The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1865, Page 4

4& New YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. —— —eeeaeeeeooa io OP Volume XXX... se sesase eNO. 99 AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. \ BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Umous Tom's Camu. + MIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Kuro Laan. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Dor; om, THe euson en vas Heante. ‘WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Comronat Carrovcus. NEW RY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ies.amp XD a pe ay ny Broad Pama Downa— WALLACK'S THEATRE, way.— Burson & Co. — OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Szaious Famiur— Poonixs. te Mea ¥ 'USEUM. Broadway.—Two Mamxora Far Le —Dwanr—Uiast Bor—Maaeuus ‘MapuiD, Open Day and Evening. RYANTS' MINSTRELS, > Hall, 472 Broad raheem Bonds, Danses, buncaves, &c.—Conro- WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermortax Bonas, Daxcus, £0.—PetnoL‘caanis, ox O1l ON THR Baan, HOOLEY’S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Sonas, psoas, Byntasauas, £0.01 MaNtAos, SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 5% Bioadway.—Roseat Huctan’s Un.usions anv Comic SoLos—Srinit Sack. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fonrteenth street. Equestrian, Grumasric ann Acnosaric Exrxatainnests—O' "Doxovuuce. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bat.ers, ANTOMINES, BURLESQUES, &C.—Don Juan—Tuw Rivat Aa- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. ull 10 P. M. —=— = New York, Monday, April 10, 1865, — = =. =: == THE SITUATION. ‘The grand climax has been reached. The rebel Army of Northern Virginia, which for four years has beon the bulwark of Jeff, Davis’ confederacy, has no longer an existence. General Lee suirondered his entire remain {ng force to General Grant yesterday afterticon, as announced in the official telograms and cor- Fespondence which are this morning luld before the readers of the Herat. General Grant’s splendid Combinations had so completely environed the rebela as to render escape impossible and further fighting n thelr part hopeless, General Lee was therefore com- pelled to accept the terms proposed by General Grant, Phese are, briefly, the turning over of ull the rebel rms, artillery and property to an officer to bo desig pated by General Grant,and tho disbandment of the butire rebel army, the officcrs and men of which give Sheir parole not to take up against the Dnited States until exchanged. This done, oMcer and man is to be allowed to ro to his hom, net to be disturbed by Uniied States thority #0 long as he obsorves his parole and the laws force where he may reside. And thus endé the rebol fe of Northern Virginia, the first and the last hope of he traitoro's conspirators of this wicked rebollion, and with {t virtually ends tho rebellion iteolf, By th’s sur- render of Lee in Virginia Genoral Sherman will no doubt find his work of disposing of Johnston in North Carolina ‘vastly simplified. In recognition of the magnificent national successes, Pulminating ‘in the eapture-of Le's entire rebel force, achieved during the past wock by the armies funder tho iminediate direction of Lieutenant Gene- yal Grant, Secrotary Stanton has transmitted to him & despatch thanking him and the officers and poldiors under his comand, on behalf of the govern- pment and the people, for their patriotism, sk ll, bravery indomitable persevorance. Secretary Stanton also the fring of a salute of two hundred gunsat overy “Pp ny and department headquarters, and every military and arsenal throughoat tho country, in eommemora- m of the e:rrend>r of Lee. } The exceedingly interesting Hxnat dospatehes which Je publ'sh this morning furnish the details of the pur- suit of Loe and his flying rebols by tho Second, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Twenty-fourth corps and the cavalry. Mocessarily the official telegrams rogarding th's important and eventful march have contained merely a baro and concise statement of the Principal facts of Our des. patches supply all the particulars and constitute a complete chronicle of the grand triumphal movement up to and including the 7th instant. Their continued successes had put General Grant's soldiers in the most Dunyant of spirits; but when they received news of the occupation of Rich:nond by General Weltzel their enthu- slasm was of the wildest character. the roads have been found strown with canton, caissons, wagons, ainbulances, ammunition and stores abandoned by the enemy in order to accelerate his flight, while the woods hare been fornd filled with rebel stragglers. The arms greatest’ moment. All along the route country travelled througn is very rich and beautiful, aud tho weather has oven jine; but the roads thronghout havg been found in a very bad condition, A refa: eo from Danville, Va., who arrived within the lines @abo Army of the Potomac on last Thureday, stated that dh Tuesday General Stoneman's national cavalry from Kast Tennessee had struck the railroad run- ning between Danville and Greensboro, in North Caro- lina, and were engaged in tearing it up in the vicinity of a placo called High Point This poration was no doubt designed im part at Icast to render doubly sure the prevention of a Junction of Leo's and Johnston's rebel armies, That being now placed among the imporsitilities by tho surrender of Goneral Loe, Genera] Stoncman's