Johnston are being pursued by Sherman's army, Grant's troops, and Hancock's division. If they should escape from the Carolinas, Thomas, who is in Alabama, will fall upon their rear; and if Davis and an escort of runaways reach the Mississippi and escape into Texas, it is more than can be expected. Some of our Tory papers believe that the confederates will escape to the Rocky mountains—a sad plight, it must be confessed, for the heroes who were to burn Washington and New York; but if they do, it will be but a scattered remnant who will find a fraternal refuge among the savage Indians and outcast thieves of the far west. While the armed hordes of the confederacy will thus be speedily accounted for, the new federal President, Andy Johnson, will find means to pacify the South in a way which may prove to the assassins of LINCOLN that in him they have lost their best friend. Educated among "southern gentlemen," and habituated to the paradise of a slave State, Johnson, it is believed, will turn out to be a man after the southern heart. Belonging to the slave State of Tennessee, the new President, it is rumored, has imbibed the savagery so characteristic of southern chivalry, and has already been advocating the gallows pretty freely. ABRAHAM LINCOLN was not the man to desire his death to be avenged in any way, but it is feared Andy Johnson will take upon himself what he may consider to be a public duty with some zeal for the work. Now that Robert Lee has left behind him the patrons of the assassin Booth, not much regret will be expressed among the humane and intelligent of this country if Jeff. Davis and his whole gang expiate on the gallows the crime they have been guilty of in instigating a rebellion without better reason for it than the preservation of southern rights in human cattle. If it be still denied that slavery was the mainspring of the revolt, we have but to point to the demands of the southern leaders to save the confederacy by making soldiers of the negroes, and to the fact that up to the last hour the slaveholders would not part with their black chattels. There is not, however, a shred of argument to support the southern revolt, and it is but fitting that those who inspired it for the most foul purpose should now suffer for the guilt of all the desolation that has been caused. In Andy Johnson vengeance may have a terrible minister, but let us remember that the crimes committed against the negro race for half a century have likewise to be cast into the scale. As for the pacification of the South, that will be an easy matter. Some two hundred thousand black troops quartered upon their old masters, and officered by a few.Butlers and Blenkers, will solve the difficulty readily enough. It may perchance happen that under such a régime the white men may occasionally get their throats cut, and the white women may find their old servants rather unpleasant masters; but if murder and outrage occur, it will only be a continuance of southern customs, with the difference that black instead of white men will be in the ascendant. We write with an indignation of the fiendish crime committed that we expect will appeal to not a few of our readers; and to these we especially recommend the 1 propriety of some immediate public expression of sympathy with the families of In furthering this purpose we will readily aid in any way, give publicity to [From the West Surrey Times, Saturday, April 29, 1865.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the kind and good President of the United States, has been assassinated, and among all the news of startling import which reaches us this week-the death of the amiable Czarowitz of Russia, the uncertain state of the health of the king of the Belgians, the assassination of the assistant secretary of the Russian legation at Paris, the capitulation of his army by General Lee, and the confession of the murder of her little brother, five years ago, by Constance Kent--that is the one subject which engrosses public attention and occupies the minds of all thinking men. A full account, so far as it has yet reached us, of the assassination of the President will be found in another column. Let us briefly recapitulate a few of the events which have been hurrying forward with such terrific rapidity in the United States within the last few weeks, and drop a tear to the memory of a man who, in circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, did as much for his country as any of his predecessors in the high office which he held-Washington or Adams, Jefferson or Madison, Monroe or Quincy Adams, Jackson or Van Buren, Harrison or Tyler, Polk or Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, or Buchanan; and these names constitute the whole of the men who have presided over the United States of North America since their government was fairly established on its present basis in 1789. LINCOLN was, withal, so good a man; his country looked to him so earnestly in her hour of need; his patriotism was so great; his honesty so sterling; his clemency so marked; his piety so pure; his firmness so inexhaustible, that none but miscreants such as these could have entertained for a moment the atrocious idea of a crime like this. In the magnificent language of Macbeth, when soliloquizing upon the proposed murder of the gentle Duncan "He hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Striding the blast, on Heaven's cherubim horsed, Upon the sightless couriers of the air, GREECE. [Translation.] MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, The infamous assassination attempted lately against the person of Mr. LINCOLN, the