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

— ~ 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICN NW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXX.. a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. _ NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Fanonon. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—So.ow Suindur— Lave Inptaw WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Grey Lapr or Ben anvon. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Damow ano Pr- euias--Swiss PaThIOT—Siamese Twins. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Wonoen. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tarina Ir On— Siegen Beauty. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Love's Bagmiricn—Ius- wanp As Ir Is. BARNUM’S “MUS roadway Two Living ALi. A20K—Fat WON: tess. Tas Paorunt—Boonx rawiu, Open Day and Evening. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechantos' Hall, «72 Broad. way.—Ermoriax SoxGs, Dancxs, Bunuxsquas, &¢.—Btack Canrer Bao. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Brosdway.—Ermorian Bonas, Danons, &c.—Petxo.wcmania, O€ O1L ON THB BRAIX, HOOLEY’S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Sonas, Dances, Bunuxsques, ac.—h. P. P. P. BRIERE HALL, 585 Broadway.—San Framoisco Min- eramts—Wuo Can Finn Us Now. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—! Am, amp Acxosanic Extzntavmente—Tas Evixin or AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Bro: —BALLaTe, -aNTOMMES, HuRLESQUES, &c.—P. P. on tus Man AND THN Eat 3 CHAPEL, 72) Broadway.—Tas Aunnicax S1eRr0- VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movina Wax Figuazs or Passipent Lixcoix, £0. NEW Yi Mw UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— open from A UID New York, Friaay May 19, 1865. — THE SITUATION. It io said that the amnesty proclamation which Preei- dent Johnson contemplates shortly issuing will extend to all persons lately in the rebel military service below the Yank of lieutenant general. Some very important evidence was given yesterday in the trial of tho assassination conspirators, indubitably implicating Jeff. Davis in the plot to burn Northen Cities and shipping. Rev. Mr. Ryder, of Chicago, testified regarding a peper which be had found ‘among the rebel archives in Richmond since the occu- Pation of that city by the national forces. It isa letter Gated February 11, 1865, signed J. W. Oldham, and Addressed to “President Davis,” in which the writer Calls tho attention of Davis to the fact that certain imMeulties in the plan for destroying the Northern towns and vessels, and to cause universal terror at the North, had’ been overcome. It is stated that a Preparation had licen compounded by Professcr McCullys!, to whom and only one other person it was known, which could not fail to accomplish the desived object. The lotter is endorsed as follows:— “The Zcoretary of State, at his convenience, will see Gene Fal Harris and learn what plan he has for overcoming the diMeultics heretofore experienced.—J. D. February 17, 1865." ‘This writing was yesterday identified as Joff, Davis’ by persons who have long been familiar with bis band. A numbor of ‘other witnesses were examined, Giving testimony regarding the mysterious meetings of the conspirators at Mrs, Surrat®s bouee and their sus- picious movements prior to and after the assassination. For prudential reasons the government autboritics de- Cline to give publicity to the movements of Jeff. Davis, ‘en route to Washington. The consequence is that nume- Tous conflicting rumors are afloat,in the city. Oue of them, to the effect that Davis yesterday passed through the city on his way to Fort Lafayette, was very prevalent laa$ evening, but remained unconfirmed. A Cincinnati despatch states that on the 9th inet., the day previous to his captur’, Jeff. Davis, after dividing some specie among hie staff and the troops escorting him, edvised cach to look out for himself, and, bidding them goodbye with a few of his reliable friends, including Breckinridge and Benjamin, struck out in the endeavor to reach the coast, Breckinridce and Benjamin eecaped ‘when Jeff. was taken; but they will probably yet be cap- turod, if they have not been already. Tho Iate robel Governor Brown, of Georgia, reached ‘Washington yesterday, under guard, and was placed in tho Old Capitol prison. It is reported that goverament dosigns to use him as a witness in the trial of Jeff. Davie for complicity in the assassination plot. ‘Tho bighly important announcement is made in the doxpatch of our Panama correspondent that the govern- ‘mont of Colombia has not only ratified the new stipula- tions with the Panama Railroad Company guarantecing hat corporation the perpetual proprietorship of its fond, but has concluded @ treaty with agents Of our govornment which grants to the Uniled States im porpetuity the exclusive privilege of trans. Porting military and naval over tho Wine. As an equivalent for this important concession, ar goverument is to guarantee the sovereignty of fo fombia over the Isthmus of Panama and the security o: the Transit‘route against all other foreign Powers. The advance of the Fourteenth corps, Sherman's ‘rmy, arrived in the vicinity of Washington from Rich. mond yesterday evening, having made a march of one hundred and sixty miles in less than cight days, Tbe Beventeonth and Twentioth corps will arrive at their Camping ground near Washington to-day, and the Fif- teenth corps to-morrow. On Tnosday and Wednesday next will tako place at Washington the grand review of ll tho veteran troops in that vicinity, amounting to the Magnifcont