The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1865, Page 4

. 4, *NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865. Caro- Jost stronthold of the insurgents, in our posses- ‘the villain who completed the development off¥on them, with the added weight of determina- sion, and wilh the army of Joe Johns'on surren-f4the doctrine by assassination should avow him-}y tion with which the recent tragic event stimu- Aero’, or at tie point of an inevitable surren"|/sclf a State rights man, in the very act of the lates the nation, dex, resistance to the armed forces of the Union 53 murder, by shouting “Sie semper tyrannis”—the t But now, as the whole military organization non every wt that treaoom isecrime, and ta tors shall suffer the pxcl’y. “(Applause.) Whito we are appalled, over whelmed, at the fall of one man in our midst by the hand of a traitor, shall we allow men—I care not by NEW YORK HERALD, 00h ces he captered nineteen pices of artillery, over eleve nee. Here he occupied after a short re fom. Sas JAMES GORDON BENNETT, sap ae hundred prisoners, aud immense supplies of rebel ; : i , BDITOR AND. VROFRIBFOR \ ssssttttivn, provelons, clothing, med gal storse and Will cease, ‘The rebellious States are disarmed, Siate motto of the commonwealth of Virginia. fof the rebellion breaks up, and thre aref¥what weapons—to aiteapt the life of the State SO ‘ £ bp Be 3 . t a i siness te C ti ara yart . ‘ i A J ty? «While we strain OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ~ sven thousand byles of cotton, Most of these su ta the war “— bu: ee ry ene oe Mr. Lincoln’s Death—The Stability of Gur [a moh alti eh to make any place in the en es y Mi gre Bi on bes J wee it hhed jos: been seus from Baleigh for the purpose offgam end, and peaco and tis gro Government, fy Southern States safe, the traitors are all trying ei.” suai we allow the nation to be assassinated? consiruction are at hand. ‘The proclamation, ' Seeretary McCulloch has written the follow-f to escape out of the country. It is impossible ty.) se.) Lepeak in 0 spirit of vukindvess. I leave therefore, which in the last public speech of ‘ling letter to a gentleman of this city;— to do so by sea, as we hold all the ports, and i iosoreots lof the future to be disposed of us they arise, President Lincoln was strongly foreshadowed, F tae Wasuaxorox, April 18, 1805 itis equally impossible for them to escape tof regarding myself «athe humble instzument of the Ame- should be the initial Iandmark of President!) Joi pepe d cna en Tylor Canada. Their only chance isto go through }s rican peoj In this, as in all things, Justice aad judg. Fi Texas and cross the Rio Grande into Mexico. bs ™nt shall be determined by them. Ido not harbor jie not stopped fora isoment, My hope is, and my bo. ef hat Lhis great national calam ty will teach to the fy batt wengeful fectings towards way. In geverab World @ lesson “which will be of the most benoticial FS it not time that the government adopted ved Tepis ~ that pablic morals and public optaion # character to our republican form of government; that it g being out of General Sherman's reach. Such General Stoneman’s men could not use or carry, away were destroyed. ‘They also destroyed & large arsenal, six depots, engines and many f oral bridges between Danville and Cr. ensbore 4 New York, Wednesday, April 19, 1865. OT TE TT EES LE THE WEEKLY HERALD. cars and seve fee Woety Hx atv for the present week, in addition #, 24°! sited and Greensboro, and several ai * 7 4 Parapet onesie ie nareciek £2 One rebubtoan form. of eoternaan! «thee ee the proper measures to close that only door off shoulo be established upon the gure and intlexibie prin. to the details of the surrender of Lee, will give f li ac- gy road track b tween the latter two places, thus seriously 5 li does not affect in tho slightest degree the permanence of fMesespe? Mobile is taken, and we have now A ciptes of justice. (Applause.) When the question of f] This day, as the public are aware, is Bet oo icitutions or the rogular adminisiration of the apart for the funeral of the late President of laws; that an event which wold have shaken any other By fi coumy (0 the conte does no! evn stagger for am meni a hy the United States, At noon the last impressive Hi government like ours. Very truly, yours, services for the dead will be performed in the fj H. MoCULLOCE. In last Saturday's Henan we gave an extract from ag] great reception room of the Executive Man- Hi No blow aimed at the life of any one man Mobile paper of the 4th inst., fully @onfirming previous #y & 5 Washington, and at two o’clock pre- reports of tho capture of Selma, Alabaint, PY oisoty all that ia mortal of Abraham Lincoln General Wilsou’s national cavalry, Seme further Ff will be carried thence in sorrowful procession particulars of the affair aro given by ® MobloE4 41 ity way to Christian sepulture with the ashes bay correspondent, Among the rebel property which fell Fl of his ancestors. At that moment the grief of f exercising meroy comes before me it will be considered ‘ealmly, judiciously, remembering that I am the Executive ‘of the nation. I know men love to-have their names spokem of in comnection with acts of mercy, and how easy it is to-yleld to this impelse, But we must not forget that what may be mercy by