The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1865, Page 4

pmiammeiid NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFrICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, NO. 137 Volume XXX... — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Soox Saiwaue— Lave Tse WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Tus Geer Lavy oF Paxanvon. seat ,OWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Couvsen Bawn— Gaur Seave—Nowas Witt Torn im Our, LLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—To Marre on Noro Manky—Ict ON Parte Francais. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Taxing It On— Biserine Beauty. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lysian—Canin Bor— Pappy Mines. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Fancnon, BARNUW’S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Two Liviwa Acu- eators—Fat Wonan—Giantess, Tau Paorust—Boons Fim. Open Day and Evening. BRYANTS* MINSTRELS, Mechanlos’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Etmoriaw Sones, Dances, buacesques, &C.—Brave Cauret Bac. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, Sit Broadway.—Eraiorias 08 Ol ON Tam Basix, Boas, Dances, 40.—PetTRoweun, HOOLEY’S MINSTRELS, 199 and_ 201 Bowery.—Soxas, Dances, Durixsques, &c. P,P. P. 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THE SITUATION. ‘The rebel ram Stonewall arrived at Havana from Nas- eau on the morning of the 11th inst., and it is said that sh» bad commenced taking on board men and ammuni- tion from the Owl and other rebel blockade runners lying m Havana harbor, and would put to sea from there under the former commander of the pirate Flori- da, Captain John Newland MaMtt, In yostorday’s He- RALD was noticed the arrival at Havana on the 9th inst., from Galveston, of the steamer Owl and Captain Maffltt. Tho Stonowall, ag stated in last} Saturday’s Heraco, reached Nassau on the 6th inst., having sailed from Ten- eriffe on the Ist of April At Nassau it was given out that she would safl thence direct for Galyes- ton on the evening of the 7th. But it appears that her commander, Captain Page, concluded to stop at Havana, where the Stonewall still remained on Saturday lest, It ‘was expected that she would sail thence on Sunday or Monday, Immodiately after her arrival the American Consul at Havane despatched with the intelligence tho steamship Columbia to Key West, where that yessel arrived on the following morning. The rebel ram's appearance in Havana harbor croated great excitement, and every desired courtcsy was extended to her by the Spanish officers, numbers of whom wont on board of hor to pay official visits to Captain Page and his subordinates. It was reported that our Consul had demanded of the Consul General of Cuba the surrender of the Stonewall, and received @ vory.curt refusal. The United States naval steamers Powhatan, Juniata and Aries arrived at Havana on last Saturday, and it was rumored that six Monitors wore on thoir way thither from Mobile and Key ‘Weat, It was understood that tho Stonewall had not @ostroyed any vessels between Teneriffo and Havana, Gerieral Canby, in a despatch to tho War Department, dated at Now Orloans on Monday last, says the Stonewall put to sea from Havana on tho 11th inst., and that he had warned all commanders on the coast. Our Havana despatches to the 13th show that General Canby bad beea misin‘ormed regarding the ram's departure. An important order has been issuod from the War De- pariment, announcing that, as all the rebel troops east of the Mississippi have now been regularly surrendered, all persons found in arms against the United States in any portion of the country east of that river after the 1st of June proximo will be regarded as guerillas and pun- ished with death, The testimony taken yesterday before the court mar- tial trying the assassination conspirators was, as on the provious days, very important and Interesting, a number of new witnesses being examined. The evidence reiated principally to the pursuit of Booth and Harold, their en- tertainment and surgical aid at Dr, Mudd’s house, and their final discovery in Garrott’s bara and capture, Cap- tain Jett, formorly of the rebel army, testified that when he met with Booth and Harold during their flight, the latter said, “Wo are the assassins,” and, pointing to Booth, remarked, “Yonder is the man who killed the President.” The Adjutant General of the United States has boon directed to commence mustering out of service all un- employed general, fold and siaif officers whose services are no longer required, and orders were also yesterday issued ffom the War Office for the discharge of fifty thousand employes of the Quartermaster's Department. There will bea grand review on Tuesday and Wedues- day next, in the vicinity of Washington, of two hitndred thousand troops, comprising portions of the Army of tho Potomac, Sherman's army, the Army of the James and Sheridan's cavalry. The rolls of the officers and enlisted men of Genera Johnston's rebel army paroled in North Carolina have been received atthe War Department, in Washington, and comprise @ Niet of thirty-seven thousand names. This, of courte, does not inclucie those rebel soldiers who deserted their organization on learning of their surren. dor to General Sherman, without waiting for tho form of paroling. One of our Washington correspondents states that facts bave recently beea vevelopod which fasten the re- Sponsibility for the inbuman tregiment of national sel. lors in Southern prisons directly on Jeff, Davis and the members of bis government, and that the system of low starvation was decided