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London, England, 1865-06-07 00:00:00

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rate Government and people in the assasstidatiojaf k-
President Lincoln. The plastic Deveney, moulded
by your crafty hand, only gives utterance to the
false words dictated by your serpent tongue. The
man Wheeler, whom you have. had on the stand, I
will prove to be as unscrupulous a tool as Deveney.
If there be an honest man on your partizan Radical
court-mhrtial, he will force you to show the evi-
dence of the honourable standing of your strange
witnesses. The observant world will scrutinise the
testimony of the venal monsters now flocking to
Washington with facile mouths agape—eager to be
crammed by you, their patron saint, with fresh
calumny for the witness-box." Then follows a
series of affidavits, sworn to before the Mayor of
Montreal, going to show that Deveney, the witness
who swore before the Washington court-martial
that he had seen Sanders and Booth together in Mon-
treal, is a worthless, unprincipled man. Alex. Pillend,
proprietor of the United States Hotel, Montreal,
swears that John Deveney boarded at his house for
two months, was a man of dissolute habits, and
was addicted to gambling, and that he absconded,
cheating Mr. Pillend out of a bill for board of over
£lB ; and also that Deveney was suspected of being
connected with the robbery of a Montreal tobacco-
nist. James Green and E. Lavoie, associates of
Deveney, were convicted of the robbery, and sent
to the Penitentiary. Deveny absconded immediately
after the robbery. Mr. Pillend further swears that
Deveney had several times offered him counterfeit
money, and was a blasphemous, bad man, and' as
such had been forbidden to remain at the hotel. ..

George Gerean, proprietor of the Gerean House,
Montreal, swears that Deveney cheated him out of
$3O, and was expelled from the house as a bad, de-
graded man and a reputed thief.
Henry Roberts, proprietor of the Exchange Hotel,
Montreal, swear- +hat last fall Deveney came to him
in destitute conu, . on, and was given em0.3;,--incnt
in the bar-room, but that he soon found that neve-
ney plundered from him ; and having developed the
character of a swindler and a thief, was expelled
from the house.

Mr. Roberts, who is an American, and was a fel-
low townsman and friend of President Lincoln in
Illinois, declares that he never knew a man so
utterly debased as the same John Deveney. .
Mr. Warren, tobacconist, of Montreal, swears
that Deveney seduced one of his (Warren's) clerks
to steal about $3,000, and then won it nearly all
from him gambling. Mr. Warren pronounces De-
veney the most worthless scoundrel he ever knew,
and declares that he would, if he could reach him,
have him arrested for theft.

Major Beandry, of Montreal, testifies to the re-
spectability of the above deponents.
The feeling between General Sherman and the
Secretary of War is said to be one of the most
bitter animosity. The New York World publishes
the following letter :
" Camp, near Alexandria, Va., May 19.
" Dear Bowman,—l am just arrived. All my
army will be in to-day. I have been lost to the
world in the woods for sometime. Yet, on arriving
at the settlements,' I find I have made quite a stir
among people at home, and that the most sinister
motives have been cribed to me.
" I have made fuent official reports of my offi-
cial actions in public matters, and all of them have
been carefully suppressed, whilst the most ridicu-
lous nonsense has been industriously spread abroad
through the papers. Well, you know what impor-
tance I attach to such matters, and that I have
been too long fighting with real rebels with muskets
in their hands to be scared by non-combatants, no
matter how high their civil rank or station.
"It is amusing to observe how firm and brave
some men become when danger is past. I have
noticed on battlefields brave men never insult the
captured or mutilated the dead, but cowards and
laggards always do. I cannot now recall the act,
but Shakspere records how poor Falstaff, the prince
of cowards and wits, rising from a feigned death,
stabbed again the dead Percy, and carried aloft the
carcass to prove his valour. So now, when the re-
bellion in our land is dead, many Falstaffs appear to
brandish the evidence of their valour to Win ap-
plause, and seek to appropriate honours for deeds
that never were done. As to myself, I ask no po-
pularity, no reward, but I dare the War Depart-
ment to publish my official letters and reports. I
assert that they have been purposely suppressed,
while all the power of the press has been malig-
nantly turned against me.

" I do want peace and security, and the return of
law and justice from Maine to the Rio Grande ;
and if it does not exist now substantially, it is for
State reasons beyond my comprehension. It may be
thought strange that one who has no fame except
as a soldier should have been so careful to try to
restore the civil power of the Government and the
peaceful jurisdiction of the Federal courts ; but it
is difficult to discover in that fact any just cause of
offence to a free and enlightened people. But
when men choose to slander and injure others, they
can easily invent the facts for the purpose, when
the proposed victim is far away engaged in public
service at their bidding. But there is consolation
in knowing that truth lies at the bottom of a well,
and Yankees have perseverance enough to get at
that bottom.—Yours truly,

" W. T. SHERMAN."
The review of Sherman's troops took place in
Washington on the 23d inst. The weather was
favourable, and the affair is described as very im-
posing. More troops paraded than on the previous
day, when the army of the Potomac was reviewed.
The total number of men reviewed on the two days
is stated at over 1504,000, of whom Sherman's army
embraced about 85,000. The greatest enthusiasm
was manifested for General Sherman, who was
almost incessantly cheered by his men. It is said
that the troops, sharing their commander's senti-
ments, manifested their dislike for Mr. Stanton in
every way without violating discipline. Even the
corps division and brigade commanders are reported
to have returned the salutations of the Secretary in
so cool a manner as to excite general attention. It
is also said that General Sherman, on ascending the
stand occupied by the President and Cabinet, re-
fused to take the proffered hand of the obnoxious
Secretary, and took no notice of him whatever.
Comparisons have been instituted by the press be-
tween the army of the Potomac and Sherman's
army, and the Eastern troops are said to have ma-
nifested the better discipline, but to have presented
an inferior physique to the Western troops, whose
tall forms and hardy appearance were the subject of
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NEW YORK, MAY 27 (Noon).
At the first Board to-day New York Centrals
were quoted 89i ; Illinois, 1161 ; Erie, 72i; 5.20
Bonds, 103 i.