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Weekly HJournal of Politics, Literature, and Mews.

‘*This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Publie, a: wpentr free.”-—-Enripides.

Vol. XV.

Charlottetown, Prit

ice Edward Island, Monday, May 8, 1865.

POETRY.

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BE KIND WHEN YOU CAN,

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against all the States—treason against the

Be kind when you can, though the kindness be

little. government of the United States — is the Tis small letters make up philosophers’ scrolls, | highest crime that can be committed, and The crystal ef Happiness, vivid and brittle, those engaged in it should suffer all its, Caa seldom be cut into very large bowls. penalties, “It is not promulgating anything th: Tis atoms that dwell in the measureless mountain, p - - anytl me that I “ fie have not heretofore said, to say that traitors s moments that sum up the century's flieht; . ; oe : must be made odious, that treason must be Tis but drops that anite in Niagara's feuntain, 1 ii tl tral I ; tmade odlous f raitors a . fie Fis raye, siegle nage, fous tha hasvestenn light ide is, that traitors must be punished

and impoverished. (Applause.) They must not only be punished, but their social power must be destroyed. If not they will

still maintain an asceadancy, and may again iiave been nursed, tint by tint, in the bosom of | become numerous and powerlul ; for, in the

Stoae by stone builds the temple that rises in glory, Juch br

The jewels se famous iu bright Easte

inch grows the child till maturity'’s prime ;

i story

Time words of a former Senator of the United ‘Tis grains make the desert-sheet, tackless and States: * When traitors become numerous inate enough, treason becomes respectable.’ Aud Tis. bet..petale.shat. deck every. bloesemtwined| aay that, after making treason odious spray ; every Union man and the government should There are leaves—only leaves—where the forest is | be remunerated out of the pockets of those

sheddinn who hive inflicted this great suffering upon

Jis gloom till the density shuts out the day. the country. (Applause.) But do not under. , stand me as saying this i iritof anger; | by tonsh core ee Weeds Ve ard ei + ying this in a spirit of anger ; | ohana ,for, if | understand my own heart, the re- Qloging, | : > ° ' i verse is the cise’. Ard while I say that the v6 aow or tivhten some sensitive breast, ® ° ° : j — ae : . | penalties of the law, in a stern aud inflexible And the draught from the wWell-spriny is wine in aes | manner, should be executed upon consicous, the drinking, : : : : : intelligent and influential traitors — the

If quaff'd from the brim that Affection bas blest. . : leaders, who have deceived thousands upon

T be kind when you can in the smallest of | thousands of labouring men who have been drawn into this rebellion ; and while I say

Don't wait for the larger expressions of Love; jag to the leaders punishment, I also say For the heart depends less for its joys and its /leniency, conciliation, and amnesty to the beauties | thousands whom they have misled and de-

Oa the flight of the Eagle than eoo of the Dove. | geiyed. And in reference to this, as L re-

A VOICE FROM HEAVEN.

| remurked, [ might have adopted your speech las myown. As my honorable friend knows

I shine in the light of God; jl long since took the ground that this go- iis likeness stamps iny brow | Vernment was sent upon a great mission Throng ev y sth my have trod, | among the nations of the earth, that it had_ And I reign in glory now! a great work to perform, and that in start- —— or \ing it, it was started in perpetuity, Look |

No keen and thrilling pain, back for one single moment to the articles | No wasted cheek, where the frequent tear ;of confederation, and then come down to!

| 1718, when the constitution was formed

Hath roll'd and left its stain. ee sy: | What do you find? * That we, the people | 2 eee jof the United States, in order to form a Pe ee |more perfect government,’ &e, Provision . . glee abe , a a is made for the admission of new states to tet ot

harp is in my ban |be added to old ones embraced within the

I have learn’d the song they sing | Union. Now turn to the constitution. We Whom Jesus hath set free, | find that amendments may be made by a re- Aad g s walis of heaven sti!) ring commendation of two-thirds of the members With my new born melody. of Congress, if ratified by three-fourths of " ial adie Maal i the States, Provision is made for the ad- ray hs i ; mission of new Siates ; no provision is made Pa a i for the secession of old ones. The instru- si ait , ment was made to be good in perpetuity }and you ean take hold of it, not to break |

