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'(ijjromcle & HmtheL
f.iTB FOBSIUS SEWS.
AMERICAS AFFAIRS IN' ENGLAND,
la the House of Commons on the 1 Ith inst ,
to withdraw
rrom the South, of which notice had been giv
fc L by Mr. White, was not put.
bis r :
ttuT withdrawal of belligerent right* U no mere
"be *Sbenau-
Soah aod tho9o of the West ladies to th"
It won’d te ” d will rah,e the block
adTaTpennit free intercourse with the South-
er The a Mo d rniDg Post in an editorial on the
in i Jl». • W i*o postponed fats q res-
SrKb«n«o LoraPair.t.m, b,! it
U
"Th.’pXtp: *4l 4! fciporfole to avoid
JcS.ion.hat li,o. OooWowto Gove™ ;
has pegged to exn t J-flf: eoutii tca.-«s
Sta ft he it 00 loogor po^ocs
the means es proreentng t..e war T an . as «
has already mode admus on t.o that d.e ■- m
the original conv "Hon between Johnston and
Shorn an, no car.se tor compl unt will be giv
«n if neutral powers indorse the confession
The Daily N« wb no • tf;cs, a rci or* g lu® w
pleasing features of the recent intelligence
from America, the Improved feeling of the eiti
’iens of the United StaffiM toward England.—
There ate evidences of this oa every tyinu;
but thev are specially vi. ible in the altered
tone of their most rcyr.es mtatlvs newspapers.
It claims that ciroum ia ' ■ not only improved
the situation and temper of Am eric »n citiz ns,
but have contributed t) pi act uie Uagn. a cnai
octer and motive., in truer I'g i
In opposition to this The Morning Tlera.d
gives rumors th it • Btr F. Bni "e complains of
the difficulty of i o'nt v A ? friendly relations
with the Washington Gov. rnmor.t, and In at
Mr. Adams has presented claims for losses bv
tire Alabama. .
The Daily News of tue l(Uh, referring to the
above statement by The Herald, says: “Moat
persons arc aware that the Government of the
united States cow idem it lia3 claims upon
TEnglund for damages done by the Alabama,
*nd that our own G overoment is of contrary
ainlon.” The question will come on for
justment some day, in tho ordinary manner,
and we do not know that it might not be con
sidered now as well as at any other time. As
a matter of fact, however, President Johnson
has done nothing. The question at This mo
ment stands just where Mr. Lincoln lelt it.—
Tbo depredations of the Shenandoah have also
been made tho subject of representations to
the Government. These representations were
made by order of Mr. Lincoln, awl far from
being of an unfriendly nature they brought
out more plainly than before the amicable dis
position of both Governments. It is hoped
Mr. Seward will scon be restored to the duties
of hU department, and he will find these claims
on England in the situation in which he left
them, President Johnson having reserved
them for his treatment. •
A Dublin dispatch of the st.Ji inst. says : “A
mass meeting, consisting of about 2 000 yor-
aons, principally of the working classes, was
bald ou Sunday, on the plains of Olontarf, lor
the purpose of sympathizing with America in
its bereavement, but tin* speakers all indulged
in strong observations against tbo English Gov
ernment, one of them remarking that the dav
was not distant when tho Irish flag would re
place in this country that of England. This
and similar sentiments wore loudly cheered.—
One speaker read a document which conunen -
cad with the words 'Sic semper tyrant is,’ and
referred to G 93 years of bloody extermination,
and rapacious plunder by British butchers. It
then called upon the people to receive the
Prince of Wales with silence and contempt,
‘and Bpot-ft r>f tha.bastui a ■*; * ”
bo.ry ahd Cromwell. Th s document was sign
ad by the Vigilance Committee and concluded
with ‘God save the people.’ An address of
sympathy to America was agreed to, and the
meeting dispersed quietly. The principal speak
er who Was most vchem* nfc *u his protestations
against English rule was a stone-m isson nam
ed Curry.”
OENJtRAI, NEWS KRIM ALL SECTIONS.
Parliamentary proceedings WBre unimpor
tant.
Lord Palmerston’s health was Improving,
hut lie continues weak and abstains from Par
liamentary duties.
Messrs, llaukey Brothers merchant in Liv
erpool, have suspended, it is believed for a
heavy amount.
A laig* failure is also reported at Havre; in
o enaction with the cotton trade. The name
ia not mentioned.
At a meeting of the Telegraph Construction
and Maintenance Company, lale Glass, Elliott
A Co s, who are manufacturing the Atlantic
cable, some interesting statement's were made
as to the progress of the work, and great con
fidence was expressed m its success. The ca
ble was expected to be complete in another
fortnight, and all along side of the Groat Eas
tern by the end of May. The Great Eastern
goes to sea under the most favorablo auspices,
her .commander Captain Anderson, of the Chi
us, having been permitted by the Canard
Company to select his owu c:ew.
A Munich loiter m noon.- tip? death of Frank
lin. Webster American Consul to chc.t city.
The International Exhibition at Dublin was
formally inaugurated by the Princo of Wales
uathe ‘Jthinst. with appropriate ceremonies.
The affair passed off with great, eclat and the
Prince was everywhere rea-ivt and with tho nioct
enthusiastic demons! nnhvs of welcome. At
night the city wits illuminated, nn.l the Prince
attended a grand hall given by t .e Lord Mayor
of Dublin.
The weekly returns of the Bulk, of i ranee
show an increase of 9,0G8,0001. in cash.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
says the death of lhcai .ont Lincoln Las re
vived the political spirit ot Democratic a ran'v
ill the large towns.
The Journal Le 'S',arc Je Li Lav.c had
opened a 10 ecu lime sub.- c: lor a :a -dri
to be presented to Mrs. Lincoln, with tire
Democratic inscription th ri >n.
The treaty between iSp.t:. ' ha 1 bocn
ratified at Madrid, and in r- * -he of b o lo
ruvian Embassy at Madrid forthwith started
from that city for F.u vntli the document.
The Peruvian Minis Ur had two au Ueuces with
the Queen. .
The ministry c. r.c. in v.wro de .cited nr
Cortes upon the motion of want of c nti.ieuce
by 93 against 45. T m v u.i-tors thereupon
proposed a dbselu-. - . : ot the Ccatea, which the
King accepted.
It is stated that Am-irbi liar declined the
propositions of P:r. i ' •• ■ ’ • ■ xvvs should
enter into separate uegctiitious wb Si Die Fe i
ersl Diet on the Shcie-wM U '-s ein question,
and that the Duke f t An. i nrg be
removed ironi Kiel. Austria considered neith
er proposition adtuLvibie.
The Latest Mr. tie!*.
SLonpoJJ Monv.y Market —May 13 -Con
s closed on Fiiu.iv a . i a f ; for nio oj',
The bullion n< t j"
creased £182,000; Ua ; :.u States Five uvea ass,
«>6} a 04.
