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Davis-then endeavored to make his escape out of the country, carrying a large amount of gold of which he had plundrered the Rich- mond banks. He was closely pursued by
INDICTMENT OF JEFF. DAVIS.
On the same day that these last armed reb- el forces surrendered-May 23d-the Grand the 4th regiment of Michigan cavalry under Jury of the District of Columbia found a Col. Prichard, and the 1st Wisconsin cavalry under Col. Hardin, until May 9th, when he was overtaken near Irwinville, Ga., about true bill of indictment against Jefferson Da- vis for treason against the government of the United States, and he is now, October, 1865, sevety-five miles south-west of Macon. On in the fortress where he was first taken after the 9th Colonel Prichard learned that Davis being captured, awaiting his trial. Whether and his party were encamped about two he will be tried under that indictment, or by miles from the town. He prepared to sur- round the camp, which was done before day- a military commission we know not. But if by any means he should escape the halter he light on the morning of the 10th. In the so richly deserves, let there be an unchange- able decree put forth by the American people that from this time henceforth and forever no commenced firing, killing and wounding five man on this continent shall be put to death
darkness some of Prichard's and Hardin's men met, and mistaking each other for rebels, or six men. The firing aroused the camp of Davis. Finding themselves surrounded, an attempt was made to pass the chief object of
for his crimes.
THE ASSASSINS.
From the time of the assassination of the * The speaker was under a mistaken idea that President, detectives were on the alert to fer- John Bell was dead. In poverty and misery, ret out the murderers and to bring them to he certainly was, but not dead.
justice. The end of Booth, the principal, has
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been narrated. Eight persons were arrested assassination of the President affect our se as accomplices, and tried before a military curities? In monarchieal countries the assas- commission. After a long and patient invest- sination of a ruler always affects the national igation, all were found to have been more or finances more or less. The sale of these less guilty as accessories to the great crime. securities increased as the demand for money The commission finished its labors on the 5th to pay the soldiers increased. On the sixth of July, condemning David E. Herold, Geo. of May, two days after the burial of Presi- A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, alias James Thorn- dent Lincoln, fifteen millions of the Seven- well Powell, and Mrs. Mary E. Surratt to be Thirty Loan was taken, a greater amount hanged by the neck until they were dead, than had ever been sold in a single day be- Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel G. Arnold, fore. The confidence of the people had been and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd to imprisonment so strengthened in our ability to put down for life, and Edward Spangler to imprison- all enemies, and liquidate the national debt, ment for six years. The sentence was ap- that instead of it requiring $2 04 to buy proved by President Johnson on the same day, $1 00 in gold, as it did at the commencement and made known to the prisoners on the 6th; of our record, $1 29 in currency was the price and those condemned to be hung were launch- of $1 00 in gold on the 10th of May.
ed into eternity on the 7th at half past one o'clock in the afternoon.
Previous to this time, it became necessary to establish a telegraphic language for the use of the four or five thousand bankers, and
The immense armies in the field at the end others dealing in the government securities, of the rebellion were, of course, to be dis- that they might save some of the heavy ex- charged. The Seven-Thirty Loan authorized pense of telegraphing their orders to Jay by congress being the principal reliance for Cooke & Co., at Philadelphia. A knowledge liquidating their claims upon the govern- of the manner of using it may be acquired by ment, the question naturally arose, would the studying the annexed key:
SEVEN-THIRTY TELEGRAPH KEY.
$1,000 Belle, ..
Fifties and Hundreds,
5,000 Thomas,.
Five Hundreds and Thousands,.
10.000 John, ..
20,000 William,
Five Thousands,
Large.
25,000 Blossom,
Assorted in this proportion,.
30,000 Martin, .
$50,000 in 1,000s
40,000 Luther,
30,000 “
500s
Assorted.
50,000
Alexander,
15,000 100s
5,000
50s
70,000| Joseph,.
In this proportion,
$50,000 in 1,000s
90,000 Mary,
30,000 66 500s
Mixed.
100,000
Emily,
20,000 66
100s.
120,000 Fanny
In this proportion,
130,000
Edward,
$75,000 in 1,000s.
140,000 Sally,
25,500
500s.
Deposit.
160,000 Richard,
Please order for our account in 5,000s
Marble.
180,000
Adolph,
66
66
1,000s
Stone.
66
66
500s.
Brick.
200,000 Luke,
66
"
100s
Iron. Lath.
250,000 Samuel,
66
.
Two year Legal Tenders,
Herald.
500,000 Gipsey,.
Coupon
66
Bulletin.
1,000,000 Choctaw,
Ordinary
Times.
To be forwarded to us from Washington,.
City
Country.
We send by mail certificates and order for
Mail.
Our subscriptions for this day amount to
Total.
We have not received our order of the.
Bowen .. Dan.
We have not filled your order of the ..
Porter.
We have received your order of the.
Calvin.
We have not received your order of the.
Smith.
We send by express .. Sandford.
Delay in issuing notes-can not fill your order of the .... ..... until
Broker. We are out of 7 3-10s. Express from Philadelphia to-day at our expense. Ship.
Varied.
150,000 | Laura,.
We have deposited with
190,000 Mark,
400,000 Robert,
One 44
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Tribune.
300,000 Peter,
To be forwarded to subscribers from Washington,
We have filled all your orders up to and including the.
50s
60.000 Stephen.
80,000 Charles.
Shorts. Medium.
OUR NATIONAL FINANCES.
