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" A Union of lakes and a ijnion of lands,
A Union of States none can sever;
A Union of hearta, and el Union of hands,
And the Flag of ottr Union forever."
CIRCULATION 3,100.
H. N. FRAZIER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Montrose, Pa., Tuesday, June 6, 1865
rVi — The convirattj is now known. Armin hoer hewn
mud, warts ierird to arrompli.th it. There are only two
strh-e to the qsseatimt. Every man must be for the United
States, or against it. There can be no neutrale in :hie
war--only patriots or traitor& --STEMS...II A. DOUGLAS,
at Chicago, April 11, 1861.
W' What right hew the Xorth =tailed? Mat ;u.-
tire ling been denied? And what claim, founda ist pur
tire and right, has been withheld/ Can either of you to
day ntrale one Jangle cne of wrong, deliberately and pur
pasely clone by the gacermnent at Traihtngtan, of which
the Smith has a right to complain! I challenge the an
s ,see.—Eloes. A. EL antra/rms. 1881.
liarElEULtar'S DISPATCTIES
General Sherman's dispatches, which with un
just haste he charged were suppressed by Sec
retary Stanton, did not come into the hands of
the latter until April 27th, they having been
w•ithhet until that time by General Grant. On
the 28th their publication was ordered by the
.Ic 4 jiitunt General, and they were sent to the
printer. These facts disprove the injurious al
ai ions against the Secretary of War, and show
lit At in this matter General Sherman has allowed
s keniper to run away with his judgment.
REUEL CRUELTY TO OCR r RISONERS
Tint Military Commission, to show the ani
mus of the leaders of the Rebellion, has received
testimony In regard to the treatment of Union
pri,ontrs at Libby, Belle Isle, and Anderson
ville. All the worst reports of systematic cruelty
insufficient food and clothing, impure water,and
inhuman exposure to the snows of winter in
Virginia, and to the sultry suns of summer in
Georgis, are thus confirMed. For these crimes
there can be no palliation or excuse. If Davis
had a sufficient amount of food to maintain the
existence of these untortunate men, anti depriv
ed them of it to gratify a spirit of malice, or to
weaken our armies, he deserves condign punish
went. If he could not spare food enough for
that purpose, he had no right to take the fives
of men whom he was only authorized to treat
as prisoners of war. Dept ovations inducing death
here cold-blooded faurders which no military
code can sanction or justify. The truth no doubt
is that it was the settled policy of the Confider
any to diminish our armies by this fiendish
in,tioti. Proofs of this tact are supplied by the
ilise,tv:•red records of the secret proceedings of
the Confederate Cong - ress, and by the felicita
tions of lb'-ir emaisage con:kraiaAkiner over the
trlnsli-rs, by which he gave us the decrepit and
perishing victims of the rebel prisons, and re
ceived the well-fed and healthy inmates of our
Northern depots, who were free to confess that
their ordinary wants had never been so well
supplied as during the period when they were
in charge of our authorities. The complaints of
our soldiers were always received with indilTer
once or Insult; and the evidences of their rapid
decline, instead of arousing sympathy or succor,
were viewed with complacent satisfaction. The
real victories upon which Davis can congratu
late himself are his triumphs over unarmed and
helpless men. With hunger, exposure, and dis
ease as his allies, he slew one-hundred and thir
ty-three men in one day at Andersonville; and
at Belle tale thousands were frozen and starved
to swell the triumphal lists of this most " Chris
tian President,"
F :4 :4(4:.4).1
The great drama of rebellion has closed and
the government is now starting on a new era,
if that era is to be concluded as the last was, by
a rebellion, it will be because we failed to profit
by our experience and refused to make the prop
er use of the victory we gained.
The recent triaph of the national arms ought
not only to give to the Republic a new lease of
existence, but with it an immunity from treason
evermore. This much it will certainly do if we
are but faithful to the laws and true to ourselves.
But if on the other hand, in taking counsel from
our impatient desires for a return of the era of
general amity and good feeling that existed be
fore the war, we overlook the great crime that
has drenched the land in fraternal blood, we
need not be surprised if the bloody scenes of the
past four years be re-enacted at some future pe
riod. It will not do to say that the failure of a
rebellion so powerful as the last one was will
deter men in future from attempting to subvert
the Government, and that we can rest in perfect
security in the newly acquired strength of that
Government This may be true to-day, and yet
the events of another year may falsify it all—
Heretofore we have relied entirely upon the
good and friendly disposition of men's minds
and hearts towards the Federal Union for its
stability, and it needed a great rebellion to teach
us that an additional safeguard was necessary.
Let us learn still further from our bloody expe
rience, or our security is but fancied. The law
must be clothed with majesty and terror, and
vengeance must not be thwarted. We have a
Constitution which makes treason a crime and
which affixes the penalty for its commission.—
Unless we enforce what is here decreed we rob
the law of its virtue and the crime of its igno
miny. If we wish to prevent a repetition of the
offence we must unalterably determine it now,
that they who trade In treason must expect to
pay the penalty of their traffic. The course the
Government has determined to pursue in regard
to Davis and other leading Southern mnspira
tom is the one we think most likely to subserre
the interest of the country in this particular. It
is known that at least several of them are to be
arraigned and tried for treason. The indict
menu have already been drawn against Davis
and Breckinridge, and a true bill found by the
grand inry of Washington. The next thing in
order will be the trial. Apart from any consid
eration of the guilt or innocence of the prison
ers, it will be of the greatest importance. We
trust that it will be conducted with deliberation
and that a due regard will be paid to every le
gal formality, so that its adjudications of the
many important questions involved may after
verde be recognized as the true and proper can
struction of the Constitution and laws. We tusk
only that the &Mosey of the law be fully and
fairly tested. Let it be determined now, what
treason is, and by whom and under what cir
cumstances it can be committed. If Jeffcuson
Davis and his associates have not been guilty of
trees= let them be acquitted of the charge,and
let Ms eo amend the .huts. that , hereafter the of
fettie will have its propimpenalty. If theirgullt
is relieved by any conatituticrnaler legal rights
they. have. icqUited during- the war, let, them
itave the full benefit of tOl each rightaguyi let no
do what we can to provide against such escape
in future. But if on the other ►and they shall
be adjudged guilty of treason and the lip de
mands 1 4 victim's. let It have Omni If We in
tictrfrit thviart its venerate° we will be tress
itring by danger for the future. The law . must
be made a terror to evil &tern
Formic:is "NEW&
The steamship Perslaffrom Liverpool, May
20th, via queeastown May 21st, arerved at New
York May 81at,•bringing two days later lICSVS.
In the House of Commons Mr. Griffith asked
the GoVernment whether they intended making
representations to the Government of the United
States, iin reference to the proclamation offering
$100,00,000 for the arrest of Jeff. Davis. The
reply Of Lord Palmerston was short and dvci.
dye:. England has ao intention of interfering in
the internal affairs of the United States.
Immense sensation has' been created in France
England, and all over Europe by the reports
from the United States announcing the opening
of recruiting places for emigrants to Mexico
front the United States. The confidence in the
stability of the Mexican Empire is beginning ev
erywhere to be shaken. Even The Globe, nne of
the organs of the English Ministry, is of opinion
that Maximilian cannot succeed.
The English Liberals, like Mr. Forster, are
triumphantly proclaiming the restoration of the
Union as a signal victory of Democracy, while
The London nines Is trying very hard to prove
that the victory is not quite complete yet.
