THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER. PIJBLISRED EYETAT WEDNESDAY BY H. G. SMITH & CO A. J. STEINMAN. + G. SMITH -Ao..4B—Two Dollars per annum payable In all cases In advance. THE LAIWASTIIIt DAILY INTZLLIGENCEIL IS pubilahed every evening, Sunday , excepted, at 85 por annum In advance. OFFICE--F3OUTEIVIIIST CORNER Or CENTRE QRARE. 0 o ettp STRUCK DOWN AT ILF;R POST A French paper relates a touching Inci• dent of the campaign. While a Sister of Charity was tninistering to a dying soldier on the field of battle, a cannon ball struck her and killed her on the spot. Dead on the corpse-strewn battle plain Where war's dread work Is Jun.:, She lies, amid the, heaps of slain, The pure and holy lime. • Slie saw tile stricken soldier full, And, ere the strife was o'er, Hilo rushed, unifeedlng blade or hall, To staunch Ills flowing gore; To gently raise ills drooping head, To cool hie lips of flame— To whisper, ere his spirit lied, The Saviour's holy Illtlue: And on from tele to 1,110 to let., Midst those Who living yet, Lav groaning on the erlins'ined grass Their 1,10011 had wet: With salnuy iovo and tenderfies., Their suffering hearth to aid, Whate'er the color of the dress Through which theft Wolllicle Were uuoL , And—ln whatever form of speveil They prayed to God Immo Unto their dying lips to reach The elehlele or Ills love. But oil, the battle's thuuJ r. rlug swell Had rolled not far away, And still the eiltrclercele Ic•C I Where cloud mei ilyll,g bev', Bullets, come wile4llov, hy, Huge shot tole tip the grcelll— And shells, 111, meteors iron] on 1114/1, Spread lush , l ot ruction romel. Him Illnehed not while thee //tlled pa , l, Nor turned 111,11,1.1 /1.,i111•; illlllll.llth woloccl verve et 11,1, 1,1 , .:.1her (:.el tr011111..1. NISHEA THINGS 'THAT NEVEit liii Thr intro. th. 1,r1411. 1 . 11111 `lt ir1 . 1 . 11 uur 111 . 111 . 1 S lu3 .Fili Thu in/1/111 , 1• • TQ 1/1,11 . , lirl . 11111.1•1 , t. 1 1 ,1 1r .1; Th., 111.. Them: I 11,•„•r timid linn.l t .1 A brollp, In 1114 Thl• lllll.llle W.,11 In gricl. dull; low. Thi‘l TIP. ph, Pp . pp•r,.y....mly Wlp , ii 11 . 1• ill1,:d111 , hi 411, TIal• Korn v. , ill n 0.111 1,, h. • van 114,4,111, The 111.!111 , ,ry oh a vhoddin.; hand, prt,...nre• it hi,t, Anil all tin, I ri11..., .wort. and 114. l'hmt. MR. tlp 11,41 blls4 If Wlth It i11,1111110111.1 . 4111g hlll It Atici holy trllht tIII4I nigh, Tho., h:tv.• 1 , 11,1•.• I, th..s. I lyn li lvr 9.1.1 thingi hlmll Lion, di... Tho ertloi and it, hlth•r Tllll.l. W01111.1011:14 It loll; TllllOllllllll4 . e.ull nl .1,1111:IlllY. Wu fucl I/111 101 l ; Ti,, hurl n•ol , e, that ,•,3111s Ipsin I WlnHe hlpr..4 \Vol, In an unfatllng rrenrd kept Tnese tiling, shall in•vi.t. Let nothing piss; for sirs 11:t.1 Must 11.11.$ ,Lo en 11111 n111:1114, II It.' tirnl,llll.l hildl, Ithil • ; So Shull it light 1111,1 1. 111111'thist.% 11 , 11,1 ion 111,11. And urnitiii ..lay lu lln , . • •.. 1 . 114,1. 111111 g, I 11.•1 1" Alisrclancom Fort Sumter Fact. hu Itrint ..... to the Expetllllota Or 114,14 i by the Allotitsittlrot ..... of Prett. Itlettt. Lincoln for lilt! Relief of hit Gorriotott 11t Fora S . er. Extracts trout helaatxy, art ale No ember, 1,75. No question that presented itself dur ing the four eventful years of his ail iiiiiiiistration gave Pr•sidont Lincoln greater annoyance and embarrassment than the ilitllctilt one relating to Fort Sumter and its garri , on, \w Mich Wet hilt) ILL the verve thre:41.(1(1((f 11k dent ial career. Ile had said iu his i augural address, :LIM honestly uud sin cerely intended, that " the power con fided to we will lie used to hold, erlu- Ity and possess the sad places belonging to the tiovertinient, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but he yolid what nmy Lc uecess:u•y objects there Will be no invasion, tiii timing or rorooogoiost er :inning the Ise,- pie anywhere." 11Ir. Lincoln adopted a forbearing and conciliatory course, and indulged a hope longer than mi.( of his friends, that reconciliation could he effected. 11,• persisted in Ilk resolution to e.);11allsl all peaceable means, and miller no cir cunistanees ill be age:lies:iv, lint the question in relation to Sunder anti the condition of the garrison W:l5 elnietr rassitig. If lie sent troops and attempt ed to reinforce .111dersom it would he claimed on one hand to he a fultlllnient of the assertion that Inc in tended to subjugate the South. till the utiler hand, many of his impulsive liut inconsiderate supporters demanded that lie should adopt instant measures to re inforce the garrison—the very step which his opponents wi , heil him to take. On the morning of the itth of March, HUI, two days after the inauguration, the lion. Joseph Holt, who continued to discharge the duties of Secretary of IVar, called on me at the Navy Depart ment, with the enmitliwo u t.e of Lieut. General Scott, :old regue,ted nit at tendance at the War Department 01l matters of special importance. I went with hint immediately to the of fice of the Secretary of N't'ar, where were several persons elniven NI, as I soon learned, by order of the Pre,ident.--- Among them were Generals Scott and Totten and two or three rittonbers or the Cabinet. Generals Scott commeneed by stating that important, I esp . atelies had been re ceived trom Major Anderson in relation to the condition of the garrison at Fort Sumter, which the President had di rected hint to submit to the Secretaries of War and Navy. Ile proceeded to comment on the perilous situation of the country, and the difficulties:old embar rassments he had experienced for months; related the measures and pre cautions he had taken for the public safety, the advice and warnings he had given to President Buchanan, unfortunately, had made less impression than the etnergeney demanded. Inner counsels than this had prevailed. In stead of meeting the crisis at the (lan mencement, or preparing for the storm which threatened us, a passive course had been adopted, and the public mind was now greatly inflamed. lie hail, he said, with the knowledge of Secretary Holt, taken the responsibility of tirgiin izing and ordering a small military force to be present at the inauguration, for the protection of the (buvernment. and for the security of the ;Lrehives and public property. This force wa,, how ever, insufficient for tile public safety should a con Met take place,and lie would not conceal from us his apprehensions that one was imminent, :did perhaps inevitable. The despatches froni Minor t010r,.11, which were received en the 4th of March, contained in tel dis tressing charaeter. 'l'lley infornmil the Government that his supplies were al most exhausted, and that Lillie, provis ions could he received tv itliin six weeks the garrison would tie de:AMU, and must evacuate the fort. s * „ Memoranda were submitted front Major Anderson, in which all the offi cers under his command united, ex pressing his professional opinion that Fort Sumter could not be relieved and reinforced with less titan twenty thou sand good and well-disciplined men.— These views were fully endorsed by th•• military gentlemen who were consulted, and had great influence On tile Presi dent und Cabinet. Mr. Seward from the commencement doubted not only the practicability of reinfacing Sumter, but the expediency of any attempt to provision the garri son, therein diMring from every one of his colleagues, though iu perteci accord with Gen. Scott. The subject in all its aspects was less novel to him than the rest of us, and from some cause his con clusions were wholly unlike the others. If not indifferent, he had none of the zeal which inspired his colleagues, but scented to consider it an unimportant or settled question. The insurgents had possession of Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, and in fact all the defences of Charleston; what benefit, he asked, could we derive from retaining this isolated fortress if it were possible to do so? Mr. Blair, on the other hand, who was scarcely less familiar with the whole supject than Mr. Seward, was emphatic and decisive from first to last that Sum ter should be reinforced at any cost Or any sacrifice. The members of the Cabinet, with the exception of Messrs. Seward and Blair, coincided in the views of the President, and like him were embarrassed by the question presented. They were united in the opinion that the Federal author ity must be asserted and maintained, but under the circumstances deprecated hatty coercive measures, and, unless it became absolutely necessary, were un willing in view of the military counsels to resort to force to provision the fort. Commodore Stringham and Comman der Ward, after investigating the sub- .0. - ..... - /[) . t 3e(itt/tOtet VOLUME 71 ject, ascertaining the number of batter ies to be encountered and obstacles to be overcome, and listening to the argument of General Scott, united with him In the expression of their opinion that it would be unadvisable to attempt to relieve Sumter. Commander Ward therefore returned on the .12th of March to his duties in Brooklyn. Th e supplies in the fort were getting low when Mr. Banton, the former busi ness partner of the President, who had been sent as aspecial and trusty messen ger to Major Anderson, after the visit and report to Mr. Fox, returned on the 28th of March and stated it would be impossible to reinforce the garrison, and that the provisions on hand would be exhausted by the 151.11 of April, but a little over two weeks from that date. On receiving this information from Lamm), the President declared he would send supplies to the garrison, and if the secessionists forcibly resisted, on them would he the responsihility of initialing hostilities. This conclusion, though it conflicted in some degree with the views of the military' gentlemen, he felt to he a political necessity. lie could, con sktently with his convictions of his duly, and with the policy which I, Lad enunciated in his inaugural, order the evacuation of ;-lutriter; and it would he inhuman on his to permit the herd, garrison to he starved into a surrender without. an attempt. to relieve it. The :: - 101:1'1,1111'y 1:1 Male NV:LS till: unniiher of the Caldin L win) did not Vollllll' 111 011•` , 1,11 , 111,11:11S : Ullll 111!