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MONDAY „WIVE 12, 1865.
A Military Martinet.
It has been our behil, catering for the
stiuction and, it may sometimes be, for
e entertainment of the public, that we
enerally bad provided for its various
hisses. A correspondent, who signs him
ilf " With one Star," and whose courtesy
• c acknowledge, assures us that we have
een deficient in writing, expressly for his
rofeksion. Perhaps so, strictly speaking,
Dat we have a case now before us which
of a character to excite no small interest in
Ile United Service, for it shows how a
alartinet has crushed an unoffending officer
ja the British army.
Many of our own officers have been
card to complain of harsh treatment and
lack of courtesy on the part of their supe
i ion, but they ar c a hundred times b-itimr
than if they nerd commissions in the
ttritish army. Tile Commander-in-Onief
ere, one of the Royal family, is the Duke
if Cambridge, only son of the Queen's
"Bele, of dinner-presiding memory, who
iterally eat himself into considerable popu
larity in London, by officiating, whenever
lie was asked—a hich was very frequently
,i—as chairman of charity dinners, on w tiich
occasions he was accustomed to lead off,
when the subscription paper went round,
with a liberal donation of two or three
hundred dollars, but was also in the habit
of net paying over a single sixpence
of said donations to the charities in
question. The committees wanted a Royal
Puke at the anniversary dinner, and Uncle
Cambridge, who loved a good dinner, was
glad to act as decoy-duck and chairman.
He died fifteen years ago, and was sac
seeded by his only son, who served in the
Crimean war -with no small credit—for the
Cittelph family, although, what MOunif.
COB
g• Regular Dr] Gnitia blackheads.
Born with three Kingdoms in then pooksts,”
have always been eminent for personal
courage—has been commander-in chief of
the British army since July, 1856, and,
though he came into possession of
the greater part of his father's immense
accumulations (said to have exceeded the
five million dollars left by the late Prince
Ammar), condescends to accept a pension
of $60,000 per annum, besides $5,000 a
year, as Colonel of a regiment, and SS2
a day (he has double pay, being a Field
Xarshal) as Commander-in-Chief— his
whole income, paid by the taxed subjects
a his cousin VICTORIA, making a nice
annual sum of £18,847 a year, or $04,235
of our money. The Duke's mother and
two sisters are also pensioners on the public,
and thus the Royal Family are very dear
to England.
F. M. the Duke of Cambridge is a lusty,
fat-headed man, shout as old as Queen Vic
lorak----say in his forty-seventh year, The
theory being that the Army and Navy are
the Queen's property (he speaks of "my
army" and "my navy," but never of " my
Rational debt,") the custom has been, when
possible, to have the offices of Comman
der-in-Chief and Lord High Admiral filled
by members of the royal family, and thug,
though simply a good-natured, common
place man, without much brains, the Duke
a Cambridge is utocrat of the Horse
Guards—in other words, such an absolute
zaler of the British army, that he is above
parliamentary control. Unfortunately,
Such a man in such a position has an inevi
table proclivity for becoming a 'martinet,
and the Duke naturally has fallen into that
very unpleasant category. He possesses a
good deal of the family bonhommie, as well
as the family obstinacy. He, probably, is
pot at present in the best temper imagi
3lable, seeing that he has just got a a mart
rap on the knuckles from the House of
Commons. It happened in this wise :
Colonel D9VII2INS, who died early this
year, was a veteran who had greatly dis
tinguished himself at Waterloo. His son,
also being a soldier, became Lieutenant
Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, and
fought with his regiment in the Crimea.
From some cause or other, Colonel DAW
;CTRS was not popular with some four or
five of the officers of his regiment. As the
Coldstream is a very aristocratic corps,
'with many sprigs of nobility among its
officers, the plebeian name of " Dawkins "
3nay have displeased them—though, surely,
It is vastly more genteel than that of
Dowbiggen," in whose favor, in 1855,
Lord Pamottau, then Secretary of War,
and a near relation, sent a special telegram
to Lord HARDISOB, then in the Crimea,
Earnestly entreating him, when promotion
was going on, to " BEMBMBER Down. !"
Whatever the cause, several officers of
the Coldstream Guards applied themselves
10 using the art of ingeniously tormenting
DAWKINS, their superior officer. Oace, in
1860, when an invitation to a ball given by
the Queen arrived during his absenee, he
said, on his return, that he would accept
it—but found that it had been transferred
by his adjutant to another officer, which
was more cool than pleasant. On another
occasion, returning from the Continent,
and delayed by the immense street traffic
of London, he was three minutes too late
for parade, which had never before hap
pened even when he was a subaltern, and
Colonel NEWTON, who commanded the
battalion, publicly reproved him, on the
spot, before his juniors, and threatened
that "he would make Lieutenant Colonel
DAWKINS parade so many times a day,"
to punish him.
The matter of chiselling him ("to chisel"
is an excellent verb transitive,) out of
going to the Queen's ball, was brought
before Lord Ronan . ; a general officer then
in command of a division, and that sa
gacious fossil decided that " Colonel
.Daavxmrs was entirely wrong" in having
written a private and courteous note .to the
adjutant of his own regiment, complain
ing of his having hastily transferred the
queen's invitation to another officer. Some
lhne after this decision, there was given
la the camp of Aldershot', not far from
'London, a luncheon, by the officers of
the Coldstream Guards, to sundry other
officers. Of course, Col. Dawkaxs was one
of the hosts. Lord ROXEBY, who had
'wronged him by an unjust decision, was
present, and attempted to shake hands with
Col. DAWKINS, who either did not or
'would not see these advances, and merely
bowed. For this he was instantly placed
tinder arrest and kept in that situation for
eleven days, though, according to British,
military law, every person must be brought
before a court-martial within, eight days
after being placed under arrest. He de
'Mandell a court-martial, which was re
fused,, but the Duke of Cambridge or
dered •a Court of Inquiry on his case—a
Secret and ex parte inquiry, in which testi
rtony was not given on oath and the ac
•cused was not allowed to cross-examine any
"witness. Ample testimony, from eminent
-officers, was given to prove that Colonel
Dawxias was a true gentleman and a good
:Soldier, but the military secret Star Cham
z.ber reported against him, and the Duke of
Cambridge, who appears to have been
madly led by the nose at first, and then to
lave proceeded through mere obstinacy,
curtly informed him that if he (D.awxans)
did not at once leave the regiment and "re.
tire on half-pay, losing all future chance
of promotion, the Duke would put him on
compulsory half-pay. Mr. HEADIAM, the
Mee Advocate General of the Army, de-
Vi"red, in the House of Commons, that it
'Was not legal thus to remove an officer whit
out a court-martial.
There rarely has been such an example
of pure despotism as was exhibited in this
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case. The leading military membera of
the House of Commons strongly protested
against it. The Government backed up
the unjust commander-in-chief who want
ed to drive a good officer out of the army
for the new offence of not shaking hands
with his superior officer, although the.
Duke had himself admitted that Colonel
Dawnins had proved the falsity :of
much that was alleged against him
by an aßstocratie clique. The Gov
ernment contended that the Commander
in-Chief having refused a court-martial,
his decision must be final, and that the
House of Commons had no right to inquire
into the doings or misdoings of the War
Office. Honest Jonn B
_37,TORT said that it
was the duty as well as the right of Parlia
ment to do justice in cases of which cus
tom and mere law could not take cogni
zance, and he noticed the fact that the hos
tile decision of the Court of Inquiry in
Cola DAwnrwe' case had been given by
a majority of one only—three me,m
bers voting 'for it and two against it.
The Government tunueuce, - wht.t. .ap
ports the Duke of Cambridge because he is
a "Royal Highness" and the queen's
first cousin, carried the point that the
Duke must not be enforced to do justice in
this case ; but one hundred and twelve
members of Parliament voted the other
way, and a great number slipped out of the
Rouse to avoid recording their votes ; pos
sibly these arc time-servers, who are in the
army, or have relations, there, or are un
willing to offend the Duke of Cambridge
by placing him in a cleft stick. We have
examined our files of London papers, and
do not find that, contrary to this decided
expression of public and legislative opinion,
the Duke of Cambridge has as yet carried
out his announced purpose of compelling
poor DAwFatts to leave the army. If any
thing further should occur, we shall record
it for the benefit of our much better treated
army and navy officers.
Governor Curtin to the People of Penn-
sylvanite.
EVA) ifrive Otraturea,
BAHR%liffttil, June 10,1865.
To the People of Pennsylvania:
The bloody struggle of four years Is ended. The
fires of rebellion are quenched. The supremacy of
law and right is re-established. The foulest treason
recorded in history halt been beaten to the earth.
Our country is saved.
These blessings wo owe, under God, to the un
equalled hereism, Civic and military, of the people.
In the darkest hours, under the heaviest discourage.
meats, falter who would, THBV never faltered.
They have been inspired with the determination
to maintain the free Government of our fathers,
the continued union of our whole (gauntry, and the
grand republican principles which it Is their pride
and duty to defend for toe sake, not only Of them.
selves, but of the human race.
I glory in saying that the people of Pennsylvania
have mum among the foremost in the career of ho
nor. Their hearts have been in the contest; their
means and their biCOd have been poured oat llko
water to maintain it.
The remnants of the heroic bands that left her
soil to rescue their country are now returning,
having honorably fulfilled their service. They have
lett tens of thousands of their brothers on many a
bloody held. Their memories will be pteserved on
our rolls of honor. For their widows and families
a grateful country will suitably provide.
Let the survivors, who are now returning to us,
have such welcome as befits a brave and patriotic
people to give to the gallant men who have saved
the country and Shed Dew lustre en PannsWanig.
I recommend that In every part of the State, On
the approaching anniversary of Independence, spe
cial observances be had of welcome to our returned
defenders, and of commemoration of the heroic
deeds of themselves and their comrades Who have
fallen. ANDREW G. CURTIN.
Ei-overnor of Pennsylvania
A Goon EXAMPLB.—Two gentlemen of New
York, Mears. Trevor and Colgate, have recently
given to Madison University the sum of sixty thou
rand dollars, one•half of which amount is to be ap_
plied to tee endowment of twenty permanent and
nee aoholarthlol for the benefit of young IlMidiers.