The American sfcuritKs v ere a Grade easier.
Marhet—May 13,
The Broker’s Circular r peri- the sabs of the
week at 71,000 bales, of which. 12,000 bales
were to speculators and 21.500 In exporters.—
The market has been irregular It opened heavy
but becoming buoyant un lor the Eurcpa’s ad
vices. The quotations are generally X a \ 1 lower
on the week The anthe m iqu nations are:
Fair Orleans 171 : Midi in ro■■l (H : "addling
Mobiles. 14-1 J !.: Fair l : planes. lbj : Middling
Uplands 14A. The sales cn Friday were esti
mated at 7.000 bales, the market closing dull
and unchanged. The stock u port is estimat
ed at 542,000 bales, of which 57.000 arc Ame
rican.
State or Trade —The Mancie stor market is
quiet and prices easier. %
liver root. uxr .13, evening--Tho sa ! es
«f Cetton were T,00*3 hares, of which
ftOO were to speculators and exiorters. The
market is dull, and all qualities are slightly
pwer.
TH* ALSTOJI LETTER.
Amor’s the evident introduced at the trial
of the Washington assassin conspirators, is a
letter from Col. Alston to Mr. Davis. Thu*,
with other testimony, goae to prove that the
latter party knew of the designs against Mr.
Lincoln, although perhaps not directly in com
munication with those who committed the
deed. Here is Col. Alston’s letter :
White Sulphur Springs, Va.
To his Excellency, the President of tht Unfed- j
trait S’atts of Ametlea: _
Dear Sir—l have been thinking for some
time that ! would, make this communication to
you, but Lave been deterred from domg so on
account of ill health. 1 now offer you my ser
vices, and it you will favor me m my design?,
I will preened as soon as my health will per
mit, to rid my country of some of her dead
liest enemies, by striking at the very heart s
blood of those who seek to enchain her m sla
very I consider nothing dishonorable having
such a tendency. All I vek of you is to favor
me by granting necessary papers, etc., to travel
on, while in the jurisdiction ol this Govern
ment. I eta perfectly familiar with the North,
a-id feel can execute anything lua
dertake. I have jus returned now from with
in their lines. I am a Lieutenant in Gt-ueral
Duke’s command. I wa“ on the raid lost June
in K Htucky. under Gen. Morgan, I, and all
my command, except two or three commis
sioned officers, were taken prisoners, but find
ing a good opportunity while being taken ;o
j prison, I made my escape from than in the
i garb of a citixsn.
I attempted to pass out through the moim- i
tains, but finding that impossible, narrowly j
e:-caped two or three times being retaken, di- j
reeled my course North -sud went through >
Canada. By the assistance of Col. J. H. H >1- j
comb, I mccaeded in making my way through j
the bio kudo, and having taken the yellow
fever at Bermuda, I have been rendered unfit
for service since my arrival. I was reared in
Alabama, and educated in its University Both
the Secretary of War and his assistant. Judge
Campbell, are personally acquainted with my
father, Wm J. Alston, of the Fifth Congrea
(do al District of Alabama, he having served
in the time of the old Congress, in '45, ’SO and
’sl. It Ido anything for you, I shall expect
your full confidence in return. If you give
this, I can render you and my country very j
important service. Let me hear from you soon, j
I am anxious to be doing something, and hav- j
ingno command at present, all, Or nearly all,
being in garrison, I desire that you saver me
in this matter. 1 should like to have a per
sonal interview with you, in order to perfect
arrangements before starting.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant-,
[Signed] J. W. Alston.
Address me at tlnjSprings, in the hospital.
On the above letter were tho following in
dorsements : Brief of letter, without sigua
ture, respectfully referred by the direction of
the ITesidcnt, to the lion. Secretary of War.
Burton N. Harrison, Private Secretary, re
ceived November 29, 1864. Record book.
A. G. 0 , December 8. 1861, 31— A. G , far at
tention. By order of J. A. Campbell, A. S. W.
,MR. LINCOLN DEATH IX PARIS.
A religious service ou the occasion of the
death of Mr. Lincoln was performed in the
American chapel in Paris, of the Rue Bayard,
April 29. A service fclso took place in the
English chapel of the Cour dea Codies, of
which the Rev. Mr. Gurney is diaplain, with
the same object of testifying the sorrow of the
American citizens in Paris. Previoua to the
Eervice the following correspondence took
place between Mr. Gurney and Mr. Slidell,
who represents tho Confederate Government:
LETTER FROM MR. OUIINET.
My Dear Sir:—l trust you will ngroa with
me that Southern Americans should take
every opportunity to reprobate the lato assas
sinations, and it is chiefly with » view to do
•away with angry feelings that I have proposed
to hold a solemn service, to which both South
o’clock on Saturday. There iB to fee no ser
mon, only litany, penitential psalms, eto., as a
tribute of sorrow and regret. Perhaps you.
will be good enough to acquaint others with
tho circumstance, inoluding the ladies of your
own family, as this may afford them a coveted
opportunity, and there can be nothiug to com
promise any one in such a move.
Believe me,
Your most obedient
Faithful servant,
Archer Gurnet.
LETTER FROM JOHN SLIDELL.
Paris, April 28.
My Dear Sir :—Mo one could have heard
with greater horror and regret than I the in
telligence of tire atrocious crime perpetrated p.t.
Washington. No one could repudiate with
sterner indignation tho idea that tho assassins
had received promptings or encouragement
from friends of the Confederate cause. Per
haps no two prominent persons of the Federal
Government could have been selected who ex
cited in a less degree feelings of personal hos
tility and vindictiveness than President Lin
coln and his Secretary of State. lam much
obliged to you for inviting me aud my family
to assist at the solemn service which you pro
pose to hold to-morrow af v your chapel, aud,
could be present sitnplr to manifest tho feel
ings which I have briefly expressed,.we would
not hesitate to kneel with you in prayer for
the souls of the victims. But reflection will, I
am sure, satisfy you that our presence on. the
melancholy occasion would bo subject to vari
ous and not trnnatural misconstructions, re
ceived on the part of some ns r. hypoediical
display of a regret we did not feel; l>y others,
as a virtual acknowledgement of the injustice
of the cause in the defence of which so many
noble martyrs have fallen; and as a tacitly im
plied acquiescence in the course of policy pur
sued by Mr. Liacolu since his accession to
power on the 4th of March, 13G1. I will take
pleasure in compliance witb your req-nest, to
let any Confederate friends I may see knew of
the intended ceremony.
Believe me, very sincerely,
Your friend and servant,
John Slidell.
STATIC ITEMS.
Cal. Eggleston’ the commander at Atlanta,
has issued an order protecting the shade trees
in tjat city. The shade tre-.s in every city
should he protected by the firie’eet laws.
