
(found among Booth's effect") in Mr. Clay's
house, at St. Catherine's in the summer of
1864. I carried dispatches from Canada to
Gordonsville, and received a reply, which I
carried back. I came through Washington
each time, and delivered the dispatches to
the United States Government; received the
dispatch at Gordonsville from a man in the
Rebel State Department, from their Secre
tary of State; I carried this paper to Thomp
son. All these persons, named Thompson,
Clay, Cleary, &e., represented themselves in
the service of the Confederate Government
Received this dispatch in October last. Clay
claimed to represent the War Department;
they approved the burning of our Northern
cities, and they represented themselves as
having full powers from the Rebel Govern
ment to act, without referring their project
t°. Richmond ; Thompson and Clay both
said so; the attempt to burn New York City
I know they were engaged in, and went to
Washington three days before it happened
to communicate ; they approved, also, of the
St. Albans raid; in regard to raiding, Mr.
Clay had the funds; he said he had always
plenty of money to pay for anything that
was worth paying for; I know they deposit
ed in different hanks; Clay said not to tell
Sanders what they intrusted to me; he said
that he was a very good man to do their dir
ty work; that he associated with men that
they could not associate wixh; that he was
very useful in that way; I inferred from Bev
erly Tucker's words that they had delayed
the assassination, waiting the approval from
Richmond.
THE Freed men's schools have all been
closed in Biehmondon account of the colored
children being maltreated by the white peo
ple. This persecution lias become system
atic and it is impossible for the schools to
proceed. _ The persecution is not confined
to the children, but extents.to all the freed
men who are systematically persecuted by
the officers of the city police, who seem to
be all rebels.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Haitian and Mexho — Official Order
for the evacuation of San Domingo
—Armed Aid of Confederates de
dined by Imperialists.—The Apos
totie Nando leaves Mexico for
Eu rope.—'Officers of Our Iron-dads
entertained at Havana.
NEW YORK, June 12. —The steamer Lib
erty has arrived from Havana, with advices
to the 7th.
The order for the definite evacuation of
Ban Domingo has been received from Spain.
The news from Mexico is of no import
tanee.
The Ere Nnuvette does not think the A
meriean emigrati< >n would be dangerous to
the interests of the Empire.
The Sodeilad, confirms the report that the
Confederates at Eagle Pass, near Piedras
Negras and Brownsville, had tendered arm
ed aid to the Imperial authorities, but the
tender was declined.
The Apostolic Nuncio, M. Meglia, had
left for Europe.
The entertainment to the officers of our
iron-clad fleet at Havana passed off in the
mrot satisfactory manner. The authorities
had visited the monitors, and expressed
great gratification. The squadron sailed on
the 6th, after a stay of a week.
The steamer Moro Castle made the trip
from New York in four days and seven
hours.
II"' Oar ia Mexico—lmportant
I ictory of the Scjmbliean army—
The City of Taea mbaro taken by
storm and all the garrison rap
tared—Gen. Ortega again in the
Field.
WASHINGTON, June 11.— Official news
from Acapulco, dated the 9th of May. em
braces the following intelligence, which was
suppressed in the dispatch through French
sources from Havana. Gen. Regules, with a
part of the first division of the Central Na
tional Army of Mexico, attacked the city of
tacambaro in the State of Michoaean on"the
11th of April, and took it by storm, captur
ing nil the garrison, including 200 Belgians,
together with their ammunition, artille
ry, etc.
A few days before, the national forces
captured a train with supplies and ammuni
tion sent from Morelia to Pasuaseo, and de
feated the French forces at Purnandiro,
Cuitso, and Zinapearo, all in the State of
Mihoaean. General Ortega, the comman
der-in-chief of the centre, had taken the field
having recovered from his wounds.— Nino
York Iribune.
Central America—Rebellion in Sal
vador.—The Republic in a state of
siege—Rebels in possessiem of San
Miguel—The Assassination news
in Salvador.
NEW YORK, June 9. —Advices from Sal
vador state that President Duornas has Is
sued a decree declaring the entire republic
iu a state of siege, and establishing martial
law. Soldiers and citizens, though counte
nancing the rebellion, and not taking up
arms, will lie pardoned.
