Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1865-05-20

              sM;f;" . H?nr ;.j .r , rrf --f :--,.ve ,:,-.,:v . ; v t.'V; --r- -J" JO ..u,s:7oxom: lof th irtt ie of 300,000,00e. t the ; Loan was completed ; on the' Slfet of March, ..Tllbe sale TtkMec9nMrles of Three rHn- Millions, payable three years from, the 15th day ef Jene, 1B$, was begun on the 1st of ' ApriL Intke skort space-of thirty dnyt,-ovsr One hundred ? Millions of tlie series have been solri leaving thii day taw Twe Hnadred Million! to be disposed of. Tke interest is parable emi-atiaDalljr in currency on tbelHXi of December and 15th of June by Coupon nttaebed to each note, which are readily cashed anywhere. It amotroU to . One eent per day on a ' $50 note. Two eenta Tea - SO :.'. 10O S500 $1000 . $5000 4"- MORE AND MORE DESIRABLE. f The Rebellion ii anppreHed, and the Government haa already adopted meannresto reduce expenditures as rapidly as possible to a peace footing, thus with- 'drawing frem market as borrower and purchaser. This is THE ONLY L0A1T IH MARKET Bow offered by the Government, and constitutes the - Great Popular lian of the People . - j The'Seven-Thirty Notes are convertible on their maturity, at the option of the holder, into v U. S. 5-20 Six per cent. OOZiS-BXIAAZZTa BOrJDS, Thich are always worth a premium. - FREE FROM TAXATION. - The 7.80 Notes cannot be taxed by Towns, Cities, Counties or States, and the Interest is not taxed unless en a surplus of the owner's income exceeding .Lx hundred dollars a year. This fact increases their value from one to three per cent, per annum, according to the rate levied on their property. f.t"; ,. .' , Snttcribe Quickly. - Less than $200,000,000 of the Loan authorized by the' last Congress are now on the market. This ' amount, at the rate at which it is being absorbed, y' will all be subscribed for within two months', when j the notes will undoubtedly command a ' premium, as : das uniformly been the ease on closing the subscrip y C tions toother Loans. It now teems probable that ho idmblt amount beyond tie present series trill be fffertitoiktfvhlie. . :f V"'. In order that citizens of every.' town and section wrthecottaujr may be afforded, facilities for Ufcmg tneaeSeallonaBanlfeaFgd Private Banker throughout the country have gtn rally agreed to receive subscriptions at par. Bub cribers will select their own agents, In whom they bare confidence, and who only are to be responsible Tor the delivery of the notes for which they receive Orders. JAY COOKE, , . ' Subscription Ayent, PHta. S Subscriptions received bj the First National iBank of Jfonnt Vernon, and JTrvjc Conntg Xutional Bank Mont IVnoa. May 13 Ccrtincnte of Authority . : '"'.'. - :. . vo TIC '' ; f Ehoi County National Bank of ; v Moant Yernon. - . . TREASURY DEPARTMENT, li Orrtca or Comptroller or the Citrrbkct WAsaiseTOjr, Apiil 25th, 1865 'At THERE AS, by satisfactory evidence presented ' to the nniiersigned.it has been made to appear that u The Knox County National Bank of Mount Vernon," in the City of Mount Vernon, in the county of Knox, and. State of Ohio, has been duly-organized nder and aeeording to the requirement of the Act f of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide a National ' Currency, secured by a pledge of United States Bonds, and t provide for the circulation and- redemption thereof," approved June 3d, 1864, and has complied With air the provisions f said Act required to be eomplied with before commencing the business of Banking, under said wet; . Now, therefore, t. Freeman Clarke 'Comptroller of the Ctarreeyy fcereby certify that "The Knox Cewaiv SaUawat Bank of Mount Vernon,'' in the City f It wit Vernon, in the County of Knox, and the CHlte of Ohio, U authorized tocommenoe the business W Banking under the Act aforesaid. In testimony whereof.- vritnat a bit b&nd sBAb land seal of office, this twentv-fint H of AprU, 1845. . FREEMAN CLARKE, May 13-60d Comptroller of the Currency. CertifLcate of Authority - -. . . - TO THB ' National Bank, OF MOUNT VERNON, OHIO. " i , TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ; V -- - Ojjiof Comptroller of tke Currency, . ,- . Waiitoh, Mareh 17th, 1865. J 7 IIEREAS, by satisfactory evidence presented TT to the nndersignel, it has been made to ap.-pear that "The First National Bank of Mount Vernon," in the City of Mount Vernon, in the County of Knox; and State of Ohio, has been duly organised - tinder and aeeording to the requirements of the Act ,ef Congress, entitled MAn Aet to provide a National ' Currency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds, "tad to provide tor- the circulation and redemption 'thereof approved June S, 1864, and has eomplied VHh all the provisions of saidAet required to be nbomplied with before commencing the business of -.Banking ender said Aet: " - - VTheofllee of Comptroller of Curreney being Vacant, Jlew therefore, I, Samuel T. Howard, Deputy Comp-t iroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that "The . Ylrt Natlunal Bank: of Mount Vernon," In the City Vf Mount Vernon. In the Countv of Knar. R.t f' f Ohio, is authorised to commence the business of viana-ingnaaertae Aet aforesaid. '. ' -." ; . , - Testimony WkereoH witnaes mvhamd ' W f Xi UUd seal of offlee the Seventaenth day ef V'Tifardi.1865. " . . T..- v.f'i-V. v -Eutj pomptrollerof the Curreney." 'i'Cniit tis eatSorityafcoye given" this Bank will A MS!2-.e SttfJayj April IitLlfflat iU . bQoe Li -tile LCeir. Block, eornSr 'di Main il Vine Meant Vernon; 0. Harch Mrlm.jn:. ;.-i:'..-r;-; a delano. AtwtJeiiL- : '' TOrD.- D. STURdES; CaskUt. : March ts. Ua5.Z-g.Tt -"ifv ".