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V:-i. ii:'i, . pr:! 1 -. vl JOS CPU j , WATC7"AHPir rr!.TTSM .'I'TJI, . JC'iiLATrn. - M'.::ilASKA. A f i t n'-oit::f-ni . f "liD Trim:..: ;uiltt I .i iii April !'. I- : 1 A .1 ri cvl:l- '!'; Wl.l l'c TO FREIGIIIEr.; Cilia Blacksmith. Outfitting, AND MAcsaa's-: sum. Weiav.ii;?i;. Ui;:8.:isa.;;!:, Oraatting nrA Ma tiluo Sio;. on Uain Street. SorAh Side, vli.T. y.n fan ;-vt .-uy 1 i : w.-xU. ! n.- in cur.'iu. Wagbn Shop m t'Onti-ct ir-n . v ! Ail u . .fl: w -. -.r ! . .tootle, haki;a & c'oV J lave I r .' tie Illinois Corn Planters, -as a- MOUSE PLOWS, AT Manufacturer p rices, Tv.- Z'.t A 1 .!;!. tsis; ?i:ci:i:t TiisTmoxY. Tl e following is a fart cf the . testi mony, hitherto suppressed relative to t!io Rebel leaderf, taken at the assassi nation trial at Washington: Pai.ford Conover testified as follows :A I am a native of New York ; have re sided in Canada since October last; was coiiM-rip'ed into the Confederate army, and detailed to service in the War Deparnnont'of the Confederacy at 1 lit ini! jihJ , tu.dor James A. Sedden, i Secretary of War; while in Canada ' was intimately acquainted with G. N. S in h r., Jacob Thompson, Dr. Black i burn. Tucker, Win. C. Cleary, Capt. I Mr. Cameron, Rotterfield, O.-y. Maruder, and others; I alio ; k:it:v C!i :i:ient C. Clay and Gen. Car ; r !1 of Ttuticssee; I knew Mr. Surra'.t ; al , and J. W. Booth, and visited tl. ;: . i;i!cinen in Canada; saw Ssur ! rat: there on several occasions last Apri!, in IMr. Jacub Thompson's room, : airo in company with George N. San- ders, and other llebeb in Canada; Sarratt 13 about five fet uino or ten s high, a fair-complexioned man iig'it hair; I saw him about the Cth wi1. or r Till of April, with Thompson, San- i d.-rs and Bjoth; atthattime he deliver ' ed to Tli .iiipson in bis room, in my ' pr-'-sencP, dispatches from llichmond to T;;j;::p-ori, from Benjamin ar.d Jefier I ton Davis; the latter either a cipher dispatch or a letter. Benjamin was secretary ot Me or me comeueracy. I'revioas to this, Thompson converse with me up. in the subject of .a plot to :v..-n?s':nato President Lincoln and his Cabinet, of which I gave notice, be fore the assassination, in the N. York Triiune, th'; paper for which I corres r. nded. I hatl been invited by Mr. Thompson to participate in that enter prise. When if urra't di ilvered these dispatches from Davis, Thompson laid his h ir. I i;;'.?n the papers and said, re ferring to the assassinations and to the ast i t of the llebel authorities, "This makes the thing all right." The dis patches spoke of the persons to be as sassinated : Mr. Lincoln, Mr. John son, the Secretary of War, the Secre- ! ary ui Siate. Judge Chase and Gen. ; iraiit. Mr. Tiieinpson said on that 1 o casi in, or on the davy before that in I tcrvicw, that the assassination rroiiosed woi;ii leave the Govenwnent of the United Slates entirely without a head; that there was no provision in the Con stitut'on of the United States by which they could elect another President. Mr. Welis was nlso named, bat Mr. Thompson said it was not worth while to kill him; he was of no consequence. My first interview with Thompson on this sr.ljoct cf assassination was in the early part of February, in Thomp son's r.-in in St. Lawrence Hall, Mon tril. He then spoke of a raid on Og d nsbwrg, New York, it was abandon t i, Lt.t that was because the United ff;atcs Government received informa tion of it, he said he would have to ' i!r..- It fr.r - l-r-ri.-v t.nl n.1,tr.1 nVall catidi the-7i asleep yet " and to me he" said, "There is a better opportunity to immortalize yourself, and sava your country," meaning the Confederacy. I told them I was ready to do anything to save the country, and asked them what was to be done; "some of our boys are going to play a grand joke on Abo ar.d Andy," which he said was to kill them; his words were "remove them from cilice," and he said that the killing of a tyrant was not murder; that he had commissions for this work from the Rebel authorities, and con ferred one on Booth, or would confer one; that everybody engaged in this enterprise would be commissioned, and if they escaped to Cana da they could not be successful, ly claimed under the Extradition Trea ty; I