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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

The manner of JEFF. Davis capture
causes universal surprise, and will add
immensely to the ehagrin and mortifoa-
ton that the arrest causes among his late
adherents. He has always prided him
self especially upon his dignity and per-
sonal courage, and that he would sustain
his reputation in those respects to the
last, whatever might befall him, no one
seemed to entertain a doubt. It was gen
orally supposed that he could not be ia
ken alive; and that he would in any event
exhibit cowardice and render himself ri
diculous in the eyes of the public, was
not regarded among the possibilities. 1t
is difficult to conceive of anything more
humiliating than his position at Wash
ington, the scene of his former triumphs,
where he now goes as a criminal to be
tried for his life. Under ordinary cir
cumstances he might nave anticipated the
consolation of being regarded as a hero
and martyr by his former admirers; but
the exhibition he made of himself in
Georgia, on the morning of the 10th inst.
will effectually debar him from setting up
to such position. A man arrayed
in petticoats. fleeing through the woods,
followed by a lot of cavalrymen, presents
a sorry picture for a hero and martyr.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
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LETTER 5

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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
THE NEWS.

The news of the arrest of JEFF. Davis
on the morning of the 10th inst, has beer
received throughout the country with
great satisfaction. Tits expected he viii
arrive at Washington tomorrow. It is
not known whether he will be brought to
trial for completely in the assassination
plot, or be arraigned for treason. Of the
fate that awaits him there is no room to
doubt.
The rebel Governors Brown of Georgia
and Vance of North Carolina, have also
been arrested and are on their way to
Washington, where II is understood thew
will be tried for treason. Other rebel
Governors will doubtless be similarity
dealt with if they are captured, and they
will be unless they succeed in escaping
from the country.
The work of gathering in the arms of
the disbanded rebel armies, occupying
the important points in the rebel States,
etc. is progressing rapidly, and throughout
the entire section of country east of the
Mississippi river there is now no armed
force to dispute the authority of the Uni
ted States Government.
At last advices from Texas the rebel
forces under Kirby Smith had not vet
surrendered. Meetings had been held at
several places and a determined purpose
to continue the contest avowed. These
expressions on the part of the rebellious
leaders are of little account, and it is not
likely they reflect the sentiments of the
masses, Shouldthey notyield soon means
will doubtless be taken to compel sub
mission.
Portions of our forces lately operating
in Virginia and the Carolinas have already
reached Washington, and the great BODY
of both armies will soon be there.
grand review is talkedof, after which such
regiments as are to be mustered out will
be sent to the States in which they were
raised for that purpose. Arrangements
are being made for the transportation of
$4,000 Western troops over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad.
The piratical rebel craft Stonewau left
Havana on the 10th inst. ostensibly bound
for Galveston. A sharp lookout is being
kept for her by our naval commanders.
if she is overhauled it is safe to infer
her career will be speedily terminated. !
The trial of the assassination c~onspira- $
is progressing at Washington, and the {
evidence is being given to the public. Of 5
the completely of all the parties on trial /,
the plot there is no room to doubt nor
there be any question of their convie- :
lion. {
\
The execution of the Indiana eonipira- G
Bowles and Milligan, appointed for a
'o-day, has been postponed till the LIST of f
June. The sentence of Horsey has been !
committed to imprisonment for life. t
Gold continues to rate at about 30 per I
'ent. premium, andhas occasionally fallen o
iomewhat below that figure.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
PLAlM lax IN lrHMnNn

The following is related by a Richmond
correspondent of the New York Evening
Post:
[ was privileged to listen this morning
to a discussion in front of the S%potsWood
House, which illustrated in a striking
manner the march of opinion Four
years ago it would have been unsafe to
preach abolition doctrine right in the
heart of Richmond, but that was the doc
trine [ heard proclaimed to-day in the
presence of a delighted audience. It
came about in this way A civilian visi-
tor, getting into conversation with a young
SOutherner, returned some remark in ia
YOr of the negro. It was resented by the
STRIPPING, who carried a nimble tongue,
whereupon the other declared with EN-
phasis that the loyal blacks were better
men than white traitors, any day The
youth, flushing up, said he wouldn't sub
init to such language it was %ungenerous
to insult men who acknowledged them
selves beaten. But I tell you, said the
other, you shall submit to it I've come
down here for the express purpose of say
ing in Richmond what I have always been
free to say in New York. You are worse
than your slaves you are worse than the
savages of middle Africa, andIll Droue it.
These savages are fond of making trink-
cts from the bones of their victims. So
are you, Didn't you roast the flesh from
the bones of our lead soldiers at Bull
Run to make finger rings and parlor orna-
ments for your rebel Jezebels? Thesava-
ges of Africa have a fondness for drink
ing from the skulls they have slain in
battle, or slaughtered for their feasts.-
Haven't you lone the same thing? In
Central Africa the negroes divide them
selves into small tribes, each warning
against the other, and each boasting an
absolute sovereignty. Haven't you been |
to cut up the Union into petty SOW
ereignties, each State striving for an ex-
dominion ? Don't you aim Just as
the savages of Africa do, to put the weak
under the feet of the strong don't you
Cypress the defenceless haven't you
Our prisoners and murdered in |
blood women and children for no
other u than loyalty? Cannibals of
Ethiopia are shrouded in ignorance, but
you have sinned in the face of light and
knowledge you have known better, but
to be human, just because slavery,
nursing mother, was born in the lap
Of the devil, and feeds her children on
p
That was strong talk for Richmond. but
it was listened to by a sidewalk audience
OF two or three hundred persons-soldiers
others-and was actually applauded.
young Southron stamped, raved and
swore, but it was of no use his tormen-
Ter was pitiless, and when the crowd OPEN
I'd to Let the victim pass, he shot AWAY as
+ a forty pound ball was at his back It
will take some time for this dose. admin
stored by a northern fanatic to ac-
'ompl1sh a perfect digestion.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

