The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1865, Page 4

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The reporters for the pre wer: the room of tho court mow ei caved in the ttal of the Persons accused of cone’.ior 1 the great Washing- ton assassination plot, und So are (ierefore enabled to Jhy before the public tus wog & considerable Portion of the proene Reverdy Johnson Bppeared as counaol tir » tratl, whee objection ‘was made to his acting ay General Barris, oue of the membrr: he Hou. ourt; but 8 objec tion was finally withdre« u earnest argument on both sides, The cou: po seeion Ul a late our, and duriag its si! Noor, the pre- sent proprietor of the bh ecly cuoupted by the Barratt family and othe: od in regard to this house wnd the stornge ix \ « me ntendes to facilitate the escape of the assase:~ Details of the suriend General Dick Taylor to General Cauir noced in the Hirnaxo, are furnished i. 1. r Now Or- Jeans correspondent bro: , ip Merriman, which arrived here ye which are Substantially those on v i ‘ w Grant, were finally agreed to oi ueile, Ala- Dama, a little town thir!» york of Mobile, General Taylor haggied over the conditions, endeavouring t¢ ¥ inething more fa ‘vorable, but he was finaly on) at eral Canby was infioxibie. +, as Gen vnauded all the rebel troops in Alabama, ¥ « Lousiana, end their surrender cow jution of the Febel military organizativn y east of the Micaissippi river. If an order recently irs: troupe by the rebel Gouoral Kirby Smith, coun Mississippi Department, may be relivci cng his real convictions and purpores, | etl ly convinced Rhat tho rebellion ts ended, » oh quite eoady, as re- ports have represented, to + rhs aemy. This order is dated at Shiv ana, on the Bist of April, and m knowledging Bhat “great dimsters uae eukn the confedoracy In the abunion) u cod and gur- | is determined Lem to stand “possess the reader of Lee, be informs |: 0 te fo stil continue the stru, « ‘ firmly by him, and tells ihews )at Uw means of long resisting 1 « vie = masa Rmeetings have also rect cop bad at Shreve- port and mt = Marsha . 9 manufac- pare an onthusiasm amore ‘he ere of the ‘Prans-Misates'pp! ermy for ene of the rar, at which the speakers, 1 sem! barbaric language, which seomed to |) ~ case for elo (quence, endeavored to convince thelr ra that Phe mythical “confederacy 10) hed very bright prospects, and that there were We bes! of reasons why the contest should ©) (» given ap. One © desperate strugsle, are given by one of the Humauo - ' General Sheridan's cavalry passed through Richmond om Wednesday last, on theur way to Washington, _. One of the incidents of the removal by goverment of trade restrictions tn the Southern States la the recogel- on by Presideat Jebason of on ltaliam Consul te the city of Richmond, Business at that piace bas sireedy expertonced @ great revival, but nothing compared to what will yet take place, in consequence of the restore lon of the old commercial relations Steamers now rua regularly te Richmond fram Washingtoa end Baltimore, and o@ all their trips they aro crowded with passeogers from the North, © The counsel for Mra, Perrine, cherged with aitling the rebels during thelr invasion of Maryland last summer, yesterday entered a plea denying the juriadicticn over her case of the court martial before which she Is being tried. This was overruled, aftér which the court ad- Jjourned till Monday, whem the argument of counsel will commence. Thomas Martin, the guerilla, who was respited last week by order of the War Department, suffered the ox- treme penalty of the law st Cincinnati oa Thursday, the 11th inst. “At noon on that day a battalion of the Thirty- seventh Iowa infantry quiotly left Kelton barracks, and proceeded to grounds near the county stone quarry, above Deer Creek Valloy. Atthe same time the prisoner, ac- companied by a clergyman, entered a close carriage at McLean barracks, and, guarded by twenty-eight men, proceeded to the same spot. At the command “] Iv aim, fire,” a discharge of eight muskets, as with ene report, waa heard, and the victim fcll backward, expir- ing almost instantly and without a groan. Martin was a Kentuckian, who bad imbrued his hands im blood, and been guilty of many equally heinous crimes. