The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1865, Page 4

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Grusasrio jemagy ‘Aonosar! sere ceo tas Tux Sr Tern Matines af Twe o'Clock. No. 444 Broadwav.—Baucers. ehnnnies Secmasguas, —Mx. anp Mas. Wurre. Mati- mee at Two o'Clock. Samwovers. MUSEUM, Broadway.—Movina Wax #icuaes or Paxsipawt Lincoun, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM fF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. posse New York, Saturday, June 10, 1865. = THE TRIAL. A number of witnesses were examined yesterday by he court martial trying tho assassination conspirators, anda considerable additional amount of testimony was Raxon. The only facts of particular importance elicited, fhowover, were contained in the evidence of Mr. Charles 4 Dana, late Assistant Seoretary of War, who was re- @alled by the prosecution. Ho identified the lettors, already published in the Hunato, picked up in» Third @vonuo car in this city, last fall, by a lady. These lot- ters, it will be remembered, related to the movements fand plans of the assassination conspirators, and alluded the lot to murder the President having fallen to Booth. ‘These letters were gi 796 ask Sings them t9 «Xe: te . Gonoral Dix, ang by him sont to the War Department. Mr. Dana stated that he took these letters to Presi. @ent Lincoln, who looked ‘sf-them without making any particular remark, owing to the fact that numerous Bimilar communications Freviously come to the motice of the government, It was evident, however, ‘that Mr. Lincoln attached more importance to these let- ‘ters than‘to previous ones, as Mr. Dana subsequently found-them in an envelope on wiiigh was written, in the dandwriting of the President, the word ‘Assassination. ”” ‘The counsel for the accused again produced witnesses ‘with the design of invalidating tho testimony of those giving evidence for the prosecution. Among them was @-nister of Dr. Mudd. One witness stated that on learn- ng of the assassination Dr. Mudd suggested that the peo- ple of his neighborhood ought to raise a home guard to assist in preventing the escape of the assassins. A number of@ersons suspected ef complicity in the Conspiracy and several witnesses in the case were yes- terday released from confinement in the Old Capitol Prison. THE SITUATION. Interesting accounts are given by our Texas corres- pondents of the re-establishment of the national flag and the national authority along the coast of that State. Forts Mannabassett and Griffin, strong works, defending Babine Pass, were occupied by Lieutenant Commander Pennington, of the gunboat Owasco, without opposition, onthe 26th ult. Tho rebel troops had all evacuated before the arrival of the national force. It was said that they left in a state of mutiny, and that Ghie was the prevalent condition of the rebel forces gene- fally in Texas prior to and at the time of Kirby Smith's @arrender. Nine heavy guns and other valuable property wore found in these two forts. Delegations of @itisens met Commander Pennington and expressed thomselves as willing to surrender everything, anxious to take the oath of allegiance, and delighted at their Testoration to the protection of the national government ; ‘and this seemed to be the fooling of the Texans gene- rally. It was expected that Galveston and every other pomt of consequence along the coast would be occupied by the national forces in » few days. Brownsville, Texas, was occupied by national troops on the 31st. of May. It is eaid that the rebels, before evacuating, sold thoir artillery to the Mexican imperialists. Previous reports that the rebel General Kirby Smith ‘had loft Texas and gone to Mexico are confirmed He carried with him a large amount of money. General Grierson, the famous gaider, has been assigned ‘to the command of the national cavalry in the Depart- mont of the Gulf. General Canby has turned over s Portion of his cavalry to General Sheridan. ‘Tho steamship Corsica, from Havana June 3 and Nas- eau Jane 6, arrived at this port yosterday. The case of the British steamship Mary, better known as the Alex- ‘andra, was decided in the Nassau Admiralty Court May 23.. The Mary was scized on suspicion of being intended for a rebel cruiser. A gun of novel construction, packed, im @ case as “‘dry goods,’ and some shells similarly packed, were found on board, together with rebel com missions in blank and other suspicious documents; and it was testified that her fittings were more suitable for a @hip-of-war than for a merchant vessel. The defence was that the vessel was intended for a blockade runner. Judge Doyle ruled that the case had not been made out, ‘and discharged the Mary with a caution. A correspondent of the Nassau Guardian of the 10th of May tolls a strange story of outrages alleged to have been committed by the rebel pirate Parr off Inagua, which, however, later Nassau advices do not confirm. This @ccount states that Parr captured the bark Lizzy, from Cuba, set her on fire, left all on board to save them- telves in the small boats or be burned or drowned, and ‘sailed away, telling them that he