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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1865.
. VOL. 1L-N0. 37.
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Tipton. Pa , May 25, 1S64.
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."bhntzk: notice.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 1
Offickopthe Comptkollek ofthe Ctrrency,
Washing. Janruary 30th, 1835.. j
f HEREAS, BY SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE
II presented to the undersigned, it has been
ma e to appear that "THE FIRST NATIONAL
K. j'K OF CLEARFIELD," in the Borough of
Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield, and State
ol Pennsylvania, has b.en duly organized under
and according to the requirements ofthe Act of
Congress, entitled "An Act to provide a National
Currency, secured by a pledge of United States
bonds and to provide for the circulation and re
demption tbeieof." approved June 3d, 1861, and
Las complied with all the provisions ot said Act
required to be complied with before commencing
the business of Banking under said Act ;
Now. therefore, I, Hugh McCulloch. Comptrol
lor of the Currency, do hereby eertify that - THE
FIKST NATIONAL. BANK OF CLEAUFIELD,'
in the Borough of Clearfield, in the county of
Clearfield, and State of Pennsylvania, is author
ize to commence the business of Banking uuder
the Act aforesaid
x-v. In testimony whereof, witness my
SEA ljh and and seal of office, this 30th day of
January, A. D. I&Gj.
HUGH McCULLOCU,
Feb. 8,' 1865. Comptroller of the Currency.
bistk: notice.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Orj'lCB OK THB COMPTROLLER OP THE CCRBEXCT,
Wismsr.Tos. March 8th. 1865. I
7 HEREAS, BY SATISFACTORY EVI
An n....nMfl tit th a undersigned, it has
been made to appear that "THE COUNTY NA
TIONAL BANK OF CLEARFILD," in the Bor-
gh of Clearfield, la tne county oi irutm
and State of Pennsylvania, has been duly organ
ized under and according to the requirement of
the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide
National Currency, secured by a pld?e of Uni
td .States bonds and t provide for the circulation
d redemption thereof." approved June 3d. 1864,
and has complied with all the provisions of said
Act required to be complied with before commen
ting the business of Banking undersold Act;
Sow, therfore, I, Hugh MoCulloch, Comptroller
f the Currency, do hereby certify that "THE
COUNTY NATIONAL BANK OF CLEARFIELD,"
m the Bcrough of Clearfield, fa the eounty of
?Ierfield, and Stat of Pennsylvania, is autbor
ed to commence the business of Banking under
the Act aforesaid. - - .
r?v In testimony whereof, witness my
f SEAL jhaad and aeal of office, this 2d day of
V;:7TMarch, A. D. 1865.
t
A MAY IDYL.
The Spring is here ; the sweet May-blooms,
Like snow-flakes, whiten all the air;
I smell the delicate perfumes
Of apricot and pear,
I wander down the garden slopes.
And take the path that nearest leads
To where in blind assurance groups
My buried store of seeds.
Ah, Nature fils me not ! She keeps
Her promise sacred as of old ; .
See where her glad fulfillment peeps
Up through the softened mould !
'Pansiesand pinks and daffodils
A brave army of bursting green ;
Prophetic of the bloom that fills
The summer days with sheen.
A handful of unsightly seed
That was the simple gift I brought ;
Ajid, lo in answer to the deed
A miracle it wrought !
INTELLECT IN IlAGrS:
Or, Opulence Rebuked.
Two proud children were tripping along
the streets of Boston, one sunshiny day, on
their way to schcol, chatting as they went,
and apparently enjoying themselves right
merrily.
A late rain had given a coating of mud to
the red brick side walks, so the children stn
ded daintily; the older one, a slight and del
icately formed girl, with a merry dark eye
and full rich ringlets, carefully lifting her
soft shining garment, that they might not
be soiled by contact with the wet earth.
And now there way was through a dark
alley, where the sunbeams grew sickly, and
paled into dimness, as they touched the
heavy and tainted atmosphere, though per
chance long times between they melted into
the shadows upon the golden hairs of some
poverty stricken julaiit, for many sat in the
doorways of that comfortless city lane!
