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S8EVEW THIRTY I.OAW. BOABD OF EDUCATION. DEM0CBAT1C GENERAL COMMITTEE. have all tte advantes'whicfcmay givettm'a cast in moulds "of a given size, without regard to the speoiflo gravity of the metiil, and villainy to make WUfiee Booib, on The first of the'presrmt getg! believe that he hid but Nek with." BOOTH FUBNISHHD WITH A MUB0EBEB FBOK CANADA. Some one ror all of ihese sgents famished Booth with murderer, the fellow Wood er Payne, who stabbed Mr.

Seward and was caught it Mrs. Surntt's la Washington. He wag one of three Kentucky brothers, all obUowa, and had himself it Is believed, aooampinied if B. 7 30 LOAN. fh! is Bih of th first series of $300,000, 00 of tha 40 Lou waa completed on the 31st cf March, 1965 The sale of tha second series of Three Hundred Millions, payable thre ycsrsJrom the 16th day of June, 18M, was begun on the lit of April, In the short space oi thirty days, over One Hundred Millions of this seriea haro bsan Iaavlng thla day laat than Two Hundred Millions to be disposed of.

The intor eat is rabls 'seml iannally to ourrenry ou fheUthofDt ewberandlfth of Jane by Coupons attached to eaoh nsto, which art readily cubed anywhere. It amounts to Ona oeut per day on a $J0 note. Twe cents 1 Ton 1000 1 tiOOO MOBS AD MORE DE91RABLB. TheBebeltion ia suppressed, and the Government has already adopted measures to reduce erpondl tares aa rapid ly aa possible to a peace footing, thus withdrawing from market aa borrower and purchaser. This ia the ONLY LOAN IN MARKET now offered by the Government, and constitutes the QBE AT POPULAR LOAN OF THB PEOPLE.

The Seven Thirty Notes are convertible on their maturity, at ihe option ot the holder, into U. S. 6 20 SIX PER CENT. GOLD BBAB1NO BONDS, Which are always worth a premium. FREE FROM TAXATWN.

The 7 SO Notes cannot be taxed bj towns. Cities, Conn ties or States, and the interest ia not taxed unless ou a snrplus of the owner's income exceeding six lmndrod dol lira a year. This fact increases their value from one to tbreo per cent, per annum, according to the ra' lovlod on othor property. SUBSCRIBE QUICKLY. Less than $200,000,000 of tne Loan authorized by tbe last Congress ue now on tbe market.

This amount, at the rata at which it 1 being absorbed, will all be subscribed for within two months, when tho notes will undoubtedly command a premium, as haa uniformly been the case on oloflng thsiubseriptions to other Loons. It now seems probable that no considerable amount berond the present series will be offered to tho public. In order that citizens of every town and section of tha country may be afforded faoih'tios for taking the Loan, the National Banks, State Banks and Private Bankets throughout tbe ocuntry havo generally agreed to receive subscriptions at par. Snbsoribers will select tboir own agents, in whom they have confidence, and who only are to be respon lible for the delivery of tho notes for which they receive orders. JAY COOK, Subscription Agent, Philadelphia.

mjist May Ut, 1865. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. A large stack of CORSETS, both embroidered and plain, Frenob, German, and oar own make, besides the ELIPTIO SPBIhG SKIRT, iu every size and stylo, at more than a third less than we have been Belling thorn heretofore, at MME. MORROW'S FRENCH CORSRT STORE, 213 Fulton Street. HOUSEHOLD FRIENDS.

The Celebrated Patent UNION WASHING MACHINE. Tbe best in the world. First Prize Medals awarded in Europe and America. Nofloakinrr, rubbing, orboilingroauired. Warrantodto wash perfectly without injury to the most tender fabric, and with but little labor and soap.

It also bleaches tbo clothos. Attached to it, or separately, is tho UNION WRINGER AND TAROHBR, with Patent Galvanized frame, ceg wbocls, and solid wbibr rubber rolls It can boused on any kind of tub, and is admitted to be tbe best an most durable Wringer in use. J. WARD A CO 457 Brooday, New York. my2 31" DAYTON A OAR CER, 2C3 Fulton ay.

Brooklyn. FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! WATER! WATER! WATER! WET CARPET WE CARPETS I yfo ore now offering tho balance ot our Immense stock of OARPETINGB, OIL CLOTHS, Ac Ac, slightly damaged by water by tho late firo on our promises, at TREMENDOUSLY low prices. PERRIKS RRnTIIER, s2 et 123 Bowery, near Grand New York. DOCK PROPERTY AT AUCTION. POSTPONED SALE Ol' 440 LOT3 AND VALUABLE WATKR FRONT, o.f TUESDAY, 9TB MAY, 1H63, At 12 o'clock, at the EXCHANGE SALESROOMS, 111 BROADWAY, N.

Y. SALE POSITIVE, WITHOUT RESERVE. S7XTV PEE. OENT. 0 MORTGAGE.

Tho above proporty is situated in tho Eighth Ward Brooklyn, between Third avonuo, tbo Bay, Fortieth ond Forly fifth streets, in closo 'proximity to the now ferry to New York. he water priviloee is unsurpassed, comprising a front of 1,000 feet, and tbe boldest shore and deepest water to bo iound anywhere on tho Long Island ehoroof New York Harbor. The lots oro newly oil on tho grade of too streets and avenuos. Thetimo by oars from tbo Oity Hall and Homilton ferry Is only about 30 minutes. No belter opportunity for good and permanent Investmonthos been offered to copitabsts for yoars in a soction of the oity constantly increasing in value.

Tho Willis indisputable, and a complete pointed abstract tboieof will bo furnished ro eaoh purchaser Knit mans and terms can bo obtained at tho office of HENRY O. MURPHY, 14 Court street, and at tho Commercial Exchange, 369 ffulton stroot, Brooklyn. myiOi COLGATE'S HONEY. SOAP. This oolobratod TOILET SOAP, in snoh nniveJHd demand, Is tnsde from the CHOICEST materials, Is MILS and EMOLLIENT in its nature, FRAGRANTLY SCENT ED and ertremoly beneticinl in Its aotion upon the rMa Eor sale by all Druggists and llanoy Goods Dealers.

16 eodtf TURKISH BATHS. 63 COLUMBIA STREET, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS. Hours for Ladies from 9 to 12 A. Gente2 to 8 P. oj)6MWriy OARPKTINGS.

GKEAT REDUCTION FROM RECENT PRICKS. IMPORTATIONS OF THE NEWIST AND MOST FASUIONABi STYLES OF ENGUSH ROYAL. VELVET. AND BIIUS BBLS OARPBTINGS. At HIRAM ANDERSON'S.

No. 99 BOWERY, NEW YORK. Elegant New Patterns of 3 nlf nni Ingrain Oarpats, Bugs, In at 9, Matting, WindowShodesDragget Embroidered tabic and Piano Covers, Frgured Wool Door Hats, at a reduct of forty per cent. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS from 2 to foot wide, at epaim HIBAM ANDERSON'S, 8 Bowery. ITCH, EA TON'S ITOH.

SCRATCH. OINTMENT BORATOH. Will cure the Itch In 18 houra also onroa Salt Ehaum Ulcers, ChilblainB and all Eruptions of the Skin. Prise cents; by seudisg 60 cents to WEEKS 4 POrTBR, Washington atreet, Boston, will be forwarded tit' by For sale by all drnggiits. ahu GREAT BARGAINS LADIifS' AND GBNT3' FURBISHING GOODS, SILK W1NDSOB SOABFS, LADIES' AND GBBTS' GLOVES, CORSETS, SKIRTS, HOSIERY, Ac, IT W.