< ends of mortal years, |up the government, but to go on perfecting The trusted and the true! , tt more and more as it rurs down the stream

y wat still in the va f tears, jofiime. We find the government composed But I wait to we y f integral parts. An individual isan inte- eo ae ee ger, and a number of individuals form a Yeu mianett’s duiton chain, | State, and a State itself is an integer; and Shail bind my heart to the hearts below, the various States form the Union, which is

Till they meet to touch again. j itself an integer, they all making up the go-

j , j ivernment of the United States. Now we Flows ely down like a river of light, om the perpe'ulty of the ove — Tot world from wheuce it came j e have seep that the goverowent is com-

| posed of parts, each essential to the whole.

Do you mourn when another star jand the whole essential to each part,

Shines out from the glittering sky?

Do you weep when the raging voice of war, jagainst the whole, in violation of the con- | And the storms of conflict die?

Then why should your tears run dowa, ‘law, and ie res} onsible for the act as an in-

eee . 7 i And your hearts be sorely riven, | dividual, There may be more than one in- | For another gem in the Savic ar’s crown, jdividual. I¢ may go on till they become ee : e And another soul in heaven! ; parts of States -— the rebellion may £9 on}

ee ee - | 'nereasing in nui ers till State machinery | THE POLICY OF THE PRESIDENT is overturned, and the country becomes like | OF THE UNITED STATES. )2 mac that is paralyzed on one side. But|

| we find in the constitution a great panacea

It provides that the United |

We give at length a reply of President | provided. t Pp Siates—that is, the greater integer — shall

, eee | guarantee to each State (the integers cow- clearly foreshadows his policy in reference | posing the whole) in this Union a republi- to the rebellion :—~ jcan form of government. Yes, if rebeilion “Io enteriug upon the duties imposed | has been Fampent, aud sct aside the muchi-| upon me by this calamity, [ require not | 9°FY of a State for a time, there stands ihe ouly courage but determined wili; and | | teat law to remove the paralysis and revi- | assure you that on this occasion your en- | ‘#lize it, and putit on its feet again. When} couragement is peculiarly acceptab e to me. | ¥ come to understand our system of govern- In reference to what my administzation will |™ent, though it be complex, we see how| be while I occupy my present position, [ | beautifully one part acts in harmony with must refer you to the past. You may look | another. 1 back to it as evidence what my course will | t© be a perpetuity, there being no provision | be. And in reference to this diabolical and | for pulling it down, the Union being its vi- | fiendish rebellion, sprung upon the ountry, talizing power, imparting life to the whole | all | have to do is to ask you also to go/0f the States that move around it like pla- | back and take my course in the past, and nets rouud the sun, receiving thence light, from that determine what my future will be. sand heat, and movion. Mine bas been but one straightforward and| “‘ Upon this idea of destroying States, | unswerving course, and I see no rea+on now | ™Y position has been heretofore weil known, why [ should depart from it. Tyeason is|@ad I see no cause to muke it now; and 1 | nove the less treason, whether it be in a free | 2m glad to bear its reiteration on the pre- | State or in a slave State; but if there could | Semt occasion, Some are satistied with the be any difference in such a crime, he who | idea that States are to be lost in territoria commits treason in a free Sta‘e is a greater an] other divisions—are to lose their char-

Johnson toa delegation from Indiana, which

j |

Then we see our government is |

traitor than he who commits it in a slave | acter as States. But their life breath has | State. There might be some little excuse | heen only suspended and it is a bigh consti- for a man who based his treason on his pos- | tutional obligation we have to secure each eession of slave property, but the traitor in of these States in the possession and enjoy-

a lree State has no excuse, but simply to be ment of a repabligan fourm ef government. | @traiter. ( Applause.)

