E5M'riCWS-r TO K IT. rw n,-
c 2cffcv0onfa,
THURSDAY. JUNE 15, 1865.
EThc rains of Friday and Saturday
last, have ptit a new lace ou crops in Ibis
section of country. The ground and
growing crops bad began toiook parched.
but since the rains every thing has enli
vened vupj aud v.c may safely look for a
rich reward for the husbandman's toil.
JGSfThe Government of Holland has,
revoked the belligerent rights granted to
the rebels at the commencement or the
War, and thus leads the monarchies of Eu
rone in the rishfc path. Holland was the
first European governments to recognize
us as a nation after the rcvolutionar' war.
J6?Den "Wood, a straight-faced Cop
perhead has retired from the New York
JVcics, and John Mitchell, an expatriated
Irishman, who has been doing the dirty
work of the rebels', at llichmond, for the
last four years, succeeds him in the Edi
torial chair. Neither the JYcjcs, nor the
Democracy which it supports received a
ahock from the change, but all goes on
smoothly and merrily as the marriage bell."
It is singular, but nevertheless true, that
unrepenting treason and democracy can
cahoglc without either party experi
encing a compunction. They mingle as
easily as oil and oil.
6'
A New Editor.
The Northern Eagle came to hand last
week, after an absence of four weeks,
with a new name at its Editorial head.
R. A. Barnes is the new Editor, aud we
are pleased to sec that the Eagle looses
none of its old spirit under its new man
agement. The Eagle is a paper eminent
ly-loyal in its proclivities; and yields sup
port only to that party which, without a
why or wherefore, supports the Constitu
tion and laws of the country. The paper
continues to- be conducted with marked
ability. We welcome the new Editor in
to the ranks, and wish him an abundant
measure of success.
Company H Returned.
Company M, 19Sth Regiment, P. Y.,
returned home on Tuesda7. This Cotn
ny was recruited in Stroudsburg, from
the surrounding country, by Capt. Wm.
Florey, and marched to Camp Cadwala
der in September lust. After remaining
at that point for sometime it was ordered
to Washington, and soon after to the front
under General Grant, when it became a
part and parcel of the army of the Poto
mac, with which it took part in all its re
cent battles. It may be said to have
been in at the death of the rebellion ; and
did a full share of the labor and fii:htin$r
which accomplished that glorious result.
The men deserve a warm place in -the es
teem of every lover of his country, and
their names a high place in the niche of
fame for dangerous but faithful services
rendered. Their record stands illumina
ted with noble deeds and it will be a
pride for them and us to remember that
they were of - the faithful thousands who
marched to the defense of the country in
its hour of greatest need. We bid all the
members a hearty welcome home.
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The Fourth of July.
Gov. Curtin has issued an eloquent ad
dress to the people of Pennsylvania, recom
mending that in every part of the State, on
the approaching Anniversary of Independ
ence, special observances be had of welcome
to our returned defenders, and of coramemo
jation of the lieroic deeds of themselves and
their comrades who have fallen.
Men and brethren of Monroe, shall we
pay heed to the wise and patriotic sugges
tion of the Governor, and thus do our duty
like thinking men, or shall we allow the
day of all days, in the estimation of men who
love liberty, to pass by without observance.
Monroe county sent hundreds of her gallant
6ons into the armies of the Union. Nearly
every battle-field attested their bravery and
the depth of their patriotism, and nearly ev
ery batile-field holds in its embrace "the re
mains of some one of our relatives or ac
quaintances who fell a martyr to his devo
tion to his country. Will we do our duty
if we suffer a day so appropriate to pass by
without giving public demonstration to our
appreciation of the sacrifices made by these
brave men m behalf of our beloved countrv!
Think of all they suffered that the integrity
., ...
vi iue nation migiit remain to us; and then
let us ask ourselves whether we are worthy
sons of that nation, if we begrudge a day to
oe so appropriately and so patriotically spent 1
It is possibly too late to arrange for a ffrand
central celebration; but by going to work
at once borough and township celebrations,
reflecting credit on the localities in which
they are gotten up, can easily be arranged.
.Let us begin the work at once.