know that Thompson : and the others held these commissions in blank; they commissioned Bennett Young, the St. Albans raider; it. was a blank com mission filled up and conferred by Mr. Clay; as it came from Richmond it was only signed "James A. Seddon, Secretary of War;" Mr. Thompson calied me to examine these blanks to that I might testify to the genuineness cf Seddon's signature in the case of Bennett Young, before Judge Smith. The signature was genuine. In a subsequent conversation, after the first referred to in February, Thompson told me that Booth bad teen'commis- cicned, and erery man who would ea I had a conver sation with V.'m. C. Cleary, on the day before, cr the day of the assassination, at St. Lawreiice Hall. Vv'e were speaking of the rc-j-icing in the Stat.-s over the surrender cf L;e and the cap ture of Richmond. Cleary said they would have the laugh on the other side of the mouth in a day or two. I think this was the day before the assassina tion. He knew I was in the secaet of the conspiracy. It was to that he re ferred. The assassination wtts spok en of among us ns commonly as the weather. Uefore that, Sanders askod me if I knew Rooth very well, and expressed seme apprehension that Rooth would make a fizzle of it that he was des perate and reckless, and h3 wasjifraid the whole thing would bo a fail-are. I communicated to the Tribal: t!u in tended raid on St. Alban and the pro posed assassination of .President Lin coln,' but .they refused tT pub'iJi the letter. I did this in March last, as to the President's nssnssination, also in February, I think certainly before ths 4th of March. Surratt delivered the dispatches iu Thompson's room, four or five days before tha assassina tion. The whole conversation showed that Surratt was one of the cjnspirators to tak.e the President's life. That was the substance of the convorsattcn. It was also understood that there w3 plenty of money when there wa p.:;y thing to be done. The conversation in dicated that Surra'.t had a very few days before, left Richmond that ho was "jut from Richmond."' I heard the capture of the President talked of in February. When Mr. Thompson first suggested the assassin ation to me, I asked him if it would meet with the approbation of the Gov ernment at Richmond ; he taid he thought it would, bu; he would know in a few days. This was rurly in February. . Thompson did not say in Apr:1, when these dispatches were delivered, that this was the first approval they had re ceived of this plot f-rcm Richmond, but I know cf no othen; I only inferred that that was the fim approval. Thompson .-aid, in his ccuvtisaaon with me, that killing a tyrant iu such a case was no murder, and a.-ktd me if I had road a letter called "Killing, no Murder," addressed by Tims to Oliver Cromwell; this was in February; Mr. Hamlin was also named in February as one of the victims of this scheme ; in April, the persons befure named were mentioned, but Mr. Hamlin was omitted, and Vice-President Johnson put in his place. I ran the blockade from Richmond. These commissions were all blank but the signature ; they were to be given as a cover; so that in case cf detection, the parties empioytd could claim that they were rebel ioid iers, aud would therefore claim to be treated as prisoners of war ; it was un derstood that they would be protected as such. Thompson raid if tha men who were engaged in this enterprise were detected and executed, the Con federate Government would retaliate; that it was no murder, only killing. 1 thi&k Booth was specially commission ed for this purpose; I saw Rooth in Canada in the latter part of October, with Sanders, at Mr. Thompsons, at the St. Lawrence Hall, where he was strutting about, dissipating and playing billiards ; I have heard these inen talk of the burning of New York, and other enterprises which they have under con sideration now. There was a proposition bofcre the agents of these rtbels in Canada to destroy the Croton Dam, by which the city of New York is supplied with wa ter. It was supposed it nould not only damage manufactures, but distress the people generally Mr. Thompson re marked that there was plenty cf force, and the city would be destroyed br a g-eaera! conflagration, and if they had thought of