It is well known that many young men forsook
their studies at the beginning of the war to enter
the military or naval service in defence of the use
non, and it is in order to restore to them some of
the educational advantages they voluntarily relin
quished that this movement is begun. The New
York Post truly says "A similar endowment of
tree scholarships for soldiers in a hundred or a han
dled and dtty of the two hundred and thirty-six
colleges and seminaries ill the United States would
extend the facilities of Instruction to a vary °onside..
rable number of young and needy students, each of
whom gave up his personal comforts and risked
everything in doing battle for the nation. We owe
these brave fellows every reward that it Is In our
power to give—employment for the disabled, homes
for the sick, education for the studious, and honor
for all."
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, June 11, 1886
THE ACCUMULATION OR DEAD LETTEEI3,
The public may be surprised to learn that the
number of lettere which are now being received at
the dead-letter office, sent there under the neW
which makes prepayment of postage compulsory,
amounts to 15,000 per week. These figures denote
great carelessness or ignorance of the law, on the
part of the senders of letters. The public should
remember that the old law, allowing letters not
prepaid to be sent forward aCcording to the address,
and double postage collected of the receiver, has
been repealed, and that now every letter not end.
tied to be carried through the malls free, most have
a stamp On it Or It. Is sent to the dead-letter office.
Especial Care should be taken by every person . t 0
obeerve, at the time of depositing a letter in the
pest office, that the postage stamp is firmly fixed
upon It. Such salon would soon reduce the num
ber of letters held for postage, and consequently
prevent the embarrassment and vexations delays
now arising from this class of letters.
END OF BELLIGERENT RIGHTS TO REBELS IN
HOLLAND. k
Despatches received at the State Department an
nounce that the Government of the Netherlands
Las formally rescinded the recognition of bellige
rent fightii accorded to the rebels. This is in re
sponse to the appeals of this Government whitened
to all the maritime,powers, As Hulled was one
of the first to become our ally after the Revolution.
ry war, so, to her honor be it said, has she been the
very first to retract ber steps atter having assumed
a different position during the late rebellion. This
breaks up the combination of all the European
powers acknowledging rebel belligerent rights.
INIERNAL NEVENVB DECISION
The bureau of internal revenue does not feel
authorized by the law to regard the amount re•
eolved OD a policy Or life insurance as either legacy
or income; Consequently, assessors, until farther
advised, will not hold Ouch amounts to either tax.
THE . RAM STONEWALL.
No trouble whatever is apprehended with the
Gabon authorities respecting the rebel ram Stone
wall. The Spanish Government le on the best pos
sibly terms with our own.
AN ERROR CORRECTED
A verbal error In the printed testimOny of Hon.
Charles A. Dana, before the military commission
nw engaged In the trial of the alleged conspira
tors, makes it appear that he has ceased to be As.
ostant Secretary of War. This Is erroneous, as he
does not expect to resign that office until the first
of July.
REVEL PRISONERS.
The thetruettons as to rebel prisoners are, first,
to retest° these who are sick, and thett the others,
In the order in which they )1490 uadergonetmprleon
u,ent, thtso longest confined being the earliest re
leased. The work of rid easing all who come ander
'ha amnesty °Janie Of the proclamation is to rapidly
progressing that all probably will have been set at
liberty in two course of two or three weeks.
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The Prussian minister, Mr. Da SToggal, and tau
Spanish minister, Senor Tasseno, waited upon
Secretary ISawAsn yesterday afternoon at the Da
partment of State, to express, in the name of their
reepective sovereigns, the profound condolenee and
sympathy of tw.o great nations for the national loss
sustained by the assassination of the President, and
tor the dreadful 'sufferings of the family of the Se.
oratory of State. They greeted Mr. SIEWARD most
.mrdially, and expressed sincere satisfaction at his
recovery.
`rho wife of Secretary Few.arro has been very
la for some days past, but to now recovering her
health.
SMOGS RIOT IN WASHINGTON.
Today a party, comprising between a hundred
and fifty and two hundred soldiers, made a Series of
assaults on many unoffending persons of the Seventh .
ward. They visited disreputable housee and tip
pling houses occupied by both white and colored,
indiscriminately attacklbg the inmates, driving
-hem away, breaking up their furniture, helping
.hemselves to liquor and eatables, and committing
other outrages. The rioters showed particular at!.
mostly against colored persons, who were Severely
beaten and robbed. The negrOeS rallied for rests•
lance, when a fight occurred, the Soldiers using
their revolvers), as did also their antagonists. FP ,
sally a military guard arrived on the ground and
reacted peace.
Among other casualties, Dr. W. Boyd, who went
out with a revolver in his band to restore quiet, was
struck on the face with a brick which was thrown
by a soldier, The cheek and Jawbones were horri
bly fractured, end the sight of one eye destroyed.
others) of the soldiers made a rash for him, and one
was in the act of cleaving MO head with an axe,
when a number of women succeeded in persuading
them to spare - his life.
To-night a strong military force ban boon lot to
the locality, and the police ars•alecront 1:1 Palt nutil•
hers to quell another apprehended outbteak, and
tbzeateNed ROM of inapndlarlem.
PERSONAL.
Assistant Secretary of the Treitattt, rimy has
been appointen Lio'lector of the Internal Revenue
tor the slxth District of New York, in the place of
WM. ORTON, The latter will stipersedellt. Loyo
la as Commissioner of Internal Revenue ortthe Ist
or July.
Mr. E. CuauuLlia, 110 W s.olloltOr of the Navy De.
parrmeht, is to mooed ABBlstaart searetsrs of the
Treasury HARRINGTON, and JOHN itARTLI - , Masi
Clerk of the Departuient, takes the place soon. t 0• be
vacated by Mr. FOLD.
Major General TERRY, the hero of Fort Fisher,
who was ordered to Washington, arrived here en
Saturday.
Wenn if, Lemon', United States Marshal for
the District of Columbia, has tendered his resigns•
tion to the president, to take effect Monday neat.
HID innoes-zor is said to be D. S. Goodloe, one of the
editors of the WashinatOn Chronicle.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Rapid Return of the People to Loyalty—
Reception of the Prestotearm pronto
's:011011 of Amnesty—Peace 111 heath
Carolina.
Intelligence from all parte of the State Indicate a
" 8.0 """". 1 Of the people to their loyalty to the
United Staten, - 11iiintotty;46Ott obedience
to the lewd 18 the pteraillog sentiment of all par
ties in North Carolina. The eitieens of the differ
ent oeurdies are ettabliebing a home pollee system
for maintaining order and euppreertog depreda
tions."
The guerilla warfare in North Carolina expired
with the rebellion, The prospeets are that the
movements.to restore civil law through the Irmo
ration of a new State Government, will Oen out
the largest vote ever cast in the State, so anxious
ate the people to return to peaceful pursuits.
President Johnson's amnesty proclamation is being
well received by the people of this State, also the
appoltitMetit Of air. Bolden as Provisional GO.
vernor.
The people of South Carolina have Called upon
The United States military authorities at Charlotte,
in this State, for protection against Choir own
people, who are committing depredations uponeaoli
other.
GEORGIA.
General Military Matters in the State—
Sad Piavisl bionster—The Rehabilita
tion of the State.
NOW YORK, June 11.—The Savannah Herald of
June 6 contains the following:
"A dotalioont of the 13f13.CortriOe,tiOut Regiment
left fat home pesteratw.
“General Bugg has been Assigned to the 00M
mend of the Savannah district, and (10tiera1 Wood
foul to the command of that post, General (}rover
being relieved.
"A division of the 19th Corps has arrived at Sa
vannah.
" The ateamer Governor Troup, while en route
from Augusta to Savannah, with a oargo of two
hundred bales of cotton, took fire eleven mites
below Augusta, and was burned to the water's edge.
The vessel, cargo, and baggage of the passengers
were all lost. Some forty out of two hundred pas
srngers were lost by burning or drowning. Those
lost were mostly negroes.
"A post , offroe has been opened at Augusta.
"General Wa.shbarne , s brigade has been ordered
from Augusta to Savannah.
"General litelineux nag ordered all the school
teachers at Augusta to take the oath of allegiance,
"Orders have been sent by the authorities at An.
gusts fora supply of fiehool books, and free schools
are to be immediately opened for ail elainee.
"All restrlotione on travel have been removed by
Generals Grover and Gilmore 1n their respective
departments."
BTAIIVATION IN GNORGIA.
NASHVILLE, Jane B.—General H. MoCook left
this morning for the North.
Reliable InforMation from Macon and points north
of that represent that the whole of Georgia is in a
starvir g condition.
The river marks three feet on the shoal and
THE WAR IN TEXAS.
OFFICIAL REPORT OP THE CALIBRE
OF SABIAE PA'S,
The Character and Strength of
the Fortifications.
WAEHINGTON, June 11.—The Navy Department
has received the following information of the cap.
lure of the defences of Sabine Pass, Texas:
NEW' OnLICAZiB, La., May 31, 1865.
Sir : I have the honor to inform the Department
that a despatch, under date of May 25th, was this
day received from Captain B. F Sands, reporting
the examination of the defences of Sabine Pass,
Forte rannnennefett and Griffis. Abting Volun
teer Lieut. Com. Pennington hoisted the United
States hag on these forts Toe guns, rive in num
ber. were spiked. Fort Griffin is described as hav
ing five bomb.proofe, covered with five feet of solid
timber, two layers of railroad Iron, and four feat of
earth on top. There were four magazines of like
construction. Acting Volunteer Lieut. Conk Pen
nington not having force enough to hold the forts
returned to his vessels, leaving the American flag
dying.
Captain Sande, under date of May 97th, reports
that the rebel army of Texas has all generally die.
banded, and have gone home, and the terms of sur
render recently exeented in New Orleans, between
the rebel eammandeTs sent by General Kirby Smith
and General Canby, having boon coraptiedwlth on
,he part of the rebels, it only remains for lid to OC•
cull the fortifications.
