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specials to New York Papers.

NEW YORK, May 81. - TIE Herald 5
" ashin2ton special says Jet Davis is ex-
pected to arrive there to day and vii lie
arraigned sCOn after bis arrival
I4onRst.ee. has received peru isso,. to
visit Washington On private business
During the nolth. tn Treasurer has placed
to the credit of the paymaster General, 20
pay thesolc;ers SS5, 500, 600. Al, other .eoui-
sitions upon the Treasury have also been
promptly satisfied.
The HeTGlds New Grienrs correspon-
dent says that after the Presidents proc!a-
ma..cn, Gen. Canuy is making arrange.
iEents for the opening CT the military lines
80 trade.
Gen. Mower aas assumed command O.
his department at Nic.ssburg.
The IIiHes Washington special says all
the eastern troops belonging TO Sherman
army have been ordered 70 reportto Gen
Ausur at Washington. aEhe western troops
vii. move west in eight days.
The Iri6upe's Washington special saws
the number Of troops that Will be muster
ed out during the month of June, It is com
puted, will exceed 12u, 900.
New YORK, June Ia Washington spa-
cial says Gen. Rosecrans has been grained
six months leave OF absence, and proposes
TO visit the Pacific coast. At the end of
that time be will probably resign.
The Worlds Washington special saws
Gen. Halieck is assigned to o command on
the Pacific coast rs a reward for his d;stiu.
yuished services.
The Richmond papers are complaining
of want Of support among the people Of
that city Of Gov. Pierpont's administra.
ton. The people allege that the Constitu.
ton DISTINGUISHES nearly all Of them.
Gen. Thomas will leave For Richmond
IN few days to assume bis new CON-
mAdd.
THE Ford announces tina, Sherman's
report was received by the Secretary Of
War, May 2t.hs at P. NJ, aud its puhiica-
ton addressed by the Adjutant General
May 18th, when it was sent to the printer
and published al once. AT the time Gen.
Sherman charges the War Department
with suppressing his report it was stil. in
the hands OF Gen. Grant
a very pleasant straw berry pic nic was
held this afternoon at Silver Springs, the
residence OF Francis p. Blair. Among
those present were Gen. Grant and the ofii.
GERS Of the 18th corps accompanied bv
Gen. F. p. Blair.
The Heratt's Hilton Head letter saws
Senator Yulee, Z. s. Senator from Florida,
has come into Jacksonville, and given
himself up TO the Union people, anxious
to resume position as e. S. Senator.
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From Washington.

WASHINGTON, May Sl.-Cha.les Il. Cor
nell, some time since convicted Of abstract
ing bonds from the Redemption Bureau,
has been sentenced to pay fine of $4,000.
The President has made the following
appointments for North Carolina: District
Judge, r. r. Dick; c. s. Marshal, W. r.
Richardson; District Attorney, Richard
Mason; Post Master Of Raleigh, Col. J. E.
Grist, and all the appo;ntees are Of North
Carolina.
The Government has under advisement
the question OF colonizing all the Iudian
tribes between Minnesota and Iowa and
the Rocky Mountains, in the reservation
somewhere on the Northern border. The
British Possessions are intended tor their
hunting grounds.
The Western troops of the Army of Ca,
broke camp at Biadensburg this morning,
and commenced moving west by way Of the
3. & O. Railroad.
BY direction of Lieut.. Gen. Grant, all
places where liquor is kept along the line
of the railroad, will be closed until the
movement is completed.
Major Gen. Sherman has signifed his in.
tention of leaving Washington this eve
ming for Cincinnati, where he will esta blish
the Headquarters Of the South Western
Military Division.
It is understood that a statement of the
public debt to June Is: is being prepared
for publication.
The condition Of the Treasury is most IA.
vorabl-. There are and have been for
some time no unpaid acquisitions in the
Treasury excepting for pay of army. Any
demand of the Paymaster General is
promptly met, gu Efficient funds having al
ready been placed to the credit of the Pay
master to meet all back dues and bounties
accruing to armies about to be disbanded-
so far as known.
A recent order Of the War Department
/
army to designate his place of rendezvous
in the respective States in which regiments
after being mustered out will be forward
Ell fot prompt payment.
The Pennsylvania regiments have
commenced leaving Washington for their
homes and eight regiments have al
ready gone and others will be forwarded
nished, the officers having been active and
efficient IN communicating their rolls
THERE'S question as to the mastering in
of officers, commissions &c.
GENERAL ORDER No. 56.--A naval
Court marital having found VIM. Sinlms
of Philadelphia naval contractor, the sem
ior member Of the firm of VIM. 4. Simms
Son guilty Of fraud upon the United
States and wiifuu neglect Of duty. said
court did impose the following sentence:
The court do therefore sentence the ac-
cused, VIM. L. Siimms TO pay to the United
States the sum OF s. 900 and he be confined
in such prison or place of confinement as
may be designated by the Secretary Of the
Navy Until the fine is PAID also that he
be hereafter excluded from any further de-
Hverencea on the contract or any protec-
ton for naval supplies.
Tie attention OF purchasing agents and
nava; storekeepers is called to the last
clause Of the sentence. tSignedl
G.. V. Fox,
Assistant Ssc'y of Navy.
In order to recruit the ranks Of regular
regiments as soon as practicable, the Adiu-
tant General will open recruiting Offices at
such points as offer reasonable prospect
of ealis;.ag good aasa.
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Sherman's Negotiations with
Johnston.