(.11:1111:111:1.,1101 , -.41111y 1, 111.r 1 :vVI s t 011111 He dui WO, hilWovt•r, nive oarne,t apprnval, but in ae , ihic , clw.r reititratcd ttli,d he i cd d —that thc ailempt it wade tenuld une., a failure ; that, OW 1 . :11111: , W:i11111 ,trchtrthen the ,ece:,:ad and weal:en the (;dvern ni,•ht thdt in the intilnik :11e 1 ::::111111'11:•1 . 1141•111. NVtilllll fii1 . 1,11,•1: 1111 11'11,1 , :1 1/i . :11111 plaice 1111 11- W:11N:111 , , 111 it NS1 , 111:4 1111:1 fah.. Prc-ident tvaq dcehl,l iu the !hal ,rhateeer ',HI)t he the military ;ell, c(1/1 . 1111,110,1iffil, 111.1:::.--:1:1:•• :11111 111- , duly roiaircd limit there ,houhl he an attempt hi rcht• r,rue the ishirri-nn. On the nest day, thercf”re, I received the 1n11,,,t ing oniminicatinn: hixt•cr Max-ins, Nflrch 1,61, tint: I I Onirlf that. Itn by t re.ly IM I.:triy liit. ;111 Irl .‘lorli IltlXt, thu 1%11 , 10 :Iceol,llllz to ilioliloi111,111111(111 . 1.sOri; uuJ that. Cnit,- ,perate tcitlt ill NV0.t . 1 . ,. twat Your obedient. s,rvatit., (Mffilomul.ht.) Navy I,..partnwilt ;It N4tr6hlk, Lha Pawnpti at and revennot•llLlVl• I larrit•t I.alw at N , ,," Virrk, ht he , reailV SC:1111011 leaving the ri.,,iving Ship nl Nt•tv War 1/I.llartllll.llt—TNV.llllllliirvil 111011 al NPw burl: ready to IPave Uno year'," slim, Ln br I II iti n pi,rtalth• form. This communication and inomoramitt from the President were my tnitliorily t,,r proeop•pling to lit out all ill Vi/11 . 11111VIiilll with the \Vat' Depart ment to l'einloree l'ort Sunder. A, the object ,vas to relieve a military garrison the expedition a Military Inte, and (ya, under the control and direction of the NV:Li• I)epartinotit. The 'Peeretary 4 \v4. speviallyconintip , sioned)lr. I , ox •-1 hen a 'private citizen of :‘hts,.44- ,4i,, but ~/11112 weeks alter the termina tion of Sumter expedition made A. -is . taipt Seeretary the :avy—atitl LP;ave him his written imtruction,. steanieir Powhattaii, t which arrived in New Yuri: while these in:titers pending, :tad hall been onicrcl Milt cotnitti,,ion, Nvai ti) the vt.,,,21 , enumerated in Lill' 111ent iranila, her ;11111 craw were iletinieil indispensable for landing the just returned filial a criti-ie and greatly needed rr it NViIS hclicvc,l, Lc nir this brief i.iereiee iit tlitTef,re Scilt tlie 1-L cif April to [lie tionimantlant of the l.ruu layu navy yard, revolting the order l,y whicli her ollicers were liettli_ilititt pat out but coniarksion : NVASIIINI/lON. .I.lol'il I. II. , ..01V1•11 P. Al. ; Dcparti!lent revi,kos its ,no.lerf.ir the detadmielit of tine ,•liirers the P..wliataii awl the transit., taint di..llal - 4ellr her error. 11,,141 her inn readines, sea SOrVit•o. DErIN :•,evretar . N - ..Ithe Navy. After m'ith the Pri.siticlit. uvhn \ vas earnest. and deeply interest,l in the expedition, I sent the folhoving additional anti peremptory telegram: W.,IIINIiTON, U. C. A krii, t;;:o P. AI . Fit kali. Po \Vltataii L., qu It; .r.l at tilt Nest pin,il)l(.lnloittvill. 1;11,E.o; NVELLE , , tierrclary urtl/P Navy I;ut :\ Ir. Seward was very per sistent, declariug at the ,:itue tinu , it would be nitwit wore advi,ttlde to rei - 1 . 01%, :111 , 1 Sumpter. It was, lie elnitned praelieal.,le le save l'iekeu-, but abuuhl there be it conflict it \vas /lI rOSSCIiIY ble to retail' Sumter. Otte wotthl IL Nra,le ellort aril eller be con , iilered it 11, the itionstration, iuiliatiiiq war—‘eliile tile other would he it peaceable awl etri...- tive 1-nov12111(.1th It teas admitted that, in the event of tsar, it won'd be necessary to strength en both positions; hut there was no im mediate call for additional forces at Piekens, fora large part ..0 the home 6411.1adr01l was already oil Pensacola. Aid to Pickens Neati ant therefore furth er discussed, though the subject was not wholly relinquished. On the 3.lth. of \Larch, the day sw eet...ling my instructions front the Pres ident, orders were issued to the onus mandants of the Itrooltlyn, IVashing ton and Norfollt yards to . prepare the vessels named for service. Seamen on the la.eeiving ship whom the iitt%;y .1(.- 1,111'011121t had destined for Norl.lk were diverted to the Sumter expedition, anti energy and ncti city stimulated all who in ;toy way ,cure conver-ant synths ta.. subject. \\*lt:never arraizentent- had been made by the retiring Administration to abstain front tile exercise of b'ederal au thority in the:seceding Iviiat evor 11.ky \\,..(11 :not the ili,ltrgeld leader:, \Vial tilt, i:litOeletige and assent u,'auy olie or Illort• ),er, , 011, becalne of the Lincoln Administration. are matters whi..qt it is. 111111cee,Saly to tii,ell-, , at this tittle. It Las been stated by Senator \Vilson \lassachusetts that I\l r. s.tanton, w h ile a member of Mr. limit:titan's 'abinet. it. the %vitae'. of " put hinist.lC iu eollitnilllicatioll whit tile ReptibliCann ill rollgre,,, :ltd kept Well ill rorlll - of What Was . goilig On in the councils of the Administration directly relating It, the dangers or the country." And Mr. l'hurlow \\'eett has avowed and eommended " the coalition then formed by .Messrs. Seward and i....tanton." 1 have no doubt, although I teas 110 t aware of the faet at that time, that, I\lr. Standen communicated " what Wad go ing ou in the councils or the Adminis tration " in the %%litter ()r 15111, notwith standing his colleague, :\ Ir. Plead: gtit.s tions the truth of Senator Wilson's statement. - On the :Ali of March, ;tressrs. john Forsyth, Martin J. Crawford, awl A. IS. Roman, purporting to he commissioners duly accredited by the Government of the Confederate States of America :is commissioners to the Uovernmen I of the United States," appeared in Wash ington, and on the 11th asked, through a distinguished Senator, an unofficial interview with the Secretary of State. This request was " respectfully declin ed ;" and on the same day they address ed him a written communication, which was received at the State Department on the 13th, stating that " Seven States of the late Federal Union having, in the exercise of the inherent right of every free people to change or reform their political institutions, and through con ventions of their people, withdraw from the United States and reassumed the attributes of sovereign power delegated to it, have formed a government of their own." They proceeded to say they de sired a speedy adjustment of all ques tions, etc., and asked au early day to present their credentials to the President of the United States. An answer dated the 15th of March was, it is stated in a postscript, by consent of parties, not de livered until the Bth of April. Personal understanding commenced underßuch anan appears to have been continued into the administration of Lincoln. The memoranda when delivered declined to comply with the request of " the commissioners," and informed them the Secretary of State " has no authority nor is he at liberty to recognize them as diplomatic agents or hold correspon dence or other communication with them." In the interim, however, be tween the 13th of March and the Bth of April, communication, it has been ad mitted, was had by the Secretary of State with the commissions through the Hon. John A. Campbell, then an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the presence of Judge Nelson of New York, also one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. The memoranda of Mr. Seward, delivered on the Bth of April, called out an answer on the following day—the 9th of April— from the commissioners, who State : "In the postscript to your (the Secretary of State's) memorandum you say it was delayed, as was understood, with their ( Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford's) assent. This is true ; but it Is also true that on the 1.5111 of March, Me•srs. Forsyth and Crawford were assured by a person oc cupying a high official position in the Uovernment, and Who, as they believed, was speaking by authority, that Fort Stunted! would be evacuated within a very few days. . On the first of . . April we were again informed that there ought "be an attempt to supply Fort Sumter with provisions, but that Gov ernor Piekens should have previous no tice of the attempt. There wits 110 sug gestion of reinforcements." The following is putt of a published letter of J telge Campbell to the S..ere tary of State, dated April 13, 1'7;61, rela tive to those irregular negotiations or isininninications between tile Secretary of :-Aate and the insurgents: CiTV, April 13, 1 , 61. SI : I 111 Li,u 13th of JLurh ultihn,, I lilt ith.ludgo Uno,vronl, time nl Oho 141015tis ,i,krwrs oh Lilo l'onft,lt•rato State:, a 14010 in ~ vriting to tlw 100 l Nair° 1,111010114 . ,dart Fort Soot for wii I ho ovikoono..l liiiXt Ana this nioastiro ittipt,ing groat tho that 11 , , iiwasure cicui_iuC lilt 0 X ktilllr projtidicially In Lill! 5,,11111,,rn Cdulialurac atatls iv at I pr,,,,,,litootiWnlidated. " I tool all untiru cooldlonoo that an int onaliato doom.' Ilty all lilt, 1,111- 1111111iCallinll 110 prod ucti ca (wit anti 11 , 11.1 r fond. Ido not holitoa3 that it might at Lill. lisle to 'rho cul,st:uuro Cur this statuuuuleaut I emu . unuiluicuattuut to you the same evening by let ter. Five days elapsed, and I called with tele4rain from (ion. Ituanregard to the uulhaut that :SIM] Its 11" t evacuated, but that lajor Anderson was :ut work making. repair, • Tim next day. alter conversing . with von, I emumuni,wed 111 Jihigu writing that the failure to evacuate Sumter was not the result of hati 110111, but was at tributable to 0311,4,1 COUSISIOIIt With till , in tention to 1111111 11111 enga4ennint, awl that as rei.utrileil l'irkens I should have notice •nt any design to alter the existing . status 1 Wore. Mr. .1 usti, Nelson was present at • these iinversatiiins, three in number, and 1 submitied to him each of my written ~1111111111il'ati011ti to .luthre aril informed Judge I. that they lied his I.Judge Nelson's) sanction. I gas, yon nn the of March a SIII,St;111Lial 4 . .,py of the state ' mem I. had made on the I The 3tair of March arrived, an.l at that time a telegram came 11.t111 ii , ,verner enquiring . concerning Colonel Lumen, whose. v],it to Charleston he supposed had a 4 . 