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Attorney General Speed has rendered an omcial op'nion regarding the appointment of assistant agsysors of internal revenue, in which he decides that tho appoint- ing power does not belong to the assessors of Congres- sional districts, but to the President of the United States, In the matter of Herman Gerkins’ estate Surrovats Tucker yesterday decided that real estate waa not linble for the payment of pecuniary legacies given by a will, unless the intent to charge them upon it was clear and certain. The personal property being insufficient, and the real estate not charged, the Ivgacics abate propor. uonally im amount, and the widow retains her Hfe tn- terest im the real estate, given her in lieu of dower. Cooper Institute was crowded yesterday afternoon by an assomblage composed principally of Indies and the public school scholars, to attend an exhibition gottcn up for the amusement of the children by the National T»m- perance Alliance. The youthful congrecation was enter- talned with sights of various natural curtosittes, spseches by several gentiomen, aud some good vocal and instru- mental music, A meeting of the “Travellers’ Club’’ was held last evening at the Fifth avenuc Hotel to further the objects of the association, which is d:sizned to bring traveliors ‘and pione-rs tozother in social intercourse. Last evening Mr. Charles Brown, of No. 207 West Seventeenth street, committed suicide by taking lauda- num, Antoine Adrian, a young soldier, and an honorably discharged member of the Thirteenth New York cavalry, committed suicide carly yesterday morning by shooting himeolf in the head with a pistol, in the yard of a lodg- ing house in Centre street, whore he had spent the pre- vions night. William fwith and Frank Long were yeaterday com- mitted to the Tombs for trial, charyed with having set fire to some bales of straw at the foot of Harrison street. The fire was discoverod and extinguished before doing any considerable damage. / ‘The stock market was unsettled and lower yesterday. Governmonta were dull. Gold was quiet and cloz 180 In the afternoon, The closing price in the o was the same, There was but little change in the commercial status on Saturday. But little business was done, and the general tendency was to lower rates. Cofton was lower. On ‘Chango the flour market was quiet, and 6c. a 1@c, lower. Wheat was dull and droop- ing, while cora was dull and unsettled. Oats were Ie. ac. higher, The pork market was less active aad lower. Beef was steady, while lard was dull and scarce- ly so firm, Freights continue dull. Whiskey was steady. v td Capture of Joff. Davis and StaffThe Captives En Route to Washington, The important intelligence is furnished us‘ by Secreiary Stanton of the capture of the rebel chiet Jeff. Davis. The camp of the fugitive rebels at Irwinsville, Irwin county, Georgia, about seventy-five miles southeast of Macon, was surprised on the morning of Wed- nesday last, by the Fourth Michigan cavalry, Colonel Pritchard, belonging to Gen Wilson’s command, and Jeff. himself, his family; Reagan, his Postmaster General ; Colonel Harrison, his private secretary, and Colonels Jolnson, Morris, Lubbick, Hathaway and others of his staff were all captured. General Wilson informs the War Department that the captives would arrive at Macon yes- torday, and world be forwarded thence to Washington under a strong guard without delay. General Breckinridge, rebel Secretary of War, was in company with Jef. Davis during the beginning of the flight, and it was supposed that he still adhered to tho fortunes of the fugi- tive arch-traitor; but no allusion to eithor Breckinridge, or Benjamin, Secretary of State, is made by General Wilson in giving the list of the important personages seized, nor is there | any reference to the valuable hoards of stolen specie which it has been reported Jeff. car- ried with him. But a fuller account is promized soon, when we shall probably learn all about these and other matters connected with the affair. There is sufficient gratification for the present in the knowledge that the over- throw of the huge plot to destroy the nation has been fittingly consummated in the capture NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1886. tion by the New ¥ Press. During the past week the entire press of New York, with: the exception of the Henao, hds combined {n @ moat.vie'ent attack upon the administration of President Jobason. Extremes have met in this congenial business. The cop- perhead journals, like the World, News and Ze press, have united with the niggerbead journals, like the Tribune, Times and Post ; and even the and the Commercial Advertiser, have joined in the hue and ory. Each of these papers has attempted to outclamor all the restin rabid de- Bunclations of the President’s advisers. Some even aseail the President bimself, and threaten him with the block, like King Charles the First. No extravagance of language, no vigor of invective, no coarseness of epithet is spared, Day after day the crusade increases in fury,and every article is more abusive than its prede- cessors. I The pretext for this violent opposition is the military trial now in progress at Washington. ‘We aay the pretext, because it really is nothing more. There is nothing so strange and start- ling in the fact that those cénepirators who as- sassinsted Mr. Lincoln, tried to assassinate