"dililiii --- • , ,,ifroittitt. Wednesday. June 21, VMS THE PROBLEM OF RE.IIIIIION. The subjugation of the rebels, in .the only sense in which it was ever purposed by the government to subdue them, has at length been accomplished. It proved to be the most stupendous military achieve ment in the annals of history. The de- termination of the loyal people of the country to preserve' the integrity of the Union, and their unexampled valor effect ,ed this result. Now that our armies have performed their mission, comes the hard est pßiblem for the solution of oar states men. It is not enough that the territorial intewity-of the nation should have been preserved and the honor of our . tiag sus tained. _ft is not our desire that the smit ten disloyal Stales shall be held iii an in ferior political position, to be goveined as provinces by coercion. The feelings of • our hearts. as well as the spirit of freedom require that there should be no inequality . in the citizens of the Republic, excepting, of course, such degradation as justice de mands in punishment at crime. f The peo ple of the South must be bleinled in a community of interests, privileges and sentiments With those of the North. The — effects of this bitter war are to be obliter ated as soon as possible. The work of conquering the rebels in arms was easy in comparison ;with the task of - restoring _them to a brotherly and harmonious sym pathy with us, whom they hate met with such deadly malice. and *hokthey have -so long been taught to regard with malev olence:. The mortiticationiof tmeipected defeat in the trial of arms ; the. humiliation of having their territory overrun upon every acre ; their forts. their ships, their arms captured ; their wealth destroyed ; their unrighteous privileges rudely abro gated; their 'sons slain ; all prevent a ' ready and graceful acceptance of the of- fers of free and hearty fellowship we shall "extend to them. The highest qualities of — statesmanship are needed to manage this great theme—the utmost wisdom and pru- Bence upon the part of our rulers and people. -- No - unnecessary harshness, no —injudicious leniency will serve. We be - lieve the administration will manage this difficult task wisely and well. But they need the support of the people now as. much at least as they needed their sup port in waging war. It is painful to see, however, that this encouragement is not given with the unanimity that it should be. The rebel s,ympa i fhisers among its, who co-operated with the traitors during the fierce struggle.:inst ended. t and control led the opposition at the last. election, seem to feel that their party existence depends upon their making odious, and thwarting the administration. and are busy in impe ding and deranging the efforts of the gov ernment They 'seek to make the people, North and South, believe that the Union- ists are cruel and unjust; t4at they have the simple desire of elevatiag the negro and procuring him power. And as they apologized for the traitors while-in arms, they are striving toleep alive the'resent truintx,of th traitors and preveril their cordial re-union with the kindredthoy so foolishly abandoned and so revengefully fought. The treason of these Northern recreants is no less than that of the over thrown traitors who built up the short - lived Corifederac,y. But we believe. yea, we know, that the evil they are devising will have no power to do much peimanent ' mischief. The band of s the Almighty di t spOser of events has hitherto guided us. The voice of mankind has welcomed our triumph with rejoicings. The mission of this Na tion is assured, its unity fully and forever confirmed. The right of the people to rule, and the right of all people to eleva tion and prosperity are maintained. It is a sad spectacle to see our citizens, men whom in their social and friendly relations we respect and love, arraying themselves against the common sentiments of man kind, and setting their faces against the everlasting truth. They know not what they do. They stand apart from the mas ses of their fellow-men. their feeble voices ,of : diacord lost in the swelling volume which singsfhosannas to the triumph of their race. It is the men who denied the right of the soldier to vote, who proclaitii ed the war an unrighteous failure, who opposed the ratification of the constitu- Jional amendment, who are striving to in terrupt the harmonious settlement of the perplexities upon us, and seek to keep up the hostility of the people of the South to their blood relations of the loyal States The most scandalous villification of the President and his cabinet arp circulated greedily to weaken those functionaries in public confidence. The accusations of hasty and testy generals are seized with avidity. and no hero can make. himself half so acceptable as when he is using his influence to prejudice the administration. Verily his defeat of the enemy is nearly compensated in the estimation of thoie - men by a raid upon the Secretary of War. It is evident that these factious opponents of the government do not realize the po sitions they occupy. The jealousy with which we watch the faintest encroachment upon popular rights may for a time save them from the scorn so soon to overwhelm them. lint the day will come when the people of this restored - and happy Repub lic will regard as the most dangerous and meanest of its enemies the men who lived in the midst of their loyal countrymen. and labored to cripple its energies. when struggling for its life—the men who, when that struggle ended in sustaining the su premacy of law and order. sought to fos- • ter discontent, snllenues4i, bitterness awl unarmed disloyalty among the people led hack by force to their allegiance. T. B. PETERSON & BROS. Philadelphia; Pa., have just published the " Illustrated Life, services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln " It contains a full history of his Life; tion; Death, and Funeral. His career as a Law yer and politician ; his services in COngress; With Us. speeches, Proclamations, Acts, and services as Presidenrof the United States, and Comman def-in-Chief of the Army and navy, from the th 4 of blitfirst4usgaration as President of th e •Ilaibed Atates, mAilthe night of his Assaasination. New and complete edition, with a firli history of the assassination, by distinguished eyewitnesses f it. Mi. tinecdn's Death-bed wanes, and a fall beeount of the Funeral Ceremonies, from the ce.his remains were plaeed in the Eaat Room at the White House until they were finally con signed. to their last resting place, in Oak Ridge Cemetery, at Springfield, Illinois; with Address es and Sermons by the Hon. Schnyler Colfax; Hon. George Bancroft; Rev. Henry Ward Beech et.; General Walbridge; Bishop Simpson, etc., 'With a full acconift of the escape, pursuit, appre hension and dent - I -s of the asssassii, Booth. With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and ten .other illustrative engravings, descriptive of the scene of the murder and Mire r principal scend - in the work. Price Seventy-five in paper, or One dollar in cloth. Agents wanted everylvThere to engage in the gale of this work, who will be supplied by the publish ers with the paper-cover -edition at Five Dollars a dozen, fifty copies for - Twenty Dollars, $37.7,0 a hundred; or with the - cloth edition at Eight dollars a dozen, fifty copies for Thirty Dollars, or Sixty Dollars a hundred.