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Semi-Weekly Signal, 1865-05-09, Page 2*awe- - a cap' aatea. . with the movement; but the idea of the p.r1 Ur 0 Itostgltai. Me Monroe doctrinseems to be decidedly popu- . ) tar. Even some of the detectives, who have been in"Slexico • are rather shy in converse - tion on the sukject, but. they would be • C• W de- GODERICH MAY 9, 1865. • I 1Latted to visit that place once more.' All they say is the movement is a big thing,' and 'sufficient to the day is tlie eviathereof.' This is equivocal lane*'uage, but aceompanied with sly winks, nods, &e., may be considered samiticant of something, not desirable at the We observe with pleasurs that. -even the present time to be niadd public, New York Tribune is loth to believe that In connection with this affitir we hear of Mr. Jefferson Davis is, or could have been parties who desire to visit Mexico by water, instead ot overland. Seventy men -who have s en sea and naval service, are already organ.. ized, and the mainlander is a gentlemen, truly loyal, once in the service, stationed in 'foreign waters. It is also hinted that vessels are being or will be fluted out at Baltimore and manned by hardy crews.. Our large THE ASSASSINATION PLOT.• capable of being, guilty of the great crime of plotting the " useless murder of Presist ' dent Lincoln," and declares its desire -to await the appearance of irrefragible evi- ' deuce ere it enter -its condeinnation of a . cities are now over. populated, and as it is m ttnin whose antecedents disprove, as e-: like y the number will be swelled to an almost phatically as antecedents can d isproveindefinite extent in a few months, it is thoualit anything, that he was not the person to proper by the enterprising gentlemen engaged tarnish a fitir naMe by an act as fatal as it would be dangerousandimpolitic. - Seeeral of the gentlemen mentioned some of the United States vessels, to be sold President Johnson's proclamation and to_the highest bidder, -in a short time." who are now residents inVanada,seleinnly declare 'before high fleaven and -in the bearing of a brave-, just, free people, that having coinmitted the "high crimes. an misdemeanors " laid'at their doors, eith by thought, worc1, or deed. We behev in the.emigraiit moveinent to..prepare an out- letat once through which the tide of popu lation may readily flow. Incident to this Movement, there will be quite, -a demand tor FENIANISM AGAIN. That delightfiil sheet the New Y. Herald .. pts Pat. on the back in a late " ranting, . they are innocent, completely innocent, of raving, roaring" article, iu the following grandiloquent grains :--" Upon the organi- ,zation and obj.tcts of the_ Fenians in tbe Canadas and other British possessions, it is „ . rett our present purpose to enter. inat, -them to be innocent because -we knoll whalever they may be, they are no lovers or that if there were satisfactory evidence of admirers of the 'fled Cross of -St. George' their complicity--wh:ch, according, tq is very certain. If the United States, for _ evample, should desire to seize the Canadas E - ngliah law, would render them guilty of i as . a material guarantee for England's making murder in the first degree -the Americas 1 -satisfaction in money for the injuries inflicted . on our commerce by. Anglo rebel pirates it imillediatel5 -make 1 is not immediately probable that the Fenians Geternmeut would ! `vrell-grounded demand for their extradi - in the Blue Nose Land would offer any vio- tion under the provisions of the Ashburton I lent or decided resistaace to annexation -. l Every blow against England is a balm to t .- Treaty -instead of fulminating - he a crud _ - and confessedly iinpotent proclamatio - - ;offering rewards for their arrest witlth the United States.' And we b_ilieve Davi innocent because he has during the pa thirty years manifested a. desire to -b true Irish nature. Every huinhling of the 'red flag; everywhere and -anywhere, is an act Iof1ong-4e1ayed retilbutain -to bur immortal green.' Let tuere he a war „between, the j United 'States and England and not a "dollar 1 in bounty would be' required to enlist from seveaty-fieeto one hundred thou -sand able- bodied and puenscieus Irishmen throughout guided by moral principle, because-- filer t the State i in that -holy war. With all verita. haS never been exhibited in his actions ble Milesian natures, hatred oi the British government is a part of their religion.- spirit of vindictive---blood-thirstmeis;, and Againat the foreign usurpation a-hich crushes! --- because even his enemies coficede hinr to'l depopulates and ,pluaders their country, hay 4 be one o f the shrewAst urea of the age: I lag tonz. since disfranchiged it, their hatred is A shrewd common-sense man must have.' . - 7 mtiound isiaad, as deep aed wild as are the known that a plot of this kind, apart from 1 w;ives v.biah lash the ioletinie, crtie of - . . . .Show a true Irishman Its criminality, would be the most useless I Donegal. arid Antrim. the red flag or e red coat, and you show hini . and -dangerous' exp.erimeny,hat even' 46-- i his native enemy and the -symbol of that . . as immortal as the mouetain of their rock perate political leaders ceuld foster. We 1- bloody rule which has either driven his race 6 r s ,trust and hope, nay we believe, that a calm, intue2itied exile okept them s ayeat _hoeie. There are massacres of six hundred a _pat . -investigation will leave ;Jefferson years to be aveiiged ; confiscationsaof James. - Davis a gdod name in the midst- of his Elizabeth and -Cromwell to be reversed ; a fallen fortunes. tyrant'ehurch, hostile paid foreign to the peo, POOR T UM B LtE . The man of puffs_ancl pills, after spend- ing thousands of "dollars