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4 NEW YORK HERALD. OFFION HM. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ‘TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be atthe risk of the sonder. None but bank bills current in ‘Now Fork taken. ‘THE DAILY HERALD Foor cents per copy. Annual @ubecription price, $14. ‘THE WEEKLY HERALD, overy Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price :- Postage five conts per copy for three months. Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $150 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club often, Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $35, and ang larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the Wauxir Haran the cheapest publication in the country. Volume XXX.............. 151 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Savex Davcnrsrs ov Baran. Bowery.—Fauats Derzcrive— Doo. NIBLO'B GARDEN, Broadway.—Fanonon. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Camitis. NEW ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas Onrsan or a" Bonoimuz—Jaon's tae Lap—Pensrcorep tage Saurranb Ano His WALLACK'S. THEATRE. Broadway.—Hain at Law. OLYMPIC THBAT! Broadway.—Psarsction—SiEsr- uro Baavrr. ~ peers, MUSEU! Brosdway.—A Living Atti- @ator—| Mesteeinn Tux Heiress or tax Hip- pun Hovse—Boonx Fay. Open Day and Bvening. BRY, MINSTRELS, Meshanics’ Hall, 473 Broad- sesepionas Bones, Dawexs, BURLEsquss, £0.—StaEBTs WOOD'S MINSTREL @oncs, Dances. &0.—G: HALL, 514 Brosdway.—Eraiorius ABENBAKINA, Tas Pacace oF Soar. HELLER'’S HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sam Francisco Mix- ‘ereeve—Tas Wink Suiise. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Equestntay, bs gd anp Aonosario Enrsatainuents—Tae Buns AMERIOAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Baruers, Pavtouimes, Husussquss, &c.—Tax Goon ron Noraing. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Movina Wax Prgonns oF Presipext Linebus ao. — NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. M. eg New York, Thursday, June 1, 1865. THE TRIAL. A number of new witnespes were examined yesterday before tho court martial trying the assassination con- Spiratora. The proceedings, tttough very interesting, were not of so much importance as those of the two proveding days. All the testimony taken was for the dofence. , A counin of Atzerott testified regarding the where- bouta of the latter on the days succeeding the assassi- pation and previous to his arrest, and that he made no efforts to secrete himself. One of the counsel informed ‘tho court that he intended to set up the plea of insanity “Yu Ataéragt’a behalf, but that his witnesses to establish “his claim bad not yet arrived. ‘Two brothors of the prisoner Arnold gave evidence re- garding his movements immediately preceding the assas- Gination, claiming that his visit to Fortress Monroe was for the purpose of procuring employment. John T. ford, proprietor of the theatre, was called to ~ thostand, to testify in regard to the prisoner Spangler, | his duties on the stage, his character and habits, and his { ‘Sasociations with Booth. Mr. Ford stated that be was in om ot SR Richmond at the time of the fragedy. He thought the rope found in Spingler’s carpet bag might have been in- tonded for innocent purposes, but knew nothing positive regarding it. The defence wished to have this witness Answer the question whether he had ever been applied to by Booth to omploy the actor Chester, who testified at an @arly day of the court’s sessions that Booth had dis- closed to him the plot to kidnap or murder the Prest- dont, and requested him to engage in {t; but the question ‘was ruled out as irrelevant. The object of this question | was to oxculpate Spangler, by endeavoring to show that Booth had no acoomplice in the theatre. For the same Purpose s number of the attaches of the theatre were @xamined regarding incidents and affairs on the stago and behind the scenes on the night of tho assassination. Other witnesses in defence of Mudd and Harold also testified. This being fast day, there will he no session of the | pourt to-day wr EF SITUATION. “The President has made appointments for District | -Judgo, Uaited States Marshal and District Attorney of North Carolina, and Postmaster of Raleigh. All the ap- \pointees aro North Carolinians, «. SeeroFy of Stave Seward, in accordance with the direc- tions of the President's amnesty proclamation, has issued f ciroular in regard to the administration of the oath of allegiance. The oath may be subscribed before any com- missioned officer, civil, military or naval, in the service of tho national government, or any civil or military | officer of a loyal State or Territory who by the laws thereof may be qualified for administering oaths. Iiforwon Davis has been taken from his easemato | prison in Fortress Monroe and conveyed to Washington. Ho is now confined on board a Monitor in the Potomac Tiver, noar that city. Gonoral Sherman issued bis farewell to the Army of -~ OF & . tho Bonneasoe and the Army of Georgia on Tuesday, and yostorday he left Washington for this city, en route for Cincinnati, whero, it is said, his future headquarters will be The addross is