A. CORE'S, CORSET AND SKIRT BTQBB, 122 Fulton atreet, between Pineapple and Oluk stssits. IpMtf BROOKLYNEMPOR I.HM I 8 ITS BEWl.NGMAOHINBI EDWARDHOBAIGB LEPBOPBIBTOR I 3 6 TONSTBBBT OPPOSITE MYBTLBAY llO lm2dp KELLY'S WOOD YARD, it" AND 4T JAY STREET, Where PINE. OAK AND HICKORY WOOD OF THh BEST QUALITY Can always be had AT THE LOWEST PRICES ta Orders thankfully reoeitad and promptly attend esvs. WHEELER WILSON'S S3WIN0 MACHINES, SM cttt.TON STREET.

CP STATB8. 110 Is BROOKLYN AGENCY ron UNITED STATES BONDS. THE NASSAU NATIONAL BANK OF BROOKLYN, Having bean appointed Special Agent for Jay Oooksfsf the sale of United States 30 eurreacy bonds, whM rl conyortlblelnWB XgoldlnUreatbonomign.ijprspar to furnish the asms in every denominatian. Coupons su turlngon ths loth of Februiiy will be paid st this Baasv Circulars relating to thla loon, and information is other govammsat Ionia can be obtained of ths oflosra the Bank. O.

SMITH President. KnoanT. JoinnCliabier. WIU FI BRBNOK CODTIliLE CORSET3, SsMtsattr tJobroUstsd, ss wall Hi dasMrtraentof tow oricsd Corsets; liss th VHntloNo Un MORROW'S frsnoh Otmet mors, ill MdaTlbWrtrr Attempt to Regulate Sunday School Excursions, THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUBABBASSEDBY TIM. ANOTHER ME OF The PnDtipab rf tit Colored Schools in LncL BISlGSlTlONf, PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, The Board of Education held a regular monthly meeting last evening at the Depot, Bed Hook tho President, Cyrus P.

Smith, Esq in the chair. A quorum being present the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. COMMUNICATIONS. The usual janitors' and other bills from tbe various schools weie banded in and referred to tbeir respective committees. FINAUCE COMMIIEE.

Mr. Burr, from the Finance Committee, reported that they bad examined and passed for payment all the bills relerred to them at tho last meeting of the Board except the bill of Banaford againBt School No il for 'ii thermometers, $10, the same having been purchased without authority from the Board. Tho total amount of bills for which warrants have been drawn is $5,401 95. On motion the bill of Hansford was ordered paid and the report aa amended was then adopted. teachers' committee.

Mr. Whltlock, from tbe Committee on Teachers, reported the ibllorring resignations, promotions, and appointments BESIGNATIONS. School No. 9. Mies Euapp, April 15.

11 9. Miss Sogers, May 1, 22. Miss SM Forbes, May 1. 14. Miss Tremper, May 1.

23. Miss Maggie Moger, April 1. 14. Miss Knowles, April 10. PBOMOTIONS.

No. 56. Miss A Barnes, in place of Mies Eape, resigned April 1. No. 25.

Miss Mott, in place of Miss Barnes, promoted April 1. No. 28. Miss Sutton, In place of Misi Moger, resigned April H. APPOINTMENTS, No.

13. Miss Josephine Weeden, additional teaohor, Aptill. No. 14. Mies Ellen Webbe, in place of Miss Tremper, resigned May 1.

No. 27. Miss Jennie Lewis, additional teacher, Uaroh 16. No. 25.

Miss Sarah Bafferty, in place of Miss Mott, pro moted April 1. Primary 6, Miss McKenna, additional teacher. Miss Adams, MiBB Lynch, Miss Moore, Miss Williams, No. 1. MiBB Rutherford, in place of Miss Leach, transferred to Primary 5 April 1.

No. ffadsworth, from April 1. Primary 5. Miss Leaob, from No from April 1. No.

28. Miss' Cornelia Smith, in place of Miss Sutton, promoted May 1 No. 7. MissJauncey, in place of Miss Beynolds, (subject to examination) vacated by sickness, May 1 No. S.

Mibs Mattie Montfort, fourth assistant Male De partmens April 1. The report was adopted. DETEAT OF THB TBUASCm DILL. Mr. Schapps said he regretted to report that the Truant Bill had been defeated in the Legislature.

Be hoped that tbe Board would not consider the bdl aa lost, but that they would take such steps during the coming year as onld secure tbe passage of that or some similar act. MOTIONS AND BES0LUTI0N8. By Mr. Seabury Beaolved, That a warrant bo drawn in favor of Miss Clara Carl I for three weeks' services as extra teacher in School No. 14 at the lowest rate of salary now paid.

Adopted. By Mr. Nortbup Btsolved, That it be referred to the School House Committee, with power, to re seat the side class room of Female Department of Sohool House No. 19 with settees. Adopted.

A NEW BITE FOB PBIMABT NO. 2. By Mr. Ptovost Beaolved, Tbat the Local Committee of Public School No. 22, In connection with the Sohool House Committee, be and they are hereby empowered to select and purchase a new site for Primary School No.

2 in that district. Adonted. By the Bame Beaolved, That tho School Hiuso Committee and Local Committee of School No. 22 be and they are hereby empowered to expend $115 in addition to the sum heretoiore authorized tor nagging yards, of Public School No. U.

Adopted. By Mr. Holhs BeBOlved, That it be referred to tho School Honse Committee, with power, to have a plank foot way laid in the yard of School No. 23. Adopted.

By Dr. Thome Besoived, That a warrant for $2 3 bo drawn in favor of Mies Leech, a temporary teacher In Primary No. 5. Adopted. By the same Beaolved, That it bo' referred to the Teachers' Committee in conjunction with the Locjl Committee ot Primary No.

5 with power i appoint an additional Teacher in said BChool, Adopted. By Mr. Schapps Besolved, Tbat whenever It is proposed to transfer or to advance a teaober from one class to another, and higher in the same or any other of the public schools, such teacher shall be examined by tbe Superintendent in the same manner aa required for new appointments, notice of such examination to be sent to the Local Committee of tbe district in which such promotions are to be made, and no promotions shall be confirmed until such examinations are made. Beforred to Teachers' Committee for report. PUBLIC SCHOOLS EMBARRASSED BT SUNDAY BCHOOL EXCURSIONS.

By Mr. Lockwood Besolved, First, That, whereas the great object of the publio schools of Brooklyn being to ail'ord to the childteu of the city a good education, and thus to fit them for the business of life, any interruption of their daily Btudies iacontxaventive of this object and positively nurttui to tnem, anu snouia tuorotoro do avoided. Second. That tiio long summer vacation established by the Board is intended to be, and Is in their judgment, amply sufficient for all needful recreation, both to the teachers and children. Third.

That the operations of the schools have been greatly tmborraBacd in the past few years by the practico so provalent of having Sunday School and other excursions by tbo churches and other societies of our city, withdrawing dailymany ol the children from the schiola at a time the most important to them, and materially interfering with the good order of the schools. Fourth. That parents and guardianB are earnestly desired to cooperate with tbe Board in tho education of their children by allowing no slight cause to prevent tbeir prompt and regular attendance at all the sessions of Ihe schools; and tbat the pastors of our churches and the Superintendents of the Sunday Schools he requested eo to arrange snob exonrsions as they feel obliged to have as not tointerferc with tho school duties of the children. Besclvcd, That the Secretary be directed to send a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of tbe regular pasters of our churches, snd that the Principals De in sti noted to send copies to tbe parents and guardians Of the children under their charge. Some debate followed.