Now, |

ae ' Saracens * Vi« . Mig per » > > 4 jf an individual part of a State declare war | baggage to assist in lightening the burthens

sf] tl b: g 1 ea ‘ iolat } . | stiturion, he, as a citizen, bas violared the) morning, a tremendous dash down the Ap-

' TAXATION IN

| containing a digest of nterné evenue | * | containing a digest of the Internal Revenue | shat all dividends have to pay a ceparate 5

| gress, headed in large capitals, with atten-

of being able to give any adequate idea of

ithing, but nearly every process of lite;

ja license before they are allowed to sell an

and that treason is a crime, and the highest ‘had succeeded in reaching Appomattox | needed, the State exacts § per cent. of the Kighty-four blocks in the city were burned, crime known to the Jaw and the constitu-| Court House, working around to the very) value of the tombstone his grateful widow j and Columbia is Palmyra in the desert, Yes, treason against a State, treason| front and advance-guard of the rebel army, | may erect to perpetuate hismemory. Ifa!

‘which they engaged. A savage conflict lasted about two hours, resulting in a victory

‘ry that gave us a thousand prisoners, thirty-

six colors, and twenty-two pieces of artillery, Custer had also captured on his way five trains of ears near the station. Lee's army after this repulse stood still, marshaled near Appomattox Court House.

The shadows of evening fall; the sounds of battle cease; a hundred thousand yellow camp-fires mock the stars. Not all their light combined is bright enough to show the watch{ul eyes of Lee what fate is gathering round him. He knows that Meade, with the Second and Sixth corps, is behind him and to the east of him. He knows—for he bas been made to feel—tuat Sheridan is before him. But be does not know that the Fifth corps, after a terrible swift march, bas ar- rived to join Sheridan; that the Twenty- fourth and Twenty-fifth corps are coming

morning. He does vot know in fact that while the night speeds en his army is sur- rounded !

with a sinkiog cause and a starving army, has kept both alive so long. His head— that grand head of which a perfect portrait is now before me—rests on a hand so strong, so true—ah! would to God, I heard some say, it had not been a rebel’s! form—noble even in its attitude of despon- dency—might become aking. As he sits there within the lamplight, brooding over the snares about him, he slowly changes a foot, and ¢ eaches a hand unler the impulse

of a thought, and * somewhat grimly smiles.” |

Beneath that smile memory and hope, co- habiting together, have couceived a new re- ; solve ! THE LAsT TURN.

This is hardly the time or the place in which to do justice to the character of Ro- bert E. Lee. certainly indicated by what occurred next morning, if it had not been sufficiently ishown before. Pride might have impelled i Lee, on that morning, to maxe the last }attempt which he did make to escape from

ithe toils; but pride alone might have hesi- |

fi ‘ing more lives in an effort so forlorn. It;

lis not too much to say, after having become | somewhat acquainted with his nature through |

those who know him best, that the strong | | allegiance to principle which alone impel ed | l him to “take up arms amid a sea of! | troubles’’ in behalf of a faulty cause, alone ‘impelled him to make a last, vain, bloody | struggle against a sea of troubles at ‘he end. It will not fail to he recorded that Robert | K. Lee, before his surrender, ran a good race and fought a gallant fight.

He had some hope. it seems, of breaking throng oar lines. His resolve of the night before was to make the attempt against She- ridan in his front, who, he imagined from the fact that he bad met nothing but eaval- ry the night before, would kave nothiog but

| cavalry to oppose him tn the morning. Burn- ing his wagons, spikine and burying his artillery, sacreficing even his own private

of hisa rmy, he made, early on Sunday

pomattox Court House road against the sleeple-s * man of the sabres.” Tae musket- ry of the Fifth corps, joining with the earbin- ers of the cavalry iu a hoarse and savage reply that sent his men back like horses on their haunches, told him at last, that * all was over and done.”

UNITED STATES.

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THE

(From the Toronto Globe.)

We have before us an American paper

Sill passed at the recent sitting of Con-

dant notes of admiration :—** Four hundred millions of dollars annual revenue! !”’ When we come to look into details, we fiud 4 measure the most extraordinary of the kind ever passed in any legislature. We despair, in the space we have at command,

it. It reaches every class of the commu- nity; it taxes not only almost every single

every occupation ip which a man can engage. All retail dealers who do a business of over $1.000 a year, have to pay at least $10 for

ounce of coffee or a pound of tea. Ali ma- nufacturers, from the least to the greatest, are suljected to a like impost; and so are doctors, lawyers, horse and cattie dealers,

|brokers of all kinds, mercantile agen‘s of |

al) kinds, engineers, contractors, surveyors, | dentists, architects, opticians, plumbers, | gas-fitters, and the rest. Wherever a sign is over the-door, there one may be certain |

there is a license of at least $10 to pay.