We publish elsewhere the Presidents
official order in reference to the re-
establishment of the National author
ity in Virginia. Similar action is to be
taken in reference to other States lately
In rebellion, and it is understood this is
to be the policy of the Administration as
regards the work of reconstruction. It
is a feasible plan and seems more free
from objections or difficulties in execu-
ton than any of the numerous projects
that have been suggested. It appears too
that it is substantially the method that
had been determined upon by the late
President with the full and hearty con-
currenee Of his Cabinet. Speaking of
the order referred to, the well informed
Washington correspondent of the New
York Times says:
1t is proper to says that this order. as
issued, was substantially agreed upon at
the last Cabinet meeting held by Presi-
dent Lincoln, on the day of his death, at
Whleh ten. 6rant was present, and in
regard to which several members of tbe
Cabinet expressed much qualification
After Mr.. Lincoln's death, this plan was
put in printed form, for more convenient
reference, and has been the subject of
consideration by President Johnson. the
last meeting being held yesterday. at
which the order was adopted without ma
tsrial modification. The great features
are that the State Of Virginia is not re-
cognized as ever having gone out of the
Union; that the functions of the United
States Government were simply suspen-
ded within her borders, and are now put
in operation again: that M ~vestape ofl
Confederate or rebel State Governments
are recognized, and that Gov. Pierpont,
and the loyal Legislature of Virginia.
Is made the nucleus of the recognized
State Government The prayer of the
truly loyal men Of the State has been an
swered, and treason can have nc recoQni.
tion in Virginia,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
FOUR YEARs.

On the 18th of April, 1861, President
Lincoln issued his call for seventy-fye
thousand Volunteers-on the part of the
North, the first note in a conflict greater
than the world ever witnessed before
On the 10Th of April, 1865, in an obscure
house to which he was borne suffering
from he assassin's bullet, President Lin
coin died. -Four years ago the peopIe
were IN doubt whether the man they had
chosen to lead them would prove equal to
the tremendous crisis. The test had been
made, and it had not found him wanting.
He who had been called from a position
OF comparative obsourity to direct the
policies of the Government, had illumi-
mated his position with such wisdom and
craftsmanship, as to extort the admira-
ton of mankind, In these short wears
he had won for himself a position among
the most famous and best Of all of whom
history delights to honor. He had saved
the Union; he had preserved our popular
liberty; he had crushed the power which
threatened our political fabric; he had
destroyed slavery; he had emaneipated
three and a half millions Of serfs. And
while the hearts Of his %countryInen were
toward him with such affection
rs no ruler could win who did not link
goodness with grandeur; while the eyes
II all people were upon him; at the mo-
.ent when events had indicated his wis
ION, proved his nobility, and put the
OF success upon his policy, he was
,emoved from his labors. But "his works
10 follow him" He had lived to see the
tepublic triumph, and the Republic will
to enshrine his memory and deeds in
adeless Immortality Albany Journal.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

Friday last was the expiration of the
sixty days time granted by Presidential
amnesty proclamation to deserters, to re-
turn to their allegiance, and regain the
rights Of citizenship. The Chicago
Tribune says that up to Friday upwards
Of one hundred and fifty, deserterg.
bounty jumpers and draft s~kedaddlers
from our armies to Canada, had reported
at the Provost Marshal's Office in De-
troit, and been regularly discharged from
their disabilities. On Friday, however.
the rush was so great that the majority of
the applicants were unable to get their
discharge, and were obliged to go back to
Canada again. These men, who have re-
ceived their enlistment bounties, perjur-
themselves by desertion, and after
waiting until the draft was suspended,
and recruiting Offices closed, to make
their cowardly rush to avail themselves
Executive clemency, the Tribune
prophesies, will be at home next fall vot-
ing the CoDperhead ticket, as heretofore.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

