Litchfield enquirer., 1865-07-06
General News.

- The expenses of the Government during the past year amount in $l.2OO 100000.
 Attorney General Speed has written let ter to the Provisional Governors of lately re- beilious States, informing them that after con- sul;atioA with the President, it has been de- termined to refer cases of applicants for pardon when there is lack of information at Wash ington, to the Governors for examination, who Will report the result of their investigations, and action be taken accordingly.
 - The trial of the alleged conspirators, after occupying several weeks. and causing the ex- animation of several hundred witnesses, is now over, much to the relief of the counsel and tn court, to whom it has been in an extreme de gree fatiguing. The court have afforded every facility to the counsel for procuring witnesses. The findings of the court have not yet been promulgated.
 "A horse which was to be driven from Boston to Portland between sunrise and sunset -a;s.anea. Ie miles--on a $l, ,O0O wager, fell and died l6 miles rrUm Fu tiuuJi, h.~ia,, % complished 100 miles considerably inside of time. ,sr +.f
 - Mosby, the guerrilla. having been pardon. ed, has opened a law office and settled in Cul- pepper. Va.
 i--I is stated that the parties who own the houoe in Washington in which President Lin coin died have put in claim, in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury, fog losses incurre by the damaging of sheets, pillow cases and carpets" caused by the ebbing of the life. blood of the great American martyr. The bill amounts to $550. The owners kept the house open for exhibition, at fity-cents visitor, for some time after the Presidents death.
 The President, Attorney General, and Ssc. retary. of State are likely to be kept constantly occupied for the next two or three months in the disposition of applications for pardon and amnesty. At the White House, in the office of the Attorney General, and in the State De- pertinent, we now find hourly in waiting quite Q crowd of anxious petitioners for Executive clemency, and among them some of the men who have filled the most prominent pages in the history of the defunct Southern Confeder- acy. r..
 The demeanor and expression of counten. ance of the applicants presents a curious and interesting study. Whole histories and little worlds walk by dozens before us in contempla- tion profound. The fortune bereft millionaire and lordlY landholder and man owner, the down fallen leader in politics and the mighty law giver, and the discomited military chieftain, all walk here in agitetion and in anxious watt ing to hear the fiat of the Executive, and seem most painfully to realize to adage that Matters of war are, of all others, most subject to con- tinued mutations @t.
 The petition is made directly to the Presi- dent, who calls to his aid the Attorney.Gsne- ral, through whose hands all applications pass. and thence to the Secretary of State, where, in case pardon is granted, warrant is issued, substantially as follows and generally in words of this form .,lst-s rs .s-Gas.s
 Whereas, -, by taking part in the late rs- bellion againt the Government of the Unit ed States, has made himself liable to heavy pains and penalties, and whereas the circumstances of his case render him proper object of exc cutive cemency; Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President, do here by grant to the said -, full pardon and amnesty for all offences by him committed arising from participation, direct or implied, ip the said rebellion, conditioned as follows, viz - This pardon to begin and take effect from tht day on which the said - shall take the oatl prescribed in the Proclamation of the Presi- dent, dated May 29th, 1865, and to be void ant of no effect if the said - shall hereafter a any time acquire any property whatever il slaves, or make use of slave labor. ,se. sf--Alexander H. Stevens, in his lengthy ar gument on the reasons and causes which indu ced him to join the rebel confederacy, says tha he always believed in the right of secession but never in the policy. He was educated t believe ill the right of secession, from whenc sprang his convictions, and he was strengthen ed in those convictions by the last annual mes sage of President Buchanan, and the opinio of Attorney General Black. He was also cor frmed in his views by the able and honest e forts of the N. Y. 1ribnae.' He claims tha he exerted all his. facultiss to their utmost t - prevent secession, and that he accepted tn Vice Presidency of the Confederacy only be 'ause is was rendered unanimously, and for th purpose of preserving, as far as lay in his pow CT, those great priciples of freedom which Ii at the foundation of American constitutions liberty. He desired to make the Constitutio of the Confederacy as near as possible like ths of the United States; and in this he claims succeeded. All the points in regard to free dom and the safeguards of liberty were b work. fgzf@ sast
 We may add that the stories about M
 stephens harsh treatment and failing health {
 Fort Warren are untrue He is kept like an
 other distinguished prisoner, and his health
 A good as usual. l ssFNa ~ SNtElE I-fefsaE 5Sstf a86