Buffalo Weekly Express from Buffalo, New York • 1

YOL XX BUFFALO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1865. NUMBER 999. BUFFALO, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1865. One of the Cbtef Mourners. of North Carolina, and by the victorious I got a plank and a warn to the island called The Slavery Quest on In Kentucky Cor PUBLISHED KVKRY TUESDAY BY V.

M. CL APP CO. Otter 1M Jfof uwff. but if torn asunder with a rude hand, it will lacerate the popular mind, aDd pain the publio heart, without benefiting freedom. For the sake of the peaceful and kindly relations of our country, it is to bi hoped that our brethren rf the Northern States may more generally understand anil better appreciate these facts.

I am of thot-e whose unfaltering faith is "that ail things work together for good," to those who love The Fearful Disaster on the Mississippi Explosion of tee Steamer Sultana. Fi om the Memphis Bulletin, The steamer Sultana, Captain Mason, arrived from New Orleans last night, the 26th, with about two thousand two hundred people on board, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one of whom were exchanged federal prisoners from Vicksburg, the balance being refugees and regular passengers from various points along the river, proceeding toward St. Louis. She left the coal pile about 1 o'clock this morning, and had made some eight or ten miles, when an explosion of one of her boilers The boat, with its mass of living freight, took fire in the vicinity of the en TEUXS $1 SO PER AHinm, I1T ADVAKCE. THE BUFFALO MORNING EXPKKS9 -publhht the name place, (dlly) at Ten Dol-ara per THE TRI-WEEKLV EXPRESS t- pntlfc.hl on Tw-rtajr.

Thursday nl Sturdy to inunv, ive ihjubtc per Annum- Adwttsements insertWI on nnsonnJ'l. ternw. BUFFALO, WEDN'DAY, MAY 3. 186,5 The Djs of Retrenchment. The people of this nation, next to the ad- vent of peao, will hail -with transcendent joy the work of retrenchment, no nation on tbta Mrth ever submitted with more patriotic devotion to the burthens that war brings in ita train, than have the American people uring the fonr years of strife and bloodshed that have attended the great Rebellion jnst now crushed.

The financial policy of the government has been wise and has met with a patriotic response from the popular heart and purse. The debt of the government, large aa it is, that has accumulated under the exigencies of the War, is chiefly owing to -American citizens. Our bonds have not been thrust upon the European markets. If foreign capitalists desired to invest In American securities it became necessary to -resort to their American Agents for that purpose, and the government has never for a moment since Us financial policy was adjusted and put in working order, been anxious about the means to prosecute the war- The treasury has been promptly supplied from the pockets of the people. The 5-2CS and 7 30's of the government have found their way to the pockets of those who form the foundations of the Re public.

What we owe, therefore, is to our selves, i Our bonds are under our own con control, and the national credit can never be impaired by any foreign, power or in fluence. Retrenchment will dry up the rills of taxation, bv which the fountain of our revenues is filled, and we may look for ward hopefully to the day when we may have a redeemed country, an era of econo my, and consequent light taxation The Capitol of the people will aa the government pays ita debt, return to the marts of business and trade in search of Investment, and a period of uneclipsed prosperity will bless and rewaxd the enter prise of the country. From this day we may date an unexampled era as a mercan tile, commercial, manufacturing and agrl- CKnural people. This nation in its new- put on new life and energy, and I I our country, and who dare maintain our government, at any peril, and with tvery sacrifice. But those who demand more am not those who usually make the readiest sacrifices for their country's good.

i am, general, your, respec'iuiiy, THOS. K. B'JAMLICITE, Demands Upon the President. The opponents of the.adminlstratien.who have been indulging in the most fulsome flatteries of President Johnson since the death of Mr. Lincoln, supposing that through that agency they have secured his ear, are now making demands upon him affecting his future policy.

The N. Y. World Bays Let him revnlra thn RiiftrtAnaitn nf tha writ of habeas cnmitx. and let hi in strln from his every subordinate, the highest to me lowest, every vestige of that arbitrary power, utterly unauthorized by the mere suspension of a specific writ, which bo many or them, taught by the example of the Secretary of War, have seized and abused." It occurs to us that the President will give very little heed to the counsels of men and papers which have, tbroughont the war, been zealously at work disparaging the policy and measures of the administration for the suppressing of thai rebellion, now, that its policy and meas ures have proved effective to the crushing out of treason and insurrection, and peace has been secured through their agencies. When the suppression of the writ of habeas corpus Is no longer, in the judgment of the Executive, essential to the public welfare, then, no doubt, it will be revoked.

Until then we would counsel these presses and politicians to patience. Watch and wait is good motto. It is a matter of serious doubt whether the abuse now heaped upon Secretary Stanton is to hasten the action of the administration in the direction pointed by the World. i Rewards for Bebel Chiefs. The New York Times, urging that large rewards should be offered for the delivery or apprehension of Jeff.

Davis and his fugi tive colleagues, says well, that even should these rewards fall to produoe the captures. they would do much to attach disgrace. The very fact that these men fled from the country with a price on their heads, would put them more distinctly into the category" criminals. Ita moral effect would be far worse for their names than If they left without any serious attempt to prevent it. Northern KlunkeyUm.

The following from a Richmond letter In the Worcester fipy is a perfect specimen that mingled meanness, servility and weakness of spirit commonly known as 'flunkeyism:" Being assured that a visit to General Lee would be well received, a detachment the United States Christian Commission, consisting of seven, called at his door, and his son. General Cuatis Lee, appeared. when I said to him that we had called. to pay our respects to Gen. Robert E.

Lee. Being soon seated in a dining room, with out any cover on an extensive dinlngtable. tne uenerai soon was usnerea in oy nis son and announced. I arose by previous arrangement, and said to him that I had been soiaier ana called to pay my respects to him aa a soldier, and advanced to take his hand; but be made no response, and then I Introduced Dr. Parker of Boston and all the party in succession.

We all soon arose, ana Dr. Parker said him that we were here on a humane mission, and hoped he sympathized with It. tie saia mat ne did, ana continued that 4 these associations had done much srood. and he hoped they would continue their ef forts." tie then gave us ail his hand very cord ially, calling us all by name as we parted, with the best of wishes. He and bis staff were dressed in Confederate gray, and he looked very finely, yet sober, sad and cowed la demeanor.

Crowds are flocking to tne unrisuaa Loinmisfiion lor rood. Aa acre of ground covered with cannon speaks the played out Confederacy. Our kind acts are bringing back these people to their allegiance. DELEGATE. A Proclamation.

