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The Boys are Coming Home.
Thank God, the sky is clearing!
The clouds are hurrying past,
Thank God, the day is nearing,
The dawn is coming fast.
And when glad herald voices,
Shall tell us peace has come,
This thought shall most rejoice us
" Our boys are coming home!"
Soon shall the voice of singing
Drown war's tremendous din;
Soon shall the joy-bells ringing
Bring peace and freedom in,
The jubilee bonfires burning,
Shall soon light up the dome,
And soon, to soothe our yearning,
Our boys are coming home.
The vacant fireside places
Have waited for them long,
The love-light lacks their faces,
The chorus waits their song;
A shadowy fear has haunted
The long deserted room ;
But now our prayers are granted,
Our boys are coming home!
O mother, calmly waiting
For that beloved son !
0 sister, proudly dating
The victories he has won!
0 maiden, softly humming
The love song while you roam
Toy, joy, the boys are coming—
Our boys are coming home!
And yet—oh, keenest sorrow!
They're coming, brit not all ;
Full many a dark to-morrow
Shall wear its sable pall
For thousands who are sleeping
Beneath the empurpled loam ;
Woe! woe! for those we're weeping,
Who never will come home!
O sad heart, hush thy grieving ;
Wait but a little while !
With hoping and believing
Thy woe and fear beguile,
Wait for the joyous meeting
Beyond the starry dome,
For there our boys are waiting
To bid us welcome• home.
Xittrarg.
" They Didn't See."
" I can't get over the sight of that are
child," said Farmer Berryls as he rose
up from the table, where he had just de
spatched the lunch of cold ham and
warm biscuit and apple pie, which his
wife had placed before him; and he
seated himself in the greatarm chair by
the stove, for it was a day in the open
ing of December, and the afternoon
winds were full of chill and snow, as
they came over the mountains, and beat
upon the snug, small dwelling of Far
mer Berryls.
" What child do you mean, Justin ?"
said Mrs. Berryls, as she held a recently
decapitated chicken over abed of bright
coals, in order to singe the skin ; and
her little daughter, Annie, who had
been deeply engrossed in trimming a
brown silk bonnet, which her aunt had
brought her atThanksgiving, laid down
a half finished bow of pink ribbon and
came close to her father, her small, sun
browned face and bright black eyes full
of interest.
" Well," said Farmer Berryls, clear
ing his throat, and leaning back in his
chair, " to commence at the beginning.
Jist after Squire Loomis had agreed to
pay me five dollars for that cord of wood
I took into - town to-day, and he was
walkin"roun4nd lookin' at it, a man
came along leading a little girl by the
hand, jilt about Annie's age here, only
she wasn't so stout and springy like,
and she hadn't any color to speak of in
her cheeks, and her eyes was as blue as
a bit of sky that comes right out of an
April cloud.
" Squire Loomis," said the man, " I've
brought this young 'un over to your
folks to stay for a few days. Two of
our children's down with the whooping
cough, and grandma's laid up with the
rheumatis, and mother's got her hands
full, without havin' other folks' young
'uns to take care on."
" Well," said the Squire, looking at
the child in a way that showed very
plainly he didn't much like the idea of
takin' her, " I s'pose she can stay, but
my wife and daughters are goin' to
leave town next week, and won't feel
as if they could be bothered much just
now. Can't you find a place for the
child, Mr. Mason ?"
" Yes, the Treadles want to take her,
and have her bound out to 'em till she's
eighteen. But, to tell the truth, I can't
quite make up my mind to let 'em have
her until we've tried a little longer.
They're a rough, coarse set, and I
shouldn't want to.put a child o' my
own under jist such folks. She's a
slender little thing, and don't seem cut
out for a drudge, and that's what they'll
be sartin to make of her; and mother,
she's dreadful agin the girl's goin' there.
But folks must look out for their own
flesh and blood fust, and if somebody
don't offer to take the girl before' the
next meetin' of selectmen, I s'pose we
must turn her over to the Treadles."
Wall, Mr. Mason, take her in
for a week," said the Squire, and then
he went on talking' with me about un
loadin' the wood, and the little girl
stood by, lookin' from one to the other
in such a pitiful way that I felt right
down sorry for her. Tist then somebody
came along and wanted to speak to the
Squire, and I turned to the stranger,
who was hurryin' away, and I asked
him if that child had'nt got anybody to
look out for her.
" Not a soul, sir. Her mother died a
month ago of consumption ; she was
one of our neighbors, and lived by taking
in sewin'. She sot a world o' store by
her child, and it's the thought o' that
which makes me reluctant to give her
over to folks thivql only think how
much they can get out of her."
" The tears came into the little girl's
blue eyes as the man said these words,
and if you could have seen her face,
wife, it would have been as much as
you could have stood."
"Dear me, father, what was the child's
name ?" asked Mrs. Berryls, holding
her singed chicken in one hand, and her
face struggling with pity and sorrow.
" I asked the child, and she said it
was Ellen Drake."
"Jilt then the Squire called her to
come into the house with him, and I
didn't get a chance to say another word
to her."
" Oh, dear, what if it was my Arinie !"
exclaiming Mrs. Berryls, and the glance
of beaming mother-love she bent upon
her little daughter was dimmed by quick
starting tears.
" Father," said Annie, seating herself
on her parent's knee, "why didn't you
bring the little girl straight home with
you?"
" Why, what should I have done with
her, then ?" playfully pulling one of the
black braids of hair.
" 0, let her live along with me, you
know. What a nice home she would
have!"
" Yes ; but,your father is a poor man,
Annie, and it costs a great deal to take
care of such little bodies as you."
" She could sleep in my bed, though,
and have part of my room, and we could
manage somehow abont the dresses.—
I'voalways wanteda little sister, father;
and you won't let her go to those cruel
peopleroWholl 'be sure to abtise her?
Tuerthink - ,: es mother sayk'What if it
were your little ‘Axmlei , fethd.
J. M. COOPER,
VOLUME 66.
" Wall, mother, isn't she a cute rea
sonar ? What do you say to it all?"
"As you say, we're poor folks, Justin,
but I don't believe the Lord will ever
allow us to suffer because we succored
the orphan in her need," answered Mrs.
Berryls, as she proceeded to dismember
her chicken ' • far away down in hey
mother - heart was a voice which
plead for the little orphan, and indorsed
every word which her child had spoken.
