1 The President has also issued an executive 
■ order to re-establish the authority of the United 
s States, and execute tbe laws within the gco- 
i graphical limits known as the Stateoi Virginia. 
5 It is ordered that all acts and proceedings of 
r the political, civil and military organizations 
* which have been in a state ol insurrection and 
rebellion in the State oi Virginia against tbe 
laws of tho United States, and of which Jef- 
« ferson Davis, John Letcher and William Smith 
r were late the respective chiefs, are null and void. 
All persons who shall exercise, claim or pre¬ 
tend to exercise any political, civil or military 
power, authority, jurisdiction or right, by, 
through or under Jefferson Davis, late or 
Richmond, and his confidante, or under John 
Letcher and William Smith and their confidants, 
or any other pretended political, civil or military 
commission or aut hority issued by them or either 
of them since the 17th day of April, 1801, shall 
be deemed or taken ns in rebellion against 
tbe United States and shall be dealt with accord¬ 
ingly. 
The Secretaries of State, War, Treasury, Navy 
and Interior, and the Postmaster General are 
' ordered to proceed to put in force all laws of the 
United States pertaining to their several de¬ 
partments, and the District Judge of said dis¬ 
trict ito proceed to hold courts within said State, 
according to the provisions of the acts of Con¬ 
gress. The Attorney General will instruct the 
proper officers to libel and bring to judgment, 
confiscation and sale property subject to confis¬ 
cation, and enforce the administration of justice 
in said 8tate in all matters civil and criminal 
within the cognizances of the Fcdei-al Govern, 
ment. To carry into force the guarantee of the 
Constitution of a Republican form of State Gov- 
eminent, and afford the advantages and security 
of domestic laws as well as to complete the re¬ 
establishment of the authority of the laws of the ' 
United States and the full and complete res¬ 
toration of peace within the limits aforesaid, i 
Francis H. Pierpont, Governor of the State i 
of Virginia, will bo aided by the Federal Gov- i 
eminent, as far as may be necessary, In the 
lawful measures which be may take for tbe extern . 
sion and adminstration of the State Govern- j 
ment throughout the geographical limits of said 
State. 
The Ilerald’s Washington special 6ays Virginia 
has been divided into four districts, and the < 
Secretary of the Treasury has appointed the ’ 
requisite number of Assessors and Collectors. 
Tbe Times special says:—Tbe evidence against 
Davis <fc Co. is to be sent to all our Ministers 1 
abroad, together with descriptions and photo- 6 
graphs of the fugitives. f 
Gen. Sherman has been ordered to report at 
Washington. It is said that the President will g 
take the earliest opportunity to assure him j 
of continued confidence in his ability and pat- i 
riotism. a 
Nine Departments. Nothing is said about Texas. 
The Government guarantees to ail the inhabi¬ 
tants of the Empire equality in the eye of the 
law, security of person and property, and the 
liberty of free speech. 
The national colors will be green, red and 
white, and their disposition on the national flag 
will be defined by a special law. 
A decree, dated May 10th, is devoted to the de¬ 
finition of tbe extent of freedom to be allowed 
the press, which will be subject to about the 
same restrictions as in France and Austria. 
The duly on imported tobacco has been 
largely increased. 
The Emperor has granted a concession to 
Don Luis Beuil for a railroad from Mexico to 
San Uosme, Papotla, Tacuba, Halnepantla, and 
Cuautitlan. 
Lint of New Advertisements 
The But TToraC;Power !n Amertea-K * M Harder. 
A Great Book for Agents Derby A Miller. 
S uur V cars In Seccssin- O D Case A Co. 
Business Men Wanted R IT Curran. 
Normal Institute lov !'bysteal Education 
Parlor Mtuta Store—A names. 
Sheep Labels—1> G Wyeth. 
New Styles Cabinet Organs—Mason Brothers. 
A Good * arm for Rule— Alonzo Swan, 
t lHBC- Forte InatfnetIon Bo<>k Oliver Ditson & Co. 
Agent* Wanted K tv Sumner A Co. 
loSheep Owners -AS White. 
Corn ami lle.an I'liuitent WtrtWsIde, Barnett A Co. 
» e Machine-C m Hundell. 
Agents Wanted-E B Treat 
Premium Chester White Pira-N P Bove.r A Co. 
Improved Short-Horns for Sale-T C Peters. 
Agents Wanted— W W Hibbard. 
