New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-06

Weles. yesterday announcing the passage Of the Ca.
stitutional Amendment by the Connecticut leg.Iat,,.
unanimously. replied to follows II congrstu..
you upon the unanmity Of State upon questio, :.
important to the cause Of liberty aud the union"
GOV. AIKEN.
1t is finally known that Gov. Aiken is brouoh.
here from Charleston for trial by for .
alleged act tending to give aid and comfort 70 the r..
beilion. He is in tolerabe health. but says, unda,
stand that he has had four anxious years and Il NM,
distui bed and mortified at bis present position y.
says he has always been thorough Union man. =,
fused to take any part with the secessionists dec.a
offices that were offered him and his friends onoo.a
JEFF. Davis at every step and has not been 70 Nov.
gomery nor Richmond since 1860 but stad at home and
waited impatienty for the end which has now coma
and which he always considered inevitable n.
says no has lost nearly or quite all OF nj,
immense property, but be takes his losses phoseuh.
cay and looks forward to his trial for that yndcao,
which be is sure it will bring Of himself and his con.
sstent loyalty He parole here and not permitted
to speak Of the Of his arrest Many of his old
friends here have been to see him. The GOVERNOR
health is slightly impaired by his voyage and the nov
lefty of his situation. but he is urbane as ever and
does not look year older than when member Of Con.
gress before the war.
GOV. PIERPONT.
Gov. Pierpont is arranging preliminaries prior
to going to Richmond to assume executive control Of
the State He has been assured by President johnson
that he recognized him as the legal Governor Of Viz.
ginia, and that be will sustain him such.
VETERANS.
1t is supposed that by the first proximo two
hundred thousand Veteran Soldiers will be encamped
around Alexandria.
Some five hundred sick soldiers belonging to
the Fifth Corps reached here to-day from City Point
There are said to be three thousand remaining there
SECRETARY SEWARD.
Secretary Seward rode out with his physician
to-day and Frederick Seward gives his own assurance
that he feels better.
LAND PATENTS.
The Presidents Private Secretary is still
engaged in signing the batch of land patents which
Accumulated before the death Of Mr. Lincoln They win
be disposed Of in q couple Of weeks.
MRS. LINCOLN.
Mrs. Lincoln will take her departure from the
White House about the middle of the month, in tie
meantime tie executive business will be transacted d
the Treasury Department.
THE TRADE QUESTION.
1t has trsnspired that the Trade Question was
definitely settled in Cabinet meeting to-day All lloyd
persons are be granted permits TO carry goods and
trade In any Of the nsurrectionary States upon app
cation to the Treasury Agents and paying to the Gov
eminent tax Of per cent upon the invoices. Ten.
nessee is exempted from this per cent tax. on the
Presidents claim that she had cast her lot with
the Rebellion.
OUR SECURITIES ABROAD.
The Treasury Department has received no
ce by last steamer from Europe that Paris and Ham.
burg brokers have issued circulars stating that they
have United States bonds sale, but they cannot
dertake to guarantee their genuineness. The intimS
ton that there may be counterfeit bonds in crcu.
aton there though Government has no other evi.
dence of 1t. An agent with genuine plates VIII DO ~
once dispatched to verify all our securities
MEXICO.
Some months since the fact was telegraphed
from here 10 THE TRIBUNE that overtures were being
ade TO many Of our distinguished military ON
cers inviting them TO Mexico and that quite number
had pledg ed themselves TO accept service in the Ne
tiOnal cause so Rebellion was crushed me
Government has grown apace and to-day ad'ertiss.
|ments appear in all our city papers, notifying parties
" no desire to emigrate TO Mexico where infotmauon
may be supplied 10 all patriotic Adventures.