At the Union State Convention lately
held at New Orleans, it was unanimously
"Resolved, That in re-establishing civil
government in the Southern States, our on
ly safety consists in making all loyal men
equal before the law; and that any Govern
ment established that docs not recognize
this principle is ueither just nor equita
ble, and consequently uut a republican
(SovcrumeuC
' . Negro Suffrage
- ;JNTegro suffrage is just now the .subject
which most closely engages the attention of
the Democratic leaders and the Democratic
Press. It is the great bug-a-boo which is be
ing held up to scare the timid ones,- and keep
them to their work in the traces; and is
strongly urged as a means, we judge, of all
others most likely to resuscitate the vitality
of the party rapidly dying from an overdose
of its own folly.
The gist of the argument is, that it is dis
graceful to allow the "American Citizen of
African decent" to exercise that dearest of
all the prerogatives of a freeman, the right of
ballot; and the proposition is more particu
larly condemned because, they alledge, the
next surc-to-follbw step would be the eleva
tion of the darkey to full social and polical
standing with the white man. Where men
sufficiently ignorant arc found in their ranks
to take impression without avhy or where
fore, the doctrine is hinted at that-the negro
is not exactly human that his status lies-be-tween
man and the ourang-outang that he is
a good deal less than human, and but little
more than brute. This argument, however,
is not pressed where intelligent thought holds
sway ; but even here we do not sec that the
opponents of negro suffrage better themselves
any, for the length and breadth and heighth
and depth of their argument revolve them'
selves into questions of "smell" and of pre
judice against caste. They have a particu
lar dislike for the scent of the darkey, a
dislike which has incroased nota little since
the object of it has -shown himself possessed
of the most intense loyally, and capable of
bearing arms right humanly in defence of
the government to which he owes allegiance,
Indeed it scorns to us that because he is loy
al, and was willing to shuulder his musket
and fight for the preservation of the govern-:
ment, while they were at home on their
backs bellowing most lustily for such a peace
as the rebels might chose to give us, they
have a greater dislike for the "nigger" than
ever.
Nor should we much .wonder at this.
Patriotism, just now, is above par; and the
leaders of democracy may well take shame
to themselves at having allowed the darkey
to eclipse them in all that constitutes the
good citizen ; but there is no reason why
they should hate the darkey for his better
display of sense
But say these solons, ''only think of a big
'nigger' walking, side by side with a white
man, up to the polls, and depositing a ballot
which counts just as much in the .scale as
the white man's vote."' And what, pray,
is there out of the way in that, so that the
colored man's vole is cast intelligently.
We remember the time well when to advo
cate "negro-suffrage" was considered ortho
dox democracy. Up to 1S37, when some one,
who thought his political aspirations snubbed
by the colored vote, procured a decision that
none but white males over the acc of 21
3
years could be legal voters, no one thought
of calling the right in question. We have
seen ''Honest Frank. Shunk," whose democ
racy no one at this day will dare dispute,
walk up to the polls, on moro than one occa
sion, not along side of a darkey, but with a
darkey hanging on each arm, and stand by
to sec that their votes were properly depos
ited. To us it appeared as though it was
Mr. Shunk's special province to see that the
colored vote was all got in. And to come
nearer home ; we have seen the democratic
leaders of old Northampton marshal the
fragrant Primes, and Lippenses and Hays to
the polls, without so much as the curl of a
nose to indicate that the job was a nauseat
ing one. As the colored vote in those days
was orthodoxly democratic, it was orthodox
democracy to sustain the right; and the par
ty indulged no trifling amount of profanity
when the decision of the Supreme Court de
prived it of some thousands of colored votes.
And yet, in those days there was no nearer
approach to social and political equality than
there is now ; nor can there be unless the
democracy, forgetting itself, takes a step
farther in the way of wrong doing than even
w.e consider it capable of.
But why should not the right of suffrage
be granted the colored man 1 Hehas shown
that he knows the right of loyalty from the
wrong of treason; hehas born arms mostin
telligently and effectually in defence of the
government againet its rebellious enemies;
jii uiu miusi oi uiu uusponaer.cy ana gloom
. i. fj.i :r il. -i i . .
which occasionally seized upon the'people,
he furnished the information which enabled
our generals to lift the curtain and let in the
sunshine of victory ; in the march of our ar
mies he has always been ready to lend a
helping hand, and to point out the way
when guides and scouts were at fault; in
the escape of Union prisoners from those
charnel houses of treason, the rebel prisons,
there was no one so ready to sustain the
fugitive, and lead him to a place of safety, -as
the oppressed slave. Among the faithless
he has remained faithful ; and we see no
reason why, with the light of freedom resting
upon lnm he should not make just as good
auu just as sale a voter as arc those who,
reveling in the sunlight of educated intelli
gence, attempted to destroy the.governmen
tal fabric reared by our fathers, and change
us irom irecmen into subjects of a most des
picable slave oligarchy.