--.'v --' ; ! Cf it. r sir, .- A -TTr- V-,M."t ,' . :r' U to !ei4-oB precaution at - - . - -efll0UlitVerT.A ..1 t Vi-e f-a I. - ; : ' . -t.0'n:!r, - . : : J c;in, vrjRussixii-'wiV.w.'V III fCLUKV ITIItT SATUKDAT MOmMUCfl BT ; Offl In WeIwrI BIok, Sd Story. $2.50 per annom, payable atrietly in .advance or $3.00 if payment be delayed. ' Theae terms will bejripdly ndherrd to. Edward Bates on Martial Ifc'rS'rtii The Conititntional ConTentioa in His soori and Kartial law in that 8tato. A CAUSTIC BEVIEIf. t come now to treat oi martial law, and the use and abuse now sought to be made of it, in this State. And my proposition is that martial law is not the governing rule over this State. It does not exist here ; and whatever may have been done, under that pretence, and contrary to the laws of the land, is a personal wrong a:.d a punishable usurpation. That is my proposition ; and I shall endeavor to maintain it, even at the hazard of differing widely from the opinion and wish of the convention now sitting in St Louis. ' ; f The convention assumes that the State -is under martial law, and expresses a strong de sire that it so remain ; but it has not, in any proceeding 'hatl have seen, informed the pea pie (whom it seems to govern with absolute sway) what martial law ia, nor who made, nor when nor where it was made, nor how it is possible to ropeal or annul it. The conven tion is prudent in abstaining from any altera p: I ted explanation on these points, because the matter is incapable of explanation upon any grounds consistent with law or reason. The members may pretend ignorance, if they will, in order to save for themselves hereafter, when the day of their shame shall come, the hackneyed plea of convicted offenders It .was the error of the bead and not of the heart." But there are some members of that body who ought to know, and do know, that martial law (contradistinguished from the law of the laud) is simply no law at all ; that it is neither more nor less than the euppreesion of the established government, and. the substitution of the will, however capricious, of the military commander in the vacated place of the laws. That is martial law, pure and simple; and none but the' most Ignorant are in any danger of confounding it with military law, which is not only another and a different thing, but the exact opposite of the despotism of max- t!al law; Hilitarv law conetebj of thoeVimrta toTrSnTtftLrXr; .irSi KVi.lf the army and its control and management; In like manner we liave gronjs of other laws which, for convenience, are classified, and familiarity called by the names of their respective subjectsfor instance, we have naval law, revenue law; land -law, judiciary law. Yet every one of these is administered in the forms of the constitution and by constitutional functionaries ; and in regard to every one of them, including military law, every man may look into the statute book and there read the measure of his obligations and bis rights. But where can you read any legal description of martial law, any deprivation of its power, or any limitation upon their exercise?. Nowhere, and for the simple reason that it has no legal existence ; and the very term martial law is only a nickname for arbitrary power, assumed, against law, by men in arms 1 This kind of despotism differs, in its foundation and essence, from the tyranny sometimes usurped by assemblies of men calling themselves deliberative bodiM. The first is a strong man armed, who, conscious of his power to enforce obedience, proclaims his orders, and if some presumptuous victim asks for his warrant of authority, he answers only by brandishing his sword 1 The second, (deliberative bodies) conscious of its own intrinnic weakness, and that they are nothing, without tne prestige of law, always in ' the beginning pretend to have some lawful authority for the exercise of their assumed authority. And of ten they seera to prosper for a season. As long as they keep in close alliance with the armed power, and can induce it to be their minister, to carry out their decrees underSnar- tial law, tuejr seem to prosper.- and cheat themselves into the belief that they are all- powerful. But this state of things canuot long continue. Armed men. like the unarm ed, will learn the lessons' that are daily taught them. And when these bodies, misled by their own grotesque egotism, imagine them selves supreme and above all established laws and principles, and habitually "frame iniquity into a law," the-"Jstrorig man armed" soon learns the lesson thus taught bim by self-eon- ceifM. ambition.' Oat of their own mouths he coifvicts thern'and says' lo' them "Yes," gen tlemen, you are right ; there is nothing oblii gatory in government but power, and as the power Happens ojn lnay oanas, ana not in yourt, get yon gone oat of nrr : way." Thus Cromwell answered the Long Parliament ,of V 1 I J T - r. lory and Councils of Ffrahcev.. ' No principle is better settled la - the .const!-, tution and policy of the United -States than this : the military is subordinate to the civil power, andean act only as the minister and servant o the law. fer we Jiave bo., ruling sovereign but the law, and therein.' consists our "only claim of superiorUy in .