intended to drowna @housand before the war was over. It is added that some of the 'S passengers were believed to have been burned Parr is called by this correspondent the captor of tho steamers Chesapeake and Roanoke; but Licutenant Braine, we believe, was the feader in those Captures, ‘The steamehip Matanzas, Captain Leisegang, from Gevannah on the 6th instant, arrived hore yesterday. We are indebted tower purser, Mr. Caro, for detivery of andris, Va Business in Savannah wes ot/'p jstnpdetill, The market was overstocked, and there wae e grost lack of money t0 buy with, ‘The health of the city and of the troops wes good. ‘The steamers Crescent, Savannah, Detroit and Neptune, the last of General Weitzel’s floes bound for Texas, left Fortreas Monroe on Thursday. General Weitsel sailed on board the Crescent. General Grant passed through Buffalo yeatorday efter- noon on his way to the West. Immonse crowds sur- rounded the railroad station, and greatenthusiaam of course prevailed, The General, however, remained im the city only long enough to take dinner, and then pro- ceeded on his trip to Chicago. General Alfred H. Terry, the hero of Fort Fisher, left this city for Washington yesterday morning. ‘The government has despatched five hundred men to the Wilderness battle field for the purpose of giving proper interment to the remains of all soldiors that may be found exposed. ‘The rebel Brigadier General J, Warren Grigaby, of Kentuoky, and-lately attached to Forrest's command, ts reported to have been hung by soldiers stationed at Dan- ville, Ky., on his return to that place, his former rest- dence, He was once s prominent lawyer of that ‘hate, and during. Bragg’s occupation. of--Keatucky.was tho | rebel Provost Marshal of Deylo and Lincotn eountios, and thus made‘himself very obnoxious tothe people. Griga- | by’s wife, W & grandson, of Governor Shélby, of birt i _ EUROPEAN NEWS. - Our files of European papers to the 27tn ult. aro to hand. The opinions of the British and French press on the capture of Jeff. Davis form exceedingly curious reading. The London Tims says Davis is ontitled to little sympathy or respect from England. The London Pot asserts that only success was wanting to raise Joff. Davis to a level with George Washington. The London Daily News remarks that the outrag’s proved to have been latterly sanctioned by Davis render his complicity in the assassination plot less improbable. On one point only-all the organs, both English and Frenob, agroe, ‘They say that Davis ought not to be hanged. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have roceived some intelligence regarding the re- volution in the republic of San Salvador additional to that published in yesterday morning's Hzrauv. Presl- dont Duefias has issued proclamations declaring martial law throughout the country; anpouncing that the rebel- lion, though unimportant, and receiving no assistance or countenance except in a very small portion of territory, may, as an example, be prejudicial, and granting pardon to those willing to accept it who had favored the insur- reotionists, but not yot taken arms in their behalf. Tho people were rapidly coming forward for the support of Duefias, The revolution broke out on the © [5th of May, iitder the fendgrabip 67 General Cabanas, Se Sea Miguel, | which inca wa was captured without resistance. Mr, Yan Peet, ond of the Sandy Hook pilots, states that the pilots of the boat Ariel Patterson, No. 12, when off Cape May, picked up two life boats, @ number of trunks and clothing, belonging to the steamer Admiral Dupoht, thesupposition being that the steamer had blown up. The Admiral Dupont sailed from New York on the 7th inst. The officers of the steamship Matanzas, which ar- rived here yesterday, also report passing off the Dela- ware Capos, yesterday morning, numerous articles, ap- parently portions of a wrecked steamer, Similar reports were made by other vessels which arrived here yester- day. The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, baptain Mirchouse, will sail to-day at noon, from pier 44 North River, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamship Teutonia, for Southampton and Hamburg, will also sail to-day at noon. The mails for both vessels will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The steamship Havana, Captain M. R. Greene, will sail to-day at three o'clock P. M. for Havana direct, from pier No. 8 North River. The mails will close at the Post Office at the ususl hour. The United States steamer Commodors Morris, Acting Master Bingham, from Hampton Roads, and the double- ender gunboat Pontiac, from Charleston, via Long Island Sound, arrived in this port yesterday. The case of the United States against one hundred and twenty-six bales of cotton, tried in the United States District Court, before Judge Benedict and a jury, was submitted to the consideration of the jury on Thursday evening. That body was locked up all” night, and came into court yesterday morning, reporting that they could Bot agree. The foreman, however, stated that cloven of them were for a verdict for the government, but one holding