Judge Greenwood, Mr. Pior bou and others thought that tbe Board, if the resolutions passed, might be considered as transcending tho line of their duties. Mr. Whiting argued that the Sunday School and other excursions could sot bemadesubservlentto tbeintereats of the Publ Schools. He thought tbat the resolutions could not be adopted with propriety, and that if they were passed tbey would be of no effect.

Mr. Wbitlock also spoke against the resolutions, and said that it the ad, 4th and Dth sections were passed the Boaid would be going beyond its province. He would not object to advocate the parsage ot the first and seo ond sectlonB. Several members affirmed that as the evil undoubted ly existed, good results might bo expected to follow tbe pateage oi'the resolutions. Tho reflolutions Were finally withdrawn.

By Mr. Burr BeBOlved, That the Secretory be auV thotized to draw the usual warrant Of one hundred dollars in favor of the City Superintendent for travelling expenses of the last year. The resolution was amended foreM "onobundrodand fifty" inBtead of one hundred dollars, and was then adopted. PRINCIPALS OP COLORED SCHOOLS INCREASE OF SALARIES By Mr: Seabury Besolved, That the. salaries of tho principals of tbe several colored Schools be increased $200 to take effeot at the same time and to terminate at theeamo tlmoas the recent Increased pay of the white principals, Adopted.

motion, the Board adjourned to Tuesday, The Exile ol Erin" and its Authorship. the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In Friday's issue of your paper I read an in tereailng lecture on the Poets and Poetry of Ireland, by ex Alderman Ternan lecture which evinced oireful and patient Investigation I was surprised at one statement which I ask the use of your columns to correct. Mr. Ternan ba speaking olene Mr, Beynolds, an Irish bard, asserts that the well known ballad of "The Exile ot EriA" was written by Beynolds, and that Campbell, the Scotch poet claimed it Irish' speakers and lecturers have a mania for making great men Irish, by I certain process, of heraldry I suppose by the same spcles of genealogy that makes every man In Iiolanda Uneal descendant of an Irish KtoR for 5 or less. Oar Scotch poets are too few, and their exquisite gems are too rare for us to agree to be robbed of them by any lecturer.

for one, cannot consent to see such an assertion promulgated without contradicting It and challenging the leolurer for his proof. Beynolds was imere tippling whose ambi Uon'never soared above the success end applause of a street ballad. Enough is known of Campbell's oharacter ind writings, to believe that he was not only competent to write "The Mlef but that he would not impair bis llteraiy fame by Taj tog claim to a production which in many respects Is Inferior to his other writings. BboTOHlIAK. Fagan, Assistant Foremin of Engine Na ifc Wls mide on Monday evening the roipient of h'sndeome token: of the good will of ttqmpet snd lire 'TbtfiiWc tot plioe it the liquor store of Ksenineornsr Oolumbii streets, tbe presentation, being nude by Biobard Hickey, Engl.

qesrofW. Spseetos were nude by Aid. Voidetveer and others, tnd tbe company present sprat' a veiy pleasant time. chance to oo her, we BBouia UKe to near nun on that point. "To this complexion it must come at last.

Singualarly enough the New York Worn, assuming to speak for the party that has steadily opposed the policy which has been per aued in regard to negro servitude, is among the first of the public journals to open ground in favor of admitting the negroes to the right of It thinks the time has not come yet, and it believes rightly enough that the question should be left to toe States concerned. We quote: "If, after order and stability ro restored in the South, tho southern people shaU see nt to idmit the freedmen to a participation In the elective franchise, it mar be wise ud politic lor them to do bo. Bat this is matter of which they ire the exclusive judge! As" question of state policy it is one of the very first magnitude. We are of opinion that ihe next operation of nigroa witt eiwer hart the tuffrage or perturb the state. If the negro population of the South were as small in proportion as that of the Northern States, the question might be decided' either way without peril to the publio tranqulity.

In different Northern States It has been decided vaiiously, and there Is nothing on thefaoe of society to show that one mode of deciding it Is not just as good as another. In some of the Northern States we have negro anf frage; in others, negro suffrage with a property qualltl cation in others, no negro suffrage at all. Our negro population is so insignificant that all these methods we equally and peifectly safe. But in some of the Southern States, the negroes approximate in numbers to the whites. We do not believe that, in such States, tho colored population, whan possessing freedom snd Has means of education, can be permanently excluded from the elective franchise." We are free to admit that the existence in a Eepublic of any considerable number denied a voice in shaping its affairs would be an anomaly.

It is equally true that the popular feeling which found expression through the ballot box, would, if ropressed, make itself felt through popular disturbance. But on the same reasoning the absolute repression of any control in pubUc affairs necessitated by slavery should provoke perturbance in the State. It would be impossible to keep white men in servitude with safety to those attempting it; it was possible to keep negroes. It the negro was a white man, and with a white man's aspirations for liberty, slavery would have been impossible under the Southern system. It will be diffioult to show that the man who is content to be a slave is fitted for anything else but slavery.

We encircled the Southern States with an army of liberation, but the slave made no sign. His especial friends told us that if we issued a proclamation of emancipation it would make its way from plantation to plantation, and the darkey would be irrepressible indeed. There was no more commotion among the slave population than there was in the stagnant waters of the murkey lagoons of South Carolina. In the North, though subjected to contempt and contumely from those classed, falsely, too, as his friends and enemies, the negro refused to accept the opportunity of a happier destiny in his own country. Our bays are crowded every day with ships bearing thousands of men desirious of bettering their condition, and sacrificing to do so the tender ties which bind men to their country, but the negro clings with an affectionate and ignoble tenacity to the menial position assigned him.

In the past we are not justified in judging the negro as if he were a white man, and it is in so judging of him in the future that our cotemporary, the World, errs. Why force this question on public attention at all? Is the negro troubling us about it any more than he troubled us about his existence as a slave? Not one in' a hundred of the negroes in this State are allowed to vote; is it the negro or demagogue white men who complain? Has the negro raised his voice against the injustice done him here? What petitions has he presented? What meeting has he held, what manifestation of feeling has he.offered to show that he is dissatisfied? In our opinion the negroes are the most inoffensive race on the earth if let alone. Are thay to afford forever the pretext, for disturbance? The question of slavery would have settled itself; the question of the true status of the negro in his new condition should be left to be settled by those interested. If we attempt to place the negro, in despite of those with whom he must live, in a position he is not qualified to fill, he will go to the wall in the conflict which we shall provoke, just as certain as an iron vessel will smash an earthern pipkin when they oome in violent collision. Weights and Measures.

Our comments yesterday in the review of the Common Council proceedings, on the business of inspecting weights aed measures, has elicited answer from two of the Inspectors, which we publish in another column. From a full enquiry in the matter, we are satisfied that the present mode of inspecting weights and measures, aftords no protection to tho" public. We find no reason to complain of the Inspectors, they appear to do their duty in accordance with the existing law, but the law itself is radically defective They act under an old State law, which is to be found in volume 3, Eevised Statutes, page 870. This enactment simply provided that all tradespeople using weights and measures shall submit them "once a year" for inspection, and the Sealer shall make them conform to" the regular standard weight or measure. A refusal to submit any weight or measure in use for such inspection, is punishable by a fine of five dollars collectabTe.by a civil action.