-government over the people of Europe, who, lor the most part, are governed br risfble, hpman 'sover-eigne, in the shape of emperors and kings, in the great natrons, and all the wayTrfown tha scale of power to the petty priocee and-dukes. who reign over the inhabitants of a few thouV BUU Kirj Ul lapu, .AH '8, A ,Saj, IS Q9 VOJJ claim weliave of att'petiofity iyver them in the matter-of government, and so , long .aa. thai claim' is susuined f? reality and truth, it la tl " aa-iitfi..! -.T-, r J a! . t; mi., v, kwuuvw J iUI II U1M CiaiUI oe laiauieu u o9 -aws or ine iand- are no longer to rnla and JitotEct 'fU we are indeed under the despotism of that martial law. so dear to the fonteni ic, then t aCrm Xhit ttar jfdVernjnent Is far. worse; thitii -theirs;" and.fcilr condition fir n ere to"le pitied.;, Tor the Wsr-ertTjns cf Earcf e (Crrtcf tb.)42rivs tieir pl: j erri power frcra a lon Lis ,ef descent from their ercc:t:r2,'f t.r'cf ihtii from theC r cf rT Of lit--i pr--:;'?. I- -i i f-s r v r:ie enry cc i'z:i cf flrtio, and every i.x;-u!ie of the butasn heart compel tbarfeiMre for UbUjtyr and? onlerfHA a : . 1 . . rut only, tut; fool,v who wouiJ pref.;to le&Te ta bl uccesor sc.4egnuletl sUtej an empty treanurr aud elitio9vj;0ple, ratler than cre him an honorable nafne inn'9tor7, a. revenue equal to tlie waut;ot tne Ktate apJ ' a feopli proeperoua, ronteite1 and ')oyal.- Bat what will le par condttoo it jlhe a-j TeuMon aucceed' in placing us under ; tbedea-f potiem of martial law? Our mwien will have? j no inducement to Mahilitv and ornler: tor. thej the fu-l to- re- itrwi 4bem.r Witbout stir etai.lt8heI ac countability to law, and without any fear of punishment for their tnusdeeds, except at the caprice of a higher tyranny than their own, ours will be worse than any hereditary despotism can be, for ours mwt- be contiouaily changing front one master to another. : It will be despotism multiplied by republican .forms. Such, ttien, is martial law. so eagerly . cove-ted by that class of - Missouri .- politicians who are how laboring to consolidate their acciden-4 tal and transient power, and who know right well; that nothing short of df-apoliem will serve their turn. lit different countries and differ, ent ages of the world, despotism -ha . taken a variety of names and forms. In some: con a-, tries, the whole government. was ui Hilary, resting opon force alone, and .consequently who ever was master of that force wwt master of the nation: which it held in" subjwetion, and m ig h t ru I e bo i h a 1 i k e - by . h is si m pi e orders, and it is of no importance whether we call those orders by the name of firmat, or ukase. or, decree, or ordirisiice; for, by.- whatever name called, they all do but express the will. of the commander. Duri: e the time of the leudal system .all Europe was governed by military power, and thedovereign ruler-oCeiVch particular countrv whether ksyeer, king. prince or duke was the head. general of the nation, the commander-in-chief of the army. In such governments as those no aieM.on ran ariee.altont martial law for the ruler is already despotic and speaks to his subjects, both mili tary and civil, only in the language of com- manu. ' -. - .. - It martial law.be indeed ahV law at all if it be a rule of action, binding upon any body, any where, and at any time, it muM have had beginning. It did not always exist here, and if it exist how. it miwt be Wcause some body enacted it. . Surely it is the simple duty of those who claim it as the law over Missouri and who deprecate its disuse, to inform us, the subject people, how and when it began to ex- i8i nere. wno imposed it. and by wliat pretended authority, and by wiat public act U ia made manifest to the enslaved people. r We demand of them the grounds of their tyrannical assump tion, ami in ey are silent. They leave ,us: to infer that it has risen among us, noiseless and unneen, like a noxious exhalation from a putrid bog, which as it floats away over the lands. taints the vital air, and is seen and known only in the fall of its victims. .' -f" But if it should ever come to light fas pos sibly it may, for the dirty record of Mieoiiri politics tor tue last tew years- moat be sdrutin- iirajfiBueoinr acquisitive muniryjiun smu rnle over this State, ray answer is readv-he is a osurper l ..buch a deciarationdivested -of official form and verbiage, and reduced to pla-n ngiienK amounts to this: . i bis sute. to ' be sure, was made by law, and' the ' people have hitherto' lived under the protection of their own laws and the laws of the United States ; but that is all changed now ; for I have determined to abolish the laws and govern the people myself. And this I do for the good of.the people, who need my protection, and I am the sole judge of public necessity and the only guardian of public safety 1" Such an insolent dictation as thic, couched in language- intelligible to the people, would shock the , common sense of every man who ever conceived of civil liberty, and evtr read the constitution of his country, and could not fail to rouse one universal feeling of indignation against the crafty tyrant who tries to disguise and smuggle in his despotism, under the false and indefinite name of martial law. And 1 affirm that no soldier, high or low, has any shadow of authority thus to revolutionise the State. Still, it is a melancholy fact that there ai-e many instances in which military officers have acted in the mo6t absolute and oppressive manner, and many other'instances in which even firivate soldiers; taking courage from. the lafw-ess example of their officers and from the neglect of discipline which is sure to follow the abrogation of law, have freely indulged in wanton outrages loth on persons and property and rarely if ever are the brought to condign punishment. f, . v I cannot now, and here, dwell upon any of . i : . ; ,"l iuc ninny iiieiauces oi wrong aone to inuivia-tials by the military, high and low, in the spirit of lawless power. (T4ieir .turn may come herealter.) w But I cannot forbear to draw your