eloquent, patriotic and affecting, ‘tracing, as it does, ina succinct and hasty manner, his | Own and tho career of his trusty and brave followers from the cliffs of Lookout Mountain, through all their fight- fing, marching, privation and wonderful achievements, down t Savannah, and thence northward through the Carolinas and Virginia He advises his men, now that 20th of May, forbidding the assembling of the rebel Legislature of Georgia. Our Havana despatches to the 27th ult, by the steam- ship Eagle, state that the excitement regarding the rebel ram Stonewall was nearly ended. The rebel officers and ‘erew had been paid off, the vessel was movred alongside the government arsenal, undergoing repairs, and Spanish officers and a Spanish crew were on boasd and had charge of her. Her late rebel commander, Captain Page, had left for Vera Cruz. It was understood that our Consul in Havana had demanded of the Cuban authorities the sur- render of the Stonewall to the United States, and that the Captain General awaited instructions from Spain be- fore replying to the demand, The rebel Senator Hill, General Howell Cobb and Stophen R. Mallory, late rebel Scorotary of the Navy, arrived at Nashville on Tucaday last, as prisoners. Oobb was paroled to visit his family, and Mallory and Hill, it is stated, were despatched to Fort Warren or some other Eastern stronghold. To the list of prominent rebels who have recently fallen into the bands of the national forces we have to add the name of Mr. Yulee, formerly United States they are about to return to their peaceful homes, not te yiold to tho tomptation for secking “now adventure abroad ;"’ for ‘‘it will lead only to death and disappoint- meat." ‘Tho Western troops of General Sherman's armies broke wp their camps in the vicinity of Washington yesterday, ‘and commenced moving westward over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, General Sherman's astern troops ‘will for tho present remain in the neighborhood of Wash. fogton, but will goon be sent to their respective States, Paid wf and mustered out of service. A dolegation of prominent citizens of Alabama, ap- pointed at amass meeting held in the capital of that Btato on the 11th of May, for the purpose of laying be fore President Johnson a series of loyal resolutions adopted at said mooting, and to request him to convene tho Legislature at an early day, or take other measures for restoring civil government, order and relief to the People of the State, arrived in this city on Tuesday, and doft here yosterday for Washington Gonorai Wilson issued an order at Macon, Ga., on the Senator from Florida, who has voluntarily delivered him- self up at Jacksonville, in that State. He is anxious to resume his.allegiance to the government, it is said, but is particularly desirous of recovering his property. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Persia, which reached this port last evening, brings our European advices down to the 2ist ultimo. Mr. D. Griffiths’ question, in the House of Commons, + with regard to the treatment of Jeff. Davis elicited from Lord Palmerston’s reiterated assurance that England did not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of this country. * The London Post, commenting on this reply, considers that Jeff. Davis is not only entitled to pardon, but to the admiration of his countrymen. The British government had sustained a defeat in the House of Commons, but not on any vital question. The Mexican enlistments in New York had caused in- tense uneasiness in France, and the return of the Em- peror from Algiers was earnestly looked for. The London Stock Exchange participated in the excitement. Among other canards originated and believed was a statement that Maximilian bad been shot. Mexican bonds were thrown upon the market regardless of price. A rumor brought by the Belgian that an immense faiture had taken place in the Bombay trade proves to have been unfounded. United States securities had not yet fully recovered from the reaction caused by the assassination of Preei- dent Lincoln. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. To-day, the Ist of June, being the day appointed by President Johnson to be observed as one of fasting and humiliation for the calamity which befel the nation in the assassination of President Lincoln, there will be a general suspension of business in this city, and no doubt throughout the greater part of the country, and appro- priate religious services in the various churches. All the offices of the national (excepting the Post Office), State and municipal governments in the city, the courte, stock boards, banks and other public institutions, and the Places of business genenally, will be closed. The steamship Eagle, from Havana on the 27th of May, arrived here yeaterday. The Spanish troops in St. Do- mingo were being rapidly re-embarked, and that republic ‘would soon be left to the good or ill fate of being solely in the hands of its own people. . With regard to the revo- lution in Hayti against the government of President Geff- rard, herctofore noticed in the Huratp, we have a few ad- ditional items, Geffrard had taken the field, at the head of three thousand men, to operate against the insurrec- tioniste, who still held the capital. Chief Justice Chase and party arrived at Havana on the 24th of May from Key West, on board the steamer Wayanda, and were to leave for New Orleans in a few daya. There had been ‘no arrivals of blockade runners at Havana from Galves- ton since the date of previous reports, The steamer Owl, Captain MaMt, destination not given, sailed from Ha- vana on the 21st ult. ‘The government steamer Vanderbilt arrived at this port yesterday from Charlestan harbor, having in tow the double turreted Monitor Onondaga. The Vanderbilt towed the captured rebel ram Columbia from Charleston bar to Hampton Roads. ‘The United States steamer Flambeau, from Charleston 0B fhe G24 of May, also arrived here yesterday. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday. A resolu- tion was adopted directing the Comptroller to lease the premises now occupied by the City Inspector's Depart- ment for a period of ten years, at nine thousand dcllare perannum, The Board concurred with the Aldermen im authorizing the Comptroller to issue three hundred thousand dollars of Central Park improvement fund stock. After the transaction of a good deal of routine business, the Board adjourned till Monday next. In the United States Circut Court yesterday, Judge Benedict presiding, the Grand Jury brought in indict- ments in the following cases:—Alfred Burdage, John Nolan, Charles Cavendish, George Smith, Owen Early, Thomas W. Johnson, Ellen Morton, alias Clarke, James Shepherd, Edward Hughes, William Johnson, Emle Corzaie and William Savage, all for passing counterfeit United States fractional notes; Samuel Roberts, Robert Anthony and Henry Pfiffer for having in their possession counterfeit fractional currency with intent to pass the same; John Noyor for selling counterfeit fractional cur- rency; William H. Hemmick, alias John Bennett, Jr., for ‘The Commissioners of Emigration held their rogular meeting at Castle Garden yesterday. The number of emigrants who arrived from May 24 to May 81 was 5,338, making a total for the present year of 46,086. The num. ber to the same date in 1864 was 68,079. The amount of the commutation fund which the Commissioners has now in bank is $73,210. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday and granted five licenses on the usual conditions. A communication {rm the Commissioner of Internal Revenue stated that no stamps are necessary on certificates of character’ ac- companying storekeepers’ licenses. All obstacles in the matter of the contract for com- pleting the Battery extension having been finally over- come, the Street Commissioner yesterday concluded the arrangemenis with the contractor, Mr. stephen M. Drew, and the work was commenced yesterday evening. ‘Two years is the time allowed to finish the work. Archbishop McCloskey administered the rite of confir- mation in St. Peter's chureh, Barclay street, to twelve hundred adults yesterday forenoon, and in the afternoon to a large number of children. The Hickaite brinch of the denomination of Quakers, making and uttering forged bounty land warrant certifl cater, and Jghp Bary for murder on the high gens. Pa ok i ris nda, have Seen holding their yearly convention in this city this week, In the tneeting house in Fifteenth street, opposite Rutherford park. The as. semblages of this anniversary commonced on Saturday lost, and have been continued daily since, @ portion of each day boing appropriated to private meetings, in which the business of the sect is transacted, and the re- mainder to public worehip, after the manner of this peculiar people. The meet will be continued to-day. The following were a few of the cases engaging the at- tention of the police yesterday:—Peter Burke, who was sometime ago sentenced to Blackwel nd for twelve mpnths, on charge of having been one of the leaders in the riots of July, 1863, escaped from that riverine strong- hold about three weeks ago. On Tuesday afternoon he was arrested in a stable at 108 East Twenty-third street, and yesterday he was sent back to the island to complete his term. A reputed confidence man, representing him} self as an army chaplain, and giving the name of James H. Thomas, but who is said to have some aliases, was yesterday committed, in default of one thousand dollars bail, on charge of obtaining money under false pretences from different business men of the city. Jobn Eller, William Ritzel and John H. Teitter wore committed for trial on charge of stealing two hundred dollars worth of lard from Lippincott & Merritt, Tenth avenue dealers. The Monitor Cohoos was launched yesterday at Green- point, in the presence of a large assemblage. Four or five regiments of Pennaylvania troops belong- ing to the Ninth army corps have been sent to suppress the disturbances at the Pennsylvania coal mines. Tho Rhode Island Legislature was yesterday favored by the visit of several naval heroes, including Vice Admiral Farragut, Rear Admiral Porter, Commodore Blake and Captain Worden, who had an enthusiastic reception. atron, one of the Assoctate Justices of the ates Supreme Court, died at Nashville, Ton ease ast Tuoeday evening Revenue fravds are becoming provalent in Chicago. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 1 1865. ‘The last case ts the seizure of fifty thousand berrets of lagor boer, together with an cxtensive brewery, bolowg:ng to ox-Alderman John ¥. Huck. The penalties in thie |‘ instance, upon conviction, amount to eighteen thousasd dollars and the forfeiture of the property involved. Three libels had also been filed in the United States Commis- sionor’s Court for the forfoiture of distilleries on account of the presence therein of numerous barrels “of high- wines, of the duty ow which, it was alleged, the defend- ants proposed to defraud the government. One of the leading tobacco firme of Chicago, it ts also stated, is entangted in tho revenee claims and penalties attonding a cimilar attempt. - ‘Tho stock market was dull and heavy yesterday at the opening, but firm at tho close, Governments were @ fraction lower. Gold opened at 136%, and af 6:30 P. M. stood at 137%. 137 was the night closing price. The commercial situation remained substantially tho amo yesterday as it was the day before. The markets were unusually quiet—almost as much so as on Satur- days—owing to the fact that to-day isa holiday. There ‘was some activity in some articles, because of the fact that it was the last day of the month. Cotton and petroleum were dull and heavy. Groceries wore quict. On 'Change flour was lower; grain was ecaroo and higher; pork was excited and $1 per bbl. higher; lard ‘wes quiet; whiskey was steady. There will be 20 'Change to-day, and business places will be closed. ‘The Chase-Sumner Political Movement— Social War Threatened. ‘The real purpose of Chief Justice Chase’s letter to his friends in the West, urging the organization of a new party, and the object of his mission South, ave daily becoming more apparent. ‘The more the mystery is unravelled the more manifest the mischief which his schemes will produce. The assertion in his speech to the negroes of Charleston that he was no longer in the councils of the adminis- tration might, without supporting evidence, have been passed over as a mere flourish of words. But, unfortunately for the Chief Jus- tice, he has left us no opportunity to place that charitable construction upon it. The whole tenor of his speech was that of a firebrand gra- taitously thrown into a difficult and compll- cated question. As bold as it appeared at the time, accumulating evidence proves it to have been made after due deliberation ahd not at random, without forethought. It seems that his combinations were made before he left, and his tour through the canebrakes, cotton and rice fields of the South was ofily a part of @ grand scheme for the promulgation of idess which he and his associates imagined would place him in the Presidential chair at the close of Mr. Johnson’s term. With that one idea, prompted solely by an inordinate ambition, he sete himself up in opposition to the govern- ‘ment, and promulgates theories and dogmas which, if followed up in the same spirit, will plunge the whole Southern country into a social war more dreadful in its results than the rebellion which has so suddenly collapsed. Nor is the Chief Justice the only public man engaged in this mischievous work. Senator Sumner, who in his public career has given un- mistakable proof that he was the possessor of but one idea, has, boidly entered upon a like crusade, and arrayed himself against the Presi- dent, evidently acting with an understanding with Mr. Chase. As soon as Mr. Johnson as- sumed the reins of the go’ Mr. Sumner made an.effort to control his official action and secure his assistance in carrying on this appen- dix warfare to the abolition question, and thus plunge the country into a sanguinary social war. Finding it impossible to draw President Johnson into his schemes, he at once plants himeelfin opposition. A letter was cooked up, purporting to come from colored men.in North Carolina, addressed to Senator Sumner, which lay the foundation for an anti-administration movement. To this Mr. Sumner replied in the following style, under date of ‘ASHINGTON, May 18, 1865. Ww. i Gextiemen—I yr ged See ee citizens of North Caro. ina are ready to take in the organization of governe ment, It is T aaneetieanty. their right and ancy 3 I see l.ttle chance of peace and tranquillity in any rebel State unless the rights of all are recdenived without dis- tinction of color. On this foundation we must build. ‘The article (from the New Yorx Henatp) on recon- struction to which yeu call my attention proceeds on the idea of slavery, that persons with a white skin are the only “citizens.” This is a mistake. As you do me the honor to ask me the proper stand for you to make, I have no hesitation in replying that you ‘must insist on all the rights and of a citizen, y belong to yu; they are yours; and whoever undertakes to rob you of them is a uaurper and an impostor. course you will take part in any mary meeti for political organization, open to citizens generally, ai will not miss apy opportunity to show your loyalty and | Aidelit Accept my best wishes, and believe me, gentlemen, faithfully yours, CHARLES SUMNER. This letter, although short, is explicit and unmistakable in its meaning. Its purpose is evident to the most casual observer. Knowing, as he must