out for the claimant. It appeared that the odd man was a Mr. Robinson, who, during the progress of the trial, was detected holding a conversation with one ficient, The case will be tried again. ‘The cave of Charies H. Elrich, charged with counter. feiting United States currency, was again up before United States Commissioner Stillwell yesterday. On motion of Assistant District Attorney Bell, the acoused was discharged from further custody, owing to a lack of sufficiont proof to justify his detention. An important counterfeiting case is expected to come before Commissioner Stillwell next Monday. The ac- cused is aman named Shuister, a farmer in the in- terior @ State, who is charged with manufacturing on an ¢@: ive scale and distributing large amounts of spurious currency. The long standing Forrest case was once more resusci- tated yesterday by a motion to have it argued de novo in the United States courts. The motion came up before Judge Nelson, who, having heard counsel for and against, ook4@he papers and reserved his decision. ‘The Strong divorce case was yesterday again postponed inthe Superior Court. It is now set down for Monday next. The ffllowing wills have been admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s Court daring this weok :—Those of Adel- heid Mendolsohn, Abraham 8. Bird, Benjamin E. Gow. porthwait, Nancy Anthony, Caroline Houle, Abigail Dunn, Edward Miller, Simon Riger, Thebe J, Waterbury, Helon ‘Amelia Wheelor, Stasey Pitcher, Margaret Sullivan and George B, Waldron. There were no jury trials in the Court of General Ses- sions yosterday, in consequence of the failure of the Grand Jury to presont indictments. At noon they brought in a large number of bills, and the trials of the accused parties were set down for next week. Tho Re- corder sentenced the prisoners who were convicted during the woek. Michael Fairs, guilty of an attempt at lar- cony, was sent to the State Prison for two years and three months, Peter McCaffrey, guilty of # similar offenee, was sont there for two years. Ferdinand Reickel, who pleaded guilty to larceny, was sent to the a snitentiary for one year. John Ruthven, convicted of embezzlement, was sent to the Penitentiary for two months, John A. McNamara, convicted of forgery in the third degree, was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for three years, John Stead, indicted for an attempt to commit rape upon Bridget Luddy, on the 20th of May, pleaded guilty to the offence, He was re- manded for sentence. Judge Russel sentenced Henry Crogan and Charles McCready, convicted last term of lar- cony, to the Ponitentiary for one year. Mary Taylor, @ pickpocket, was sent to the City Prison for four months and fined fifty dollars. Licutenant Governor Alvord, with the State Engineer ‘rebel correspondent in Canada was notifying ‘and Surveyor, tho Quarantine and Health Officers, Police Commissioner Bergen and others, proceeded down the bay yesterday in one of the police steamboats, to examine locations and fix upon a site for the orection of the pro- posed quarantine warehouses provided for by act of the last Legislature. They visited Staten Island, Oyster Ia- land and Robins’ Reef. The results of their examinations Will be reported to the Commissioners of the Land Office, who determine the site to be chosen under the law. ‘The Thota Delta Chi Society concluded its seasions at the Astor House last evening. Delegates from a num- ber of colleges were in attendance at the convention. our despatches and papers. Gonoral Gillmore had published an order announcing that provost marshals’ passos would not hereafter be required to enable eiviliane to cater, loave or remain within the limits of tho Depart. mont of the South. Major General Grover had re. Mnquished command of the District of Savannah, fend had deen succeeded by Major Genoral Bingo. Qeneral Stewart 1. Woodford was to bave charge of the post of Savannah, A portion of General ‘Drivight's division of troops arrived at Savannah on the i foe, om boned the steamship’ Norte Siac, trom Alex: ‘The association will moot again in this city ia Febreary pert Class day was colebrated at Columbia Colloge yesterday by the class of 1866 by « variety of exercises, consisting of oratory, music and dancing. There were upwards of three hundred ladies and geatiemen present, and all feomed delighted with the novolty and interest of the celebration. ‘Tho Grarld Lodge of Freomasons closed their annual somion yesterday evening. The proceedings throughout have beon exceedingly harmonious and of great impor- tance to the fraternity, The examination in the cases of the Duane street Uguor dealers, chacugd with Gripe tlwir oxouiinys for Uae, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1868. eo fer es examination of Puller and Findon were ‘and probably ee Am explosion ccourred tm the distillery Nos. G4 and 66 Chorry strect, between six and seven o'clock last even - ing, demolishing the building te -a coasiderable ertent, and badly scalding one man. ‘The damage is estimated ot ton thousand dollars, ‘The Philadelphia Gremen and their New York enter- talners took an