attention to certain open, direct, contemptuous assaults upon the State itself, its dignity and its laws. It is but the other day since the meeting of the convention, and I believe, since it passed that famous resolution in favor of roartiajjaw, that the commanding officer of a military district in the western part of the dtate, Col, Harding, sent an Order to the t pro secuting attorney for the State, young Mr. Hyland, commanding him to dismiss an . in dictment then, pending in the State Circuit Court of a county. The; circuit attorney, .it seems, had too much respPtft for the State and Its laws to proetitute bis office by yielding obedience to such an ordtrand was imprisoned for bis eontnmacy. But the circuit Judge, one Mr. Tutt, was Of a more compliant temper. Intimidated, perhaps, by the dragoon boots and long s word of the bearer of Col. Harding's order, be succumbed, and entered, upon : his record the humiliating order of courCdismias-ing the indictment. - And .thus, publicly aud of record,' the laws of the land bowed in 'homage, to the eword..' .' - . f . :- ' , -; ' . Some time ago a year, br more, a case . very like this occurred under the reign of General FlsV. He also suppressed an indictment in. a State civil court,, but 1 never lieard .-that he had ahy difficulty with, his civjl officers; They I suppose, were better, drilled than. Harding's, and yielded a- prompt pJbeditnc. M.n . .j., . ' f I "have beard of 'other similar "i n principle,; but I cannot state them now, (for I have promised to make these" essays short.! -I -reserve them for futurernse, if need be. .Bat tSe.eon-' elusion, is oby iousi that if martial law do..in deed prevail ; bere-7-if the VteiUuu7;,coa) tjian dant may send his orders to the courts of justice, and enforce) them by thefaesistant pTOcess or im pTtsonment, ne may 00 tn s same to aii Other functionaries the States- The rrietti-' befa of tbe convention, when they fcasSed that i faniobs reSolblioh, ' ihonghtno doabt.. that martial Jaw, would continue to, be their ser vant; tbeir toot in working out the - projected revolution of the Elate hot in." ravr Lisnt oni ly.ftilt Iso in populatifld ttnd, property, f Uut when. they,find that they iavedttea 'tns ter n place of a f rv?.r.t,I cr!9 tht"eome xf lSattel-:fs"v?cJJ U dii eft a r ri . "V toed- :,:rt'rt f' ' be to lAte.-.r-.Ifc:2;L.9 t r 1 if ei9fiy, ia the n! ;t c" cjr-j. t . . prcer -cla to . ;.. . ; siioftl mUtresvor socis clltr rrcItr.con.viU ereajimeittodeclare.hv- what-geirdp'eitf a-aee thsr it.ia. smrf aiwd inltumaa, otherwise, that martial law is .tbe. governing as well as impossibles. t,ay sdh)e,'i an i tiooaV.QUestionV tht .oulj ; tilk into the i 1. . 11 ' r "r- .-it! i: - ---,-. 1 loot oji Jonr ffirtmi, tb one 'thit ip4id Col llnrdHig'ii - rompUit 'itu .to J uijte ..i.Utt,; l and xJeliver to Mt Preei ent; Krktl.-: a billet. cAachedln the language 'of ; CroiuWell ' or BoJ nafwne, tbUR tj:o -, ' -v -5 . VUonvrttioners 1--r'ai the: State !'-Take aay thnt about huiiian rights, and Iroiir.cjuuisy etforta ai cori8tfttttion'mnk?it2i Oo"!t ;:: " "By order ot. Ac., 1 Sf.' AA. A. G. coh. Krfekel,-.Treaiderrt of :the eovention, is. i better pro nld for, a-. yW than 'most-' of ; hia i brethern, for tii' good sfcrvices and, . law-abi- dm character nave B-cufe.il for him the office ot United States Judgd for the western, district of Missouri, though hedueir not . live ir .- that district.' t When the convention shall aIjourn, or be annulled by fmarfjal law, : the. Colonel will at once asume his new .functions of ,rudgj and will have great advalufages oer niost new Judgea. He hatea- consei'vatism,. and loves martial Jaw and . the -rail(al . party, and. ; as Col. Harding's cominandps iihiu the- western district, Judre"Kreiel mayj from time, to time, hope to r;eivemilifatfy lpderB; when -to act and whrn to' forleaf f?anrj possibly; may be furnished : with opinions . to be ;delivered"1 . frutn the bench, better than bis own; , If there be iu Missouri a man of. reputation for probity and knowledge, who denies my position, that martial law -is not law at all, I wish he would do jt-wiiHhis name attached. But I dp noi think therejis any such .man. And this point conce'ted.tthe second clause of my proposition followed" or course, that -is. Whatever may have 'feeeu done under that pretense. coHirary to.thaIaw of the land, ia a personal wrong and -punishable, usurjiation." So I, waste no uihe on that - - I have not overlooked Ihe shameful fact that ii.c wHtiH.o.i uui- vrnav it couiti. py way 01 oruinance, to insure nupuuity tor pant enmen, ; for themselves and thuir partisans, whoclai:it: td 16 be exei utioners of uiartial Lw. I say themselvesv becaue one bieuiber id his "place publicly toasted that be1 bad ' lurned a woman's house 'because, bsh said, he harbored bushwhackers. AiidJ truisting, uo doubtv in crime covering ordinaitice, seemd to have no fear (bat he would eyer'.be called to answer for that arson. -And I a in -pleased to-be 'able to believe that the ordiuiuce is as important for protection as the design of it. was oaisTiliiev-ous. ' " - . '-vV--. I ''- ' - 1 In my next humber-I Shall probiibiy ' skip over my aecond tindfhrrd'pforxwitions -iir'-or-, der to come more piediy to the fourth; which relates to the conveutioaTand Us revolutionary character. . .' : -.. . -r Euwaxo Batcs. Sr. Lout s, 'April 3, l8G5i - '-. ' wT ? -- m -- . . ;- - : . --eK - .'. '.' ' " ' -. - 11 -r r . l : A Sensible Bepublican View. r . ' The Buffalo QrmmereuiAdverlUer, the leading Republican paper .bf3Ve8tern New York, takes the following view "of the requirements of the ehoalion'.