upon ia a Cabinet meeting at Richmond, the declared dosizn boing to weaken tho Union armies by rendering these unfortunate men for- ever uns for service after being exchanged. Mow that tho rebellion is at an end, diMeulties aro sacensarily to beencovntered in reorganizing society and restoring civil government in the lately revollions States, after the terrible social confusion and material ox- bauetion they bave experienced aod tho radical Changes which the war has brought about. Theso aim. culties are already presenting themselves to the people Of those States One of the Herat correspoudente whiting from Genoral Kilvatrick's cavalry cainp, near Teridgton, N. ©. says that the planters of the @urrounding country aro greatly troubled regarding fan anticipated scarcity of bands to perform the necessary agricultural labor, and derign visiting the North to procure laborers, They say that the negroes, now that they are free, are unreliable, and that the poor ‘Whites of the State are wo lazy to work, The ereat mass of the landholders, even those who were but recently the bitterest rebels, are represented as being thoroughly dis- gustod with Stato righte dogmaa, secession and their Southera confederacy experiment, and ready and willing to be for the future good citizens if the goverament will allow them to rotain their lands, agsist them in procur- ing white laborers, and afford them protection, gfhe dis- solution of th? rebel armies throw loose upon North Carolina, a3 well as othor States, thousands of disor- derly characters, who roamed through the country, plundering from friends and foes fudiscriminatoly, aud causing a reign of terror and anarchy. This coudi- tion of things has been to a great extent terminated by the judicious distribution at varios points through the State of detachments of national troops. Tho railroad lines in North Carolina and Virginia have now been so far restored that there is continuous com- ‘munication from Morchead City, on the coast of the former State, northwestward to Newbern, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte and various other towns, ‘and thence northward, via Danville, Va., to Richmond. In the cascs of Horsey, Bowles and Milligan, con- demned to bo hung in Indiana on the 19th inst. for con- spiracy against the government, President Johnson hus commuted the sentence of the first namod to Imprison- ment for life, and has respited the latter two till the 2d of June, Secretary Stanton informs us that the War Department now reccives telegraphic messages from New Orleans in twenty-four hours, The people of Key West had quite @ fovor of excite. ment on last Friday over a rumor brought from Havana that Jeff, Davis and the rebel Governor Brown, of Geor- gla, had arrived at Matanzas, Cuba, from Galveston, in tho blockade runner Imogeno. According to our Havana despatches, it would appear that tbis erroneous impros- sion arose from the fact of there being among the Imo- gene’s passengers one Zack Davis, a Galveston pilot. Jeff., as our readers know, is inn tightor position. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Tho Grand Master of the Froo Masons in Italy has forwarded an address of condolence upon the murder of Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Marsh, United States representative at Turin, and an order has been issued to drape the Masonic lodge rooms throughout Italy in mourning during nine days. Tho weather of yesterday was a tolorably fale foretasto of summer. Tuesday was a quite warm day; but yester- day’s temperature requires a stronger adjective to quality it. Itwashot. The mercury at threo o'clock in the afternoon reacheil cighty-two degrees. This was its highest point, At sixin the morning it stood at sixty- two, at noon at soventy-cight, and at six in the ovening at eighty. e@ The Excise Commissioners moet again yesterday and granted six licenses on the usuajgoonditions. They then disoussed the question whether stamps arc necessary on the affidavits attached to each license, and referred the subject te the treasurer, ‘with directions to inquire of the authorities in Washington. Another meeting of the Commissioners will be b:ld to-day. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Iudgo Nelson, the case of the United States against Isaac Henderson, late Navy Agent at this port, charged with frauds en the Navy Departmont, was brought up. Do- fendant was represented by counsel, and, after consulta- tion betweon thom and the United States District Attor- ney, it was decided to bring up the case, on # motion to quash the indictment, on Tuesday next, May 23. Before Surrogate Tucker yesterday the trial of Miss Sarah :Davis’ will was fnished, and tho Surrogate do- cided to admit it to probate. The case of Daniel Ange- vine’s estate was then taken up. The petitioner, Ann Angevine, claims to have been married to the decedent and to be his widow, which claim is resisted by the brother of the deceased. Testimony was taken oa the 8 bject of the marringe. The Lazarus murder case, which was to havo been ar- gued yesterday in the Supremo Court, general term, was adjourned over until September, in consequence of an irregularity on the notice of motion served upon the pris- oner’s counsel. The Lamb and Ferrws cases were dis posed of in a similar manner, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Thomas Cohen, ind'cted for the homicide of Wm. A. Johnsea, in a lager beor saloon in Chatham street, on the 18th of January last, pleaded guilty to manslaughtor ia the fourth degree, and was remanded for sentence. The exorbitant price of all kinds of meat bas for some timo been agubject of much