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fTo Hang or Not 80 Hang

The Tribune replies to some points
made by Mr. A j Smith of Danville, Pa,
in a communication en- the subject Of ex-
ecuting certain leaders of rebellion, and
says:
"Austria killed many thousand of Hun
garians in putting down the uprising un-
der Kossuth, and no one demurred: she
hung Thirteen only of the Military lead
ers surrendered uuconditionally by Cor.
gey at Villages and all Christendom cried
shame upon her Suppose these had
been surrendered under a capitulation
like that Of Lee, OF johnson, or Dick
Taylor, or Kirby Smith,an she had pro-
ceeded to try, convict, sentence and hang
them, she would have been execrated as
pcriured and infamous to the end Of time.
To this effect, the verdict of History is
emphatic and overwhelming. CSee what
il says Of the execution of Marshal Ney
under the Bourbons in 1915 Yet he was
precisely such forsworn traitor as Rob.
ert E. Lee, and not half so we'll shielded
by terms Of capitulation) J"
Christendom must make a vast differ
ence between a rebellion of opposed
Hungarian's striving for independence
AMI nationality and the attempt of al
over fed arriStocraey to destroy a fret
country for the purpose Of establishing
the worst sort Of deSpotism. The south
eru rebellion was not a sudden uprising
against oppression it was a conspiracy
against Freedom.
The leaders in this conspiracy are re
sponsible for deeds of cruelty to unarmec
and helpless persons that might make Z
savage blush under his dark skin, and are
worse than robbers and bandits, and With
the record of D fair trial aud conviction
before them call Christendom can never
cry shame on the American government
for meeting out just punishment to them.
It does not follow that every rebel should
be executed, or even tried. The amnes-
ty proclamations meet the argument il
argument it is of the Tribune. by. pardon
ing whole classes at once, and open a
door for fling reasons in arrest of Judge
men; in other cases. We never could
see the sense Of the crY,so common, hang
all or pardon all" There is no sense in
it,
The Tribune itself has said that the
surrender of Lee only gave force to his
parole and safety under 1t during the
war; and at the end of the war ended
their character of prisoners Of war, and
turned them over to the civil power
That may be an error. We would have
the government break no promises
positive or implied made by our generals
But jeff Davis cannot have the benefit
Of the surrender of his generals as he did
not surrender. 1t will be an outrage on
humanity to permit him to escape if oD
fair trial he shall be convicted of trea.
con.
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The Missouri Constitution.

There is no longer doubt of the
adoption of the new constitution of Mis-
souri,. Returns from seventy four coun
ties and the soldiers vote show decided
majority in its favor, and the remainder
of the state will increase the majority tc
FIVE thousand. The slavery seces,
sionist element in Missouri. has fought
bitterly against this constitution, but its
schemes have been defeated, and the
State is now free to take her rank among
the great and noble commonwealth OF
the West, with compensated labor and
full opportunities for the development OF
her mighty resources, her industrial in
terests and her mining wealth.
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The Fort Pisloxv Butchery.