Whereas, it appears from evidence In the bureau of military Justice, that the atrocious murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Hon. William H. Seward. Secretary of State, waa Incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jeff. Davis, late Richmond, Virginia, and Jacob Thomp- huu, viHuiaub kj.

uiny, uoveny xuoaer, George N. Sanders, W. C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against the government" the United States, harbored in Canada: Now, therefore, to the end that justice may be done, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do offer and prompt for the arrest of said persons, or either of them, within the limits of the United States, so that they can be brought to trial, the following rewards: 100,000 for the arrest of Jefferson Davis; 25,000 for the arrest of Clement C. Clay; 25,000 for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi; for the arrest of George N.

Sanders; 25,000 for the arrest of Beverly Tucker; and 10,000 for the arrest of Wm. C. Cleary, late clerk of Clement C. Clay. The Provost Marshal General of the United States is directed to cause a descrlp- tion of said persons, with notice of the above rewards, to be published.

In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 21 day of May, In the year of our Lord 1805; and of the Independence of the United States of A ninrica the ANDRHW JOHNSON. By the President, W. Huntbu, Acting Secretary of Slate. Thb following la an extract from the speech made by Ingersoll, the blatant Phil army or Urant in the heart or lrginia.

This is a tremendous price to pay for the lxxury of pushing an army no to Nash ville, and for refusing until the eleventh hour to free and arm the slaves. From the Loudon Sun The subjugation of the Southern people is as far of as ever, and the prospect of hold ing In military subjection an assembly of p-tates, every one ot wnicn is as targe as a European kingdom, may even startle Yankee temerity. But the point is not yet gained, and, despite the great Jreverse, the triumph of the Northern arms is not yet as sured. Lee will now be able to carry out his threat of carrying the war into the enemy 'b eountry, though bis proceedings will necessarily be delayed by the loss of his men. The Virginian slaveowners have been taught a severe lesson, but one which we always loresaw they would have to learn if tney persisted in wiuuiolding tneir staves from the national cause.

We must remember, however, that the evacuation of Richmond was evidently resolved upon many days before the battle of Petersburg, and therefore, did not depend entirely upon the result of that struggle. very likely tne next mail may pnng Borne modification of the news as at present given; and since it appears that Lee took with him 2.000 prisoners, by the Northern accounts, the battle could not hive been all one way. Grant has probably lost more men than we are yet told and it will be necessary to see what the Confederate accounts say before putting absolute faith in the present version, In the meanwhile, it is instructive to see what turn the thoughts of the Yankees take in the moment of success. Mr. Seward, in his Bpeech, was kind enough to inform ns that if England would only be just to the United States, Canada would remain un- dirturbed! A fair promise, truly! The words imply that Canada is held in terro-retn over us, and that, on the first exense, thev are ready to invade it.

This shows what we may expect from the North, who evidently think that we hold them in wholesome fear, and that the annexation of Canada is only a question of time. Our statesmen had better take care, lest conciliation be rristaken for weakness by a nation which thinks braggadocio to be bravery, From the Manchester Examiner, A pru 17. Every corner of Europe has ere this re sounded with the news which came to as on Saturday like the shout of a nation "Richmond is ours That at last is no hazardous orediction. no Idle boaat. but oneot the facts by which tho history of the future will shape itself.

The great siege which, including subsidiary operations really forming a part of it, has almost filled up four years, ceases nenceiortn to nx tne attention and excite the sympathy of the world, and takes its place among the landmarks of time. We are not surprised to learn that the North is ablaze with enthusiasm that men's emotions overmaster them in the streets that courts are ad journed and business suspended that citizens rush together in "mass meetings," and that oratory is infectious, it would oe wonderful indeed if it were otherwise, tor the North has passed through a long period of darkness and trial. Suddenly called upon to undertake a work for which its genius was happily unfitted to wage a stu pendous con mot witnout armies, witnout fleets, without those vast establishments which in military monarchies are always in workine order the North had to submit at the out-set to many failures.toput up with painful humiliations, and to learn by dint of experience, the road to success. The first Federal army which set out lor Ktcri-mond, with high hopes of taking it by a mere promenade, was routed within a few miles of the capitol. A second army, overwhelming in point of numbers, and commanded bv a general whom a too chival rous confidence rxised to a national idrl, was half destroyed in the marches of the Chickahominy, and tie remnant had to bet an isrnominious retreat.

A third and fourth attempt to reach the Confederate stronghold were checked by murderous re verses, till at last tne capture oi ruenmma became a bye word. It would be too much to sny that the people were never discour aged. No, their discouragement was pro found, out It never imi mem iur a uiuuieut to think of trivinsr up the contest. After every fall they had sprung upon their feet stronger and more determined than ever, and to dy they are the What the Liytl People Demand In North Carolina. The Tribune's Raleigh correspondent writes The invitation to the fugitive secesh Gov ernor and Legislature oi lrginia to urn and resume the Government, lssoed under the orders of Gen.

Weitzei, creates much surprise here, and as an indication of the policy of the Government, is a source of much concern in this State among the Loyal people. If such a course is pursued here, they say, it will not be six months before the -Rebellion, with its persecutions of Unionists and its imputant demands for the continued enslavement ot tne coioreo people, will be as rampant as ever. The spirit of the Rebellion is not broken though its power is demolished. I see and bear every day the clearest evidence of the contrary, ji reason is just as rampaui ever, even in tne tjapitoi oi xnonn taruii- na, as really so as it nas oeen iu niciiuiuuu for two years past. Withdraw all military pressure at once and we abandon the real friends of the government to persecution, perhaps to martyrdom, and render almost nevltable a secona war to crusn out a se cond rebellion.

The whole Union people of the State pray that our government will extend over them its stronger protection until affairs become lully settled, ana me freedom of the white man and the black alike be secured to them beyond per-ad venture. These are not my views alone, but those of far-seoingand intelligent cui- zehB of this Stale. God bless Andrew Johnson Long live the Republic The Feeling of Sherman's Army. The Raleigh corresponient of the Tri bune writes i Many an officer and soldier has been heard to ntter the wish that Johnston, now, would not surrender. They "want to have one mora chance at them," and then, in the warning language ol tien.

Sherman Woe to thepeople who seek to expend their wild passions in assassination there1 can be but one dread result." '1 he cry of the whole army now is, let justice be done to the head of the conspirator the chief Apol-yons of this hell-born Confederacy." The army of Gen. Sherman, long tired of war. and yearning for their homes, would send up a wild shout along the whole line to day if they should bear of the failure of peace negotiations, iiney are burning to revenge this toul murder. Tho greatest precautions have been adopted to keep down excitement, and even to keep the particulars of the Washington tragedy from the troops. 1 Rebrl Venom on1 the Assassination of Lincoln.

A gentleman, directly from St. Thomas, informs us that on board the Britisb steamer wilder he met ex-Senator Gwin, direct from France; Commodore Barron, Capt. Pegram, and Lieut. Barney, all rebel officers, and travelling under assumed names. They had fifteen or twenty persons in their train, and were evidently bonnd for "Cowes and a market." i The news of President Lincoln a assas sination and the attempt on Secretary Se ward was received at Havana on Saturday last, at the sa'me time with the news of the fall of Richmond add tho surrender of Lee's army.