this sooner they might have saved a great many necks. This was said a few weeks ago. Thompson, S mders, Caslleman and General Car roll were present. They had arms concealed, and a large number of men concealed, in Chicago some eight hundred for the purpose of releasing the rebel prisoners there. The Dr. Blackburn, charged in Nassau with importing yellow fever into this coun jrage in it would If try, is the eaci3 person referred to by J me as intimate with Thompson in Can ada; I saw him in company withG. N. ! Sander?, I.cui3 Sanders, Ca.nlemau, Wrn. C. Cleary, Potterfield, Captain ! Mngrr.Jcr, and a number of other reb els of less note; Blackburn was recog nized there as an agent of the Confed erate States, and so represented him self. In January last J)r. Blackburn employed a psrson named Cameron to accompany him, for the purpose of in troducing yellow fever into Northern cities, lo-wit: the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Washington; he went from Montreal to Bermuda, about a year ago last fall, fcr the purpose of getting the clothing infected with yel low fever; I saw him after his return, in Canada, and heard Jacob Thompson and Vv'ia. C. Cleary tuy that they fa vored his cheiue, and were much in terested in it; this was Ia:-t January. About the same time it was proposed to destroy the Croton Dam, Dr. Black burn proposed to poiion the reservoirs, and made a calculation of the amount of poisonous mntter it would require to impregnate the water so as to make an ordinary draught poisonous and deadly, lie had the capacity of the resorvoirs. and the amount of water generally kept in them. Strychnine, Arsenic, prussic acid, and a number of other things I do not remember, were named. Mr. Thompson feared it would It impossi ble to coileet so large a quantity of poisonous matter without suspicion, and leading to detection. Thompson ap proved of tho enterprise, and disc'as'scd it freely. Mr. Cleary did the imc; it was also spoken cf by a Mr. Mont rose A. Fallen, cf Mississippi, and by a person who had been a meJical pur? vejvr in the rebel army; John Camer on, who lived in Montreal, told me that he was offered large compensa tion; I thick Mr. Thnnp-cn was the moneyed agent for all the other agent;; I think they ail drew on hha fr all ibe money ihey required ; I know some cf them did; when Thompson said it would be difficult to collect so much poison without detection, Tallen and others thought it could be managed iu Rurope; Fallen is a physician; I thijk I have heard Mauris also men liuncd in connection with the pestilence importation; I think he lived in Toron to. There were ether parties iu Mon treal that Blackburn employed, or en deavored to employ, but I do not re member their names. Nineva was nineteen miles long-, eight miles wide, and forty-six miles around; with a wall one hundred feet high, aud thick enough for three char iots to go abreast. Babylon was fifty miles within the walls, which were seventy-five feet thick and one hundred feet high, with one hundred bra2en gates. The temple of Diana, at Ephe sus, was four hundred feet to the sup port of roof. It was one hundred years iu building. The largest of the pyra mids wus four hundred and eighty-one feet in height, and one hundred and fifty three cn the sides. The base covers eleven acres. The stones are about sixty feet in length and the layers are two hundred and eight. It employed three hundred and twenty thousand men in building the labyrinth in Hgypt, and it contains three hundred chambers and twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ru ins twenty-seven miles around. Ath ens was twen'.y-five miles around, and contained three hundred and fifty thou sand citizens and four hundred thou sand slaves. The temple cf Dolphos was so rich in donations, that, it was plundered of 8.3,01)0,000, and the Em peror Nero carried away from it two hundred statues. The walls of Rome were thirteen miles around. How to Hill Ants. Take.a large sponge, wash and dry it, sprinkle sugar upon it, and piace it where the ants are tnost troublesome; by and by dip the sponge in hot water, and a lot of dead ants will be the resnlt; dry the sponge, put on more sugar, and catch some more. - - - &2rA rascal, going under the name of