Masonic Chart—L T Moore, 
Secret An of Catching Fl»ti-Jullna Rising. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 
®l)c News titoitfcn&r 
Forever float that Standard Sheet, 
Where breathes the foe but falls before ns ? 
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
And Freedom's Banner streaming o’er ns? 
— Gen. Rosecrans is in Vermont. 
— Ollendorf, the grammarian, is dead. 
— The Mobile* News sells for 25 eonts a copy. 
— Liszt, the pianist, is giving concerts in Rome. 
— Board in the oil regions averages $10 per week. 
— A lead mine has been discovered near Bristol, Ct. 
— Sig Muzlo has married Lucy Simons, the vocalist. 
— There Ib a mun in Ohio who is the father of 29 
children. 
— The Supreme Court at Boston last week divorced 
21 conplee. 
— J. Hemp, a noted guerrilla, was hung at St. Louis 
Monday week. 
— The population of Montreal in 1851 was 57,715 • it 
is 120,000 now. 
— Mrs. Mary Conner lately died in Franklin, Fa. 
aged ,104 years, 
— A grand billiard tournament is to come off at 
Chicago in July. 
— The May dividends of the Philadelphia banks 
amount, to $121,223. 
— Oil has recently been discovered in Lehman town¬ 
ship, Pike county, Pa. 
— Boston Insurance offices lost $170,000 by the late 
great fire in New York. 
— President Lincoln’s carriages and horses are to be 
sold at private auction. 
— Muj. Gen. Bnruside resigned his commission* in 
the army on the 15th ult. 
— Flour is selling in Denver at $17@21 per sack; 
hams at 45<§>50 cts. per lb. 
— Ex-President Pierce will soon marry a Boston 
girl, daughter of a Colonel. 
— The Mississippi squadron is to be reduced from a 
hundred vessels to twenty-five, 
— Rebel $1,000 treasury notes are selling in Rich¬ 
mond for $5 apiece, as keepsakes. 
— Southern merchants are in Boston from Rich¬ 
mond, Charleston and Wilmington. 
— Of the 1,000 rebel prisoner at Fort Delaware all 
but two took the oalh of allegiance. 
— Gough is sick again. He thinks he will have to 
give up public labor for the season. 
— John C. Ray of Dunbarton, N. H., has a five year 
old heifer which weighs 2,600 pounds. 
— A Canadian Tamer recommends wild peppermint 
as an exterminator of rats from barns. 
— Thu work of restoring poet-office communications 
in the seceded Statce is rapidly progressing. 
— Government will pay $100,000,000 to discharged 
soldierB and others during the present month. 
— Jacob Strawn, the great Illinois fanner, has made 
the Christian Commission a donation of $10,000. 
— Owing to the high price of labor and stock all tho 
iron manufactories of Pittsburg have suspended. 
— A young whale, 20 feet long, was captured in 
Newport harbor, last week, and was sold for $50. 
— The editor of the St. Joseph. (Mo.) Herald ac¬ 
knowledges the receipt of a can of Vermont butter. 
— It don’t pay to export flour now, for the latest 
Liverpool quotation was only equal to $G,S0 in green¬ 
backs. 
— Within ten years more than 100,000 persons have 
emigrated to Kansas, and more than 150,000 to Min¬ 
nesota. 
— The King of Portugal sends thanks for American 
aid to the starving Inhabitants of the Cape Verde 
Islands. 
— There is a Pennsylvania soldier who has lost both 
arms, both legs, and one eye, and remains alive to tell 
the story. 
— One division of Sherman’s army made a bonfire 
of 400 barrels of rosin when news came that Richmond 
had fallen. 
— The door-plate of Alexander Stephens now orna¬ 
ments the window of a Washington St. oyster house 
at Boston. 
— All persons leaving navana for the United States 
must now have passports countersigned by the Amer- 
can Consul. 
— Nineteen pickpockets fell into the hands of tho 
Chicago police on Tuesday week and had to disgorge 
their plunder. 
— The discontinuance of the drafting system will 
relievo from duty a force of persons estimated at sev¬ 
enty thousand. 
— A secessionist named Conner has been sentenced 
to 10 years imprisonment for drawing a pistol upon a 
Havana coachman. 
— The “ lie” fever tins got to Vermont, and a petro¬ 
leum company with $300,000 capital has been organ¬ 
ized at St. Albans. 
— An Irish conple, with twenty-three children, were 
among a party of emigrants that arrived in New Lon¬ 
don, a few days since. 
