Thus has passed away, by the sullen and vindictive shot of the assassin, a statesman whose honest purposes and sincere devotion to his constitutional duties had triumphed over the dark and bloody conspiracies of treason, and had secured the re-establishment of law, order, and security. A martyr to the cause of humanity, he still, though dead, speaks to the hearts and affections of the American people in language more eloquent than words. I received no official information of this deplorable event, but on the 19th instant I communicated to the minister of foreign relations the melancholy intelligence in an official note. On the same day I received a response from his excellency, expressing detestation of the crime, and the warmest sympathies of the Peruvian government with the American people for the loss they have sustained by this afflictive event. On Saturday, the 20th, a committee of the Chilian citizens resident in this city waited upon me with a letter of condolence at this mournful occurrence and sympathy for the loss which the government of the United States and the cause of freedom had sustained. The letter was numerously signed, and contained earnest and honest expressions of grief. I expressed to the committee my gratitude for the noble and generous sentiments of fraternal feeling contained in their note. On the 23d I received from the president of the municipality of this city, General Antonio G. de la Fuente, a letter expressing the utter detestation of the members of that honorable corporation at the crime, and their profound grief for the loss sustained by the United States and the cause of freedom throughout the world. In fact, all classes of individuals hastened to express to me their sympathies for our loss, and their utter abhorrence of the crime and the assassin. In Lima all the flags on the government houses, foreign legations, and consulates, were displayed at half-mast for three days following the arrival of the news, and no token or manifestation of mourning was lacking to show that these expressions of grief were sincere, not only for us as a people, but for the cause, the most decided champion of which had become a martyr to his devotion to duty. At Callao were the same manifestations of grief and sympathy. Immediately that the news became known in that city, although the steamer arrived late in the afternoon, the flags upon the government houses, the Peruvian and foreign ships of war, English and Spanish, were dropped at half-mast, and on the next day at noon the usual funeral salutes were fired from the United States steamer St. Mary's, accompanied by the sad responses from the Peruvian, English, and Spanish ships of war then in port, and from the fort of the castle on shore. I cannot conclude this despatch without tendering my own sympathy and that of the citizens of the United States resident here and in Callao, to the honorable Secretary of State, and expressing their horror at the crime attempted upon him and his son, and the earnest hope for a speedy recovery from their wounds. The assassination of the President, and the attempted one of the head of the Department of State, exhibit a conspiracy at which civilization stands aghast, and which for the results it intended, as well as for its atrocity, cruelty, barbarism, and infamy, stands unapproached and unapproachable in the annals of history. I am, sir, your obedient servant, CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON. Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, &c., &c., &c. Mr. Robinson to Mr. Seward. No. 306.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: Believing that the American citizens resident in this capital and vicinity wished to have an opportunity to testify their sorrow for the great calamity that has fallen upon our nation in the lamentable death of President LINCOLN, and their horror and detestation of the crime of which he was the victim, I invited them to assemble at this legation on the 22d instant for that purpose. On the day designated a large number of them assembled and passed the resolutions. A profound sadness and grief pervaded all present. This solemnity of feeling made it manifest that the nation had suffered a terrible misfortune in his death, while the mode in which it was perpetrated produced sad suspicions and gloomy forebodings that others might become victims to this expiring effort. of treason; but none expressed a doubt in the ultimate triumph of our cause. I am, sir, your obedient servant, SIR: Your despatch No. 159, communicating the sad intelligence of the assassination of President LINCOLN, at Ford's theatre, on the evening of the 14th of April last, and of the horrible attempt that was made about the same time to assassinate the Secretary of State in his own house, when an invalid in bed, suffering from injuries he had previously received from the dangerous accident which lately happened to him, and of the assault on Mr. F. W. Seward, was received by the steamer of the 2d instant. The same intelligence was received, communicated in the columns of the United States papers and private letters by the mail of the 18th of May. Though I received no official intelligence by that mail, I communicated the notice of the President's death to the minister of foreign relations, as related in my despatch No. 305, of the date of the 28th of May. The same despatch gives also a narrative of the proceedings at Lima upon this melancholy event. I can only add that language has no words sufficiently significant to express the abhorrence and detestation entertained by American citizens here, and all other persons, of the crime and its perpetrator; and their regret that he whose policy, integrity of purpose, and unwearied devotion to duty had been so successful in suppressing this gigantic rebellion should not have lived to witness the final and conclusive triumph. We feel that we have lost a friend as well. as a statesman, who in the darkest hour of our bloody struggle never deviated from the glorious purpose of sustaining the Constitution and the government. against the designs of heartless traitors who attempted their destruction. The legation is draped in mourning for thirty days, and all our citizens will wear crape upon the left arm for the same space of time. Your order to all officers and others subject to the orders of the Secretary of State, that the same should be worn by them for six months, has been received, and will be complied with by the members of this legation. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON. [Translation.] ALCALDIA MUNICIPAL OF LIMA, MOST EXCELLENT SIR: The honorable municipality over which I have the honor to preside has been profoundly affected at the painful catastrophe which, in the person of his Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, has deprived the world of an honest man, the United States of an unblemished ruler, and liberty of its most decided champion. There is not a single heart that has remained indifferent in presence of so heinous a crime, and the municipality of Lima would think itself wanting in one of its most precious duties-gratitude to the great men who recognize and sustain the true rights of humanity-if it did not hasten to manifest to your excellency the indignation which the crime has caused to it, and the profound grief which its consummation has deserved from it. LINCOLN is dead, sir, but he will eternally live in the hearts of the good patriots and of the honest men of the earth. His name will be written in letters of gold, in order to record the value of virtue in rulers, while that of his assassin will be pronounced with horror so long as morality exists in the world. Will your excellency deign to accept this sincere manifestation of the sentiments which animate the municipality, and my own private ones, although it is very painful to improve so sad an opportunity to subscribe myself your attentive servant. ANTO. G. DE LA FUENTE. His Excellency the MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY of the United States of North America. [Translation.] SOCIETY OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PERU. Liberty-Equality-Fraternity. LIMA, May 23, 1865, And the 44th year of the Independence and the 41st of the Republic, SIR: The deplorable event which has moved the entire continent, drawing from it a cry of sincere grief, could not fail to be felt also by the "Society of the Founders of the Independence of Peru," over which I have the honor to preside, covering with mourning the heart of each one of its members. In the midst of the terrible allusions which have passed over our age-whitened heads it was a pleasing consolation that in the front of the American Union there existed so indefatigable a champion of liberty, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, whom entire humanity has seen during four years sustaining the most noble and sacred of causes. So energetic a chief would have been already sufficiently great by the excellent endowments of his heart, by the magnanimity and firmness of his republican principles, and by the elevation of the sacred cause of liberty which Providence confided to his inspirations; but it was necessary that so elevated a figure should shine through ages with the lustre of martyrdom, and destiny has been employed in realizing this mysterious work, snatching him suddenly from the arms of his family and his people. Death has been able to carry off an apostle and a genius, but his teaching will survive, because it is the law of good causes to triumph and exist with an immortal life. Unfortunate he who so obtuse as not to see that the cause of liberty is made now more firm than ever since the illustrious blood of the most generous of martyrs has made it fertile. We hope, then, full of faith that, for the good of these people and of entire humanity, there will be fulfilled the immortal destinies of that great and opulent nation on which the world looks with astonishment; meanwhile, sharing in the grief which oppresses all Americans, with the sincerity with which tles of the same doctrine and relatives of the same family ought to do, we pray to God not to extinguish that faith, and that by it He will give to the illustrious victim the reward of his virtues on the majestic throne of his glory. The cause of liberty will have in heaven one who pleads for it, after having valorously sustained it before an astonished world. apos The society charges me with transmitting to your excellency the expression of these sentiments; and in doing it, adding the proposition presented by one of its worthy members and unanimously approved, and as a fraternal resolution, it is pleasing to me to offer to your excellency the personal assurances of my greatest respect and consideration, as your obedient, attentive, and true servant. ESTANISLAO CORREA Y GARAY. His Excellency Señor CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [Translation.] SOCIETY OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PERU. At the session which the permanent junta held on Monday, the 22d instant, the worthy vocal of the said junta, C. D. José Antonio Alvarado, presented the following proposition, which was unanimously approved of: Proposition. The unhappy intelligence having arrived by the last steamer from Panama of the tragic death of the illustrious and virtuous President of the great North American republic, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, which took place on Saturday, the 15th of April last, and which has struck with horror the entire continent, on account of the irreparable loss of the eminent patriot, of the idol of republicanism, of the worthy successor of the immortal Washington, of the missionary of liberty, the friend of humanity, and the unwearied defender of the emancipation of the slave, the Society of the Founders of the Independence of Peru, composed of the last remains of the great liberating army which, with its blood and sacrifices, had the high glory of founding this nation free and independent of all foreign power, sustaining with valor and constancy that heroic struggle, imitating the example of that colossal republic, perform the sacred duty of manifesting, in a solemn manner, the bitter grief which animates them on account of the misfortune of that prominent citizen, the idol of the great |