concern to the working classes, who will bo glad to learn that a heavy decline has taken plac) in the wholesale market, and the retail dealers must soon regulate their prices accordingly. Meat of all descriptions has fallon cleven cents a pound from the quotations of five wecks ago, and the supply of beef cattle Is considered ample to warrant a still fur- ther decl’ne. At @ special meeting of the Shipowners’ Association, held yesterday afternoon in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, some amendments to tho constitution of the society wero adopted, the principal of which was one Providing for an arbitration committee to settle all busi- ness questions arising among membors. Frank Burns, formerly a bartouder in a Chatham streot salcon, was arrested in this city yestorday on charge of having stolen four bundred dollars belonging to the Sisters of Charity fromthe Rev, Mr. Victor, a Catholic clergyman of West Hoboken, in whose care it was de- posited. Burns was taken to Hudson county, Now Jer- soy, for trial. Agnes Morrissey, of 163; Downing street, was yester- day committed to the Tombs on chargo of stealing one hundred and ninoty dollars from Margaret Kelly, ber next door neighbor. The bridge over Tioga river, near Painted Post, Steuben, county, in this State, on the Erie Railroad, broke down on the night of the 11th inst, whilo the express train from Buffalo was pasaing over, precipitating two passenger cars and the baggage car into the river, killing three per- fons and wounding several others, Tho train was run- ning slowly at tho tim*, or eight or ten well filled cars. would have gone into the chasm, On the afternoon of the 11th inst., as the westward mail train, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was ap- proaching Greenspring Run, the engine exploded, killing tho engincer and fireman. According to the City Inspector's report thero were 460 deaths in the olty during the week ending May 15— a decroase of 12.a8 compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 23 Jess than occurred during the corresponding week last year. Of the deaths which oc- curred during tho past week, 223 resulted from acute diseases, 203 from chronic diseases, and 34 from external causes, &c, There were 316 natives of the United States, 86 of Ireland, 9 of Eigland, 40 of Germany, 3 of Scot- land, and the balmece of various foreign countries. There ts a marked decrease in tho #emallpox mortality in the city, only thirteen deaths from that disease having occurred during last week, against twenty-oight fn the week provious. From typhus fever there wero only elx- ten deaths Jast weck. The stock market was lower yesterday morning, but recovered the decline at tho second board. Afterwasds it fell of again. Governments were heavy. Gold open?d and closed at 13034 at the day boards. Tho closing price at night was 130, Nortaery Parena in Tun Sovra.—Thero is a very lively demand in the Sonthern States for the Northern daily papers, as the people there, having been deprived of all news from the out- side world for four years, are tolerably eager ‘for it now. From one of the more enlightened and intelligent cities in the Séuthern Stales— Raleigh, N. C.—we have received a return of the Northern papers sold there—the number ofeach. It is as follows:— New York World Philadelphia Inq ~—Such is the daily eale on that Southera city. The bulk of it goes to the army, in which of course the Henatp fs preferred from ancient experience that it is the only paper that con- tains the news. But the fact that the people in what papers they do buy indicate the samo pre- ference ehows well enough that the people of the Old North State know whatagood newa- paper is. The Complicity of the Rebel Le: rsta the Assassination Conspiracy. The most important tople of the week is the trial of the assassination conspirators at Wash- ington, We presume that there is scarcely an intelligent person who does not attentively peruse the reports of the evidence which we give from day today. The prisoners are on trial, not only before the Washiagton court, but before the great jury of the people and before the whole civilized world. Those partisan papers which, from political or worse motives, asserted that the conspirators were being tried before a military tribunal because of the insufl- ciency of iho evidence egainst them, have been completely silenced. Already, althongh the trial is not half finished, enough testimony has been elicited to warrant the assumption of tho guilt of the partics accused by the government, and yet the strongest and most direct evidence for the prosecution is still in reserve. So soon as Jeff. Davis was captured the governmons opened the court to reporters, and yesterday we published the testimony previously sup- pressed. The record of the trial is therefore complete up to this date, and every man is at liberty to form his own opinion upon the facts sworn to by the witnesses. We believe that this opinion is quite unanimous, and that the guilt of the accused is conceded. It will bo well, however, for the public to suspend judg- ment until the last bit of evidence for the prose- cution and for the defence is before them. Upon one especially important point the tes- timony is extremely clear. When the Secretary of War announced that the conspiracy had been prepared in Canada and approved at Rich- mond, tho rebel organs at (he North were du- biows and indignant. Growing bolder as they repeated their doubts and discredits of the government charge, they finally denied that Jeff. Davis, Sanders and the rest of the Canada clique knew anything of the conspiracy or of the