gttquirrr. BEDFORD FAT FRIPIY, JUSE 23, 1865, EXPORT DUTIES. At the very outset of the rebellion, the South recognized such a necessity, and promptly abandoned their vink qnt nm of no export duties. The Confederate Constitu tion contained no prohibition, and upon the contrary .their whole financial policy was based upon the revenue derived directly from Cotton and Tobacco. Their statesmen de clared that in case of success, t heir proposed ps'ernment would neoessarilv depend chief ly tipou revenue to be "derived from export duties, to defray its expenses. This certainly aflords us an argument and pre cedent which the South cannot gainsay with g<>od grace. Cotton and tobacco having been the finan cial strength and basis of the rebellion, and having enabled the South to maintain the war, and thus necessitate our present debt, it is hut just, that they should he made to contribute to its liquidation. More espeei ally is this the case when wc consider that the imposition of a moderate export duty would not affect the foreign demand, and that European sympathizers with the rebel lion would thus practically be compelled to pay a portion of the debt which they largely contributed to force upon us. It is safe to say that we can impose a duty upon cotton of ten cents a pound and still supply the world at a lower price than any other nation. This upon the basis of 2,000, (WO,OOO pounds, which was the production of 186<J, would yield a revenue of $200,000,000. Tobacco would stand a much higher taxation. This would at once solve the whole problem of our future finances, and open the way to the easy and speedy extinguishment of our debt, without seriously affecting the COUII trv. Upon the contrary it would tend to enrich us while the liquidation was going on. It would transfer to our country the coarse cot ton manufactures of the world, by giving us a inafgin over England amounting to the tax and the transportation. It would force the surplus operatives of England to come to our shores for employment, and in a few years we should supply the world with the coarser cotton fabrics instead of being purchasers. Exchanges would be largely in our favor and finally when the time should come when the necessity is passed and our debt be extin guished, we should hold undisputed posses sion of the commercial and manufacturing power of the world. We should then be in the broad road toward the fulfillment of the great mission which is now before us as the champion as well as the pioneer of the world's progress. The above article from the Pittsburgh Er. Chronicle present an interesting subject for consideration at the present time. In the Constitution of the United States, Art. ] , Sec. 9, Clause 5, we find export duties pro hibited in the following terms: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State." This clause we believe was in serted at the instance of Southern men for fear of legislation, prejudicial to the Cotton and Tobacco growing interests then in their infancy. The propriety of abolishing it by an amendment to the Constitution is now a matter of highest moment. The Confeder ate States while adopting in most parts the old Constitution as a model for theirs, left out this prohibition, may we not take a hint from their action, and abolish it in ours. It should be the policy of our government to protect and foster manufactures of every kind, as well as to raise revenue, by the least oppressive measures. Both these ob jects may be promoted by the imposition of —-t dut.i<v ' ,+ , j"od' ,r>: cns. esDeei->'tr. raw material, which we can turmsn cheaper than other countries or of which we have a monopoly. Cotton and Tobacco can particu larly be made to pay a handsome iavenue in this manner while our manufactures of cot ton, would be largely promoted thereby. In this way our commercial rival, England, would be obliged to help pay our national debt as well as up our manufactures so as to enable them to compete with her own, not only at home but in foreign mar kets. England, while building up her man ufactures, which have since been the source of all her wealth and power, not only im posed export duties, but prohibited the ex portation of many articles entirely. The exportation of wool or sheep was prohibited by both common and statute law, and pun ished with heavy penalties. We annually buy millions of dollars worth of manufac tured cotton goods from England and pay the bulky and perishable productions of the farm, instead of sending them to foreign markets where the cost of transportation i 3 almost equal to their value. The protection and development of our national industry is a matter of vital importance to the nation. The prosperity throughout the North in duced even in the midst of civil war by the incidental protection afforded by the gold premiums and the revenue tariff has given our people an illustration of the prosperity that may he created by judicious protection. It can be increased ten-fold all over the country or quickly destroyed by congression al action. We are already suffering because the incidental protection of the gold premi um is everyday decreasing. Prompt action by Congress at its next session, either by re ducing taxes or increasing duties alone, can save our industrial interests from suffering materially. We hope to see these matters receive prompt and careful attention at the next session of Congress. THE COMPLEXION IT IS COMING TO.— Private commercial letters received, here say that in the best informed political circles of Europe, the bolief is general that Maximil lian has expressed to his father-in-law, King Leopold, and also to his brother of Austria, the strongest possible desire to abdicate the rickety throne of Mexico. The intimation of this wish at the Tuillcries. through these intermediary parties, is at the bottom of much of the excitement in Paris ic regard to Mexican affairs generally. It is a much more serious business for Imperialism, than the defeat of a few Belgian troops at Tacam baro, to find the newly-installed Emperor alteady eager to get out of the concern, and out of the country at the same time.