A severe hail storm fell in the viciDity of
F.itleclg°, May 30, doing serious injury to the
cicps. We have heard of heavy hail in many
Idealities, which will possibly enable Us to .ac
count for the remarkable coolness of the weath
er during the past few days.
A correspondent' of the Macon Telelgraph
waiting from Dawson, Southwestern Georgia,
ruder date of May 2Stb, save: There have
n'»t been any rains that benefited the growing
cir.ps, during the post two months or more
lUin storms and thunder clouds pass by us al
most every night, and it is" very tantalizing to
e? them move along with plenty of lightning
fiithißg on their way, but none of it to benefit
tiis parched and desert country. The crops
promise to he light h°re. The fine corn stand
is small and feeble and scorched very much by
the dry weather and burning sun. The wheat
is nearly lipe and will soon be harvested,
ihisugh It is small, and will yield but a light
crip. The amount of country to which these
r* narks pertain, however, applies only to a
small scope, immediately in this vicinity, la
every direction In m here, outside of a radius
of eight or ten miles, the growth of all kinds of
prodedfe promises a large yield. P. dns have
been plentiful and the season generous for
growth of all kinds. The corn on the planta
tions, especially through the counties West,
and South of this point, is very forward and
largo—a great quantity of it is over tread high
and vey luxuriant ia growth. The wheat
crop alto is veiv fine in the counties men-
PientiHil ruins have extended far
Southward and West of us, and caused the veg
etation to be very luxuriant, rich and produc
tive.
A hailstorm swept over Macon on Monday,
May 22.
The issues of the Macon and Western Rail
road Company hwe already gained considera
ble circulation in Macon, and country adja
cent. They are receivable in payment of
freight and passage, and all other dues to the
different railroads leading from Macon.
gSsveinl negroes have been accident ally shot
or shot on put pose in aud around Macon re i
cently.
The telegraph line lndween M.'Cnn and At
lanta is being rebuilt. It is working to Bear.
Crt-ek on the Atlanta end. and we a:o assured i
that it will be through in a few days.
m Tina- <u*»»
CUR hATIi>V\L. FI.WXCE9.
England, France, Austria, and ot'uei Enrope- \
an nations, content themselves with paying
the interest cn their mammoth debts ; and I
many prophecy that we shall have to do the j
same, and that our national debt, l.ke theirs, !
will never l e paid. But this is a great mis-|
tike, for there i3 as little analogy between the ;
origin and nature of onr debt and their debt, as
there is between our Government and their
Government, or ai there is between onr re
sources and their resources.
We have heretofore astonished the Old World
by tbo rapidity of our growth and tho ease
with which we paid off the debts of one revo
lutionary struggle, as weli a3 those of two sub
sequent wars. But recent events have excited
in oMier nations more than mere astonishment,
and the very tone and tenor of the foreign
press shew that wbilq the valor, snd jmitab'«
energy aud b-illiant achievements of oar
.armies have wrung from them a tribute of ad]
miration, the exhibitions which we have made
of our power and inexhaustible resources daring
four years of a war of unparalleled magnitude
have excited a degree of iear and dread, which
cannot be hid in hypocritical expressions of
congratulations on our success. Despite
I tho carpiugs of traitors and tho profess
i ions of mercenary Speculators in the stock
| market, we have no fear of the result ; and in
: the daily evidences which the people are giv
ing of their patriotism and confidenes. we eco
a sure guaro.niy that our national debt will bo
piid off without ab'tdment, whenever it shall
j be deemed most expedient and most advan
I tageous. ® '
In further elucidation of this subject we
wculd invite attention to the views of a laie
wr’der in the National Republican,-as represent
ed in the following remarks :
On the. 31st of March last the official state
ment shewed the public cobt to be $2,367,<)t0,-
000. Laws to operation provide for SOOO,OOO
- mors, v'z: «ho seven-thirty loan, now
being so rapidly taken. This is believed to be
sufficient, with the ordinary revenues of the
'rov'-rnmcnt, to meet ail expenses and uceni
ing liabilities up t > July 1, 1866 uiakinff the
debt ut that time, therefore. $2 967,040,003. —
Os this amount, $2,500.000,000 is interest-bear
ing debt, tbo remaining $167,000*000 being
legal tenders aud fractional currency, not bear
ing interest,. Os the interest-hearing debt in
existenc * March 31st, about fifty millions of
five per cent notes will undoubtedly bn cancel
led on or before the Ist of July, 1865, and it is
furthei believed that enough surplus funds will
be derived from the seven-thirty loan, and the
sales of public property during the next year,
to absorb over SIOO,OOO 000 of the temporary
deposits and certificates of indebtedness, re
ducing the debt by that much, which will al
low the funding of $167,090,-000 of th« frac
tional currency and greenback currency, leav
ing out and unredeemed of this $300,000,000,
and $2 500 000,000 of interest- bearing debt on
the Ist of July, 1866.
At the present rates of interest paid, the ave
rage rates of interest for several years will be
6 p’r cent , for there will be 3900 000.0 OJ of
7-30’8, aud near $900,000,000 of 5 20's, and
1881 bonds, besides the compound interest
notes, &c., therefore, the interest will be $150,-
000,000 annually. ,
England with a population of 30 000.000,
raises $350,030 000 for the suppoit of her Gov
ernment, and payment iff interest on her debt,
&e. No one will doubt our capacity to bear
the taxation necessary to raise the same sura
annually, as we too have 30,000,000 of people
After the Ist of July, 1860,
$100,000,000; and from internal revenue,
$250 COO.OOO.
For the five years ending the Ist of July,
1860, our Government expenses, exclusive of
payments on public debts, averaged very near
ly $65,000 000 annually, and it is more than
probable that they will now foot up $120,-
000,0l'0 to $130*000,000 annual’y, and to
this might, bo addea enough for extraordinary
expenses, such ss war claims of loyal States
and tho claims of individuals for property do
stroyed, etc .to carry the expenditure up to
$l5O 000 000 annually. This, then will leave
$200000,000 to be applied annually to the
payment of the principal and interest of tho
public debt, which will pay off the $2,500,-
000 000 in exactly twenty yorrs : or should it
be doomed advisable to anp'y $25,000,000 an
nually to the withdrawal of the $300,000,000
greenbacks remaining in circulation, i'ortwel «e
yrars, and then to the increasing expenses of
the Government, leaving 3175,000,000 annual
ly, which will wipe out the debt in exactly
thirty years.
Now, then, what is the real amount of the
ppblic debt in this view t If we content our
selves with simp'.v paying the interest, in thir
ty years, at $150,000 000 .i year, we shall have
paid flic sum of 4,500 030 000 If we add cn
ly this 25.000,000 annually for payment of
principal—of course using for the same pur
pose the saved of the 150 000,000 by lha re
duction annually in the amount paid in
as interest-we have t’ge additional sum of
3750.000,000, required in thirty years for this
purpose, and really represents ah .that will
be drawn from the people for tho purpose
of paying off the debt.