exoursion yesterday morning to Raadall's Island, whore they remained two or three hours. In the evening the Philadelphians were entained at © magnia- cont banquet at Irving Hall. Theyteave for home this morning from plor 8 North river. ‘The stook market was dull end without material change yesterday, Gold opened at. end closed in the streot at 137%. At night 16 closed a 181%. ‘There was.a Armer feeling tm commeroial circles yes- terday, and prices, as8 general thing, tended in favor of eoliers, Still business was not aotive, except ina few articles. Freights were rather better and the offerings Petrotoum was lees active but firm On ‘Change flour and grain wore steady: Pork and\lard wore firmer. The latter again advanced }(0. per pound. Whiskey wes rather better. eating Sent sat tara The Cansds Fund for the Aasnesination Conspiracy—Startling Developments of Rebel Political Plots, In Greece and Rome, and more particularly. in modern Italy, the violont death of leading men at the hands of their political opponents was by no means uncommon. Indeed, it may be said to have formed a recognized feature of the government, When the encients were tired of a ruler they publicly murdered him, as in the cases of Cesar and theGracchi. The Italians under similar circumstances resorted to the most infamous secret assassinations, using the poignard or the poison with infernal skill and cowardly dexterity. But of all mur- ders and assassinations, ancient or modern, none was ever so savage and Be systematic as that of the late lamented President Lincoln. The key to the conspiracy to accomplish this damnable deed is furnished us in the evidence before the Court Martial at Washington, and we find that this key unlocks many of the secrets of our journalists and politicians, and reveals to us the most novel, curious and start- ling developments. It appears from the evidence that, after the battle of Gettysburg, the rebel leaders deter- mined that it was impossible to achieve their independence without either putting one = Ne eee ees AcepAthizat# int the Presiden. Bis ving President Lincoln by his capture or death. To carry out this semi- political, semi-murderous plot funds had been deposited in the hands of Jake- Thompson, the rebel agent in Canada; and a number of rebel officers and officials were accordingly ordered on what was called “detached service.” Sandford Conover, a clerk in the rebel War Depariment, swears that he ran the blockade from Richmond to Washington, about this time, and went on to Canada, where he conferred and associated with the other rebel agents, and was privy to their plans to burn New York, to poison the Croton water, to institute raids and to kill President Lincoln. His evi- dence convicts Thompson, Clay, Cleary, Tucker, Sanders and others as accomplices in the assas- sination conspiracy, and Surratt as 8 messenger between these men and Jeff. Davis, who autho- rized the plot and furnished blank commissions for the assassins. These preliminary facts must be carefully remembered. Immediately upon his arrival at Washington, fresh from the rebel War Department and on his way to Canada to act as a rebel agent on “de- tached service,” as Conover testifies, he wrote te the Tribune, and the editor of that paper at once made a written engagement with him as correspondent. Then he proceeded to Mon- treal, learned all the plans of the other rebel agents, and was asked to take partin them. He swears that he informed the Tribune of the intended raid upon Ogdensburg; but that Mr. Gay, the managing editor of that paper, refused to publish it, on the ground that it was “a sen- sation story.” Ho also swears that he informed Mr. Gay of the plot to assassinate President Lincoln, and requested him to give the infor- mation to the government. We should like to know whether Mr. Gay complied with this re- quest ; if not, why he withheld the information which would have saved the President’s life ; and why Mr. Gay is not called as a witness on the trial to depose as to these extraordina: facts. Other rebel plots, including, we pi sume, the St. Albans raid, the firing of New York city and. the poisoning of the Croton water, were also communicated by Mr. Conover to Mr. Gay, as he swears; but the information was not transmitted, as it should have been, to the government authorities, The editor of the Tribune stated, a few days ago, that two or three of Mr. Conover’s letters never reached him; but he gives no reason why they should not have been received as the other letters wore. Conover’s evidence is clear upon the point that, on two occasions at least, he notified Mr. Gay of President Lin- coln’s danger, and it is equally clear that Mr. Gay did nothing to avert the assassination. Several other facts are important in this con- nection. At the very time that the Tribune's Messrs. Greeley and Gay of the nefarious plots concocted by the rebel agents in Canada, we find Mr. Greeley meeting these agents at Ni- agara Falls on a so-called peace mission. By the aid of Colorada Jewett, the editor of the Tribune was led into o conference with the very men whom his correspondent