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THURSDAY, JUN IL f,'2, 1865.
THE NIW-.
tary court for the
Yeatefday'll moon of the will
dal of the allege.: ss-usoiratord rat otampl-d with
he reading of ills srechc: in defence by um
.1 for Payne A verott, and ;lire. 4 uratt,
r, poster, the e, uesel for Payne, opens his att
.ress with some dcprtearing remarks concerning
.0 wurc'er, and thcn gives a. history of the min
navy Join - nate have striven to melte reinstks
me, by
. Flittbg his antecedents with a trammed
„? air of mete dramatiO mystery. He traces the
; •fsci er 11 , :in hie birth. His father was a
minister In Florida. Thromiti all the
es of hie eirl art) military site, setehes
t , 1 8N:filar circumstances thrice which he
,ensme an accomplice In the conspiracy, eon.
• 0 81h6 that a spseles of " mesfne.lsw" ft.stned for
13 ,01 1 a mastery ever the mind of his client, and
foes frtm the I;_cts thus devotees& big moo as
.tntsbitivy to punishment. Necessity, It is insisted,
ibrost l'ayre Ir to the conspiracy ; and, after alt, he
did bolting Meer than commit an asesuit and eat
ery with t to Every rehel soldier,
from Jeff Davis smi Robert H. Lee down to
,to m eanest pnvace it the Talr4ed hordes, wag
as guilty as Payne, ter they all alined at Wilda.
hie lives, and tte lite of the ornetry„too. Sedg whiz,
:nd Lyon, and and Kearney had been hulled
.s rebel muskets Thsy were corps eattimanders,
nd Pnyt e escrened the rebel soldiers tu alor
,g higher—in ai minx at the lives of our depertmont
hies- our U•inin*t., and our Pre:Went. Mr. Duster
optioned in this inkentoue way, adducing other
, eas e l 's tor the acquittal of his Client, Including
°Duman's, etc, Aker a recess, the same cones&
lerroOrd Atzrt•tt, We:Marti:lg a stwtematm fr4La hta
lint to tha effrot that h 0 Wa6 a party to
,e plot to ca, urD, bat not to the pint to
, tidal' the Presidert,„ The evidence for the press.
Mtn was reVieovegi and controverted, and tome Of
t asserted to be"fabricated." A theory was ad
arced in favor of the prisoner, and supported by
any paints and sDietences. The argument for
ars, Swett was offered by Mr. Aiken, who spoke
weeknega ae a WOMB, and the honor and,
espeet due bet therefor, and enured the court of
.ta profound Imhof in her lunoceuee. The arra- ,
, slat was of the clumsier of an appeal, which toad
at its MUM wink 'be assertion of the entire AO
.tree of erirbintitti,g evidence. •
•
Ilufho la dead j no who 'shred the flrit ,
un on Fort Sumpter ;', and—awful retribution —is
, cad, i.o, by his own hand, On Sitarday 1114 t he
,lou out his bralua, at his home In Alagoas, kninia,
,aunty, almat or the yen spot 07J which the rebel
, 12'war in Vieginia, and over the waelo Confess
-0(0, Meted, was crushed by the blows of our
tin Ately of Hie POZOMIIe under Geo. Grant.
020 1110 bons IA ne2llloo county, Va., we are la.
armed, In lisp, 1;94. making •his age now over
trehti year& Lip to the breaking ent of the Ve
eblen he did not appear very • prombently In
except through the columns of agriaultn
ii Lowsmers ; but when the first mutterings of
reason alaimec tie conoiry, he became, Is far as
Is age and cm:abilities admitted, attractive partici-
Ann in the aiinfrale. In the Words of the Peters.
erg EXpress:
"He has been so closely Identified With the atm
•le et tie South as an mace participant and 3
BM and earnest vindloater of her claims tar a
erarste rationality, that he seems to hive boon
it Flared Tither as a Citizen of the S mai than as
, tiotglng to any one particular locality."
He ion an hie Or=toarty by the war, and this seems
o hate embit:ered him, though be found a oozy and
i,u,tortable borne in Atnella sanity, Va.
. . .
- 2trkTige StPTV CHUM to it from Havant. We
,Te t o ld that Iteedclanege, several rebel offsets,
-DA a negro arrived at Catdenal on the llih, in an
Ton boat. It 15 opposed that they yol aged all the
ey irom some {mint on the Florida coast. If VAS
bratlEe be true, the runaway and Ma followers
ace sailed across taa %smile exi.ent .of the Galf—a
ortaoce fror: the nearest point on the Floria.
Gast (Cape Sable to Cardenas) of one hundred and
.11y miles, It is prah:Lblo. however, that some sail.
s teasel carried Meru to some point of the °ulna
ugh: lend, - 0.„4-7C they took to an Open boat, In
Oder to avald onj of oar CritiserB VW might he
'Went)? patrolling a. - od watehlag the 00aSt, They
rre taken irrm Cardenas so Bonilla by a Spanish
;beer, who was charged to 'present them to the
'aotain General. rills getitlemen seems to be In
svor with Ma subjects. Indeavors have been made
d:rplace him, but some••)1: the citizens of Hsvaos ,
I,d Cuba at icrge Lave petitioned Spain to Con-
roue him.
South CALToiiali. and Cieorgla are rapidly svlju3t
themetsivet tte Lew Oondttleu 131„11-
, eOll3 beginzitg ca at{aht attract the Olt:batten cd
e people ; the Cleft leaghittaoY, hYOk 9l / UP by cw)
usual conoiti , qa of 30(4.1 Stateß during the war,
as been reorg,tostd, awd the authority of the
7 rden everywhere recognized. Savannah, the 10 le
g city of Gotrg ia, under General Woodford, is
ant bworning what . it %cal hedera the war. Through.
,nt the :state agriculture it looking up, rod good
tops and erpected In the oozing autumn. Some of
he prothlueht :ohels of the Sate are now Gaulle?"
wing their appsatance. Howell Cobb. the Dia
.nt orator here Is; 511. h. In the Buchanan caw pai4n,
.tul afterwards the blatant and harihiees general In
be rebel service, is its btatU emo In Mason, where he
bpoaas, but not rte AMY Mtlteld he WO ?Wand during.
he war. 131.010711 E W. Smith 12 also /e the ii4eie
hp. The AsSualated Press Lelia ue he WAS last
ten on the Streks fl the oily. This man was before
he war a New York city °Metal, bat Ms attraction
as the South and her canoe—let him make what
e can from his ••• affinity." The former slaves In
wig% accent the uelf order of things, and are
.ow working willingly and :adustrlout•ly for wages.
It Is said that there are a large number of persons
tw In military ehstody in tate State for trivial of.
cores who are men of respectability in their loos
des, and suffer reuniter hazdshipS from their con.
'radiant. GoVenter Gerlla la lateressing hensolf
or them for pati icals MEM, and his efforts bid
air to be successful. There are la the prisons Boat
tied throughout the North many others whom, It
a asserted, it world be welt to release.
'lLere were no Important changes to record in the
Jock market yesterday. Government loans were
, active but firm, 6 20$ selling at the close at 1093 g.
'late aeouxitlea were the Os declined 2.
I :4theads were very cult, Reading, Fennsylvaule,
nd Camden and Amboy remained at previous quo
acne.
The ehgravers Una printers in the Treasury De.
•aitmeet have tucceetted is 13upplylbg, all the 7•ao
Cars that have been 2nboOrfood for. noretofaro
lie work In the Dtpxrtite , ot was SO great that It
• s impossible to lurelett the uotes as rapidly as
try were called for, but this will no longar be the
ate.
lirs. Seward, wife of Vac Secretary of Star, (lied
' n Washington yesterday. Tier remains will be
eken to Aueurn, New York, for Interment, ou
Saturday next. A pr Ter escort will accompany
he remains irom Washington.
It Is reported that the label tfororaor Mirka, of
.I.s.lsaisBlypi, is in oustmtlf.
The 'Union State Convention of Ohio yesterday
• a... Stated Major Goventi J, D. Vox for Governor,
•74'. Hon. A. G - It7tßurnoy lor Meatenent 4.1-
4 , 310 r. Resolutions endorsing the policies of Pre
ide•tta Lincoln and All man's administrations were
~!opted.
Postmaster Genoral Denniscn has written to all
, edmastere reques.ing all of them, who have °colt
-I,d to appoint eloras or other employees, to glee
oter.renoe to disanfrd or wounded soldierS, who
ace beet honora9ly dir'etarged from the 5er;1‘ , .....
A 'do. ooturrel on Staten Island yesterdoy be.
ween Citizena and !•dd , !ata. Three soldiera, One an
.flioer, and two ri , imo , were wounded.
LORIN E. Pazeone ; _ efManama, was yesterday op.
timed KOVlSional a•iivarlauz of that State.
Gayle, the IllabA [elan woo offered a re ward to
Ly porton who would area:ninon President Liu.
oh, and others, was lodged in prison in Washing.
on yeateraaq.
A meeting in Polon re.rierday adopted resrim
• 'ots favoring the &borough reorganization of the
r3ooth ; protetting aualost &fleeing disloyal persons
~, rote, and arguing in savor of giving :he ballot to
~ 3•A persons, regardiese of Color.
lbe Young Christian Association have
eneluded definitely to part:has° POrd'S TiloaLro.
.e sum to be paid is $lOO,OOO,
The work of inteertqc the Uston and rebel dead
the field of Chanocilorsville Is pregtessiov; PLY
h , ly. Headboards are being oreetod over of.,ch.
rave, Captain J. Ai. rdoore, of Washington, his
barge of the matter.
We present this morning additional facts about
he Murder of the Joyce eendrelh 111 ROXDury,
'•larsachnsetts. Two men were arrested In Hamm
"At, yesterday, on sorpiClon of being the mar•
Ti c e rebellion in Hayti is nearly over. The rebels
e said to be decreasing In strength from constant
teats.
uld Mond In New Yak last night at 142,i, and
r call at La.
IRTTER FROM " OCCASIONAto"
other Victim—Death of Mrs. Secretatsy
So:mrard.
WA.s ll l - NcTos, June 21, 1815.
It has been my fortune, since the conva
eence of Mr. Seward, the Secretary of
ate, to pass several most interesting and
emorable evenings in his society. The
-. armful events with which his family
ye been associated, the doable disaster
which he was the victim—firs;,, the ac
ent which nearly deprived him of his
, and, next, the attempt which had
terminat , 2d in his assassination—his
imed and motilated son, suspended, as
were. between life and dea'.h in
adjoining chamber, and the aria
e and accomplished mother of his
ildren prostrated by days and nights
incessant anxiety and watching—
tatilaited to make his eonvereations
11 ' 112 - 11 Y solemn and impressive. it
imPe:.lble to •convey the emotions eic
ted by this wonderful man, as, still
&ring from his injuries, yet keenly alive
bis great public responsibilities, and to
stupendous complications that sue-
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VOL. 8.-NO. 279,
Is eroded the administration of the Go
vernment, be dwelt upon the incidents of
the terrible tragedy of the 14th of April;
the virtues of our slaughtered President ;
the varied duties of the patriot.; the dawn
ing prospects of the rescued nepublic ; the
vindication of those principles of which, in
his controversies with other nations, he
was the moat conspicuous defender and
apostle and the fitness, the unselffeh
ness, and the high-touted devotion of
of the new Chief Magistrate. It seem
ed as it; when thrown upon what ap
peered to he the bed of death—when he
could scarcely speak, or eat, or sleep; Pro
vidence bad so purified as almost to inspire
his mighty intellect. As gradually and
aintosi imperceptibly the physical frame of
the veteran statesman reSponded, to the
skill of the surgeon and the grateful atten
lien of his family and friends, his brain
began to operate ; and so for days and
weeks he trained his reflections and classi
fied his duties, and prepared himself for
those new and greater labors which
he felt would succeed his restoration to
health. And when he was able to move,
and to articulate, he surprised all who
crow& d to his couch, by the simplicity,
the breadth, the vigor, and the compre
hensiveness of his views. Mr. Seward
has al ways been distinguished for his
colloquial powers. Acute, philosophical,
and felicitous in his discussions and de
lineatiens of doctrines and of men, his
epeeebes and his essays have been models
of composition and of thought. /flat never
before, not even in the buoyancy of high
health and in the excitement of debate,
has he more signally displayed those rare
gifts, with which above most men he
is so bountifully possessed, as during
the hours which succeeded hia long and
lingering sufferings, and his happy en
trance upon what promised to be a new,
and if possible, a more honorable public
duty. It is not many evenings ago, since
seated by his side, and listening to his sug
gestions, tiurgeon General Barnes entered
his parlor and told him, in a low voice, that
Mrs. Seward had had a long and pleasant
sleep, and that reasonable hopes might
now be entertained of her recovery.