By the addition of another $25,000 o*oo 'an
nually, making $50,000,000 to I>j used ia ad
ilit'oa to tr.o $150,000,000 required for the in
terest, tiro debt will be paid In just twenty
years. This* will require $503,000 000 more
in the twenty years than would bo required by
the slower process, and yet it would relieve
the nation lvom r taxation t > the amount of
175,00-0,000 ivomuiUy for the last ten years,and
would save the enormous sum of $1,250,000,-
000, to be drawn from th •. people by the thi; iy
years process--that abacib'ni; and using $1,250,-
009,000 whereas ihe twenty yeiyrs process
.will rtquiio only 34 000 000.,000-—51,000,000,-
000 ready representing the debt, and the inter
est for twent-- rears under the no pay system
being $3,00(0,000,090,
1’ will thus be seen i hat it i>m ea sy matter
to ray off our debt. AM ih-aj we have to do is
to sid apart iirevoctbiy for that purpose a sum
sufficient to.pay the interest and some of the
principal, using all that is left after paying the
interest ear h year to reduction cf principal,
and let that sum be as large as the nation cm
bear. We certainly can bear $25,000,000 more
than is necessary to pay only tin annual ‘in
terest with ho reduction of debt, and no doubt
can bear $50,000,000, annually for that pur
pose.
Fire in kome, Ga.—A correspcn fcnt of the
Atlanta Intelligencer says :
Avery reriou? fire has occurred on Broad
s f reet, Rome Ga., by which the, following
buildings were destroyed, viz : Dr. Farrell’s
ofiieo, Planters B>nk Agency building, Lamb's
confectionary stand, the old Sans Souci bar
building, stores formerly oaenpied by Isaac
Cohn, M. Mark-!, Sumter’s old furniture ware
house, a building occupied by the judges
of the Inferior Court, and two other
brick buildings between that and the bttfidiDg
occupied t-y the Odd Fellows
It was only through the exertions of a few
cltis ms, aided hy Capt. Hews and his com
mand of the 137ih Illinois Infantry, iheClotoe
House hotel and the Odd Fellows’ Hall v. sue.
saved, and the tire checked. All the Wcrfk wias
do’ie wkh buckets, and the artetlnt of .Work
would have done cue fit to aDJ_afiedvpajrLßi£ttt
that 1 have evetLet-unconnected with.
-
The C atltolio jubilee ordered by the Pope,
throughout the world, Las commenced in New
York city, and will close ou the loth of June.
The services at the various ehutehes are very
solemn and in press! re, and are participated
in by immense crowds. All participants ate
all;-wed a plenary indulgence or remission of
temporary punishment, and the giving of aims
is one of the duties involved after sp e ?1 con
fession
GOV fciiOttXf.OW AXD FORMER T'itSMta*
Hlfff HtATtf t.FFICBRL
i Freni tbo N.vhviile Union 1
LETTER I'it Oil MF, 38a DUNLAP, HAY AND DAT - j
TLN TO GOV. BROWNLOW.
.August*. May 5, 18G5.
Baiiiam G. BroumLic, Governor, etc.
Bik: Your present status gives jou control ■
of tbe capital of Tennessee. The fortunes of
war compel us to admit the fact without dis
eussimr tiro right. The archives of the State,
mainly covering Gov. Harris’ administration, 1
which were removed from Nashville by L“g's
lative authority, we desire to return to the
capital as belonging to Tennessee, and consti
tudng a part ot her history, whatever pjwer
may be in authority.
In surrendering them to your custody as the
present representative of State authority, we
claim only that, whatever may beiound in the
cumbrous boxes containing tut ut of a private
charactr*. belonging to any one, whether cor
respondence or individual papers,-shall ba
withdrawn ?.nd given to us or tho owners.
We should be faithless to our trust to give up
anything not properly belonging to the. State,
nor do we imagine more would bo desired by
you.
As for ourselves, personally, we ask for no
thing beyond what a magnanimous oppouents
rn-vy choose to accord It would be great
weakness in u* attempt to disguise what our
prepossessions have been all tire time in th 3
cont-st.
We do desire to be informed in our reply
whether we can be permitted to return to
our families without molestation from the civil
or military aulhariti ’S, aud to bo allowed to
leave the country if,after testing it, we shall feel
oppression heavier than exiie.
Respectfully,
J. T. Dunlap,
J E. It Ray,
Joel Battle.
P. S —la Gen. Battle’s absence, I have sign
ed signed his name to this letter, believing he
concurs in its general object. J.T. D.
LETTER FROM GOV. BROWNLOW TO MaflPßttS. DUN
LAP, RAT AND BAITLS.
Executive Dei* art vent, I
Nashville, Tenn., May 17, 1805. |
Messers. J. T. Dunlap, J. E. Ray and J.A.
Battle:
Your letter of the 6th instant from Augusta,
is received. In tale communication you say
that rav present stains gives me control of
the Slate Capitol. You say “the fortunes of
war compel you to admit the fact without dis
cussing *tbe right.’’ You further observe,
•‘that the archives of the State, mainly cover
iug Gov. il inis’ aJiniaistration, which were
removed from Nashville by Legiobitive au
thority, you desire to return to ihe Capitol as
belonging to Tennessee, and constituting a
part of its history.”
Aa'for yourselves, personally, you say you
t>,sk “nothing beyond what a magnanimous op
ponent may choose to accard,” aui you de
sire to bo informed whether you can be per
mitted to return to your families without mo
lestation from tho civil or military authorities,
and be allo wed to leyve the country, it, after
testing it, you should Re! oppression heavier
than exile.
I had verbal accounts from you, which led
ms to hope that you were animated by a bet
ter spirit than is manifested in yonr letter.
You are still rebellions. Tho fortunes of war
affine compel von to.admit the fact, that l have
control of the uauital <<l the State. You decline
to discuss the right. I have no doubt you are
in like manner compelled to recogn V. the
present status of the csptuje 1 tviaior whose
lead you have followed, and tint you areas
little inclined to discuss the right in tho one
ca*e as the other.
Pardon us for suggesting that ‘-fha fortunes
of war” wMi compel you-to admit many oilier
facte equally mortifying to your pride, before
you shall have seen all the consequences cf
Confederate treason.
. .If the archives in your possession constitu
ted nothing but the histoty of Uov. Harris’s
administration, i should deem them of very
little importance. Indeed, the honor of the
State would be promoted by having that pait
of her history forever obliterated. Bat it seems
a i A »» A !•-Pd ♦-i fa t> av» *— ‘- J
yourselves to some things more substantial
than mere historical souvenirs, among which
weie the entire assets of the State, and your
owu official bon«la.