Davis, has realized about four thou sand dollars in Vrisccnsia in the exe cution of forged title deeds to real es tate within a few days past. The lands were owned by non-residents, and this man was unknown and personated the owners. IKOXIXtt OF JEFF DAYIS. "Why and how Jeff Davis was man acled, or whether he was manacled at all, has been enveloped in some uncer tainty. It is true that irons were placed on his feet, but they were subse quently removed when they had an swered their purpose. Not only was he imperious and haughty, as usual, but he became abso lutely obstreperous, insulting the guard, abusing the olTioers and their Govern ment, throwing his food at his atten dants, and tearing a secession passion to tatters general!) sometimes threat ening others, sometimes melo-dramat-ically courting a biyoaet puncture of his own breast. As anecessUy (and possibly as a punishment and warning) orders were given to place manacles on his feet. The Captain iu charge, attended by a b!;icksmith and menacles, ap proached, saying, "Mr. Davis, I have a very unpleasant duty to perform." 'My God !" exclaimed Jeff, "you do not intend to put thos e things on me." Such were the orders; the Captain could only obey. JeiF remonstrated. They should never be put on The Captain must goto Gen. Ilalleck and have the ordfir countermanded. The Captain replied, "But, Mr. Da. vis, the order came from General Ilal leck." Davis insisted that the order must be countermanded. ' The Captain said, "Ycu ttre a military man Mr. Davis, and know that my only course is to obey orders!" Jeff then went off in a more t.owerit g passion than before, and declared he would never be ironed alive. After becoming a little cool, and mechanically placing one foot on a stool, the Captain told the blacksmith to proceed. Leaning forward to take to his arms the heels of his Rebel majesty, JelT seized him, and with a vigorous push tumbled him backward on the floor, while the blacksmith, justly iudignant, hurled his hammer at "the President," but n issed him. Davis then attempt ed to seize a gun. and asked to be bayoneted. The guards presented bayonets, and the Captain feared he he might rush upon them, and so or dered the j,uard to fall back. The Captain then called in four stout men, and ordered them to lay Jelf on h-:s bank, which they did, the pris oner resisting with almost preternatural strength, and writhing in their grasp while the blacksmith hammered on the rivet, with a will. When placed in his (hair again Jeff looked in utter despair upon his manacled limbs and burst into tears. This medicine had the desired effect and the great Rebel became compara tively docile, far less defiant, but more depressed, and the irons have since been removed. It was feared that he would starve himself to death, refusing persistently to eat soldieis' rations (which C. C. Clay munches without a murmur, and his physician prescribed a more agree able diet, vvtnca the "1 resident ate with great avidity and still enjoys this extra Uiir. Washington Reinibli ecu ' - .- x - XiUO SiJFFItACSK. Refuse this, and the Southern States will make such laws as will allow the friedmen only to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and, uniting with Northern Copperheads, will con trol the legislation of the country. Secure to the colored man the full right of citizenship. And his vote, united as it naturally will be with the loyal vote uf the South, will always con trol State legislation, and hence will ciake certain to them fair treatment. That is all they need. The Border-State Union men, gen c rally, are ready for this One of the most influential and wealthy planters recently urged and urged this measure lipon his neignbors, saying that with out it no loyal man's life or property would be safe in the Southern States for twenty years. Bojtton Common vealh. I ISFor the gout, use toast and wa ter; fcr bile, exercise; for corns, easy shoes; for rheumatism, new flannel and patience; for the tooth-ache, pluck it out; for debt, industry; and for love, matrimony. Josli Hillings on Shanghais. The Shanghai reuster is a gentile, and speaks in a forin tung. He is l ilt on piles like cur Sandy hill crane. If he had been bilt with legs he wud recembul the peruvian lama. He is