movements will no doubt hasten the coilapso of General Johnston's entre military oxganization, It is stated that Jeff Davis arrived im Danville, Va, from Richmond, on Inst Monday afternoon. Trains loaded with fagitives from the rebel capital were arriving at Danville during ali that day. ‘Tho fleld of the brilliant closing events of the war, an- pounced in our columns th’s morning, is shown in the ‘comprehensive map which we give of Virginia and North Carolina. It prevents thé scenes of Goneral Grant's operations against Lee, of General Sherman's against Johnston, of General Stoneman on the Danville and “Greensboro Railroad, and of General Hancock's move- mont from Staunton, Va, The following isa list of the names, rank and State ‘Rativity of the officers of the rebel irom ram Stonewall, ying in the port of Ferrol, Spain, on the 26th of March, the date of our latost advices, via:— Onpinin—T. 5. Page, Va. Thewtenante—Firet, R. R. Cartor, Va. ; Scoond, George @. Shryock, Ky. ; Third, Georgo A. Borchet, Ga ; Fourth, EG, Road, Va ; Fifth, Samuel Barron, Jr., Va. Paymasier—R. W. Curtis, Ark. Engincere—Ohiet, W. P. Brooks, 8. C.; First Arsistant, ‘W. Hutchison Jackson, Md ; Second Assistant, J, 0. Closh, Toxns, Marte. W, Wilkinson, 8. C. Braincain—J. VM. Dul Me Ounner—3.B. King, N. 0. Cargenter—Jas. Mathor, Md. Master's Mate—V. Hi. savage, Md. Paymaster's Clerk—W\\\\am Boynton, Ala, Mrqeant of Marina—I. 4. Price, Ve. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The peamshig Bremen, from suthampton March 99, ie due at this port o-day. three days later. ‘The Rev. J. P. Thompson preached an eloquent sermon ‘on the Treatment of the Rebel Conspirators,” last evening, in the Broadway Tabermacle, The ¢ivine ad- monition, “Vengeance 1s mine, I will repay,” recelved the share of the speaker's attention. He urged the advisability of turning attention to the roots of the conspiracy rather than to the themselves. “We have,” said he, “saved the life of the nation. We can afford to let the traitors live. Neither let us burden oursélves with their safe keeping, as though harm could come from leaving them st large. As we have mot bratalized ourselves by imitating the studied erueltios of the rebels towards prisoners of war, let us not pow begin the harrowing and demoraliz- ing policy of condomnation and imprisonment for politi- cal crimes.” The whole rebel government does not fur- nish material worthy of martyrdom, or even for a good caricature of. St, Helena. We can afford not only to let the conspirators live, but to let them live at large. Handel's ‘Hallelujah” chorus was admirably rendered by an efficient choir. A collection was made at the close of the sermon in aid of the American Union Commission. Randolph Barnes and Nicholas Brooks were yesterday committed to the Tombs to await an examination on the charge of having, early on last Tucsday morning, stolen fifty barrels of rum, valued at four thousand five hun- dred dollars, from No, 207 Duane street. It ts alleged that just after the porter had opened the store and gone up stairs, where he remained for half an hour, the prisoners had four trucks driven up, into which the rum was loaded, and in which they suddetily hurried it off. Nearly all the missing liquor has been recovered. Dominick Connolly was yesterday locked up in the Tombs, charged with assault and battery on a citizen and also on the policeinan who aurested him. The constitutional amendment abolishing slavery throughout the United States was unanimously ratified by both branches of the Tennessee Legislature on the 6th inst. Tennessee is the twentieth State that has adopted the amendment, while but three have rejected it. A serious accidont occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Harper's Ferry, on last Friday afternoon. ‘A tonnage train, on which were a number of ambulance drivers «nd discharged soldiers, on their way to Washington, while stopping at one of the regular watering stations of the road, was run into by a freight train behind it, the rear car being completely smashed, and four of the occupants killed and Ove eeriously wounded. It is stated that tho engineer of the rear engine was asicep and did not dis- cover tho danger until too late to avoid the collision, when he jur ped irom the tra’n and ran into the woods, An excursion train on the Indianapolis and Cincinnatt Railroad was thrown from the track on the 2d inst, by the breaking of a flange of one of the wheels of the locomo- tive, and three persons were killed and several wounded, On the 29th ult. a locomotive on the Knoxville and Chatianooga Railroad, atinched to a train conveying the Twenty-elghth Kentucky regiment to the front, ran off the track, by which one soldier was instantly killed and several vihers soverely sculded. “Hor European news report’ ts Surrendor—Johnston—Mobile=— Trans-Mississippl Rebels. All that remains of the Army of Northern Virginia was yesterday surrendered to General Grant by General Lee—the men and officers to be paroled and go to their homes, and officers to retain their private baggage and side arms. General Grant has conceded generous terms to @ brave enemy; but this surrender was a simple act of humanity toward his men on the part of General Lee. These soldiers have, in the last seven days, been tried to the very limit of hu- ™an endurancs, They have fought by day and marched by night, through all that time, with perhaps hardly enough food to keep soul and body