in newspaper advertising and laying up a nice little- " -pile " for the rainy day, ,has got into the hands -of the Philistines at last, and he who has saved so many precious lives, -if we.believe his teitimoniaIs, will probably _ _ blTHE PE.00IAMATION. • (Yet -twitch -some fine mornine that not "' Mr. Beverly Tucker in a Montreal paper even his own medicaments can car_e. Had thus solemely,denies his guilt of the crime the learned Dr. stuck to his ointment pot; alleged against him in the recent proclamation .ple;thoegh fattening'on their substance, to be blotted out rights of the: honest laboring -tenant against the libidinous.and cruer foreian landholder to be established; massacres by Starvation in recent_ years. to be avenged •, penal -codes, and treason felony bills, and hundrele=yer, literally hundreds -of _fierce .co.ertion acts to be erased from the booke of Ireland's renovated courts. There are tombs to he built to the martyred dead, and many graves to be filled on bath sides before this can be done'. lte might have come out -of "this cruel and for which a rewerd of $25;000 has been - war" with a _hundred weight or so of offered for his arrest 'It is scarcely possi ble that_such proclamation would- have been issued unless some such evidence' has been , greenbacks, jauf ambition seized upon his "manly huzzurn "-he must, like several adduced. What such ' evidence ' is I am Washington ladies of quality, fall. in love I totally at a loss to conjecture, I am coin- ,with the assassin Booth in ..his gay and polled, theretohre, to content ms(-lf with the adelc_itahraint,,toanuthtot: hathhtesstwodrenm: - festive days, and now he is pulled up short! litzeiw,l(i)n4c)etheer slic, with a charge of' complicity in the mar- susYpicion of my having 4 -incited, concerted derous plot. Booth's errand boy has, it- is said, made a confession, an Which- it appears that "about a year ago, Tumblety .. took up his residence in Brooklye under the assumed name of Blackburn, . and by his ecoentric acts succeeded famously as a "medicine man." Just before going to Brooklyn, he became acquainted with Booth in Washington. 'through whom he - made the acqualetance of Harrold. The latter was_ then out of employment and . . . .. 1 ,in Britain believe :-"Canada, in the opin- - having some knowledge of drugs, IT' s ion of the best judges, can be had for the engagedby .Tifinblety to go to Brciolcly asking. England must be kicked very hard as his assistant _ Harrold remained with or procured' or of any knowledge whatever by me of the attacks4 made on the President and Mr. Seward, or any acts or projects ot a •kinil-fed Character, or of any plan to kidnap or capture either of thena.or any of the Fed - brat authorities, hath _blackened his -soul with diabolical perjary.'- . TH.E SEMI-WEEKLY SICrNAL. Editorial Items. The Weather and the Crops In England. at Paisley, Co. Bruce. ----_-____- . exceptional manner. The winter has been a ?.. Coal oil discoveries have been made In the West Midlands spring opens in an Os. The- hardest man to deal with -a pro- most protracted one, which, combined with the failure ot the root crops generally last verinally easy man. year, has put farmers almost to their wits' (e:se In six years "Peter's Pence" amounts ends to provide fodder for their stock. They to eight and a half millions of dollars. have had to resort to the use of corn -to an unusal extent; and this they were enabled to 13.- Hon. Mr. Foley has removed to Sim. d� on account of its cheapness. In the last coe, where he will practice in- his profession. fortnight the weather has changed from cold east winds and frosts to warm and dry sunny te:e- TheCY are now making crinoline skirts .I.s. was • days.. om mums wanted, and its advent worth $100 1 Gold and silver. wire is used. on Easter Monday, with the accompaniement Celle President Johnson is to r'eceive a of thunder and a soft south breeze. was -most present of a splendid pair of horses from New welcome. The effect on vegetation has been ' - most remarkable in the agricultur 4counties Yorkers. of Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester.- Ite. The New York Tribune. denotnices Fields.brown ten days ago now preient a the prostal system of the United States as a brilliant green verdure. 'J he wheat, which shameful failure, . - was _ hardly visible during the dry weather, since grown auf*iently to bide a hare, and . frje An 'immense cloud -of "hen hawk" barley and beans have sprung up. as if by rEAR itIPE. - A con, of the N. Y. Times, writing from London, declares himself thus with regard 1.0 the annexation of Canada. There is more truth iri the last sentence than most persons passed over the village of Ai-thur on the 21st tilt., going northeast. Cc)... The party that brought Booth to bay was led. by a Canadian named Dougherty. Ile hails from St. Hyacjath. te3e.Mr. Robert Gell, treasurer of the township of Holland, County Grey, is a defaulter to the amount of several hundred dollars. Maximilian in Mexico. OMM11••••• The New York World, which, less than six months ago, favored the establishment of "tbe Empire" in Mexico, is now on another tack, warned, we suppose, by the signs of the times. The following is from its latest article on the subject; But the feverish activity which the friends and supporters of Maximilian in Europe are naw displaying to secure moral and financial help for the embryo empire, sufficiently proves that neither Maximilian- himself nor Napoleon believes that the Mexican throne could stand for a month- if the French flag were withdrawn from beside it. A Mexican "lottery loan " on a grand scale, offering Aladdin's lamp at a ridiculously low figure to anybody who will take his chance in it, is now pressed