Two days later, after the winter's first
heavy fall of snow, Farmer Berryls
went into town, and when he returned
he brought with him the little, slender,
sweet-faced orphan girl he had found at
Squire Loomis's.
" This is to be your home always,"
said Annie Berryls, as her busy little
fingers untied the child's bonnet, "and
my father and mother will be yours and
you shall be my sister, and we shall
have such nice times together !"
The blue eyes grew wide for gladness.
" I shall be very happy here, I know I
shall ; I liked your father the first time
I saw bim, and wished he would take
me with him. I've laid awake every
night and cried all alone, because I
thought I'd got to go to those dreadful
Treadles. I know it would have broken
mamma's heart if she had known it be
fore she died."
" I wish she knew it now !" exclaimed
her impulsive, sympathetic companion.
" May be she does; and if she doesn't,
she will, in God's good time," said Mrs.
Berryls, as she took the little orphan's
hand, and kissed her a welcome to her
new home. " Come, supper's all ready,
and I know you must be hungry now,"
and Annie Berryls seized the other
hand, and so the mother and daughter
led the little stranger into the kitchen,
and toward the plentiful table in its
centre, and Farmer Berryls followed;
but " they didn't see " that over them
the angels looked down and smiled be
holding the scene.
Former Assassinations.
The murder of President Lincoln has
occasioned the hunting up of precedents.
The following are some of them :
Irene, Empress consort of Greece, lost
her power by the death of her husband
and the consequent succession of his
son, Constantine VI. To displace him,
she caused his eyes to be put out, and
afterwards had him killed by strangu
lation.
William Rufus of England confiscated
all neighboring estates to make a grand
hunting park for his own amusement.
Sir Walter Tyr el, one of the sufferers,
shot him with an arrow, and fled to
France.
Rienzi, the first Roman Tribune, was
killed by a mob.
gassaniello, the popular Viceroy of
Naples, was drugged by an artful enemy,
and killed by his own people for acts
committed in his unnatural condition.
James I of Scotland was killed by his
nobles, in the presence of the Queen
and ladies of her court, after a fierce
struggle.
Richard eceur de Lion was killed by
the Viscount de Limoges in France,
while parleying under a flag of truce.
Henry IV of France, though very
worthy and popular, had twenty-eight
attempts made upon his life. Ravaillac
killed him with a dagger, for which the
assassin was broken upon the wheel.
Kouli Khan, one of the wisest of Per
sian monarchs, was killed in his own
tent by a nephew, with the connivance
of his own body guard.
Gustavus of Sweden was killed by a
musket ball, fired by Capt. Ankerstroem
formerly an ()nicer in his army. He
was hung for the crime.
Several attempts were made to take
the life of George 111 of England. One
was by a woman who approached him,
presenting a petition. While the king
was reading it, she attempted to stab
him. She was adjudged insane.
Paul I of Russia was strangled with a
silken scarf by his nobles, even his own
wife and children being privy to the plot
—and one of them, Alexander, succeed
ed to the throne. This was in 1801.
Five futile attempts have been made
to murder Queen Victoria, without any
apparent motive. Four of the persons
were arrested ; Two of them were sent
to the madhouse, and two transported.
The fifth fired a pistol shot from a crowd
while the Queen was riding with her
husband, missed, and escaped.
The plots against the life of Napoleon
I were numberless, and some of his
escapes very narrow ; and the present
Emperor has been similarly threatened
and imperilled.
For those who are interested in lit
erary matters we have compiled the
following list of leading writers with
their assumed signatures. It will be
well to preserve it for future reference :
Gail Hamilton—Miss Abigail E.
Dodge.
Florence Percy—Mrs. Elizabeth
Akers.
Timothy Titcomb—Dr. J. G. Holland.
W. Savage North—Wm. S. Newell.
Orpheus C. Kerr—Robert H. Newell.
Mrs. Partington—B. P. Shilaber.
Artemus Ward—Charles F. Browne.
Doesticks, P. B.—Mortimer Thomp
son.
K. N. Pepper—James M. Morris.
B. Dadd—J. H. Williams.
Mace Sloper, Esq.—C. G. Leland.
Josh Billings—Henry W. Shaw.
The Disbanded Voluuteer—Joseph
Barbour.
teems Pipes—Stephen Massett.
Ned Buntline—E. Z. C. Judson.
Daisy Howard—Myra Daisy McCrum.
Cousin May Carleton—Miss M. A.
Egris.
Edmund Kirke—J. R. Gilmore.
Country Parson A. K. H. Boyd.
Mary Clavers—Mrs. C. M. Kirkland.
Currer Bell—Charlotte Bronte.
Village Schoolmaster—Charles M.
Dickinson.
Owen Meredith—Bulwer, son of Lyt
ton Bulwer.
,Barry Cornwall—Wm. Proctor.
Author of "John Halifax, Gentle
man." Miss Dinah Mulock.
Ik Marvel—Donald G. Mitchell.
Jenny June—Mrs. Jennie Croley.
Fanny Fern—Wife of James S. Par
ton, the •historian, and sister of N. P.
Willis.
Petroleum V. Nasby—D. R. Loke.
Howard Glyndon—Miss Laura C.
Reddon.
Large Robbery.
CINCINNATI, Tuesday, May 2, 1865.
The safe of Little & Newson at Azelia,
Ind., was broken open on Monday night
and robbed of about $B,OOO, as follows:
About $6,000 in greenbacks and National
bank currency; $l,OOO in six per cent.
coupons and interest bearing notes and
seven-thirty bonds, old issue, and ten
one hundred dollar notes, seven-thirties,
new issue, numbered as follows : 83,173,
83,174, 83,185, 83,186, 83,187, 83,188, 83,-
189, 83,190, 83,191, 83,192, all in blank.
4 A reward of $5OO is offered for the re
covery of the money, or $l,OOO for the
recovery of the money and arrest of the
thief.
The Lincolh‘Railroad Mill. in Hol
lidaysburg, Blair county, was totally
destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon
last. Some of the heavy ' machinery
was saved. Loss $125,000; insurance
$40,000,
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Corry O'Lants at the Oil Regions.
I have reached the land of oil, having
taken a safer route than the Erie.
Pennsylvanie is a good sized State,
and it takes sometime to get there.
When you do get here you wish you
hadn't come.
There is plenty of oil—and that is all
except lots of people.
lam 'for "Snake Run," the most
likely place for oil.
They call these places runs, because
everybody who is after oil runs here.