together. All this they did for a hopeless cause; and it was obvious to every one that any longer continuance of such a struggle was a simple butchery anid waste of life. To give up the struggle, therefore, was the least concession of pride that Lee could make to the devotion of such men, especially as it was con- cession that enabled him to adhere to his own purpose not to fight except for Virginia. But this surrender is nevertheless the crowning act of the war, and gives it a grand and proper close. Lee’s army haa been tor six months the only respectable obstacle to our arms, and now, within seven or eight days, it has been completely wiped out of existence—not a man @ the whole force that lately held Richmond re- maining in arms. Within that short period the bravest, best organized and most successful army of the rebellion has been utterly swept away. Never was there a more decisive cam- paign than this last one of General Grant’s. Grant will now, no doubt, immediately turn his attention to another foe. Grant, Johnston, Sherman and Stoneman are all operating in the compact theatre shown by the map we give to-day. It should be remembered that it is now six days since Lee was beaten at Petersburg and compelled to evacuate that place and the rebel capital. Johnston was, in all probability, informed of that defeat on the same day that Davis was informed of it—the 2d inst.—and though he was then at Ralcigh, it is not in the least likely that he is there now. He has had abundant time to reach Lee's Danville, and no one ought to be surprised to hear of his being there. His presence there would bring him within easy reach of Grant ; and with Grant on one hand, Sherman on thé other and Stoneman not far from Danville, wo might soon hear of another surrender as clean and complete as the one just made by Lee. The operations against Mobile will be greatly affected by this immense. gyccess in Virginia. It has been a point of with the rebel offi- cers defending that place to hold out as long as Leo did, and that the Inst stronghold of the Galf States should not be taken while a stronghold was still defended in Virginia. The news of the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee will therefore satisfy the honor of the men at Mobile, and their sarrender will be, tn all likelibood, the next news ‘from the Galf, This samo glorions news will doubt- less disperse the fifty-three thougand rebels on the other side the Mississippi, who adhere so loosely to the rebellion that they would not cross the river to help it. And thus, in what- ever way we look, we sce daylight shining through the miserable remnant of rebellion. Seranats Stats Action mm Vironns.—Mr Lincoln has returned to Washington; but it will be seen from the Richmond news that the Virginia Legislature, which has not yet been adjourned, is fully disposed to consider some proposition made to it by the President before Lee's surrender. It will be a little odd if Vir- sinle, that bes ralled go agaipst the “soparate State action” of Alabama aud North Corolinn, Shonks ‘ot inst be the first to re enter the Ualam br eaparate Staio NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1865. ssl OG SE a te RE aD Geicmpn bf! lAbsbrteedl Doaocrary—ne | piopet genbmals. \Gieat-—Hur own glotious and War with France or England. victorious Grant, whose name will live in General Lee has surrendered! That is the | history as one of the world’s noblest soldiers— news of the hour—the supreme news of our | Grant, we say, joined the volunteers of INinois century; and we have now a moment to think | as the captain of a company of infantry; and seriously and calmly on the duties devolved | the only direct aotion of the government in his upon us by the termination of the rebellion, case was an order to remove him from com- It is not only the privilege but the duty of vic- | mand just previous to his capture of Fort tors to be generous, as by such a couree fresh | Donelson—an event which retained him in the laurels are added to their fame and their | service to become, as he is to-day, the military ascendency is more firmly established. A pow- savior of his country. Sherman declared, in erful people, who have so gloriously attested a the first year of the rebellion, that he would strength more than adequate for every need, | require two hundred thousand men for the ope- can well afford to treat their vanquished do- | rations which, even at that early day, fell mestic enemies with the splendid leniency ex- | within the scope of his farseeing genius; and hibited in the terms of surrender proposed by | forthwith he was relieved and pronounced in- General Grant and accepted by General Lee, | sane by Mr. Secretary Cameron, What part had while regarding with silent derision, or ignor the government proper in Sheridan’s eleva- ing altogether, the foiled efforts and tion—the matchléss worth ofour greatest cavalry hopes of all their foreign foes. Our | leader having first been discovered by the great popular struggle, now virtually closed, | troops who fought under him, and the successes finds us with vast interests in both they enabled him to achieve compelling bis sections of our reunited country demanding | recognition by the authorities. It is of public prompt attention; but with no revenges to be | record that it was in contemplation to remove gratified, nor any inclination to squander time | General Thomas during the very hottect hours in the costly luxury of obtéining