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CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, May 19, 1565.
S. M. PETTENOIL.I. 4.4 r. CO.,
1..N0. 37 Park .Row, Now York, and 6
. State St. Boston, are our Agents for the Ilk:M.l.h
n those cities, and nre authOrized to take AO . ,lib,
I. , Its and ,;uhseriptions for us at our lowest rotes.
STANDING COMMITTEE
The Standing Committee of the Union
Republican party will meet at the Ace
of the Chairman, on Monday next, the
221 inst., at 11 o'clock - A. Jl. Import
ant business will be transacted
JAm Es A. DUMBAB.,
THIC DRY GOOD': TRAM . : in New York
and Boston, according to the commercial re
ports, continues active. though in 90111 e in
stances prices had declined aJittle from the
highest advance under the recent upward
movement. All seasonable goods,
iuchiding
ribbons, and such fancies, are eagerly sought
after at prices quite up to the standard. At
the hot auction sales many of the lots sold
were duplicated. Cotton and woolen man
ufactures were inactive, and pointed tiololver
MIMI
THE POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION. --
The proclamation of President .I.,hrtson re
lative to re-establishing the - authority of the
laws of the United,Strites in Virginia, is
generally believed to be the result of a care
fully matured decision in the Cabinet, and
will apply in future as the reconstrUction
policy for the remainder of the Southern
States: Gov. Pierpont will immediately pro
ceed to Richmond, and assume the eX (Tut ve
control of the State. it may be added that
everything is becoming quite peaceful all
through Virginia. The railroads and tele
graphs are being repaired without interrup
tion from any quarter. A new telegraph
line from Weldon to Richmond has been
completed, and ono is in cour,o construc
tion from I ,Va:thittgton to Ow latter City.
TUE EXTRADITION QUESTION.—The idea
abroad that Jefferson Davis will make his
way to Mexico calls to mind the fact that
with Mexico we have no extradition treaty.
Even if wo had, there would be some diffi
culty in getting it executed, supposing V r.
Davis to take refuge there, and it were de
termined to seek his delivery and return I
the United States. This nrisc: from the feet
that wo have no diplomatic relations with
Maximilian's government ; and the republi
can government of President Juarez ; IN hich
we do acknowledge, is not in a condition
which would he lihnly In enalth. it ttt effect
anything in that I;ohalf. No extradition
demand has, however, been 'natio upon Eng
land, in connection with the other distin
guished par-tie- ,•harged with complicity in
the assassination eonspiraey, and Who are in
Canada, though with England we have such
a treaty. Whether such a demand is deemed
tenable by our government, and will be nuele
or not, remains to be seen.
HTATIr.MENT ef the issues of the F,v(l
- bonds is now eirculstitez, through
newspapers. whose inacenr,...i..s or re
quested to correct. Congresii in J My, 1864,
authorized the Secretary of tlw Tr,a,ury to
borrow four 'hundred millions in such Mimi
As be deemed best. Of this amount,
000,000 was issued as 10- los, ....:.;70,0 11 0,0- 1 0 as
5,20 e, and the balance, ti 230,000,000, as 7-.1...5,
On the 3.1 of March, 1865, Congress .mthor
ized a further loan of six hundred millions.
Seventy millions of this was taken and add
ed to the $2:;0,000,(10./ of seven thirties issu
ed under the act July, 186-1, to round it up
to three hundred millions. This made the
first series of the 7-110 loan. This left
000,000 unissued of three hundred millions
of it as 7-30 s wits directed by the Secretary
of the Treasury. Their sale commenced on
the Ist or April last. This wits the second
series of the 7-30 loan. l.ie salebias averag
ed between eight and nine millions pe•r day.
Only about $83,000,000 of -it remain this 12
day of May. When it is sold there will be
left at the disposal of the Secretary of the
Treasury, under the act of March 1, 181;5,
5230,0110,000. It is presumed that t hi-, amount
will be issued in the shape of it third series
of the 7-30 loan ,payable tlirue years from
the 15th of October next. '
HEAVY DEPALUATION.—Mr. Chas. Clarke,
the paying teller of the Commercial Bank of
Philadelphia, disappeared last Monday, and
on investigating his accounts it was discov
ered that there was adeficit in them amount
ing to somewhere about two hundred thou
sand dollars. Clarke was one of the Secre
taries of the Philadelphia Loyal League.
Volunteer.
May be Clarke was a Secretary of the
Union League and may be he wasn't. If he
was and proved such an extensive thief in
spite of the restraining influence of his asso
ciations, we just wonder how much be would
have been able to steal if he had had the
advantage of a Democratic course of train
ing. By way of offset, we know of a gen
tleman now on his way to Washington on a
visit to Mr. Stanton, who is charged with
the meanness of stealing all the specie front
a dead confederacy who never was Secretary
of a. Union League. We do wonder where
Mr. Davis acquired his propensity for ind ulg
ing in theft and treason. Ile hates Union
Leagues quite enough to be a saint if that
were essential to saintliness—certainly
enough to be an orthodox Democrat and yet
his morals are not above suspicion. Sup
pose some day you give us the names of a
lot of the most eminent traitors, murderers,
thieves and general scoundrels in the na
tion, who sere not members of the Union
League but who pride themselves on be
longing to some other organization we know
of. You might issue a triple sheet for the
next month with nothing else in and then
not be neaithrongh the catalogue.
What papers in Philadelphia and else
where that went into mourning over the as
sassination of Mr. Lincoln, rejoiced over the
attempt to assassinate the Ingersolls 7 Give
us some names please, and also some ex
tracts trom the jubilant articles. We dont
remember any. Our memory is sadly defec
ive or else yours must be too good.
Ix /LB . reported that James -Murdoch, the
well known actor, is' lying dangerously ill at
Cincinnati.
Tho President has recognized David Von
Goning as Vice-Consul of Italy at' Rich
niond. , .
Gen. Howard has boon placed at the head
of tho Freedmen's Bureau - at Wallington.
The season is approaching for the coin
mencemenr of a political campaign, And the
Democracy are already marshaling their
forces fur the contest. Last week wo had a
gathering of the politicians of this county,
who have stood to the party of their fathers
through evil as well as good report; WIT ,
hair never yet deserted their organization;
although the march of events have left them
without a lugs, of success, or even the sem
blance of principles for which to contend.—
When men meet for the purpose of organiz
ing a party and expect their fells w-eitizens
to unite with them politically, a decent Ni
g rd for the good sense and intelligence of
those whom they expect to be their follow
ers, might induce them to announce the
,des ts they seek to obtain through their
organization. We think the day has pas•-ed
when the mere name of Any party can
have power to draw the majority to the sup'
port i , f its candidates. People desire a reason
for what politicians:v.l: them to do, and will
demand that men who solicit their suffrages
have soon , better claim to them thorn the
mere name of being Democrats. When
therefore our friends and, in council wl.l fully
expected they would give us some annonnee
meat of the principlesand policy which their
party hope to carry into effect, should any
tint recoen accident infuse life and power
into the veins of the now defunct Democracy.
But our expectations were disappointed.