on the Continental -markets; and the French Moniteur is at great pains to make it appear that the news of this fresh financial operation is" very well received in London, and; has caused an advance in the old Mexican funds. The general feeling in magic. The itTitumn and spring sowing of London," it adds', "is, that all Europe, and arson has been the most euccessful eaer re----particultirly England. is now interested in the membered. Farmers on every hand agree consolidation of the Mexican empire." ' that A more favorable seed time they never The Moniteur is an excellent authority in reeollect to have experienced. Should the regard to the plans and wishes of the French present weather coptinue, vegetation will be Emperor, but the " general feeling in bon - in quite as forward a state as ou the average don' may be quite safely gathered from of years, while every crop has at present a other sources' and it is difficult to find any most healthy apprance. There is now a good Englishauthority for a profound ling - good crop of grass for ewes and lambs. Hops lish anxiety to see the empire of Maximilian are showing on the stools in Herefordshire cotteolidated. All that this language of tbe and Worcestshiretand polling has commenced. French official organ really proves is, that ft". The Hamilton Times proves, much to The plum trees are in_blossom, and present the empire of Maximilian is not consolidated its own satisiaction, that -Booth must have a very promising appearance, some of the and that Napoleon IIL islunpleasantly aware trees being literally "as white as a sheet"- of the fact. with blossom: Apples and pears :are more 4811112 scantily bloomed, and an abundant crop is The Cotton questions...Aspect Of not to be looked for after the extraotdinary the British Market. . quantity grown last year. Potatoes last well, and a great many bare already been planted for the present year's crop. --London daily News, takes a dram before he goes reshopr ing I then a dollar loses much of its value in his eyes, and his perception of tbe value of [ the Porn- modities for sale is considerebly dimmed.- Unfortunately,tbere are some fifty grog -shops in tins town of 500 European and lAmerican a. to the the fruits ween , the Govern - some of residents to overhaul him on the -market. We are beginning to se of the late convention made be foreign minis ers and the Taikun ment. Trade reviled at once, an the most valuable cargoes of silk- eyer carried from this country were immediately exported; The Japanese Government has nearly com- pleted a fine carriage road to Missiteippi Bay, and back. When finished, it. wilt furnish a owners of ides, be - ore soci- Japanese o abreast. a period n sent to been an Indian or "minuet " of that sort, and is- "none of us." We should have noticed ere now that our enterprising contemporary,, the Berlin Tekgraplt, has put on a new dress of hand some type. ac. -Success to n. Oc2s, In Great Britain; in the year 1862, a living child was born to every twenty-eight persons. In France (180.). only one child to every thirty•severi persons. Tumblety until, for some reason not stet - ed, the latter found it prudent to break up his Brooklyn establishment. Harrold retained to Washington, and 'was next beard of as Booth's accomplice in the aubsequent flight If there is any further evidenie against Tumblety than this fact of -his having had business relations with Harrold, the authorities at Washington have not allowed it to become known." - THE NEWS OF THE DAY... COVERT' DESIGNS ON MEXICO* A Philadelphia journal show' the manner irt whichistow is likely to be _kicked up with Maximilian as follows :=" It is very evident Shat the valuableregionof country kuowu as Mexico Occuuies a very considerableshare of attention.Several organizations are being perfected in this city, ail apparently •acting . under one head; Similar movements are made in the city of • New York, having the - same object in. view. There is 301120 publish, given to the efforts at organization, and re- port says that large numbers of returned soldiers, rebel refugees, repentant rebel soldiers, and other persons of civil protessiona are swelling the lisu daily with their names. It is reported -that these men intend emigra- ting to Mexico as soon as possible, but for what purpose we cannot ascertain from an authentic source.There is cousiderable outside talk of a desire to enforce the Monroe doc- trine in, the 133011t summary manner. "It is said that over five thousand in the eity of New Yorkalone have already enrolled themselves and the business seems alinost amounting to a furor.. A gentleman accred- ited with power arrived in Philadelphia oft Thursday of last week, and he has already put the ball in inotion-so it is currently re- ported -and the result is much activity pre mak, though conducted on the principle of 'still waters run deep: It is stated that the ta are %WOW to progress with and modem improvements incident with ouch of civihisation. Large railioad.s astd ezteissive manufactories and immense niaing taplorattone are talked about. , There Said about rifle manufactories nor Perhaps these additions may not be Ifilettedr as the emigrants will be 'armed with the otos& modern improvements in dead. ty ?upon*, to be used. at measure may re- spire. There is much mystery connected indeed, and with a very -sharp boot, to be kizked into& war with America There is some bluster left about honor, and ot not -ab- andoning Canadaifcalledapon to defend her, but it is ail bosh. In the first place Canada does not wish to be defended, aud in the sec ond, she cannot be. The act of annexation, therefore, can be completed at any time, without firing a gun, with the the free con stint of a lame