He also declares the rebellion unimport
ant in itself, but as an example may be prej
udicial. An army had been sent toqueil the
revolt of the rebels led by General Carnabas,
previously high in favor of Dnernas' Gov
ernment.
A rebellion broke out at San Miguel on
May 15, the rebels taking possession of pub
lic property without resistance. An army
of five thousand loyal citizens was raised in
three days, and, if the papers state the
truth, there is a general manifestation of
confidence in Duernas' Government.
The announcement of the assassination of
Mr. Lincoln caused a profound sensation of
horror in San Salvador.
The latest dates from Gautemala announce
the election of Senor Mariseal Cerua Presi
dent of that Republic.
The War in South America
By an arrival from Buenos Ayres we have
the important news that the Argentine Re
public has become involved in the war be
tween Paraguay, and Brazil and Uruguay.
The Argentine Republic has been compell
ed to take sides with Brazil and Uruguay
because of the invasion of Corrieutes oue of
the States of the Republic by the forces of
Paraguay, and the capture of two armed
vessels, the crew of the one of them having
been murdered in cold blood.
European Aw*.
Advices from Paris to the 26. May, state
that the panic created by the news of the
Mexican emigration scheme lias subsided.
The publishes a ministerial
note declaring that the American Govern
ment has given ample assurances to the
French Government of its pacific designs
toward Maximillian.
Prince Napoleon in a speech delivered at
the ceremony of uncovering the monument
of Napoleon I, at Ajaceio eulogised the De
mocracy and Constitution of America, spoke
approvingly of the Monroe doctrine and
gave utterance to such liberal sentiments
generally that lie has since deemed it prudent
to resign his Senatorship.
The friends of Jeff. Davis in France and
throughout Europe generally, have been
sorely grieved that a price should have been
set upon the head of the Arch Traitor, and
M icak piteously of our want of civilization.
They have, however, been quite taken aback
by the news of the Grand Old Roman be
ing takeu in petticoats.
News from London of the same date, rep
resents the Times as having upheld the re
bellion until the news of Jeff. Davis' capture.
It is now hopeful that the government will
not deal harshly with the Stern Statesman.
THE TRIAL.
Evidence Forthcoming Showing the
Complicity of Jeff'. Davis in still
Other Atrocities.
WASHINGTON, June 14.
Before the conclusion of the trial of the
assassination conspirators, the Government
will show that the explosion of the ordnance
boat at City Point, last year, by which so
many lives were lost, was an operation ef
fected by one of the officers placed on de
tached service by Davis and Ben janian. It
is understood that among other Rebel doc
ments secured since the occupation of Rich
mond. is the report of the agent employed
in this diatioiical operation.
Destructive Fire and Explosion at
Chattanooga.
CINCINNATI, June 10.
The Gazette's Chattanooga despatch says
that the ordnance building had exploded,
setting fire to and consuming two warehouses
filled with Government stores. The loss
to the government is $150,000. Ten or fif
teen persons were killed and wounded. The
explosion was caused by sparks from a loco
motive.
From Texas.
WASHINGTON, Friday June 9.
A letter from on board the United States
steamer Penguin, off Sabine Pass, dated
May 27, says:
' The forts at Sabine Pass, Texas, surren
dered to the United States steamer Owasco.
The American flag was hoisted over the
works at 4 o'clock p. m."
We expect Galveston to surrender to-mor
row.
From New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, June 9.
Brownsville, Texas, was entered by the
forces of Brig. Gen. Brown, May 31. The
Rebels before leaving, sold their artillery to
the Imperialists. Cortmas is still hovering
about Mataraoras,
GREAT FIRE AT NASHVILLE, TEN*.
Destruction of Government Property-
Low of $8,000,000 to $10,000,000.
NASHVLLLE, June 9.