"Alt I" he said, "Dr. Barnes, that is good
news indeed ; I now feel as if the wing of
the angel of death bad been lifted, and as
if this was to be once more a happy and
healthful household." And then he told us
what a sad procession it would have been, if
be had been called, in his broken condition,
to leave his suffering boy behind, and to
accompany the remains of his true and
beloved wife to the family cemetery at
Auburn, New York. Under the influence
of the good tidings, he dilated anew upon
the bright prospects of the country, clear
ing away many of the doubts that trouble
the minds of statesmen, offering sugges
tions of priceless value for the discussion of
the difficult questions of the hour, and pre
dicting the brightest future for the people
of a restored Union. I shall, never forget
these words, nor the manner in which he
uttered them ; " Time alone is neces
sary to heal our wounds. These South
ern people will come back in peace,
and in, obedience. They have been de
feated by the ballot-box and on the battle
field. Having resisted the one and resorted
to the other, they are now left completely
prostrate ; and in this condition they have
neither interest nor real inclination to re
new a conflict which has only brought beg
gary to their households, destruction to
their favorite institution, and ruin to their
colossal fortunes. On OUT part, having
proved our strength, it is right that we
should now prove our wisdom. Patience,
forbearance, magnanimity—these are the
instrumentalities which, backed by un
limited and unexampled strength, will
re-establish the Republic on enduring foun
dations." Under the influence of such
feelings, and strengthened with such
hopes, Mr. Sewat d proceeded to the ad
ministration of the duties of his great
office. His return to his department was
welcomed by men of all parties. He had
no rivals, no critics now. His former ene
mies hastened to tender their congratula
tions. The foreign ministers came to offer
their best wishes for his welfare, and every
member of the Government, from the
President to the humblest officer, deemed
it a pleasure to greet his appearance is
the position he has filled with such unchal
lenged ability. But the hope that Mrs.
Seward Might be saved, has been disap
pointed. This morning, about ten o'clock,
she breathed her last ; and, as I write,- the
• sad intelligence is being sent over the wires.
Mrs. Frances Adeline Seward was the
youngest daughter of Judge Miller, of Au
burn, New York, and was married to the
Secretary. of State in - 182,4. She was a lady
of rare amiability, intelligence, and piety.
Never in very strong health, the tragedy of
the 14th of April reacted upon a nervous
temperament. Affecting those who were
nearest and dearest to her, it taxed and
shattered her feeble energies, until ftally,
when they who were most severely struck
are gradually coming back to life, she is
called away. Another victim of that infer
nal spirit which deprived the nation of its
chief I OCCASIONAL.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, TERM 21.
DEATH OP 214115. W. H. SEMARD--WH6'N meat
OBSEQUIES WILL BE BOLVANTZ SD-THE
HONORS.
Mrs. Secretary SEWARD died this morning at ten
d'olook, of 111ness cati.od by ears and exertion for
her fatally Orme the terrible night of April blitt.
Ste: was a reont estimable °MIEN= lady, and ter
Inv:peered death Is a hard blow to an already
deeply stricken family.
Isar remains are to be embq,lmsd and taken to
Auburn. The State Department is dosed in (limn
nuance of the death. The family have been called
upon today by distinguished officials, to tender
slwpathtos.
The funeral Services of Mrs. WK. H. &MAIL°,
WM of the r.ocrotary of state, who died here to
day, Will Like ?lace at St. Pater's Ohara, AU
burr, Now York, her late home, on Saturday mitt,
at three P. M. Her remains will leave Washing
ton In a speolai train on Thursday.
The Secretary of War Iws designated Major
fioneral lierrotltm and staff, and the Surgeon
General has detailed Major Itounts, U. S. A., one
of the physicians who attended the Secretary of
State during his 'recent illness, to accompany the
eoretary to Auburn.
BETEN-THIRTY NOTICE.
The engravers and printers of the third and last
series of Bevan•thirty notes have to.day completed
their deliveries of all orders reosived at the Trea
sury DelifirfMent to date, and berm :Star there will
be no delay in detpatotting the notes to the sabecri•
here to the loan, The orders received on the
morn
log el each day will be filled by the evening express
shipments of the Santo day. Thus an obstacle in the
way of the popular 6eteand for the third series Is
removed, aid in anticipation of this event the daily
Fubeerfptions already Chew a gratifying increase.
About $14v,000 of the loan remain unsold. The sales
of thiti and the next week, at the current daily rate,
will leave less than half or the series to be disposed
J. The WOO, in all previous Wane negotiated
through the pOpular•ngenoy system, authorizes
the anticipation that the subscription of the last
half of this last loan will be very mach more rapid
than that of the Met half. A heavy daily increase
In subscriptions is therefore confidently expected by
the lean agents. The abundance of loose capital
suddenly withdrawn from active employment by
the eeriest:on of large Government operations con
netted with the late war eneouragee this expecta
tion.
FROMM OF TUE TRIAL OF THE ALLEGED
==!
Mr. Ex ING will, on Friday afterdoan, meant Lie
argument in behalf of Dr. DiIIDD, and this will Con•
elude all that fa to be acid in defence of the prison
ers. The arguments t the counsel for each of the
accused are generally Conceded to possess much
legal and literary ability. Thlt of Mr, .A.ilag to
day was liztened to 14 a largo eaditory, and. the ap
peal Ir. behalf aids Mont. RIM SURATT, was more
than ordinarily eloquentland touching. The amid
have given every facility to the counsel for the de
:sate in the procurement of wltnessaa and have
sheen them Marked personal attention. As a gene
ml thing, the court have granted all that counsel
have risked tor, and througnout the trial good feel•
log and courtesy have prevailed. The court will
exalt... Rue one or two witnesses on Friday, and. after
the argument of Dir. Ewrao shall have been read,
Will probably adjourn until early next week, when
Asslotant Judo Advocate 1-lizeonalu will, it to ex
pected, sum up the facts lox the GeV:IMMO. BY
re , ft6l6ll of the ..ierertitry of War, MAW NVESACI`
Fine bra, perMltteit to keep tier mother ontdp*.ny,
alia H 1631 (001', 019119 X to lien feeble 000fiRlot,
beAn TOMtVed from heY cell to a oomfortatilarlionir
ID the penitentiary.
PROVIhtaNAL GOVERNOR POE ALABAMA
The President has Issued' has p•qcl-imation
I.nintlisg Lawrs E. PARAorte, of Alabams,
sional Governo? of Alabama. It to to the SAnla
f..rm, precisely, so tie proolaMations previously
Issued for the appointment of Gofer!lore for the late
rebel States.
INCITING TriTHS AGGELeanuOrroG...
A lawyer, named (3arLe, hetooisieg le Alabama,
Las been brartaht here and lodged 10 urhroi. He 13
j,he author of the advertisement n 101141,4 In the
lma LititY7llBfr, last winter, calling for 0943 mil•
11011 dollars to bare peace by the let of. Alreett, by
taking the lives of Anastrara LINOOLN, WILLIAM
H. Sat:reap, and AND 610,7 50EINSON.
THE TRIAL OF JRFF DAVIS.
Tbere fe es yet no decision se to woere and when
.11;//rimeor 13.,kvis 18 to be tried.
FIN& /N AL/MANDELA.
The store-house of the Sanitary Comaslgeloa,l72
Aiexardria, was entirely destroyed by fire tals
ibtarai:g. It was a large frame bulidlng,
near the (barge and Alexandria RAUrolti depot.
PURCHASE OF FORD'S THEATRE.
The Young alen'e Ohristian Saa , ,bolatloa have
el4.*ed fhelPtrantaotton for the plateaus of Fouela
Theatre, fur the Entn of one Onddred thousand 441-
lays. Several church organ:caions had been la
treaty for It,
Tun ASSISTANT SU/MT/LW.OF TEE
TEZAStIitY.
Mr. OHAVIMBE, the recenilp•appointed Asnotant
Secretary of the Treasury, has taken the place of
Mr. Ffslip, and not that of Mr. Hannlncirox,
whoa successor has not yet been appointed.
PERSONAL.
Mosby has been an app4oant for pardon and
parole at Lynohbarg, but didn't get it, bemuse our
UCYorianasat. 4rShialB Were had no Wen tee; Re de
straw it. .i.lecome to the oity. but was ordered out,
oroause he had %safeguard, and has not been heard
of sine..
Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, who was at
Beaufort, S. R., when Oolonel Pritchard made his
report resistive to the capture of Davis, says that
neither Pritchard nor Gilimore said anything there
about the feminine dress of Davis. Ile ached imam
both about the Capture, and, neither of them said
anything about the particular attire.
General John U. Fremont is In WashingtOM on
private business it Is said.
The Richmond Republic, of the 19th, speaking
of the re.oaptare of Leek Turner, Mentioned yester
day, asps: "Be was taken at his own house, on
Union Hill, between one and two o'clock yesterday
morning, by some of the provost guard and a de
tadnatnt Sent specially to arrest him. He was
Haping with his wife, it is said, with three pistols
libeler his head, but he bad time to use neither of ids
weapons. It appears Turner matt the City after
his escape, bat returned in disguise, and has Musa
been secreted at home. HIS presence was de.
tooted by his clothing, whisk was sent out to wash
with his name upon some of the pieces. HIS viiiiii
erwoman betrayed him,
POLITICAL
DOINGS OP THE • 10 00 VIC I
Clintanicreri, June 21.—The Onto State Union
Convention Inet at 001nozbus today. General W.
B. Woods was elected president, and Win. Bevis
secretary of the Convention. General J. 1). Cis
was nominated for Governor by acclamation. A. G.
illcßurney, of 'Warren, Lieutenant Governor, Hon.
L. S. Warren, of Lorain, Treasurer; J. Brinokor•
heff, :attorney General; James Blom, Board of
Public Works; Lieutenant Rodney, Clerk of the
Supreme COnrt,
The Vonvevtion passed resolutions giving God
thanks for the overthrow of the Motile%
and lamenting the cruel death of President
Lincoln, and endorsing the policy of Andrea'
Johnson's Administration ; that four years of san
{Mihaly war have demonstrated that slavery and
its Institutions are irrevocably opposed to freedom
and free institutions, and that while we ate anxious
for the early reconstruction of fraternal relations
with the insurgent States, we demand lt, shall ye
upon each terms as will give assurances of peace
and security to loyal people and prosperity to the
Federal Union,
THE ADVERTISER FOR THE PRESI-
DEN VS MIJRUPER.
Ills Arrest and the AavertNement Ile
kvh.ished —.Description of the Vet
kteward Intended Ofity as a
Our Washington despatches announce the arrest
of Offdle, thn puma whq is said' to have proposed,
through a Selma (A.labomt.) paper, a reward Of
•1.,000,000 for the murder 'of the late President. For
the information of our readers we republish his ad.
sertisement.
Oise MILLION DOLLAIIe WANTSLI, TO HAVE
PIL!,011 BY TBn leT the citizens of
the Southern Confederacy will Wotan me with tee
oash, or good security to the sum of one million
collars, I will cause the lives ef Abraham Lincoln,
William li. Seward, and Andrew Johnson to ba
taken by the Ist or &area next. This will give as
peace, and satiety the world teat cruel tyrants can•
Lot live in a " land of liberty." If this is nut to
cimaplished, nothing will be claimed beyond the
cum of fifty thousand dollars, in advance, which is
supposed to be necessary to roach and slaughter the
three Viltaine.