We were startled with no new war cries
from the camp of our opponents, nor were;
1:11.11.1ted With those to which we had be
conic familiar in former days. We were net
alarmed with the threats of overthrow
and defeat which used to create such coaster-
Chai man
nation amongst us, nor were we even morti
fied by confident boasts of success in the
coming contest. Who 1110115111'0 . 3 of the ad
ministration for once were not censured, nor
was it even intimated that nny change of
policy would be beneficial. What then did
our Democracy resolve? Here ii their plat
form in full :
Reso!rod. That it is with feelings of deep
indignation that we denounce the assassina
tion of the late President Lincoln, regarding
itas a fanatical and fiendish crime, IlfsSisr ng
thy unqualified condemnation or all true :ual
patriotic citizens; and that we recognize it
as the duty of all to aid in bringing the as
sassins to justice, that they may receive the
punishment their crime deserves.
Reso/red. That we hail with delight the
recent victories of our army and navy, ho
neying they will tend to stay rho work of
death and devastation, to reassert the supre
macy of law and order over the entire coun
try, and bring us nearer to the day of peace,
reconciliation and a rest4,r.d Union: and
that tine noble services of the soldier, of our
army am I the sailors of sir navy, in contri
buting to this glorious result, have entitled
them to the lasting gratitude of the ph!
and we bespeak for the widows and little
ones of those who have gallantly yielded
up their lives, the protecting care o't . the (;-",_
eminent
frnin Liny otl,r
quart. .r
but in tilt ail-en,,• nl'any r‘•tra. Lion 111 4v11.11
of the sante
have uttered, tle:er‘ , td least n Lansing !Witco.
The tienunt.iation of the inurdoiers „I the
Pr,itlent is 11 11111tIorilf Invdcurc (Sittion
11111 :11 11.,J11 Irr IttlltlVO
and way la. what it i , Ili. But
re.title will hoar in mind that thirinu;tits
11,Mt lids o,llllly.
1,i110,111 9a, rept,,,prit(Al AS 11 I.)
a traitt , r anti a !Mil dt rcr : ono \\
lia.l our into a in ,, st
I L,ndct it it \v,r: :tusuil' i 111lin,rnt hi arun•d
iii;ttion, into every di Arit.t In stifle
(. 111 n 1 ,, n1,1e and In pr. 1 rnl 1111•111
IBA /t ; null a lainiuk•al 1,..t 1110
tnii,criittinn and LA:sin:ion on N\ hit('
111 , 11,t , irarity nu a \Val' the itf
inurdt;r, usurpation and
I 1 1;11111) pn,it“..• ,rtint,Ontr4.•o
/.11 “I.ll'
11,1 d lip to tho lititioll Ilk 11
iinhecile and a hilly jester, ink
acquir,qiient..; anll rtlineinent tli,grat•,d
I.ini and us 1“dli at Inuit: and tihrnaLl.
It riling 11111 111 thu Coil
\ vllll.ll . prided tliolli,clVe, in ltrin: 4 ing
Lli , ernit,•- antl ratilts in the strongest po , -
, 1 1 , 1• neitin-r
,litaited their end"r,•inent of t 110 , 1
Now
MESE
churn,„ with Lim tiriato t vi:mr
these charges were either true or
If they tt'er•e true, the assassination of
Mr. Lincoln lots been it godsend to our
people and to tie w rld. If killed a
traitor, tou4l, , rer, usurper and tyrant, he cle
s,u•yea the bh•ssings of t h e tuition in general,
and the thanks of Democratic ettnventioni,
in particular. If they were false—and the
impression is ril,w rather prevalent. that they
were—what right have we to believe these
stun• gentlemen sincere, when they speak of
their feelings of deep indignation at the
" fanatical and fiendish crime - of the assas
sin Y The Convention prudently refrained
from any hypocritical eulogy of Mr. Lin
coln, and for this we feel grateful to them ;
but we must protest against any denuncia
tion of his murderer by men who did their
utmost to create the impression that be was
uur Country's worst fee.
But 4,111. Democratic rrh•iiti, with
delight the recent victories of our army
and navy, (believing that they will tend
to slay the w,,rk of death and devastation,
to reassert the supremacy of law and order
over the entire country, and bring us nearer
to the day of peace and reconciliation and a
restored Union." There must lie sonic mis
take here. It is not possible that these gentle
patriots are rejoicing over the recent victor
ies. Do they forget that this is a war• for the
destruction of our free institutions; the
overthrow of out• republican form of Gov
ernment; the establishment of a military
despotism; the elevation of the negro and
dm subjection of the white man to him, and
in short for the accomplishment of till con
ceivable abolition deviltry ? It isn't six
months since every member of that Conven
tion would have sworn that this was the most
infamous warof all time. Everythingabout
it was infamous. It was commenced to sat
isfy the bloody passions of New England
fanatics; it has been carried on to promote
the drowth and advancement of their " in
fet•nal° doctrines and to till the pockets of
their greedy conet•acters, and it, certainly
would end in the dismemberment of our tui
tion, and in anarchy or despotism. Then
fighting could never bring us peace. 'We
could never conquer the South—she was in
vincible. We wore only lavishing our blood
lid treasure in vain. The contest would
certainly end, either in a compromiso with
the South, and concessions to their just de
mands, or, in the acknowledgment of their
independence. Peaceful measures,l observ
ance of constitutional obligations, the with
drawing of our armies, the repeal of our
abolition Stnto Legislation, the cultivation
of fraternal feelings, and a general display
of all conceivable moderation, justice, love
and mercy were the only means that could
be relied on to bring us peace. ' All this has
been dinned into our ears daily end nightly
for the last four years by' the Democracy, but
just 'now. they find it convenient to resolve
that."our recent victories will bring us nearer
.to.. ponce, reconciliationi and a restored
Union." Wily these. victories have boost
the result Of all this cruel, bloody, inexousablo
;NCY.—Papers in Phil-
To, that wont into deep
,ssination of President
the late attempt to cts._
ersolls, and allow the
hod.— Volunteer.
DEMOCRACY REVISED
war that has been - so much deprecated by
these mild-mannered patriots. Not only
that but they have resulted during the time
it was run, the interest of fanaticism. When
the Emancipation Proclamation was in full
force and effect, when the abolitionists had
forced through Congress the Constitutional
Amendment; when negroos were fighting
slde by side . with white men; when the De
mocracy had been everywhere driven from
place, and when that old " imbecile, tyritnt
and traitor," was still alive and managing
things in his worst possible style. these vie
torte, which are to bring us hearer peace and
Union, were achieved. The Ilion who drew
that resolution surely weren't posted. The
burning of Shenandoah valley ; .the lay
ing waste of Georgia and South - Carolina by
Sherman ; the destruction of all public
property; the arming of the slaves; the
capture of all Southern cities, and the burn
ing of those that could not be held, these
things and nothing else gave us the surrender
of Lee and .Johnston, and yet all these nets
were denounced in the most furious manner,
its hiding to fire the southern heart and
prolong the war, by the very men who now
rejoice over r-meal cirtories. e wonder
how uttudteredulity politicians imagine plain
people have.
f the Democracy haVt , anything to urge
against the present administration, or can
show any cause why the party in power
should be displaced and their's elevated, we
will hear them patiently. Il is the country's
interest that our public affairs should be ad
ministered ably and wiselri and the party
that will doihis deserves elevation to poNver.
But we here protest against using the tri
umphs of an administration, and the glories
of a successful war, to make party capital
for men who denounced, ridiculed and cursed
all who supported or ad vhcated either. If
the Giiveimnent has triumphed it has not
been xyith the assistance of Democratic pol
iticians, but in spite of their factious 1(1111
bitter opposition. rhe party that hies uni
formly denounced the war: assiiileil every
meicsure that was designed to make it ,me
evs,fu ; abused every Commander except
those who won victories for rebel-, and
stood in the way of success ill oN'ory possible
111111010 r, i‘edn't now try to raise thems,lves
to power by rejoicing over victories they
have done so much to prevent being won.