4111111,eLi1nl with the proposed evararalien !of Fort Sumter. 1 lets that with you, trod wa; ft,lloWillg day (ht .if Aprir (in the April reetrivial from you the statement in writ ! " I ;MI :,:lti.Slll,l the ~, ,V (21. 1 1111ellt sit not 1111t1Ortal:e to supply Fort :iinriter with ! out.S.; . ivinq notice to !; , )Narralor alll XVOI . O for tie to 11.1 as expressive of e.ediden..,. in the rotmindur 4)f the th•claratintt. The proposition its orioinally prelmrefl teas, "'cite l'rt•sident fnoo I Sumter, but trill nut tiff so," etc and your verbal explanation Sea,: that ally 0111111 at• toitipt svoultl be 'natio, and that there teas Ito 11t,It.:11 to reilllbrue timoter. Thor,: was a departure from Coo plodoes of the proviomt month, but with the verbal explanation I did not then consider it a mat- Ito to complain or. I sinipl . t - stated to you that I had hail that assuranuo previously. 10 the nth of April, I foldrosseil tau letter on the subleot or the alarm that the by the t ;oVerllnlellt had rItl•It- I [Oil, 111111 ItSked you it tilt` 1t ,, 111,11,,,1 I had girell lucre trill or In respect I to :Sumter, your reply teas: "Faith as to Sumter fully kept-trait 11111 see. 11l tilt' - ntornintt's pap, I road, ".An ,tuthorizod mossefozer er , lll Pro,flont inform ' ed tiovernor Picloms and I:enoral Beau regard that provisions trill he sent ut Fort peaCelthly or op(/// 1,2/ 'FMs was the fith of April. at Charkston, the flay followintt your last assurance, and is the et . idenco of the full l'aith :Ca to wait and see. Very respertnilly, Jolly .k. CAMPItEI.I.. A , sooiato 04tice Supreme Court, S. iron. /Ist. 11. SENVAItII, :seo'y of Susie. If any such pledge i indicated in this correliondence was given, or any 111141(`Ntalldillg was had, I WaSlloiltware of it, nor do think it was known at the time to other Wernher- , of the Ad ministration. 11t order.; were given, :mil my acts also were;in perfect sincer ity and good faith, with the hope that Major Anderson and the garrison in Sumter would he re ieved. A knowl edge of the facts set forth in the forego ing correspondence, is essential ton cor rect 1111 , 112EStallaillg.44 the proceedings circumstances attending the expe dition to Sumter. BE= MIME Late in the afternoon of the Ist of while at my dinner at Willard's i - where I then boarded, I\lr. Nicolay, the private i 4 eertitary of the President, hrought me a lame package trom the President. I inonediately broke the envelope, tind found it contained sever , al papers of importance, sonle of which were of a singular character, being in the nature of instructions or or ders from the Executive relative to naval matters of which I knew the President was not informed, and about which .1 had not been consulted. One of these papers relating, to the government of the Navy _Department was mote singular and extraordinary than either of the others, and was as follows: EXECUTIVE :\I ANSUON, April I, T. f,/ the lli:.tlt Sin: You will 11,41 . 111 . ( . 111, l 0 11111110 ill oliservatinu (. • 1117.—important our foreign relations re,lering the pr,,- en,.o of an ulliccr "Crnk. tiler° ;.:,re. , . im portance. Captain Strizh,hinu iFo direo:ed to prooceLl to l'e,nsitcola patch, ,11111 (•"111111illIll 0l Ihat por tion the howl. ~I nadron ,LaLit.lll,l ell l'ensarola. Ile trill hIPU confhlential in ',Li...Lions to co-c,p1 . 1,110 ill l'Very Nvay '.rich I Ile commander, of the land i,rces of the United IIIIIOS in that 11iligill101 . 11 , 1011. The to the army oflieer , , which are str;rtly confidential, h.' communicated to after he iirrives at l'ensaeida. 1i,11 . 1,11 Will I,lieVe Cap iif Detail. Altita lI.UI 1,1N,u1.N. P. S.—.ls it is very no,ssary at this time to halo a perfect knowledgeof the personnel of the navy, reel to he able to detail such olicers tOr special purposes as the exigen cies of the service way require, I request that you will instruct Captain Itarron to prucred and organize the Do roan of Detail in the manner best adapted to meet the wants of the navy, taking cognizaneeidthe of the navy generally, detailing all ouicers for duty, taking charge of the re cruiting of seamen, supervisffig charge,: made against officers, and all matters rela ting to duties which must be best under stood by a sea °nicer. You will please af ford Captain Barron any facility for accom plishing this duty, transferring to his de• partment the clerical force heretofore used for the purposes specified. It is to he un derstood that this °nicer will act by author ity of the Secretary of the Navy, who Will exercise such supervision as he In:1y deem necessary. ABRAHAM .I.II,COLN. On reading this extraordinary letter and more extraordinary postscript, I went without a moment's delay to the President with the package inn any hand. He was alone inn his office writing, and raising his head as I entered he in quired: '•\What have I dune wrong'!" I replied that I had received with sur prise the package containing, among other things, his instructions respecting the navy and the Navy Department, and I had called for an explanation. I then read the foregoing document, the body of which was in the handwriting of Capt. Montgomery C. Meigs, of the army, the postscript in that of Lieut. D. D. Porter, of the navy. Thc President e.c pn•essed as much surprisc as I jolt, That he had signed and sent hie such a do,:n mcnt. He said Mr. Seward with two or three young men had been there through the day, on a matter which Mr. Seward had much at heart; that he had yielded to the project of . .. Yr. Seward, but as it in volved considerable detail and he had his hands full, and more too, he had left Mr. Seward to prepare the necessary papers. These papers he had signed, some of them without reading, trusting entirely to Mr. Seward, for he could not undertake to read all papers presented to him ; and if he could not trust the Secretary of Sin te, whom could he rely LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 9 1870 upon in a public wailer that concerned us all? He seemed disinclined to dis close or dwell on the project, but assured me he never would have signed that paper had he been aware of its contents, much of which had no connection with Mr. Seward's scheme. I asked who were associated with the Secretary of State. "No one," said the President, " but he had these young men here as clerks to write down his plans and or ders." Most of the work, he said, was done in the other room. When I in quired if he knew the young men, he replied, " One was Capt. Meigs, another was a captain with whom he seemed intimate, a naval officer named Porter." Without further inquiry I informed the President that I had no confidence in the fidelity of Capt. Barron, who was by this singular order, issued iu his name, to be forced into official and per sonal intimacy with me, and virtually • to take charge of the Navy Department. lie said he knew nothing of Barron, though he had a general recollection that there was such an officer in the navy, and believed he had seen him in Washington. I called his attention to the order, if I was so to consider it, to organize a Bureau of Detail in the Navy Department, and to transfer to a naval otlicer a portion of the clerical force and civil administrative duties which by law belonged to the Secretary of the l Navy—duties which the Secretary had no right to evade and no legal authority to depute to another. The bureaus of the Department,he was doubtless aware, were established by law and not by an executive order. That this proposition to make a naval officer Secretary dr 'f,cto, to transfer him from his profes ',Mid to civil duties without responsi bility, was illegal, and in my view Mon ,ilrntis. It conflicted with the whole theory of our Grovernment, and the principles on which the Navy Depart ment was organized and established.— The Senate was entitled to a voice in the appointment of chiefs of bureaus. The selection of a trusted ()Inver by the Secretary for advisory and confidential purposes was a difftrent matter. I might, as I had, call an experienced officer to my assistance, with whom I. could consult and advise in re ganl to the personnel of the navy, which was greatly demoralized, and to assist tile in detailing officers of fidelity itnd patriotism ; but Barron was one of the but men I could trust in this emergency with these matters of detail and departmental business. Neither the President nor Secretary had power to cream a new bureau or to bring a professional naval officer into the De partment, and devolve on him the func tions which the law imposed on the Seeretary. Such detailing and consult ing officer as Commodore Stringham, whom I had called to my side in this great emergency, ought to have the im plici eontidenceof the Secretary, should be subordinate to him and be selected by him. 