The boy and girl moved slowly onward,
with their white brows bent downward, and
their bright eyes searching for the hidden
pavestones as if unconscious of everything
else ; yet, the flush on their smooth and
dimpled cheeks, and the quick laugh at the
lidierous figures that flitted across their
pathway ever and anon, plainly told that
they were r.ot oblivious of the surroundings
and revealed their haughty and aristocratic
disposition.
"Don't you hate such dirty places, Ju
lia?" said the boy as a few drops, not of
crystal, stained the glossiness of his rich at
tire ; "don't you wi.-h that the school was at
the other end of the lane?"
"It's perfectly horrible," answered the
bautiful creature, with a light laugh ; "dear
do look at these creatures ; .they ean have
no sensibility of refinement ; how dirty, how
contemptible they are well, thank goodness
that we were born rich."
"Stop ! Juliar hush ! vonder is something
to excite our laughter, f warrant you ha !
ha! a boy larger than m3'self, and he ap
pears to be picking out the letters on that
scrap of paper bah!"
"Stand still, Arthur, do, and let us hear
him; we can wait a minute." :'
A few paces before them sat a boy of some
thirteen , summers,, hatless, shoeless, and
with very scanty frock and trousers ; the lat
ter a mass of patches. His hair, tangled
and thick, hung over his downcast eyes;
and his hands, stained rough with labor,
grasped a little torn piece of newspaper,
which he evidently picked out of the mud.
So absorbed was he in his task that he did
not notice the fair and high bred young
strangers who stood regarding him with
thoughtless but subdued mirth.
Hark ! the boy, leaning his brown face on
his clenched hands, murmurs unconsciously
aloud "b-i-e-n no, not that ; yes, no,"
a deep drawn sigh, then again "b-I-a-u"
then again a long pause "oh dear, have
I forgotten ; I uever shall be able to read
like Barney." '
As the poor child exclaiming thus, lifting
his eyes sorrowfully from the tattered bit of
printing, his gaze fell upon the listeners,
whose beautiful lips curled with a scornful
smile. A flash of crimson started to his
swarthy cheeks, mounting to the tops of his
forehead.as he threw off the mass of tangled
curls, and his bold black eyes fell before their
familiar stare.
"Ha! ha!" said the ichly clad youth,
carelessly. "I've got a brother only five
years old,. at home, who can read better than
that. A big boy like .you ought at least to
know your letters. Why don't you go to
school'"
"To school !" echoed Julia, sneenngly,
"do you suppose he would get into a decent
school ? Ilis name ought to be patchwork ;
ha! ha! poor thing;" she continued with
mock pity, "our stable boy dresses better
than that."
The lad, at her tone of commiseration,
sprang to his feet, and bent on the brother
and sister such a glance of defiance,indigna
tion and scorn that they instinctively hurried
onward ; though the girl turned once more
mockingly around, end gave utterance to a
slight bantering laugh.
Still the poor lad stood wounded to the
heart's core still he gazed after them, his
full lips quivering with his mental anguish,
his black eye, through the misty drops that
hurg tremblingly on his lids, flashing tire,
as though they would scathe and blast the
selfish pride of those thoughtless children ;
then turning, he hurried up three bro
ken steps into a dim entry,flew along a dark
E as.-ace and entering a cheerless room flung
imself upon the uneven floor, and wept
burning tears of grief and shuie.
The parlors of a stately mansion on Bea
con street Boston, were brilliantly illumina
ted. The owner of the princely tenements
bad issued cards for a fashionable scrtie;
the hour had arrived, the guests were as
sembling. , , .
The rich and the great were there, but
conspicious among all, and conversing with
the ex-president ot the United States, the
elder Adams, stood a noble looking man, in
the bloom and vigor of manhood. His face
was intellectually beautiful, and his high at
titude commanding yet extremely graceful.