For using incorrect weights or measures to defraud the publio the following provision is made "Sec. 82. If any person or persons shall hereafter use any weight, measure, beam or other implement for determining the quantity of commodities which shall not be conformable to the standard, whereby any person anall be injured or defrauded, he shall be subject to a fine not exceeding five dollars for each offence, to be sued lor and collected by the city or town Staler; ho shall also be subject to an action at law, in whioh the defrauded petson snail recover treble damages and COBtS." The fault of this provision is that it involves more trouble than people are willing to take in such cases, to prosecute a fraudulent storekeeper when detected. The sealers of weights and measures are anthorsed to make only one visit of inspection during the year. A set of weights may be shown, them, which they seal; but how are they to know wheth tnese weights are actually used in the business.

A second Tisit is not authorized, and storekeepers can refuse, as they have done, tc allow the sealer on their premises after his regular annual call. If a customer finds that his grocer is cheating him in weight, he must go to the Sealer, the Sealer must go to the Mayor for permission to seize the fraudulent weights; he must then apply to the Corporation Counsel to commence a suit, and all the ponderous legal machinery of the city government has to be put in motion, the time of witnesses, law officers and the Court is taken up, for a whole day or more, to recover the trivial penaltv of five dollars. A civil action to recover damages' to the amount oi tnree times the value of two ounces of sugar, is not within the range of probability. The sole charge of this business of looking after weights and measures ought to be vested in the Police Department; using false weights or measurea should be made a raisde.1 meanor. The possession of a false weight or measure shoul be held prima facie evidence of guilt.

The police should have toe power to visit and examine weights and measures at any time, and io summarily seize in oorrect and arrest proprietor. To protect. honest storekeepers, it would bo necessary to TAEmlate in some wav the manufacture of weights and measures. The sealers assure us that great number of the weights at the hardware. aforea ore some oyer and some belo the standard; Some storekeepers were found to be defrauding themselves by using weights that allowed about Bevehteeh 'avoirdupois ounces to the pound; other were Tmodngoipiig ly dotog wrong the ottw Weight lead, and a composition metal are variously used.

This is a subject in which the public in general are interested, and we commend to the Common Council the consideration' of the defects of the present law, some of whioh it is in the power of tha body 'to remedy. There is more need for stringent enaotments to protect consumers now than there has been heretofore. When' commodities are cheap there is less to fraud by dealers; but it ia well known that the dearer th artiole the more liable it is to adulteration. The War has enhanced the prioe of every artiole of consumption, and it is a general complaint that the articles for which a double price is now paid is usually inferior to nominally the same quality of goods sold before prices were enhanced. Men who will oheat in one wav will not hesitate to oheat in another; from adulteration to false weight is a short step; of the two, giving short weight is the lea9t criminal By false weights a customer is merely defrauded of his money; by adulteration he initr Via nninnriAd an well as defrauded.

In these times of high prices the people need all the protection from fraud the authorities can give. Topics of the Par The Government has issued orders to discharge all sailors from the service whose time expires on or before the 10th of July next. This will reduoe expenses very materially. A monument to President Lincoln's memory will soon be commenced in Washington, to cost $100,000. The Abbest of Congressman Harris has been followed by an immediate Court Martial, and tho country will soon learn the reBult of its deliberation.

Gen. Gbant has arrived in Philadelphia, and takes possession of his new house there, to day. The Wab Department has ordered 600,000 blank discharges on parchment paper, with a large amount of muster out rolls, for a reduction of the army. Captain Robt. Lincoln, son of the late President, has left Washington for Springfield, to at tend the interment of his father's remains.

Mrs. Lincoln is still too ill to be removed. Oveb theee millions of United States Bends are now in the hands of European capitalists, Germany contributing more than any other Continents power. A private sale will ba made of the horses and carriages belonging to the late President Lincoln, Sevbbal keos op specie have been captured on a steamer attempting to run out of tho Bappahan nockBiver. The paving tellee of the Commercial Bank of Philadelphia, is missing with $200,000.

The Fenians claim that President Lincoln was a strong smypathizer in their movement. Genebal Shebman and army are en route. Government has telegraphed to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York for 50 bakers, so as to be in readiness for them. Mod Justice. The unreasonable character of a mob, and the injustice it is liable to commit, are exemplified in a case which occurred last week in the oil region.

Mr. Stevens, a Jerseyman, said to resemble in some slight degree tho photograph of Booth, the assas. sin, was taken into custody by two detectives. When he got to Titosville, he found the news of his arrest had preceded him, and a crowd clamorous for hanging him on the spot followed him to the hotel. An investigation there showed who he was, and though the two stupid detectives who arrested him told the mob he was not Booths it still insisted that he onght to be hung.

When the detectives said he belonged to the State of New Jersey and the Camden Amboy Railroad Company, some ohap in the crowd said" Well, him, ho ought to be hung any how." Any innocent man's life may be put in danger from such ignorance and brutality as this. It is time that every one who undertakes to set the laws at defiance and to usurp its authority were punished. A Boston jury has begun the work by giving a citizen $32,000 damages against an individual who tried to set the mob spirit at work against him by a false accusation. Gabbiel Harbison and the Elder Booth. One of the penalties the Booth family are paying for tho great crime with which their name is so intimately associated, is that of a revival of all the old stories about the elder Booth, whose eccentricities verged on madness.

Here is the latest story, in which one of our Brooklyn citizens figures: Gabriel Harrison, an old friend and fellow actor, went to call upon Booth in Baltimore. He found him at a Hour store where he bad just purchased a barrel of Hour to take to ail home just outside tne city. Harrison ia dreesed him with "How do you do, Mr. Booth "Who then laroyou sir, don't yon know who I am? Tne Lucius Junius Brutus Booth, sir," yelled be in a ore scendo movement from forto to fortissimo. Wbeeliug to a couple of men wno had roued oucnis barrel ot uour, he ordered them with a wild yell "to hoist In that br rel," and they obeyed him with remarkable lapldity, tossing it into a light wagon he had waiting.

Then turning to Harrison he commanded him imperiously, "dot in there, sir," and hie manner enforced hasty obedience. ReizlDE a eharn hatchet which lay in the bottom of tbe wngoD, with one blow he smashed in the bead of tbo bairel, and then without waiting for the tail board of ihe wagon to be put up, howled to Harrison to drive. Harrison seized the lines and drove like "Jehu," Booth standing up behind him yelling "Paster I Paster 1" flourishing the hatchet about his head with frightfully ferocious swoops, at tunes within an inch of his nose. The flour streamed out along the street, the horses gal lotied, Harrison crouched in terror, expecting momentarily to be tomahawked, and tho eccentrio savage bohind him yelled and flourished tha hatchet until tbey got out of town. HairiBon was afterwards nospttably treated by him, but made his escape as soon as possible, and never went to see jiootn again.