Mr. Seward in his sick bed, and designed to assas- sinate all the other members of the government, including President Johnson and General Grant, should now be tried before a military tribunal. cuse the attacks made upon President Johnson and Secretary Stanton, who are acting under the advice of Judge Advocate General Holt, upon whom the reeponsibility of the military trial rests. Beall and Kennedy belonged to the same gang of conspirators as the wretches now on trial at Washington. The St Albans raid pared in Canada and approved at Richmond, like the assaasination scheme which they pre- ceded and foreshadowed. Yet Beall and Ken- nedy were tried, convicted and executed as their crimes deserved without any of this outery from the copperhead and niggerhead press. They were tried by military tribunals, and yet there was no clamor sbout despotism, and no threats of beheading the President in conse- quence. The conspirators at Washington are not mere murderers. They are hired assassins ; they are guerillas, Unquestionably they ought to be tried like Beall and Kennedy, and hung like Beall and Kennedy. The’fact that the very papers which raise such dismal howls over this trial made no noise whatever over the trial of other conspirators proves the hypocrisy of their present violence, and shows that the whole thing is a pretext. What, then, is the real reason of all this froth and fury? We find it in the recent visit of an agent of the Blair family to this city, and in his consultations with the managers of the copper- head and niggerhead journals, beginning with Barlow, of the World, and ending with the in- dicted publisher of the Post. The Binir family are determined to control President Johnson, There is nothing in this fact to justify or ex- | and the plot to burn down New York were pre- i and in orderto accomplish this they want to clear out his Cabinet, They pay Secretary Stanton the compliment of regarding him as the strongest man in the Cabinet, and so attack him first, although they know that Holt, not Stanton, has charge of the trial of the con- spirators. But, besides being used by the Blairs, the newspapers rage and rave from pri- vate motives of theirown. The Triune seems to be conducted lately by inmates of the Bloom- ingdale Asylum. The Times is too imbecile to know what it means, or to. meta anything in- telligently. The Post, which is under indict- ment, through its publisher, for defrauding the government, is,of course, opposed to trials in general, and hopes to help iteelf in its own par- ticular trial by aiding the Blairs to manage President Johnson, with a single eye, perhaps, toa pardon ora postponement. The copper- head papers, on the other hand, sare more guilty than we can allow ourselres believe the Tribune, Times and Post. They seem de- termined to glorify Booth and make a martyr ofhim. Just as they laughed at the diabolical attempt to burn down New York city, so they now try to argue away the assassination. They would almost persuade us that President Lin- coln was not murdered; that we did not see his body borne sadly through the streets; that Booth was not guilty of the crime for which he died. If we are to believe them, President Johnson and Secretary Stanton are the really guilty parties and the real con- spirators, Thus do these copperhead organs glorify an assassin, defame the administration and endeavor to inaugurai® that era of assassi- nation which the Times predicted. Had we not grown accustomed to the utter- ances of the rebel press of the North daring the war, the efforts of the journals of this city to defend President Lincoln’s murderers before the grass is green upon his grave would be even more shooking. But bad na these utter- ances have been heretofore, they are now per- fectly outrageous. The copperhoad papers actaally come before the public as the volunteer counsel of conspirators and assassins, They discredit the explicit statement of President Johnson that Jeff. Davis and the rebel agents in Canada are accomplices in Booth’s guilt Upon what grounds do they thus acouse the President of delibernte false- hood? The accnsation against the rebel leaders is not at all inconsistent with thelr pre- vious exploits, We know that Jeff. Davis wil- fully connived at the starvation of our pri- soners and at the employment of infernal machines in war; and we know that Sanders, Tucker and Thompson used the sham peace of the man who occupied the position of head of the infamous conspiracy. It would now be a matter of some considers- ble interest to know what has }ccome of the rebel Vice President, Alexander Li. Stephens, of Georgia. He bas taken no part in public affairs since the termination of the conference of the rebels with President Lincoln and Seere- ‘pf the orators said that every ore ms be forced into Pho army, and another ind. » glowing pano- gytic upon Booth, the assass: Lineola,” whieh wos heartily applauded. Amory ‘he rebel military pote billties present at tho Shire: spur! gathering were Geoerals Kirby Smith, Price aud !.knor Its reported that Ro M.T. Ponter, of Virginia, ox- Benator of Joi. Davie’ confedersuy ow well asof the ‘United States, and one of the reve! commissioners In the Blampton Roads peace eonferenve o! laut winter, has been arrested by the military auiborities way pinoed im cvafine- sent at Richmond. 