In advocating negro suffrage, we but ad
vocate a return to the ways of the days of
t i . i.
uur rujiumicannonesty and simplicity ; when
nigger votes swelled democratic maiori
ties by thousands, and when love of country
was not compelled to play second fiddle to
the Jove of party.
Iu the Department of ill A Tnfnrlnr
nine clerks, appointees of former admin
istrations, who have bv M,; c t.
favored the Southern cause during the
rebellion, have been notified thnt ft,
resignations will be accented nf.
Two of these hold Positions wn,.d, m
, A itwim 'p-1)"
Notes of Third Series of 7-30s now Heady.
The demand for the Second Series of the
7-30 Notes was so great that the Treasury
Department was unable to print them with
sufficient rapidity to fill the orders. It will
be remembered that a hundred millions were
subscribed and paid for in a single week.
The printing presses have finally surmount
ed the difficulty, and on Wednesday, June 7th
the deliveries of the Third Series commenc
ed, and will be continued with the same
promptness that marked the supply of the
first and second series. It has been this in
tcrruption of delivery at the time of subscrip
tion which has given an appearance ot a fall
ing of in the popular taking of the loan,
the great body of small takers being unwilling
to pay their money unless they receive their
notes right in hand to carry them home.
It is expected that after this week the daily
subscriptions to the Seven-Thirties will run
up into millions, as they will undoubtedly be
stimulated by the opening of the farmers'
wool markets East and West. It is not at all
likely that the government will ever again
offer so desirable a security as these notes,
and about two hundred millions only remain
to be taken.
With the close of the war the national'ex
mi
penses will be vastly reduced, and investors
must look for a sharp reduction in the rate
of interest as soon as the- present loaris be
come due. and can be paid off. There is no
reason why the United States credit for mo
ncy should ever again fall below its credit
for courage. .The same spirit that preserv
ed the geographical integrity of the country
will place its pecuniary integrity on a par
with that of the most favored nations and
that will represent a rate of interest under
rather than over four per cent.
The Payment of the Public Debt.
The New York Herald, a week or two
ago came out with a proposition to pay
off the public debt by subscription of
twenty thousand dollars each, and headed
the list for its proprietor with a subscrip
tion of Forty-thousand dollars. The
Tribune looked upon the proposition for
thus paying the whole debt as impracti
cable, and suggested that wc content our
selves with paying one third of the debt
at present. The Herald, upon looking
at the matter a second time, sees the im
practicability of its proposition, and now
argues in favor of the sale of exemptions
from taxation by the Government, argu
ing that this mode would certainly so re
duce the debt, as to make ..taxation for
the payment of interest and principle,
less a burden on the people. Mr. Geo.
Francis Train, having given the matter
consideration, writes thus sensibly con
cerning Rennets subscription proposition,
and, at the same time, giyes his views of
the debt itself. George looks upon the
debt as a protection to the government
and the prosperity of the country, and
is, hence, in no great hurry for its extin
guishment. His argument is. original,
and his style so unique, that it will not
be necessary for us to request a perusal
of the extracts which we append from his
letter : George says to Rennet :
"lou and Ronner are jich. Forty
thousand is nothing to either ! But what
other journals could pay as much on call?
jl ou msuio your less prosperous cotempo-
ranes by your audacious proposition !
Yanderbilt is rich-r-with Pacific Mail,
idarleni and Hudson, at present quota
tions. What is five hundred thousand to
him ? Stewart could pay a million, with
gold at two hundred and fifty ! Would
you like to have a rich man receive you
with open arms, offer to lend him half a
million. Wealth is credit; credit is con
fidence. Take away that and down comes
your partition.
As a bit of bunkum for European con
sumption, your idea is good. The ad
vertisement is cheap; as no margin is re
quired and I expect to he a millionaire
some day, put me down for one hundred
shares. Will you take it in Prairie Dog?