I cannot reccguiae the “Legislative authori
ty” under which you claim to have acted.
No Legislature could have authorized you to
commit so high a crimo. Much less could the
conclave of traitors, whose very existence was
treason, pause in thoir flight from tho Capitol
and, us lum informed was the fact, enact a
law to legal * * your outrages upon tho people
of the State after they were perpetrated.
My “sfutus” is not such as to authorize rae
if I desired, to protect you from au outraged
people and n betrayed government. My “sta
tus” does not give me eonbol of tie Federal
courts in which you a;o indicted for treason.
You dt sire protection from the civil and mill
tary authorities. Whether you will obtain it
I cannot say. But as yours has been a life of
bold experiments for four dreadful years, you
hvd as well conclude witb another, by return
ing wiih or without the archives, as may ap -
pear best to yourselves.
With a proper measure of respeeL [ am
W. G. Bkcwnl-av,
Governor of Tennessee.
iMi'tittT.lAl CttU Üb/Vtt.
Headquarters, Macon, Ga. 1
May 22, 18t>3. f
Ist Wo are directed ami empowered by
Btevet Major General Wilson, commanding
Cavalry Corps, Military Departmeot Missis
sip:'!, U S. A., to demand, receive and receipt
lor all stores and every species oj property
whatever, not in the hands of United States
officers, which belonged to the Confederate
States on the 19th day of April, 1865, being
tue day of General Johnston’s surrender *to
General Sherman, with the view to di-tribute
the Birae to the destitute poor of Georgia,
either by gift or loan, unless needed for said
Cavalry Corps 'I he supp’ies and other mili
taiy propdbiy of the State are alike included.
21. Accredited agents will be sent to all por
tions of the State, as soon as practicable, to
carry out the provisions of the order upon
which tins notice is based, and it is believed
that all good citizens will c eerfully co oper
a‘e iu this important work.
3L It must bg understood that all transfers
of property by any person whomsoever, by
pretended sale or otherwise, since the date of
said surrtnder, will be void. It may be con
sidered by come oppressive to take .from thorn
C. S. or State property which is held as a reim
bursement f r past services or 4ms, but it
would be more unjust to deprive the destitute
soldiers, their widows and orphans, when it is
considered that they have confronted for the
last four years the daggers of the war, and
not received any pay in the last twelve months,
nor more oppressive than for the soldiers and
cibzer.s who have received Confederate Tieas
uiy notes (or Lard earnings and which are now
worthless.
4 h la seme instances the Justices of the
Inferior Courts, and other good citizens, have
taken charge of public property to prevent it
failing into improper hands, bnt since the poor
are to become the recipients, of course they
will cheerfully return or make amends for
pioperty so taken.
s'h. Tanners for tho Confederate States as
well as for the -tato of Georgia, will carry
out, with as iiulo delay as possible, their con
tracts iu good faith, ani make reports to Ma
jor C. R Armstrong, at this place, who has
special charge of the tanning and leather de
partment.
6th. We wish it distinctly understood, that
it's our earnest desire for all public property,
as before stated, to be readily and cheerfully
transferred, or properly accounted, for, to such
ageuts.ks may be-from timei to time assigned
to duty under - ct *
. Should par ties, fail so to comply, we shall be
UfiffdF the paihtul necessity of asking ua order
for their arrest.*" ' '
t§%r»d} ; . * iRa B Fostew,
sssr
' > ; v ' ' 3 U. S. Agent.
Approved.
[Siguod J J. H. Wilson.
Brevet ilajot General.
Indicted ror Treason. —Mess r s. Davis end
Breckinridge were indicted for treason by tho
Grand Juiy of the District of Columbia, on
the 26th cf May .3
LG IT fill FiIGM »ifc..V JOIISSTOV
The Charlotte N. 0. Democrat publishes the :
annexed letter from Gen. Johnston, la it that i
officer gives the world the-canses which
him to make terms of surrender with Gen. j
Sherman. We believe Gen. Johnston’s con
duct. and bis refusal to continue the war at’-,
der all hope of success was vain, i* generally
approved; but if any one has a doubt on this
point, the reasons set forth by Gen. Johnston
wiii clearly show that he acted correctly and
wisely : ,
Cui&LorrE, N. 0., May. 6, 1363.
Having made a Convention with Majir Gen.
Sherman to terminate hostilities in North and
: South Carolina. Georgia ami Florida, it soems
to me proper to put before the people of those
[States the condition of military affairs which
| rendered that measure absolutely neces-ary.
On the 20th of April, the day of the Con
vention, by the returns of throe Lieutenant
Generals of the Army of Tennessee (that under
mv command), the number of infantry and ar
tillery present and absent w.cs 70.510 -the to-,
tdl present IS 57S—the effective total, or fight
ing force, 14,179. Oa <ho 7th of April, the
date of the lastreturml can find, the t ffective
| total of cavalry was 5,4.40. But between the
7ih and 26th of April it was greatly- reduced
by events in Virgin’a and apprehensions of sur
render.
la South Carolina we hid Young’s Division
o f c tvalrv, legs than 1,090, besides reserves and
State troops —together much inferior tq the
Union force in that State. In Florida we were
too weak, la Georgia cur inadequate force
bad been captured at -Macon, in Lieut. Gea.
Tay'or’s department tnere were no means of
opposing the formidable army, under Gen C ru
by. which had taken Mobile, nor the cavalry
under Gen Wilson, which had captured every
other place of importance west of Augusta.
The latter had been stopped at Macon by
the arn»i»dce, as we had been at Greens bor
ough, but its distance from Augusta being less
than half of ours, that place was its power.
To carry on the war, therefore, we had to de
pend on the Atmv of the Tennessee alone.
The United States could have brought again.-t
it twelve or fifteen time3 its number in the
ar mies of Generals Grant, Sherman and Canby.
With such odds against us, without the
means of procuring ammunition or repairing
avm«, without money or credit to provide food,
it was impossible to continue the war except
as robbers. The consequence of prolonging
the struggle would only have been the de
struction or dispersion of cur bravest men,
and great suffering of women and children, by
the desolation and ruin inevitable from the
marching of two hundred thousand men
through the country.
having failed in au attempt to obtain forms
giving security to citizens as well ns soldiers,
I choose between wuitoidv bringing the
the evils of war upon those 1 had been chosen
to defend, and averting ritese calamities with
the confession that hopes were dead, which
every thinking Southern man had already lost
I therefore stipulated wish Gen. Sherman for
the security of the brave and true men com
mitted to me on terms which also terminated
hostilities in all the country ever which'my
command extended, and announced it to your
Governor* bv telegraph, as follows :
The disaster in Virginia, the capture by tiro
| enemy of all our workshops for the prepara
! tlon of ammuuitiou and repairing of arms, the
impossibility of recruiting our little army, op
posed to more than ttu times its number, cr
of supplying it except by robbing our.oan
citterns," destroyed ail hope of successful war.