At about 2 o'clock this afternoon, the ex
tensive building used for Quartermaster and
Commissary stores, at the corner of Sum
mer and Broad streets, known as Taylor's
Depot, was discovered to be on fire. The
flames are supposed to have been caused by
soark.s from a locomotive. About half of
the building was destroyed. The other half,
comprising the Commissary stores, was
saved. The loss is estimated at between
four and five millions. Several dwellings
near the scene of conflagration were destroy
ed, with their contents. So great was the
heat that all approaches to the scene were
impassable. Two or three employees are
supposed to have perished in the flames.
LATER.
The destruction of Government property
at the great fire to-day, it is believed, will
cause a loss of between eight and ten mil
lions of dollars. Within its walls were stores
sufficient to supply an army of 80,000 men
for two 3 ears. The quantity of rope alone
consumed was valued at one million dollars.
The building was the largest of the kind in
the country, being 800 feet front by 200 feet
deej>.
Fortunately the buildings were separated
by a fire-wall, and the largest part of the
front was, by this precaution, saved from
destruction. Various rumors are afloat as
to the origin of the fire; some maintaining
that it was the work of an incendiary, ana
others of accident. A Court of inquiry will
investigate the matter. The combustion
was so rapid that the building was one sheet
of flame before the fire department could
work on it.
Gov. Curtin to the People of Pennsyl
vania.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, )
Harrisburg, June 10, 1865. }
To tlw People of lennsylcania:
The bloody struggle of four years is ended.
The fires of Rebellion are quenched. The
supremacy of law and right is re-established.
The foulest treason recorded in history has
been beaten to the earth. Our country is
saved.
These blessings we owe. under God. to
the unequalled heroism, civic and military,
ofthepenpk. In the darkest hours, under
the heaviest discouragements, falter who
would, THEY never faltered.
They have been inspired with the deter
mination to maintain the free Government
of our Fathers, the continued union of our
whole country, and the grand republican
principles which it is their pride and duty
to defend for the sake, not only of them
selves, but of the human race.
I glory in saying that the people of Penn
sylvania have been among the foremost in
the career of honor. Their hearts haue been
in the contest; their means and their blood
have been poured out like water to maintain
it.
The remnants of the heroic bands that
left her soil to rescue their country are now
returning, having honorably fulfilled their
service. They have left tens of thousands
of their brothers on many a bloody field.
Their memories will tie preserved on our
rolls of honor. For their widows and fami
lies a grateful country will suitably provide.
Let the survivors who are now returning
to us have such welcome as befits a brave
and patriotic people to give to the gallant
men who have saved the country and shed
new lustre on Pennsylvania.
I recommend that in every part of the
State, on the approaching Anniversary of
Independence, special observances be had of
welcome to our returned defenders, and of
commemoration of the heroic deeds of them
selves and their comrades who have fallen.
ANDREW G. CURTIS,
Governor of Pennsylvania.
I' roui the Jourtial of Commerce.
Earnings of Telegraph Companies.
A statement in the money article of the
Journal of Commerce of the 31st ult.,
setting forth the monthlv earnings of tele
graph companies, is calculated to convey
erroneous impressions with regard to them,
and makes it propter that the facts should be
so stated as to convey the truth.
In the first place it should be known that
the line?* of the western Union and American
Telegraph Companies, and such lines as are
leased and controlled By them, are the con
solidation of the oldest lines of telegraph in
this country, and are understood to be
represented by a joint capital of from 25,
000,000 to 30,000,000 of dollars. Until a
very recent date they have had a complete
monopoly of the use of electricity in the
conveyance of intelligence, not only for the
public and the press, but since the war
began, for the government.
On the other hand, the United States
Telegraph Company was organized only last
August, with a nominal capital of 6,000.000
of dollars, a little more than one half of
winch, or about 3,500,000, has been placed
? purpose of paying for the lines pur
chased by it and of building additional lines
already completed, and those now in the
course of construction. It is true that it
•has lines "working to many of the same
points with the other two companies," and
when its lines are finisned, with less than
half the amount of capital stock, upon which
to pay dividends, its lines will reach all the
principal points that are reached by the
other two companies, including the principal
points in the mining districts of Colorado
and Nevada, and the principal cities and
towns in California; a contract for the con
struction of a first class, two wire line, hav
ing just been completed with parties fully
able to carry it into effect in the shortest
possible time, running from Chicago and St.