The French Budget, which has been present
ed to the Corps Legislatif, shows for the first
time since the establishment of the Empire, a
surplus of the revenue over the expenditure.
From Mexico it is. reported that six Ameri
cans were arrested in Vera Cruz without any
reason being assigned. The Republican troops
are reappearing in all quarters, and even the lin ,
ger portions of the garrisons of Vera Cruz and
Puebla had to be sent against the guerrillas.
NEW PLAN TO PAT OFF THE DEBT
The New Turk Herald has started the proposi
tion to pay off our national debt by private sub
scription in shares of ten thousand dollars each.
The plan is, that the people who can afford it
shall contribute from one to us many shares as
they see St, villages and counties to contribute
towards one or more shares. Already the plan
has met with some succcss,nearly three millions
having thus far been subscribed of the three
thousand millions proposed to be raised. To the
doubts of the Tribune, that the plan is not feasi
ble inasmuch as it would require 25 per cent. of
the property of the United States to pay the
debt and every man must contribute one quar
ter of his estate before this debt can be liqui
dated, the Herald says, it was not thought that
the South could be whipped until it was tried,
and this debt can be paid by the plan proposed
if the people will it.
Corn,pnndence of the Independent Republican
Soldier's Letter.
CAMP or Tnr 141st Pr' - s'A Rro'r,
May 29th, Mi.
Afr. Editor :—Allow me to say, as I address you
for the last time from the army, that your loyal pa
per has ever been read with the deepest interest by
the boys from Susquehanna county. Many will
edopt it as a family paper who need to be decidedly
partial to the ..lfontro% Lkar‘ocrat. They say, truly,
that the Editor of the Democrat has Bold himself for
copper.
Since my last we have marched neatly TO ratios.
F. 0121 Burksville to Washington it is mostly woods,
although It is an old settled country. Seldom could
you Nal from oae end of the Briande to the other.
There was quite a military display as w. passed
through Richmond. Genends Attack and
stood in the Capitol as the troops passed in revinw.
Nfolde is looked upon as being an unselfish, arduous
worker for the test interest of the country, a noble
General, and would have been loudly cheered had
the soldiers not feared General lialleck would have
taken it all to himself.
The city of Richmond is much disfigured by the
fire kindled by the fleeing . desperadoes, who will toon
pall hemp, no doubt. Many tokens of loyalty could
lie seen even in the streets of Richmond. One very
old lady stood, holding the Stars and Stripes across
her ann. Many were engaged in furnishing fresh
water for the troops.
The review which took place in Washingum on
the 2ard and 24th lost, was not as interesting to the
soldier as to the eitivai, who has been careful to temp
dear until peace is proclaimed, consequently was
looked upon as being more of a task than a pleasure.
The city still wears its mourning garb in honor of
the noble dead. The Goddess of Liberty stands held
ly upon the dome of the lapitol as though she now
had a right to the title she has so long borne.
We ahall cross the Potomac to day for the last
time as soldiers, with the satisfaction of knowing
that the last Rebel force has surrendered to the
strong arm of the Government.
We shall start lot Harrisburg to-day, and will prob
ably be detained there three days to complete all
necessary arrangements pertaining to final settle
ment of ordnance, itc..
It is wan for me to say we are all feeling
jubilant over the attering prospect of seeing tIVIDe
and triends soon. We shall see not only relatives
near and dear, but many whose sympathy has been
with us, whose prayers have been freely offered in
our behalf. We shall see those who have been un
tiring in their efforts to relieve the wants of absent
ones, through the agency of the Sanitary aeamia.
sion. Although we see no longer any advertise
ments in the paper of meetings of the Soldiers' Aid
Society, your nohle deeds are fresh In the memory
of every thinking soldier. Many a house will be
made happy by the renal,/ of husband, son, Or , brAll
er, ahich would have been draped in mourning had
It not been for the lint and bandage, the warm,
rtimulating drinks, the jellies so vigorating to the
appetite. Noble Indeed has been the work of the
Sanitary and Christian Commission. It has been
inspired by feelings of love and good will which De
ity smiles upon. Tea, citizens,' your noble deeds
should be written in the pages of history In letters
ofgold.
Were I not afraid of wearying your patience, I
would relate many incidents In my experience to
which I have been an eye-witness. Many a "God
bless the Commission" has fallen from the lips of
suffering soldiers.
In this great struggle we have learned many prof
itable lessons. The chaff Jas been removed hum
the wheat. We have lennild whom to trust in re
sponsible places. The wolves have been separated
from the sheep.
Copperheads who have been prowling In the grass,
seeking an opportunity to destroy the hest Govern
ment on earth, have been brought tint upon the
barten rock and exposed to the Indignation of the
world. Their great leader, J. U., is at Fortress
Monroe awaiting the halter.
Friends of the Union, rejoice! Our country is
maned, and itst enemies will be brought to justice.
All honor to the loyal and true, Ray they lead a
long and peaceful life, roicing over the laapppy ter
mination of the war and the glorious retells Which
must follow. N. D. Coon.
The Iklabama Indemnities
The 21faztorirl Diplomat/gni, of May 14th, make
public the important fact, that the Gevernment of
President Johnson has instructed the American
minister in London to "require of the English Gov
ernment a prompt decision as to the ludemnities
due the United States for losses caused to federal
citizens by confederate cruisers, such OA the Alabama,
and others, constructed and equipped in English
noes since the beginning of the war.
The _lfemortaZ adds that this demand has been sev
eral times made by the United States, but that its
justice has never been conceded by the British Gov
ernment, which has rested its refusal upon the opin
ions given by the-law oflicere of the crown • that
"Sir. Lincoln had nevertheless persisted in thee de
mand, renewing It a short time before his death;
and that-Mr. Johnson, far from abandoning this de
mand, has revived it, accenting it with more vigor
and energy than ever."
In the opinion of the -rewrite, This question,
which, up to the resell time, had not seemed to be
serious and pressing, now threatens, perhaps, a con
flict between the two nations, the English cabinet
having berme it an account amounting to many mil
lions sterling, and it seeming to-be certain that the
federal auttrnmenf wilinor mociffg its demands at the
plat wliiehmaiters hare actuaky reached" The 1&m
-midi, however, sarcastically adds: "The English
government will hardly persist in a negative which
would be followed by the gravest ~.o neequencw, but
will make this new sacrifice to peace after having
made so many heroie sacrifices for the same end dur
ing the past few years."
TIIW Prams or Ercuzs,—The wlafortnne of being
a rich man is shown by the case of A. T. Stewart, of
New York, against 'whose /Ire and liberty a plot is
said to have been concocted by a Swedish sea cap.
tam, by which it wee proposed to get possession of
the person of Mr. Stewart and holding him until he
would sign a paper giving to ids captors one hun
dred and thirty thonsand dollars, and - until the mo
ney should actually,be paid over. The plan reads
very nrich like the Idea of a lunatic, for the reason
that after he had got possession of the - money and
Stewart was released, his captor expected to have
the freedom of the eityt and that he would be al
lowed to return tivEngland at his leisure, without
any annt on the pat t of Sir. Stewart to arrest him.
A very limited Acquaintance with human nature
ought to have taught him that such impunity was
impossible from any nun Witt , had been plcuidcred.
News Items
—lt Is stated that no pardons will be granted to
Rebels unless they renounce all - right, title and in
terest In slave property forever. „ .
.41/4.b. .Taylor passeitjadgment-upon Jett.
Data twenty yeara a4o. Ile - called him "an un
principlnd ecoundrel and typoititleal adventurer."
