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The above resolution was unanimously approved by the members present at the session of to day.

A true copy:

MANUEL URUETA, Secretary of the Convention.

M. AMADOR FIERRO,
Secretary General of State.

[Translation.]

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA-PRESIDENCY OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF PANAMA, NO. 4.

SIR: Your note of yesterday, imparting to me the official information of the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, would have produced the most heartfelt and painful feelings of sur prise, if I had not already became aware through the press, by private letters, and by the loud and public expressions of sympathy in this city, of this most lamentable occurrence.

I was sir, one of the first to receive the sad news, and without loss of time, 1 directed the flag of Colombia to be unfurled at half-mast for the period of one week, to demonstrate the lively sympathy with which will be received the news of this event throughout the territory under my jurisdiction, as well as the rest of this republic.

The untimely and cruel death of Abraham Lincoln by the assassin's hand is a great calamity, fallen not alone on the eminent nation of whom he was the chief, but also upon humanity at large, who must and will yield their tribute of admiration to the eminent virtue which adorned the illustrious man. I consider myself greatly honored in uniting my voice with those of his compatriots, who so sincerely deplore their great and irreparable loss.

To-morrow at noon I shall, in union with the principal officers of the State, comply with the sad duty of paying you a visit of condolement at the lamentable event.

In the mean time permit me once more the honor of subscribing myself your obedient servant,

The CONSUL of the United States of America.

JIL COLUNJE.

CONSUL: The virtues of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States of America, were so prominent, that the news of his tragic death could not have been received otherwise than with feelings of sincere sorrow.

His constancy and firmness in bringing to a happy end one of the greatest of rebellions of the civilized world, made his life precious and inestimable to the American nation, which deserves the sympathy of ali for this unfortunate event. The government and people of Peru will lament this deplorable event, and I am sure will be filled with the same lively sympathy which I now have the honor to express to you, in replying to those words of kindness with which you have honored me in your official communication of yesterday.

Allow me to offer the affectionate considerations with which I have the honor to be, your humble and obedient servant,

A. R. MCKEE, Esq.,

United States Consul.

MANUEL GENERO CARILLO,
Peruvian Consul.

BRITISH CONSULATE,

Panama, May 3, 1865.

MY DEAR COLLEAGUE: It was with the deepest sorrow that I learned the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by the hand of an assassin, as communicated to me in your note of yesterday, and I take the liberty of expressing to you my respectful sympathy with the family and friends of the late President, and with the government and people of the United States in their bereavement, a sympathy which will be universally felt all over the world.

I have the honor to be, my dear colleague, yours, faithfully,
C. A. HENDERSON.

Colonel ALEXANDER R. MCKEE,

United States Consul, Panama.

SON.

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URUGUAY.

[Translation.]

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS,

Montevideo, June 5, 1865.

SIR VICE-CONSUL: The undersigned, minister of foreign relations, has the honor to inform you that he has received special instructions from the superior provisional government to manifest its profound sentiments, and the part they have taken in the just mourning produced by the deplorable loss of the unfortunate President Lincoln, whose precious existence has been cut short by the dagger of the homicide.

In proof whereof, the undersigned accompanies legalized copy of the decree issued by the superior government, that you may transmit the same to the United States.

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Whereas a most horrid crime has been perpetrated upon the person of the worthy Chief Magistrate of the United States, a sister republic, to the sorrow of its inhabitants and regret of all civilized nations of the world, and the provisional government wishing to make a public demonstration of its sentiments, resolves and decrees:

ARTICLE 1. At sunrise, on the 5th of this month, the national flag and the United States flag shall be hoisted at half-mast on the fortress of San José, to remain till sunset, and cannons shall be fired every half hour during the day.

ART. 2. The national flag shall be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset on all the public departments of the capital.

ART. 3. The ministers of state are charged with the execution of this decree in their respective departments.

ART. 4. Let this be communicated, published, &c.

A true copy:

FLORES.

FRANCISCO A. VIDAL.
JUAN RAMON GOMEZ.
CARLOS DE CASTRO.
LORENZO BATTLE.

ALBERTO FLANGINI,

Chief Official of Foreign Relations.