4 the Second and Firth corps, 4 16 Potomac, aré Bo aticump.d on the Fotomee jive spore Washing- two Intoresting inctdenta in + sepbal homeward merch of these veterans from Richmond, over the Bi vie ground which has bopn «y ufiep wolgtened with tary Seward, in Hampton Roads, last winter, in which Stephens was one of the com missioners. Immediately after the failure of the rebels to gain. their object in the negotiations on that occasion, Mr. Stephens retired to his own State, and, notwithstanding the boasting st atements of the rebel press at the time that he had gone thither to fire the Georgian heart, he has ever since kept bis lips closed in public, and remained in seclusion and quict’ He no doubt then plalaly foresaw the inevitable and fast approaching downtall of the “ gonfederaas” negotiations, by the aid of that balfwitted meddler, Colorado Jewett, as a device to con- ceal their movements while they organized plots to.rob banks, throw railroad trains off the track, commit murder and destroy women and children by fire. Monsters capable of such atrocities as these are qnite capable of plan- ning an assassination, and, therefore, without examining the direct evidence in possession of the government, we believe that Davis, San- ders, Tucker and Thompson are guilty. Their instruments, now in custody at Washington, will only precede them to the gallows. Those journals, whether cop; rhead or niggerhead, whigh interpose, for pol tical or worse inotives, to save the criminals from punishment will be rewarded with the execrations of all honest men. The violent opposition to President Johnson’s administration is avowedly a protest against despotism; but as despotism never allows such protests, the absurdity of this ruse fs at once apparent. The siorm stirred up by the Blairs to get control of President Johnson is maintained by the 7ribune, Times and Post | for political reasons, and by the World, News authors antiolpate. — The War cf Opiaion in Europe~The ‘The fret Napoleon, musing tn Its exile at Bt. Helena over the tuture political aepests of tbe ‘This was raid in something of the same vein as that which inspired Mr. Canning to anticipate a great coming struggle, which he declared would be the war of opinion. To both thege person- ages It ceemed inevitable that despotism and freedom were yet to contend for s final of mankind, and that the conflict of principles was not much longer to be avoided in the course of human events, And until within a very short period ft bas seomed as if the overthrow of liberal principles was approaching. Everywhere reaction was vigorously attempted by the ruling Powers of the Old World, whether'temporal or spiritual, whether constitutional governments or des- potic. On the continent of Europe we have observed, within a few years past, constant repression of popular rights. In Prussia, in Austria, in France the reins of authority have been drawn'more and more tightly, the liberty of individual sction has been checked, freedom of speech curtailed, and the doctrines of sbso- lntism ‘been maintained with more’ than their ancient boldness, Even in England, always boasting of ita trial by jury and its habeas corpus, all efforts at substantial reform have proved utterly unavailing, and the great masses of the people are not permitted to have any voice in their own government, or place any check on the increasing power of the aristocracy, supported by the toil and sweat.of their disfranchised’ Jabor. While in Burope, in spite of the movement in Italy, every- thing was thus growing darker for the cause of liberty, the. rebellion broke out in our own country, in full sympathy with the:rétro- .grade movements abroad; and the doctrines put forth in the manifestoes of Jefferson Davis } and his coadjators, worthy only of the dark ages, and utterly unworthy of Americans, were received by foreign rulers with approbation, and received as conclusive evidence .that here, too, there were to be Cossacks as well as in Europe. Their sympathy was expressed without dis- guise. It the principlesfor which the rebel leaders contended could be successtully main- tained; if castes and orders were to be created and maintained; if all poor mon were only fit to be slaves, whether white or black; if labor was } to bea badge of inferiority and degradation; it fraternity