assassins, Sanders was particularly vir- tuous, and wrote a letter to assert that be had never seen Booth and never spoken with him. Thompson, Clay and Tucker took the same cue. Fortified with these statements, the rebel organs became more impudent than ever, and even denounced the grave charge of the government as @ contemptible hoax, invented to make Jeff. Davis and his agents obnoxious abroad. Now, how do these statements compare with the sworn testimony before the court? The con- spiracy is traced from its inception in the rebel camps, among a secret society of rebel officers, to its final and fatal culmination at Ford’s thea- tre. We find Booth offering another actor large amounts of money to join in the plot, and pro- mising him that it would be a lucrative specu- lation—a veritable oil well. When Booth got out of money he looked to Richmond for it, said that he must wait for advices from Rich- mond, and did not proceed with his bloody business until his friend, Surratt, arrived from Richmond with several hundred dollars in gold. Who supplied this money, if Jeff. Davis and the bogus Confederate government did not? Who rejoice over President Lincoln’s death except the rebel confederates in Texas, under Kirby Smith, who were ordered by Jeff. Davis not to surrender, and who are anxiously but vainly expecting his arrival among them? Tako the evidence of the rebel soldier in all its details; his talks with Booth; the conversation in the rebel camps and at the rebel capital; the seoret eervice society of which Booth was a member; the actions of Captain Beall, who be- Jonged to the eame society and was endorsed by Davis; the lettors found by Mra, Hudspeth ; the visit of Surratt to Richmond, and the large amounts of money furnished to Booth by the leaders in the plot, and certainly no moral doubt can exist of the complicity of Jeff. Davis and his associates. But if we turn to another portion of the testi- mony we discover that Jeff. Davis is again im- plicated through his agents in Canada, and that Sanders, Thompson, Clay and Tucker are con- cerned in the conspiracy. The lettersfound by Mrs. Hudspeth allude to the contemplated assas- sination and the choice of an assassin, and con- clude with the declaration that “Sanders is doing us no good in Canada.” The man who dropped these letters wore false whiskers, and is identi- fied as Booth from his general appearance and from the fact that Dx Mudd described Booth as wearing false whiskers when he came to have his leg set,on the night of the assassination. Mr. John Deveney testifies that he saw Sanders confidentially conversing with Booth at Mon- treal. He is qnite positive of this. Booth him- self pointed out Sanders to Mr. Deveney, and named him. Mr. Deveney therefore pro- nounces the assertion of Sanders that he “never caw Mr. Booth” ao deliberate lie, which it undoubtedly is, Now, if we consider the very close and intimate relations between Sandors, Clay, Thompson and Tucker, and the very intimate relationship between these worthies and Jeff. Davis, as his agents and am- baesadors, we see that complicity in the asaas- sination is traceable to Jeff. Davis by a chain of evidence entirely independent of that which we have established in the jpreceding para- graph. Unquestionably Jeff. Davis, who hoped to profit most by the death of President Lin- coln, Vice President Johnson, the Lieutenant General and the Secretaries of State and of War, was the head and front of the conspiracy to assassinate them. He supplied the assassing with money, and directed his Canada agents to co-operate with them, o8 with Beall and Kennedy. In this view Booth is stripped of the poor shreds of romance with which the rebel organs of this city have sought to invest bim. He simply murdéted for money. He was a hired aszassin, like Payne and Atzerott. The same inducements which he wneucceasfully offered to Chester, the actor, had been too strong for himself, He went into the affair as “a speculation,” regarding it and speaking of itas more lucrative than petroleum. In fact, he was only conspicuous in the conspiracy be- cause the horrible task of murdering the Presi- dent bad fallen to him by lot, and his conso- quence increased in proportion with the great neas of the person he was chosen {o asenesinate. For the real Jeadersin the plot we must look bebind the array of mere instruments. Look- ing there wo behold ihe rebel agents in Canada planning the assassination and Jeff, Davis aug- gesting and endorsing their schemes. It {9 no Jonger wonderful that the rebel chief should Jose all his pseudo dignity and don his wife's dresses when pursued. He knew that be wasa murderer, and su he resorted {o a murderer's weak devices lo eacape t Tus Lixcouy Moxeapst.—The dollar eub- ecription to build @ monument to the late Pre- sident still goes on very actively. The follow- ing receipt shows the return made by us to the Treasurer of sums received over the counter up to the 17th inet., all having been made in single dollar subscriptions: Orrice oF rae Coons Fine Ixsoravos Compas’, No. 161 Broapway, New Yor, May 17, 1965. Received from thoeditor of the Naw York ‘Honan, one hundred and tweaty.two dollars, peing the amount sub- scribed at the counter towards the one dollar Lincola monument, ‘TIM. G. CHURCHILL, Treasurer. Here is another receipt of money from the shipwrights, sent to us for the fund:— Received, New York, May 17, 1865, from Messrs. Stoclo & Fowler, ‘ehipwrights, No. 624. Water street, throvgh the New York Hexaco, Ofly dollars, being the amonat subscribed by theie employes toward the one dollar Lia- coln monument, TIM. G, CHURCHILL, Treasurer. Monuments are: to be erected in Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago and otber cities. The Rebel Rem Stonew ‘Kirby Smith ana Jeff, Davis. It appears that the rebel pirate Stonewall left Nassau on the 8th and reached Havana on the 11th inst., and that she was still in that port, watched by a few of our gunboats, on the 13th inst. Hence the report from General Canby that she had left Havana on the 11th inst, ostensibly for Galveston and a fight, ts incorrect. Is it not more probable-that when she sails from Havana that it will be ander instructions from Jeff. Davis, and with the ob- ject of picking him up along the Florida coast and thence convey bim to Texas? We are strengthened in this theory by the information from a South Carolina cor- respondent, on the line of fight pursued by Davis, that he hed sent forward instruc- tions to Kirby Smith, in Texas, to hold out and still maintain his struggle for the con- federacy. What object could Davis have in such instructions, except the object of joining Smith’s army, and using it to establish himself in Mexico, in being compelled to retreat from Texas? Moreover, when captured in his wife’s morning wrapper, Davis was pushing for the Florida coast, and, of course, with the-expecta- tion of a ship there to carry bim over to Cuba orto Texas, This is the most plausible theory that we can offer concerning this otherwise foolhardy cruise of the rebel ram Stonewall. As soon as information reaches her that Davis ,has been caught, and -that the whole game of rebellion is up, she witl in all probability return to Europe and be eold. She is now nothing but a pirate, out of the pale of all law, and if captured her commander would of course be hanged. If she is not im- mediately taken, then, by some of our cruisers, ' we shall probably not hear any more of the Stonewall at this side of the Atlantic. The Emancipation and Free Labor Qies- (tions in the South. One of our war correspondents in North Caro- lina farnishes us, from a learned gedtleman of the late Southern slavcholding aristocracy, avery gloomy view of their prospects under the new system about to be introduced among them of universal emancipation and froe labor. Thig philosopher of the exploded régime of “the ‘peouliar institution” is clearly of the opinion that the poor Southern whites are too lazy to work, and that the negroes can only be made to work under a master. He concludes, therefore, that the Southern planters will have to look to the North for their laborers, and he is about to come North himself on this mission, by way of a beginning. But this North Carolina philosopher takes only « superficial view ef his subject’ It is true that, under the Southern slavery system, the blacks, as a rule, have done as little work as possible, and have required the constant vigilance of an overseer, whip in hand, to keep them at it. But the reason for this is vory ob- vious. The slave had so much, from day to day and year to year, in food and clothing, wheth- er his day’s work wns more or less than the average of an able-bodied field hand. Besides, the constant danger mena- emg him of being sold and moved off from “the old place” without a moment's warning, took away from him almost every in- ducement, beyond the present day, to add to the comforts of his cabin. Nor had he any rights of property upon which he could rely with any feeling of security. Hence the lazy habits and pilfering propensities of the Southern blacks under the slavery system; for why should he labor when he could avoid it, when the result to him was all the same? And why, with the reputation of a rogue, should he hesitate to steal a chicken, a pig os a bag of corn, if “none of the white folks could spot him?” The poor whites of the South have also fallen into their lazy, shiftless habits from this insti- tution of slavery. Why should they be de- graded to the level of “niggers” by working, if they can contrive, by fair means or by foul, to vegetate from day to day? They are a degraded caste; but, taking their eve from the lordly slaveholder, they can still boast that in the right to work just when they choose they are “gq step above the niggers.” Hence the lazi- ness and degradation of the Southern poor whites. Slavery has bad its compensations to the negro; but to the Southern poor white it has been an unmitigated curse, though, in. his stupidity, he has been a stickler for the institu- tion because “it keeps down the niggers.” Now, with this institution of slavery re- moved, the Southern blacks will be encouraged to labor with the reward of its profits before them as their own, and with the knowledge that there is no master to support them if they neg- lect their work. The degradation, too, being removed from labor, and dignity and honor being imparted to it, as a test of individual merit, to whites and blacks, the poor whites of the South will no longer be ashamed to work for a living. The lordly planters themselves will cease to be ashamod of it; and for active work they have had a good training from the necessities of labor imposed upon them by this terrible war. We dare say that the planters of the rebellious States and their families—espe- cially their high-spirited, self-sacrificing, but atrangely infaiuated women—bave done more hard work during the last four years than in all their lives before. It shows that where there iso will there is a way; and under this great revolution of Southern emancipation tho way will bo found for engaging Southern whites and blacks in active industry, frem the will which the removal of slavery will inspire. Tho war, moreover, has made room for a Jarge infusion of Nortbern industry, and thus emigra- tion will pour in, and will soon leaven the whole lump of Southern society under the new system of free \abor. Revors or ran Escare or Jerr. Davis.