'l'o all of which the President :tssented most fully. I then went on to say that Capt. Barron was an accom plished otlicer and gentleman with whom I had personally pleasant rela tions, but that his feelings, sympathies, and associations were notoriously with the secessionists; that he seas promi nent in a clique of naval exclusives, most of whom were tainted with se cession t hat I was not prepared to say he wonbi desert in the crisis which seemed app:onehing, but 1 had niy ap prehensions that such would be the case; that while 1 should treat him courte ously and with friendly consideration, and hoped most sincerely he would not prove l'alse, 1 could not consent he should have the position nor give him the trust which his instructions imposed. The President reiterated they were nut Iris instructions, and \visited me dis tinctly to understand they were not, though his name was appended to them tin' p,ler r le/1.4 etc improp , r one —that he wished me to give it no more enli,hieration than I thought proper— /tut/it /./4 UMW , 11,1, as if it had never been written. lie reinelnhered, he said, that both .M.r. Seward and Porter had something to say about Barron as all perior to alince.t any officer in the naval service, but whatever his qualifications, Inc would never knowingly have assign ed him or any other man to the position named in the Navy Department without first consulting me. "' ' few weeks after this attempt to thrust lihn into the ,lepartment, the greater portion of this clique of exclus ives sent in their-'l . esignations, de serted the flag, and were dismissed the service. Ilarron, foremost among them, was placed by the rebels in Richmond in command or Fort Hatteras, and on the :luth of August following was cap tured I,y Commodore Stringham, the officer whom, by the strange proceed ings ainl surreptitious orders of the Ist of April, he was to have superseded. If 1 mistake not, this onkel., who, by the order which President Lincoln unwit tingly signed, was to have 11101 almost absolute control of the Navy Depart ment., and to have been made acquaint ed with all its operations, was the first of the naval ollicer:3 that deserted who was made prisoner. It is sufficient here to state that the extraordinary docu ment of the Ist of April was treated as a nullity. Barron, who took rank as cap tain in the Confederate naval service from the Zuth of March, live days before this executive order to create a new bu reau and establish Idin as regent of the Navy Department was "extracted" from tile President, was not assigned to duty in the department, as the instructions directed. Pendergrast did not go to Vera Cruz nor Stringharu to Pensacola. li= When I enquired the object of de fach ing Connuodore Stringham from duty in the Department where I had placed him, the President said he had no reason to give, and in regard to issu ing instructions to Commodore fender grist he was equally ignorant. He knew no cause or either. There was, however, a manifest purpose in some quarter to get rid of the presence of these ex perieneed and trusted officers, and also to get Barron into a responsible position. I stated to hint that the ex pedition to Sumter, which we were ac tively fitting out, would leave us not a vessel in commission east of Cape Hat teras, except the Cumberland, the flag ship of Commodore Pendergrast, whirls vessel 1 had ordered to Norfolk On the fftli of March, the day 1 had received his instructions to send the Poualiontas, then at that navy-yard, on this expedi lion. I protested against settling the Cumberland away at this juncture. She could, I assured hint, render better ser vice to the country in the waters of Vir ginia in this period of uncertainty and danger than at Vera Cruz., and it seem ed to me proper site should be detained at Norfolk, where Commodore Ponder grast could advise with Commodore Mc- Cauley, who o a ts in command of the station, and be prepared with a full and efficient crew to render him assistance if necessary. Tile President concurred with me unqualifiedly,deprecated the interfe rence which had been made in naval af fairs ; and said the idea of sending the Cunt berland away was not his. In direct ing me, without previous consultation or notiee, to detach and send oil commo dore St ri ngham, I confessed to the Pres ident I rot annoyed. The Commodore knew to be true and reliable, and had called him to confidential duties on that, account, but he had expressed to me his preference for service afloat, especially if there should be active duty. I was giving the subject consideration, and could not object to it, unless he had been instrumental in procuring this executive order by indirect management, whirls was wholly unlike into. The President was confident, and I became satisfied on inquiry that Commodore Striugham had no part in the matter; but there had been an improper movement, I will not say intrigue, in some quarter to set hint, who had my confidence, aside for Barron, who had not. It is not neces sary to probe these strange proceedings further. I state the facts. The Presi dent wholly disavowed and disapproved them ; they were not consummated, and never front that day to the close of his life was there any similar interference with the administration of the Navy Department, nor was any step concern ing it taken without first consulting me. For a (lay or two after these proceed ings of the Ist of April there was a de lay in issuing final orders for the Sum ter expedition. The President contin ued to hesitate—or met opposition. It was still persistently urged that the authorities at Charleston should be no tified of the President's intention to send supplies to the garrison, a measure which was opposed as likely to defeat the purpose of the expedition. Mr. Fox, who was to be in command, had, under orders of the President, gone to New York on the 30th of March, to make necessary preparations, but not receiv ing expected instructions, which the discussions in the Cabinet delayed, he returned to Washington on the 3d of ' Mr. Seward remarked to me that, old, April. Only twelve days then remain- a: he was, he had learned a lesson flout ed until the supplies in Sumter would this experience, which was that lie hail be exhausted. Further postponement better:attend to his own business, not would defeat the object of the expedi- interfere with others, and confine his tion. The result was a compromise. ' labors to his proper department. T. The President decided he would send a all of which I assented. ' messenger to Charleston, when the ex• MIDNIGHT VISIT TI) PRE,iIIO.N peditiou sailed, but not before, to notify The President, who had not retired, Governor Pickens of the fact, and that • although it was nearly midnight, was the object was peaceful, and that no astonished and perplexed in regard tu force would be used unless the attempt the statements which we made.— to provision the garrison was resisted. He looked first at one and then the Immediately on this final decision the other; read and re-read the telegram, following orders were prepared anti is- and asked if I was not in error in regard sued by the Secretaries of War and I to the flag-ship. I assured him I wa- Navy. My instructions to Captain ! not, and reminded him that I had read Mercer, in command of the Powliatir, I to him my orders to Capt. Mercer on it, were submitted by myself personally to I day they were written, and they h of the President, and by him were careful- his approval. lid recollected that i•il'- ly scrutinized and approved : I eumstance, but not the name of t h.- WAR DEPARTMENT, °nicer ur the vessel—Sai,l itc !00l Washington, April 5, hvii. i . become confused with the ituit, Captain 0. r. Fox, WalAington, !of Pocahontas and Powhatan. Coot- Sin: It having been decided to succor niodore Stringliam, to whom I. had Fort Sumter, you have been selected fur communicated the instructions, ...o dds important day. Accordingly, you lamed Inv statement ; but In sati-fc will take charge uf the transports in New the President beyond peradventuri•. York, having the troops mid supplies on , went to the department, although it .t • board, to the entranceofCharleston harbor; atst midnight, mud procured Inc pr. ss and endeavor, in the first imitance, to de- I copy. On reading it, lie distinctly ree,ii liver the subsistence, It you are op; coed in this, you are directed hi report the fact betted all the fact-, am/here/1w iii•oidp , to the senior naval °Ulcer of the harior, (ll to Me. S , l,•,trtl, Pordor( t,4 who will he instructed be the Secretary of ' .11; ; hr h ~j the Navy to use his (mare f”ree to upon a )1, .:uppom:rl he' I,tB inro rli Vitt'/ 1 , passage, when you Will if pmisible eil.s•L an s um fr, that oil entrance and place both the troops awl sideratiou should it be defeated or supplies in Fort Sumter. tiered abortive. Mr. Seward thought I am, very respootrall • y, • Oik• was now too late to correct the misia : servant, • said he considered the 00i , r project the i,iipoitunt, and asked whether th would not be injured if the Powlial a n tvas now WithdrilWO, The Pre , idelit would not discuss the subject, but Wa- , not peremptory—said there was not the pressing Deet,sity in the other ca-e, which 1 lc:trued was au enterprise for PiCketi..;. As regarded Sumter, however, not a day was to be lost—that the order: of the Secretary of the Navy must he carried nut, and he directed Mr. Seward to telegraph to that effect to New without a moment's delay. Mr. St.'W,IF.I thought it might be ditlicult to ge; telegram through, it was so hue; Icit the President was imperative. DETERMINED D, 'rl, ll SimoN CAmmios, Secretary 01 War )Conlideritial.) Na.vy liEeditrm April ; ,ief =BEM t=I=MMI The United States steamers Powlial.in, Pawnee, Pocahontas and Ilar•iet Lane will compose a naval force under your coin mand, to be sent to the vicinity a Charles ton, S. C., fur the purpose of aiding in car rying OUL the objects of an expedition Or which the War Department has charge. The primary object or the expedition is to provision I•'ort Sumter, for which pur pose the War Department Will furnish the necessary transports. Should the authori ties or Charleston permit the filet to be supplied, no further particular service will be required or the force under your command; and after being satisfied that supplies have been received at the fort, the Powhatan, Pocahontas, and Harriet Lane will return to New York, and the Pawnee to Wit.shington. Should the authorities at Charleston, however, refuse to permit, or attempt to prevent the vessel or vessels having sup plies on board from entering the harbor, or trout peaceably proceeding to Fort Sum ter, you will protect the transports or boats of the expedition in the object of the mis sion, disposing of your force in sueh man ner as to open the way for their ingress, and atford us far as practicable security to the men and boats, and repelling by force if necessary all obstructions toward pro visioning the tort and reinforcing it; for in case of a resistance to the peaceable pri mary object of the expedition, a reinforce ment of the garrison Win also he attempted. These purposes will be under the supervis ion of