Ingeniona patriot in Philadelphia sagrata,
with a Iteen muse 01 propriety, that the sympathet
ic copperheads should wear petticoats for thirty
days to honor of Jefferson Davis.
—A " bachelor of thirty years " - writes to the
Country firaronon for a recipe for bean soup. A
lady correspondent replies, " tict a wife that knows
how to aisle It."
—The Government detectives have succeeded In
tracing John IL Serratt to the (loon ed . monastery
in Canada). drove his entrance there no trace of him
has been discovered.
—Kirby Smith's forces Lave eurrendered, In ac
cordance Stith arrangements made with Gen Canby.
The surrender Meanies the Rebel naval torcea, and
all material of war, whether on land or water.
—The number of troops to be mustered ont dur
ing the month of Jane, h has been computed, nil
exceed MAO.
—•' Why •hwdd the spirit of mortal he proud
as Jeff. Davis said when he waa caught at Irwina
Wile, the other day.
--It Is now snld that Jeff. Davis nasumcd the pet
tlecatt in compliment to the women who havembuna
such an absorbing Interest In the HICCeSS of the re
bellion.
—The records of the Rebel War Department, sur
rendered by Joe. Johnston, have reached Washing
ton. They were contained In eighty-three boxes,
and the total weight was eight toes.
—Jeff. Davis, oven it pardoned, ran never again
be elected to Mike. Our people are not fond of pet
ticoat government.
—The Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon, since Its
establishment in ISdl, has entertained 1;:li 3 0110 sot
d lens, at an IApt.DEC of f4l,ooo—the entire amount
being freely given by the citizens of rhiladelrbi.,,
where It Is located.
—When Jeff. Davis made his triumphant entry In
to Montgomery, he threatened that the Yanite,,i,
should feel Sonthern steel; but, really, they did no'
expect to feel It In a hoopeklrt.
—Wonder if the Prophet Jeremiah had in his pro
phetic vieluu such a person as Jell. Davis when he
wrigot he verse of the fah chapter of his prooh
, which reads as follows:
`• And if thou say in thine heart, wherefore come
these things upon me? For the greatne.a of thine
iniquity arc thy skirts diervvertd, and the heel, made
bate."
—The war Is said to have kit the arsenal at Ma
con, GA., in rood order, and with ample machinery
for the manufacture of large and small arms of every
description.
A party of •ecen white men and one black, ser
vant was raptured off Cape Sable, Florida, on the
17th ult. They gave manes, hut It was thought they
were really Rebel otlieers or high rank tr 3 tag grape
to Cuba.
—Two paupers who escaped from a county poor
house up fu the oil rt.giot., of Pennsylvania made
one hundred thoneand doll.ra each, operating In
oil lands, before the overseer of the poor caught
them.
—An instance of filial atToctlon anion g the Pluty
Indiana we fl ed In a Nevada paper: Two young
t• itreset," under the assurance of being hanged,
propos.. to give , five ponies to the authorities if they
will allow that aged fathers to be hung in their
place.
—The. troops now trath , -red around Washing - ton
are daily sect tying benefits trorn the Sanitary Com
mission, which Is extensively Issuing fresh vegeta
bles to cheek the scorbutie tendency which fe now
shosting itself among n large portion of the 'tinny
It is also supplying undetelothing, stationery, etc.,
in large onautith.s.
—On the night of President Lincoln's asevsina
don, the rawidence of John Minor Botts, at Auburn,
Brandy Station, Culpepper, Va., was attacked by a
patty of seven guswrillas. On Mt. Bolts assuming
a determinded attitude and showing a bold front,
the ruffians seemed cowed, and dually departed.
—Hobert Holcombe, of New Hartford, had lost
his voice while serving as a soldier In Noith Caro.
!Ina, April sth, 1 , 503. and from that time to last Sun
day he had not been able to speak a wont. Sunday
morning a horse kicked him, which Injured his le -t
-ings so he couldn't help rxhresnlng himself, and
since that time he can talk as well as anybody.
—The present wife of the arch traitor, who has
been niptured with Lim, is his second wife, the
daughter of General Taylor having died many years
slue. Mr,. Davis's malice tame Vartnis
She 6 sold to he a grand-danithter of Gen. Hew.
of New-Jersey. She 6 still a young woman,
with a family, we believe, of four children.
—Gen Dick Taylor, in the official order to his ar
my announcing its surrend,r, speaks in high terms
of Gen. Canhy's conduct during the negotiations,
and characteriz-s the *erma granted by him as most
fair and generous. Taylor tells his men that if any
of them fail to observe the stipulations of surrender
they will deserve the Revert:et punishment.
—The petticoat President, when In the United
States Senate, made a speech on the John Brown
mid, in which he asked the following question
Who would scat: to dull the sword of Malec in
favor of him whose crime connects with ail that Is
most abhorrent to humanity, the violation of every
obligation to the social compact, the laws, the Con
stitution, the requirements of public virtue and per
sonal honor?" Now is the time to answer this
lacatlon-
—B. R. Harris, member of Congress from Mary
land, charged with giving money to Rebels and urg
ing them to violate the parole, was convicted by the
Court and sentenced to three years at hard labor In
the Albany Penitentiary. The President approved
the sentence and finding, directed the minor point.
of the sentence to be carried out, but remitted the
imprisonment. Having been tried and convicted of
treasonable acts, Congress will no doubt again do
clare him, shonld he attempt to take his seat, "an
unworthy member," and promptly expel him, be
now being a tried and convicted traitor.
—The Cincinnati ESuptirer asserts that the -credit
of the United States Is lower In Europe than that
of any other civilized nation ; and add., " lAi. i. thr
resell of ear cdravarpnice and eurruptims," Liad it
said that it was the result of a long and bloody war,
precipitated by such Democrats as Floyd, Hunter,
Taney, Slidell, Benjamin, and a host more of their
leaders, whose acts were more enc.uraged than
posed by their Democratic President, James Bo
eld@an, It would have come ranch nearer the truth.
—The latest accounts from Mexico state that the
Liberal forces ender General Negrete, who has re
cently obtained so great snecessee In the State‘ of
Naero-Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, number
7,000. At the fight at Saltillo, three Imperilist gen
erals were wounded, While Negrete was attacking
Matamoros,
on April 29th, the rebel General Slaugh
ter opened an artillery fire to prevent Negrete's
troops from reaching the river for water. A party
of guerrillas recently made an unsuccessful attempt
to kidnap the Empress.
—The London runes predicted of the John Brown
raid that It was " the prelude to a bloody war," hut
there is still an older prophecy than Ulla, and quite
an true. As far back as 1355, or 1857, Sir G. C. Lew
is, an English baronet,wrote of the assault of Brooks
upon Sumner : " People here speak of the outrage
on Sumner as a proof of the trratai manners of the
Americans and their low morality. To me it seems
the first blow in a civil war. It betokens the advent
01 a state of things In which political differences .
cannot be settled by argument, and can only be set
tled by force." In general British prophecies have
not proven very correct In reference to Araerica,but
in this Instance the nail was struck directly on the
head.
The Reaction South,
The late Mr. Crittenden said to a friend of ours
Iwo or three years since, that the people of the
North need not give themselves any trouble as to
what should be done with the leaders of the rebel
lion when the war ceases. Threpeople of the South,
it Is raid, will take that matter opt of their bands.
While the fighting lasts, while passions are at a red
heat they will go with the leaders ; but when the
war ends, when the excitement is over, and they
shall seZ what otter desolation sod rule has been
brought noon them, the reaction will come, and woe
to the guilty authors of their miseries.