was de- nouncing as murderers, incendiaries, poisoners and robbers. The New York copperheads were also largely represented at the Falls, and an effort was being made to have Seymour nominated, in the rebel interest, at the Chicago Convention. The political uses of the fund de- posited with Jacob Thompson thus ex- plained. Twenty-five thousand Fitacs of this money we trace, in all probability, to Ben Wood's News, avowedly the ‘rebel organ at the North, It will begemembered that Ben Wood confessed to receiving that amount from Mon- treal, where he circulates few, if any, papers and has no lotteries. The present editor of the News was at that time the editor of the Rich- mond Znguirer, and « most violent and out rageous rebel, as bo fs still. The News and the Bnquirer were exchanging “ personal” ad- vertisements, afterwards suppressed by the government here because they conveyell aid and comfort to the enomy. Tho Enquirer pub- lished an advertisement offering a reward for President Lincoln's assassination, and the News published an advertisement calling for a meet ing of “The Devoted Band,” which was doubt- less the band of conspirators, To make the connection between the New York, Richmond end Capada sehela moro complete, tho rebel ¢ tp fi if z4% é up the July riots; to obstruet volunteering, and to support those papers which persistently de- preciated the city and county war bonds and volunteering committees. The re-election of James Brooks, the editor of a spiteful, foolish, paper, iss curious link in this evi- dence. His re-clection was engineered against the war democrats by the yery men who were attacking volunteering and the war bonds, and who wore both personally and politically attached to ex-Governor Seymour. Thus we ean trace the rebel influence through all:its ramifications, and we may rejoice that it did not succeed in giving the nation a copperhead President and the State a copperhead Gover- nor, although it did give the city a copperhead Mayor in 1868 and a number of copperhead Representatives in Congress in 1864, Perhaps we shall never kaow how much rebel money was spent in this city, who expended it, and whether all of them know for what purpose they were working; but that this money was expended by our local copperhead politicians we consider indubitable. The attention of the War Department is ro- speotfully solicited to the political bearings of the evidence before the Court Martial, and to the singular connection between Conover and the Tribune. It is due to the government and to justice that Messrs. Greeley, Gay, Ben Wood, 8. L, M. Barlow, James Brooks, Colorada Jewett and the present editor of the News should be galled an ~ tomes. mmesar, Greeley and Gay yw, . “ean an dotbtions explain away their ‘relations with Conover and his lost letters; but much informa- tion can, perhaps, be obtained from Ben Wood and his partner as fo ation advertinge ments and the incendiary plot which they ridi- ouled in concert. It is also the duty of the Judge Advocate General to subpoena ex-Gov- ernor Seymour and the local politicians who were in league with him. Any one who can throw the least light upon this conspiracy will be welcome. If these gentlemen know nothing it will be easy for them to say so; but the evi- dence is that-the rebols wanted Seymour nomi- nated at Chicago, and used the Canada fund for that purpose; and when McClellan was nominated they would not support him, pre- ferring to have President Lincoln re-elected, and designing to assassinate him on inaugura- tion day, as is testified by a reliable witness upsn the trial now in progress. We believe that the government will discover a conspiracy more extensive and more cruel than any which existed in Greece, Rome or modern Italy, if the proper steps be taken and the proper wit- nesses called; and we believe that Messrs. Greeley and Gay will be glad to explain before the country their connection with Conover, Greeley’s conferences with the rebel agents at Niagara, the concurrence between the Tribune and the News in clamors for peace, and the remarkable unanimity with which both of these papers now oppose the punishment of traitors. For these reasons we again urge the Washington authorities to put these copper- heads and radicals upon the stand. i How Genzrat Grant Fiayxep tar Honcry Potrricians.—The hungry politicians wanted to eppropriate as part of the effects of a little clique the fame of the country’s greatest soldier. They got up a political meeting, and intrigued so successfully that they secured the presence of the hero. So fat so good, But that was not the end. Their intention was to hob-nob with the hero over the country and clinch the asso- ciation; to dine and wine with him up the Hudson in the grandest style, and hurrah him through sll the towns on the railroad across the country to Chicago, so that all the world should know ‘he was theirs, This did not suit General Grant. But what should he do? How get out of it? Being at the Astog House, some judicious friend advised that he dihould consult Stetson. gtetson was called, and came. Stet son, it fi tolerably well known, is