—Wo publish in another column a letter atating that the Ameriean Consul at Matanzas had sent a stenmer to Key West announcing to the authori- ties ibere that Jeff. Davis, Governor Brown, of Georgia, and some members of Dayis’ Cabinet, had arrived at Matanzas, We know, however, NEW YORK ‘HERALD, ‘THURSDAY, ‘MEY 18," 1865- that this ts 9 mistake as far as Davis and Brown are concerned, for they are both now im our bands; but it is mot at all improbable thas eome members of the rebel Cabinet have euc- eceded in reaching that point, en route for Havana; and hence the confusion as to the presence of Davis there. THE NATIONAL LOAN. Poiaveceath, May 17, 1865. Jay Cooke reports the eubseriptions to-day to the eeven-thirty loan at $1,561,400. Tho largest single West- ern subscriptions were $200,000 from the First National Bank of Pittsburg; $50,000 from the Second National Bank of Cleveland. Tho largest Eastern subscriptions were from the First National Bamk of New Yerk, $500,000; J. W. Guert, Baltimore, $100,000; A. Yan Allen, cashier, Albany, $50,000. ‘Tho individual sub- scriptions by working men acd women were 1,093. The best opinion in Onancial circles here today is that money Is to be easy, Tho uncertainty that ecems to exist in the minda of capitalists in the Bastern cities as to the course of the money market does not oxist here, nor is any apprehension felt that the operations of the Treasury Department, growing out of the immense tales of the goven-thirty loan and the consequent drafts ppon the deposit banka, particularly in New York, will cause any stringency whatever, It is reasoned amoung, the financiers here that the distribution of the Joan ia eyery town, city and village in the Middle, Eastern and ‘Western States bas drawn out from the pockets and: secret hoards of the people, at the lowest calculation, one bundred million dollars in national bank and United States notes; that these notes, of course, have been for- |, warded to the moncy centres; that in the York banks alone there are over sixty-six million dollars of legal tenders and national bank notes, and in every other city thero is a stmilar plethora; that so long as the seven- thirty loan continues to perform its preseat functions of unlocking hoarded currency, and while it shall continue to be engerly sought for by the masses of the people, groenbacks must continually flow to the great depositories of the country. It is reasoned again here that another cause of present case, and a guarantee of future ease, in the money market is that the government is now dis- bursing and will continue to disburse tho funds obtained through the loan as fast as received, by paying the sol- diors and sallors and the over-due vouchers; that this flow of money to all parts of the United States will im- mediately fall into the channels of trade, and go to the trade centres, inevitably as the waters of the rivers 50 to the sea, It is urged, too, that the necessity for hand- Ming considerable amounts ef greenbacks is ob- vinted in the large matter of the quarter. masters’ vouchers by tho fact that a great portion of the drafts drawn in their favor upon the national banks are balanced by quartermasters’, drafts upon the banks in favor of the government's cred- flora, Itis also urgéd that tho circulation of national and Stato bank notes and legal tender is larger now than it was a fow months ago, while the volu lesa, consequent upon the decline of pri amount of currency required to transact this business is only ono-half or two-thirds of what was necessary to transact it before the-decline. Moreover relicf will bo experienced everywhere by the withdrawal from market as borrowers of tho large class who held unsettled and unpaid claims against the government. And thorough confidence is felt here, too, that the Treasury Department will take every precaution to prevent a stringency to grow out of its own operations. It has at heart tho-best interests of the business of the country. For all these Teasons an easy monoy market is confidently looked for, aes Fine Arts. A LINCOLN MBDAL. ‘The American Numismatic and Archwological Secicty have in preparation a bronze medal designed to ‘com- memorate the life afid perpetuate the name of Abraham Lincoln.” ft will be three inches in diameter, sod will boar on the obverse a bust of*tho Inte President and on the reverse an tnscription, Subscriptions will be re- ccived by the Secretary of the Society, whose direction can be found at the Socicty Library Building. Tho names of the subscribers that havo not ‘ircady been printed will be found in another part of this paper. The list is still open at our counter. City Meera ov mm Smpownana’ Assocsation.—A especial meoting of the Ehipowners’ Association took place at the Chamber of Commerce, at one o'clock yesterday after- noon. Mr. Jamos H. Frothingham occupied tho chair and Mr. James Lawson, Jr., officiafed as eecrotary. The Pprocoedings were not of a character generally interesting to the publio, having reference principally to the manage- ment of the shipping business In this city. Tho chief bual- Doss transacted was the adoption ofa new article to the coa- stitation of the association, providing for an arbitration committee, whos? duty it shall be to hear ind determine by settled rulos and regulations all questions arisit Aween shipowners or aficcting thelr interests, me amendments to the constitution wero also adopted, after which the association adjourn’d WH next Wedar ad mect at the same place and hour, Toe Weatnza Yestervat—Commencement OF THs Hezat.