portion of the people of Can- ada, and withnothingbut the impotent hat- red of some of the people ot Englaed, and cordial approbation of a considerable per- _ ••••••••••••••••1. : vas pLoT The Washington correspondent of the. Philadelphia Press says that the "confes- sion of Harrold, and documentary.evidence found on Booth's body, fasten beyond cavil the plot and its full sanction upon Jeff: Davis and bis Canada commissioners." The New York Post has intelligence from Washing- ton to.the effect that "additional arrests have been made, and further information ob- tained, throwing more light upon the con- spiracy to assassinate the President, Vice - President and Secretary of State. ' A correspondent of -the Hamilton Times says that he played &game of biiliards wiht Booth_ at Moutreal, in October last, and that he was struck at the time with the wandering elm -seer of the actor's conversation. Since then, he has remembered some peculiar re- marks he made, as follows Do you. know I have got the sharpest play- laid out -ever- done in America -I can bag the biggesvgame this side of -;---;-just remember my address-.- yeu'll hear of a double carom one of these days. I like your Canadian style; I must post myself in Canadian airs, for some of us devils may have to settle here shortly.' . Mrs It the Recorder be correct, Brockville is an awful town. He says, "It swarms with young thieves. Daily and nightly petty pil- fering goes on, &mess emboldening the young rascals till they are now almost reckless..." AIL`number of unemployed Generals will be mustered out of the service in a week or two, if they do not take the hint and resign. It ia intended to retain only about 15 Major- trenerals, 60 Brigadiers,. and 150 Colonels. ez)e Kennedy, the- spy and hotel _burner, was executed on Saturday, Gen. Dm having signed the Order to that effect. Kennedy attempted to escape Jest Surdest night by burning the panel ot his cell door with a red- hot poker. Oa The Montreal wholesalers are getting alarmed lest the people of the 'West should. carry economy to the extreme and wear thew old clothes long enough_ te seriously injure trade 0:ja A private Of the 1st battalion, 17th regiment, convicted before a military tribunal for theft, and known as an incorrigibly_ bad Th character, underwent he severe and some what unusual punishment of dogging yester day afternoon. He received:fifty lashes in the barrack spare, Quebec. - The Stratford /3eocon states that at the last sitting of the Council, instructions: were issued to take -immediate action against R. S. Service, collector of the town of Strat- tord and his sureties, to recover the balance due the town- of Stratford on collection of 1864, and that the clerk notify him of the action of the council. . . Kee The gun eottan committee; says the Army and Navy. Gazette, have been trying fu.ther experimeutravith this highly explos- ive material, and there seems . to be every hope -of its beingusecl instead of powder Ili a bursting charge for.shelli, and also as a mine in the torpedoes and other similar Vessels; which .are expected- to be largely • employed in any future naval war. The Accused Southern Refugees in Canada. l'he reward offered for the arrest of Davis --seeniwto-ns, with our present ine-iins of form- in- a judgment, more constatetit and intelli- eible than the rewards offered for his :teem- plices, Ditvis is yet within the limits of . the United States, and a telegram from the South, which we publish this morning, renders it not 'improbable that he may be overtaken and caught.- But his fellow acoundreis are in Canada; and If guilty, they will, of course, never come voluntarily into the -United States. We do not perceive, therefore, havy a reward offered for their arrest "in the United States-" has any ten- dency to secure their persons. They may be demanded under -the extradition article in the Ashburton treaty,. -and in this way brought into custody; but we wholly fail. to .perceive in what way the offer of heavy rewards is likely to procure their arrest iu the United States. This particular feature of the pro- clamation (until it receives_The explanations whieli are as yet withheld) wears an appear- ance of haste encf want of delibe-ation in an act that ought to have been well considered. " It enables -those traitors-and.cut-throats to. place the -government in an embarrassing dilemma. They may cause it to be proclaim- ed from some safe place of retreat, that they are unjustly acaused ; that if un opportunity be allowed them they can substantiate their innocence ;land that they will yoluntaaly surrender themselves for a public trial, on condition that the government will engage, not to institute proceedings against them on any other charge, if they are acquitted of this. If the government should refuse such a prom- ise, it would look as if the accusation had been made on insufficient evidence, as a ruse to procure their surrender under the extra& ton treaty, with th,e purpose of trying them' on other charges to which the treaty -does not troyed 2 rolling mills and foundries, 2 maga- apply. Under the suspicion of such double- zines and locomotives. 