the individual is cruelty to the Stats, (Applause.) In the exereise of mersy there should be no doubt left that this high prerogative is not used to re liove @ fow at the expense of the many. Be assured I shall never forget that I am not to consult my own feel- ings alone, but to give an’ account to'the whole people, (Applause.) Im regard to my future gourse I will now make no professions, no pledges. T have becn connected somewhat actively with publio affairs, and to the history Hof my past public acts, whieh is familiar to you, I refer, for thvse principles which have governed me heretofore and will guile me hereafter, Im genoral I will say I have long labered for the amelioration land elevation of the great mous of mankind. My opinions as to the ‘nature of popular government have long been cherished; and, constituted as I am, jt is now # too late in life for moe to change them, I believe thas government was made for man, and/uot man for govern- Fiment, (Applause.) This struggle of the people againse the most gigantic rebellion che world ever eaw, has de monstrated that the attachment of the people totheir government is the strongest national defence human @ wisdom can devise. (Applause.) £0 long as each mam s iuterfering with the escape from Sherman of Johnston, should the latter design attempting to get bis army out of counts of the Assassination and Death of President Lin coln, aud of the Murderous Assault on Secretary accompanied with the interesting incidents atten the mournful event, and of the deep indignation of the people throughout the country, with des-riptions of the supposed assassins, Agents, in order to be supplied, are requested to seud in their orders before twelve o'clock to-night, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Weexty Herat must be handed 1m before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers aud gentlemen throughout the - country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the Wxexcy Herap will thus be seen by a large portion of the active aud energetic people of the United Slates, any very urgent necessity for it; but all the smaller vessels of that fleet, sent up the Riopy q Grande, and acting in concert with troops posted at proper points on shore, could perform an ex- cellent service at the present time in the cap- ture of these fugitives. Will not the govern- ment see to it that no traitor escapes whom it| is in any way possible to capture? 1WASHINGTON. Important Speech of Presi- dent Johpson. North Carolina, q which the life of Mr. Lincoln was taken. Inj one sense the people were completely pros- fj trated by it’ There was a generous apprecia-' three pieces of artillery, large quantities of ammunition, 9 cotton, machinery and military stores of much value, Bi the loss of that good and noble patriot be py some of which had been gent thither from Mobile forf4 more than ever severely felt. * i ter and position, and the'weight of care endured safety, j The moving of the funeral cortége, in the Fi for the country with such a gentle pati nee and The surrender of the different small rebel military Ej order decreed by the authorities, will be made [4 + bands in Kentucky, in accordance with the recent orderB4 known to the people by the tolling of bells 4 than personal affection and sympathy. In-# THE SITUATION. of Gencral Palmer, appears to be progressing. We havef§ and the booming of minute guns from the forts 4 ‘ensified in its effect by this fact, As this is the day on which the funeral of our Inte PY nts of the surrender of two or three more guerilla and sbips-of-war. During the burial servicef4Mr. Lincoln’s death overwhelmed the peo- ple more, perhaps, than any other man’s lamented Prosident takes place in Washington, there) 67, ang it ig roported from Paducah that the rebeif at the capital similar devotional exercises will ; Hi be held in all the churches of every denomina-}gdeath ever will And yet, as the Secretary F ‘Eis Folicy Towards the Rebel: Foreshadowed. will be @ solemn observance of it anda q M tion throughout the country. Such is the re- ui justly phrases it, the wheels of the government quest of the acting Secretary of State, and fq were not stopped for a moment by this event. there is no doubt that wherever the order j Our country—our government—our causo—do fy Treason is a Crime and Traitors Shal! Suffer Its Penalty, Jhas been published it will be adopted. ‘Tho pqnot depend upon the life of any one man. Such fq B nocounts which we receive from other cities f]i8 the simple but grand lesson that the event fi &e &o &e . mp oy ie + sentod a number of vetoes, facluding those of the Father} zosted, officially directed the ¢ 4 Mathew al Abstinence Society of New York; the Youny Wasmvarox, April 18, 1865, state that in all of them the most extensive pre- fj emphasizes so terribly. Assassination; accepted td parations have been made for co-operation in Hin Europe as the “qualification” of govern-pY ’ Mon's Father Mathew Total Abstinence Mutual Benefitg{the solem® celebration. The same tidings Fjments, does not qualify ours. Assassination, i canine. OF CITIRENS OF ILLINOIN'TO THE ERESIDENT— ety, No. 1; also the bill to increase the fares on street ¥reach us from every town, village and hamlet. that in the Old World changes dynasties and THEIR ADDRESS AND