THE PIZE,'SS, 3:SMASHED DAILY (SUNDAYS -EXCEPTED) BY JOHN W. FORNEY'. ' No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY PRESS, TO City Subscribers, Is FIFTEEN' DOLLARS DER WEK, in advance; Or FIFTEEN CENTS PER WEEK, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Sub- Calibers o of tiro city, SartE DOLLARS PER ANNUM; TutHEE& DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR mosTaa: ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS FOR TORE N MONTIIS, invariably in advance SOT the time ordered. ~Ogif. Advertisements inserted at the usual rate!. T UE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS. letitilert to Subscribers, FOUR DOLLARS FEE Ax incr, in advance. assamalzali Vrtz. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1965 tHjEI NEWS. The findings- of the Military Commission for the trial of the c onspirators haying been ap proved by President JohnSOn, Were promul gated yesterday. The sentence of the court is that ray'', At zerott, Harold, and Mrs. Suratt be hung; O'Laughlin, Arnold, and Dr. Mudd Ue iinprisoned for life, at hard labor, and that F.pangler be imprisoned for six years. The sentence of the first four will be carried out in Arsenal grounds at Washington to-day be tween the hours of ten and two O'clock. The list of the conspirators are to he confined in {he Albany Penitentiary. On the delivery of the death-warrants to the condemned, Payne did not seem surprised, but the others were More or less affected. Mrs. Suratt was especi ally so, and plead for four day's additional o ne to prepare herself for death. Every preparation for the execution has been made. Py general orders of the War Department, tbcre is to be a further reduction of the army. The Philadelphia troops, to be mustered out immediately, are the 25th, 29th, 43th, 73d, 79th, ansi 147th• The 33d New Jersey Infantry, and the 1.4 and 3d New Jersey Cavalry regi ments are also to be honorably discharged. (In the 17th ult. the Spanish Government re- Yoked its grant of beligerent rights to the in surgents in this country. This was before the fl ews of the rescinding of the blockade could, litre been received in Spain. A despatch.from New Orleans says that the robot portion of the Cherokee Nation is on the Verge of starvation. General Ord yesterday assumed command of the Northern 'Military Department, hadquar ters at Cincinnati. His predecessor, General Booker, is to succeed General Dix. The President this week has pardoned about one hundr4d and twenty-five rebels, mostly I.;ortli Caroliniang. Admiral. Funs:gut and General Anderson 31ad a reception at Faneuil Hall, Boston, yes terday. The President so far recovered that his rbysicians think. he will be able to resume ids duties in a few (lays. Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, in his Fourth of JulyoratiOn, took strong grounds in la) or of negro suffrage and the Monroe doc trine. Ale candor Hogg, of the firm Of Mackay Hogg, of this city, was drowned at Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday hist, A light between •citizens and soldiers took wince at Smithfield, near Fortress Monroe on Tuesday. One soldier and one citizen were wounded. some unknown person put a keg of powder in the tireplaeo.of the steamer Chorcida, at Cent re Harbor, New Hampshire, on Wedues- L by, which exploding, did some damage, but fortunately no one was injured. Espeditions are leaving Fort Laramie i7mieSt the Indians in that 'vicinity. The Grand Jury of the United States District Court yesterday made a presentment to judge cedwalader in relation to the 'embezzlements in the Navy Yard. They say that the selection by the Government of those who were to be tried for these frauds was judicious; and true jells haye been found against four of them, and they will shortly be tried for their of fences. ht the Select branch of Councils yesterday, the Committee on Water reported that all of the water plugs in the city, except one, Were in good order. The cash in hand in the city treasury on June Ist, was reported at 5t,01;?,332.23. During the month there was re ceived, $1,035,008,32.. A resolution was passed directing, the Committee on Gas to confer uith the Trustees of the Gas Works in order io thiTc the price - of gas reduced. Also a reso lution appropriating $B,OOO for the improve inent of Fairmount Park. In Common Council a bill was passed appro i.risting $710,000 for the erection of water vork: , 3 in the Twentieth, TWenty-first, Twenty- Hewn], and. Twenty-fourth wards. The bill I , rovitling for• the - realm]. of a new school house in the Seventh Ward, was passed over the Mayor's veto. Other business of minor Importance was :transacted, after which the (handier adjourned. There is rather more doing in flour, but prices are unsettled. Wheat is dull and lower. Corn is also lower. In cotton there is eery little doing, but prices are without change. Provisions are firmly held at former rates Whisky Is dull. The stock market was more active yester day. Government bonds are in betterdemand at an advance, With sales of fti v e-twenties at 194, and sires of issi at 106y 2 , an advance of :shrew] shares were in better demand, With • idei of Reading at 49%@49 3 4, the latter rate advance of y a . Gold closed in New York, last evening, at THE Tho eentencc of the four chief conspira tors in the assassination of Mr. LrNcors, wind the projected murder of Mr. SEWAi?.D sad others, having been approved by Pre trident JouNso - s, will be carried into effect to-day. There is in the seqUel of the Moody Friday, the 14th of April, some thing of appalling interest. The details 0' the tragedy appear to us in hideous dis tinctness. The night at the theatre, at first py, and then crowded with horror and death—the invasion of Mr. SE WARD'S clam her, and the terrible struggle with the un loosed fiend the unutterable grief of the peo- rie—the flight of the assassin—pass before us in spechal procession. Shall ;they not die who contrived this work of unspeakable crime ± They have been tried and found plilty. Even in the midst of the clamor sgitinst the court which adjudged them, the leading savage of the gang, after BOOTIT himself, ex-posed and made clear the guilt 01 the rest by the confession of his own. 'hat the sentence is to be enforced at once is in keeping with the necessity for a stern example. And yet these wretches only muck in obedience to orders. They were but the tools of the master-workmen. Had There Leen no JEFFERSON DAVIS, there had iren no PlOOlll. From the bell-broth of Trea'on rose the vapors that poisoned heater intellects like those who perish to-flux.. And •.-while we thirst for no toau's blood, justice demands that when thi - underlings. of the Great Criminal are ignominiously- executed he should not be eampted from the fate he accepted for him- Rif, el;en as he forced it upon them. One word more. We trust there is to be he an cad of the shameless fabrication of *Lir:hoods fis to President JouNsox's pur ipi,es in the punishment of traitors and the 1 orderers -they hire. The business of , iiling, these lies has been busily kept up !are the first hour's trial of the conspira ts, Only a few days ago a despatch was iced and published as from Washington, to 1. effect that the President was displeased 'muse the respontibility of disposing of the ;ion of the Military Court had been :ced upon him, Where else could it go to him ? Of course, this was known She authors and utterers of counterfeit W. From the same source came the ;aor that he would ignore the action of Military Court and send the cases to • civil tribunals—equally false and A.-m -inded. No motive . beyond helping the satiate foes of the Republic—beyond Aructing the efforts of the constituted au elides to vindicate the Government and :mite the laws—can be traced to such 1 Jrsistent and pestilent malevolence. The resident has done his duty, as good men pxpected. He cannot stop to explain his fltentions to all who falsify his objects, and Weaken his policy by anticipating the exact ppposite of his designs. He must bide his line, and let his action be his best, as it is his only, defender. HISTORY often repeats the old story of he visionary, enthusiastic, and reformatory young prince becoming a conservative king as soon as the crown is firmly fixed upon Lis brows. 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Few men are less likely to be nfluenced in favor of negro suffrage by preconceived opinions ; but the change of sentiment produced in his mind by a short intercourse with Southern society is pa ralleled by other instances within our know ledge. It is clear that the initiatory steps to secure the restoration of the seceded states to their old relations with the Union must and will be made, under the auspices of their provisional Governors, by the loyal white men only—the negroes being de barred from the right of suffrage by the constitutions and laws in existence prior to secession, which regulate the first legal movements towards reorganization. But it nevertheless remainsls rith Ciongress to pass judgment upon the reception of members from the seceded States, and if the sentiment described by our correspondent is not essen tially mollified; if it is clearly shown that the rebels have learned neither wisdom, pa triotism, or the virtue of submission by the teachings of the war, and that their only object in "coming back into the Union" is to organize a new insidious political warfare against the perpetuity of the Republic, we apprehend it will be found as difficult for disunion Senators and Representatives to regain their old seats in Congress as it was easy for them to vacate those positions in 1860-61. The President clearly had no right to insist upon negro suffrage as a ne cessary preliminary to reorganization. He has given to the people of the South an op portunity to make amends for past errors and crimes by the exhibition of a loyal spirit in future. But if generosity and mag nanimity are to be repaid only by new evi dences of treachery and treason, a remedy even for such baseness can be applied : [Correspondence of The Press.] MOBILE, Ala., Juno :1,1865 I have come down to this part of the coun try with the intention of casting my lot with it for the