I will give, myself, one thonand dollars towaroe
this patriotic purpose. Every one witting to con
tribute will address Box X , Cahairbl, IllaDente.
December 1, 1864.
His personnel is thus described : "He belongs in
(Jahawba, Alabama, tee miles distant from Selma;
is a tail, rawboned individnel, coarse features, well
bronzed with the Southern olimate. He is dressed
In light-gray pants, butternut-colored coat, over
which is a linen garment, and wears a well•battered
black stovepipe hat. Mr. Gayle appears to be about
Party-five years of age, and has gray, hawk like eyes,
with strongly marked "crow's-feet" to their corners.
He says it la his Intention to secure the ear vices
01 Hen. Rrirerily Johnson and Jae. T. Bratty for
his defence. To passengers on the steamer he ad.
raided .that he carried the advertisement to the
Selma papers, but also made the absurd statement
that he did it In sport—for the sake of playing a
joke upon the community. Gayle was accom
panied by two printers from Selma, who will appear
as witnesses on his trial.
THE SOUTHWEST.
ReportedArrPst ttte (governor of Nig,
sik . gipit--16ivueral Aews.
CAIRO, Jane 21.—Gov. Clarke, of 11TmsisAppi, is
reported to have passed through Meridian under
a military escort OD Friday last.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad is reported com
pleted to Corinth, and the southern road will soon
oc completed to - Vicksburg.
Two hundred halos of Cotton and a lot of menu
featured tobacco came out of the Tennessee river
to-day.
HARRISBURGI
VEIEDNBIO3 CONFINED IN THB STATE—GOVBENCH
CURTIN INTBRD'aTBD IN 'M EM
RARRISBIETRG, June 21.—At this and other mill.
tars posts through the State there are a largo
num
her of persons in custody of the military autitornies,
charged with various offenses. Many of those tints
held are men of respectability In their lo3alities,
men of business, who suffer peculiar hardship in
being time detained, and Who have been anxiously
.vrAting e. trial. Governor Ourtin has been making
the moat Strenuous efforts to have the eases of these
State prisoners brought before the proper anti:Lori.
ties, that they may either be punished it guilty, or
be Immediately set at liberty if innocent. The Go.
vernmsnt at Washington has been releasing a large
number of prisoners held In the South, as well as
sending home scores of others confined in the dlit.
r rent forts of the North. With these facts before
the public, it- is deemed no more than right that the
prisoners held at the various posts in this and other
states, charged with trivial military offences,
should at once be set at liberty. The ohjsot of Gov.
Curtin in urging this matter Is to save the national
arothorities from being misjudged by the Northern
masses, and to prove the good sense of the policy of
acting with magnanimity towards the erring, igno
rant won of the North, as well as the same class in
the South.
Illteettug in Boston.
OPINIONS OP BONE OF THE PRO/MN—THE REOR-
OsSIZATION OF TSB REPICL STAT/IS—StIFPBAGS
FOR COLORED PROPLIS
ROSTOV, June 21.—At a meeting at Fazieuil Keg
resolutions were adopted declaring that the work
of reOrgahlzlng the government and society in the
tehel States requires of the legislative and Men
tive departments of the Government the Moot de
liberate exerzlse of their powers of statoomanehip,
and that it le far more important that the task
shall be performed well than quickly, and deolsr-
Mg, also, that it le essential for the liberty of our
Government that none be allowed to vale who are
not logs], and that none should be excluded from
voting because of rano or color, and expressing con
&lance that :President Johnson will carry oat the
great work for which President Lincoln laid down
his life. A ectunnittee or nine was appointed to
prepare an address to the people of the United
States, urging upon them the necessity of reorga
nizing the rebel States upon just and correct prin.
Mplee.
Judicial.
WILLIAIMPOET, June 21.—The rutted States
Circuit Court for the Western Distriot of Pennsyl
vania is now In session here. The Pittsburg and
Connelsville 'Railroad, vg. the Southern Pennsyl
yard& Railroad Is now being argued. Among the
Canheel are Reverdy Johnson and Latrobe, of Balti.
mom Muth Interest to manifested in the OaSe.
The New York. Pate letre Department.
Armrair, June 21.—1 n the Court of Appeals this
morning, a declaim was rendered reversing the de
cision of the general term, and snstalning the law
creating a Metropolitan Fire Commission.
Soiling of the Africa..
Bovrow, June 21.—The Antis sailed this morn•
!lig, with sixteen passengers for liartfax and eighty
81r. ior Liverpecl. She tales ea no Svenle.
Slstp
Boamota Tone 21.-11rr1vc , :, "United States steam•
er Tloga. Licit. Commander Whiting-. sh a be ,
tits.tioned bete for the reeeptlon of efilltited naval
apprentic.es.
Arrived bark C. S. Rosenberg, Toledo; brig Pro•
tege, SbguEt.; egooner .10 F. Whoaler, ClardcArts.
PHIT,ADELPTITA. TITURSDAN, JUNE 2 , 2, i 866.
SotiTti CIRO!.INA AND GEOKOIt,
REOPWrilidgatren a b. Me The
Spirit of the lyegrOolt—Tho eropm—
*ito_yrenborzas of t 'mem& Itebels
14.2r1v TOPA. Tom, ar —The Armor has &Mud
if , sod met/lees of Juno fath. The S:.•
vtalnah tiered ooltaine no news of fraortanoe
frcm that olty. A Nigel number of orders relative
to the pOliee, edneatioral, and other rewuisMons of
the citrate 'lamed by Colonel Woodford% Howell
Ce;bb 1r mated to be at hobo, Georgia.
-t•nortS are favorable of the lacewing wheat and
corvcropm.
'rhe'Augasta Gazerte Bays - eke local anthorltleS of
the aijacnut towns and Vitloges have qw.titied
then:strives N.O. thcir t•fflces, and everything Is ner
monipue., The nearres are acing. back to their for
mer' ownors, to work for wishes; and fanning Into•
rests are promising. Guscavos smith, a reatg.ele
New 'Yorker, ano late a general , he the rebel army,
hoe not beet arrested, as reporsad,.bat was on tae
streets of IViantn. on the 9th inst.
Conventions' have been held IPf various counties'
Gf Georgia, wo o l, mt.Aut100.,...,4.0.1.4i g ing the
laws and antbrdr.l ten Vatted Stites, srbr6
pasted, and xvilinesting the President to appata% a
Provisi , Jnal Govertor until ,a 'reorganization fa
effected.
An Interesting letter from Obarlestnt, under date
of June Mt, give,l . pA POlne Items ti - re,tard to the
present Haws cf that State and Its °Mimes.
A commutate of Miaow; have started' me Washing
ton, baking for the appointment of Itk-Governea,
Aiken as Provisional Governor of the State.
The 00111M1Ltoo pr, poi , e, sbould the 'President M.
rerpcSe 00jvctloo8 to the uppilGtanOnt Of air Aiken;
To nett; lon for the appointment, of General Gurney,
who has expressed Ms intention to heoornea
of Charleston, and make Muth Carolina his future
home.
MORTALITY AMMO THE IPEGROBEN
AcCording to I i e , eoorteof the wart eownelttees
lately , organized bl Genetsd aarney, the mortgilzi
Nruovg the ilewees fn tuft city le per leeti y (awful.
The deaths among them are reported to.werage
One bemired per week, beet wfak ninety-one
0 - 0 . (10 of DmfcroeB ware &bomb reported, and the
week piorvioYS one hundroo agven.
aim tusry List is most oftlea, AIM it
is but right that the inattor penile. the
mortellif on the Wands exceeds anytakig °Vet
tnown in the history of tut. comtry.
IthV ot4TANT ROBOLS rtaTIMTITIG.
Among the more prominent (citizens who. have
oome hack are Hon. Win. Alston PrioglN Judge of
the tnty Court; his brother, Matte A. erbrele, chief
Waaroarensetar the rebel troops- around I:harms
:on ; Theo. B. Wagner, a Cllflntanou atemioo of the
house of -RAID Fraser &Co J. Ed- Haowell, one of
the ablest lawyers of the Charieeton bar ; James H.
Taylor aid R A. Pringle, two of the principal Mae
ttoneers, who made vas: fOrfULLOOlolling meet block.
ace mouths, and air. William Gregg, proprietor of
the Gratdeville Mille.
Dir. Wagner, wee wan the mere busliceSS supsvin•
tenoent of the notorious house of John Frafier &
bavlrg nothing to do wh te polities, was the
prince of generosity and benevolence in the dOrD•oo,
rutty during the siege. Besides , lartahlug money
alhOng all who sought his aectetance, he gave carte
Olantlie to tne ' , Asters of Charity and the revel ere
vest MaTebal Gayer to draw upon htm for any inede
to relieve the Union prisoners When Confined in
Charleston. He Is now reduced to almost Oak:tory,
but nos zaken the oath of allegiancoand gone cheer
luny to wroth. General Hatch at trot sent f.,r him
and would have placed him in jail. bat, on tile ap•
peals and representations !TOM Union °Mears, old
Union men of the city, the Sisters of Charity, and
the pool generally, he will not Interfere with him.
Mr. Gregg informs me that Richard Tad in, Ege
the celebrated laudater of the lamented Everett,
and author of a reward of ten thousand dollars for
Butler's head, is living in abject poverty at &dim.
S. C. He bee taken the oath, and has repented of
the act, which be p0y..4 was the most foolish of his
Itfe—done in a moment Of MUSLIM,
THE Barna. SZOtrasTAILY OS TEM TH.BeEll7Or.
The Courier of Thursday announces the arrest,
areival. and inearcera , lon there of the rebel Secre
tary of the Treasury, Trentedue
Fifm what I learn, he was caught as Paddy
caught the Tartar ; the Teeter• would not let Mai
get away. The story goes thet,aa soon as Celumeie
was garrisoned by the 25ttiOnlo e tiolonel flauenton,
TrtilhOiM went there, arid settled down alongside
the commandant's headquarters, in front ot the
palette ground, and reported to tom ate rel.:line:3s to
report at any moment he might be direeted. Ho then
led r ft with zeal to carry auto effect the military
eteanolpation orders, and was the first to centraot
eatittactorily with his freedmen—several handfed
in number—not one of whom left him. Treanolm,
before the war, was a gratesal emanelpattentat, and
Lis ready adoption of the Government views and
example in Columbia had a most salutary effam in
that reel en ; env, under Colonel elaughtenewne is
praised by all parties there, the trial will be a fair
one.
This amicable state of affairs was interrupted by
tea order from General Hatch for the arrest of
Telitittele It was etr.oteo by giving rim Dottie
and opportunity for pranareflOrl. The order was
ercenptly obeyed. Tretholse drove linear parole to
Orangeburg In his own cerriege, was reosived with
courtesy by General Hartwell, and proceeded by
railroad to Charleston, where he was placed in jail.
THE RAILROADS.
Daily communioation by railroad between Charles.
ten and Columbia and Augestais expected In about
ten days' time. Presideet diagrath will take full
eteseeslon of the South Carolina Railroad on Ken
day.
COTTON'.
I am reliably informed that there are at leant °Mee
lettered thousand bales 01 Mott= along tide /met
awaiting -transportation.