Louis to the Pacific, at San Irancisco.
Cp to the present time, however, several
of the principal cities and towns of the
YV est have not been reached by the lines of
the United States Telegraph Company,
principally in consequence of the factious
opposition of the old companies in their
effort to maintain their monopoly—such us
Cincinnati _ and St. Louis. But notwith
standing, its monthly earnings have gra
dually and permanently increased, as might
have been ascertained from a little further
examination of the U. 8 assessor's books,
from which it appears that its earnings for
January 1865, were $33,662
February, do $42,199
do $50,078
Apf ll ' $56,085
1 he total earnings of the assessor's books
of the JVesternUmon and American Tele
graph Company, for six months, is $1,791,
41 a, which is a little over 51 per cent on
S3O, (XXI, 000.
Ihe total earnings of the United States
Telegraph Company, taking the average of
its earnings for the last four months, as per
the assessor's books, will be for the current
six months $275,048, which is about 8 per
cent on $3,500,000, the amount of its stock
placed, and which will complete its lines to
Cincinnati and St. Louis, and several other
important points in the West to be done in
a brief period.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE FRAUDS.—
In the case of a Boston distiller, who re
moved liquor from his distillery without
paying excise duty Government has found
Sin nm"* ° ,( raU T 1 to ** 7,000, making
!2£? l a i aal a J na I>ubuque case, the
SnS nfj^f o ha f been fixed at half a
S^ n ?i|| 1 "^ a >, d a P en lty of another
i on of dollars lias been imposed,
calling for the payment of a million of
dollars. In a Peoria the frauds will
some hundreds of thousands, and an
equal .penalty affixed.
...SUMMARY OFGENERAL NEWS.
JOHN MINOR Borrs has been invited to
Richmond by Gov. Pierpont
It is stated that the Queen of Spain will
visit Pans this summer.
SIXTY four thousand Federal prisoners
have died in Rebel prisons.
THE ( harlaUm Courier says that trade
in that city is rapidly reviving.
FROM the 12th March 1864, to the Ist
April, 1865, no less than 252 persons were
killed in the streets of London.
The number of alien immigrant? landed in
New York city between Jan. 1, and May 31
is 50,047. '
IT is reported, that Breckenridge, late
robel .Secretary of W ar has made his escape
in a vessel from the coast of Florida.
Gov. BROWN of Georgia has been, releas
ed and goes home under a pledge to work
earnestly for the restoration of Georgia to
her allegiance.
DR. Cox of Lower Maryland and Colonel
Greene of Washington, arrested some time
ago as conspirators have been released.
A CALL has been issued by Simon Came
ron for a meeting of the Union State Con
vention, at Harrisburg, on Wednesday. the
19t h of July, 1865. '
ONE hundred and twenty-two thousand
troops come within the order for immediate
mustering out of service.
An army of observation, 20,000 strong,
consisting, we suppose of veterans, is to be
sent to the Rio Grande. Cave Maximil
ian.
THE steamer Helvetia, from Liverpool, ar
rived at New York on 'he 3d inst., with
twelve hundred and seventeen immigrants
on board, being the largest cargo of human
beings that ever crossed the Atlantic in a
single steamer.
Ex-Gov. McGoffin. of Kentucky, says
the LouierxHe Journal, has come out in fa
vor of the constitutional amendment and is
so impressed with its importance that he in
tends taking stump in its behalf.
/ nE , disturbance among the miners in
Schuylkill co. has nearly subsided and many
of them have gone to work again. The
presence of the military healed the troubled
waters.
IN the conspiracy trial ar Washington, on
the 1, in.*t., the counsel, for the defence, set
up the plea of insanity in behalf of the assa,-
hi n Payne.
Ihe judicial investigation at Toronto.
Canada, shows that the yellow fever, which
carried off some thousands of the citizens ol
Newborn, N. C.. last summer, was intro
duced by the infamous Dr. Blackburn.
A RICHMOND letter says, a member of the
English Parliament has offered Gen. Lee a
splendid residence in London and a sum of
money, the interest of which would support
himself and family.