Staling Weights and Measures To Ihe Editor of ihe Brooklyn Eagle: In vonr issue of last evening there is an ar tide in regard to the manner in which tbo Inspectors of Weights and Measures do their duty. Ton ssy you are informed that the present custom of these officials is to notify tbo dealers wnen tney are going on tueur rounds of inspection, and this, of course, gives them the chance, if tbey are in the habit of using false weights, of substituting correct ones for tbam, and so hoodwinking the Inspectors, and tliib, of course, makes tho whole thing a farce, and no protection to the public whatever." Whether by interested parties we know not, but we do snow tnat you nave neen misintormed on too eublect. for in place of sendlne tuem word we are com ing, the contrary is the case. We do a portion of Myrtle avenue one day, Court street next, Bridge street tbe following day, afterwards Columbia street, Fulton and Paik avenues, for the very purpose of coming unawares cn tnem. regara improper weigais ana measures the law is to make them conform to the standards in our noBsession if nosBible.

If they cannot be made to con form, we invariably take them away. On Monday last we tock three gallon measures, tbreo half gallon, and one quart measure away for being too small, which we lelt at the corporation yard, with instruction from his Hon. ihe Mayor to the Corporation Counsel to prosecute the parties. Bo yon see you have been misinformed in rpourd to the matter and have done us Great inlustice in the eyes of the public to say that men aworn to see that storekeepers had proper weights and measures, were ao luslly in collusion with them to rob the public Hoping vou W1U give tnis me same puuuuiby juu uiu io tue urti' cle referred to, and oblige, Toure respectfully, Thobp Tobmev, Sealers of Weights and Measures. Long Island Items.

A Raid on the Dabktes. On Sunday afternoon tat a party of darkles congregated at. a drinking saloon in Smith street, this village, and after imbibing freely and becoming crazed, they commenced quarrelling, fighting, cursing and swearing and making a great disturbance. The President of the village, Alex. Hsgner, hearing of the disturbance, determined to put a stop to it, and at once called upon Constables Bljah H.

NoBtrand, George L. Enam, Jeremiah Eeeler, and John O. Brlnokerhoff, and requested them to arrest the rowdies and bring them to Justice. The officers went to work in earnest, and, alter searching most of the night succeeded In arresting and locking up of the offenders. On Monday morning they were taken before Justice Bradlee.who, after hearing tbo testimony, sentenced them according to tKWr guilt.

Tbe following are the names of those arrested and amount of their fines, which were aU paid: Henry Hewlett, discharged; Isaac Johnson, fined (9; Join Wilson, fined 10; Chas, Hewlett, fined James Dick, fined Thomas Bobinson, fined 10; Wm Henry Smith, fined Cbaa Manning, fined Peter Thompson, fined Wm Henry Bantus, fined 8. We should like io see our authorities go a little farther and arrest and punish those who soil these fellows liquor on Sunday. It tain violation of all law and decency, and should be stopped at all hazards. Famtr. SisAiibfQ Dbapeby.

Oh Tuesday last, Elizabeth Shiw, daughter of Beuben 8biw, of Foster'i Meadow, Was arrested for atealing dry goods from the front of the house of Wm. Shaw, in Herriman' ivenue, this village. The goods were hung on the piazsaas a mourning emblem on Che death of 'President Lincoln, and about nine o'clock on Monday night, Elizabeth entered the premises, polled down and carried away tho goods above named. She was taken before Justice John 8. Bnedeker, and the proof being conclusive, abo was sentenced to the County Jail for.

three'mpnths. J. Sale of JPews in the film Plaoe Conftesra! tioMt Chnrch. The annual sale of the pews of, the Elm Plam'Coogjrcgitional Church, Bev. Wiiham Alvin Bart Paata took pltoe last evening.

Mr. Hollingibettl acted ti incUpaeer. Each pew has a regular yearly ftfifKm fl? 100 ocordiig to the location. The we In Hi centre of, the' ehnnh. tit i itguaHJm the bMt.

AtibOTtliattjpiat elgtit'q HemOing ti "nw1 mMdtcea Ibfe which the aale wai proceeded with, and resulted In MUaatrtory bxreue in the revenuea of the church. Important Amendment to the Constitution No: More Bribnr at Conren. lions The' regular Democratic General Committee met last evening at their rooms in Uria' Hall, the President E. J. Lowbor, to! the chair, and Mr.

Bergen acting as Secretary. Theredlngof the minutes of the previous meeting having been dispensed Mr. Bergen moved a reconsideration of the action taken by the committee it the previous meeting1 in the adoption ot th'e Mr. McLaughlin wanted to knew whit was the object of reconsidering the Constitution. Mr.

Bergen stated that since the previous meeting of the Committee there hid been several amendments suggested, one or which be thought of some importance. There was nothing in the constitution at adopted regulating the manner in which delegates to convention) should vote, whether by ballot orriva voce He thought that it was absolutely necessary that provisions should be made requiring the delegates to vote viva voce, so that their constituents could see how they voted. Tho motion reconsider was adopted. Mr T. Q.

Bergen moved as ah amendment to the con stltulion, that all nominating conventions" held under the authority of this committee shall vote viva voce forcandidates for such offices as shall be required by a call of the General Committee, and it shall be tha duty of the Gereral Committee to keep a roll and record of the vote of each member, and publish the same in at least one Democratic nrmnr imbliahed in this county. Mr. Thompson remarked that he thought it well that the amendment should be offered, bnt he did not think tbat it would De wise to act upon it immediately, ne wen in favor of IeHim, it Ka over for a week. There waa no reason why the matter should be hurried, as the conventions would not meet in some ume. Mr.

Bercen did not winli to cress the amendment; he only wished the members to understand it Mr. Einsella remarked that the amendment seemed to him to be so judiolous that he thought the oommtt tee should adopt it immediately, and the constitution might be left open until the next meeting tot farther amendments. Tbe amendment was adopted. Mr. Bersen moved in amend the bv laws bo as to make the reaular monthly mentlnas to be held on the ur.it Thursday of each month instead of the first Tuesday.

Adopted. Mr. Bergen moved that when the Committee adjourn, it adjourn until the lltb, at 8 P. Adopted. After transacting some further routine business the Committee adjourned until the 21th Inst.

Meeting of the National Democratic Com mittee An Advisory Committee on State and National Politics. A regular meeting of the National T)emocra tic Committee was held last evening at the Noah B. Collins presided, and Charles B. Wylie aoted a Secretary. There waa a very large and respectable at tendance of members, The minutes of the previous eetlng were not read the Secretary having left th( mat heme.

Mi. Hutchlnes arose and stated that ho thought the time had arrived when an Advisory Committee should be appointed to conter with other Demooratlo organizations throughout the State and Country fonobing the future policy of tho party. Mt. Collins, the chairman, then stated No one lu looking over the state of affairs in thla country at present but must be convinoed that the time was now coming when Democratic principles would again prevail tuose jenersonian nrmcioies in wuiuu juu uiu ueuut; men, have been educated, are to become, not words of tne past, DUt reanty woras oi me uuy. inpiuauao Bemocratlc'ideas alone can restore our country, and it behooves us therefore to bestir onrselveB in order to haBten tbat end.

Mr. Maloney moved tbat acommittee of one fromeaoh Asspmhlr District hR nnnointed as such Advisory Com mittee, with power to call the General Committee together from time to time. The Chair announced that he should require a little time to arrange the committee properly, and would duly announce the names through the columns of the Daily Eaqlb. The Committee on Boom not being ready to report, Mr. Eelly, proprietor of the house, stated that the Committee could have tne room as lontf as it was desired.

A recess of fifteen minutes was then taken, of tor which the motion to appoint the Advisory Committee was adopted, and the committee then adjourned. Republican boneral Committee. The Bepublican General Committee met last evening at their rooms No. 5 Court street 8. T.