With regard to the rebel naval forces in Texas, I
am assured by the Confederate Lieutenant Com
mander Jonathan. Carter, who le now nate, and de•
elates himself - to be the senior naval offier, that
there 18 no naval property, nor any otitiers in Texas
on the seaboard, and only one vessel in the tied
River, the ram Missouri. which will be surrendered
to the commander of the Mississippi Squadron.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. IL TEUVOIIIER,
Acting Rear Admiral Commanding ,
Western Gull Blockading; Squadron
Secretary 'Welles has also received Information of
the destruction of the femme blockade•ronner Den
bigh, on May 24th, off Galveston, by the United
States Steamer Fort Jaoksen ; also, of a schooner
called the La Compt, used as a guard boat at Gal•
autos!, by boats from the United States steamer
Von:Labia.
THE WAR IN MEXICO.
*Metal Despatches with News of Liberal
Victories.
WASHINGTON. June 11 —Official news from Lea.
palm, dated May 9th, embraces the foilowlig intel
ligence, which was suppressed in the despatohes
Sent through Pronoh sources from Havana :
General Tangyleg, with a part Of the first division
of the Central National Army Of Ivierleo, attacked
the city of TaCanabano, in the State of Ditohoctean,
OD April 11th, and took it by storm, capturing all
the garrison, including two hundred Belgians, to.
gether with their ammunition, artillery, ate.
A few days before, the national forces captured a
train, with supplies and ammunition, sent from
Morelia to Pascuaro, and defeated the French forces
at Purendino, Cultzeo, and Zinapeazaro, all in the
State of Michoacan.
Garieral Artego, the commander•ln•ohlof of the
Curium, had taken the field, havli3g towered from
hla wounds.
CALIFORNIA.
Fire and Loss of Life in San Francisco—
Meeting or aympatby with MeXiCo—
of Foote—Feeling Against
Chinese Bilexers.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.—A. fire In this oily, on
the let inst., destroyed property on the corner of
Drum and Jackson streets to the amount of $25,000.
One man was burned to death.
A large and enthusiastic meeting to sympathize
with Mexico was held here on the night of the let.
Speeches and resolutions were passed favoring the
enforcement of the Monroe doctrine.
The Mexican Generale Ochoa and Vega, and the
Mezioan 'consul were present, and were heartily
cheered. General Whoa made a speech.
General Wright, acting for Major General Mc-
Dowell, commanding the Department of the Racine,
lately wrote a letter, which has been published, in
answer to inquiries as to what arms and organiza
tions would be permitted to leave for Mexico, in
which he expresses sympathy for the republic of
Mexico, but says, for the present, until the a
°Vern.
went shall announce its determination to maintain
inviolate the great doctrine so dear to every Ameri
can heart, that no organization will be allowed, and
neither will armed men be permitted to leave our
shores for any foreign port.
The EVC7Ii729 Bulletin le informed that Henry S.
Foote, late rebel Senator, Is on his way overland to
this State, accompanied by hia eon-inn•law, Senator
Stewart, of Nevada. He has several married
daughters here.
The national Fast was universally and solemnly
Observed on the Pacific coast,
Sailed, brig Joanna, for Shanghae, with $206,000
In treasure. Also, steamship Golden City, for Pa
tame, with 521 passengers for New York, and $930,-
000 In gold, only $175,000 of which goes to New
York. A Nevada paper says all the Chinese who
left 'Virginia City for Idaho, and all who started
trona California, or any • other point, aro now on
their way back, having been ordered away by the
- miners of Idaho and Montano, who will allow no
Chinese in the mines. There were recently about
100 Celestials encamped at the Sink of liumboldt
on their way back.
General Grant at Chicago.
CIBOAOO, June 10,---Genorat Grant arrived here
at noon to-day, and *as very enthusiastiOally re ,
ceived by a large concourse of citizens and escorted
to the Sanitary Fair budding by the committee of
Common Connell and a eommitte of a handred ap
pointed by the Board of Trade. It is understood
that the general will remain to the city for some
days.
Death of Mrs. Sigoorney.
HARTFOSD, Conn., JUDO 11.—Mrs, Lydda H. Si•
ourney, tr.e poetess, died here today ape Doyen
tkeix. year&
' t. I ' I 4. 1 DAY, JUNE 12, 1865.
THE TRIAL.
Close of the Defence of Mudd,
Spangler, and Arnold.
WRAY WINDERS SAID ABOUT THE
"ROBBED RAIDS."
Facts Concerning . Southern Desire for
Murder, both of the President
and Union Prisoners.
WeerariGTon', July 10.—The record of ttapre.
-clans day was read and the eiconlaackm of vitt
bums continua() as foltowa ;
Testimony Of Daniel N. Morris.
By Air. Ewing: I live in Charles county, Mary.:
lona ; on the Sunda) alter the assassination of tae
President I heard from Mr. Moore. who came from
Briantown that morning. that it was Edwin 1330th
who assassinated the President; know the reputa
lion of the witness Daniel T. Thomas to be not very
good ; the pecple consider him natrathful and
venni not believe him under oath he the Oomintintty
in which he lived ; Mr. Themes would not be As.
Hoven Onpath ; in -the attorte of the Government .to
G en: lf :4 om s the
,r4bnutidilitidgnlothaalvmeroll yvemopratthitieseadowittitthon Of
Slavery.
The oromeratulnatloit or the witness developed
no new hots.
Tentintimy Of.L. A. Globright:
Wailed for the Defence.)-1 arts a jotnnaMeile
agent and telegraphic reporter for the .Aisoolated
Press ; I Walt at Fore's Theatre on the night* the
assassination, having reached there live minutes to
11 o'clock ; there was a (Utterance of opinion among
persons at the theatre as to whether Booth was the
assassin or nut; during the short time I remained
there, 1 was nut at that time satisfied that Booth
was the smooths. •
By Assistant Judge Advocate Bingham: tl. Bat
you became Satisfied during the night that 'it WAR
BOotili Sad tele t aaplied that fact i A, I did notes
telegraph that night:
Q. You became satisfied, the next day, that
Booth was the assentor A. It was so announced
the next morning in the entreat bulletin. .
The counsel for the prisoners, Mudd, Spangler,
and Arnold, Mr. Ewing, announced to the cOntt
that the case had now been closed for the defense,
SO far as these prisoners were Concerned.
Mr. Duster, on behalf of the prisoner Payne,
stated that Dr. Nichols, who had been permitted to
examine the question of the prisoner's alleged in
sanity, was not yet prepared to report, and teat
several witheass, *wee were natnitanti to testify on
that question, had not yet appeared, one or them
being the prisoner's father, Bev. Mr. Powell, of
Florida.
The president of the court, General Hunter, re.
Marked that he had understood that Dr. Morals
could not give soy report on the question of insani.
ty untu the prisoner's antecedents ware shown, and
that, therefore, the Court Weald be saved to wait fur
the prisoner's lather, who lived lc Florida.
Mr. Lester said that In the State of Maine it Tr"
customary, when a plea of insanity was Introduced
in behalf of the prisoner, to hand elm over to a Ivry
sleuth for a proper determthation of the qtraB:lon,
Be thought It nut more than just that, on a trial
for his the, the prisoner should have the filmed;
of whatever evidence could be adduced in his
favor ; that white It might cost the mart a delay
of six or eight days In awaiting the arrival of
the Witness summoned- from Florida, the absseoe
of the it-sateen', of that Witness might oost tess
prisoner his life. He asked that the primer irs
permitted either to bring his Mends here or to be
allowed a regular scientific investigation of Ids
case.
Judge Advocate Bingham stated that the prison
erfo counsel had had forts days in which to procure
the attendance of all witnesses, and that every ap•
plicatlon on the part of the defence for witnesses had
been granted as soon as made.
Judge Advocate Eult tuen called several addl.
Lionel witnesses for the prosecution. '
Teotin.ouy of isenry Gi. Edson. "
/3y Judge Advocate Holt : I reside 'at St Albans,
Vermont; rry profession is teat of an attorney and
counsellor at law ; 1 was engaged as conned during
ihejuuloial investigation whin occurred in Oamada,
In COLIIOOI4OII with what Was known as the St. Al
bans raid ; while at St. Johns, Canada, I heard
George if. Sanders say, in speaking of tite St.
Albans raid, that he was Ignorant of it before it
occurred, but was then satiated with it; that It was
not the last of the kind that would occur, but that
it would be followed up by she depleting of many
other banks and the burning of many other 'Owns
on the limier, and that mane Yankee" (using
a coarse and vulgar expression) would be killed; ne
said that there were organizations of men ready to
burn ana sack Buffalo and other places, and taat
the Yalkles wont° soon bea tango plans fully axe.
mien that any preparations made by ihe GOvern
meht to prevent them would not prevent, though
they Might dear them; Sanders at Mt tilato was
acting as counsel for the prisoners.
Teletimotly of Jebel L . Ripple.
By Judge Advocate Holt: I am a - Mat lieute
nant of the 89Ln Illinois Regiment, and entered the
Service as a prlvae in 1861. I was a priseeer of
War, and wag oonfined for six months at 4ndersOn
ville, Ga. While there, I heard a relief oflleer,
Quartermaster Huhn. state that if Abe. , 140 Coln
Was reeelected, he would not live to be itakkettritted,
Tent woo ineoro rho - Preview:Aka etcetera'. -Ale MHO
stated that they had a party in the North who
would attend to the President and Mr. Seward ;
1 Leant the lieutenant in durtrgn of the guard Say
that tety had ideal) Who would see chat Lineole
wee not re inaligurateti that 019, I think, alter
the Presidential election; the character of the
toed inillished to the prisoners at AteleraenVille
was poor, both in quantity and quality ; the ellen.
ere died in large numbers, and ILave no doubt that in
many cases the deaths of the prisoners were brought
about by starvation and the horrible treatment to
which they were subjeeted ; I board the rebel uffl are
say in answer to the remonstrances of the prisoners
that the treatmentwas good enough for them ; they
.bould every ore die; I heard a certain tlaptain
Whiter, who had Charge of toe prisoners,ilay that On
the drat of July the location of the place to W2iC , 3
the prisoners were Manned, and everythinw eon
muted with It seemed to look to the oreavion of
disease, and the infliction on the part of the Von
federate authorities of every possible suffering short
of death ; that Libby , treatment was not so bad ;
tacks of blued-hounds were kept lying around the
camp at iindersonville.