Do not, however, | A State may be ig the government with a | put this is very far from being the worst;

. lig i i ion. ¢ } nerat ! . . . ° understand me to mean by this that any | peculiar iostitation, and by the operation of | os, ingenious and far-reaching machinery |

man shou!d be exonerated from the penalties | rebellion lose that feature.

and pusishmeots of the crime of treason State when it went into rebellion, and when |people may manufacture or se!l, and then | The time has arrived when the American |it comes out without the institution it is lover and above all comes the income tax.

people should understand what crime is, | still & State, (Great applause) 1 hold it

and that it should be punished, and iss pen-|'8 @ so’emn obligation in any one of these} o.n¢ on the gross value.

alties enforced and inflicted. We say, in | States where the rebel armies have beea . i e ale > | sini es

Our statutes and courts, that burglary is a) beaten back or expellel ; L care not how

crime, that murder is a crime, that arson is|small the number of Union men, if enough

a crime. and that treason is a crite ; and | to man the ship of State—[ hold it. [ say,

the constitution of the United States and | high duty to protect and secure to them a

Bat it was ®/\s contrived for taxing the goods all these |

}

The usual rate on manufactures is 6 per

Thus all makers of articles, composed wholly or in part ot bone, brass, bristles, copper, cotton, flax, glass, gold, gutta pereha, hemp, horn, india rubber, iron, ivory, jute, lead, leather, pa- | per, pottery, silk, silver, steel, tin, willow

SE EF ERS PLE

; ; 7 All provisions were seized, used or de- eee ‘swain’ presen's his intended with a photo-! stroyed; the stores were broken open, pil-' thanks the Legislature for a joint address graph of his sweet face, the Goveroment ‘laged and then burut. What the soldiers | to the Queen “nN the birth fen son to the charges him from 2 to 5 cents on a picture. could not carry off was given to the negroes, | Prince of Wales. The delegations to If a father takes home a can of oysters for | They felt with their bayonets diligently in| Gyarlottetown aud Quebec are Wedel to supper, he has to pay an extra 5 cents on the gardens, and dug up what was burie Of che letter his Excellency says: “ The ‘the dollar to the Washington authorities,| All the borses and mules were carried off) ;

is oe resolutions agreed to by this conference ap- Su: ade ; i rom | arrlage 1G “a i i i Sugar made within the Uuion is taxed from and the carriages destroyed. Brutal, ‘peared to meto be so important in their

three to four cents per pound ; but Congress drunken soldiers entered every house in character, their adoption fraught with con- has allowed flour and breadstuffs, potatoes search of silver and jewellry, and took them) sequences baasten 50 direotly os ie fatiace and cabbages, and edible vegetable produc- by violence and insult. Gen. Sherman | sotdition and ie: Ye ves of British America tions to go free. They are about the only seems emulous of the immortality which cir. | that io order to duckin the people of ss things that escape, except the air. It is cles, with a halo of infamy, the names of Brunswick to give expression to their wishes almost—nay, unless the lawyers have left) Attila, and timour the Tartar, and the Rus. | on the celhaaiaa determined to dissolve the

some loop-hole—quite impossible for any one | sian Haynan, in Poland. Tle has achieved then existing House of Assembly. 1 now

to draw up a document for anything involy- | the distinction of being classed among the | submit these resolutions to your judgments.”

New Series.---No. 23,

NEST OT I DEE SE TE eae eT a Se LT CS New Brunswick Leorstatore, — The of fools; not that we should be understood Go. ‘o say that there are fewer members than vernor Gordon’s speech is a laconic one, He usual whose supply of brains is inferior to