UNION STATE CoNvENrroN.-The
Union State Central Committee again
calls attention to the time fixed for hol-
ding the State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
june 21st-and urges immediate atten-
ton to the matter on the part of County
Committees. The offices for which nom
nations are to be made are: Governor,
Lieut.. Governor, Treasurer of State, At
torney General, Judge of Supreme Court
for full term, Judge of Supreme Court
for vacancy, Clerk of Supreme Court.
(new ofice), School Commissioner. and
Member of the Board of Public Works.
The first call was published in full in the
Gazette a few weeks since. At present
we only deem it necessary to call the at
tentien Of our Central Committee to the
matter. The number o~fdelegates assign
ed to our county is fve-the time ugges-
ted for holding county meetings, Satur-
day, June 10th.
Since the above was put in type, a call
by the Central Committee for a Conven-
ten has been handed in. It will be
found in Its appropriate place.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

The Supreme Court of Ohio has sus-
tanned the eonstitutionality of the four
dollar computation for militia services
An adverse decision had been given by
Judge Van Trump in the Hooking Coun-
ty Court: The points involved were
whether the commutation was a poll tax.
and whether there was not a c~ontraven-
ton of the Constitution, which required
all persons to perform military duty, by
exempting those who paid the commute
ton from performing such duty. The
COURT was unanimous against both points.
h decision will save the National
Guard organization from going to pieces,
as the liquidation ofits expenses depended
almost exclusively upon the Communication
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

MAxIMILIAN.-A London letter saws:
That MaximiIian himself regrets having
accepted the throne Of Mexico there a q
not be the slightest doubt, and that he
deems it likely he may have to quit it is
most probable, from the fact Of his hay-
ing ordered his castle at Miramar to be
prepared and got ready for his reception
in September. The Mexican Minister at
this Court, Senior ArangOiz, is, it would
appear, Of this opinion, as desparing of
signed his post. One more fact / NAV
mention in this connection, and that is.
King Leopold, who has been on a visit to
her Majesty Queen Victoria, has decided
on sending no Minister to Mexico. Such
a determination, from SO shrewd a politi-
clan as the King of the Belgians, is very
ominous as to the likely security and dur
Of the Mexican Emoire.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
CAPTURE OF ONE OF BOOTHS AGe0MPLIeES AT
DELPH0S, OHIO.

We learn hat Carroll, the man who
procured the canoe in which the assassin
Booth, crossed the Potomac river in his
flight from Washington, was arrested at
Delphos, o., on Tuesday afternoon last,
by Major Burns, a Government Detective.
Major Burns is a cripple, having lost
the left leg in the army, and after the as
s~assination was employed as a detective
to asst IN ferretlng out the guilty parties.
how 1t happened that he selected Carroll
!or ms bird" has not t~ranspired. Dress
ing himself as an INDECENT soldier, with
crutch and a n and a paper from a gov
eminent official requesting Provost Mar
shaIs along his route of travel to afford
the poor soldier" such assistance as he
might need, Major Burns started on the
pursuit. He first learned Of Carroll at
Alexandria, and then SLOWLY but surely
followed the track until he learned that
the acoomplIce bad a relative near Del
phos, o., when the Major went directly
to that place. There his letter of recom-
mendation secured him much attention
from those able to lend him pecuniarv
cid, and enabled him to look about town
without exciting suspicion that he had
any special business. After remaining
there a few days, he caught sight of Car
roll, and with assistants followed him in
to a store or saloon and arrested him.
Carroll, taken by surprise, was complete
" overcome. It is stated that he wept
bitterly, and ~wrinRing his hands, exclaim-
ed, They, will hang mel they viii hang
mel and by other expressions evinoed
his fear at the approach of justice.
When the gentleman who brought this
news to this city left Delphos, Carroll was
n jail at that place awaiting the arrival
of a guard to conduct him to Washing
ton, the Government having been inform
ed Of his arrest.-Toledo Blade.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