Dl...Jefferson Davis, the President of the
late Confederacy has been captured while
trying to escape from the Country his trea
son destroyed. and is now on his walto the
Federal Capital. lie left it four years ago
when his voice was ;nary potent for good or
evil than thatof any other man in the nation.
Then his ambition, his innate love or op
pressdou and it rang and hi , hatred to every
one who thought the CM'S(' of 6uunwity his
de , ert his Covernment in
her hour of trial and join himself to those
who plotted her overthrow. His treason was
tewarded . The traitors he joined heaped
upon him nil the honors and p.iwer in theii.
gift, and Inc a trine Ile hid fair to he the lore
tined wan in all the wuild. lint his great.-
net- and gl;.ry had hut a brier exi=tenee.
t our ear , ,pent ani s ol the iniii;t perplexing
difficulties that ever surrounded man have
passed ,INV2iy, and they have brui.glit him
Ai 'lnc ut=teiol of glory, ruin instead of BIM-
Ile is aou :I. prisoner of the tiovern
meal he sought to t.il ertlitow and so hated
and klespi,ed by ill rnatilsind that even he
can hope for taught eliu , than ft felon ' : deim.
Front the proclamation of President John
:qui We b :1( . 110 doubtthat the pl'OUl ofhit IS
COLIIVIt in the ai,,lS•lllritioll of Mr. Lin
coln clear and abundant, and we rejoice to
know that for thin fiendish climb h'e will be
speedily tried. Should lie however he ac
e,ll,,ted of this change his treason still
main:, and the proof of hi, guilt is every
tt lit r, at hand. I.i I the (;OVCI*IIIIII . IIt see
ell to it that the iiich traitor be not the re-
The penalty due
cipicuL mercy
star ,attitut t.•mittrd iu this ca6e with 1.,-
ty our rnuo
l'“ltritt ,, r, in roplyffig to oilr
article on Ole surrender ui LI-a•:, gives infor
mation eel:l:a:ay neNV, if -tartling. It
'• It i.well 1,111 , W11 that the 'hold, bad ne•ti .
of the .Im.,•bin faction were ready to !nal. ,
war on GaANT and the Administration, be
came of the terms granted LEE.
•esigned his position in the army, because he
said ' the eldillervilliSC ar as too Ii Lind and
yet, in the face of those facts, the erudite ed
itor of tin' Hera ntrects to be very much
tickled b0e1111,1! the spoke or LEE's - soriaior
nen ‘oolorromisp.' It was a compromise, we
repeat--a wise, humane compromise, credi
table to Gen. G I't NT and the nation. It was
such a COllll irt,llliSe ns the .I..tuocrats. - .llave
contended for for the last three yearl", and
which Gen. LEE says would have been ogre
upon 111111 years 11g0 had our Gtil I, nitiOnt
wanted it." .1'
We are so overpowered at tifsextent of
our neighbor's knowledge, tl:at we feel like
giving up cn ti rely. Seriously, we don't care
much about having a discussion with an op
lament Who makes his facts to orders When
(lid Gen. LEE say dint this "compromise, ,,
by which his army was. surrendered as pris
oners of war, would have been agreed upon
two years ago, had our Government desired
it ? Our recollection of the matter is that
two years ago, LKE was invading Maryland
and Pennsylvania, saying he would capture
Harrisburg, Baltimore and Washington, but
we don't remember his saying that he was
ready to surrender—we violin "compromise"
—his army to the Government just then. lle
may htive wished to "compromise" just after
Fredericksburg and Chaneellorville, but of
course one Government didn't want ilia army
then. But we needn't follow this assertion
any further. Tho Volunteer's information
and veracity combined wouldn't be burden
some even ton smaller establishment.
tr,gl„, The following is the tabular state
ment for May 1, issued by the lion. Freeman
Clark, the able Controller of the Currency,
showing the circulation of the National cur
rency by the banks in the several States:
,States. Make. Total elrzulatlon.
gain°, 42 $3,031,000
New Ilampshlre, 25 1,4970100
V Pr molt, 17 1,005.700
lassachusetts, 1711 31,513,730
Rhode Island, 21 1,317,050
Connecticut, 48 6,148,03
Now York, 172 13,401,750
New Jiosey, -2 2'736,720
Pennsylvania, 1112' 25,100,591)
Maryland, -., -
tolware, 7 1,427,500
3 287,5110
Istria, of Columbia, 0 748,200
Virginia. 2 181,500
West Virginia, 4 203,000
Ohio, 125 10,546,570
Indiana, 60 5,285.280
Illinois, 64 6,048,430
Michigan, 22 1,201,000
. ._ .. ""
~,
NVisrotlaitiv 27 1,017:000
lows, 92 1,302,400
Mlnneaota, 8 051,250
Banana, 1 40,000
511srourl , 7 820,890
liontucky, 8 555,200
'rennet:SOO, 4 360,040
Loulalana, 1 180,000
Nebraska Turd toy, 1 ' 27,000
511salsalppl, 1
Colorado territory, 1
Total, 1.002
Opened and wound up 3
Total In netivo operation - 1,080 $123,600,080
The Naby department has isSued a gen
eral order directing all naval 'officers to per
mit vessels with United States Custom House
clearances to enter all ports within the lines
.41esignated in the President's ox„eeutive order
of April 26, provided they Intyp.nothingscon
traband of vow on board.
MASON
• Mr. Mason, " Confederate Commissioner"
in London and elsewhere, finding himself
placed by Mr. Lincoln's assassination in what
May be Termed a tight place, relieves his
mind (ifter the manner of most Men) by
writing to the newspapers. He only afibrds
another proof of the difficulty of, doing that
same thing with judgment and dirrotion.—
In his letter to The London hulex, the Com
missioner, who in his present unaccredited
condition may inure wisely act the part of
Omissioner, denies that " the murder was
planned and.set on foot by the Rebels, tinder
pretense of avenging the South and aiding
the Rebel cause." If Mason had stopped
here, he would have done well ; but he im
mediately adds that the diabolical deed "was
the necessary offspring of those scenes of
bloodshed and murder and unbridled license
which have signalized the invasion of the
South."
The reader will it once perceive that this
unfortunate person is hard up for logic, in
fact quite out or the article. The rebels timid
nothing to do with the killing—they were
perfectly innocent in every respect of the
Crime,'—hut "it was the necessary on:spring"
of the invasion of the South." Now, either
somebody who cured nothing for the "Con
federacy" did the deed, without provocation
or object, but merely as an amateur, or it
wits done by thus'• who regard the pppres
sion of the Rebellion as an ac•t of 'the most
intolerable tyranny.
'31 . 11,.4 , 11 tubes 1110 former ground first and
the latter ground last, andbetweon a pair of
stools comes to earth in a most undignified
attitude, leaving the world quits free to make
up its mind without the slightest regard for
his suggestions. We think a much shadier
course wood have have proved more pru
dent. The less Mason exhibits himself abut
this time the more comfortable will be his
condition.
An Opinion of the Attorney Gen-
eral
Attorney General Speed, having duly con
sidered-the important and interesting yw•s
- :suggested by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, touching the recent legisla
tion of Congress with reference to the olliee
of As:dstant Asses4or of Internal Itevenue.
and which wore submitted to him by Secre
tory McCulloch, expresses his opinion for
the reasons given:
First. That thai provisions of the 110, of
'vesting the power of appointing 115E..1,-
tan t ILSIAISSON in the re:speetive assessors, is
clearly unconstitutional.