Our national debt is credit a national
firm thirty million of partners capital
three thousand millions. Statesmanship
begets confidence confidence guarrantees
debt; then our debt is gold, capital, wealth.
Destroy either, and all fail.
Our debt guarrantees Americans indus-
try ; pay it, and free trade is ruin, look
at Turkey, Portugal, India under Eng.
land's pestilence tutilage. Nothing but
intense vitality and enormous resources
saved. America from Democratic policy
Toadyism on the brain becat free trade.
Rright & Cobden fired their double barrel,
bringing down both birds. Abolitionism
hit,Whigs ; free trade hit Democrats.
America, however, will bag the game in
stead of England. Yet, over the grave
ui oiuijf, ujf pujjug wiu ueot, wmcn is
protection, you would resurrect serfdom,
wmcn is iree trade.
England took duty off of corn because
Ireland was starving .and emigrants flow
ed America-ward. She called it free
trade. We fools cheered, It was pro
tection to her labor. England fhavin
uvp nunarea minion in three thousand
cotton mills) took duty off of cotton be
cause we undersold her in the. east. Wc
idicits cheered again. It was protection
to capital. Roth these great political e-
vents were acts of protection, which we.
in our miraculous, wisdom; interpreted
free trade."'
John Stuirt Mill, the ablest tbinknr
and writer on political economy living,
in answer to some interrogatories recent?y
put to him by the electors of Rristol, gave
the following views upon the Question nf
suffrage which place him in the ndv.mpr
rank of true Democracy upon this point :
"I would open the suffrage to all crown
lersons, both men aud women, who can
cad, write and perform a sum in thn ruin
of three, aud who have not within snmn
small number of years, received parish
Terrible Fire at Nashville.
IMMENSE DESTUCTION OF GOV
ERNMENT PROPERTY.
LOSS FROM EIGHT TO TEN MILLIONS.
Nashville, Tenn., June 10, 1865.
At about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the extensive building used for quarter
master's and commissary stores, on the
corner of Summer and Rroad sts., known
as Taylor's Depot, was discovered to be
on fire.
The fire is supposed to have caught
from the sparks of a locomotive which
was on the track running lengthwise with
the building These sparks' fell into the
cellar, and soon the flames began to spread.
Capt. W. W. Wainwright, in charge of
the building, had two or three inches of
water on the -fire before the arrival of the
Fire Department.
The firemen, however, promptly rallied
to the scene of the conflagration, but
found it impossible to stay the fury of
the flames until half of the immense buil
ding was entirely destroyed. The other
half, filled with commissary stores, was
saved from destruction only by the most
strenuous exertions of the firemen.
The loss to the Government is estima
ted at from four to five millions of dollars.
Several dwellings near the scene of the
fire, with their contents, were also de
stroyed. So great was the heat from the flames
that approaches to the burning buildings
were almost impossible. ntr
Two or three employees of the Quar
termaster's Department are supjposcd to
have perished in the flames.
LATER.
The destruction of Government prop
erty at the great fire to day, it is now be
lieved, will amount to from eight to ten
millions of dollars.
Within thewalls of the Quartermas
ter's building were stores sufficient to
supply an army of 80,000 men for two
years.
The quantity of rope alone consumed
was valued at upward of 1,000,000
The building was the largest in the
country, being 800 feet front and 200 feet
deep. It was partitioned off by fire walls,
which were suggested and built by Gen.
J. L. Donaldson. Dy this precaution a
large part of the building, 500 feet front,
was saved from destruction.
Various rumors are afloat as to the
fire, some maintaining it was the work ol
an incendiary and others that it was the
result of accident.
A Court of Inquiry will investigate the
matter.
The fire spread so rapidly that the buil
ding was almost one sheet of flame before
the firmen could get to work on it.
p i ft
NORTH CAROLINA,
Loyalty and Harmony Among the Peo
ple A Home Police Guerrilla War-
fare Ended The Amnesty Proclama
tion The South Carolinians Calling
for Jlelp.
Newbern, Tuesday, June 6, 1S65.
Intelligence from all parts of the State
indicates the ready return of the people
to their loyalty to 'the United States.