New YORK, May 3l.-General Sherman
explains his negotiations with Gen. John.
ston in his official report as follows:
II is substantially the same as given be.
tore the Committee on the Conduct OF the
War. He met Johnston April 18th, as ar
ranged. The interview was frank and cor.
dial, and Gen. Johnston gave him to un-
derstand that further war on the part of
the confederates was folly-that the cause
was lost, and that every lite sacrificed after
the surrender OF Lees army was the high
est possible crime. Johnston admitted the
terms conceded to Lee were magnanimous
and all he could ask but wanted some con.
cessions that would enable him to allay the
natural fears and anxieties of his followers
and enable him to maintain his control
over them until they could be got back to
their homes. He also wanted to embrace.
in the same general proposition, the fate of
all the confederate armies that remained in
existence.
never made any concession az to his
own army 0, assumed to deal finally aud
authoritatively in regard to any other, but
1t did seem to me that there was presented
chance for peace that might be deemed
valuable to the government Of the United
States and was at least worth the few days
there would be consumed in reference
thereto. To push an army whose command
er had so frankly and honestly confessed
~ and unworthy tee brave men led.
They met again on the 18th and renewed
He says. inasmuch rs Gen.
Johnston did not feel authorized to pledge
h;s power over tn. armies in Texas we ad-
iou-Oed to meet the next day at noon.
to Raleigh and conferred freely
with all my general officers, every one OF
whom urged me 10 conclude terms tina,
might accomplish so complete and desira-
BILE an end. Al! dreaded the weary aud la
horious march after fugitive and dissolv-
ing army back towards Georgia, almost
over the very country where we had toiled
so long, there was but one opinion ex-
pressed. and if contrary ones were enter.
tained they were withheld or INDUCED in |
only by that class who shun the tight and
the march but are !oudest, bravest and |
dercest when danger is past.
I again met Gen. Johnston on the 18th. |
and we renewed instrumentation. He sat-
SIZED me- then Of his power 20 dioband the |
rebel armies in Alabama, Mississippi, Lou
siana and Texas, as well as those in his /
command, namely: North Car.
Dina, South Carolina, Florida and Geor.
Sia. The points on which he expressed So
icitude We're lest those States were to be |
1isbanded and denied representation in
Congress or any separate political exist.
,nce whatever, and that the absolute dis.
lrmin9Of his men would leave the South |
oowerless and exposed to dePredations by
wicked bands of assassins and robbers.
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From Cincinnati.

CISCISNATTI.-The Gosette's Nashville
dispatch says the amnesty proclamation
was received with great satisfaction by
loyal men.
Senator Hill, Howell Cobb and Secreta-
~ Mallory arrived at Nashville Tuesday.
Genera, Wilson issued an order at Ma
con, Ga, May 10th, prohibiting the rebel
Legislature FROM assem- bling, counsellng
people TO pursue peaceful ayocarions and
promising the protection Of the United
States government
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From, New Orleans

NEW sOsLEAus, May -5--vrA CAIRO,
May 3l.--A telegram announces the re!Nov
al of Gen Banks and tae appointment OF
Sheridan to tue command OF the Military
District caused much comment. The ma
jority of the people seem to be pleased,
while part regret tle reIoya. of Banks.
The French Mexican Organ at Elizabeth
says war with us is Inevitable. 1t is be-
lieved in Mexico that Federal troops will
Immediately march into that country.
Great hate is openly manifested by Mex
leans towards the French and Maximil-
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To be Tried by the Courts.