‘the average amount allotted to mankind, but that there is scarcely any one who fills the unenviable and difficult post of regularly providing Jaughter at his ownexpense. Mr. Whalley sometimes succeeds pretty well in ‘making himself and his cause ridiculous, but his talents are, after all, confined to a ‘narrow line. It would be invidious to mention the gentlemen, who occasionally fill the character, as it were by special request, and fora single eveniag. But, since Co- lonel Sibthorp, the post of accepted buffoon bas not been satisfactorily occupied —pro- bably because there is no salary attached to it, and because no high official has the

ing a pecuniary value of over $10, without |

monsters of the human race. ‘His Excellency advises the Legislature to| power of appointing persons who stand in Some officers were polite and expressed | enquire into the practicability of extending | the proper relation to him, and are also duly

up from below, and will co-operate before |

He sits alone—this man of iron, who, |

So noble a |

Yet one element of it was/

tated to ussume the responsibility of sacra ‘on their circulation beyond 9U per cent. of | tiou—a pound of beef and a pint of meal

‘all dividends, 5 per cent.; saving banks,

having to pay a stamp duty. The intrica- cies are so numerous, the law follows the/sympathy 5 thoy pretonded that the coufla-| the existing railway system in New Bruas-

citizen so closely whenever he puts his sig- | gration was accidental—-that it went beyond | wi... ; but he thinks any immediate steps in nature to a paper, that it is almost unneces- the original purposes, and was the act of| this direction precluded by existing legisla- sary to select instances. When a man goes | their drunken soldiers. The evidence de-| tion Governor Gordon is satisied that,

from bond, he is charged 25 cents, if their| that the city was deliberately given up tO | jects may be manifested, the loyalty of New

value be $100 or under ; if over $100 and | pe sucked. When the work was one Brunswick to the Crown, and the earnest under $500, 50 cents; if over $500 he gets plished, a few notes of the bugle called ia desire of the people to preserve British con- off with $l. On every dep sit a merchant | the marauding bands, and qulet was restored nexion, cannot be doubted. or “any other man” makes in a bank he has | forthwith, we to pay 2 cents, providing the sum is under | General Sherman left a few starved cat-| The Boston Commercial Bulletin is ter- 2 : ; yw || tle as a preser iti :

$100; if over that amount, + cents. All| pre 7 to the citizens. They were rible sharp upon England. It says: ‘loans of money, if to be paid at the time|t90 poor and feeble to follow the army. “i my ; ede 6 designated, are subjected to a stamp duty of | One of the ladies said to Geveral Francis Gd " oe = mi 7 Z sy » y = 5 cents for every $100 or fractional part | Preston Blair, “Is this the way you war?) P& na cok oan Siete ad d thereof. All legal documents, affidavits, || thought legitimate war was by army | Cxpecte . er . cans Gone rea ag writs, confessions of judgment, warrants, | against army 3 bat you war upon women and ends memcpens 9 wit ; a wee : ab over and above the amounts exacted by the | children, and inflict infiaite injury and dis. | 2" . a ee Peas y , oe let State Governments, are charged 56 cents, | 'Tess upon helpless non-combatants.”” “ Ma. | TUS rs a De v rf poe A aap rg st Every memorandum of sale made by a bro- dam, lre replied, “we came here to pro- ah ay ee C wt ab grt 6 ra ker, 10 cts. Every deed of conveyance of |duce distress. Your men fight bravely, | °° von me - ees _ : ee real property is subjected to the stamp duty aod the war would be interminable if to be >a Baath rater — ~~ ee ak ‘of 50 cents, if under $500; and to $1 for | (ought ont agelet aenpign. ay en |S & Se ee eee

eae besides pay. | 24Pt @ more sure and a speedier course, We | the implied promise of support, while her every $500 over that amount, besides pay- | pes ; : - ae ‘ 7 Ledee ‘al taille etat. of Cas /will exhaust your country, consume your | only object was to instigate the two sections Ing a S aias wa — I aes ‘ * Pro- | substance, destroy your means of subsistanve,| of the Union to destroy and desolate each | ceeds, if sold by auction, ana & Heavy legacy | shut up your ports, interrupt your railroads, | other. The people of both North and South 'duty if inherited. The bauks are caught at | render transportation difficult and tbe sup- : ful) d ees 7M was | ; p 5 ciate understand this matter fully now, and are every corner. They are to pay one twenty- | plies to your army impossible. This is mer- ads to bar? thet mutual resentments-i fifth per cent. on the average amount of | ¢y to you, for it will shorten the war.”? I'he | T40y 10 Dury a i b th th of th ir