Second. 'rhat the l'resident is by the Con
stitution vested with Imtliority to appoint as
sistant assessors. Ci der existing circum
-1.1111l•es, Wllllll Collgre-s (Teat'', SllCh 11111,11;
and oinks to provide for the appointment to
them, or provides in an unconstitutional Nvity
for such appointincitt , , the officers are with
in th e mean i ng of the
honor ol'~tl.puin[in~ Slit•il Oaken ,
011 010 1'110 , 1(11•111. Al.l-1,t71.111 il-8,15,011,, un
der the vie \vs expressed, arc within that
class. The provision, 111 the act of
touching thoso officers , ladlig: null and void,
:mil the act of 18134, to the r Lrntju3t 111 , 11-
ti.ned, being repealed. there is in elFeet 110
1-4111 g 111g1r1111111111 WhiCh 1.10111 . 0 f, 011 :illy
piddle authority the power i(f• appointing
“IliceN. The eon , ,titiiti.lial power a
lii
i 1110 t•xereise. and he 111,01, 1111 , 11111.1101'lly Lo
f`111111111:1,11111 1110 11 , 81,111111 t,
Third. AS to whether it is , the slaty of the
President t.• exercise the potter of appoint
ment in the case of the- , (11111,11 A, the Attor
ney General says if the l'resident •diould
of OW ()pinion that ii' possesses the power
con-ditutionally to inalor the ttipointinents,
it is clearly his duty to exercise that potver.
Mesate,intiler.a.clu-ionoftb.•;u
tt v, vl`ll, 11-t for reinarl;, that the ac
tion of the President, in appointing to the
oollief' 111 Wlll 11.11 prot•110.11 , "I' 110 . 1 t
jIII.IICIIII inquiry and decision dit the point
that Lave been pros... Med.
If two 1 ,01.,11t)111- 1 , .1111111(1 (111 . 6111 the 11111.111)rity
-tog in !my thi•
1/110 by ;ippoint -
to ,,nt pn--1,1,11t 1111(1, Ow oti w r hy ap
i,lllllHool tll4. (111(11,t1,01 NVOuld
tll' then peritliarly oil, for judicial determi
nation whirls snil
prr
-.ao \v,. entitlid to ,•\ ,r,ise the but
I apprehend that praelir.dly no .tich conteit
ll ;iris,' I 1111.101',1,L Itl it t I ierett)l4)ro t h e
liar. i t h e p.nver
,of Ihrir assistants, and it is not
nprot ill, that the if ha
-.ion, the the
that, pursued 111111e11 the ail of
18161 Ly the Stl,llotary of the Treasury.
INCOME OP FARMERS
ThofolL c 1 , 1.1,r from Ow f)eputy O,M
-mi,,ioit.,r of I ntcrital Itev(.7tue is of intorvst
Lr calliturr
TREASURY DEP A RTM EN T,
°lnce 111 terna 1 eVellllO,
ASII 1 N(iTON, Marell 13, 1865.
Si : Your letter of March Uth in regard
to I'm-niers' incL,, i;
1 reply that uly 1 . 1: i ,-, undec.
which r e t,wl; made for theabnual in
conic Lq, E . pf 186'2 and 1863, req . Mred farm
ers to ..”(arm each year the entire crop liar-'
vested.
But the act of J une 30, 1861, now in force,
under which the returns for the special in
come tax of 1803 were 'mule, require: farm
ers to retell] year the amount of pro
duce sold.
It will be found that farmers' income ro
tor. s for 186-1 will ilichille aurae I.lli , li of
the crop of 186:1, and which was taxed as in
come fur that year. There is an apporent
injustice in subjecting the same income to
tax in two different years, the year when
raised and the year when sold but a consid
eration of the (location will show that it is
only an apparent one.
Fur, suppose the income of a farmer to be
the same every year, and the rata of tax
should be also the same. Now, the fanner
does not sell the whole crop of each year Avith
in that year : and if he is taxed in 1861 on
such produce only as he raised and sold with
in that year, it,h3 clear that he will not pay
the full tax due on his real income.
I
! Suppose the yearly crop to be the s ine 110
harmer will, in the last year of the tax, r ise
a certain amount of produce on which ho
will pay no tax, becau,e unsold and Itch
produce will, on an averag e be a fair othet
against the produce raised in 1863, but fold
in 1864, and which consequently pays ;wo
taxes.
It is true that in particular cases hardslilis
will arise from the fact that the practice of
?mutters is not uniform in regard to se4ug
or storing produce, and in other cases faint
ers will escape their just share of tay. forth()
same reason.
But the same occasional inequality willoe
cur under any general provision of law, 'ad
cannot be avoided.
The entire amount, therefore, of pro(lice
sold in 1864, must be returned as ineonn;by
farmers, without regard to taxes previMsly
paid on any such produce.
Very respectfully,
1.4:. A. ROLLIN:I,
Deputy Commissionel
HON. IiJeNHY WILSON in his speech
the American Anti-Slavery Society in
York on Wednesday, said :
I have received a letter from an' emin it
and distinguished military man in Kin-
Lucky. Ile says that slavery surrenderedni
Kentucky on the 23d of April. They Nve
enlisted in that State under the law givug
freedom to the black man who will enlisOn
the service of the United States, about
000 men. This officer says he has givento
wives and children more than 500 free pa[
day. The Governor has called his Eg
islatoiro together-on the 16th, and I have
doubt they will adopt the constitution 1
amendluent. This /kW 011(11110a I regard -
day as an achieved fact. It will be adopt ;
slavery will perish. Let us see to it that 19
thing itself perishes forever.
—The number of post-offices in the Uni
States ie 28,878.
—The commanding generals of
and departments have been ordered immedi
ately to muster out and discharge all volun
teer soldiers of the cavalry arm whose terms
of service expire prior to October Ist next.
--Of the nearly twenty-four thousand, re
bel prisoners at Point Lookout, all, excepting
two, have exprasSed a wish to take the oath
of allegiance as soon as the oath van be ad
ministered., hey• will be sent to Richmond
in order to separate for their homes.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that insurance and ordinary re
pairs for buildings may be deducted from
income, not exceeding the averageof the five
last years. Permanent improvements can
not be deducted.
—A vessel loft Havana on the 2iith of
April, and ran the blockade for Galveston,
loaded with four Armstrong guns andsevend
hundred thousand rounds of ammunition for
Texan Rebels.
—"The citizens or IVashin4ton )Id.,
have held a melding and resolved t ha t no
one, formerly resident or tutu county, A.vho
joined the Rebellion shall now return and
dwell among them.
-I'he Onifederate archives, pipers, doc
uments, and writings appertaining to
OW tato Confederate Government, have been
packed and sent to Washington. They filled
nitiely-ono boxes, and were fuldre:sed to the
Assistant Seeretai v of \Var, l)nnn.
-- It is now ascertained that 1(100 wore hist
on board the Sultana, only GOO being saved,
many of them 3el'll,llity injurod by wounds
and scalds. The report that the boai was old
is untrue, She had boon in servieo but two
I=
—The Treasury Department to-day paid
in bonds ti1,500,01f0 to the CVntral Pacific
Railroad in California. This amount was
due for the first completed section of thirty
miles. Twenty miles more are protnised to
be finished within the neat four months.
