fatmlottr ) ) nLINELEMAY, APRIL 26, 1865 "The printing presses, shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions is one of the Invaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub ject; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence."—amsrantion of Pennsylvania. The Duty of the Hour There is not a right-thinking man in the whole land who does not feel that these are the saddest and the most fear ful days this nation ever saw. All good men sincerelymourn over the untimely fate of our departed chief magistrate. But the public mind is unsettled ; the masses are excited; there are exhibi 7 tions of passion, and in some places dis plays of violence which are much to be deprecated. What is needed now is calmness, moderation, self-control. It is the duty of every right-thinking man in the land to comport himself with composure, and to counsel calmness in the people. Nothing can possibly be gained, either by violent words or acts. There is danger in all such things; danger not of a temporary and evanes cent character alone, but danger that consequences may ensue which will be felt long after the passions now raging shall have subsided. He who would school a people in violence, and culti vate the passions of their baser nature, is an enemy to his country and no friend to the people. In a government such as ours one great danger which always threatens is to be found in the uncontrolled passions of the masses. So long as they obey the laws of the land through respect for them, and from a high sense of public duty, so long republican institutions may be expected to stand any strain which can be put upon them. If the people will but keep passion in strict subordination to reason, even bad rulers may be controlled and made to act aright. But, if the people allow their passions to become unduly excited, and are ready to be led away by their pre judices, they may rest assured that some aspiring leader will be found ready to turn their madness and folly to his own advantage. Just now the condition of this nation is such as to demand a display of calm, wise statesmanship. The man who would attempt to gratify personal hates or to ipander to party prejudices in this hour is utterly unfit to have a voice in the affairs of the governmen t. The men who would urge such a course upon those in power are the greatest enemies the country now has. We would com mend to all thoughtful men the follow ing extract from the leading editorial of the New York Tribune. Horace( reeley never uttered truer words than these : "The public feeling aroused by the " double assassination at Washington "needs to be calthed and directed, not " inflamed and aggravated. There is "depravity but njdanger in the babble "of the mad fool who says lie is glad "Lincoln is ; there is food for "graver thought, there is a call for "sterner reprobation, in the pious sug gestion that our good President has "been Providentially called hence in "order that the leading Rebels may re " eeive that condign punishment which his kindness of heart would have " averted." 'We especially commend the above extract to the prayerful consideration of such clergymen, in this city and elsewhere, as have been led to give ex pression to a sentiment so little in ,ac cordance with proper ideas of the Deity, sound morals, or good public policy. is it not plainly the duty of every good citizen to counsel calmness and modera tion in this most trying hour? The man who would stir up further strife or increased bitterness is an enemy to his country. Let him be marked as such. WE copy FROM THE TRIBUNE an ar ticle which, in our judgment, admira bly sets forth the relation that the Press ought to bear to the public. The spaniel like editors who blow hot or cold just as the noisiest and Most unreflecting por tion of the public chance to demand, might study this article with profit if their nature was nottoo baseand grovel ling to admit of their elevation above " the vile dust from whence they sprung." Whatever may be thought of the po litical principles whose advocacy has made HonAcE GREELEY famous, this one thing must be said for Mr. GREELEY, that he has never sought the popular side of any question. When nine tenths of the Republicans who are fu riously anti-slavery now were just as furiously anti-abolition, Mr. GREELEY fearlessly advocated abolition doctrines. His followers were few at first; but like himself, they were earnest and indus trious; and after a struggle reaching through a quarter of a century, they succeeded in engrafting their once de spised principles upon the creed of the anti-democratic party. It is to the credit of the editor of the Tribune, thatif he:had a /eading share in cramming the public mind with those pernicious political views which have led the country into all this trouble, he is now also taking thq lead in advocating that policy which the judgment of all reflecting minds must pronounce the only one that can bring us safe peace 'and lasting union. In taking his stand on the side of mercy to conquered rebels, he is probably running cou ter to the views of a majority of the leaders of his own party, whose zeal for the punish ment of those who took up arms against the government under Mr. LINCOLN'S administration is quite as hot as was their sympathy for old John Brown, who took up arms against it during Mr. BuenANAx's. Whether he will succeed in his effort to infuse a liberal spirit into the hearts and minds of his political associates, at a day early enough to be of any avail, may be regarded as doubtful. The ma lignant utteraoces of those presses that find it pleasant and profitable to " repre sent public sentiment," as they gather it from excited crowds in the purlieus of large cities and principal towns, give slender promise of present success to Mr. GREELEY'S effOrtS. But the time will come when the moderate counsels of the New York Tribune and the Chambersburg Repository will prevail over the satanic teachings of the New York _Herald and the Lancaster Express, and in that day these latter may rejoice to find themselves saved by the wisdom and moderation they now insanely dis card. PRESIDENT JOHNSON is represented by some of the Cincinnati papers to be in rather poor health. Both the Com mercial and Gazette express concern about his physical condition. The lat ter says: "There is reason to fear that he is not able to stand much hard work, and this is one of the very serious as pects of the case." From the number of speeches he has been making lately, to black as well as white "delegations 'of friends," we infer that Mr. JOHN soN's health must have improved since AlreNditor of the Gazette saw him, and .that-he is not only able to stand a great - deal of bard work, but also ,to breathe •without inconvenience an atnpephere which would reduce most while men to a state of aphyxia. Considerable sivriv fell at Cincinnati Cat Saturday, " Andrew Jackson Over Again." The New York Herald, which in dulges in a great deal of senseless twad dle, says that in President Johnson we shall have "Andrew Jackson over again." Andrew Johnson entered upon his vice-presidential career in a way that gave him a very unenviable notoriety all over the world. In his new and higher office he might, by pursuing a moderate and dignified line of conduct, efface the recollection of his outrageous behaviour on the 4th of March. But if he attempts to play "Andrew Jackson" he will only add to the disgust inspired by his singular disregard of decency at the time of his inauguration as Vice- President. The world has produced but one Moses, but one Washington and but one Jack son. Whoever may have the presump tion to attempt to play either one of these great , characters, will most assur edly expose himself to the ridicule of all christendom. Especially will An drew Johnson expose himself to ridicule if he undertakes to play "Andrew Jack son" according to the abolition concep tion of the old hero. It has got into the heads of that large and respectable por tion of the loyal people of the North who have made all the money