There being no further witnesses present, Judge
Advocate Holt gave notice that the court weld not
wait much longer for the witnesses in the case of
Payne, who had failed to appear.
The president of the court stated that the court
would wait until Monday morning at 11 o'elecit, to
Lear the report of Dr. Nichols on the alleged in
sanity of Payne.
The °hurt then adjourned to the hour atatxt.
TREMENDOUS FIRE AT NASHVILLE,
Ten Mtllion Donors worth of Property
Lestroyva
NAFEVILLI:, June 9.—At about two o'clock this
afternoon the extensive building used for quarter
master and commissary stores, at the corner OT Sum
mer and Broad streets, known as Taylor's depot,
was discovered to be on tire. The fire Is supposed to
ave been caused by sparks from a locomotive,
About half the building was dessroyed. The other
hell, comprising the commiesary Mores, was saved.
The lora Is estimated at bet Ween tour and live
Minions. Several dweltlega near tee some of eon
flagration were destroyed, with their entente. 5 , 3
great was ate beat that all approaches to the seine
were impassable. Two or three employees are sap•
por.ed to have peristicd in the flame&
The destruction of Government property at
the great fire to-day, it is believed, will cane a
loss of between eight and ten mililOnS Of dolls,rii.
Within Its wails were stored sufficient to supply an
army of 50,000 men for two years. The quantity of
rope alone, consumed, was valued at one million
dollars. The building was the largest of the .kind
In the country, being Soo feet front b 5 200 feet (Map.
Fortunately, the buildings were separated by a ere
wall, and the largest part of the front was, by this
precaution, saved from destruction. Various ru
mors are afloat as to the 041.180 of the are, some
maintaining that 'tns the work of an banditry,
and others of accident. A court of inquiry will in.
vestigate the matter. The combustion was so rapid
that the building was one sheet of flame before the
tire department could work on It.
Wu° IS PArsig i-The mystery enehrouding the
conspirator Payne, instead of being cleared uo, is
growing deeper, Ass fortitude la wonderfill. Heat,
chains, handeulls, and-the awful presence of Certain
death, the constant gaze of the eager and curious
crowd, and all the surreundingl of the admission,
neither appal nor terrify him in the least. For Ala
compenione in misery he deeply sympathize s, and
(My WlShes, because he is stronger and braver than
they, that he could be sweated for each one. To.
day a Christian lady of tats /My sent him a pocket
handkerchief, and a message that she shouldd pray
for him, and that otters prayed for him, Ho re
ceived the present with the air and bearing 1300 , 71.
Ingrit of a gentleman, returning his thanks, and as
to the prayers, he said no one praying for him
should labor alone; that he prayed for himself. Tab
last remark was made with much emotion, his eyes
filling with tears; his nature is twofold ; he is gentle,
and yet as terrible as a lion. He has more endur
shoe than falls to the lot of most men. He will go
four days at a time without eating . or drinking, and
still be strong. No has sat In that tourt.room this
two days without rolls! from the usual course or
r store, am! during all that time lass not uttered a
complaint as to his health. He is yet young. Hie
Puce Is bow/4110ES. When dressed as a, gentleman he
is One-looking. But who he is, and where he came
from, is the great mystery.— Wash. Con N.Y. World.
ANOTHP.It BATOR OF BOOTH'S PAeans FOUND.—
fn virtue of a commission of inspection, obtained
:row the Vice Admiralty Uourtby Mr. Dunbar, on
behalf of the United States consul at 44,1:labile, the de•
ruby marshal Of that court, Mr. Parkin, Jr., brought
TO town tr-day, from below Bio, three trunks beloint ,
ing to J. Wilues Booth, the assassin of Mr. Lincoln,
These trunks were Skipped at Montreal last fall,
for Nassau, and destined for Richmond; but the
(9)ooner on board of which they were having been
wrecked, they were taken to BM by the salvers. The
result of the Inspection is, we are told, that the
trunks contain a very costly and extensive theatri
cal wardrobe almost totally destroyed by salt water.
There are also some papers, letters, &0., of Booth's,
but as to their importance we have no information.
—Quebec Mercury, Jane 6.
*NW TORE Virr.
NEINg YONE, June 11
THE BPI/NINO TOO BOARD
At the evening Stock Exchange tonight the
II arket was steady but active. Gold Closed steady,
without change in prices, the quoration being 137 X ;
New 'York Central, 02; Erie, 77%; Miehigan Oen.
tea), 109%; liudsou River, 104%; Reading, 93X;
Old Southern. 623,;; Pittsburg, 63%; Chicago and
Rock Island, 9P%;. Northwestern, 24N;'Chicago
and Fort Waybe 94%; Canton Company, 38%
Cumberland C0a1, ' 40%; Quicksilver, 01X.
Arrived, ship Perseverance, Legborn ; barks liar-
Von IVI4IOII, Sagna; Ada, Vera Ores; John Bap•
dee, Palermo; brigs Amoe M. Roberts, Sagua; J.
Flohinan, 13barlestost SUWELIICIth TrIAUUKI; Nola
Ala, Matamoros.
ship hewn.
BOSTON, June 11.—Arrived, ship Littleton, New.
Zealand ; bark Jona, Buenos Ayres ; brig J. W.
Brielto, Philadelphia.
Arrival of a Steamer.
FwTaaa pouvr, L. C., Jane IL—The steamship
St. George, from Glasgow, with 500 steerage pas•
eengere, pulled here at I A. M. today, for quebeo.
au MOMS an itutactpatod.
Thu Siuffiing of the, Admiral Dupont.
SAILTICULSES OF TIM CATASTROPHE—HOW TErS
COLLISION OdMIS ABOUT.
BOSTON, Jena 10.—The steumer Admiral Dupont,
• from Now York for Fortress Monroe, WAS ran into
and slunk on the night of the Bth twat, by the British
et Ip Stedarotte. from Mita&iptila for St. John, N.
B: The steamer Sunk In ten minutes after the col
lision. The craw and passengers, with the
esaep
tion of fifteen or twenty, ware saved: Captain
Simon Pepper and all the officers ol thereteamer are
Enfe, and have landed at Nantucket, together with
the other survivors. The names of the lost as yet
are UNillOWn. The Stadecona, having sustained
Conelderable damage:b . ! , the oollialen, wear= ashore
on Smith's Point, Nantucket, where she rernallas, Itt
a bad position,
Bowron ; June 11.—The officers, Crew, and Pas
sengers of the steamer Admiral Dupont arrived
here on Saturday night. Tiorpurser (Morse} re
ports that they left New York on the 7th for Fortress
Monroe, wish a mall detachment of troops; and at
4.20 A. M. the neat day, lo a :tense fog, saw the ship
Stadacona steering neatly in an opposite direction ;
plat the wheel hard ttestarboard, stopped engines
and reversed theM, to avoid a mansion. Before the
steamer could' lose nor way the two vessels catne
violently in collision, and our starboard bow was
stove in. Found the settling down by the
head very fast, and in three minutes after the corn,
don she went dears. AS far as ascertaiued, one
fireman, Six soldiers, and one colored woman are
missing.
/The steamer Was owned by James &Whitney and
5, B. Taft, of Beaton, and another party in New
York, iv here she is insured for $50,050. She was
valued at $00,000.' Just previous to thecollision the
Steamer had taken thalamic" precautions against as.
Client - by blowing her Whistle, and reducing her
speed tett - teen revelations per minute. Zimmer the
Offireere Of the Dupont leave for Now York to-nigh;.
THE SOUTHWEST.
Disco Very of the Probable Cause of the
Great ebile Fire.
THE DEATH APID DESTRUCTION COM
PASSED BY REBELS.
CAIRO, Tune U.—The steamer Bite Hart, from
Memphis, has four hundred bales . of cotton for
Evansville and Cincinnati.
The Memphis Chamber of Commerce has been
reorganized.
The steamers Poland and Idaho collided in the
'Yazoo river, on the ad that,, resulting in the sink
lug of the Poland and the IoEO Of ten or twelve lives.
New Orleans advioes of June a state that maim.
Portant ohm to the cause of the late disastrous eg
pierion at Blain. 18 thought to have been obtained,
A man named Wall has been arrested at Motes,
charged with being Implicated. Re states that he
and two others. on the night previous to the 'Apia
sloe, placed torpedoes between the buildings 04n
teiving pt.wder ; that the wolk was performed un
der the direction of a rebel major, who threatened
them instant death it they disobeyed or offered to
!TWA, and that the major afterwards lighted a fuze
of a shell conntetbd With the infernal arrangement.
Torpedoes have alSo been discovered In the rooms
of the customhouse, so arranged as to explode on
the opening of the doors. Othera were found can.
coaled in desks in the same building.
Disastrous Fire and lExpiosion at Chat.
fano° R.
- Cancormusm t, Junelo.—The Gazelle's Chattanooga
despatch save that the ordnance building had explo
ded, totting fire to and Consuming the warehouses,
filled with Governinent Etero3. The toss to the GO.
eetnment is , 4150„010, Between ten and fifteen per
SOns were kliled and wounded. The explosion Was
caused by sparks from a locomotive.
Cotten In the South.
I.7ISKELT TWO NatioNs OF BALES BAST OF THE
NEW Yonn, June 11.—The New Orleans corres.
pondent erne Herald says, it is estimated that the
total amount of cotton, of all kinds, secreted east of
the Illississippl is 1,000000 bales-70,030 bales in
Arkansas, and 300,000 In Texas.
ACOldent to a Ovoraboat..
PrenviDlMOß, Jane lo —The gunboat Gettysburg,
from Boston fur New York, with an iron monitor to
tow, struck on Fishers Island reef on Friday even
ing. The monitor went over the roof and anchored
inside. The gunboat had her bow Stove, and re
turned to Newport leaking badly.
Affairs in 'Louisville.
Jone,lo.—Brlgadier (Tema Re
but Allen, senior Quartermaster of the Talley of
the rdiselssippl headquarters, has been promoted by
the preildent to be major general by brevet.
In a three-mile race today, Alexauders horse
Asteroid, Which, on Tuoctiay last, made the best
this on record, won a race on the first heat, Lead.
stone sulking at the end of the first quarter stretch,
and Dr. Lindsay being distanced.