N
A correspondent of the New Orlean
True DeZta describes an interview Will
the rebel General Forrest, which tool
place recently at Madison, Mississippi
His testimony, mixed with much gascon
ade, fully sugtains the accusations agalns
him. The writer, after some preliminary
questions, asked:
"Now that you have time, general, ct
you think you will ever put upon paper
the true account of the Fort Pillow affair!
DWELL" said be, "the Yankees ough
to know; they sent down their best mer
to investigate the affair"
"But are we to believe their report
General 7"
ayes, if we are to believe anything {
niger says; when | went into the war
meant to fight. Fighting means kill
ing. have lost twenty nine horses IN
the wal, and have killed man each time
The other day | was horse ahead but
at Selma they surrounded me and | kill
ed two-jumped my horse over one
horse wagon, and got away" l began to
think had some idea of the man at last,
He continued: "My Provost MarshaT8
book will show that | have taken thirty
one thousand prisoners during the war.
At Fort Pillow | sent in a flag Of truce
and demanded an unconditional surrender
or | would not answer for my men. This
they refused. | seut them another note
giving them one hour to determine. This
they refused. | could see the river boats
loaded with troops. They sent back, ask.
ing for an hour more. gave them twenty
minutes sat on my horse during the
whole time. The Fort was filed with
niggers, and desertels from our army ;
men who lived side by side with my men.
/ waited five minutes after tie time, and
then blew the bugle for the charge. In
twenty minutes my men were over the
works, aud the firing had ceased. The
citizens and yankees had broken in the
heads Of whiskey and lager bier barrels,
and were all drunk. They kept up hElug
all the time, as they went down the hill.
Hundreds of them rushed to the river and
tried to swim to the gun5oats, and my
men shot them down. The Mississippi
river was red with their blood for three
hundred yards. During all this, their
flag was still flying, and I rushed over
the works and cut the halyards and let il
down, and then stopped the fight. Many
of the Yankees were in tents,i in front, ,and
they were in their way, as they concealed
my men, aud some Of them set them on
on fire. II any were burned to death il
was in these tents. They have living
witness in Captain Young, their Quarter
master, who is still alive,and | will leave
it to any prisoner | have ever taken if
have not treated them we'll"
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President at the white House

The Washington correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Inquirer says:
"Presldent johnson and his secretaries
removed on Friday, from Mr.. Hooper S
residence to the White House, which has
been partially fitted up for them. Mrs.
Patterson, daughter of President John
son, aud wife OF one of the new senators
from Tennessee, will arrive here next
week, to preside over the domestic ar
rangements of the white House.
"The President finds himself unable to
attend to the important duties of his Office
and give audience to the hundreds of
people who daily demand interviews. He
has accordingly directed his secretaries,
General Massey and Colonel Browning,
to give all a hearing, and to refer cases
to him needing his attention. An i'm
mense number of persons coming to him
want matters that can only be attended
to by the various departments.
"Among those favored with an inter
view to-day was high private G. Eauzant,
of the Seventy ninth Ohio, thi!teen years
old, clean face and bright-eyed youth,
who has made the entire campaign from
Atlanta with the, regiment, acting part
cf the time as drummer boy, aud part
as orderly to General Ward. Well. my
son. SAID the President, what 90 you
want? A brevet, suppose. Brevet cor.
poraI? How will that do? No, sir, l
don't care for rank. / have a pony that
[ brought all the way through, and they
are going to take him from me, and !
want to take him home and keep him.
you shall have him Aud writing an
order for transportation and directing the
officers to let him have the pony. Nov
[ am all right again. and with thank
you,' left the President, to make room
for delegation of rebels"
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Buffalo and washington R. R.
The Buffalo Express says