"AH the evening," murmured a fashion
able yet lovely lady, to Mr. Adams, as he
turned toward her, "I have been striving to
gain an introduction to M.. M- 's distin
guished guest ; but he has been so surround
ednow, however, he stands alone. I
should esteem it a rare honor to speak to
him, but for a moment."
"You shall have the pleasure," said the
ex-president, smiling ; and turning, he pre
sented the beautiful and fascinating wife,' cf
a millionarie, to the talented stranger.
"We have met before, madam, ' bowing
low to conceal a strange expression that
stole over his features.
"I have forgotten," the lady made answer
in her sweetest tones.
"I have not we have met before, just
twenty years ago," he continued, still keep
ing his piercing eyes on her face "we met
in a little lane, a narrow repulsive place,
where the cries of hunger resounded often
upon the still air, and where rags-, misery
and filth, met the traveller of every step."
He paused and she gazed more furiously
upon him.
"Perhaps you don't remember the time
the place perhaps you don4, remember
how two pampered children of wealth pass
ed along the lane it may be you have for-
f otten the poor outcast, grasping at science
though then scarcely conscious with his
untutored mind. The laugh of derision
that was then flung upon this lonely heart
for I am that child roused the latent fire
of ambition within my breast;" and, he
continued more softly "I thank you for the
taunt and the scornful words ; they were ev
er my incentive in my upward path to hon
or; I had but to think of them, and my
soul was nerved anew. I thank you for
them ;" and a triumphant smile illuminat
ed his splendid countenance.
The lady, faint and mortified, glided a
way from her rcbukcr, and in less than an
hour sat humbled and weeping in her ovm
pround mansion. She had wished, nay cov
eted just one little word from the being
whom in her haughty childhood she had de
rided and despised for poverty and she
had been repaid with contempt, though
smoothly worded and delicately expressed.by
the neglected boy, whose name rang the
world through.
Have care, then sons and 'daughters of
plenty. Scorn not the child of poverty,
who with pensive eye and lifted hands, toils
un the rugged heights of Parnassus, uncar
ed for and unaided. Though clothed in
rags, he may gain the dizzy hight, while
y."u, decked in the meaner paraphernalia of
wealth, humbly t rope along the mountain's
base, and under the very feet of him who
you disdained.
General Sherman's Terms.
As the facts and circumstances, says the
Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune, which operated upon the mind of
Gen. Sherman, in his recent treaty, with
Gen. Jonnston become known, there is less
disposition to censure him for the latitude
taken.' He had just had a long interview
with President Lincoln, wherein the con
tingency of Johnston's surrender was thor
oughly canvassed, and the paramount im
pression made by the President was that
ever possible magnanimity and kindness
was to be shown the foe, iusfso soon as
he should offer to lay down his arms. The
President particularly desired that every
cause of irritation, consistent with justice
and national honor, should be obviated, with
a view of winning back the affections of the
Southern people to the old flag, rather than
securing a forced and unwilling obedience to
Federal rule. Gen. Sheruian insists that
his action was based upon this desire of the
President ' -
General Slocum Astonished.
A good story is told, which is pretty well
authenticated, at the expense of Gen. Slo
cum. He left Raleigh, with Mower's col
umn (Twentieth Corps,) on a road to the
right of that upon which Davis was moving.
Leaving Mower near Oxford on the 2d, he
announced that he would go on and make
Oxford Court House his headquarters that
night and wait for Davis' column to arrive
up. In due time the General arrived, and
when about to establish his headquarters,
learned that Davis had encamped there the
night before, and had left early in the morn
ing on to Richmond. Just as Wallcott's
division was crossing the Roanoke, General
Slocum came up to the advance for some
miles. The General laughed heartily at the
friendly competition between his two corps
for the hour of being first in Richmond.
Epitome of English Opinion.
