«H3E F »*»*« pr.XiISHKD DAIX.V {SdN'UAVS JSXUEPTEIri ■T TOMS W. FMHKJi*. OJTICI Ko. 11l 80PTB TdVHTR STSKSt. XHK - Mh.aakt.rfWn Pnx PE* A93V ■• u> Tw®m «wf* *«* w*“ P*T.bi.*otb. [rrimt ' Msil.c to snh»fii<«» oat ®* t! »« tllr. Via J .....ars; P..n» Pou.ASitun)JirrTOsira ,rari Konst • Dow-abs bsd Twhstt-tto ■stb vos inu JtfoxTira, inysrUblT la »4t»m# for 6 u.) ordtntL ln»rt«d St Uu aansJ »»««. *StS TM-WEKKLT PRESS, HsUrfl *® c»a*uib«s. Fit. Dollau* tbs AaanM, la Iran**- ttJBL k. PRY GOODS BA.NTBB, & 00., UffOBTEBS AS® .IfiBBEBS, Pjl y Gr OOD 8 , m and »M Nortti Xhlrd Street, y.ai:MOßtrHUu ijuli Printe, Sm ®* laS «?> sUBrt*» Alpi-OaS, F&noj Dress Uoid», Brown and BlftanliCil ‘ilßli Brown and ttlenslied Omlßi Otaambrns, 1/-I j, Omlsb Tweeds, Flannels, :iiea, Misnne, FURNISHING GOODS, , ,jfl GOODS. DOTIOSr. &0.. *<■ feiS-SM VijtRPRTS ASfS* OFL-CLRTHS, BPRING, GXaJBSN ECHO MIXJjS, germantown, fa. ITCAIiLCM Sc CO., ;akitactubei;s and importers of CAKFJETINGS, ;IU OLOTH. MATTINGS, <6O. VHOUSSALS miPABTUKSI, •09 CHE6TKUT STBEB*. RETAIL. DEPARTMENT, •IB CHISTJTOT STREET. MERCHANT TAUL.ORS. JUWAKD P. KELLY, 3< JOHN KELLY, TAILORS, bi* CHEBTKUT STREET, XAvn now at srou OOMPtETI IiSSOBTEEHT OF SPRING GOODS. ;M-tt . - ‘ PRIiGS AxVP CH BMICA3LS. BOTANIC AND ECLECTIC DRUGS. ROBERT A. HANOE, ?«9 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA, cvtud call the attention of Druggists, Country Mer feMta, and other*, to Ms atock of “ BOOTS, HERBS, AtfD BASKS, It various sized packages. of our oirn presriu*, at r PKICEB BsLQW FORMER KATES. _ „ ! lias of .BOTa.SIOA.Ci T9\ S. kEKRELL&CO. *8 GONOBSTBAEKOEfiJIBDIBS.&e., Lt & liberal discount to the trade. Catalogues lunuihed on application, gISGLKH & SMITH, WHOLESALE Drug, faint, end Glass Dealer*, ';o»rl*tor» or tio Ptoß.Th »aU Point aai Color Wor!». Hunfutaren of 3881 rmil£ iLEAI), BBSS HSOi PUKE LIBERTY LEAD, :”Ht»M«od for Whltcnem, F!n« oi"««. HnreMHix, ml Brennan of SurfM*. ?OKK IIBBBTT LEAD—Wat ranted to ootot more ie;»» for »»ia» troltlit than w othor. IST I*. iB9 TOO WILL HATB 10 OTSSKf PURE LIBERTY ZINO, BMtod ZSnn, (round In SeBusd Linseed oil,nnestn*l»4 in ontlitT. »lrr»T» th» umo. PERK 3MBESTT ZESC. ?.;?ruted to do more *nd better work At 4 (1793 «0«t than lot other. GET THE BBBTI Store and Offlee—Ho, 13T Horth THIBD Stmt, PHILADELPHIA. ■nhlG-Sm* ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., S. B. Corner of FOURTH and RAOE StrMM, rHILADILFHZA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. KJ-OETKEB AID DgJkIBBS HT fOKBIOB ABO OORBBTIG WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. HantTTAOTnnnßs on PSIfB LUO ABO ZIXG PAIBTB. PDTTT. fcc. Assure sob ths crl3seatbo FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. 2**l«ra *nd «ctt«im*rs supplied At f«y> tm V3BT !*ow raids to« pash. GENTS’ rUKSISHISO GOODS. PINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. *■ The sutnerlbei’a would invite attention to their IMPROVED OUT OF BHLBTS, irttfcfc they make a specialty in their badness. Also* * Mt Ho?Eli¥liiB l §Oß GENTLEMEN’S WBAB. J. W. SCOTT & 00., QBBTLBMBN’S tornisbing stobb, No, 814 CHESTNUT Btx»t, Poor doors below the Continental. nOI'SE-FI'RSISHWfi GOODS. \ no refrigerators, mn JUU W.TBBCOOLBEB, UUU IIOHIEB-TABLKS, t STBP-LA.DDBKB, WALITOT BRACKETS, In treat vatlet,. 134-tf GRIFFITH & PASS, SIXTH urf AKGH. pEIHOLEUM IS KING I THE UNION OIL STOVES, l BftW and complete apparatus for Cooking and Heating >F Petroleum and Coal Oil. All the wo*k of a family any slze 4 including the washing and Ironing* can. be loss at an immense saying of expense in fuel, and with more ease and comfort, than with either wood or ".a.}. The same furniture used on ordinary stoves ean -s used on these stoves. NO DIRT, ASHES, SMOKE, OR ODOR. UNION SXOAHESS* BOH#, ROAST, BROIL, TOAST, FRY, The expense of one of these Btores would be »*ved in is ordinary family in a short time in FDEL ALOUB. SIMPLE 1 DURABLE!! CHEAP!!! i r n&y are easier to manage than a common eoal oil !fciup. The Ho. 2 Stove will heat three flat iron* in fit teen minutes. and lra«p two poison* ironing CO to $lO. A liberal discount to thetride. treats wanted in every county in the State. Apply to PERRINE * DRYDEN. 102 South SECOND Street, Sole Agents for Philadelphia. *pt2-aniwlBt Q-OLD’S PATENT IMPROVED STEAM A#D «Y ATER-HE ATIIS G APPARATUS fOK WARMING tad VENTILATING PUBLIC BUILD INGS and PRIVATE RESIDENCES, M AUITPAQTCRBD BT THB djriOK STEAK AIT1) WATEB-EEATCfO COKUPANT OF PENNSYLVANIA. JAMEB P. WOOD Ad CO., 41 South FOURTH Street. , , E. M. FBLTWBIiL, sup’t. IsiO-einfp JgHGUBH BBOWM STOUT, SCOTCH ALE. m HOOT AMD GLASS. ALBERT O. ROBERTS, BULB IH JIM OKOOBBIBS, Goner of ST.HYBHTH and VIHi Ste. H. SLEEPER & CO., sis MINOR IS' &AKUFAOTUREBS, AGENTS, AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLIRT AND GREEN GLASSWARE, ! Ut* mow la aton a foil Mtortmeat of tk« abort cool*. '*U.h rrt offer at tha lorrut market nto*. ®*tn* tolt attOta for tht SALEH OBKla GLASS "OBKS, rro art pr.p.r.d to make aaArroik wrlratt iavalda to order. TOBTHB. MIBBKAL. tad WINE BOTTLIS. of t lOMtlor wlor ud Snlak. Um, lahp OHIMESTB. APOTHEOABIBS' shoj show BOTTLES, STBINOB3, HOUd ■r'ATHia YlALS,aad Brnuiata’ Slauwart (tatrallT T. A BYABB A CO.’S PITTBBUBQ GLASS VIAM '-■gttaatlr OB hani at fkrionr Klttt. MB-Sut William bvans, jb., Nhoi..., »»a south fkoet stebet. wuolmais MS Bolall Dealer In . kc ?BITE LEAD. ZINC. AND OOLOBB, „ AHBBICAN AND FOREIGN WINDOW OLABS, Ant DBaCRIPTIOna. ■ A «»“* VOL. B.—NO. 246. CURT AIM _ COO PS. B. WALRAVEN, MASONIC HAUL, 919 CHESTNUT STREET, SPRING STOCK WINDOW SHADES, OP BNTIIsELT KBW DESIGHB. 1865. I.ACE CCUTADVS, m saw ahd biob pattbekr, NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS ISTKIDED ESPECIALLY TOR SLEEPING BOOMS, BELOW GOX,X> BATES. nnfi fplf 1026 CHESTNItJT STREET. 102(j, CURTAIN STOSS. OUBTAINS, CORNICES, AND SHADES, c. M. STOUT Sc CO., hlo-fmwfiß RETAIL DRY ROODS. SPRING DRESS GOOES, OF NEW O STYLES, OPENIHG DAILY. Spring style, Valencia*. Spring ptylda Foil do Cheyret, Spring style, of Poplins. Summer Poplin,- Splendid Orgsndies. Percies in great variety. New style, of Piques. Spring Colors de Lalne,. Spring Colors Mohairs- , t , JRew styles of Dress Rood,, in great variety. edwih hall a 00., mhd tf »6 South SECOKD Street. rm oice stock o& dress goods, V Silk GKBffi Pliasa, BUpexb e*yiea. BpTtDKTOFLINs. Jate-it afcyies. Pitiid and Plain El*tk and Brown VALBNCI AS. American and French LA W Sprit? styles of GHALLI DS LJJXfES. spring dAWLS, in variety H . STOKES 1 , NO. 70a ABCS Street. V. 8.-GQ dozen Ladles 1 Bleached BOSS, at UK oontf per pair. myl JJEW BX£l3tr2C IBGS. THE GREATEST IHVBRTIOS OP THE AGE IK Ult9'3dilp HOOP SKIRTS. J. W. BRADLEY’S New Patent DUPLEX ELLIPTIC (or dotible) BPBING SKIBT. , •WESTS’ BJUDLRY & CARY (late J T. U. 0. West), gOLETROPRIETORB and HABTCFAGTCJRBEB, 97 and 79 and 81 BEALE streets, Hew TfilS INVENTION consists of DUPLEX (or two) Eli* itptjc Steel Springs. ingeniously braided tightly and firmly together, edge to ECGE, makieg the TocuKsar, X&oet FLEXIBLE, ELASTIC, and DURABLE SPRING ever need. They seldom bend or break, like the Single Spring*, and consequently preserve their perfect and beautiful Shape twice as LONg as any othsr ©kirt ¥HE WONDERFUL FLEXIBILITY and great COMFORT RUd pleasure to any Lady wearing the Duplex Elliptic hBiRT will he experienced particularly in ail crowned Assemblies, Operas- Carriages, Bailboad Cars! Church Fbws* Armchairs, for Promenade and House Dress, as the Skirt can he folded when in u«e to occu py a rmail place as easily as a Silk 0; Muslin Dress. A Lady haying enjoyed the pleasure, comfort, and great convenience of wearing the Duplex Elliptic Steel* Spring Skirt for a single day will never after warn willingly dispense with thairusa ¥or Children, Hisses, and Young Ladies they are superior to all ethers. * THEY are the best quality fn every part, and tra* questionably the LIGHTEST, most DESIRABLE,COMFORT ABLE and economical Skirt ever made. >OR SALB in ail first- class Stores in this cllv. and throughout the United States, Havana db Cuba, Mexico, South America, and the West Indies A6£-l’»Q0IBB PCS THIS DUPLEX ELLIPTIC BKiET. nii-lin STATIONER* & BLANK BOOKS. fVIL. MINING, COAL, AND OTHEB A/ HBW COMPANIES. We are prepared to famish Hew Corporations with all the Books they require, at short sotloe and low prices* of first quality. All styles of Binding. STEEL PLATE CERTIFICATES OF STOCK. LITHOGRAPHED •• *• TRANSFER BOOK. OS DEBS OF TRANSFER. STOCK LEDGER. STOCK LEDGER BALANCER - REGISTER OF CAPITAL STOCK. BROKER’S PETTY LEDGER. ACCOUNT OF SALES. DIVIDEND BOOK. ' MOSS Ac CO., BLANK BOOK HANtWAGTOBBSS AND STATIONBBS, •eSO-tf 432 CHESTNUT Stmt. JNBURANCB AGAINST EVERY DESCRIPTIONS mmiEßS’ insurance company. HABTFOBP, COHN. Capital @500,000. WM. W. ALLEN, Agent, 401 Wainnt Street, GENERAL ACCIDENT POLICIES For Five Hundred Dollars, with $3 per week eompen satlon, can he had for $3 per annum, or any other sum between $6OO and $16,000 at proportionate rates. TEH DOLLARS PREMIUM Secures a Policy for $2,000, or $lO per week eompenat' tior for all and every description of accident—travelling or otherwise—under a General Accident Policy, at the Ordinary Sate. THIRTY DOLLARS PREMIUM Secures a fall Policy for $6.000, or £25 per week com* pens&Uon, as above, at the Special Sate . FOREIGN BISKS. Policies issued for Foreign, West India* and Califor nia Travel Rates can be learned by application to the office. SHORT TIME TICKETS. Arrangement* are in course of completion by which the traveller will be able to purchase, at any Railway Ticket Office. Insurance Tickets for one or thirty days’ travel. Ten c«Lti will buy a ticket for one day's travel, Insuring $3,000, or $l5 weekly compensation. Ticket Policies may be had for 3,6, and 12 months, In