Every man you meet is the president,
director, or engineer of a petroleum
company.
The natives, who are white people,
and resemble country folks, live by
selling land and greenhorns.
They have a system in both transac
tions. They double the price of land
every morning.
If you know any body who has got a
few vacant lots that he wants to sell,
tell him to bring them out here.
The folks are so busy looking for oil
they haven't time to build houses, and
everybody is afraid to put up a house
fol . fear he might cover an oil well.
Consequently the hotels are a little
crowded.
The .A.luggins Hotel, where I put up
is much so.
Mugging, the proprietor, is the most
accommodating man you ever saw. A
city railroad conductor isn't a circum
stance to him.
He has only got six beds in the house
but he is always ready to take in every
body.
He took me in.
Also two hundred more petroleum
pilgrims.
The sleeping accommodations are va
rious. We go to bed in platoons.
When the first platoon get asleep
they are carefully taken out of bed and
hung over a close line. The second
platoon go through the same piocess,
until everybody is provided for.
Preferring to sleep alone, I slept on
the mantle piece with the coal scuttle
for a pillow.
As I observed land is precious ou
here.
I bought a lot ten inches by four, for
ten hundred thousand dollars, and com
menced operations.
The next thing is to commence boring.
You want a sharp bore. A public lec
turer won't do, neither will a skating
gimlet.
I took a brace and bit and went in.
C4ot down abutseven thousand feet into
the bowels of the land, when I came to
an impediment.
Found that I had struck the pre-
Adamite rock of the ossified strata of the
Silurian tiu•umtinn.
This is geology,and you perhaps won't
understand it, but I will explain it all
in the paper to the Historical Society I
am about writing.
Got a candle and went down to see
about it.
I found a big Megatheriurn, about six
hundred feet long, and nine wide, in a
capital state of preservation.
I got him out and will send him along
by express.
Went on boring through forty feet o
sand atone.
Here encountered a strange truell of
sulphur, which alarmed the native who
sold me the land, and to ease his con
science gave back half the money, and
wanted me to stop boring.
Told him I was bound to keep on un
til I struck ile, or come out on the other
side of creation.
Bored on. Went through about sixty
thousand feet more, when suddenly the
brace and bit went in, and there was a
grand report like that made by Butler's
powder boat that didn't blow up Fort
Fisher.
Things were slightly confused for
awhile. A section of Pennsylvania
went up, and I went up with it. Iguess
I must have come down again, as the
next idea I had was finding myself
comfortable, hung over the clothes line
at Muggins Hotel.
An investigation into the matter show
ed that I had struck through into a gas
factory in China, which had exploded
at both ends of the bore, killing half a
million of Chinese.
The easualities on our side were con
fined to one native and a small dog.
I haven't given up yet.
The folks here are very encouraging ;
they will stick to a man as long as he
has a cent left, and I never knew Mug
gins to turn a man out of his hotel to
pay his bill.
A kind hearted chap offered me
another piece of land, the size of a
stove plate, within a mile and a half of
a seven hundred barrel well, for the
reasonable figure of half a million, and
two-thirds of the oil.
I had concluded that boring for oil is
not so profitable as bleeding the public.
I shall start an oil comleny on more
liberal terms than any yeE offered.
I shall be prepared to guarantee any
thing. The capital will be a million
dollars, divided into two million shares,
at fifty cents each.
Dividends of two hundred per cent.
will be paid weekly, in addition to
which each subscriber will be entitled
to a season ticket for Lanigan's Ball, a
new hat, a farm near La Crosse, and a
ton of coal at market prices.
The Scaly Run" Petroleum Com
pany will be the biggist thing in oil in
the market.
I am going on to arrange the business
as soon as my friends send me funds
enough to pay my way back.
I am yours, oleaginously,
CORRY O'LANCS.
From the Pacific Coast
SAN FRANCISCO, Monday, May 1, '65.
The Oregon papers mention the hang
ing of fifteen horse thieves and high
waymen in Walla-Walla and Bois
counties by,lynch law, within a short
time.
Vigilance Committees had a list of
150 rogues who will be driven out of the
country or punished.
Arizona advices to the 12th of April,
mention another fight with the Apaches,
in which twelve Indians were killed,
and one soldier was killed and one
wounded. The Indians fled.
Gilbert W. Hopkins, a member of the
Arizona Legislature, Carlos Smith, one
of the officers of that body, and several
other whites, had lately been murdered
by the Indians.
Mining and business generally is sus
pended.
The crops in California all look well.
The deposits in the Mint during the
last month, amounted to $2,225,000.
Arrived, last eveningr, steamer Sierra
Nevada, from Portland and Victoria,
with $114,000 in gold.
Major Frank L. Pape of the Russian
Overland Telegraph Company arrived
here from New York on the 27th of
April, and will start next week for Port
Youkron on an engineering expedition,
accompanied by Air:Kinnicult,lll6 ex
plorer.
Auger has ordered that no range,
soldiers' be disinterred from the Ist of May
to the Ist of October.
LANCASTER;, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1865.
Pioattantinto.
A City Underground.
Beneath the City of Virerda,
more
interesting
is an under-ground city, more
interesting to the visitor than all the
other cities of the Golden State.
Few think, as they walk the busy
streets of Virginia, that beneath their
feet are streets almost as busy; that,
far down in the ever-present midnight
of the foundations of the mountains, are
crowds of men, toiling; as toil those
above, for gold and for bread. Many
things to gratify the eye and afford food
for the mind may be met with during a
stroll through our streets above--our
bright, sun-lit streets. Let none con
clude that there is nothing to be found
to please the eye or excite reflection in
our streets below—our dark, night
locked streets.
Descending at the Chollar works by
a perpendicular shaft over forty feet in
depth, one may wander off in almost
any direction. By two or three differ
ent roads we might travel eastward
nearly half a mile, finally coming out
to the light of day in the southeastern
suburbs of the city, among mills and
miners' cabins; but we will take another
course. Leaving the village of the
Chollarites, we travel northward.—
Along the sides of narrow streets are
glimmering lights—some twinkling far
ahead, like distant stars, and others
flashing suddenly upon us, as we turn
the corners, with a blinding affluence
of light. As we proceed on our journey
we meet many picturesque groups of
miners at their labors. Here they are
delving out chambers in the precious
silver rock, and there hoisting into
place the stout timbers that are to sup
port the mountain and the city, above.