There is now a delegation of South Carolinians In
Washington. with Inatenetions to represent to Pre ,
Went Johnson the expediency of estaellshing
efficient plan whereby the relations between the
ineatU6D. a the State and their employers, in re
mire to leeetertud Wages, own be saetsfeetortly at.
ranged. several of the gentlemen profess tariff
willingness to award the freedmen they may em
ploy °Deena of their Crops as reovinpeuse for their
labor. They say, however, that unless they heve
some guarantee that Sue labor they may receive at
the hands of the freedmen Is continuous, It will be
of no use commencing crop operations. Another
Idea they entertain is, that ii the tete slaves are
gbcolutely permitted to choose their employers and
occupatioes, they will Inevitably armee core-plant.
log as the easiest, to the greet diminution of the
cotton and rice ordps. Tee members of the dela.
gatiOU frankly say Met they accept - the positioe of
tee abolition of slavery. They declare teat it is
freedom to the white man and not to the negroaa, as
t. e late slaveownars will be released from the many
burdens incident to the institution, which formerly
pressed heavily on them, cramping their energies.
Tbey speak as It they have been relieved of a fright
ful incubus.
The plan they hove to remedy this is as follows:
The (erection of the freedmen's labor to be elder
one moan, sufficiently firm to enforce obedieede to
whatever regoiations may be determined on, and
yet conciliatory enungh to influence the laborers by
tuileeess. That as the portion of South Carolina
which ccatelus its immense rice fields is intersemed
by ineurnerable rivers. interspersed with narrow
belts aleed, the nicemmeet of troops In that nett=
countri .would he impossible.. Hence they era of
feinted/ that a few tugs, say ball a dozen to number,
mew the creetuand of an exuarinord navel officer,
might be advantageously pieced on these waters, se
e. sort of pollee force. for the maintenance of order and
the sieustment of claims between master and Sir
vast, the officer in command being the saperintend
apt et the freedmen.
Already It is reported that the reign of anarchy
has oommenoeo, no less than seven tuatara having
beta perpetrated it, a. shot ttoie by unenciaai slaves
nn their recast owners, through the Influence or n . r.it
teaching. On the contrary, It is represented that
whore mach intintmces have not extended the f-end
pr.opie, as a general rule, are glad to receive their
?miner owners. and In many hiStatc2oB havo even
dieted pecuniary arristanne, to the extent of their
humble, means, to such, as have returned entirely
destitute—and there are many snob.
Important Order
OIECIILAH FROM POSTNASTEB GENEBAL DENNISON
-EMPLOYMENT 808 DISABLED SOLDIERS AND
SEAMEN.
POST °MOB DNPARTIERNT,
WASHINGTON, JIM 19,1865.
To Postmasters
Oevgrees having by joint resolution, approved
March 2, 1865, declared "That persons honerabty
discharged from the military or naval service,
by reason of disability resulting from wounds or
Ficknese incurred in the line- of duty, &Wahl
be preferred for appointments to civil offices, pro.
vidcd they shad be found to possess the business
capseity necessary for the Draper discharge of
the duties or such office," and it being my desire to
carry into adeot as far as practicable, the laudable
purpose of this resolution, it is earoe Ali requested
of au postmasters who have OCICIVIOA to apnotat
clerks or other employer* In their respective offices,
that they Rive the preference to such wounded or
disabled soldiers afro sailors who have beoa honora
bly discharged from the military or naval Service
as are found qualified to perform satisfactorily the
duties of the petitions for which they apply.
W. riniusor, Postmaster General.
The Funeral or the Murdered Joyce
Children.
The funeral services over the bodic) of babel N.
Joyce, and her brother, John S. Joyce, took place
on Tuesday morning In the church of the Unity, in
Norton street, Boston. The church was crowded.
Mrs. Joyce had So far recovered from the shoal of
the dreadful event as to be able to attend upon the Ce
remonies. Rev. Mr. Copeland, of Boston, opened the
services by reading from the Scriptures. Ina fervent
prayer he then spoke of the departure of the chit.
dm to a higher, holier, and happier realm. Re
referred to the closeness of the ties (mune:fling them
with their mother, now that they were in Heaven.
He prayed that the mystery Involving the affair
might be made clear, and that all eanceraed
might be brought to judgment. Having con
cluded his prayer, ho made some few remarks
concerning the sad °COMOa which had drawn
mach a large concourse together. Some tenoning
reminiscences of the family were also given by Rev.
C. J. Bernard, of Heston. An appropriate hymn
Was then sung, which concluded the Melees, ai
ring the eeremonies the pulpit of the enema was
d orned with wreaths of - evergreens and white roses.
On account of the decotuposition of the bodies, they
Were nut brought Into the church. The remetus were
inclosed in eolfins and then placed in a setter° leNt
revered with tarred cloth. The Inscriptions on the
Collinear° as itelowS
leabel N. Joyce,
Age 14 years.
Murdered Sane 12,1815.
John S. Joyce,
Age 12 years.
Murdered June 12, 146 g.
The bodies were taken to Lynn, where they wilt
he interred in the cemetery conflated with the
Episcopal Churoh.
P. S.—A despatch from Holmes' Hole, in BOSian
harbor, to Boston, states that two men have been
arrested there on suepicton diming in Setae manner
connected with the inarde'e.
The occupants of stalls 1n QnlncY and Falleat
Hall rasa kete, Boston, have collected among cheat=
splves lc, purse of 4426, to be presented to tne mother
of the murdered 04 (Wren.
Thu following resolutins were offered by Mr.
David Snow, at the Old South Prayenmeeting,
Boston,
A a reTuesd morning, and adopted
WhercaB, cent series of manifold and. mon
'Arena draftee In the neighboring town or Weat Rox
bury, resulting in the murder of two unsespecting
and bneeent children has dome to the knowl
edge of this meeting; .
And witercas, A widowed mother has thus been
suddenly and cruelly bereft of her only beloved
children; therefore,
Resolved, That we hasten to offer to the bereaved
mother, Ws*. Joyce, our Christian sympathy and
cordt.lence in this hour of awful calamity to her
family, and e e will also offer our earnest prayers
to Rim whe la the God of the widow and the father•
less that strength and graoe may be given to her to
bear this great sorrow.
And as this sad event will mill for an additional
Malay of her meaty =emu:, we respoct.fdlly ask
her aceeptemee of the aoCortipanyllig contributions.
Resosmd, That these resolutlonS be atoned by the
secretary of the meeting, and be handed to Mrs.
Joyce. Gan. N. TrtoisLs, Secretary pro Lein.
_Both of the children were born in Albany, but
their mother, whose maiden Dime was .I.4neredia, S.
Mei 'formerly reacial Iu 73oat9n.
THE TRIAL
DEFENCE OP PAYNE, ATEEROTT,
AND MRS. sußArt
IngeuieUs and Elaborate Argimieuts
in Favor of the Latter,
THE "'AMERY" ABOUT PAYNE ALL
CLEARED UP.
FLIE3Taff."2" OF - HIS LIEN GIVEN.
His Mena latributtli to Bl4th's Idfluonco
• and' asolutt Nem34.
It is no Greater than that of any Rebel
SOldier : . or General,.
tg the Er idenco against quratt,
mid an kttack in Detail.
Appral ifi` Behalf of Mrs. Suratty, whom
tae Counsel BeHam Innocent
THE DEFENCE EXPECTED TO CLOSE
ON FRIDAY.
Was crow, June 21.—(font being called to
order Mr. foster, counsel for Payne and Atztsroth,
proceeded to read his argument in behalf of Payne,
There are three third's. he satdt to the case of the
prisoner Payne, which ate admitted beeend Cavil; or
dispute :
First. That he Is the portion , 1,110 attempted - to.
take life or the Stennis; y of Starve.
Second. That lie is not within• the medical demi%
floe of insanity.
Third. That be believed What he Was doing War
right arid justifiable.
The quosilulaa as to hie identity and sanity are
tberetore Bottled, and among the things of the.paer,
and the Sole remaining question Bow far shall
his eonvicalerm serve to mitigate his militate:tent
He sued the word punishment deliberately, and
'Kith the coneohurness that In so doing he admitted
that 11 the prisoner is a responsible being, he ought
to be poLished, and be said It because ne 0.3t1h1 not
allow his outieS as counsel to interfere with DU 00ti
vietior8 es a man 80 tar ae to make him mina to the
worth of the lite of a distinguished citizen, and to
the awful consequences of an attempt to take it
away. If, indeed, such an attempt should be al
lowed to go without rebuke, then it seemed to him
the office is but a perilous exposure to violence t the
highest compensation for public service is the dis
tinction which follows assassination, and then
our public servants are but pitiable and de.
lenctiees offerings to gedltiou ;. and Barely,
tt any public servant deserved to be except.
ed from that late. it Was the Iliastrious and
sagacious Stateliadill who, during a long life of ar
duous eerviee, has eteaufastly crocked all manner
el: faction and publio discontent; who, in the darkest
days of Minoru, has propheoted the triumph of con
cord, and who at all times has been more ready to
apply antidotes than the knife to toe riaTion's
weunds. That we may accurately, and as fully as
the occasion emends, undetetand the convicUotis of
the prieoner, the counsel proceeds to give a slouch
of his life, the customs under watch he was reared,
one the education whim: ha received.
Lewis Paoe Powell IS the 8011 of Rey. George C.
Powell, a Baptist minister, at present suppaset to
Ilve at Live Oak Station, on tee railroad oetw.son
Jectsonville end Tallahaseee, In the State of
• Florida, and was born In Alabama, in the year
1845, Besides himself hie father hail six (Laughren
and two sons. He lived for Sallie time in Worth and
Stewart cennties ' Georsia, and In 1859, moved to
Florida. At the breaking out of the war, but four
years ago, the prisoner was a lad of sixteen engaged
au supolintenoing his father's plaatation and a
number of slaves.
We tuay lately presume that, occupied la the • in
tomtit pursuits of country life, he dAy heard the
precep_s of the gospel IrOM 1118 fatter, eau that in
tie society of his Bitten the hardy liie of a planter
wet sohetied by the charms of a refined add rein
gone circle, and that in the natural uric elements
be would be to-day as he was then, a farmer 'and an
honest man. but in 1861 war broke out—war, toe
veturge and pestilence of the race. Tim Metall, -
whloh
spreadlike a fire, was not long In reaching
Live Oak Station.
; . ‘a=ils twobrothers enlisted, and .t.ewlS, tholigh but
sixteen, onlistee in Captain Stuart's oompegiy, to
ed Deride. Infantry, eolutuandad by Colonel
l'Werd, and was ordered to ItiihmAud. Kr. Disler
- proceeded to 'outsider What, in the eyes Of this Fta
rola boy, was the meaning Of the war, and what tag
'l4cup:6S-tuna drove DIM Punt a' pleasant home to
'the held of arum.
. .
; !no countei pictured to vivid laeguage the ante
Wee holler web& Powell Was treatobil ill a. slave
•e*.nruunity, where ft was the &mann to defend the
ht stitetion Of Shivery in meetimphouees, at political
gatheringe, and iv family prayers ; where it was the
pi actice fa whip and burn men woo preaeued
against the institution, and to hunt fugitives with
einoottouncis. arta also these who helped them to
freedom. In the eyes o;' the lad the wee meant to
abolish this custom and upheave soolety .from its
Mundation. Bib intieritaece was to ba dissipated,
his vassals equal, his laws invaded, kis religion
confounded, Me polities a heresy.
For this the lad was going to fight in the defence
of a yodel system. lie was going to tight in the
traditional precept of the State—to defend State
Meets. For a third reason, he was t eeing to tight to
show that he was a better man than the Nurse ern
era, under the deep ceaviation prevailing itt eta See
non that their blood and breeding was better than
that of Northerners. The fourth reason was to rin
pet invasion. These were his incentives. But he
tad been etemniee and trained to war by the bowie.
knife and piston code of honor prevalent More. .
The coins:A Wm whether in the wide world there
le mealier school in which the prisoner could so welt
Lave been trained for aesessinatton ER in tee slave
autonomy 7 Mr. Duster proceeds to argue that in
Lets prfsenor is to be Mend the legittwate moral
Mistime el slavery, State rights, chivalry, and de-
Melon, end then goes on to it:metre if we, as the
reerfoan people, are not respeeslole for the winked.-
school in which he was educated, and if we will de.