rotribution for | of the contest which hurled back into Alabama bygone injuries. Over the errors of the South | the shattered divisions of Hood; and, if we let a veil be thrown forever; whlie for the | chose to extend this article and onter wrongs inflicted on us during the pasi four | upon details, it might, we think, be demon- ; years by the governments of France and Eng- | strated that in no single case has a land we can best obtain satisfaction by show- | military officer, originally selected ‘for high ing to the oppressed populations of those | commind by our government, proved equal countries how superbly contemptuous of for. | to the responsibilities of his position. It was eign interference—how grandly magnanimous | our people who furnished the armies, and the to the misled an chastened obi!dren of our | armies then selected their own commanders— own household—the ruling democracy of this | the Lieutenant General himself having becn continent can prove in their hour of tri | imposod upon the government by s vote which umph. It is by an example of the cver | the voice of the army compeiled the elected increasing prosperity and grandeur of our | representatives of the people to cast in favor reunited country, acting on the aspira‘ioue, | of their most trusted obief. It is the people, also, necessities and impulses of the French and | who hav? furnished all the requisite finances, English masses, that the unwise aud unjast | matorial, resources and powers for the conflict, policy of thcir respective govornme:ts in their indectructible faith in tho final triumph of the now almost extinguished “confedcra of porvlar institutions overcoming every can be most effectually punished—thes> ¢ obstacle, and even defying the worst mis- ernments, in their blind hatred and jealousy of | management of Secretary Chase to bankrupt a our free democratic system, having established | treasury which had its best basis in their unfal- a precedent in granting belligerent rights to | tering resoive. rebellious States which musi hereafter, and To the people, therefore, and to our gallant before long, prove fatal to their own cxi.s'ence. | armies—beaded by Grant, Sherman, Sheridan They, surely, of all others—only existing by | and their brave associates—all the glory of the legitimacy and divine right—should have been | prescnt moment belongs; and it should properly the last to recognize and abst any insurreetion | be left with them to decide on what terms of against organized national authority; and, permanent pacification e vanqnished in this least of all, an insurrection against a govern- | contest are to be reaccepted as citizens of the ment so absolutely free and equal to all sec- | Union. That those terms will be generous, we tions and classes as was, and shall here- | are well assured; for our armies are true repre- after be, our own. If, for aileged wrongs | sentatives of the people, and the Americans of anticipation or frivolous theories of are a most generous people; while, as to the in- pride, certain States of our Union were justified in rebelling against a government under which all had equal right, and protection—their action receiving the approval of the French Emperor and the active sympathy of the British aristocracy—how will the ac count stand when the oppressed French and British populations rise up against the in- tolerable political eppressions and physical privations under which they now groan, and from which their only present hope of escape is by emigration to this generous land? Tho struggle we have just’brought to an end has not been in the least understood abroad; nor, indeed, has its full purport been revealed to any but the most thoughtful and far-secing of our own people. Earl Russell declared it to be “a contest for independence by the South, and for empire on the part of the North”—than which it is impossible to conceive or frame any statement of equal brevity containing errors so gigantic. Our struggle has not been one for empire, nor even—in any strict sense—for the constitution; nor will it be found, when closely scrutinized, ® war declared or carried on by the regu- lar machinery of our government for the vindi- cation of its national authority. This war has been a poople’s war for the maintenance and supremacy of the people’s right to govern them- selves—a war as much forthe true, ultimate interests of the Southern as of the Northern people; and having for its main object to re, affrm and establish once and forevermore that the will of the majority, peacefully and legally expressed, must and shall be the supreme and irresistible power of our whole country, to which the minority must peacefully and legally submit, or be prepared to take the con- sequences, All will remember that in the early days of Mr. Lincoln’s previous term his Secretary of State and other Cabinet offteers held grave question as to the expediency or even “constitutionality” of attempting to prevent by military force the secession of any “sovereign State” from the Union. They fussed and dawdicd over this for more than a month, many prominent repub- licans being openly in favor of an anresisted separation. Butat last, by the mad folly of some few Southern leaders, Fort Sumter was fired upon; and then at once, with a magnifi- cent unanimity, our whole people arose in their might, brushing aside os cobwebs all technical opposition to their will, and fiercoly demanding of the authorities they had placed in power