This Prophecy has been fulfilled, so far as the ar- ,
my of Johnston is concerned, in which we were told
by the telegraph recently the men had begun to beat
and kill their °Meer& The privates expressed feel
ings of intense disgust and eontempt for the per
sons who have led them into a frightful &atm;
and with difficulty are their hands kept from the
throats of those they once cheerfully obeyed. Not
among the soldiers only, but the civilians as well,
Is this feeling prevalent. An officer of Sherman's
staff informs ns that throughout North Carolina,
so far as his observation extended, thousands of
people, once seecsaionists. now execrate tbe name
of Davis and his COMpeerB. This hatred will Crow
with time, until it will be altogether impassible for
any active agent of the insurrection to live at the
Sonth.--.N. Y. Evening Best .
Kirby Smith Surrenders.
The Old Flog Wares trona Malay to the
Uio Grande f
I'EEPAJIATIOXIS 808 TIM 313811ZICDEIL
Bayou Bono; Tuesday, May 23d. ISBS.
Via Canto, Saturday, /day 27th.
Brig.-Gen. Brent, and Cols. Heiden C Burke and
fielp arrived here to-day as Commissioners from
Kirby Smith. Gen. Herron and Lieut.-Commander
Foster came down from Red Elver with them. Gen.
Herron has gone to Gen. Canby, and It is believed
here that terms arc arranged for the surrender of
Kirby Smith's whole army.
TILE 1317118ENDElt-OITICIAL AMIOUNCEVXST.
Was DEPART/MS?,
Westin:Grow, Saturday, May 27th, 1865.
Ma.-Oct. Dra r—A dispatch from Gen. Canby,
dared at Ness , Coleana, yesterday, the 20th, states
that arrangements for the surrender of the Confed
erate tomes in the Trans-Mississippi Department
have concluded: They include the men and materi
al of the army and tay . y.
Enna 31. STIIITOY, Secretary of War.
AMNESTY PROCLAMATION
WASELINGTON, Monday, May 129th, lAffS.
TiTerm, The Praadeht of the. ljnited gtatea, on
the Bth day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred
and sixty-three, and on the 213th day otMarch,
eighteentrandrett and slxty-fottr, did. With the ob
ject to suppress the existing Rebellion, to induce all
persons to return to their loyalty and to restore the
authority of
.the United States, Ls.ue proclamations
offering amnesty and pardon to certain Dersous,who
had directly or by implication participated in the
said Rebellion; and
lilerros, Many persons who had so engaged in
said Rebellion have, since the lesnance of said proc
lamations, failed or negb.cl,d to mks lha benefits
offered thereby; and
- •
Wh-reos, Yany In 16011:; oho 11.,c been justly de
prived of all claim to antileel) end pardon thereun
der, by reason of their participation directly ar by
implication In raid Rebellion, and continued lu hos
tility to the Cloven:intent of the l'nited Slates since
the date of mild proelamatm, now desire to apply
for and obtain amnesty and pardon.
To the and, therefhte, that the authority of the
Government of the tufted States may be rt.tored,
and that peace, order and frerdombsay be establish
ed, 1, Andrew Johuseo, Pri.sident of the United
States, Do Proclaim co 4 &dor* that f hereby grant
Walt persons who have directly or indirectly part ic
Ipated In the existing Rebellion, as herein
after excepted, amnesty and pardon, with restom
tiou of all tights of property, except as to BillYee,
and except In eases where legal proceedings under
the laws of the United States providing for the eon
ilseation of property of persons engaged Rebeill
have been instituted; but on the condition, e t \
theless, that every each person shall take nod
scribe to the following oath or affirmation and
I
thenceforward keep and maintain said oath nch).
late, and which oath shall be registered ror perma
nent preserAtion, and shall be of the tenor and ef
fect following, to wit .
" I (blank) do solemnly swear, or affirm, In pres
enca of Almighty God, Ihni 1 nlll henceforth faith
fully support and &hiltlhu Constitution of Ilse
United States thereunder ' and that I will, In like
manner, abide by and Isitlltully support all lawn and
proclamations which have been made during tim
existing Rebellion with rnfetynce to the emancipa
tion of statue, no help me God."
The following classes of persona arc excepted
trom the benefits of this proclamation :
I. All who are or shall have been pretended civil
or foreign agents, o( the pretended Confederate
Government
H. All who let Judicial stations under the tni.
ted States to elf the
111. All who shall bare been military or naval
officers of said pretended Confederate flovernment
above the malt of colonel in the army or lieutenant
tu the =avy.
IV All who left seats In the Congress of the
United States ,yo aid the Rebellion.
V. All whti resigned or tendered resignations of
their commission , in the Army or Navy of the Uni
ted States to eVade duty In r..ktlng the
VI. All who have engaged in any way in treating
otherwise than Iswinliv as prisoners of wet persons
found In the United States service as officers, sol
diers seaman, or In tin r capacities.
VII. All , croons who hair been or arc absentees
from the United States for the purpose of aiding tile
Rebellion.
VIII. All military and naval otticers in the Rebel
service who were eancated h 5 the Government in
the Military Maidenly at West Point or the United
States Naval Academy.
IX. All pereons who held the pretended offices
of tiovernment of Statce In insurrection against the
United Staten.
X. All persons who left their homes within th
Jurisdiction and protcctlan of the 1 . - oltcd States, an
purred beyond no. Federal Military liner into Ilc-s
called Confederate States, for the I.urpore of
the Rebellion
XL MI persons who have been engaged In the
destroctlon of the commerce of the United Stites
upon the high Seto, Fed all persons who have made
raids into the United States from Canada, or been
engaged in destroying the commerce of the Ceded
Statta upon the lakes and Tivel - C. , that repatate the
British Provinces from the United States.
XII. All persons who, at the time when then
seek to obtain the benefits hereof by tal,ing the oath
herein proscribed, are in military, naval or civil Con
finement or yuatoilv, or under totals of the (nil,
military or naval alithurithia or agents of the United
Stabs as prisoners - of war, or per-tins detained for
°Betters of any kind either before or after
thm
XIII. AII persona Who hive voluntarily partici
pated Fn said Rebellion, and the estimated value o
whose taxable properly is ov , r twenty thogi e wr
dollars.
All p eci , ons wh o have often the oath of
amnesty as prescribed by the President's Proclama
tion of 'pi:comber Sib, A. I). or an oath of alle
giance to the Government of the halt, d States sit cc
the date of said Proclamation, and who have not
thenceforward kept and tnsinsained the same MO
olate,—provided, that epecial application may he
made to the President for pardon by any person be
longing to the exce;dcil classes, and such clemency
will he liberally extentt,l as may be consistent n it it
the facts of the ease and the peace and dignity of
the United Stares.
The Secretary of State will establish rule* and reg
ulations for atiminiatering and recording the said
amnesty oath, BO ZS to Insure its benefit to the peo
ple, and guard the GoNernment against fraud..
In testimony whereof, I bare hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to he
affixed.
Done at the City of Wathington, the twenty-ninth
day of May, in the yt•ar of our Lord one thousand
eight tinnareci and F Ixty- ft ve, nod of the. Indepen
dence of the United States the eighty-ninth.
(sBAL] ANDItEW JOHNSON.