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That the key may be understood, we give is a reduction of the public debt of nearly a few specimens of the orders sent to Jay $12,742,000, and of interest over $500,000; Cooke & Co. in this way, omitting the dates : and also a reduction of $6,012,000 of legal "BALTIMORE, Md. tender notes 'in circulation. There is in the "City, Luke, Marble. Will remit by ex- Treasury in coin $32,740,788 43; in currency ---- press. J. W. GUEST, Cashier." $56,236,441 13; total 88,977,229 56-showing a decrease of nearly $12,700,000 of coin as This means that two hundred thousand dollars, in bonds of five thousand dollars each, are wanted. compared with the August statement, and an increase of $13,454,157 of currency. The amount of fractional currency is $26,487,754, "NEW YORK .- "Stone, gipsy, and Emily City. FISKE & HATCH." an increase of $143,000. There has been an increase of June 30, 1864 5-20 bonds 'of $8,- Interpreted by the telegraph key, means 211,000; and of the July 11, 1862, six per that six hundred thousand dollars in one cent. temporary loan of nearly $3,000,000, thousand dollar notes are wanted.
"NEW YORK .- Send Luke, one-half Mar- debtedness, a reduction of over $22,000,000. ble, one-fourth Stone, one-eighth Iron, and one-eighth Lath. JAMES CURPHY." OUR ARMY AT THE END OF THE REBELLION.
Interpreted it means that he wants two
It has been ascertained that at the close of hundred thousand dollars; half in $5,000 the rebellion, the armed forces of the United bonds, one-fourth in $1,000 bonds, one-eighth States consisted of nearly one million of men; in $100 bonds, and one-eighth in $50 bonds.
"BOSTON, MASS .- Send Alexander Stone, Martin Brick, John Iron, John Lath. "SPENCER, VILA & Co."
That is, send us fifty thousand dollars in $1,000 bonds, thirty thousand dollars in $500 bonds, ten thousand dollars in $100 bonds, and ten thousand dollars in $50 bonds.
"BOSTON .- Total Robert.
In view of the unparalelled blessings that "JAS. H. BEALL, Prest." have been poured out upon us as a nation, This banking house is reporting four hun- during these four years of terrible war; in dred thousand dollars as the amount of their preserving friendly relations with all other subscription that day.
All orders are not sent in this way, because it requires some study to become familiar enough with the key to avoid blunders, but with those who can use it readily, there is a great saving. You who have leisure will find cach of those orders a nice little puzzle, the explanation to which you may find in the key.
PUBLIC DEBT.
and of the March 1, 1864 certificates of in-
and that in all other respects the government was better prepared to carry on the war than ever before.
In the brief period we have been engaged in preparing this work, it appears as if we had lived almost an age. Events of such vast importance, it seems, have never chased each other in such rapid succession in any other age of the world.
nations amid so many complicated causes for strife and contention; in protecting us from pestilence, especially our unacclimated sol- diers, from that terrible scourge-yellow fever-holding it almost in abeyance, dur- ing all the time it was necessary for them to spend where it prevails; in protecting us from famine, giving us fruitful fields, and filling our granaries with the most ample stores; these, and other blessings innumberable, that have been vouchsafed to us, we feel justified
The following is a recapitulation of the in receiving as evidences, that our sacrifices public debt, as appears from the books of the to preserve our national domain unbroken, Treasury returns and requisitions in the De- and to break every yoke and let the oppress- partment on the 30th of September, 1865. ed go free, making ours a land of freedom Debt bearing interest in coin, $1,116,658,- 191 80; interest, $65,001,570 50. Debt bear- ing interest in lawful money, $1,260,009,
indeed, as well as in name, has secured the approval of HIM who rules the destinies of nations, as well as of man. Let us then "go 120 44; interest, $72,527,645 75. Debt on forward," each one individually, doing jus- which interest has ceased, $1,389,320 09. tice to his fellow-men, and all prompting and Debt bearing no interest, $866,891,093 94. demanding of those we have intrusted with Total amount outstanding, $2, 744,947,726 17. the duty and authority to make and execute Total interest, $137,529,216 25. Legal ten- the laws; that as servants of the people, and der notes in circulation, 1 and 2 years 5 per government of these United States, they shall cent notes, $32,954,230; U. S. notes, old is- do justice to its enemies, and that they shall sue, $392,070; U. S. notes, new issue, $427,- also do justice to its friends of whatever col- 768,499; compound interest notes, account of or they may be, especially those who have March 3d, 1863, $15,000,000; compound in- risked their lives for the preservation of its terest notes, account of June 30th, 1864, unity and perpetuity. Then we may safely $207,012,141; total, $678,126,940. As com- trust the future in the hands of that being who pared with the statement for August, there has given us so many blessings in the past.
THE END.
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L. O. McCONNELL. SAMUEL P. WILSON.
M'CONNELL & WILSON
PROPRIETORS OF THE
TREMO HOUSE,
North-east Corner of Main and Fifth Streets,
RICHMOND, IND.
THIS HOUSE BEING
CENTRALLY LOCATED
In the Most Pleasant and Business Portion of the City, with
LARGE AIRY ROOMS, FURNISHED IN THE BEST STYLE,
And the Table being always filled with the Best the Market affords, presents the most
DESIRABLE ACCOMMODATIONS
To be found in the City, both to the Resident and Traveling Public.
N. B -- Guests Accommodated with EARLY MEALS to meet the Departure of Trains.
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