, ermine to deetrey him because he learned but as we
itetrumeed I
But there le another eehecl before hire, the school.
a( war at - Richmond. His regiment joined the army
ut General Lee, and was joined to a. in titles carps.
With it he paced throuen the Pepinsuia campaign
and the battles of Ohanceltorsvitie and Antletem.
lime be heard to-atlas two brethere had been kilted
at the battle of Murfreesboro. Fleetly, on the ad of
July, 1863, in the charge upon the Federal centre at
Getteekirg, be was wounded, taken prisoner, and
oeoaleo ar a nurse in a Pennsylvania hospital. The
demoralizing effect of hid two pears' campaigning as
a private In the army, Mice he entered as a boy of
sixteen, is shown.
Be is Ono of that army who made baskets and
rope out of the betas of Union soldtere, who starved
their pilsonere, who plundered the dead, who slew
men alto bartender, and who were Commanded by
efficere who had violated their oaths to the United
Mates; an army that believed any meant tartan
eole that helped the cause of Southern indepea.
deuce ; and, finally, an army that held the person
and Clabinet of the President of the United States
in holy execration.
This is the horrible demoralltetion of deli war,
and on those responsible fur this war should rest the
reeponeibility of the acts of this plastic boy, who
came Into the world in the year of the annexation
of Texas, has lived but four administrations, and is
Winger than the Mat compromiae with slavery. He
IP the moral product Of the war, and belong. , to those
who first began it. How does he differ from the
other rebel soldiers 7
The best rebel soldiers have fired at Mr. Lincoln
and Mr. Seward; have approached the arty by
stealth from Baltimore, and aimed to destroy the
Government by a sudden blow; so did es, The
best rebel soldiers have peeked off high officers of
the Government—Kearny, Stevens, Baker, Wads.
worth, Lyon, feedgwiek ; so did he. What, then, has
ne deny , that every Antal soldier has not tried to do 1
Only this : he bile Ventured more-, he has shown a
Meter courage , and a better hate; a more ready
eacrifiee. lie has aimed at the head of a depart
ment instead of enethe head of a eine. TO us the
Preeldent appeared as the savior of a nation from
civil war, and Mr. Seward as the great pacificetor,
tee savior from fereign War. But to this boy, and
live millions of hie fellow.aountrynien, the one 9.0-
peered as an usurper, invader, and violator of laws,
and destroyer of , life, liberty, and property.
The other, as an adviser in Oppreeeion and a slip
pery advocate otan Irrepressible conflict. He dif.
sexed from the • Southern army simoiy bin:gusts he
ettepiteeed it In Courage, and he differed from a pa.
Wet and martyr simply became he was mistaken to
hie ellty.
But there is a third school before idm. From
Gettysburg he was sent to.Westts Buildings' Beg
otten Pratt street, Baltimore, and remained until
October, 1863, when, fleeing no hope of exchange, he
,deserted for his regiment of cavalry, at Feuquier.
Not being able to get through our lines, he Was
joined to this arm of the Bervicte, and remained is
that service until January let; 1865. On that day,
as we see by the narrative of Mrs. Grant, he Saved
the lives of two Union soldiers. About the same
time he, like many other Southern soldiers. began
to despair of the Ounfederacy, came to Alexandria,
sold his horse, gate his name as Payne, Mee the
oath of allegiance as a refugee from Feugular, went
to Baltimore,
n
and took a room at the house of Me
Branson, the - he had met at Getteaburen and
received to vsalt ler tee return of peace. In this
third sabred—the rebel cavalry service—he re•
oedved further damaging training, and amongst
the pimple of Loudon and Fauquier, who had
suffered most from the war, gained an added
acrimony and hate for those deemed their oppres
sors. But there to a fourth School before Min—
the Pelmet of neceesity. He was in Baltimore
witbout trade or profession he was unused to ma
trual labor ; in perplexity about Lis future, for the
little money he get for his horse was fast going ; he
whiled away the tame in rending medical works and
bileentm in his chamber. While in this condition,
the fracas occurred at hie boarding.hon6e by Which
he wee arrested, brought before the provost- reef
sbal, said ordered north of Philadelphia. Beery
where the Sky is dark to him. Si* 18 proectibed
amongst Northern men as Flannel, despised amongst
Southernil3ollln Baltimore as &iv:Waling Southerner,
and a by-word among Southern men at home as a
deserter. Penniless and ft leedieee, the earth Flee=
to reject him and God and man to be egatust him.
This Is the work of civil war. His education is now
completed. Slavery has taught him to wink at mnr
eer ; the Southern army has taught him to practise
and justify murder; gamine, warfare has taaget him
to love murder ; necessity has taught him resolution
to commit murder. Be needs no further education
—his tour terms ore complete, and he graduates an
Meath ; and of Ms college We, the malted peo
ple of the United Staten, have hetet the stern
tu
tort, gulden, and professors. It needs now only that
stme one should employ him. At the breilsrdng of
the war, Powell, one night, went to the theatre at
Riebnim.d. It was the first plan that Powell ever
seer, and he was spell.boutid with the maginel In
enence of the stag, but was Melly attreeted by
the voice and manner of one of the actors—.l.
Wilkes Booth. Although only a private moldier,
Powell conentered himself the equal of say
and, after the play was over, Sought and gained an
introduction to the actor. Never were two na
tures thrown together so diflerent, yet 843 well
calculated to rule the • other and be ruled. Tee
soldier was tall, aWkWard, rouge, iraele generous,
and illiterate. The actor Wes or delicate mould,
polished. graceful, subtle, with a brilliant tamest and
an abundaut4toek of reading ; they saw enough of
one another to form a close intimaoy audi:lent to
complete the witzol or Booth over the efileatri
eh ,meet I;,
B En t' e a rvi rm
a ti m i rot ht: . Aar, illy ID tat
dtplortd, Fowl' vrasßina 'drivel( iffecTly %/clog
tb. street p e at sp,reucti's hotel, a poor Creature.
overcools by destiny; suddenly a remitter voice.
rip :the steps e s the
et
of the Richman, actor, Le sorer. s a en oleo, ex
pressed artonliihnifillt to ,fad Powell in su.4l - a
plight. Powell answered bi' In few eiirdi
'• Booth, I want . food I gro: ttarving." riedfir
other eiromneterces, Difitn might nave even
Lim bread, lint he wee filed With a mighty
scheme, for be bad just obme from Canada. awl why
'sing in wait for anoints. He seized with eager.
neon the poor real's. hunger to wind about him eta
te l n ownxi. the t.otu,
h ‘ s " ,o o a !
,o b : u it
:I s t ! . s .
aan s c .
toils, saying, “.1: , will give - you as much money air
you want. but you must swear to stick by ;
oath, binding his soul as nrmly to Booth as Feuer
swore that
N I a :
i t
morning Broth gavehlm wintry =mown t". hey a
charge of clothing auto keeposlm +or a ae.elt. Parfait
• now grow abalone to know what pion it was that.
was to make him rich, but Booth answered, ova
. sively. that It was in the oil hu,iness He knew
well enough that be had M do with e desperate wan,
but he keels, also. that any - proposition of a guilty
' character might is yet be reptoted.
Br. Boater proceeded to tie.cribe seed narrate, in
animated laioyurge, the mariner in which Booth,
step by step, worked on awaited of his victim, Ow•
plating to rile prisoner the wrong* fit tile South, and
the guilt of bet oppressors, and wrought. him up to
a pitca of frenzied patsies to twang° tire wrongs
Lb sour By LOA fin !mew rfakt with Ole Comte.!.
men,•who despised him ae a recreant. BlOotil SaW
his victim was ready, and huMened to Impart ills
d
mysterious plans. The plan warto go to Washing.
Powell w A en h t l t i
n y i 1114
anderi B stomach is nor
tort..ist e a ride with conf , derates on horlfetraelk to
the Psoldiers' Roses, capture the President, and de.
liver him to the rebel authorities. On the. evening
of the 14th of April, at 8 o'clock, Booth told' him the
hour had mina, placed in hie needs the trade, theme 1
volver, and the begun package of wedlotne, anti told
him BAD his du*.y,.antl gave him a horse, with
bl
rectors-to west him at the Alinitena beluga, and
hr went end did the deed. Said Mr. lawiter, 1-Luce
ashen Mtn why be Mil It. His only answer Is. "Hir
indite I believed It my envy e Mr. Dosterargeed
that Payne; at the tweet's outuMßted riled deed, had
110 will or Lie own, out had surrendered , Lis. will
Completely th Bebth, under thatiblittehees that com
plete supremacy ebbe &Ind over another, that has
gone by 'melons' names amongst various nations,
and which we call ..uiconeristu." B.tath was a ,
personitecullarly gifted' with this unaccountable '
Influence, and , the - prisoner was further held* to.
Booth by the ties of gratitude, by his oath, by ties
of interest, arid by' lies of sympathy in a common
cause. Hence the explanation why, when Informed
of 8,01.10 s plasm he did. not Inform the authorities
are break awaylrost Btiotb,
Mr. Doctor drew w &eduction between the hired
ersessie, a , 116 WIN for gold,. and the fenfttleal diwtto.
sin, who deems it bia•duty te offer up his own lire to
exchange for the life be • Belieeeo to be a public
enemy, and contended - that Payne was of the latter
class. The erect bearing, the patient's, the smAing
sell-possession of the pre-ouer, ware referred to 'as
lodinating tee nolitioal fanatic; a 'monomaniac On
the subject of hts-duty. He urged that trig man
wishes to die In order to gain the full crown of mar ,
tyr,:om, and therefore; If we gratify him he will
triumph aver us; but If we spare him, we win
triumph over DIM It entrer.d to live, he win
receive the worst punishment—obscurity—and the
public will have nothing to-admire. He has killed
no lean, and if he is put to , death we shall have the
anomaly of the victim surviving the murderer, and
water the law he can he. punished only for assault
811 d battery with intent to kill, and therefore impri.
coned. Mr. Doctor proceeded with other considers•
lions why the prisoner's- the should be saved, and
before col:minding. Spoke of the many good quill.
ties he had founo in the prisoner by his interenivii
with him, his freak, manly bearing, his distriffilea.
don for notoriety, andillainflitipueltlilon to scree,
Oneself from punishment. HIS OrtiTpromluent anal&
tV was lest temple 'Mould think Mtn a hired asses
sin or a brute ; an aversion to being made a pnclia
spectacle or, and a desire to be tried at the bands of
his itilow-eltletna.
After an honed recess taken by the court, Mr.
Dotter etteted upon the argument in behalf Of
Ateerott, commencing by, offering a statement by
his client, as follows:.
The prisoner Atz erothsubmitS. the following State
nett to the court :
Into ova of a party who agreed to capture the
Pereldtnt of the United States, but I am nut one of
a party to kill the Prescient of the Meted States,
or any member of the, or general Grant,
or Vice . President JohariOn. The feu plot, to cap
ture, failed • the second, to kill, Memo away from
the moment.' beard of It. This Is the way it came
about : On the evening of the 14th of April I mot
Buo;h and Payne at the Herndon House, in this
city, at eight o'cluck. He (Booth), said- he himself
would take charge of Ittr. Lenten and general
Greet; Payee should take Mr. Seward, and I
etereald take Mr. Salmon.. I told him I could not
; that 1 had gotmento the thing to capture, but
1 woe not going to kill, He told me I was a fool ;
that I *oleo be buns. anyhow, and that it was death
for every , time that backed ollt, anti so We parted.