the same manner. Hazardous Risks taken at Hazardous Rates. Policies leaned fox 6 years for 4years premium. INDUCEMENTS. The rates or premium are less than those of any other Company covering the samt* risk. No medical examination ie required, and thousand* of those who have been rejected by Life Companies, in consequence of hereditary or other diseases, can afreet insurance in the TRAVELLERS' at the lowest rates. Life Insurance Companies pay no part of the principal sum until the death of th©assured. The TRAVELLERS' pay the loss or damage sustained by personal injury whenever it occurs. • The feeling of security which such an insurance gives to those dependent upon their own labor for support Is worth more than money. No better or more aatisfae tory use can be made of so small c. sum. J. G. BATTEEBON* President. RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. G. F. DAVIS, Vice President. ... HENRY A. DYBB, General Agent Applications received and Foil ole? lowed Br „ WILLIAM W. ALLEN, rablS-rawrrSm No. 404 WALNDr street. r £HE “EXOELSIOK” HAMS ABB THE BEST M THB WORLD.. I. h/highener & CO., QBNSBAL FBOVISIOH DEALBHS, *ll OCBIRB 0» inn miitiin “EXCELSIOR” SUGAR-CUBED HAMS, TONGUES. AND BEEF, Nos. 143 and. 144. N. FRONT ST., Between Arch and Race streets* Philada. The Justly celebrated “EXCELSIOR" HAMS are cured by J. H. M. & Co. (In a style peculiar to them selves). expressly for FAMILY USE; are of delicious flavor; free from the unpleasant taste of salt, and are oronouuced by eplenres superior to any now offered for mh2s-fmwSm OT.TNDS AMD SHADES. B. J- WILLIAMS. No. 16 North Sixth Street, 7ENITIAN BLINDS AND WINDOW SHADES. Tht luieat and toot MMrtmeat la the elt. At Bit lowest nub prlMa STOBE SHADES MADE AND LBTTHBID. Cheep lot .oiled Blind, and ghtdet »pg-tm * UNION MOWING. MACHINE, which has been fully tested for the last four years, it combines strenoth, durability , light- might, light* drafts with complete efficiency in cutting grass* light ur heavy, wet or dry, lodged or standing, and embraces many minor conveniences not found in other machines. Also for sale* the most complete one*horse Latcn-Momr in the market PaSOBALL MORRIS, „ . Sole Agent* Agricultural Warehouse* ms-lm 11140 MARKET Strs«t. HAS OPENED HIS 08VRANCi. ACCIDENTS BY THB PHILADELPHIA. MONDAY, MAY 15, 1865. Prices of Thinajj-Trade fomhinaUoM* S}hUinaUc ixtoriiou, CPrcm the Few York TjJD* a, May 13, J On the sth day of Soptember, 1803, gold com* manded the same premium as it (Ud yesterday— 3l)£. Housekeepers who are careful to keep an ac count of their outlay will discover, by turning back to the date wo have named, that they could then buy prime pork by the barrel at $lO 60, which to day costs $23, Hams, which then sold bj the pound lor 9 cents, costs now 19 cents j shoulders, formerly 5 or 6 cents per pound, are quoted at from 14 60 15 cents. In bacon, tho advance u over one hun dred per cent.; In lard, about ninety per cent. 5 in butter, fifty per cent., and In ohesao over eighty per cent. In sugar, the rise Is loss marked, bat It nevertheless approaches to twenty fir© per cent. The comparison cannot so well ho extended to breadstuff?, the supply and the foreign demand being subject to fluctuations irrespective of the state of the currency. But we may note that flour Is, to-day, fifty per cent higher by the barrel than ft was in Septensber, 3863, and that baiters’ bread-fa still sold as high as whon flour was quoted at $9 and $lO, instead of sc, which is the quotation to-day. These figures; however, glaring as tboy are, come far short of portraying in anything liki Its reality ibo Fvsienmic extonion. to which thi floorer class of hi'U s ekt,epers arc treated by petty retailers. There is scarcely an article of domestic coLsuinottoo to be named for which the charge is nut from 80 to 100 par cent, higher than ft would "bo .but io? illicit trids cembitaiions, The currency has been made aa ex cuse /or every species of extortion so tong that now, even when its value is fast appreciating to th*fc of »uld t the system of inordinate protLa has got such headway, and is, in a measure, so firm!y es<*b!lshed amoDg the class we speak of, that many begin almost to despair of any change for the better. The extortionists are hardly affected by exposure. A.ud they stßnd in JHUe apparent fear of the consumers, in their turn, combtuing for their own protection. Strict economy and a rigid scrutiny of accounts by the well-to do housekeepers would bo a great auxili ary !i> the way of reform. Careless marketing of these who can afford. It offers a high premium to extortion and dishonesty. A bettor example from this class Is needed In every branch 01 domestic economy. Let us hopo that, as a partial remedy for the evil we describe, such an example wld be more geneially set theta it has been heretofore. Su&rioiocß Forkknowledgh of ths Assassi- NATION OF THE PiSKBIDBNT, Jll BbbSL SYMPA THIZERS in England.—Tho Liverpool. Weekly Mer> cury of the 22d of April contains an account of the arrest by the police and trial by the courts of thirty four persons who were engaged In cock-fighting. As the officer entered the pit where the fight was In progress, he heard the parties who were watching itory out, “go Ititoofft,” “well dono “i’ll bet £6O on lt&vis,” &o. The fight must have taken place within two or three days after Booih com mitted his murderous deed, and before intelligence of it could posesbly have reached England, The names of the parties arrested are not given, bnt it is evident they were Southern rebels or rebel sym pathizers. It la a singular circumstance, if they had no knowledge Of the assassin’S work whioh. had been assigned to Booth, that they should have usad his name in this connection and in the way they did. It would at least be interesting to know who the parties were and how long they had been in England* The President’s 'Jfoiuh Hnd ffonumeut, During the past week thousands of persons have visited the tomb recently erected upon the “ Mather lot,” in Springfield. An expres sion of admiration has been uttered by the throngs In regard to the beauty of the place chosen for the lftpt resting place of our beloved President, The grounds are enchanting in tlielr natural sim plicity. A gentle eminence rises in ©very direction, covered with luxuriant forest trees, which, with prudent cultivation and needful pruning, can be made charming. On the orows of this elevation (about the highest ground In the city) would ba a notable rite for the erection of such a monument as wculd typify the lofty position, the exalted quali ties, and the hearty appreciation of the nation for Abraham Lincoln. Near the northern base of this eminence the olty has ereoted a noble tomb for the remains. It con sists of a vault faced with marble from the quarry at Joliet, 111.; nicely sculptured urns are placed upon pedestals on either side. Massive iron doors inclose its entrance, and one marble slab, a little raised above the surface of the cemented floor, affords just sufficient room for a Btagte coffin. The ground above the tomb la covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, and around and on every side forest trees contribute a solemn shade. If, as the Springfield Register hopes, the Presi dent’s remains are deposited in this tomb, the ground will soon be one of the most interesting spots in our country. Esglfsb Jflnnnce. Tho debt and revenue of Great Britain for the current financial year are estimated by Mr. Glad stone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as follows s BXPBMDITUBE. Interest on debt ....£20,350.000 Charges on consolidated-fund 1,900,(00 Atm; 14.348,G00 N avy 10,392 000 Civil services 7,050,000 Kevenoe departments.... 4,057,000 Packet service. 842,000 £66,139,000 revenue. ' Cufit0mp,,.......... Excise....; Stamps Taxes.. Property tax., Post 0ffice.......... Crown lands Miscellaneous China Indemnity.,. £70,170,000 There remaloed thus a surplus of revenue over expenditure of £4,031,000. Immigrants.—An official statement of the num ber of passengers arriving In the Uoited States, during the year 1804, from foreign countries, has just been published in Washington. Tne recapitu lation Ib as follows: , Maine 1,582 New Hampshire. 10 Massachusetts 8,955 Rhode Island 1. 64 New Y0rk........ .199,690 New Jersey 321 Pennsylvania 4,467 Maryland 2.9QS F10rida,,..,.. 199 California 3,185 Oregon.... 807 Total Hied on.the voyage... A Rbwinibcbkce op thb RaßßLuoN.—Three days after the passage of the ordinance of Secession by Virginia, John Letcher telegraphed the mayor of Wheeling as follows: Richmond, April 20,186 L To Andrew Sweeney, Mayor sf Wheeling : Take possession of the custom house, post office, all public buildings and public documents, in the name of Virginia. Virginia has seceded. John Lbtcheb, Governor. REPLY. Wheeling. April 21,1861. To John Letcher , Governor of Virginia: 1 have taken possession of theeustom house, post office, and all public buildings and public docu ments, in the name of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United State, whose property they are. Andrew Swrrnst, Mayor of Wheeling. An Alarming Feat op a Somnambulist.— The St. Louis Democrat of Tuesday has the follow ing. The Democrat states that it has every reason to believe the inoldent to be perfectly true: “ Last Saturday night two brothers named Corby, recently from Ireland, were sleeping in a room at a boarding house. One Of them arose from bis bed In his sleep, raised the window, and notwithstanding the efforts of his brother to restrain him, leaped from the third story, striking against the railing twenty or thirty feet below, and breaking It to pieces. He lit on h!a feet and ran at a furious pace, and leaped over a tenJoot fence, when he was over taken by his friends. He appeared to be in a terri ble etete of alarm, and imagined that he was In a boat on the ocean, and cried out, 'The boat Is on fire, and they are after me!’ He was at length aroused from his sleep, and was astonished to find that he was on the street, with only his shirt and drawers on. The strange part of the affair is that he was not Injured In the slightest degree by the fall. It Is supposed that Corby was dreaming of the burning of the ill-fated Sultana, and imagined that he was on board.” Not Easily Fbightbnbd.—Some blustering fellow wrote to the editor of the Newark Advocate, telling what he should and what he should not pub lish, closing with the threat that If the editor did not comply with what he said “ he would wipe out both him and his Office." The editor replied as fol lows : - “ We shall make no threat in return, but would, In all kindness, advfre them to * set their houses in order,’take an affectionate leave of their families, and make their peace with God, before they engage in tbowipiog-out process, for each plays sometimes endanger the lives of the actors." labnoib’s Gab Engine Is now being generally. Introduced as a motor in Paris, where a small and handy power is wanted. The London Builder men tions its employment for hoisting purposes, and adds: “ The absence of a boiler in these engines Is Astrong argument in favor of employing them,whore steady slight power ia required. At ali events* If they are not endowed with the abundant foroo-of k steam-engine, yet In towns and confined streets, where only a moderate source of power Is required to act in a small compass, noiselessly and without nuisance, we have seen that the required’mechani cal effect can be accomplished without risk of ex pioFion and consequent damage and lose of life, either to owners or their neighbors.” Polish Emigration to this Countby.—Po lish emigrants are now an article much in demand. At Paris many have been lately enlisted for the Panama Canal expedition, while at St. Gallon, in Switzerland, a Polish committee has been formed with a view to enable the many emigrants roving about In those parts to find a permanent asylum In eome fitting locality of the United States. In ans wer to an application from the committee, a viatu cum of loot, will be accorded to every Polish eml ur in by the Swiss Federal Government. lam also t old, but cannot say for certain, that the Swiss Go vernment have applied to the Washington authori ties for the cession of some land to the contemplated, colony.—Polish Letter . Gossip on Ambbican Abt in Rome.—We loam, through private letters received in this city, that Mr. Story's statue of Saul, which made part of the collection of objects of art which were sent to the Dublin exhibition from Rome—the Saul being sue* daily forwarded to the exhibition at the request, of he Pope—has been sold to an English gentleman. Sir Franolß Goldsmld, to go to his country seat at Buckland. Sir Franois, we understand, bought the •tatue on the strength of its reputation, vmhont sven having seen it. The same artist has also dis posed of his nepr statue, the Medea* to another Eng lish purchaser. The Papal Government, we under hand, have formed so favorable an opinion of Mr. story’s artistic and personal edaims for distinction chat they have made him a eavauere d’onore, or chevalier d'houneur. Mibb Stebbinb 1b at work on a statue of Colum bus. Miss Hosmex’B new statue of a fawn i& very much admired. Her statue of Benton, learn from an Amerloan paragraph, has just arrived in St, Louis. Mr. Gibson sends with It a eommenda rory.note of pralsft and approbation.—ffosfaft Tran script. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1865. SHERMAN'S ARMY HOMEWARD BOUND Passage of the 14 th, -lStli, ..17th, and 20th Corps through Richmond, on Thurs day and Friday. Names of the Regiments Composing the 14th and 20th Corps Many of them Pennsylvanians.' The Injuries to the James River Canal not so THE COMPANIONS OF DAVIS IN HIS FLIGHT. Total Disappearance of Gov. Smith. Reported Death of General Early at Lynchburg. Affairs in the Shenandoah Valloy—Mails to [Special Correspondence of The Press.] The event of yeeterciay vas the passage through this oily of the left wing of Sherman’s army, con sisting of the 14th and 20th Corps, under Major General Slocum.' CoDfit’eiablo disappointment was experienced In its not breaking camp day before yesterday, as officially announced, but largo throngs assembled along the route of parade. Tho soldiers have been camped for several days in Manchester, which Is connected by a pontoon bridge with this city, and many of them have availed themselves of ■■ the opportunity to Visit Richmond and observe the points of.lnterest. For Six long hours the dusty and conquering he roes were marching by & given point—tho generals, with their trappings and dashing staffs, moving along In genuine military style; the men, with their shining muskets and glittering brasses, keep* Ing step to patriotic airs; the colors ribboned by weather and shreded by the ordeal of battle; the splendid new flags with the names of bloody fields icrcribed; the decimated regiments, which would flood one’s thoughts with a thousand painful recol lections ; the excellent music, which thrilled loyal hearts with patriotic emotions; the pontoon bridges t&bezL ai,a.rfc and conveyed on wagons; the pack mules carrying heavy burdens; the lopg line of am bulances and wagons, and the emancipated freed* men as camp followers, combined to make the whole one of tho grandest moving spectacles of varying Interest ever witnessed upon this continent. No thing haß done so much towards reconciling those rebels to obedience to the national authority as these displays of the ability of the Government to suppress treason, however numerous its ramifica tions, and however formidable its proportions* The efiect is having & salutary influence upon those who have been boasting that they were not whipped, and upon the fair sex, who still cherish the dream that through some mysterious Influence, their Southern Ccniederaey will be established. A goodly company of ladies, with officers of every grade, and citizens of all classes were assembled upon the steps of the City Hall, where an excellent view of the column was afforded. The fair ones cheered tho brave boys by waving their handker chiefs. Many of the colored people prepared them selves with flowers, which they distributed to the returning heroes*No review took place. General Sherman, in all the pride of a successful soldier, rode at the head of the column, which is known as the Army of Georgia. Sruno few brigadiers crowded the south portico of the City Hall, where, in tho ab sence of the constellations, their Bingte stars attract ed some attention, and caused country folks to ask who they were. This army, like the Army of the Potomac, is bound for Washington. The 14th Corps, under Major General Jeff C. Davis, hkd the advance, and the regiments moved along in the following order; First Divisi/m—ZHlh and 140til Ohio, 18th Ken tucky, 74th Indiana, 17th Ohio, 82d Indiana, 31st' and 92d Ohio, 23d Missouri, 87th Indiana, 105th Ohio, 2d Minnesota, 75th and 101st Indiana. Second Division—3iih and 78th Illinois, oath, 108th, 113th, and met Ohio, iasth Illinois, 52d Ohio, 85th and 86th Illinois, 17th New York (Zouaves), loth and 90th Illinois, 14th and 10th Michigan. Third Division—Hi Indiana, 21at Wisconsin, 101 th Illinois, 34th Ohio, 88th Indiana, 83d Ohio, 33th In diana, 21st Ohio, 79th Pennsylvania, 21st Michigan, 74th Ohio, 13th Michigan, 09th Ohio, 3Sth Indiana. The 20th Corps, and or Major General Mower, advanced as follows: ■ £22,775,000 19,030.009 9.550,000 8,350 000 7,800 000 4,250,009 315 000 2,650,000 450,000 First Division— l 233 anil 141st New York, 6th Con necticut, 46th. Pennsylvania, 3d Wisconsin, ad Mas sachusetts, lSlh Now Jersey, 160th and 143 d New York, sad Ohio, 31st Wisconsin, 101st and 821 Illi nois. Second Division— SBth Pennsylvania, 29Jh and 6th Ohio, 147th Pennsylvania, 68th Ohio, 119th, 134th, and 164th New York, 73d Pennsylvania, 33d New Jersey, 60th, 102 d, 137th, and 149th New York, 29th and lllth Pennsylvania. Third Division— 7oth Indiana, 106th Illinois, 79th Ohio, 102 d and 129th Illinois, 19th Michigan, 32d Indiana. 22d Wisconsin, 86th Indiana, 66 th Ohio, 83d Massachusetts, 136th New York, 73d Ohio, 26th Wisconsin. In the present poverty of the rebels man; ways are indulged In to raise the wind. The most recent Is the selling! of their parole papers to botraty jnmpers, by whleh they are enabled to desert, and disposing or the same to that class of traitors who refuse to take the oath, but who do not hesitate at any subterfuge whioh affords them the opportunity of deceiving the military authorities. The venders generally represent that they have lost their pa* pers and apply for duplicates. This little game may be regarded s s checkmated, and those who resorted to It as the meanß of livelihood, will be obliged to return to honest Industry, or Invent some new piece of rasoality. There is a report In the city that General Early died recently at Lynohbnrg, though It is not be lieved by his friends. He was, however, at last ac counts, suffering from rheumatism,whioh threatened to settle In Us stomach. PASSAGE 07 THB 16th AND 17TH COttPS. The Amy of Tennessee, the right wing of Thomas’ army, under Major General Howard, con sisting of thelfith Corps, under Major General John A. Hogan, and the 17th Corps, commanded by Maj.. Gen. F. P. Blair, Jr., Is passing through the city at this early hour (5% A. M.) Hollih. The new journal (the Richmond Republic) fur nishes the following •• THB JAMBS BIVHB AND KANAWHA CANAL. We learn, upon Inquiry In the proper quarter, that the injuries, to the James river and Kanawha Canal are much ICS3 