— N. Y. Times. _________________ BY the Constitution of the United States, the national authority is bound to guaran tee a republican form of government to ev ery State. Is that a republican form of government where a whole race is disfran chised ? A republic is a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. Is that a republic where representatives are elected by only a part of the people ? GENERAL LOVEL 11. ROUSSEAU, has been nominated for U. S. Senator from Kentucky Hs if a courageous anti-slavery man. JOHN MITCHELL. The arrest of John Mitchell will be a hard blow on the Daily News. It has been doing yeoman's service in the ranks of the Copperhead papers ever since the breaking out of the rebellion and was one of the chief organs of the rebels in New York city. Its proprietor, Ben Wood had just imported Mitchell, fresh from Richmond, to take charge of his paper and preach una dulieratcd rebel doctrine to his patrons. We are inclined to admire the enterprise of Wood in obtaining an editor, who has prov ed himself an uncompromising and unre- ponting rebel during the last four years by publishing the Richmond Examiner , the organ of the rebel government. It is a re deeming trait in the character of Wood to come out thus boldly and acknowledge his sympathy for and complicity with traitors, by a deed that speaks louder than words, instead of the sneaking, cowardly denial that has usually characterized the orgaus of that party. As John failed to get that "rich plantation in the South well stoekml with niygirs," Wood was only acting the part of friendship in finding him employ ment and a home among congenial spirits. . Unfortunately for John he has been a little too fast and Uncle Sam has provided apart ments for him in Fort Monroe, which will probably be not quite so enjoyable as the Society of his New York friends. He will doubtless have time given him to take a brief retrospect of his last four years expe rience and perhaps to moralize a little upon the inconsistency of a martyr for liberty in I one country fighting for slavery in another. He will probably come to tho conclusion that the last state of such a man Is worse than the first. As Wood has set the example we may expect to see others of that ilk importing editors from rebeldom; we have no doubt it would add spiciness to their column as the chivalry, male and female, have a remarka ble aptness in that line, besides it would aid them greatly in displaying their true colors, as they infinitely surpass their northern fi-iends in courage. For the benefit of such as meditate trying the experiment we would suggest that though it might be difficult to get any more convicts editors at present, some may be obtained who are in a very fair way for becoming convicts. How TO SETTLE THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE QUESTION. —We would give the suffrage at once to four classes of Southern negroes. First, and emphatically, to every negro who has borne arms in the cause of the United States; second, to every negro who owns real estate; third, to every negro who can read and write; and, fourth, to every negro who had belonged to any religious organization or church for five years before the war. These points would cover every one that ought to vote, and they would create in every negro voter a spirit of manhood as well as dis cipline; some practical shrewdness, intellec tual development, and moral consciousness and culture. It is well worth the consider ation of the President whether something like this should not be included in the scheme of reconstruction. — N. Y. Herald. JBSU The Copperhead papers are now greatly agitated about the Union party be 'n*V '"1 nabf ; "ernal dissoyfops We recollect that they were similarly distressed last fall, and raade similar representations, but the election showed the truthfulness of their statements by running up something like half a million majority for the Unionists. As the great head of the Democratic party is now in imminent danger of having his neck dislocated, and as the body of the par ty is about caving in from galloping con sumption, we suggest that a decent respect for public sentiment should induce these Copperhead editors to dry up.— Lebanon Courier. Now AND THEN. —A year ago General Sherman wrote these words: "If you admit the negro to this struggle for any purpose, he has a right to stay in for all, and when the fight is over, the hand that drops the musket cannot be denied the ballot!" Gen. Sherman having thus claimed in advance the ballot for the negro soldiers, his present change of position cannot but excite surprise in the minds of all interested in the question or the man. DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT.—' The Har risburg Telegraph states that a carefully ex ecuted counterfeit of the U. S. Legal Tender SIOO Greenback note has made its appear ance. It is hardly recognizable except by an expert, or on the closest examination. The bank note detectors have not yet de scribed this dangerous counterfeit. simmaryqfgenerallewsT Pore Pius IX and Victor Emanuel have come to an understanding the result of which is, that the King of Italy will be crowned at Rome by the hands of the Pope. JOHN C. Breckenridge is reported by his friends to have arrived in safety at Havana. PRESIDENT JOHNSON has issued a proclama tion appointing Wm. L. Sharky Provisional Governor of Mississippi, with about the same powers and duties as those granted to the Gov. of North Carolina. A FLEET of our ironclads under Admiral Gadon secretly visited Havana, where they created quite a sensation. They were receiv ed with marked attention by the Captain Gen eral of Cuba, who contrary to usage, with a large party of the dignitaries of the place paid a visit of ceremony to the fleet. The fa mous Stonewall is said to have compared very unfavorably with our splendid ironclads and monitors. A STRONG movement is being made by lead ing men in Washington in favor of the ap pointment of military Governors for the ex treme Southern States and keeping them un der strict military control until the labor states of the freedmen is fixed and the peo ple thoroughly returned to the avocations of peaceful life. Gfk. A. H. Terry has gone t 0 Richmond to succeed Gen. Halleck. The friends of the Government are rejoiced with the prospect of a change for the better in that department. A DESTRUCTIVE fire, supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, occurred in Har risburg on the morning of the loth inst. the loss is estimated at about $30,000. JOHN Mitchell editor of the Daily News and late editor of the Richmond Exemiaur was arrested on the 11th inst., and taken to Fort Monroe. FROM WASHINGTON. More appiieatUms for p mrdon.