Harmony, good will and obedience to
the laws is the prevailing sentiment of
all parties in North Carolina.
The citizens of the different counties
are establishing a home police system, for
the purpose of maintaining order aud sup
pressing depredations.
The guerrilla warfare in North Caroli
na expired with the Rebellion.
Ihe prospects are that the movement
to restore civil law, through the inaugu
ration of a new State Government, will
call out the largest vote ever cast iu the
State, so anxious are the people to return
to peaceful pursuits.
President Johnson s Amnesty Procla
mation is being well received by the peo
ple of this State ; also the appointment of
Mr. Holden as Provisional Governor.
The people of South Carolina have
called upon the United States military
authorities at Charlotte, in this State for
protection against their own people, who
are committing depredations upon each
other.
GEN. GRANT AT CHICAGO.
His reccntion Visit to the Great Fair
-4 Grand Ovation Gen. Grant to
return to Washington Immediately.
Special Dispatch to the Tribune.
Cuioago, Saturday, Juno 10, 1865
Lieut.-Gcn. Grant arrived to-day a
12 J o'clock. He was met at the Depot
or tne micingan bouthcrn liaiiroad by
the Mayor, the Common Council, the
Roard of Trade, a band of music, a mili
tary escort, tien. iooker and staff, and
thousands of citizens. When the train
arrived a salute of fifteen guns was fired
oy a Dattcry irom Camp Douglas.
His reception was the grandest ovation
ever paid by Chicapro to any livine man
He was escorted to the Sanitary Fair
building on horseback and was there met
by thousands of people who greeted him
with deafening shouts. The ladies show
ered boquets along his path. Gen. Hook
er mada the welcoming speech and Gen.
trrant Dowcd his compliments but said
he made no speeches and called on ex-
Gov. Yates to speak for him. Gov. Yates
spoke briefly and eloquently.
Gen. Sherman being on the stand was
called out and said a few words.
Gen. Grant leaves next Blondav nicrht
ior Washington.
TIT 1 o o
1 he h air is well attended. The week's
receips thus far are 8185.000. Gens
Grant, Sherman, Hooker, Augur and Ha-
zen are all at the Treraont House.
The weather is cool. Heavy rain fell
yesterday. Gen. Grant was serenaded
this evening at the Tremont after return
ing from the fair.
Nino thousand persons last vear visi
ted Shakespeare's house at Stratford-un.
on-Avon.
Thirty-scven female Postmasters bnvn
been appointed during the month of April.
Shocking Occurrence.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Intclliyenccr of
June 5, gives the following statement of
a fearful tragedy, which occurred at Co
lumbia, in this State :
i'On Sunday night, a few minutes
before 8 o'clock, the report of a gun was.
heard in the neighborhood of Erisman's
Saloon, corner of Front and Locust-sts.,
Columbia, followed soon after by screams
of distress. It appears that a number of
small boys, two of them sons of Mr. Eris
man, proprietor of the saloon, and the
Lothers children of Mrs. helix, Mrs.
Dickinson and Mr. Charles Rawlings,
were playing in Mr. Erisman's yard, when
Mr. E's eldest son, a lad of ten or eleven
years, went into the saloon and came to
the back door with a gun in his hand. He
told the boys he was going to shoot them,
and immediately drew up the gun and
fired, the whole load taking effect upon
four of the boys. Mr. E.'s second son
was killed almost instantly, receiving
some sixty seven shots in different parts
of his body. The son of Mrs. Felix, aged
six or seven years, was shot in the addo-
men, and lingered until this morning at
7 o clock, when death put an end to nis
sufferings. The son of Mrs. Dickinson
was not seriously wounded, and Mr.
Rawlings's son received but a slight
wound, but one shot penetrating his
breast. The gun was kept leaded for
the purpose of killing rats, and the lad
who fired it was noi aware of its being
loaded. Deputy Coroner Hunter held
and inquest on the bodies of young Eris
man and Felix this moruing. The affair
has caused a general gloom in Columbia."
'When Johnny Comes Marching; Home."
The grand review of returned Philadel
phia Regiments took place on Saturday, in
the city. The severe rain in the afternoon
just at the time the line was moving, com
pletely soaked the soldiers and spectors,
and seriously interfered with the pageant.