- Single -copies sent ev erywhere. free of postage, on receipt of retail price. ENIASTED men of volunteers mustered out of service under recent °Meta from the War De partment are to he considered as so mustered out on account of Government no longer requiring their services,and--are.,entified to tialbalance of ss hatever bounty they may at tlie.,if t nie be legally receiving. From this bounty balarge are to be excepted those discharged who weii ,- enlisted un der the Act of July 4, 1864, and the call of the President of July 18.1;"64, and such as are clear ly shown to be discharged for confirmed disability or as pensioners. Veterans who go out'of service under General Orders, Nn. 77, Current Series, du not go out, because their services are no limner required. the arc expressly excepted fur ope ration, under orders for the reduction of the army, unless prisoners of war. Ron-commissioned offi cers of infantry and cavalry volunteers, mustered our of service by reason of being supernumeraries, in nongoliantinn. ennor-ten-nr upon recent - orders for the reduction of the army, are to be consid ered as mustered out on account of their services being no longer required by the Government, and are entitled to the balance of the bounty remain ing unpaid. Miss CL RA BARTON, of Washington, has hit upon an excellent device for bringing to the knowl edge of friends the fate or whereabouts of missing soldiers. Some wee AT she published an invi tation to the public to send to -her address, in Washington! a description of missing soldiers, giv ing the name. regiment, company, and the State to which the) ..lively belong. In responco, she ha 4 already received such descriptions of some thousands. Roll No. lis a large sheet, con taining. we believe, about fifteen hundred names of missing prisoners of war. Twenty thousand copies of this roll have been printed and cirintla ted all through the loyal States, and among the camps; and she now calls upon soldiers and Mil ers who can give information concerning the mis sing men to write to her immediately. Great care should be token to write the name and ad dress iu every instance plainly. Her plan is high ly appreciated and approved by the War Depart ment and by the President. All letters must he directed to Miss Clara,Barton, Washington, D. C. lAmosG the petitions received by the President on the 17th asking special pardon, is that of Robert E. Lee, late Commander of the Rebel forces. and Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-Pre.ident - of the late Confederacy. Mr. Stephens enters at length into an apology or vindication of the action he has taken. Among the reasons which led him to espouse the Rebel cause, he rcfertrto the fact that the Tribune, knownoo be a powerful and influential supporter °film Republican Adminis tration, openly advtleated the right of the South era.people to independence. Mr. Stephens infer red from this that independence would las cone?: ded to the South without war. He acknowledges that the question has been decided forever, and he desiies hereafter to be, and to be considered a good and loyal citizen of the United States. Mr. Stephens' document-covers some seventy pages. THE Harrir : hurg l'elfgraph, the publication of which nassusPended for several dais in conse quence of the deListruction of its office by fire. re appeared in a now dress on Saturday last. The compthitort on the paper occupy temporarily, with their cases. the lobby of the House of Rep rEtlelitatlVFF. The. Chicago Journal, in welcoming Gen. Grant to that ity, says: "Oyer the door of an humble saddlery store in Galena, Illinois, there is a sign with the inscription Grant & Son." That son is the man who led-the armies of the Union to Tic thry and destroyed the rebellion. WE are indebted to Hon. Leonard Myers, M C.. For valuable public doenmenta, CORRY TO RIDGW,AY A Haitty City—Corry Reared in the. Wil• derneos—its People and Visitor--The Oil Refinery-The Philadelphia and Erie Raliroad--Erossing t h e Alleirhenies— Ridgway—The Climate—The koresta of the litonntains--ACoal Min in g—Jadge Gillis. Editori& corr,.9x,rlence of tim_rranklin Repository. Rux.wAY, June 5, 1865. I left the restless, heedless worshippers of the tank anti drill in the Oil region on Thursday last, and after a pleasant sojourn at the McHenry House in Meadville—the best Hotel I have yet found in all my travels—l now find myself in this delightful "sequestered spot," where the clear, cool waters of the Elk and Clarion and the green Allegh'enies give hearty assurance that here is - fags from the cruel, scorching pranks of Old Sol in the "heated term." From. Meadville we sought variety by an evening and night in Corry. It is an Oil town. Oil located it; Oil built it after Oil fashion; Oil sustains' it. Four years ago it was a deinse wilderness. One humble domicil, I believe, broke the solitude that reigned there until the °lidera& made it a city. It now numbers some six thousand population—all rich, or growing rich, or hoping to grow rich on Oil. The houses are all of wood, furnished by the lofty pines which but a little while ago flourished °Oho spot where they now make up the habitations of the efferes cing people who inhabit the place The coon, the hedge-hog, the porcupine, the deer and the wolf, who but a few months ago reigned hi undisputed sway there, still sisit ihe suburbs of the city to renew their amazement at the heartless innova tions ill mail upon their Mug unbroken solitude.' The .trcets are still adorned with nature's handi work. Majestic stumps still grace the principal avenues, and here and there an old king of the fore6t stands in loneliness to ;nark the progress that id whirling around him . It is the junction of the Oil City Railroad with the Philadelphia and Erie, and the Atlantic. and Great Western, and is the starting point from the through lines for the Oil regions. Here aredropped in Match less confusion hundreds of people daily on their way to seek fortunes in the oleagenious product of Cherry Run and Pit-hole. : - .The depot is must of the time a second edition of the confusion of - Babel. All tongues are heard in earnest chatter inqUiring