63 cars and 5 steam - dealing, the British authorities "niigl. t refuse boats, catoured,on the river, near the We - to surrender them; and hence the_ offer of tumpka' 'Nitre Works; the rebels burned the reward tends to defeat its own -object. They can' be ermined in the Uuited States 85,000 bales of cotton before evacuating, only on being first kidnapped in Canada, Columbus, Ga., 85 miles distant, was taken and the holding out ora temptation to violate by assault, by Gen; Upton, after dark, -6a the Canadian laws, is not a promising ineacs the 16th; 1200 prisoners were captured; 53 of securing their extradition. -[New York guns, 7 large eotton factories, 100,000 bales of cotton, inimense quantities of ordinance, World. - quartermaster and commissary stores, a large How England ca.n Hold Canada arsenal, a pistol factory, an accoutrement factory, a naval foundry, a rolling mill and Mr. "Special" Russell, of the London foundry, an arsenal .foundry, thirteen loco - Times, has just published book on Canada l motives, over one hundred cars depot and and its defences, which ie much praised by machine shops, &c., were captured and de the English reviewers it informs Great stroyed. A gunboat mountingsix seven inch Britain, atter a careful exainination of the rifled guns now called the Jackson, but the defencibilities of Canada, that "in army of uaine of which has been recently changed, 150,000 wiiuld suffice to hold Canada against was captured here. A detour to West Point twice that number." As the force here set was made by Lagrange'e brigade, who at down is just about equal to the whole regalar tacked theworks and ,carried them by storm, army of Great -Britain, Mr..Russell's hook is capturing the garrison 350 in number and 4 -- not likely to carry much comfort to those ens& and killing Gen. Tyler in command. -- Britons who go au fear of a war- with the Union, and a cousequent -conquest of the Canada'. Great Britain isoot strong enough to hold her American Provinces Waite pro- vokes the United States into taking them; but there -is '"amore excellent way " at her ecimmand. Let her make up her mind" that nothing is half so important to her as the. frieaciship six! good will of tbe.great republic& and do. demean herself -socially, politically, and diplomaticalty, as to deserve that friend -- ship and good -will. We do -not want the Canadass, and can only be driven Into taking possession of them; and Wall the obligations of neighborly respect are rigidly observed by the -imperial Administration in those Prom- ces, we will not merely keep them in good order, but make them -eventually u much- a source of profit and pleasure to Great Britain as they. now are of anxiety and expence.- ENew York World. - , A. few weeks since in Portsmouth, N. IL, a large bull dog seized an inlaid lying in a cradle and tore away one side of its ; and before the brute could be secured, he grasped the child by the throat, end shoo.k- it until life was extinct, • • United States. NEW Yoa:E, May 6. -The Herald'S Rich- . mond despatches show a terrable state of im- poverishment in which the people of Virginia are now found to be, and to which they have been reduced by the drafts of the Confederate military establishment on their resources of all Wads. - Thousands of the inhabitants of Richmond, Petersburg and the sorrounding country are preserved- from starvation only by thea supplies of food whiCh the United - States commissioners furnish them. Strong' desires are expressed tor the removal by gov- ernment -of all restrictions on trade not con- traband of war, so that facilities may be af forded ifor a. resuscitation Of industry both irk the towns and rural districts. - At preeent the farmers generally are without the irnPlements Or seeds eiecessary to do their planting, and - unless these can be speedily procured there ,will be no crop forthcoming in the. State in the suinmer and fall. _ It is understood that the army of the James coinmanded by General Ord, -and , consisting of the 24th and 25th corpa will remain in Virginia for the present. h is said that the 25th corps consisting of colored troops wIt go into camp at City Point. T Tribune's' Washington special has the- following :=The Presi fent has been strongly urged. by prominent gentlemen here to subject, to arrest and trial such men asr Buck, Pomeroy,. of the La Crosse, Wiscoaein, Democrat, and the editor of the Chicago Times, who during the past year have pub- licly 'advised arid incited the assassination of Mr.' Lincoln. The subject is receiving serious_ consideration. _ delightful drive out of town to the "traps," or any other vrbeeled ve sides affording a comfortable and able ride for equestrians th in the bridle path, where two can seldom In other respects, we pre enjoying -of quiet: - Though troops have bi put dovfa the rebellious Prince f Niegato, we have no news from the seat ()fewer, if, in- deed, there be any war at all, which after all may well be doubted I have surmised for some time past, that the GovernMent would come to- some amicable understanding with Choshin, rather than attempt to tint down so powerfula prince, and one ot this- eighteen greatest notables of Japan. ,One offlur local newspaper;, of'the llth inst , states that Kikawa Kenmotz a retainer of Ctios. in. bat!. ing in view the safety of his Prinee, has ar- rested and decapitated Manila, the moat turbulent and headstrong ot Choshkres Minis- ters, -who was_implicated in the attack on the Imperial Palace at Miakoi last year; and, besides having arrested seventy-five of the most prominent men who did the bidding of Mande in 'that affair, has take them to Millco, begging for peace. It is also stated that even the Prince of Satsztett advises Choshin's pardon,notwithstanding his steamer was fired upon by Choshin, and forty of his retainers killed. If ibis be true,the Emperor's sentence of extermination against Choshin will end in a termination of hostilities against him. No doubt the Japanese princes ad- mired Choshids pluck in stopping the Staaiti- of Shimonoseki, though they could not but look upon his movements and p4as against the Emperor -as a crime. Perhaps, too, his brush with the combined fleet, so' disastrous to himself, may be regarded as a sufficient punishment. Besides., to take frinn him his titles and territory, and thus destroy one of the oldest and most noted families, among the princes of the land, just after he has yentured to try his strength with foreigners might be interpreted by tbe Japaneve peopl as a pun- ishment for daring to go to war against foreigners, aand everything like that boththe Emperor and-Taikun may very na wally wish se to avoid: So, very likely; we shall soon hear that the ban of extermination ha been with- drawn, and Choshin holds his po ssions and his power, being only mulcted in algobd roun sum to pay the .