The whole rebel party wore on the upper deck when they received the news, and Gwin attempted at once to raise a cheer, but he met with no response. In Havana the feellngamongst all respectable citizens was one of profound regret. v. Jr. Times.

Monument Movement in New Vokk, The dollar subscription for the Lincoln monument in New York promises to be a suc cess. Returns of from $30 to 200 each were made to the treasurer on Saturday from a number of firms which are receiy ing subscriptions. Agencies have been multiplied throughout that city, aad it is believed that the entire amount needed will be raised this week. BESjmiN G. Harris, Member of Con gress for Southern Maryland, was arrested on Thursday last by Mfjor Waite, of Gen Augur's staff, for treasonable conduct in dissuading paroled Rebel soldiers from taking the oath of allegiance, and urging them as soon as exchanged to return to the South and make further fight.

This Harris was a prominent member of the Chicago Convention. MosnfeY's men have entirely forsaken binii and the noted guerrilla isarugltlye, Bi present whereabouts we unknown reepondence between Gen. Biieb'n and uramiette. HlADQCAKTEKS PKPAKT KKT OF KEVTrCKT," TllH t. Louibvii.i.k, April a), iws.

To If is Excellency Tliomas K. Bramlette, (Governor of Kentucky: Sik: I write to call your attention to the disturbed condition oi labor in Kentucky, tne contusion produced by the nominal freedom of slaves, and the evils growing bucu ireeaom, wnue unsanctioned vy omits legislation. TDa master can no longer bold his slaves or depend on their labor for a single day, so that producers can not calculate their crops or pursue agriculture -wun any degree ol certainty. Having become restless and dissatisfied, the slaves leave their homes, and setting their faces toward Louisville, journey for nays uor miiK mites to tnese neanquarters, as the mecca where freedom may be found, when that freedom Bhould reach them in their homes, and they not forced to become outcasts and wanderers in order to enjoy it. Our cities and towns throughout the State are crowaea to excess with these refugees from labor, and hundreds are daily arriving to swell the throng.

The people, unable to feed the large surplus population suddenly thrown upon them, want and suf fering has already begun, and demoraliza tion ana crime will follow natural consequences. The Government, our minis tern, ana unristian peonle rlolno- -n they can, but it is not in their power wholly iucci uin uuiu in mis respect, It Is for you, overnor. and vour To-ioia ture, to obviate the rising evils, by at once pocxug mji! uuHULuuuoai Ameodueat and placing the State on a new basis. The moment you do thiB, you will quiet the minds of tjie negroes, those who have left will return, and those still at home will re main lo mi me boh. now so much in rmt ot their labor.

Slavery is at an end. anrl wuj ueuy it. ur. uy Wlinnoirlincr nrnnQ- State legislation, seek to retain longer the shadow of an institution that was always worthless Negro enlistment has bankrupted slavery In Kentucky, over 22,000 of the most valuable slayes having already gone into the Bervice, while the few thousands left are being rapidly gathered up. bv recrnitino- officers and put into the army.

Even old men and boys are found to be fit for duty ii Li li irgimvuui, axiu are I aK en. 1' TO 111 seventy to one hundred enlist daily freeing, under the law of March 3d, 1665, au average of five women and children per man. Thus, from 300 to 500 black people are diily made free, through the instrumentality of the army. How long can Kentucky stand such a draft upon her slave population? To what purpose is it for the Legislature to refuse to act, when the result is only a question of time Kentucky needs what black labor she has left to till the Boil, and her slaves can no be of more service to the nation in the corn-field than in the army, but if she will not free them at home, then the army must absorb them-and if Kentucky Buffers, It is her own fault. While in a state of transition, the present disturbed relations of capital and labor must continue but by freeing the slaves at one blow, and getting at the bottom of the question, it would end.

Your people could then proceed to recognize labor upon new basis. Clearly, it is the intention and policy of this Government to make every black person in it free, securing to every one their own body and their own labor, and the sooner Kentucky makes up her mind to accept the new order of things, and to establish labor upon a free, paid basis, the belter it will befo-her. I earnestly commend this sul jectto your consideration, hoping that your wisdom will devise, speedily, some means to remedy the evils I have mentioned. I am, sir, with sentiments of respect and esteem, your obedient servant. JAMKS B.

BRISBIN. Brevet Brigadier General and S. O. United States Troops. Frankfort, April 22, 28C5.

Brevet Brigadier QeneralJam.es T. Brisbin, Louisville, Ky: General: Your communication of the 20th Inst, did not reach me until the evening of the 21su I concur with you in the opinion that a prosperous and healthy system, of regulated labor in Kentucky cannot be regained in Kentucky except on a free basis. The result of ibe rebellion has been to withdraw from slave labor all protection, and to destroy the power to protect it The effect of rebellion has been to revolu i mize popular judgment upon the subject of slavery, and fix upon it the inexorable decree of Where all the legitimate powers of the Government exerted to foster it into vigor, instead of to destroy, it may well be questioned whether this would succeed in building it up. Whether rightfully or wrongfully, it is needless not to inquire. Slavery is regarded by the masses as the fruitful source of all our woes, aud as Inimical to our future peace and unity.

This revolution cannot go backward. As men of prudence aud patriotism, we must accept the logic of events, and recognize existing facts. That slavery must end, I accept as one of the facts ordained by this revolution, wrought out by rebellion. That should end as speedily as possible, is corollary which a practical wisdom and prudent common sense must deduce from the demonstration of our experiences. Our whole labor system' is.

broken up aud utterly demoralized. Slavery has become an incubus upon our energies, burden to our advancement, and a negative to our prosperity. There is no hope of improvement under the present regime, nor the slightest prospect of growing better until the revolution has been fully accomplished in universal emancipation. The transition period from slave to free labor must ever be embaraassing to industry, and deleterious to prosperity. It is, therefore, in my Judgment, the requirement of wiudoni, cut of a prudent regard to our best interests aud highest prosperity, as well as the mandated an exalted patriotism, tbatwe Bhould conform as readily and speedily as practicable to this decree of the revolution, foreordained by rebellion, and now sealed with the unalterable judgment of the American people.