and equality were to be forever ignored—then, the despotiams of the Old World perceived they were finding their most power- fal allies in the New. White this contest on our own soil was in doubt, singular enough, not only did the two prineipal Powers of Europe, as far as they dared, throw the weight of their wishes and the help of their connivance into the scale of the rebellion, but in other quarters there were demonsirations which, if not aimed at us directly, were a blow at the fundamental prin- ciples which had hitherto enshrined themselves in the United States, The Pope’s encyclical letter, addressed to the faithful all over the world, was received here with all due formality, as in Austria itself, and if it had been authori- tative and absolute in its influence it would have drawn off an immense body of people from the further support of our free institu- tutions, And in another quarter, under similar impulses, we have just discovered the spirit of the Cossack in an encyclical letter from the head of the Greek Church, from the Russian god, the Czar, as he is called, by his undoubt- ing followers. , The text of this miesive has not yet reached us, but from the extracts we give from it in another place it will be scen that it is no more nor less than to keep the bodies and thesouls of the Russians in perpetual bondage. But we believe the world will refuse to be Cossack after all, The war we have waged for the last four years has been a holy war for humanity, for truth, justice, equity and progress; it has been signully aided by the great Disposer of events, who seems to have headed our batta- lions. The cause of freedom is finally success- ful. 1t can no more be endangered. It will never more be put in fear by “domestic treason or foreign levy.” On the contrary, we may expect to see its brightening rays penetrating tho gloom of Europe and irradiating its down- cast millions with new hope. More than this: we may expect to see the revival of an inquir- ing spirit there, which shall shake its despotic governments to their centres. Our bistory, our inatitutions, our policy, our love of liberty and our great and successful war in maintaining them against all odds may now be profitably studied beyond the Atlantic, and their study will regencrate the world. , THE Twenty Trovsanp Huxory Frencumen ms Mexico—Seme years ago three hungry Frenchmen in this city organized a campaign against the Opera—a sort of musicul republic It was their desire to bredk€t up and break it down and sit on ite ruins, as Marius said he sat on the ruins of Carthage—not that their grand tet-to was for the sake of a settee, but that they wanted, like real hungry Frenchmen, to signal- ize their existence by the destruction of some- thing beautifal, to raise their Gallic voloes and crow! But the Opera had a Napoleonic de- fender. He was like the First Napoleon, as de- scribed by Kellerman “no bigger than your boot ;” but he had the soul of a very giant queller. His name, it was Ulmann. He en- gaged the three hungry Frenchmen mognif- cently. He led off with his left and jobbed them with his right Heharpooned them. He fianked them, stormed their lines, cut off the supply of frogs, captured their base, pounded them to jelly, added some Attic salt, and ate them for supper. He burned them in the musical market places, reduced them to fine powder, and scattered themn to the four or more winds of heaven. For many years there was little heard on this continent of any bangry Frenchmen; but after @ while Louis Napoleon sent twenty thousand of them to Mexico to destroy ® republic less harmonious than the other. There they are now; but they find it @ difficult business, and, if we may judge from the cries of the hungry French organ in this olty, they are so much frightened thet they call for the assistance af eighty thousand more bungry Frenchmen. What reason is there that we should aympzthize with these poor devils In their distress! Con- sider how outrageous and indapent their con- That was in the time of our trouble. Now that the time of their trouble bas come the lhungty Frenchmen cry out for mercy. Shall we yield itt Not one jot, We will carry eut greater gusto. “It shall go herd but we will better their example.” We will do tiem one favor in giving this good advice: get out of Mexico, with» dignity {f you can, but get out of it! emigrants—don’t waste yourselves. Don’t dhrow your lives away by the hasty adoption of bad counsels. If you want to go to Mexico take care to go in good shape—in a good organization—and not under the auspices or the scallywags who always seize these oppor- tunities to become fnmous at the expense of other men’s lives, without danger to their own. WASHINGTON. ; Wasmmvaros, May 18, 1568. CONDITION OF SECRETARY AND FREDERICK SEWARD, Secretary Seward is still rapidity tmproving. Ho