--A State convention has been
to a , semble at Vh.ksburg on the first
:Monday of June, to adopt measure: In
ru-
Clure the Statv of Mis,isAirpi I. tin. Union,
and re-establish a State government. A
eonventhm is proposed in South
Carolina„ty meet at Charleston. Ere long,
it believed, all the "wayward sisters" will
be back again in the old Union.
Tlf E Supremo Court ~r ichienn on Satur
day dveicied in ftkv,iror the power or Congress
to fmtk.e h!gal-tk.11(11T.
—The ()pinwt Nalimmle states that tin
I'i•vilt.ll lmtwrinl Navy it , . at I,rc,rnl c,oin
lu„eil „f v,„,is 11111 114 ,m the
c1:1 , -(•,1 .I= \v. , : 1 r..11-1(11111,1 stclun
of-tIH-lino afloat, 1 !wilding
11 frig - itto afloat, :3 on ; 1 em.v e it,.
1111 thi. !-toci,.., none aliont ; 1 con•tginlrtl
the slmk,, non , afloat; 12 limiting Initti.ri,s,
111n , 1 I 5.1.11c1,.; 1 I cap:tido o f
1, 111 liil.l'll In ;Hid 11..111' 1,11 Hit ,
st..ck4. iron-platecl
•liip,-or-the-litto 1111((:11, 11(.110 1)(111111114 ;
23 Iricute afloat, awl , fflo oi l 1,110 ;
ciirvi , ttk, ;111.111, :Ind tt 011 the ..lo t •f t , ; 4 l c ut_
tor, alloat, and nmin Ili, : 6 gun
hrig, afloat, :111 one th....tock,; .10
p.rt, 1111m111, :111,1 1 1114 the ,t114•1\ •1
1111((a1 f.(l' ,1,1•1•ial P(1(1111,-11'111,1,1
, 100.111(.1'• I1((t il'1)11-1(11(1(11 - 111 frigat,, , and
cutler, niiont.
lino. II) friglili•s., 9 corvi•tto , , 12 brig , , I',ll
11141611 , 1 r,(l' 111(11:011\ ey(111,:e (0 . 110.11,
111111 11111.1.4, 2t) all afloat, with
1, 1; ,,t 1 „,a m; 1t,0.1 1 carry
1111 „ otter 1;,8211 gum, awl their 11111111 vi%voit
is 15111;11 to that 111:,292 11111':1'<. hranoe
nD_•reuvur, 213 :railing vessels capa
ble 111 being armed \vitli ennin,ti in Cll,ll
—'l he I.NI Crow a n . l' u it,.,l
Great. Britian and 'relate!.
in Ili , tw month , ending Dell laQ :24111,
thi , 2 , 7,701 0 )1 1`, as ,ffi'll
-1,11,11 with in 1804, and 54,728
ten, in 180:1 (eorre,T..nding; perb,,b..). The
i at,lu lZte- , ia Were_ ',3 bet , against :10'5
ton, in the ,•orre , poialing l,eu'l lof 1804: to
the Unitt.(l bein again.t. 11,517
ton, ; America. 2,11:1 len , agaiii-t
1,222 h u t,; to Briti,lt holta, 11),1-11 tone
agaie,t 2:1284 bets: awl to other et,untries,
10,t05 tone agaireq. 21,815 ton e . There Nl'll,
thus a decrea,, this year in the exports
declared value of the
exported to February 28t1i, the year, W2l,
£18,308 again:4 J:211,508 in 1804, and £20,-
101 in 180:1 (corresponding periods).
L'uLorL'l'. 111111tIT lie,iparrckcd
at his 2.0,4101100 in Virginia.
--The Deseret News informs 1.18 that When
thn. l'resident, Lincoln's assassination
reach 44810-Lake, bti,inoss wits sCfspendoil,
tho builclinge draped in mourning,
gad the pefornutnee at Ulr theatre postponed.
—linniffin oilers $5OO fur the dresii in
which Jell'. Dacia was captured, and two
Chicago gentlemen are pleading to be al
lowed to add the sumo garment to the at
tracti Vollo,e or the great North Western
Fair.
IMM3
--Ww. Lloyd Garrison, attending thir
null-blavcry anniversary, in New York,
proclaims that his vocation as an Abolition
ist is ended, as their is nobody to be con
verted. Jeff. Davis has a reward of $lOO,
000 oirered for him. Thirty years ago $BOOO
was offered for Garrison by the Governor of
Georgia, but ho says nobody would give a
sixpense for Oho now.
Tu E following circular has just bean is
sued by Vic Hon. Freeman Clarke, for the
putposo of adjusting the circulation of the
National 13anks :
q.`R Ens. DEPT., OFFICE OF CONTIWI.LER
OF THE CURILEI.%;cr, Wash., May f
SIR: You are requested to make a state
ment, as indicated in the inclosed form, ex
hibiting
First: The amount of your circulation as
a state Bank outstanding, at the date of the
conversion of your bank to the national sys
tem ;
Sceoml: The amount of such circulating
notes outstanding May 15, 1865. You are
also requested to specify, as a separate item,
in yotir regular monthly report, the amount
of State Bank circulation outstanding at the
date of such statement. This information is
necessary in order to determine the amount
of national currency that may be issued to
your bank without exceeding the ratio pre
scribed by the. amendment to section 21 of
the Currency Act, passed March :3, 1865. In
future it will be requisite, in order „to avoid
confusion or misunderstanding, to send with
each order for national currency, a statement
of the amount of notes of your old bank out
standing at the date of the order.
F. CLARKE,
Controller of Currency.
This circular is intended to apply to banks
converted from the State to the National
system, wind also to National banks organized
to take the place of State banks. In SOMIT
States, the banks have received and issued
much more National currency than they
were entitled too. This is especially the case
in Pennsylvania, where many of the banks,
still keep their old State issues outst4ndibg,-,
while they also call „for and circulate National
currency to tlie fall amount of their, bonds.._
It is possible that some of the's° institutions
may be closed, unless they)mmediately coin
ply with the conditions of the Currency
Sot.
NEWS ITEMS
Personal
—Mrs. Lincoln has nearly recovered. It
is now announced that she Will leave Wash
ington for Chicago on Wednesday of next
week.
—The Marquis do Montheion, thb flow
French Minister, and suite, have arrived at
Washington. They were received at the
railroad station by several members of the
Legatiuil.
—Maj.-GA - 1. Steadman has . arrived at
Nashville en route for Washington, where
he has been summoned by thu President to
consult on the reconstruction of Georgia and
Ale barna.
—MAJon. UKNERAI. Slum., having, ten
dered and received his resignation, is now
Oiler editor of the Weeker, one. Of the heat
Republican papers published in Raltheore,
Md.
--I'RES.II)I±,NT Jolt NSON is taking care of ;
his family in caseof accident or assassination.'
He has just got his lilt insured for 1310,000
in the Massachusetts Mutual Company of
Springfield.
--Major General Aunt to 11k16 been direct
ed by the Secretary of War to muster out and
di-charge all volunteer soldiers whose terms
of service expire im or before. tlie . :llsf of the
pro , ont month. 'l'll,, commanding generals
of armies and departments at•e also urdt•red
to immediately muster out turd discharge all
volunteer soldiers of the cavalry arm whose
servieu expire prior to Getolter Ist.
mu.).
—Harriet Himmel's bronze statue of
Benton has arrived in tit. Louis, and will be
publicly inaugurated at an early day. Tin'
this statue, in 1860, and the remaining
stun needed for the work was subscribed by
individuals.
=Ho iKR A. 1' 00 visited (;en. Logan
when hi< corps we , ' , tenoned at I'vterslairg.