We pass through gloomy caverns;
whose space robs our candles of light,
and in whosewalls yawn dark galleries,
leading We know not whither, and
about and within whose black portals
cubic pyrites and brilliant quartz flash
back the light of our candles in a thous
and merry glow-worm twinkles. After
passing through the subterranean vil
lages of divers mining companies, we
come to the thriving settlement of the
savage "people. Having halted in their
hospitable hamlet long enough to hear
the latest underground news, and make
some inquiries relative to our road to
the next village, the home of the Gould
& Curry tribe, we take our leave and
pursue our journey.
Of course, we see many words, meet
with many humorous adventures, and
encounter more than one solitary trav
eler—though not a solitary horseman—
walk on the bank of more than one
yawning chasm and experience numer
ous and mixed sensations, but finally
reached the Gould & Curry clan in
safety. We find them quite a civilized
people. Although more than 400 feet
below the streets of the city, we here
find a large building, with a huge en
gine in it, puffing away as comfortable
as though there was nourface to the
earth, with green trees, singing birds,
and the bright sun shining upon all
and everywhere.
We enter the building, take a seat,
sip a glass of champagne, light a cigar,
and, as we watch its curling smoke
mingling with the white wreaths of
steam from the hissing engine, wonder
whether we are really within the earth
or upon it. Lamps are burning upon
the walls ; persons are passing through
the room in which we are seated, are
going down stairs, coming up stairs,
bustling in every direction—a new face
each minute. We appear to have
stumbled on the gnomes.
We find, in passing through the vil
lage, that the people here have railroads
running in every direction ; and, as in
the world above, we have to clear the
track for the rushing trains, that, with
fiery eyes, dart wrathfully out from
(lark and lonesome roads. With a
" whiz!"_ the cars fly past us, and speed
away down along what seems one of
the dreary lanes to Satan's sooty king
dom—a by-way leading straight into
the centre of his smoking capital.
About us we occasionally hear the
splashing of water, mingled with creak
ing sounds, and pass through places
where air strikes damp and cold upoh
our cheeks, to enter where it is hot and
stifling. Suddenly peals of thunder
burst over our heads, and every gallery
and cavern echoes its roar. Our nerves
are soon quieted, for we know that the
noise was but the discharge of a ton or
two of ore through some of the chutes
above. There are inhabitants far above
us, toward the surface of the earth—the
place is like a huge ant hill.
Again, upon a sudden, our ears are
rent by en explosion,—above, below—
somewhere—which causes us, for a
moment, to suppose that the earth has
burst in its centre and is no longer a
thing of substantiality. We know that
it was but a blast which had caused the
whole place to shudder, andsmileat our
late nervousness.
There are many roads leading from
the Gould & Curry claim, and we might
travel half a mile in several directions, b ut
we will continue ourjourney northward
and rise to the surface at the works of
Best & Belcher, through a shaft some
400 feet in depth. Here we land, nearly
one mile north of where we descended.
Release of Political Prisoners and Pris•
, oners of War.
[From the Baltimore Sun of yesterday.]
Yesterday a general delivery of all
political prisoners, incarcerated in Fort
McHenry, took place. General Morris
was ordered by the Secretary of War
(per order of President Johnson) to re
lease forthwith all political prisoners
held in Fort McHenry, as also all pris
oners of war, and those called guerrillas,
including Grafton Carlisle; the latter
took the oath of allegiance and - was al
lowed to go north of Philadelphia.
About one hundred and fifty prison
ers were released and Colonel Wooley's
office presented quite a busy scene yes
terday, the clerks having to make .out
the proper papers and passes for all
these parties, a numberof whom are re
turning to their former homes in the
South. Many of those released were
under sentence of imprisonment during
the continuance of the war, and their
release at this time is a sure guarantee
that all hostilities have virtually ceased.
The Claim of the Hudson's Bay and
Puget's Sound Companies.
The mixed British and American
Commission, created by the treaty of
1863, between the United States and
Great Britain, for the adjudication of
the claims of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany and the Puget's Sound Agricul
tural Company, against the United
States, hag been duly organized here.—
Judge Johnson, of New York, Is the
Commissioner on the part of the United
States, and Hon. Mr. Rose of Canada,
is Commissioner on the Part of Great
Britain. Hon. Benj. R, Curtis, of Mas
sachusetts, late Justice of ..tie UJiited ;
States Supreme Court, hasbeen selebted
as umpire:. Hon. Caleb , Cushing,: of
Massaclausettsi !represents the interests
of the goyep:P.:o44i, and Omar D_aYi
Esq., of 'Carted; is the atto of, the
clainthuits: Geb. Gibbs, 'Esq.; oasli
ingbart, in clerk of the commission. The
aggregate amountof claim; anddamages
presented by the claimants, for allow.'
Imes is over five millions of doilies.
A Re,. . • • Iftte E .acuAtlon
(From the Richmond Whig, April V-]
As the events of that dreadful Monday
morning of April 3 recede from us upon
the tide of time, circumstances thatwere
then swallowed up and lost sight of in
the general Pandemonium, stand out
most prominently upon the mind's
vision. It was between the hours of six
and seven o'clock, A. M. The Govern
ment had gone—crossed the turbid
waters of the James, never to return
and Richmond was no more thecapital
of the Southern Confederacy. The
bridges and river side,of the city were
in flames, and the flte, struck by a
southeast breeze, swept toward Main
street, leaping from house to house and
block to block. The incessant noise of
exploding shells in the arsenals and
magazines and the crash of falling walls
went up on every side, while the lurid
smoke, ashes, and red-hot cinders rolled
downinto the adjacent streets, envelop
ing the thousands who filled them,
some hurrying to and fro with pitiful
relics of their household goods;
others, and by far the great
er number, intent on plunder.
The sun rose red and round, and
hung amid the lurid smoke and glare
of the flame like a great beacon of woe,
or the awful unlashed eye of an aveng
ing Deity. Men were not excited, but
stunned, and stood dumb apparently ;
watching with vacant stare the rolling
and surging of the sea of fire, that was
lapping up with tongues of flame their
consecrated homes, and sweeping away
the accumulated comforts and toil of
years. Some wept silently like children,
and wrung their hands like women.—
Remorseless flame! what cared it for
tears? It leaped for very:joy ;it leaped
and danced upon thehouSeroofs ; it shot
up in great pyramids, and curled up
and nestled down in the chambers—
Ever In a new place
Lifting its fiery fare."