The scholium which I deduce from the logic of events is that the proposed amendment to tte Constitution is the most direct, practical, and legitimate mode now left us to escape the present and impending evils of an interregnum in labor, a dearth in industry, and a suspension of production, i Iu accepting these tacts, and thus acting upon them, we have to give up what was to us valued at millions of dollars, and to overcome the educated habits and prejudices fostered by our country. No easy task this. But Kentuckians have ever been equal to the occasion, and will not now fall below the measure of their fame, nor shrink from making those sacrifices which th peace and unity of their Governmeut demands of their patriotism, and thus seal forever the lofty destiny of their loved Commonwealth. This contri bution of our life-trained habits and preju dices, and surrender Xo the public peace of many millions of property in excess of what any other loyal State has contributed during our struggle lo maintain our National life will give Kentuoky, on the historic page, a just precedence in the ranks of the loyal aud patriotic States. The emancipation of slaves costs our Northern brethren no saoriflse of interests, no immolation of hsbits, no conquest of prejudices, no disturbance of social relations, no breaking up of economical arrangements, no in convenience or loss wbatever.

uney can easily make the sacrifice, for they expend nothing; out to us it is tue ions oi many millions or dollars, me surrender or tne trained habits and prejudices of a life, and incurs the perils, inconveniences and leases which ever result from the sudden breaking up of long and peacefully established social aud economical relations and interests. We have been much abused because ten mil 1 not see that tne existence oi our Government depended upon either the continuance or discontinuance of slavery yet we have attested our devotion the Government of the Union by furbishing more than our due proportion oi soldiers to defend it. With, us, mrn Kentucky, the negro has ne ver been a cause, nor an oofecc oj sirijc. The preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the government, has been and is the main-spring of our action, the substance ot our loyal hopes, ana tne sup port of our patriotism. Though others were unwilling to have the Union without slavery, or the Union with slavery, we have ever been for the Union uftA or without sla very, and for maintaining the government over an unbroxen union, cost what it might.

This has been our loval purpose throughout this struggle. Instead of abuse from those who make no sacrinces, we de serve respect and confidence for what we have borne. Those who direct the powers of our government should bear in mind that their mission is not to destroy slavery for that is au accomplished fact but to preserve and restore the government of the Union. The hand should be gentle and assisting which is laid npon the habits and Soeroive. Oar prejudices may be detached prejudices ot loyal people; not heavy ana Iooercive.

uar prejuaioea uay oe aetaunea witbft gentle haa without pia gr Injury) at of of of a to of of of Men and Chickens. The boat was fully supplied with life pre servers. Her boilers were inspected just before we left St. Lonis, her last trip. At Vicksburg one of her Hues was out of order, and it was repaired; but tne collap sing of the flue could not of itself have pro- aucea tne accident.

The mate was with me in the pilot house, and had charge of the boat. Captain Ma son was, i presume, in is room, une ooat was running at her usual rate, ab-mt nine or ten miles an hour. I would have known if the boat was running against time or crowded. We bad no cargo on board, ex cept about sixty head ot mules and horses. The English Press on the Fall of Richmond.

From the lyondon Times, April 17. The first act of the American War has closed with a tremendous finale. For three days together the great Confederate Gene ral maintained himself in fierce and even doubtful battle against the combined forces ot bis adversaries, but at last he succumbed to numbers and resigned to the enemy the strongnoids wnicn nenas defended so long. Richmond and Petersburg are in the hands of the North, and though Iiee, even in these desperate straits, has retired in good order with the remnant of his army, it is impose sible to anticipate that his resistance can be effectually prolonged. The South retained but one great army, and that has now been half destroyed.

The loss of Richmond might in itself have been, perhaps, sustained, but coupled with the defeat of Lee, it represents a veritable catastrophe. The event has been anticipated, not only in America, but in this country, for some time past, ana yet it aid not occur in conformity with the prevalent speculations. Farragut had no part in it, nor tiherman either. There was no flotilla, no bombardment, no combined attack by land and water. It is due to Gen.

Grant that his military abilities should be recognized and his success acknowledged. It was his army in the end which captured Richmond. He did "fight it out on that line," as he had pledged himself to do, not only all through the summer, but through the winter, and through the following spring. Often and often was he repulsed with dreadful losses, but he clung with unconquerable tenacity to his work, and never once relaxed the gripe which he had obtained. He forced his adversary into Richmond, and sat down before its ramparts with the resolution, which he has well maintained, that 'sooner or later the city should be his.

It is true that he had the assistance of Sheridan, and that without that co-operation the final assault would not have been attempted. The hardest of the fighting, indeed, foil to Sheridan's share, and he seems to have displayed much of that genius which won him bo remarkable a victory In the Shenandoah alley. But the whole work, substantially, was the worn of urant, and it was the work for which he had waited in patience and confi dence through nearly twelve months of discouragement. He was the first General of the North who refused to recognize de- leat, ana the reward oi tortltude Is his at last. After paving however, this tribute to this coDqueror, we are bound to give due nonor to tne vanquished, and the tasK will not be difficult.

Gen. Lee has forfeited none of the renown which gives him so distinguished a place in the eyes of the world. All thataconsummatecommander could do under extreme difficulties he has valiantly done. we must now wait for what nothing but time can teach the solution of the great problem of Secession. Has this terrible drama been simply a war, or is it a re volu tion 7 if it is a war, the end must be near if, indeed, it has not been reached already for, beyond the feeble force under Johnston at rialeigh, and the remnant of the Richmond garrison under Lee, the South has no organized armies in the field, nor is it probable that any can be raised.

This stage of the great struggle has been accomplished. The North, by its determined will, and lately, it should be added, by the excellence of its Generals, has over come the South, has defeated Its armies, and occupied its principal towns. It has had far greater difficulty in doing so than was anticipated, and it appeared, indeed, at times as if even this -portion of the work could never be accomplished at all. But if the exhaustion consequent on this protracted struggle should terminate the resistance nf the South altogether, it may be fortu nate for the North that Richmond was not captured till the fifth year of the war. hen President Davis declared that if Richmond were lost the war could be pro longed for 20 years in Virginia a lone, he was speculating, perhaps, on resources which nve desperate campaigns may have fataljy reduced.

The Con federacy which for five years has proved so unexpectedly strong and resolute, may now prove unexpectedly powerless and desponding. In that event the work ef the Rorth will be easy, but if we have now arrived at the end, not of a war, but of the first stage of a political revolution, the real troubius of theNorth are but just beginning. A few more months will disclose the scene, and it will be useless to anticipate the spectacle by conjecture or prediction. We can only admire the heroism of the combatants while we deplore the carnage; but what so dreadful a strife may ultimately bring forth it is impossible to imagine. From the London Pal Jfews, April IT.

Eo on Monday, April 31, tne two towns were entered by the victors, amid the sh6uts of the secret sympathizers, so long repressed, and of the negroes, frantic with had not yet been permitted the priv-ilrge of fighting their deliverers. With the wreck of the army, which was breaking into fresh fragments at every step, abandoning arms, artillery, and ammunition, Lee was in flight, hotiy pursued by the foot and horse of the conquerors. But if for the moment we cannot help a thought of pity for one who has won our respect, and who holds it no less in misfortune than in success, neither can we help sympathizing warmly with whose patient skill, thrown for a time into the shade by Sherman's brilliant exploits, has at length won its well deserved triumph. Nor, though we wait farther intelligence of the results to express it, can our congratulation be less warm for those who have thus at length confounded the revolt -of lawless passion, and for those among our own countrymen wnose clear vision and true instincts have throughout this contest held their hearts and reason firm on the side of freedom and justice and civilization. From the London S'ar, April 17.