The Mur d er of President Lincoln
THIC 08/0/2fATan OV q!riff. MILLION DOLLhat BOHEMIC
CAPTUILVD.
WASHINGTON, June B.—General - Canby has,
by orders from Secretary Stanton, hunted out and
arrested the man who offered last winter, In an Ala
bama paper, to be one of a entails number of per
sons to pay a minion dollars for the murder of
Mr. Lincoln, and he is on his way, under guard, to
this section of the oountry.—Cor. Boston Advertiaer.
TRIG 11.0STIUB INDIANS.
THIBTY•THSER HUNDRED LODoKB NOKTRISEN
DAKOTA—ATTACKS EXPACTOD THIS BUMMER ALL
ALONE) OUR moonrise.
The Fort Abecrombie eorrerpondent of the St.
Paul Press, writing on the2d, Biqa :
Ike .Indians are congregated In great numbers
nenneeet or here. There are about Wee thousand
three hundred lodges of hostile Sioux, or about. six.
teen thousand Men, women, Will children aaaem•
bled at Devil's Lake and Turtle Mountain. All the
UtlipapaS whom Sully - ought last year, and
other Sioux livingi west of the DllBBollrl 2 hear
lug that Sully was again pushing an expedition
mto their country, have joined tue Yanktonnats
and. Zanktons, east of the Missouri, and If Sully
pursues his journey as originally projeoted, towards
:he black bills Watt Yellow Stone, no won't find a
live Sioux. Ad the hostile Sioux, I repeat, are now
gathered in Northern Dakota, near tuts British
boundary, and together with the regular occu
pants of that region, and the hostile Sioux el
of Minnesota, they number about four thousand
warriors, perhaps more. Their intentions are nor
yet fully developed, but the talk of their camp,
ilocorating to the Red•rtver half-breeds, indicates an
intention to attack tale post fa force, and to move
upon our frontier settlements in small raiding par•
tun daring toe summon.
FMNBIOTIMUS IN. TIM RHEUM. 5TAT1M....430M11/t8"
BioLer Barrett, of the Pension Bureau, le engaged
In preparing a circular with reference to the rights
of gene/enure in the States engaged in the rebellion.
The subject is one of Much importance. It will be
ready for distribution, it le thought, in a day or two.
WHAT IS WANTS]) AT RICHAWND.--THO Rich.
mend Whig, of the Bth, says
°The paramount want of this community, at pre•
sera, le Capitol—the wherewithal to rebuild the
burnt district. Until we have an Mins of oaphSt,
or until the building lots pase into the possessim Of
reealtiff men who will improve them, we will look
in vain for the signs of that 7000nEitillatiDn of stores
and warehoriSes so eagerly wished for by our pace
pie"
ERROOITY ON AN EL'arffaXV2,—The correspondent
of a Bombay paper, writing from Burdwan, In the
northwest province, says : I have just received a
and account of the ravages committed by an els•
phont at a village called Kotulpore, about twenty
miles distant from this station ; the animal belongs
to the Maharajah, and was taken thither by one of
hie retainers for a marriage procession. Oa arrival
turro, the elephant suddenly became wild, and
pulled down a number of hats and Met The next
nay it became wilder still, and one of the MahOota
charge 01 the brute, attempted to chain his legs,
was seized by the trunk and trampled under foot
Death of course was instantaneous, bntthat did not
peony the elephant's rage ; It kept the corpse of the
MD under its feet for two successive days, actually
grinding it to.dust. That very day It struck down
a Braid:bin and smashed his head; two other men
have been sevsrely injured, and most of the inhabb
.ants of Eotulpore have, it is said, run away from
the village for fear of the brute. Thehlaharajah
bas ordered half a dozen of his Eurasian servants to
go and shoot it.
W001:980Wilia Irr Imarfore.—The Chicago Tri•
tune Wye: Taus it a growing interest in sheep
raising in this State, and almost every leading
armer, whose looality seems fitted for the purpose,
turning hie attentico to this usofel and profitable
:lass Of husbandry. In 1860 the naminnr of sheep
:stained by the county :080890IS was 584 430, agar&
eating in value , 8695,035, or an average of
In 1661 the number had risen to 913,021,'
worth *982,285, or *1 58 each. In 1862 the number
returned was 1,206,695, worth $1,010.654, or el5B
tads. Later than 1562 we have no agnres, but at
the business has been very active there were pro.
hardy, at the Mose of the year 1864, fall 3,000,000 of
sheep in the State, worth at least 35,000.000 The
,mproved stock which is now corning into the State
will, we think, compensata for the decline in the
price of wool, and we atiOuld not be Burprieed that
at the end of the year the estimated value Of the
sheep at the olose of last year would be very nearly
Maintained. Among the largest sheep raisers in
'he State are Bander of Winnebago, Kelly of Da
Page, Plokrtil of Macon, and Brown of San•
geruon."
PEBSoNAL.
One of the roost prominent as well as one of
:he most able and respeeted among our author•
ems, Lydia 11. Shrourney, has recently passed
from the life In WhfOlt her talent and power and
delicate fancy had made her so great a reputatioll.
tt is mop years since we last saw Mrs. Sigourney,
said had the pleasure of listening to her graceful
%nil pleasant voice, yet it scarcely seems more than
yesterday, So accustomed had we been to regard her
As a positive celebrity, without ealonlatlng her age
..)r reckoning her probable duration, still among us.
yet she is now dead—dead in the fullness or her
! ears, 76—having barely overrun the allotted thno,
:ind preserved her literary reputation untarnished
try one of those pure and virtuous lives which typify
do literary character in Its mostblameless and per
fect form.
—General Warren has resigned his commission
se male , general Or, YO/Unteera. and has been One.
seeded In command at Vleiretaarg by General Os•
Wham,.
Morgan, the rebel who shot General Canby
last year, at Now Orleans, has been arrested.
—Ex.Governor Moore has been arrested at Mo
bile and sent to Washington.
General Sheridan has issued orders forbidding
military interference with tile shipment of cotton.
-;-Plerte Seal 1p in Koala°.
EUROPE.
Ibe rtzinvian at fooNsr Point —Commer
cial News, &e.
FATama POINT, L. 0., June 11.-11 P. M.—. The
steamship Peruvian, from Liverpool June 1, V%
Greencastle on Tune 2, has named here for Chinese.
The HibeMan arrived at Liverpool Or, May 31r;
the Olty of Manchester on the - same day; and tne
America at Southampton on the same liallf•
The rate of discount in the Sank of England hall
been reduced to 3% VI cent.
U. S. 5.200, 67faCX; Eric, 5034@b1 ; Illinois oen.
tral, 76%.
Commercial Intelligence.
Livirtirom, June I,—Sales of cotton for four
daps, 78,000
xp 7B , , r or em. bales, Tt elninealrnategiimais
been, to b
ti s o p , s e a rt e t la , t a e n t d B
.pricesof fair and nikidilnir qualities a re id. higher,
the market closing Arm wits an upward tendency,
except it, Eastern isopuer d n e de 6: : : l ll:
a f on lo od e
B ir n r d ee W ul a a k r. e e W I
a t t e r . n r a e r p e o s r o t e
active,heat
aia
nd %Ad lower for inferior ; winter red 88
6@BS Corn heavy and 6d lower ; mixed 298.
Beet quiet arid •steady. Pork very dull and easier.
Bacon quiet, Baiter firmer, with an improvement
on interior qualities. Lard fiat and it lower. Tallow
quiet. Ashes quiet at 280268 for pots, and 29/8268
for pearle. Sugar quiet and steady. tiottee—tio
Baler, Rice—no sales. spits Turpentine dull and
nominal. Rosin fiat. Linseed Oil quiet and steady.
Petroleum very null.
LOIIDON rorre.—Breadetntra quiet. Wheat
quiet and 20 lower. Coffee quiet and arm. Tea in
active. Rice quiet but steady. Tallow quiet. Can.
sole clamed on Wednesday at 91%@91% for money.
Illinois Central shares 763(; Erie 60%(051. ; United
States 208 67@b7%.
LATEST VIA. GREENCASTLE.
Lwahroot., June 2,•:-The Bro kers' circular re
ports the sake of cotton for the week at 108.600
bales, Including .21,600 to speculators, and 24,600 to
exporters. The market has beet buoyant, and
prices are idfillud higher tor American and BOP
deo, and %1:1 to Id higher for other asaariptinue.
The sales to-tia,7 (Friday) aro estimated at 15,000
bales, the market (dosing exalted, with an ad rono
lug tondonor. The authorized quotations are .as
tollows
Fair. Midallag.
Uplands 100.
Mobiles 16%d,
°dean ..
Tba stock la port Is animated at 440,800 bales, of
which 40;000 ere American. •
BreadstuffS very dull, and all qualities slightly
lower.
Previsions quid and steady, except Lard, which
is Mal de/inning.
Lonnon, June 2.—COn9Ole 010Eed at 80V490, ax
; lillnolo fJontral shares, 751.4 ; Erloahareo,
sem United states Five.torentitd, agog.
The bullion in the Bank of 'Livia= nee increased
£539,000.
American Ilemande upon niillOvtud,
It would seem that our English cousins aro emsi
derably exercised upon the (Mallon of the spoils
time of the Alabama, the Tallahassee. and other of
the Anglo•rebel pirates, a demand for compensation
for which is suppcsed to have been made by Our
Government. The Times, in a very significant arm
tiole : wbich pallia,tinglyjustifies England, says :
All that can have been doneds to renew the dis
cussion at the close of too war by presenting a re
gular demand. as the question was well considered
when it brat arose, and as the United States have
long been informed of the view which this country
taker of its liabilities, we cannot conceive that any
new complicatione can be the result Of the more
formal demand of Adams.
, . .