the War Department, which has charge of the expedition. The expedition has been intrusted to Captain G. V. Fox, with whom you will put yourself in com munication, and co,,poratt: to io•- complish and carry into clicct its 1.11,j0t.t. You will leave York With ti:, Pow hatan in time to he wr t• liar bar, tosi miles distant from :told dole cat or lir lighthouse. toll the the there to await the arrival of the transport or transports with troops aud stores. Pawnee and Pocahontas will he ordered to join you there at the time mentioned, anil also the Harriet Lane, which latter vessel has been placed under the control of this Department fur this service. (ill the termination of the expedition, whether it he peaceable or otherwise, the several vessels under your command Will return to the respective ports, as above di rected, unless some timOreseen circum stance should prevent. f inn, ruSpet . :lo your obedient ,ervant, WELLEs, Secretary 'it' the Navy. NAVY DEranTmENT, April 5, Norfolk, ra. Sin: After the l'awnee shall hare Leon provisioned at. NOrfoik Veil kill procee,l with tier to sea, and on the morning of the 11th instant appear oil Charleston bar, till miles tli,tant 11,1111 anti (hie east of the inrht San Jut.' Mi•n•jr, of the Powhatan, for spevial service. Shoithl he not be there you will await his arrival. I am respectfully, your oloe,lient servant, IMoN E :Secretary of the Navy. Sealed in tractions similar to tho.:e is sued to Commander ROWall weresent to Commander Hillis, of the Focalionta , , and to Captain Faunce, of the revenue cutter Harriet Lane, Nvhich vessel had been transferred for the oeca-iiiin by the Secretary of the Trea,airy to the Navy Department. I!NE3= I also learned that the President had hint-elf sent the following telegram to the commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard on theist of April in relation to the Powhatan, corresponding with tunic of that date, and received at the same mo ment with it. This, it will be observ ed, was on the Ist of April, When he was signing papers, many, as he said, without reading., and some hours henna, my interview With him concerning the papers brought me by Mr. Nicolay. The telegram was probably prepared l'or his signature and signed by idot under tile arrangement of Mr. Seward and his as sociates, who had entirely different o't jects in view from the legitimate one of the War and Navy Departments. WASIIINUTON, D. C., April I, I , dl. Received at lir,ifiklyn, 13:5.1 p. tn. Tr, the Crawrimitirtrit Su,✓ Ford.' . . Fit nut the Powihttan to go to sea at the earliest pre:silk , moment. Orders by a confidential messenger go forward to-mor row. A ;IRA fp, SI LINCOLN. The time specified for the squadron to rendezvous off Charleston light was brief, but the emphatic, preparatory or der 3 enabled us to get them Mr with unprecedented despatch. I congratula ted myself on the energy and activity with which this work has been accom plished, and l i ras prepared to await re sults, When Mr. Seward and his son Frederick called at my rooms at Wil lar,rs about 11 o'clock at night on the tith of April with a telegram from Meigs and Porter at NeW•York, the purport of which was, that there was difficulty in completing arrangements, in conse quence of conflicting orders from the Secretary of the Navy. I asked an ex planation, tbr I knew of no movement with which my orders conflicted. Mr. Seward said he supposed the telegram related to some difficulty about Diemen antPorter'stakingcommand of the Pow liatan. I insisted [hi, must he a mistake, that Captain M.•rver hi c 01111110.1 1 ,1 of the Powliatan : that she was as he knew the flagship of the Sumter eXI,,- ditkin, and had, I presumed, left that evening, for her destination ; that. Lieu tenant Porter had no orders to join that expedition ; that he had. ought and was under orders for the Puri tic on coast sur vey- service, and I supposed had left for that duty; that he was not from his rank entitled to any such command as the Powhatan, and I knew not what business lie had in New York interfer ing with the measures of the Depart ment, and embarrassing his superior officer, Captain Mercer, in the perform ance of his duty. Mr. Seward said there was souse mistake, some misunder standing; that Lieutenant Porter had been sent to New York under special orders front the President, of which I had probably not been informed. I questioned whether the President would detach and send away an officer with out at least informing the Department, certainly not to take cormnand of a ship that was in commission ; that such ir regular proceedings would throw the departments and government into con fusion, and where wholly inconsistent with correct and systematic adminis tration. There were, it seemed, naval orders issued without the knowledge of the head of the Navy Department, or of any one connected with it. He suggest ed that perhaps Commodore Striugham had some facts. Barron was, by the in structions of the first of April, which Mr. Seward and his friends had pre pared, to have been then in String ham's place. I at once sent for Com modore Stringham, who had retired for the night. On his appearance he dis claimed all knowledge of this extraor dinary proceeding. Mr. Seward, without any disclosure of the object in which Meigs and Porter were engaged, declared it • EL9 a meas ure of the President's. Late. 9 it was, I insisted it was indispeusible that we should have an interview with him in order to prevent the failure of the Sum ter expedition, as well as to have a right understanding of what the government was about, and to clear up any clashing of orders. We according repaired to the Executive Mansion, Commodore Stringham and Mr. Frederick Seward accompanying us. On our waythither, I learned from the President then, anti more fully thereafter, that Mr. Seward, after the final detdsion to relieve Sum ter had been more solicitous awl im portunate than ever to send reinforce ments to Piel:.ens; !hut this lirt, glut! obje 11 i,e ei,a , 0)1 I/ic Ist of .1),; wla the,..sc ,ebroejji ord, rs lout • e ii t 1 ,elti‘lt lii hurl i maw ( • that it was coll,itit.retl inlportalit tile IlloVellient should br tteeret none of the Cabinet even 111111 111,11 oi it. Mt'. Seward had under taken to get up that enterprise anti give the necessary military and naval orders without consulting the War and Navy I)epartments. \\ kit this view, and to ptts6ess himself techniealities, he had selected Captain Meigs, of the army, and Lieut. Porter, of the navy, as Ilk lOtsktants and agents, and by the aid of these subordinate otlicers hn P 1 hug Qt . sVatc I,w! fillnib 111(111(1110/,1,11 i! rig awl ,t , tr . (ll L.riv rl captai leigs says, ill a letter which he ha: punished, "Ir. helrani t•arried use to tile President merely saying that lie thote_!lit the l'resitlent ott4lit to seesolne of tae younLtor and not consult ttilly with 1111111 who, if the war broke couldout s nut 11111 t Lune, '' alluding to lien. Scott, whose age and intirmities precluded him fromactivethities. \Viten I questioned whether the ollieers of either service would they the ttrtier.i ttf the Secretary ttrState, the President said :\ Ir. Seward had itroVitleti Itti• that by persuading him ht sign Or countersign the orders. Such a practice, I stated, would lead to confusion ill the ( iovern ment. The head of each department was responsible for its olvll must ::now the sPtt(tt, and act , of its 1)11.11 sultortlinate4. If the Secre tary of the Navy should need the Ml medial!! serviee of Lieutenant Porter, anti tvere to send him order, thrmantlitte instant execution, and itt• could not he found, but Nva, absent by the secret in terference of the Secretary of State, ttr arty other St.•eretary, , k;• kui,u':cite ofthe lieptLrtment, great embarrassment and 04)11 G.'- t, v. -V, in rt,..tant to cartain :out others of the army. We hail, moreover, a recant in 1110 NaVV rartment of every naval vessel, : k ; 1 of the service on which each ship in eommission wicii detailed. P}' our ,•01,1 the POWII:11.all, under COW 111:11111 Mere,r, 1111,1 ,Lfllllll to t•harloaon, ;Wit wad 1.111•114.0 to return. lint this 011ii.b1 record was not a true one. The vus-cl was lost to U. NVe knew nothing of her whereabouts, except what I inci dentally learned through the i-lecretary of ~tate. Ile was not nispiitHilile for the funds of either the Nov ur \Val . I tepart mends, yut he ice! taken upon himself a large expen diture from each, :mil hail issued na val and military . til.ilerS without t 11,• knowliiiige of the heads of those depai I nicht,. In loins this he had eominii ted something more than :t discourte-y towards his assoeiatus in the Caliint•t. - It (VOL ail a-sun:litho' and exered , , authority that did not legitimately 1,- 1011 . u; to him. The Secretary of Sidi:, had cuddled with subordinates of other departments, and had, I thought un fortunately, i!1,1114,,1 the President sanction the,. str u t_, l r, ceedings his signature. • The President never attempted to justify or excuse these transactions; always spoke of the Ist of April as un fortunate; said that we were all new ill the administration • that he permit ted himself, with the best intentions, to be drawn into an impropriety without sufficient examination:lnd reflection but he was confident no similar error would :wain neon r. s.:\C.