for baggage and for favorite points be yond "Shaffer's flirm," the termime, of th e r a. road. Thus they come and go—men and women, &and young, grave and gay, all intent upon the sudden acquisition of fortune. Here are briefless lawyers and churchless parsons jostling with rot icking Young America and "Paddy from Cork," and all are d;recting their steps to the same her itable tomb of 'countless hopes. T cannot sly much for tho botch; or other at apt furiktiti lituwettaiv, ittplibezebun, tractions of Corry as a place of resort. i _To such as love to be crowded into little rooms to suffo cate with heat to the distracting ham of colossal mosquitoes, I commend the city of Corry. The largest Oil Refinery out of Boston is located there. It "puts through " about one hundred and fifty barrels per day, and employs a capital of half a million of dollars.. Through the politeness of the Agent, our company was favored 'with an inside view of this immense establishment. It makes one feel rather uncomfortable to stand inside of a room and bitold that an accidental spark of fire would send building and visitors to their last ac. count in a second of time. But so it is, and men work here from year to year and thus far no un timely graves owe their inhabitants to the explo sion of the Refinery. In every room where the oil is worked in the various stages of refining, no light or fire is allowed to enter. They are lighted by air-tight glass lamps fixed in the wall, which are lit from the outside, but even with all the precaution the constantly escaping gas every now and then goes off like gun -cotton "We often take fire here," said the Agent in the coolest manner possible, " but we soon smother it out." When fire reaches the gas in any of the apartments the whole room fills with the destructive element. The doors are at once closed arid an immense Volume of steam turned on to the flame, and it is soon mastered. But in one department a spark - of fire would be fatal. .Naptha, the combustible element of oil,ris hero gathered. and it explodes just like powder. Still it is gathered and barreled and shipped from day to day, and men seem to consider it no more perilous than other pursuits. Every distinct property of the oil is here separa ted and sent off to be applied to its proper use. No part of it is lost. A portion of the refuse is now used to produce the finest of colors, and even - the clement that gums machinery unless entirely extracted from the• lubricator, is broueht out of the oil in beautiful cakes. and swallowed It the innocent lover of medicated and sweetened muns. I believe that none of, the party left Corry re gretfully. Although tbe- - city has been reared in a forest, scarcely a tree shelters any of the houses. and if any other section can produce stouter and snore voracious mosquitoes,' pity the peop:e who live there., Betides the wt.ter is most unwhole some, and the first admonition a resident gives a friend on arriving there is not to drink too much water, as it produces a rash that they cull the water-itch. But what is au occasional turn with the itch if men can make money So the citizens seem to argue. mid Corry increases in population daily, and will continue to increase while int con tinues to be sought for profitably. We a ere for tunate in meeting with Mr. Frank 'Thompson there, one of our Chambemburg bop. whe is now Stiperintendent of the Oil Creek road, and owe him much for his sunny c i eurte,ies. Ile has. 1 believe, tilled more responsible railroad positions than any man of his age in the State. and promi ses to be one of the first railroad men in the colintn From - Corry we took the Philadelphia and Erie road for this point, to pay a long promised visit • to my old firieud Souther and enjoy rile cool,putr A , air of the Alleghenies. The main summit is ws,,t, of this some twenty miles at Kane—so named M honor.of Gen. Kane of the Ituektails, who had quite recovered from his wounds and now maim ges his vast coal and timber lands in this region. The summit is over 2100 feet above the level of the sea. and has been selected by the railroad company as the point titr extensive snops. The forest is just cleared off enough to make room for the buildings of the place, including a good rail road hotel. From thence we ' pasa down ~ .the main stem of the Alleghenies, along the head waters of the Clarion, until Rid,gway opens out at the confluence of Elk creek with the river. It is the count) seat of Elk county, sad contains about fitly dwellings, all of wood and apparently designed by the same architect and nearly all painted white. it is nestled in the chasest r"ftafi- ble ionbraco of the towering mountains, and .greeta the Corry-baked and dust-covered traveler with-_a most delightful atmosphere and feasts him on trout, and venison. On every side the mountain looms up hard by the town, and the ingress and exit for the railroad are by the sinu ous courses of the streams which ripple and gur gle through the shadows of the monster pines and decorated laurels. 'We had their warmest weather. widie here, and yet the blanket was essential to it comfortable nighti. , sleep. I believe that it is o-ual—certainly not uncommon, for frost to whi ten the growth of every month of the year, and vegetation is Irma a month to six weeks ,latt.r than in the Cumberland Valley. . more than one hundred miles along the Erie rend east kid west of this point not a-stock of Wheat can be seen, and I reverently raised my hat last eve ning to a promising potato patch, so glad was I to find something in the way of man's wants flourish in this region. Here and there are thin fields of rye to be seen, but they must but poorly reward the husbandman. Of course our tall, well eared corn is also a stranger to the farmers, in this region ; but they have a species of corn that matures in about the time we require for our sweet table-corn. Beyond this little corn, potatoes etal rye, the soilof whole sections for many miles in every direction produces nothing and never will. There is an agricultural settlement, called St. Marys, ten miles East of this,,peopled by German Catholics., but I don't think that Americans could live there by the cultivation of the soil. The Germans, however, seem to thrive pretty well, and they have a fine school, a large chapel, with the largest church organ in the State and that manufactured here in the mountains. They have also sonic exquisite paintings in the village. 