" For two yearette =Meet has °Wed no internipt
Moro in the amicable relations of the two Govern
meets, and it it difficult to conceive that the United
States should now press their former claim In such
a manner ae to endanger the peace which actually
prevails. We are, therefore, not surprised to near
frcm Lord Pelmerston that, though each party has
stated Its respective views, the whole correspond•
ewe bas been carried on tin vary friendly and most
amicable terms.' The law which accardina to the
English view governs eases of this kind has been so
clearly captained, and will ue, doubtless, so poorer
fully stated in answer to the American demands,
that there is no need for us to say anything farther
on the subject. Our point is simply that nation in
a state of war must protect their own interests, and
cannot expect a neutral to guard them from the
operations of the enemy. It is enough far us to
show that nothing was dome in bad faith by this
country. The Alabama was, it Is true, built by
British subjects, and her armament was also tun.
fl ou t fromsibrteibi. act a o n . E t r e I I r a IL F;
r p t u o r i t
c ;
e b rt u a t in th E l a n ,
g t l h is o h u m g h e
n a ,
deep not compromise the Government, which need
reasonable means to prevent such proceedings. and
would have stopped the vessel had not the Confede
rate agents fraudulently taken her out to sea.
"In getting ready No. ego the Confederates
and their agents were too quick for us, and for the
Federate also; they carried their vessel into the
ocean before we could tries it in the Mersey, or the
Federate could seize it In the narrow seas; if we
were slew, the Federals were negligent. A bell!.
gerent Government oan hardly claim to be own
pereatcd for the results of an accident, when it is
plain that Its own agents neglected to maintain a
proper watch over the enemy's proceedings. The
British Government, however, cows not, we son
calve, assert that a neutral country to not responnlbe
Motel/ for ttic .fiftiPg our of slum or expeditions
Wi141 , 4 its limits against one Of Iwo belligerence; on
the controry, no Government would be more ready
than Fur own to allow that furls equipments give
not grounds , of complaint.
" That there is no desire to defend the legality of
the fitting out Of the Alabama is shown by the fact
that proceedings were taken against the constructors
of the Alexandra, and that this vosrel, as well as
the two notorious . rams 'were seized by the British
r....werunt. in smite of protettations and Out
nate legai me opposition or those commute in - mtuomg
them. All that we now contend for is, that when a
vessel does actually evade such fair vigilance as a
neutral may be expected to maintain, a belligerent
has no claim to be compensated, especially in a case
like the present, where the veteel actually went out
gla havebeen pll WI oppositionf
to j sea t anarrod, w o as t ar r m o rd T ho th:opa 001 M I, e t ud e,
belligerent who now complains had used the WM.
inonest precaution.
" There is, we trust, nothing In this affair which
need inspire apprehensions of a rupture, either now
or at any future time. The American Commercial
marine has, Indeed, suffered, but soh a calamity
must be expected when a maritime and trading
Mate enters Into a contest with an energetic and
active enemy- The people of the United States
must, however, be aware that, if it had not been for
the strict fulfilment of international duties by Eng
land, the Seas WOuld halm twermod withtlonfedrate
erultere, and then Federal ships of war Might have
found formidable antagobleta to such vessels as the
two rams which are now added to the British navy.
In fact, throughout this tremendous struggle of
four years, England hail performed her internation
al duties with a scrupulous regard for jastice.
Whatever may have been the sympathies of this
class or that, the country has held its course evenly;
neither the vanquished Confederates nor the trium
phant North can declare that they have been
'lnsetted or deceived. It is with a clear conseionee
that the Government, which decal:led every Invite
tion to interfere in the war, even by offers of media
tion, now takes Its stand on its legal rights, and re•
funs to make compensation whore it has done no
wrong."
The Owl iedelgeS in the &Bowing prognostics.
lions respecting our Coulee of conduct, and, it wilt
be seen, recommends the I .llrM,joint action of Bag
land and France:"
"In every man's experience, however amiable,
there occurs a moment when he must say "No I"
and in like manner when great nations, to use our
trans-Atlautic eOllBll5B , ,phre.se, are cornered,'
they must give a definite answer. Within the last
few days we Lace been definitely asked by the Cobinet
of Washington to pay an indemnity for the depreda•
time of the Alabama aad other vessels which, escaping
cur vigilance, cleared front English ;torts, and Men,
under the Confederate flag, inflicted severe damage
upon the commerce of the rebels. To this demand our
reply is, that our conscience is clear, that the law is
patent, and that as we eo not owe we do not intend
to pay One Wiling of the darnageS 80tight fur.
`The Yankee rejoinder IS that we did the mischief
and that we snail be compelled to pay. Hones
arises a remarkably unpleasant gileatlon, Another
question not easy of solution springs from the de
mand for the extradition of Southerners, or nasty led
rebels, whim the Uniteu States are making upon
Canada. The Government of President Johnson
affects In some affairs a virtue to welch it does not
pretend in others. Fair speech Is still held toward
.trance, and while the recruiting aides of. New
York enlist troops of immigrants every day fur the
armed colonization of alexioo, the Cabinet of the
Tuiletica is assisted that the United States will
countenance no violation of international law, We
need, nevertheless, but oast a cursory glance over
the melt recent telegrams to perceive that an im.
mediate invasion of .0168140 18 contemplated, and
wo have only to 'elicit for one moment upon the
tone end temper of the American Government to
feel certain that our turn must Shortly come.
'The calculation probably Is that England will not
aislst the French, and that, therefore, taey are to be
dealt with brat; and that subsequently the longalue
vengeance upon the Britian flag may be carried out
when we are thoroughly isolated. The peace of the
mild seems, therefore, to depend at this moment
op , on the firm joint action of England and France
Without committing ourselves to the policy of our
neighbors in Mexico, it will be easy to lot the
United States understand that the two great West
ern lowers of Earope are one as to their mode of
:rgnrding international obligations and the sacred-
Me of publie, law.);
The facts which this bellioollo article deals with
are thus explicitly denied by the Express on the fol.
lowing day to that On which they appeared:
`Some of the morning papers publish a paragraph
from which. IL would appear that President Johnson
bad at length preferred a claim upon the English.
Government to n indemnity itr the depredations
of the Alabama. a We have reason to believe that
there is not the Slightest foundation for the State
went."
From the Globe we excise the following more Care.
ful, though not lose definite contradlotion :
We are informed, from a source we rely ou, that
no new demands nave been made on our Govern
ment on the matters in question &than the *Mont
bion of tilt. Johnson to the Presidency of the United
State, and consequently that no reply to such de.
mands has been returned on our part, nor, by the
like , contequence, has there been any rejoiader In
reply to such detaandS, It is no secret In any
quarter that demands Of the kind had been made
to our Government and the oases arose of damage
tn American merchant shipowners from the Con
federate cruisers. But we believe we can affirm
with confidenoo that no new incident has occurred
whatever, altering in any manner the position of
either Government with regard to those claims.
The Government of the United States, under Prod
dent Lincoln. always declared itself willing to post.
pone predilig Stich claims till a period should arrive
at which a perfectly dispassionate and equitable
eonsideration of them might appear predicable.
And we have reason to believe that President John
son s Government has taken no new position, and
holds no new language on the alibied. •
"It is equally well known from the debates which
have taken place In Parliament, and the published
diplomatic documents, what position our own Go
vernment has taken, and what language it baa held
on the same subject. Whatever, therefore, may be
vatic:Mated, nothing has transpired In daylight
giving ground for apprehension that we shall have
to abandon a policy of expediency' for a policy
Which It would Sown must be inferred will be not a
penny of expedieney.”
THE GALLO-Mitxtol.l l 1117FICTULTY, — The Paris
correspondents of the London papers declare that
there lea panic in Frannie respeoting Mexico ; that
none of the pavan are allowed to publish the news;
*bat the official organs are trying to make things
pleasant, and so on. A friond of minejust over
from Paris, declares that an Influential person as.
cured him that be had SOW the order to DI out trans
ports for eighty thousand troops for 81ex100....
Parisian correspondence of the New York Times.
Asa.ASSINATION.—A donkey and pony were
grazing together on Dr. Redden's farm, near this
place, apparently on the best terms, when the
former, without any provoeation, caught hie coin
pardon by the throat and held him fact until he
choked him. Every effort to relation the pony proved
useiese.--Skimereen gnu.
TOR Idontrbiltirf TO TUB ROSSIDSNT.—The
lections in the various churahes of this oity last
Sunday week were very large, every denomination
evincing its liberality and Its respect for the dead
Precident. The subscription+) thus, far are very
arge, and Philadelphia will have, from the tale
they toll, a good and wort i ny monument.
FOUR CENTS.
STATi;*XVK
; The Hanover *debtor publishes the follotrifig
It is well remeMered that when the war tlr
the suppression of the rebellion broke oat, that eh
trorthern sympathliers hi oar midst gathered the
old Copper cents, and had them transferred into
breast pin to indicate tliat they were eopperhedde.
"IsTow,” Faye's!' exobaege, " that the chief of rebels
has adopted the petticoat,' would It not hi well for
them to get a new badge T iTo suggestion Is needed
lie to what It should be."
-- A man suffering from emsll pos was imported
from Harrisburg to Marlette, a few days since
sensing considerable talk anti' seine thDeate against
the fatally who Deceived hint; herbhing no relation of'
the fitally whatever, Oomplalltt'wa a made tsrshe
chief burgess, who had * him relieved fis the alms.
house at Lancaster.
—The Bank of Nortbuinberlandl-at Sunbury, is
preparing to assume Its new Character as a national
bank. It was therefore necessary to destroy its old
circulation, and on Saturday last nOtes*amoantiag
to slatyeeven thousand dollars were , destroyed by
burning.
A. bold tut taISaOOeSSIUI attempt' was made.
one night last week, to break Into Menge of the
eQunty treasurer at Lancaster. The burglars bored
a hole in the safe, filled it with powder and dig.
charged it, but without doing any &image:
The Elmira Rolling ➢bill CoMPanY, byreasob
of the high prices of labor and materials and the
low price of that manufactured article, have re
solved to suspend operations in one of their mills
until the 10th day of July next.
The Odd Fellows of 140Wville, Lancaster eo,,
have purchased "Literary Hall," in that townn.
The building contains two halls, each 40 by 71 feet
in size, bbeldea a number of smaller rooms.
Preparauour for a grand Celebration of the
cOlning 410 Of July, aro being MBUO mil wry= tics
Mate.
-- Another distillery, charged with malting frau•
dulent tax returns, has been seized In Pittsburg.
The new court house, in prooess of building at
Sunbury, is progressing finely.