extensive than we had feared. A gentleman who knows all abont oanals, alter in specting the .one under consideration from Lynch burg tolHehmond, has expressed the opinion that one hundred men oonld put It In running order in a week. Tho first and most Important break is at New Canton, sixty six miles from Richmond. Be tween that point and I.vnotiburg, distant eighty miles, there are several smaller breaks. It has new been six weeks slnee peace was restored to the coun try through whioh this great feeder of our olty runs, and yet net the first stroke of work has been struck upon It* While the different railroad eompanles are actively engaged In repairing their lines, Che great canal la allowed to lie almost as Idle and useless as a sequestered frog pond. We do not know whether this Is owing to the supineness of the company, or whether It grows out of the fact- that the canal is in a great part Owned by the State of Virginia, and that It is necessary no Important work, should be begun on It until the State govern ment assembles In the olty. It may be said there is no seed of speolal work for the canal to do, there being little produce In the country through whioh it passes. There Is a great deal more merchantable produoe In the oountry than is commonly believed. It Is really astonishing how muoh has escaped the drag, nits of the Contaderateeommlssarleeacdquar tormastors. Almost every farmer along the.oanal can spare some hay, corn, fodder, peas, onions, or potatoes? to say nothing of lambs, veal, and. spring garden truck; and, every man of them Is. fn sore need of the almighty “ greenbacks,” which are be coming so comfortably plentiful here. A Jew boats are now running.on this end of the oanal, and are bringing In small quantities of the articles men tioned, but tho, country between New Canton and Klehmcnd has been more closely gleaned by the Confederate authorities and the f-'niou cavalry during the war than that nearer Lynchburg. Bat litherowere.no food or forage to Bpar* In all the rich country, between Lynch burg, null Richmond, the repair of the canal would yet do a matter of the first Importance. It connects at Lynchburg with the Virginia and Tennessee railroad, which tra verses the rich and comparatively unwasted region of Southeastern Virginia, where oattlo, beef and bacon ua BOW to be found in superabundance. THE SHBHAMDOAH VUER-ADUtmANCE 07 PRO vißiaaa is btatjbtoh, and übishbohihg coua- There Is perfect quiet In Staunton and the tar loundlng country. The people or* protected by the presence of teveral regiments.of Union troops from the depredations of straggling Confederate soldiers. The same scarcity of horses Is complained of there ihat we have hitherto mentioned as existing In many of the counties In Eastern Ylrginla-The people were generally: noil supplied with animals 1 hr larmlng purposes early Is the 'spring, but they i weve, lor the most part, stolen and carried off by ’ the horde of stragglers- that overran the country immediately after tie surrender of General Lie, and before the arrival o£ the United States forces’ Provisions are abundant In Augusta and the neigh boring counties. Baeoa can be bought fora mere song, and Hoar goes begging at five dollaraa barrel. The openlE&af. the Central railroad to Staunton, which is In a lair way of being 'soon accomplished, will enable these staples to reach the brisk market which awaits them in Richmond. Rumors of the t vaouatlen or Riohmond reaohed Staunton within two days after the event, bnt they were generally discredited. It will be reoolleoted, the railroad having been thoroughly smashed by General She ridan a month before, there was no direct commu nication. Pally three weeks elapsed hefore the facts of the evacuation and subsequent surrender were presented to the people In such shape that they could no longer doubt the reality, and then the news was brought by the Union troops In person. Governor Smith, on flying from Staunton, took the road to Lexington. He has not elnoo been heard from. It has been repeatedly stated In the Northern journals that Generals Echols and Basil Buko fol lowed the fortunes of Mr. Davis, General Ecbolß EASTERN VIRGINIA Extensive as feared. Richmond. Richmond, May 12,15C5, THB ARMY AS IT PASSED. THB REGIMENTS COMPOSING THE ARM?. AVOIIHHO THE OATH. EnrOKTBD DEATH 07 G3NEBAL EAELT. THE 7LISHT 07 QOV. SMITH. DID NOT GO WITH I AVIS. Is in Richmond, and has been h»re 'or more thai a week General Breckinridge adhered to Mr. Davis and his followers-Norihrop, Benjamin, MaUory, fibu ©tlMTS—S&ylug ho could not reconcile it to him. j-eJf to desert so helpless a party, and Basil Duke, being a Kentuckian, went with Breckinridge. The The command ot the expedition probably devolves either upon Breckinridge or Wade Hampton. THE MAILS TO RICHMOND. The order prohibiting the transmission of letters addressed to civilians at Richmond has been re scinded, and hereafter the malls will be regularly transmitted. The reason assigned for the stoppage of the other mails is, that the postmaster at Rich mond was not prepared to do any business. IST&'i'JC JTfc.HS* William Robinson, awaiting trial in caster county prison for shooting John m Colombia, & few weeks ago, attempted to escape on last Sunday night by breaking a hole through the cell.in which he was confined. A prisoner in an ad joining cell, hearing tho noise, gave the alarm, when Robinson was recaptured. 5 A f.fcelefos was found several days since In Pitts berg by workmen engaged In excavating the grtutfl upon which the old Washington Hall, in £feubtnviile, stood. It had been In the cellar, and the bones were covered with lime, much decayed. It was apparently the body of a boy, A floating hotel is being built in Warren, Warren co,, intended for tbo oil regions. It is to be finished in the finest style, and furnished with kitchen, diningroom, state-rooms, andmll hotel be longings. The Union men cf Indiana county hold their primary election cn Saturday, the Ist day of July. As the Crawford county system prevails in Indiana, the election is for tho purpose of nominating a tick, et, from State Senator down. . - Tho Board of Relief of Chester county has pFSscd a resolution discontinuing relief to the fami lies of soldiers on and after July 4th, 1855, except in special necessitous cases mado known by the respec tive township and borough committees of relief. Near Pittsburg the ofcijier day, a man caught on a islirood bridge by an advancing train, in his fright hung himself down between the sleepers to avoid it, ciatping both arms over the rail . The poor fellow dropped armless into the water below. —.Two paupers who escaped from a oounty poor house up in the oil regions ol Pennsylvania made SIOO,COO each,' operating in oil lands, before the overseers of the poor caught them. The Horse exhibition of the Chester County Agricultural Society wiU be held on tho society’s grounds In West Chester, on Saturday, th»mk of May, Out of 6 ope nine hundred bills passed at the I? st session of the Legislature only forty-seven wore of & gereral character. The latter have just been iESued in pamphlet form, occupying sixty-six pages. An unknown white man was killed on the Rto dibg Railroad cn Saturday last, opposite Ma> n&ynnk, by being run over. Lewis Kugler has been appointed postmaster at L&z&rotta Station, Delaware oounty, in place of Margaret B. Wright, resigned. The small pox, which has been very prevalent In many parts of tho country, has recently proved quite serious is Southampton, Bucks county. The Perks County Zeitung has been united to the Lebanon Demokrat s & German paper published at Lebanon. Mr. Jeese H, Lord, formerly or the Hartford Times and Post t is ediiorof the Erie (Pa ) Dispatch. The gale of Thursday last has done consider able mischief throughout the State. Danville, Montour county, was visited last Fri day evening by a hail-storm. The Lebanon county jail Is at present without a single prisoner. —The Pittsburg Post clamors for new market houses. A very neat ohuroh has been raised and dedi cated by the Baptist s at Corry. HOME IVJKMB. Ton rebel Governors of States have no States to govern. Here is the list: Claiborne F. Jackson, of Missouri; Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee; Thos. O. Moore, of Loulelana; Harris Flannogan, of Ar kansas ; John P. Pectus, of Mississippi; Joseph A« Brown, of Georgia; Andrew Magrath, of South Carolina; «* Extra” Billy Smith, of Virginia? a. D. Vance, of North Carolina, and Thos. H. Watts, of Alabama. ' Mias Della Webster, .who was Imprisoned ia Kentucky twenty years ago- on a charge of harbor ing escaped slaves, and h&a since been the subject of repeated persecution from Kentuoky judges, has offered to give one hundred •acres of laud; situated on the Ohio river, opposite Madisohville, Indiana, for the establifhment of a “ Lincoln College.” Jarrett, of the Boston Theatre, has entered Into a contract with Charles Kean, the English ac tor, for the services of hlmself ahd wife (Ellen Troo), for a term of twenty .five nightaln Boston, PhiiadcL phis, and Brooklyn, and agrees to pay $2Q,000 for that number of performances# The engagement ia to comnience in .September next. The American TraSt Sooioty (of Boston) an nounced at Its meeting In New York that the re ceipts of the society, In cash, daring the year, were $190.948,28 1 exceeding those of the previous year $66,233 01. The cash expenditures were *170,883.79. A “Memorial Church” is to be erected In Springfield, Mats.j on the point of Bound HUI. Tablets are to be plaoed in the church containing the names ol the Congregational ministers who have officiated In that city. gj—Within a woek five Methodist ohnrches have been burnt In New Hampshire and Vermont In the violnity of Lebanon—one eaoh at Haverhill, Swift water, Monroe, Lyman, and