MR, JONNSON’S REYLY. ie, Albany and Reneselaer counties. r ‘The popular. feeling has everywhere been mani-f4 systems with such facility that the murderer's f4 In accordanco with resolutions passed at a meeting of (ISCELLANEOUS NEWS. feated, as it is in Now York, by “the trappings Fidagger has in reality the power ascribed by {qj citizens of Illinois, held at the National Hotel yester ic “ day afternoon, the citizens of that State assembled at 1 Lo) the 9th of| 5 us * rsia, from Queenstown on thi and the suits of wo.” Houses, churches, pub-f {fable to the will or wand of Merlin, has, in theP wiisrais Hotel proparatory to paying their respects tof ¢| alc sy euapen Fl Goueral Lyon has elso surrendered, sion of business throughout the loyal Staten, Several o page tho Governors have issued proclamatious recommending PY ay.5.conato met yesterday, and, after adopting a reso- ective Commonwealths F9 jution that each member and officer of the Senate wear secular pursuits and # the usual badge of mourning on the leftarm for the space fof thirty days, adjourned until noon to-day, In the Assembly the Governor's private eecretary pre- to the people of their re abstention from their ordinary the toiling of the church vells from noon till on Ejintorests, 90 long as the public heart turns um ithe right direction, and the people understand and p- Bd preciute the theory of our government and love liberty, our constitution will be transmitted unimpaired. If the bitime ever comes whon the poople shull fail, the goverm- ment will fail, and wo shall cease to be one of the nations Yof tho earth. After having preserved our form of free government, and shown its power to maintain ite existence = through =the -—_viclssie tudes of nearly @ century, it may be thas o'clock in the afternoon. Governor Finton, of this State, has not, as was su observance of to-day, instead of to-morrow, sion of the appropriate solernities in consideration of national affliction; but there will no doubt be a pro general suspension of business throughout the Tho steamship» State. In ts city and the surrounding cities seaell! ip dite at Gite port tovths Her uews is throo days a § Ky an Wid “chabual an Rasulal oman ani p vy: lic building’ and institutions are in every placepy New bee only oe pes he bers a life of RG his Excellency Androw Johnson, President of the United iy i ae cay 16 A ee aha x * OHS aa ae eee draped in mourning. Such a general and spon-f4@ man. e may be the best beloved man offilstates, Governor Oglesby, accompaniod by Sonator pf this last ordeal of intestine strife te prove that this go- the law courts and other public institutions, and Henrietta Tiest, a German girl, charged with stealing Pp B- & ip! PAiidiatsn: General’ tahdon' "My tayciey exsonatorer Z Maenrent' ‘will iol: periiel SGia internal’ wealiness; Bia nation, and so the blow may startle the peo- tiple terribly; but oven then it will not stagger fathe government, Here is a point in which a free government certainly has no equal. 2 i F e additional urrests ware made by the police yos- gf kind that is known in our history. Not only does the murder of Mr. Lincoln not of persons charged with using treasonablo lan-¢4 In paying this last sad tribute of affection and fq stop the wheels of the government or stagger * cuage while speaking of the recent murder of President #4 justice to the memory of good Abraham Lin-f4the nation in its purposgs, but it will cestainly Histimulate the nation to more vigorous pur- Aiately after the death of the Pr sidont was announced. f¥ Lincoln, Of these m man named Movre, alias Count eoln, the Amorican people are weaving wreaths There will also be religious services, commencing about ff Cheesbrough, was locked up, in default of one thousand Hl 6 Roaoe for themselves .and their posterity fy poses. Sumter and the Stars and Stripes that waved above it were fired upon, and the nation ff you this delegation of the citizens of Illinols, represent- i ing almost every portion of the State, Wo ‘are drawn Ml qollars bail; Martin Boker, @ German, was required to give one thousand dollars ball for future decent be-AGreen are the laurels and the willows that havior, and Thomas J, Adams and William C. Carnley {ql droop around the tomb of the “Father of the#grose as one man; for every one felt how deeply 4 together by the mournful events of the past few days to F country,” planted there by the hands of faithfulgand how really that flag was the type of thepg sive wine jolts cupranson 2 the teste ue to tho nation, and that a blow aimed at that was' 3 were cach sent to Blackwell's Island for six months. A fire occurred yesterday forenoon in the building 276%) men who have long since been gathered to Bgearth, by appropriate and respectful coremonies, We aimed at the country, and at all that every onef thought it not inappropriate before we should separate, held dear. Four years of the flercest concelv-| ‘trom Mr. Meyer Strause, of East Fifty-third street, fgtaneous concurrence in public sentiment has various articles, valucd at eix hundred dollurs, andg#never before been seen, and it is therefore cer- Ernest Argentier, suspected of stealing three hundred tain that the funeral will be the most extensive dollars from his roommate, at No. 11 Walker street, Werf ye ar terday locked up in the Tombs