At about 8 o'clock the conflagration,
viewed from an elevated position, fearful
ly reminded the spectator of the ancient
paintings representing hell. Whole
acres were billowed over by flame and
smoke, and a great cloud, the smoke of
its torment, hung over the city. Verily
had the " day for which all other days
were made" heel actually come ; the
consternation, terror, and agony of the
scene could hardly have been enhanced.
The devil was loosed for hislittle season;
God seemed to have removed his provi
dence, and was whirling to chaos and
ruin together. Thieves, black and white
were abroad by hundreds. Retreating
in advance of the first, they broke open
stores, robbed and plundered, and then
aided in the spread of the flames by
firing the stores plundered. Few
saved a tenth part of their plunder ;
and that plundered by one set of thieves
often fell into the hands of another
gang of pillagers. The gutters and
sidewalks of Main street were strewed
with silks, satins, bonnets, boots, hats,
clothing, fancy goods, 'cosmetics. Men
drunk with the liquor that was to be
had ad libitum flowing in the streets
and decorating the sidewalks in bottles
and casks, staggered under the burden
of great loads of stolen goods. Men,
women, boys and girls, half stifled with
the smoke that rolled along the street,
" tugged, pulled, hauled, and tussled"
with one another, all endeavoring to
save as much as possible from the
general wreck and ruin impending—
not for the owners, but for themselves.
Weak children tugged at boxes of tobac
co, rolling them when too heavy, end for
end, to places of safety. Women grab
bled with barrels of flour, screeched and
yelled to each other for assistance, but
rarely got it unless a copartnership of
spoils was agreed upon. Carts, drays,
and wheelbarrows were running in a
continuous train up town, carrying away
the plunder of the pillagers. No law, no
police, there was no one to stop the
wholesale plundering and transfer of
goods. Rights in property were wiped
out ;• no man owned anything. And it
was wonderful to witness the apathy of
owners. Men who were threatened with
the greatest loss, seemed the least dis
posed to save their stock. They stood
like blocks, and saw their wealth scat
tered to the four winds ; parted among
thieves, scattered and trampled in the
street. Some few had a realizing sense
of the situation, and exerted themselves
to save what they could.
When the red demon of fire had
grazed up to Main street, and leaped
upon one of the fine large buildings near
Twelfth street, the owner and occupant,
who was standing in the crowd of pil
lagers and spectators, wrung his hands
and exclaimed, " Oh, just loon there !
It's going to burn up my house, and
everything I've got in the world. I
have worked hard twenty-five years
and cheated no body, and now I'm
going to be robbed of it all in a:moment.
O God, it is too hard ! Then as the
flames enveloped the roof, and glared
out of the window, it seemed too much
for the poor man, and he cried out, ele
vating his arms : " There goes five
hundred thousand dollars to hell, and I
hav'nt got one dollar in my pocket."
Then turning to the crowd
.he continued,
his tears and the smoke 40n1bined stif
ling his utterance, "Go in, boys ; go in !
I'll give you a gold dollar for every
piece of goods you save." The pillagers
went in, but at that moment the roof
fell in, and store and stock was a ruin.
The conflagration was about at its
height when the van of the Union '
army of occupation entered the city at
full gallop by way of Main street. Their
blue uniforms and the cavalry markers
they carried were descried for some dis
tance down Main street, and, as they
came up at full speed, the crowds of
citizens that filled the street could be
seen swaying back and forth like a for
est touched by an onward tornado, and
amid the waving and fluttering of flags
and handkerchiefs along the route. At
the corner of Main and Governor
streets, where a well known citizen was
standing, an officer dashed up, and in
quired in a breath, " which way to the
capitol ?" He was as quickly informed;
and the cavalcade dashed on up Gover
nor street, amid a great clatter of sabres
and hoofs, the roar of exploding shells,
tumbling walls and crackling flames
interspersed by the shouts and exclama
tions from the populace, of "The Yan
kees! The Yankees! Oh, the Yankees
have come!" It was hard to realize,
but there was the veritable blue of
"Uncle Sam," and in a few minutes the
" stars and stripes " floated from the
capitol, where the day previous had ap
peared the " stars and bars" of the Con
federate States.
The subsequent successful efforts put
forth by General Weitzel, his officers,
and men, to stay the progress of the fire
which threatened the destruction of the
entire city, have been made subjects of
record before by us and need not be
again referred to here. The flames were
mastered and their bounds prescribed;
pillaging was stopped, property made
secure, and law and order again reigned
in Warsaw.
President Johnson's First Pardon
At the last term of the United States
Circuit Court, held in this city, Wyman
Parker was sentenced to two years' im
prisonment in the Penitentiary, for,
passing counterfeit greenbacks. Much
sympathy was felt for Parker at the
time, and his sentence was considered
a hard one. A day or two ago President
Johnson sent on a pardon for Parker,
and he will be released. This was one
of the new President's first official acts.
—St. Louis Democrat.
The Currency Bureau
A thorough examination of all the
Departments and details of the Note-
Printing and Currency. Bureaus of the
Treasury, has been instituted by Secre
tary McCulloch. The scrutiny is de
signed to be so thorough that it will
end all rumors of carelessness and frauds
in these branches of the Departments.
Secretary Harrington will bear with
him to Europe :samples of all the United
states securities, bills, &c., sons to detect
attempts at counterfeiting, which has
been , indulged in to a slight degree
across the Water.
r •
--The celebrated horse tamer, , John S.
iturey, nituiehis first appearancefor several
years in Boston on Thursday afternoon.—
His horse "Cruiser" was also present,
The Plot to Barn Philadelphia—lts:lds
covery in Washington—Extraordinary
Revelations.
WASHINGTON, May 2.—The Star of
this evening says the circumstances un
der which the plotto burn Philadelphia
was discovered here were about as fol
lows :
On Friday evening last, Sergeanti.