number of two hundred thousand A ciroular of instructions which is important to ship pers and merchants hay been issued by Secretary of the froasury McCulloch regarding the renewed trade with the States cast of the Mississippi, the restrictions on Which wore removed by tho Prosideut’s proclama- Yion of the 20th ult, All offtcors of the government ‘whose pfovince it may be are directod to give every Maoility iu their power for the prosecution of commerce in aooordance with the stipulations of aaid proclamation end of tho Troasury regulations in accordance there- ‘With, and tho people are informed that no special Permits from the Department are required to clear v« els for ports in those States, but that ail that is neces Bary Is the ordinary application to the customs officers or Preasury agonts. For the shipment of cotton and certain Other articles from the States lately in rebellion special Tegulations are provided. The trado restrictions still re- tain in force in regard to the insnrroctionary districts ‘wont of the Mississippi river. ‘The trade with the South, under the new regulations, has opened briskly, From the Ist (o the 15th inet, in- Clasive, Afty-two vessels, exclusive of govornment traus Porte, have cleared from this port for ports in the South Pithorto closed to commerce and not yet open to for tun Qrade. OF thono eighteen havo gleared for Richmond and ‘Othor James river ports; six for New Orleans; six for Charieston; three for Wilmington; three for Beaufort; Tour for Mobile, and ten for Savannah and Fernandina, Fin A largo meeting of North Carolinians, to take action Tor the rostoration of civil government and social order fa thoir State, was hold at Raleigh on the Lith inst stores Speeches were made by a number of prominent citizens and a series of resolutiong unanimously adopted, in alt of which were expressed joy over the downfall of the re- Dellion and their return to the fold of the Union and tho protection of the old flag; satisfaction at the termivation of slavery, which was admitted to have always been @ drawback on the progres#® of the State, and the ao- quiescence of the people in the announcement of Presi- dent Johnson that treason must be punished. At night there were a goueral illumination of the city and a large Union procession. A petition of the colored men of North Carolina to Preeident Johnson, asking that they be granted the privi- loge of-voting, is being extensively circulated in that State. They express their appreciation of tho great boou of liberty conferred upon them by President Lincoln, and remind Mr. Jobnson bow all through this war they have stood by the old flag and given all ald in their power to those who upheld it; that many of themselves have fought for it, and that up tothe year 1835 freo colored men wero allowed to vote in North Carolina, without, that they have ever heard, any detriment to its ipteresta. It ls reported that Champ. Ferguson's and Gatewood’s bands of rebel guerillas and the paroléd soldiers from Lee's abd Jobnston’s armies are plundering and com- mitting great depredations in East Tennessee. ‘Twenty-four hundred rebel soldiers lately confined at Camp Chase, Ohio, have taken the oath of allegiance to the government and been released. The lower house of the Kentucky Legislature has directed ite Committee on the Condition of Slavery to reviee the elave code, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The Board of Councilmen were in seasion yesterday, A veto waa received from the Mayor of a resolution fix- ing the compensation of the three general foremen of roads and avenues at fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which was laid over. After disposing of » few routine papers the Board adjourned till Monday. The members were requested to remain after the spectators and re- porters of the press retired. Our reporter was unable to Jearn the object of the meeting in seeret session. The Exeise Commissions yesterday, and granted several licenses, They ibeddjoaned till to-day. In the United States District Court yesterday the Dis tries Attorney entered a final decree of distribution of the proceeds of the prize steamer Blenheim and carge, captured on the 25th of January last, in the mouth of Cape Fear river, North Carolina, by # portion of Admiral Porter’s fleot, The Blenheim, and some two or three other blockade runners, were captured at Fort Fisher about the same time, they having entered Cape Fear river without kmowing that Fort Fisher had been cap- tured by the Union forces, and thus fell easy prizes to our gallant tars. The net amount for distribution in the case of the Blenheim 1s $52,132 45, one-half of which goes to the government, and the other half to the officers and crews of the Tristam Shandy, Lillian, Britannia, Os- ceola and Gettysburg, the vessels making the capture. The argument on the constitutionality of the Paid Fire Department law came off yesterday ‘n the Supreme Court, General Term. John Cochrane argued the case for the people, aud ex-Judge Allen fer the new commis- sioners. The decision of the Court was reserved. The gold partnership case of Erasmus Sterling versus William B, Jaudou, which has been on trial in the Su- preme Court, Circuit, betore Judge Leonard, for several days, terminated yesterday in favor of the defendant. The suit grew out of some sho-t transactions in gold when it was selling at 2004, which, it is said, realized a logs to the plaintiff of nearly fifty thousand dollars. Candidates for admission to the bar who have passed examination will be present in the Supreme Court room at ten.o'clock on Saturday morning, for the purpose of being sworn