. , ace é i > é ; i ‘ : | deposits each month; one twelfth per cent. pape sags of ry tg — te Columbia | * sete ‘cree Sreorioneee ‘on the average amount of civculation per |* Populous city; With its suburbs it hadabout | mistortunes, a -_— -30o——_

he twenty-five thousand inhabitants. These ign

- 10 , St: ank

jmonth ; 10 per cent. on all State Bank | iave dwindied to a few thousand, who ereep| Tur Duc De Morny. — They fall fast these men of the Second Empire. St. Ar-

‘notes; on the average amount of their capi- }amidst the ruins to the office of the Provost |

tal, beyond that invested in U.S. securities, | Marshal and get tickets with which they; d. Billault, ) d

one twenty-fourth per cent. each month ;/ poceed to the provision depot and get a ra- | naud, Billault, Moequar » and, though last not least, De Morny, are a'ready lost to a

master who will find it difficult to replace

them by adherents equally faithful or instru- ments equally trustworthy, Few are now lett of that band of political gamblers who assembled at the Elysee one evening in De- cember, 1851, to throw for an Imperial crown and for free quarters on a great na- tion. Of those who stil! remain to Napo-

on | [he poor receive this allowance gratis. Such | as are able to pay give two dollars for a ration. : : | This is a faint picture of the present condi- one-half per cent. on their deposits. I the | tion of Colamben. Tie spel eemkataiin capital of a bank be $50,000, then S106 | of a great ealamity are not wanting. The has to be paid for a licence; and for every | demoralization of the lower classes is alarm- 81.000 over that amount, $2. Of course,/ing. All ideas of meum and tuam are lost, all money thus paid has to come from the and when a ship is about to be wrecked, or | pockets of the community at large. hes plague desviates a oT Alas, for the | ‘3 easier, however, to appreciate the| veautiful capital of the -almetto State, It is ea ef, ; I . , |crushed by the Modern Hun? length to which taxation has to be carried

by looking at specific articles. Awnings |

their capital, one-sixth of one per cent. ;

in position, or in devotion, with him whose at acaiennstar lente obsequies have just been celebrated with a THE ASSASSIN SEEN, maguificence of pomp that rarely surrounds

to the Custom-house to withdraw goods |monstrates that this is a false pretence, and | whatever difference of opinion on other sub-|

leon IIL., only one can compare in ability, |

\for shop windows pay 6 per cent. ad valo- |

rem ; cottoa bags, 6 per cent. ; benzole and henzine, 2U0e. per gallon; coal oil, 20.. per gallon; crude eoal oil, Sl per bbl. ; books 5 per cent. ad valorem ; bottles containing medicines from one cent to four cents each, as their contents vary in value from 25c to T6e, besides a heavy tax on patent medi- cines ; tanned ealf-skins, 5 per cent. ; news- paper advertisements, 8 per cent ; printed cards, 5 per eent.; bill-heads, 6 per cent. ; printed circulars, 5 per cent.; clocks and the movements of clocks, 6 per cent. ; cot-

ton umbrellas, 6 per cent ; cotton fabrics, |

6 per cent.; gas from 12¢ to 30c per 1000 cubie feet, according to quantity made; gloves 6 per cent, and so on ad infinitum. In estimating incomes for taxation, per- sons are allowed to deduct the amount of the national and State municipal taxes from their profits or salaries, People with a less income than $600, and between that amount and $5,000, bave to pay 5 per cent. to the Government,and on ary excess over $5,900, 10 per cent. But it must be borne in mind

per cent., and that all business of over $600 have to pay from 3to 5 per cent. of the value of the articles sold in excess of that sum, besides license fees and stamp duties on almost every imaginable sort of paper. Then comes the onerous tariff on all import- ed goods, and finally there are the municipal and State taxes.