for trial. pjand ‘universally observed of any event of the Piwik stand to defend itself against all foes and punish Py treason. (Applause.) In the dealings of an inscrutable fj Providence, and by the operation of the constitution, fa I have been thrown unexpectedly into this position, My M7 past life—expecially my course during the present ua- holy rebellion—is before you. I have no principle to retract, I defy any one to point to any of my Public acts at variance with the fixed principles M which have guided me through life. I have no profes sions to offer. Professions and promises would be worth. nothing at thistime, No one can foresce the circum- stances that will hereafter arise. Had any man gifted with prescience, four years ago, uttered and written dowm in advance the events of this period, the story woulé have seemed more marvellous than anything in the i ‘‘Arabian Nights." 1 shall not attempt to anticipate the future. As events occur, and it becomes necessary fer me to act, I shall dispose of each as it arises, deferring ‘any declaration or message until it can be written paras graph by paragraph in the light of events as they trans- 4 sa Browning, Hon. D. S. Phillips, General J. T. Farnes. BY worth, Hon. Isaac N, Arnold, Hon. John Wilson, General Gamble, Colonel Joun 8. Loomis, Colonel James H. B] Bowen, Governor Pickering, of Oregon; General Julius: Bl White, Hon. J. M. Hanna, Major 8. Wait, Major W. C. fj Carroll, Major P. Flynn, and a large concourse of citizens fs Farepaired to the room of President Johnson, in the Trea- sury Building. Governor Oglesby presented the deloga- tion and addressed the President as follows:— B4 Mx. Presixxt—I take much pleasure in presenting to the majority of commercial and other business places will be closed, the bells will be tolled between twelve and one o'clock, and minute guns will be fired. It is unnecessary to say thaj all the streets will be raped in the emblems of mourning; for they have worn these tokens of the people's grief since imme- noon, in nearly all the churches of this city and Brooklyn. ; It ig expected that the remains of President Lincoln will arrive in this clty at ten o'clock on next Monday South street, extendis through to Water street, and aiyaing Pe dl pena Reais. acaauee Se orf heir rest; but their gratcful sons, for all com- von in this and hour, to soak this interview with your BR . xeellency, that, while the bleeding heart ing out last Sunday took place, It ivestimated that property tofd ‘ng time, shall with their tears “keep his me- eee ete ane cet of car teloveniaa the value of one million dollars was destroyed by yes-Eqmory green.” So, too, with the great successor terday’s fre, Hof Washington, whose bones are to be carried A coroner's inquest was held. yesterday over the body fio their burial to-day. The sorrow, the lamen-_ of John Page, who died from the effects of a blow in-F¥ 4, 1+ d the heartfelt grief of th i le this flicted on his head with a cart rung by an unknown man, sain ene meee pene on the afternoon of the 28th ult., at the corner of West fg day will be but the auspicious forerunner of the and Liberty streets. The murderer bas not been ™ distinctive honor which history, in its impartial arrested, course, hereafter Will accord to his memory.’ ‘Yo Joos of life from the late inundation at Sore! and He has been true and faithful to the republic in tho adjucent islands, in Canada East, was much greaterHily .. igo, tet all good men and true unite in| tha L's . Fully fife carried dias aia alae pinnae, baniesedbshabd lamenting and honoring him in his death. away by the flood and drowned, At I'Isle Dupas three! houses were knocked down by the force of the wind and A terrible bailer explosion occurred at Wheeling, West ¥ ‘6 sf Yirgiuia, on the 17th inst,, by which thirtoon or four. The pernicious doctrine of State rights has: teen persons were injured, lx of them dangerously. been at the bottom of most of the evils which The stock market was weak and irregular yesterday; M@have afflicted this country. Always the doc-| ; ES it otis repre rps ty ay were trine of a minority, It has never been used ex- rm. opened at 1463 and cl 4 Very Intle business was done yesterday in any depart: —ECe>* °° pd saber of ee nation act —_ ment, and it was evident that scarcely anything will be—gs°rity of our people have cor ntly distrusted Fl done this week, at amy rate before Friday, as ’Changew@it, and could never be induced to accept it as) Bi will be olused to-day and to-morrow, im respect to the legitimate. Behind it the internal ‘enemies of A late Ivresident, and tn observance of Thursday as ® fast this government have found a convenient am-| day. On ‘Change the flour market was dull yesterday, nd b:. a 0c. lower.’ Wheat was nominally 20, » s,qemscede, from which to direct their attacks, Traitors of a!l sorts have employed it as a ser-| lower. Corn and oats were quict but steady. The pork market opened heavy and lower, but closed more activefgd Viceable pretext. Like General Lee, they have and firin. Beef wa: # with a imited inquiry. Freights were dull, and whiskey Man excuse for their disloyalty to the govern- pina terete Soe ment. In this war the doctrine of State rights With o more liberal supply and a less active demand the bee cattlo market ruled heavy this week, andj™bas been fully developed, and we see that it pricee were covsiderably lower—say 2c. a 3c. perg™means secession, insurrection and assassination. The market opened 1c lower, but fell of The State rights doctrine originated in the forenoon, on thelr way from Washington to the place of interment at Springfleld, Illinois. Early yesterday morning a man supposed to be Sur ratt, the person who attempted to take the lives of Sec- retary Seward and his sons, was arrested near Washing ton, identified by members of Mr. Seward’s family and splaced in close confinement. On Monday last Booth, the alleged assassin of the President, anda considerable party of his fellow con- spirators, were believed to be concealed in St. Marys county, Maryland. Our latest Washington despatches fj State that Booth’s capture was last night hourly ex. preted, ° A woll known resident of Baltimore, who confesses his’ Complicity with the plotters against the life of the Presi- ent, but whose name is for the present withheld, was arrested in that city yesterday and locked up for further! examination. Secretary of State Seward sand Assistant Secretary Frederick Seward wore both considered to be still gradu- ally improving yesterday. The latter had somewhat re- gained consciousness. ¥ Presidont Johnson was yesterday waited upon by Governor Oglesby und other prominent citizens of Minois. In response toan address from these gentle- men the new President spoke at considerable length, and in a most forcible and able manner. ‘While he stated ho did not consider it proper to define President, the idol of our Btite ‘and the pride of the whole country, we may earnestly express to you, thet that blow, and have shown to what an extent; living head of this nation, our deliberate, full and the nation will assert its dignity and vindivate peeine pe geal in gli the one be its honor. But now the rebellion, actuated still fd mighty responsibility’ cpibninaiiaaeteaings a by the same spirit, has aimed at the nation an (im directing its affairs, In the miast of this sadness, through even more cruel blow. Then it struck only at, tote brn fate for our soauty.” Toe ies tnadion it our emblem, but now it has stricken down the ene een oe ne eine a atina Bar nmdee chosen man and true representative of the peo-fig our blessed constitution it does not delay nor for any great ple. It has stricken down the man ‘set up by the people, in whom was concentrated the dig- nity of the people and their will and their love. It has made the second assault upon the na- tion’s life, striking the people in the person of , that we may safely our destinies in your} their representative man. And just as Sumter ils, and, wo condealyeliov, fll and tlt stimulated the nation toa war that it would py Milly sxpreoun peep abot argent. prngions have chosen to avoid, so this second assault ’ nal must and will stimulate it to go on against the rebellion until it has exterminated the very spirit in which their damnable atrocities ‘origi- dencinanks sblawelite dtekdion: nate. Gxxrixurn—d have listened with profound enfotion to Tax Porrry or Tax Hovr.—The calamity pq the Xind words you have addreased to me. The visit of} this large delogation to speak to me, through you, sir, which has befallen the natton in the death of ‘these words of encouragement, I had notantictpated. Ia the President has doveloped an amount off the midst of the saddening circumstances which surround ire. ly Tho members of the delegation were then severally 4 introduced to the President by Governor Oglesby. ‘ ANOTHER SPEECH FROM THE PRESIDENT. Directly after the Iilinoisans had retired the President. received a large number of delegates of the Christian K Commission, temporarily rosiding !» Washington. The H Rev. Mr. Borden, of Albany, delivered a brief but ele quent and impressive address, saying that they recog. mized him ascalied, in the Providence of God, tehave rule over the nation; that in the past public services of the President they had their foundation of hope for the future; and now, as they looked om the face of hie illustrious predecessor, whose sad death had moved the country to tears, they believed that God had sem him, as Moses, to lead the prople and his successor, a@ Joshua, to give them a land of promise; that in the ad- ministration of justice mercy would foliow the success lof our arms; their prayer was for an enduring peace and jail the blessings of free government, ‘The President replied that such were his feelings, In of your whole pest it, famillar to all, the splender of your recent #1 jand assassination and restore the to the uttermost bounds of the republic, assure that noblo State which we represent, and, we believo the people of the United States, have heretofore, do now and shall continue to endorse, President Johnson replied as follows:— in a variety of ways, and none perhaps morej™ °*Pression of the confidenco of individuals, and still more of an influential body like that before me, repre- remarkable than in the effusion of poetio senti- ment which it hasevoked. We have received a! Ee ccrinsersasd ota, fie ae Gears perp, large number of poems—and many of them of 2B respond. In an hour like this, of deepest sorrow, were! really high order of merit—on the subject of the BJ it possible to embody in words the