into office. Forty-graduates from Columbia College and forty-eight from other places will take the oath and sign the roll. This is oxclusive of the applicants from the University law school, who will receive their diplomas and be sworn in next week. The examining committee appointed by the Court, consisting of H. H. Morange, E. T. Gerry and Ambrose Stevens, enforced a most rigid examination in all the branches of law and equity upon the candidates who came before them. ‘The case of Moritz Von Brack and others, European merchants, versus Frederick M. Peyser, a merchant of this city, which bad previously been in the «surta, was yesterday before Judge Moncll, in the trial term of the Superior Court. The defendant in 1868 retired trom business, and recommended his successor, Emi] Kanter, to the full confidence of his European correspondents. Op the strength of this recommendation the plaintifls sold goods to Kanter, for which they allege he fa‘led to pay. Peyser taking charge of the business again in 1861, he was sued by the plaintiffs for their losses in their transactions with Kanter, and the jury yesterday ren- dered @ verdict in their favor for the full amount and Corts, In the Court of Genera) Sesaions yesterday Joasph Pe- quan, ao Italian, was convicted of an assault with a dan- gerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm, he having on the night of the 4th inst, stabbed Vincent Louis inthe head, inflicting a severe wound, The assault took place atadance house in James street. Judge Russe) sent him to the State Prison for three years, Susannah Car- penter pleaded guilty to stealing four etuds worth two hundred dollars, the property of Wm, G. Ward. She ‘was sent to the State Prison for two years, Robert Ran- dal, charged with stealing two hundred and twenty dol- jars from John Bradly on the 17th of April, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, and was remanded for sentence. Samuel Philip was placed on trial charged with attempting to ebtain money from Simon Lowen- stein, w cigar manufacturer, by falsely representing him- uelf to be a United States detective. Counsel for the ac- cnged maintained that there was a conspiracy against Phillip, be baving aided the internal revenue ofticers in detecting frauds perpetrated against the government by Lowonstein and other cigar makers. The caee was ad- Journed to thie morning, when the tnternal revenue officer will be examined fur the defence. Governor Fenton and General Dix yesterday inspected Dart’s Island, with a view to its fitness as a rendezvous for the mustering out of the discharged soldiers of this State. Though no official opinion was expressed, it was understood they were deeidediy favorable to the proposal. All the bounty brokers and jumpers, numbering one hundred and sixty, remaining in Fort Lafayette, were re Joused yesterday. There was quite a scene on their res: toration to freedom, as they streamed along the roads leading from Fort Hamilton to Brooklyn. Paroles have been required of several of them to answer, ‘The wenther yesterday was quite a relief after the aud den and eheat of tho previows day. The tem perature was again comparatively cool, the atmosphere humid, and the sky obscured by clouds throughout the doy. Rain commenced to fall about twelve o'clock at night, Max Sinborn, a German, suspected of being one of the burglars who in November last stole forty-fiv ‘ eand dollare rota « ravings bank in Walpole, New Hamp- vsterday brought to this city by three of our dotective officers from Saratoga Springs, where he was found to be lying in luxucious style, and where he was arrested. In Siwborn’s resi¢evee were found bonds of the Walpole bank and a most complets colection of bur simplowonts, He was sent to New Hampshire for Gcorso Morton, alins John King, was yesterday locked op im the Toma for trial on charge of a few nights since bbing hia room mate in » €batham street hotel, named James McDermott, of six hundred dollars in jewelry and clothing. Jobn Cecil was yosterday committed for trial charged with etealing six silver watches from a watchmakor’s shop in Thompson street, A Canadian, giving bis mame as Thomas Shaddock, charged with passing at an Eighth avonuo drinking house @ counterfeit two dollar bill on the Bank of Glen's Falis, was yesterday committed for trial. ‘Tho stock market was lower at the first board yester day, but it subsequently recovered and closed firm, Governments were quiet, Gold opencd at 130 and closed at 1805; In the afternoon At night the closing quota tion was 190%. ‘There was nothing new in commercial circles yester- day. The markets wore quict, with a few exceptions, espectally for imported merchandise, A business was done In domestic produce, generally at rather lower Prices, Cotton was firiner. Petroleum was lower. Groceries were steady. On Change, flour was a shado of, W was ebout the same, Corn and oats were unsettled hy large arrivals, and the former declined be. @ 100., and the ister 2o, a 80, Provisions were steady Whiskey waa dull, heavy and lower + New YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. MAY” 19!" 