not a game animal, but quite often comes off seckond best in a ruff and tumble fite; like the injuns tha kant stand civilization, are fast disappear ing. Tha roost on the ground similar to'he mud turkle. Tha often go to sleep standing, and turn pitch over, and when tha dew tha enter the ground like a pick-axe. Thar feed consists of corn in the year They crow like a jackass, trubled with the bronkee suks. Tha will eat as much tu oust az a district skule ulster, and generally sit down rite otr tew keep from tippin over. Tha ar dreadful unhandy tew kook, yon have tu bile one end uv them tu a time, you kant git them awl into a potash kittle tu oust. The female reuster lays an egg as long as a koker nut, and iz sick fur a week afterwards, and when she hatches out a litter of young shanghais she has tew brood over them standing, and then kant kiv er but 3 uv them, the rest stand around on the outside, like boys around a cir kus tent giiia a peep under the kan vass whenever tha can. The man who fust brot the breed intu this coun try ought tu own them awl and be ob liged tew feed them on grasshopper, caught bi hand. I never owned but one, and lie got choked tu death bi a kink in a cloze line, but not till' he had swallowed IS feet uv it. Not any shanghai for me, if you pleze; I wud rather board a traveling colporter, and az for eatin one giv me a biled owl rave dun, oraturkee buzzard roasted hole, and stuffed widi a pair cf injun rubber boots, but not ency shanghai for me, not a shanghai. J3v A prominent bachelor politi cian, on the Kenneuec, remarked to a lady that soapsrone was excellent to keep the feet warm in bed. "Yes," said the young lady, who had been an attentive listener, "but some gentle men have an improvement on that, which you know nothing about." The bachelor turned pale, an! maintained a wistful silence. f'-QAmong the rules of the hotel in the "diggins," at Reese River, are the following : "Lodgers inside arise at 5 A M., in the barn at 6 o'clock; each man sweeps up his own bed; no quartz taken at the bar; no fighting allowed at the table; any one violating the above rules will be shot," - I : . DAXGEHOIS COL'XTEKFEIT. A carefully executed counterfeit of United States legal tender $100 green back note has made its appearance and is likely to disturb the circulation of the whole of that de nomination of le gal tenders on occount of the perfec tion of its workmanship. It is hardiy recognizable except by an expert, or on the closest examination. One of these counterfeits was paid out to one of our county officials a few days ago, by the Bank of the Metropolis which dad received it from some unknown source, and had not recognized it as a counterfeit. lie also received it as genuine, and paid it over to a well known lawyer, by whom it was also taken ' without suspicion. This latter gentleman deposited it on his account at the. Mount Vernon Bank. It un derwent the scrutiny there of the re ceiving teller, who did not recognize it as conterfeit, but credited it to tha depositor. On a second glance, how ever, he delected its character and threw it out. It was then returned to the Bank of he Metropolis, where, upon careful and critical examination it was pronounced to be good. But being taken from there to the United States Sub-Treasurer, it was there pronounced to be counterfeit. Boilon Transcript. Cure for Dki'nkexsess. Joha Vine Hall, commander of an KDglisn Bteamer, who had become a confirmed drunkard cured himself completely by using the following mixture intead of his usual potations: Sulphate of Iron, five grains: magnisia, ten grains; pepermint water, eleven drachms; spirits of nutmeg, one drachm, twice a day. This preparation acts as a stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physi cal and mental postration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks. iirxn.iRi.