New YORK, May 3l.-The COMMERCIAL
Washington special says President John
son is preparing an official announcement
of the restoration of peace. He is opposed
to military tribunals and will have no
more OF them.
It is now understood that Davis will be
tried before special term OF the District
Crimna. Court with full bench OF
1n6oas
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Foreign News.

New YORK, May 3l.-The Persia, which
lett Liverpool on the afternoon OF the Goth,
and Queenstown on the evening of the 2lst
of May, arrived here at Or. N.
In the House of Commons on the 10th.
Mr.. Guftorth asked Lord Palmerston if his
attention had been drawn to proclama-
ton offering 800, 900 reward for the appre-
hension of jeff. Davis, and whether the
British government were prepared to make
any representations to the United States
Government in reference to the treatment
OF the Southern leaders.
Lord Palmerston said the only reply he
could give, was that Her Maiestv's Gov.
eminent has no intention of attempting
any interference in the international af-
fairs OF the United States. (Received with
cheers.)
The Paris correspondent of the Morning
Herald asserts that the news of opening
recruiting offices for Mexico in New York
and Washington created an immense SEN
sation.
The Paris Momiteur refrains from anv
allusion to it. The general impression is
that Napoleon will not stand it, and viii,
direct the French squadron to inherent
any relntorcements for Juarez
Strange rumors were current in the stock
exchange i'll London on the 10Th. which.
though uncontirDled. had 81 depressing e;-
feet. Tha most prominent was that Napo-
y
consequence Of the prospect o. American
aggression upon Mexico.
1t was also reported that Maximilian
had been shot.
The Bourse on the 10th was fat at ST.
45c.
Breadsuffs-Flour dull and neglected.
Wheat more quiet and in demand at full
prices: winter red So sda9s per GENITAL: corn
hrm, holders ask an advance Of Sd per or,
which checked business; mixed 29s 3da
:s's 3D.; beef firm; pork quiet, % cd higher:
bacon quiet and occasionally 6dals lower
lard firm, 6dals higher on the week SUI
gars In good demand and generally I'D
higher; coffee steady; rice easier for soft
grain but steady for other kinds; petroie.
um small sales at Is 10da2s Sd per gallon
for refined.
Barring Bros. q Co.. report wheat Id per
quarter dearer for England White. Amer /,
lean 43a46s: red flats; dour 22a:.is; sugar
active and I'd dearer. Coffee steady. Tea |
firm aud dearer.
- LArEsr.eeL1vERpooL, SATURDAY, May
~, p. m.-Cotton demand continues active !.
and prices of better qualities id dearer |
Sales to-day 2O,G0O bales.
Bread stufts quiet but very firm and PRO.
visions generally without change, but
lard is active and grain dearer. with
sales at els per cwt.
LoSpoN, SATURDAY.. May 10. P a.-Con-
~ SloSeu lnis =. III. az Wiabs; L IA:
Erie ST; Y $ 5.20s 63la64; Confed Loan s.
a9l.
me Paris correspondent of the London
Fumes says: There are two subjects Of his
which make the Empress and the Minis
ers long for the return of the Etnperor.-
These are the Iecruiting Offices for vo,un-
GERS for Mexico said to be opened in towns
# the United States, and the opposition OF
he Committee OF the Chambers TO the allie.
cation OF the State forests
hat Macmillan will be highly favored by
ortnne and prove his ability, Il he can
the adverse circumstances which
him.
The Globe thinks Maximiians success
cry doubtful, and hopes it will not be /.
ase OF calamity to the people.
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From Cairo.

CAIRO, June 1.-The steamer Decatur
brought 900 bales OF cotton out of Wachi-
tn river.
Cotton il Memphis ranges from 3lc to
sac.
Trade is fairly opened with thu people of
Northern Alabama, two steamers having
gone with merchandise for that section.
which was readily aud satisfactorily dis.
nosed Of
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Fast Trosaing.