President of the United States of America, as also against the enlightened Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. William H. Seward, has filled with horror and indignation the whole Greek nation and the government of his Royal Highness, so much more as at the moment when this dreadful crime was being perpetrated the end of the sanguinary war was being ushered in which for so many years had shaken a free and intelligent country, to which Greece has never ceased feeling the greatest sympathy. The death of a man of such high fame as the now immortal LINCOLN is an irreparable and common loss, felt not only by the United States, but by mankind in general, because, as a truly great politician, Mr. LINCOLN proved by results that he knew how to protect the real interests of the nation by turning the laurels of his victorious troops towards the common good of his country and mankind, and by endeavoring to cement a union by clemency. You are solicited, Mr. Botassii, to express, officially, to the government of the United States the deep sympathy of the Greek nation and the condolence which it would convey to them for the disaster which has occurred, and you will add in your despatch that we will in Greece pray that the United States will pass unshaken through this ordeal, being confident in the capacity of the man who has succeeded in the government of his country. Mr. D. N. BOTASSII, The Minister, Consul of his Royal Highness in New York. D. BRAÏLAS. HANSEATIC REPUBLICS. Mr. Rösing to Mr. Hunter. HANSEATIC LEGATION, Washington, April 16, 1865. SIR: It was with deep commotion and profound sorrow that I learned the sad events of which your note of yesterday bears intelligence. The death of President LINCOLN will be lamented throughout this country not only, but throughout the world. ་ My heartfelt sympathies are with the much-tried Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary. A benign Providence may spare their precious lives and let them witness their nation's resurrection from the mortal blow it has suffered. I trust President Johnson will inherit the people's respect and confidence, of which his predecessor was possessed to such a remarkable degree. With feelings of high personal regard, sir, I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, JOHANNES RÖSING. Acting Secretary of State of the United States, Washington. BREMEN. [Translation.] The Senate of the city of Bremen to President Johnson. The appalling news of the atrocious deed which brought to so sudden an end the life and labors of President LINCOLN has caused horror and indignation wherever it has gone, but perhaps nowhere in a higher degree than in our city, whose citizens have ever since the first foundation of the American Union maintained with its people uninterrupted friendly relations of commerce and personal intercourse, and which at the present time has more numerous connections, comparatively, with the great transatlantic republic than any other state of the European continent. Indeed the loss which the government and people of the United States have sustained by the hand of a fanatical assassin is felt the same as a public calamity in our midst, and it is this universal sentiment of deep sorrow and indignation which prompts us, the representatives of the Bremen republic, to express to your Excellency, as the successor of President LINCOLN, the feelings of hearty sympathy with which we in common with all our citizens regard this severe visitation upon your country. May Almighty God, who, in His inscrutable providence, has permitted the commission of this awful crime, avert a similar calamity from the United States in all future time; and may He by His richest blessings heal the wounds from which the Union is suffering, and crown by an early peace the patriotic labors in which ABRAHAM LINCOLN has died as a martyr. We avail ourselves of this mournful occasion to commend ourselves, and the republic which we have the honor of representing, to the friendly consideration of your Excellency, and to express to you our sentiments of distinguished esteem and regard. The senate of the free Hanseatic city of Bremen : The President of the Senate, J. D. MEIER. His Excellency the PRESIDENT of the United States, Washington, D. C. [Translation.] Address of sympathy and condolence of the Bremen House of Burgesses to the BREMEN, May 3, 1865. In consideration of the assassination of President LINCOLN, the committee of the House of Burgesses of the free state of Bremen wishes to express its warmest and most cordial sympathy with the United States for the loss of a man who devoted his life to the cause of freedom and equality among all men. At a moment when the deceased President and the people of the United States were hoping to see the end of a terrible war that had been waged for years, with desperate efforts to perpetuate the work of the immortal Washington and his successors, and to restore a lasting peace to the country by conciliation and lenity, the weapon of a ruthless murderer destroyed the man who did not waver in days of the greatest trouble, but humbly bent before the Lord of Hosts, and, always mindful of his high duty, marched before his fellow-countrymen in the path of rectitude, giving them and the world a grand example, to show how a real honest citizen could finally accomplish a difficult and dangerous task by constancy and determination. While we earnestly lament the death of such a distinguished man, who had already merited the highest consideration for his civic virtues, understood and appreciated by the citizens of Bremen before all other political corporations, we |