11r appeared terribly brilben down, and from
the tenor or his I...Huirks niourn tlm
magnitude of his in helping to I:indleand
keel. alive the recent Rebellion. Ills c on
seionce will be his greatest punishment. In
the course of eon VI•I'rliti011 he C0111 . 0,$(.(1 to 163
having boon "in,trunientel in filling many
an untimely grave, and of having robbed the
widowed mother and child of their natural
rmector.-
,‘ND M 11.1.1(;.\N, the its I)
Liberty, Sl`iitonecti 1.. be hung at 1 inlianapo
li arc said to be engaged in writing it con
let-mion, inculeing a lull mitt emnpinti: history
I t h etnmeunmhle eenSpi nt ey, ands Lr,ren,
ninny interosting tlutails not b e r e od o r, in:u b
public. 'lire tl”etinient, it i< said, *ill 'lit
plicate ninny prwininont wen in iliirer,n
parb , of thin State, whose names have no,
bk•en hilltert4)eonnectetl with the conspiracy-
—(,en. Banks iss.ied an (o-der, dated
New-Grleans, :NI ay 2, directing that pri,H:i
er, r)f our un lur I.' within hi, department,
under G , en. rire to be re
garded a, prisoners of var. will not
I e allowed to bear arm , , to v. t , ar in public
the lolif.o . ni of the Rebel army, the uniform
t States, or any ,11,ti null va badge
of military serS ice. They are not. entitled
l , partiripute iu the 111:11111gOlitoll t uC pliblie
itlnCll; or to enter Upon blkilmot, ,
ui rcgtlired to report to the ProVott-Nlar
-.1131-(;c11-ral forthwith.
.11.rrtED It itit , tittst ANs, envo) extra
orrlinttry anti isti ;Lister plonittutmittittry to thii
p.e.t tor the Government of Belgium, ha ;
been recalled hy his sovoreign, to be sent to
r po,ition at anttther c•airt. II • trill
leave the Vni tot St:th•• in J u ly. Mr. Enffit -
NI AN, hug been connet•tott with the 13e1gie
Ivg3t.lory for sr•vvri year , and wits pro
moted ,ttnesix months:lgo totliejs , st vaento.l
by the ”pisoirtilwilt of Ids lion drill, Mr.
\\. 11. Ni,, lie is
4 , 11,• 111, 10-t 11111 fight
tlildn
ntutaat Ow hcat of the Is:tttional (;0 \•ernntent.
Ills departure \1".11 urn 11,1..11 much rcgrct.
lilollg the I ' l'loll.lS of till' t~nii 11
elliih•• • OW have been delighted 01 SOP )1 ,, W
siruplilt he Laslu=tnltl'i their general vietls.
-- (11.1 , 1111:A 11,t, 1,1,19'11 811
,I . dt' anted 111111.. ileadit11:111c1 1 111
the 19(11 lir April. containing the follotring
111 1. , 1•, „ m 11,1 i rlt held n, ' , lave, trill
be treated 111 erery reireel /12 , entitled to the
right, of freedmen, and such as (lest N their
service , will be required Amy for theni.
trill be taken not to disturb abrupt
ly the etllllleetloll3 11(1W e.X.11.1t111
. 14, 11.1.11 till et.ll
- persons having places lit elliployinont
are advi, , i.,l to rr‘initin,"whenevPr (Its persons
by whom they are eniployixl recii::;nize their
rights. bud agree to tiiimpumittdi them her
their services.—
Ear Gen. Weitzel denies the report that
he removed a guard of colored soldiers from
Mrs. Robert N. Lee's residence in Richmond,
,and the witt4lly (ise rumor that he did not
torch colored troops through the streets of
the ex-Rebel capital.
Major-Gen. N. J. T. Doris, United States
Volunteers, is relieved from command of the
Department of the Mississippi, and Major-
Gen. K. Warren, United States Volun
teers, is assigned to the command.
Ile_ R. M. T. Hunter was captured at A
friend's house in Loyd, Essex Co., Va., on
Tuesday noon, by Col. Mclntire, 20th N. V.
S. V He was taken to Richmond and placed
on a steamer.
—General Carleton, commanding in New
Mexico, keeps an account current with the
savage tribes which he is sent to keep in or
der. The report for 1864 shows 12,284
sheep and 2,420 horses taken from the In
dians, and 4,250 Cheep and 20 horses taken
by the Indians.
THE MUSTERINCI OUT OF TROOPS TO BE
CHANGED FROM CAMP CURTIN TO SOME'
POINT IN CUMBERLAND OR 17011.1 i COUNTY.
It is understood in official 'military circles,
that a proposition has been under consider
ation to change, the mustering out of troops
from Camp Curtin to a camp to be located
somewhere in Cumberland or York counties.
We repeat the reasons assigned us a justifi
cation fur such a change,:
First. It, is argued that if the catnip of
muster out be - Mental on the other side of the
river, it will be a means of compelling offi
cers to, remain with their men, and devote
them Selves industtiously to the perfection of
their rolls for muster out and pay. A strong
guard would be posted at each bridge, and
no soldier allowed to come to this side with
out a pass. In this manner it is alleged that
the men would be speedily mustered out,
paid and enabled to reach their homes with
out delay.
Second. The condition of the ground itt
Camp Curtin, is such, after being so long oc
cupied, that the location of large bodies of
men thereon, might tend to the engendering
of disease L-the spread, perhaps, of an epi
demic which would prove fatal to the citi
zens of Harrisburg. A camp located on
fresh ground would escape such dangers, and
hence the . objection to Cturip Curtin.
Third. The purpose to protect the men
from' the whisky and lagerbeer influence.
The peace and safety of Harrisburg depends
on this reason, and by all sensible men, the
'point is not considered debatable.
—We give those reasons' Ifs being design-
CallY .. theSe having this bindhess in charge.
We, are. not, certain that any, definite...action
has been.had on the subject, but wo are re
liably informed that the rernoyal of the camp
to the other side of tho river. is regarded as
probable by military men incommand at the
post.—Harrisburg Telegraph. •• „
HIGHLY IMPORTANT
°Mix° Cap-u,r®
r} EFF. DAVIS.
Ile is &t.rpri,sed at Ine.insville, (la., an the
10th Personal Stag Secured
The Rebel Postmaster-General also Taken
TrieS to Escape in ll'onten's Clothes
—I/is Ideas on " Magnani ity"—l I 'hat
Mrs. Davis Says—A Painful Mistake—
'The Ke-Pre,sielent to be Broaght Directly
to Washington.
Official
WA It DEP A ItIM ENT . , WASHINUTON, May 13.
Major-Oen. Dix : The following dispatch.,
just received from Gen Wilson, immune:es
the surprise and capture of Jefferson !hist,
and his staff. by Col. Pritchard and tho
4th Michigan Cavalry, on the morning of the
inst., at Irwin County, Georgia.
Enwill M. STA N-ror:.
Secretary Or I,vm
1111Aco.N, (la, Nlny 12, 1865--11 a. In.
Lien? (den. .S. GIL ANT ff nel lon. Seereta Cy
of War, Wa.sAi nylon. 11. C. e
I have the honor to report that at dayligh
of the lOth inst, Col. Pritchard command
hog 4th Michigan Cavalry captured Jeff.
Davis and family, with ltuagau, Postmaster
(lelwral : I I larri,on Private Secretary
Col John , on, A. D. I. Col. Morris, Col
Lubbock, Lieut., Ilathaway luidothers. Col
pritehard surpri,ed their camp at, I min,-
in Irwin County, (la. 75 miles south
east of this place. They will he here totoor
row night and w i for warded tinder a stroll.