1 waboored about the streets Until ebvus two
in the xi' ornieg, and Caen went to the
Ifoxemell house, and from there I pawned my
testa at Georgetown, and went to my cousin's
butte ft: Pewee - omen' county, where I was arrested
the 18th lollewirg. After I was arrested, I told Pro
em Marshal Wells and Provost Marshal. McPhee'
the eke le story ; I also told it to captain Monroe;
aril Unlenel Wells told me that if I pointed out the
way Booth had gone I would be reprieved, and so I
Geld hbe I thought he had gone down Merles atom.
te, lv order to cress the Potomac. The arms which
wore lound in my room at the Kirkwood house and
el - leek coat, do not belong to me. On the arta moor.
ni the 14th of April Herold trifled to see ale, ant left
the coat there; it is his teat, and ell in it belongs to
him, as eon an see by the handkerchief walked
aith his initials, and with the name of hie sister,
Mrs. Batter, Now, I will state how I passed the
is bola of the evening of the 14th of Aerie le tee
eeterroon„ about 2 o'clock, I went to Keleber's eta
ble, on Eighth street, near D, and hired a dark
bay mere, and rode into the country for plea
sure, and on my return put her up at Naylor's
stable : the dark bay mare which I had kept
et Platter's before, on or about the 3 , 1 of April,
brier sod to Booth, and alto 'he sacelle and brunt's,.
and I had charge of him, to son lildb.and Ido not
meow weet because of hen. At about ma in the seep
sing I went to Naylor's again, and took out the
mare, rode Out for an hour, and returned her to
Naylor% It was then nearly eight o'clock, atel
tell him to keep tte mare reedy at ten o'clock, in
order to return her to tee man 1 hired her from.
From there I want to the Herndon house, Booth
sent a messege to Oyster Bay, where I was, saying
he wanted to see me, and I went. Booth wanted
the to murder Mr. Jaime. I refused. I teen
went to the Oyster Bay, on the avenue, above
Twelfth street, and whiled away the time ante
near ten. At ten I got the mare, and hav
ing taken a drink with the hostler, galloped
about town, and went to the Kimmel! house
From there I rode down to the depot, and
retained with my horse, riding up Pennsylvania
peanuts to Belcher% From Delehetes I went down
to the navy yard to gets room with WWII. Bleseee,
lie had none, and by the time I got bate to the
Burnett house, It was near 2. The man, Thomas,
was a stranger I met on the street. Tho neat morn.
log, as stated, I Went to my eetiale Realist's, :./2
Montgomery county. GiIORGII A. ATZIinOTT.
Mr. Duster, proceeditgwlth hi; tegumeet, quoted
the specificatloe under wiece the prie-aner, ilezerott,
is charged, as follows : e And lu further prose=
lion el Bala conspiracy and its tvaitoreas and mur
derous designs the said George A. Atzerott did on
the night of the 14th of April A. D., 1555, and about
the eagle hour of the night aforesaid, within the
military department and military lien aforesaid,
He hi WIC for Andrew Johnson, then Vise Presi
dent Of the Dieted testes aforesaid, with the Intent,
unlawfully and mellolouely, to kill, murder the geld
Andrew JOhnson.”
In support of this speolfleation, the GOYIM:IMM
hat submitted the testimony of Welshman and Miss
Suratt that he was erequently at Mrs. Suratt's, In
compeny with Booth; of Greenwalt, that he had
interviews with 'Mete at the Kimmel( house, and
itat he said, on the ern of April, Green welt, I
am pretty near broke, though I have friends
enough to give me as much money as will keep tue
all my life ; lam going away one of these days, but
will retort with as rauoh money as will keep me all
my MAIM) ;" of Marcus P. Norton, that he over•
heard him in conversation with Booth, In WlllOll It
was said, aDM 'the evening of the third of 3laroh,
that "If the matter succeeded as well with Johnson
as It did with cid Sinner au, the party woale be
sold ;!' and, also, "that the Character of the wit
nesses would be such that nothing could be proved
by them e' of Cul. Nevins, that he was asked by
the prisoner between four and flee of the afternoon
of the 12th of April, at the Kirkwood house, to
Point out Mr. Johnson while at dinner; of John
Fletcher, that on or about April 3d the priso
ner owned a horse and saddle, whtoh he
afterwards said was sold In Montgomery
county, and which was afterwards found near
Camp Barry hospital on the night of the 14th of
April; and also that he got a dark-bay mare at
Naylor's on the evening of the 14th, which he had
brought there in the morning, and rode her away at
hall past FAX, brought her back at eight, returned
again at ten, ordered his Mare, 100 k a drink, said,
"if this thing happens to-night you will hear of a
present," and said of the mare, • She is g.nad on a
retreat el that then he rode .to the Kirkwood house,
came out again, went along D street, and turned
up Teeth street; of Thomas L. Gardner, that the
?mine dark-bay, one•el ee borne found near Camp
Harry was sold by his uncle to Gardner ; of
John Toffee, that, the same horse was found et
twelve and a half A. M., Saturday, lath Of April,
near Camp Barry ; of Washington Briscoe, that
On the night of the 14th of April, between twelve,
and twelve and a half o'clooe, the prisoner got
out of the oars near the Navy lard, and asked
him three times to let him sleep in the store ;
that he was refused and Bald he would return
to the Kinneret house; Cl Greenwatt, that he aline
to the _Kimmel house at two A. M. with a man
named Thomas and hesitated to register his name,
and want away in the morning, without paying his
bill ; „orLieutenalet Klein, that he slept in the
same room with the prisoner, at the Kimmel house,
and when he ceetnesbe e spoke of the assassination,
Atzerott said, " it was an awful affair and met, on
the Sunday before, he Me a knife in Ms possession,
a large boWle knife, in a Math ; and that he
(Atzerott).remarked, "If one fatia I. want the
other ee of Wm. Clendenin, that he found a knife
similar 11, the one seen by Keim in " F," between
eighth end Ninth streets. on the morning after the
arathinaden ; of Robert Jones and John Imo, that
Atzerott took a room at the Kirkwood, No. 120,
and that in it, on the morning of the Lath, was
toned a coat; containing a pistol loaded, and bowie-
Yaffe and bandlterohles, marked with the name of
.1. W ilbes Booth ; of Provost Marshal MaPhati,
that Atzerott conteased to him that he threw his
knife away near the Herndon house; thathe pawned
Ms pistol at Calewell's store, in Georgetown, and
borrowed ten dollars; and that the oast and arms at
the Kirkwood belonged to Harold; of Serge. Gem-
MIN, that be dented havlngleft Washington recent.
ly, or Laving anything to flO With tile assassination I
of Bezekiett Metter, that On Sunday tollowing the
murder Atzerott said, at hie house, " If the man had
followed General Grant, who was to have followed
him, he would have been killed." To negative this
speolheation, the defence had Submitted the testi
mony of Somerset Leaman, that the prisoner said
at Metes' house, when asked If Grant wan killed,
"No, I do not suppose he was." If be had been
tilled, it would have been dune probably by a man
that got on theteme train of ears that he did, and
ttat ne never used the language imputed to him
by Mr. Mete e s that he was confused, bat the
daughter Of MORN to whom he was paying his
addreesoS Was throwing him the cold shoulder that
nay of James L. Leaman to the Fame Met; of
James Ketleber, that Atzerott had a dark , bay hone
at hie stable at hail-past two O'cloOk on the anen
t/eel/ of the 14th ; wrote his name in a large hand,
and willingly gave reformat), and said he lived in
Port Tobacco, and was IP conehmaker by trade ; of
Samuel Smith, that the mare was returned about
31 o'clock on the evening of the 14th ; of Samuel
McAllister, that Atzerott rode up to the Klramell
Louse *bunt ten, and called the black boy to hold
hie mare that the knife found near the Herndon
house and the revolver found at lialdwell's had
teen in Atzerott's pelsesalen, but to could not iden
tity the coat or its contents found at the Kirkwood
Lame; Of Prevost Marshal McPhee going to
Mow that the cost belonged to Harold; of Me.
Naylor, that the handkerchief picket). up in Atze
rott's room was marked with the name of Harold's
sister ; of Burman lilehter. that the prisoner earns
to his house, in Montgomery county, and made
no effort to escape; of Somerset Leaman, that
he Is of reipectable lamily ; of Samuel McAllister,
that be was generally coesidered a Coward; of
Washington BrlEeite, that he is noted coward; or
George Farwell, that be taw ne" one lying In wait
about Vice President's room, at the Kirkwood, he.
mediated's , after the assassination, nor did lie see
any Ono attempt to enter for half an hour; of W.
(I Browning, private secretary, that the Vise Pre-
BMW was in his room from live o'clock the balance
of tin evening ; of M. J. Pope, that on the MU the
prisoner was at his stable, endeavoring to sell a
horse ; that he went off with John Barr; of the
lattli, that the pt het was at retapg i4f awn
FOUR CENTS.
eremite , and L, C. Hawkins, that on the ad of
Match he was tit Port 'lunation; te: freige Olin sod
H, my Bardere<that Ben would not belleve Memel
P. Hutton on oath. ,
'lnc prisons) stiectlee that the teatime - n:9' adduoed
by the preeettution retie utterly to support the Sped!
, tenth:Ml, but miteittoretee the priemer's ow% state
Wilt In every' partiondar. rbe epectir,'etedeo
etagere him with 171r.er Pre Welt 'Or Andrew J Menne,
• ste , and on t list rtit , t ha 401097e011 is cirottelstetr
, PAL Nevin° sod' iUzerott legaired rot the.
Prrsident,on tbeartereoen ee A erlll2th. netween four
end tve , and actntrehnitter :tat tit fIY.W him only.ror
' a mement at the titter. • Pope says that thee prisoner
cattle to his stable. soli dey In April, to eelt a hoeee;
and this say is food eyvJelin Beer es the lets tri
. April, oteeuse be resale - an entry le hie boot at toe '
e: etionel Nevrese' teetlmety mast, a:tender.,
_tall to the ethane ; aed,While it Is concludel tea'.
'pr the one at, the Kit-tweed h:stl asked iloionet
Nevlor this commen quettion, it le certain that At
.tro tett IF net the man.
The Sterne p dot nronr.ttld suplort Of the spent.
Wetherell? eiy .aderetts P. Narkep, welese deoiernmen
se to the 011ie:, chattered:4 /01,otOrt In" company With
Melt on 05 Ova tog ed • :Barth 311, be tektite . , and
1,, 07 4 It said , A the mutter stemma:4as well With
Jobterin ea It did whA old filichaosa, the p
vvonleloi - son Men the worde, TrAreheracter of
the Withe.gAis Weald be szeoh that nothing woull be
ptovid by them ,er the tirleoter saes this la a de.
ilberetaleisebeodc es be pro veil that ho vas not Pa
IA Wilt ;elfin on the Mi mad al of March. Ipy Henry
EdienveV; nt Poet' Tablocra And reale' FP Hewkine
a Iso testlittel tho t "boa t that tame leveret at ho ;
thir. %robin be sufeineet to olspreve Ntirtem's Steers-
MOM, but there is lithve evidence emit he' -Tee de
liberately making ti.stimeny, for te On
came dav be' saw sty, 11 , 1ndd, who war asking her
Booth ; Dr. Blade haertla ten that lie wee net as the
Kirk WOO4l, Or in WaeblegtOn on that day)
Ties it genie -de tebrioate,r of tee , imonyolimee thee
of March to Wee hie - store probability, and he ap
peets before ht Wove Vete ;floe perjury Into have
blunted readleg the tweet Den e cant wart
rays the name of Andrew .3 ohnsoh was hut- joined
to the plot UZl:flatter thWert .eny.uratt , n. and that at
that ttn,e the nsme'of Me II thinlin was on the Ilse
tuhd eo perpetrated an ent eainue blunder. le ,w
siren - far that be Shollid re'n't tuber exeot words her
three moesee, ardlemeS when, he Is so shortsighted.
4.e might be in le•lsd, heis• taw , witness.