1he -BUTdt0 Express says:
awe presume it is not generally known
to our citizens, that the prospect of new
and more direct route from this city to the
cities of Washington, Baltimore, Harris
burg and Philadelphia,are very iattering
The Company is organized by the ap
pointment of the following officers: Pres
ideus, James Brayley; Vice President,
j. K. Comstock; Secretary and Treas
urer, james S. Gibbs; Chief Engineer,
William Wallace.
DIRECToRs.-Hosea Birdsall, j. Tur-
ner, Edwin Fl. Gibbs, James L. Pond,
Frederick Swift, of New York James
Brayley, James Adams, James S. Gibbs,
of Buffalo; Aaron Riley, of Aurora !;
c. V. B. Barss, j. X. Comstock, Frank
L. StOwell, Olean A. S. Arnold, Port
Allegany, Pa.
Thus organized, this Company has en-
tered with becoming enterprise and ener-
gy upon the work of opening new route
between this city and Philadelphia, Har-
risourg and Washington. The route is
surveyed and located, and passes through
a fertile and populous region of coutry. 1t
extends up the valley Of the Buffalo creek
to the village of Aurora, thence up the
valley of the Cazeuovia branch, 20 Hol
land, and thence by the most direct and
feasible route to Olean, and Port Ale
gany, Pa, ind southerly from that point
by direct route to Emporium, Pa, where
it intersects the Phil. and Erie Road.
By this route the distance from Buffalo
to Baltimore via Harrisburg is 385 miles,
and to Washington 525 miles.
To the city Of Buffalo this is an i'm
portaut route, rot only for the direct
communication itopens up with the South
but for the opening it will make to the
coal fields of Pennsylvania. We regard
the enterprise as IN good hands aud have
confidence in its speedy prosecution. Our
citizens should foster and encourage this
enterprise in every possible way. as its
advantages to Buffalo cannot be too high
ly estimated. The New York Director,
were in town yesterday, and leave this
morning on 4 reconnaissance of the route.
They are gentlemen of enterprise and
wealth and have laid their hands to this
work knowing no such word as fail. Buf-
falo must divide this labor, as it hopes to
share the beDi6ts with them:
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About FIVE hundred Sioux Indians, in
camp fifteen miles west Of Fort Mitchell
and supposed to be friendly, on the l4th
inst. attacked a guard of hundred men
under Capt. Fouks aud Of the llth Ohio
Veterans Cavalry, killing Capt. Fouks and
four men aud wounding seven. A mum.
Der of the Indians were killed. The
Indians crossed over to the north side oi
the Platte River.
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The New York Herald declares the
following to be its platform on the negro
suffrage question: We would give the
suffrage at once to four classes of South.
ern negroes. First, and emphatically,to
every negro who has borne arms in the
cause of the United Statas; second, to
every negro who own real estate; third,
to every negro who can read and write !;
and fourth, to every negro who had be-
longed to any religious organization or
church for FIVE years before the war
These points would cover every negro
that ought to vote, and they would IN.
sure in every negro voter spirit of man
hood as well as discipline; some Practi-
cal shrcwdness, intellectual development
and moral conciousness and culture.
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DIFFERENCEs.-A number of idle per
sons were sitting in a store the other day :
one suddenly asked the company "What;
is the difference between the chivalry of
the middle ages and Of the present day?"
Mr.. Tompkins replied: the one was
mediaUa2 and the was 'oholly evi1"
"Bah !' cried john Jones "Don't be
a fool, Tompkius-Tll tell you one wore
= coat Of mail, the other 9 coat Of female :"
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European Opinion.

The Count de Montalembert, who is
one of the leading Catholic writers of
Europe. and a gentleman of the highest
philosophical as we'll as literary culture,
has just published an article in the Cor
respondent, headed "The Victory of the
North in the United States" in which
be argues that the military virtues dis
played By the Americans during their
tremendous struggle Of four years. dura-
ton, are nothing in comparison to their
civil virtues. The citizens of the United
States, be says, did not have recourse to su-
icide to get away from fear and suspense,
They were not the people to initiate
those despalriug sick who prefer imme-
diate death to prolonged suffering. He
thinks their conduct in time of trial
grand lesson for those European nations
which, though as heroic as need be on
the battlefield, are "intimidated and de-
moraliged by every civil danger" The
Americans have given to the world the
GLORIOUS ard consoling example of a
people who saves itself without Caesar" {"
This is intended, no doubt, as a rebuke
TO the suppressive and despotic policy
pursued by Napoleon but, at the same
time, it expresses the real feeling, the
sincere and genuine admiration, which
the patience, the energy, the fortitude
and the self-respect of our people have
excited in all liberal minds, whether of
the Catholic or the Protestant church, in
Europe.
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The loss at the Chattanooga fire amout.
ed to 100000, and that at Nashville to
nearly So 100000, which may be reduced
one half by the iron, chains, machinery,
&C., that may be saved from the wreck
1t is the opinion of the authorities that
these fires were the work of incendiaries
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WHAT HORSEMAN
WILL BE WITHOTT