Louirdwithout deb}'. I will send furthe
partitttlari at olicc.
.1. 11.
Itrevet Major-Cleneral
s !WON I) DESI'A'N'II.
WAR 1)E1 A.RTNI ENT, WAstitNwrox,
Alny, 11. 1865.
31 - qjor-lienerril ions A. Dix : The
ing dettlik,ir the capture ~f .Jefferson Davi
while attempting to maim hi:: ei-leape in hi
wife'selethes, havelieen reoeived Irma Maj,ir
(Jen. ‘Vilson.
EDwiN If. STANTON
1L rug, (11/ty 12-11 it.
.11,,n. E. 3! ,crn'r f ,i q ny War:
Tho dosiniteh ithhoitheihg tl
capture .101. hits ju>t 1.A.1•11 hull di
nw Ly inty, ;4,tnnifinding the Situ
1)1 6 , 1011: .
Ii ato -hill IICILIUAN CAVALRY,
I:.ty 1 1, 181;5.
T. \-\-. (1. Sr; x, 11 ,!
SIR: I hltvotho hmlor to roport (halal (lay
ye,tcrday, at Irwin,ville, I surpri,,,l
and cripturod .11•11 . Da% is and family, ti,g,tll
er \vitt' his wit . ... , istors and lIIVqIa 1113
l'otiino-tcr-(;enteral, .I.Zeagan Private
Sv , r , tary. Co). Hari ; .1,,11n—,n,
A id-110-('atni, ( )I,,rriA
Lubbock, aml Lieu(, .11.atlia way : alm,hoVOral
Mid Ll'aill wa,g,o,
and throe ambulances, making a imat
Ilatl 11 ,, t 1 lito,t painful mi4tako ,wcurrOl.
by which tho Ith llirhi tut awl 1-4 Wi. , -
wn.siti 011110 in (• , /llniet, \VV,lllOllid 1111l'V (lOW .
in•ll , T. 11/1-::1102 111'4. killed and
thrwl!2:ll the urm ill
the .Ith 'Michigan, 011(1 four ilwit
the hrt. ~ccurrcul ju-t
daylight. NO' ( . :111t111 ~I Olt' o:imp.
By 11 , 1\:kilt • Hi.' 111.'y
lcorc ini,tal;eit for tho ,111•1111, .
I ' , turned to till , iwiut 1:,-1 Hight,
,1 1 , t 11 u) ~, o , right on Mat..ll. \vait -
ing ord,rs from you, u., d I t I, let•llng
that tli wholt• obj , ct "I 111,,
It will tako :It. tltreo (Lt\ sl.) rt.:o 11
Mnr4,l). n, wt•
I•01:iti-ml. I Impo r Writ Ilatrl<im
illrtA.-night. !lave tint 11.11,,r,
It. I). [VII I
Itlt )11ellig.un
The Ist \Vi401,11.111 f
Brigade ,N1(.0)0k,.24 ;Hid had
Loon ~.4.11t duo e-t,t Iry (-k•ii.Cri,xl. ,, n, Win 1)IA
-11n.
tli.tritml.t.,l lii. , omuniiiid
all a.1,121g tlo; bunk ~1 tho (I,llllllgt,
anJ Altzinia
twomilitA 1”r Lilo bvt
I
Ow
I hay, direr.ted im•r,as,..l vigilance WI the
part "1 th,.(.0,,,,,,zuid in th,. clttch
ing
lur own
rt' t 11,• 1;,•1,,.1 chill . - hit \ 1 ro,•11 able
Or get through.
cap'
berure , II :1011111 id'
.1. II \V
:11ajor-Hon.
s‘qui rurtlier
II,tINN. Ctn, .111iy
/1 , ,n. E. M. ST ANTuN Se't• ICI f , 17/ IN, :
Lit•itt. Col Ilardoii, cmintiandilig Lit 1,1.
iscon , iii, ha , jiltll.‘vins
vine. Ile struck tlw trail or I>avis:it
on Ow v‘.l th, ;tli,
.11,1 f,,t1,0A 1610 16gitt mkt iii.
thr,aigh the lth iN wilderiwF.A
C'ri, , k and Growl Stv:kilip, via Cuull.wrland
villo, to Irtciuctllr.
At ('unol)erhintirille, inot
l'ritchard with 151) pick,(l 11111 a td burs,„
of th,, 4th lficbi an.
harden ti hewed the I rail directly south
while Pritchard, having fresher horses
pu,lied down the ()enullgee toward llopewell
and thence by House Creek to Irwiu vine,
arriving there at midnight ol the llth.
Davis had not arrived.
From a citizen Pritchard learned that hi,
party were encamped two wiles out or
lie neade di,po,ition 4,f his men, and sur
rounded the camp before day.
Darden had camped, nt ti p. m, within
two tidies, as he afterwards learned, from
Davis.
The trail being too indistinct to follow, he
pushed on at 3 a. m., and had gone but little
mere than one mile when his advance was
fired upon by men of the 4th Michigan.
A fight ensued, both parties exhibiting
the greatest determination. Fifteen minutes
elapsed before the mistake was discovered.
The tiring in this skirmish NV AS the first
warning that Davis received.
The captors report that:lia hastily 'art on
one /if his wife's dresses and started for the
woods, closely followed by our nieuovho at
first thought him a woman, but siieing his
boots while he was running, they suspected
his sex at once.
The race was a short one, and the Rebel
President was soon, brought to bay. Ile
brandished a bowie-knife and showed signs
of battle, but yiolded promptly to the persuas
ions of Colt's revolvers, without compelling
the men to lire.
Ile expressed great indignation at the en
ergy with which he was pursued, saying that
he lied believed our Government more mag
nanimous. than to hunt down women
and children.
INtrs. Davis remarked to Col. Harden after
the excitement was over that the men had
getter riot
,provoke' the President, or ,‘ he
might hurt some of 'em."
Regan behaves himself with dignity and
resignatior .
The party, evidently were Making for the
cognit.
J. 11. WiLsoN,
Brevet Major-General
FROM THE SOUTH-WEST
rrend er of Dick Taylor—The Terms
G ;Milted— Union Occupation of Montgom ,
cry—Qu ar rel s of Rebel Qllicers—liirby
Smith on Lee's Surrender.
The steamship Merrimac, Captain Samp
son, from New-Orleans May 7, arrived at
this port on Saturday. She brings details of
the surrender of Dick Taylor's army to Gen.
Canby.
The s totunsh ip Morning Star, Capt.. Nelson,
from Now-Orleans Gill inst., arrived at this
port on Saturday 'night.'
Dick Taylor
The following are the terms of surrender :
Memorandinn.of the condition of the sur
render of the forces, munitions of war,
in the' Department of Alabama, :Mississippi
and East Louisiana, commanded by Lieut. , .
Goo. "Richard Taylor, Confederate gttitei;
Army, . to 'Maj.-Gen. Edward,. R. S.A2kinby;
United:States ArinY,.entered into on,the-4th
day of May, 1865, at Citronelle, Alabania
I. The
.offleers and. 'men to be , l . parolid
until.duly exchanged or otheryilso „released
from the obligationauf their. parole by the,
authority Of' the Gown - mut of th6l7nited
States, Duplicate rolls of -all officers am
men surrendered to be made, one copy 01
which will be delivered to the of ap
pointed by, Maj.-Gen. Canby, and the other
appointed by Lieut.-Gen, Taylor, officers
giving their individual paroles, and com
manders of regiments, battallions, companies
or detachments signing a like parole for'tlM .
men of their respective commands.