and done none of the fighting of this war, that Andrew Jackson was a blood-thirsty monster who went about "like a roar ing lion seeking whom he may devour." The truth is, that whilst Jackson was terrible in conflict, he was as gentle as a lamb and as tender-hearted as a child when the struggle was over. If, there fore, President Johnson attempts to give us " Andrew Jackson over again" by letting the abolition blood-hounds loose on the people of the South, he will libel the character of Jackson, and prove himself the poorestactor that ever trod the wide stage of public life. " Where Is Your Flag ?" This inquiry, so impertinently made of Ex-President Pierce and so happily answered by him, has been put to thous ands of other Democrats since the breaking out of the rebellion. It has not been in the power of every Democrat who has been thus interrogated, to make just the same reply that Mr. Pierce made. But every true Democrat might answer the question by saying that his flag is in his heart. Republicans whose conduct for years had rendered their love for the flag a matter of serious doubt, and their dis loyalty to the constitution a matter of certainty—who had flouted the one as a "polluted rag " aud denounced the other as a "league with hell,"—did well to throw out the flag bf our country when it fell from the staff of Sumter. Their feelings toward it were, to use the mildest language compatible with the truth, sufficiently doubtful to make it necessary for them to indulge in some public display that would serve to de fine their position. With Democrats this was not neces sary. Carrying the flag of the Union in their hearts, and feeling and knowing that they had always been true to it, they saw no necessity for waving it all day from their windows, or crying out for it at every corner of the street. They did not worship it with the crazy zeal of new coarci*, because they were not new converts; and they made no effbrt to rival the noisy patriotism of their " loyal " neighbors, because they did not need to drown the recollection of anything they had said or done. It is the harlot that flaunts the gaudiest at tire and the empty barrel that makes the loudest sound. MR. LINCOLN having been removed from the Presidential chair by the hands of a death-deserving assassin, the radical Abolitionists are trying to create a feeling in favor of the retirement of Secretary SEWARD, who is supposed to be the only member of the Cabinet who concurred fully and cordially in the merciful policy said to have been marked out by the late President. Their design is to shove Sumner into the leading position in the Cabinet, the bet ter to enable him to pour out upon the head of the Southern people the wrath that he has by careful nursing kept boiling hot ever since the Brooks affair. The New York Times (Republican) resists this scheme of the radicals, and gives all concerned in it to understand that it regards them as but little better than the accomplices of Booth. "We doubt the wisdom," says the Times, " to to use no stronger phrase, of trying to complete their [the gang of assassins'] plot by breaking up the cabinet, and especially by removing Mr. SkwARD from its councils." The Abolition "Sepoys." Referring to the apparent intention of the Republicans to build up a negro army to hold the Southern people in subjection, we, only a few weeks ago, warned the country that this favorite abolition experiment would in all proba bility end as did that of the British in building up a native army in India— that is, in a bloody and cruel mutiny, the first victims of which were the white officers of the black troops." The following from the leading Republican journal of western Pennsylvania shows that our apprehensions were not alto gether unfounded : NEGRO CONSPIRACY IN CHARLESTON. [Special Dispatch to Pittsburg Commercial,] WASHINGTON, April IT. A letter front Charleston to a gentle man in this city, from a relative, dated Charleston, 9th inst., contains the fol lowing statement: A plot has just been discovered that is startling. It was headed by the colored troops, who were to kill their officers and take pos session of the city, and then kill every white male inhabitant. Fortunately the plo. was discovered, and the colored troops were removed, and a New York regiment brought in. To-day, Sunday-, while all were at church, was the time set. Ten of the leaders are now in jail, and four or five have been shot. The white troops are exasperated beyond measure, and blood will be shed if the feeling becomes any stronger. BY DI it E 4 T ON OF TETE PRESIDENT, the sales of confiscated property for merly owned by rebels has been post poned until the organization of the .14'reedmen Bureau shall be completed. Then, we suppose, the sales will go on, and all tile proceeds that happen not to stick in official pockets on its way to the treasury will be devoted to the maintenance of worthless "freedmen" in Washington city and the immediate vicinity. Our State government, which is Re publican in all its branches, refused to pass a bill to ascertain the damages sus tained from the rebels by the white citi zens of York, Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and Fulton counties. Our Federal government will probably treat the white people of all the border States in the same way.— "Root, hog, or die," will be its ans wer to the plundered and ruined white people who may apply to it for indemnification or relief. But it will throw its paternal arms around the "freedmen," and sell the confiscated property of the rebels for their exclusive benefit. " ARRESTS of BOOTH" are taking place in dozens of towns and villages every day. As the assassin has been de scribed as rather handsome, it is not safe for any but ugly men to venture far from home. Wives who are afflict ed with good-looking husbands are ad vised not to let them travel abroad, withoutfirst.ctiring to them aigovernment Stamp, duly cancelled according to law. Andrew Jackson, Jr A brief telegram in our paper on Fri day announced the death of Andrew Jackson, Jr., the adopted son of the old hero. We learn from the Nashville Dispatch that the sad event took place at the Hermitage on. Sunday morning. It seems that he had been out on a hunting expedition about a week before, and in getting over a fence, his gun was accidentally discharged, the whole load entering his hand. Lockjaw ensued and terminated fatally, as above stated. His funeral took place from the Hermi tage on Monday at 3 o'clock P. hi., and was attended by a large concourse of friends and relatives. Mr. Jackson was about fifty-seven years of age, and has resided all of his life at the Hermitage, devoting himself to agricultural pursuits. He was the nephew of General Jackson's wife, his father, Samuel Donelson, being one of six brothers of Mrs. Jackson, all of whom resided in the neighborhood of the Her mitage. He was a cousin of Andrew Jackson Donelson, who was on the ticket with Mr. Fillmore, for Vice- President in 185 ti. The Madness of Party The political meeting held in the Court House, on Saturday last, at the call of Messrs. Champneys, Hopkins and Armstrong, was characterised, as everybody knew it would be from the malignant disposition of the leading spirits who would control it, by violent denunciation and bitter invective against all who will not join them in a covert assault upon General Grant for the favorable terms he granted to Gen eral Lee, and who will not go all lengths with them in urging the Administra tion to inflict summary vengeance upon the Southern people. Like all rene gades, the chairman of the meeting is extremely vindictive against the Demo cratic party, and, if his power was equal to his malice, would doubtless hang every prominent member of it, on the same tree he has selected for the execution of Jeff. Davis and the lead ing secessionists. Fortunately, how ever;:the little man is as harmless as an old woman. He can growl and show his teeth, but his spleen is perfectly in noxious, and nobody is frightened at his stereotyped denunciations of better men than