NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EUROPE has been startled with a short and business-like pro- clamation from the President of the United States that, "Whereas it appears from evidence in the Bureau of Military Jus- tice that the atrocious murder of the late President Abraham Lincoln and the attempted murder of Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, were incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jefferson Davis, late of Richmond, Virginia ; 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 harboured in Canada," the President offers for the arrest of such persons, or any of them, "within the limits of the United States, so that they can be brought to trial," various sums, from 100,000 dols. (20,0000 for Mr. Davis, to 10,000 dols. (2,000/.) for Mr. Cleary. As might be expected, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Tucker vehemently deny the charge, and offer to stand their trial in the United States, if the United States Government will pay for their defence by counsel and give them a safe-conduct. They speak of the proclamation as a "hellish plot" by Mr. Johnson "to murder their Christian President,"—Mr. Davis, we conclude. The United States Government is said by all the New York papers to assert strongly that it has tangible evi- dence to this effect, for which of course we must wait. English incredulity is roused less by any confidence in Mr. Davis's character—for revenge has been too generally a virtue among the fire-eating Southerners—than by confidence in his conspicuous ability, which would have told him that such a plot might bring fearful vengeance on the South, but could bring no good to it or him beyond revenge. Our New York correspondent's lead con- tains an ingenious but doubtful hypothesis connecting this plot with that to which General Sherman's understanding fell a victim the other day.