'They don't get distracted with politics, •' as they all vote one way. I 'remember some P years ago, when I made a small experiment for a State office, I got one vote in St. Marys, to some 400 against me. I believe that the place got too hot fertile authorof thatvote. Since then the opposition to the Democracy have risen to the dignity of five and sometimes even eight votes: but they came from outsiders, as the colony pre: Rents all unbroken plalanx for Democracy. Hav ing emigrated to secure liberty, they vote steadi ly to strengthen slavery, and call that Democra cy. But when men morefavored by birth and education do the same thing, I presume_ that I ought not to complain of the Germans who have been closed up in the wilderness for many years, and scarcely know yet that the rebel armies have I capitulated and that slavery is abolished. The lumber of this region-is its chief staple, and it is indeed a vast source of wealth. Within a few _rods of the county court-house stand the tall pines-inviting the sturdy arm of the lumbilt man; and 'on every, side, as far as anything is vis ible, are the old Alleghenies clad in their colossal evergreens. Toone who has learned regard a few acres of knotty, scrubby oak as almost sa cred because of the value of the timber, the ma jestic pines of this region could not but appear as meriting the profoundest . reverence. They stand in places so thickly studded that one can hardly be getout from among the rest, and it is not uncommon to see them ten feet in circum ference and as much as one hundred - and thirty feet high. I gazed in wonder upon the apparent ly boundless forest that greeted the eye when I stood upon one of the higlespurs of the mountain. It seemed as if earth was one eternal forest of green, with the'laurels and wild flowers woven in chaplets to bewilder the beholder with nature's loveliness. Here stand beside tie the proud 'noun . tain hemlocks which have survived the decay of ten generations of man. For three centuries their tops and branches have been tuned to pensive melody by the-morning and evening breeze, and answered the hoarse storm with the rude music that' lulled the wolf and panth4 to repose ere man beheld this boundless beauty, nr sought to fashion it to his uses. Coal is also found in abundance in different sections of the country. A Boston Company is operating quite close to this pLace r and the Su perintendent, Mr Veazie, very! kindly took our party to the mines over the coal. road. It starts at the intersection with the Erie road, and rises up over four hundred feet on 'a space of half a - mile in width. The train runs backwards and forwards over the switch-back road, each time rising higher and higher, until a hill that is al most perpendicular is climbed by a locomotive,. and fro'in thence the grade is comparatively easy to the mines on the top of the mountain. The mines are in their infancy, and the vein opened is but three feet thick, and link been worked in horizontally some six hundred feet. A very phil osophical little mule, something larger than a Norway rat, pulled the rickety; car into the mine over a temporary track well 'itithedded in mud, and the supply well kept up by thedrippings from the arch. Occasionally the, car,would get oil the track, and when the ladles screamed, as scream they ever must on such an occasion, master mule responded hy_ vigorous kicking. The ladies were made profoundly quiet for the balance of the explonitiou by the assurance on the part of 1 the driver that the mule always would kick when anybody 'made a noise. The mines visited, the train was started down the mountain with the irou-homiin the rear to play the important part of brakesrmiii. and we returned in the cool of the evening afier a most delightful and instructive visit to the ; black diamons of the Alleghenies. ' This Place was opened as .. early as 1323 by lion. James L. Gillis, who settled here as the agent of the Ridgway lands. He is still living and is now a visitor to his old home. He look s robust and heady for a man of nearly four-setirc winter,, and loves to tell hi , early exploits in the then almost impenetrable 'wildernei,s. Thert• was no road of any kind that reaehe'd this point when he located here. and for' forty years there were no means .1 getting the saluablo coal and lumber of this regi,m to market excepting by the freshets of the Cimino. Thu coal therefore remained in the bowels of the Earth until a year ago, when the completion of the Philadel phia and Erie road—a new artery of national and commercial lifti slier ,effected by, the wis dom of State legblatioa,_ Now the Atlantic and the Lake, ,strike hands in this net-work of moun tains, and the wild shriek of the iron-horse is Iheard almost hourly as he Iclimbs and winds his way along, hearing to the marts of trade and commerce the boundless w i rdth thatbas slataher eithere for thousands of yttars. A. it. it. W 6 ASFIINOX: Nca - ro tittlfra4-e and Heetinstruetion—the Conspiracy Trial—Bien Wood's Couipti. eity —The liettysbn* Ceremonies-Sol. tilers Mustered Ont÷Appointmerd of A MatrsitalMrs. Surralt. Cort,sponavnee of the Franklilt Repository. WAS/111%7W: ern . . June 1ith,1865. Negro suffrage and reconstruction are at f pres ent the nil absorbing topic of gossip in this city. Whenever two or more are assembled together, be they preaeiwr, politicians. women. Children,. soldiers'or lit.groi7 they talk of nothing else from morning till night. Everybody appears to retire to lied with the everlasting darkio on his-brain and rise , in the morning with reconstruction on the point of 1t tongir. The excitement that fr;ln the eonspiracy trial has all died out. The do is tilled with people from every sec tion of the South, men and women, come to see the President on reconstruction and against negro suffrage. - The President grants interviews and listens to their arguments, but whether they are haviug weight on the future policy of the Presi dent remains to be seen. On the other side we Mice here eminent and loyal men from the North, arguing agaiti.4 the supposed future policy and the persuasions of these wily Southenaers who control southern sentiment, who have themselves been rebels, tx ho are still rebels at heart, who are bathed but not changed. They are beaten in 'war but nut in sentiment, m hen the subject of the darkie is broached. It is said that should the President eontinue in the coarse at present indi cated, it o ill not meet the siMetion of Congress. Should Congress not meet till acct December, ever}' Southern State will hate then here a dele gate knocking at the door, similar to the one of List session from Louisiana. !There is no probt ,bility that Congress will admit them and we may 'expect a repitition of the scenes of days gone These so called penitent rebels now here, are walking the streets as haughty and defiant as in days of old and are receiving the attention of persons holding high official positions, which will inevitably lead to something bad in the end. Last Saturnay when the military court closed. its session for the day, the members thought all the evidence was in. On