— The War Department has ordered the printing of 
blank discharges in sufficient numbers to include 
nearly all of the army. 
— The Federal military authorities have drawn a 
black line around Savannah. It is encircled by five 
thousand negro troopu. 
— A large quantity of railroad iron has been for¬ 
warded to Richmond and other points South, to repair 
railroads in that section. 
— The various passenger and transportation steam¬ 
boat linos on lakes Ontario, Erie and Michigan are 
now In full running order. 
— A movement is already on foot in New York to 
erect a monument to Abraham Liucoln. Only dollar 
subscriptions are received. ‘ 
— Beverly Tucker and Geo. N. Sauders have disap- , 
peared from Montreal. It is reported they have gone \ 
in the direction of Halifax, 
— A Southern girl at school at Saratoga was expelled c 
the day President Lincolu was assassinated for saying I 
that was the happiest day of her life. I 
Volunteers. Major General Lewis Wallace, 
United States Volunteers. Brevet Major-Gen¬ 
eral August V. Kautz, United States Volun¬ 
teers. Brigadier - General Albion P. Howe, 
United States Volunteers. Brigadier General 
Robert 8. Foster, United States Volunteers. 
Brevet Brigadier - General James A. Ekin, Uni¬ 
ted States Volunteers. Brigadier-General T. M. 
Harris, United States Volunteers. Brevet Colo¬ 
nel C. H. Tompkins, United States Army. Lieu¬ 
tenant - Colonel David R. Ciendenin, Eighth 
Illinois Cavalry. Brigadier - General Joseph 
Holt, Jndge Advocate and Recorder. 
The erders convening the Court having been 
read in the bearing of the prisoners, they were 
asked if they had any objection to any member 
of the Commission, to which they all and sev¬ 
erally replied they had none. 
The Commission, the Judge Advocate-Gen¬ 
eral, the Assistant Judge Advocates, and the 
reporters having been duly sworn, the prisoners 
—David E. Harold, George A. Atzerott, Lewis 
Payne, Michael O’Loughlin, Edward Spangler, 
[ Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A, 
Mudd—were arraigned on the charge and the 
specification. 
Each of the prisoners pleaded “ not guilty ” 
to the charge and specification. 
The Commission, after deciding on tho rules 
by which it would be governed, adjourned to 
meet on Thursday, May 11, at 11 o’clock A. M. 
The Tribune’s Washington special of May 11, 
saysThe trial of the assassins and conspirators 
was resumed to-day in the large room adjoining 
the Old Penitentiary, in which the prisoners are 
confined, the Court assembling at eleven and 
remaining in session until three o'clock. 
Harold was arraigned and considerable testi¬ 
mony was taken in tbe case and gratifying pro¬ 
gress made. 
The testimoney has been or will be offered, 
showing that Harold went toCanada and conferred 
with the rebels about the assassination of Mr. 
Lincoln, since Booth’ 
From Bremen.— The State Department has 
been informed that the legislative body of the 
Republic of Bremen, at its session April 19th, 
was addressed by its President, announcing our 
great victories as a “great victory won by the 
armies of the Union over the Rebellion of the 
Slaveholders.” He called upon the members to 
express their sympathy with the American Un¬ 
ion by rising. They did so, and gave three 
hearty and enthusiastic cheers for “ The Union.” 
ROCHESTER* N. Y., MAY 20, 1S65, 
NEWS OF THE WEEK, 
From the South. 
The Richmond Whig of the 8th, records 
the passage through that city on Saturday, the 
6th, of the 8ecotd and Fifth Corps of the Poto¬ 
mac Army, estimated at about 50,000. They 
occupied five hours and forty-five minntes in 
passing a given point. They bivouacked ten 
miles north-east of Richmond on Saturday 
night. The Fourteenth Corps of Sherman’s 
army arrived at Richmond on the 7tb, Wolcott’s 
division in the advance. The Twentieth, Fif¬ 
teenth uud Seventeenth Corps were within one 
day's march. 
Sheridan’s cavalry, between 8,000 and 9,000, 
passed tbrongb Richmond for the North, on 
Wednesday, the 10th inst* 
The Richmond Whig contains an official ac¬ 
count of a visit of the members of tbe Christian 
Commission, accompanied by 60 soldiers of tbe 
67th Ohio, to tbe battle field ofCold Harbor, last 
week, and the burial of the remains of 400 oi our 
soldiers found scattered about the grounds. 