DR.. Ioaias's JeQiiiaQ IoFse LiOiheDf.
TAUNTON, Mass. May IA, 1860.
DR.. Tobias Dear Sir-During 35 years
that have been in the livery business, Ihaye
used and sold a great quantity of various
liniments, oils. &c. Some two years since.
hearing of SO many wonderful cures having
been made by your Venitian Liniment I
tested It's merits, and it has given the best
SATISFACTION of anything ever used. never
SOLD anything that gives such universal sa,is-
faction among horsemen. 1t rs destined to
supersede all others. Yours, truly, &c.
SAMUEL WILDE.
Sold by all druggists Office, Sc Cortlandt
street, New York. Price for pint bottles, one
dollar.
~ County Dealers are informed that no
travellers are now sent out.
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Adiutaut, eneral Morse of Connecticut
has Just made report on the number of
men furnished by that State for the war
The total quotas were 1852, and the
State has furnished 81, ,468 men, including
nine months euliStments and re.enlist.
ments. Reducing the whole to the stand
ard of three years, there have been fur.
nished 1872 men.
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7-3O LOAN.

Thse notes are issued under date of july
10, 1868, and are payable three years from
that date in currency, or are convertible at
the option of the holder into
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Colouel Forney writes to the PEiladel.
phia Press: "Ex- President Buchanan S
long threatened vindication against the
charge already incorporated iuto the uual
terable history Of the wal, that his admin.
istration hurried Oh the events which led
to aud encouraged the rebelIion is announ,
ced to be on the eve of publication, The
venerable Sage of Wheatland preserves
bis equanimity to the last. Wgapt ia the
robe of concious innocence, and serenely
convinced that If he was tho last Of the
line of modern democratic Presidents, be
was also the purest and the best, he will
no doubt give tho world work Of some
ingenuity and labor. The Old Public
functionary is not "preutLce hand at
making the worse appear the better rea
SON."
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The Masons of the State Of Texas met
in Houston on the 18th and issued an
address to the Masons of the State, ,coun.
ceiling obedience to the law and cheerful
submission to the authorities, discounte.
nancing all ineubordination or mutinous
conduct.
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u. S. 7-30 LOAN
THIRD SERIES.
$23O,OOO,OOO.

BY authority cf the Secretary of the Treas
uFy' inc undersigned, the General Subscrip-
non agent for the sale of United States Sc
corLues, offers to the public the third series
OF treasury Notes, bearing seven and three
tenths per cent interest per aunum, known
as the
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,e interest at 7-30 per cent. amounts to
One cent per day ON a $50 nofe

Notes Of all the denominations named will
be promptly furnished upon receipt of SUBJ
scripJions.
The Notes Of this Third Series are precisely
similar in form and privileges to the Seven
Thirties already sold, except that the Gov
ernment reserves to itself the option of pay
ing interest in gold coin at per cert. in
stead Of 7-3l0ths in currency. Subscribers
will deduct the interest in currency up to
July 9th, at the time when they subscribe.
The delivery Of the notes of this third
series Of the Seven-thirties will commence on
the lst of June, and will be made promptly
and continuously after that date
The slight change made in the conditions
of this THIRD SERIES affects only the mat
ter of interest. The payment in gold, if
made, will be equivalent to the currency in
terest of the higher rate
The return to specie payments, in the event
of which only will the option to pay interest
in Gold be avaiied of, would so reduce and
equalize prices that purchases made with six
per cent. in gold would be fully equal 10
those made With seven and three -tenths per
cent. in currency. This is
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Daniel S. Dickinson is said to have
assured President johnson that the ex.
tension of the elective franchise to South.
ern black men was the easies. and best
possible way out of the manifold Difficult.
ties Of reconstruction.
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1t is a very curious fact that the three
men in America who form the triumvirate
of apoStacy and treason were all detected
by means Of their boot. Benedict Ar
nold's treason was hidden in Andre
boots. Aaron Burr, escaping in dis
guiso which would have probably proved
successful, was betrayed by the elegant
cut Of his boot, which was ont of keeping
with the rough homespun suit in which
he was making his fight. jeff. Davis
falls lGto the same trap, and discovers
himself to his captors by neglecting this
most ordinary precauIion. When the
Pretender was flying through the High
lands for his life, he set an example to our
American Pretender by donning a suit
of Lady Kingsburgh's clothes,i in order to
pass out of her house unobserved, resum-
ing his male attire as soon as he had put
a few miles between himself and his last
hiding place. But he changed his boots
first, and his cast off pair, ragged and torn
with his wanderings through swamps and
hills, were treasured for many years by
Lord Kingsburgh, and finally cut into
small pieces and preserved as mementoes
of his romantic adventure with the fair
Flora Mcdonald
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Oil News.