Monday morning both sides had discovered new evidence and there is now no telling when it will close. The testimony of yesterday proves Ben Wood's complicity with the leading rebels in Canada. having drawn laist fall '25,000 from .Jake Thompson. There is some comment on it in the eity,imt no surprise. His arrest has been ordered and he will have a chance to explain this transaction—this intimacy with our public enemies, the instigators of the PreSi dent's assassination, while at the same time he was holding a seat as' a sworn member.of Con gress. His record looks - blacker than that of his associate editor, John Mitchell. Gen. Geary left to-day for Gettysburg to coin pleto arrangements for laying the corner-stone of the monument on the 4th of July. Gen. Grant has given permission forone regiment of infantry, one regiment of cavalry and two full bands rf music to be present„ Arrangements are making with all railroad "companies to issue excursion tickets. From present appearances it prbmiks a grand affair. 150,000 soldiers with baggage and horses have been sent from here by railroad within the last twenty days Only 20,000 more 'remain here at present ordered to be mustered out. An order is about to be issued to discharge 200,000 men in the Smithern and West'ern Departments. Then there will be another order mustering out all men whose term expires previous to January 1, 1e06._ Judge David S Gooding, a prominent lawyer of Indiana, who stumped the State for Lincoln and Jolinstin. has been appointed Marshal of this District, and yesterday entered On its duties. This appointment has completely upset the calcu lations of an eminent politician who was sure of getting it into his family. Yesterda) the city waOloodcd with handbills sntitb.4l, Trial of Mrs. ,Surratt. or contrast of the Past and Present" The prisoner is painted in bright colors as a "christian lady, gifted with excellent qualities and noted fiir her good deeds; a devoted wife and fond mother, pious, kind and charitable to a fault," &e. - The character of the witnesses against her is impugned; the Irestruint on her liberty, &c. - is denounced, and alcoatrast drawn between inir4vAll time and the dark ages in relation to th4reatment of "weak, defenceliss women." This appeal in behalf of Mrs. Surratt is worked up in high style, and is working a con trary effect natio public mind from that intended by the writer. 'N. C. THE editor of the Unicersatist having been cen sured by a correspondent for intimating that Jeff Davis should be hang, replies :—"After the ex citement has passed, and Jeff. Davii is hung, we may be dom.! But in all soberness let us say, if Jefferson Davis is not hung. the hand that in this land ever after signs a death-warrant should drop from,its socket. If he is pardoned, let every• pn- Ann door open." —lien. Canby has arrested the man wtio last winter in an Alabama paper offered to be one of a number of persona to pay a millym dollars' for the mnrder of Mr. Lincoln. POLITICAM, INTELLIEGENCE. —The Democracy of Westmoreland county Lave nominated H. R Pipeiaud James Rutledge for Assembly. , —Governor John Ilrough has addressed a let ter to the people ot Ohio, declining a nomination for re-election. --Dr. St. Clair, of the Indiana District, has an pounced himself as a candidate for re-election to the State Senate. —Thdmas Rose, Esq., has been nominated by the Democracy of Greene county to represent them in the next Legislature. —The Cleveland Plain Dealer intimates that Gen. Sherman will be run for Governor, by the Democrats of Ohio, at the ensuing election. —Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, has issued a proclamation ordering an election for members of Congress on Thursday, the third day of August next. —The Connecticut Legislature by a two-thirds vote and over, has adopted a constitutional amend ment striking out the word " white," and giving the, nogro the ballot • 4 ... • —The Chinn men of Greene county have nom inated Silag IL Baily for Assembly, and instruc ted their conferees to vote for R. W. Downey, Esq . , for Bresident Judge. —Hon. Samuel A. Gilmore is the choice of the Democracy of Fayette county for the Judgeship. Charles E. Boyle, Esq., is the Democratic candi date for the Legislature. —The President has appointed Andrew J. Hamilton, of Texas, to be Provisional Governor of that State, and also Jamei John'son, of Geor gia, to be Provisional Governor of Georgia. —The Johnstown Tribune urges the nomina tion of Obl. Jacob M. Campbell,lately of the 54th Regiment, for - State Senator from the District coutoosed of Cambria. Indiana. and Jeffemon cfmntie, —The new Free State Constitution of Mig• i•ouri has been adopted. Full particulars are not yet received, but enough is known to warrant the statement. The majority will be between 5;000 and-fi,ooo. —Hon. Green Clay Smith has been re-nomina ted to Congress by acclamation, by the Union men of the Sixth (Covington) District of Kentucky, There was no opposing candidate. The General has accepted the nomination. —Gen. W. W. Ircia. of Heaver county, present Coinissa ry General of the State. is recommended for Auditor General by a correspondent of the Harrisburg Tslegrao. He is eminently quali fied and would make, a most' efficeut officer. —The Union men of Butler have nominated Col..Tno. A. Purviance for Senator, and Hem Pillow and John H. Negley (Present member) for Assembly. As Butler has thepresent Senator, McCandless, we presume that Lawrence and Armstrong will hardly ratify the nominatiMi of Col. Purviance. —Hon. Robert C. Pitman, of New Bedford, is mentioned as likely to be the temperance candi date for Governor of Musachusetts at the ap proaching election. He was a member of the last State Senate, and took the foremost part in ef forts to securelegislation looking to the •enforce ment of stringent laws against liquor selling. —Maj. Gen. Rosman has been nominated at Frankfort by a number of highly respectable gen tlemen, members of both branches of the legisla ture, as a candidate for United States Senator, to be elected by the next Legislature of Ken tucky. The Louisuille Journal understands that it is the purpose of Gen. lineman to make a gen eral canvass of the State. .