one of the shrewd men of the time. Cool, self-poised and wary, he is competent to advise the highest or the fowest—the mightiest magnate or the pet- tiest politician. He knows how to keep a hotel. He can hit the nice line of propriety on any given point in the relations of lite with confi- dent ease. Political mazes are no mystery to him, and the dodges of politicians are as fami- liar as toothpicks. Grant stated the case, running hastily through the facts and coming to the point. He had never been very greatly bothered by Bragg, Pemberton, Polk or any of those fellows. He had readily seen through Lee’s ruses and always defeated them. But now he acknow- ledged that he was corneged. He had gotten into the hands of fellows whose tactics he did not understand. What should he dot How avoid the politicians who intended to bore him up the Hudson ona big boat next day? Stetson’s eyes brightened ; his mind was easier. Was that all? Leave it to-him. He under- stood the nature of the case, and could manage it. He did. He sent for General Dix and arranged it all; and next day, punctually at five o’clock, a government steamer waited for the Lieutenant General at the Battery, and half an hour later, when the politicians thronged hungrily round the front of the hotel, eager to ‘catch their man, the General and his party, driven away in close carriages, went on the little boat and steamed up to West Point in comfort. Thus the politicians were flanked and the whole horde of bungry ones left at the hotel in utter discomfiture, and they won't know how it was all-done until they have read this article. Reoonsrnverton at Born Ewvs.—While Andy Johnson is-reconstructing the South is it not time for the rank and file of the Northern de- mocracy to go to work getting up conventions and taking other steps to reconstruct the North, and at the some time separate themselves from ipoir copperhead and traitor leaders? he Sen, Seautt. Suusnre Nes of Porth cation—Ne Treason: “They any,” moralizes the beantifa! but un- happy Ophelia, “that the owl was the baier’s daughter,” This may scem strange, but wé say that the Hon Gerrit Smith, the right justifying attempted extixpation of the slavoholders of the South by fire and sword, could ever feel such brotherly love in their behalf as to plead against the cruelty of even trying them for their feasful crime of treason. But so it is, ‘and the intolerable abolition fanatic, as they have for years regarded Gerrit Smith, emerges from the Cooper Institute the ohampion of the “pence-atany-price” ocopperheade—yoa, their prince of peacemakers. ‘His Inte speech reads as if drawn from the broad distinction between the adoption of the rules of civilized warfare and the recognition of the so-called “Confederate States” was better understood by Jeff. Davis than itis by Mr. Smith. Davis understood it, or he would not have resorted to the numerous cunning devices which he tried from time to time to obtain, by some slip of the pen, at least a technical recog- nition of international belligerent righta, if he could get nothing more. The argument of Mr. Gerrit Smith to show that Davis capnot justly be even tried for trea- is 9 Bl filooe of the game cloth aa James Buchanan’s ’s argument ‘fn favor of non-resistance to the rebellion, on the ground (bat the genoral government ind no right to defend fisalf oqainst & Treasondble comm mation acting in the name of 8 State or of several States ie oi According to Buchanan ther? was no tres in the Southern confed while, acderding to Smith, if there was treason, sve no tight topunish it, In the one oase the traitor+is-pro- - tected by State sovereignty, and in the other by thet humane policy which treated him in war according to the usages of civilization. In both oases the government against traitors is power- less to protect itself. But the federal constitu- tion and the laws of Congress passed in con- formity therewith tell us very plainly what constitutes treason—that it consists “only in levying war against the United States, or in giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” In accordance with the constitution Congress, at an early day, provided the penalty for treason, which is death, and the President is bound to see the laws faithfully executed. He is thus bound to bring traitors to trial. He cannot escape this responsibility on the plea that there are too many to be tried. He must bring some of them to trial and to judgment, in vindication of the law, the majesty and safety of the gov- ernment. We do not say that it is necessary to do any hanging of condemned traitors. We think, on the contrary, that even Jeff. Davis, if found guilty only of treason, will be most wisely disposed of by a commutation of the penalty to perpetual exile. A very few ex- amples of this sort will suffice for the present and the future as our protection against trea- son. This amiable philosopher, Gerrit Smith, in his overflowing philanthrophy, overshoota the mark. Do the hundreds of thousands of young and able-bodied men which this late terrible rebellion has carried to their untimely graves, and the thousands