NEW YORK, June l,--In the e-otting
match, best three in five on the Union
Course to-day, Kentucky mare. owned
by Sam. Mclaughlin, beat Panic and
Stonewail Jackson. in the extraordinary
time Of 2,2t4. 2,244, and easy 1929, making
4 break IN three heats
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New York Items.

NEW YORK, May 3l.-The United States
steamer Vanderbilt has arrived She tow
ed the rebel ram Columbia from Charles
ton to Hampton Roads, and the monitor
Onondaga from Hampton Roads to this
port.
The Cuba took out sa2o, 900 in specie and
200 passengers to-day.
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Gen. Ranks.

BosToN, May ga dispatch to tie Bos-
ton Transcript says Gen. Banks has been
ordered to report at Walthan, Mass. His
affairs are undergoing an investigation at
the War Department.
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ExoDUs FROM CANADA.--The Canada
pewspa pers are lugubrious over whatthe
term wholesale emigration from Canada
to the United States, which, it is said, is
~ nahty to sord anu
the people. They place great reliance in
the abundance of the coming crops to re-
store the former prosperity Of the country.
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. EFF. DAVIS AND DIR. BLAcKBURN.-A
friend of ours is in possession of an auto.
graph, of which the following is copy: Y
;. SENATE CHAMBER, 14th March, 1919.
Secretary Of the United States Treasury.
Sir-The Enclosed letter of recommen-
da.ion, in favor OF DR.. Blackburn, is sign
ed by gentlemen well known to me as OF
the highest responsibility and intelligence
very truly, yours, JEFF'E DAVIS.
TIE CDR. Blackb burn" was physician 10
one Q! the Southern marine hospitals, and
IS the yellow-fever-p ropagating scoundrei.
Dayton Journal. .s,f
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From Louisville.

Justice Joshua +. Bullet, terminated to-
day in the Kentucky Legislature, both
branches sustaining the address OF the
Commission, and request the Governor to
remove him from office.
Gems. Upton and Alexander arrived here
today.
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The Cincinnati newsboys have been ma
king money lately by robbing the post
office OF letters. A party OF them would
stuff q newspaper covered with paste into
the side OF the outside letter box, wait UNI
I'll several letters had been deposited. draw
forth the papenwith its intercepted letters
and depart, diving place TO another gang,
nho would 20 through with the same OPP
erations, II some instances they made
quite ricn hauls.
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The PRESIDENTS DECLINAT1os OF A
CARRIAGE.-The following is the full taxt
OF President JOhnson's letter, declining
the gift OF carriage, horses, &C., from
citizens Of New York
WASHINGTON CITY, May %, 1865,
Mes srs. A. A. Low, Phelps, Dodge & Co.,
Hoyt Brothers J. S. Schults, and Others
GEsrLEMEN-I am in receipt of your
very complimentary note, dated New
York, May, II, 1865, wherein you request
my acceptance of u coach, span OF horses,
DC, as token of your high APP, aciation
Of my public course.
While fully appreciate the ~ Of
your motives in thus rendering t ls such
substantial evidence of your rn.aro and
esteem. am compelled, solely from the
convictions Of duty have ever held in
reference 20 the acceptance Of presents by
those occupying high official positions. TO
decline the offerings of kind and loval
friends.
The retention OF the parchment convey
ing your sentiments and the autographs of
those woo were pleased to unite il this
manifestation OF regard, is favor would
ask and l assure you gentlemen, I shall
regard II as one OF the highest marks of,
respect sEcM any portion " II y feiIow-citi-
zens.
Trusting that shall continue to merit
your confidence and esteem in the dis.
Charge Of the high and important duties
upon which have but Just entered, and
with the best wishes for your health. &c.,
Individuality am, gent nen, yours truly,
ANDREW JOHNSON. s
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Gen. sherm.n.