By the President •
W. H Smkrtn, Nserentry of State.
Barnum
Phineas T. :Barnum's very beat show was that
which be made of himself In the Connecticut House
of Representatives, on the 24th of May. The ques
tion was on amending the State Constatutlou so as
to obliterate the iniquitous distinction of color
which now exists. Mr. Bananm's speech was full
of sense end wit, anti proved that Ins mind has n •
been exclusively engrossed with money-making—
with hippopotami, Allfieos, dwarfs, giants, and
wax-figures. Ile was interrupted by some very
dirty specimens of the pure democracy, who did not
hesitate to rank the negro with oxen and pastas, and
allow him no better title to the franchise. We alemld
like, if space permitted, to quote at length from his
remarks, for, being driven to choose from among the
forcible arguments and happy retorts, we partake of
that embarrassment which, us the satirical French
pamphleteer informs as, was (tit by the Itoman peo
ple, amid the amusements furnished them by Au
' gusto& From one extract, guess the whole:
But a democratic minority (of two) seem to
have done something besides study ethnology
They have also paid great attention to the fine art.,
and are particularly aIAiOLIS that all voters shall have
a 'genius for the arts' I would like to ask them if
it has always been a democratic practice to insist
that every member of the great unwashed and un•
terrified democracy iirmiThe a member of toe
academy of arta before be should vote the dim,,,l.
eratie ticket:' 1 thought he was received into tall
fellowship with the dimmicrutie party, if be co„ id
exhibit sufficient ' inventive 'acuities and gerflas for
the arts' to enable b,m to paint a black eye. ('alt a
man whose 'genius for the arts' enables him to
strike from the shoulder scientifically be °Omitted
to the democratic party?
"Is 'genius for the arts and those occupations
requiring skill and wisdom' sufficiently exemplified
in adroitly stuffing. ballot-boxes. forging soldiers'
votes, and copying a directory—Kansas fashion--as
the return list of votes? Is the Inevitable faculty of
'voting early and often' a passport to democratic
brotherhood? Is it satisfactory evidence of artistic
genies to bead the New York mob, and bunt down
and brain poor colored children and their shrieking
mothers! Is It a proof of ' high art' to ' hang a
augur to a lamp poet, he jabbers?' Is a whisky
Scrimmage' one .1 the 'toot arts' restored?"
The House passed the amendment by more than a
two-thirds vole, and It Is sure to go to the people.
Amusing Incidents.
The ruse pepetmtcd by deft Davis to get away
from the guard throws entirely into the shade any
thing of the sort on record. When the guard went
to the tent occupied by defunct royalty, they were
met by Mrs. Davis rn dixhahVir, with
" Please, gentlemen, don't disturb the privacy of
ladies before they have time to dress."
" All right, madam," said the corporal,
wait till you have ou your duds "
Presently there appeared at the tent tor an os
tensible old lady, with a bucket on her arm, escorted
by Mrs Davie and her sister.
" Please let my old mother go to the spring~ for
some water to wash in!" said Mrs. Jets, In a plead
ing tone.
. It strikes me yonr mother wears very big boots,"
said the guard as he hoisted the ad lady's dress with
his sabre, and discovered a pair of number thirteen
And whiskers, too," said the sergeant as he
pulled the hood from her face; and lo! Jett. Davis,
in all his littleness, stood before them.
A "spencer" was Immediately pointed at his ear,
and be was marched back to the tent and placed
under durance vile. " flow are the mighta i stilen !"
The great leader of the Confederacy tr) " to es
cape the clutches of Justice in his wife's petticoats !
One more Incident is all that time and space will
allow me to mention. The soldier Immediately went
to searching Davis, to see what valnabb.s he could
bud on his person, and besides an amount of
specie found a line silver-mounted revolver, a pres
ent from a Loudon manufacturing company. While
he was searching, private secretary Harrison came
up, and In a very indignant tone, said:
"Ain't von %Shamed to treat our President so r
"President—hell," said the soldier. " What's he
President of r,
Dacia ox Jcimssrott's ticaneanzu.—The Wash
ington likgalican says: "We have reason to believe
that the Government is inossession of a letter
Written by Jeff. Davis the da p y after the Sherman-
Johnston armistice was signed, In which the
arch-traitor declared that while it did not grant
ail that he could have liked, yet It was conceding
more than he had any reason to expect. That, in
Iris judgment, it acknowledged the Rebel Govern
ment and gave them authority to continue that
Government to the late rebellions States, to which
the Rebel soldiers were severally allowed to return
and deposit their arms. And out of this reeogni
lion be expressed the opinion that the United States
could be made to pay the Rebel debt. This letter,
we believe, will 69012 be made public,"
Trial of the Assassins,
WAsuiaoroa, Tuesday May 30, MM.
Lewin F. Bates was this morning examined for
the prosecution, and testified substantially as fol
lows
Have resided at Charlotte, N.. C., for the last
lour ram ; Jefferson Davis stopped at mylonse on
the 1 0 0th of April, and made en address from the
steps ; Davis received and read to the crowd a tele
nram from General - Breciduridge, dated Grams
borough, April 111th as follows:
" ?resident Lincoln was assassinated In the theater
on the night of the lith inst. Secretary t3award's
house was entered on the same night, and he was
repmtedly stabbed and is probably mortally wound
ed."
The witness said that after reading this dispatch
to the crowd, Davis said: "If it were to be done it
were better it tNTC teen done." The day after Breekim
ridge and Davis conversed In the house of the wit
ness on the subject, of the assassination, Breckin
ridge remarked to Davis that he regretted It very
much ; it was unfortunate for the people of the South
at the time; the regret seemed to be because of
spell:why for the people of the South, and not be
rause of he criminality of the act; Davis replied,
" Well, General, I don't know. If it were to be
done at nit It were better It were well done; and if
the same were done to Andy Johnson, the heist,
and Secretary Stanton, the Job would be complete."
J. C. Courtney, a telegraph operator, testitled that
the telegram in question passed cvet the wire&
Jacob ItitterspaUgh testided tlitt he was employed
In Ford's theater when the President was shot; he
saw the assassin run across the stage, and following
him he found the door hard to open; when witness
litrned, Spangler struck him saying! " For God's
mike don't say which way he (Booth) went I" Wit
ness was called for Ilarrold, and said he had always
been regarded as a light and trifling boy, and easily
innuenced be was temperate and regular In his
habits. ..
The Rebel General Edward Johnson was called by
the defense. General louse said Johnson was edu
cated at the United States Military Acadentyt it was
a well known condition precedent to an oilleer's
teceivin; his commisaion that he mast take the oath
of alitanance; that it was notoiions thet Johnson
had borne anus against this Government, and came
here with hands red with the blood of his loyal coun
trymen. To offer him as a witoeas was an Insult to
the Court, and he moved he be ejected.
General UM was glad the motion had been made.
The lutroductiou of such a man was the height of
Impertinence.
Mr. Aiken, o► the counsel for the defense, said
the Confederate officer Jett had already appeared as
witness for the Government, therefore no disrespect
was intended by introducing this witness.
Judge liolt arid others spoke, when General Howe
withdrew his objection.
General Johnson then testified that he is ac
quainted with a ream representing himself ses You
liteinta:ker, who was a private in the del Virginia
fantry ; he never Ltarti of a secret meeting such as
that to which Von Steinecker testified, having in
xiew the assassination of the President; he never
heard such a thing spoken of as desired; he never
saw ifooth in his camp, or heard of him till the as
sa,sination.
W zsmnotes, Wednesday, May 31, MM.