—That the warm season is approaching with rapid strides was evidenced very feclingly during the past three days. Monday was hot; Tuesday was hotter, and yosterday was hottest. The gradation of heat was somowhat slow and measured; but yet poople seomed to melt under it yesterday in = very unusual manner, The sun's rays penetrated beavers and felts, ‘as {f they were composed of tissuc, and struck on the ha- roan cranium with a most unpleasant force and fervor. People out of doors sweated as in July and August, and under shelter tho effect of the heat was expericnced almost as powerfully. At six o'clock in the morning the mercury stood at sixty-two degroes in the shade; at noon it was at soventy-cizht dogreos; at three o’cluck P. M. at cighty-two degrees, and at six P. M.. at eighty do- grees, thus showing @ variation of twonty degrees in 4welvo hours, 5 Avrottatest ov Crren To Tax Supreme Court.—Mr, Harry Bertholf, who has been for eighteen years crier of the ‘Oyer and Terminor, under the respective sheriffs, has been unanimously appointed by the judges Crier of the Supreme Court, undor a recent act of the Legislature giving thom that power, The appointment of “Chief justice Harry” has given general satiefaction to the bar. Negroes and Riding Ihe Street Cars in Philadelp! 9 Puitavetrnta, May 17, 1866. Last ovening a colored man got into a Pine etrect pas- senger car, and refused all entreaties to Icave the car, where his presence appeared not to be desired. The conductor of the car fearful of being fined for ejecting bim, as was done by the judges of ono of our courts in a similar case, ran the car off the track, do- {ached the horses and left the colored man to occupy the car all by himself. The colored man etill firmly main- {tained his position in the car, having spent the whole of the nizht there. The conductor looks upon the part he enacted in the affair as a splendid picce of strategy. The matter creates quite a sensation in the neighborhood where tho car is standing, and crowds of sympathisers flock around the colored man. Oxyuric Tagatex.—The Sleeping Beauty still draws crowded houses. Tho brilllancy of Slustration that this piece gives to tho old fairy tale is eomothing wonderful in scenic art, Scenic illustration can be carried much further than it has been usual to carry ft without any neceseary injury to the better part of the drama, and thore is now evidently a development of that idea in progress in our theatres, Our greatest general excel- Ience in scenery has hitherto been in tho admirably ap- propriate and well designed interiors that still hold thoir place at Wallack’s. The Winter Garden has this winter done great things In scenery, as in the mountings of Hamlet ond Cartouche, the admirably etudied gcenes of which were of the highest character in every respect, Mra Wood now promises to close th nina hight. There has been nothing superior in the sar to the mountings of tbe Siceping Beauty; simple piece of gorgeous sptendor, the closing ecene of the play is above praise, Graxp Ono.n ERT. —Thero will bo a grand concert at the. Broadway Tabernacte, eorner of Thirty-fourth ttreet, this evening, on the jarge organ lately erected there by Mr. L. U. Stuart. Messrs, M and King will be the performers, isha eancn en ene Tuxovors Tnouas’ Coxcant.—The testimon'al concert to Theodore Thomas will take place this evening, at Irv. We understand that there bas beon quite a large sale of tickets; and Mr. Thomas Will, therefore, be the recipient of just auch @ substantial compliment aa be Geserves.~ Sioxon Moxon Concent. —Sigaor Mongiardin!, the tenor, announces @ concert at Irving Hal! on Satur- cay evening. The programme ie (ull of promise for an exceliont entertainment, and the artists cannot fai! to do «it Justice, whom we find among them Antonio a Ettore Rarill, Mr. Patison, Mrs, Farnham, Mrs, Kempton and Sienorina Agrat, WASHINGTON. Important Orders from the War Department, All Persons in Arms Against the United ‘States Government East of the Mississippi After June t to be Regarded asGuerillasand Punished with Death. % Discharge of Fifty Thousand Quar- termaster’s Bmployes. Grand Review of Two Hundred Thou- sand Soldiers Next Week. Officers to be Mustered Out of Service, Key Ber ae WAR GAZETTE, OFFICIAL. Grand Review of the Armies. War Deranrm Wasmmaton, May 17—10:40 P. ad } Major Goneral Dix, New York:— A reviow of the gallant armies, now assembling around ‘Washington, will take place here on Tuesday and Wed- negday of noxt woek, the 23d and 24th insts. EDWIN M. STANTON, - Secretary of War. GENERAL NEWS. Wasuxaton, May 16, 1885. REBELS IN ARMS-EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO BB REGARDED AS QUERILLAS AND HANGED, Ageneral order has been issued from the War Depart ment as follows:— y All the forces of the enemy east of the Mississippl river having been duly surrendered by their proper cors- manding officers to the armies of the United States, under agreements of parole and disbandment, and there being now no authorized troops of the enemy east of the Me sissippi river, it is ordered that from and after the 1st day of Juno, 1865, any, and all persons found in arma against the Daited States, or who may commit acts of hostility against it cast of the Mississippi river, will be regarded as guerillas, and punished with death. The strict enforcement and execution of this order Ip ca pecially enjoined upon the commanding officers of all the United States forees within the territorial limits to'which it applies. ARRIVAL OF SHERMAN’S ARMY AT ALEXANDRIA. ‘Tho