The returning regiments are received with
great enthusiasm In Pittsburg.
TwO dollar counterfeit bills on the York County
Bank are in circulation.
ROME ITEM&
Two young noon on board the steamer St John,
from New York for Albany, set a geed example by
their prezerow of mind and 0001 determination the
other night. A kerosene lamp broke In a atom,
and the burning fluid eovered the floor. Intense
alarm; of course, ensued, but the young fellows
stood at the door, and refused to allow even the
officers of the boat to enter until the kerosene was
burned out. The theory was that If the door was
opened and water poured in the flames Would not
be extinguished, but would be floated to other
combustible material at the risk of the destraotion
of all. '
A young lady attempted to drown herself in
the canal at Newark on Tuesday night. Having
been rescued from her perilous situation by two
gentlemen, who happened to be in the vicinity at
tho time, she began, as soon as she was able to
speak, to upbraid her rescuers for not letting - her
perish, stating that her "cruel parents" had inter
fered with a love affair, and that being wholly
miserable she had determined to end her existence.
The young lady was taken home "to dry," and re
pent at leisure.
The editor of the Universalist having been cen.
tared by a correspondent for Intimating that leff
Davis Should be hung, replies "After the exalt°.
men t has passed, and Jefferson Davis is hung, we
may be sorry t . But in all soberness let. us say, if
Jefferson Davis Is not hung, the hand that in this
land ever after signs a death-warrant ehttild drop
from its socket. If he is pardoned, let every prison
deer open."
Amid R. Mitchell, an old and respectable citi
zen of Bath, Massachusetts, was So mush pained by
a soft corn on one of his toes, that, two weeks ago,
be bad the toe amputated, but gangrene had set In
and extended to OM foot, so that It because nee:see
m y to amputate the leg below the knee, and there
is now little hope of saving his life.
The " Hermitage," the last dwelling plain of
General Jackson, is In a very dilapidated condition.
It was purchased by the State of Tennessee in 1856.
for $48,000. Mrs. A. Jaason, widow of the lets
proprietor, has appealed to President Johnson for a
permanent home at the Hermitage. The President
referred her application to Governor Browniow.
A match game of quoits was played between
the seniors and sophomores of Amherst College last
week, the game being to score one hundred and
eleven points, The sophomores were victorious,
coming out one hundred and thirteen to the seniors'
seventy-three.
Redpath, of the Tribune, writes from Charles
ton that he has under tuition there a class of bright
colored folio, and among them is a son of the aristo
cratic Governor Magrath, now held es prisoner by
AXOlf.aasapava. _
—At the coining anniversary of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society at Harvard College, the oration will
be delivered by Itev..Tosepit P. Thompeon, D. 0,,
of New York, and the poem by George H. Bolter,
of Philadelphia.
It OWE one hundred and twelve hunters to
Imutid and kill a bear In a piece of woods in Peru,
Vermont, last week, and as the careen sold for
$16.50 they got about fifteen Santa each for their
pains.
—A man In HumbertiOn, O. V 7 ,5 committed enf
olds. A few hours before the act, he told his wife
the devil had offered him $160,000, and he had con
cluded to accept the otter.
raise Lizzie Lock, a convert to Judaism from
Vhsitittanity, was admitted to the congregation of
Israel, with appropriate ceremonies, at Memphis,
a few dale ago.
—The stone masons employed at the Yale Art
Building in New Raven are on a strike, their
wages having been oat down from *2 76 to 12 60.
It is said that the President intends to issue, in
a day or two, an amnesty proclamation pardoning
all rebel ollixers below the rank of major.
In digging a well in (War Falls, lowa, a black
Walnut log was found twenty feet below the Sur
face of the ground.
Both Hartford and Now Haven have offered to
build new State Holum ti the old ones aro turned
over to them.
Fifty-nine steamers or over MOO tens burden
each have been built at New York 81400 the war
commenced.
New potatoes are now on sale in Buffalo,
brought from Bermuda. They are only worth ®7
per bushel.
Brigham Young has ordered a belt from a
foundry In Troy, probably to call his hook of wives
together.
Spurious fives on the Bank of New England, at
East Haddam, have been put In oiroulation.
The New Jersey agricultural sooletieS have
introduced steeple chases into their fairs.
-.The cam of Springfield, lli., now nearly
completed, will foot up about 21,0 1 4.
Four hundred and arty. Ave prisoners of war
were discharged at Elmira.
-- Hotel accommodation in Buffalt. (N. Y.) are
poor.
—A famine is at present greatly feared in North-
ern Georgia.
(loathes been discovered at Maryville, Indiana.
Boston complains of pickpookets.
FOREIGN MUM
A few days ago an Enfriblhman went to Paris
to take out a patent in FlitAlle for an Invention to
detect pickpockets. Re entered an omnibus and
sat by the side of an elegantly dressed lady, with a
very charming face. Soon the Englishman saw an
expression of distress and dismay come over that
face, and felt a tugging at his pocket. With Ismael
Emile he looked at the fair creature, who, crimson
with shame, implored him to let her go. With true
gallantry he released her hand, and she thereupon
stopped the omnibus, leaped out, and ran down the
street with most unfeminine speed. The English
man was highly pleased at the success of his device,
which contiletS Of a Strong calico diaphram stretohed
across the pocket with an India rubber opening that
expande to permit the entrance of a atrange hand,
but will not do So to permit it to-withdraw.
Among the variously shaped hats in Parts the
melon hat and the cesquette (cap) are the two popu
lar ones. In bonnets the milliners are trying to in
troduce something which will suit the high Saalfeld
leg of hair now so general, and the frightful bonnets
they have planned are inlite style of those worn lin
ing the Restoration. The fronts are high and wide
enough to enclose a perfect forest of hair ; at the top
of the head the bonnet slopes, and then suddenly
rises round the face.. In one word It is frightful; and
it is only waste of skill on the milliners' part to en
deavor to impart anything like grace to it. Many
bonnets are made of rice straw, with the crowns
trimmed round with scarlet velvet fuchsias; these
flowers fall over some lace which serve as the our•
MM. The caps are toriadet Of White tulle, with
red velvet fuchsias hanging over them.
Several great historical personages have re.
coldly been introduced In the mimic life of the
Ihropean stage. At Geneva a play has been pro
duced, In which Calvin figure& At Vienna an•
other, drama has been aeted, in which Pitt, Fox,
and George 111. are characters. At Turin a new
play introduces Strilelieee, the unhappy lover of
the beautiful young Queen of Denmark, the sister
of George
An Engßeh paper describing a eMall steam
locomotive recently made does it in this style : "The
engine is conscious of danger, and feels Its way In a
romantically cautions style, ready to draw back H
necessary and net too late. Altogether the Jemmy
Is 88 good as a sensation .novel In three yolnmee—
nay, this trip offeraSou the preened of a more Start
ling conclusion." Ili
a atone coffin, containing a skeleton nearly en
tire, has heen found in digging-the fOnedationa of
house at Old Ford, within a very short distance of
the "Roman Road, , as it is called, from London to
the ford of the river Lea. There was no inscription
on the coffin, Whieh lay east and west, with the feat
to the west.
-- A choir has been reoently,introduced intit.the
pariah ohnroh of a town in the north of Scotland.
Some of the people listened to. Its drat notes, and
then hurried out to escape the profanation, ex
cleaning : "They'll ho bringing over the Pope
next 119
-- Whilst her liege lord is starring It in Algeria,
ballspa Regent Eugenie s
tookng a seriee Of
at rite Turierlea. The bit place on the
15th of April, One of the ourioiltlee of the awaiting
was a young Arab servant of remarkable beauty,
wearing the natipnal Ooatume of his Country,
..In consequenoe of the Egbae besieging Eko•
rode country, in Weetern Africa, Lieut. Governor
Glover, of Leslie, sent ell %be WWI troops at his
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LliraeY Club, t a nk T ea will be await at the Nag
rite. so{.oo Der copy.
The itomy Mud always aecOMPagel , the order.o.ll4
in + no tnetnnee tan Ousts terse /tit devia64 f rom. at
they afford oery little more Man theamt PaPer•
NT Postmasters are rolueoted Co ut u WIN he
TEE WAR TENSE
grjr To the latter•up of the %alp of ton or twilit*. it
'oars cm of the paper will be kiven,
rodlne, who repulsed the
dispOssi aseist the Eke
enemy after a Severe engagement, In widen. about
EOO Egbas were killed.
For receiving the envoys from Kokhand, who
• had complaintS to make against Russia, the Shan of
Persia has been obliged to dismiss his Ministers, at
tile instance of the Emperor Of Russia, who liaa
taken great umbrage at their conduct,
Placing a limit on the number of alders in Par
'ancient and on the stall in the English Life Gtiard.
is , under consideration, as the First Life Guards will
mat NU from Windsor to Aldershot In fuly with only
' / cur captains uut of eight.
'erne fears are entertained in political circles
as to u lune of the present state of things in
G reece , and lest the King should And thirGreolans
too Ultra amble to be dealt with according tetheilhe.
• mal rums 'reposed.
_ More Homer is Aiming, this time TrOm the pea
or the coon Arie Manle—the A 1 Creek Soholar of
/ Tackle's notes to his 'Homer will eg
ceed i n b ul k %he part devoted to the mere transiso
tion.
_ The cones oration of Dr. Manning to the
o s
of Westminetert will, It 111 an ,
un
dace in the pracathedral, MOM
nArechebdi,oapkrelo i
fividS, on the Seth of
-- A FlerSburg • merchant bee been sent by the
Prussian authoritit is to nine days' imprisonment on
bread and water ro; addressing a petition to the
Emperor ot the Fret Ot l •
Ihe Governme/ it of liepover has AsKell thA
Chambers for a vote of
lerenty.fotir thousand &dare,
to be distributed amoi ig the Hanoverian veterans
engaged at Waterloo.
With the Intention et humiliating the King ot
Daly, Oaroinat Antonell .1, in his recent letter on
behalf of the Pope, styisa t Visitor Emmanuel King
of Sardtrla.
The amount of abalntt ‘a dra n k In Park with
fatal awn on the intellect tt onormooe• Swinger
land alone sent lest year 7,50 • 'stow gallons tolParis.