He takes patent osatterand is • cannot win ley ar
stment he Mies the witneeersti nd and swears teem
thtotigh Mr. Henry - Barden; t wealtay citizen M
Troy, and Judge Olin testitt that they would
not believe him on his oath- I 7 rom internal tet
t-Men of teatime' y, its faistipito • the matter of De
Mudd. its proven falsity in toe t lute el A - zefott's
spits to the Kirkwood, and litseliatt yen toleration as
a lane tviineseleavesnothedbwer t doubt that his ma.
timony 18 the offspring of a destmtte, dist Ingatett tin
eel fon - the ;Melees stand. and that' zerott never met
Booth at the National on the Sdlof March, or had
the allotted coevereation with net 1. The third
strong Feat of toe prosecution le , hat Atzerott left
room 174, at the Kultweed, ware the ROI With
him, and in his room was found moose containing - a'
bottle knife, pistol, haamilieroldeeteeseis ed Wilkes
Broth, togett er with notes. 012 the tereeturto Bank, In
tie name of Booth, and ttielnorillidte showing that
they once belonged tC Booth, Thu poet and atm
tents were diepered of by the protecration. Mc-
Phail fweitiel that Ai Zerott told him that the Coat
and arms belonged to Harold. The. .elerir swears
that POMO Coe Celled to inn Attertitt In theafter•
boon. It wee Harold, and lie left Me Coat In the
room, The habdkerahlef is marker with the nattli.6
CD Mary H. Naylor, sister of Harold. Another is
marked H., for Harold. But why did ktzerott late
lee hlectiat and arms to be in loisToom I Because
newts in a. plot to Capture the Presideete. In so far,
he was the colleague of Harold . andßastb, no far
ther. Bei:muse for this purpose , to' capture the
President, to be need In defence, he carried
the knife and pistol whlott MeAllister used
to keep for him The same knife he threw
away, tt e same pistol he pawned; and therefore he
suffettel Mimic to lease hie armor Mettle same rea
con he 0111Iltd kie own. But why did AV/ANL; go
away with tiger key and never come batik V Because
he did-not want to be arrested ; because he was not
e linty of *Wag In the assassination of air. Lineein ;
because he we a in the plot so far as to capture the
President, and when he was ordered ,to kill the Vice
President. and refused, he was unable to resolve
either to informthe autnorities for kw ef , Beeth, or
to do the deed for fear ef being hung, and tto just
abandoned the room as he abandonedaverything
connected with the consplraey. Had he beehable to
resolve to carry out his allotted duty, he would
naturally have taken the coat of Harold, add
put it on mid need the arms. Had he been able to
rebeive to By at once, he would have removed all
Mese of his partielpetion. One reason tor leaving
without paying Wash was beehtiiie he had no
money, and the reason tar leaving. the coat was
misuse it did not belong to him. Bat the main
lesson was because he was between two tires, watch
brought out his native irresolution, and so he cut
the Gordian knot by running away. We shall see
that he !eft the Kimmel] house the heat morning
without paying his bill. It was for the same rea
son ; he had vo mercy until after he had - pawned
lilt pistol at Georgetown.
The Meath toint of the prosecution is, that daze
rott lodged in the same house wit& the Vice Presi
dent, aril-the relative situation of the rooms was
favorable to assivetnation. The room or the Vice .
Pit stilent was one which no one could help passing
iv going down or np, and room 1213 , was as remora
fron, it se possible, in a different wing, It is flyl
eaf, that any ore desirous of lying in wait for
the Vice President would have taken a rosin on the
same floor, but the actual fact is better than Rapp°.
eaten& Mr. Browning says the Ville President
i; es In his room) from five to ten, &Mug which time
the deed coins have been done There Is no awl.
dame that atzerom was at the house during that
time, except that of Fletcher, who says that Ales
reit went there and staid five minutes. What Wall
he cloths therel He was teklog a drink at the bar.
It he tried to kill Mr. Johnson, why was it not
shown'? No one was aeon lying In wait •; the look
bad hot been tampered with; the Vete President
was tindirturbed, even by a knock on the door ; and
who 1 Because Atzirott refesed to do it. Because
he kept up appearances, hut bricked out. Because
the inetrnmeet which was to have aithaSelliated the
Vise President Was too conscientious or afraid to
do lt.
The fifth point le, that on his arrest he gave a
false name, denied having left Washington recent
ly. and eato he dial "nothims to do witn the asSsaai
nation. For the last statement, he told the trete,
a lamination sod murder were things toe which he
was net by nature Intended, and be had nothing to
de with it; as for the MIMI Demo, It appeared that,
sergeant Gemmill understood hie name to be At
wood ; knowley that he bad been in colleague with
others to capture the President, he was afraid to
confess his part then and there, and dented having
recently left Waphlngton. - The sixth point is, that
he said to Fletcher, after ten on the 14th: "If this
thing happens tonight, yea wilt hear of a present r
and, also, In reference to the mare, "She le good on
a retreat ;" and to Lieutenant Kelm, on the
Sunday before, "if one fails I shall want the
Gaeta , Oa the first occasion Atzerott was about
half drunk, while the other remark was made after
the parties had taken their cook-tails; so that, eves
it we emelt the drunken memories of the ivittießSWl,
we cannot do more than credit it to pot valor,
pointing to the possible desperate melee of an at.
to eaptuee. 'there Is only one as:madden
Rad will make everycbing agree. Atzerott beezed
out ; he arrived bare; be liked the money bat did
did not like to be hung ; he never heard of murder
before that evening at eight o'clock, or he would
lone Were have hid himself. When he did beer
it. lie had firmness enough to object. Cow
ard conscience came to his rescue. Bat Booth
threatened to kill, and he knew welt enough
he was the man to close the mouth of any one woo
troubled him; so he went off, driven like a poor frail
being between irresolution and fear, took drinks,
fetened to be doing his part, talked valiantly wane
the rum was in his throat, promised gloriously, gal
leped round fiercely, looked daggers, and wean the
hour struck, did nothing, and ran away. The spool•
tient:on charges that about 10 16 he Was lying in
wait to murder, &e., and the counsel =tends tnat
all the eiretatiStaneeS can be accounted for. The
prteoner had opportunity to De in watt, a considereder
was no proof that be did, he should be
gelitlese of the attempt to murder. If the theory
of hie attempting to murder be adopted, it
is Met with tienim at every point. He tried to
become a hero, but was only a Imachtuaker,
ebstentely without courage. The plain never
lashed statement le, that curing the. latter part
of February, 1 chn Surett and Booth wanted a man
• Wee understood boating, and could both got a boat
an ion y a party over the Potomac on a capture.
:Sundt knew Memo t, Mid Under the iciittenee of
great promises of a fortune, consented to furnish
the boat and do the ferrying over. This plot was
attempted on the lath of March, and tailed, Booth,
however, kept his subordinates uninformed of hie
plans, except that it was understood the President
was to be Captured ; meanwhile everybody was wait
ing for Booth. On the tether Marcie Atzerott went
to the Kimmel house. Oa the let of April he talked
of flame wealth; on the 6th he spoke beLleut. Kelm,
over their liquor, of using one If the other failed; on
the 12th he stopped at the Kirkwood and tried to sell
the bay horse to Pope ; on the lath Booth unfolded
his plans at the Herndon house, and • Atzerott re.
lased ; fetch the Herndon house he wont to Oyster
bay till ten and took drinks; at ten he took
drink With Fletcher; at 10.10 he took a drink at
the Itirkwood house ; 10.20 ditto at Kimmel, and •
r,de tenant the City ; at /1 returned his horse ; at
12 he was at the navy yard; at 2 he Went to
bed. Next morning, at 6, he got up and went
to Georgetown, pawned his pistol, and Went to
Mr. Metter ; on the 16th took dinner at Matta' ; on
Sunday evening he went to Hartman Richter's;
on the 19th he was arrested. This ends this
history, which might have become a tragedy, but
width the prisoner has turned to a farce. Ile was
riding round fkom bar-room to barroom, while
Wayoe was at Sewardse, and it is plain he was
drunk. After hie peregrinations, to charge him
with lying in wait, he., is paying him an Wide
served compliment. There is not a particle of the
eptoilloation proved, but the immediate contrary,
During the whole of the evening, so far teethe evi
dence throws any light on his conduot, instead of
lying in watt near to the Vice President, he was
standing at the different bars from the Union house
to the Kimmel house, with the latent then and
there unlawfully and maliciously to make Atzerott
drunk.
Booth employed him for an emergency. He was .
perfectly competent to perform in the plan to cap
ture, to furnish the boat, and to carry the party
across the Pottle:las. For participating in the Pre•
sident's murder he could never have been Intended.
Booth was. as his conduct skews, anxious to carry
off the glory of the thing. He remarked that he
wanted 'no botching with General Grant." He
must have known when he told Atzerott to take
charge of the Vice President, that he had not the
courage, and did not care particularly whether he
accomplished it or not.
The charge is divinable in two separate and dis
tinct parts, "with conspiring, confederating, etc.,
on or before the 6th of March," Me e and even stillrr
pose he was proven guilty of the charge and epecite
cation, be has already turned states evidence to the
provost marshal, and therefore his punishment
would fall under the practice usual in all courts of
jintler—that one confessing has an equitable right
to the leniency of the Court. His onee, hewers.; rests
on no each slender ground, Instead of conspiring •
to kill, he refused to kill, and instead of lying in
wait to murder, he intoxicated himself at the ap
pointed hour, and the next meaning ran away. He
me guilty solely of.what he confesses, of conspiring
to abduct the President, and of that he can be
found guilty only under a new indlotment.
Mr. Aiken read the argument in behalf of MrS.
Senate oommencleg as follows
For the lawyer as well as for the soldier there Is
an equally pleasant duty, an equally imperative
command. That duty Is to. shelter from injustice
and wrong, the Innocent; .to protect the week from
oppreStioth and to rally at all times and on all ad.
meant; when necessity domande it to the special
defence of those whom nature, Custom, or eireanw
stances may have placed in dependence upon Otir
strength, honor, and cherishing regard. That tram
mend emanates and reaches each Class from. the
Sallie authoritative and Omnipotent source. It
comes from a superiorwbose light to command none
dare question, and none dare to disobey In this
command there is nothing of that tern talionis entail
nearly two thousand years ago nailed to the cross its
divine author: "Therefore, all things whatsoever
ye would that mon should do to you, do ye even so
unto them, for this is the law and the prophets."
Coe has not only given us We, but ho has filled the
world with everything to lire desirable; and
when we sit down to determine the taking away of
that which we did not give, and Mien, when once
taken, we cannot restore, we consider the eubj eat the
Most solemn within the range of human thought
and human action. Profoundly impressed with the
hinememe of our client, we enter upon this last
duty in bar case with the heartfelt prayer that ner
honorable judges Jeri. enjoy the satisfaotion of not
bating a tingle doubt left on their minds in grant-
Mg her an acquittal, either as to , the testimony
affecting her or by the surrounding tereilMetaneee
of the Casa
After alluding to the argument of the Hon.
rg
Reverdy Johnson, whom be . styled the egrande
,feats ea teeelieve" of his praession, Mr. Aiken Ms
tinned with much partionlarity the plea or roe
ponable doubt, and ilk applying the edict wiggle el.
TIJI AIL kit I" litittaiss
gprreLttiß SD IN KRRy,/
T WAR ruse Will be sent so enbeortber• ev
mell (per amain) in advance)
the e0R1ee“•..........• N.. I ILD
Ut
Von caplet.-- .....
Larva. Clubs than Ten will ha *banal It the aallet
IMO. UM. M) For poll,.
rho muot altbitie at:Company the order. rant'
in no in+n,nwe 4.1.14 th.4o. terns), he deviated from. of
that' afford ' oo ru hate mM. than the Covit Of Palmer•
ARV- Pesti:neat., az % 'm4.004111 . to Mt ill liana /0/.
Ms Was Paseo.