IT is said that the emigration of Mor
mons from Kn rope will be greater the coin
ing summer than ever before. Several ve.-
sels are already chartered in Liverjiooi.
awaiting the arrival of emigrants from
different portions of the old country.
TUB Western Union Telegraph Com
pany s lines are now in full telegraph con
nection with Memphis, Vieksburg, Mobile
and New Orleans, and are receiving and
sending private messages to these cities.
THE Secretary of War has directed that
all returned Union prisoners who have en
dured the hardship of incarceration at
Andcrsonville, or any ot the barbarous
duugeons of the South, be immediately and
honorably discharged the service, and" that
they receive three months extra pa}'.
THE immortal Sixth Army C rps wa> re
viewed in ashingtou on Thursday the fcth
inst It consisted of 44 regiments, and
numbered 20,000 men. This gallant corps
has participated in nearly every battle fought
in irginia during the last four years.
ON the night the President was
mated, John 31. Botts was attacked by a
party of seven guerillas. They arrived
about midnight, and Mr. Botts and a friend
of his had not yet retired. They went to
the door with loaded revolvers in their
hands and seeing that this was the condition
of affairs, the guerillas withdrew.
THE Government, it is said, contemplates
colonizing all the Indian tribes between Min
nessota, lowa and the Rocky Mountains, in
a reservation on the northern border of mon
tana and Pacotah, with the British posses
sions as an unlimited hunting ground.
„ T '- new national banks have now nearly
all been supplied with circulation to the
amount to which they are entitled, and
circulation will not be to converted
banks faster than their State circulation is
retired; so that it may now be said that the
bank note circulation of the country has
reached its maximum or highest possible
point.
The President has decided to retain pro
vost marshals in all the States except Rhode
I sland, and the present officers will hold their
places in every congressional district. The
same system will be extended to Southern
Mates, and officers of the Government ap
pointed. It will be a year before it can be
relinquished.
Hon. Judge Catron, Associate Justice of
fc ?,f <4 s - Supreme Court, died in Nash
\t ' r n " ?- , the evening ql the 30th of
ji • ' daAcson nomina
ted him, and he was confirmed one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court, which office
he held up to the date of his death.
Thursday, the day of humiliation and
prayer, is saiu to have been hotter observed
in 1 hiladelphia than any similar day that
has been appointed. The mast remarkable
teature ol the day, Was, that negroes were al
lowed to ride in passenger railway cars.
A gentleman who called en General Scott
in New \ ork the other day fouud him in
excellent health and much rejoiced at the
successful termination of the war. The
conversation turning on Jeff. Davis, the old
General verv pointedly aud emphaticallv
remarked: "I hope he will lie hung by the
neck, sir; I hope he will hang by the neck."
EXTENSION OF THE GOODYEAR RIBBEK
PATENT.—Onapplication ofHenry B. Good
year, administrator of the estate of Nelson
Goodyear, the Commissioner of Patents
has extended for seven years the parent of
kelson Goodyear for the invention of hard
rubber, the re-i&jue being in two divisions.
Ahe invention in this ease consists in pre
paring from the guui commonly known as
India robber, a new material to be used in
t ie place of horn, whalebone, wood, iron
and similar substances. It is called rubber,
the extension was opposed by A. G. Pay;
but it was granted on the ground of novelty
and utility of invention, its value and impor
tance to the public, and because the inven
tor was not adequately remunerated, though
tor no want of diligence on his part.
CENTS—The Director of the Philadelphia
31 mt gives notice that the bronze one and
two, and the nickel three cent coins can now
be had at the Mint without delav or.limi
tation as to amount in exehanee for gold or
silver coins, or legal tender"notes of the
United States. The new three cent pieces
are put up in bags of thirty dollars each, and
this snui or any larger amount of which
thirty is a multiple, will be sent when or
dered. reasonable expenses of trans
portation in sums of thirty dollars or up
wards, to any point accessible bv railroad or
steamboat, will be paid by the 31 int. The
Adams Lxpress Company will act as agents
for parties ordering cents, Ac, and the coins
ordered will be forwarded when the money
is recived.