The wickedness of the rebel leaders is only 
In the warehouse 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
equaled by their meanness, 
of Haxall and Co., Richmond, has been discov¬ 
ered about a thousand blankets marked “U. S.,” 
which, it was confessed, were stolen from our 
men imprisoned there, not one of whom last 
winter had a blanket. 
The released Union prisoners from Anderson- 
ville, Ga., state that 13,000 Union soldiers died in 
the prison pen there between March, 1SG4, and 
March, 1865. 
The loyalists of North Carolina have been 
assured that President Johnson will not recog¬ 
nize Gov. Yance and the Rebel Legislature of 
that State, and it is expected that the President 
will soon order an election for State officers. 
Guerrillas are becoming troublesome in South 
Carolina. A party of them recently committed 
depredations within six miles of Charleston. 
T/ie advance of the Army of the Potomac 
arrived at Alexandria on the 12th. 
s return from there. 
Mrs. Surratt, who seentB to have been one of 
the chief instigators and participants, is kept 
closely guarded, but is very defiant and unrelent¬ 
ing. Her daughters do not seem to have been 
implicated, and will be kept and called as wit¬ 
nesses. One of them is very sick, and is reported 
to have poisoned herself, 
It is positively known that Surratt is in Canada, 
and there is little doubt but that he will soon be 
taken. 
The Commission sits with closed doors, but it 
is believed that the Secretary of War will send 
an abstract of the trial to Gen. Dix, after the 
manner of bis war reports. 
The War Department accepted the resignations 
of thirteen General officers on Tuesday last. 
Gen. Grant has asked his Generals to recommend 
officers of peculiar merit for promotions in the 
regular army. 
All the volunteer cavalry whose terms expire 
prior to October 3d, will be muaterd out. 
The Paymaster General is ordered to make 
immediate payment to the men discharged. 
The remaining cavalry wili be reorganized into 
complete maximum organizations. 
An order lias been issued to muster out of 
service all infantry and artillery soldiers whose 
terms expire on or before the 31st Inst. 
It has been decided that officers are entitled 
to pay and allowances during captivity according 
to their lineal rank. 
The subscriptions to the 7-301oan still steadily 
advances, “ 
The Great Arch Re ml is nowvi tbe clutches 
of the Government. 1 Jeut,-Col.*iMtcliurd and 
150 picked men of the 4th Michigan cavalry, 
have done the country h scrvrf* ’which will be 
most fully appreciated. Jefferson Davis, the 
president of the “Confederated States of Amer¬ 
ica,” is now being conveyed a prisoner of the 
deepest die to that Capital where he and his 
co-traitors declared the rebel flag should float 
on the 4(h of July, 18C1! He was captured, 
with his family—Mrs. Davis, his mother and 
sister— and several others high in position, 
at Irwinsvillc, Irwin county, Georgia, on the 
10th inst. Col. Pritchard, learning where Davis 
and his retinue were encamped on tbe night of 
the 9th in6t., posted his command in such a 
manner as to make sore of the whole camp 
at daylight. A detachment of the 1st Wisconsin 
cavalry under Col. Hardin, were also on the trail 
of the fugitives, and came in contact with a por¬ 
tion of the 4th Michigan, A skirmish ensued— 
each party believing tbe other to be rebels—for 
some fifteen minutes before the mistake was dis¬ 
covered. Tbe firlDg alarmed his excellcnq/, who 
From the West. 
Information has been received from St. 
Paul, Minn., of a skirmish, recently, with the 
Indians near Mankato. Gen. Sibley was after 
the Indians sharply, and it was expected that he 
would 60 on bring them to peaceful terms. 
It is published that Gen. Sheridan is to have the 
command of a hundred thousand men to settle 
np affairs with the rebels and Indians in the 
Southwest. A large portion of this army it is 
thought will be sent west of the Mississippi. 
Gen. Washburne, at Memphis, administers the 
oath to rebel-soldiers, but not to rebel officers. 
The General says it is too late to reap the benefit 
of the Amnesty Proclamation after maintaining 
an attitude of hostility for four years. Citizens 
of Tennessee who left our lines and sought 
refuge In the rebel dominions, and have resisted 
all persuasions to return till now, will not be 
allowed to come to Memphis. Paroled officers 
alion plot. The facts, when made public, will 
reveal an extent and depth of wickedness on tbe 
part of the midnight plotters, perfectly unparal¬ 
leled. 