P.' McKenney, at Sixth street wharf dis
covered two suspicious looking indi
viduals lurking about in the dark, who,
upon seeing they were watched, made
off. On. Saturday evening about the
same hour these two men again made
their appearance at the wharf, when
Sergeant McKenney informed his
commanding officer of the fact
and was instructed to watch
them closely. The sergeant seeing two
men in conversation got close enough
to them to hear one of them inquire of
the other: "Do you think they will
meet to-night? The reply was not
heard, and the men started off,but were
followed by the sergeant, who overtook
them on a vacant lot on Four and a
half street, when one of the men seeing
they were followed, drew a pistol and
fired at the sergeant, the ball taking
effect in his right breast, near the
nipple. Fortunately, Sergeant Mc-
Kenney had a package of letters in his
pocket, through which the ball passed,
and which deadened its force and pre
vented its making a serious wound.—
The sergeant being alone, concluded to
lie still; although not dangerously
wounded, and the fellows believing that
they had killed him,immediately made
off and escaped. The sergeant upon
regaining his feet, discovered a letter
upon the ground which the man who
fired the pistol had pulled from his pock
et with the weapon. Upon returning
to his quarters the sergeant discovered
that the letter was of some importance,
and it was accordingly sent to Colonel
Ingraham. The letter revealed the fact
that there was a deliberately planned
scheme on foot to burn the city of Phil
adelphia, in which a large number of
conspirators were to take part, and also
contained a request urging certain par
ties, reported to be the two men alluded
to above, to be in Philadelphia on the
30th of April, as an attempt to destroy
the city would be made on Ist of May,
when the final blow would be struck
and the torch not lowered until the city
was in ashes and their pockets filled
with treasure.
Colonel Ingraham, after reading the
letter, immediately despatched officers
to the railroad station, where it was as
certained that two men, answering the
description of the two men who had
assailed the sergeant, had taken passage
on the train which had left the depot
only a few minutes before. Informa
tion of the discovery of the plot was
then telegraphed to General Cadwala
der, at Philadelphia, and early on Sun
day evening, Captain Potts, chief of
military detectives and patrols atttach
ed to Colonel Ingraham's office, was
despatched to Philadelphia with such
details of the plot as had come to the
knowledge of the authorities here,
which go to show that there are some
800 conspirators banded together for the
purpose of burning Philadelphia and
other Northern cities. The affair is
now undergoing a thorough investiga
tion.
Giving the Radicals a Wide Berth
The special despatch to the Philadel
ohia Lcdllcr, a paper which has given
the presentadministration itsentire and
hearty support, we regard as most
significant :
WAsn NuroN, May 2.—There are
certain indications which go to show
that President Johnson, like the la
mented Lincoln in his latter days, is
gi the extreme Radicals a wide
berth, and I hazard nothing in saying
that theproclamation offering the South
to trade will be soon followed by evi
dences still more conclusive of the de
sire of the President to heal the breach
as quietly and pleasantly as possible,
and unite the two sections again in
"one harmonious whole."
You will note that his proclamation
reviving trade is not addressed alone to
the loyal people of the South, but in
cludes the "well disposed " in its privi
leges, and that, too, without compelling
them to take the much abused and often
broken oath of allegiance. The South,
in so far as trade is concerned, could ask
no more than this, for the door of com
merce is open as wholly and as freely
to all the people as if such a thing as
war had not been known. Whether
they will avail themselves of the offer
remains to be seen, but they must he
rebellious, indeed, if they allow so hand
some a privilege to remain a dead letter
with them.
I understand, upon authority which I
cannot doubt, that terms equally gener
ous to those offered to and evepted by
Lee and Johnston, will be shortly offer
ed the whole Southern people--a few of
their leader in the rebellion alone except
ed. In other words there will be a gen
eral amnesty tendered, and a disposi
tion evinced to make the situation for
our " wayward sisters" as pleasant as
possible.
The radical element have got an ink
ling of the policy of I he President, and
declare that its adoption will end in the
retention of slavery at the South, thus
defeating, as they believe, the great ob
ject for which the war, during the past
four years, has been fought, and leaving
the old " bone of contention" still to be
attacked and gnawed around by the op
posing factions.
But letthose beware who attempt to
oppose the policy of President John
son. Mr. Lincoln has been credited with
firmness, but in his successor's little
finger there will be more of the Jack
sonian firmness than there was in Mr.
Lincoln's whole hand.
Let Andrew Johnson but show him
self the man to pursue such a line of
policy as is indicated in the above
despatch, and he will receive the sup-
Fort of the entire Democratic party
from the moment he indicates that to
be his intention. Surely with that, in
addition to the support of all the con
servative men of his own party, he
would feel fully strong enough to face
the impracticable radicals of New Eng
land. Under such a policy each of the
Southern States could be brought back
to the Union most speedily, and with
the least possible injury to its material
resources. All the best interests of the
nation imperatively demand that Presi
dent Johnson should give the extreme
radicals a very wide berth.
I rllier - The Albany Express—one of the
warmest abolition papers in the country
—in speaking of the thirst for revenge
manifested in the avowal that there
should be no more mercy toward the
South, by speakers in commenting upon
the greet calamity which has befallen
the nation—says, if there is to no
mercy, then it is time to pull down our
pulpits, and to build up plat
forms for the gallows to quint
iuple our prison houses, to change
half ;of our asylums and hospitals into
jails and dungeons. No more mercy.'
Then in vain the Sons of God said upon
the cross, ' Father ' forgive them for
they know not what they do and in
vain God himself declared, 'Vengeance
is mine—.l will repay.' No more mercy.
Then let every . offender against
God, man and country receive an
eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.—
States and courts, judges and parents,
princes, and masters, on this plea will
unsheath the sword and strike at all who
depart never so much from the strict
law of duty. Thank God, this is not the
sentinient of a Christian, patriotic,
humane, or wise people. No man could
live; an hour tried by a tribunal where
there is no mercy, and so long as Christ's
Sermon, an the Mount stands, or the
spirit of Christianity lives in the hearts
of the people, it will be a living rebuke
to those who demand that there shall be
nomoremerey.' " '
7he Plot to Itrn Philadelphia.
Wirpdblish in another column the
Washthgton' account' of the rumored
plot - to bruin 'Philadelphia. To us it
sounds like a regular cock and bull
Story.
NUMBER 18.
The. Allisissippl Steamboat Disaster.
Siatethent of a Passenger—Appalling
Details.
[From the Memphis Bulletin.]
W. D. Snow, United States Sen
ator from Arkansas, furnisheS the fol
lowing particulars :
The Sultana contained two thousand
one hundred and seventy-five souls.
The density with which they were
packed had awakened my curiosity,
and I looked over with the clerk his
certificates and books before retiring.
This number included eighty-five hands
employed on the boat. There were some
females, besides a few children. The
bulk Of passengers were returned prison
ers fromAndersonville,which place they
left oti the 1 ith of las t February. Among
them were the remnant at that point of
the prisoners captured at Chickamauga
and Gettysburg. They number al
together one thousand nine hundred
and seventy-six men and thirty-six offi
cers. A large number of horses were on
the boat, which providentially became
unresisting victims to the flames. Had
they broken loose the fate of the swim
mers would have been determined
within two hundred yards of the boat.