—<ren. Lee and A. If.'Stephens apply for pardon.—A delay in giving derat ions ejrjterted.—lSO.OOO troops sent away.—The Georgia Union Dele gation. WASHINGTON, June 17. The Attorney General's office received a large number of applications this morning, for pardon, from high rebel military and civ if officials. Gen. Leo and A. 11. Stephens filed appli cations on yesterday. It will take a long time before eases are decided. WASHINGTON, June 17. One hundred and fifty thousand soldiers have been sent away from here up to to day. Gen. Geary left this morning for Gettys burg to make arrangements for the inaugu ration of the monument there on the 4th proximo. . . After the Georgia union delegation maue an explicit statement of the condition and spirit of' the people, the President assured tbeni that he should do all in his power to aid in establishing the State Government. He has already indicated his choice for Gov ernor. The colored delegation from Richmond, in their address to the President show that General Patrick issued oppressive orders, and refused them redress for assaults daily committed. THE WHITE HOUSE OPEN. The President authorizes the announce ment that the Executive Mansion will be open to the public every day except Sun days, between the hours of 9 and 3, to all who desire to vi-it the coat room, „n<i that lie will personally receive them for transac tion of public business, between 10 and 3, except on Cabinet days, Tuesdays and Fri days. TREATY WITH HONDURAS. The treaty between the United States and the Republic of Honduras is officially pro claimed. It provides for the perpetual am ity and reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation with the various Governments with which it may have relation, for sepa rate recognition of perpetual neutrality, and for the protection ot the contemplated Hon duras inter-oceanic railway from the Atlan tic to the Pacific. Honduras agrees that the right of way of transit over such route shall be at all times open and free to the Government and citizens of the United States for all lawful purposes whatever. In consideration of these concessions, the Uni ted States engages, in conjunction with Honduras, to protect the same from inter ruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation from whatever quarter the attempt may proceed, so long as the spirit and intention of this article on this subject shall be preserved. LATEST FROM MEXICO NEW YORK, June 17. The Herald's Washington special says : Intelligence from the City of Mexico, to the 29th ult., states that the Republican General Megra occupies the States ofTam lipas. New Leon, Coahmillo and Mishoam, and they are swarming with guerrillas. Reg ular Republican troops under .Segalles are in excellent spirits. Hepales. the French commander stiil holds the wives and daugh ters of Gens. Ortega, Segalles, Salzar and others, in imprisonment, notwithstanding Maximilian had ordered their release. In Morelia the French publicly whipped the Nationals. A large.force is to be sent by sea from Vera Cruz to Matamoras to prevent the Americans from crossing into Mexico. From eighty to one hundred pa triots are shot daily under sentence of court martial in those portions of the oountiy oc cupied by Imperialists. Elvin's mission to France is to seek assistance from Napoleon against an anticipated movement of Ameri cans. and if this is not granted to the fullest extent, Maximillian will leave the country. THE NEW ARMY. statements: "It is probable the regular army, or per manent military establishment of the coun try, will be organized on the following ba sis : General General, five Lieuten ant Generals, fifty Major Generals and sev enty-five Brigadier Generals. The regular army proper to be composed of nineteen regiments of infantry, six regiments of cav alry, and five regiments of artillery, all filled up to the maximum number : besides these fifty thousand colored troops will be retained with the regiments filled up to the maximum number. 'Hancock's Corps will be increased to a full corps of three divisions and three bri gades. each about thirty thousand men. The Veteran Reserve Corps, twenty-five regiments filled up to the maximum num ber. "The Medical Staff will be increased to one hundred full surgeons, with a correspon ding number of assistant surgeons. "The infantry and cavalry regiments of the regular army comprise three battalions of eight hundred men each. "Under the proposed arrangement the to tal strength of the arnry will be nearly as follows : Regular infantry, 45,600 ; regular caval ry. 14,400 ; regular artillery, 12,000; col ored troops, 50.000 ; Hancocks corps, 30, 000; Veteran Reserve Corps. 25,000; total! 177,000 men. The New Constitution in Missouri. The following are the leading features of the new Constitution of Missouri just adop ted by a majority of the people : It declares Missouri a tree State forever. It establishes the equality of all men be fore the law. It prohibits legislation interfering with the personal rights of men on account of their color. It declares that Missouri shall ever re main a member of the American Union. It excludes from the ballot-box and from office traitors, rebels, rebel sympathizers, guerrilla magrauders, bushwhackers, and their aiders and abettors. It in like manner excludes Knights of the Golden Circle, Sons of Liberty, and O A. Ks. It in like manner excludes those who en rolled themselves as disloyal, or as South ern sympathizers, to avoid militia duty. It provides for an efficient registration of voters, thereby securing the exclusion of il legal votes. It removes the rule requiring treason to be proved by at least two witnesses, and leaves it to be