1 have therefore made a military convention
with Major Gen. Sherman to terminate hostili
ties in North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida. I made this convention to spare the
blood of this gallant little army, to prevent
further suffering of our people by the devasta
tion and ruin inevitable from the ma ching < i
invading armies, and to avoid the crime of
waging a hopeless war. J E Johnston.
A PHOCjjA.M YTION BY THE PHKbtUII.VT.
A PROCLAMATION
By the President of the United States of Ame
rica.
Whereas, By the proclamation of the Presi
dent of the Hth day of April last, eertain ports
of the United States therein specified, which
had previously been subject to blockade, were
for objects of public safety, declared, in confor
mity previous special legislation of Congress,
to be closed against foreign o mmerce during
the national will, to be thereafter expressed
and made known by the President; and wheit
as, events and circumstances have since occur
red, which, in my judgment, reader it expe
dient to remove that restriction, except, ns to
the ports ol Galveston, LaSade, Brazos do San
tiago, Poiut Isabel, and Brownsville, iD the
State of Texas. Now, therefor**, bo it known,
that I-, Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, do hereby declare that the ports afore
said, not excepted as above, shall bo open to
foreign commerce from and after the Ist
of July next; that commercial intercourse
with the said ports miy, from that time, be
carried on sutj'Ctto tr.e laws ol the United
States, and in pursuance of such regulations as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury. If, however, any vessel*from a for
eign port shall enter any of the above named
excepted ports In the B f ate of Texas,'she will
continue to be held liable to the penalties pre
scribed by the act of Congress, approved on
the 13th day of July, 1861, and the persons on
board of her to such penalties as may be in
curred pursuant to the laws of war for trading
or attempting to trade with an enemy; n,nd 1
Andrew John ton, Pres dent of the’ United
States, do hereby declare and make known
that the United States of America do hence
forth disavow to all persons tradiog-or attempt
ing to trade in any port of (he United States,
in violations of the laws thereof, aU pn-tecce
of belligerent rights and piiviiiges; and I give
notice, from the date of this proclamation, all
such offenders will L>e held and dealt with as
pirates.
It is also ordered that all res(r!o!ipns upou
trade-heretofore imposed in the territory of
the Lnited States ea3t of the Mississippi river,
save those relating to contraband-of vnr, to
the reservation of the rights to the United
States, to property pu chased in the ierritcuy
of an enemy, and to the twenty-five per cent
upon purchases of cotton, are removed. AU
provisions of the interna! revenue law will be
carried into effect under the proper officer.
In witness whereof 1 have- hereunto Vet roy
hand and caused the sea! of the United States
to be affixed. ,
Done at the city of Washington this Twenty
second day of May, in the' year of our Lord
ono thousand eight*hundred and sixty fUe,
and of the independence of the United States
ot America the eighty-ninth.
' Axuaew JonssMf.
By the President:
v,r - H tin ter, Acting Secretary of Stato.
Coming Crip, — Mr. Kelly, an a-ent of
the Post Office Department, has lately traveled
through various sections of Mis iss ppi, A!a
b&ma, and Georgia, and makes the fol'owing.
report of what he saw. lie eays that
In Alabama he saw immense fields of grow
ing corn, with here and there a field al
most ready for tho sickie. The com crop
promises an abundant yield. In Georgia a
deal of corn has also been planted,
though tne plant does not look so well as in
A'abama. lie thinks there will be enough
m . a '* e both States to supply the people!
with bread, if the negro laborers are to be re
tained. On this score no difficulty was appre
hended. The great staple, cotton, ii almost
aching of the past. But very little has been
pmnted ; every planter turning his attention
to grain almost exclusively.
Eoauan Measi'kis3.— The British Almanac
sires one measure of capacity <or both solids
and liquids ; and in this the gallon has a capa
City cnWc inches. This is the imperial gal-
Georg*.lV, and-coh tains 10 lbs.” cTdis
tilled water, giyes fco the bitshel 2,2181 fl
eilDie laches, ffistbad of fylM Z o-cobic inehes
as understood in America. In America, the
dry
the liquid measure gallon 231 cubic inches.
The Treasury Department sMbs jast issued an
other circular, bearing date May 16, respecting
trade with the Southern States, which removes
the restrictions inposed by former orders, as
well os the act of Congress, and which leaves
trade practically as free east of tire Misaitelppi—
excepting only articles contraband of war—as -
in lime of peace.
U&.V I'Miatsf o t-VUKW.-lA, ADMASS*. |
Geu.-Forre. t h\3 issu.<l the annexed fare
well address to his t- •• ps .
Ha.vcQVAßTras Finn s-t's Caver kt f o vs, \
G dues--il’.e, Ala., May (’>. 1865 j
Soi.utwhs —By an agreement m-de between
Lieut General Taylor, commanding the Da
part meut of Alabama, -Mississippi, and East
LouisHea, and M»j Gen Canby, commando g
United States ff-.-es. the troops of this De
partment have be-'n surrendered i
I do not think it pro or or necessary at lh : s
limo to ref. r to the causes which have reduced
us to this ex’trt mity ; nor it a matter c.f consa
quence to us how sub results were brought
about. That we ar beilen is a self-evident
fact, and any further rcrUtaneo on our part
would be justly regarded, as the height of fol
ly and rashness.
The armies of Generals Lee and Johnston
have surrendered, you are the last of all the
troops ol the Confederate States armies east of
the Mississippi river, to lay down your arras •
T ie ciuse for which you have so long and so
manfully struggled, and for which you have
braved dangers, eodrtred privations and suffer
ings, and made so many sacrifices, is to-day
hopeless The Government which we nought to
establish and pm; etuate’ ic. at an end. Ren
son dictates and humanity demands that no
more blood be shed. Fully realizing and feel
ing that such is thq case, it is vonr duty and
mine to 'ay down our alms—submit to the
“powers th it be"— and to aid in restoring peace
and establishing law and order throughout the
land.
Tiro tends upon which you were surrender
ed are favorable and should be catisf.rct.oiy
and acceptable to oil. They manifest.a spirit
of roagnanuuily and Sibcradiy. on the part of
the Federal autboritos, which should be met
on oar par.t by a faithful ’compliance with all
the stipulation :: n 1 eondßions therein express
ed As vour comroar-ier, 1 oincerely hope that
every officer jc-.d soldier of my command will
cheerfully obey the order given, and carry
out in good faith all tha terms bt the
j«rte].
wTho*a who neglect tho terms, and refuse to
to be paroled, m »y assuredly- expect, when ai
rested, to be sent North and imprisoned.
Let those who are absent from their com
mands, from whatever eau*c. report at once to
this pb ee, or to Jackson, Mis?., or, if _ too re
mote from either, to the nearest United States
post or garrison for parole.