-'f-f' 'ItCrVfTy --'.T; ' We begin to appreciate, the utter, impossi" bility of yisiiing the lull reaswes of our. . first purposes of revenge itf'' Vtutfin people. example must .be" made. .;; It will not do to per nut so gross afenine tO 'go entirery.funpuhish-el. We-' must ? hang lb' leaders :- To what end ?Ia not1- the South already sufficiently devastated and impoverished ? -Has not their bravest and best bloodbeen spilled in vain, and has. tipt ignominioua"' defeat burned into their souls like hot. iron?,1 Is "not "their dar- L ling institution' of slavery ; gone i; forever ? oum imoi oea greater punisnment to inem to be permitted to liv, than to be clothed in the robes of - martyrdom ? -. We doubt i, very much- the policy" of hanging or shooting, even the leaders, as a final loaio for rebellion.' - . " Gen.f5hraaA-8f Terms." , As the facts and circumstances whicb oper-' ted upon the mind oi'General Sherman,. in his recent treaty with - Gen. Johnston, . become known, there is less disposition to; censure him- for tbref. latitude taken,:vvH had just' had a long ' interyiew-f . with"- President Lincoln, wherein the contingency -of Johnston's surrender was thoroughly canvassed, and the paramount impression made by the President was that every possible magnanimity and kindness waa fo be shown the foe; just as soon ;as he shou Id offer . to - lay .;, down. :h is' ; arms. The President particularly desired thaVevery cause of irritation, consiststent with justice and national hoMr, should be 'obviated.- with a view of winning back the affections of the Southern people to the oM flag,-raj her than, securing a forced and unwilling obedience to Federal rule. Gen. Sherman iuaiota that his action was has ed upon this desire of the President.-Wash' ington special to the N.: Y.' Tribune. " - ' Kn laneoln'a- Presentiment. ' ' It is related that a gentleman of New York, quite, intimate - with the President's family, visited Mre. Jjincolo three weeks ago last Saturday. Mrs, Lincoln spoke of her - desire lo Visit" Biihope,""ahd the intention of Mr. Mncoln at one tithe, to have niade'the todr; She aald. that in speaking of the 'European: tour - a few daya.be fore, the- President said in a very "melancholy tone,; "you. can Vfslt ; Europu, but -I never shall.L ; On asking bim the reason be replied that something told ibim he should never ivisit' the Old r.Country -V Mrs; Lincoln added that she . felt, yery .rangely-:: about, her husband ; that till lately she , bad - never - bad any fears cohcerhingfhinbut now had a "presentiment that there was some calamity hanging over bim'vSbe 'dtd'nott&ink he -would live to the close Of his term. - .She bad done everything to shake of.the im- pressibnV but the gloqnt thickened.; Thiscbn-versation'was; held afiortnight before'-ihe Pres-: ident's death How" tragically "this5. presehti- t&e.nt baa. been folfiJ led, a sorrowing "nation can The Cabinet DeHberating: on eddnsirc- TbeJWaehingfoa special of tbe; Cincinnati GazeU aider-, date fMayteifgrapneditbe 4VfAUb.jtiaelrQ5eetia anbject of trade. witU.tbe South waa briefiyiconsidered but (be question of reconstruction iChieayyoe-cu pied the atlentionf of the raeeting.fas 'it-did that of a special Cabinei 4rneeting . jesterday.' The scBsJon-ioay-b sled s er eralSours. - rThe question of c egro Su STre e, in connection. with toe reconstruction ;'."fp ro-ramroef 14 attracting the earnest attention cf the Government.: Jt is nsslteJ-Jtbatall t-3 byal elemenu int the .So&th ehajl have an appcrttittityrto'partidpate in tlis re-habitation of tbefState Goyeynments in the States recently in insurrection, while in gral.nci Ancliiia!!J:i'f,.t. trsitorsfsbaU'be- tyx eluded rom any cc - ia such ActioD. Ttel . 1 r J tic:. I '. I L 1 j 5 ff Coal u tn .7 ftC-i Jll.bniond, -3. llcst.of thea - i T i.h'a est itcz cf rt: 'J cy I can do a rrcCtabls botint .x.- THE CONSPIRACY ! LETTEliS ROM TUCKER, SAN. - DERS AND CLE AR Y. ;-.-. , !0ffI'EDG E, O TtIB I'LOT. A- Jdittt 2settr froai' Bev-elrv Tncker and Geo. 17. Sanders A Demand7 for -Wft Tial' - - - . . - -- ' - : MosTssAn, May 4. Pf Andrew 'Jchnion, President - of they United r &ie: ;. ' : : ." Your proclamation is a living, burning lie. known to be such by yourself and all your surroundings, and -all the hired perjurers in Christendom shall Vat deter us from exhibit ing to the civilized. world your hellish plot to murder our Christian President. We recoi- nize in many of'your most distinguished gen erals, men of honor, and we -do not believe their association even with you, has no brutal ized them as.. to prevent their doing justice to a public enemy . under such grave charges. Be this as it may, we. challenge you to seize any nine of the twenty-five generals that we name, to.form njfourt martiaal for trial, to be convened at the United State, fort, at Rause'a Point, or any other; place, that you will not have the power to incite the mob to destroy ui. ' ' , . , ' " . . Generals Scott, Grant. Sherman. Meade, Roeerans, . Howard, . BurnHide.