proved as any other crime. It invites immigration from Europe by ex tending the elective franchise to those per sons of foreign birth who have more than one year before an election, declared their intention, according ta law. to become citi zens of the United States. It forbids private, local and special legis lation, which for 30 years has cursed the State, and brings the State under a uniform system of general laws. It prohibits lotteries. It forbids the Legislature mafcinsrcompen sation for emancipated slaves. It^ stops the creation of corporations by specia. acts, with enormous and dangerous powers, and requires all corporations to be formed under general laws. It prohibits the creation, renewal or ex tension of the charter of any bank of issue. It protects the interests of the people by iin posing upon stockholders individual lia bility for the debts of corporations. It secures an efficient system of common schools for the free education of the children of the State. It gives increased facilities for its own amendment, and allows the people a direct vote upon ever}- amendment proposed,—A 7 ! I' Tribune. MISSISSIPPI. Another steptoirard rerrmstruetion. Misslssipjiibark in the Union.— William L. Sharkey, Provisional Governor.—The mine poliey to he pursued as in North Carolina. PROCLAMATION isy THE PRESII'ENT. Whereat, The fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States, declares thatthe United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a re publican form of government, and shall pro tect each of theiu against invasion and do mestic violence ; and, whereas, the President of the United State- ftu by the Constitution, made Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, as well as Chief Civil Executive Offi cer of the United States, and is bound by solemn oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United Stat". and to take care that the laws be faithfully execu ted ; and, whereas, the Rebellion which has been waged by a portion of the people of the United States against the properly constitu ted authorities of the Government thereof in the most violent and revolting form, but whose organized and armed forces have now been almost entirely overcome, has, in its revolutionary progress, deprived the people of the State of Mississippi oi'all civil Gov ernment ; and, whereas, it becomes necessa ry and proper to carry out and enforce the obligations (rf the United States to the peo ple of Mississippi in securing them in the enjoyment of a republican form of govern ment; now. therefore, in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed upon me by the Constitution of the United States, and for the purpose of enabling the loyal people of said State to organize a State Gov ernment, whereby justice may be established domestic tranquility restored,, and lovalciti zens protecton in afi Uipir rights of life, lib erty, and property. ; 1 Andrew Johnson, Presiden tof the United States, and Com mander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby appoint VVil liaiu L. Sharkey of Mississippi, Provisional Governor of the State of Mississippi, whose duty it shall he at the earliest practicable period to prescribe such rules and regula tions as may be necessary and proper for convening a Convention, composed of dele gates to be chosen by that portion of the people of said State, who arc loyal to the I nited States, and no others, for the pur pose of altering and amending the Consti tution thereof; and with authority to exer cise within the limits of said State, all the powers necessary and proper to enable such loyal people of the State of Mississippi to restore said State to its constitutional rela tions to the Federal Government, and to present such a republican form of State Government as will entitle the State to the guarantee of the United States therefor and its people to protection by the United States against invasion, insurrection and domestic violence ; provided, that iD any e'ection that may be held hereafter for choosing delegates to any State Convention as aforesaid, no person shall be qualified as an elector, or shall be eligible as a member of such Con vention, unless he shall have previously ta ken and subscribed the oath of amnesty as set forth in t lie President's proclamation of May 29, A. I)., 1805, and is a voter qualified as prescribed by the Constitution and laws ot the State of Mississippi, in force immedi ately before the 9th of January, A. IX, 1861 the date of the so-called Ordinance of Se cession. And the said Convention when convened, or the Legislature that may there after be assembled, will prescribe the quali fication of electors and the eligibility of per sons to hold office under the constitution and laws of the State —a power the in ople of the several States composing the Federal Union have rightfully exerci-ed from the origin of the Government to the present time. And Ido hereby direct: First: That the military Commander of the Department and all officers and persons in the military and naval service aid and as sist the said Provisional Governor in carry ing into effect this proclamation : and they I v, •-'-tain ft™ ■ ■ '■ — r Lt uering, impeding or discouraging loyal peo ple from the organization of a State Gov ernment as herein authorized. Second: That the Secretary of State pro ceed to put in force all laws of the United States, the administration whereof belongs to the State Department, applicable to the geographical limits aforesaid. Third: That the Secretary of the Treasu ry proceed to Dominate for appointment as sessors of taxes and collectors of customs, and of internal revenue and such other offi cers _of the Treasury Department as are au thorized by law, and put in execution the revenue laws of the United States within the geographical limits aforesaid. In making appointments the preference shall be given to qualified loya! persons residing within the districts where their respective duties are to be performed. But, if suitable residents of districts shall not be found, then persons re siding in other States or districts shall be appointed. rmirth: That the Postmaster-General proceed to establish posi-ofiiccs and post routes, and nut into execution the postal laws of the I nited States within said states, giving to loyal residents the preference of appointment; hut if suitable residents are not found then to appoint agents. &e., from other States. Fifth: That the District .Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, in which Mississippi is included, proceed to hold Courts within said State in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress, and the -Attorney- General will instruct the proper officers to libel and bring to judgment, confiscation and sell property subject to confiscate, and en force the administration .f justice within said State in ai matters within the cogni zance and jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. Sixth: That the Secretary of the Navy take^ possession of all pubiic property be longing to the Navy Department within said geographical limits, and put in operation all acts of Congress in relation to naval af fairs having applications to said State. . & veath : 'I hat the Secretary of the Inte rior Department applicable to the geograph ical limits aforesaid. I n testimony whereof I have hereunto set I - s - Jmy hand and caused the seal of the Lnited States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this thirteenth day of •June, in the year of our Lord, one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. t , ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: W IT.LIAM Hi SEWARD, Secretary of State. J UK PATH OR SAM. HOUSTON. — A corres pondent at, Cleveland, signing himself U A lexan Refugee," writes us an answer to our query, made a few days ago, concerning the late and whereabouts of Gen. Sam. Hous tou. He said: "Governor Houston is dead, having deceased early in the year 1863, about two years after the inauguration of the rebellion. And I may add, he died of a broken heart." Onr correspondent corro borates the statements that have appeared in the press, of Gen. Houston's resistance to the last, of the schemes of the Secessionists He says, a short time be to re the death of Gen. H., 'A party or mob proceeded to his house for the purpose of hanging him, be cause of' his opposition to secession, and especially on account of his Union sentiments promulgated, a short time previously, in a speech delivered by him at Houston. A few of his neighbors banded together, and suc ceeded in staying the hellish intentions of the mob. by representing to them that he was in bed, and not likely to survive long. A few days after, he passed away, a martyr to his beloved country. These threats, which did not shake the purpose of the fa ther, caused his son (an only son)to take up arms with the rebels against the Union. —Pittsburgh Commercial. TENNESSEE. No U' hellion within her hordi-rs.— Trade restrictions and disi/uali)l ra tions re nan eft.—Contraband of war excejtted. PROCLAMATION BV THE PRESIDENT. Whereas, By iny Proclamation of the 29th of April,lß6s, afi restrictions upon internal, domestic and commercial intercourse, with certain exceptions therein sj>ecified and set forth, were removed in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi River, as shall be embraced within the lines of National military occupation ; and Whereat, By my Proclamation of the 212 d of May, 1865 for reasons therein given it was declared that certain ports of the Uni ted States which had been previously closed against foreign commerce should, with cer tain specified exceptions, be reopened to such commerce on and after the Ist day of July next, subject to the laws of the United States, and in pursuance of such regulations a- might be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and Wfte,i eas, I am satisfactorily informed that dangerous combinations against the laws of the 1 nited States no longer exist within the State of Tennessee ; that the insurrection heretofore existing within said State has beeti suppressed; that within the boundaries thereof the authority of the United States is undisputed; and that such officers of the United States as have been duly commis sioned are in the undisturbed exercise of their official functions. Now, therefore, be it known, that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States, do hereby declare, that all restrictions upon internal, domestic and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon the removal of products of States heretofore dealared in insurrection, reserv ing and excepting only those relating to con traband of war, as hereinafter recited, and also those wfaicn relate to the reservation of rights of the United States to property pur chased in the territory of the enemy, here tofore imposed in the territory of the United States east of the Mississippi River are an nulled, and I do hereby direct that they be forthwith removed ; and that on and after the Ist day of July next, all on foreign commerce with said ports, with the exception and reservation aforesaid, be removed, and that the commerce of said States shall be conducted under the super vision of the regularly appointed officers of the customs provided by law; and such offi cers of the customs shall receive any cap tured and abandoned property that may be turned over to them under the law by the military or naval forces of the United States and dispose of such property as shall be di rected by the Secretary of the Treasury. The following articles, contraband of war, are excepted from the effect of this Procla mation : Arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is made, and gray uniforms and cloth. And I hereby also proclaim and declare that the insurrection, so far as it relates to and within the State of Tennessee and the inhabitants of the said State of Tennessee as reorganized and constituted under their recently adopted Constitution and reorgani zation and accepted by them, is suppressed: and therefore, also, that all disabilities antl di qualifications attaching to said State and the inhabitants thereof, consequent upon any proclamation issued by virtue of the Fifth Section of the Act entitled. '' Au Act further to provide tor collection of duties on imports and for other purposes, approved the 13th day