The regiments of returned heroes march
ed in line according to their number, that
being as follows. 111th. (Zouave), com
manded by Rrcvet Major Gen. Collis;
116th, Col. Mulholland ; 11.8th, (Corn
Exchange), Rrcvet Brig. Gen. Gwyn ;
119th, (Gray Reserves), Col.Grey ; 121.
Brevet Col.. West Funk ; 108th, Brevet
Brig. Gen. Sickles. Delegation of fire
man and detachments of marines joined
in the procession. General Meade rode
at the head of the line.
The regiments marched to the Refresh
ment Saloons, at the foot of Washingtoh
Avenue, and were there handsomely en
tertained. The managers of these noble
charities exerted themselves to the ut
most to do honor to the returned men,
and their arrangements were excellent.
At the ''Union" amoni; other items of
provender required for the occasion were
1000 pounds of corned beef, 2000 ponnds
of ham with other little ct cetcras.
Manjfrof the soldiers had been dined on
going out to the field, and they were now
entertained again ou their happy return.
The Public Debt.
An official statement of the Public-
Debt ou the 31st ultimo, has just been
made by the Secretary of the .Treasury.
From this statement it appears that the
total indebtedness, including all the
Seven -Thirty subscriptions to that date,
legal-tenders of every description, is two
billions six hundred and thirty-five mil
lions two hundred and five thousand sev
en hundred and fifty-three dollars and
fifty cents ($2,035,205,753,50,) ou which
the annual interest is one hundred and
twenty-four millions six hundred and
thirty-eight thousand eight huudrcd and
seventy-four dollars aud two cents.
Mule Sale.
Many thousands of mules are being dis
posed ot at public sale in Washington, by
the United States Quartermaster's Depart
ment. The sale will continue until the
number of animals are reduced in pro
portion to the reduction of the armies,
now going on rapidly. - There are in the
armies of the Potomac, the Tennessee
and Georgia, probably 4,000 of the finest
six-mule teams in the world. Many of
them were bought in the beginning of
the waras young mules, have accompanied
the armies in all their marches aud.
camps, and arc thoroughly brokon and
hardened by exercise, and gentle aud
familiar from being so long surrounded
by the soldiers.
The animals are sold nt mihlip. fin Mat.
but do not bring anything like their true
Value,
It is ascertained on unquestionable
proof that the explosion of the ordnance
boat at City Point last Summer, whereby
some 70 or 80 lives were lost, and a large
amount of property destroyed, was the
work of Rebel agents, aud was paid for
with itebcl gold lurnished from the Reb
el State Department.
1 1 i i .. m i
From all the States and from. Canada
- i .1. i .i
wu learn mac me growing crops never
gave a greater promise. The wheat and
hay crops in particular arc represented to
dc greatly beyond the common - average
lhe intelligence from all parts of Penn
sylvania is ot similar import.
The suspensin bridge at. Nashville, de
stroyed at the time the Union army was
preparing to occupy the city, is to be re
built immediately. Sixty thousand dol-
t . i .... . . '. .
iars oi cue capital stoclc has already been
subsribed. and the rcmaing 815,000 will
soon he pledged.
'0 .
Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania recom
mends that in every part of the State, on
the approaching Anniversary of Indenen-
dencc, special observance be had of wcl-
como to our returned volunteers and of
commemoration of their heroic deeds.
. 1
The Government is now said to be
feeding 200,000 of the inhabitants of Vir
ginia of all classes, whito aud black.
U,UUU rations are daily issued to citizens
in Richmond alone.
4 -
The Spauish Cortes have passed resolu
tions expressing sympathy with the noo-
plc of the United States at the assassina
tion of President Ijincoln.,
tfMrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, one of
the sweetest of America's Poets, died ab
Hartford, Connecticut, on the 11th inst.
She was in the 76th year of her age.
It is said President Johnson contem
plates convening Congress in extra ses
sion on tlie 1st" of October.
The number of letters received at the
Dead Letter office for the non pre-pay.
ment of postage reaches 15,000 per week.
The ordnance building at Chattanooga,
have been ordered to take the oatbof
allegiance. Free schools for all classes
are to be immediately opened.