feeling of my bosom, President’s death, and no doubt other journals could not command my lips to utter them. have been similarly favored; but, of course,—™ Perhaps the best reply I could make, and the] H with the immense prossuro of news claiming#g°™® ™O%* ‘eeTly appropriste to your Kind sesu- j . rances of confidence, would be to receive them our space it is impossible to publish them. in silence, (Sensation) The throbbings of my heart, since the sad catastrophe which hax appalled us, cannot be reduced to words; and oppressed as I am with the new and groat responsibility which has devolved upon me, and saddened with grief, I can with difficulty, respond to you at all. But I cannot permit such ex- in the people, and looked on the government as based upon the principles of human rights. This nation's mis» ‘sion is not yet completed. It is in our hands, Whea we look at the country’s condition it gives a complete com- tradiction to the assumption of our enomivs In the midst of treason and rebellion we find that we will triumph at last. Although we have had a aivil war which has covered the Jand with gloom, and while the catire country was rejoicing over the triumph of the strag- glé, there has been an assasination the most atrocious Zand diabolical the world Las ever witnessed. While the nation was jubilant the Chief Magistrate was strickem down like a star from its sphere. An suterregnum, @ hiatus, was created in the government, In France, for H instance, under similar circumstances, there would have been scenes of anarchy. But not so here, whore the Bi government is: founded on justice and right, We have A developed the great truth that it is strong enough to pre- serve ite existence while'suppressing all public disorders within our widely extended limita Government is made HA for the people, and not the people for the government, by Ho was not eectarian; he claimed @ chavity coextensive with the human family, He believed, in the language PM of another, that religion ig an arch of promise, spanning 2 humanity, with its ends resting on the horizon, Religion PM is'seen in its acts more than its profession, and good: deeds nover fail to receive recognition. Ho then re- ; A peated bis sontiments rogarding iis future political Bro 8) 2908 tee, © SmocnEeey <0 Ss ee great duty firmly, stoadfastly—(applause)—if not with die; similar to those addressed to the Ll!inols delega ~ used it to justify nullification, Again crushed lamented President, which we have not ac-Biiho signal ability exhibited by iny predecessor, which is MM tion, saying the time had come when intelligent men J ha SAPS Bi knowledged in any other form than in these Rd still fresh in our sorrowing minds. Need I repeat that ff like those before him should exert thelr moral influence lout by Jackson, the doctrine came back to the} . i - Z A brief lines, It occurs to us that a movement ofp] no heart feels more sensibly than mine this greet nMli-- Blin erecting a stan‘ard by which everybo'y should be reqifire him to spenk to a compli-fNorth, and was seized upon by the opponents this kind is a little premature at the present tion. In what IT eay on this occasion I shall induice inf nary popular call; but the extraor-{3of the Fugitive Slave law. In course of time it : wo be true, on Jet bed plenty of tive to transact all all dinary” circumstances ‘of his promotion, [iftravotled South again, and gradually developed Moen) tere is ne doubt That w grit’ Bhar beheld « notable event¥jn the history of mankind. Fl with the punlabarent which he deserves Dusiness with Johnston and reach Macon too s Mavowed as the individual opinion of a few men Ic. a 116. lower, and slow of sale, Hogs were highcr, fq WhO tried to prevent the adoption of the pre- varying from 12c. to 133¢c. @ 14¢., but closed heavy. fg sent constitution. These expressions of indi-| flight opposition, The rebel General Johnston re-f¥ The total receipts were 5,130 beeves, 124 cows, 1,076 fq vidual opinion, which did not receive the en. t veuis, 7,679 sheep and lambs, and 2,000 bogs dorsement of the majority, nevertheless became SGT EO A part of the proceedings of the conventions in the Frecords, and thus a mere opinion was raised 1 that the military authori ji ie Fito the dignity of a doctrine. The constitution ‘The people of the United States, in theirf#being adopied, the State rights doctrine was A«reat bereavement, are anxious to hear thef¥next asserted in the Kentucky resolutions of ti ; voice of their new President. They expect toB41798. Jefferson took hold of it; but, as we A beor from him, and it is eminently appropriate #J lave previously proven, he owed his election tt that he should gratify their wishes, in view of ; to a combination of causes with which this doc- My our recent glorious victories, which have lite-P¥trine bad little or nothing to do. So soon as rally extinguished the rebellion, arfd in view fhe was elected he forgot ali about State rights, Fi fof the heavy national calamity, which has sof¥which were next heard © in the treasonable, blue-light, Hartford Couvention. That move- Goop Fretmo oy Tae British RestpeNts.