$3,000,000' of indemnity as- sumed in the late convention by ihe Taikun. It will take-tme to bring this alb about. for neat bodies move even more slowly in. Japan great anywhere else. It takes twili to do the smallest piece of business, besides innumer- able superiors to direct and supervise their work, (inc great reason of this is that there is very little mutual confidence I among the Japanese. Bosom frienda are rare Possessions. Treacherous spies . are everywhere on the look -out, in all sorts of disguises, fo detect the unwary. . Distrust is the rule; therefore, and a wretched state of things # produces. Now and then a Japatiese.unburdens himself of his pent-up secrets to a Toreigtfr whom he has learned to trust. This want of confidence. hi ;lite another 'betrays itself in the entire machinery of gov- ernment, and makes political movements slow, and legal processes- long Thus my neighbor, who is under the jufisdietion of Yokbhama, issued by a man whp lives just over the boundary line ot the towb,aed whose complaiat must be carried before the bench of judges at -Yedo. Those judges live five or six miles apart in different districts of the city, and the complaint Must go front one to an- other, and the finding of the judges must be signed by all of them. The oinksion of one name invalidates it, and after all it must be sent to Yokohama "to be executed , by the goyernor. I am giving no imaginal's, case. I know an instance for which a man was sued for fifty-six rio, or about $70, and it has been four or five months in this sort of chancery and no one -knows bow much lopger it may reMain there. By the time the judgment is rendered, thelavr officers will probably milk the cow at whnse horns and tailirespectively , the litigants are tugging. The report of the Liverpool Cotton Market,_ which we received -by- the Scotia, shows a less marked decline in prices than might have been anticipated. Up to Friday afternoon. the 21st ult., the fall caused by .the news Ai the evacuation of 'Richmond had not averaged more than Id sterling in the round; and about half of this was recovered at the close of Faturday, Abe 22nd, with a " buoyant " market. _ • The cause for this unexpected firmness is not apparent outside of r.ere speculation. - There is a large stock on hand in the British market; not less than 800,000 bales, or fully double the -amount in store a year ago. There are 100.000 bales additional, computed to -be. afloat, bound to British ports. There is the certainty of the early release of a vast amouht of cotton from the emancipated -Southern States. , 'What that amount will reach -we shall learn -anon. It will certainly not be less than a million bales. It may reach nearer to two millions. Egypt, Brazil, Pe- u, the West Indies, Turkey, China, India, -&c., --ccuntries whose, average cotton exports, previous to the war it this country, was only seven hundred thousand bales -yielded last year nearly two and a half, million bales, - In other words, the countries we haye named sent nearly as much cotton -to England, in 1864, as the United States sent in the most prosperous of the years preceding the war. It is in the face of -these facts that the Liverpool operators have laid their heads together to keep up the present prices to the last possible moment. Their game will work for a brief season ; but it is at best a comba natiou against laws as res:stless as the flight of time.. The productions of India and China alone have been fully quadrupled since 1861. -At,the same rate of increase, these counties will be in the same position as cotton produ- cers (in quantity. if not in :quality) that the United Statesbeld in 1860. Before these two -The secessionest of Charlestown were wild years elapse the cultivation of cotton ill the with jay on learning of the assassination of Southern States will at least be in such active President Lincoln, and it is saki that awomen progress, as to swell the aggregate of 1866 were actually so pfofane and sacreligious as and 1867, as far beyond the receipts of the to fall'on their knees and express their thanks best peace years, as the returns of 1864 a,re in to God for this enormous crime 1 But the excess of these of 4862 and 1863. It will sudden arrest-ofpx.Govenor Aiken appeared take time, necessarily, ' to bang the great to bring them Id their senses; and they im- industry of the South back to its noraial con - mediately beco:ne mote discreet in their con- dition, even vvere all the political problems duct. involved ire reconstruction already solved.