The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-05-22

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Spanish Admiral Of ne port rugged out In bun-
dies Of gold lace, paid . ceremonious visit 70
the rebel, - II 10 marx the appreciation In
which the exploded oonfsdersoy bSdll held By
these blind 6psnish o6loials
That suoh proceedings - these win evoke .
remonstranos from our government to the 0abl-
net ct Madrid \ not 10 be doubted; but there
Is nearer and greater danger 70 be feared.
Now that the war for tho Union II ct IN end,
there are tens of thousands Of our invinclble
soldiers unemployed, and already We sec that
their rage for emigration to Mexico Is the ab-
sorbing topic of the day. There arc q hundred
thousand Of these tried men now ready to be
of to the land of the Montezumas at mo-
ment's notice. IF these men once became pos
sessed of the idea nothing could prevent them
from dropping in at the island of Cuba by the
way, and wiping out any scores that might be
standing there. 1t is quito immaterial to them
where they "emigrate" Whether this kind ofun-
invited visit would please the Captain General
or not we cannot say; but the armed visitors
would be heartily welcomed by the mass of the
people Of Cuba and the emancipation question,
about which there Ia so much fear and trouble,
would be decided without much further delay.
It is, therefore, to the interest Of the governing
classes of Cuba to be very cautious how they
attempt to offer or suffer insult to our flag.
The Great Trial It Washington-The
Evidence Against the Rebel Leaders.
The testimony before the court martial ct
Washington, on Saturday, was very important.
The rebel Benjamin, who Is not yet in custody,
and for whom a reward has not yet been offered,
was directly connected with the assassina-
ton conspiracy by the evidence ~ to the iden-
tity Of the eli her found IN his ONCE and that
which Booth possessed. The government
ought to include him in the lia1bf criminals at
once. The completely Of Benjamin carrlerwith
1t the completely of JEFF Davis, who will shortly
be placed on trial. It was also put in evidence
that the rebels had large amount Of money
six hundred and fifty thousand dollars In all
on deposit at the Ontario Bank, Montreal, sub
ject to the drafts Of Jake Thompson, and that
Booth kept his money at the same bank and
bought bills of exchange on England, saying
that he was about to run the blockade. One by
one the avowed agents Of JEFF Davis are thus
implicated in the conspiracy; and we must re-
member that whatever duplicates those agents,
who were acting under his orders, duplicates
JEFF. Davis himself
The attempt of the government to show that
DR.. Mudd heard of the assassination, and yet
volunteered no Information about Booth, and
the evidence Of Col. Stewart, who chased Booth
to the stage-door of the theatre on the night Of
the assassination, and saw Spangler standing
there, apparently unconcerned and making no
effort to stop the assassin, occupied the rest Of
the day until the court was cleared for the adj
mission of important secret testimony. This
testimony is said to be conclusive against
the leading rebels. What it is we may
Judge from the dispatches which were read
on Saturday, and they were in the same
cipher as that used by Booth and Benjamin.
1t is eminently proper that such evidence as
this should be kept from publication, for it
may implicate parties not yet arrested, like
Surratt, Maddox and Thompson. In civil
court no such secresy could have been secured,
and we see, therefore, the necessity of trying
the conspirators before court martial, which
may sit with open or closed doors as it deems
prudent In spite of the clamors of interested
papers and persons, the people appreciate this
necessity, and acquiesce in the course deter
mined upon by the President snd his advisers.
But though It is probable that the strongest
evidence against JEFF. Davis and the other rebel
leaders has been given in secret session, and is
as yet suppressed, still enough bus been made
public to Justify the government Fs1 arraigning
Davis as the chief of the assassination con-
spirators. Dizzy by day the LINKS OF the
chain which ne him to the foulest crime in
our history have been more and more
clearly revealed. Directly, through Benja-
min, Surratt and Booth, and indirectly,
through Sanders, Thompson and Booth, we find
JEFF. Davis identified as the master spirit Of the
assassination. The developments of this trial
enable us to understand why the rebel chief was
so confident Of success under all his military
reyerses; why he rejected the magnanimous
terms offered by President Lincoln at Hamp-
ton Roads, and why he broke down 30 sud-
denly, losing both his courage and his dignity
after the President was killed. He evidently
expected that the murder of Lincoln, Johnson,
Grant, Seward and Stanton, to be secured by
the conspiracy to which he was privy, would
completely disorganize the North and render
the triumph Of the confederacy easy. Buoyed
up by this hope, he would accept no terms and
was appalled, by no disasters. But when the
President was murdered and the government
went on as before, the other victims having
providcntially escaped the bullet and the
knife, then JEFF Davis relinquished all his
hopes; then he fed for the coast; then, like all
other criminals, he resorted to o disguise to
escape detection; then he dressed himself in
his wife's clothes and came out Of his tent with
q bucket on his arm-his manliness gone and