From a gentleman living in Elk County
we learn something of the operations in
oil now going on in that and adjoining
counties.
At the mouth of Deer Creek on the
Clarion river, three wells have been sunk
and are now producing oil. The largest
is producing 40 bbIs. of oil per day. the
others 10 and Is bbls. Fifteen miles above
these wells on the Clarion, well is now
being pumped which is producing daily
10 bbls Of oil. None of these wells ex-
ceed 400 feet in depth, and the oil pro.
duced from them is light green color,
and as lucid as ordinary refined petroleum
Deer Creek empties into the Clarion
abuot 6 miles above Clarion Borough, ,and
30 or 40 miles below Ridgway By the riv-
er, and 25 miles as the crow flies.
On Spring Creek another tributary of
the Clarion, and 10 miles below Ridgway,
we'll is down 600 feet. On the East
branch,o the Clarion above Ridgway and
4 miles above its junction with the West
branch well is now down about 480 feet
At both these wells the prospects of fod-
ing an abundance of oil are exceedingly
Hattering. The sand pump brings up con,
siderable oil every time it is used The
Dickinson we'll at Ridgway is down about
500 feet,and although no oil has yet been
found, the "premonitory symptoms" for
finding it are good. At Wilcox the oil
fever is raging, but perhaps in not quite
so vlruIent form as in some other local
tiles. One well is now being sunk and
several engines are on hand with which
to sink others as soon as they can be got
to work.
/ Present appearances would indicate that
! the Clarion valley would soon become a
great aud permanent oil bearing region ;
perhaps not as brilliant and spasmodic as
the Allegheny valley, but fully as reliable.
Our latest intelligence from Kenzua, is
to Wednesday last. The proprietors OF
the we'll where oil was recently found in
tended to commence pumping that even,
ing, but whether they did or did not wc
are unable to state
In this county, prospecting for oil is
not progressing (ezcepting on Kenzua
creek) as rapidly as we would like to see
it. The well near this Borough is now
down 800 feet. Afew days since the
drills struck hard substance like iron
which battered them to such an extent
that it was impossible to proceed with
the work. We are pleased to state, how
ever, that the work was only retarded ;
,ew days from this cause and that matters
're aow progressing finely. Mr. Grifitl
Informs US that for several days past, they
have made progIess at the rate of ten fee
per day. We still feel confident Of th,
most satisfactory results from this we'll
lUKtan Min0r.
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U. $. 5-2O Six per cent.
GOLD=BEARING BONDS

These Bonds are now worth a handsome
premium, and are exempt as are all the Gov
eminent Bonds, from State County, and lNu-
Ne!paS t4Tafioa. achich adds from one to three
per cent. per anaua to their paiae, according to
the rate levied upon other property. The.in-
terest IS payable semi-annuaily by Coupons
attached to each note, which may be cut OFF
and sold to any bank or banker.
The interest at 7-3O per cent. amounts to
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BMr. Lincoln's family horse, Bob, has
been sold..for $4,000 and goes to the Chicago
Sanitary Fair.
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It cost the London Times about 500
a letter for its Richmond correspondence.
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The citizens of Cass county, Ga, hung
ten guerill2S few days since.
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Less than $3.50, GOO, 600 Of the Loan au.
thorized by Congress are now on the
market, Tins amount. at the rate at which
it is being absorbed, will all be subscribed
for within sixty days, when the notes will
undoubtedly command premium, as has
uniformly been the case on closing the snb-
scri2tions to other Loans.
In order that citizens Of every town and
section of the country may be afforded facil-
ties for taking the loan, the National Banks
State Banks and private Bankers throughout
the country have generally agreed to receive
subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select
their own agents, in whom they have conf
dence and who only are to be responsible for
the delivery Of the notes for which they re.
ceiye orders. JAY COOKE.
Subscription Agent, Philadelphia.