— The British residents of this city held a meeting yesterday on the subject of the late national ® calamity, at which © most proper and com- ; pressions of the confidence reposed in me by the people mendable feeling was exhibited. The action Th :, yacy without acknowledgment, To an individual Hko of those gentlemen, as well as that of the fH myself, who has never claimed much, but who has, it is authorities and people of the British provinces, true, received from a generous people many marks of] Mon this lamentable occasion will do much (‘rest and honor for a long timo, an occasion like this, towards" softening the acerbity of feeling Seis aarticla’ prennsigorad spt between this country and England and her} wie every pulsation of the popular heart finds an American dependencies which had grown up immediate answer in my own. By many men in of late under previously existing circumstances. J public life such occasions are often considered meroly formal, To me they arc real. Your words of counte- nance and encouragement sink deep in my heart, and were I even a coward I could not but gathor FY from them strength to carry out my convictions of right, ‘Thus feeling, 1 shall enter upon the discharge of my treated northwestwardly with his forces to. Hills- Doro, at which place he was when last heard from. Ho bad not : Bhenman; but we are info ties in Washington have intell b] The Extinction of the Rebellion—A Proe-| on from President Johnson Ex- \ surrendered to General Bi two commanders was to take place at Chapel Hil ‘on last Saturday, when it wash for the surrender would be pertected. There was a report in Nowbern on last Saturday that eral Kilpatrick's cavalry had captured Mr. Vance, the rebel Governor of North Curofina, while he wae on Nationa Monuaent to Mr. Lrxcotn.—We i have received a voluntary contribution from one of our citizens for the purpose of inaugu- his way to General erai Jobnet rman, conveying an offer of Gen 1 that sub. n togive up the State. It was sa Poquent to t position being made by Jolnston he then transferred from the extremisie of Hart- ford to the extremists of South Carolina, who was visited by Jeff, Davie, under whose direction it was dic to the memory of the dead, the duties de- Fivolving upon our living President, with his tablishment in the White Honse, Qvuntermanded. It was well understood that Jeff. had been recently with Johnston's army, In yesterday's Hxnanp we gave 4 Zavgnual: report that the rebel Prest Gent wns at Macon, Georgia, on tho 10th inst. This tay national monument, in the erection of whichBlin the midst of the American people, where every ij The sentiments met the hearty reeponses of “Amen.” the whcle country will participate, will beg ‘Tho gentlemen were then severally introduced to the raised at the appropriate time, and in an President, and all expreaeed themselves highly gratified h With the interview. peeves “eee MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL GRANT. Gonoral Grant is to loave hore om Friday for Burling ton, N. J. He will probably go next week to Richmond, which he has not yet visited, ‘The President and Cabinet M are anxious be sould remain a8 much as possible th Washington, in order that they may Lave his advice im Cabinet meotiugs at this imporsant crisis of national affairs. ‘THR PRESIDENTS PRIVATE SECRETARY, Colonel Browning, of this city, who for the last four and finally into assassination. South Carolina seceded from the Union upon the State rights doctrines. Tho ether wave ‘all hearts, has been assassinated; and when wo ' this crime to its cause, when woe remember tho source whence tho aseussin drew his inspiration, and then look at the result, wo stand yet more astonished at this most barbarous, most diabolical areas. j ae to the fesuing of his proclamation at Dax the 6ib inst. The rebels have foatroyed their navy yard at Halifas Fj rate and formal mode of co:munication with ® Fihe people at large than a conventional re- XN. ©., on the Rownoke river, bein, Fuorrive Trarrons ano THe Rio Graxoe.— that they have po further use for am and a gunboat in process of building shared in th who are now in our hands or paroled as pri soners of war. Many more will doubtless be in the same position soon; and fo these mili- A good man, honored and revered, the beloved and the wand property were stolen by the seceders hope of the pooplo, springs not alone from a solitary f 4upen the plea of Stato rights. By virtue fof the same doctrine Fort Sumter wash fired upon and civil war inaugurated. When national troops were sent to repossess these forts and places, the State rights doc- will at an early day issue a formal proclama- tion to the country, embracing the glorious work accomplished ia the armed subjugation of the rveltion, and the great work which has fallgp into his hands of the reconstruction off the rebellious States, In this connection an destruction, General Candy'e official reports of the capture by the forces under his comroand, on the 8th and Oth inet., of the formidable rebel de Bpanich Fort and its dependencies and the works sur founding the town of Blakeley, aj Banaw, At tho time of closing these ating thom hore, back to that aourcs which is the apring of all our woes. Noone can say that if the perpetrator gy or five years bad been the confidential secretary of Prest- of this fiendish deed be arresied he should not undergogy dent Johnson, ie stil acting as lis private secretary, xtremoat penalty the law knows for crime; none wil! Hon. Preston