Maddox occupied the cualr. ine rou was cauea ana ou memuers answered to their After the reading of the minutes of the last icgnlar meeting, Mr. Cary, of the Commijfce on the 6th of April Celebration, reported that I band had been hired, nreworss purcnaseo ana a portion of the expense of the 100 gun's fired in the park on tnat occasion, pam. ThR renort wsb accented. Tbe same member irom tho Committee on Flags and Pnlps.

wwinrted nrorrresa. Mr. Sladdox fur. S. B.

Catcher In the chair) moved tnat tne memoer or me orate (jemrai uuiuuiiiieo mr. Charles Jones) bo ertitled to a Beat on the floor ot the nmmiltip. and that the bv laws be so amendod as to admit him with such restrictions as may be thought proper by the Committee. Mr. Ward moved as an amendment that the Union member of Congress from this County bo also admitted.

Pending these tho Secretary read a communication frnm the Sixth Ward, annonnciUR the removal of Mr. Jlcmy Hill from the County, and his resignation as a member of the Committee. The resignation was ac cepted, and Mr. P. w.

Kenyon appornteu in nis piaoe. Annihnr amendment was offered to the motion of Mr. Maddox, to the effect that the Congressman, and the members of the State Central Committee, be entitled to the full privileges of membership. The first and second amendments were lost. The motion of Mr.

Maddox as stated by the Chair, that the members of the State Central Committee from this County, be admitted to a seat in the Committee with the privilege of voting, was then adopted. The resignation of Mr. Goodrich as Chairman of the Finance Committee was receivea ana accepiea air. w. fc'eilvon was aoDOinted in his place.

Tbe Seoretary presented bills of expense for draping tha Committee room. tirocnrinn'12S badges for members, eta, amounlingin all to $72 04, whioh wore referred to the Finance Committee with pot? er. Mr. Ward offered a resolution to the effeut that the passage of the Central Eailroaa bill, increasing fare from tWO CeUlB per llllie IO tWO HUH uuu umi muu, nto wi mtifc result, nrocured bv bribery, and that, aa the Legia i.inro wns Rennhllcan. the etain fell upon the Bbdud licans who voted for it; eulogizing Hon.

John C. Perry lor opposing it, and oovernor ior vetoing tue mmp. The resolution fell upon the Committee with the weight of an avalanche. A member immediately jumped up and moved to lay the resolution on tne tome. Mr.

Ward desired to exnloin. Tho member withdrew Ms motion to lay on the table, when Mt. Hasbrouek, of the Tenth Ward, sprang to the floor and renewed it. Tim motion in lrrv on the table prevailed. Thus was Mr.

JoBeph G. Ward, as he expressed it, nnfTGfri down. A copy oi the resolutions cannot be printed, as the Secretary refused to allow them to be copied; their pub his opinion, would be likely to prove inimical to tie wpu neing or ino uommitHjo. Adjourned. MOEE ABOUT BOOTH.

TRIAL OP TEE ACCOMPLICES The trial of the accomplices in the plot to assaEBlnate tho President is going on. We think the Government 1b ooting very unwisely iu conducting it in "Star Chamber" session, to the exoluBion of the reporters, aa the evidence in all its details Bhould be given to thepnblicasitis developed. A correspondent of the World, who seema to hovo been mide a confident of the detectives, gives a pretty thorough summary of the evidence in the case for the prosecution. The conspiracy was a deep laid plan, and though par. UelpHed In by but a few, yet facts in possession of the Government reveal the asenrence that It was connived at bjaltiinltitude.

One man was its head and, heart; its accessories were so numerous that the trouble Is not whom to'Buspect, but whom not to excuse. The police operations prove that the into murder is not a spasmodic and fitful crime, but lorg premeditated, and carried to consummation with as much cohesion and resolution as tbe murder of Allessandro de Medici or Henry Qnatre. BOOTH THE OBIGMAIi PEO JEOTOB OF THE CHIME. SbaDgejind anomalous as ihe facts may seem, John Wilkes Booth was the sole projector of the plot against thePrealdent which, culminated in the taking or that good man's life. He had rolled' under his tongue the swettparigraphsofShakspeito referring to Brutus, as had his rather so well, tbat tbe old man named one son Junius Brutus, and the other John Wilkes, after the old Engljsh agitator, until it became hi ambition, like the wicked Lorenzinode Medici, to stake bis life upon one stroke for fame, the murder of a ruler obnoxious to tho Sooth.

THE PIBSI CONCEPTION OF THE OBIME. Booth shrank at first from murder, until another, and leas dangerous resolution failed This was no less than the capture of the President's body, and its detention or trtnaportatlon to the South. Idonotrelyfor thtaaaser tfara upon hla sealed letter, where he Vowb it; there, has beeitfcuno upon street within tbe city lts, a house belonging to one Mrs. Greene, mined and furnished with underground apartments, furnished with manacles and all the itcesaorles to private imprisonment. Here the President, and as many as could be gagged and taken away with hlro, were ta be concealed in the evepVof faUure to run them into the eontedenoy.

Owing to hla failure to group around him aa many men aa he desired. Booth abandoned the project of kidnapping; but the house was discovered last week, as represented, ready tobeblownupatimoment'anotltw. FBEPASATIONS FOB It was at thla Ume tbat Booth devised his triumphal route through the South. The difo element seems to have never been lacking in hie design, and with all his base purpose! he never failed to consider some sub aequent notoriety to be therefore shipped, beiore the end of 18Mihis theatrical wardrobe from Canada to Nassau. After the commission of his crime lie intended to reclaim it, ntl rV through the South, drawing many as much byhia crime aabi? iMUHea.

Next Began Booth's search for accomplices, and while be round in abundance of sympathizers the number of those reidy to take a hand in the conuniatioa of the act vras few eg p9mia prntlemw In Canada befin to ttfujMnetfelaswUVl 1 i aa not know. hntaimDlvMv thai tbeOotrfedertMt As. Jacoo xnompvun. imttj aivwiuwju, ursuin WfiONESDAY EVENING. MAY 3.

TkU Paper has the Largest Circulation of any Evening Paper published la the HaitedStates. Its ralneas an Advertising Medium, is therefore apparent. The Problems the War has left ns to Solve the Negros Vote. jtevond all question the war will end in the total extinction of negro slavery, in the United States. 'The next issue, so far as the colored race is interested will, be on the question of admitting the negro to the right of suffrage.

The want ot foresight on the part of those who believed that if we could abolish slavery there would then be no disturbing element in our politics will very soon beoome apparent. The war, which grew out of conflicting ideas on the subject of slavery, will leave behind it problems more difficult to solve than any which grew out of the existence of negro servi tude. The war will leave as a legacy a vast national debt; if we can show the world that it is possible to preserve a Republican form of government and at the same time induce the majority to endure for the advantage of the minority great public burthens, we will ac complish what no Eepublic has succeeded in doincr belore. The tendency of the laws rendered necessary to support a great public debt is to make the rich richer; the poor poorer. Our government differed from that of less favored countries in this more than in anything else, that it was a cheap government, that no man felt its burthens, and that under it all that every man earned was his own.