The
2 measuring worm has made its ap
nce in Ceutral New York, and is
pcarance
committi
committing great harm
In some places'
trees loo!
s if fire had swept over them
An order has been issued by the Grand
Master of the Free Masons in Italfy ftf
drape the Masonic lodge rooms through
out the country in mourning, for thff
death of Abraham Lincoln.
Gen. Can by has arrested the. man who
last winter in an Alabama paper offered
to be one of a number of persons to pay
a million dollars for the murder of Mr.
Lincoln.
General Scot6 is physically better than
he was a year ago. His conversational
powers and memory of persons and events
arc remarkably preserved for one of his
ycar3.
Gen. Grant has nearly completed, his
annual report as General-in-chief, which
his duties in the field prevented him from
finishing in time for transmission to Con
gress at its hnt session. The report will
be published immediately on its comple
tion. A winter in the Economisto Bclyo
asserts that France alone, during the wars
from 1 71) 1 to 1S14, raised and consumed
4,555,000 men. The conscriptions of
Napolco amounted to 2,275;000.
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Mr. Edward C. Carrington, the pro
sccuting attorney who drafted tiie bill of
indictment for treason, against Mesara.
Davis aud Breckinridge, is a Virginian,
and was formerly a rcsidcut of Richmond.
Every member of a family iu Savannah
who has reached the age of eighteen is
required to take the amnesty oath of
allegiance to the United States before al
lowed to make use of the mails.
The quartermaster's stores, in Nash
ville, the largest of the kind in the coun
try, were destroyed by fite, on Friday af
ternoon. The contents comprising suf
ficient supplies for an army of 80,000
men for two years. The losd is estimated
at from cightto ten millions of dollars
The commissary stores adjoining were
saved.
The last foreign mail which arrived at
the State Department brought several
large bags full of resolutions of sympathy
from cities, boroughs and societies in
Great Britain, aud many more from the
Continent. Several of these papers wero
done in the most artistic styles, in costly
morocco cases and portfolios.
, The mill where Henry Clay, when a
boy, used to ride, with meal bags, is still
standing and jicrformiug its old work.
it is about three miles north of Ashland
on the Fredericksburg Railroad, and about
nineteen miles from" Richmond. It es
caped all injury from the ravages of war.
A gentleman who called on Gen. Scott,
in New York, the other day, found him
iu excellent health, and much rejoiced at
the successful termination of the war.
The conversation turning on Jeff. Darisy
the old General very pointedly and em
phatically remarked : 'L hope" he will b&
huug-by the neck, sir j I hope he -will
hang by the neck."
General Sherman's "bummers'' were-,
death on digging for hidden treasure.
Differentsqiuds of them dug up a newly
buried mule' six , timea iu succession and
the poor critter, was not allowed to-rest
untill his head and ears were left above
ground as" a sample, of the kind of treasure
below, - ...
The Sandusky Register says that Jolin
sWs Island-has been selected as the pris
on w.her.e all Robe officers who refuse to
accept amnesty on the terms prescribed
by Johnson's new proclamation, will bo
kept uutil a final; disposition can be made
of them. , Johnson's Island is one of the
best situated prisons iu the Uuiicd Statcs
it beiug ca3y of access, hard to escape
from, and iu a most healthy and pleasant,
location.
Fheyhave got a "relic" in Erie, and
are going to. contribute it to the great
Sanitary Fair at Chicago. The Dispatch
describes lts a goodly sized old fashioned
bell, captured from the Dritish ship
Queen Charlotte, during Commodore
Porry's battlc-of Lake Erie, on the 10th
of September, 1S13. While the old court
house stood in tho Fark this bell was
used for all occasions, and was often rang
in order to call tho people together dur
ing the Eric Railroad war. Since the
court house was taken down the old bell
has lain unemployed.
Hon. Simon Cameron, Chairman of the
Union States Central Committee, has
issued a call for a State Convention, be
held at Harrisbhrg, on the 19th of Juno
next, for the nurnose of nominating a
Stato ticket to bo suuuortcd bv the fricnd3
of the Union as the comincr October elec
tion. Tho triumphs of
our Grovernment over treason and rebel
lion, and the return of peace to our coun
try, .so nnhk' vinrimitimi flirt nrreat princi-
l J o x , .
pics advocated by the friends of the U
nion during the last campaign, add very
much to the interest and importance ot
the coming convention. It is expected
that every district in the State will be
well represented, .