- Hancock, Hooker. Sohoiiel I. Wright. Djx, Cad wallader. Hatch. Franklin, It mIiii tn. AleXiinder, Car, Kvn iold-, atd Meagher. The luonev that you haVe so' prwfigally offtre.1 to hve the litiofietiding neutrality of a neighboring state violated by the unwarrantable seizure of our persons, to be paid over'to defray thep-ofes-sional and other expenses of our trial to the lawyers that we shall designate, and who are in no wise to be prejudiced in our defense, Ourwitnessci also to have the' fullest protection, and upon our acquittal of the charges pn-ferred against us . in . vo ir . proflaniation, we are to be permitted to return. Under safe conduct.' in conclusion. we say we have no acquaintance whatever with Mr: Booth, or any of those : allege! to have been engaged with himv . We have never ieeii or had any knowledge iiv any wise of him r t them, and he has never written us a note, or sought an interview with us. ' "GEooa X. Sa.n'diks,. - ; . - BeviRi.Er Tuckir. ; A Letter from W, w. Cleary. To the Editor of ike Toronto Leader z .. . Sib: The reward of-$10,000 offered for my capture by -.President ' Johnson imperatively demands that L should lake the first opportunity and the most, pubjia . meanir of referring toAn pjroclajnatiUnwhicbJb 1 hajahrbl aa.n -can iriiiator io2 tite JniuxJ the late President of the United 'States; iTh other gentlemen' whose names are associated with' mine, I leave to speak for ' themselvB. Innhis procfamatton I am referred to as the clerk of Mr. C C. Clay. , - I deny most emphatically that I ever occupied such a position. As to the assassination of Mr. Liucoln, I declare before high Heaven and the whole world that I knew nothing of it until it had. been committed and announced in the newspapers. There is not a particle of truth in the statement I: "concocted and incited" the assassination. The announcement of the great crime came Upon tne, as it no doubt. did upon thousands of" others who read-it in the - papers on the day succeeding; Good Friday, like a clap of thunder; and 1 shared with all my heart in the gencrat regret that so foul a deed bad been committed, and that, too, at a time when the war, - an I considered, had yirtually : been brought to a close. Positive proof of my in- I nocence it is, of course, impossible for me to produce. But if circiim?tantlal evidence; is ol any avail I may slate that "(only a . week ago I went to Detroit, under "safe conduct" of the "military authorities' to arrange my affairs and return to my niWre state. If? I had been guilty of the crime laid td'triy charge, does any one suppose that I would have ventured to go upon American soil wbenlmportant revelations were daily being made and numerous persons arrested? - f " ' - ' -s I can do no more now than openly and unequivocally assert my innocence. In doing this I appeal to the justice "of a community which, 1 trust,' will not sentence me unheard, and to the right feeling ot-the government at Washington, who have been most egregiously deceived if ahy-evidence has leen put in their possessiorfwhich would make roe the occom-plice of assassins. Asking your favor for.the insertion of this card as soon as possible, . 7 I am. sir, yours respectfully, ' W. W. Cmutv Sevelry ' inker's Letter ' Denying any - Knowledgfde of the Assassination. To the People tf Canada: - ' 'f , '-" - ' ." ' :-rfi' ',' ';ff: :... f : : MoKTaiAL, May 4. I 'have this,moment-eeen the proclamation of Andrew Johnson, acting President ' of the United States, 'stating that "it appears, from evidence in the bureau of military Justice that the atrocious - murder of the late 'President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassin, ation of the Hon. W Seward,' Secretary of State, waa.ncitedt concerted, and - procured by and between Jefferson Davis, iatc of Richmond, Va.,: and Jacob Tflompeon; Clement CV Clay, Ivejley Tucker, George ji, Sanders. W. W. Cleary and bthers, rebels and traitors against the government ofihe United .States, harbored in Canada,' and offering regards for the apprebension of the accused, . $25,000. being the sum offered for"Sf f arrest. It is scarcely possible 'that eiicb proclamations wowl-l have been issued unless souve such, "evidence'; baa been adduced - What sneb "ettdeuce"- is, I am totally fat af loss ' to- conjectare. ri am compelled therefore, to conUswV myself - with the declaration that whosoever hath sworn to any thing authorizing' in ;tba-.sl'gbt,est degree suspicion of my baying "incited j .'concerted or procn redr" or of any - bnowledge rvhteVer by meof the attacks fTftade on tue -President and Mr..SewarL'or ahy 'acta or-lojects of a kindred; cbaracter,'or ; of air: ptahy to" kidnap or capture either of the'ifi, rJr any of the feder al authorities, bath blacketjed.'bis fcoul . with diabolical perjury, tUntil Inforrttatfen reacb-ed here of the attack on -Pffesident Lincl!n bv Mr. J. Wilkes Booth; arid that bo Mr, Seward by soiS'othe person' I did tint" know - that eay such pe r'aoris as J. Wilkes Docth eistel X.had never heard of hitaf- tefofe.'. - I ,Jo cot trow any Cf the per?crs in arrest atVrs'bip-t.a,' and never ! -.rJ cf tLi i till I'r i Le t-c!:::s la'-l-a I'-'tei C.'. : "ne-s-r -.--3 -cf tLiltrr-i-i". " f I- "' -"-.y'rr tro TzZAi, o&Ud ii..!r. i 1 . tl-l on the 27th Octolier last. . The -officers of the Oaiaria Bank state :- thttt on that day ne .pur-ch-e-l of the bank a bill of England fur $61 12. lti for which he paid in American gold, and at the same time made a ifeposit 01 $335 Canada mont-y, which yet remiti to hw crel-' blockade. Whether he made euch attempt or went into the United States by lailroad I 5. 1 . u . . 1. ..... 1 j . 1 . , . . 1 nave not acrtainel. ' .-: - , - - rhe clerks iu thSt. Lawrence had inform-1 e I me that he arrived at ihe iiome on the lSin ot U :toler, being n re 111 e davs. I wa not in Montreal daring that'thne.V; My aoia- tion wt;b the o:her gentlemen named in this atroou proclamation has beeu, int mate br years, and 1 admit it would be strange, if they had any knowletlgeof Mr. Bioih s inrtuse8, that I should be in utter ignorance of it. The whole buaineHM is in my deliberate judg I menu an attempt to get up a pretext for a ,1 it-f ficuty with the--British" Provinces!, and the I consideration that since I have been here I have received nothing but ho-pitalitv and kindnei4 from vou. itnprh me to make this briet address to aid in the. dissipation of endi pretext. I .bae 10- lay appealed to Pr-sidei copies of the a,legei-:-Vv!dei.re-, with Te,pe5t'i,ltf,,--':A. .'"f"? ia working tba ore.