Of these two latter we have a word to say. We have no means of knowing what the total municipal and State debts may amount to, but when we recollect the enor- mous sums raised to procure substitutes, the large amounts volantarily paid to the Ge- neral Government soon after the commence- ment of the war, for the purpose of carrying

it on, together with the sums owing before,

wo think we are warranted in saying that to the upwards cf $2,000,000,000 of na- tional debt a very large sum must be added, Of course this involves local taxation,

‘equally onerous with that sanctioned by |p is oo startled us that we could hardly

Congress. Tbe great sacrifices the people of the

United States voluntarily, almost enthusias-

tieally, make for the preservation of their Government enlist the admiration of even their bitterest enemies. But it were vain to conceal the fact that the great financial trial his yet to come. The immense issues of irredeemable currency have created an

| Sergt. J. M. Dye, Battery C. Pa. Ind.| the funeral of a subject. There is probably | Artillery, stationed at Camp Berry, Wash-| not one in whom the Emperor ean repose ‘ington City, in a private letter of the 15:h| the same perfect confidence which be placed jiust. to his father, J. 5. Dye, No. 100} ia De Morny, or can admit with such entire | Broadway, gives the following account of| frankness to his secret councils. It was, \the conduct of Booth immediately before the| therefore, very natural that he should dis- | assass'nation, which proves that he had a | tinguish this man, both living aud dead, by confederate on the ground, actively co-ope-' marks of favor which have rarely been rating in bis preparations for the bloody| heaped even upon great warriors or wise seme, It seems that they expected the/statesmen. Nor do we deny that these | President to leave tne house at the close of marks of favour were earned by important (the second act, and meaut to have assas-| services rendered to the sovereign. Whether sinated him between the door and his car-| the state ought to be grateful for such ser- | riage : vices, is another and quite a different ques- Wasmineron, D. C., April 15, 1865, | tion. Siill, if we avcept the empire and its . ai | ideas, and if we try the departed statesman |“ Dean F atten :— With sorrow I pen! the standard of merit now set up in ES. Ne ener eeeeve: See France, we are constrained to admit that he cola: has deeply affected me: And why ‘deserved well of those amengst whom he was ppomidars when I might have saved his | a leader. He was indeed a representative precious life ? ‘man, not of the best or the purest, but of « T was standing in front of the theatre! ihe predominating section of French society when the two assassins were conversing. as at present constituted. He was not heard part of their conversation. It Was | troubled by sensitive feelings or delicate ‘not sufficiently plain for an outsider to un- | scruples. He loved wealth, and sought it lerstand the true meaning of it; yet it ap- with avidity. He was fond of pleasure, and prised Sergt. Cooper and myself that they! he sot few or no bounds to self-indulgence. were anxious that the President should | py, pad, in his way, a certain taste, but it come out to bis carriage, which was standing | was fur show and glitter rather than beauty just behind us. The second act would soon His manners were attractive, but they were end, and they expected that he would come} +}. eloak rather than the expression of his out then. I stood a while between them | 4},-acter. The man who could emile so and the carriage, with my revolver ready, softly aud talk so winning!y, was in reality for I began to suspect them. The act end- | bent solely on bis own advancement, and ‘ed but the President did not appear, 80/ w.9!4 have thought it childish to allow his | Booth went into a restaurant and took "pe humor, or the rights of anyone else, to drink ; he then came out aad went into the! sand in his way. He had audacity, dex- alley where his horse was then standing. terity, and tact, which never failed him. He though I did not know that any horse was |), . hed at principle, and worshipped suc- ithere. He came back and whispered tothe] 6.5 Nor did be worship vainly. He ‘other rascal and then stepped into the thea-| ... menced life as the illegitimate child of ‘tre. There were at this time two police of- | 24 exiled and almost homeless Queen; he \ficers standing by them. I was invited by} o)o:0q it a duke anda millionaire. The gb- |my friend C. to bave some oysters, and we| ..ure goldier became a main pillar of a new | Weat into a saloon arouvd the corner, and dynasty, and the favourite councillor of the had just got seated when a Man came rune) pict powerful sovereign in Europe. He niug in and said the President was shot. | won honour, therefore he deserved honor. At least no one can wonder that he received | realize it, but we stepped out and were cou-| ir from the crowd of speculators and adven- 'vinced. * * . turers, or from the thoughtless, pleasu e- « Yours, J. M. Dye.” loving, and heartless mob, who are now the at oa an most eouspicuous, if they are not the most President Johnson has issued a proclama- | influential classes, in France. The Bourse }tion appointing the 25th of May as a day jand the Joekey Ulub culminated in De | Morny, who was ut once tho prince of