upon thousands of destitute widows and orphans which it has thrown upon the charity of the country, go for nothing, or for only 80 much as a black eye froma drunken carousal! Mr. Smith appears to think so; but the idea isa monstrous fallacy. Adopt it; let the traitors in this late bloody and destructive war be pronounced beyond the reach of evena trial for treason, end what security shall we bave for peace in the fature? None whatever. A shorter way to reach the millennium thus fore- shadowed by our philanthropic reformer would be to abolish all our jails and State prisons, all the cumbersome machinery of government, national, State and municipal; all laws, officers and courts of law, and turn society back to the primitive freedom of the savages of Australia, We apprehend that the one idea of Mr. Smith, which has rendered him 80 excessively charita- ble towards the treason of this late rebellion, is the good thing which it has accomplished in the abolition of African slavery. For this he would have the government declare that there has been no treason, and that Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspirators were more than half right after all, We wish the parties concerned in this pacification movement joy of their bar- gain in Mr. Smith. We presume, however, that Andy Johnson will adhere to his doctrine that “teeason is a crime, and that traitors must be punished,” and we will trust him for the exercise of a proper degree of charity in vin- dicating the dignity of the government, the ends of justice, the law and the public safety. Cost ov Tur War Corrusronvesce or THE Heratv.—During the last tour years we have employed between thirty and forty, and some- times more war correspondents, including the army and navy, for the Herauy. They have been attached to army corps, departments, headquarters, and at every point on sea or land where the services of a special correspon- dent could be of advantage to the public. Our army correspondents have, on an average, used up or had captured one or two valuable horses each, The whole cost of this war cor- respondence establishment reached during the rebellion the sum of nearly half a million of dollars. ee Tar Trim To Move.—Is it not time for the rank and file of the democracy of this city and State to commence & movement by organizing for a State convention, and thus get rid of their leaders, such as the Seymours, the ‘Woods and thcir several tails, who have ruled ond ruined thom for the past four yoarst Lot the domocratie rank and fle of New York olty’ and State organize at once. : opRst er" eee ene Tom Versmay Soupmes—Waex Ans Tust To Bu Dmcaancap!—We have received from several veteran soldiers in the armies encamped about Washington inquiries as to the disposi- tion which ie to be made of them. From their representations it is apparent that a great deal of dissatisfaction exists among the re-eniisted veterans. They claim that they wore promised their discharge as seon as the war was over, and assert that they would not have re-enlisted had they supposed that they would be required to serve after the war was over. They alse olaim that the government has officially con- strued the phrase “for three yearsor during the war” to mean that in case the warended before three years from the date of muster had elapsed the soldier was to be entitled to his discharge. All this is very true; but the soldier who is forced by the government to continue his ser- vice should recognize that there are many oir cumstances which forbid the disbanding of all our forces at once, The war is not literally over; will not be, in the complete gence which’ shall assure us of future security from civil dis- ‘irbances, for some time to come, and the vete- | tens who have subdued the rebels must remain to keep them in subjugation until the regular army, which in a great measure was absorbed in the volunteer force, shall have been reorgaa- ined, increased. and distributed in such « man- ner as to enable it to do what the veterans are now doing—preventing all future civil wars, Besides, it would not do, as every veteran’s good sense will tell him, to disband four hun- dred thousand men at once, if such « feat could be accomplished by the mustering officors. It would bes cruelty to the veteran himaclf. It would have the same effect on him as the over- stocking of a market has on the merchant, and by throwing on the country » large number of laborers, destroy. the value of labor, ruin the veterans, and put money only in the purses of the capitalists. The interest of the veteran soldiers demands their gradual disbandment, and we trust that in this view of the case they will possess their souls in patience, stand by the governmcnt, and await the justice whioh, ae they complain, may be tardy, but which is none the leas sure to reach them eventually. Tas Lup Loa GEBaIt Burra. Gerrit Bmith thinks that Joff. Davis ought te ‘be pardoned, eo far as his association with the rel Ilion goes, And why? Because we have the South as belligerents, and that must prevent us treating them a8 oriminals, But who has told Mr. Smith that we ever