Civil war, such as we have just passed
through, naturally engenders feelings of ani
mosity, hatred and revenge It is our duly to
divest ourselves of all snob feelings; anti, os
far p.o in our power to do so, !o cultivate friend
ly feelings to winds those with whom we have
so long contended, aud heretofore fj widely,
but honestly, differed. Neighborhood feuds,
personal animosities, and private differences,
sh uld be blotted out; and when, you return
home, a manly, s'-jjug’it for ward course of con
duct will secure the respect even of your ene
mies Whatever your responsibilities may be
to Government, to society, or to individuals,
meet th-’ra like men.
The attempt made to establish a separate
and independent Coaledwati:>n has filled ;
but theconsciev.sruvs of having done your du
ty faithfully,'and to tbo end,- will in, some
measure repay you for the hardships you have
undergone.
In bidding yon farewell, rest assured that
you carry with you my best' wishes for your
future welfare and happiness, Wi hou', In
any way referring to the merits of the cause in
which w3 have been engaged, your courage and
determination, as exhibited on many hard
fought fields, has elicited t.ho respect, and ad
miration of iricrd and foe. Ami I now cheer
fully and gratefully acknowledge my indebted-.
n<*ss to tho officers and mqjiofiny command',
whose zeal, fi tellty, and unflinching bravery
have been the great source ol my past success
in arm*!.
I have never, on the fi -Id of battle, sent you
whore I waa unwilling to go myself, nor would
I now adv so you to a course which I felt my
self unwilling to pursue. You have been good
soldiers; you can be ccod citizens. Obey
the laws, preserve your honor, rn 1 the Gov
ernment to which which yon h ive surrendered
can afford to be, and will be. magnanimous.
IT 11. X,'i*nuu-y.v Lieut. Gan.
** «EX «atSK ‘,lAA’o Ut l’iRA.
Decent despatches from tho North have
spoken of a letter from Gen. Sherman, in which
he complained of the suppression of Ills official
report. Here is tho document :
Camp N;j vri Alexandria, I
May It), 18(55. j
Dsar Bowman : lam just ..arrived. A!1 my
avrny wilt bo in to day. L have been lost to
tho world in .tho woods for some time, yet on
arriving'at the setliciaen's, fiad I Lava made
quite a stir among the people at home, aud
that the most sinister motives have been as
cribed to me. I have made frequent ofiiciil
reports of ray official action, in all public mat
ters, aud aU of thorn have been carefully sup
pressed, whilst the* most, ridicu'cu* nonsense
ha i been industriously spread abroad through
all the newspapers. Well, you know what
importance I attach to such matters,.and ihat
1 have been too long lighting with the real
rebels with muskets in their hands, to be scar
td by mero aou-combafants, »o matter . how
high their civil rank-or station. It is amusing
to observe how brave nmi fi. m some 'men be
come when all danger s passed. I have no
ticed the field of battle that brave men nev
er insuit the captured or mutilate, the dead,
but cowards and laggards always do, I can
net now recall the quotation, oui, k-haxspearc
records ho w poor .Falstafl, the prince of cow
ards and wile, rising from a figured death,
staled again the dead Percy andean ied aloft,
the dead carcass lq triumph to prove his valor ;
so, now, when the rebellion iuouedan* is dead,
many Falstotl’s appear to brandish tho evi
dence of their valor, and seek to win applause
and appropriate honors for deeds that never
were done.
As for my?Mf, I ask no popularity, no re
ward, for I dare the War Department to pub
lish my official letters and reports. I assert
that my official letters and reports have been
nurpbsely suppressed, while all the power of
the press bus been turned m .Hgriantly :>/m nst
me. Ido want peace r.nd securi'y,
return of larv and justice fr-uu Maine to the
Rio Grande, and if it does not now exist, now
substantialtypit, is for Sia’e roasoon beynod my
comprehension. It may be thought strange
that one who has no fame but as a solder
should have Lrxn so cartful to try tifcd restoie
tho civil po,?:-; of the government, and the
peaceful juriidi-ciiou ol the Federal Courts, but
it is difficuU to discover in that- fact any ju-t
cause of effe •••. to nu fnHghtched and' tree
people, but when men choose to slander and in
jure otfu-rs* whmi they can curily invent facts
for the purposii, wiiea the purposed victim is
faraway e-gaged in the public Service cf
their own bidding, but there is -cpnsolaUou in
knowing that tliuugb truth lies in Urn .bottom
of a welt, the Yankees have pnrseveiancc
enough to get to that 1> ff'- m.
Yours truly,
W. T. SUKUMAN. *
Pnsutext" Lncoun’s F;h.st .Cajhxet-—The
New York Tribune in speaking of the so: mo
tion of Mr. Lincoln's first cabinet, remarks
thus :
uMr. Lincoln, upon his roc dpt of AWsnder
11. Stephen's first great Ueiou speech, in Geor
gia, near the dose of 18‘JO, wrote him ifotn
! Springfield a letter, wherein bo cfTsi* I him,
any pressed upon him, a choice of all the po
sitions wilkin the Pwid-nt’a gift. Mr. Ste
phens, wL. n ho received this letter, had re
solved to “go with his S.ate,” and co declined
the trustful proffer.
After he Lad reached Washington, Mr.' Lin
coln offered a seat in his Cabinet to Hoii. John
A. Gilmer, of North Carolina, who likewise de
clined it. We belkye h-i made eboHar prof-
Yeis to other euilnedt Bed-Lrerett Unionw*» of
•the South, buVwwßT.ke it3ni,t.
-- •A person nßthed’Bwphii Gil.xnse, • .who .has
for twenty-five years passed" as a woman, died
in C Anbrrdgc, O'np, a few days since," when it
was found that he was a man. .•‘ywowv i
There is not o-singlo unpaid requisition in
the Treasury Department, except the pay of
the army ; which is awaiting the readiness of
tbo Paymaster's Department to call lor it.
The utmost good feeling is exhibited
throughout eastern Louisiana. The people
are orerjojetJ at the termination of tire war.
VKVVS BOIUARV.
Some ol the troops belonging to the Fi.tha
Corps of Shermans atruv got up a little fight*
on r own account just before they crostcd
the Potorar.c. Several were killed and quite
number injured.
In the decision rendered by the Supreme
Court of IVuiiey 1 v*fiiv m the case of appeal
from nUt prius in rhiiadelphia, involving the
cotistitntionaVty of I--*gal Tenderuotes. Judges
strut g, Reed and Agru vv, gave their opinions
■approving ti e constitutionality. J udgea Wood
ward and .Thompson dissented.
Several violent recession papers in California '
have been lately suppressed.
The- overland mail to California has got to
boa very ifregu'ar institution.
A cittern of Calavaros, Gal , has twelve acres
of cotton growing. Several parties have plant
ed experimental crops elsewhere la the State.