has Tegained the use of his arm, and writes with caso, al- though the arm itself is still stiff! On account of the in- strument designed to keep the fractured Jaw in place, talking is avoided as much as possible, and he generally writes what he desires to communicate. He expocts to resume in full the duties of the State Depar:ment within a fow days. The wounds of Mr. Frederick Seward ero still subject to hamorrhage from time to time, but the at- tending physicians hope that, with quiet and care, the artery may be closed and his uliimate recovery insured, Mrs. Seward, the wife of the Secretary, has besn mate quite ill by mental anxicty and unremitting attention to hor husband and son. ARRIVAL OF THE ARMY OF TH POTOMAG WITHIN THE DEFENCES OF WASHINGTON, The Army of the Potomac has all reeched the defences south of the Potomac, and General BMeade's headquarters aro at Fort ‘Albany, on the road frour the Long Bridge to Bailey's Cross Roads, The Second corps, Major General | Humphreys, and the Fifth corps, Major General Griffin, will encamp in the vicinity of the railrond leading from Falls’ Church to Leesburg, although the permanent camping grounds have not been fixed upon SHRBMAN’S ARMY. Major General Sherman’s headquarters are estab! shed at Alexandela, and his army is to-day marching from Fredericksburg to that place, where it will probably go into camp outside the fortifications, where wood and ‘wator may be most convenient. SHERIDAN’S CAVALBY CORPS. General Sheridan's cavalry corps will be here on Tues- day or Wednesday. All these troops will encamp withim the limits of this department, although the Army of the Potomac, General Sherman's army and the cavalry corps wilt retain their present organizations and transact their military business throngh tho regular official channels as before. ‘All the officérs of General Sheridan's. corps at present on detached duty have been ordered to report without delay at Alexandria, fos duty with the corpa, GENERAL HOWARD FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF TOR FRERDMAN’S BUREAU. Major General Olin ©, Howard is spoken of as tho Superintendent of the Frecdman’s Bureau. SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT AT FREDERICKSBURG. A number of loyal Virginians have united in the erec- tion of a soldiers’ monument on the battle fleld of Fred- ericksburg. It is to bea simple shaft of murble, thirty feet in height, with appropriate designs and inscriptions, THE TRIAL OF MRS, PERRINE. Mra. Perrine, charged with aasiating the rebel cavalry in plendering the train between Baltimore and Phila- delphia, duriug the rebel’ invasion Inst summer, set up & plea to-day, through her counsel, Mr. Corwin, that the military commission kas no right to try nor jurisdiction over her caso. Now that peace is proclaimed, such cases as the one before the court are to be tried by the judicial courts of the United States, The court overruled the plea, and adjourned till Monday, when the argument will be commenced. REOPENING OF MOUNT VERNON TO VISITORS. * Arrangements are being made for reopening Mount Vernon to visitors, and it is expected that a steamor will be permitted by the War Departmeft te make excursion. trips to tho spot in a few days, IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE APPORNEY GENERAL— THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT ASSESSOR. Attorney General Speed, having duly considered the important ard interesting quostions suggested by the Commisstoner of Internal Revenue touching the recent legislation of Congress with reference to the office of Assistant Aseessor of Internal Revenue, aud which. were submitted to him by Secretary McCulloch, exproases his opinion for the reasons:— Firt-—That the provisions of the act of 1865 vesting the power of appointing assistant asscesérs im the re- Spective aesoasors is clearly unconstitutional, Seond—T President is by the consiitation vert- ed with aithor.ty to appoint asziaiant assessors under the oxisting circumstances, When Congress creates such oitices and omits to provide for sppetalencate to them, or provides iu an unconstitutional way for such appoint- ments, the officers are, within the meaning of the const!