\l:l ~• eni•.i .!t'T—TltE hl:lhl'.l'i n, ;'H It ha+ been said that the detachno of the Powhatan front the Sumter a ea dcliLcraterontrivani, defeatit,bvsecretlywithdrawingllee n shi p,w ninon tviiirh sitece ,, was i pm-- ticable if there \vas resistance to seinlimr i Slipplies. The published correspond ence .1 . The rebel commissioner: a n d o f Judge Campbell is, corrobm atin this assumption—that the Po‘vhatan wa: purposely detached in order to effill pd evacuation, and el nil de the Secretary of :State to preserve faith as regard: Sumter'' with the rebel leaders. A comparison of dates in that correspond ence, when pledges and assurances are alleged to have been given, with the proceedings and consultations of the _Administration in cabinet from time to time in the months of Marchand April, toe.; far to verify the charge that there was au understanding between certain parties which made it necessary ft, de feat the SlinitereXpedition by detaching the ilag-ship :Liter all other IlleaStireS (,) prevent relief had failed. It is not nec essary here to inquire whether the I 'on federate Commissioners appeared in Washington on the hay after the inau guration by any preconcert, or whether they delayed visiting Washington until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan'; term pursuant to arrangement or previous understanding of which the IleW Ad ministration was ignorant. The assurance claimed to have been given on the 15th of March, that Sum ter would lie evacuated, it will tie tinted, was immediately after Commander Ward hail abandoned the idea of reliev ing the garrison, and after Geu. Scott pronounced Mr. Fox's plan—which was feasible in February—now impractica ble. It was repeated with a qualifica tion uu the Ist of April, the day on which orders were "extracted" front the President conferring on Meigs and Porter unlimited authority, and placing all the naval vessels at their disposal.— It was re-affirmed on the 7th of April, the day after the Powhatan had sailed for Pickens instead of Sumter. The no tification to Governor Pickens that sup plies would be sent, which was official ly communicated to hint on the Bth, as soon as the squadron sailed; the secret and mysterious detachment of the tiag-ship without the knowledge of the Secretary of the Navy, or any one connected with the Navy De partment or with the Sumter expedi tion, which the author of the proposi tion must have known would render the expedition abortive and the evacuation of the fort inevitable, have all of them the appearance of one persistent and connected purpose—whether in fulfill ment of any pledge or understanding, is a point I shall not here discuss. They were matters of which I was at the time of their occurrence wholly uninformed, and when I learned them I could not, with a proper regard for the public ser vise in that period of difficulty, have exposed them. I therefore submitted to be blamed, while those who secretly brought them about escaped responsi bility and censure. There was certainly no necessity for taking from Captain Mercer his vessel • and sending her to Pensacola where most of the naval force of the home squadron was collected. She was, how ever, absolutely ludispensible to the success of the Sumter expedition. Yet General Meigs says, in his published letter' " An order was extracted l from the President ) on the recommendation of Secretary Seward, detaching the Powhatan trout the Sumter expedition and sending her to Fort Pickens." By this "extracted" order she was withdrawn from duties where her pres ence was all essential, and sent to the l~ulf, where she was not required. The ostensible object of this military and naval enterprise to Pickens, undertaken by the Secretary of State without the knowledge or the Seeretary of War or Secretary of the Navy, Wa, the impor tanee strengthening that fortress; but She Secretory of State well knew that nwasures hail already been taken to re inforce that post. The oitowinu or. , the orders from the President which led to the withdrawal clr Powhatan Irian her destination, t.s the bre.tiiingMercer's orders, stud to Isis det.scionciit frun, his vessel Inc a lielltv11:111L witltr , ut the OW Secretary of the Navy, and with sad any record the II:111 , actit111 ill Ole N.,vy Department : EXi.ct I iv!, April Slit: Yl,ll kill lICI/Cet,i to Now York anti, with mau.o rrne,• , l to 1'1111 , 11 ,1 111 Ilarll/11•, 111,1 at 1111/11151 prcverit ..N[10.1iLl.)11 iron 1111 1 1111111 1,111,l 1'11•1•1•11 , ur 1",111(11 1 , 11111.1. Y.lll IN I III psllllllt tlll , 1u . .10r naval k itiOel • at rel/Sat , da, you doom it licovs ,:lry, :titer lull have yourself Nvitimti 1111 , 11 by thr ontraq..t. 11,1:1 11111 1 wilt•r stemier. ,10,1;11,l- C.,11 still In 1., 110 1,1,011 ‘V11.L1.1% cr until r.'L.,l NV:lliant 11. A BRA 11.\N1 EN 1. , I rear: )1 E=EIMI MEE= • I.l,liotialit It. I). Port), takt) Ito steatuvr P»NvIlal.).11, Jr ally Ilthei . I. S. ',Loam), .t.. 1 tvli It he way dean unrst lit II.) III.) s,rvi..i) ti) tchirh I. has been :is , i2l»»E , :11.1.1011, 4ir thia aate. 111:1y ,It.olll Cy I)r IZOtting to sea is spurt as possible. I Lltt ,:!1:11,1,1,1-11'illiam 11. SP, ar.l. Ain< kIrA)I 1,151 , 1.7 , ~ori .\ .111 I.liits•rs of tho :irmy :tint !mu to ttls,u this ortler 111:ty h r .xhihittst kill .•t•t•ry Iffittn4 till! eX 1111ilt, hi` ~ 1 11111.511, 1 4.r Brmvll, supp!yint, liiri xvi(ll mrn twit,rial, ,s,-0i55•:151,4 me ich him 51. 15, tuav ttcsLrl.. 11111 .\ true copy: >I. Cuptzini or Engineer-, Engineer petlitr., The-e orders 5.E-hied by the President, Were part of the patters prepared by Mr. Seward, with the :isSi,iallee of Captain Meigs and Lieutenant Porter, on the Ist of April, when the Executive order to create a new bureau, and directing me to take Barron, the agent and mediator in the Piekens intrigue and captain in the rebel service, into my confident tt, anti make hint the tletaiiing officer of the Navy Department, was - extracted" from the President and sent to me. The papers relating to the Pickens expedi tion were not di,losasl to me, however, until alter the midnight interview of the tttli of April, :Intl after the;- , innter expe dition had sailed 011 tthortive mission. Apprehensive, it would scent, that the general order of the 1,4 of April to Lieu tenant Porter might not he t•onelusive with Captain Mercer, who was a strict di-viplinarian, and would hesitate to obey any order that, did lot emanate regularly trout or pass through the Navy Department, the following specific let ter was rrf•pal'ed ua the :1,1 nt AprO,:111,1 the signature thereto p1,,- ellred: NV.k,ill Cll'l, Ai,ril plat,: in tioinitnand of your .itittl for a ,o,,o•o•iitl tuorlio,tol an n-r.i.•er ivies inim,il,l :in.] ini.itriiiiteol in relation to the of tile government: and you will ti t er t .fur e eousioler youir,otir detached. But in tultin_ this t.trip the o,tovernitient doe, not in OW relltioit upon youreilkieney one puteioti•it., lout on the contrite:: pace tins lolteat n,nlidesict- in pule itloiiity to per form :illy duty re.tuireol of pot. I Lopilig to hti abl e to, :rice put Letter I,IIL -111,411,1 Lilian the nuie put t e nts eltioltt, and trte , ting that you kill hacu full coliiidence in the diyn.siLouo.r tt::. I rettmin, IMBIZEZIEMI •\ tni , j'Y M. C. (:hiuf Eugitwer I:xilv.iitioti I;roxvn. Capt. :\fercer ‘vi,t/ , 1111; ,111 the 9th the ',,llowing letter, explaining tinder what eietim,tance,he had t_';ivell tip Itkve,-,•l' II : Vur n.ai Wen' ro•t•iN,l tho 11 , •Xt ~,y, 8111 1 sv:sBl , llth° th , •nl %NM. Lieu:ri,au “1 the 1 :i1 , 1.111 the army un•• 1., 11 . . ...", instruc tiens from the Pre , ident. and erbally •.fflimunieaLiet other filets their authority from this hig h puree, lintt Lieut. Porter. placed in command of the I'4 oxliatan WIN virtually necessary, and that the l'residenrs positive rommands to herb of those officers were th.‘t no deviation from his instruction , : should he made un less by his own direction. 1..11t11, eircitinstamm , , I rezarded the order from the President of the Lnited States as imperative, and ,‘IPOriiinIZIS. pia,l . ll Lieutenant Porter 111 1 , 111W:111 , i ”1 . 1110 P.M 1111311. I ant, ,r, ro'prrtinilc , ynur ..Leclinnt , orvant, S mu Er, NI Lin Fit, ('aptain. >I r. Scward, iu 01). ,, henct• In the nii,lnight mandat,. l Pr., , tlent I.ln the 6:11 .Iprii seat ro:;r,witltf tt2le4ratli to l'ortcr. 1,1,r 11.1 Lett the :\"avy Ynni th, iii..l mph xsas i• tip Ciii• Cienniatider. linar-.1,1- nlir,il,Foote \vit.; at tint i into Exectit ve 0111 , .er eel the Brooklyn Navy lard tool on receiving - this titlettrion of ..)Ir. Sew:- anl, he ele-liatnliell thi< de -Ai:itch W:1 , :1 !Her, telegram gneel"SeNvar,l," while Lietnetiant Porter hail full written power front the Pre-He:lt, which. even it th-rti were no etiter understandite_t, he felt, Nvotil,l he hi; jo;tilication in re fainini r t the Pow hatan Born her mate e.onintailder. Ihe therefore eontininel on with the an,l the Stitittnr was of it; Pim:um:NT these extraordinary proci•eilings, 111 the :.-ecretitry of State assumed the duties nifiction , of the War awl Navy Departments, without the knowl edge of the head of either of those de partments, caused ,Urpri,e, awl fur a time some lift! c dissatisfaction. The President did not conceul his mortifica tion and regret at the occurrence, hut with characteristic usefulness assumed all the Mame, declared it was his neg lect, :mil in :1 letter to Mr. Fox, who felt annoyed that his plan ha u l failed, President Lincoln said:—" 13y accident, for which you where in no wise respon sible, and possibly I to some extent Was, yoU were deprived of a War Vessel with lter men, which you deemed of great importance to the enterprise." It was, however, no fault originating with him, but a piece of maladministration, of improper ;mil inexcusable interfer ence by one department with others, of apparent distrust where there should have been unrestricted confidence, toil —aside from any pledge to or complici ty with the rebel leaders—had other se mis objections, which the President as sured me more than once would never be repeated. It was not. Nor fut.] I ever su e r a like experience. Neither then nor ever duritig our subsequent in timate personal official relations, in many and great trials, was there any misunderstanding between us, nor did I ever have occasion to doubt the upright sincerity and honest in tentions of that l'X traordi nary man, who to thou last moment of his life honored me with his confidence and friendship. He had, however, been once led into error, and there had been manifested by the head of one depart ment a disposition to interfere with and manage other departments, so subver sive of correct administration that, to guard against future similar proceed ings so far as the navy was concerned, and to prevent the confusion that must inevitably follow from such irregulari ties, I took occasion, as opilortunity pre sented, to caution naval officers in re gard to the orders which they might receive. Commodore Paulding was going at that time to New York, and I sent by him to Commander Foote, au old and valued friend from the days NUMBER 4. " when we were boys together," a word on the impoctance of receiving orders from the proper source. When these suggestions were communicated had not seen the sect et orders signed by the President, nor was I aware how far he had been committed to these irregular proceedings. Commander Foote wrote me, after his interview with Commo dore Paulding, the following letter: I Pru ate, 1 NAVY YARD. NOW York, April 9, tzr. , l Ircuvlunglon, 1). : Sat: Commodore Paulding ly informed me this morning, that you had suggested to him to sa y to me in a kind way, that I hail hetter execute no orders unless cowing 1 1 1.111 Viii. fully :ti [ i[ru,iato the delicate In:inner in which you have isonnitinieated your int pressions wtae , but I beg to say, must re spectfully, in my own vtudietition, that in reference to the sailing of the Pewhatan specially referred to, I did retain that ves• sel a-s lac tt, I hail authority it/ tit/ N. I. 1111t1 111101 C 3133111 .1\ 11.1 . er, Illy ,U T.. HIT 1.111t•er, inhtrnietl ine that, he should trinisrlo . his Slop to Identenalit-Cmillnanding Porter, would sntl wltil her , as he did, on t h e 601 instat. .