King, of New York, Is perhaps the moet orey should interpote, But is he-alone guilty? fA intimate frieud and adviser of the Prosident at the ‘present time, and is ove of his old Senatorial friends, ences of the city of surrendered in good faith, it would be un- unjust and impolitio not to ‘extend the! amnesty contemplated by Mr. Lincoln. But the political leaders of the rebellion must, pear in this mornin patches Geweral msoldiers. Thousands of lives have since been {ween the clomency which will be Canby had not ye: taken possession of the city of Mo Pi but aie have toh oftdal ind uoomemeo™™ be the deluded helpless masses of sacrificed, and the Southerners have only had be hunted down to the last man. Pity BR ome indication of my future policy, Onéthing I will say, RATURN OF GANELAL TOWNSEND AND PARTY FROM | ‘siditdlcliaibetestsly ie cvongasien by bie teoops oh th the Sout » Tescued from the service of treason, pibe same flimsy justification. Yet when the§{ towards them is cruclty towards the country. S overy ora teachos ita lesson. The times we live In are FORT SUMTER. 8 s nd the responsible traitora by whom they havefM#seceded States formed a confederacy andj Extermifation is the only policy that is just orP¥not without instruction. The American People most bof General E. D Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General B2th that, thus coalirming (he reports of the samo pub By yoy ve cruelly Lorti ced, impoverished and be-PMadopted a constitution which recognized thisf¥safe. Davis, bis Cabinet, the rebel Congressiy tush they do not alrendy forl—that treason ie apget tife United States; James G, Nicolay, late private Ushed ia the Hensu on Monday and yesterday, nth aved, w suld do a world of good in ridding] doctrine, they soon discovered that it was im-Bgand Senate, all civil officers, all offcers offgcTime. and must be punished—(applaase)—that the gov. ane rd Bing pe gpg tire ao esl eevee e Byanish Fort over five hundred prisoners aud thirty gU0°F4 te Jand of the rebel leaders and in bringing M practicable, and Jeff. Davis was among the firstfy State governments and the editors and other fy sane aoa cre song De celved of the cenit of tho Provident was re " wore captured, and in the Blakeley fori.feations twenty: FY their repentant followers to a graceful and cor-M4to trample it under foot. Nevortheloss, the ff political aspirants, who “fired the Southern When we turn to tho criminal code, atid examine tho cat-f4 ported to them at Hampton Roads, It appeared se Sour hundred prisoners and twenty guns. dial submission to the soverei¢n authority offfrobel press and the rebel sympathizers at the heart” and inflamed the people to their rash Pf aloguo of crimos, we there find amon iaid down as a at they placed little con. We publish this morning oMctal and nnoMeini detail«it the United § North did not desert it, In the name off] tronson, must bo pursucd relentlessly. It isfy crime, with Its wppropriate penalty. Wo find there theft pechiar Devine ary Wj and robbery and murder given as crimes; aud there, too, PA we find the Inst and highest of erimes—treason. (Ap. gered under this heavy blow, His very intimate ria tions with Mr. Lincoln danng the last four years und re A gulted in a strong personal attachment, aud the {ous te him is that of his best friend. THE NEW CHARGE D'AFFAINES OF PERT. Sofor Don Jose Antonio Garcia yesterday prosonted bis credentials to the Acting Seorotarg of Stato and waa receiveda # the Chargé d’Ayatve of the republic of Pere (o the United Blates, Of most important work in the closing operations ogeinst | = ‘The time has fully come for such a proclama-fgState rights they opposed the war, clamored the reveltion recently effected fn Virginia and North Car M4 tion, With the capiiula:ion and dissolution of gg against centralization, denounced President Lin- Glin by the national forces under General Stoneman. MM Loe’s army, the capture, dispersion or surren-Bjcoin a8 a despot,and invoked the dagger of} é General Stoneman left Knoxville, Tenn, on the 10th Ader of all the remaining armed forces of Jeff. fgDrutus. Their invocations were not unan- gyvored. The assassin appo ved and performed ff have been from the start, and will be till they Of last month, moving through Southwestern Vir- 4 Davis became simply # question of a few days ' Pinia end into Nortiwestrn North Carolina, destroying or weeks, Now, with ihe forces of Dick Taylor fis bloody evork, And as the doctrine of State ® have “felt the halter draw.” They have organ- 4 ized all tho evil, and forced the farmers to pay pil along his route vridger and many miles of railroad, and Forrest, in the heart of Alobama, broken ff rights had already proved to be secession and a insurrection, it was singularly appropriate that Mand the soldiers to fivbt. Let tho revenge fal! il almost unknown, The people gust understand that itis Mihe biackest of crimes, and “will he surely obed. EE (Appinuse.) 1 make this aVusion not to excite thew Mulready oxasperstod feslings of the public, but to point out the principles of publ» justice which should gulde our action at this varticviar juncure, aud which accord le are perjured, conscious, intentional traitors—f Qepturing many revel: and ‘\rvo quantities of suovles up and scattered to the winda: wiih Mobile, the