New YORK, June l.-Gen. sherman ar
rived this morning and is stopping at the
house OF his cousin. He leaves Tomorrow
for the West
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Com M uted.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 3l.-Tha pres!den,
has commUted the sentences O. BowIes.
Mulligan and Horsey, to Imprisonment tor
life
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BURLINGTON WEEKLY Wk-Ei

Al Eastern troops IN Sherman 5 army
have been ordered ny- The Secretary OF War
TO report to Gen. Augur They vii. be
paid off, mustered out and sent home
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| DEMOCRATIC EsJoYMENrs.-TheC ;ncin.
natl Enquirer derives much consolation
under the present adversely Of the Demo.
cratic party, from its hopes that the war of
rebellion will be followed By war Of reli-
Sious sects. Such is the condition of its
moral perceptions that it sees in war TO
suppress religious dissent the corollary of
war against secession; for to this wisa
Iogician the proposition that, if men will
not tolerate secession from the Union. WHY
Should they allow secession or dissent in
religion, seems demonstration. The En-.
Galres also found much comfort, under the
difficulties met by the Southern secession.
IN the expectation that it would be follow.
ed by secession OF the West from the East,
1t prophesied to that effect like one of the
prophets of Ahab, and then, like the am.
phih!ous prophet Jonah, it fell cu-s;ug
because its predictions were not fulfilled.
we remember thatt the leader of the Dem
OF his political inspiration on the same pre-.
dictlon. Standing as II with one foot on
the East and the other on the West. like
the angel in the apocalypse, he declared that
the day that witnessed the secession Of the
South would witness the final separation
of the East from the West. But it did not,
and now this Democratic prophet. who
staked his political fortunes on his belief
In the pusillanimity OF the Northern peo-
pie, has written long letter virtually con-
IesslnS the great Democratic mistake and
casting about for some way Of resurrecting
the Democratic party from the advanced
stage of decomposition into which it has
been brought by its treschery to the coun-
try: but, after wandering over three or four
columns, he can point out no way to resur-
rect thing whose decay has become 90
offensive.
We never heard of any great influence
being exercised upon the destinies of man.
kind by curses and evil predictions, nor do
we believe they will resurrect the Demo-
cratic party; and AS it was necessary to the
salvation OF the country that that party
party should die, We regard the course OF
its politicians and journals as at once the
best evidence of its death, and the best So
curity against its resursectiou.-Clncis
nat Gaeetse.
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Constitution of the United States, and last
and not least the general and universal de-
sire to close q war no longer with Or
ganized resistance, were the leading facts
that induced me to pen the memorandum
of April 18th, signed by myself and Gen.
johnson.
It was designed to be and so expressed
on its face as mere basis for reference, to
the President of the United States and the
constituted Com nander-in-Chief, to ena-
bic him # he chose, at one blow to dissipate
the military power of the Confederacy,
which had threatened the national safety
for years. 1t admitted of modification al
teration and change. It had no appear
:.nce Of an ultimatum and by no false
reasoning can it be construed into usur-
patton OF power on my part.
have my opinions On the question in
volved, an6 will stand by the memoran-
dunn but this forms no part CT a military
raport.
The news OF President Lincoln, s assassl-
uatior, on tho 18th OF April wrongly re-
ported 10 me by telegraph as hayins oe-
Cured on the llth, reached me on the l1th,
and was announced 10 my command the
same dag ia specia. field orders No. 56.
was duly impressed with its horrible
atrocity and probable effect upon ecoIn-
try, but when the prosperity and interests
Of millions still living We're involved,
saw no good reason to change my course,
but though: rather to manifest real respect
for his 1GesnoIy by following, &iteT BIS
death. tnat policy which, # living, feel
certain he would have approved: or at least
40. rejected r::c alsuaia.
, 1865-12-01
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The S. F. Call says, in the western part OF the
ity lives French gardener, whose Jdrdin des
pIanies is included in an area ofabout eighteen
by thirty feet enclosed and rooted over, so as to
resemble a moderate size stable, and excluding
all those genial elements that are ordinarily con-
sidered so essential to vegetable life' Instead
of being laid off In an ornamental plat, with
walks and fountains and flo wCIy parterres,
his beds are slung up in tiers, one above another.
He plants, no seed, yet reaps golden harvest.
The manure from the barn-yard, exclusively, is
his soil, and he geathers every morning crop OF
mushrooms. every morning he brings his frupgi
to the city. for the first class restaurants, to
serve out to first class epicures and takes home
With him from twenty to thirty dollars