—Betiah Magoffin, of Kentucky, long one of the extremest opponents of the Government, has returned to his State and taken the stump in hi rer of the amendment of the Nations/ Constitu tion for the abolition of humrin slavery. Under the influence of Senator Jas. Guthrie, Governor Bramlette, ex-Governor Magoffiu,.and others, the Kentucky Legislature cannot hesitate - long in concurring'in the joint resolution of Congress. -An the Potomac , Congressional District of Virginia, stretching from Alexandria to Freder ick county, and south to include Fauquier, three candidates are already in the field: Levris.Mc- Kenzie, Gilbert S. Minor and George Rye. The name of George E. Senseney, for ten years editor of the Winchester Republican, a sterling Whig paper, has also been suggested. All are consid ered Unconditional Union men, but, Bathe field is a large one, it is probable other names will be pre sented. kEBSONAL. —General Scott was seventy-eight years old on the 13th met. • —John Mitchell, late editor of two rebel pa pers, has been sent to Fort Lafayette. —Mrs. Lincoln is now temporarily' residing at a country seat, five miles out of Chicago. —Genoral Halleck is devoting his leisure hours to a great history of the siege of Corinth. —Daniel 11 Goodloe has been apmUnted Pai te4l States Marshal for the District of Colunibia —We are, informed by a Western Virginiacor respondent that the rebel Gen. Early is insane: . —Henry S. Foote, lately of Mississippi, is on his way to California, "here he has children resi ding. —Judah P. Benjamin, the rebel Seereliry of. State, la - reported' to have arrived safely at Ber muda. • —Ex-Governor Billy. Smith, of Virginia, bas delivered himself to the authorities, and has been paroled. —Wm. L. Sharkey was yesterday apppointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi by President Johnktim —John C. Breekinridge bae got to Havana. No doubt he has plenty of mat) , old gold gored awayi in England. - - —'rhe daughter of Charles Cotesworth 'Pinck ney, {aged seventy, is receiving Government ta, tions at Charleston. —Speaker Colfax and party arrived at Salt Lake on the 11th, and were received by the City Coun'cila and citizens. —Hon. Thad. Stevens has been rusticating at Caledonia *mace for two weeks. He left for Lancaster on Saturday last. —Clarence A. Sewagd has been'appointed Act ing Assistant Secretary of State, pending the sick ness of his fathar and brother. —Hon. W. W. BOyee. of South Carolina, hag received an unconditional pardon, accompanimibi a friendly letter from the President. . —Hon. H. G. Maynard, of Tennessee, ism can didate for Justice of the United States Supreme Court, as a successor of Judge Catron. —Mrs. Colonel Mulligan, of Chicago, has been presented with $2500 in cashand a $5OOO home. stead by admirers of her brave, dead hug* —John Minor Botts, Alexander H. Rattinkand other prominent Virginians, have arrivedit Wash ington, and bad an interview with thegrOsident. —The income of Governor Aiken,4 South Carolina, before the war, was sloo,odo' crye'ar. Now he ,does not own a dollar's worth of "pb4erty, —Goy. Holden has witrdrawn from the editor ship of the Raleigh Standard, and is succeeded by his eon, Joseph H. Holden and Joseph S. Can non. —The notorious guerilla, Quantreli, died iu the Louisville Military Hospital, on Wednesday, from the effects of a wound received on.. the 10th of May bulk —Kirby Smith has gone - tolder.doN f .not, beini anxious to test the question whether Leis within the " forbidden degrees" of thearonesty procla mation. The country can afford his absence. —Edward J. Royo,colored, who twenty years ago was a barber inVerra Haute, Ind., has been . appointed Chief Justice of Liberia, to fill the va-, cancy occasioned by the death of Rev. J. Boston Drayton. —Lieutenant James B. Cl y,a grandson of the great Henry Clay. 1 the of Ashland, was among the rebel prisoners Ito reported at Nash ville on Wednesday , rtst. eis 011 his way to his "old Kentucky h me.'l 1 —Tlie youngest dughter'of Harriet Beecher Stowe was marrie at St John's Episcopal Church in Hartford Conn., on Wednesday morn ing, to a wealthy E iseopal elesgrnan from Boy ill ton. The eeremOni was performed by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Istria, - • —Geri. Grant passed- through Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoetr f ric the way to Washington from Chicago, and renewed an enthusiastic re ception. At Altoona he met with a fitting recep tion from the Grand Commandery of Knight Templars, now in session there. —A son of Dr. Breekinridge haring returned frOrn,the rebel army, the old man asked him, in his quaint way, " My son, have yon found out what you've been fighting for ?" U Yes, father," the returned prodigal replied, " we're been trying to get the nigger Into Kansas." —John Minor Botts has defined his position. He is not opposed to the new State of West-Vir ginia: acknowledges Francis H. Pierpont as law ful Governor of Virginia; accepts the abolition of slavery: doubts the validity of the constitution framed at Ale;Nandria, and is opposed to the ap pointment of disloyal men to office. —John A. Wise, a worthy brother of Henry h:i4 recently written to Gen. Gordon, demand ing from the Government a supply of limning im plements, horses and seeds, oleunins a rebtora ticM of his eitizauship'rights. and complaining of his sufferings and losses during thwar, and that his sons. four of whom he admits were in the re bel army until its surrender. were not-allowed to wear their,rebel uniform. Gen. Gordon replied that he and his sons had been traitors to the goi ernment.4nd were entitled to no fasor• from it, but would receive such as, in its leniency, it might V.N. proper to grant --Among the visitors at the White House on Thursday last was Gilbert Nanzant, a youth of about thirteen }ears of age, at onertime a musi cian in the 79th Ohio regiment, m2d•sdhsequently an orderly at Gen. 'Ward's headquarters. The object of his visit was to ask permission of the President to take home with lulu a pony which, as OW' of Sherman's "bummers, - be had captured. Of course the President, with his large and patri otic heart, could not refuse the request of so gal lant a little fellow. Gilbert is a native of Port William, Clinton county, Ohio. He made the march with his regiment from Nashville to Atlan ta. and was in several of the hardest. engage ments. Altogether lie is voted to be a "bold sol dier boy." and was - so regarded by the Presi dent. —Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney died at Hart-. ford, Connecticut, on Sunday, the 11th, aged 76. She was born iu - the town of Norwich, in the same State, SeptembEt, 1791, and early engaged in teaching. She removed in Hartford in 1814, and there 'published her first volume, which was enti tled, " Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse." She had previously written occasional pieces. She married - in 1819, and not long after began to write regularly. The amount of her work maybe jud ged by the fact that she has written nearly if not quite fifty Volumes, of all sizes, in all styles, and on a great variety of subjects ; historical, educa tional, hortatory, biographical and epistolary. She visited Europe iu 1840, and published an ac count tf her tour. The amount of Mrs. Sigour ney's writings, joined to the admirable moral tone and correit inculcations that belonged to them all, gave her a popularity hardly inferior to that at tained by any of our authoresses. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. —Major General Ord has been ordered to Ore gon, and Major General Terry to Virginia. —Capt. Fouks, of the llth Ohio cavalry, and 100 men, - were attacked by about 500 Sioux Indians, 15 miles from Fort Mitchell, on the 14th. Capt. Fouks and four men were killed, and seven were wounded. A number of Indians were killed. —President Johnson has issued a proclamation removing the restrictions upon internal, domestic and coastwisetrade in the Southern States, except goods contraband of war, and also declaring that after the let of July all restrictions upon foreign commerce with the coastwise ports shall be re moved. • —Cot. William S. A. Fish formerly Provost Marshal of Baltimore, who by court martial, Sad been dismissed from the service on account of al leged iniproprieties, has been restored to hia full rank, with back pay, President Johnson, who had thoroughly examined the case and was satisfied of ColTish'a innocense. - —The Richmond Republic says: It is stated that 75 pieces of property in Richmond have been already libeled for confiscation, which is only a be ginning. The proceeding is in rem, that is to say, against the property itself—the owner not being made a party to the cause. The term of the Fed eral Court at which the libels will be proceeded and acted upon will be held in the Fail. —Free communication with Texas commenced June 17th, and private steamers will soon run along the coast, as usual. Governor Allen (re bel) has published his farewell address, recom mending the people to be loyal to the Union, and industrious. Though he proposes to run away himself, he advises refugees to return and go to work. General Weitzel's command sailed from the mouth of the Mississippi on the 12th. A large command sailed in the same direction, from Key West, some days previous. AN INTERESTING LEAF OF HISTORY In this week's Indtpen4 ult Mr. F. B. Carpen ter gives the Fistory of the Emancipation Procla mation, as Mr. Lincoln gave it to him, on the oc casion of their first interview, as written down by himself soon afterward. We quote: "It had got to be," said he, "mid-summer, 1E62. Things had gone on from bad to worse, until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope 011 the plan of operation. we had been pun suing ; that we had about played our last card, and must change our tactics, or lose the game I now determined on the adoption of the Emai- Proclaination ; and, without consultation with, or the knoWledge of, the Cabinet, I prepar ed the original draft of the Proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. This was the last of July, or the , first part of the month of August, 1862." (The exact date he did not remember.) " This cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon a Saturday. All were present excepting Mr. Blair, the 'Postmaster General, who was absent at the opening of the discussion, but came in sub sequeatfy I-said to the Cabinet that I had re solved upon this step, and had not called them to gether to ask their advice, but to lay the subject matter of a Proclamation before them ; sugges tions as to which would be in order, after they had heard it read. Mr. Lovejoy," said he, "was in error when he informed you that it excited no comment, excepting on the part of Secretary Sew aid. Venous suggestions were offered. ' Secre tary Chase wished the language stronger in refer ence to the arming of the blacks. Mr. Blair, af ter he came in, deprecated the policy on the ground that it would cost the Administration the Fall elections. Nothing, however, was offered thatl had not already fully anticipated and settled i n my own mind. until Secretary Seward spoke. June 21i, 1865. roii 'Mr. Presided I approve:ii(the-proc lainatioe, bat I qiietition the expeilitmey?afttels sue at thisjazieture. The depreision of the pub lic mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effeetof so iznportant a step. It may be viewed as the measure of an ex hausted Government—a cry for help; the Gov ernment stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, - instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her bands to the Government" " His idea,"Said the Presi dent, " was that it would be considered our last • shriek ; on the retreat" (This was hit precise ex pression.) ".Now," continued Mr. Seward, " while I approve the measure, I suggest, Sir, that you postpone its issue, until you can give it to the country supported by militarrsuccess,•inde'ad of issuing it, as 'would be the ease now, upon The greatest .disasters of the warn' Said Mr. Lin coln " The wisdom of the view of the Secretary of State struck me with very great force. It,was an aspect of the case that; in all my thought up on the subject, I hid entirely overlooked. The result was, that I put the'draft of the Proclama tion aside, as you do your sketch for a picture, waiting for a victory. From time to time I ad ded or changed a line, touching it up here and there, waiting tae progress of events. Well, the next news we had was of Pope's disaster, at-Bull Run. Things looked darker than ever. y ivally, came the week of the battle of Antietam. de, termiaed to wait no longer. The news carne, I think on Wednesday, that the advantage was on our side. I was then staying at the ',Soldiers' Home' (three miles out of Washington) Here I finished writing the - second draft of the prelim inary Proclamation; came up on Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hear it, and,it was pub lished the following Monday. It was a somewhat remarkable 64; 4 ' bacon tinued, " that there was just one 14ereff d4e, between the dates' of the two preclrEittas, is sued upon the 22d of September and- rst of January. I had not made the calculation at the time:" , At the final meetiug on Saturday. another inter esting incident occurred in connection with &ere tary Seward. The President bad written the im portant part of the Proclamation in these words: "That on the firsr day ofJanuary, in the year of bur Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, all persons held us slaves within any State Or designated part of l'etftte, the people whereof shall then he, in rebellion reminat the United States. shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free ; anti the Executive Government of the United .States. including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize the freedom of such per anll.4, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them in any efforts they- may make for their aetu - al freedom." "When I finished reading that paragraph," resumed Mr. Lincoln, "Mr. Seward stopped me, and said : 'I think, Mr. President. you