1 The fall of liichmond is the end of the Slaveholders' rebellion. With a keen appreciation of the currentof opinion abroad the Southern leaders made the chosen cap ilal of the Confederacy the headquarters of the revolution from an early stage 01 the war. At first selected out deference to Virginia, which was the most important State of the Confederacy the last to give its adnesion to tne Davis government, and the last also to yield it has gradually be come in the eyes of the South, as well as of Europe, the destiny or the rebel leaders. Defeated in the west and with most of the Gulf States overrun by a victorious Union general, the critical position of the Confederacy was not recognized in Europe or admitted tnrongbout tue HouLU so lobg as Lee's army remained undefeated and Richmond uncaptured. To streng then and to save rticnmond, ueorgia, and other Southern States had beea strip ped of their troops and supplies, so that thev became an easy prey to Sherman after he had once penetrated the hard shell of the frontier.

History may perhaps tell of the policy of Lee ana Davis, that they committeu a blunder in selecting for iheir capital a town within 100 miles of Washington, and easy ot access trom the sea coast, and still more fatal blunder in making the existence of the Confederacy depend upon the defense of a city so situated with regard to the rest of the rebel territory. On the other hand, the apologists of the rebel leaders may fairly contend that the selection as a capital of a well known city bo near to Washington had the effect of imposing upon the world. It enabled the South to display Its best energies upon a held not too distant for appreciation in Europe; and those efforts seeming to be crowned wit a success even at a time wnen the power of the slaveholders waa every where crumbling into ruins: the South obtained money, arms, credit, and assistance when otherwise, they would have been looked upon with Whether the selection was for good or evil to the Confederates, the fortunes of the Rebellion have been regarded as centered in Rich mond, and toalllhe world the fall of the capital will be synonymous with the end of the attempt to form a separate republic. I From the London Globe, -Grant has been rewarded for his perseverance, and Mr. Lincoln, just a month after bis inauguration as President for the Becond time, entered Richmond which had for several hours been in possession of the colored troops of Gen.

Weitzei. After losing Richmond, the Confederates find themselves threatened at all points by Stone, man la. til Wsstj ghercnna in lit Mt The Dundee (Scotland) News, of February 11, 1365, baa fallen under our notice, and we find the following in ita columns: President Lincoln. The following powerful sketch of President Lincoln we reprint from the New York World: Or files deformed, the Index of his heart leer, but acting well his part. Pale Linoola stalks ana wl a iurtlve eje Surveys te boding aspe-t of the A loose, man, whose ewer willing hands Rm graspinKhtiiuan throats Supreme he stands.

II uriins; a war of paper on hit foes. The -oval jester of a nation's woes. Ordtiniog fasts; Imprisoning his kind: An honest knave: a wit withouta mind; Bold aa a tyrant; timid as a man; A monstrous discard in reation's plan. Now bendimr. as in prayer, a shape'ess head.

Now troli lug ballads o'er th patriot dead. Now calling arm'n to defend the btate. And now toomsb a rival candidate. -Or tinkering plans by able captains made. Or mining to save a raid.

Or shooting Oopperbeads in Illinois, Or trusting armies to a handsome boy. Or crowding hundreds in a leaky boat. Or sacrificing thousands for a vot-. A tM.II. ungainly, shambling, soulless thing.

Part citiLeo. part truckler, and part king. This execrable piece of characteristic blackguardism appeared in the columns of the N. Y. World, according to our reool lection, pending the late Presidential elec tion, and was copied into kindred prints Now that paper and its viie satellites are bowed down among the mourners, and are abundant in crocodile tears and ful some adulations of him of face deformed.

the index of his Cheart," honest knave a wit without a mind." When the unmeasured abuse heaped upon the President of the UnitedSta'ea for four long years, by these canting hypocrites at the Nation's funeral, comes up in our memory, we feel that every smirking, hollow-hearted, sneaking reviler of a great and good man according to their own acknowledgments in the hour of sorrow Bhould have been kicked from around his bier like so many lepers. The worst insult could be offered to the memory of the lamented President was to allow his revllers to perform their mockeries of sorrow over his clay, when his noble spirit was not present to resent it. If our officers, State and National, would refer to the Prayer Book before they issue proclamations they would avoid many blunders. Courier. We were not aware before that the Prayer Book of an English Church as-snnfed to be law to the American government.

It has been Bupposed that our democratic constitution knew no religious dis-tinctions but it begins somewhat to look as though Church and State were getting little mixed With ns egun. Such talk as the above is suggestive of some rather serious reflections. The New York Tribune says dryly and pertinently: "It would be convenient if 'our public functionaries' could be provided with a list of the days which are not ac counted fit for Thanksgivings and Fasts by the churches aforesaid, (Episcopal and Catholic) so they in future avoid oolllaion'and not feel obliged to alter their appointments after announcing them," The American Question In the French Corps The Paris correspondent of the London Dnily News gives the following translation from the Jlfoniteur's report of what took place in the Corps Legislatlf in regard to the proposed amendment to the address on the question of America Eueena Pel le tan In the present sis ire of the debate I should be very cruel to the assemoiy, ana still more ruet to myself, if were to make a speech in extremis on the deathbed (as I fear it will be) of our last amendment. I had but a word to say to repair an omission. The speech from the throne passed oyer Ame-ricain silence.

Your drafted address main tains the same reserve. The Yellow Book itself contains on this subject nothing but pure wmte page. JNow it seemea ts us that the American question was one of sufficient importance to be treated of other wise than by reticence. However, there is now no occasion for discussion, because, wnne i am speattmg to ycu, tne news-ar-rlvesthat the victorious "swords of Grant and Sherman have settled the question Richmond is taken. Interruption.

A voice So much tne worse. M. Pelletan The pro-slavery rebellion is crushed, and the merican Republic is restored in all its majestic unity. Fur ther interruption. President Schneiaer uenuemen, Dy your interruptions you only lengthen the speech.

ml. feiietan uo not murmur so ion i conjure you they may hear you on the other side of the At 'antic Exclamations and noise Several oices Make an end of it. M. Pelletan For the last four years North America has borne the burden of the most terrible civil war that ever ravaged a nation, and daring the whole course of this cruel trial she has never for a single in stant entertained the idea of suspending liberty. Ah, ah She never dreamed of revoking the principle of public safety or opening mat uoor tnrougn wnicn an point cal crimes make their way.