himself. His eflbrts at speak ing are all "sound and fury, signifying nothing," and are only noticed on ac count of the bitter hate which he evinces in almost every sentence he utters. Seriously—one would think that, in view of the recent painful circum stances which have so sorely afflicted the Nation, political partizanship would for a short time at least, be hushed into silence. One could scarcely conceive that directly after the mournful cere monies so recently participated in, with the streets of our city still black with the draperies of a national woe, and the sound of the tolling bells for the lamented dead still lingering in the air, that this unwise, this wanton spirit of fanatical partizanship should so boldly stalk into full sight again, and with the unchangeable instincts or its hideous character seek to inflame the passions of men and Widen the breach, so fast clos ing up, between the two political organi zations of the land. It is the product of a littleness of soul which we deemed was scarcely credible. It is the exhibi tion of a narrow and contracted spirit which none but an Abolitionist would be guilty of. Let us have no more of this fell and demoniac spirit of radical ism and destructiveness which sees a personal enemy in every political an tagonist, and which deliberately tramples upon every consideration of justice and veracity for the subservi ence of its own petty, malignant and fanatical ends. Words or Wisdom Colonel A. K. McClure is unquestion ably one of the ablest men in his party in this State. We presume no one will question his loyalty, and we are very sure no one who knows him will question his political sagacity. He knows that to commit the Repub- lican party to an extreme radical policy at this time, would be its certain and speedy destruction. In the last issue of his paper, the Franklin Pc- pository, we find some remarks which the radicals of this county would do well to hear and heed. Let it be re membered that Col. McClure has suf fered great pecuniary loss at the hands of the rebels. Yet he urges, even since the assassination, the adoption of a proper conciliatory policy. He says : The severr , t ordeal of Mr. Lincoln's administration is just about to be enter ed upon. The peril to our institutions united all classes in support of war ; but that peril once past, the great bond of unity is broken, and faction will play with tireless energy against any policy of peace. Most earliest and formidable will be those who will demand an eye for an eye and a tooth fora tooth. For getful of the example of the great war rior who crowned 'his unparalleled achievements by receiving the surren dered sword of Lee at Appomattox Court House, and who bids his foe go homeand obey the laws without fear of yen gance, they will resist any adjustment that is not baptised in the blood of traitors. How well they merit the direst vengeance is patent to all ; hut Grant deemed the life of a single soldier of his brave command of more value than the blood of Lee and his entire army ; and he taught his discomtitted foes how magnanimous and beneficent was the Government they sought to destroy.— In harmony with the action of the Lieut. General, is the act ion of the administra tion and the military au thorites in Rich mond. There the rebel Legislature is invited to return to their State capitol, assured of safety, and undo their work of attempted disintegration, and bring Virginia back into the Union by the same power that hurled her into the cruel arms of treason. This magna nimity has disarmed the masses, and aroused the latent love for our common Nationality, and it has made the arch conspirators impotent for evil hence forth. It promises to induce the de luded people of the South to throw off the yoke of treason, and return to their allegiance to the best of civil govern ments. To this end we 'shall heartily sustain the efforts of the Administra- Lion to restore the South to fidelity; and if thereby peace and tranquility shall be restored, and traitors still live to see how treason is scorned by a Nation that has drank its bitterest dregs, we shall not envy them the clemency that has denied them the refuge of the grave ! —Since the foregoing article was writ ten, the Nation has been bowed in deep est sorrow by the assassination of Presi dent Lincoln ; and his last words of calm, patriotic counsel to his country men will be prized as the guiding star ; as the silver lining to the cloud that has been deepened and made terribly por tentous by his untimely death, The above is an extract from a lengthy editorial written before the assassination of the President. The following is from a letter written by him from Philadel phia since that sad event : I hope and pray that the new admin istration will not depart from the estab lished and accepted policy of Mr. Lin coln. In it was the Nation's hope, It promised early and enduring peace. It maintained our common brotherhood. It looked to a future with North and South as one people, cemented rather than estranged by our matchless heroism alike in behalf of wrong and right. It justly forgave the deluded ; generously inNlted the fealty of the erring, and, save the arch-fiends of death, all seemed to be gathering to the folcth °lour piond inheritance again. Are not these wiser words than any which have been uttered by Stevens or his radical followers in this city? We are willing that moderate and sensible Republicans shall judge. There was a heavy snow storm in the western part of Minnesota on Friday, the weather being severely cold. The Press and the Public. One of many letters of similar tenor recently received, says, in perfect sim plicity, " I assure you that what you say, in favor of Peace and of lenity to Rebels does not represent the senti ments of your subscribers in this quar ter." We haven't the least doubt of it. Representing—that is reflecting, con forming to—the changing opinion of the hour, may not be difficult ; but it surely cannot be achieved by those who do not try ; and we never attempted the task, finding it unadapted to our mental habits and tastes. We might hoe cotton for a peck of corn and a couple of pounds of bacon per week, with a few cuts of a horsewhip thrown in at intervals ; we can certainly chop cord-wood or dig potatoes for a living, for we have tried ; but to represent public opinion in the editorial columns of a newspaper is a task quite outside of our capacity. The physical possibility of doing it may or may not inhere in our faculties ; the moral does not. We are sometime inspired with in tense disgust for a vocation whereof the popular estimate appears to be so sordid and low. We have quite often received epistles gravely informing us that what we think and say on a certain topic is unpopular, in the evidentand presump tion that we only need to know this to make us wear ship at once, and come short round the other tack. The no tion that awritershould ever undertake to resist, correct and approve public sentiment seems as inconceivable to our mentors as that a man should practice law with a view to the promotion of justice rather than for the sake of the money he might earn by it. If the public is to be made any better, it must have instructors who do not "represent" its average views, but are wiser, better, profounder, than they are. A journalist who u n i form ly"represents" the popularopinion May make his news paper profitable to its publishers; but what can he possibly have done for his readers? As a vehicle of news, his sheet may be valuable; but his editorials, considered as lamps along the public highway and guides to correct thinking, can be of no use whatever. The idea which seems to lie at the bottom of the degrading conception of our calling which we find prevalent seems to be not far from this: An edi tor is an intellectual gladiator, whom we hire or pay to find or invent reasons for the course which we have predeter mined to take. He is like the lawyer who, being paid his fee, does his best for his client, whether that client's case be good or bad. He cannot always win ; but he must ascertain what his clients want and " represent" it as well as he can. Now we know and could name jour nals that always mean to " go with the tide," and generally succeed in this; we presume that they also succeed in making money ; but they have no more influence on public opinion than the weathercock has on the direction or force of the wind. They may be con sulted as evidence of what is popular, and may, in that view, have a certain value, but in no other are they worth a straw. Sometimes we are addressed by a per son who says, " I have taken your paper fifteen or twenty years, and have never disagreed with it till now." 