1865. The Administration and the New York Politicians—Movements of Raymond, Weed and Company. The managing politicians of the two great political parties of 1864 are all adrift. The Chicago democracy, with their platform that the “war is failure,” have collapsed wilh the rebellion, It is probable that August Belmont will never call his Sbent-per-Shent Convention together again. On the other band, with the suppression of the rebellion and the extinction of Southern glavery, the mission of the’repub- lican party is fulGlled, and under President Jobnson, in the work of reoonsiruction, we commence @ new political epoch. New politi- ca} issues are impending, and a new organiza- tion of parties, In this business that set of politicians which secures the favor of the ad- ministration will haye the inside track for tho offices and the spoils, present and to come; and hence the active intrigues of all the political cliques of the country to get possession of “Andy Johnson.” Through certain disclosures of the Hon. Ben Wood we were enabled, the other day, to chow what old Blair and the young Blairs expected to do in a contemplated bargain for the ser- vices of the newspaper of the Chicago demo- cratic firm of Belmont & Barlow. The news- paper in question was to get up sucha hue and ery against the present Secretary of War as to frighten “Andy Johnson” into his removal. Old Mr. Blair, it was then agreed, should slip his son Montgomery into Stanton’s place, and then Belmont & Barlow, with their newspaper, were to Be rewarded with the spoils, and with a degree of political power equal to that of the Albany Argue, in the good old democratic times of Martin Van Buren. Those were the times when the old man Blair, with his Globe, was the master of ceremonies at Washingtoa and king of the kitchen, and Croe- well, at Albcny, was his Northern viceroy. But the old man is over a quarter ofa century behind the age; and bis schefhe of reviving the exploded democratic aystem of 1835, of manag- ing the administration, the spails and the suc- cession, through one or two party newspapers, is a ridiculous enterprise. It could be origi- nated and undertaken at this day only by a stapid old Bourbon, who imagines that the world has been standing still for the last thirty years. But while the Blairs are thus foolishly mani- pulating the copperheads, the New York Seward clique of the republican camp are going to work more systematically, and are more fairly within the line of promotion. Thus, for example, a literary politician of the name of Curtis makes it appear, through a political contribution to Harpers’ Weekly, that President Johnson secured his nomination at Baltimore for the Vice Presi- dency through the special efforts in his behalf of the Secretary of State and his friends. Thurlow Weed endorses this paper; but Greeley poob-poohs it. President Johnson, we guess, haé no time for any such nonsense, one way or the other. Doubtless he will retain Mr. Seward in the State Department as long as he may be able or inclined to hold the position. But his recent lamentable misfor- tunes—from which we all hope he may be fully restored to his wonted health and strength—are, withal, of euch a nature, considering his age, that he may soon be compelled to resign the cares of office ané eeek 4 restoration in retire- ment. At allevents, he has ceased to be the aspiring bead of a political party, and his faith- ful followers know that they must begin to cast about for another leader. . Here that active little disciple, the Hon. Henry J. Raymond, like Jack-in-the-Box, pops up his head. We understand that, following the example of the venerable Thurlow Weed, he purposes retiring from his paper, in order to devote himself more freely to political affairs a8 a party manager; but whether he proposes at once to assume the part of King Louis XL, or Oliver Le Dain, the King’s barber, we are not advised. Master Weed has played the réle of the State barber for a long period, and with great success; but in the course of nature his time is at hand to turn over the business of the shop into younger hands, We presume that Mr. Raymond will first play the barber, and then the King. He is now a member elect to the next Congress. He is within one step of the Senate; but, looking beyond that henorable body, it is quite likely that in the mirage of the Southern horizon he sees something looming up, cloudy, dim and indistinct, but still something in the shape of the White House. Weed’s ambition has been limited to the lobby and caucus “sta- tistics” of dollars and cents; but Raymond’s ambition is for power and glory. How far, un- der this administration, he will succeed in the mantle of Weed or as the heir of Mr. Seward, in New York, time will tell. He will, bave his hands full in managing Greeley, in watching the Blairs, and in checkmating the dashing and dar- ing schemes of Captain Forney. President Johnson, meantime, is master of the situation, and he is an old campsigner. We predict that he will “go on in the even tenor of his way,” leaving all these conflicting cliques of schoming politicians a large margin for their amusement, without being diverted by them to the right band or to the left. He has the oppor- tunity for a popularity as broad and deep as that of Abraham Lincoln, and there is every prospect, from his good begianings, that, as in the case of Honest Old Abe, the will of the people will again overrule the politicians in re- gard to the succession. Our Ex-Presipents.