Year: 1867

longer be refuge and home for poor and the oppressed
We hope our feow-countrymen will mark euey such
an enemy Of the Irish people.


THE PRESIDENTS LATEST PARDON.


There has been much talk in political circles to-day about
the action OF the President in pardonng Cameron the rebel
who testified for Surratt yesterday and the House. by direct
vote, directed the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the
matter.


AS Suratt sits in with hat removed his face
clearly small head long, glossy, light brown hair
brushed up from full fair brow SMALL aquiline
hollow at its parting from the forehead that childs finger
laid across would hardly fill the idenaton eyes gray deep
set together earnest ecreve but with good deal of
compose gained perhaps in long daring Fate to do its
worst mouth weak half hidden by light auburn mustache
and long, pointed uft of beard pendant from the
narrow chin.


So the young prisoner SITS slowly moving palm FAM
noticing each little detail in lawyer Witness and spectator
usually serene sometimes smiling through the summerdays,
while the scales vibrate weighing his life or DEATH What
memories must crowd upon him His youth the Jesuit
Colleges his deep zeal for the rebel his long night
journeys, with information, from Washington to Richmond
then with money and messages from Richmond Montreal
running pickes shot at by scouts sad parngs and glad
meetings with his berohed who waits here to take stand
and give her womans voice for his life the long Canadian
hiding going out only by night and in priesty vesures;
tdings of the trial and executions of his ama of the
impending fate of his mother for human natures sake his
counsel should their assertion that he desired to
and her. but allowed ohen of her gnomnious
death the secret ocean passage the conceamen in England
and France the half years service as common soldier
talking everywhere of the great subject that filled his
Thoughts his arrest at the little Italian village his leap of
81 feet the paapet to escape with the connvance of





permanent reugeno rest for the sole of his foot his
landing Alexandria to find the file of anissares waiting
arrest him again. and ST. Marie like avenger of blood
standing by to identify him. Then shipboard prison.
manacles, and this long waiting for the verdict.


His trial drags slowly along The defense has attempted to
prove that he at Em N. Y, the day Of as well as
several days before the Presidents assassination His object
it alleged contrive the escape of Confederate prison
But the ended this is very probable
Besides the counsel for the defense appear much
to Davis than establish
the innocence of Surratt


The Worlds Washington special says There authority
for fatty contradicng the report that negotiations going
with Great Britain for the settlement of the Alabama
claims through cesson of the Northwestern British Terri
tory the United States Great Britain has rendered neither
land nor money to liquidate the claims"
LEAGUES SOUTH.


Mr. Conway sent South by the Union League and Con-
gessional Committee reports 1000 Union Leagues in the
Southern States with membership of 100000 loyal


To the utter astonishment of the Virginia chvary, the
black Republicans will probably constitute majority of the
legal voters of the State Already $4,000 coored have
been registered while the number of white voters registered
is but 4OOO 1t is thought that the complete registration
will foot up less than 100000 whites while the negroes will
certainly exceed that number and it is certain that 10000
white Radicals will vote with the blacks. The secesh arso
cracy said to be filled with gloom and bitterness the
political prospect before them they concede that the Rad
ca whites and the blacks will unedy together and
sweep the State gobbng up all the Offices and run the po+
tcal machine in the interests of the Republican party. The
number of coored in the Southern States out to be
much larger than generally supposed The mortality
them during the far less than the rebels and
Cpperheads have represented while that of the rebels
greater than the survivors have admitted


The Washington Chronicle states that reciprocity treaty
highly advantageous the United States has been concluded
between Government and that of the Hawaiian Islands
1t adds that this treaty regarded by competent persons
the first step toward the acquisition of these islands by
Government with the prospect of securing the virtual
troll of the trade of the Pacific The present King of the
Islands is married. and has relatives entitled
cession is therefore, expected that with his DEATH the
royal house will become extinct and the independence Of the
Islands cease.


England.


The great naval review in honor of the visit of His Ma
esty Abdul Azz Sultan of Turkey took place last week. off
Spithead It the most magnificent spectacle wit
messed in English waters high wind which prevailed