of July, 1861, are removed. But nothing herein contained shall be con sidered or construed as in anywise changing or impairing any of the penalties and for feitures for treason heretofore incurred un der the laws of the United States, or any of the provisions, restrictions or disabilities set forth in my Proclamation hearing date the 29th day of May, 1865, or as impairing ex isting regulations for the suspension of the Out pup ovt>rf KP ol* tuilxtury law in cases where it shall be necessary for the general public safety and welfare during the existing insurrection; nor shall this Proclamation affect or in any way impair any laws heretofore passed by Congress, and duiy approved by the President; or any p 'Datamation or orders issued by him during the aforesaid insurrection, abolishing slave ry, whether of persons or property; but. on the cent rary. all such laws aDd proclamations heretofore made or issued, are expressly saved and declared to be in full force and virtue. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set [L. S.J my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this thirteenth day of June. in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-five and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: WILLIAM 11. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Reniarkabte Exhibition of Rebel Malice—Destruction of the Rattle Monument at Rati Ran—Threats of oar men to desolate the Country lndictment against, leading Reb els. WASHINGTON, Monday. June 12, 1865. Judge Underwood from the Eastern sec tion of \ irginia,' who has come here to con sult with Attorney-General Speed, brings with him all the documents connected with the indictment for treason of Generals Rob ert. K. Lee, Corse, Ewell and Longstreet, Ex-Governors Smith and Letcher, and A. G. Cayiuore and Newton McVeigh of Alex andria, and about forty others, WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 15. Passengers who arrived here to-day by the train from Fairfax Court house report that the rebels had destroyed the monu ments erected last week upon the Bull Run battle-fields. This seems impossible, and yet there is a strong reason to believe it The temper of the people in that part of V irgin ia is not a whit more loyal than it was six months ago. Gen. Gamble's men, who built the monuments, threaten to leave no vestiges of civilization for twenty square miles. The official list of the casualties in Gen. Grant's campaign commencing with the crossing of the Kapidan, of May, 1864, and ending with the final surrender of lice's ar my, has been received at the War Depart ment. The casualties foot up nearly ninety thousand. (! if more to be indicted for treason.— Ren Wood to be arrested. PHILADELPHIA, June 17. —The Inquirer's Baltimore special says that Harry Gilmoro, the celebrated rebel guerrilla, who it will be remembered robbed a train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad about a year ago, is to be indicted and tried for treason. The Inquirer's Washington special says : It is understood that an order has been is sued for the arrest of Ben Wood, of the New York Daily News, on a charge of trea son. Tire Sixth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery is en route for Pittsburgh. All volunteer cavalry is to be mustered out of service within six weeks, except those or dered west. THE ORIGINATOR or THE ONE MILLION DOLLAR SCHEME CAPTURED.— Gen. Canby by orders from Secretary Stanton, has hun ted out and arrested the man who offered last winter in an Alabama paper, to be one of a certain number of persons to pay a mil lion > dollars for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and he is on his way, under guard, to a safe place. , Late Oil News. The Venango Citizen gives the following as the latest oil strikes in that region : A splendid well, according to accounts, has l)een struck near Waterloo on Big San dy, which is throwing a large stream of oil. Great excitement exists in that locality in regard to territory, and prices have greatly advaoaed. On Pithole creek the well of Jo. H. Sim monns & Co., has commenced to flow an J is now yielding 500 barrels per day. The United States Oil Co. have struck a now well near the above, which is yielding up wards of 800 barrels per day. On the Brandon Farm, Allegheny river, the Jack well, lately struck, is yielding 100 barrels per day. Sheriff MeAlevy, on the same farm, has just obtained a fine well. Another well just tested, is yielding about 2.j barrels per day. but we are unable to ob tain the names of the proprietors. The Sheridan Oil Company, on the Coch ran Farm, have obtained a fine well, which is yielding probably from 30 to 40 barrels per day. The Clarion Banner thus chronicles a big strike on the Clarion Valley : On Tuesday morning last a 48 barrel well was struck at Blyson's Run. in the Clarion river. It has created great excitement. This well fully demonstrates that we have oil all aloDg that stream. Look out for big times in Clarion county. — Pittsburgh fiaztite. June 17. On Saturday last, 3lr. Philip Collins, of Ebensburg, manager of the Ebensburg Oil Company, struck od at a depth of three hun dred and twenty-seven feet from the surface. The well is located in Allegheny township, jCambria county, about eight miles from Eb ensburg, three miles east of Loretto. and in close proximity to Gibbons' Loretto Springs. Operations were commenced pn the well on the 3d of May, and a month afterward to the day success crowned their efforts. Some ten or twelve days ago, a vein of water was struck, which, for a time, flowed freely, a volume rising probably forty feet in the air. This is the first oil which has been found in Cambria County. It is not known how many barrels per day the well will yield. Enough for the present that it has been sat isfactorily demonstrated that petroleum ex ists in Cambria County—on the very sum mit of the Allegheny Mountains. Oil has been found in a spring near Burnt Cabins, in Fulton county. A .Maryland Oil Company is about commencing operations in that State, immediately on the southern line of Fulton county. The engine, tools and fixtures uecessary for the commencement of the bore, have been lying on the opposite bank of the Potomac for some time await ing the subsidance of the water, which has thus far been too high for fording. The prospects of the Company for a speedy strike are said to be the first class.