at the time, that the President held that the question of conferring the privilege of suffrage upon the colored people of the South rested exclusively with the States, he endeavors to stir up a feud and create a dissatisfaction among this class. Like the speech of Chief Justice Chase, its whole tendency is to incite the negroes to insurrection by giving them the impression that the government is against them. There is not a word in the communication counselling obedience or respect to the laws of the government. They ask him for direction, and he, in response, counsels them to take part in the organization of the government; that it is their right and duty. In the face of the fact that there is no law in their State or in the ity. constitution of the United States recognizing | that right, he tells them that those who oppose them are usurpers and impostgre—thus giving the negroes the cue to engage in riots and in- surregtions in the face and teeth of the law, as well as counciling opposition to the adminis- tration, What e]ge ean such teaching lead to but a bloody social war between the races in rejoiced { Moneler the South ? Suppose, for instance, that Mr. Sumner should advise the colored people of the State of New York—who are excluded from the right of suf- frage by the property clause in our State con- stitution—that they had the right to vote the same as all others, who could for a moment doubt the evil intent of such advice? There could be but one result if the class referred to attempted to follow the direction. Such advice would be considered an effort to justify the negroes to resist all who endeavored to prevent their exercising the elective fran- chise. Senator Sumner has just as much right to council the negroes in this State on that point as he has those of North Carolina or any other Southern State. The constitution of the United States explicitly leaves the control of the question of suffrage to the State. The laws which existed in the Southern States before the rebellion on that question are still the Jaws there, This is the view explicitly held by the President in his proclamation of the 29th inst, It is the individual and not the State which has sinned. The punishment for the orime of treason is confined also to the indi- vidual. But Messrs. Chase and Sumner would have us obliterate all traces of the State as well as all law, and inaugurate in their stead a soolal war botwoon races until tho fortile dolds The Trial of the Assassination rators—More Mvidence Against Jef. | Davis. The trigl of the assassination conspirators at Washington is progressing slowly. Probably: at least another week will elapse before the: proceedings are concluded. Asa whole, the defence of the prisoners has not been very strong. O’Laughblin is; perhaps, Act so much implicated as the others. Several circum- stances favorable to Dr. Mudd have been-pre- sented. Harold’s only defence is that he isia. mere: boy, easily influenced and incapable: of decided criminality. The plea of Atzerott ap- pears to be that he is a natural coward, which is quite probable, since it is in evidence that, after being provided with weapons, he ran away without attempting to kill the Vice Presi- dent, whom he was selected to assassinate. A good character, weak eyes and an attempt to contradict the government witnesses upon immaterial points are relied upon to shield Mrs. Surratt from confiction. The counsel for Payne and Spangler have not yet developed their defence. Now that the government has presented its case, the trial, so far as the pri- soners in court are concerned, is scarcely more interesting than an ordinary prosecution for murder. But it is far otherwise when evidence im- plicating the rebel chiefs is offered. Thon the excitement grows intense, and every word is heard and read with anxious interest. Though not actually on trial before the court, these leaders of the conspiracy are on trial before the country. Jeff. Davis has been publicly accused by President Johnson and Secretary Stanton of complicity in the assassination. We know that he has been guilty of treason. The verdict of the jury before which he is to be tried upon that charge is anticipated by the people. The question now to be determined is, whether or not he was one of the conspirators who con- trived the death of the late President. The verdict upon this question seems to be antici- pated also. In addition to the strong testimony already elicited, the government has now shown that Davis received the news of the assassina- tion with evident pleasure; that he expressed his sorrow that Johnson and Stanton were not ‘killed; that he rebuked Breckinridge for re- | gretting Mr. Lincoln’s murder; that he declared that “if it were to be done, it were better that it were well done,” and that he announced it asa piece of good news to the crowd which he was addressing at Charlotte, North Carolina. Taken in connection with the previous testi- mony, this evidence is important; for it shows that, after endorsing the assassination plot after assisting it and paying for it, Jeff. Davis at and gloaied in {ts success, Such a should have two lives, that both might be taken ip punishment for his double crime. No attentive