On Tuesday last, General Monte was ordered 
by the Secretary of War to release forthwith 
all political prisoners held in Fort McHenry, as 
also all prisoners of war, and those called guer¬ 
rillas. Many of those released were under sen¬ 
tence of imprisonment duriDg tbe continuance 
of tbe war. 
A careful estimate of the comparative value of 
oil this and last year, allowing for the difference 
in currency, shows an increase in price this year 
of from three to five cents. Tbe trade is daily 
acquiring more srtength uDd ability, and the ex¬ 
traordinary fluctuations of previous years will 
hereafter be as unlikely us undesirable. 
Among the officers of the Army of the James, 
recently dismissed the service, is Lieutenant 
Colonel Clapp, pf the Thirty-eighth Colored Reg¬ 
ulars, for borrowing money of hiB men. Lieuten¬ 
ant* Bancroft and White, of the same regiment, 
are dismissed for peddllug candy und tobbaco to 
tho enlisted men of the command. 
The Missouri radicals are changing tlieirminds 
and are going In for the adoption of the new con¬ 
stitution. Seuator Gratz Brown and Represent¬ 
ative Ben Loan, announce themselves in favor 
of it. Senator Henderson, who 1 b not radical, 
is also in favor of It. The new constitution 
will have a largo majority of votes in its favor. 
There is a native grape vine on the furm of 
Wm. Hall of Barrington, Vt., which one foot 
from tbe ground measures 37 inches in circum¬ 
ference. It creeps over a very large rock and 
several adjacent apple trees. Some years it 
yields ft cart load of large grapes, better and 
On Wednesday last they reached $17 - 
410,100! 
Regulations have been issued by the Treasury 
Department, removing restrictions upon in¬ 
tercourse with Southern States east of the Missis¬ 
sippi, 
President Johnson has issned a proclamation 
declaring that, whereas armed resistance to the 
authority of the Government in certain States 
heretofore declared to be in insurrection, may 
be regarded as virtually at au end, and the per¬ 
sons by whom the resistance as well as the op¬ 
erations of the insurgent cruisers were directed 
are fugitives or captives; and whereas it is under¬ 
stood that some of these cruisers are still infest* 
ing the high seas, and others are preparing to 
capture, burn and destroy vessels of the Uuited 
States, he enjoins all naval, military and civil 
officers of the United States, diligently to en¬ 
deavor, by ail lawful means, to arrest the said 
cruisere, and to bring them into a port of the 
United States, in order that they may be pre¬ 
vented from committing Inrther depredations 
on commerce, and that tbe persons on board 
of them may no longer enjoy impunity for their 
crimes. 
And he further proclaims and declares that If 
after a reasonable time shall have elapsed lor 
this proclamation to become known in the ports 
of nations claiming to have been neutral, the 
said cruisers and persons on board of them Ehall 
continue to receive hospitality in said ports, 
this Government will deem Itself justifiable in re¬ 
fusing hospitalities to (lie public vessels of such 
nations in tbe ports of tbe United Slates, and 
in adopting such other means as may be deemed 
advisable towards vindicating the national sov¬ 
ereignty. 
FROM MEXICO. - MAXIMILIAN’S DECREE 
Maximilian has issued a decree defining the 
provisional status of the Imperial Government, 
while the definite organization is proceeding. 
The decree is divided into eighteen chapters, 
and subdivided into eighty-one paragraphs. 
Some of tbe leading features may be briefly 
stated. The form of the Government will be a 
limited hereditary monarchy, with a Catholic 
Prince at the head. In tbe case of tho death of 
the Emperor, or of any other event which may 
incapacitate him for the exercise of his powers, 
“ his august spouse, the Empress,” will be ipso 
facto Regent of the Empire. 
Tbe Emperor or Regent, on assuming power, 
must take this oath: 
“I swear to God by the Holy Evangelists to 
further by all means In my power the walfarc 
nud prosperity of tbe nation; to defend Its inde¬ 
pendence and to preserve the integrity of its 
laws of war. They are enemies alike oi the 
North and of the South. When they are cap¬ 
tured they should be dealt with in the severest 
manner warranted by law. 
From the South-West. 
Gen. Dick Taylor has surrendered his 
forces in Alabama and Mississippi to General 
Canby, fifteen miles from Mobile. The Govern¬ 
ment received the news over the wires which 
iMA^tely in the bauds of the rebels between 
r _ ■ta^nd Washington. 
. j^^v, tbe notorious rebel beat 
by Smith publishes a 
Lrs, dated Shreveport, 