- tution, officers of the United States whove appointments are not theresa otherwise provided for, and the power of appointing such officers devolves om the President. Assintant asgeseors under the views bere expressed are within that class. The provision in the act of 1865 touching those officers being nuliand yord, and the act of 1864, to the extent just montioued, being ¥ there is in effect no existing legisiation which rs On any public auihority the power of appointing those ofM- cers. The consttutional power of the President is ia this emergency called into etercise. He alone has au- thority to commission assistant assessors. Thi-d—As to whetver it is the duty of the President to ‘exercise the power of appointment in the case of these officers the attorney Genoral eays, if the President should de of the opinion that he possesses the power constitu- tionally to make the appolntments, it is clearly his duty to exercise that pow: He says, in conelusior 11 will be observed, let me remark, that the action of the President, in appointing to the office in question, will not preclude or aifect judicial inquiry and decision on the that have eae ren if wo persons should claim the au y of exercising in Qny assessment district the office of asvistant one by the appointment of the President and bear ne of the arseassor—the question would then be peculiarly one for judicial determination whether ether and which of such persons be entitied to exercise the office, But I apprehend that ptactically no such contestation will arise. J} understand that heretofore the assessors have virtually exercised the power of appoint ing thelr assistants, and it is not improbable the President, if be commissions the officers, will ado) substantially the same course as that pursued under act of 1804 by the Secretary of the Treasury. INTERNAL REVENUE LICENSE FOR BELLING GOODS. The Commissionor of Internal Revenue has derided that 20 license can be required for taking orders for goods or merchandise at other places than where euch mercban- dise is stor wided a Hoonse is takem by the dealer concerning of such merchandise whenever nego- ‘ated, ITALIAN VICR CONSUL FOR RICHMOND. The President has recognized David Von Groning as Vice Consul of Italy at Richmond. RET, New Yous, May ]3, 1865 } 1 beg to call your attention to the fact which was publistied ‘in your paper of Sunday, the 7th {net., on the charge of having appropriated two trunks of clothing, claimed to bag belonged to a man named e Osvics No. 19 Broay my arrest, James Robervon, and to fact that, acter an exatm- harge bere tho Graud Jury, 1 wes hon. om arrest. | have commenced legal roceedings, and invend to follow the roatter ap until Fonte haa beon he] for os Kar weer aes 6 honorable wAndive whic now in 0 communjtr, “ekona® 1, GUTRBIE. ination of the orably discba: And on the other band we would say to | ‘Secretary Stam ‘on to Major General Pim and Postmaster Gene. ral Captured. Their Camp Surprised at Irwineville, Georgia, on Wednesday Last, by Wilson’s Cavalry. ——e" > The Pr.\soners En Route for Washing- iugt On Under a Strong Guard, Reported Capture of Ex-Senator R. M- T. Alunter, of Virginia, &e., —— &e, &. Wasmatos, May 13, Mujor Genorat Dix, We 7 York:— { ‘Tho following despaa ch; Just received from Generel ‘Witson; announces the va ‘Tprise and capture of Jeffirsca Davis and his staf, by Cok onel Pritchard and the Micht gan: Cavalry, on the mesa ning of the 10th instast, a Trwinevalle, in Irwin county, Georgia. B DWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of Wan MAJOR GENERAL wn ‘50N'S DESPATCH. Miem |, Ga, May 12—11 AM Lientrvant Cenoral U. S$. Gram * and Hon, Secrsrasy o War, Washinton, RP; €.:— Ihave the honor to report thay at daylight of the lech instant, Colone! Pritchard, corvmma ding Foarth Micbigas cavalry, captured Jeff Davis amd family, with Regaa, Postmaster General; Colonel Narrise 0, Private Secretary; Colonel Johnaon, Ald-de-Camp; Cob onel Morris, Colomed Lubbick, Lieutenant Hathaway, and@ others, Colore! Writchard surprised their @ amp at Irwinavilie, in Trwin county, Ga, seventy-five mila § southeast of this War L jetakig i } place. They will! be here to-morrow night,, and das warded unde strong guard without delay. I will send further particulars at omee, J. H, WILSON, Brevet Major Genemll’ Reported Capture ef Ex-Senator R. MM. Hunter, of Virginia. ‘Wasmyatox, May 18, 1868, It is reported from Richmond that R;.M. T. Hunter bes+ been arrested’ near his residence in Virginia, Capture of a Guertiin Supposed te be- Quantrell, Loursviiis, May 13, 1868, Aguerilla supposed to be Quantreil, of the Lawrenes massacre notoriety, was wounded by Terrell’s scouts, near Taylorsville, on Wednesday, and lodged in the mi MEETING AT THE FIFTH: AVENUE HOTEL—OBJEOR OF THE ASSOCTATION—APPOINTMENT OF 4 COM> MITTEE TO PREPARE & PLAN OF ORGANIRA- TION, ETC. ‘Tho latest dovelopmont of metropolitan life is the fas mation of a Travellers’ Club, having for its object the bringing together 1n social and intellectual intercourse- travelters, ptoncors and other men of progressive and em terprising views, of whom large numbers reside, tempe varily ut least, in this city. It is about twoyears sinew the ides of forming this club-wae firet started and abeut eighteen months rince tt took shape, Last evening a number of distinguished cosmopolitems ‘mot in one of the rooms of the Fifth Avenue Hotei, fer the purpore of effecting a permanent organization, Sena