reader of our report of the trial will have failed to observe the evsdence in re- gard to the yellow fever conspiracy and thé part which Jake Thompson—and through him Sanders, Tucker and Davis—played in it. Men who could concoct such an infamous scheme, which failed providentially to do any harm, are fit conspirators for the assassination of the great and good man whom Booth foully murdered. At the same time there may be some truth in the statement made to the court by the rebel Major Douglass. He strongly | avers that the men of the rebel Stonewall | brigade “knew nothing about, nor in the least sympathized with, any such unrighteous and | unsoldierlike action” as President Lincoln's | murder. We can concede this in regard to the rebel soldiers and the great body of the rebel people. Bad as the rebellion was, we cannot believe that it transformed the Southerners into fiends incarnate. But this concession only makes the case against the rebel leaders—who did know about the assassination, and who did sympathize in it and deciare it well done— more strong and severe. Had the masses of the Southern people been accessory to such a diabolical plot, there could have been no re- | union, for we should have refused to live with such wretches. But although #he Southern people disavow the crime, and although the | Southern soldiers disavow it, Jeff. Davis has not reprobated it, the rebel leaders have not disclaimed any sympathy with it; but Davis, | speaking for them all, declares that “if it were to be done, it were better that it were well done,” and displays his knowledge of the plot by regretting that Johnson and Stanion did not also fall. the North and the South that the leading con- spirators should be punished, so that neither section of the country shall be longer disgraced | by such moral monstrosities. Geytnat Snerman’s Revort.—The report of General Sherman, involving his detence of his military and diplomatic operations in North Carolina, is before the country. His account of his military movements is clear and satisfac. tory. The reasons assigned for his extraordi- nary political concessions in bis memorandum | of his armistice at Durham station shew that he was actuated by humane and patriotic con- siderations; but he makes too much of the in- juries he has suffered from the Secretary of Wai and General Halleck. That North Carolina armistice, as first agreed upon, was a diplo- matic mistake. Being rectified, however, by a simple hint from General Grant, there it might have rested. At all events, ask the venerable and venerated General Scott what he thinks of the policy on the part of aninjured general of fighting his battles through the newspapers, and he will answer, “Beware of that hasty plate of soup.” A Jost anp Gracerot, Dectstor.—We are gratified to learn that President Johnson has de- cided that in the disbanding of our armies our brave soldiers, the victorious defenders of the Union, shall carry their arms home with them as among their well earned trophies of the war. Thore will be no dissenting voice against this act of justice. It is to the interest, therefore, of both | + that Jay:Cooke had accomplished with govern mont-loans under the stimulus of one-half of one per cent commission, and then suggeste? , Proposal to apply to the national debt the prin- | ciples that: ave made life insurance one of the ; great successes of the age. “Paying the debt,” he said, “must be based upon the lifainsurance bility to-the-government at death.” This can be done only by am annual saving—saving from taxatiom im price of all articles of conshmption, saving from taxation on property and from taxation om ineome, We will suppose that each person contributing the sum of twenty thon- sand dollars contributes his actual income for that year. The interest on this, at seven per ent, is one thousand four hundred dollars. By paying the twenty thousand he saves on his in- come alone*two thousand dollars each year, and in price of articles consumed in his family one thousand dollars, making « saving in these two items alone of three thousand dollars; taking therefrom the interest on the twenty thou-. sand—fourteen hundred dollars—and you have an actual saving of sixteen hundred dollars annually, which, if compounded, will pay the principle in less than fourteen years. Tf the national debt were paid to-day we would be as we were before the war. There would be no income tax, and the prices of the now are. It is estimated that this would make a difference of three thousand dollars a year to every man who has an income of twenty thou- sand dollars a year. He would save one thou- sand a year in the difference of prices, and two thousand by not having an income tax to pay. If he invested twenty thousand dollars at seven per cent he would get from it fourteen hundred | dollars a year; and the difference between four- teen hundred and three thousand is conse- quently the sum saved every year if there is no ' national debt. That sum en the given number -of contributions, at compound interest, will make, in the. specified time, a sum equal to the national debt, Such is the plan. It is obvious that all that | is necessary to render it a grand success is an | official character