advance of General Sherman's army reached Alex- andria yesterday afternoon. Sboridan’s cavalry are em- camped a short distance from the Long Bridge, on the Virginia side, % THE GRAND REVIEW OF THE TROOPS NEXT WEEE. ‘Tho grand review of the retarned wictorious armies is fixed for Tuesday and Wednenday of next ‘week. They in review \brough tbe oly [eghington, of Tuesday wili be devoted ees lately under the immediate command of General Grant which have returned, including the oid Army of the Potomac, the Army of the James, and Sheridan’s cavalry. * Wednesday will be devoled to Sherman’s army. Twe hundred thousand veterans of all arms will thus pase im reviow, a sight that has never before been and may never bo again witnessed in this country, ‘Tho details of this review have not yet been arranged, ARMY OFFICERS TO BE MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE. According to an order of the War Department the A@ Jotant General has been directed to commence muster ing honorably out of service all general fold and sa officers who aro uaemployed, or whose service Is ne longer needed. RESIGNATION OF GENERAL SEWARD. Brigadier Geuoral Seward, son of Secretary Seward, has tendered tho resignation of his commission. Jt has beon accepted, to take effect on the 1st of June. The Secretary of War, in @ letter accepting tho resignation, compliments him very highty and expresses his regres that prsonal coaSiderations should necessitate his re tirement from the military service. 4 DISCHARG® OF FIFTY THOUSAND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYERS. Orders were issued to-day for the discharge of afty thousand employes of the Quartermaster’s Department, THE ROLLS OF JONNSTON’S PAROLED ARMY. Cotonct Wherry, of General Schoficld’s staff, arrived here to-day, with the roils of Jobnston’s army paroled, He will await here the arrival of General Sherman, whe is expected to be bere on Friday. The ros contain the names of about thirty-seven thousand officers and men, who were paroled under the terms of Juhnston’s sem render, TRE SANITARY COMMISSION. Mr. J. F. Jenkins bas resigned the office of General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, and John B. Blatchford, of Boston, is his successor. The supply service of the Commission is being rapidly re duced under the termination of active military opers tions. The future servico will be such as is required fer the comfort of returning soldiers, A supply depot bas been establishad at Alexandria. Its special relief worm will be largely increased and extended throughout the country, with the view to facilitate tho return of dts charged soldiers to their homes, Mensures are being taken to extend the benefits of its military and naval claim agency throughout tho country, securing the ad- gustment of claims of soldiers and sailors against the government without chargo. LAND FOR THE ST. CROIX -AND LAB SUPERIOR RAILROAD, Under the act of Congress, approved June 3, 18666, the General Land Office bas jut conveyed, by certified cript, to the State of Wisconsin, for the construction of the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad, one hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and fifty acres of land, REVISION OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS. Stephen Colwell, Exq., of Pennsylvania, bas been ap- pointed one of the three commismoners for revising the internal revenue Jaws, This is the second appointed, the first, Mr, Wells, of Albany, N, Y., having already beem announced. It is understood that the (hird member of the commission will be appointed from the West, but the person to be appointed has not yet been decided upem. RETURN OF THE BRITISMN MINISTER. Sir Fred. Bruce, British Minister, returned here en Monday ovening from a short visit to Philadelphia, Our Washington Correspondence ‘Waanratox, May 16, 1868, Who te Responsible for the Trea'ment of Our Prisoners tw the Scwth ? ‘The question which has Jong been agitated as to whe fs responsible for the cruel tregment of our prisoners confined in Libby and other prisons it the South may now be considered as definitely setiled, through vo leas a person than ex-rebel Senator Foote. It appears that Mr. Foote wasa member of the committee iv the Senate to examine into tho treatment of the prisoners and the reports of their barsh usage and starvation. His story, as (old by his own relatives, shows a deeper intention than has beep generally supposed, and fastens v pon Jeff Davis and his Cabinet acrime both «| ¢ and appalling in ite details, Mr, Foote, it is raid, that the inves. t one ehowed conclusive evidenes that it was decided in Cabinet meeting to reduco the rations served out to the prisoners, (hat it ehould 80 weaken (heir constitut in connection with tho counnenent, (het it Would dest them as soldiers, and make them when exchanged worth. Jess. Senator Foote deterinined to report these facts te the Senate, but the baiance of the comm{itec overruled bim and suppressed the facta, My informant further states that on thie point that the quarrel between Davi 14 Focte broke out afresh, which resulted in the latter learing Richi and seeking some sequestered spot where such hi deedg were not committed. Here then the evidence conclusive of Jef Davie And associates’ gujit in the diebolical deed of starving our deed which maker the most etoical shudder to contemplate. Men who will coolly and hiberately plan o acheme like that wili conspire to nato ® Bresident or any other person, It in @ Attl sequel that authors of auch deeds should end their cares in a cowardly ner, Aressed | petticoats, No Jom. Davis’ cloven foot revealed who he was,