- . The social derangements which the war has Fon and Interesting' Details of caused, have -to be remedied, net by a return Gen. Wilson's Expedition. to the industrial system of lour years ago- _ although even that, were it permissible,would New York May 4. -The Herald's Sayan- take years to accomplish -but by tbe intro- uah correspondence, cf the 29th tile, says : duction of a scheme of labor to which the Gen. Wilson's famous raiding expedition ar- employer and the employed are alike unused. rived here yesterday from Macon. The .fol- Tune, then, is the chief element in the full lowlier is a condensed history of the trip :- solution of the problem of what this vast in Gen. Wilson left Chickasaw, Ala., on the dustry is to be, as compared witpe the results 22nd ot March, It is not proper to give any under the system et enforced servitude. statement of the number of his force. Eben But, aside from the eonsidration of the ezeaChurch, near Plantersville, Ala., was new relations between capital and labor, to taken Idler a short engagement with Forreet's which the South must heeeeforth accommo- cavalry ; 300 prisoners were captured and date itself, there is no reason in the world to three guns. Forrest's forces were dr iven to suppose that the industry of the seceded the west of the Cahawba River and separated. States will lie dormant a day after peace is A column was sent to Tuscaloosa, wnieb effectually re-established. Within the cotton captured - anel destroyed tnuch government growing States, whatever labor can be turned property. Selma was capinred on the 22nd to account, will be as naturally einployed in of April, with 2,700 prisoners, 32 guns in the eultivatien ot cotton, as tbe available positionand 75 in arsenal. We destroyed labor of 'Virginia Will be applied to tobacco - three tolling mills with fixtures; a very large growing or .'wheat culture. The notion is naval foundry, an arsenal, the second in im- entirely fiillacious that the farmers or planters portance in the Confederacy, also powder of the Gulf States will cease to cultivate what works, magazines, and large numbers of cars. is, by all odds, the most profitable product of We remained at Selma for eight days. The the isod, because Jeff. Davis and his rebel Alabema River was bridged 850 =feet, the crew have retired, and the Confederaey is at operation occupying five days, front the 5th an end ;:" or Because -the negro laborer will ta the 10th.- The next place attacked was hereafter have to be paid for his work,instead Montgomery, 50 miles distant,destroying all of being robbed of it. ° • the bridges on the Alabama and Tennessee The industries of the different States will rivers. The tailroad to Columbia was de- seek the same outlet as before the war. The stroyed; the enemy destroyed 2,500 bales Of products of these industries will not be so cotton, Montgomery surrendered without great; probably, for years. But the South assault, 5 guns fell into our bands.; we des- will grow and expert all its great staples from this day out ;and the most profitable of these staples, we need not doubt,. will receive the earliest and most eager attention, whatever relation capital and labor may ultimately aettle into. • - How long the cotton speculators of Liver- pool may be able to hide these facts from themselves, we cannot conjecture, without knowing the nature of . the combinations Which now, in the face- of the vast stock of cotton on hand, keeps the market so buoyant is it is,s-(New York Times. • 411, Interesting front JapsisTrade _ Prospects Brigittening. From thi(World Special Correspondence. Yokahania, Japan, Jan. 24, 1865. -The new year of Christendom has gone by, and that of China and Japan is close at Isisod.-4- The 27th inst. is Ur first day of the first magi with these two great imam. The people of both these countries have the -laudable cus- tom of settling all ACCOUNIS and paying all ifteen locomotives were destroyed, two huts debts before t o old year diem He who can- dred cars, two bridges and two factories in I not come up to time u counted a bankrupt, the vicinity were destroyed, large quantities f and lience there is eager efforts just now of Quartermaster and commissary stores at among the Japanese to tiquidate all their Griffin, and the R. It bridges on the Selma debts, in order to commence the year with and Montgomery R. R. We captured along clean papers. The man who apprehends tbe the road 5 guns. Macon was taken without possibility of failing in this, is, makoto kola - opposition. It has not been necessary as yet ary, in re tl straits, and nothing so brightens to destroy any property. We captured Gens. his countenance as the reompt of payment Howell, Cobb, Gustavus W. Smith -former- from some before doubtful source.- There ly Street Inspector of New York city,- are two or three periods in the course of the Robertann;Mercer and McCall. The cap year when the Japanese are expected to com- tures are: 132 guns in position, in the field pare accounts with each other, and make at and by assault, and 200 guns in arsenals and least partial payment ot their indebtedness; in store, with immense amounts of ordnance, but no one can get of without squaring his quartermaster and commissary stores, cotton, accouuts with his neighbor at tbe end of the machinery, railroad stock, - year. Men are often occupied about this till PREPARARTONS ror, THE zwilASSINS7 TRIAL. - - midnight on the last day. That hour term - The Tribune's Washingtousipecial has the, before the noon of that night can say, "No nates their day of grace) and hem is he who following :-The court rooms for tbe trial of man is my creditor." the Presidential assassins have been fitted up It is a good time to buy Japanese cnriosi- at • the Arsenal Building; and the Walt will ties just now, for everybody wishes to realize proceed without delay. The number likely all the ready money he can. The sailors are to be put on trial is about forty, and others accordingly full of business in the shopping now in custody will probably be discharged as line, buying nicknacks for their wives and the case progresses and their testimony sweethearts at home. ,Tack is very apt to given in. • .-........+-......