future, and feel impelled to send you a line to tell of my impressions of the people. I have been, for some six weeks, in daily con tact with Southern people of all political shades, and, though I am a poor talker, I am a good listener, and not a very bad hand at form ing conclusions from a great deal of hearing. I came to the Gulf States full of very fine noe l-lea about the necessity- of educating the no. gro before we could extend to him the privi lege of suffrage. He was ignorant; he was bigoted ; he was prejudiced ; he could not be trusted with the privileges of a voter until he had attained a certain standard of education. Well, sir, I was never farther away from the truth in my life. I have listened by the hour to the familiar, social, unrestrained talk of Southern people; and I have been sorry to conclude, from all that I have heard, that the damnable heresy of the States-right doctrine, upon Which, with imagined evils threatened to the institution of slavery, they based their acts of secession and rebellion, is as deeply rooted in their convictions as it ever was. They have failed to establish the success of their principles at the bayonet's point and the cannon's mouth, but those principles lie Its near to the hearts of the great mass of them as ever, and true loyalty to the Government, as constituting a principle with the mass of the people at the North, is entirely foreign to the breasts of the masses in the South. The same hostility that was openly displayed in arms exists secretly in the breasts of the Southern people, and is ready at any time to exert itself, no longer in overt acts, but in every possible pacific way to thwart the unity, and the progress of the Repub lic. On the other hand, the negro has but one principle and one affection. His principle is that of devotion to the Union; his affection heart-whole for the cause that has restored him to manhood. No doubts of the justice of the cause cross his mind. Noclouds of casuists' raising obscure his vision. His instincts alone point out to him the path he is to tread as a free man, and point it out unerringly. Who so Mtn , -to trust with theao.-thff -atrity-Nirith be? Can demago.- - k a r u t: . 3: s L sophistries? o muoito olkow learning not. as e h m i s may I m o: - 3, ce t m o e l l . e t ! „ ktinl .... - ir w th n e xc r, p b e i rt tt a he e s is to o the les ti advancement of all members of the human family, himself included. And if you could see, as I haVe seen, the colored people of these Southern cities, sitting at their door-steps, in the moonlight, on hot evenings, teaching each other to spell and to count, regardless of the comments of those who passed by, you would not be slow in coming to the belief that even the supposed amount of education necessary to enable them to vote intelligently will not be long wanting. I, for one, contrary to all my previous expo°• tationS, am fully convinced that the only safety for the South is in the extension of free suffrage to the people of an colors, and I mean to throw myself into the advocacy of this cause with all my energy. Far better is the instinct that teaches loyalty to the Union than the false education that makes States-rights traitors. Shall we trust the future of our country to the instinct that inevitably leads to the right, or to the educated sophistry that inculcates what is false and ruinous? We are by no means ready fora reconstrue• tion under the domination of defeated but unconvinced traitors. We have hada terrible war ; let us not cast away its fruits. Let us have military government in the Southern States until the sentiment of true loyalty begins to be felt; or, if we must have civil gor ermients reconstructed, let those who have every cause to love the Union not be put aside, while its interests are confided to the hands of those who have been its open ene mies, LETTER FROM` OC CA SIONAL.” WASHINGTON, Tilly 6, 1865 The war for the Government, began to punish and put down rebellion, and after wards stimulated and fired by the conquer ing resolve of freeing a whole people, has been crowned with a peace in which the grandest ideas have received the grandest illustration. The celebration of the last an niversary of National Independence was an instance. The clay was made the occa sion of peculiar rejoicing. The double cause of a Government created and a country saved gave keenness and intensity to the public gratitude. The citizens Who had fought for the Republic were, at home, ido lized and flattered, in a thousand ways. Invention was exhausted to do them honor. , Four years of soldiers, or rather the sol diers who had served and, suffered during four years, making in all a series of mighty armies, were returned to and mixed with the body of the people, with all their military habits, curious experiences, and apprehended violence and turlplence. And yet no more disturbance bas been made in the current of society than that created by the addition of a mountain stream to the volume of a river, or by the contribution of the river to the ' sea. The effect has, indeed, been to enli ven, and to make wholesome much that was dull and languid. The harvest fields, the manufactories, the trades, are jocund with the happy voices of the returned vete rans. But there is no confusion, riot, or anarchy. Even the excess of popular affection for them has bred no excess of exultation. The last Fourth of July, the most glorious and ecstatic in our history, was the clearest of disorder, of vice and crime. It was more like a Sabbath. Na ture seemed to have arrayed herself for the Commemoration. No lovelier skies, fresher flowers riper fields, and balmier airs, ever offered their tributes to adorn and purify a day in early July. The soldiers were not indifferent be cause they were not noisy. If we saw few uniforms in the dense crowds which surged along our streets, we felt that our brave preservers were there. Walter &cat, in his memorable introduction to the " Wa his authorship was veily" novels, after made known, says it was a source, to him, of exquisite plea Sure, to mingle with the people and to hear the praise of his works on every tongue, mingled with disputes as to the writer's name; and that he felt as proud of his fortune as the lover who wore his mistress' favor in his bosom, concealed from vulgar eyes. And doubtless many a brave fellow enjoyed the celebration of Tuesday with a yet profounder joy be cause his citizen' a dress concealed his relation to triumphant war. IS Pt WS decorous bearing of our returned defenders a new claim to our respect ? Does not the lustre of their noble deeds shine brighter in pleasing contrast with their retiring and unpretending conduct, as they fall back into the ranks of private life ? Assuredly there could be no finer moral spectacle—no more promising demonstration in the many signal proofs of a lasting peace. It needed only this to complete and clinch the claim of the nation's preservers upon the nation's grati tude. They do not ask—they do not press —for reward or for recognition. But their deserts and deserving are therefore the stronger. If they are forgotten by the po liticians, I fear the politicians will not be remembered by them in the good time coming. OCCASIONAL. WASHINGTON. THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH STILL EMOVENTI. The Spanish Government withdraws its Con- cessions to the Rebels, WASHINOTOIf, July 6, The Health or the President. The attendant physician has expressed the belief that the Yresident will be able to re- Mlle his duties in a few days. Troops to be Mastered Out. In pursuance of General Orders No. 160, dated Headquarters Department of Washing. ton, July sth, 1865, Brevet Major General BART LETT'S division, composed of the 79th Pennsyl vania, 17th New York, 35th New York, 46th Pennsylvania, 143 d New York, sth C. T., 2d Massachusetts, 29th Pennsylvania, 28th Penn sylvania, 147th Pennsylvania, 73d Pennsyl vania, 111th Pennsylvania, 60th New York, 33d New Jersey, and 1024 New York Regiments, will be at once mustered out of service and ordered to their proper State rendezvous. The fist separate cavalry brigade, composed of the Ist and 3d Regiments New Jersey Cavalry, Ist Connecticut Cavalry, and 2d Massachusetts Cavalry, Brigadier General GAMBLE command ing, is tb be immediately mustered out of the service. The Spanish Government and the Be- bellion. It is understoOd that on the 17th ult., and of course before the news of the rescinding of the blockade could have been received, the Spa nish Government had revoked its grant of bel ligerent rights to the insurgents in this Coun try. Pardons by the President. About one hundred and twenty-five pardons have been granted by the President this week, the larger part from North Carolina. The dr:merriment as advertised another sale Of Vessels on the 20th inst., fifteen in mini her, including the captured bleekade-runner Banshee, steel-plated, and 213 feet long. The Forthcoming Execution. WASHINGTON, July 6.--Major General Han cock repaired to the arsenal at noon to-day, and delivered the death warrants of Payne, Harold, Mrs. Suratt, and Atzerott, to Major General Hartrauft, who is in charge of the prisoners, when they together visited the con demned to inform them of the sentence pro nounced and the time fixed for their execu tion. Payne was the first to whom the intelli gence was communicated. It did not seem to take him by surprise, as doubtless he antici pated no other sentence, and had nerved himself accordingly. The other prisoners were naturally more or less affected. Mrs. Suratt, particularly, sunk under the dread an nouncement, and pleaded for four clays addi tional time to prepare herself for death. All the prisoners will be attended by clergymen of their own designation. The scaffold has been erected in the south yard of the old Peni tentiary building, which is enclosed by a high brick wall. The coffins and burial clothes have already been prepared. Only a limited num ber of per Sons will be admitted to the scene. The sentence in the ease of the conspirators who are to be imprisoned will be carried into immediate execution. FORTRESS MONROE. A Fight Between Citizens and Soldiers— A ]Mutiny—Arrivals. }' Fcgr.TRESS ALONROB.