\ gain, in roll rriti4 to the 1•V1311., 1/1 1 the past wevii, I holu•VO tlntl 111 11 I t.lll 111111y111th 111111. 1 1..1,1• [31,1101 O. • .111 y t. 11 1., .. NVI. It• 11 I.llltl T,INNI haVenocomp , d•dit..l Ilia title tviti.•ll 113 , 111'011 eXt,•111151 ; 1111.1 in ea.. 111 1111. 1 fort 11.1.1.311. 111 1 1.1 . 1 . 1.1.1,113111.: 111, I,' ,11 •1 11130, ito 311' 1/1 1 .11`,, 11 , 1 W.IN 11111, 1 a1.111111.1111[1, 11,111 111/I ii I I'/111[1[1[11dant. toy nu 1.11 , 3•1ty t/5 t•I 1 her 1,11..t1, ;111.1 she SN .1, t. 1111.11,1 I.y toy supers, tall, I 15 .1 , 11 , 3 t. 1 1 ,1111 1 ,1, Si.)-. I 1,3 . 11 1.1 . 1 , ,,111, II 11,11 Captains Alcreer, Melts, 1111.1 Porter, in c.i11,1111:111011 111t•Illtl...1 ili t tl rile .itil..ht.ndl rather Lit.lito•liant-t'.nimmoltilg Porto,. I hart tlw hener t wiiti 11. sprit and esteem, Y~~nr nL,•liri~t -~•r~uul, r: 1., crier mimh nationfinally decided that ar attempt -tmid be 11111111 to simply Port Sumter, it I lie for flier decision that the atitleiritic. at Charltistiiii should lie informed of hi , In. tention—that supplimi would lie mint peaceably or otherwise by force. 'I his notification or yunlilirution \van ae toile-wed In, though none of the Caliiiit•t. except Mr. SOWltril were tulvi.od of any pledge, or pledges, 111 . understanding [with the rebel Commissioners, and that he \van a party I haVl• ex cept what i. ciannittniiiateil in thestate ments of the rebel Commissioners, the rematil: , of 7\ Ir. Itlair, :old the ..ial adininistrati4m Ir. Thurl.lW the vonildential (Hew! of mr. s., :Intl I Wily 111111 111:+0 11112iitt,•1111ilig eir- Itin-tatiem. Indeed, it \VW- under-food those Commissioners %vete !lilt to he 11'- c.g11140.1 (u treated ‘vith. If, as is claim ed, ally promine \va n giver, [twin. direct ly or by implication, that, Fort Solute!' should ,rat'ial,/, it NVil, At one time, tiller head rt..: the views of ( lens. Scott 11111P1'otttin, and laj. Ander son :tint his otlltier , , the opinion /teach of the sinners of the Ailminintratitin \vas obtained, tint' all, lilt It the excep tion it mr. 1111ir, carte to lb ,. ell 111•11.1- ,iiill 01111 it would to pro vision the garrison. Tlit• pledge or as surance that the fort should he evacuated is claimed to have been given through Judge Campbell at that Bute. IL 1 , ;10.1, it' made, a communication of Cabinet consultations and understanding , tied \were yet in embryo, and \chief' the tim sults slwwed were not contilusi \ie. In Let, the final til•CiSiiill NVili; ill direct 111111 ill C 0111 1 .141 NV ill' StWil pledge, for it vyas derided the fort should not he tivatitiated without an attempt to relieve it. 'Pile first assurance, given in I\larch, is claimed to have been unqual • illed that Sumter should be evacuated. But Judge Campbell says he received tin the Int of April, front the Secretary of State, the following quitlilital statement ill writing,: "1 aril SatiStied that the I ;ilV eriiiiietit \vas not undertake to supply Fort Sumter without giving notice to lii)vernor P." Out the very ilayi of it, date the order to Porter ‘vai- given, and on the succeeding: day the further order which displaced Mercer and withdrew the Powliatitit from the Sumter expedi tion 1111,3 it, 11,31' the Ivoril of leneral, " extraetcd" front the President \vithout his being awat . , , if th,,, , m,t. of those order-, Judge Campbell and the Commissioners appear to have rested quietly under the modified assimince of the I , t of April; but itlarnied by the preparations which the I tovertiment \vie:making in New York, Judge C., on the 7th o; April, a note to Mr. Seward and relived in reply: "faith as to Sumter fully kept--wait and see." \\ - hen this pledge w:1, l'owliatan had left, not forSunittiti as the ordered by the l toverlinitint under 1,111- mand of Captain Mercer, but for Piitt.a cola, under Lieutenant Porter. The expedition, without the Ilag-ship, railed 101 the iith and Tth or April. (nit the hth iiivernor Pickens was oflicially advised of the fart, arid, a, the vessels were to rendezvous tell toile, off Charles ton light on the 11th, tin-re was :1.1111,10 time allowed the insurto•nts to mak,. preparations Mr resist:owe. An interesting history of the i 4 ti inter expedition has Item given by Mr. Mix, who commanded it, and is published in iloyntoti's "History of the Navy during the which 1 should beglailtoineorporationtothisstatement, but t u n prevented by its length. The squadron enciittnicrisi a gale soon lifter leaving M o ntt and norwi of the vessel: , reached the place of rendezvous until the morning of the of April. The rebels haul ligen in :brined on the Bth of the intention of the Administra tion to sued suppiics garrisomand a correspondence cite 111111lediaiely . upend on receiving this notice bet wiii2tl I;eatiregitril, in command of the insurg ents force, !II the rebel government at )liint,goniery, ending- with a demand for itnineitiate surrender. tin the refusal of Anderson, lire was opened lit a. he I:ith on the fortress, and Mr. 1• - ox, arrived in Ilse army trans port Baltic, found tinily the 1 larriet Lane at the reuili•zvous. toe Pawnee arrived at 6a. in. :sir. Fox at once hoarded her and re.pit.d,d the Isullinander to stand to the liar with him, but Commander Rowan replied, that his orders requir ed him to remain ten miles east of the light :111 , 1 PlJWllatall," The Pahl,. and the Harriet Lane then.- fore proceeded, and a- they neared the land the tiring way heard :toil the sutra and shell from the batteries were visible. No oilier vessel of the cd that day, but, says Mr. Fox, "feeling sure that tho Powhatan would arrive during the night, as she had sailed froni New York two days be fore us, 1 stood 0111 to the appointed ren dezvous and made signals all night. The morning of the 1:;t1i was thick and fog gy." No Powhatan appeared. Lf the ehtira• Of the day he "learned for the first time that Continnider I towan had received a note from Capt. .Mercer, of the Powliatan, dated at New York on the hth, the day he sailed, stating the Powhatan was &tactic , ' by superior au thority front the duty to which she was assigned MI Charleston, and had sailed foranother destination. I left New York two days afterwards wr ithout any inti mation of this change." Mr. Fox adds: "My plan for supply ing, Fort Sumter required three hundred sailors, a full supply of armed launches, and three tugs. line Powhatan carried the sailors :And 111.11110 IVS, and When this vessel was about to leave iu obedience to the orders of the ; 4 evretary of the Navy, two officers, Lieutenant D. Li. Porter, U. S. Navy, and Captain M. C. Meigs, F. S. Engineers, presented them selves on board with an order front the President of the United States, author izing the former to take any vessel what ever in conituission and proceed imme diately to the Gull' of Nlexico. This or der did not pass through the Navy De partment, and was unknown to the Sec— retary of the Navy, aril when signed by the President he was not conscious that his signature would deprive me of the means to accompiish an object which lie held to be of vital importance." The squadron with supplies, but without the tlag-ship and men and launches which had been provided on her,was powerless. GIDEON WELLES. The Phlladelphin Moruni Tb is edifice has at last been cum pietist and handed over to the proper authorities. The structure is very plain, with a front of pressed brick on Noble street. The superintendent twill resi.le in the building, to be ready at all times to receive bodies and place them within the morgue proper. There is an entrance hall and reception room for visitors. The morgue proper is provided with four stimeslabs, upon which the bodies are to be placed. When a corpse is recognized It will be kimoved to another apartment, provided with but one slab. Upon each body water will constantly trickle. in the second story the coroner is provided with two rooms, one in which to hold inquests, and tho other as all office. RATS OF ADVERTISING 8U51NE.9. 4 1 ADVERTISEMENTS, $l2 ft year oei squire of ten lines; r 4 per year for each addi tional square. REAL E.TrArx ADVERTISING, 10 cents a line for the first, and 5 cents for each subsequent In insertion. 