tor McDougal and Colonel Ray, owner of Catillina Istas@, wore present, The meeting was called to-order by Mr. Eowamp Dusan, who stated the objet ot the gathering, remart ing tbat white the fashionable and lit*rary clubs in Mew York filled an appropriata, piace, yot the design of the few gentlemen who the Travellers’ Club wae te take & broader view of our country, and advocate more comprehensive measures for the development of the re sources of the country, ee any organi in exts'ence. Prominent gentlemon who were inten ested in the promotion of thix institution, whom was Mr. Watts Sherman, had e'ther left the count or were dead; but thoxe who remained were desirous effecting a permanent organization of the club at thie time, Mr, Dunbar alluded to the auspicious termination of the war, previous to which the resources of the = 7 try, to use a fronvier expression, were “ bide the notions of petty politicians and petty ee | Some years ago the Act ations of afew millions canse @ crash in commercial circles, and he (the ever could account fur the commercial. crashes occurred periodically in the eountry. Before the war we had a circulation of one hendred and seventy millions i= per money, white now there were twelve hundred mil ions in circulation. The design of the cosmopolites club would be to aid in the devclopment of the immense resoure’s of the country, especially in te Rocky Moum- tains and the whole country west of the Missiasippl. to organize the Club under the general incorporation laws of the State of New bas hg & cap'tal of one hundred thousand dollars. This som shall be appropriated to the of and the erection of a building for y orary certificate of stovk, which shail be considered as ball beve ail we rights and privileges of life members, ave all the rights mei without further dues. Annual subscribers shall be ade mitied, under such regatations as the Club gi B ie proposed that the eutranee fee shail be fi ‘ou and the anneal subscription fifty dollars Clay, tbough mainly in the interest of travellers and ‘will not be restricted to such, but its benedts shall available to other xentlemen whose tastes and pursuits may imduce them to join the association. The instite tion shail be conducted after the plan and have all the social atiracnions of our first class clubs. In addition te its elegant soc.al altractions it is to partment, the bigh mission of which. will be to avail self of tbe superior facilities of the gather ana disseminate valnable information on all sub b priorpry eapecially to the development of the great jereats of the Amencan continent. Valuable informa. tion obtained from members, visitors and other sources of the Club shall be pubiished under its auspices at com venient ond desirable perivds. The club house shal! contain a cabinet of specimens, @ Worary and a reading room. Already there are gentiemen who.are wilting to donate. fee mate “ valuable ee eee and pictures, when the Clu! rmanently orga Some aaneunten took. place in refereace to the d of the or ee from which It appeared that the 5 ahould be cosmopollian, and open to traveilers, explores®, ‘and adventurers from all parts of the world. Senator Mi Dovast and Mr, Rrcaann MoConsicK, Seer, tary of the State of Arizona, made speeches, poin out the advent of such on organization as the they met to establish. It was stated that a number ef gentlemen bad subscribed a thousand dolfars cach te wards the purchase of @ suiiable budkiing. Mr. Groacs Squren, the distinguished traveller, a@ vooated the hiring of a building for the present, an@ Offered to present @ valuable collection of cudositiem wh ch cort Rito eight thousand dollars. Colonel WinLramson made asimilar generous offer, state ing that since 1540 he travelled all through Sor and gathered choice specrmens in that locality. J. C. Clarke was appointed: hee formal ono; and all) thet waar Organization was the aj to prepare a plas for pt Beut organization, a1 report at ap adjourned to be held at tbe Fame place next Satorday evening, ————$_$__—————— Fasven Tamatre—M, Juignet annoances for ‘te morrow (Mon@ay) ovening a grand performanoy a@ the Academy of Music, He will produce on thie occasion the bistorical drama, La‘ude ow Trente one ds Captiva. lt ie one of the most interesting pieces ti whole range of the Freach dramatic reper wre TI story 16 well known to every stadent of tuge, Ahe hero, was soljected to a long py Madame de Pompadour, and the ples turne apon bie adventures arf ha:rbreadth escapes, Ae the piece (a somewhat corm'siicated, the manager bas had o rtrume of ub printed, Ar distribution at the Acadomp, 1t wit) be seen from th4s that the drama is estvemed & more than usually ‘Ateresting and important one, and that M, Juignet ‘4 determined to prosént, t in such @ manner ae will “Acure the approbation of bia samerous patrons —s