__JIII37: - Party of colored individuals, yesterday; anCt. detail for a guard was made for the occasion from Companies C and K, Eid New York Caval ry. Their right to land at Smithfield was con tested by some citizens, creating fl disturbance that required the services of the guard to quell. Private John Gray, of Company C, was shot by bis sergeant for not obeying orders, and one of the citizens had his scalp removed by the sword of a Federal officer, after which order was restored. Arrived, Schooner E. English, from New York, with forage; schooner Jos. Franklin, New York, with forage for City Point ; schoon er Helen, New York; schooner J. J. Worthing ton, New York; steamer Ella Mary, from New berm, with troops ; schooner L. B. Strong, from New York for City Point; schooner Samuel Eddy, from City Point. The steamer Porter, for Texas, has a crew on board refusing to do duty. The provost mar shal's attention has been called to the subject. Robert Searl, of Norfolk, is said to be the citizen injured at Smithfield, yesterday. Thermometer 96 degrees in the shade. LOUISIANA. The Fourth in. New Orleans—The Che• rokee Indians in a Starving Condi. tion—Good Promise of Fine Crops, etc. fires ORLEANS, July 3.—The schooner Lorena, in going from New Orleans to Mobile, was wrecked in the lower obstructions. Her cargo, which was owned by J. M. G. Parker, is a total The crops are looking well in We.gt Lou. isiona. The freeamen arc still flocking into town. There will be a double celebration of the Fourth to-morrow, the first committee ap pointed having too many recent Confederates on it. Gen. Banks will address the opposition meeting, and Win. Reed Williams the other. The hag hauled down from the custom-house before the war is to be restored. The 2tue Delta has passel into the hands 0 W. R. Adams and Mr. Oliver. The Evening Star sails for New York to night. The Times is informed that the rebel portion of the Cherokee nation is near starvation. Oen. Stanley appeals to the Texans for relief. The inquiry for cotton is moderate, and there are no sales reported of Western pro duce. Gold, 140%. Domestic exchange, check ing on New York, 94 discount. Baplesion of a Keg of Powder out Board a Steamer. CENTRE Harmon, N. IL, July 6.—While the steamer Chorcirda was lying at the wharf at this place, last night, some one unknown placed a keg of powder on the furnace, when an ex plosion took place, blowing up the front deck and shattering the door panels, but not in juring the machinery. She was able to leave on time this morning. No one on board was much injured. Expedition Against Hostile Indians. FORT LARAMIE, July 6.—A column, consist ing of the 2d Missouri Light Artillery, equipped as cavalry, and the 12th Missouri Cavalry, passed Columbus, Nebraska, to-day, on their way to the Powder river country, to co-operate with two other columns now pre paring to march from Laramie against the boltilt Indians. A Philadelphian Drowned at Savannah. SAVANNAH, GA., July s.—Alexander Hogg was drowned yesterday while bathing near this place. His body has not been recovered. [Mr. Hogg was a merchant of this city, of the firm of Mackey & Hogg, doing business in Water street, above Chestnut, and was a most estimable citizen. He resided in Fifth street, near Reed, and leaves a family.] Prow Cairo. CArao, July 6.—An arrival from New Orleans brings 216 bales of cotton for Cairo, and 255 bales of cotton and 450 hogsheads of sugar for St. Louis. nn arrival from Memphis brings 100 bales of cotton for St. Louis. Reception of Farr/taut in Boston. Bowrox, July S.—Several thousand men and women shook hands with or otherwise saluted Admiral Farragut and General Anderson, at Fanieul Hall, to-day. The levee was quite informal. Election of a Canal. President. llnaimolus, July 6.—J. Shively, of Hancock, vas to-day elected President Of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, in the place of Alfred Spates, oY Unniberland, Maryland. Markets by Telegraph. CHICAGOS July C.—Flour firma Wheat active and 2c higher sales of No.l at $1.04@1.04'/ and No. 2at 137@89e. Corn firm, and advanced-1c ; tales of No. 1 at WA and No. 2at 52c. Oats firm nt 41 1 /0042e. Freights quiet and unchanged. PrOVISIOIIB fi rm 5 Moss Pork $25. nigh Wines firin ; sales at 42.02%M2.03. Weelpt3. 6h3pment6. Flour • B , o uu 7,000 Wheat 45,000 50,000 Corn 161,00(1 31,000 Oats 82,000 114,000 ClzrowniTl, July 6.--Flour and Wheat firmer, the latter being advanced to *1.35 for red. 05 bbls of WhiSky 801 d tit *l, O O, and TOO 41318 ilaCiA Dark at f 26. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1865. lESULT OF 'I TIM. FINDING OF THE COURT. ITS SENTENCES APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT. Lewis Payne, Mrs. Suratt, George A. Atzerott, and David E. Harold, to be Hanged To-day. DR. MUDD, ARNOLD, AND O'LAUGHLIN, TO BE IMPRISONED FOR LIFE. Spangler to be Confined in the Peniten tiary for Six Years. THEIR FATE ANNOUNCED TO THEM YESTERDAY. ALL BUT PAYNE RECEIVE IT:VIM FEAR AND TREDIBLING., MRS. MATT PLEADS POE POOR DAYS LOADER LEAVE OP LIFE. The Preparations for the Death all Made. WASHTNOTON, Judy 6.—ln accordance with the findings and sentences of the Military Co m-mission, which the President approved yester- , terclay, David E. Harold, Lewis Payne, Mrs, Scrag, and George A, Atzerott are to be hung to-morrow by the proper military au thority. Dr. Mudd, Arnold, and O'Laughlin are to be imprisoned for life, and Spangler for six years, all at bard labor, in the Albany Pent tentiary. THE OFFICIAL ORDER. WASHINGTON, July 8,---The following import ant order has just been issued: WAP, 'DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, July 5, 1865.—T0 Major General W. S. Hancock, United States Volun teers, commanding the Middle Military Divi 810n, Washington, D. C. Whereas, by the Military CommissiOn ap pointed in paragraph 4, Special Orders, No. 911, dated War Department, Adjutant General's office, Washington, May 6, 1865, and of which Major General David Hunter, United Statbs Volunteers, was president, the following named persons were tried, and, after mature consideration of evidence adduced in their CHU, were found and sentenced as hereinafter stated, as follows; lirst. David E. Harold—Finding of the speei- Ideation, guilty, except combining, confederat ing, and conspiring with Edward Spangler, as to which part thereof, not guilty ; of the charge guilty, except the words of the charge, that he combined, confederated, and conspired with Edward Spangler ; as to which part of the charge, not guilty. Sentence—And the Commission does, there fore, sentence him, the said David E. Harold, to be hanged by the neck until he be dead, at such time and place as the President of the "United States shall direct, two-thirds of the Commission concurring therein. Second. George A. Atzerott—Finding of spe cification, guilty, except combining, confede rating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; - of this, not guilty. Of the charge, guilty, 433;• eept combining, confederating, and eonspiriat with Edward Spangler; of thismot Sentence—And the Commission does, there fore, sentence him, the said George A. Atze rott, to be hung by the neck until he be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States sh,iti_ • Third. lewis Payne---Finding of the specifi cation, guilty, except combining, confederat ing, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty. Of the charge, guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty. Sentence—And this Commission does there-. fore sentence him, the said Lewis Payne, to be hung by the neck until ho be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States shall direct, two-thirds of the Commis sion concurring therein. Fourth. Mary E. Suratt—Finding of the spe cification guilty, except as to receiving, sus. tabling, harboring, and concealing Samuel Ar nold and Michael O'Laughlin, and except as to combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler ;of this not guilty. Oi the charge guilty, except as to combining, con federating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler of this not guilty. ecntcnce—And the Commission does, there. fore, sentence her, the said Mary E. Suratt, to be hung by the neck until she be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States shall direct, two-thirds of the members of the Commission concurring therein, And whereas, the President of the United States has approved the foregoing sentences in the following order, to wit: EXECIIDVa lifAxsiow, July 5, 1865.—Tlie fore going sentences in the case of David E. Harold, G. A. Atzerott, Lewis Payne, Mary E. Suratt, arc hereby approved ; and it is ordered that the sentences in the eases of David E. Harold, G. A. Atzerott, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Suratt, be earrried into execution by the proper 'unitary authority, under the direction of the Secretary of War, on the 7th day of July 1865, between the hours of ten otelock A. M. and two o'clock P. M., of that day. ANDREW Jorixsorr, President. Therefore you are hereby commanded to cause the foregoing sentences, in the cases of David E. Harold, G. A. Atzerott, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Suratt, to be dilly executed, in ac cordance with the President's order. BY command of the President of the United States. E. D. TOWNSUND7 Assistant Adjutant General. In the remaining cases, of O'Laughlin, Spangler, Arnold, and Mudd, the findings and sentences are as follows EWE. Michael O'Laughlin. Finding of the Specification guilty ; except the words thereof as follows: And in the words thereof as follows : And in the further prosecution of the conspiracy aforesaid, and of its murderous and treasona ble purposes aforesaid, on the nights of the 13th and 14th of April, 1865, at Washington city, and within the military department and military lines' aforesaid, the said Michael O'Laughlin did there and then lie in wait for Ulysses S. Grant, then Lieutenant General and commander of the arms of the United States, with intent then and there to kill and murder the said Ulysses S. Grant- . -of said words not guilty, and except combining, con federating, and conspiring, with Edward. Spangler—of this not guilty. 