Three journals give us an idea of the
feeling. The Times admits reluctlantly the
overthrow of the rebels, praises their cour-j
age, and passes high encomiums upon the
skill and bra-very of our troops. It would
forfeit its standing if it did not make this
latter admission. The Herald hopes the
rebels may sustain a partisan warfare, abus
ed its own Government for not giving aid,
and intimates that England will yet suffer
for her delinquency. The News is delight
ed with the condition of things, but moder
atas its expressions of joy for fear of giving
offence. These journals indicate just this
sentiment. 5n Kndand. "We are glad the
war is over, and sorry the rebels are whip
ped." A French company has secured the exclu
sive privilege to constract a canal across the
isthmus of Panama.
Prussia proposes to expend 7,500,000 in
creating a formidable fleet. Ten iron clads"
are to be built," ' - :
THE 0EDEAL OF BATTLE.
"And this is your final decision, Miss
Clay?":
She was a beauty born, that rose mouth
ed littioillachel Clay, with her large wistful
eyes trembling with blue, radient light, like
a veiled cheek stained with pomegranate
crimson an empress of hearts from her
youth up! And sitting in the framework
of roses and trailed athwart the casement,
with white ribbons fluttering from hcrsatin
brown curls, and one red jewel flashing a
m ong . the folds of her muslin dress, j'ou
would almost have fancied her some pictur
ed saint - ,
Harry Cleveland was leaning against the
window, a tall, handsome young fellow, with
dark eyes and hair, and a brown cheek,
flushed deeply with anger and mortification.
"Yes, Mr. Cleveland, it is," said Rach
el, calmly lifting her clear eyes to his face.
"You have asked me for my reasons and
although I question your right to make such
a demand, srijl I have no objections to rend
er them."
t "Speak on," said Harry, biting his lips
furiously, "let me know why I am con
demned 1"
"They are. soon spoken," said Rachel qui
etly. "I have liked you very much, Mr.
Cleaveland still like you but in the man
whom I marry I look for a greater firmness
and decision of purpose than you have ever
displa3'ed. Earnestness, resolve, these are
the only qualities that I can respect. Do
37ou misunderstand me ? 'Do you suppose
tnat I blame you lor the lack of qualifica
tions which which '.'
Rachel-paused instinctively while the
pomgranate tinge on her cheeks blazed into
vivid scarlet in sympathy with- the deep
blush that dytd her lover's whole face. He
bowed simply and walked out of the room
with a firm, haughty step.
Late that evening he sat at his window,
with clenched teeth and lowering brow,
watching the fiery embers of sunset fade in
to the purple gloom, and noting the silver
of innumerable constellations as they follow
ed one another over the black-concave of
heaven. But the gleam of sun and stars
might have been Egyptian darkniess for all
he knew or cared about their gentle influ
ences. "Life !" he murmured darkly to himself,
"what is it worth to me now ? V hat care I
who wins the glittering prize in fate's lot
tery, or who is engulphed in the whirlpool
of despair ! ' To be rejected and for a mere
whim, too ! If I conld only forget her as
quickly as she will forget me, the fickle,
beautiful enchantress!"
"Hallo, Cleveland ! I'm going to call on
prettv Rachel Clay ! Will you come along,
too?"
Capt Morrell had paused under the win
dow, with brown, and merry face turned up
ward, and the dim gas lamp flickering over
his golden shoulder-straps.
Cleveland shook his head.
"Not to-night?"
And Morrell went on his way, the fiery
eye of his cigar gleaming fitfully through
the darkness?
"There he goes!" muttered the solitary
misanthropic, "with his guilt buttons and
his military airs and graces and it is for
such as that Rachel throws away my love !"
"So you've enlisted, Henry?" said old
Squire Clay polishing the glasses of hisspec
tacles. " ell its what I'd do myself, if I
was forty years vounger. Ain't you comin'
in to tell our Rachel gobd-bye? Haven't
time? Well I do declare!"
The Squire gased in astonishment after
the vanisltuag figure of Harry Cleveland on
horseback, as it disappeared among the
trees.