—Ex-President Buchanan has been publishing a letter to prove that he was not a traitor. If he were not a traitor he was the next thing to it. He was a weak, trimming politician, who abandoned bis coun- try in his last message, and declared that it was unconstitutional to save the Union. If be bad been « patriot with ibe least pluck he could bave averted this war. Dut he was destitute of both heart and braius, and so consented to dis- union. All of our ex-Presidents now living are-half- and-balf secessionists. Poor Pierce, Buchanan and Fillmore are in pretty nearly the same boat. Tyler, who died during the war, was a rebel. Compared with the fame of President Lincoln, who was assassinated by the rebellion, the memory of these ex-Presidents will be a blot upon our history. The race of the old politi- cians is run. Young America has saved tho country and will govern it. As our stupid old generals are eclipsed by Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, 60 our miserable old politicians are eclipsed by Young America. Tue Hon, Preston Kiwo. Senator Pres- ton King, we understand, will probably, before long, be offored the appointment of Collector of this port. It is said that in the event of a re- construetion of the Cabinet be may be invited to take his choice between a place in that body and the post of our Collector. We incline to the opinion, however, that be is most likely to become our next Collector, and there are very few men, even of those trained among our merchants, better qualified to fill the position than Mr, King. The Real Natuce of tho Double Conspiracy of Crime. It was once said to Napoleon that the Rus- sian magnates, ambassadors, ministers, princes, and¢o on, were very fine and accomplished gea'lemen. “ Yos,” ho replied, “they aro; but serach any one of them and you will always find a Tartar underneath.” The truth of this phrase applies equally well to our Southern rebels, All the men who originated and car- ried on the war against the govertiment passed the earlier years of their lives on the South- ern plantations. Thore, amidst the degrading and brutalizing influences of slavery, their real natures were formed and developed, and there, in the habit of despotic treatment of creatures. whose very lives depended upon their whims, they imbibed those notions of society that they have lately attempted to carry out, and that have made them proverbs of cowardice and cruelty, But as they grew older they weresent abroad to study in colleges, and to travel. Thus they had a casual intercourse with eivili- zation, and were subjected to humanizing influences, and these put a varnish of demeanor over the real man. The Southerner became in this way a very elegant gentleman; his man- ners were irreproachable, and his holiday con- versation that of the politest circles. But you might, at any time that you should scratch his skin, have found underneath the slavebolder and driver—a wild and cruel beast, compared to whose real nature that of the Bengal tiger is ridiculously amiable. Out of this double character of the South- ern men, no doubt, grew the double charec- ter of their attempt against the government. That attempt combined two distinct systems of operations for the attainment of its object. One was the use of public force by recognized war; the other was the employment of every crime that humanity bas considered horrible— such as assassination, arson, robbery, piracy, and the wholesale and deliberate starvation of thousands of men. The use of the first means was a slight tribute that the South paid to the prejudices of the world at large. Southerners bad a factitious reputation for manlinces, chivalry and so on; and, to uphold it, they thought they would marshal armies, fight their battles manfully and take a respectable posi- tion before the world. We, in a truo, manly spirit, met them for such a struggle, and car- ried it on openly and honestly. But in that struggle ft soon became apparent that they were no match for us. By the time that Vicks- burg had fallen and the battle of Gettysburg been fought, it was evident that the Southern men could never gain their object by public force, used in open, legitimate war. At that time Davis announced to the rebel leaders that they had undertaken too much; and from that period they began the pursuit of the more congenial system of murder and arson. We had ecratched away the varnish, and the real nature came out. Then occurred the meetings of officers of the rebel army in the Shenandoah valley, at which Booth was present; and then it was that the capture or murder of Mr. Lincoln was talked over in official circles at Richmond. From that time the rebel Congress began to hold ite secret sessions also. The organization of the whole horrible system of atrocity dates from that sum- mer. The fit tools were sent to Canada for the purpose; piracy began; the raids on the border were prepared; the burning of this city and the attempts against the President were set on foot. At that time the rebel leaders openly declared that war was only one of the means that they relied upon to secure their triumph; and Sanders boasted that Southern men would com- mit acts that would make the civilization of Europe shudder. It was then the positive purpose of the Southern leaders to carry on a system of atrocities that should inaugurate a terrorism here—start the Sons of Liberty and the Kights of the Golden Circle, and so paralyze the government that the blows against the Southern armies must fail. {n view ot the testi- mony taken at Washington it is impossible any longer to doubt that that was the plan. And it is quite safe to say that history has no parallel to this wholesale and horrible depravity. And now the duty of the government is to judge the rebel leaders that may,hereafter come before it in the light of these revelations. We are in favor of all leniency that is compatible with a just and even generous administration of the laws. We hope that the President will extend that leniency to all subordinates—to all the poor dupes of common soldiers who have been deceived to their utter ruin. Let punish- ment and confiscation stop short of those poor wretches. But to the rebel leaders of every class—Congressmen and all other ofticials—all the heads of this atrocious system, we hope the government will not fail to mete tho very severest letter of the law that can apply to their crimes. Rebellion—A Force and Veractry or Tux Lonvow Press.