11. Artillery, small arms, ammunition
and other property of the Confederate Gov
annient to be turned over to the officers ap
pointed for that purpose on the part of the
Governs cot of the United States. Duplicate
inventories of,the property surrendered to he
prepared, one copy to be retained by the offi
cer delivering, and, the other by the of
ficer receiving it, for the information of
their respective commands.
111. The officers and men paroled under
this agreement will be allowed to return to
their homes, with the assurance that, they
will not he disturbed by the authority of the
United States as long as they continue to
observe the conditions of their paroles and
the laws in force where they reside, except
that per4ons resident of „Northern States will
114,t. he allowed to return without permisslon.
IV. The surrender of property will not
include the side-arms, or private horses, or
1,,,. !2:g1ige of officers.
V. All horses which ate in good faith the
private property of enlisted nom will not he
mken ft' it them ; the men will he permitted
ted to take such with their; to their
114,111 r, to he a.. 1•11 for private purpo se , only.
VI. The time and place of surrender will
h li \ed hy the respective commanders. and
will he carried out by commissioners ap
pointed by them.
H. Thc t,rnis and conditions of thy
sue r,-.nder to apply to the ullicrrs and 111,11
,cloning to to the nranies latoly (.mll
- he (}ens. Lee /Ind llioW in
this I).partnient.
Vill. 'Fran,portation and subsistence to
be furnished at public cost for the officer::
and limn after surrender to the nearest prac
ticable point, of their homes.
It. TAYLOR, Lieu t.- General
What it Meant
When the Richmond papers announced, a
feW days before the 4th of Alareh; that an
event was about to transpire, which would,
' , end a thrill "r joy throughout the South,
arid -turtle the world, it probably had refer
(nine t 0 the tragedy which has since startled
the whole country by its (Morality. It
known that Booth intended to ucsuasinate
the President.on that day, but the want of
Cooperat,loll in tilosllWllo were to assist, him
defeated the plan. His own letter shoves
that he had been brooding over the matter
for months, and artful in Richmond
110 ot01114 . 0111 . 0111')Igell hi'll in that design, in
the hope that it would save MllllllUIld trim
11, 1 impending fate, by the confusion and
dismay it would cane( for a time which
would irostrate the, well designed movements
of Grant and Sherman. If the crime had
been perpetrated on the 4th of March, be
fore Richmond fell it might have given a
new 1 , 11 ,, of rife to the 11,-01 . 1olti011 111 161 . 11-
111.1111; bill I{lClllllOllll being taken, and Lee's
army rAirrendL , red, what was meant as It
Stroke of policy or strategy, became only
MI ;let r vin[ 110 Obit'et
butt the gratification of personal hatred. It
we, a great blunder as well as a great crime
and it showe, that it wa, originally emicoetol
by men of sup,, r i"r wind to Buuth. 'They
had a far-reaching purpo , ir arid used him as
proper tacit for work limp decoy not appear
in th,.111,t-1Ve.1.. lit• ,11111 011iy the fact, and
did not comprehend the purpose. Ify 11.-
hiS the (Time recoils upon the base plotters
of a—a.—lnation. The world has been star
but the • •thrill of joy 7 ' which wa:
to be felt throughout the South is now a
fueling Of ferr t ' or the orm.equenees of their
eti-'rail' work.-- Nita. Ledger.
11:101 THE RUlNS.—Aniong the
most valuable works Of art which was lie
-1.t.0y,•,1 by the late tire in this city, was the
supurb )lason iestatite' of \Vashinom, whielt
Hind(' in Itslvl , yPo ors, the celebrated
`imipt. 1.,, r -1, of Fredericks
burg, a bore the distinguished statesman and
hero fir,t initiated itito the iris and
.11asotity. Since the first I ICCII -
Cool ofl°rederiel,slmN Lv the 'United Stitt,
trom,, after the breaking oat (ir the war,
till, -tall., has. Leon in ilichtnond; and when
111.-1 rceeived here, it wilt put upon eXilibi
ti./1 -at the Marble saloon ref J ohr: W.
olt Ninth street, where it for scant,
lino , lilt r,wt nth:111'111g •I/IletlltHr ,
11.0111 tall loallt, of th, V.
IH•11 I'. wai required to vacate to
tie. Confederate 1:ot eminent his nlllOOll in
Le Mecluinies' Institute Building, the sta
tue was, by order and under his itnine,
diatc mperitimndence, enclosed in the origi
mil box in which it wns contained when sent
from Italy, and afterv.ards encased in slabs
of graiiit.•. securely bound around with iron,
in order to more .reciirely preserve it l'l,lll
hair . N% (hell b.)
to ill, right of the Institute, where it
retnained op to the time it was destroyed by
the tire. effect, of the lire has rendered
it, entirely worthless. and fragments are now
scattered some distance around. The fea
ture:, and limbs are almost crumbled into
pu..t .ler, hut the body still remains von bedded
in the rithhi-hi, with about half of it protrud
ing. from beneath. Numbers of persons have
secured pieces from it as relics of the fftto
and fall of itieliniund.-I?ic/olmied Whig.
011J11 anb
:I.PPILENTICE WANTED —A stout boy,
g c,,,,ledueation and a good moral char
motor, will be taken at this office to lenrn tho
Printing business. None other, need apply.
\V ELI, PUN E.---IVe see tho Cumber
land Valley Rail Road Company is clearing
out the culverts which cross Main street at
the intersection of Pitt. This much needed
repair will relieve that neighborhood of much
annoyance in the way of filthy gutters.
11.....A„The State (~2, M. General, adver
ti,os some valuable prkiperty for sale on Sat
urday, the 27th inst., See notice in another
column
Du IMAM CAT rLE.—The attention of
our steel: rai..iers is called to the advertise
ment of ,James Uowen who will offer some
vet . ) line blooded cattle Mr sale on the 2001
of next month.
TUE Empi um FAIR —The fair of the
Emp•re Hook and Ladder has thus far been
a perfect success. The yellow and green
harvest the company has been reaping for
alroost n week has been bountiful beyond
their most sanguine expectation. The pre
dominant feature of the fair has been. the con -
te,t between the Good Will and Union Fire
Companies for the possession of an elegant
silver tire horn, which is to be awarded to
the company having the highest number of
votes. The contest has been narrowed down
to the two competitors—the Cumberland for
some reason .not entering the lists, and the
'Empire, or course, being debarred by reason
of the fair being held under its auspices. A
large. number of votes have already been
polled; and as the thno for closing the list
approadhes much interest is manifested in the
result, each party of course being confident
of success. In our next we will gime the re
sult.
A Goon LAW. —.33y the provisions of
an Act paSsed by our State Legislature at its
into sQLision, any person or poisons who shall
maliciously break, oe throw •down, nhy post
and rail; ,, or other fence,. or shall carry away
post, rail, or other material, of whiCh such
fence wits shall be guilty of a misde
meanor, conviction shall be fined
Fifty Dollars, one-half of which shall be paid
to the informer, and the other half to tho
t3uppopf , of the, poor of the township, or bor•
ouglvin.-which the offence line bebii-Ciiimmit
ted, or to undergo animprisonthent not ex
ceeding six months, or-.both, or either, at the
discretion of the Court, The onfOrcomont
haye:4 good ellhet in this
horougl► and'viothity::