At a meeting of the citizens of the United States resident in the city of Montevideo, held at the residence of Dr. Peter Bourse, No. 200 Calle 25 de Mayo, on the 7th instant, for the purpose of manifesting their profound grief at the receipt of the sad news of the death of the illustrious President of the United States of America by the hand of an assassin, and of testifying their gratitude to the government of this republic for its demonstrations of sympathy towards the American nation, after some discussion regarding the objects of the meeting, Dr. Peter Bourse having been called to the chair, and Mr. B. Whitman appointed secretary of the meeting, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas we, the American citizens resident in Montevideo, have received the melancholy intelligence which places beyond doubt the sad fact of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of our country: Therefore

Resolved 1. That, as loyal citizens of the United States of America, we sincerely lament and deplore the untimely death of our late President, Abraham Lincoln, whose memory we revere as one of the noblest patriots of the age.

Resolved 2. That we tender to the bereaved family of our beloved President the expressions of our profound grief and unlimited sympathy.

Resolved 3. That we tender our heartfelt thanks to the provisional government of the Oriental republic for its sympathy with us in our cause aud in our bereavement, as expressed in the public official demonstrations of grief, by causing the national and American flags to be hoisted at half-mast on the public offices on the 5th instant, and half-hour guns to be fired from sunrise to sunset during the day.

Resolved 4. That our gratitude is also due to the public press of this city, which, without exception, expressed its sorrow and indignation at the fiendish deed which deprived us of our Chief Magistrate, and also placed its columns in mourning as a token of respect to the illustrious dead.

Resolved 5. That we thank Almighty God for preserving to us the life of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and at the same time we extend to that eminent statesman our sympathy and our best wishes for his speedy recovery.

Resolved 6. That to our fellow-citizens in the United States we renew our pledge of continued and unfaltering fidelity to the Union and to the federal government as constitutionally organized at Washington.

Resolved 7. That three copies of these resolutions be presented to the consul of the United States in this city, with a request that one copy be forwarded to the bereaved family, one to the Department of State at Washington, and one to the provisional government of the Oriental republic.

Resolved 8. That these resolutions be published in the daily papers of this city, in the Standard of Buenos Ayres, and be also forwarded to the United States for publication.

MONTEVIDEO, June 9, 1865.

PETER BOURSE, Chairman.
B. WHITMAN, Secretary.

VENEZUELA.

[Translation.]

UNITED STATES OF VENEZUELA-DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS-CENTRAL BUREAU, NO. 106.

CARACAS, 2d year of the Law and 7th of the Confederation,

June 2, 1865.

CITIZEN MINISTER: I have read to the citizen the first designated in the exercise of the presidency of the republic a note which the legation of the United States of America addressed to this Department on the 31st of May, and in which it communicates already, and upon official information, the assassi nation of the President of that nation, the wounds inflicted upon the Secretary and his Assistant, and the entrance of the Vice-President upon the functions of the executive power.

On replying to you, and according to the orders which I have received, I must bear in mind that your legation, understanding perfectly the spirit of its instructions, and interpreting with fidelity the sentiments and principles of the government of the republic, anticipated of its own motion at the earliest opportunity the taking of a part in the mourning produced by the immense misfortune; and upon the arrival here of this information, the government commissioned me to make a visit, in its name, to Mr. Culver, at which I should make known the grief and horror with which it had learned the very afflicting event.

Now the citizen President ad interim has ordered the sympathies of the people and government of Venezuela to be reiterated to the United States of America for the loss it has just experienced. Those crimes, atrocious in all their circumstances, and which demonstrate on the part of their authors the extremity of wickedness, unavailing to the object which they propose to themselves, if any, always condemned by universal opinion, even when they may seem pardonable by causes of great magnitude, acquire extraordinary proportions on this occasion, in which a virtuous man, tenacious of the fulfilment of his duty, and who triumphantly sustained the cause of the Union and the extirpation of slavery in the great democracy of the New World, fell by the hands of an infamous perfidy. Formed by himself in the practical school of life, and amidst the severities of fate, his deserts were the result of his own effort, and through them he twice reached the presidency of the American federation. The integrity, the moderation, the energy with which he discharged that office in the most calamitous times of his country, contending with obstacles of every kind, which his sagacity foresaw and his ability overcame, will ever do honor to his political qualities and to the country which produces such men; and his opinions, permanently inimical to slavery, which in the end he succeeded in seeing sup pressed by a constitutional amendment now very nearly consummated, place him among the benefactors of his fellow-creatures. All these talents, if, on the one hand, they assign to him an eminent position in the estimation of his contemporaries and of posterity, on the other hand, but redouble the grief for his death, and of the attempt which, adding to the injuries of nature those of human wickedness, increased the dangers of the wise statesman who, in so high a degree, was the sharer of his toils and measures, and which were extended even to his Assistant Secretary.

The government of the United States of Venezuela which, scarcely installed, ommissioned a minister to Washington to represent the sympathies of this fed

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