"I wonder what Rachel will say, ' was his
unspoken comment
But Rachel said nothing.
Day by day the old wound rankled and
grew sorer to Harry Cleveland's heart
' "Will he live doctor?"
Every pulse in Rachel Clay's being seem
ed to stand still, as her blue dilated eyes
searched the doctor's kind sun-brownd face.
"Live? Why shouldn't " he ? All he
needs is a little care, and I see he is likely
to get that Now don't blush up myjjear,
he's not the first soldier in my ward that has
got a pretty girl come to nurse him, and I
like them all the better for it! Give him
the draught when he wakes, and keep the
bandage on his forehead.
"He'll probably carry an ugly scar to his
grave! but that will be the worst of it"
lhe good old man trotted briskly away to
the next"case," while Rachel, kneeling be
side the low iron bedstead, cried tears of in
tense thankfullness that Harry Cleveland
would not die.
"Rachel! Iam not dreaming surely
yet it was but a moment ago we made thatJ
cavalry charge on hxed bayonets :
His large, unnaturally brilliant eyes wan
dered vaguely round the room then return
ed to the tender face bending over him.
"It was three days since, dearest ; vou
are lying in the barracks now, woun ded,
and I have come from Glenville to nurse
you!"
"You, Rachel !"
"v t r t i" -
"Why did you come?" he asked gloomi-
ly.
"Because I love you. Harry." she mur
mured, the bright crimson suffusing her
whole face.
A strange light of rapture flashed into
Harry's eyes ; his pulse leaped within his
fevered veins.
" "Love me, Rachel ; yet it is not a month
since you refused me!"
"Dearest, because I fancied you weak and
vascillating. In the fiery smoke of the battle-field
you have proved yourself worthy of
the tenderest love ; you have written your
name there on the glorious though sanguine
rolls of your country. ; Hany because-1 re
fused you once you will not reject me now?".
"Reject 'you, my heart's queen Oh
Rachel, how can I be sure that this is not
a bright, treacherous delirium ?'
She bent her soft cheek on his, and then
he knew that it was no hateless vision but a
6weet reality !
"Then you did not care for Captain Mor
rell after all?"
"I never cared for any one but you Har
ry." And when September hung her crown of
purple mist over the hills, Harry Cleveland
came home to be married, still handsome,
al though his forehead bore a fresh scar a
cross its broad expanse. When the villagers
asked curiously if it was a life-long mark,
Harry answerd gayly
"I would not lose it for a fortune; that
scar won me a wife li'
Beginning to Speak Out.
C. R. Thomas, Secietary of State in
North Carolina under Governor Vance,
writes to the Raleigh Progress : "I have
never been a secessionist I have been a
conservative, by whatever other party name
we have been designated. . To every seces
sionist I would say, 'Go, and sin no more.'
To every coaservative I would say, 'Come,
let us do better. ' A great work is before
us at the close of this revolution. Domes
tic slavery ought to be abolished, at once
and forever, in North Carolina; and when
that shall have been done, reconciliation
will be quick and general, if not universal.
The abolition of slavery is a condition pre
cedent to the settlement of our national dif
ficulties upon any satisfactory and perma
nent basis. I do not wish to discuss the
matter, but I am decidedly in favor of the
Union, and the re-establishing of the rela
tions of North Carolina, freed from human
slsvery, with the Federal Government, in
the speediest way compatible with the dig
nity of the State." '
A Mew Definition of Secession.
A Huntsville, Alabama, army letter says
Chaplain L. F. Drake, of the One hundred
and Twenty-first Ohio, in a speech deliver
ed at Bridgeport recently, defined secession
pretty well in this way :
"To pro-ceed is to go forward ; to re-ceed
is to go backward ; but to secede is to go
straight to the devil!"
But Nick Davis' definition, last week, is
more unique, if not so expressive. Passing
the Episcopal church, and commenting on
the fact that the members of that church
were the most arristocratic and disloyal in
Huntsville, he remarked with peculiar em
phasis :
"I' 11 tell you what I think of it secession
is simply aristocracy on a bender!"