We are well satisfied that if the men who favored or at all events did not fear war as a solution oi a conflict assumed to be "irrepressible" and sooner or later certain to end in strife, could have foreseen the consequence of their conduct they would have shrunk back in horror from the ordeal we havein part passed through. They would have accepted cheerfully the slow but sure and stately march of free labor Southward, under the operations of laws as immutable as those which govern the ebb and flow of the ocean. The tendency of national debt is to create inequality of fortune. Year by year the publicsecurities will concentrate in fewer hands, until at last, as in European countries, a large class will live in luxury on the wealth created by and collected from others, while producing nothing themselves. You may attempt to distribute the publio securities among the people, but the government can pay no interest that will induce the small capitalist to ieavo his money with the government, for the reason that he can make more by the.

use of his money himself. Not having sufficient capital to live on the interest of his money, he must follow some other pursuit, and in it his money will be worth more to him than it will while in the government securities. This is true in every country, but it will be peculiarly true of a young country like this, where there are so many avenues open for enterprise and industry. Under the stimulus of patriotism, at times in which trade is restricted by war, and the currency in circnlation unstable in value, small capitalists will land money to the government, but under normal conditions the tendency will be towards concentration of the public debt in the hands of a minority indeed, but of a wealthy and powerful minority, who will naturally look with jealousy on the exer ercise of a power by the majority which may if it chooses, refuse to bear burthens for the advantage ot others. "Universal suffrage for example," says Daniel Webster, "could not "lone exist in a country where there was great "ineannlitv of orooertv.

The holders of "estates Would be obliged, in such case, and in "some way to restrain the right of suffrage, or "else such right of suffrage would, before long, "divide the property." If this is true of private property, how much more true is it of large estates invested in public securities of burthens assumed in a war to secure an advantage shared in common, but the burthen of which one class is not called upon to share. We adduce these facts as an illustration of the folly of those who believed that m. through strife might be found a safe and easy solution of a problem in our social system which the wisest approached with a diffidence which had its birth in wisdjin, and not in cowardice. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!" Better by far in dealing with the question of negro servitude, to have accepted the eternal fiat so aptly expressed in the aphorism, "Tho mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly That a wise statesmanship may be able to make the existence of a great national debt, characteristic as it is of unpopular forms of government, compatible with our system, we fervently hope; but to do so we must approach the question in a different spirit to that which was manifested in dealing with the existence of negro servitude in these States. Another of the questions which will tax the wisdom of the statesman and test the stability of our system of government, is that growing out of the status of the negro in his new con.

ditiou. Very few of those who were clamorous for the immediate abolition of slavery ever troubled themRelves with the question of Ihe negro's condition alter his enfranchisement. Of tho few who did consider the question the late President was one. and his apparent inconsistency in relation to the abolition of slavery undoubtedly grew out of the perplexity involved in dealing with the negro in his new relation. Mr.

Lincoln's first suggestion was that the policy of paid emancipation and the colonization of the negro should be adopted. This policy was manifestly impracticable. With great hesitation he exercised the "war power," as it is called, for unconditional and immediate emancipation. How he proposed to deal the colored population after, is not known to sountry. It is taown that his most intimate advisers are opposed to a policy which will elevate the Southren negro to full citizenship.

The question is not one which properly belongs to federal politics, it being a matter entirely for the consideration of the States, bnt an attempt, will be made, under the pretence that the negro's vote in theSouth is essential for the maintenance of the Union, to determine it for those who are directly condemn ed. The folly of the men who believed that the settlement of the Slavery question invol ved the settlement of every other, will be apparent from whatever side we look at the new diffipnl. ty which presents itself. If we free the negroes and leave them disfranchised, their ex istenceas native disfranchised residents is as much an anomaly in our system as theitexis tence as slaves. If we give the negro 'the lights of citizenship we transfer in many districts of the South the governing power to their hands.

There be extreme abolitionists who would as soon be governed by black as white men, but their number must be exceedingly few. The social barriers which divide the two races, very lew are in fevor of removing. But with power in the hands of the negro in the South, it would be impossible to keep alive that publio sentiment which keeps the less elevated of our own race fjom amalgamation (with the; other. If it were possible, it would be ridiculous to attempt it. If any one is able to show that the negro who lis elevated to a position in which ho can control a white1 man, should on any ground be denied the privilege of soliciting the hand of the white man's daughter, and should not one ot his brotnere, wno is mown to.

uwe dbou o. Albanion the day of thebink delivery. Toil besides betog pMlHvoly identified lithe asaeseln of the Sewards, bsd.no Wends, nor haunts in Washington, He was simply, a dispatched murderer, and after trie night of the crime, struck nortward for the frostier, instead ot southward in the company of Booth. "It is thus stated on positive authority, tbat the plot was entirely unknown ui BAobmond. nor clue, nor written line of isy.

sort implicates the Confederate authorities. the NIGHT SWQBE THE MTODEB, On tbe night before the crime Booth found but one on whem be could rely. John Sumtt was sent northward by hii mother ou Thursday. Sam Arnold andMc Laugblin, each or whom was to kill a oabiuet offloer, grew pigeon llvercd and ran away. Harold, true to hii partiality, lingered around Booth to the end; Abserodt went ee nr aa to taie ms roue ana putoi to Airxwooa whent Pretddent Johnson waa stoDnimr.

and hid them under the bed. But either his courage failed, or a trlf llns aeeident deranaed his clan. Bat Pavne. a profes sional murderer, stooa "game, ami joukim nis way otci. onintn fimres to bis flick victim's bed.

There was great confusion and terror among the tacit and rasn conspirators on Tnursaay nigut, iney nan looaeu upon tbe plot as of a melodrama, and found to their horror that John Wilkes Booth meant to do murder. PBEPABATIONS FOB THE ATTACK AND THE FLIGHT. Six weeks before the murder, vounir John Surratt had taken two splendid repeating carbines to SurrattvlUe, and told John Lloyd to secret them. The latter made a hole, in the walnsrotting and suspended them from strings. On the very, afternoon ot the murder, Mrs.

Surratt was driven to 8urrattvllle, and Bhe told John TJovdto have the carbines readv. because thevwonld be called for that night. Harold was made quartermas ter, and hired tne norses. ne and Abzerodt werebith mounted between 8 o'clock and the time of the murder, and riding about the streets together. BOASTS OF BLOOD.

r.lcvU. 1 mav internolate. ordered his wife a few davs before the murder to go on a visit to Allen's Fresh. She says she does not know why she was so sent away, but swears that it ia so. Harold, three weeks before the murder, visited Port Tobacco, and said tbat the next Ume the boys heard of him ne would De spam; he added that with Spain there was no extradition treaty.

He said at SurrattsviUe that he meant to make a barrel. of money, or his neck would stretch. Abzerodt said that if he ever oame to Port Tobaoco again he would be rich enough to bny tbe whole place. wuses nootn toio a menu to go to ora a on uriaay night and see the best acting in the world. THE ASSASSINS arBTr TIME.

At Ford's Theatre, on Friday night, there were manv Blunders in tbe neighborhood of the door, and along the dress circle in the direction of the private box where the President sat. The may went on oleasaiitly, though Wilkes Booth, an obsetver of the audience, vis t)d the stage and took note of the positions His alleged associate, the stage carpenter, then received quiet ordeis to clear the paasage bythowinfs from tbe prompter's post to the stage door. All ibis time, Mr. Lincoln, in his family circle. unconscious of the death that crowded fast upon him, watched tbe pleasantry and smiled and tolt heartful of gentleness.