should insert after the word 're cognize. in that sentence, the words and main tain.' I replied that I had already fully con-•- sidered the import of that expression in this con nection. but I had not introduced it, because it was not my way to promise what I was not, en tirely sure that I could perform, and I was not prepared to say that I thought we were exactly :Able to " maintain " this. " But," said he, " Mr. Seward insisted that we ought-to take this ground: and the words finally went in'" Mr. Lincoln then -proceeded to show ine the various . positions occupied by himself and the dif ferent members of the Cabinet on the occasion of the first meeting. "As nearly as I can remem ber," said he, "the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War were here on my right hand —the others were grouped at the left." Mr. Chase told me that the Cabinet meeting immediately, after the battle of Antietam, and just prior to the issue of the September proclamation. the President entered upon the business before them, by saying that "the time for the annuncia tion of the emancipation policy could no longer be delayed. Public sentiment," he thought, "would sustain it, many of his warmest friends and demanded it—and he had prom ised his God that he would do it !" The last part of this was uttered in a low tone, and appeared to be heard by no one but Secretary Chase, who woo sitting near him. He asked the President if he correctly ,understood hint. Mr. Lincoln re. plied, "I made a solemn vow before God that, if General Lee was driven back from Penusylvania, I would croWil the result .by the declaration of freedom to the slaves !" HORRIBLE AFFAIR LC ILLINOIS. Tili3 - Quincy (III.) Herald of the 3d instant, comes to us with a long account of the doings of a mob in that town on the Wednesday previous, , and the subsequent lynching of a guerrilla cap tain. It appears that the captain, who was woun ded, and whose name was Rose, ww4oufined in the jail at Quincy, when the citizens-and soldiers to the number of five hundred hearing of it, com menced to assemble around the jail, and sent in formal demands-for the, surrender of the rebel. On their demand being denied some orthe party scaled the high'fence which protects the entries to the jail-yard, and by means of billets of wood and hammers fiirced an entrance, seized the body of the wounded and dying bushwacker, and imme diately dragged him into the street, amid the vo ciferous cries of " hang him," " shoot him," &c., The miserable man was then dragged through the street, and taken to a spot in the woods about a mile out of town. Here a ring was formed around the man, who too weak to stand, was lying on hie side. A minister then prayed - with him, after which a reporter seated hunself.dieside him, with the expectation of receiving his:Confession. - The' prisoner said he lived in Troy Siissouri; had sup ported Douglas for the Presidency, and after wards Mr. Henderson for the Senate, and after his house' had been burned by the militia he had joined. Kirby Smith's army. After this the ring was cleared, a rush was made for the prisoner, and he was dragged to the place of execution= the tree. He did not display the weakness of a coward on such an occasion, but seemed to nerve himself for the worst. There was nothing unu.: seal about his appearance more than a bright and lustrous eye. Hewes placed upon some boxes, prepared as a platfonn with his hands-pinioned behind him- Before the rope was placed around his neck he fainted, and fell groaning backward to the earth. Considerable confusion resulted from this, and cries from the crowd were vocif erously sounded, " Tie him where he lies;"— " Hurry hini lip," Rose was again placed upon the stand, growing weaker every minute. Just before the handkerchief was placed around his eyes he asked to be shot, and again spoke ofhis wife and children. The noose adjusted, and the boxes kicked over, and Rose was left dang ling in the air. He struggled but little. We thought his neck was broken by the falL The execution took place five minutes after twelve. Rose was a well built man, very muscular, five feet five or Mx inches in height and twenty seven years of age. While hanging, some of the par. ticipanta in the execution took hold of the body and started to swing it to and - fro; others uttered brutal jests.- On the next day the mob assembled around the jail, bent on having the`associates of Rose, but this time their plans were thwarted. General Prentiss, Hon. J N. Arnold, and others dia all in their power to appease the ferocity of the lawless men, but all to no purpose. THE RE-UNION OF THE METHODIST CHURCH Twenty yetirs ago, in the month of May, the General Conference of the Methodist Church sit ting in the city of New York, was rent in twain on the question of- slavery. _ In the State street Methodist Church, Mobile, on Sunday, May 21st, the question was put by the Rev Mr. Taylor to the vast 'audience, of returning to the old church, North, as it is sometimes called, and the vote was unanimous. The Knoxville Whig says:— " Bishop Clarke and Rev. Dr. Poe, of Cincinnati, will attend at Athens, East Tennessee, June Ist, to organize a loyal Holston conference, and such ministers aswish to join the new conference are invited to attend. Those out of whom the legisins of devils have been cast by the terrible exorcism of civil war, will attend at Athens, and those who still pant for the flesh-pots of Egypt, and hope of get back their uegroes, will stay away, in the hope of getting their lost right in the demoralized church, South." A SuGGEntvr. STATEMENT. — Theyetersburg (Va.) Nests, of & late date, makes the following suggesfwe statement: "In this whole commonwealth there-is sot, as far as we know, a glass factory, a button factory, a paper mill, a broom factory, a manufactory of wooden ware, a braes fondly, a porcelain facto ry, a chair factory, a carpet mill, a pin machine, - an agricultural implement factory, a matinfactory for cutlery, a type foundry, a factory'wherein a single article of printer's use is made, a brewery, a calico print factory, a lock factory, a linen-fac tory, a cotton factory, abovecapacitS for. the com monest work. REBELS CHEER THE FLAH.—A correspondent writes as follows from Point Lookout, Md., un der date of June 9, 186 . 5 "This morning about ten or eleven o'clock the prisoners of war at this point 'raised a flag daff in their camp and then unfurled the old flag that they hnd fought so hard against for four years ! How they cheered it , when the wind held it out so that they could see that all the stars and stripes were still there; not one gone; but all the mote bright anOtoutiful because now floating over rto entirely free country!"
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