recog: fives Southerners as ts in any way ‘that would pict2ot then foal the ponsequences oa fs wes convestent 10 Halal of thais. rie upon those re have exchanged ;igom Ps ers with them, certainly, as ® matter of meroy and justice to our own mer’ in their hands. We spare the greatest criminal tie world ever saw if the bullet to reach him must ti<st go through the breast of our brother. We reccgnized then: as belligerents by the war. The existence of a police recognizes burglary, arson and nrurder, and all the rest of the catalogue of crimes that men commit, but we punish the criminals all the same when we catch them, and we have never recognized the rebellion to any greater extent than we daily recognize robbery and murder. Corrovs On Drr—It is reported the govern- ment has discovered a large batch of letters from Fernando Wood, Ben Wood, the Sey- monrs, and various other persons in the North, among the rebel archives seized in Richmond. It is further said that these letters, when pub- lished, will startle the community, showing as they will the complicity of the writers in the devi work of the rebellion _ Cavant a Tartan—The nigger-worshippers in Andy Johnson. Carnvrrr o an Exousmmax tm Mzxt00.—Wo have re- ceived a communication from Mr. Geo, Walcott, of the English engineering frm of Bowors & Co., who was sent to Mexico for the purpose of carrying out @ contract obtained by the firm for supplying the city of Mexice with gas, Gescribing his imprisonment and sufferings in the capital of the new empire. From Mr. Waloott’e account it appears that he obtained a concession of land, and was actively engaged in constructing the gas works contracted for by his firm, when his sympathies and sense of justice urged him to protest against and endea- vor to arrest the brutal massacres of Mexicans, betweem twenty and thirty of whom were daily led out to oxe- cution in his vicinity almost before his eyes. In punish- ment of his remonstrances he was forcibly seiaed by Maximilian’s minions, and immured in a dungeon, where ho remained from January 8 to April 28, 1966, obsined hand and foot to the wall. -Mr. Walcott is one of the few Englishmen who appreciate the injustice of rushing free Mexico under the despotism of Napoleon and Maximitiag, and who understand the wisdom of the Canning-Moard® doctrine. Prorosen Munrme ror Mexican Parriors.—There-are many exiled Mexican republicans in Now York, and among them a number of men of great eminence in otvill and military life—generals, coloneis, statesmen, editors, &o.—all of devoted republican principles. Being citizens of influence, their example, as well as their power, was too much feared by the foreign usurper® to be endured, and they were compelled to leave their country. Their stay here will probably be short; but it is desired to have them appear before an American audience, to receive am expression of the feelings entertained by our people for their cause, and to receive from them such authontis accounts of their rich and splendid native land as we have no other means of obtaining. There are no books of the right kind, and the enemies of freedom have long insidiously circulated false assertions against the liberals, The meeting ts an important one, and may be anticipated with peculiar interest, A Soup Musician axp Port.—Mr. Isaiah W. Goa- gler, a privategp the One Hundred and Twonty-sevente New York Volunteers, has just published a very admira- ble piece, entitled “Lincoln's. Grave," the words an@ music being both hi# own composition. This wor ox- hibits a great deal of talent asa lyric poom and in ite musical construction. The author presents in bio own person a strong evidence of the finer and more cultivated clements of society which were represented in oar grand army, even in the lowest grades, such as are to be-found in no other army in the world, He has written-several other. excellent beg 5 which have been published oy Hall & Sons, Firth, Horace Waters, sucl as ‘Those Charming Sewaes ‘Mary's Beauty,’’ lwo. Gotne, Merry Spring,” &e. ir. Gongler was wounded ia the bip.at the battle of Honey Hill, and is still. 80 severe- ly disabled as to be obliged to move around omworutch. ‘Tur Hirroragatron—Ciose oF Tre Seasow.—The long oontinued and thoroughly successful season terminates to-day With a grand farewell matinée, at half-past two, and an evening performance at eight o’elock, when all the resources and attractions of the seasom Will be brought into play for the purpose of ofoaing the Acanom, with brilliant éclat. The comie pantomime of The Elixie of Life will be given, with the addition of the princtpal come scones of the famous pantomime of Blue Board Thobeautiful performing trick ponies, Lavinia and Minnis, will appear for the Inst time. The great German gymuasta, the Matti Brothers, Manetta Zanfretta, the pony races, the monkeys on horseback,"and all the great artiste of mastic com will appear series bein rare erenie performances eat rath ‘the e1 Pinay have Temilted in eenereel ippodramatre ys 5g temple asa - jolty ao in our “caida Pri ceed 9 Tall season, tn fs bultding wil bo altered, eed eeeaurly ease.