- whb goo. " to myself, t.t give tne a change to disprove it.j prospects of targe profiis. I will aildT'that-will go lefore any liiagi 80S" The E.icopal rectors of Richmond ha- irate here and yerify4tlie alnive by my solemn - OHth, and that I will agree that the United States consul, or any re-tpetable counsel be may designate, shaTl cro!8 examine me in r laiion to the alleged evidence," or any othv r and ail acts pt my life, Beveblt Tcckee. j The Attempt to take the Life of General Jackson. Now that an a4ai 11 ha. deprivel tire n? tion of its Chief Magistrate, tlie following ac- j count of an attempt upon " the life of General Jackeon, during his second term, will be found interesting. We extract it from the first volume of Colonel Benton's Thirty Years' Vew: On Friday, the 30'Ji of January, 1835. the President, with some members of his Cabinet, attended the funeral ceremonies of Warren R. Davis; Esq. in the hall of the House of Representatives, of whichbody Mr. Davis had been a member from the State'of South Carolina The procession had moved out with the body, and its front had reached the foot of the broad steps of the eastern, portico, when the President, with Mr. Woodbury, Secretary of.the Treasurr; and Mr. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy, were issuing from the door or the great routuda -which opens upon the Hrtico. At that instant a .person stepped fioin the erowd into the little' open space in li out of the President. leveled a pistol f at him at the distance of about eight feet, and attempted to fire, -f it .was, a. percussion lock, and the cap exploded, without firing the powder jn the barrel. The. explosion' of -.the cap was so loud that many thought the pistol was fired, f 1 heardit at the -foot of the steps: far j. frofii the place, aadjtttriat. jxoyd belKeea.; had fiiwsed flrei'took another which-be held ploded 'without firing the powderih the barrel t The President instantly rushed upon him with k: ....!:. . . l . 1 Ii. 1 .. 1110 uuuiini ciiiic; uir man foruna iiaca; itxr. Woolbury ain.ed -a blow at him; Lieatetiaut' uwhcj, u, meij, nucf IJ 1 in nown; ne was secured by-the bystanders who delivered him to the officers of justice for judicial exairr-ination. The examination: took ;. place before the Chief Justice of the Distric", Mr. CraucH, by whom he Was committed in "default of bail. . , ; : fi : His name was ascertained to be Richard L wre? ce, an Englishnu h by birth, and hoiise-pai liter by trade, at present out of eraploy- ment. melancholy, and irascible. The pistols were examined and found to be well loaded. ' ganstonie persons accused of being accesso-and fired afterward without fail, carrying tJieir , ties to the assassination. . . -.. - ..' bullets true, ami driving them through inch boards at thirty feet distance, nor could , any reason be found for the two -failures at the door of the rotunda. On his examination the prisdner seemed to be at hia case, as if unconscious of having done ahy thing wrong refusing to cross examine the witnesses who testified against him. or to give Any explanation of his comluct. The idea of ah unsound mind strongly impressing itself Upon public opinion, the Marshal of the Diftrict invited two of the most respectable physicians of: ihe city (Dr. Caussin and Dr. Thomas Sewell) . to visit him and examine into his mental condition. .They did so, and the following is the report which they made ripdii the case: . We omit the report of the physicians, ivhich is lo the effect that Lawrence was of a morbid, melancholy disposition, who had been induc ed to believe that the financial condition of the country was owing to General Jackson's veto of the bank and his war o the currency; that if he was once odt of the way, no matter who might be: his successor, business would improyearid roonsy became plenty. . It is dearly to be seen, from this medical examination of the man, that this attempted assassination of the President was one of those cases of which history presents manyinstances- a diseased mind acted upon . by- general outcry against a publio man. - Lawrence was in the -particular condition to be- actei upon by what he heard against General Jackson a workman out of employment, needy, idle, mentally morbid, and with reasdn - enough to argue , regularly . fron a false premises. . He heard the President accused of breaking pp. the labor of the eddntryt" and believed it of making money scarce! and he believed it-of pcodncing the distress and believed it of being a tyrant! and believed it of- being an obstacle td all .relief! and; believed li. 4 And coming to' a regular conclusion from all these belief, he attempted : to do what he beliered , the state of things' required him to do-takf the JHe of .the roan .whom he eoneidered the hole cause Of bis own and the general calatn;-ity and the sole obstacle, to liiu bwri, and the general 'happlWssCf "HatlucinatioB -of f mind was evident; and .wretched vietini of a.dread-Ta! delnsioa-waa afterward'' treated &i ' insane, and never brooglit to trial. . But the eifedra'- f tances made a deep impression upon the pubic feeling, and irresistibly carried many minds to the belief In a cjHntendiqg; providence, manifaeted inf too - extraordinary -ease of -two bistols-ia snoceasiony so -well loaded, so coojy handled, and which afterward, flred. with such readiness fdrce, and. pre'oisiori missing fir, each In its tarn, wben leveled eight feet at th' jrrpsiaent s pearv -.