Isn t his definition worthy of all accepta
tion? .
Huntsville Alabama.
An army letter writer says of Huntsville :
But a fig for politics ! It is noddle or ordi
nary reverie to stand upon the spring-crowned
summit of Monte Sana, and while gazing
down upon the unfolding expanse of scenery
in the Tennessee Valley, with its now beau
tiful capit-il lying in a white mosaic at
one's feet, thus to recall from out the depths
of the past the incidents of the first settle
ment ot Northern Alabama, and contrast
them with the magnificent grandeur in the
present of the Athens of th- South. If
there is any such place as Heaven on eartn
I do not aver that there is that place- is
certainly Huntsville on May-day.
Anglo-Rerkl. A correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer claims to have relia
ble information that Sir H. B De Hogiiton,
proprietor of the London Standard and the
prime mover ofthe insulting peace petirfcm
which our Government refused to receive
last summer, is a holder of 1,750,000 in
the Confederate cotton loan. He purchased
at par one-tenth of the entire loan, and so
confident was he ofthe success of the rebels,
that up to within two or three months past,
he considered it a safe and profitable invest
ment A fine demonstration in honor of our vic
tories over Lee, came off in Brussels on the
night of the 22d ult There was a torch
light procession, a deputation escorted by a
band of music, bearing an address to the
United States Minister, American flags fly
ing, loud cheering by the people, and other
enthusiastic tokens of gladness over our
great triumph. Mr. Sanford, the United
States Minister, made an appropriate
speech on the occasion.
Good Joke. A letter from Raleigh, N.
C, says that a good story is told of a gal
lant Brigadier who made a visit to the Asy
lum of the Deaf and Dumb at this place,
he being so much delighted that he sent his
band over to serenade the inmates. The
fact becoming known, he was importuned to
invite the inmates of the Blind Assylum to
see his next parade. .
It is reported that when Congressman
Harris, now on trial at Washington, heard
of the assassination of President Lincoln,
he threw up his hands and cried : "Thank j
God 1 this is the happiest day of my life."
The reimbursement of drafted niftn who
procured substitutes has been commenced
in New York by the State Paymaster Gen-i
eral. On Friday a week, nearly 400 appli
cants presented themselves. ; . i
Justice Wayne, of the United States Su
preme Court, has started to visit his home
in Savannah, Georgia, after an absence of
four years. ...
Judge Patterson, a son-in-law of Presi
dent Johnson ,ha3 been elected U. S. Sen
ator from Tennessee.
The sunset clouds are the visible song of
the day that is dead.- :
EUINED 7IEGINIA.-
A Virginia correspondent in the second
corps, writing on date May 4th, to an ex
change, says : 1 'The first idea which strikes
the traveler through this region is the en
tire absence of law and of the the protection
it affords. 'I place my only remaining horse,
in the kitchen with my servants at night,
said a wealthy planter, 'for fear it will be
stolen;" and if it had been, no constablor
sheriff with a posse comitatns, or 1 Volunteer
force of neighbors, would have set out in ,
pursuit when morning came. The, owner,
could only submit to nis loss, far greater ;
than the simple value of the animal, since
it entailed the loss of hU crop as well, hav
ing nothing left with which to cultivate hU ,
land.
All civil offices arc practically abolished,'
and the officers who filled them are absent
or inert, powerless to exercise their fuse-;
tions, and everywhere might controls, : A
band of half a dozen negroes, or a few strag
glers from one of the armies, will enter
house and remove from it everything valna--ble,
including all the eatables, and the terri-;
fied residents are dumb, notdarinsj to offer
a single remonstrance, and breathing a sigh.',
of relief when the ruffians are gone, though
they bear with them everything upon which '
he family had depended to support life for
a year to come. A constant dread is appar-.
ent among all classes, and the anxious, con
ciliatory smile which invariably greeted mo '
upon riding up to a house, spoke volums as
to the state ot mind of the people. , : .