&x kass. Among the late crops that may be put in to advantage by almost every farmer, we consider Hungarian grass among the most important. Where other crops fail from poor seed, the drouth, or the chinch bug, this grass may be sown and a full return for the land and labor bo obtained. It may be sown fer ten days or two weeks yet and will fully mature. If tho hay crops threaten to bo light its loss can in no other way be so easily made up as by a few acres of Hungarian. On fair soil it yields enormously and cut before the seed ripens, and well cur ed, is a most admirable feed for sheep, cattle and horses. All are fond of it and its nutritive properties are excellent. If left to stand until tho seed ripens so as to secure both seed nnd forage, it will also yield a largo proSt. If fed in tho seed care should bo taken not to give too liberally. From too lavish feeding in this way, there are doubtless many cases on record whore horses have been greatly injuroJ, and very many onco strong ad vocates of tho grass havo thus become prejudiced against it. Fed sparingly, as any other rich grain should be, in conjunction wit' hay, (prairie or timothy) all danger can be avoided. The seed alone gives a fair remunera tion, as it always brings a fair price in the market and yields abundantly. Hungarian leaves the soil in fine condition light and free from weeds "We council our farmers to sow a patch of Hungarian. Prairie Fanner. A Talk About f rapes. At a meeting of the N. Y. Fruit grow ers Club the principal matter discussed was the I' tuning of grape lines, by A. S. Fuller, with examples. "With a yearling vino ho showed how to clip the roots to prcpar for planting, leaving none over iifteea or eighteen inches, because it ia important to get fibrous roots tartel near the main trunk. Iu planting, if in Autumn, set tho roots about four inches deep leaving tho cane a foot or two long, which should be cut away in tho Spring level with tho earth. Grow but one cane the Crst year which of strong growing sorts will reach ten feet in lenth. Cat this cane down to four eyes in November, and allow tho two'lower ones to grow next Spring, and ' tmin them upright. These two canes are to bo cut back ia November to about fivo feet, and tied to stakes " or wires or slats of a. trellis, to grow fruit-bearing canes. Plants being set just eight feet apart, tha ends of arms from each will meet and fill all tho space. If the vines are of the short-jinted varieties, every other bud may grow, and every ono upon long joints thus giving five or six uprights to each aria. . The third year from planting, each upright may ripen two bunches, say twenty-four bunches to a vine. Next March cut back each upright to two buds, which are to grow two now canes. This keeps tho bearing wood down to a low head, the arms being trained to any hight desired. A well-established vine will produco 50 to 75 bunches a year upon a trellis only four feet high, which allows rows to be sot six feet apart, or nearer upon very valuable land. Some prefer arms three feet long and a two tier trellis. After tho fruit is set, stop the growth of the canes at the third leaf above the upper cluster of fruit. The cheapest and best way to make a trellis is by nailing light slats to light posts, with light upright wires betwe'n the slats at each cane. These wires should be galvanized. With tender sorts which it is desirable to lay down in win ter, his process would he to incline a single arm at an asgle of 45 degrees, and spur prune as in the double arm system. They can then be readily laid down and covered in winter. STAGGERS. The usual form of staggers which occur among horses in this part oi tho country, arc Stomach Staggers and Sleepy "Stag gers; ia tho first case, the animal is usu ally the subject of over distention of tho stomach, and, when urged to ncove, staggers like a drunken man; in tbo"lat ter case, the function of the stomach is paralyzed, and tho animal is somnolent or sleepy. Tho usual exciting causes of such affae- tion3 are, overfeeding and want of proper exercise, yet it may ariso from hard work when the animal is tho subject of an over-distended stomach. Treatment. Eoth the abovo affections may be treated a3 follows; Givo the pa tient six ounces of tablo salt, one ounce ginger, in a half pint of hot water. Then dissolve half pound of Glauber salts in hot water and throw tho same in to tho roctum. In tho course of a couple hours the dose may bo repeated. The diet should consist of Eloppy brand mashes, well seasoned with salt. . m 37"New-York 13 having a virtuous turn and wants to get rid of her concert saloons aal frail waiter girls. 'I :i 1 1 J