But more; it has renewed its exequtive power under, we may almost say, the very tire of the ene my, and that witnout violence ana without disturbance Interruption. And it has done this orderly and calmly that this page of American history is the page of nooor ot the nmeteentn century, tjonius ed and increasing noise. 1 axm reueiea rreaiueiiii xjinooiu Lcnea ot "Divine, Other Voices Hear the speaker. M. i-'ellelan President Lincoln felt that he held the fate of the New World in his nan da, and he lifted up his heart to the bight of his destiny; be has aboiisnea aia very redoubled cries of Divide," and has restored the glorious American rtepub lie "Divide, divide." Confused and tu multuous noise.

1 A Member Enforce silence, Mr. Presi dent. President Schneider Let the speaker try to set a hearincr. M. Garnier Pages If people would only listen, the speech would have been done by tnis time.

Mr. Schneider I cannot deprive Mr Pelletan of his right to go on. It is for tho Chamber to listen, exclamations; but, at the same time, it is for him to speak in such a way as to Induce his auditors to hear him. M. Pelletan The President asks a ralra cleof me.

which lam not able to work. It did appear to me that wherever in the world anything great and noble was done, France waa present, and an approving party, and I would that my voic could this clay-be heard on the other side of the Atlantic with an address of congratulation to tne r-resiuent oi tne nitea lumul tuons exclamations of dissent.) 1 cannot Htruggie against your determination not to near me, and snail sit down. The amendment rallied 24 votes a re spectable minority, considering that only lo voxea against tne address as a whole. I give the names of the 2t friends of the North for the special informatiou of your American readers. 1 bey are: M.

M. Beth mont, Count de Boigne, Carnot, Dorian, ules avre, uarnier uiais isizoin Gueroult. Haentgens, Ha via, Henon, aval, iscount janguinais, Magnln Marie. Marlei. Alorin, r-eiieian, ri.

card, Pieron Leroy, Marquis de Pire de Kosnvotnen, ana Jules Himon 1 ha abstentions on this vote were very nu mercao, and on the list I note the names of Emile Ollivier, Darimon, Thiers, and Count Welles de Lavalette. Mb. Charles Lanman writes, that whil preparinghis "Dictionary of Congress" for i i i i io t.A -A ..,1 tn M. Liucoln the usual request for a sketch of his lile, and received the following reply Born February 12, 1809, in Hardin county, Kentucky. Education defective.

Profession, a lawyer. Have been a captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk war. Postmaster at a very small office. Four times a member of the Illinois Le-gislature. Ana was memue ui wo c-a Congress.

Yours, Ac A. LINCOLN. "Papa and little brother Willie have gone home," sobbed the late President's youngest surviving son, to a friend of the bereaved family who called at the White Bouse on the morning tne remains lUrted from A Timely a-ioclamat on. We insert with unspeakable satisfaction the Proclamation of the President, offering large rewards for Jeff arson Davis and five of his associates in crime, as accomplices in the late assassination of the President and attempted assassination of Secretary Seward. Here are half adoz9n of the most precious rascals that the sun ever shone npon, who, we hope, now are in the high road to the gallows, with a reasonable certainty of reaching the rope's end.

What a feast justice will have if all these murderous villains are made to expiate their bloody crimes on the gallows. One hundred thousand dollars ought to secure thelarrest of Davis; while 25,000 eaoh, should cause the bodies of Clement C. Clay, Jacob Thompson, Geo. N. Saunders and Beverly Tucker, to be produced for proper punishment.

10,000 will, no doubt, be ample to cause the arrest of Cleary, late clerk of Clement C. Clay. The evidence of the guilt of these parties must be strong to induce the offering of these liberal rewards, and we do not regard it as probable that they can escape the vig ilance of the proper authorities. God grant that eaoh and all may be subjected to a tribunal which will prove their guilt and se cure their prompt execution upon a common scaffold. Seldom has there been so strong a temptation to vigilance as is offered under these rewards, which will be followed by an active desire that justice shall not be eheated of its rights in this Instance.

The whole nation will pray for the arrest of these inciters to murder, and if found within the limits of any civilized government, they will no doubt be promptly sur- rendered to the American authorities, to be dealt with according to their, deserts. One of the Requisites of Pacification, The one thing of all others, as it seems to us, most, indispensably requisite to the pacification of the country, is the killing out and utterly eradicating of that Southern doctrine of State Rights, of which Secession is the logical consequent. So long as that is suffered to exist there can be no peace; the Union is a yoke upon the necks of the Southern people, their citizenship a subj ugated relation, their allegiance a chain. Its very existence is rebellion its entertainment a perpetual conspiracy of treasou. In the recent report of a conversation with Robert E.

Lee by one of the flunkey correspondents of the New York Herald, we have this broadly exhibited to us. Beaten, vanquished, a prisoner in the very capital of rebellion which he had defended so long, looking out upon the ruins of the overthrown project of disunion, and fully recognizing the irredeemable failure of that project, the arch-chieftain of the rebellion avows himself still as thoroughly a rebel as ever; avows it and yet denies that it is rebellion, insolently contending yet that the "sovereignty" of his State makes legitimate an issue of war between that State and the nation of which it is part. His army he surrendered, but not "the doctrine of State rights" not the right to organize another army, at another time.tr another war upon the constitution and government of his country, in the name of the Slate of Virginia. For such a war can never.be treason in bis estimation, since the "sovereignty" of the States was not explicitly and inset terms denied in the organic law of the nation; nor can the breaking cf the oaths of national allegiance be perjury, since they were made with centempt, as the formal and unavoidable condition of securing a place in the national armies advantageous for treason and betrayal. These are fit opinions for the hoary barbarian to entertain who permitted his prisoners of war to be starved and frozen and sweltered in fever pens, under his very eyes; but what hope of "pacification" is there while doctrines so monstrous are allowed to prevail and to be preached.

They sweep treason from the catalogue of crimes, and transform it into a shining virtue. They convert allegiance and loy- lty into treacherous hypocrisies and oaths into blasphemous rites of Imposture. Any treason in the world, any rebellion, any riot, any massacre.may plant itself npon a assert the legitimacy of the issue" which it raises and, turn just as mpudent a face to the world as do Robert E. Lee and bis Confederate trai tors. Lee may believe these monstrous doc trines.