'We are very sorry to hear it ; for, in the course of so many years, we must have been many times wrong, and you ought to have detected some of those errors. The end and aim of this journal are, not to make its readers think in all cases as we do, but to teach them to think for themselves. We state our own opin ions freely and frankly ; we ask for them a fair consideration and a candid judgment ; but we never dreamed that every one would make them his own. In fact, if we supposed every one united in the belief of a certain proposition, we should waste no words in its defense. It is - precisely because we presume an opinion not generally entertained that we show cause for cherishing it. On a single point we insist on being better understood. Several have writ ten us, protesting against "sentimen tality," " tenderness to criminals," &c. They entirely mistake our position. It is in the interest not of the criminal but of the yet undepraved that we re sist penal inflictions that tend to bar barize the community. It is in the kiterest of human liberty that we resist all that tends to invest the defeated champions of slavery with the honors of martyrdom. W'e cannot well agree with those who hold that a great crimi nal escapes punishment unless the law takes hislifeorinflictson him sonic kind of physical torture; for our respective stand-points are not Within hail of each other ; but we can possibly make stu dents of history and of human nature comprehend that no party triumphant in a great civil war ever yet suffered from treating its vanquished opponents with too much lenity. The danger is all the other way : for there will always be a hundred voices crying " Smite !" for every one which pleads, " Spare'" In fact, they who would silence the one only evince an uneasy consciousness that their side of the question can not abide discussion. Better let all be fairly heard, and believe that they who " bear the sword" in such a crisis are most un likely, even if unprompted to rigor, to " bear it i p vain."— Tribunc. The Elder Booth As everything relating to the Booth family is eagerly sought after by the public, we copy the following interest ing reminiscences of the elder Booth from the Loui.sTille lournul: There can he no doubt that J. Wilkes Booth, the distinguished actor, if guilty of having assassinated President Lin coln, should be hung. We would glad ly have him hung so high that our peo ple could see him by telescopes from all portions of the continent. We have no doubt that John Wilkes Booth, though a man of great histrionic genius, has a broad Streak of insanity in his nature; but the evidences of his long-contemplated, deliberately-con sidered, and terribly-executed crime ex clude and make impossible all consid erations or thoughts of mercy. Oh that he had twenty million necks—one for the private thought and feeling of every loyal man in the United States. About thirty-threeyears ago, the elder Booth, the father of Wilkes, Edwin, etc., came to this city upon a theatrical en gagement. He sent for us to his hotel with many but queer compliments. We went. He received us kindly, but strangely. In a little while, he asked us if we were " armed." "Not, much," we answered. " Well, how much ," said he. We drew from our pockets a spri ng knife, presented to us two days before and gave it into his hands, showing him how it was to be used. He instantly raised it on high and exclaimed in his tragic style, " What is to save you now."' We retired a step and replied, " What is to save me is your fear of this pistol !" He responded in a most joyous laugh, " Oh I don't care for knives or pistols, as I know you don't, but I wanted to find You worthy to be my friend." We told him that we had not thus far found him worthy of our friendship. He then asked us to go up to his room and see some of his departed friends. Having an awful prejudice against the sight of ghosts, we declined. He urged. We yielded. We went with him, and he introduced us to twelve or fifteen roosters, hens, and pullets, his traveling companions through the country, say ing that they were his deceased friends, and telling us the name of each. His solemnity was evidence of his sincerity. There was no hypocrisy in his soul. The next night he was advertised for his third appearance atthe theatre. All immense crowd assembled. Impa tience became irrepressible, and the people in the house had their money returned at the door. As we passed down a cross-street a well-known voice from a carriage exclaimed, " Halloo! Have you been at th`e theatre?" "Yes," we said, " What sort of an audience was there ?" "A tremendous one." "Did they see Booth ?" "No ; and Booth treated them like a dog !" " Ah, well ; were they very much dis appointed ?" Two days afterwards we were sent for by the keeper of the city jail. Poor Booth was in his keeping. He had been taken in a state of unconsciousness from the streets, and was still unconscious. He had blacked himself blacker than the blackest negro in Kentucky. We helped him away from the city, and when he came again he behaved better, and spoke his gratitude to us. We do not mention these evidences of pate,tmal, insanity as the slightest reason for the spaYing or :President Lin coln's murderer from the gallows. We mention them simply because, at a time like this, they may be interesting to many readers. As for the assassin, we repeat that he should, if possible, be hung higher than the clouds. J. W. Wharton, an extensive sutler at Fortress Monroe, has been arrested and his goads are seized, Biographical Sketch of President An- drew Johnson Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, December 29, 1808. When he was four years of age he lost his father, who died from the effects of exertions to save a friend from drown ing. At the age of ten he was appren ticed to a tailor in his native city, with whom he served seven years. His mother was unable to afford him any educational advantages, and he never attended school a day in his life. While learning his trade, however, he resolved to make an effort to educate himself. His anxiety to be able to read was par ticularly excited by an incident which is worthy of mention. A gentleman of Raleigh was in the habit of going into the tailor's shop and reading while the apprentice and journeymen were at work. He was an excellent reader, and his favorite book was a volume of speech es, principally of British statesmen. Johnson became interested, and his first ambition was to equal him as a reader and become familiar with those speeches. He took up the alphabet without an instructor; but by applying to the journeymen with whom he work ed, he obtained a little assistance. Hav ing acquired a knowledge of the letters he applied for the loan of the book which he had so often heard read. The owner made him a present of it, and gave him some instruction on the use of letters in the formation of words. Thus his first exercises in spelling were in that book. By persever ance he soon learned to read, and the hours which he devoted to his education were at night after he VMS through his daily labor upon the shop board. He now applied himself to books from two to three hours every night, after working from ten to twelve hours at his trade. Having completed his appren ti cesh ip in the autumn of 1824, he went to Laurens Court House, South Carolina, where he worked Lisa journey man for nearly two years. While