Hartman Richter, a cousin of Atzerodt, testified
that the prisoner came to us hou.e 1n Mon tg omery
cttutity, Md , on the Sunday after the asaugnation
of the President and remained there until Thursday
mornlng. lie did not attempt to hide himself and
was willing to go with the arresting °liken.
Mr. Duster, as counsel for Azcrodt, stated that he
intended to set up the plea of insanity, and for this
purpose had summoned relatives and friends of
Azerodt living thousands of miles away, who have
not yet arrived.
S Arnold testified OR to his brother's where
s Loots in Baltimore City and County from the 21st
of March to the ist of April, when the prisoner
went In Fortress Moore giving to the witness his
0.4.4 anrt knife
Frank Aruol.l, also another brother to the prisoner,
t«cttdea that the tatter went to Fortress Monroe to
enter upon employment.
John T. Ford, proprietor of the theater, was
called to the• stand and was asked by the defence
whether 13“oth ever applied to him to employ Ches
ter, the actor
Asstant Judge. Advocate Bingham objected to
the question.
Mr. Ewing contended that the question was per
tinent. Arnoid had made a voluntary confession
that there was a plan to capture the President,
which Chester, in his testimony, corroborated. The
object in pro?ounding the interrogatory was to
show that Booth had nobody in the theater to as-
Si-t him. An answer to the question was import
ant In justlee to Spangler.
A.sistant Juth Bingham said this was
unt a question of relevancy, therefore it was abso
lutely unneceseary to ask It.
The C , urt sustained the Assistant Judv-Advo
cat c's
John T. Ford, manager of the theater, was re ,
called. lie wan shown the rope found in SpangirT's
rartiet bag; bald it might have been used in crabbing
or for other prirpo.R , A; the witness wee In Richmond
when the as.,sinutkm occurred.
11. (lay Ford teatified that ha was treasurer of
the theater; he knew the Pritsideht intended
coming to the theater at 11;.; o'clock In the
morning; Booth was at the theater at noon, but he
did not ttil Bot.th the scats had been engaged.
The Way to Sptke the Abolition
Gun.
The New York Herald never leads, but only fol.
lows public opinion upon all piestions relating to
slavery and the negro. It came out fortbe Anti
slavery Prohibitory Amendment to the Constitution
just Os soon as it became clear that it would be car
ried ; and now it is out Sat-footed for Negro Suf
frage a pretty sure sign that the measure will soon
be adopted. We quote from the Hamad of Tuesday :
" But there is another matter upon which Presi
dent Johnson seems to be hesitating, and where be
need nut lie.itate at all We refer to the question
of negro suffrage. The exclusion of free negroes
from the right of suffrage Is a necessity of negro sla
very, but where slavery does not exist there Is no
such necessity. Give the emancipated negrocs of
the robel States, then, in the reconstruction of those
States, the right to vote along with the whites,
There need be no fear that this concession will lead
to negro social equality. Negroes vote in New
York, and yet in New I ork there Is no approach to
negro social equality. Society will take care of it
self in this matter, as it dues in everything else af
fecting its peace and harmony. On the other hand,
the concession of negro suffrage in the reconstruc
tion of the Insurgent States, will effectually spike
the lust run of Northern Abolitionists, and will ex
pel or neutralize the fire-eating political elements of
the South for all time to come. Indeed, nothing
half so etlective could he employed as negro suffrage
to weed out the intractable sevessionishs from the
Southern States. Put them to that test of loyally,
and teere will be no necessity for notices to quit or
oaths of allegiance: but, best of all, the political ag
itation of the negro question, in every shape and
form, will be ended, North and South."
This mode of "spiking the guns of the Abolition
ists, will afford them the highest satisfaction, and
we will guarantee that it will probe effectual. Let
the Administration try
From the South West
CINCINNATI, May 30, 105.
The I .4nnierriars Chattanooga dispatch rays the
Southern papers received there announce the in
tention of the people to accept the new era In good
faith, and stand by the Government in the task of
restoring order and industry. They repudiate guar=
rills warfare, or acts against Individuals holding
political opinions differing from themselves, and lay
a.elde the hires heretofore animating them.
John Bell Is iu Atlanta.
The East Tetines , seeand Georgia Railroad Is being
repaired. Only twenty miles remain to connect
with Bristol.
Ex Secretary 3fa:lory and flown!! Cobb passed
through Chattanooga for Nashville, under a guard.
Detachments of Wilson's cavalry arc arriving at
Chattanooga.
A di.ratch from Fmnkford, - Kentucky, to the
I ',,,,anecidl, says r.cruitinz Is going on briskly
among. the mares in neutral Kentucky.
In a few months morn the negrn enlistments will
settle the question for Kentucky, independent of
the Constitutional Amendment..
A dispatch from Nashville to the Gazette says Gen.
Cplen has arrived there with the archives of the
&ate and $650,000 In specie.
The Tennessee Senate passed the Elective Fran
chise Bill yesterday by a vote of In to 5.
The Rebel guerrilla Champ. Furgenon has been
captured, and I closely confined In Irons at Nash
ville, Tenn.
ESE
PULA I DENT JOHNSON ON PARDO NS. -A circumstance
transpired among the first act. of Mr. Johnson, on
assumin.,- the duties of President, which shown what
the public may expect of him In the way of pardons.
About seven or eight years ago a person was tried
in Boston on the charge ot slavedealing. He was
convicted and sentenced to twenty years imprison.
mem.. tie had served out six or seven years of that
penalty whim there was a stung pressure upon Mr.
Lincoln to pardon him. Several prominent
ticlans of Boston strenuously urged the use of the
pardoning power. They presented several extenaii
sting facts, and finally Mr. Lincoln consented to
sign it. Me pieced his signature to the document
on the day on which he was assassinated, and sent
it to the .Attoney-General's Mike to be attested and
executed. It arrived there ton late to be attended
to that day, and before the otllee was again opened
Mr. Lincoln had breathed his last. The several
Cabinet ministers, as a matter ot form, presented
the unfinished business in their departmenta to Presi
dent Johnson, and among this class was this pardon
signed, but not executed. It attracted President
Johnson's nttentiou, and Le immediately said, "I
must examine into this" retaining it for that pur
pose. Upon making Inquiries he had It cancelled,
saying that no person ever engaged in that business
would ever get a pardon from him. This may be
considered conclusive evidence that there will be
some difference between The use of the pardoning
power in the hands of President Johnson and in the
hands of President Lincoln.
13ot:erten Boor doinir.—A correspondent of the
Nurx, who, by way of illustration, spoke of the dia.
tigurement of Booth's lifeless remains, as rumor
told the tale, now says:
" For the honor of the country I am glad to say
there is no truth in the shocking tale. Booth's
body was buried without disfigurement. It was
burled in secret and in the night, and no stone marks,
or ever will mark the spot; but this was the choice
of his faintly. The body was given to them. They
had it carried tar away to the north, away beyond
New York, and there fiaterred, and there to remain
until the lalit day, when the quick snit the 4vski are
to be Judged.
Jeff. Davis Endeavoring to StarVe
Himself to Death.