Buuaeniy mere was a murmur near me auuionoe aoor, as of a man speaking above his bound. He said: "Nine o'clocs ann torty nve minutes These words were reiterated from mouth to mouth until they passed the theater door, and were heard upon toe eiaewaiK. Directly a voice cried, in tne same sugntly raised monotore: "Nine clock and nfty minuteBl" This also cassed irom man to man, until it touched the street like a shudder. Nine o'clock and fifty five mlnuteal" said the same relentleBB voice, after the next interval, each ot which narrowed to a lesser span the life of the good President. Ten o'clock nere Bounded, ana conspiring ecno said in reverberation: "Ten o'clocEl" Bo like a creeping thing from lip to lip went Ten o'clock and five minutes." (An Interval.) "Ten o'cloak and ten minutes At this instant Wilkes Booth appeared in the door of the theatre, and the men who bad repeated the time so faithfully and so ominously scattered at hla coming, as at some warning pnantom.

All this ia so dramatio that I fear to excite a laugh when I write it But It is true and proven, and I do not say it, but report it. THE MTJEDEBEE8. All evil deeds go wrong. While the oliok of the pistol, iaklnri the President's life, went like a pang through the theatre. Pavne was snllliuKtbe blood In Mr.

Seward's house from threshold to sick chamber. But Booth's broken leg delayed him or made him lose his general calmness, ana ne ana jiaroia leu rayne to ms late. I have not adverted to thehole bored with a gimlet in the entry door of Mr. Lincoln's box, and oat out with a penknife. Tbe theory that the platol ball of Booth passed through tbe hole is now exploded.

And the stage carpenter may have to answer for this little orldce with all his neck. For when Booth leaped from the box he strode Btralglt across the stage by the footlights, reaching the prompter's post, which is Immediately behind the private box opposite to Mr. Lincoln. From this box to the stage door in the rear, the passage way leads behind the ends of the scenes, or bo narrow that only by doubling and turning sidewise can one pass along. On this fearful night, however, tbo scenes were so adjusted to tbe murderer's design that he had a free aisle from the foot of the stage to the exit door.

THE TELEGRAPH WIBES SEVEBED. Within fifteen minutes after the murder the wires were severed around the oity, excepting only a secret wire for government uses, which leads to Old Point. I am told that by this wire the Government reached the fortifications around Washington, first telegraphing all the way to Old Point, and then back to the outlying forts. The information eomes to me from so many creditable channels tbatl must concede it. Mrs.

Surratt. whOBe son John has thus far eluded tho vigilance of the detectives who are on his track, bears. no small pare in tois ptot. one huh ruug ueeu seciei agent of the Confedeaacy, in the secret mail service, and haa ever been known as a bold, masculine rebel sympa When Booth cast around for assistants, he naturally selected thoBO men whom he could control. Tho fitat tbat recommended nimself waa Harold, a youth of inane and plaslio character, carried away by the example of an actor, and full of execrable quotations, going to Bhow that he was an imitator of the master spirit both in text and admiration.

This Harold was a gunner, and there tore versed in arms; he had traversed the whole lower portion of Maryland, and was therefore a geographer as well ob a tool. His friends lived at every farm house be tween Washington land Leonardsville, and he was re spectably enouRn conneciea, so as to wwv uiu uanum tion creditable as well as useful, Harold Is a dull faced, shallow bov. smooth haired, and provincial; hehadho money nor employment, except tbat he clerked for a druggist a while, until he anew Wliaes DUUIU, wuu lUUJieu Wj mm uuy uuua, uuii bought his soul for a smile. Harold was infatuated by Booth as a woman by a soldier, He copied his gait and tone, adopted his opinions, and was unhappy out of his society. Booth gave him money, mysteriously obtained, and together tbey made tho acquaintance of young.Tohn Surratt, son of the conspiratress.

Young Surratt does not appear to hive been a puissant aplrit in the scheme; indeed, all design and influence therein waB absorbed by Mra. Surratt and Booth. The latter wbb tbo head and heart of tbo plot Mrs. Surratt was his anchor, and the rest of tbe boys were disjlples to iBcariot ond JezebeL John Suriatt, a youth of strong Southern physiognomy, beardless and lanky, knew of the murder and connived at it. "Sam" Arnold and one McLauRhlio were to have been parties to it, but backed out in the end.

Thoy all relied upon Mrs. Surratt, and took their ones" from Wilkes Booth. Payne fled the city, but bis horse threw him, and then it was he adopted the laborer's disguise and returned to Washington just in Ume to be captured. FLIGHT OF BOOTH AND HABOLD. I oome now to the ride eut of the.

oity by tho ohlof assassin and hiB dupe. Harold met Booth immediately alter the crime in the nextetreet, and they rode at a gal lop past the Patent Office and over Capitol Hill. Aa they crossed the Eastern branch at TJniontown, Booth gave bis proper name to the officer at the bridge. This, which would Beem to have been foolish, which cnA tn Wn fnnllah waa in ranllfor (shrewd. The officers believed that one of Booth's accomplices had given tbis name In order to put them out of the real Booth's track.

Bo they made efforts elsewhere, and bo Booth got a Btart. At midnight precise remaining on bis nag while Harold descended and knocked at the door. Lloyd, tse landlord, came down at once, when Harold pushed past him into the bar and obtained a bottle of whiskey, some of which he gave to Booth Immediately. While Booth was drinking, Htrold went up stairs and brought down one of the carbines. Lloyd atarted to get the other, but Harold said: "We don't vrant Booth has broken his leg and can't carry it." So tbe second carbine remained In the hall, where tho officers afterwards iound it.

As the two horsemen star led to go off, Booth cried out to Lloyd: "Do you want to hear some news?" "I don't care much about it," cried Lloyd, by his own account. "We have murdered," eald Booth, "the President and Seoretary of Statel" And with this horrible confession, Booth and Harold dashed away In the midnight, across Prince George's The7 subsequent events, inoludlng.the broken leg, its setting by Sr. Modd, the scene at Garrett's farm, and the capture and death, are too fresh to need rehearsal. In Ml probability, in a few days at the farthest, outraged justice will have been satisfied, and the assassin's aocom nllces will have raid the just penalty of their 'horrid crime. It ia an evidence of the strength of Bepublican institutions tbat so great a national event never for an instant stopped tne wneeis or government, ana on tne national gallows, from which in a few days these orim lna'8 will perish, let us hope, will perish the first and last attempt at iBsasslnatlori in Amerlca.

South CoBgregatiorjal ChiiTokAunaal Sale of Pews. In the South Congregational church in Court street, Bov. Ed. Taylor, Rurtor, last evening the annual sile 'of Ipewa took place. Mr.

F. icUn'g as wo; tloneer. The annual rent of each pew raises from $10 to $100. The aggregate Of. premiums amounted to about first choice of a seat was knooked down to Mr, J.

B. Stebbins for $178. The second choice was knocked down to Mr, H. O. Hurlbnt for $100, and tho third to Mr.

Mervin for $100. The choices continued is IoBowb $100, i 60 60 '0 DS Barnes Parsons NKnvl J8 BITOT wy. Th aia ns kent nn until about 10 o'clock, and the chutcb will be open Batardij werdag for.tlie djspoil of ijews and the conieao ot dues. i i 'liKOIOBl BY JCBTIOT ViXtMiiJxied A. HJfetf of the Eastern District, is MMunced to spsii: rbls tvtning belore the Operators' Benevolent Sxiety, free to Working Women, at 195 Bowtxy, New York..