'Of the charge— guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this not Sentence.—The Commission sentence O'Laugh lin to be imprisoned at hard labor for life. girth. Finding—Edward Spangler, of the spe cification, not guilty, except as to the words "the said Edward Spangler, on said 14th day of April, A. D. 18115, at about the same hour of that day, as aforesaid, within said military department and the military lines aforesaid, did ant and abet him (meaning John Wilkes Booth) in making his escape after: the said Abrahain Lincoln had been murdered in man ner aforesaid," and of these words, guilty. Of the charge not guilty, hut guilty of having fe loniously and traitorously aided and abetted John Wilkes Booth in making his escape after having killed and murdered Abraham coin, President of the United States, 'he, the said Edward Spangler, at the time of aiding and abetting as aforesaid, well knowing that the said Abraham Lincoln, President as afore said, had been murdered by the said John 'Wilkes Booth as aforesaid. The Commission sentenced Spangler to hard labor for six years. Seventh,. Samuel Arnold—Of the specilica tio»s, guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring - with Edward Spangler ; of this not guilty. Of the charge, guilty, except earn ' Lining, confederating, and conspiring with Ed ward Spangler ;of this not guilty. The Com mission sentenced him to imprisonment at hard labor for life. Eighth. Samuel A. Mudd—Of the specillea tion, guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this not guilty; mid excepting receiving, and en tertaining, and harboring, and concealing said Lewis Payne, John IL Suratt Michael O'Laughlin, George A. Atzerott,' Mary • E. Su ratt, and Samuel Arnold ; of this not guilty. Of the charge guilty, except combining, con federating, and conspiring with Edward . Spau. gler; of this part guilty. The Commission sen tenced Mudd to be imprisoned at hard labor for life. The President's order in these cases is as follows It is further ordered, that the prisoners, Samuel Arnold, Samuel A. Miidd, and Michael O'Laughlin, be confined at hard labor in the - penitentiary at Albany, New York, during the period designated in their respective son -1,049§% AhAnEW Joss 02b President. THE CHARGES AND SPECIFICATIONS AGAINST THE ASSASSINS. In order that our readers may learn oil what charges and specification's the cow.- spirators were found guilty, we subjoin the. charges made by the Government, through- Judge-Advocate Holt, at the opening of the Charge I.—For maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously, and in aid of the existing armed rebellion against the United States of Ame rica, on or before the 6th of March, A. D. 1565, and on divers other daya between that day and the ism day of April, A. D. 1855, com bining, confederating, and conspiring together with one John it Sundt, John Wilkes Booth, Jefferson Davis, George N. San ders, Beverly Tucker, Jacob Thompson, 'William C. Cleary, - Clement C. Clay, George Harper, Gorge Young, anti others unknown, within the Military Department of Washing -ton, and within the fortified and entrenched lines thereof, to kill anti murder Abra ham Lincoln, late, and at the time of the combining, confederating, and conspiring, President of the United States of America, mid Commander-in-Chief Of the army and navy thereof; Andrew Johnson, now President of the United States aforesaid; Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States afore said, and Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant Gene-. nil of the army of the United States aforesaid, then in command of the armies of the United States, under the direc tion of the said Abraham Lincoln, and in pur suance of and in prosecuting . said malicions, unlawful, and traitorous conspiracy, aforesaid, and in aid of said rebellion, afterwards—to wit: on the 14th day of April, A.D. 1865—within the military . department of Washington afore- , said, anti within the fortified and entrenched lines of Said military department, together with the said John iVilkes Booth and John H. Surat, maliciously, unlawfully, and traito rously murdering the said Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States and Corn mender-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, as aforesaid, and maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously assaulting, with intent to kilt and murder the said Witham H. Seward, then Secretary of State of the United Slides, as aforesaid and lying in wait ; , with in tent maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously kill and murder the said Andrew Johnaon, - then being Vice President of the United States, and the said Ulysses S. Grant, then be ing Lieutenant General, and in command of the armies of the United States, as aforesaid. Specificatibn 1. In this that they, the said _David E. Darold, Edward Spangler, Lewis Payne, John Suratt, Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Suratt, George A. At zerott, and Samuel A. Mudd, incited and. en couraged thereunto bJefferson Davis, George N. Sanders, Beverly Tu y cker, Jacob Thompson ) William C. ;Cleary, Clement C. Clay, Georg. e Young, and tethers, unknown citizens, of the United States aforesaid, and who were en gaged in armed rebellion against the United States of America within the limits thereof, did, in aid of said armed rebellion, on or before the 6th day of March, A. IL 1855, and on divers other days or times between that day and the 15th day of April, A. 0. 1865, combine, confederate, and conspire to *ether, at Washington city, within the mili tary department and Within the entrenched fortifications anti Military lines of the said United States, there combine unlawfully, ma liciously, and traitorously, to/kill and murder Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States aforesaid, and Commander-in-Chief of the army and - navy thereof, and unlawfully", maliciously,:. and traitorously to kill and murder Andrew Johnson, then Vice Presi dent of the United States, upon whom; on the death -of the said Abraham Lincoln, after the 4th day of March, A. D. 1865, the office of President of the said United States, and Commander-in-Chief of the array and navy thereof, would devolve, and to unlaw fully, maliciously, and traitorously kill and murder U. S. Grant, then Lieutenant General, under the direction of said Abraham Lincoln, in command of the armies of the United States aforesaid, and unlawfully, maliciously, and traitorously to kill and murder William 11. Seward, then Secretary of State of the United States aforesaid, whose duty it was by law, upon the death of said President and Vice President of the United States aforesaid, to cause an election for electors of President of the United States. The conspirators afore said designing or intending by the ldiling and murder of the said Abraham Lincoln anti Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and William li. Seward as aforesaid, to deprive the army and navy of the United States of a constitutional commander-in-chief, and to de prive the armies of the United States of their lawful commander, and to prevent a lawful election of President and Vice President of the United States aforesaid ; and by the means aforesaid to aid and comfort the insurgents en uaged in armed rebellion against the said nited States aforesaid, and thereby to aid in the subversion and overthrow of the said United States, and being SO Combined, confede rated, and conspiring together in the prosecu tion of said unlawful and traitrous conspi racy on the night of the 14th day of April, A. D. 1865, at the hour of about ten o'clock and fif teen minutes P. 11, at Fords Theatre, on Tenth street, the city of. Washington, and within the military - department and military lines afore said, John Wikes Booth, one of the conspirer tears aforesaid, in pursuance of said unlawful and traitorous conspiracy, did then and there, unlawfully, maliciously, and traitorously', and with intent to kill and. murder the said Abra ham Lincoln, discharge a pistol then held in the hands of h im r the saidßooth, the same be ing then loaded with powder and a leadenball, against and upon the left and posterior aide of the head of the said Abraham Lincoln, and did orebv_ there_ and then inflict upon him; the the army and navy tnerem, zaaasmaes_ of_tha whereof afterwards, to wit, on the 15th clay of April, A. D. 1865, at Washington city aforesaid the said Abraham Lincoln died; and thereby, then and there, in pursuance of said conspiracy, the said defendant, and the said John Wilkes Booth did, unlawfully, traitor ously and maliciously., and with the intent to aid thei rebellion as aforesaid, kill the Presi dent of the United States as aforesaid; and fur ther, in prosecution of the unlaWful traitorous conspiracy aforesaid, and of the murderous and traitorous intent of the said conspiracy, the said Edward Spangler, on the saidl4th day of April, A. D. 1865, at about the same hour of the day aforesaid, within the military depart ment and the military lines aforesaid did aid and assiatthe said John Wilkes Booth to obtain entrance to the box ha the theatre in which the said Abraham Lincoln was sitting at the time he was assaulted and shot as aforesaid by John Wilkes Booth, and also did then and there aid said Booth in barring and obstructing the door of the box of said theatre so as to hinder and prevent any assistance to a rescue of the said Abraham Lincoln against the murderous as sault of the said John Wilkes Booth; and did aid and abet Minh' making his escape after the said Abraham Lincoln had been murdered in manner aforesaid. And in further . proseeutiOn of said unlawful, murderous, and traitorous conspiracy, and in pursuance thereof, and with the intent as afore aaid, the said David E. Harold, did, on the night of the 14th of April, A. D. 1865, within the mili tary department and military lines aforesaid, aid, abet, and assist the said John Wilkes Booth in the killing. and murder of the said Abraham Lincoln, and did then and there aid and abet and assist him, the said John Wilkes Booth, in attempting to escape through the military lines aforesaid, and did accompany and ,ussist the said J. Wilkes Booth in