As near as can be estimated without
other data than observation, between
two and three hundred reached the
bank, while about an equal number
floated down the stream on doors and
furniture.
A dense mass, estimated at about five
hundred, took refuge on the bow of the
boat, while the flames were driven aft
qy the wind. A few moments after
wards the wheel houses, loosened by
the concussion and flames, fell off out
ward, and the boat turned stern up
stream, reversing the flames. The
largest part of this number must then
have perished, as they had no material
at hand to throw over to sustain them
selves, except a few bales of hay, which
were immediately seized on the turning
of the boat. The gang planks were
thrown overboard, but sank at once
under their living freight, and rose too
far out of reach for most. The yawl
boat was launched, bottom up, from the
hurricane deck, upon the heads of those
below, and afforded a support for a few
in that condition. The whole time be
fore the boat was an entire sheet of
flame could not have exceeded twenty
minutes. I was not more than one
third of the distance to shore when I
observed the fact. The prisoners repre
sented almost every State in the Union,
even Texas, and the calamity will be as
widely felt as a battle of no inconsider
able proportions.
The New President
As the country is now interested in
all that relates to Andrew Johnson, and
especially in his "record," we repro
duce the following. The other day we
published his vote in favor of the "Crit
tenden Compromise," on the 2d day of
March, LSO, and before the war. After
the war had begun, he offered, on the
24th of July, 1861, in the Senate, the
following resolution—being the same as
that offered by Mr. Crittenden in the
House of Representatives on the 22d of
July :
Resolved, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the
country by the disunionists of the
Southern States, now in arms against
the Constitutional Government, and in
arms around the Capitol ; that in this
National emergency, Congress, banish
ing all feeling of mere passion and resent
ment, will recollect only its duty to the
whole country ; that this war is not
waged on their part in any spirit of op
pression or for any purpose of conquest
or subjugation, or purpose of overthrow
ing or interfering with the rights or es
tablished institutions of those States,
but to defend and maintain the su
premacy of the Constitution, and to
preserve the Union,with all the dignity,
equality, and rights of the several States
unimpaired ; and that as soon as these
objects are accomplished the war ought
to cease.
At the suggestion of Mr. Sumner,
says the Dayton Empire, it was laid
upon the table, but the next day was
called up by Mr. Johnson. A debate of
sonic length followed. Mr. Polk, of
Missouri, proposed that the war should
be charged upon Northern disunionists
also. To which Johnson replied : " The
resolution does nothing but set forth a
single fact particularly, as it has oc
cured since this contest commencea.
Trumbull, of Illinois, and other Repub
lican Senators, objected to the denial
that "subjugation" was the object of
the war. To which Johnson replied:
" Of course the resolution contemplates
the enforcement of the laws and a sub
mission of the rebels to the laws and
the Constitution. The resolution simply
states that we are not waging a war for
the subjugation of States. If the Con
stitution is maintained, and the laws
carried out, the States take their places
and all rebel citizens must submit.
That is the whole of it." This is very
different from the "Solicitor Whiting
theory," which territorializes the se
ceded States. It is remarkable that
while Johnson's speeches before the
war and since, made in the
Senate, are very bitter against trea
son and traitors, threatening the ex
treme penalties of the law, they con
tain nothing definite about slavery.
And the same is equally true of all his
remarks since his inauguration as Vice-
President and President. He is yet to
declare his policy distinctly upon that
most troublesome of questions ; for he
is not bound by the policy or procla-
mations of his predecessor. Let not
the "radicals" rejoice too soon. In
any event he declares himself against
consolidation.
Liability of Railroads for Baggage.
The Supreme Court in New York
city has recentlymade a decision touch
ing the liability of railroads in the
transportation of baggage, which will
be of interest to travelers and to dose
corporations generally. It appears that
a Mrs. Rawson, wife of a wealthy re
tired merchant in that city, was travel
ing from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in
the night express, in September last,
when the train she was on collided at
Thompsontown with a coal train. The
engine, tender, baggage cars, and two
or three of the passenger cars of the ex
press train ran almost through the coal
train, were broken to pieces and
destroyed by a fire caused by the colli
sion. Many were injured and several
killed. Mrs. Rawson was in a rear car
and escaped uninjured, but she had the
inevitable big trunk and little trunk—
though not the bandbox and bundle—
and in them was stored more than Miss
Flora McFlimsey's wardrobe, because
she proved to the satisfaction of even
the defendant, the Pennsylvania rail
road company, that the clothing and
jewelry in the trunks were worth
$4,000. To recover this sum she brought
suit. The defence was that the company
were not responsible as insurers for the
safe transportation of baggage to the
amount claimed. It was an unusual
and unreasonable amount as to value,
and there was 'a printed notice on the
ticket stating that the company would
not be liable for the baggage of passen
gers exceeding in value $lOO, or in
weight 80 pounds. The plaintiff claimed
that the pay for the safe transportation
of the trunks was included in the fare,
and that the notice was not a contract.
She recovered the full amount, having
numerated the various articles of her
attire.
'Xiir It is stated as a curious fact that
the .person who owned the farin upon,
which the 'battle of Bull Atm was fought,
also owned the house.in which Gens. •
Grant and Lee drew'up their'articles of
the latter's surrender.
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square of ten lines; ten percent 4 iUreasef for
fractions of a year.
REAL ESTATE, P=BO3IAL rammaTir:and G.
ratAX. ADVADITMJNG, 7 cents A - line fOr the
first, and 4 cents for each subsequent baser.
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Third column,/ year,.
tL a u=oltunn,..
Mans, of ten lines or less,
One year, ... . 10
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LEGAL AND OTHER NOTICES—
Executors' notices
Administrators' notices
Assignees' notices,
Auditors' notices,
Other " Notices," ten lines, or less ,
three times,
Will the Decline In Gold be Permanent?
The financial columns of the N. Y.
_Herald are the ablestpart of that paper.