one at Newport, Ver. most. —Theie is a great inereasa In live stock In Michi gan. The increase of cows this year, as compared with 1860, amounts to 20,199-j. the increase In sheep amounts to the enormous figure of 1.655,689; and the Increase in horses to 9,6C0. —'When the rebel guerilla Mosby heard of Booth’s assassination of the President, he is reported to have exclaimed: “Now, by —! loouldtake that man In my arms.” The publications ol' the American Tract Soole ty last year numbered 1,044,9C0 volumes. The re ceipts from donations and legacies amounted to $126,027, and from sales $296,338. Free soup of excellent quality Is dally dealt out to the citizens of Richmond by the United States Christian Commission. The season at Saratoga this Bummer promises to be very brilliant. The hotele are said to have re ceived great Improvements. . The wealthiest revenue district In the Union, according to report ot Commissioner Lewis, Is the first district of Illinois, including Chicago. : Connecticutds a rioher State than Massachu. setts. There are $9BO to each Inhabitant there; only s£3o in Massachusetts. . A. negro girl put oxalic add In the tea she made for a Brooklyn family, to kill another servant girl. The family, fortunately, did not drink It. A farmer In Brattleborosgh, Vt., has apples, sound and fresh, grown in ISS3. They were kept In a cellar, packed in walnut bust dust. Mrs. Surratt IS dosoribed as more than forty, buxom, light-haired, rosy.ohoeked, and with cold, clear, devilish gray eyes. —Boring the last ten years'the emigration to the Western Territories' hasnot been less than one-half million of souls. - —W. E. Shepherd, one of the editors of the Oska loosa (N. Y.) Herald, has been appointed postmaster at that place. —Not less than five-burglaries wore attempted in Burlington, Vermont, on-Thursday evening last, but all ol them proved failures. Several cosay yachts are upon the stacks In New York, each of whioh. will cost from $60,000 to $60,000. j The Ohio State billiard tournament will begin In. Cincinnati on- Monday, May 22d, and oontlnue all the week. The freedmen on the Aldington estate In Wash ington have formed themselves into a temperance society. The Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad earned $360,428 69 slnoe the Ist of January. Plenty of hay lsoffered la the Cincinnati mar ket at from shi@lB per ten. The.wheat.erop. In the MiamiYaUey, Ohio, gives promise of a great harvest. —A negro and a white wore married at Troy a few days since. —Michigan now yields about $7,000,000 worth of. copper and s2,ooo,ooo,worth of iron annually. The State census of Massachusetts Is now un der way. A Swedish sailor poisoned hlmßair withi&uda num In New York, the other day. Tho Ohloago lake-tuenel la progressing at the Tate of twelve to fourteen feet per day. The James River Canal Is open as far as Co lumbia, Virginia. Guerilla hunting near Memphis has been very saeoessrul. Three were hnng in one day. The Mississippi squadron is to be reduced to 26 vessels. It has been over 100. FOREIGN ITEMS. Lieutenant General Aotls, commandant of the Royal Military AoademyJ of Turin,, died on the IBth lust., after a short Illness. He entered the artillery : as a cadet In 1816, being then Id ..years old. He de fended pesohlera In 1848, and fought through the ' campaign of the following year. Four men* were lately suffocated In a colliery at Church, near Accrington, Epgland. There must have been an explosion ot gas In tho pit, but no re port was heard, and the bodies ef the deceased howed no marks of burning. Prince Napoleon hns been at Lanslebourg to witness the trials made on the poatlon of the French and Italian railway Already laid down. He also visited the tunnel. a viaduot has been constructed under the Vin cennes Railway, beyond thoßue Montgalet, whleh leads to a new stroet.to be opened next summer. otho, ex-King or Greece, Is devoting hisMsnre to the compilation,of a rtpdam Greek and German Lexicon. . - At the new Alexandra Theatre, fa, London, there is to be a three months’ season of opera every year. The Emperor of the French has soot 40,000 f. to the municipality of St, EtUano,lnaldof the ribbon manufacturers of that parish. —in London they have a college,for cooks, where diplomas are given to assiduous students. Miss Mulloeh, the English authoress, has just been married to a Mr. Craig. Mane Antoinette’s work-table sold In Paris re cently for twelve thousand dollars! Mario has made an immense hit as Jean of Ley dm In the “Prophete,” at the London opera. —Liberia has met with a great loss In the deaths of ex-Presldent Benson and Chief Justice Drayton. ’ —One of the London papers devotes twelve columns to a sketch of Ml felngoln’s Ute, THE TRIAI OF THE ASSASSINS. THE TESTIMONY NffW GI VEN IN OPEN COURT, Roporters of the Kess Admitted, and the Testimony Public. All that is Prudent and Proper given to the Public. HAHKS OF IBS COUNBKI WHO APPEAR FOB THE ASSASSINS, Vassagc-at-arms between Severity .Folmsou and Members of the Commission. HIS RESPECT FOB THE SANCTITY OF AN OATH QUESTIONED. IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS. THE DANGER OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Minutes of the Court on Saturday. The Appearance of the Prisoners at the Bar. Arrest of the Mail who Ferric* Booth across the Potomac. How he was Tracked—How he was Cap- WABHiweTOM, May is.—The conrt is held at the old Penitentiary, in an upper room, white walled, with two windows east and north. These windows are ironed with flat bars along the wall. On the west side, on raised seats, were Dr. Bdudd, David O. Harold, Denis Payne, Edward Spangler, of Ford’s Theatre, Mlohael o. Laaghlin, Atzerott, and Samuel Arnold. Sitting outside the paling was Mrs. Snratt, leaning an a small green balzod table. Beyond her, on the other side of the tabls, near the northern windows, sat the counsel for the hocused, Thomas Ewing, son of the Ohio ex-Senator, Attor. ney Stone, Walter S. Cox, Reverdy Johnson, Allton, and Clamper. Punning oast and west, beside the northern wall, thero Is a long table, also covered with green baize. At this sit the court. Dr. Wudd looked calm, collected and attentive, leaning on the railing that surrounded him as If to relieve his wrists from the weight of the handcuffs that ehaumbered them. Arnold was restless, raising his hands to his hair with a nervous twitching, and constantly varying the direction of his looks, now glancing from face to face, then bowing hts head on his hand, which was supported on his knees. His handcuffs were somewhat peenuar, not helng connected as usual by a chain, but by a bar about eight inches in length. Payne, dressed In gray woolen shirt and dark pants, seemed more Intent In trying to obtain a full view of the sunny landscape through the barred windows, than ef confining his attention to the da. tails of the proceedings. As he looked, a strange, listless dreaminess pervaded Us face. His dark hair, Irregularly parted, hung over his foroheadand often clouded Us dark blue eyes. His tuok, somewhat protruding lips were as If glued together. His legs were crossed and us Ironed hands rested on tho knee of the upper one. Langblln was observant of every move made In tho conrt. He leaned back, with Us head against the wall, fully exposing his broad bnt not high fore head, crowned with a fall, bushy head of black heir. Atzerott, a man some five feet six or seven inches In height, might have boon taken, had It not been for his manacles, as a mere speetator. He possesses a style of face most common In Southern Germany, though his beard and hair are of a reddish sand color, and bis eyes light. A police officer sat beside eaoh prisoner. Mtb. Suratt has already been correctly described —a stoat, buxom widow, fitting Falstafl’s Ideal fair, fat, and forty; although it Is ascertained she is far beyond that period of life, having nearly reached her grand cllmaotric. She was dressed in blacki and looked a little Unshed, but we failed to notice that cold, cruel gleam in her gray eyes which some of the gentlemen of the press have attributed to her. The court engaged in the trial of the conspirators altered one of Its rules to-day, so as to admit re porters lot the press. Hon. Beverdy Johnson ap peared as counsel for Mrs. Suratt, whereupon an objection was raised to him by General Harris, and which was withdrawn after an earnest debate on both sides. Hotectlve Lee and the clerk of the Kirkwood House, and the present proprietor of the house heretofore occupied by the Suratt family and others, were examined with reference to this house, and in relation to arms having been deposited there in order to facilitate the escape of the assassins. The court was in session until a late hour. The first testimony taken In the oase of the several parties arraigned was a portion of that which the Government deems It necessary for the present to withhold from the public. JVhen that testimony had all been rendered, Brigadier General T, M, Harris stated that he rose to object to the admission of Mr. Reverdy Johnson as a oounsel pleading be fore the Court, and that he dldthlsupon the ground that In an opinion delivered by Mr. Johnson, that gentleman had expressed his disregard of the sancti ty of an oath. General Harris then stated that he referred to the opinion expressed la a letter written by Mr. Johnson at the time of the Maryland Con vention, held with reference to the adoption Of the new Constitution of that State. Mr. Johnson replied as follows: It Is difficult to speak to that abjection—to speak as I feel without having that opinion before me. That opinion ean not be tortured by any reasonable man to any such conclusions. There is not a member of this oonrt, either the president or the memberwho objects, that recognizes the