A branch of tin Freed men’s Bureau has been
established at Mobile.
The average pay of each so’dler in Grant's
and Sherman’s armies is about two hundred
and fifty dollars, and the government is ready
to pay its every man.
N irthc.rp papers state that laber in that sec -1
tiou is b coming more abundant, and wages
are lower.
Advices from Sin Francisco to May 23d
state that freights ever iho Fieira Nevada
Mountains are reduced, and oideis f;r goods
are still cbmiug in.
The Cumberland liiver is very h’gh au*l
ovesflowing its banks.
ALu go fore3 ol laborers is at work on the
fine ui tho VVe.B crnpl’acifio Railroad, which is
the connecting link of the California and Pucitii
Bail read between bacuumeuto and baa Fiaucis-
CJ.
A long address jn favor of the new constitu
t. ou of Missouri is published by the Radical
Union Executive Committee ol that State.
■Gen. llabson ot Ky., hat refused to looeive
the surrender of Champ. Ferguson and other
notorious guerillas, and notified them to leave
his disti ici .iuiuitd iatoly.
Gen. Forrest was expected to arrive in Mem
phis, May 24th.
Anew revolution has taken place in Hayti,
and the towns of Cape iiaytien, G iraives and
St. Maiks have fallen into the hands cl the In
surgents. The leader ot the rebellion, Col.
batnane, is the person who attempted to assas
sinate one of President Getfrard’s ministers
sooie months since.
A large quantity of. cotton is arriving at
New Oilcans from the Yazoo country, Miss.
The army worm has mado its appearance on
some of the Louisiana plantations.
TJia Wav Department has issue 1 orders for
the immediate musterijig out of service of all
while troops of the Army of the Totomao
whose terms ot service expire previous to tho
20th of September next .
Stringent orders in relation to visiting For
tress Mooroo hav< been issued, and ml civi
lians are proh bited from entering it unless
duly provided with a pass from M«j.w General
il 1 1 leek. Mr. Davis and 1 1 ;er political prison
ers are closely confined.
The Custom House authorities ol San Fran
cisco have dot lined’ the bark Brontes, about to
tail for Aria alia, with four hundred Mexican,
emigrants -most of whom were snjpomd to
be Americans going to Mexico to assist J into *■
-—and two hundred aud sixty cases of firearm*
on board, and telegraphed to Washington lor
Instructions Three companies of a regiment
of California volunteers had sailed for Arl*oua.
Tho White Mountain, N 11. hotel keepers
are making preparations for a busy season.
At tbo Handel and II)dn celebiation In
Boston! here was over six hundred singers in
the orchestra.
A great religious revival is in progress in
Philadelphia.
A despatch from Des Moines, lowa, sayt tho
guerillas who robbed the p wringers of the
Great Western Stage (Jompauy, have been
captured, “and their bodies left in tho
woods.”
To make whitkey, cosfi forty cents a gal
lon—the government tax oa the article is $2
a gallon, yet whiskey has beeu sold in New
York in iinminsequau.ilies at $2 10. Where,
tho odd thirty cants and the profit go to, is tho
problem now engrossing the attention of the
assessors of internal revenue.
Anew silk mill, one hundred feel lorg by
forty feet wide, is to be orectei in Hartford,
Cpnn., this season.
The dark brown mar* “Lady Light foot,’”
whose untrained speed is a mile in 2:56, has
been purchased by a Rhode Island gentleman
for $6,000.
A movement has been started m Boston to
raise cne hundred thousand dollars by one dol
lar subscriptions, to be presented to Mrs. Lin
coln.
Guerillas are commiUing outrages in Mis -
souri. A dispatch dated St Louis May lltb,
says : The town of Kingsville, Johnson county,
was sacked and burned by bushwhackers last
Saiu day night, and seven citizens and one
negro killed. Tee town of Holden has also
been robbed, and several citizens badly wound
ed. The perpetrators of the ;o outrages are
doubtless ihe same who are now so audacious
ly demanding the surrender of Lexington.
The Providence Journal n-eoids’the mar
riage of old “bq lire Gardner,” aged seventy
six to Mits Phobe Rose, aged thirteen, all of
North Kingstown, R. I. -A pretty ancient |
uurdnor that to be cultivating thataoitof
budding rose.
Fottiiios ir Ji@.
Rear Admitai Fitzroy, ol the Meteorological
De| affluent, has committed suicide.
The rate of discouut of ti.e Bank of England
has advanced to four and a hall per cent.
Mis* Harris, the young American, mado her
first appearance afid a favorable impression at,
Her Majesty’s, Aprd 29. Foli, also an ittavt'p
can, a baritone, is sieging at the sanas opvitt
house.
Tho Inst Paris freak is to paint horses as
poodles have been painted. Gold color is the
fashion.
• It is probable that Viadsiir, the third son
of the present Cz tr. will be the next Czar, ua
tho Grand Duke Alexador is very de icato.
Tho supply of fresh water has been greatly
increase *of late in Paris, lu 1860 there wete
only 65 000 cubic moires of pure water distri
buted every 21 koum. At present there are
!36 330 distrimited, which are to bo increased
to 300,000 cubic metres when tbe waters of the
Buys shali have been brought (o Paris.
A Swiss engineer has succeeded in applying
the galvau:.; battery to tho sharpining of
needles and pins, by connecting a bundle of
wires with the negative ia a most ingeuiuus
manner. This process is said to be cheaper
than the present method, which is aiao very
injurious to ihe health of the work people,
consequence of the ‘line metallic dust di«-
c.;pped.
The World’s Fair for 18C7- will be at Pam,
and the building lor it will cost $6,000,000 to
$11,000,000. The building will be made to,
hold two hundred thousand people, and every
thing wifi be on the grandest and most liberal
scale possible.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inqui
rer to have reliable information that
Sir 11. B. DellougLton, proprietor of the Lon
don Standard, and the prime mover of the
peace petition which the United States gov
ernment refused to receive last summer, is a
bolder of £1.750,0.J0 in the Confederate Cot
ton Loan. Ho. purchased at pafono-tenth of
the entire loan, and so confident was he of the
success of the Confederates, that up to within
two or three mouths past, he considered it a
safe and profitable investment.
jOne of Ibe last acts of the lamented Bichard
Cobdea, was to send a generous contribution
to a pqor, sick, distressed American seaman,
whose pitiful case had become public through
the fiewmaperß.
The Atlantic cable was expected to be all
alongside of the Great Eastern by the end of
Jfrh -
President Joh.nson a.ni> blavert. — A corres
pondent of the New York Tribune, who write*
from Was-hii m,says :
The Korth Carolina delegation are having a
satisfactory it ter view with the President, who
is understood to adhere strictly to total aboli
tion of slavt ry, aj a condition precedent to
the restoraUtc of civil power in the State,