—In the Lon- don Herald of the 24 and 3d inst, we find, among many others, two statements which illus- trate the utter want of veracity of certain por- tions of the British press. In a leading article is this assertion:— “Abraham Lincoln and Mr, Seward were ts ible for the American civil war, the most illegal, wicked and murderous recorded by history.” It is really astonishing that such falsehoods can be still put forth by persons claiming the least pretensions to truth. No less than fifteen distinct acts of overt war were committed by the rebel government before the North had even stood upon ite dofence. Those have been again and again published in chronologi- ical ordor, and are ® matier of record and his- tory. Again, in the same papor wo find the follow- ing statement, made by its New York corre- spondent, with regard to what occurred in this city on the receipt ef the news of the Presi- dent's aseassination :— ‘ Ap indisoroet word would costa man his liberty, if not his life, One person, who foolishly gave vent to some expression of exultation over the murder of Mr. Lincoln, Was actually hung up a lamp post in Wall stro+t on M.n- day, and owes bis life alone to tho exertions of the police. Several persons guilty of the same offence have been ar- resied and sent to prison for a six monihs’ term without oven the form of a trial, In other citios men have been cut lo pieces in the e'rcet; for indulgence in oxclamations of Joy at the sad event.”’ Certainly, it poison, cruelty to prisoners, murder of the wounded, plots, coriflagrations, piracy, robberies, and the most stupendous’ lies could have caved they might have been saved. SSS ‘The Rebel Press of New York Glorifying Although the rebellion is dead the rebel or-| Arrival of the Rebel Governor .gans of this city still live. They live, supported by the Corporation advertising of this loyal city. They live because they have yet a work to per- Brown, of Georgia. form. They can no longer eulogize rebel | probable Amnesty to All Rebel generals and sneer at Union victories. They can no longer predict the final triumph of the South and endeavor to sully the laurels of the North. They can no longer declare that rebels Soldiers Below the Rank of Lieutenant General. are patriots and villify Union men as tyrants Cabinet Differences en the Be- and despots. But they can defend assassins, pirates and felons. They can glorify Davis and Booth. They can mangle the evidence be- fore the Washington court, in order to make it appear that Sanders and his associates are The guiltless, In a word, they can prate about “the courage, purity and dignity” of murderers, and tis indirootly justify assassination. Only yesterday we found in one of the rebol organs of this city, published practically at the expense of the Corporation, an elaborate do- fence.of the chief of the late rebellion and the construction Question. President’s Course Regarding Negro Suffrage. Order to Facilitate Trade with the Rebel States. ringleader in the conspiracy to murder tho] THE @RAND REVIEW OF THE TROOPS, © President, the Vice President, the Lieutenant General and the Secretaries of State and of War. Just as Sanders calls the assassin “Mr. Booth,” so this rebel organ calls the head conspirator “Mr. Davis.” It speaks of the “lustre” which his treason has attached to his name, It de- &., &e. y ‘Wasswatos, May 18, 1806. ARRIVAL OF THE REBEL GOVERNOR BROWR. Governor Brown, of Georgia, arrived here to-day tm custody, and hus been sent to the Old Capitol. It te un- derstood to be the intention of the government to use &e., clares that “the world knows too well the | iim asa witness in the trial of Jeu Davie for complieiey courage, purity and dignity of Jefferson Davis.” It asserts that “his deliverance from the gal- lows will help to attest the magnanimity and justice of the North.” If it be™justice” to let Jeff. Davis go unpuni has committed no Were Beoth, the assassin, in custody, as Jeff. Davis is, we should find the same rebel organ defending him the same style. in the assassipation of Mr. Lincoln. THE FORTHCOMING AMNESTY PROSLAMATION. It ig understood that the new amnesty proclamation will extend to ail below the rank of lieutenant general tm the rebel service. then of course he | | sien CONSULTATIONS ON THR RECONSTRUCTION QUESTION. ‘The Cabinet bave yet under consideration the question in | of reconstruction, and it is understood that there is cem- sidorable diversity of opinion on several important ée- tails in connection with this subject, Secretary Stantem We have heard, in foriner times, some talk | 1 anderstood to differ vory decidedly from the Presiden among the abolitionists about a Satanic press. [Vand some of his colleagues in regard to the proper course These zebel organs are the true Satanic press of this city, and the talk of the abolitionists is realized at last. The rebel Satanic press prepared, at the shortest notice, to defend every crime forbidden in the Decalogue. It is the volunteer counsel for every criminal. One day it eulogizes prize-fighting, and the next day it champions asszssination. The pi- rates of the Stonewall look to it for praise. The convicted felon turns to it for comfort. When incendiaries try to burn down New York, and involve thousands of women and children in a fearful fiery sacrifice, the rebel Satanic press laughs at the horrible plot as a good joke—and is paid by the Corporation for its in- famy. So, when the President is murdered and the nation mourns, the rebel Satanic press, true to its instinct, steps forward to defend his assas- sins, and lauds their “courege, purity and dig- pity.” Satan himself must be delighted at such willing organs, and will doubtless join with the Corporation in subsidizing the rebel press. Important From CoLoMpla—NaroLkon CHECK- MaTED.