Wir To the setter-up of the Olno of Ufa or tweet). Oa
extra OOP) of the PAM ertil be thee,
ID °led perms to eon-tv.os.t.r tot And that they
m eet be governed 1., 'he are 11,7 1 1116 lb() pin & Km
refer:ly ny there reaeonoble rules of evelanco that
tine Obit eSpeffenre rib both,, eh - rloops tn thy
yes or jodiclal wfadoM, he" lanai terlttl'7 rysl.l sit
o jidles it the adminletration of the
Mr, Aiken here quotett many eurtwralas su‘tatm
ppip.ufee, lla 01,k1ir0. , 1 the, If
....yid Or round' pull's , in a ar t c. it"! ' , nil citrus ne
pers. 1340
o t n b it oo ti t 4 t h m i tr a t c i t t r il to r o or t. atir t l 4 4/ 1
aro publit ferdatile
, proceedMga dr tole Quart shank be ethitaloed
. by tufilcialit . eat/Twee,. If they were, trio pug
OVOTlorill any irreguhrlty that ode t
1„,, eupl ored to exit". Pre Vrated . tgat the 0 , se
was iiiir,l'etrally barren of even cfroninetaml:l
vidence attalrfSt Mrs. Surat., lout all that wet oir•
onfetantlal by ril) Means conceived tier with gull :y
-knowledge or prdlty intent Ho HAM Inquired what
""pert torte were, the character of the sibilance la
rr pint of them. and of ULU Wltzfeselbr, and whetter
were consists...A with a reasonable theory by
..vet itutlt to eaciurtem
The , character, scope, and trne orate argantadt
rut' be gathered iron - the reutorke near rti.) 01 10 - 1 1
v'rl'h• mother end o "arc aercettatOd 1,4 1 1
!salt Grime as trite Lori of the el./Alamo world Beret
• sore nVitehate In all VI dreantot bearings! otr
111 ,, ,tattebte ten Dave totelly tecoverral theirnnprer.
J on teed lone since the of the fore m . croci, Lt
we eon' contemplate sent, credulltt tmils a plirtare r
zhe ar,just .Iptrlts 'of
HOCiltitllCO and revenge—'s crime welch, la
g.rieble misery, would pct ' s driven oven sae
ale heuXred, heart of a 6.7,t5t110i, a Boli, or a
Marmite B l oshrene to wild 3 , nfmtos tottirs Its
aochllgtollFlaient. and daunted even that sem
ta all the recorded world, the most eager tor
„ o ttity Bad turret trzrlbrielzing hi ale—
indUrif tea cool of Obristiatame iffeadti—nt in a
crime as pref lilacs; plotters, w"..thln patble I walls,
wcuid scarcely hare whlepto; the words fortntug tete
expression of which, spoken 0100 O.IC. thm upper ale,
would ootvert all Ifistening boughs to ;Opens .rod
all alai) srunds cr Nature to kllinterriog walls—a"d
Its made known, even surmised, to a WrOlan--4.
revrir /mitres—the 'good pentu,—oto piriceax 24,29 , of
.1 hours where cluldrety hoo pottered all toe I..flis
et see .f purity, and tic rondo ler:ellen* of InrioOenee
—where religion watches, obit the oas
minister and watcher—who were e , rorrnstsnlial
evidence strong ant Po:minden, fr:OR as "-Ay
time and the sietv..wea.,ia..c Fetes utuld
Aare and deny...who Will believe when ate
Wok. 11 uncertainty what °lotto the yebeent snail
Lave Oiskolved, that a woman, torn soil bred la
respectabtlity and mropeterce—a, Christian m Aber,
and a citizen who never 3MA:idea the lawn if civil
propriety;.whtse 1112f4.11faig attention to the 01)41
sacred duller of life has ono for her the n tete . Or
prep r 4.'bristlan matror retort, he arth.cma ever
warmed by charity; whose door was unbarred to the
poor, and whore pot atee hire' never C 411.8 to veil
thelr faces—who will believe that she could so tuddem
•ly and fully have learned 'the Intrioate arts of sin
And Mr. Ashen oliced with the following remora
• Lot not, ;toe Deer state twine' In our eduatrfle
hletory. *Malt Inyolvell 6 Weitlll4l'S cam el ,, Mir'
hones; belsor the world with too mate ef ta-'
tolerance which pertnite 1110f 1 1:1Ce, out: as the be
flippant heart and lanalyludislog mind of vat
worm larrottrd victim af a mime which would, in
Its rePdhoatietie of woe, arouse F. 0114 Y 1. 11114 1
would Moven have counselled you. Let, the he.
raids of pe re and chants, with , their artit'it bLioad
clever, follow the fasces and exer.hl* judgment B.'ol
law, end without the saeritlee of oho Winces&
sntlaenta, let the Shit) Of `state hunt% With dig iltY
of Utataited sails Into the uuroeled ea. of Union
and proeperity,t )
The Court adjourned over till Fr:dby.
CUBA.
ALVITAL OP JOHN C. lIRECKINIROS AT CIS.
DUB IN AN OPEN BOAT;
He is Escorted to Havana to be Voiented
to the Captain General,
THE: REBELLION IN HAITI
AFFAIRSIN CUBA.
Nine Toaa l Nine 21,—The steamer Eshito Mtge
Havana dates of the lam.
The rebel General Slaughter, .gluon out of
Brownsville by Ids own troops, bad reached US.
vane.
John O. Break!midge, Col. Wood Taylor, Capt•
ani.dneamap to Jeff Davie, two soldiers, and
a negro, arrived . at Cardeone, in an open boat, on
sna 11th, prot.ablt' tlhte the Florida 00aat• Braoltin.
rldp.e was saaotoparded (TOM Cardenas oy aSpaulsn
efficer, charged by the Governor or Otadenes to
prevent his, to the Captain General, and he le now
In Havana,
The ne)tien war continues. President .TelTerdte
trot ps were victorious in all etgsgelnents, and the
forces of the rebels were decreasing.
The United States steamer Paladin nightly land/
a tome at Cane Haytien, to protect the tandem
of the United States Conant.
The news from Venesttela is of a Eatisfaetery chap
miter. Gen, Falcon hue boon elooted President.
A petition, signed by the MOSS wealthy %habitude
of the island of Cuba, has been forwarded to Spain,
asking that Gen.he may not be superseded as
Ceptain General.
The weather at Havana was very warm, and
there is the usual quantity of yellow fever,
William T. Minor, United States Consul at Ha
vana, is a passenger on the Eagle,
DEATH OF MU SD RUFFIN.
THE NAN 'WHO FIRST RAISED HIS HAND
AGAMT THE UNION A SUICIDE,
TO THE DEATH HE IS AN "UNSUB•
DUED REBEL"
particulars of his Self murder---11e could
not Live under the 'United
States Government.
From Richmond and Petersburg paporS of the Mk
we learn of the suicide of the Virginian, Edmond
Rome, "the anolent patriot wh, bared his gray
head to the breezes of the sea and fired the ilea gun
against the power of the Yenkees.w
[From the Richmond Republic, 20th.)
On Saturday lest Mr. Edmund Ruffin, a very die.
tiragutsbed aerioulturlut of Virgiula, committed safe
ode at his resides:loe, near Dl:annex depOr., on the
Richmond and Literelle Railroad. Re retired to
ehamber at an early Pour in the morning, and,
taking a Peat in a chair tuck a gat, belied with
that and slugs, and, piecing the muzzle to ins
mouth, discharged the pleee by pushing the trigger
with a Mirk. The upper portion of hie head was
entirely blown off. in a diary of his was found a
memorandum stating that he could never live
under the United Staled Government, and took death,
in preference. In the same memorandum he
bald that be would have committed the deed On
I he 9th of April. (the day Gemara). Leo surrendered,)
but was peeeented by the presence or visitors In his
boast. Mr. Rattle was well known in Virglnie
his tint a le Pelletier asrioulture in the State. end
was once editor, we believe, of the Seritilere Flower,
He was well known throughout the country durldg
the first of the war, irom the ardor with welch he
embraced the Confederate cause, and panto/LIAM
from the fact that he was the men who heed the first
g at Sumptun at Fort r when , ard intria
barded th work In 1851. Gen Beaure
Be was over seventy
years of age.
(From the Petersburg Exprees, 20th.)
Mr. Ruffin was known throughout the State as a .
most successful agrieulturist. lie lived le We
city many years, and published here an agricultu
ral periodical caned the Fermerts Regteter, wish
a:tared a large degree of nubile favor. Re was
also the author of a popular volume on Oalcereauti
Manures, which contributed greatly to the improve.
ment et our tidewater lands by bringing marls into
we. Dir. Ruffin wsg at one time 011ie life, and Mt
several year& a State Senator and dienharged
his 'ablative Curios . with ability and IndliSs
try. He was Of a warm and mitten,. tem
rrrameet, and maintained his political opirderse
with great earnestness and inflexibility. Fie es.
longed to the extreme Southern Rights ;party, and
partleipated actively in the amnion movement,
the c lasts oue issue of which was no doubt a terhole
shock to him, and In all probability led to his self.
destruction. It will be recollected that Mr. Ruffin
dug the first spadeful of earth for the building of
retire with which to assault Fort Sumpter. Sub
sequently lee fired the Ant grin at Sitnlpter, an sot
of Plaint he always spoke with pride and exultation.
A. Fight on Staten Island.
New YOBS. June 21.—Daring the reoeptioe. of
volunteers,•at Staten Island, to-day, a Oe oo•
ourred between the soldiere and citizens, and a pla
toon cf soldiers fired upon the orowd, Lieutenant
Nelson, of the Nth New York regiment was wound.
ea, is telleved mortally. Two Ottl2ollll and one
COldlor, of the isaalew York, were wounded ' wad
several persons were injured by flying some and
bricks.
!Markets by Telegraph.
Bax.Timotet, June 21.—Flour
steady. (iota steady; white sl@lo3. Previelenil
firm. Sugar quiet. Whisk!' dull and nominal.
Onicaeo, Juno al,--Flour dull and 1001(160 loner 1,
spring extras, ea 7560.12. Wheat quiet and , le
higher; sales No. 1 at ta1.13,14431.14X, closing at
$1.14g ; No. 2 in moderate demand r.t. Si. Oorn
irm and 10136 e higher 1.1 , 70. 1, 6630iSe ; No. 2,
esa No. Oats ryrdet audio higher ; sales at 451 at
sfixo. High WineSoluil and unohavell.
oblong dull; lul6ll Mop Bien York at *16.76.
Freights steady%
Receipts.
Flour, 6,100 bbls
Wheat, egoacio bap
Om, 104,000 WO
Oats, 103,030 baph
NEW Iralca CITY.
NEw Yeast, June 21
THaizarmeATlON PROB . ORAR.„T•,11111TOW
Dr. Mackey, of Charleston, B. 0., announced
pablioiy,in the Aster HMSO, lett fleecing, that the
committee which arriVed here yeaterdity S 4 wait
upon the Pregnant are origlual seoessioniste,
baying been rebels all through the war, and their
coming here, the doctor said, was an outrage and
an Mann tothe GOVOIMM ORt.
RBA BVBRING STOUR, BOARD.
iD P. M.—Gold 14214, dogleg arm can at 143 ;
New York Central, 52X; ErtO, 762 f t Reading, 94m;
Michigan Central, MX; Michigan Southern, 68X;
litmots Central, 1223;; Pittsburg, ; Our
Co., as; Bleeipotto4.
Furinste.L 811.11VICES.—YeOlerday after
noon the ohsennieS Of Thomas J, 00014, a promi
nent merchant of this city, were solemnised at St.
Joseph's church ) Willing's alley. The funeral of
the oeoeased wee large, a tribute to the good
qualities he exhibited in life Rev. F, J. Barbell%
S. J., the pastor of the church, was tho notehrant,
and at the oonoltudou of the 00r6 , 330G1ee preaebed a
carmen from the usual text selected by the Oatitolte
ohurch—" Orman qui orvet et credit In me non
morletur a n dtornm. It T h etnd le with
attention general profit. choral Past of
the terrine was well entrusted, inise Clarence Ka
Oa Frey and Mrs, Jotepbtne Setiltapf nee O'Connell.
" sole, F•t:lpported by a powerful chorus, to
cluingJohn. 3. mammy, Esq., WI 441110 of the ohott
,
9f the Ithhtfih.
shipments.
§,olo
2,700
' 117,000
' 65,000