attempting to conceal himself and escape from justice after killing and murdering sain Abraham Lincoln, as afore said ; and, in - further prosecution of said un lawful and traitorous conspiracy, and of the intent thereof as aforesaid, the said Lewis Payne did, on the same night of the 11th day of April, A. D. 1865, about the same hour of 10 o'clock and 15 minutes P. M., at the city of Washington, and within the military depart ment and military lines aforesaid, unlawfully and maliciously make an assault upon the said William H. Seward, Secretary of State afore. said, inthe dwellinaahouse andbed-chamber of him, the said William H. Seward ; and there, with a large knife held in his hand,unlawfully, traitorously, and in pursuance of the said conspiracy, strike, stab, cut, and attempt to kill and murder the said Wm. IL Seward, and did, thereby, then and there, and with the intent aforesaid, with said knife, inflict upon the face and throat of the said William H. Seward divers grievous wounds ; and the said. Lewis H. Payne, in further proseentiOn Of the said conspiracy, at the same time and place 'last aforesaid, did attempt, with the knife aforesaid, and a pistol held in his hand, to kill and murder Frederick W. Seward, Augustus W. Seward, Emerick W. Hansen, and George F. Robinson, who were then striving to nib tea, and rescue the said William 11. Seward from murder by the said Lewis Payne; and did then and there, with the said knife and. Pistol held in hiS ltionl afr inflict wounds upon the head of the said . Seward and upon the persons of the said Augustus W. Seward, Emerick W. Hansen, and George F. Robinson. And in the further prosecution of the said conspiracy, anti its traitorous and murderous designs, the said George A. Atzerott did, on the night of the 14th of April, A. D. 1865, and about the same hour of the night aforesaid, within the military department and the mili tary lines tfforesiod, lie in wait for Andrew Johnson, then Vice President of the United States aforesaid, with the intent unlawfully and Maliciously to kill and murder him, the said Andrew Johnson. And in the further prosecution of the con spiraey aforesaid, and of its murderous and treasonable purposes aforesaid,. on the night of the - 13th and 14th of April, 18655, at Washing ton city, and within the military department and military lines aforesaid, the said Michael O'Laughlin did then and there lie in wait for Ulysses S. Grant. And in the further prosecution of the said conspiracy, the said. Samuel Arnold did, Witla in the military department and military lines aforesaid, on or before the 6th day of March, A. D. 1865, and on divers other days and times between that day and the 15th of April, A. D. 191;5, combine, conspire with, and aid, counsel, and abet, comfort, and support the Said John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Payne, Geo. A. Atzerott, Michael O'Laughlin, and their confederates in the said unlawful, murderous, and traitorous conspiracy, and in the execution thereof, as aforesaid; and, in the further prosecution of the said conspiracy, Mary E. Suratt did, at Wash ington city,. and within the military depart - went and military lines aforesaid, on or before the 6th day of March, A. D. 11365, and est:livers other days and times - between that darand the 20th day of April, A. D. 1865, receive, entertain harbor and conceal, aid and assist the said John Wilkes Booth, David E. Harold, Lewis Payne, John R. Suratt, Michael O'Laughlin, George A. Atzcrott, Samuel Arnold, and their confederates, with a knowledge of the mur derous mid traitorous conspiracy aforesaid, and with intent to aid abet, and assist them in the execution thereot, and in escaping from justice after the murder of the said Abraham Lincoln, am aforesaid, with intent to aid, abet, and assist them in the execution thereof, and in escaping from Justice, after the murder of the said A. Lincoln, in pursuance of the said conspiracy in the manner aforesaid. order of the President of the United States. - J. HOLT, Judge Advocate General. WESTERN NEWS. CINCIIiNATI, July O.—Major General Ord to day assumes the command of the Northern Military Department, headquarters at Detroit. General Rooker will leavo in a few clays for New York, to relieve General Dix. The thermometer during the past few days has averaged ninety-eight. A large number of eases of sunstroke are reported, only two or three, however, proving fatal. Two soldiers were run over and killed, near Indianapolis, yesterday. Newry Winter Davis, in his Chicago speech, on the Fourth of July, took strong grounds is favor of negro suffrage and the Monroe doc trine. A. locomotive exploded at Centralia, Illinois, on. OA 4tlii killing the engineer and firOMIW4 TRE HREDILI,' CALAMITY IN 'WISCONSIN. EFFECTS OF THE TORNADO AT VIROQUA I . Vventeen Persons -Killed *lid one Hun dred Wounded. A few days ago, we gave a teleVaphie ac• count of a terrible tornado at Viroqpia, Wis eonsin,by which many were killed and wound ed. The La Crosse Republican comes to rit.with full particulars of this calamity, extracts from which we print. The Republican says "The terrible calamity that has fallen upon the people of Vernon comity, Wisconsin, wiJi appall the stoutest heart. In an instant fifty families were thrown from happiness and coin-- fort into grief and adversity. About four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, June 29th, two angry-lookin clouds approached each other from the north and south, and met at a short distance west of the village of Vi roqua, Vernon county, Wisconsin. Tho peo ple watched the threatening cyclists with deep solicitude. When those two forces came in contact, they whirled off at a tangent, and moved in an easterly direction, and passed through the very heart of the beautiful vil lage, carrying death destruction, and danger I in their progress. n a moment, about fifty buildings were demolished and scattered .to the winds, seventeen persons killed, and about one hundred men, women, and children in jured. The hurricane continued eastward in its course; and it is yet unknown where its havoc ceased. - - "For Several miles Mot of Virocipar it de stroyed everytlilkug in its course. The total destruction of property is estimated at two hundred thousand dollars. The citizens of Viroqua and the surroundino• ' country have done, and are doing, what they can to , relieve the distressed ; but it is an emergency that appeals to the prompt benevolence of the-citi zens of this and other places." A number of citizens have issued an appeal for aid for the sufferers, in whielithey say : "On the 29th day of June, ISSN a , Whirlwind swept through the county of Vernon, in a course from west to east, uprooting trees, sweeping away fences; barns, and dWelling houses, until it reached the county seat, un roofing the court-house, razing the Throe print ing office to its foundation, demolishing the new stores of M. C. Nichols and D: B. Priest, and the store of John Dawson, the Methodist Episcopal Church, a blacksmith shop, and fifteen dwelling-houses. About a dozen more houses were ruined. Most of them were lifted from their foundations, dashed'in pieces, and the fragments were scattered to the four winds of heaven,. then, continuing- its course, we have heard of it for a distance of ten miles, raging with unabated fury, and still rushing onward. Seventeen lives were lost, and more cannot survive, besides many maimed and mutilated. By this 'appalling calamity men of energy and influence are reduced to poverty. At least one hundred and fifty persons are homeless, wanting food, and destitute of wear ing apparel. Anything which will afford re lief will be thankfully received and faithfully appropriated. Remittances may be addressed to D. B. Priest, chairman, Viroqua, Vernon county; Wisconsin." How General Sherinan's Life was En- dangered• and' Saved. Tile Cincinnati Gazette says "During the advance upon Corinth, in May of 1852, an incident occurred which placed General Sherman directly in range and within easy gun-shot of the videttes that covered the front of the Second division of the Army of the Tennessee, at that time commanded by General Davies, and which, but for a doubt that existed in the mind of the officer com manding the guard, would have deprived the arnly oT that General who has since become BO famous. "The line of videttes had been established earl yin the morning, under fire of the enemy's Pickets, at a point near where the main Co rinth and Purdy road was intersected by the road leading from Chawalla to Hamburg. The line was not strong, being composed merely of two companies of cavalry, whose duty it was to watch the movements of the enemy, if any were made, and, in case of attack, to give the alarm. "The line had been pushed Mite= to the front, and nothing separated it from that of the enemy save a shallow valley that lay be tween a couple of rounded hilltops, from the opposite side of which, throughout the entire day, the rebels kept up a continual firing, cutting off the leaves over the heads of our videttes, and occasionally barking the trees behind which they were posted. "The day had been one of alarms. Half a dozen had occurred, and. entire volleys had been sent fruitless from the enemy at the handful that opposed them at that point, but scarcely a shot had been fired in return. The rebels kept themselves hidden, and only ex posed their whereabouts by the puff of smoke that followed the discharge of their pieces. A battle at that time was not desirable, and. the officer in command of this little guard had giv en the strictest order that no shot should be fired save at his direct command. The men chafed and fretted somewhat, but obeyed.. It did not seem just right that they should be compelled to endure all that tiring, being blade targets of, us it were, without the privi lege of replving through the means of their own lead. Xevertheless, it was this fact that, we doubt not, saved. General Sherman's life. The sky had been cloudless throughout the and latnin the of ernoon.the firms: allel e iras, and imm of insects were the - only' sounds that were heard. Twilight approached —the shades that had been gradually length ening were thrown into the shade as the