Year: 1866

for the Capture of BOOth Divided.


Ole Bull not Dead..Niagara Ship


Canal Bill Kil1ed..President John.


sons Speech to the Soldiers and the


sailors--ApproPriati to Carry out


Treaties with the Indians ON the


Platte and Missouri Rivers--The


House Judiciary Committee Report


Against a Change I'm the Test Oath


-.DivisiOn of the Reward for the


Capture of Jeff. Davis.-The Presi-.


dent Orders the Discharge of a Pris-


oner I'm Virginia, under a Writ of


Habeas Corpus..Division of the Re.


ward for the Capture of Atzerott


and Payne..General r. e. Connor


Promoted..Cholera Items, etc.


New York. April 20th-A fearful explosion occurred
the steamer Aspinwa the 3d. destroying the ship
and four hundred feet of the wharf supposed nitro
glycerne; about fifty persons were killed, among them
the captain and officers News from the southern coast
gives little hope of speedy settlement of the Chian diff


Guilty little progress being made by either of the beg
erents there some talk of bombarding Valparaiso
but il was not considered likely no attempt had been
made by the Spanards to take possession of the churches
Fire Marshal Baker under instructions from Mayor Hof
man. to-day seized about three hundred pounds of nitro
glycerine stored up town also large quantity board


ship in the harbor and arrested Colonel Otto Barsten
binder for shipping quantity California the that
exploded there The damage caused by the explosion at
Aspinwall is estimated at million dollars, of which the
officers of the Panama railroad in this city estimate the
loss of that company at hundred and fifty thousand
dollars; the nitro gyeerine shipped board the
European by Gion & Co.. of Liverpool gymoin oil
the nitro glycerne seized by Marshal Baker above
arrived about week ago from Hamburg; at that time the
authorities did not know the dangerous nature of the ar
Gle and placed in public the whole
seized has been placed in safe magazine where there
possibility of its explosion destroying life property
in future, nitro glycerne win be admitted into any pub
lie stores Colonel Barstenbnder formerly commanded
Ohio regiment.


Washington April 2Oth.-The House passed bill-ayes
LOG: nays 13Lgving l. Day, of Baltimore county Mary
land annuity of S42 So for his herosm in defending
the national flag against Gmores rebel raiders in July,
1864 it appearing that he seventy years of age,
and defended the flag while the rebels, in retaliation
destroyed his property valued at eight thousand
dollars The awards for the of Booth have been
divided followss Captain Dougherty 10th New York
cavalry, 1900; detectives Conger and l.. B. Baker
81 600 each Detective General L. c. Baker So 700; Bos
ton Corbett $1,000 privates 10th cavalry regiment about
o., 600 each.


Chicago April 2Oh.-The reported death of Ole Bull
which has caused extensive obituary notices.
denied and is stated that he is not in the country The
New York Senate has killed the Broadway underground
railroad BILL and also the Crosstown road bill is under
stood oresadow the defeat of the whole batch of New
York street railroad bills The New York Legislature has
passed the Niagara ship canal BILL amended to kill


it. by providing that the act shall not go into effect until
after the enlargement of the Erie and Oswego canals.
Chicago April 19h-Presdent Johnson in reply to the
serenade by soldiers and sailors last evening said I'VE
involved in the most critical and trying struggle that
has occurred since this Government into existence
/
that to give evidence the nations of the earth and its
citizens that it has power enough to put down treach
cry at home as well as treason within its own borders
have commenced that ordeal, and trust in God will
pass through successfully The organized and combined
powers that recently stood against dsbanded
and driven from the field Il follow that there
no enemies and traitors against our present form of
government and free Institutions stood in the Senate of
the United States denying the doctrine Of secession
think have given evidence that have been sincere
ami in earnest and want to know why il is that
whole pack of sanderers are swapping at my heels why
tnat they array themselves against ine' sH because


stand the side of the peoplel And when say the peo
pie, include soldiers and sailors Why is it they
arrayed in traducing villifyng and eliminating
Where they during the rebellionf "a voice" At
home, in bed In the Senate raised my voice against
it. When it believed that it would be to the interest
of the nation to assist in putting down the rebellion did
not leave my place in the Senae-a place of emoument
and sncon-and take position where the enemy
could be reached and where mems lives in danger
while opposed personally and publicly by of
my present traducers und caumniators, who far
removed from the foe and enjoying and comfort
But care not for Them not that SANDER the foul
whep of sin has been let loose against
all that and let tell you here to-day, that although
pretty well advanced in life feel that shall live long
enough live down the whole pack of raduce and SLAM
derers They have turned the whole pack loose lower
me in your estimation, "a They can't do that
Tray, Blanche Sweetheart and all the little dogs
along swapping at my heels, but heed them not The
American people-citzens soldiers and saors-know that


from my advent into public life the present hour
always stood unyieding and unwaverng defender of
their rights and interests When rebellion in Massachusetts
put down. did that put Massachusetts, the Union
and destroy the Sate2 When rebellion in Pennsylvania
put dawn did that destroy the State and put of
the Union2 So in the recent great rebellion those
States constituting part of this glorious Union restored


great deal done Tennessee under the direction of
my lamented predecessor We commenced the work
together succeeded, before here in restoring
relations which had existed between Tennessee and
rest of the Union with exception and that repre-
senation came to Washington and under extraordinary
circumstances succeeded to the Presidential chair What
thens Congress had adjourned without prescribing any
plan. then proceeded had done in my State, to





and said to judges district attorneys and marshas
down and hold courts the people need that the t
bunals of justice be opened" Was that wrongi Courts
! were opened We looked out and that the people
down there had maisthey had been intercepted and
off by rebellion. We said to the Postmaster General


Let the people have mail facilities and let them begin to
understand what all feel and think that peo-
pie. We looked out and there blockade, and
that the custom houses all closed We said Open
the doors of the custom houses and the blockade
let trade and commerce be restored and DONE We
thus travelled opening houses restoring mails
and reesabshing all customs that had been interrupted
by the rebellion. Was there anything here that
authorized by the constitution and justified by the great
necessities eff the Now what remains be done
1t is to admit representation When we saw admit repre-.
senation in constitutional and law abiding sense
intended at the beginning of the government all that is
needed for the two Houses respectively determine the
question. But some will say, traitor might
The answer to that is that each House must be the
the Judge and when traitors present themselves
either House know that they traitors can't they kick
them out of doors and send them back saying the

the difficulty about hat If traitor presents himself
either House. cannot that House say NO you can't be
admitted into either body go back will deny your
people representation but they must send loyal repre-
senatves, When the State does send loyal representa-
tives can you have any better loyaltyi While have
been contendng against traitors and treason and secession
and dissolution of the Union have been contending
time against the consolidation of power here Think
the consolidation of power here equally dangerous with
separation Of the States The would totter and
might into anarchy while the other would concentrate
and eventuae in monarchy But there is idea abroad
that one man can be despot that be usurper
but that hundred or two hundred men cannot Mr. JEFF


erson the apostle of liberty tells and does
sense that tyranny and desposm can be exercised by
many more vigorously and tranically than by What
power has PresidentY what he dor what he
originator Why they say, he exercises the veto power
What is the veto power? "a voice-"T put down the
nigger Where your President Is he not elected by
the peopea The President is nothing than the tn
bune of the people His Office is tribunal in character In
the olden times when the Roman Senate encroaching
the peoples rights and putting the heel Of power the
necks Of the people the people chose tribune and placed
him at the door Of the Senate that when the power