The special correspondence of The Philadelphia
Inquirer contains the following :
"It is certain, notwithstanding. The Irma , in.
dignatlon Over what (twin% pit:gait to call 'a Phila
delphia story,' that the prisonet uvahmeity manacled
one day fad week, and so gonoinied >snlll trestcrdati a/ -
ferment, During the days he was ironed, Davis
steadfaltly refused food, eating etch day nothing
but a bit of bread, and yesterday Dr. Cravens said
plainly to the authorities that unless he was relieved
from the shackles the prisoner would not live two
days. In consequence of this representation the
Irons were removed late yesterday Afternoon, and
then Dr. entvena is reported to have further express
ed the opinion that unless Davis was allowed more
fresh air than he could get by constant confinement
in his cell, he would not live ten days.
lie will live ten days, however, for to-morrow he
emerges from the casemate of Fortress Monroe, and
will be sent to Washington. The gunboat, Connect
icut, ordered from Washington for his conveyance,
will arrive in Eampton Roads this morning, and to
morrow forenoon the prlsoner will be conveyed on
board under Wong guard.
Davis certainly has shown a childishness and
temper that is In the highest degree disgraceful to
him, and robs him of all claim to pity or respect
No great State criminal ever stood in so unenviable
a light bellye the world. From the first moment
of his capture until now, he has not shown a single
sign cd that fortitude, courage, and dignity. that
have so often gilded the last honrs of crime. None
of this has he shown. lie acts and talks like a spoil
ed child, whose playthings have been taken away.
General Sherman's Farewell Order
To the Armies or Georgia and Tennessee Is as fol-
lows :
HELD-QUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OS TRH MIS•
FitsstrPl, IN TUE FIELD, WAslmursom, II C., May
30th, 1865.—Special field orders, No. 76.—The Gen
eral commanding announces to the Armies of the
Tennessee and Georgia that the time has come for
us to part. Our work is done, and armed enemies
no longer defy us. Borne of you will be retained In
service until further orders, and now that we are
about to separate to mingle with the civil world,
it becomes a pleasing duty to recall to mind the sit
uation of national affairs, when but little more than
a year ago we were gathered about the twirling cliffs
of Lookout Mountain, and all the future was wrap
ped in doubt.
Three armies had come together from distant fields
with separate histories, yet bound by one common
euuse—the union of our country and the perpetua
tion of the Government of our inheritance. There
is no need to recall to your memories Tunnel Hill,
with its rocky face mountain, and Buzzard's Roost
Gap, with. the ugly forts of Dalton behind. We
were Is earnest, and paused not for danger and dib
tienlty, but dashed through Snake Creek Gap and
fell On itcsaca.
Then on to Etowah, to Dallas, Kenesaw, and the
beats of summer found us on the banks of the Chat
tahoochee, far from home and dependent on a sin
gle road for supplies. Again we were not to be
held back by any obstacle, and crossed over and
fought four heavy battles for the possession of the
citadel of Atlanta. That was the crisis of our his
tory. A doubt still clouded our future, but we solv
ed the problem and destroyed Atlanta, struck boldly
across the State of Georgia, secured all the male ar
teries of life to our enemy, and Christmas found us at
Savannah.
Wahine there only long enough to LW our wagons
we again began a march, which, for peril, labor sod
results will compare with any ever made by an or
ganized army. The floods of the Savannah, the
swamps of the Combabee and Edisto, the high bills
and rocks of the Santee the flat quagmires of the
Pedee, and Cape Fear Rivera, were all passed in mid
winter, with its floods and rains, in tee face of an
accumulating enemy, and after the battles of Aver
asborough and Bentonville, we once more came out
of the wilderness to meet our friends at Goldsbor
ough.
Even then we paused only long enough to get new
clothing, to reload our wagons, and again pushed on
to Ral.fgh and beyond till we met our enemy sewing
for peace instead of war, and offering to submit to
the Injured isyrs of his and our country. Aa long as
that enemy was defiant, neither mountains nor riv
ers, nor swamps, nor hunger, nor cold, had checked
us; but when he had fought us bard, and persistent
ly offered submission, your General thought it
wrong to pursue him further, and negotiations fol
lowed, which resulted, as you all know, in his sur
render.
How far the operations of the army have contribu
ted to the overthrow of the Confederacy and the
peace which now dawns upon us, must bejudged br
others, not by us. But that you have done all that
men could do, has been admitted by those in author
ity, and we have a right to join In the universal joy
that fills our land because the war is over, and our
Government stands vindicated before the world by
the joint action of the volunteer armies of the Unit
ed States. To such as remain in the military service,
your General need only remind you that successes in
the past are due to bard work and discipline, and
that the same work and discipline are equally im
portant in the future.
To such as go home he 'will only say that our fa
vored country Is so grand, so extensive, so diver+
ded In climate, soil and productions that every man
can surely find a home and occupation suited to his
tastes, and none should yield to the natural impo
tence sure to result from our past life of excitement
and adventure. You will be invited to seek new ad
ventures abroad, but do not yield to the temptation,
for It will Itlid only to death and disappointments.
Your General now bids you all farewell, with the
full belief that, as In war you have been good sold
iers, so In peace you will make good citizens: and
if, unfortunately, a new war should arise in our
country, "Sherman's Army" will be the first to
buckle on the old armor and come forth to defend
and maintain the Government of our Inheritance and
choice.
By order of Major• General W. T. Sherman.
(Signed) L. M. DATT.N
-
&Blatant ddjutant-GeneraL
Lot
The Fate of the Democratic Party
Borne ofour Democratic contetnpomries take in tll
part our good-natured allusions to the sad 'Vire
now presented by the Chicago platform. They call
it ungenerous to twit the party about [Wit, when It
Is now so lustily shouting glory for the national
triumph. Well, we are cony. We did not think
they were so sensitive. Henceforth we will try to
remember that even the smallest pleasantry upon
that subject is a great cruelty, and there shall be no
more of it.
Yet our friends must not imagine that the Ameri
can people are going to forget that action of the
Democratic party at Chicago, They may be, and
we trust they will be, charitable toward their fellow
citizens individually, who were no discouraged and
demoralized in the dark period of the war. Forti
tude in adversity is not within every man's power.
It depends largely upon a man's natural tempera
ment, and upon his previous cultivation of the great
moral element—faith. Apeman, last August, might
have conceived the war "a failure," smui have favor
ed negotiations with the Richmond Government,
without any positively bad motive. It might come
from weakness, and not at all tram wickedness.—
But though individual Democrats may be judged
ever so liberally, the Democratic party itself cannot
be. Party organizations are judged by their acts
solely, and never get the benefit of charity. Striv
ing for the rule of the country, their title to that
trust la always strictly seanned; and if wrong, they
are repudiated. The Chicago platform stands, be
fore all the world se the authentic deliberate expo
sition of the sentiment+ and policies of the Dem,
cultic party In the last and moat trying year of the
war. It is so distinct and explicit that all attempt
to mystify or evade ita true meaning is vain. Every
man in the country knows that it condemned the
war as "a failure,' and that it demanded that "
vo
mediafe efforts be made for the ceesation of hostili
ties," In that regard theZtemocoatic party 1. Irre
verathly doomed. The people, In the very thick of
the war, punished that act by the most withering re
buke known to our political history. The fate they
will hereafter visit upon the party will be as much
more severe as the falsehood of its assumptions and
the fatal consequences of its policy is more distinct
ly revealed by the actual result of the war. No ex
piation will be accepted short of utter destruction.
The sooner that individual Democrats recognize
this, and prepare themselves for Come other politi
cal organizati on, the better for their own credit and
for the good of the country.—.Y. F. Timta.