and such an organization and | | development ae a good financier and business | | man could give it, We are assured on every | hand that immense numbers of moneyed men | are ready to take hold of this so soon as they | ate sure it will go on properly. Men fear to | have their names associated with a fizzle. But | | it is a foolish fear. If itis a good thing to pay ' the public debt men should come out, take | | hold bravely and do it. It is a grand public ' auty—a duty to the country greater than has | ever been performed by any set of mop exe ' only those who have risked their lives in the | glorious battles that have made us free. Do not wait for others to make'this measure a success, Every name adds weight to it, and let every | mait with thé nicxey believe that his twenty | thousand is all that is wanted to render success | certain. Presipent Lrxcotx, Jerr. Davis ann Mac- | BerH.—We think it was some two years ago | | that President Lincoln, in a familiar compli- | mentary letter to the veteran tragedian Hack- ett, on bis personation of Falstaff, incidentally alluded to Macbeth as to him—the late Presi- | necessaries of life would not be so high as they | | where they will be deposited and remain in dent—the most impressive of all of Shaks- | pere’s tragedies. Now, it is remarkable that in | the death of’ President Lincoln we have the re- | morseleas crime of Macbeth repeated, and | inst a ruler to whom Macbeth’s soliloquy, in | iew of his contemplated murder, will exactly pply:— | \ Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties #9 meekly; hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will pload like angels, trumpet-tongued, againat The deep damnation of his taking off. This striking parallel suggested itselt at ence to thousands of men, and this extract was tre- quently repeated in the Lincoln faneral mot- toes along the walls of this and other cities, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. But it is still more remarkable that after the assassi- | nation of President Lincoln, Jeff. Davis, in pro- pria persona, should, as a fugitive from justice, appear in the character of Macbeth, with these } suggestive remarks, at the village of Charlotte, N. C., to Breckinridge:— Well, General, I don't know ; at all, it were be | If it were to be dor It were well done; and if the same done * To Andy Johnson, the beast, and to Secretary Stanton, The job would then be complete Now we cannot doubt that in these impious observations of Jefl. Davis, his mind was run- | ning on this aforesaid soliloquy of Macbeth, which thus begins:— Ir it were done when ‘tis done, then 'twere well | It were done quickly. In the case of President Lincoln the deed | had been done; but, as in the case of Duncan, this one murder did not clear the way to the rash usurper, and so Davis philosophized that— If it were to be done at ail, it were better Tt were wol! done; which, under the circumstances, was a very natural modification of Macbeth. Finally, to make the comparison perfect, “Lady Davis,” as she has been called in the South, like Lady | Macbeth, when called to face the music, shames | with her saucy courage the shrinking coward: ice of her husband. Jevr.’s Paver Mowny.—It appears that so enormous were the nominal prices of every- thing in the late rebellious States, under the worthless paper money system of Jeff. Davis, from houses and lands down to apples and onions, that the people concerned cannot readily comprehend the real value of their pro- perty and merchandise at a peace valuation in substantial greenbacks. Thus, it seems, for ox- ample, that the owners of building lots in the burned district of Richmond ask such fabulous prices for them that the most daring Yankees in the way of ® speculation are frightened off. The change from their worthless Jeff. Davis shinplasters to genuine government funds, leas than forty per vent below gold, comes too sud- denly upon the Southern people (9 be gompre- st once. EH upsets all their financia lina and Carlotta Patti as the sepresentatives of the musieal genius«which we-eilhor produce or foster in this land of liberty, there is no Jonger.any danger tha}:we shal be condemned in Burope'as lacking thie artistic spirit. On the contrary, it'isfast becoming the rule that ne artists who are -withoudthe imprimatur of New York can be accepted:as-of the most standard in.the capitals:of Franco-amd England. inforce her. gifted. countrywomen, the Pattia and with: these three-déligh(ful utterersof sweet sounds as the representatives off our direct pro- duction,.and with Brigaoli as a specimen sort oftartists we make out of the raw material originally sent tous. frem Italy, the opera of New. York. willisoon mere than rival in thefame of ita. pupils.the reputation of La Scala, or the royal. and imperial Opera houses of Paris and London. We shall soon be abead of Europe im everything. WASHINGTON. Arrival of Jeff. Davis from Fortress Monroe. He is Confined On Board a Monitor. | APPOINTMENTS FOR NORTH CARQLIN:. Instructions for Administering the Amnesty Oath, ke, &e., &e. ‘Wasuinaton, May 31, 1866. ARRIVAL OF JEFF. DAVIS IN HIS PLACE OF COM, PINEMENT. Jeff. Davis has been brought up to this city from Fort ress Monroe, and has been placed on board « Iomitor, which is anchored in the stream, instead of being com- fined. with the other assassination conspirator in the Old Arsenal. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS FOR NORTH CAROLINA. ‘The President has appointed the following officers fer North Carolina:—District Judge, K. P. Dick; United States Marshal, W. K, Richardson; District Attorney, Richard Mason; Postmaster of Raleigh, Colonel J. B. B. Rist. All the appointees are of North Carolina, DIRECTIONS FOR ADMINISTERING AND RECORDING * THE AMNESTY OATH. © The following official circular has just beew issued: — Daranraxnt or Le Wasnineton, May 29,, Sir—A copy of the President’s amnesty of this date is herewith appended. By a clause in instrument the Secretary of State is directed to rules and regulations tor administering and the amnesty cath, so asto insure its benefits to the people this injanefont you are ‘prormed that the onth presribed this injaner you are ipform: h in the proc! Sikatfon may be ten and neerhetcaes any commissioned officer, civil, military or naval, in the service of the United States, or any civil or military offifer of @ loyal State or Territory, who by the la thereof may be qualified for administering oaths, ollicers who receive such oaths are hereby aathorized ‘ive certified copies thereof to the persons Fr’: & whom they were made; and such officers are hereby required to transmit the originals of such oaths, at early a day as may be convenient, to this of the Cane ae A Usa omned a will be Kept im | cases, cer- tleates of suck records Wil be lseted. fa the cusiomaary form of official certificates. I am, sir, your ol servant, WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. THE PUBLIC DEBT AND THE NATIONAL FINANOR®, It is understood that a statement of the public debt to June 1 is being prepared for publication. The condition of the Treasury ig most favorable. There are, and have been for some time, no unpaid requisitions in thé Tree- sary, excepting uncalled for pay of the army. Every demand of the Paymaster General is promptly met, suf- ficent funds having already been placed to the credit of the paymasters to meet all back dues and bounties ao cerning to the armies about to be disbanded, so far ama known. ‘ - SENTENCE OF NAVAL CONTRACTOR. The following general order has just been issued:— GHNERAL ORDERS—NO. 66. Navy Derarrunyt, Wasuinutos, May 31, 18bs, A naval general court martial having found F. Sims, of Philadelphia, Pa., a naval contractor, and the senior member of the firm of William F. Sims & Son, guiity of fraud apon the United States and wilfal Of duty, said court did impose the following sentence :— The court ao thereiore sentence the acc William F. Sims, to pay to the United States the sum of two thous- and dollars, and that he be confined such Ca piace of confinement as may be donignated by Hon- orable Secretary of the Navy until the fine is paid; and also, that he be hereafter excluded from any further de- liveries 'n the contract or open purchase for naval sup- « The attention of purchasing agents and naval keepers ix called to the last me e nen- * Acting Secretary of the Navy. SENTENCE OF A TREASURY CLERK FOR BMBBZZLE- MENT. . Mr. Charles H. Cornwall, late a clerk in the Redemp- tion Bureau of the Treasury Department, charged with abstracting bonds, ete., placed in his hands for destruc. tion, was found guilty some time ago ina crim inal court, Owing to the fact of his long imprisonment, and that he has returned to the government the amount embozfied, he was yesterday sentenced to pay fine of two thou~ sand dollars, and stand committed until the gentence shall be complied with. vsren ovr or nervevep rafsovens. ‘The Secretary of War has ordored that returned prisoners {enlisted men) who have endured the hard- ships of Andersonville, Florence, Salisbury and other rebel prisons, bo mustered out as soon as possible, and that they be allowed three months extra pay. OBSERVANCE OF FAST DAY. To-morrow will be strictly observed here as a fast day. All the departments have been ordered to be closed, and ‘no official business will be transacted. Appropriate re- ligious services will be held at all the places «é publie worship, and most of the business places will baciosed. AN BRAMPLA WORTHY OF IMITATION, A watchman in the Treasury Department hag, resigne® his position in favor of a wounded soldier, This is re- garded as an example worthy of imitation. GENERAL GRANT'S WARHORSE Jags. Lieutenant General Grant bas presented. tyis old Clay- bank warhgrse Jack to the Northwestern Fajr at Chicago, through Mire, General Sherman. This is horse he had when ho first entered the volua¥eor sorvice ag colonel of the Twenty-first Niinois regiyaont, and used by him until he was appointed Liouteufnt Goneral. The probabilities are that General Grant will attend the fair, accompanied by Mrs, Grant COLONIZATION OF INDIAN TRIBES, The government has under advisement the question of colonizing all the Indian tribes between Minnesota and + Towa and the Rocky Mountains {no a resergation some- whore on the northorn border of Montaaa and Dakota, with the British possossiona edjoiaing, fa an unlimited hunting ground, i | ’ 4 ¥