obligation of an oath more abso lutely than I do; and there Is nothing In my life, from the oommenoement to the present time, whioh would Induce me for a moment to avoid a com parlson, In all moral respects, between myself and any member of this court. In this rebellion, whioh has broken down so many moral principles, It has been my pride to stand by the Government from the beginning to the present moment, and to take every obligation which the Government thought It necessary to Impose, and to do my duty faithfully in every department of the public service as well as in my Individual oapaolty. If such an objection were made In the Senate of the United States, where I am known, ! forbear to say how It would be treated, because I know the terms in whioh It would he decided- I have too leng gone through too many trials and rendered the country such services as my, abilities enabled ms and the voles of the people ID whoee midst I am living, for me particularly to- tolerate, for a mo ment, eome from whom It may, such an aspersion on my moral oharaoter. lam .glad It Is made now when I have arrived at that period of life when It would be unfit to notice it In any other way; but I repeat there is not one word of truth lu the con struction to what hoB been given M the opinion al ready referred to. I have it net by me, but I re collect substantially what It is. The convention called to form a new Constitution for the State was called (under the authority of an act of the Legislature of Maryland, and under that alone. By that Legislature their proceedings were, to be submitted to the then legal voters of the State. The convention thought that they were au thorized themselves to Impose not only as an autho rity to vote what waj not Imposed by the existing Constitution and laps, but that they had a righ t to admit to vote those.who are prohibited from voting , by said confutation and taws j and I said, in com pany with the whole barer the State, and what the. whold bar throughout the Union would have said, that to that extent they had usurped the. autho rity under which aloae they were authorized to meet, and that,, so far, the proceeding was a nullity. They had prescribed this oath, and all the opinion Eald, or was. intended to say, was that to take this oath voluntarily was not a craven submission to usurped authority, but was necessary In order to. enable the oltlzea to protect his rights under the. then and that there was no moral harm In taking an oath which'the convention bad no authority tc.impose. I make tfcno reflection on any member of this oonrt when 1 say that, upon a question of that description, I am. at least able to form as. eorroot an opinion. as. any of the gentlemen around this table. I. am here at the nstanoe ef that lady [pointing to Mrs. Su* rattj, whom I never saw os heard of till yester day, she being a Maryland lady, protesting her innocence to me j beoaug&l.deem a a right, duo to : tho oharaoter of the profession to whioh I belong, and of whioh yon are members, that she should not go undefended. I was to do it voluntarily, without compensation. Tho lampjrohlbltame from receiving compensation; hut If R.had nqLunderstanding-faer condition, I should nsvpr-have dreamed of refusing upon the ground of her inahllty to nuke compen sation. lam now volunteering to do what evidence will justify me Iq, doing for this lady, who is now being tried for her. Ufa. My detestation of every one concerned in thla nefarious plot, circled out with such fiendish malice, Is as great as any member of this oonrt. I am not here to proteot any one who, when the evidence la heard, I shall deem to have been guilty—not even her* Will he honorable member ef the court who has thought It proper or believed it his dnty to make this objec tion, or the President, who said that if the honorable member had not made it he should have done so, will they understand that lam not pleading here for anything personal to myself 1 I stand too firmly settled In my own convictions of honor and In my Bense of dnty, public and private, to be alarmed at all at any individual opinion that may be expressed. I ask the oonrt to deelde, and I have no doubt they shall decide as seems best to them, and If It shall be suoh a decision as the President of the Oonrt feels POUR CENTfI. Inclined fo xa’iti? t can take care cf myself la iW future. REMAKING? Off SmOAJ>IER GBNBXAL HAWtlfi. I trust it is aot necessaiy I should assure you nor the eentlemari I feel Jt my duty to object to offer as counsel before this court that r should aay that I desire, above alt things, not teflo injustice t 9 any man s and I din assure you that, la doinj? what I leel It n?y duty to dO, I have not frees Ifeflhenced by any personal considerations. Though I* never Bad the pleasure of the acquaintance of tbo gentia man to whom I object, I have known him long as an eminent public man of our country, of whom, I most say, that my Imyffofislons have boon of a very favorable character. Bat in regard to the matt# of the objection. If my recoUdotion serves mo right, I must obcteca that it is wen founded. Ifefla due to 1 thegoatlemen.to saythat'lhave madetiffsobjec tion pimply from the reeolit et’lon of this letter, which I lead perhaps nearly a year ago, and o( the effects of that letter upon the vote of that State. No w, If I understand the remarks or that gentlemen In ex planation of this ‘‘thing,” I cannot cay that 3b re moves tbedlifieul&y—from my mind, at least. 5 vn dentawl hsm to Bay that the doctriae he taught the people of bta Stats was that became the Oonvcnilo.n had framed and rtiyaired the an oath a? a quallSeaticn to. the rhrht of suffrage, whlfcl? was tra constttutloncl attd illegal, ID his optoloß, asd tilers tore It had no nrral banding force, a.id that people migtt toko it aatj then go and vote without regard to tee subject matter of that oath. II fhht dees not jasttiy my conclusion. I confess I am uuable Co uu* derptaod the English language. Now, I wish tbe 3enttain»ii to understand me, that In regard to his'ability to decide a itgal q-ves t-ion I do not Intend to enter Into any controversy. He remarked to the court, rather boaatlßglW, that he 1b as well able as any member of this court to judge in’rvgard to any legarpotnt 5 but this is not a point of law, it is a question of ethics, and of the morality r,r the itilug-of the sanctity of an oath voluntarily taken, which, ! understand, he t&nttht his people, might bo set ash eas having no f&fee, because tbe convention had transcended Us au thority, and dene something it had no right to do, and that consequently they mt£&t voluntarily this oath to entitle them to go and vote without consldexfng It to have any blading force—and lam much mistaken in the history of those days and is the effect of that opinion upon the vote of that state if it was not so considered. A large number cast their suffrages under that ethical doctrine taught by the gentleman against whom X have objected ; but as X was about to re mark, I would be sorry to do injustice to the gentle man, or any other man, and having made my objec tions simply from my recollection of this letter, it Is, perhaps, due to the gentleman and the members of this court that tbe letter itself should be submit ted to the scrutiny of this court, I may be wrong 5 if so, none can be more ready than myself to ac knowledge that fact. REJOINDER OB' HR. JOHHBOIT. My. Johnson said: Ido not Intend to make an ex tended reply to the geniioman’B remarks. As to my boasting abcut my competency to deoide any legal question, the gentleman is mistaken. I said as competent as any of the members of this court, they not being lawyers. Now, the honorable mem ber seems to suppose that, because I said there was uo harm in taking an oath that I meant there would be no ham in breaking it, if it was taken. If that is the meaning of the terms, I am better informed in regatd to It now than I ever was before. I have already said to the oourt that l had no Idea of using them lor any such purpose—that according to my interpretation of them they admitted of no such construction. When a gentleman Is dealing with gentlemen, even if the words he used were liable to misrepresentation, bis explanation of the intended meaning of them is held to be sufficient. I submit that amongst gentlemen—and I hope I am not boasting that in that capacity I may con sider myself equal to any member of this court—! repeat when, as a gentleman, I say they were not used lor any such design as Imputed to them, the gentleman to whom the explanation is given will not be disposed to repeat that they were In point of fact used with that design. Now as to the effect upon the people of Maiyla’id. 1 don’t know where the honorable member is from, but he Is sot a citi zen of cur State, I suppose. General Karris—l am a Citizen or Western yir glnia. Mr. Johnson—l supposed you were not a citizen of Maryland. I was about to say, whoever sup* posed—and I hope he wilt send for tbe letter—that the people of Maryland can be induced by indivi dual opinion to take an oath in order to violate lt r ls under a very great misapprehension. We have had, what X regret, hundreds and hundreds of our citizens who have left our borders and participated in this rebellion; but hundreds and hundieda also of these who remained have proved true to their flag, and have evinced their loyalty upon the battle field with their blood and with their lives; and In the relation in which I stand to the people of Ma ryland, I may be permitted to say, they are the equals, morally and patriotically, of the, people of ’Western Virginia. There were other tcpics involved in the Constitu tion which influenced the votes of those who voted against It, to which it is unnecessary and useless here to refer. But X deny, and deny