—We learn. from our correspondent in Panama that intelligence has been received from Bogota, on the best authority, that the Colombian government has entered into a treaty with the government at Washington, whereby the exclusive privilege of using the Panama Railroad for military, naval and other governmental purposes has been granted to the United States government in perpetuity, thus sbutting out England, France and Spain from the road forall busmerely commercial uses. This treaty is embodied in the renewed charter of the Panama Railroad Company, and it is said that it was negotiated through the clever management of some American agents at the seat of government in Bogota. As Gen. Sickles is fn that vicinity, on a mission from our government, it is not improbable that it is due to his sagacity that this important advantage has been obtained. It appears that the gov- ernment of Colombia have required and ac- cepted as an equivalent a guaranice from the United States of its sovereignty on the Isthmus, and security for transit on the road against all foreign Powers, This guarantee we are in a perfect position to make good jnst now. This intelligence will have a siunning effect in Europe. It will, no doubt, be understood as a checkmate to Napoleon and a warning to Maximilian to clear out of Mexico, and will be regarded as foreshadowing a union between all the South American States on the great princi- ple of the Monroe doctrine. The sooner, then, that Maximilian evacuates Mexico the better. It is quite likely that President Jobnson will goon give him notice that his presence is not agreeable there, and probably designate a certain day to quit. The right of the govern- ment of Colombia to make this treaty will not, of course, be doubted. It has clearly as much right to extend these privileges to us on ils own soil as Napoleon had to upset a republi- can government in Mexico and establish an imperialism there by foreign arms. Bio It. Lacurym#.—No doubt one of the causes of the anxiety of the British aristocracy for our destruction was to save themselves} for, if democratic institutions were to be vin- dicated by our success, they feared their own monarchical system might be endangered. And they are destined to witness some important ebanges which will touch them to the quick. The friends of liberty are waking up in Eng- land, in France and on the Continent; and bolder speeches have been made there since our triumph has been manifest than bas been heard before in the last generation. Carlyle— no friend of ours—is said to be the author of | directed in this opinion: “Let America succeed, and Eng- land goes to democracy by express train.” of Mrs. Lincoln. Hanntenono, May 18, 1866. ig | P to be pursued in restoring the rebellious States to thelr status in the Union. He is supported by one at least, and haps by two of the Cabinet, while the others side with the President. The question of negro suffrage is the great stumbling block in the way of harmony. There is reason to believe that the President is dist clined totake the responsibility of extending the suf- frage to the colored citizens until he has had an opper- tunity of ascertaining the sentiment of Congress upem the subject. THE GRAND REVIEW OF THE TROOPS. The following distinguished officers are a portion ef those who will take part in tho grand review here om Tuesday and Wednesday next:—Lieutenant Ggnera’ Grant; Major General 0. 0, Howard, commanding the Army of the Tennessee; Major General H. W. Slocum, commanding the Army of Georgia; Major Gonoral Geo, . Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac; Major Goneral G. W. Humphreys, commanding the Second corps; Major General Charles Griffin, commanding the Fifth corps; Major General John G. Parke, commanding the Ninth corps; Major General Frank P, Blair, Jr., come mand'ng the Sevente:nth corps; Major General John A. Logan, commanding the Fifteenth corps; Major General J. A: Mower, commanding the Twentieth corps; Major General Je® €. Davis, commanding tho Four- fenth corps; Major General Filip Sheridan, com- mauding the cavalry co:pa; Major General & P. Heintzelmat, Major Gencral David | Hunter, Major General Lew. Wallace, Mojor General John A. Rawlins, Chicf of Siaff (o Lieutonant General Grant; Major Geveral John M. Corse, Major Ceneral William Sherthan, Ma‘or General A. V. Kautz, Major Genersl Joba Gibbon, Major Genera! M. ©. Meigs, Major General Seth Williams, Major General A. H. Terry, Major General William B, Hazen, Major General Charles B, Wood, Ma- Jor Goneral Giles A. Smith, Major General M. L. Lygeet, Major General A. 8. Williatns, Major General J. A. Carlim and Brigadicr General Rufue Ingalls. PAYMASTZRS DROPPED FROM THR ROLLS Forty paymasters were dropped from the list to-day. | Three of these bad but receatly received their commie- sions. . IMPORTANT TREASURY CIRCULAR REGARDING TRADE WITH THE INSURRECTIONARY STATRS. The following circular of instruction to officers of the customs and agents acting as officers of the customs, bas Just been issued :— Treascrr Derantarst, May 16, 1868. Inthe practical ayplicKion of the rules and regute- tions concerning coimercial intercours? with insurrec- tionary States, known as the series of May 9, 1865, al officers acting’ therounder are directed to cause as litthe annoyance as possible to purties interested im such com- Mercia