except of such as may, with what is on hand, be required for forces in the field to the first of June next.

Fourth. That the Chief of Ordnance stop all purchases of arms and ammunition and material therefor, and reduces the manufacture of arms and ordnance stores in the Government arsenals as rapidly as can be done without injury to the service.

Fifth. That the Chief of Engineers stop work on all field fortifications and other works except those for which specific appropriations have been made by Congress for completion or that may be required for the proper protection of works in progress.

Sixth. That all soldiers in the hospitals who require no further medical treatment, be honorably discharged from service with immediate payment. All officers and enlisted men who have been prisoners of war and are on furlough or in parole camps, and all recruits in rendezvous, except those for the Regular Army, will likewise be honorably discharged.

Officers, whose duty it is, under the regulations of the service, to make out rolls and other final papers connected with the discharge and payment of soldiers, are directed to make them out without delay, so that this order may be carried into effect immediately.

Seventh. The Adjutant-General of the army will cause immediate returns to be made by all commanders in the field, garrisons, detachments and posts, of their respective forces, with a view to their immediate reduction.

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Eighth. The Quartermaster's, Subsistence, Engineer and Provost-Marshal-General's Departments will reduce the number of clerks and employees to that absolutely required for closing the business of their respective departments; and will, without delay, report to the Secretary of War the number required of each class or grade. The Surgeon-General will make similar reductions of surgeons, nurses and attendants in his bureau.

Ninth. The chiefs of the respective bureaus will immediately cause proper returns to be made out of the public property in their charge, and statements of the property in each that may be sold upon advertisement and publication without prejudice to the service.

Tenth. The Commissary of Prisoners will have rolls

made out of the name, residence, time and place of capture, and occupation of all prisoners of war who will take the oath of allegiance to the United States, to the end that such as are disposed to become good and loyal citizens of the United States, and who are proper objects of Executive clemency, may be released upon the terms that the President shall deem fit and consistent with public safety. By order of the Secretary of War.

Official:

W. A NICHOLS.

THOMAS W. VINCENT, Assistant Adjutant-General. COMMERCE IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON,

Saturday April 29, 1865.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.-Being desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing in the insurrectionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is hereby ordered:

First. That all restrictions upon internal, domestic and coastwise commercial intercourse be discontinued in such parts of the States of Tennesse, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi River, as shall be embraced within the lines of the National military occupation, excepting only such restrictions as are imposed by the acts of Congress, and regulations in pursuance thereof prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President; and excepting also from the effect of this order the following articles, contraband of war, to wit: Arms, ammunition, and all articles from which ammunition is manufactured, gray uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instruments for operating telegraph lines.

Second. All existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting internal, domestic and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above named, be and the same are hereby revoked, and that no military or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other

vessels engaged therein under proper authority pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. ANDREW JOHNSON.

THE MILITARY COMMISSION FOR THE TRIAL OF THE ACCOMPLICES OF BOOTH.

This court met on Tuesday, May 9th, 1865, in a room fitted up for the purpose, in the old penitentiary building, adjoining the arsenal grounds at Washington city.

The following order was read:

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON CITY, May 1, 1865. Whereas the Attorney-General of the United States hath given his opinion:

"That the persons implicated in the murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate other officers of the Federal Government at Washington city, and their aiders and abettors, are subject to the jurisdiction of, and legally triable before, a military commission :"

It is ordered: 1st, That the Assistant-Adjutant-General detail nine competent military officers to serve as a commission for the trial of said parties, and that the Judge Advocate-General proceed to prefer charges against said parties for the alleged offences, and bring them to trial before said military commission; that said trial or trials be conducted by the said Judge Advocate-General, and, as recorder thereof, in person, aided by such assistant or special judge advocates as he may designate, and that said trials be conducted with all diligence consistent with the ends of justice: the said commission to sit without regard to hours.

2d. That Brevet-Major-General Hartranft be assigned to duty as special provost-marshal-general for the purposes of said trial and attendance upon said commission and the execution of its mandates.

3d. That the said commission establish such order or rules

of proceeding as may avoid unnecessary delay and conduce to the ends of public justice.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6, 1865.

Official copy.

W. A. NICHOLS, Assistant-Adjutant-General.

THE FLIGHT OF JEFFERSON DAVIS-CONNECTION OF HIMSELF AND OTHER REBELS WITH THE ASSASSINATION.

When the rebel General Lee telegraphed to Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, "My lines are broken, Richmond must be evacuated to-night," instant preparations for flight were taken by the leaders of the Rebellion. Such plunder as could be secured were taken southward with the fugitives, and the city was set on fire. Davis, Breckinridge, Benjamin, and other prominent leaders, kept together, under a heavy cavalry escort, and made their way towards the Mississippi. While this hegira was in progress, it appears that the Bureau of Military Justice at Washington became acquainted with facts implicating Davis and other leading rebels in the murder of Mr. Lincoln. The subjoined proclamation was thereupon

issued:

Whereas, It appears from evidence in the Bureau of Military Justice that the atrocious murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, were incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jefferson Davis, late of Richmond, Va., and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, George N. Sanders, W. C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against the Government of the United States, harbored in Canada; now, therefore, to the end that justice may be done, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do offer and promise for the arrest of said persons, or either of them within the limits of the United States, so that they can be brought to trial, the following rewards:

One hundred thousand dollars for the arrest of Jefferson Davis, twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest of Clement C. Clay; twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi; twentyfive thousand dollars for the arrest of George N. Sanders; twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest of Beverly Tucker, and ten thousand dollars for the arrest of William C. Cleary, late Clerk of Clement C. Clay.

The Provost-Marshal-General of the United States is directed to cause a description of said persons, with notice of the above rewards, to be published.

In testimonny whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be [L. S.] affixed. Done at the City of Washington, the second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth.

ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State.

RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY IN VIRGINIA.

On the 9th of May, 1865, the President issued the following proclamation:

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON CITY, May 9, 1865. Executive order to reëstablish the authority of the United States, and execute the laws within the geographical limits known as the State of Virginia.

Ordered:

First. That all acts and proceedings of the political, military, and civil organizations which have been in a state of insurrection and rebellion, within the State of Virginia, against the authority and laws of the United States, and of which Jefferson Davis, John Letcher, and William Smith were late the respective chiefs, are declared null and void. All persons who shall exercise, claim, pretend, or attempt. to exercise any political, military, or civil power, authority, jurisdiction, or right, by, through, or under Jefferson Davis, late of the city of Richmond, and his confederates, or under John Letcher or William Smith and their confederates, or under any pretended political, military, or civil commission