We have not faith euougheither in his mental aouteness or his moral sensi bility to dispute the sincerity of his belief. That the keener intellects who used him the politicians who originated and elabora ted th dogmas of State Rights, and who taught them to Lee and to such as him who became the tools of the treasonable projects which they built upon those dogmas that they believed them, we do not credit for an instant. But so far as they are entertained with a stupid sincerity of beUefby Lee or any other in his class, the more dangerous they are, and the more imperative it is that they should Le rooted out of the land. The men, like Lee, who are their exponents, if not executed for their bloody treason upon the gallows, must, at least, be driven from American soil into per petual exile. While they, the repres-nta- tives of treason moulded Into a political doctrine, are suffered to remain in this Republic, we have rebellion perpetually existent, and the pacification of the land is For-a final seal upon the tomb of Seces- sionlsm, we believe that it is ueedlui that there should be formally adopted into the Constitution of the Union an amendment, exactly declaring the subordination, of the States to the sovereignty of the Nation and the irrevocability of their incorporation into the ational body4 Then, and not till then, can we establish aMoatrlne of State Rights which shall be a doctrine of nationality, and open to the eyes of all men a view of the federative system which shall recognize its wonderful excellence in the elasticity by which it produces national strength The amount of damage sustained by the Sui-quehannah Canal in the late disastrous flood will cost upward of $00,000 to repair.

The work is progressing as fast as possible, but will not be completed before the first week in June. Gen. Grant's house, which the denizens of the City of Brotherly Love have pre sented to that officer, has been thoroughly furniflhed In the best manner, and was to have been occupied for the first time by the General's family on Monday. A ntjmbkb of business houses in Chicago have been mulcted heavily for making fraudulent returns of incomes, being com pelled to pay a tax on their full income, and heavy fines. "IflB Black Bepublican" is the significant title of a newspaper established in New Or leans by colored men.

It is edited, the type set, and the -edition worked off by men who probably were slaves a year or two ago. Thb total number of men surrendered by Gen. Johnson, including those lately opposed to Gens. S'oneman and Wilson it is said, will amount to 45,000. Thb discontinuance of the drafting B8yB tern will relieve from duty a force of per sons estimatea a it a a gines, and in a short time she was burned to the water, and now lies on a sand bar near Fogleman's Landing, nothing visible but her charred remains and flagstaff standing erect.

THe scene lollowlng the explosion was heartrending and terrible in the extreme. Hundreds of people were blown into the air, and descending into the water, some dead, some with broken limbs, some scalded, were borne under by the resistless current of the great riyer, never to rise again. The survivors represent tne screams as agonizing beyond pre cedent. Some cluug to frail pieces of the wreck, as drowning men cling to straws, and sustained themselves for a few moments, bnt finally became exhausted and sunk. Only the best swimmers, aided by fragments of the wreck, were enabled to reacn tne wocds, ana tnere lake retuge, until rescued by boats sent from the landing here to their assistance.

There were about fifteen women and children aboard. and as near as can be ascertained, not more than two or three had been found at the hour when this account was written. Some of the wretched people were borne by the ourrent as far down as the levee at this city, and this was the first intimation the officers of the boats in port received of the terrible A yawl was immediately sent out trom the Marble City, and in a few minutes several persons were picked out of toe water and Drougnt asnore. i wo were afterward found clintrintr to the wheel, and thev were also saved. Umn beine brouarht to a realisation of the calamity, the officers of the boats iu port, under notification of uapuun senior, or tne rtiveruaard, steam-d up, and inashort time were at the burn ing -steamer, where hundreds ot people were picked up and brougnt to tnis landing, arriving about daylight.

Despatch to the Chicago Tribune. The Ohio and Indiana boys comprised about two-thirds of the whole number of soldiers on the vessel. One soldier who was on board attempted to save the lives of two little girls, seven and nine years of age. He had a plank and thus was able to sustain himself and the children until they floated nearly opposite the foot of Jefferson street, when a rope was thrown to him from the Boston a. In attempting to catch the rope the children slipped from his exhausted arms.

The brave heart that had struggled so man fully thought no more of seizing the rope, bnt made desperate and vain efforts, by diving, to recover the children that were hurried out of reach by the swift and treacherous current. When the soldier found that his efforts were inVaiu, he was too much exhausted to make further efforts to save himself, and was sinking without a struggle when the boat that had been sent out picked him up. Among the lost is Mrs. S. W.

Hardin, Jr. She had been recently married and with her husband, who is a member of the firm of Cushman, Hardin fc of Chicago, was returning home from her wedding tour. They remained on the wreck until the fire compelled them to jump overboard. The cabins fell in with a crash and simultaneously several hundred personsspranginto the river, causing a confusion by whicnthe husband and wife became separated. Mr.

Hardin made every effort to find his wife, but was unsuccessful. He waa subsequently found in an exhausted condition, and is almost distracted. He was formerly Adjutant of the 3d Illinois infantry. He lost everything. One woman, who had a child in her arms.

got hold of a board and floated live or six miles. She was rescued opposite Beal street; but the infant was dead. woman, whose husband was an officer on the gunboat, was on board with her sifter, her husband and child. She was rescued, out was left alone in the world, as her husband, child and biuler were lost. 1 1) officers and crew of the eunboat Essex made up a thousand dollars for the poor woman.

None of the passengers on the Sultana saved their baggage or anything except what was on their persons. Overton Hospital received about fifty Pa tients from the ill-fated steamer, the greater part ot Uiem sullering Irom serious scalds and burns. The greater part of the men had received kindly attentions from the agents of the anitarv com mission before their admis sion into the wpital. All cases were interesting. The men had each his experience as a prisoner to relate, and his own version of the disaster.

Two men who belong to the first wood-yard above the city, and whose name are R. K. Hill and. William Boardmen, had a small boat, and reaching the scene of the disaster before the Bostona did, they did most excellent service in retelling tne unfortunates, tnpy were untiring in their exertions, and saved many lives. The explosion was not heard on board the Bostona, and when the steamer rounded the point the first intimation of the dis aster was the discovery of the Sultana on fire.

Capt. J. T. Watson at once appreciated the terrible state of affairs. Reaching the wretched people who were struggling in tne water, be and all on board the v9 tona used their utmost endeavorB to rescue the unfortunates.

The Bostona saved over 200 lives, and throughout the whole affair Capt. Watson, Clerks Fisher and Lorenz, pilot C. Keating, mate Alvord, engineer McGtvin, and, indeed, all on board of her the warmest commendations. The picket boat Pocahontas picked up about 150 persons, a number of whom died after they were taken out of tho water. 6TATKMKST OF THE CHIEF MATK.

Mr. Roseberry. chief mate of the Sultana. testifies as follows: I was chief mate of the Sultana, and at the time of the accident I had charge of the boat, and was in the pilot house with Cayton; we were about seven miles up the river when the boiler exploded, and I found myself in the river. I and five oth ers got hold of a plank, and were picked up by toe riistona.

I be boiler was tubed in St. Lonis on her last trip, and pronounced good, and the boat had the usual certificates; Mr. tichaffer, at St Louis, was inspector; there was a little patch put on the boiler at Vicksburg; I believe that patch was pat on the larboard side of the larboard boiler; the patch was made necessary by the breaking of the boiler; there was not, to my Knowledge, any tears ex pressed by the crew or passengers as tethe safety of the boat; I have been in the Sultana about five months, and have been on tne river witn uaptain Mason, master ot the Sultaua, for about five years; he was a perfect gentlemar; there was no carousing on the boat among the crew or passengers. Capt. Mason was in his room, the first engineer in bis, and the second engineer on watch.