there he became engaged to be married, but the match was broken off by the violent opposition of the girl's mother and friends, the ground of objection being Mr. Johston's youth and want of pe cuniary means. In May, 1826, he re turned to Raleigh, where he procured journey work, and remained until Sep tember. He then set out to seek his fortune in the West, carrying with him his mother, who was dependent upon him for support. He stopped at Greenville, Tennessee, and com menced work ash journeyman. He re mained there about twelve months, married, and soon afterward went still further westward ; but failing to find a suitable place to settle, he returned to Greenville and commenced business. Up to this time his education was limited to reading, as he had never had an opportunity of learning to write or cipher; but under the instructions of his wife he learned these and other branches. The only time, however, he could devote to them was in the dead of night. The first office which he ever held was that of alderman of the vil lage, to which was elected in 1828. He was re-elected to the 'same position in 1829, and again in 1830. In that year he was chosen Mayor, which position he held for three years. In 1835 he was elected to the Legislature. In the session of that'yearhe took decided ground against a scheme of internal improvements, which he contended would not only prove a failure, but entail upon the State a burdensome debt. The measure was popular, however, and at the next elec tion (1837) he way defeated. Be becathe a candidate again in 1839. By this time many of the -evils he had predicted from the internal improvement policy which he had op posed four years previous were fully demonstrated, and he was elected by a large majority. In 1840 he served as presidential elector for the Staaftat large on the Democratic ticket. He canvassed a large portion of the State, meeting upon the stump several of the leading Whig orators. .In 1841 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1843 he was elected to Congress, where, by suc cessive elections, he served until 1853. During this period of service he was con spicuous and active in advocating, re spectively, the bill forrefunding the fine imposed upon General Jackson at New Orleans in 1815, the annexation of Texas, the tariff of 1846, the war measures of r. Polk's Administration, and a home stead bill. In 1853 he was elected Gov ernor of Tennessee, after an exciting canvass, in which he was opposed by Gustavus A. Henry. He was re-elected in 1855, after another active contest, his competitor being Meredith P. Gentry. At the expiration of his second period as Governor, in 1857, he was elected Limited States Senator for a full term, ending March 3, 1863. On the 7th of March, 1862, Senator Johnson was appointed military gover nor of Tennessee, with the rank of brigadier general. r. He immediately entered upon his duties, and probably the most eventful and memorable period of his life was the three years ending on the 3d of March, 1865, when he re signed his position of provisional gov ernor—for in this period his State had passed through the most terrible ordeal, and finally emerged by the adoption of amendments to the Federal Constitu tion forever abolishing slavery. On the 9th of June, 1864, the National Convention at the City of Baltimore nominated Andrew Johnson for Vice- President on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln for President. On the Bth of November of the same yea* he was elected. On the of Mardh, 186.5, he was duly installed as Vice-President, and on the 15th day of April, 1865, An drew Johnson was inaugurated Presi dent of the United States, in conse quence of the sudden and unexpected decease of Abraham Lincoln. Booth's Note to Johnson The Albany Argue suggests the plausi ble theory that Booth, when he sent a note up to Vice President Johnson, de signed to elicit a reply which would connect the Vice President with his atrocious crime. The Argus says : What was the object of Booth in seek ing an interview with Vice President Johnson on Friday morning? Not to kill him ; for that would foil the other attempt, and explode the whole con spiracy.' Was it not to involve the Vice President, and cast suspicion on him? To get him to write a note—a simple re sponse to his card' would do—" I shall he happy to have an interview with Mr. Booth on —." This dropped on the scene of murder woulij, be an evi dence of collusion with Mr. Lincoln's destined successor—a shallow device, but one in the fashion db.a hundred stage plots. What other • theory ac counts fur the visit to Johnson, the note, the desired interview and the expected response ? If we discard the idea of an intended murder of the Vice President, this seems the only remaining conjec ture. i • A Patriarch During a recent visit to East Liberty, we called upon the venerable John Beitler—" Old Pap Peltier," as the young men of thirty years ago would call him. Mr. Beitler, who was born in York county, about ninety-four years since, and was raised in Adamseounty, is still in the full possession of all his in tellectual faculties. We learned from an intimate friend that the old gentle man has had, during his residence among us, no less than filt,y-six liquor licences granted him, and that further more, he has never had a suit in court with a neighbor. He carnet() this coun ty in the year 1800, and first engaged with Robert Hays, who at that time, kept a stage tavern on the Old Washington Road. Mr. Beitler, at a subsequent date, came to Pittsburg, and engaged with John McMasters, at that time proprie tor of the Black Bear tavern, in the Dianiond. About this time he became married to Miss Mary Annon, from New York State, and who died in February, 18b5. He has two sons and two daugh ters alive, the oldest child being Mrs. I)ulley, a widow lady, who has for the last three years of her life devoted her energies to the prosecution of her duties as a directress of Government Hospitals at or near Fortress Monroe. Mr. Beitler removed to East Liberty in 1829, and from that time until March, 18(15, re mained in active business. He walks now without a cane, speaks intelligently of the topics of the day, and boasts that he has voted at every Presidential elec tion ever held in this country.—Pitts burg Post. Fayette County?... OIL ON REDSTONE.—We areinformed by a perfectly reliable gentleman, who had seen a sample of the oil, that a very encouraging "oil strike" had been made on Redstone Creek, near Lynn's Mills, on Tuesday last, at a depth of 522 feet. It is the intention of the company, we are informed, to tube the well immedi ately and test it.— Uniontown GeniuB. Ex-President Pierce. We learn from the New Hampshire Patriot that on Saturday night last, about 9 o'clock, a crowd numbering from two hundred to four hundred ap peared about the door of the residence of Gen. PIERCE, in Concord, and sur prised him by vociferous calls. Imme diately the door was thrown open, and in the blaze of the entry light the ex- President appeared upon the steps and addressed to the assemblage the remarks which we print below. Our readers will perceive that, though taken by surprise, General PIERCE de ported himself in that brave and self possessed manner which has always so pre-eminently distinguished him. There can be but little doubt that this crowd had some thought of mischief when they assembled in front of that mansion, but the noble and fearless bearing of its great and patriotic occupant awed them into respectful silence at first, and soon extorted from them expressions of ap probation. The Patriot says that when he finished speaking and uttered his "good night," they responded with a hearty " good night " and three cheers for the General, and retired as quietly as though there had been no scene of excitement in the day. We hold up the ex-President's lofty bearing as an example for all public men who may find themselves similarly circumstanced, and we commend the conduct of his listeners to the imitation of that demonstrative class of people everywhere, who