Tun YELLocv FHvEn PLOT.—The true story of the
yellow fever plot, as developed at a trial In Canada,
Is a. follows :
One Dr. Blackburn,
a secessionist, a Mlseiasip.
plan, Hying in Canada, hire' Hodfry Hymns, whmn
he had known in Arkansas, and now met In Canada,
to carry Into the United States and to Washington
city, Norfolk, Newbern and elsewhere, certain
trunks full of clothing Infected with the virus of
yellow teem Blackburn had procured thin clothing
from Bermuda, It is said. lie promised Hymns u
large sum of money; "he said I could make an in
dependent fortune, and that 1 could do more good
for the Confederate cause than if I were to bring one
hundred thousand men to reinforce General Lee;
that I would come to have more honor andglory to
my name than the General had. I asked him the
nature of the expedition, when be told me that I
should have a quantity of clothing to dispose of by
auction In Washington and other cities, and that the
clothes would have yellow fever In them; that they
were to be distributed In placate held by the federals,
so that they would take sick, and that they would
easily be driven from the confederacy territory Lad
by them; that the clothes bad been Infected with
yellow fever by the doctor himself, and that they
would consist of shirts and coats."
A TOCCIIING INCIDENT.—The Chicago Tribune
of a recent date has the following touching incident :
"Hon. John Covode was In this city on his return
from a Southern tour yesterday- He had lost two
eons in the war, as he supposed, two years ago, and
falling In with a member of one of their regiments
who had Just been released from the rebel prison at
Andersonville, Ga., made Inquiry preparatory to
asking where his boy was burled. Judge of his sur
prise whdn he was answered "Yon must be pre
pared to learn, Mr. Covode, that Jacob (the young
est son) could not come with us." " fa my boy alive.,
then?" he Itniutred. "Why, yea. They not
kill Jake. He has too arch soul' He was bound
to live. He would have come with us pat he could
not raise twenty-five cts. the Trice they demanded
to release as." "Whether I would have cried
mere", said the patriotic old man Was, " to have
heard the tidings that 1 had lost another son than
did on receiving this intelligence is doubtful." The
eon Is now on his way home by way of Richmond.
An English Estimate of President
Johnson.
The London Opetator of May 13th has a long toil
de on our new Prcaldent, witch commences is rot
Iowa:.
"Avery original, very determined, it may be, very
dangerous, hnf unquestionably very powerful man,
has eneceetlid Abraham Lincoln. The public in
this country ITU been deceived as much by formal
utterance of Mr. Johnson when accepting the Pres
idency as by the accident which threw such ridicule
over his inauguration in the subordinate Oleo. This
Is no feeble ruler, sure to be a tool in the bands of
his secretaries or the parties around him, any more
than It is a drunken rough elevated by an accident
and Incapable of - an idea, but a strong, self-reliant
man, accustomed to rule, and to rule Ina revolution,
with a policy as distinct es that of the oldest Euro.
pean statestian, and" a will which, be that policy
wise or rub, will assuredly make resistance to It a
most dangerous task. There is no single point in
politics which it is so important to Englishmen to
understand as the character of the American Presi
dent ; they cannot afford a second mistake such as
that committed .about Mr. Lincoln, and we have
.p.tmed hours in studying the speeches and acts
Mr. Johnson as Governor of Tennessee. The more
we have read, the more strongly his the conclusion
grown on ne that the new American President is one
of the most individual men on the continent—s
ruler who, whatever else he may do or leave undone,
will most assuredly rule; who will borrow knowl
edge, but acceptsiivice only when it harmonizes
with his own preco ceived convictions."
Union State Convention
A State Convention will be held it Harrisburg on
Wednesday, the 19th day of July, 1945, at 12 o'clock
M., for the purpose of putting in nomination a State
Ticket, to he supported by the frier.da of the rulon
at the coining October election.
The earnest and tealons labors M a loyal people
secured the great victory in ISM, and made the war,
which our enemies denounced as a failure, A glori
ous success In 1895.
. _
Onr flak has been maintained—our enemies de
stroyed—our Government preserved, and peace re
established. Let every friend, who aided in this to
srdt, take measnre•s to he represented in that Con
vention We must see to it that the fruits of our
success are not lost to the Nation,
. .
Business of vast importance will be presented for
Its consideration, and every district in the State
should be represented. BDION C4SfEHON.
Chainna.
A. W. BENIMICT, t s eerdar k a.
wring Foaxer,
The Creed of President Johnson.
"Treason must be made odious and traitors pen.
ished."
"The time has come for us to understand that
treason is a crime, the highest of crimes; In other
words, that all crimes are submerged In treason,
and that he who has committed treason has coin.
milted all crimes."
"The people must understand that treason is the
blackest of crimes and will be surely punighecL"
" Public morals and opinion should be established
upon the sure and inflexible principles of Justice."
" We must not forget that what may be mercy to
the Individual is cruelty to the State."
JEFF. Davis ow lELANGING.—Tha New York Even.
in g /bat says: An officer of the United States army,
whose authority in such a case we cannot question,
Riven leave to publish the following account of
what he heard Jeff. Davis say just before the break
ing out of the war. We use his words:
' I beard Sir Davis utter the following words. in
a Southern town, where he delivered an address in
November, 1860. I did not hear the whole speech,
only the - Words quoted, as I paused by the crowd of
listener. ,
" What: coerce a sovereign State! attempt to
deprive us of our most inestimable rights!
Let Mr. Lincoln try it, or Douglas either, and
we will hang them higher then Haman, and the only
difference I should make would he that (humor
ously] ar. Mr. Lincoln is considerably taller than
)lr. DourLss, we should have to build his gibbd
(standing on his toes and reaching up his hand], a
little higher than that for Douglas.''
Restnarrios. OF Srecsu Pat - sunsTs.--Secretary
MeColloch, in conversation with a prominent poli
tician a few days since, stated that the Government
was now ready to resume specie payment ; that Its
finances were In a condition to enable it to adopt
that course. The only thing that prevented imme
diate adoption of that plan was the injury It would
do to the business Interests of the country. The in
dications arc that a return to specie payments would
be made before many months. The Idea of the
country returning to a specie basis in less than one
year after the close of a rebellion like that which we
have just gone through seems a wild and preposter ,
ous idea But after what we have done there is
nothing impossible. Secretary SfeColloch Is not a
man who talks at random, especially on financial
questions, and his statement In worthy of attention.
" It turns out that the story about the colored
&I:11(110'f htying a plot to kill the rebel prisoners, and
that white troops were put on guard who killed
some twenty Wacky In their attempt to carry oat
the plot, Is entirety without foundation in truth.—
We liars official intelligence that there was nothing
of the kind.
ktettt Adurrtioemento.
Dn. E. L. GARDNER,
PEITISWIAN AND BURGLE:IR, liontlote. Pa. OT.ce our ;
Webby Store. Boards at Sesa lioteL
or.trose,January li 1b611.-ef
Da. JOHN W. COBB,
PYSICIAN aoJ BURGEON, respectfully teaders his tenter !,
to toe calm. oetauns County. He will lei". OT•IW
attention to the surgical 011 medical treatment of Oxman of the
Eye and Ear, acd nay be court 'led relative to sarglealoyeratloa
free of charge at Cis aloe veer W 3,& B. H. Ilulfora'stgr re.
Residence of Maple street. ear of .1. S. Tarbelre Hotel.
id.r.thue. Basq. ()May, Pa. June it 1563.-tf
W 001: WOO/
TFIX nalmaythers would Inform their Mend. and the pablte
evilly that they are prepared to receive Wool to mitatartata ,
on dares or by the yard. Al. Wool Carding and Cloth Dreedy
dcne In a good rtyle hf J. INGHAM
Campton, Jona 5, I Sts.—tf. 30111 i
NEW GOODS!
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Montrose, June is, Ye 4s.
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