— Pitts. Cam. June 10. TRIAL OF A NEW CANNON AT THE SPRINGFIELD ARMORY,—The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: "A very interest ing trial of a small and novel rifled cannon is in progress at the water shops, under Ma jor Laidley's direction. The piece weighs only one hundred and sixty-seven pounds, yet has endured, without apparent injury, a test with a charge of powder and projectile such as are fired ordinarily from guns weigh ing over eight hundred pounds. Nearly five hundred shots were nred with it, the charge being a pound of powder and a pro jectile weighing seven and thrce ! quartor pounds; and the charge has been increased to a pound of powder and a projectile weigh ing a ton and a quarter pounds—ten charges of this kind having already been fired. About two hundred more will be. if the gun holds together so long, a.s it undoubtedly will, and further testing then will be consid ered a waste of powder. The remarkable and previously unheard of strength secured in this piece comes from a peculiarity of its construction. The core of the gun is bronze, which, after the two and a-ball' inch bore is made, is only about a quarter of an inch thick. On the outside of this core or cylin der, fine steel wire is tightly wound to the depth of an inch. The wires pass over di agonally, each successive layer being at right angels with the previous one. Alter this winding was completed when the gun was manufactured, it was heated to a high tem perature and then plunged into a quantity of molten bronze. '1 he final result is a piece which it is impossible to burst except with a most extravagant and enormous charge. STRAWBERRY EXHIBITION. —One of the principal attractions in our city at this time is the strawberry show of Mr. Knox, at his fruit store, No. 29 Fifth street. Those of our citizens who wish to see something per fectly "awful" should not fail to drop in for a few minutes to-day. There was an admi ring crowd coming and going all day yester day to see the "wonders." The tables wiil be replenished with fresh plates of the same and jierhaps other kinds this morning. The most noticeable feature is the magnif icent specimens of his berry known as TOO. He showed several quarts of this kind, that were composed of berries weighing individu ally from three-fourth to a full ounce, and measuring from seven to nine inches in cir cumference. By actual count, it required but from twenty to twenty-five to fill a quart measure. The producing capacity of this variety is beyond be'ief. until seen on the plants on Mr.' K.'s farm. Excellent judges and disinterested parties who saw the great exhibition at New York on 'I uesday and Wednesday of this week, declared most emphatically" that this show beat that. When it is known that the New York exhibition was contributed to by the most noted and successful growers in the. East, it will no louger be a matter of sur prise that Mr. Knox is so extensively known as the "Strawberry King." All of this week Le has been literally overrun by a flood of stranger visitors, principally from the W ext.—Pittsburgh Gazette, June 17. EMIGRATION FROM EUROPE —The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes on Monday : Nearly two thousand English, Irish and German emigrants arrived here this morn ing, in the steamers Gerniania and City of Cork, and if the letters from the packet agents on the other side can be relied upon, we may expect au average of about four thousand a week from now till the fall.— Y the restoration of peace in America, the impression is said to be almost univer sal throughout Germany that there is a bet ter opening for labor than ever before.— Hundreds of families were selling out at va rious places, to emigrate in a body. Thev expect employment as farm hands, in the \v eatern States. The English, Irish and Seotich immigrants, who come via. Liver pool, seem to entertain like expectations as to the demand for labor, but they differ from the Germans as to the locality it is best to settle down in, and hence, while the latter proceed to the country as speedily as possi ble, after their arrival at castle Garden, the former, as a general rule, prefer to take their chances for employment in the city. TEMPERANCE among the laboring men of England is illustrated in Mr. Gladstone's recent annual statement of the finances of Great Britain. He states that in the year 1722, when the population was 6,000,000 the quantity of beer drank averaged one bar-1 rcl per head, or 6,000,000 barrel. In 1830 the consumption was 8, 000,000 barrels or an average of two thirds of a barrel per an- I num to each person. But in 1863 the con sumption rose to 20,000,000 Barrels, or an average of one barrel to each person. i>AN i A > Assistant Secretary i. 1 ♦ i resign his position on the Ist of -' to betunie Editor of the new daily paper at I hicago--the HepnbHour A SUGGESTIVE STATEMENT.— The Pe tersburg ( Va. } News, of a late date makes the following suggestive statement: In this whole commonwealth there is not, as tar as we know, a glass factory, a button factory, a paper mill, a broom factory. a manufactory of wooden ware, a brass foun dry, a porcelain factory, a chair lactory, a carpet mill, a pin machine, an agricultural implement factory, a manufactory for cut lerv, a type fonudry, a factory wherein a single article of printer's use is made, a brewery, a calico print factory, a lock factory a linen factory, a cotton factory, above ca pacity for the commonest work. INTERNAL REVENUE DECISION.