Implicitly, that there was a single man who voted because of that opinion, or who look the oath with a view to vote, thereby to violate the obligation. But as a legal question it is something new to me. The objection made, if well lounded la fact, is won fotmdea in law. Are the members of this court to measure the moral character of every counsel who may appear before them 1 Is that their- function? What ind.ll - has that upon the court by which their judg. merit could be led betray t His client may suffer from the possible prejudice it may create in the mlndß of the court. But how can the oourt suffer ?. Who gives to the court the jurisdiction to deoide upon the moral character of me counsel who may appear before them 1 Who makes them the arbb tore of public morality, or of my professional ino raUty 1 \wbat authority have they under their com mission to rule me out, or any other counsel out, upon theground that hedeea not recognize the vali dity of an oath, even it they fcailevod it ? But I put myself on no such grounds. I deem myself, in all moral respects, to be the equal of any member of this tribunal. They may dispose of the question as they please, it will not touch me. BBSVOnSB OF MB. HARGIS. The Court will unuersisnd me as not Intending to cast any reflection upon the people of Maryland In regard to loyalty and morality, or In regard to patri otism, lam proud to euy that they have a good re oord IS t-iila great contest through which Our country has just passed. While It Is true of Maryland, lam sorry to say It lsequally true of my State, that many joined the rebellion, and have made for themselves a terrible record. But the circumstances of this ease were rather peoullar. The people or Maryland were about to vote upon an alteration In the fundamental law of the State, upon the adoption of a new Consti tution—a Constitution which made Eume radical changes In regard to the soolal status of the people of Maryland. Slavery was about to bo blotted out; that was the purpose, and It is an unfortunate foot that that portion of the people Interested In the proposed change were, as a general thing, the disloyal por tion, and it was In reference to the effect which this opinion expressed by the honorable gentleman in the letter referred to had upon that vote, and upon the action of this portion of the people, that my ob jection was In part founded, for It did seem as though they understood It as X did. In regard to the right of the eourt to Inquire Into the moral standing of counsel wo have no such right, but the order consti tuting this court makes provision for the prisoners or the accused having the aid of oouusel. The pro visions in reference to that matter Is that gentlemen shall exhibit a certificate of having taken the oath, or shall take it In presence of the oourt.and thus tbe obligation of an oath Is here a special question. If It does appear that he Ignores the moral obliga tion, and we admit him, It defeats the very provi sions of the order, hence; X think that It Is proper in me as a member of the conrt to fouud an objec tion of that character upon such grounds, whether' the objection Is sustained or not. The gentleman disclaims any snob intention, bat that Is a taelt ad mission that the language of that tetter may have been unguarded, that it may have had the effect supposed, though It was not in accordance with the Intention of his mind in wiitiog It. It Is an unfor tunate thing If he wrote a letter so misconstrued, but, If It was not the Intention of the. writer, that, Df course, must exonerate him. Ba disavows hav ing any such Intention, and claims to t himself a mo ral oharaoter whloh ho is not asha mod to put- In comparison with that of any memb « of the court. Now, it is not my purpose to measure characters at all,but simply to bring forward, an objeotlon. I felt It my dnty to bring, and noth' ing else, an objec tion founded on thennderstandhe g I had of the lat ter referred to. I. was sorry to.’nave to do It, bat X did It In no spirit of person; ii ill will or bad feeling. I was sorry that It sra amy duty to do such a thing, out I could- not do mr «thing else with the impression I bad on my mind , and he, as an honor able gentleman, will under*! .and what X mean by this. He understands,.too- r shat the force of con scientious convictions most be, and that If a man acts from principle, thls-tkd- eg will ooeaslonally Im pose upon him some unplf meant duties. His disa vowal of any. such- Inter .tion as I derived from memory or his letter I ana bound to take; but this I must lnslitupon, thatths re was some ground for the objection. ' BBPVk Off - MB. JOHWSOW. Mr. President,, duo 7 yard more, Ail I propose to say Is that the order (confers no authority to refuse me admission, on the,., grounds claimed by tbe hono rable member, beoatf ee you have no authority to administer the oath U, me i nave taken It lu the Senate-of the United states, in tbe circuit court or my State, In the' f cupreine court of the United states, and I am. v . practitioner in all the courts In nearly all the S’a ,tes; and It would be a little sln fular If one who, I as a right to appear before the upreme Court, of the land, and who belongs to the bony that creates,) courts martial, shall not nave the right to appear tsf ifore oourts martial. Major G anortii Hunter. Mr. Johnson has made an Intimation at to holding members of the ooort personally respa jslble, Mr. Johnson- i made no such Intimation, nor in tended it. Major (Sons* al Hunter. X shall say no more than I was going ta' try. The day has passed when free men from, tbe North were to be bullied and Insulted by the bum.br ,g chivalry of the South. The.oan.vt hero took a recess for half an hour, and when it reiu rued, went Into 3eoret session, In order to delibers te upon tbe objection so lengthily dis cussed. The w-m-rt being reopened, Gen. Harris stated tbat.he dtjslred to withdraw his objeotlon, ob he oonsldf.reil Mr. Johnson’s explanation a satisfacto ry removal of the grounds on which the objection waefcumied. Mr. Johnson expressed his desire and willingness to take t he oath, hut the Court deemed It unneces sary, ar.d the oath was not taken. TBB XBSTIMOHT. A. WBee, being sworn, testified as follows: Question. Do you,belong to the police foroe 1 Ans wer. Yes, sir, to the military polloe. 4- State whether at any time you examined the room or Atzerott, at the Kirkwood House. A.. Yes, sir; I was ordered byMafor O'Belrneto go into the principal part of the building and see how the house was situated ;.X made the examina tion, and told him one could got from the roof to a stairway In the. back of the building, whloh would admit him into any part of the building; I told the Major the olroumßtanoos. 4-When was that! A. (Hero the witness leaked at a paper.) It was the night, of the 15th of April. I then went, and while tkaro a friend came to me and said there wai a rather, susplolous-looklng min who had taken a room thjue the day previous, and I had better go and look. I went, and found In the register, badly written, the name el Atzerott—E. A. Atzerott. I mads It out; but is that nobody could make It out unttlT asked the yroprleter, ana he madei It out on Q. did you go alter that! a; I went up stairs to the room, and saw one of the clerks, and I- asked him to go up to the room with me; found the door looked, and ho said the party had taken the key with him; I went to one of the proptletots. and asked if he had any objections to my going into the room, If wa oould find a toy to fit it; he said no; Wffxhough he tried his keys, we oould notget In p I asked him if we might burst in the door; he said he had no objection, and. we burst the door open; when we week in I saw a ooat hang on the wall, dot Burnett here ordered a bundle to be passed to the witness. This bundle, on being opened by the Ootonel, was found to be a ooat, rolled in which were, sundry small articles. , .. ~ Witness. That ooat was hanging upon the wall, jtietin that w&y, aa yougo lily on the left-hand side > thatfe the coat, sir* _ _ ... Q,. state what txamioation you mado Pf tho r °A? Well, I saw that ooat right opposite ; the bid stood on tie right; I went towards the bed, and, un derneath the pillow or bolster round a revolver bound with brass. [Hero a pistel was shown to wit ness, passing through the hands of Mr. Johnson who remarked j 11 It is loaded, 1 Witness. 1 then went down atalre to find Major O’Beirne, and we went up stairs to the room again. X took the ooat down and found this book anil that **4! inthepockets! A, yes, sir, vhxc wah Fxftraaa* (PTOLIRFIBn WEEKLY. 1 TB» Win Passs Will be rant to shbMribtta hy mail tper-Mumra la klt.em) it.—M F!v. tor'.pt.—— ■ *—-'lO •• Tvj .oplqs —. —9ft Ltrt.r Club, this Ten -frill bs .b«r.*d it tb. mu rate. til. Oft pur .OP?. The money mnet alnmtn accompany,!** order, and ih no instance can theee terms be deviated /mm, at they afford very little .«?« Man the east a t paper. to- Poatmutm r.quttt.4 tout u .cents M tfb w.» r*M*. 49- To tb. x»tt«r-n» of the Oicbof tea or twiatr. Ml «xtn copy of Uta piper will he ftfea. |, Q. Look Inside Hint book and see what wan writ. II ten in it. ■ ■. . » A, Yes, sir. Tllere Was an aooonnt, too, on the Ontario Bank of four hundred and fifty-five dollars: 7 then pnt my hand In the pooket again and found thW handkerchief with the name of Mary K. Booth on R;1 then pulled out this other handkerohlof, aue had some difficulty la making oat the mark, but i think It it E. E. Nelson, or P. A. Nelson, upon It; I lYunfi this handkerchief with M. H w the oor ner: I rot thlo new pair of ganntlets i I labelled all these th.isgs myself, and I got these thiee bows of Colt’s cartridges. ft. Do (toy fit the pistol I _ A.' I nee or loaded the pistol, sir; I don’t know i I round this p-ftce or lleorloe and this brush. Q,—This voting was tu the back of that book s Mr. J. Wilkes Booth, In aooount With the bank of Ontario, four h undred and fifty dollars 1 A.