- -r, - - " " ae : Iw Oen. ITrigbt has issued an brdf r trarn ing gnertillas andf paroled rprtsoneT ? that iij they break; their pixcles tSey wulfc Jniael dlately hang'w! wltasbt7sWt4v:rVoi:'- '7 TLe Covtrnroenl tas psii to tne Cea tJal: racira- - JiailKssi iCc:ztj tW60.CC2; daa on the cbnjfletba cf tls tciioa . cf L2, tl be: tf tzz ii i aid rrbls thtm - ':f 01 m f Tlie Trenton (Nl,T.) JfTltV'r nominates Genpral Sherman as the DemOcratiacandldate for President in tSCft." ''' : T 1'" V - : Jt& TbV New York Trilune-tHreu Every v IRCt of 'nob viohuce is a riaiional calamity and ' eliii!e. r . ' " '.-y-f' .;"f - .-- t . '- ' l" General Lee is going to reside a lfe- I Tfiil rJrkr'a:rAam r;.- t..t.. it." - t j. 1 : : - - - ; . " weani, neituer to go to tne oonth npt 1 10 - Ppv , . . 5" The shoe bniries at Ilaverbni is very dull, but the stock U light and ttfer times ' -.r.,. . v . - are expected soon. The hat factonea are all P'osed. ., ' - ; -"- -'.. ". CgF" Baron Stoekel, th RtiMian Minister, b-m cnl.l Li. r c --'w..v . . i.. . - - . l """."-ivnap. theiiusburg cannon "ou,"b?r. for t00,000. . f - .- ' . - Gold has been discoverel in Warren; 'V-w rr..n,w1.; ;.. - i -i-'..'j-.i f vin concluded to read the pravers for the PV- el.ient ot the Uiillet .State. humbMii . mI. to re-open their charches. 05?" Ex Governor, Aiken. 6T Souti'i 'Carolina has beer, released from arrest by order of the Wesiderit. . It is said the charges agaiirsl hibi were proved to e. untrue." " " ' f Hon. B. Burton, a prominent citizen of Syracuse, N. Y., wai sbot in iiisboafe bn Wednesday mot ning by an assassin, and is re- porte j to be dead. A can has been arfesfed on suspicion, ; - - - ' ' ' ' I " stated that Gen. Halleclilids besa instruct el to rescind that part of his recent'br-der which forbids matrimony in the sbufliern ft-ites. until the contracting parties have taken thi oath of allegiance. JOT The Springfield liepulUedn thinks that twenty-efght men onght to li are been "able to-, to take the assassin of the Prestlent alfye, and thatfwe mua.t be hard-up for heroes to make such of men who failed to capture Booth.: f" The non. Ferdinand Vr obd, Mrs. and Miss Wocxl. were the guests of the Lord Mayor of London at the banquet, at the Mansion , House on tlie if th ult.. Mr.; Wood made rip speech oh that occasion. - - ;f:f i::l;.;.j:,;. -Tlitjre are twent-tHree theatres in don, which hold thirty-eight thousand three hundred people; and there are forty-one balls and places of entertainnient, which will accom-jnodate one hundred and seventy-nine thousand three hundred persona ; V, j U -'y : n ftjisjreportea iliat.'tber-;'j neVdit..' g of. pl ea. ." ever .speak' to 'JE".The Prussian -police 'Sntjbriti"hA7e : eeized a book, entitled '; " la Vie btffNoq veaji" Cfflflar," by'fierre "yeriqleV great hMtility to the Empror;of; tLs Freneh Louis Napoleon. . . ; .-. ". CST A man in drink.walked over tlie clifTs; . 300 feet high, at the Giant's Causeway a sborU time ago. ; His hotly waa only identified afterwards by. the clothes. fv -'. : . -' ; .fi The' New YWk JTirWcorreepondenl-says it will be difficult to maVe out a case a- S&" Upwards of two thousand laborers are now employed on the California end of the P-; cific railroad. Cars will be rnnninv mtli from Sacramento this.jreek. VB&The toUl capiul investedin the United States in I860, in the manufacture of woolec goods . was $35,5,20.521 ; of which "the slava States had yiveste4 $Ml7,60 f: V :; B&" The rolling mills of New A'bany, jndj ; have a capacity for the manufacture : of - 12Q tnns of the best quality of round, 3BaVba'' and '-square iron .per.week. . - . . vi ";. v-i '-. tSJ" At ,2anesrLtterthe other day Ja calte of " soap, weighing 2.500 popnda, waa manufactur' ed. It took eight days to rxof, and. ia yalaed' ' at $800. - -";- i;'jx ". dike's drra.rioriserat CineiaMtL' i5!; to be lighted from gas made from Petroleuja. by way of experiment. It will coat less thao ... one dollar per 100Q feet.; ", -.:..,' A woman in Biddeford,' who danced ", for joy. at the Presiden'a 'death,! baa : bea struck down with paralysis, and .has no tUe of, " hey leg-. .People Very naturally siy. fjed . tnent from lleaven.' . . - Sr General. Fremontf baif pnrehased iki I. elegatrt, mansion of Qeneral Jameaf Wataoa-Webb, on the p'aofe road; threeVmilea below. .-Sing Sing, and intends to maka it .b,ift f?V neht residence, v. :" ":: -:f" --t:." - - - - ' . ' . . 1 President J. 0.; Adams on tha lirfl r r- " . the Tragedy of Othello -f -: rK When John Q. Adams , wae fPrei4Btfli was traveling incty. throngh lCew;ortC'-and'nerer baying seen Charjcellor.X6ntf ccrJ- f eluded to" give bim ' calL CJa y4tiei hli " bocse quite late in the" evening; -and 'altEcit ending n p hia name 'yVa tLs$ ered into tu'a library when the ChatcelloT raa . busy rad T ing. He requested h anknown yUtto to rV:, seated, and yesuriied b.U'readlBg -After looi --ing around fir a few momentsw -tie: llIairLr "t eoo venation ensued t - -""':-." " 'I see yoti baV a great rhany books hfr said tbevPieident.t --j?firi r v V ?- Ye4."'--- " i'r ' v V--" "' '- , - - . : " "Doyon l;BOW toe mbrai o!Cr.henbf . i"Crtaln1y, ere'rj one. knows tLe dcI c f OtbaleAfd'tba Cbancfllori V : - ' - fWhat Ji-ilf ff- :fT: ;;--'. f "Why, towa of jealbiuj," il . ;"No sirt yon are wroc ...X . - ', What is it ther saii the ' creally scrpricd. .. '. - ; - M ThS moral of Othtllo," aii i . 1 . . ,is that a- jvhitt wcr!a4-Rsl r . : biacVriiatf.' -.', . -.' ; -'At a' docfrine to n-rT,' r . ortginalrthe C! : :r c- . the doer, c-ssn) c 8t; rzr' tr" 1 i . . ' 1 '