sun descended in the west and left a crimson halo all around the circling horizon. Soddenly tn.. sharp, quick report of v ine was .11.15111 - 11. on Lau right Of the line, followed by a volley, appa rently, from an entire reginient. Tlien an other anti another came quick upon the heels of the last., and they approached nearer and nearer with each sueceedin sound. " The officer in command of the videttes was with his reserves at that moment, but the first shot found him on horseback, and the next in stant he was galloping in the direction of that portion of the line which he believed to be at tacked. Upon reachbfg the front—there was nothing mythical in the word at that time—and looking down thereat, which was very straight for a distance of five hundred yards or more, he saw a couple of men cross the road, and, in the dim twilight, another ride up and stop just opposite to him. Half a dozen carbines were brought to bear upon the supposed ene my • but the officer snouted: Wait ! don't fire Y Slowly the muzzles of the carbines were lowered, and the sound came back from the increasing darkness Come here! It is General Sherman!' The officer did not feel sure of that, but he seized his pistol and rode forward. As be appreached he recognized the dark blue uniform of our troops, and soon after the well-known features of the com mander of the right wing of the besieging army. "General Sherman wanted a portion of the ground occupied. by the enemy, and placing himself at the head of a small detachment for that purpose made his advance from the right, struck their line upon its flank, and with a few volleys drove them from the position he wanted, and established his grand , o quard upon the very ground they had occupied. . 'Half a dozen carbines were aimed at you a moment ago, General.' " What is your division!' "'Second Division, General Davies' " Remain where you are for the night t' new line of videttes will be established in the morning by General Davies' adjutant.' "So it was. A feW days after that our army Oeetipied Corinth, and when that occurred, there was not an armed rebel in that depart 'Mut. • "Of that which has happened under the eye of General Sherman since that evening, sonic, what more than two years ago, our readers are well aware; but the most vivid imagination will not be able to conceive the difference in the result if any one of those six carbines had been discharged." Teaching by Machinery. A very ingenious mechanical contrivance for aiding the ordinary educational process in the acquisition of languages, music, arithme tic, to., was exhibited recently in London, in the presence of several ladies and gentlemen interested in the work of education. The Pa tent Metall()lical Machine is the name which, the inventor has given to this very simple but apparently very efficient piece of mechanism. The machine is constructed so as to present to - the eye an endless succession of musical coin binations, or of sentences in grammatical and idiomatic form. These are produced by inter changes of the words or the bars which have been previously selected and arranged accord ing to a certain formula, and then written upon the faces of the little cubes. The peculiar characteristic of the apparatus is a contri vance which prevents the faces of the cubes from presenting themselves in regular succes sion. An irregular movement being secured, a different variation of the words or the liars necessarily results from each evolution of the machine on its axis. A complete sentence appears at the windows on each occasion, and all the rest of the words or the bars are ex cluded from - sight. The working of the ma. chine exemplifies the process whereby chil dren, taken abroad-reproduce foreign sen tences in idiomatic form. It shows that the intellect works mechanically in the colloquial attainment of foreign languages; particularly -in relation to the idiomatic arrangement of the words. The machine was devised to illus trate the method set forth in Mr. Pendegrast's work on the "Mastery of Languages." The beginner commits to memory two foreign ! sentences very perfectly. The English transit:l, Lions are inserted into the machine, and when ever it revolves a. different Variation of the words appears at tho windows. The system re quires that the learner shall g 0 On translating these variations until he shall have attaine the " mastery" of them. Then he may under take another sentence ; but he must recapitu late them in every lesson in order to prevent their escaping from his memory. The exclu sion from sight of all words except those with which the learner is actually dealing at the moment is of great importance, because it re moves all uncertainty and obviates the diffi culty of retaining in the memory the latter words of a spoken sentence, whilst he is em ploying that faculty in recalling the foreign words required for the beginning of it. A machine with two rows affords an additional exercise, for if the foreign words arc placed in one row, and the English in the other, each revolution will give an opportunity for practicing double translation. The machine will soon recommend itself by the rapidity and the economy with which it works. To write out the variations of the sentences on Piper, would be a very tedious operation, and to make them viva voce from two written sen tences, would be perplexing and unsatisfacto ry. The apparatus is a sort of dumb waiter, from which the beginner helps himself with out bothering or being bothered by a talking one. One prominent feature of the scheme is, that it bars the beginner from attempting to manufacture a sentence in a foreign language. The sentence must be selected from books, or else received from a native. No man, however learned he may be, can make an idiomatic sentence in a foreign tongue until he knows something about it, and it is very irrational to attempt it. The apparatus is a novel application of the kaleidoscope principle, and almost realizes Swift's description of the art of book-making in Laputa. The words aro put into the ma chine, and they are varied to form sentence after sentence at the pleasure of the operator. Its adaptation to musical composition was aptly illustrated on the piano -forte. A num ber of cubes, upon each of the sides of which was written a different bar, which, read to gether, harnlolll2o into a regular thoine or melody, Were placed in the machine, and va tied at pleasure turning the handle, the samea a angn i tortuneasrarelrecurri eas the ne:o:nationotpatteriauaeolr • IA the lialeidONOM THREE CENTS. CITY COUNCILS.. The stated meeting of both branches ef Conn oils was held yesterday afternoon. SELECT BRANCH. A petition was received frem carriage-d, 4 o*ra protesting against the ordinance prOpOSifig to give to certain parties a monopoly of the car riage stand at Ninth and Chestnut streets. lieferrod to the Committee on Highways. Mr. GRAY (U.), chairman of the Committee on Water, submitted a report setting forth , that, after an examination of the fire-plugs in the city all, with the exception of one in the Third district, were found in good condition. 2.11 regard to the tire-plug in front of Messrs. Vussier's store, the committee report that it wd.S in order the clay before the Are, and it be came damaged, by the illegal use of the plug by tb occupants of the stcire. Referred to the Committee on Fire and Trustw, Mr. JekNEB (U.), chairman of the. Committee on Law., reported an ordinance' ctimiging the boundaries of the First, Fifth, Eighth, and Ninth divisions of the Nineteenth' ward, and creating fear additional divisions. Adopted. Mr. hi ObOaea - (U.), chairman of the' Commit tee to verily the cash 'smeount of. City Treasurer,rnade a report, showing theindance on band on the lat inst.; antic 1, cash as per cash-book • COMM 23 Julie 30, cash received during the month • 1,035,008 32 Trust fund • $22,3 K 053,34, 394, 55 25 Mr. Guar (U.) submitted an ordinance, dt reeling the payment of a bounty of stao to Merman Peake, a volunteer, who failed to oh lain his Warrant. Agreed to. The resolution from Com Mon Council; direct ing the Committee on Gas to confer with the• trustees of -the gas-works, in order to ascertain if it is possible to reduce the price of gas; was . taken up. Mr. FURMAN (IT.) Mina -as an amendment that the reduction be applied to the city lamps. This gave rise to a debate, in which the re ference in a certain newspaper to General' Miles was denounced by a member , as • unjust acid untrue. His accounts were found correct, and the allusion to a defaulter, at the last meeting, was intended to apply to another persop_, now dead. Mr. REEMAN spoke at length in favor of his amendment as calculated to do justice in the right direction if it is found possibleto reduce the price of gas. Mr. Ellie (0.) urged that there was time for a change in the mode of managing -the Gas Works. There should be less secrecy, and the people should be admitted to the deliberations of the trustees. So difficult was it to see into the interior of the trust that our own Com mittee on Gas can never obtain-any inform, Lion. M - - r. ARMSTRONG (0.) also opposed the amend mein, and argued that the Board sheuld be opened to the public. The amendment was not arced to. Mr. FREEMAN moved.to - refer the resolution to the Committee on Gas. This led to further • debate, in the course of which Mr. Freeman(o.) suggested to• Mr. King and his friends that they were in a minority, and as a minority were not to be entrusted with the management of the Gas Works. Mr. 11.1CliB (U.) said he was in favor of a re duction in the price of gas, but was willing to wait until the trustees have examined into the subject. Me feared that the present reso• lution was intended to cast discredit upon the trustees. Mr. Ann - Brume (0.) was opposed to the gas works making money off the people. What ever of profit there was should be applied to the reduction of the price to the consumer. Mr. Kira (O.) called attention to the fact that the resolution now under Consideration came from Common Council. The majority there was of the same political party as Mr. Freeman, and, therefore, his censure would apply to them and not to the others. - .?,1r. SFr:nixes (U.) moved that the resolution be indefinitely postponed. Not agreed to— , yeas 6, nays 15. The motion to refer was not agreed to—yeas 2, nays 20. Mr. JONES (U.) stated that the Trustees were now engaged in an examination of the works with a view to a reduction in the price of gas, if possible. A committee was appointed, as follows: Conrad S. Groves, Nathan Mlles, J. A. House man, Win. H. Barnes, Win. Elliott, and - John McCarthey. These gentlemen arc taking a statement of the meters up to the Ist of July, - and, if possible, will report in favor of a re dution in the price of OS. The resolution then passed.