— The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de cided that wherever a person is engaged in the purchase and sale of stocks, and a com pany, the stock of which he has purchased, Decomes insolvent, so that the stock is ren dered worthless, the amount, of the purchase money may be allowed as a deduction; but it mast be shown to the satisfaction of the assessor that such stock Is not, and never wiii be. of any value. The loss maybe do do ujd from profits derived from stroke, but not from gains in business, salaries, reuts, interests, Ac. — NiitumaJ fntefJigmcer. THE Petersburg Va.) Express says :—For years to come old iron will lie plentiful enough in this section to supply several large founderies. No one will be able to stick a spado in the ground east and west of the city without striking against a piece, and the plough, in nearly every furrow, will turn up a lamp post, or a mortar, or some kind of missile. Now and then we shall probably bear of man. horse, and plough flying towards the clouds. When they ex plode, these shells are no respecters of flesh. THE HANOVEK Spectator publishes the following: It is well remembered that when the war for the suppression of the rebellion broke out. that the Northern sympathizers in our midst gathered the old copper cents, and had them transferred into breast pins to indicate that they were Copperheads. "Now," says an exchange, "that the chief of rebels has adopted the petticoat, would it. not be well for theru to get a new badge? No suggestion is needed as to what it should be." DURING our war for independence, Hol land showed us strong sympathy and lent us material aid. She has now displayed again the same good feeling by being the first of the European powers to rescind the recog nition of rebel belligerent rights, a recog nition which the precedent of England and France led. and virtually compelled her and the minor European powers to. THE Government is said to he feeding no less than 2,000,000 of the inhabitants of Georgia, black and white, while 10.000 ra tions are issued to citizens of Richmond alone. At this rate the whole South bids fair to become one gigantic asylum. THE CROPS.—From all parts of the States and from Canada, we learn that the growing crops never gave greater promise. The wheat and hay crops in particular are rep resented to be unusually forward, aud the yield is expected to be immensely over a common average. We have not an atheistic government, and are not an atheistic people, for our national coins are to have the motto 'ln God we trust. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Mrs. J. C. Breckinride is at her home in Lexington, Ky. The evidence already taken in the assassin ation trial is said to cover 4.U00 pages. The Emperor Maximilian bus just assigned himself a salary of two millions of dollars per year from the Mexican treasury. The Philadelphia American says pennies are becoming a drug in that city. The pas senger railway companies are trying to get rid of the immense number on their hands. Since the war closed an immense tide of emigration has opened to the West. Men unsettled by the fortunes of war, aud soldier? with bounty money are going. A meeting of the hotel proprietors of Bos ton was held in that city on Monday, at which it was agreed to reduce the rates of charge fifty per cent. A bill has been introduced into the Connec ticut Legislature to compel railroads to pro vide seats tor evarv passenger or refund half the fare. QCEE.N VICTORIA has granted a pension of £llO a year to William Howitt, for the long and valuable literary labors of himself and Mrs. Howitt. Gov. HOLXIKX has withdrawn from the edit orship of the Raleigh Standard, and is suc ceeded by his son, Joseph H. Holden and Joseph S. Cannon. Hon. Horace G. Maynard, of Tenn., is a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Catron. Ward H. Lainon, U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia, has done what he should have done long ago—resigned. Sherman killed all the dogs on his line of march. A western editor wishes Sherman would march through a certain town in his neighborhood. A sox of I)r. Breckinridge having returned from the Rebel army, the old man asked him in his quaint way, "My son, have you found out what you r ve beeu fighting for?" "Yes, father, the returned prodigal replied, "we've been trying to get the nigger into Kansas PASS this round. Many postmasteis are in the habit of returning papers to publishers when not taken out of the office. This is not what is required. The Post Office regulations require postmasters to write to publishers, not only notifying them that the papets are not taken, "but also giving the reasons why they are not taken. It is ascertained on unquestionable proof that the explosion of the ordnance boat at City Point last Summer, whereby some To or 80 lives were lost and a large amount of prop erty destroyed, was the work of Rebel agents and was paid for with Rebel gold furnished from the Rebel State Department. THE people of Upper Canada are a good deal exercised as to whether the Reciprocity treaty will be abrogated. They already real ize the severity of the blow which such an event would deal on Canadian enterprise, and it is generally believed that if thff treaty should be annulled, the people woold endeavor to have their province annexed to the Union. George Bancroft, in the Atlantic. Monthly. shows that in 1787 the voteof New Jersey on lv was wanting to sustain the proposition of Jefferson, by which slavery would have been excluded, not only from territory in posses sion of the United States, but from all they might subsequently gain. The present poli ticians of that State who oppose the Const'- tutional amendment are therefore only* true to hei history. A Mobile clergyman went to Gen. Grander and asked him it he proposed to compel the Kebel clergy to pray for Andrew Johnson' Compel you! 1 was the General's "why. if your prayers don't do the President of the T nited States any more good than they have to Jeft. Davis, it's no sortof consequence about your prayers anyway." The parson took a new view of the subject. THE SOLDIERS AND THEIR ARMS.—General Orders, No. 101, from the War Department, gives all honorably discharged soldiers the privilege of retaining their arms, on condition that they purchase thein at the following rates : Muskets, all kinds, with or without accou trements, six dollars. Spencer carbines, with or without accou trements, ten dollars. All other carbines and revolvers eight dol lars. Sabres, swords, with or without, belts, three dollars.
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