The conspiracy trials in progress at
Washington show conolusively that in
stead of the assassination of President
LINCOLN and the attempt upon the life of
his Secretary of State being the acts of a
couple of reckless desperadoes, were the
results Of a deep-laid and carefully ma
tured conspiracy, with widespread rami-
hcations, conoocted by the chief p~lotters
against the life of the Nation, the pur-
pose Of which was to deprive the country
OF It's chief executive officers and military
commander, and by producing anarchy
aid the cause of the rebellion. Had the
leaders been consulted they might have
objected to the execution of the plan at
the time 1t was attempted and partially
carried out; but that it had met their fuIl
sanction, and was one of the means de-
lberately adopted for aiding them in their
efforts to break up the Government. there
IS no room to doubt. Booth and his as
soelates were the creatures of these lead
ers, not persons directly interested in the
success of the rebellion or with persoDal
grlefs to avenge, but mere hired assassips
who were to do their work of blood for
pay. The evidence elicited shows the
part assigned to each of the ~prineinal
oonspirators, and marks the female priso-
ner, Mrs. SurTatt, as the leading spirit
whose house was their chief rendezvous
In reference to the testimony taken in
private the first day, and which has lust
been made public, a Washington despatch
says:
The testimony taken in the assassiDa-
tlon conspiracy case last Friday and now
made public, shows that the conspiracy
oates back to the summer of 1861 and
that Booth was then engaged in it. The
conspiracy contemplated the capture of
PRESIDENT Lincoln, and his murder the
burning OF Northern cities, creating dis
satisfaction among the Northern peonIs
az the war, and the bringing about Of .
In favor of the C~onfederaev
Booth was a leading agent in the matter
visiting various parts Of the country
notalng secret consultations in Canada
with Zoe. N. Sanders-who has since
SAID he dId not know Booth-Clay. HoI-
comDe, thompson and others. An actor
named chester, refused to have ANYTHING
to do with the affair, though Boot6
promised him two thousand five hmm
bred dollars. He was only to see that .
the back door of Growers theater-wbers ,
It was first contemplated to parpetrote I
the assasslnation-was kept open for exit ,
Booth at first oOaxed him, and than !
threatened him with death if he divuIyed :
plot. :
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

The progress of our arms having wined
out the entire brood of rebel papers in
the South, the captive chief of the late
Confederacy has no organ in that region
to sustain the cause for which he risked
and lost everything, or to comfort him in
ms present Affections. He has still how
ever organs devoted to his interest in the
North, prominent among which stands
the Columbus Crisis. That delectable
sheet deyotes a considerable norton IF
Its space to a defence of the rebel cause
and Its fallen chief. It speaks of Davis
as President Davis" Indignantly denies
tha1 ne acted otherwise than in a dignifed
manner when arrested; d~enounces as a
faisehood the assertion in the despatch
announcing his capture that he was ar
rayed IN female attire; calls the rebellion
a reyolution;" a y Davis did not make
1t and did not lead it; expresses appreben-
sion that "pretexts'' for his execution
Will easily be found;;'' but feels well as
sured that such an event will be a fatal
and deplorable mistake;" and declares
that his execution will be but another
IN a cause which five million of
Southern people believe to be the oause
OF liberty, of patriotism and of country
sacred as that for which Washington
fought, and their f~orefathers persisted .
more thorough and devoted rebel sheet
han this same. Crisis did not exist in
or Charleston previous to their
occupation by our troops.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
The Arch Traitor Caught !
JEFF. DAVIS IN OUR HANDS!

He Is Captured By w SIMS Caralry, r.
qoinsui2e, Georgia-TIies TO Sneak of
an he WJes Dress.
~oFFICLAL.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, May Il
To Major General Dir:
The following details Of the capture of
JEFF. Davis, while attempting to make his
escape in his wife's clothes, have been re-
oeived from Major General Wilson.
[Signed] E. NJ. STANTON,
Secretary Of War.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

Major Hammond an assistant Paymas-
ter IN the United States army, informs
Warehouse of Haxall & Co, Richmond,
was discovered a lot of blankets, from
five hundred to one thousand, marked
u. s." which, it was confessed. were
from our men imprisoned there,
not one of whom during last winter had
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

The pugnacious Mayor Mayo. of Rich
mond who, in 81, declared that he would
burn Richmond to the ground before It
should fall into the hands of the Yam
kees, not only changed his mind when
the time came for him to carry his threat
into execution, but has actually conde-
seended to take the oath to support the
United States.
At the battle before Kinston, N. O..
the 9th Massachusetts, in command of
Col. bartholomew, received from him
thu order: Don't let me see a man Of
you run till you see me run; and be care
tnl and not take any other man for me-"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19

SPECIE TAKEN BY JEFF. DAvIs.-Col
Clark, Of the rebel army, who wal cap
tured by one of our scouting parties while
en~deavoring to escape from Richmond on
one of the last trains from the doomed
city, asserts that he was in charge of all
the specie which was removed from Rich
mond. That when his train broke down
he found it impossible to get it on the
track and off again, and seeing our forces
approaching, he ordered it set on fire, and
that his efforts to save the specie proved
unavailing; that the soldiers broke omen
the kegs, and amid the excitement and
tumult, soldiers and citizens appropriated
everything in the cars. He asserts that
he Knew that no other amount of specie
in the pockets of its owners were taken
from Richmond, and that this lot was.
stole. He states further, that the amount
has been over estimated and confirms the
statement heretofore made by Gen. Grant.
that it amounted only to $4,000.