mtercourse, and otherwise to carry out the pur- poses of the executive in removing all the resirictiong ‘upon such commerce that the most liberal cougtruct.om of the law wall permit. Inasmech as the military Imes of occupation in the district west of the Mississippt river have not been ex- tended nor the trade therewith affected by the proctuma- tion of the President of April 29, 1565, the regulations of July 29, 1864, are still in force so far as applicabie to the territory west of the Mississippi, By the third section of the Regulations of May 9, the necessity for applications to thes department for permis or authority to clear gools for avy port of the’ insurree- tionary States east of the M ssissippi, either coastwise or inland, is obviated, and consequently no suth permits Oy authoritios will be issued. Collectors and others are directed to clear #ll goods not specifically declared com- traband by the sccofid section of said lations, while all such shipments must be under the sopervision of am officer of the customs, where there aro such, or other proper officer, to prevent the transportation of any artt- cles declared contraband. No permit or other feo will be charged except such as may be prescribed by law for the entrance or clearance of versels. Wliere coti the product of an insurrectionary State, having bora Bo and resold by a purchasing agent of the government, ts ‘offered for shipment, the certiteaia of such purchasing ageut ouly is required. Uf the cotton so offered is claimed and proved tobe the product of ns’ own labor, or of freedimen or others employed or paid by them, the shipping fee of three cents per pound must be paid to the officer under whose superwsion the slupment is made. If any products other than cotton are offered for ment, the certificate of a collector of internal revenue, that the internal taxes proscribed by law have been ouly paid theron, must be produced before the shipment wil be allcwed. ‘If no such certificate is offered in conse- quence of there being no jaternal r.venue officer at i@ post or place of shipment, the officer supervising tue shipmeut must collect such internal rovenue due the: con, Or if the party shipping is unable to pay such mterpal revenue tax, the artile must be copsigued to the cok Jector of customs at the port gf destination of the vee 8%, aud if the Dill of lading and {he manifest of the voceoi “Xbibit the fact that such internal tat MAS ee on paid on ibe Arrival of any vessel at her cme lector of the customs (hereof will require such interna tax to be paid to bim beiore allowing the delivery of the article on Which such tax has accrued and become paya- bie. No veesol will be allowed to wolond at any port exespt such as shall be named on ber manifest as her ports of destination, without the autbority of the Svoretary of the Treasury, aud no goods wilt be delivered at any port unt)! all sucli taxes are paid. Until the customs officers are duly appointed, special agents will act as such, aud when acting ia this capacity, will sign “Special Agent and Acting Customs Of'icor.”” rty will De troated ag regulations of July, 1804, HUGH McCULIACH, Secretary of tie Treas THE CAPTURE OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER. The Navy Department bas received information of the capture, on the 11th inst, of the rebel sloop Flov.da, ‘with a cargo of cotton, and the rebel sloop Annie, with @ Captured and abandoned proj caved goth ary. Mrs. Lincoln and family are expected to pase through | cargo of loose cotton, off Crystal river, Florida, by tie here on a special train to-morrow, for their new home in | United States schooncr Sea Bird, tender to the Unites Chicago. The National Loan. Paraputyuua, May 16, 1666, Btatens steamer Hibiscus. BX-SRORRTARY USHER'S MOVEMENTS. Judge Usher, ex-Seonetary of thé Intorior, will leave this week for the West. He is to be President of the ‘Tho subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan telegraphed | pai road, Eastern division, with headquarters for from all paris of the Union to Jay Cooke, subscription ios juuhale Louis. m agent, amounted to $1,361,800, The following are among the largest subscribors:—A. Ives & Son, of Detroit, $100,000; First National Bank of Indianapolis, $50,000; First National Bank of Chicago, $60,000; Henry Clews & Co., of New York, $160,000; Fourth National Bank of New York, $10,000; Firet National Bank of Baltimore, $100,000. Th mber of individual swbseri»tions for sums loss than $100 amounted to nine hundred and fifty-one. ‘The lone by the front Merrick & Co.'s foundry Inst night 18 $75,000, which is mainly covered by insurance in Philadelphia, New England and foreign compau ca, Most of the} alls upon a London and Liverpool com- rey, and Fhiicdelphia companies, A thorough Ibves- igationsby Fire Marshal Biackburn skows that the origin of the fire was purely accidental THE REMAINS OF COLONAL GACKETT. The romaine of the late Colonel William Sackets, Ninth Now York cavalry, passed through this city to- day, en route for Seneca Falls, New York, for inter ment, They are incbarge of o military escort detailed by Gonoral Grant. REBEL PRISONERS OF WAR TAKING THR OATH. All the enlisted mon excopt three, and neariy «li the officers, of the rebel prisoners confined in Fort Delaware have signified their willingness to take the oath of allogiance. ALL REQUISITIONS ON THE TREASURY PATD, To-day thore is nota singlo unpaid requisition in the ‘Trovaugy Department, and all the ascortained and audited claims Wave boon paid, except the pay of the army, which is awaiting tho readiness of the Paymaster's De partment to call for it «= WASHINGTON. © *,