President Johnson recently remarks: - “Mercy has been slain. Let us now take care that Justice is not slain also.”

 

Another mercantile firm of New York, has added its proffer of $10,000 toward the half million fund proposed to be offered for the capture of Jeff Davis, which makes $30,000 already proffered.

 

It is proposed to raze Ford’s Theatre, and to raise on its site a monument to President Lincoln.

 

Gen, Halleck has taken command at Richmond.