• The ordinance from Common Cohneil making an appropriation to a portion of the Fire Department, was concurred in. Mr. JONES, (U.), chairman of the Committee on Law, reported an ordinance changing the place of voting in the Seventh precinct of the Seventh ward. Agreed to. - The same committee reported an ordinance changing the place of voting in the Eighth Di vision of the Seventh ward. Agreed to. The ordinance from Common Council, ap proving of the location of the Spring Garden :Rose Company as a steam fire engine, was con curred in. Also, the location of the Reliance Engine Company. The ordinance making an additional appro priation to the Department of City Property, for 1865, was taken up.- -- si-r.noto (IL) fnavod to tae"item for the improvement of Fairmount Park, $B,OOO, instead of $12,000. Mr. FREEMAN (U.) opposed the item at any figure. In our present financial condition, any expenditure for the park would be improper. The former appropriation of 04000 has been expended, but no one can readily see where the_algneVlAßAl".tue purn. - urustruo Ettaoarabu to,and as to the former expenditure, he thought any one could see the improvements resulting from this money. Mr. ARMSTRONG (0.) was surprised to hear that the annual appropriation fr t4L4ric was - hiftTiVir . - too ederget wnen n e e - e appropriation of a year within the first six months. The aniendment was agreed to, and the bill passed. The ordinance from Common Council re quiring the Germantown and Norristown Railroad Company to have flag-men on the line of road was postponed. The resolution from Common Council ap pointing a committee to examine the progress of the work on the Chestnut-street bridge was concurred in, Adjourned. COMMON BRANCH. President STOKLBY ill.) in the chair. The bill appropriating *710,000 for the erec tion of water works in the. Twentieth, Twen ty-lirst, Twenty-second, and Twenty-fourth wards, and to connect the Corinthian avenue and Kensington works with% thirty-inehmain, was taken up. Mr. HANCOCK (U.) was in favor of the bill, but' was opposed to giving the entire expenditure of such a large sum into the hands of a single individual, He was in favor of creating a cam mission for the purpose. Members of Cell a cils could be influenced by certain persona, who could come and say to them, "If it were not for me you would not have your present position." A commission could act entirely . free and independent. In the building of the' municipal hospital, a commission had saved the city $50,000. He moved that the matter be postponed for the present. Mr. Ewa:ism:it (u.) hoped the matter would not be postpOnech Councils Were 118 ready for action on the subject now as they would ever be. The citizens of the wards named were in need of water, and they coultl'nt get along without it. He believed that the chief engi neer, or the members of Councils could act as honestly and fairly in the matter as any com mission could. Mr. Snersox (U) thought that the whole burden of Mr. 11Arreock's remarks was that Councils should have a commission appointed to take care of them. Mr. HANCoCK (U.) That's it, exactly. Mr. Slaktesox believed that Councils were IL little better men than Mr. Hancock seemed to suppose. if Councils wish to kill the bill, let them vote to postpone ; if they wish to stop improvements in the several wards mention ed, let them vote to postpone • if they wish to bring continued sufiering on 'the residents of those wards, let them vote to postpone. Mr. Causwett (U.) was in favor of a COMMIS sion. Councils were changing every year. The Chief Eugineer was elected every year. A Commission could continue for years, and could carry the thing through ; the sane men would superintend the commencement of the work, and would stick to it until it was done. On the motion to postpone, the yeas were 10, nays M. Lost. .11r. HARPER (U.) called the attention of Coun cils to the fact that the Twenty-fourth ward was the only ward which had not paid into- rest on improvements made in it. Ito thought that before the *tso 000 which it was proposed to appropriate to tile Twenty-fourth ward for water purposes, should be applied, Connetle should inquire whether there was any pros- Peet of this ward ever paying interest on MO ney invested for its improvement. Mr. CRESWELL (U.) thought that facilities for improvement should be offered before any return for such improvement were expected. The citizens of the Twenty-fourth ward had expected for many years to have an additional bridge across the schuylkill, but they have been disappointed. Improvements have not been made to the extent which they otherwise would have been. The bill passed ffnally---yeas 27, nays s. Mr. Msneen (U.), from the Committee on Finance, reported an ordinance appropriating $122.50 to the executors of Burd's estate, for expenses incurred by them in levelling forti fications on their premises, at Woodland street and Darby road. The ordinance passed. Also, a supplement to the ordinance pro viding for the erection of the municipal hospital ; appropriating $3,180.51 for the eree , tion of a water-tank, and the opening of a road: The bill passed. Also, a supplement to the ordinance pro viding for the relief of families of volunteers. The supplementprovides that thatommission constituted for this purpose sl cease to exist in thirty days front the date of it* passage. Mr. BRADY (U.), from the Committee on Highways, reported a resolution authorizing the repaving of Scott street, from Nineteenth to Corinthian avenue; Fallon street, from Fitzwater to Catharine, and Race street, from Twenty-third to Schuylkill. Passed. Also, a resolution authorizing the _paving of Vi r Forty-first street, from Spruce to 'oodland ; Twenty-fourth street from South to Shippen, and Whildey street. Passed. Thehour of five having arrived, the Seventh` ward school bill was taken up, it having been made the special order for that hour. Mr. Marin. (U.)stated that the $58,000 Which the lot and - building would cost; and the loss to the city by the property being , exempt from taxation, would make this school-house cost the city $lOO,OOO. Ho would likato know why such extraordinary . pithas were taken by the advocates of the 'lnn to secure its passage. They bad gone to the members of Conned at their homes, and secured from them their promise to vote for the-bill, The Mayor has vetoed the bill, and it has. been passed over his veto by the Select Branch. He thought the reasons given by . the Mayor for vetoing, the bill weregood and sufficient to any unbiased mind, anithe hoped the Chamber would refuse to pass the bill Mr. EVANS (U.S thou,glit the gentleman from the Eighth (Mr. Harper) had a seetienal feeling in the matter, and was afraid that if the Se venth seetion'secured a Comfortable building, that the children would leave the Eighth sec tion and go to the Seventh. The onieethms, therefore, of the gentleman being sectional obi ections,they could have nOweight upon his mind. Mr. HETEEL CO,) called the attention of the Chamber to the almost unanimous vote against the bill when it was first introduced. No ar gnment had been presented in the Chamber since that time which would tend to change the mind of any one. It was the entering wedge to the appropriation of half a million doctor more than the DM authorized. The fact of the Matter was, arid the borers in the lobby showed iti:there were Peeple Who bad WS to griudi there were Men. who had, lets THE WAR PRESS. {PUI➢LItiHED WEEKLY.) Tun WAR. PnEs6 will im Rent to attbaerlhafe b . mail (her annum In advaucco at la ho • Vivo copies to 00 Ten eftpleS 20 Of Larger eliAlmthrin "reu will be charged at the gime rate, *2 , 00 per copy. The money must a Waya accompany the order, tgnAlr in no instance can these terms. be dedated from 011 they afford very little mare than the coat of paper, air Postmasters are requested to act as agents for THE WAR PRESS. Sier To the gutter-up of the (flub of ten or trrentr. All extra copy Of the paper will be purand they could employ borerm tO help i i h j ell ' bill through for them, and borers could get Inenthers of Council to listen to them. The bill passed over the Mayor's veto—yea* 28,nays:5. The CoMmittee esr Trusts and Flll3 reported an ordinance locating the Reliance Fire hngine Company ay a steam fire-engine company. Mr, Thum. nonatituting any more Memo lire -miginett.' We' IWO too (0.) wto , opposed to malty already, and if there be a necessity in any partieuliPS section ct the' oi'yfor'a steam tire-engine then there should be one taken from that sectitui where there was ablekciess of these apparatuz. It was a useless increase of ;the city's debt. De was alriend of the fire. imp), and lie warned them that the more, steam tire-engines they gat the ncxzer'tlieygot to beings paid fire department ; and it would not be: long, if they cur. finned incrosialfig their ap paratus, before they would be' in the mama seliifpe that their brother tirememin Now York wette now in. Dr.lllAmze (U.) sal 4 there was' 110 steam fire-ragine within a nate of 'the Reliance Fire Company. The bill pw:sed. Mr. EvErnami (U.) frMet the Committee on Surveys, reported an rAlinance authorizing the construction of a EleV'ol . 