•-• Lord PonSonbra DOW ) "i* whloh ie owning
so much excitement in the ya, lhtlfan world of Sup
land, will not be ready berore t he middle of Altmann
Abbt Guinn) supports the Blshop of tOxford'e
statement that there are seven hundred and tiny
interdicted priests driving aeba I n Parda,
The banisters of the grand s ,s kkaaaa of Baron
Rothschild's new mansion in Piet ntdikY are said to
be made of gold and platinum.
There was reason to believe th at friendly rola-
Rona between Spain and Mill were ahliOlt, brought
to an end for the itresent,
Fever is still very prevalent In Giaagow,
eases having boon reported diming . the Jut fort
night.
The Oporto Indostriei Exhibition Wbe con
struated, dto ST dentinal Polars, of eh Oa and 1r0:11
on the hill of Torre de Karoo.
The great publishing home of Nati, !a Se 00., Of
Tours, established half, a century elms, 010 Ulm
out 16,0e0 volumes per diem.
The Emperor of Austria, having late ll' mad.
an exeursion to Probing, was warmly rec 017 ott el
the Hungarian population.
- 1 Two new theatres are spoken of in Par! one
in the Boulevart Magenta, the other in the 1301 / 10 *
vart du Temple,
Not less than 5,000 photographs of Booth Is the
SSIMBibi have been Bold by one Arm in London.
*Lane land hike been lately sold In the cit TOf
London at the modest BUM Of .700 a MIA
The filet of litiend week In JillY
Parliament will give up the ghost.
King Louis, 01 Bavaria, who has been very tU, '4l
is now said to be much better.
The Russian Ambaesadorte • SeOretary,
Balsa, le now out of danger.
the Corps Leglelatltf, It war understood, would
break up early In June.
M, do POTOIgny hap lately made acme wonderful
ditcoverles at Pompon,
FOREIGN ART ITEMS.
Rom Bonhenr, through the great price that
her paintings command, has become one of the rioh•
mit Renton
Miss Earrlei Homer It now mingled to
malting a design for a bronze door for the castle of
an English nobleman.
The make of the late David Roberts, the
EBBW& it caubtalelea, have been producing' large
prmea at the mile by anatiOn of hie remaining
pattitlogp and Aketehes,
In the Dublin International Exhlbitlen two
Amerloan artists carried amity therm namely,
Miss Roomer and Mr. Storey. T tar prodnotlone
of statuary were the theme of universal adml.
ration. •
A number of American &Meta have pletures
in this year's exposition In Parte, Shay has only
ove—a fine portrait of Kr. Richard IC Hoe, of
New York Shay has lately returned from a tour
in Italy, with renewed art insplrailoos. Ile is now
engapea on several new plotures, but did not ar.
lire in time to Man them for the expoatttnn,
ladyertist, Mtge Gyve, of New York, exhibits two
admirable orayona—e portrait of Sire, titgelow,
wife of our minister In Pane, and a portrait of
Mr. B, of paittornia. Marshall, of New
York. has a fine engraving Of Washington, Wood
bury Langdon, two sea views (oil paintings), a aim.
Bet and a storm, of high finish,
Louie Lang is engaged on a paStoral Boone,
taken In Irwinsvilla county, Georgia. It is in tt. ,
aatimer Or eanraientt a *amber of
courtly personages disporting tnoseseeme In rural
disguises.
-The sale of the paintings, &ketches, and draw.
lugs forming the studio of the late H, Flandrin, the
eminent painter, took place yesterday, by &notion,
in Paris. The attendance was not numerous, bat
select, and the bidding!' spirited, most of the f Ota
having fetched high prises.
very rare cameo was found by a child lately
at Pompeii, whisky ou aoooUrit of its unique cneseo
ter and value_ has been placed in the Hell
Motion of the Illtdetiniat Naples,
the Baez Canal.
French capital and enterprise are carrying out the
project of the Sues canal. In 1854 K. De Lessees '
the originator and conductor of the undertaking,
obtained a firma. from Mahammed Said, then Vie*
toy of Egypt, which authorized him to form a corn.
parry under the title of "The Universal Suez Kart
time Canal Company," for timpurpme or reopening
the anolont canal,, or, shOilid it be deemed MOM ad.
• visable, of cutting an entirely new oanal dire*
through the isthmus. The latter was the scheme
detetmined •on, and for ten years the indefatigable
Frenchman has persevered in his work, despite the
opposition and intrigues of England, until now the
canal Is so far complete that vassals of thirty tons
burden can navigate it from sea to sea.
To witness the partial MOMS of his enterprise,
and to convince the world of its feasibility, Irl. de
Lessens invited the nations and commercial asso
ciations of Europe and the United States to send
representatives to Egypt. The invitation was gene
rally accepted, and on the fith of April eighty gen
tlemen assembled at Alexandria and proceeded to
leaped the stuperafitilit undertaking, From Alex.
audrla., the company journeyed to Post Said, the
inlet of the waters of the Mediterranean, Whenoo
they milieu nit the canal to Suez.
The oanal fa about one hundred English Mlles lit
length, and when finished will have a width at the
water-line of three hundred and thirty feet, with a
depth which will enable the largest vessels to pass
through it. At each terminus there will be a light.
house, a basin several hundred metres square, and
jetties projecting into the sea. The northern light
house, basin and jetties are already almost
completed. A vast number of native laborers
are conetantly employed In the work of axes.
vatlon and embanking, aided by dredgeS and
other machines oomiziodly used by modern engi
neers in hydraulic operations. K. De tesseps is
confident that the canal will be finished by the let
Of Rowse, and the delegates are unanimously of
opinion that its oompletibil 18 a mere question of,
time and money. Hence, we may conclude that
the practicability of the enterprise is lid longer
doubtful, and that within a very few years this new
commercial highway will be thrown open to the
traders of the 'World.
The benefits of this great undertaking eannot be
over estimated. The canal Will shorten by nearly
ots.half the distance between India and the prized.
pal ports of Europe and the United States, and will
Change the whole course of trade between the East.
and the West; and, as distance MHO, commerce
will proportionately increase. Freights will decline
In rate; the costly and coveted productions of
the Oriental peninsula will become obtainable , at
'prices of which we Can now hardly form a 'neap-
DOM for it It only India which will be thud
brought into proximity With the Western world,' for
Areas, Patna, the kingdoms of Africa, the Asian
archipelago Australia, China, and Japan, will
likewise be ' thrown open, In time to the enterprise
and industry of the West, and the irmineral and ag
ricultural tithes will reward the risk and toile Of
commercial adventure.
From first to last England has been inveterately
hostile to this enterprise, and has endeavored by
every ungenerous device to thwart its execution.
It was altogether a French effort, and nothing
could convince England that France wee not led
to patronize it by some other motive than a desire
to promote the commercial interests of nations.
She seems, In fact, to have fancied that her rival
favdttil the work kooonooi the event of. war, It
teem 10110 a OQlLVeMfent h ghway for the ErtilloPttr•
tation of :troops to India, and thence Jetuped to
the ceeelueion that it would tend to weaken the
British hold upon the great Oriental dependency.
The means of the undertaking, notwithstanding
ibis opposition, is now certain, and mutthe looked
On se "a heav y blow and great discouragement" to
that aspiring Power.
IMPROVING A "SLOW" Dlneralt,-,at the opening
of some fall way In the south of France, there was a
very grand banquet to complete the Ceremony, at
which the general commanding the district, sundry
pm cots, and other big men, wore present, fast
after the usual loyal toasts had been drunk, a young .
reporter of the Figaro, (midway no respecter o f
persons, leaped up and cried, " say, gentlemen,
this Is ;Mitt Blow ; 1,11 sing a song,” ' whloh he at
once proceeded to do, to the., Theresa's immortal
melody of "Rein Welt macre pour no sapeur.l/
There was yet once dreadful. oonfnalon ; mayors and
police direetorti shouted Turn him out 1 ,, while
the guests at the lower ORO Of the table, VW were
not ettletal, cried out t osa, try
ao oh ;
three power the gentle:mull King?) 11 a trywn bolt the power
of killing, the young, naval must ham dropped
down before the horsehoe eyebrows of Generai
G us o n o g n
a nbyu t n b u e m b d e id r n o 't
r . cyaernet,a h!o and s ntth e o r ex l empo
that all the big men, se the Incas °all theol,OUlt
ted the field n a slow and stately manner, and
left It to the jolly, doge, who made a, ragtag night
of It.
Fern TN Fizacouar on' 441.9. Nash 0011STITIntow.
—The St. Lords DarioOM Or Wednesday has the.
following return of the vote In St. LotliS On the POW
constitution :re favor 4,250; ongosed, S,Sso., Markle
P. Johnson, Radical, i s electaa to the LeghilAttlfes,
receiving 0,032 voter,
The Democrat insists that, dialoyal men and rebels
perjured themselves by thousands, to be enabled to
oast a vote against thy, ilOnatttution ; and: atm
charges that the. Federal °Moe-holders gay* ,theit
!nannies against it. 'Elle paper does not giro the
result but declares all follows I
" We do not drspatr of the result In the State.
Ws are satiehed MistOnti IS both free and loyal, and.
has so dodged by ratifying the new constitution,
"Returns frond the interior are let meagre, bat
11111088 all our information is grossly untenable, the
msjorltv In this sky and county win Mkessily over.
co me. The soldlers seem to ita 4 re gone, almost to a
man, In favor of the new onstitiltion, and thole
vote will be large, and when retnyned will be
counted and not rejected, as was the base when the
tionservatives and Copperheads were in power at
Jefferson Qty."
D/SAPPOSIMMIXT ;4 Liovas,--A.Weide was re.
oently committed try a young woman employed as
saleswoman in a shop In the Rue de Riven Paris.
Before lighting a pan of oharoool, with whioh she
put au end to her existenea, atm had decorated her
seem with Bowers, and then dimmed hermit in white.
Whsti fcund, She was /Ong On her had, her tutdde
folded on her breast, end her eetintenanOb DOISTIng
a look to placid that she might ha va been supposed
to be sleeping. She had written a letter to her mo
ther, asking for forgiveness, and stating the motive:
which had prompted her to ontototh