can neither enjoy good nor endure bad news without dis turbing their quieter and more law abiding neighbors : Fellow Townsmen I come to ascertain the motives of this call. What is your desire'? [ Some persons in the:crowd'replied : "We wish to hear some words from you on this sad occasion. - I ;en. Pierce proceeded :] 1 wish I could address you words of solace. But that can hardly be done. The magni tude of the calamity, in all its aspects, is overwhelming. It' your hearts are oppres sed by events more calculated to awaken profound sorrow and regret than any which have hitherto occurred in our history, mine mingles its deepest regrets and sorrows with yours. It is to be hoped that the great wickedness and atrocity was confined, morally and actually, to the heads and hearts of but two individuals of all those who still survive on this continent ; and that they may speedily, apd in obedience to law, meet the punishment due to their un paralleled crimes. It is well that you—it is well that I—well that all men worthy to be called citizens of the United States, make manifest, in all suitable forms, the emotions incident to the bereavment and distress which have been brought to the hearts and homes of the two most conspicuous families of the Republic. I give them my warm, outgushing sympathy, as I am sure till per sons within the hearing of my voice must do. But beyond personal grief and loss, there will abide with us inevitably the most pain ful memories. Because, as citizens obedi ent to law, revering the Constitution, hold in..' fast to the Union, thankful for the period of history which succeeded the Revolution in so many years of peaceful growth and prosperity, and loving with the devotion of true and faithful children, all that belongs to the advancement and glory of the nation, we can never forget or cease to deplore the great crime and deep stain. [A voice from the crowd—" Where is your flag'"] It is not nee. -nary for me to show my de votion for the si .Lrs and stripes by any special exhibition, or upon the demand of any man or body or men. My, ancestors followed it through the Rev,ilution—one of them, at least, never haying? seen his mother's roof from the I ieginning?to the close of that pro tracted struggle. , .;jy brothers followed it in I the war of 1812 ; and. I I ft my faintly, in the spring of 1847, amongy u, to follow its for tunes and maim aKjt upon 11 foreign soil. But this you all kit Ow. If the period dur ing which I have served our State and country in various situations, commencing more titan thirty-live years ago, have left the question of my devotion to the flag, the Constitution anti the Union, in doubt. it is too late now to remove it, by any such ex hibition as the inquiry suggests. Besides, to remove such doubts from minds where they may have been cultivated by a spirit of domination anti partisan rancor, if such a thing were possible, would be of no con sequence to you, and is certainly of none to me. The malicious questionings would return to reassert their supremacy and pur sue the work of injusti,:e. . - Conscious of the infirmities of tempera ment, which to a greater or less extent be set us all, I have never felt or found that violence or passion was ultimately produc Live of beneficent results. It is gratifying to perceive that your observation, briefer than tuna-, has led your minds to the same conclusion. What a priceless commentary upon this general thought, it is the lintel re ported conversation between the late Presi dent and his Cabinet; and with that despatch conics m ws to warrant time 'Meer- Mg hope that, in s:ate of the knife of the assassin, the life ma! intellect of the Secre tary 01 . State may, timough Providence, be spared to us in this ;tit tiling emergency. I thank you for the silent atttention with which you have listened to me, and for the manifestations of your approval as my neig,himors ; and will not detain you in this storm longer than to add my best wishes for you all, and for what, individually and collectively—we ought to hold most dear— our Country—our whole Country. Good night. President Johnson and the Colored Peo ple. J. Al. Sangston, a colored man of Oberlin, Ohio, at a meeting held by the colored citizens of Washington, on Tuesday night, stated that he had had, in the morning, an interview with the Presideutof the United States, in which he verbally laid before him the follow ing : PitEsinENT JouNsoN : As President of the National Equal Rights League, in as sociation whose membership may be num bered by thousands—an association having its branches in well nigh all the loyal States of the Union—an association representing in a truly tuitional sense the patriotism and loyalty of the colored Americans—l have the honor to present to you in your new posi tion as President of the United States, our congratulations and sympathies; and pledge to you, in your endeavors to support and perpetuate the Union, the Constitution, and the laws of our country, " can: lives, our property, and our sacred honor." The colored American asks but two things. lie asks, after proving his devotion to his country by responding to her call in the hour of her sorest trial, and after demon strating, upon many hotly-contested battle fields, his manhood and valor, that he have, first, complete emancipation, and secondly, full equality before American law. Your past history, as connected with the rebel lion, gives ul full assurance that in your harals our cause shall receive no detriment, and that our liberty and rights will be fully protected and sustained. We are not ignor antuCthemany noble utterances of free•dont which you have made to the colored people of your own State, Tennessee, nor are we ignorant of the high estimate in which they hold you as their friend and benefactor. We cannot forbear to express to you, sir, our grief and sorrow in view of the sad calamity—the foul assassination of Abra ham Lincoln, your predecessor, which this day makes us indeed a nation of mourn ers. In reply, the President said SIR: I thank you for this interview. I receive the kindness and honor which you now express to me in the seine spirit I would if you were of another class. I need not state to you my past history. It is well undrstood by you. In it you will find the guarantee of my future conduct to ward your people. Where the colored peo ple know me best they have confidence in me. No man can charge toe with having proved false to the promises I have made to any class of the people in my public life. I fear that leading colored men do not Un derstand and appreciate the fact that they have friends on the south side of the line.— They have, and they are as faithful and staunch as any north of the line. It may be a very easy thing, indeed popular, to be an emancipationist north of the line, but a very different thing to be such south of it. South of it, it costs a man effort, property, and perhaps life. You may express these sentiments, together with my thanks, to the people whom you represent. General Butler On Friday last General Butler re signed his commission as Major General of volunteers, and left Washington for his home in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a view of devoting himself to law and manufacture of calicoes. On hear ing of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln lie withdrew his resignation, and re turned to Washington, and it is reported that he will receive an important office. —X. Y. Commereial. Vie" It was reported in England that Secretary Seward had officially demand ed from Earl Russell a withdrawal of the " belligent rights" concession afford ed to the Jiff. Davis rebels at the corn mencementuof the war. The London Post organ of the government, and Lon don Herald, organ of the Derby opposi tion, declare that England will not con sent to do so, as war vessels need not come or enter the ports of the country which commissions them andyet travel the ocean as belligerents, Sherman's Terms of Peace. The Abolition press, which has been for months so loud in its praise of Gen eral