—Yes, sir; I then got that spur and pair of soeks; that Is aft I got out of ths pookets, ft. —Do you imttember the number of the room t A.—lt was room one hundred and twenty-six, sir. a.—Was It over the room where Vloe President Johnson was at thf-ftlmo I llio witness here entered Into au explanation of ths locality totally \ raintolllglble, but upon being shown a plan or skeli’h .by Mr, Ben. Pittman, seem ed to roocgnlse the k'ltuatlon of the room. This plan, howeier, was not admitted In evidence. Witness, 1 weht are, mil _the room, took up th« . carpets, took out the wt ‘Ohstund, moyod the store, ana made a thorough seat ■»*>. and thon went to the bed again j took off the fllo tues piooe by pleoe, and, after I came dewu undcrLCi tue sueets aud m it* trasses,! tbcsv bowie knaves, [Hera akQlle wis fibown the wltuesa, and handt - ’« to the various mem bers of the court. 16 was a loni7> fltylufrfihaMd kalfe, like that used by Bboth} atiffahaathed is retd leather .l Q. You dld'not b&* ix\m In the teom yourself? A. No, sir ihb ha* to it the day before; the clerk who was thf-.rc said bn «uml [ wlui or without a sunweeua; brlnrt htni at* soon ar l you can. |[Here the--exMainatioa-Ui-chlef, wMcb. had. \ been cnuducted by Ju/ge Bolt, AdvOcita GcueraiL i>f the United Stotee. was cl« l se yledge it, was the day before. . - Q. Did hwdescribe his appr,i trance to you 1 A. Yes, sir, ho did. Ct. Eepeat’hfs description. A, I don’t think I could, ag\h ° desoribsd It to me. I don't recollect. I think lu) said he had a gray coat on. ...» Q. Bare you ever seen, to ;yc ’UrknowleagP, Mr. Atselothl A. I don't know that I hav e ever seen him. I have seen most ever} body kuoi 'k leg around about WaHiipgton, I - don’t know as . ’ over saw him to know Urn by name, I can’t say th at I have or have not. Q. What first brought you. to the Kirkwood House? A, I waß at home, eating my supper i Mr. Oan nlngham came attar su—one o. f i ’or foroe; no, I had goto out aftsr supper, and 11 hi rOc I mat him a rqubrt, nom tho house i says he, 1 ' Y tea'are wanted Immediately, at the Kirkwood £ loi lies" I wout> and there was Major tl’Helrno: 1 I pand meu all about there, detailed for duty to p ro '.art the Preal* dont, or, at that time, the Vice Pre aid out. Cl. Deeorlbe the appearance of th, so tom who gays you the Information V A. The man was about your bull, d i tammy be a little heavier, but about your height - Q. How old does he look to be? A. Somewhere about jour sge. ft, Whatismyage ? A. 1 take you to he about thirty. ft. Don’t you know his name ? A. No, sir, I don’t. Q. Now will you describe the relatl ve position of Johnson’s room and the room In whl 'ch ytu foand this coat? The witness here entored Into a serlt is or gesticu lations aotl oJiplanaUon3, tr»:ii which n either court, counsels or reporters could derive' any understand ing of bis meaning, or of the locality, hescughtto describe. ft. Did you find any signature of Ati erott in the .I*olo ? A. I did not. ft. What made you thick It was his roi )m 1 A. Because It said so on the register; h ; woe num ier 126. ft. You have no other evldenoe exee pt the re gister? A. No, sir j I don’t knew as I have any other evi dence. ft. That Is all. TUSTIUOKY OF tUWIO J. WBIOItMJ VV. ft. State to tho court if you know , JairmNEL ioratt. A. Ido ;I first made his acquaintance I In t!:o fait sixty.two, at St. Charles county, Marylai id, or la the fall of 1869,1 should say. • ft. Howlong were you together then ? A. Until laoa. I renewed my acquaints not wltk. him in January, 1883. Q.. In this city ? ■ l A« Yes sir. ft . When (lid you begin to board at ths house-M -his mother, the prisoner here? A. On the Ist of November, I8M; ' ft. Where Is her house? A, Oh H street,No, c«u ft, See If that ie My. Suratt Bitting by VI }U thBM. A. Yes, sir, that fs Mrs. Surati. ' ft, Will you state when yon first madv your ao> qualntance with Dr. Mudd-l A. It was on or about 18th January, 1805, , ft! State under what olroumstanoes. a. I was passing down Seventh street, wlihSu ratt, and when nearly opposite Odd Fello’ re' Hall, some one oalledi out "Swatt,” “Suratt.” Oulook- Ingaround Suratt recognised an old aoqi talitanow or his, of Charles county, Maryland: he 1) Produced Dr. Mudd to me, and Dr. Mudd lntrof tuosd Mr. Booth, who wob In company with him, to both or ns (-they, were- oomffiff up Seventh strei >t, and w— were oomlcg dewu. ftuestlon by the Court, Do 70u meat ,J, WUkOGt Sooth ? A. Yes, slrr.T. Wilkoußcoth. ft. Wheredld.yougotothsn? A. He invited us to- his. room at t he National Hotel. 4. Whol A. Booth;.he told us to he seated ~ and ordered olgars and wine to the rooms for four,; and Er. Mudd then went out to the passage and oa) ,led Booth out and had a private aonversatlon wl th him ( Booth and the Doctor then-aamo In and cal .led Suratt out, leaving me alone. 4. How long! A. Fifteen or twenty minutes. 4. Do you know the nature of the tr conversation » A. Nop I was. sitting on a loun; ;e, near.the win dow ; they oamoln at last, and Mu dd earns near ms on the settee, and- apologised for .t heir private con versation, stating he bad prlvai ia business with Booth, wbo wished to purchase lilf j farm, 4. Did you ue any manusor! pt or any sort os the table! ... A. No; Booth at one time out the bcofcof an en velope and made marks on it Wit' h a pencil, 4, Was ho writing on It t A. I should not consider it writing, but'marks alone; they were seated at the table in the oontre ol the room. Q. Did you see the marks 1 A. No, sir; just saw motion, of the uenoll; Booth also came to me and apologised, and said he wished to purohare Mudd’s fann;'MudU had previously stated to jne that he did not care to Coll his farm to Booth, as he was not willing to give him enough for It. 4- Yon didn’t hoar a word spokop.botweon them In regard to the farm! . . ' A. No, sir ; I did not know the nature or their conversation at all. 4. Did I understand you to sa7 that you did not hear any of their conversation at the table, but only saw the motion of the pencil 1 A. Yes, sir. 4. Have you ever seen him at.Mra. Suratt’s 1 A. Ho earns there about three weeks after I formed the acquaintance of Booth,. 4. Who did he Inquire for! A. For Mr. Suratt, JohnH. 4. Did you over see him with. Booth there, or only with Suratt 1 A. I have never soon him-in the house with. Booth. 4. How often did he osjll A. Some ten or flrteeu timed, .... 4 Whßt was the name by. which he WAS known #>y the young ladles Of the house 1 A. They understood that he same from Fort To bacco, and, Instead of calling him by hlsownnamo„ they gave him the nickname of Fort Tobacco, 4. Did you oversee him on the street! A. Yes, sir; I have met- him on tbe corner or Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue 1 it was about the time Booth played Tetcora. in H The Apostate Booth had given Suratt tiro complimentary tlokota on that occasion, and we.went down and met Atze rott ;we told him where,wo were going, and he was going, too, and at the theatre we met David O. Harold, 4- Do yon know Harold! Do yon see him,here! A. Yes,sir. Hero Harold bent' forward, and laughingly In lined towards tho witness. Witness. We also met anotuer gentleman, there named Hollaban, who stopped In the house. We met him in the. theatre, ana we reuainoAuntll tho play was over, and the five or ue loft together, and went together as far as the corner of Tenth and E streets s but on turning around Suratt .noticed that Atzerott and Harold were not following, and X wont and found them In the restaurant adioiaiuK the theatre, talking confidentially with Bootik. on my approaching they separated, and tthfi, Wfi took a drink; and there was a gentleman there whose race I remember; ; wa left and joined tho nttyer two gen tlemen, and wont to another restaurant to have, some oysters. - 4. Do yon-know where Suratt left his horsss la this city 1 A. He stated to me that he hsfltwo horses, and that he.bept them at'Howard’s stable, on G street, between Sixth and Seventh. 4. Did,you ever see Atzerott ihMre ? A. Yes, sir; on the day of the ftssasslaatltfh. 4-What time was It! A, About half-past two o’elcek, 4. What was he doing! A. Ho seemed to be hiring, a. horse; I had been sent by Mrs. Suratt to hlra abugg-/. W hen I got there I sow Atzerott, and reued, what fee wanted ;ho said he wanted to hire a harm; he a ,ked Brooks If bo do-old have a horse, sum ha told, him he oould , not 1 then We left,, and both or, no y vent miuu the postoffloe; I bad a ltitw todrr M out,and after that he went oil towards Tenth f .treat. o. was this horse that was there Suratt’* or Booth’s! A. I will state thabou the T’ xeeday previous to tha assassination I was also sent • g,the National Hotel to sea Booth, and gat. Ms br tot Mrs. Snratt t she wished me to delve her tbe oountry; Booth said he hsd sold his buggy ~tut he would give me ten dollars and! should buggy for Mrs. Su ratt, and spoke of the nurses he kept at Brooks’ stables; I then sold th',^ 6 ta Suratt’s; he S«U they .... 4- DW Booth glve . yju aoUan , 2: Yis^ ,ltlv *'* ert,akl 4'. To what pol.At't tbmeattwelveV?- 8 - ! w ® lef k, at ‘•“i a ®d reached a vh ’ . -ora that day 1 Mm. snrettw only rematned half an hours mifN,SSr*v^ tte purpose of seeing. a w b6 “d at r afre. snratt’s! nation, there up to the time of the assasM- —this interview at the National, state whethe t Booth oallsd frequently at Mrs, Snratt’s, ft* Yes, sir. 4- Whom did he oall to see ? , He generally called for John H. Suratt, and •r. his übsenoe called for Mrs. Suratt. 1 4. Were these interviews held apart or In pre sence of some one 1 A. Always apart; I have been th company wtlH