The boat at the time was running as usual, about nine or ten miles per hour. She was not running against time, and no boat left with us. The boiler leaked some twelve hours before we reached "Vicksburg, i and the engineer said he would go no fur-! ther until it was repaired. Laid at Vicksburg thirty-three hours. Mos of this tima was taken up in repairing the boiler, and the engineer said it was a good job.

It was done by regular mechanics at Vicksburg. We had no trouble with the boiler after leaving VickBburg, TESTHIOKT OF IHK PILOI. George Cayton, pilot on the Sultana, being duly sworn, testifies as follows: We left New Orleans on Friday last, officers and crew about eighty men. Landed at Vicksburg on Sunday evening, and remained about thirty-three hours. Left Vicksburg on Tuesday about one o'clock a.

took on board soldiers, as I heard from the clerk. Dou't know as this includes officers or not. Arrived here yesterday evening about seven o'clock, and left about two o'clock this morning. Went to the coal yard at two a. m.

and took aboard 1,000 bushels of coal, and proceeded up the riyer about seven miles, when the boiler exploded. I was at the wheel and fell on top of the boilers, and was wedged in by the wreck. The boat was fall of passengers. I should say there was some twenty-two hundred persons on board. She was a large boat, but not the largest class, and about three years old.

I crawled out nndr the pilot house and endeavored to persuade the passengers from jumping into the river, telling them to hold on to the wreck as lpng aa possible. The fire could then hive been put out, bnt itU the bnoketa, blown OTWbowr, Vindicate its position in the front ranks of civilization. It has vindicated its physical and financial powers In the struggle iwiloh It is emerging, and it will here from hereafter maintain a supremacy that must be ac knowledged by all the nations of the earth. -The End of the Legislature. the deep- feeling attending the funeral sequiea of our murdered President we al almost forgotten to mention, formally, the fact that the legislature of the State had closed its labors and returned to ils constituencies to give an account of its stew-.

rslsb.ip. Its acts of omission and com- Jaion have become matters of history, flt must meet them at the bar of public jfr.inion. The Albany Evening Journal furnishes a statistical table of the business done by both branches, by which it appears that a much greater amount of work has been performed by it than by any previous Legislature. "This," it says, is to be credited to the ability and readiness of the presiding officers and to the experience and wonderful dispatch of the Clerks of the two; Houses, James Terwilliger, of the Senate, and Joseph B. Cushman, of the kHunmhlT.

whn am nnpnnsllen in all trie high qualities requisite In those holding the positions wnicn they nave so long -adorned. "Lieut. Gov. Alvord is a model presiding officer in industry, in quickness of appre-I henalon, in promptness of decision and in I courtesy and despatch. With such a Presl- dent aa Gov.

Alvord and such a Clerk as niiiues lunuiijgu, ib is uui. b.xu mil nyj much werk was accomplished in the Senate, i "The ABSsmbly was equally fortunate in its presiding officer. Mr. Hoskins adapted himself to the arduous and delicate duties of tKe Speakership with a readiness and a'uite unexpected to those who most highly of bis ability and taot. Be waa seldom wrong in his decisions, courteous, and as prompt and ready was the most popular of his predecessors.

These good qualities, combined with his zeal for the public good, secured for him te esteem and friendship of his associates, and the respect and confidence of the peo ple, The ship Anna Schmidt, which was de- oyed by the Alabama eff the oast of 4 juti America, had on board a riusntitv of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral fr California. 23 r. Ayer-jfet Co. now appeal for redress direct to the Brith Government, as the responsible ferty in this wicked business, I and base their claim for payment and pro Ltectlon on the ground of humanity, as their commodities are wholly for the sick. Their oint is well taken, and doubtless be pressed with the pluck and p-rsistency which characterizj toe operations of these (celebrated chemists.

Baltimore Clipper. Should the water in the Lower Missis I Bippi continue at ita present high stage until increased in volume by the usual Jnne rise, ft he damage will be almost incalculably reat. Opposite Icksburg the water is several faet deep all over the peninsula, and is still flowing in, and the town of De Soto submerged. One of these houses caved in a few days since, and four or five of its oupants were drowned. What Fob George Francis Train has iSen making a speech in defence of Gen Sherman.

In the name of mercy, what (has Sherman done to him that he should mete out such an inflictlonT Sherman will Jwork out from under the cloud that seemed Vto settle upon him when he made terms Jrith Johnston, if he is not overwhelmed with the kind offices of mad men and fools, A coloked woman in Marietta. Ohio, brought te her minister five dollars. It waa the first money she had ever earned. She wanted it to begin a monument for Abraham Lincoln, she said, without whom she would have remained nothing but a slave. The New York Kveniog roil says Andrew Jnhnnnn.

mora than anv man In the nation, (stands- this day as the representa- tive of free labor, and the laboring classes." Mr. Johnson was the author and great advocate In tha Senate of the Homestead Law. Oif of the iate Richard Cobden'a last acts was to, aeud a 'sum of money to a poor, distressed, sick American Bailor. His death was probably hastened by his hurrying to London to speak on the Canadian question and iu friendliness -to our government A sculptor ot some notoriety and no ex of loyalty applied to Secretary Stanton isrmission totakea cast of Booth' head. Want war minister replied.

"Better care i of your owa bd." adelphlarebeLatthemeetingof Anti-Abolition Society" 1j New York for which he was called to appolo-glze on returning home I yield to no man in sympathy for the people of the South, a gallant people, Btrug- gling nobly for their liberty against as sordid and vile a tyranny as ever proposed the degradation of our race. Nay, I go further and with Jefferson, Madison and Livingston, I fully embrace the doctrine of secession as an American doctrine, without the elements of which American institutions -can not permanently live. Modifying tub Ordeb About thk Oath. An important modification of the order prohibiting prisoners of war from taking the oath of allegiance, and being discharged, except upon special order of the Secretary of War, will soon be made to tbat all except the higher rebel officers, or isoners against whom charges exist, may thus obtain their discbarge. Those who refuse to take the oath of allegiance will be retained until they are exchanged, 'or until the final termination of the war.

when some general policy as to the disposition to be made of them will be decided upon. A Hint. The Chicago Convention, It will be remembered, did not adjourn sine die. It was said that Ita services might be required again. The New York Ti'mm asks If it would not be a good idea to call it together now for the purpose of reconsid-ericg Its declaration that the war to put down rebellion had proved a failure What says the Chairman the National Democratic Committee Gbain la looking well everywhere throughout the State, and the tor a good yield were never better.

The comparatively cold weather of the past feWj days has kept back the bnds npon fruit i wmuu were icmiui; ueauujr nuoj forward, V.I-- 1 V.1.