Sherman, is now demanding his disgrace and speedy removal from com mand. His great services as a military commander pass for nothing, and all that he has done and achieved will be insufficient to save him from the wrath of the fanatics. Doubtless he was per fectly honest in what he did ; doulitless, too, he knowS more of the tempef and spirit of the people of the StatesArough which his armies have made their tri umphal marches than any other man in the country. It is safe to suppose he was prompted to do what he did, from a sincere and honest conviction that such a moderate and conciliatory course would most speedily restore the whole country to a condition of permanent peace and prosperity. But, not only are his terms summarily and indig nantly repudiated by the Secretary of War, but every malignant cur of high and low degree is snapping at the great General's heels, and demanding that he be at once summarily dismissed the service. The New York World of yesterday has the following comments upon the terms offered by him to the rebel armies which have been confronting him. It says: The long list of objections made to General Sherman's arrangement shows more bitterness of feeling than strength of judgment. One or two solid and sufficient reasons for the rejection would have been kr tter than the whole nine ; some of wh b are weak and others cap tious. The catalogue starts off by say ing that General Sherman exceeded his powers ; which is true in point of fact, but would be no valid reason for rejec tion if the arrangement had been a good one. Mr. Trist negotiated the treaty by which the Mexican war was closed without authority; but the government nevertheless ratified it. The second objection to Gen. Sher man's atrangement is, that it was a prac tical acknowledgment of the rebel gov ernment. It is true that it so far ac knowledged the confederate authority as a fact as to admit its control of the confederate armies and its power both to disband them and to terminate its own existence; which is no more of a recognition than was made by Presi dent Lincoln when, in his Niagara manifesto, he expressed a willingness to entertain, act upon, and treat liber ally, any proposition "that comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war with the United States." The third objection made to_ General Sherman's arrangement is, that it un dertook to re-establish the rebel State governments. This statement is alto gether broader than the fact, and, more over, is urged in a spirit which is an imputation on General Sherman's loy alty. What General Sherman really stipulated was, that when the several State governments had given proof of theirloyalty byjtaking the oath to support the Constitution, they should then be recognized. When such captious ob jections are raised it is evidence that passion has got the better of reason and candor. It may be true that the officers in question are not to be trusted upon their oaths ; but clearly General Sher man was not of that opinion, or he would have entered into no such stipu lation. The fourth objection is, that the State governments, so recognized, might re establish slavery. This objection is solid; but had the arrangement been in other respects admissable, an additional article explaining that slavery would not be tolerated, might have been made a condition of ratification. Even this, however, would have amounted to nothing unless either the emancipation proclamation shall have been adjudged valid by the Supreme Court, or the constitutional amendment be adopted. Clearly, it is as much beyond the prac tical, as it is the legal, power of the party with whom Gen. Sherman nego tiated to answer, either for the abolition of slavery, or for acquiescence in its abolition by the Southern State govern ments. Gen. Sherman's conditions could not, without inconsistency, be sectioned by any administration which regarded the abolition of slavery as in dispensable. The part of the fifth objection which is founded on the assumption that Gen. Sherman's plan might furnish aground of responsibility for the rebel war debt is not only captious but chimerical. There is nothing in the stipulations from which any such infer l ence can be drawn ;_ and if there were, a declaratory or explanatory article would easily have cleared the subject of doubt. The second part of the objection is, that the state governments might tax loyal citizens to discharge debts incurred in aid of the rebellion is valid, and points out a danger (unperceived by Gen. Sherman) which ought to be guarded against. The sixth objection also approaches a weak spot in General Sherman's ar rangement; but the objector does not touch it in the center. The negotiators stipulated to refer the legitimacy of conflicting state governments in any State to the Supreme Court. But the S. Court decided, in the famous Rhode Island case, that it had no power to adjudicate that class of questions. The decision of that case turned on the prin ciple, that it belongs to the political de partment of the government to decide what is the legitimate government in any state, and that the judicial depart ment is bound to follow its decision.— General Sherman here, as in some other parts of his stipulations, showed that he is not strong in constitutional law, and vindicated the prudence of President Lincoln in not trusting this class of questions to the decision of sol diers. The seventh objection, that the plan abolished the confiscation laws, is true; but it is equally true that the executive amnesty to which President Lincoln was understood to be at one time in clined would have had the same effect. The eighth objection must be founded on some strange error of fact. It con veys such an implication on the sin cerity of representations countenanced by the late President, that we refuse to credit it. Will Mr. Stanton inform the country when peace could have been made by Mr. Lincoln on terms less fa vorable to the rebels than those acceded to by General Sherman? The objection which is numbered as the ninth consists of loose and unsup ported assertions; and being a mere declaration of opinion, is of no more value than the contrary opinion of Gen. Sherman. And as it attempts to fix a stigma on that great soldier, it deserves the indignant rebuke of his twenty million of loyal admirers. The govern ment, with its intentions and commit tals, could not, indeed, have adopted his plan of settlement; but it owed it to his great services and patriotic inten tions to treat him with more considera tion and candor. The President, of course, is not to be held responsible for the disparaging manifesto of the rash and hasty gentleman at the head of the War Department. Tragic Effect of the Assassination in New York----A Boy Cuts his Throat with a Razor. [From the New York Herald of Friday.[ The influence which the present national calamity exercises over persons of a morbid temperament has been fear fully exemplified within the last few days. A youth, named Charles John son, residing with his father, William Johnson, at 187 East Fourteenth street, who had been for some time subject to fits, during dinner on Tuesday last, said, " I am going to follow Abraham Lin coln, and I will die under this roof be fore to-morrow night." He then rose from the table and proceeded up stairs, stating that he was going to bed. His family thought no more of the matter till his mother, on going down to the front basement, saw him in the tack room in the act of brandishing a razor. He looked very excited and exclaimed, in a loud voice. " This is the razor." His mother immediately screamed for help, but before any one could respond the unhappy boy had succeeded in put ting an end to his existence. A Guard Placed Around the Residence of Chief Justice Chase. From some suspicious indications in the vicinity of Chief Justice Chase's residence on Friday evening last, some of his friends insisted upon a guard be ing placed over the house. Some sus picious characters—men dressed in fe male apparel—were lurking about there for some time, but before the