43EITIRAL ADVERTC4ING, S oentaa for e th . st, and 4 cents for each SUbti equent Lion. SPECIAL NOTICE:4 lipierted In Local Colum+•y L 5 eentx per Hue. SPECIAL NOTICES preeeding marriages and deaths, 10 cents per line for rind Insertlou. and 5 coats for every subsequent lu.sertluaa LEGAL AND OTHEA 'NOTICES— Executors' notices 2 'O/ Administrators' notice 2 50 Assignees' notices 2 50 Auditors' notices 2 th; Other "Notices," ten lines, or less, three times .... I 50 The Find Notional nook of Grafton Entered by PrOfeMloll/11111 1 .r ~ (iranon, Ma. quiet eof u try viltuge, in the he.o t of the Commonwealth, nine miles from Worcester and three from the Boston and Albany Railroad, has boon to-day the scene or the wildest excitement It over witness ed. About 10 o'clock lust evening, as Mr. Lewis Daniels, who bas fur soul° three or four years trustily and acceptably tilled the F osition of watchman In the First National Dank, was going from his house across Die little village common to begin his nightly (-out el' duty at the hank, he was acts/sled near the lower end of the green by a mini, who inquired if the drug store was to lot. open again, ur if the druggist was going I t rem ru, as he h a d the toothache and wanted to get some 1•111oroform for It. Its lore Daniels hail time to reply lie was yen - scions of a crushing blotv across the throat, and simultaneously some heat•) tvoolen garment or wrap was thrown over his head its a 11111111 - and a gag ty.ts thrust into his mouth. ills arms tt erect thesaine time seizetifrout behind awl firmly held, while a lose, determined vow, " tiring the Number Three. - In an instant a pair of cry tightly clasped upon his tt rists, Hose lv pinioning his trios behind his bark. Ile It us Ihru Ihrerleil, on peril of his life, to hold Ills prat, the 1 tad the way to the kink. Il is pockets were searched and the keys of the building:and the various rooms %V tilt m Melt the villains quietly ei loeted an entrance, Mr. lianiels was (alien into the ,•0:11 room, in rear of rho itatihn, room, and thrown upon a bunk. Ills log, were tied, anti the intilller removed Trent his head, \slide lio tens rittilit.llll dint OW slichtrst 1111140 ..r movement on his part %you'd insure his death. The inside !Mints of the banking room were carefully closed but ethic movement made by the rob bers till about eleven o'clock, I. tt., triton a 1431.40 of ii nnd'l'mupinrs, which 111111 133111 In srsslilll during the evening in au tipper story, had adjourned and departed, when ever . vtlting being quiet and in readiness to provectl, they bligatt with the tools In their ptissession to force the vault and approach its contents, This wits it work iii time and labor: but they hail plenty or leisure and sulliciently powerful tools, and worked without hurry and with perfect toilet and system until they were completely sucress hil. Ity half.past lour this morning the con - Milts of the vault were lit their possession and they lett the building and deported with their phonier, leaving the watchman sill bound and gaggot.,l In the coal room. During the long hours the night, Daniels WilS Obliged 1.0 holt pnsaivu auditor of the proceedings, anti (Vas visited I.N' .010 and 31101.110 r of the viiiaina and eitutloned to keep silence, being hit Mal there were twelve of (twin, and that they \you'd elea) Into out if Ito gave utterance to a sound. About six eft this morning tl r. 11. Newton, who occupies a store in Din building, lin opening hisstore let.trtl gr. 111104, which 1111 itt first thought proceeded trout his collar, but, ;looking then', Mund nothing. Thee, his attention being aroused, ho looked around the build - nig, and snug a rope leading out front the bank entrance and shut under the door. Pushing open the door the open anti plun dered vault flint his oye, and the groans great lug louder he folltoved them into the coal room, where the Nvatelmiitn wits dis covered on the bunk in it terrible atm. of mental and physical distress. 'flie 1131111- cull's had been so tightly applied ling they had cut into his wrists, and the ecitiseepu•nl swelling of his arms, from the pressure and the constrained position in tvltich he lay, had eatised the flesh to lea 0111 around the irons so that they tvere nearly hidden from view. It was nevessary to ca.rry Lim to a nutchine shop and have the irons cut and tiled away from his lyrists before he was roleased. The gag had bruised and swollen his mouth anti cheeks; his legs were cramp ed told swollen front the tying :toil con straint they cit undergone, while Ilio mental prostration he had experieneed triits [lll. tvrniry and hardships Of the night hail lett him in a pitiable condition. is variously estimated at from $l. - .00100 b. $2110,1/1111, ILSI I have already explained, con sisting, 1111 it clues, in 'molt large proportilull 111 . private special deposits, it will be along Lila° accurate statement 1,11 11, gic On. Jonathan Warren, l'residentuf the hank, offer:, on behalf of the institution a reward of slo,one, half fur the revover of the plunder and the arrest of the robber , , Li , which Silliall1111:13111 other[ll , lm,it,,r, add a private reward of ,$.,,00111111ir11. Till. Vann, they 141,111011 all 1•11- 11,111.11 1-114 plate iron, set in brick 1111441/11- ry, and provided with (Inutile iron doors swinging in heavy iron casings. The brick work 1.11111,1 silt 11111111 With the:ill eaSill4l.llli The burglars lirvt removed tle , brick wall from lila, Nllll l of the dour, rx posiug the easing, and then by moans their powerful wedges, jimmies and lovers, Direct .or the entire casing, and, nl' course. the outer door with it. They were not 11111 g in gutting through the inner dour, and then Lite steel iiiiX inside was attacked, proba bly, with Mel:locks, as it is not marred ai ;ill or the Melt injured. list, at any r,tle, they opened it ail possessed themselves ol its emitents. The loirglars seen, supplied will: a fall supply nC the wont 111110 . 1,1,1 illir/11.11111111.8 iillllll . ll to their emit., all of which they hilt hahind thuut. Tileso Varying in size from all arid a kall to six inches iu length, mid sledges, jiminies and 1111:111,1, made seith socliets or joints, su :1.11 it/ be packed in MIII . III raw pas and lilted together for use. :1 large quantity el' powder unit hire w... 4 nhc left, the burglat, not finding use for it, lint relying solely on their inechanieal iiaru intwts. In a eonversation with :\ Ir. Daniels, the ho stated that ho did not Sl.O eithcrol the 111011 who Seized idle 111)0111110 COllllllOll suniviently to give any deverip tion of them, neither could ho in 010 Clark ness of the coal room distinguish laeem llr iillilllS. HO is Vert:tie that live ditl'e•rent oleo, judging from their voices, visited line during the night. Iteporter-- Doi they 1..1111 each other he name, or say anything by which they could idontiry thou,? )1 r. baniels—D, nn, They eu•n tion IMMO. called each other by their nom hers, and I heard numbers called IMO to IV:OR,. Tiler!, Was IWO leader who directed the whole thing and told cavil one what it, do, :Old his voitte I heard most frequently. There WILY a Illall on guard out side, and ho world Sal; TWO, gio out , i , lo, and see if :Number Five is all right." They talked freely, as if in no fear of arousing any one, and hammered away enough ht raise the whole town, It seemed Ln ino. NVlnto he nettle too much not te the leader would say, D—n you, Number . Six, don't make such a noise; you'll bring the whole tl—tl village on ins," I I , lll', shut that door and keep yonr gall still," and the like. Their voices all had a ittroign accent, like Irishmen. Potporter—llow litany men did you see? Mr. letniels—l only saw live be sure ,d", hut they told me there were twelve, tuld I heard twelve numbers called. They ap pear/ 4I to he under regular military Iheei pline. Every man knew his number and every other man's number, and every or chr given by the chief was in , LantlY ,jt Withlna any balk talk. An Old and Wealthy Citizen tilted lOr 220,000 for Falling; to Fu Ilia It Magri ial Contract. ll= I:ahlhativ, a youngt, girl about the age td....1NV01, Mixtoon," the (laughter of an estinmble WIllOW(2,1 lady of this city tVaS wooed and 1,011 by theory 110Stetter, :01 01l p,..lltlifiliall V7llO bas 'Ong since passel the meridian of life, but who possesses a reasonable amount Of 010 filthy lucre, 1.1,- gpther with other property, consist mg in stocks, bonds and other securities. This, of itself , was no uncommon occurrence, hut, with its sequel, has formed a social sensation in the neighborhood which will furnish food for the gossips inany day, better. It canto about thus : The old gentleman, whose wife died about three months ago, realized, from sad experience, the force of the scriptural adage, "IL is not good for a man to he alone," and, looking about him with :in eye to business, it fell with an ad miring gaze upon Theresa, who was em ployed as a domestic in the fatnily of a getitleinan On Eighteenth street, and who is said to he a very pretty girl, The old gen tleman became, acquainted with the girl through his relations with her brothers,who rent from him one of two farms, which he owns in the country. His suit progressed very favoralily,and lie soon brought matters to a crisis by iiffering his hand and his real estate to finis inamorata, who accepted them with the distinct understanding that they were to be like the States of the l . nion, "one and inseparable." •I'n this ar rangement "Bark is was willing," the pre liminaries were settled, and the marriage ceremony was to take place at St. John's Church on the 11th inst. Every arrange ment for the wedding had been completed except, to the expectant bride, the most important one, that of making to her a deed of MO farms in Jefferson isiunty, valued at $15,000. At nn early hour on the morning of the 11th, St. John's Church was tilled with an anxious and expectant audience that had assembled to witness the union of December and May; and not till a very late hour was it known that Lhe old man's darl ing had gone back on hip:. The smug lady saws that sho only wait ing Mr him to perform his part of the con tract when she will be ready to fsibill hers, and as she has waited in vain several weeks Mr him to do so, she yesterday brought suit in the Jefferson Court of Common Pleas for damages in the sum of 320,000. Bev. A. G. Morrison, senior pastor of the Coatesville Presbyterian Church, died at his residence '„in that place, on Thursday afternoon, in the 73rd year of his age.
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