In conversation with them, I donotrecol-.
lect that I heard one unkind word concern-'
ing our Government. Their bitterness' is
all reserved for Jeff Davis and his satel
lites, by whom they feel they have been de
prived of everj-thing valuable beneath tho.
sun. It is a curious fact that, as unprotect
ed as they are, liable to pillage and robbery
at any moment, the universal testimony is
that things are preferable now to what they
were prior to tne advance of our armies.
Then every man was under a surveilance
from which there was no escape, and invari
ably exercised in the most disagreeable
manner. At every turn he was obliged to
produce his pass, showing why he was ab
sent from the army. In the market place,
at church, oh the railway, riding in his car
riage, seated in his house everywhere he
was greeted by the officials, who could only
retain their places by extraordinary zeal and
efficiency in the exercise of their disagreea
ble duties. and required to show good cause
why he should nbt be placed in the trenches
and fight the hated North men.
The Plot to Burn-Philadelphia.
Some two weeks since, an account was
published of the discovery of a plot to bum
the city of Philadelphia. New develop
ments in relation to it have iust conie to
light. It appears that on Wednesday night
previous to the Sunday on which the plot
was to have been executed, a large barn con
taining hay and straw, located within fifty
yards of theState magazine, near Point
Breeze, at the Southern extremity of the'
city, was fired by an incendiary,. but after
burning a short time became extinguished,
owing to the fact that there was not enough
straw near the place where the match was
applied, to feet! the flames sufficiently long
to make the conflagration general. The
wind at the time was blowing directly to
wards the magazine, and had the fire gained
headway, nothing, could have prevented a
terrible explosion. The magazine contain-,
ed over one hundred tons of jowder, and the
construction of the building is such that had
an explosion taken place, the concussion
would have been so tremendous as to have
shattered the entire southern portion, be
sides killing many people. The failure of
this part ofthe project, evidently foiled the
rebel emmissaries in carrying out tko other
parts. The intention was to have this
magazine exploded, and while confusion
raged in the southern part of the city, to ap
ply the torch in every direction. The dia
bolical character of this plot exceeds any
thing since the murder of President Lincoln
The Beward for Jeff. Davis.
It ought to be understood that the recent
proclamation, offering a reward for the ap
prehension of Jefferson Davis as one of the
arty implicated in the assassination of Mr.(
jincoln, was not issued by President John
son as his individual -act or merely upon'
his personal opinion as to the guilt of Davis.
it was issued in pursuance of the decision of
the proper authority. It was first unani-
mously decided in a Cabinet meeting that'
all parties in any way connected with the
consniracAhould be tried by a military tri-
bunal, and not by civil courts. All the tes
timony relating to the matter was then plac
ed officially in the hands of the Judge Advo
cate General, Hon. Joseph Holt, who ex-'
amined it very carefully and made a written
report to the Secretary of War, giving it as
his opinion that the evidence proved Davis
to have been connected with the conception;
of the execution of the plot It was upon .
the official report that the proclamation was
ba!ed. -It is not to be supposed that any'
jiersorial action in the matter can be traced
to Davis, but will be proved that the conspi
racy was formed and prosecuted with hi
knowledge and assent
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The Blockade. The Cabinet, we un
derstand, have been considering ; the qoes
tion of declaring the blockade at an ! end.
It is probable that the time depends onlyi
upon the capture of Jeff. Davis, or informa-'
tion of his escape from the country. In any
event the blockade will soon be terminated,!
and then, with market for their cotton, in :
exchange at their own door for salt and su-
gar, coffee and tea, bread and bacon, shoes
and stockings, and the latest fashions, even
the rebellious beautiful women ofthe Soutb,
will rejoice that the war is over, and. be refidy ;
"for better or for worse,' for wionr withT
"those detestable; Yankees." : ; ' -;. ; ! a
p . MM. Comptroller of ta Currency.