--,. - - Story of a Shepherdi Dog. 1 signature of "Wool Growing,," Ils a long A writer in the Prairie Farmer, nier the and marvellous story about_his shepherd dog, from whic;h we make the followieg extract: "I will add a short account tof which I used to do with my dog ' Colonel; which, I fear, those who have never seen a well brok- en dog work, will be apt to class !among dog stories. . , "W hen I Colonel ' was six' months old I drove with him a Hoek of sbeepltrom Ohio to Illinois, spending forty seven days on the road. He had never been behind a flock of sheep until tbe day 1 started. I four weeks' time I could send him into a undred-acre pasture, and he would make a keen of it and bring the flock out without leafing a sheep, and without hurging them out of A walk. By the way, it is very iinportant to break a dog to go slow- the most of dogs are too eager and' hurry sheep -too much. I fer- ried the Wabash•river at Attical. The boat ran upon a low level bar where there were no yards or fences to assist in getting the sheep aboard. With two hands and i the dog I loaded the boat without having to catch one of them, and the flock made. five boat loads. I got up on the bank where the dog could see me well, and then by moticats made him jam" the flock down tight ta tbe boat, and when well jammed up. mount on their' backs, and by barking ancinipping-not severe enough" to =Wit biting -shoved them right in. No tee men without a dog could. have loaded them so goon, if they could have! &as it at all. - i " When Thad OCCIIM013 tO drive not fa ex- keed ten lmodred sheep& few miles, I wanted no other help but the does. I have driven that many sheep along the road Six er eidht miles, where it was unfenced, soinetimes on one side and sometinies on the I other, aad sometimes on both sides, myself being abead of the.flock, the dog behind, tbe sheep gco strung through the timber that ptrImprel did not see the dog for an hour at a -time. "When the flock got to apreadfng out fan - shaped. sea dock will where there is a chance to pick, 'Colonel' would go out_and turn in the corners, passing up just far enough to died that rupee., and no farther., He used, speerently, as much,judgment- in passing up the aide of the flockjust,so far as would a man. When he was in doubt of an order, he would stop and look back uutil the order was repeated. I have miny a day drirn all over the prairie and taken a flock in !eery direc- tion, by walking on -before, Tleasing him to bring the sheep after me, without, looking at him or speaking to him. I coald send him out two miles into the prairie atter a tbdus- and sheep which were strung. for bait a mile, andhewould collect and drive Mani all nista me. I have owned other dogs Which would do the same; but none bit him aid no .. rush the sheep too hard." • 0:72, A grand volunteer review toe& place at Brighton, England, on the 17thiult. Orer 20,000 volunteers -took pun in it, iind it was the most succeeeful--review thet ever took spoil the market for buyers,. especially if he 'Place In England., -you Porgot Mis A good jote is told at the espetue of one of our church going citizens 17110 Is the father of ail interesting femily ofchildren sae among them a bright eyed boy numiseriag four or five summers, the pet of the house- hold -and unanimously voted the drollest little mischief alive. On Saturday night he had been bribed to keep the peace and retired to bed an hour earlier than usual, -with the promise that on the morrow he might go to church. On Sunday morning it was found inconvenient to put the youngest throegla the regular coarse of washiag and dressing sts; cessary-for his proper appearance at the sar.ctuary and then the family slipped off without. They had not, however. mom than become comfortably seated in their pew.when in walked the youngest with ncthisig rebate niglit wrapper and cloth esp. 'You forgot me," said he, in a voice lonti enough to be heard alt over the church. The feelings of the parents CAA be -ore- easily imagined than described.--(14Szuyfette Well.Doe. ter ' said a chap, suffering wit. the toothache, • ?row much do you az fir slur job ? Guy 1 butyou did it gawk though re - My terms, repliedthe dentist, are one del: - lar.' A dollar for u miuntes work 1 Oar dollar -thunder 1 Why, a locum doom Vault place draied outotooth'forme two yea and it took him twa hours. He dragged es. all around the roue, and loat his grip half a dozen times. !never seen seek work -and then he charged rue only twenty five eents. A dollar for a minutes work) 4), get oat you mut frejokins' XtIV %thttrifOtt$10. PAPER MOINE FROM 4 eta. Iva ROLL At the Signal' Office. A LARGO SUPPLY_OF mdow Shades! CHEAP FOR CASE AT THE SIGNAL 10171EDEMPIE11±53131- TM WANT IN SCHOOL BOOKS &STATIONERY - AT REDUCED RATES. OFFICE SPECIAL NOTICE. D EFERRING to onr advertisment of 2nct Lb instant, end in order to avoid misunder- standing, we beg respectfully to inform those of our customers who have had accounts with us hitherto that, as we are anxious to bring our presenabusiness to a close as soon ae possible. we must discontinue all accounta from this date. JOHN FAIR &CO.' Goderich, 9th /Kay, 1865. sw71 ' JOHN FAIR &CM. HAVINO ACTICRAINZA ON - CLOSING Ur . TANI* ?AVM? BUSINESS MI GODER1CH• . ON Thursday next,' the-dtkriistaat Commence to clear off the whole. tx ;their larks and valuable stock of pry Good's-flotilla/A*4 - Grocertes; at on ENORMOUS REDUCrom Pans., Goderiet, 2nd -May,, 1225._ TENDER& TENDERS will he received for the Falk 1, for the CODERICH Up 'to !the 10th 1nott, H1141600II. Altpartiestendering will 'name two good and sufficient Sureties to be booed in She enasoC_ 8409 each for the due fulfileteat of the -eon - tract. The Co:innate. do not bind the. selves to accept the highest Tender. Tenders to be addressed to R. Booth,. E. and marked Tender for 3fark4. - JAMES THOMSON, Goderich, liaarl.nd, 1865. Tb--waClerk.swtro -ttrejo 4