In its report of yesterday we find the
following specdlations in regard to the
probable course of gold, accompanied
by some sensible remarks which we
commend to all our readers :
The coin disbursed by the Sub-Treas
ury, in exchange for the five-twenty
May coupons, is finding its way to the
street, and this operates to depress the
premium in the absence of a strong de
mand for legitimate or speculative pur
poses. There was considerable activity
in the Gold Room to-day, but specula
tion has almost exclusively favored a
fall, the tendency of the premium hav
ing been to sink by its own weight un
der the revived confidence in the na
tional credit, consequent upon the prac
tical termination of the war. Gold may
and probably will go still lower in the
present condition of the market and
under the existing state of :Whirs and
public feeling ; but it is, nevertheless,
likely to sell at a higherpremium years
hence. As yet the state of the finances
of the country have hardly entered into
the consideration of either speculators
or the community at large. The peo
ple do not know how large the debt is,
or is to be, or what will be be the future
course of taxation upon which the gov
ernment credit is based, and in the light
of dawning peace they look only on the
bright and rosy side, and regard remote
contingences as immediate possibilities.
The stern logic of facts must, notwith
standing, ultimately assert itself, and
we shall find that, vast as our resources
are, they will be fully taxed to meet the
obligations of the government; that
gold is, after all, better than irredeem
able paper, and that a heavy national
debt is by no means a light burden.
From New Orleans
The steamer Guiding Star arrived at
New York from New Orleans, 251 h, and
Havana 2Sth.
The destruction or the rebel rain
Webb is fully confirmed. She passed
New Orleans under the heavy lire of
our war vessels, the Lackawanna send
ing a 250 pound shot through her bows.
Only one vessel, the Hollyhock, Lieut.
Commander Uherardi, was ready to fol
low, which kept close upon the track of
the Webb until 28 miles below the city,
the rebel ran the sloop of war Richmond
ready for action, and turned for the
shore, the Hollyhock going straight to
her.
The Webb's officers and crew fired at
her in different places, and fled into the
swamps. Boats from the Hollyhock
boarded her, and saved one man who
had been abandoned, and was asleep.—
They were unable to put out the flames
from the inflammable nature of the car
go, and frOm fear of an explosion of her
magazine. The Webb was armed with
three guns, one a 32-pounder, and was
commanded by Lieut. C. W. Reed, for
merly of the U. S. Navy, and comman
der of the pirate bark Tucony, which
inflicted much damage on our commerce
a year or since. There were 217 bales of
cotton aboard, besides rosin and turpen
tine. It seems the pilot of the Rich
mond knew the Webb. Two of the
crew had given themselves up.
The New Orleans Times of the 25th
reports that the steamer Gen. Hodges
came out of the Red River 23d, under
flag of truce, for the purpose of negoti
ating with Col. Sprague, Chief of Staff
of Gen. Pope, for the surrender of Gen.
Kirby Smith and his force. Colonel
Sprague left Cairo on the gunboat Lex
ington for the purpose or meeting Gen.
Hodges at the mouth of Red River, and
there can be little doubt that Kirby
Smith has surrendered his entire force.
The terms are those proffered by Gen.
Grant to Lee. The Lexington and
Hodges, at last accounts, were anchored
at Hog Point, a few miles below the
mouth of the Red River.
The surrender of the Rebel secretary
Mallory, at Pensacola, is confirmed.
Eight millions of dollars in green
backs had arrived in New Orleans to
pay our troops, and as much more was
on the way.
Claiborne, Alabama, had been occu
pied by our cavalry under Gen. Lucas,
after a victory over a regiment of rebels,
north of Mount Pleasant. The rebels
lost 10 killed, 15 wounded and 22 pris
oners. Our loss was 3 killed and 9
wounded. 500 bales of cotton were se
cured.
Capt. Pickens, who has forsaken the
Rebel cause, has issued an address to the
people of Louisiana.
The Rebel Gen. Chalmers is reported
murdered in Texas.
Deserters were coming in from Texas,
and enlisting in our army at Brazo.
An inundation at San Antonio, Texas,
had destroyed twenty-five buildings and
ten or twelve lives.
Important Proclamation by the Presl-
The Assassination of Mr. Lincoln-8100,-
000 Reward Offered for the Arrest of
Jeff. Davis---Lare Rewards for the
Arrests of his Fel lows.
By the President of the United States of America :
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, It appears from evidence
in the bureaus of military justice that
the atrocioui murder of the late Presi
dent, Abraham Lincoln, and the at
tempted assassination of the Hon. Wm.
H. 'Seward, Secretary of State, were in
cited, concerted and procured by and
between Jefferson Davis, late of Rich
mond, Virginia, and Jacob Thompson,
Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, Geo.
N. Saunders, William C. Cleary, and
other rebelsand traitors against the Gov
ernment of the United States harbored
in Canada:
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States, do offer
and promise for the arrest of the said
persons, or either of them, within the
limits of the United States, so that they
can be brought to trial, the following re
wards :
One hundred thousand dollars reward
for the arrest of Jefferson Davis.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the
arrest of Clement C. Clay.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the
arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mis
sissippi.
, Twenty-five thousand dollars for the
arrest of George N. Saunders.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the
arrest of Beverly Tucker.
Ten thousand dollars for the arrest of
William C. Cleary, late clerk of Clem
ent C. Clay.
The Provost Marshal General of the
United States is directed to cause de
scription of the said persons, with no
tice of the above reward to be published.
, In testimony whereof, I have
L. S. r ' hereunto set my hand and
' caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the
2d day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
five,and of the Independence of the
United States of America.
By the President,
ANDREW JOHNSON
W. HUNTER, Acting Sec'y of State
Regulating Trade and Reorganizing
Courts in the South.
WASHINGTON, May 1.
Chief Justice Chase, accompanied by
his daughter Nellie, Mr. W. P. Mellen,
General Supervising Agent of the
Treasury Department, and Mr. White
law Roeid, of Cincinnati, and a number
of newly appointed Treasury agents,
left here this evening, upon a special
steamer, to visit all the cities along the
Southern coast from Norfolk to New
Orleans, and thence proceed up the
Mississippi river to Memphis. Mr.
Mellen goes out to arrange the working
of the Treasury Department regulations
in reference to trade in the Southern
States, and Judge Chase to look after
the reorganization of the machinery of
the United States Courts.. Tivsy-carry
with them important proclamations
toimhing the special 'cibjects of their re
spective missions:- -
--Sorne Rochester gentletnen design 'to
piesent to Gen Sheridamflie heaVy silver
Qr gold forks, of fl'sie tines' each, rnarkild'
with the letters '• F. F. V.," in memory of
of the battle of Five Forks, Va,