011 Girard' avenue, between Eighteenth and ilinteenth streets. Mr. Fox (II.) moved to amend that the ex pense be borne by the property-owners on the prOposed sewer. After wow debate the Mutter was MOM. witted to the committee. The sante committee ofrotd 'an ordinance authorizing citizens to make sodded uncle. sures on Eletterith, Mervin°, Twelfth, Camac, and Thirteenth streets from lierks to Norris streets, and from Norris to Diamond streets, at their own: expense, not excattling twenty feet in width; and - 20 2 feet in length.' The ordi nance passed. Mr. Fox (U.).afferedan ordinance appointing Frederick Graeff, B. H. liartol, William Sellers, a comnilssidir to superintend the ex penditure of the whillion dollar water loan. Mr. WoLuznT ((l) moved to itineliti, by add• ing the name of 'Peter Williamson. After some dell.tte, the whole matter was re. ferret] to a special committee of five from each Chamber. Adjourned. THE COURTS llirited States Initriet Cottrt.L,Tiodge THE "NAVY TARD ENDREELPATENTS-..THE GRAND MAP MAKE THEIR .1 0 1 SAL REPORT IN RELATION, AND:ARE DISCHARGED. The following final preeentment was yester. day. niade by the Grand jury of this court is regard to the late frauds at the Navy Yard is this•city, to which their attention had bem specially called by Judge Cadwalader TO the Hon. John Carittlalade lodge of the DU triet (Sart of the United Nato for the Eastern . Ditheiet•of Penneyloania: The Grand Jury of the Milted States, in quiring in and for the Epstein . District of Pennsylvania, in respect to a communication or charge addressed to them by your Honor, in regard to frauds alleged to lmve been put°. Heed upon the Government of the United States by persons employed in. the public ser vice at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, respect fully report: a Thattbey have carefully considered the sub le to which their attention has been called. rom the investigations Which they have made, and from the witnesses whe -have been 'called before them, in eases Where bills have been found and returned to the 'Court, they have become familiar - with the facts eoaneeted with the alleged frauds at the Navy Yard. •These frauds, It seems, were of such a chattier : ter as to induce a special inquiry by the Navy Department of the United States, For the purpose of making these investigations, special commission was instituted in this city. These inquiries were conducted under the im mediate direction of Mr. Chandler, acting at first us agent and afterwards us solicitor of the Navy Department.. The result of these in vestigations was that various persons Con nected with these alleged fraudS were ar rested and imprisoned, and large restitutions were made for losses sustained by the Govern.. ment. But the necessity of the ease requiring , that accomplices should be used for the pur pose of bringing guilty parties to jentiee, eer.. - min persons—participators in the' frauds-- were used as witnesses, N _and other persons were handed over by the avy-Department to the civil authorities for prosecution. The Grand Jury do not deem it necessary or proper at this time to express an opinion whether the mode of Investigation pursued was the best. It was adopted illthat peettliar 01181 s of our history 'When frauds on the Government were calculated to weaken its military strength, and the exigencies of the public ser vice were supposed to require what waano doubt deemed the most summary and. effee tual method of punishment. That by this method the ends of justice were sub stantially obtained the Grand Jury have no reason to doubt. From the peculiar char acter of these frauds It is plain that the prose cution of all the participators was impossible. A selection bad therefore to be made, and the Grand Jury believe that this selection has been made judiciously. Four of the parties who appear to be most largely involved and US- - " ba-naett‘over for prosecution to the civil au thorities, and the Grand Jury have found a number f bills against them. The Grand Jury are not prepared to recom mend that bills should be presented against the accomplices who have appeared before them and testified; many of whom have an rosily been imprisoned and have made resti tution, and who have now appeared and testi fied no doubt with the hope Or expectation, Eavvihrtr pt . o.• :Vorri. 7--Tr) Tcomnfe l l'i e d s ai t onsktagttlit i itstshtohultaa be ~ f en r ei gl h v t i tt u t k l e i the t o o p s i e n c l i e tt n io o i f the W e n t i l l g J u r s _ t , /WI whom bills have already been four,and - Would Ulna _probably defeat entirely the ends of jus lights Willett trt4 ,s 4 1.9 . 0 y gon e can promote the cause o ' further investigation, or by any spee a pi eelitMent. The whole matter, therefore, boon heretofore investigated in the manner already stated the Grand Juryleave it with confidence in the hands of the United States District Ate tomes, who, they believe, is disposed, under the direction of the Navy Department and the suggestions of your Honor, to do all that is nee eessary and proper to be done for tile =into. nance of the rights of the Government and the -5-indication of the law. The aboee having been read, fudge leder directed the following order to be ens tered: And now, July , 0, 1865, the foregoing report being presented and read, the court orders that the same be filed and that the Grand Jury be discharged for the term. Court, of Oyer and Terminer and quarter Sessions—Judges Ludlow and Allison. SINTENOED, . . Mary Ann StVine, eonvieted some months since of infanticide, in having killed hey newly-born infant, was sentenced by Judge Ludlow, yesterday ' , to an imprisonment CC three years in the }Astern Penitentiary, Court of Quarter Seestous—Tudge Al. ASBAULT. AND. BATTERY WITH INTENT TO KILL. Vic case of William Pannell, charged with assault and battery on .lidwin J, lerarrinotott and James Marshall, with intent to kill, the. trial of which was begun on Monday, was pro eeeded with yesterday. Warrington and. Marshall are likewise in.• dieted for assault and battery on Furmanwitn intent to kill, and, both indictments relating to the same transaction, the cases were tried together. It appeared from the testimony of Fu rumn,thitt on the east of May,being with Wart rrington and Marshall in a tavern at Seventh and Christian streets, the latter, without warn ing Or provocation, struck him several tibiae on the head with a billy, and the former shot him with a pistol, the ball taking effect in the head. As matter of defence to the statement of Furman, and in justiteation of his action, Warrington testified that Furman had re peatedly threatened his life, and that he had yrevionsly,on two occasions, unmerited it, hay. , lug shot him twice, both balls taking effect, and one of them still remaining in his body; that only, the day before the day on which the , trilllSlletien Marred which gave rise to this ease, he had again threatened to blow Ina brains out. While con Veraing_With Furman at the tavern on the 21st of Mav, Warrington said he distinctly heard the click of it pistol in Furman's pocket, and saw him in the act of drawing the weapon. Marshall heard and saw the same thing, and calling Warrington's attention to it, struck Furman with a billy, and Warrington shot hhn. Both. of them tes tided that they did this to save theallortelVatil, believing FtlrnlfllVS intention to he to shoot. one or both of them, ho having also threatened to kill Marshall. On the other band, Furman denied that he was armed, and called witnesses to prove that. he had no pistol or arms of any k bat about his person. The Jury rendered, a verdict of not guilty as to all the parties, thus leaving them at liberty to attack one another at, the first oppor tunity. . Incident* at Newport. TA go to Newport wititent a team, or the means to hire one for the season, it to be ti marked and lonely hhingi eblulelririea to go to and fro on toot or cock mots legs on the pl• imut of hotel: and lathe enjoyment enviously. The publicans there let out teams and stable them for about four hundred dollars a month for a span. It costs quite fifteen dollarit at week for the eare.of a single horse. The rivalry ot Newport is not so much in the homes— for anybody, in this respect, can ingeni ously fall back upon the arguments of rural felicity, retirement from Cafe rind fashion,/to., but nobody dare press the or deal of B i ellevue n a - cranky or rustic vehicle, while footmen in red or yellow trimmings, and cockades like a TOOSteltls comb' Md but tonsna white' are irrors, and gaiters which are elaborately '1 respectable," go by in pavan% looking over,the bosoms of languid beauties, who, despite their flutter and triumph, are ex. erting all their poormortal energies to appear borea, nonchalant, and uainterted. Hypo crisy - is not so much in sctnning its in unseen:L ing. There is. a story of a resident of a little cottage out of town, who appeared hi Newport last summer, nee equipage was magnificent, an d *as amora lly alleged to be aulong tho finest in Newporttwo coal black steetts, riding pony, and one driving mare constituted her stable. She was not too old to be hand some, but feet of that age when timid Is both ornamental and excusable. She seemed to be noon the road, but folks could, see nothlnß amiss in this, as whoeverpossessed such urn out had best live in it altogether. The mystery attaching to this Mrs. was; in'she never invited anybody to her dwell. Mg ! She Went to the bops,o appeared. daily upon the beach, and Watt quite affable and popular, but never dropped u, agnates to her cottage. Thereat, the other ladies Who were dying of curiosity, resolved to. visit her unso ueiteil, and a commission was appointed to disc island,r abode and report uonFar up the in the townahip P,Ortsmouth, they observed - a farmhouse, too obscure. to attract attention, and tttir appearance its Portia threw everybody within into con sternation, The place was bare of both carpets and furniture ; a single room made any pre tentionS to inhabitabilityawl, therefore, nt, lady slept on an iron bodatetA, with a °heal) wardrobe near by for her:excellent dreatles„ and a single mirror, wttltoat the company of which one cannot be a woman. lier beautiful harness and saddles wove deposited Under her nose ; she had understood Newport suldeiently well to place her strength in the stable, be yond which she had scarcely the means to live respectably. The discovery , of Mrs. menage was soon followed by Ater mumouncoa exit front /Import, ThisMuntillef she will probably stop at some where a louse ie tilt) iILWA' OI I atilt It teiW Seeditetili,
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