guard ar rived they had disappeared, and nothing farther was heard or seem of them. Proclamation by the President—i Day of Humiliation and Prayer. By the President of the United States: A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, By my direction the Act ing Secretary of State, in a notice to the public of the 17th, requested the various religious denominations to assemble on the 19th inst., on the occasion of the ob sequies of Abraham Lincoln, late Presi dent of the United States, and to ob serve the same with appropriate cere monies ; but WHEREAS, Our country has become one great house of mourning, where the head of the family has been taken away, and believing that a special period should be assigned for again humbling ourselves before Almighty God, in order that the bereavement may be sanctified to the nation : Now, therefore, in order to mitigate that grief on earth, which can only be assuaged by communion with the Father in Heaven, and in compliance with the wishes of Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress, communicated to me by resolutions adopted at the Na tional Capital, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby appoint Thur sday, the 235th day of May next, to be ob served wherever in the United States the flag of the country may be respect ed, as a day of humiliation and mourn ing. And I recommend my fellow citizens then to assemble in their re spective places of worship, there to unite in solemn service to Almighty God in memory of the good man who has been removed, so that all shall be occupied at the same time in contemplation of his virtue, and in sorrow for his sudden and violent end. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington the 2.5 th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the eigh ty ninth. ANnitEw JoliNsoN. By the President: W. HUNTER, Acting Sec'y of 'War. ilow to Stop Assassination. Dr. MACKAY, the New York corres pondent of the London 77/fics, suggests the following extraordinary means for the prevention of assassination. He writes to the editor of the Tribmo SIR: It is earnestly to be hoped that the American people, in their hour of sorrow and indignation for the dastardly and hideous assassination of the kind hearted, good, and noble Abraham Lin coln, will not make too much of a hero of the assassin. His crime is gigantic; and it is unfortunately in the nature of gigantic crimes to excite morbid feelings in the minds of the insane or semi ins - 1111 e, and cause them to emulate the deed that fills all men's minds and occupies all men's tongues. Some years ago, several attempts were made to assassinate the harm less and estimable lady who sits on the throne of England. The at tempts succeeded each other so rapidly that there seemed an epidemic of mad ness anti assassination in the air—as difficult to explain as the cholera-nior bus. It was suddenly suggested by a student of human nature, that the de sire of being spoken of, of being made the main actor in a great tragedy, had charms enough in the imagination of people of diseased intellects to compel them to commit atrocious crino ; and that the best way to render attempted assassination unpopular was to flog on the bare hack, every morning for a month or six weeks, the first wretch who should thereafter attempt to play the Brutus. The suggestion was acted upon ; and since that time the lire of queen Victoria has been safe from the fanatics and the lunatics. These people have no fear of (lie gallows ; but they vehemently abhor a whipping. Preparatory to the hanging of the monster, J. Wilkes Booth, a vigorous daily application of the whip on his naked carcass, on the night and morn ing of every day intervening between his capture and execution, will per haps act as a wholesome correctiVe to the aspirations of any other fools and villains who may think that there is heroism in murder. Believe me, yours, respectfully, CHAS. MACKAY APRIL 18th, 1805. General Sherman's Order announcing a Suspension of Hostilities. FORTRESS MONROE, April 22. The following important order of Gen, Sherman was received here this morn- SPECIAL. FIELD ORDER—No. 58 lIEADQ'ns, r LyrAay v rsioN CIF TII; MISSISSIPPI, IN Tub: FIELD, RALF:n:Ii, N. (2., April 10, 101 ii. The General commanding announces to the army a suspension of hostilities and an agreement with General John ston and high officials, which, when formally ratified, will make peace from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Until the absolute peace is arranged a line passing through Ty rrell's Mount, Chapel Hill University, Durham's station and West Point, on the Neuse river, will separate the two armies. Each army commander will group his camps entirely with a view to comfort, health and good police. All the details of military discipline must still be main tained ; and the I leneral hopes and be lieves that in a very few days it will be his good fortune to conduct you all to your homes. The fame of this army for courage, industry and discipline is admitted all over the world, Then let each officer and moan see that it is not stained by any act of vulgarity, rowdyism or petty crime. The cavalry will patrol the front of the line. Gen. Howard will take charge of the district from Raleigh up to the cavalry ; (len. Slocum to the left of Raleigh, and General Schofield in Raleigh, its right and rear. Quarter masters and commissaries will keep their supplies up to a light load for the wagons, and the railroad superintend ent will arrange a depot for the con yen f ence of each separate army. By order of W. T. SHERM,- , ....\;, Major General L. M. DAY'rox, Ass't Adj't ;en The Rebels Under Lee, Fought In Front by Grant, and Fed In the Rear Through. Butler's Department. The New York Express says : The report of the testimony taken by Mr. Wash hurtle, of I llinois, chairman of the Congressional Committee, is now published, aml this testimony diseloses in substance that while General ( , rent, with his army, was fighting Gen. Lee in front, knaves in Gen. Butler's Nor-, folk and North Carolina department. were permitted to feed him in the rear. It seems that a military commission, instituted by Gen. Grant, also estab lishes the same facts, parts of which, given or taken by Gen. Gordon, are published in Mr. Washburn's report. From the testimony it appears that one G. W. Lane, by recommendation of General Butler, obtained from Mr. Risley, Treasury Agent in Wash ington, permits to trade with the rebels, which permits he used to supply the rebels with pork, bacon, clothes of all kinds, sugar, tea, medicines—in short, everything but arms (nay, even percus sion caps, it is said)—to pay for which rebel wagons, loaded with cotton, ap proached his (Bane's) trading boats, and unloaded the cotton therein! A brother-in-law of General Butler was in this concern. Lane had the protection. of Butler's military. A million ottlol lars, or more, it is believed, was made by the parties concerned in this traitorous. traffic, and this treason was one cause why Gen. Grant removed Gen. Butler from command. The report of Mr. Washburne, a lead ing Republican of the House from Illi nois, discloses most of these facts in the testimony taken, and this testimony is now published. We see in it where Gen. Lee got his resources in the rear, while Gen.' Grant and his army were fighting him in front. Schuylkill County MURDER.—Near Mahanoy Plains, on Monday, a United States detective, named Brady, shot by some un known person. The detective seems to have rendered himself very obnoxious to many drafted men. The man who shot him stepped out from the woods. and fired. Seven slugs took effect.— Ashland Advocate. The Interment of President Lincoln at Springfield SPINGFIELD, 111., April l3.—The com mittee of arrangements have announced that the funeral of the lamented Presi dent will take place in this city on Sat urday May 6th. The body will lie in state in the hall of the House of Repre sentatives, from 10 o'clock Wednescla,, May Bd, to 10 A. N., Saturday May 6tUr
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