‘of humiliation, fasting and prayer, in con- \sideration of their great national afiliction

‘io the assassination of President Lincoln. | doree which flaunts in the saloons of cour-

stock-jobbers and the model of that jeunesse |

‘artificial prosperity, which, by anticipating | ; Mig

| the resources of the future, hide for the pre- | The War Department has intelligence

lsont the real extent of the loss which the | from Ge eral Sherman that General Wil-on

tiie his suffered by the war, But when | bas tuken possession of Macon, Ga, having ‘ ; n the | made prisoners there of Howell Cobb, Cas-

| trade resumes its wonted course, whe ee! itavus W. Smith and other somewhat noted

\extraordinary government expenditure

| comes, then will the day of real trial come, | rebels.

‘tezans, and jests at all earnestness which is not centred upon self.—-London Review.

Taz Manquis ve Botssy.—The ancient practice of keeping an official fool must doubtless have been extremely wearisome.

the laws of the United States say that trea-;republican form of government. This is son shall consist in levying war against | "0W my Opinion, It is expressed iD confor them, and giving their enemies aid and | mity with my understanding of the genius comfort. IL have just remarked that bur- | and theory of our government, Then, in glary is a crime, and has its penaltics ; that adjusting and putting the government upon | i,j; eustomers and makes to order, is exempt wurder is a crime, and has its penalties; Its legs, again [ think the progress of this |as high as $600; but for all he sells above and go on throagh the long catalogue of | Work must pass into the bands of its friends. ‘that amount he has to pay 3 per cent. On crime, To illustrate by a sad event, which (Applause ) If a State is to be pursed) 41) boots ready wade, a tax of 6 per cent. is is before the minds of all, and which bas | unttl it gets the strength, it must be bursed levied. In fact, **eustom work” is generally draped this land in mourning, who is there by its friends, not staotbered by its enemies. ‘exempt as high as $300, but “all ready-

venue $5 out of every $100 worth they |may proluce over $1,000. The bootmaker who does not keep a stock, but measures

wood, wool, worsted, have to pay to the re: |

here who would say if the assassia who bas | (Applause ) Now, permit me to remark | made clothing for men, women and child-| purpose of making South Carolina a waste. |

stricken from eur midst one beloved and | that, while [ bave opposed dissolution and revered by all, and passed him from time to! disintegration on the one hand, on the other eternity—to that bourn whence no traveller) £ am equally opposed to consolidation—

returas — who, I repeat, who here would (4pplause)—or the centralization of power | worth of finery she makes in the course of ‘country, by fire and rapive. The el

sy that the assassin, if taken, should not |'9 the hands of a few.” suffer the penalties of his crime ? | ene

Chen, if | — you take the life ef one individual for the GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF LEE’S POSI- murder of another, and believe that bis pro- TION PRIOR TO THE SURRENDER,

perty should be confiscated, what siould be | i SE atid) aah alla done with one who is trying to assassinate | Geo. B. Stillson, of the New York World,

this nation? What should be done with | gives a graphic description of Lee’s retreat | sides the import duty of about 29 per cent, i blown up, the main street, extending for him or them who bave attempted the life of and Grant's pursuit, and of the causes 6 per cent. ad valorem for the internal re- more than a mile, and for the most part |

& nation composed of thirty millions Of peo-| whieh foreed Lee to surrender. ple? We were living at a time whea the, public miud had almost become oblivious of | What treason is. The time has arrived, my |

coustrymeo, when the American i should be educated and taught what is crime,

We clip the following :— PUSHED TO THE WALL. This (Saturday) evening Custer's division of cavalry, quickly followed by Merritt’s,

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'ren,” bas to pay 6 per cent. ad valorem. The poor milliner or dress-maker who does euotoaner work is taxcd $3 on every $100

} the year, above $600. Kach head of eattle slaughtered when over three months eld, is ‘taxed 40 cents, provided it is for the mar- ‘ket. Hogs are charged 10 cents, sheep, ‘lambs and calves 5 cents each. If a man buys a parasol for his wife, he is taxed, be-