arms and organwation for the reassertion of the supremacy of the ballot over every square mile, and foot, and inch of their indivisible country. How little the regular machinery ot our government appreci- ated the gravity of that crisis, or the insense earnestness of our people in their resolve to maintain popular suthority in all segtions, the first ridiculous call for “soventy-five thousand men to serve three months” may sufficiently {Mustrate. Trained only in the routine of party chicane and deception, the mere politicians who thon formed our s%-halled “governing clase” could not fhat a call for one mil- lion men to fight, and, if need were, all to per- ish in this cans, would havo been as instantly and fully anawerod. And wat has beon the history of our straggle, fe fraught on both sides with heroic evonta, our struggle by the failure of the English and French governments to carry out their treaty obligations with a friendly government, and to enforce the law of nations in our interest, we. can well afford—as before remarked— to leave time and the powerful example of our success to bring about # day of reckoning for their conduct. If Ireland, for instance, should again rebel—as Ireland has had a habit of doing for six hundred years—with what face could the British government ask us to prevent the Fenian Brotherhood, for example, from sending over arms and munitions of war for one or two hundred thousand’ men, with from five to severt thousand veteran soldiers and officers, trained in gur battles of the past foor years, and only: panting to as- sist in organizing on Irish soil the inchoate valor and sinew of an Irish army? Or what plea could the French Emperor advance against our recognizing whatever popular movement may hereafter make head against his throne, or the throne of his Mexican protégé, in case the sol- diera of General Lee should see fit to emigrate in that direction, or the selling and sending by our merchants of armed ships and all the muni- tions of “belligerency” to any country or people with which either heor Maximilian of Mexico shall hereafter be engaged in hostilities? Our surest mode of scouring satisfaction and in- demnity for all wrongs we have received from Europe will be in our reunited capacity to become hourly and daily more prosper- ous, benéficent and powerful under our popular Institutions, thus setting before the bright example and beacon, of which the pro- letarian elements in both countries will not be slow to take advantage. The elder Napoleon spoke @ most serious and solemn truth when he declared that within sfty years from his death “all Europe must be Cossack or republican.” Tho triumph of tho American democracy in this war for the supremacy of the institutions under which all our prévious progress has been achieved Is an assurance that his prophecy will be fulfilled; and not in the Cossack alterna- tive. Less than a year ago the popular asser- tion of American self-knowledge, which took shape in the phrase “We are a great people,” furnished a continual theme of sneering laugh- ter to all the malignant tory journalists and bitter imperialistic wits of London and Paris. What have these gentlemen now to say as they fead the intelligence which may be found in another column? Grovan’s Gznwas Orma—Mr. Grover announces o seagon of Gorman Opera at the Acadomy of Music, to commonce on Monday evening, April 17, with a full com- pany, orchestra and chorus. The opora for the opening Bight is mot yet fixed upon; but we Doliove that during the season Les Huguenots will be revived, and Gounod’s ‘now opera Mercille played fr the Grst time in this City Intelligence. Ranncap m Orsnation.—The Fourteenth since that hour?) Has it not beon, on the Destress raouty wel off the fring, is of the North, one continual pushing’ ped sat Preemed, To some otf. te, consent te of our laggard and hesitating authorities by the accumulating forces of the public will? All former calculations of finance have been set at defiance by the lavish promptness of the great masses of our people in supporting the national credit, All the genorals given to us Sravmxa Avrray it THe Founra Warv.—A vory ecrious stabbing affray, which will probably result in the death of the inj rod party, ooourred yesterday afretnoon, about ‘Vhree o'clock In the Fourth ward. It appears, as reported ie man named Thos. McDonald, ‘an altercation with Robert ears of age, during which he jad, aixteon by government in tho carly days of our struggle | stabbed ‘tho taiter, inflicting « wound trom which itis proved failures, and not one of them is now in te Balle ari eleeti comings contre. wa A Man Row Over \we Knaxp sy Trvox No. 4.—A man named Thomas Stoakes was rum ovor and almost in- stantly killed Hook and Ladder No. Faltoy street Poe Coroner wen notined, “A te twenty-zight years of age, and resided at 260 Greenwich Fins mm Wruuam Sremer.—Shortly after nino o'clock last might @ Gre broke out tm the confectionery store of L, Perrenot, 170 William strest, and before the fire was jee Se oe eminent oommand. It was our people who fur- nished the fighting matcrial of our campaigns by voluntecring—for the “drafv’ proved as abortive @ measuro os all tho other special agencies of our government; and when the soldiers were thus brought together in vast fam- ilies of armies, it was thoy—armed children of the people, on bohalf of the people— who discovered and ralsod to command thely juries inflicted upon us in the earlier days of oppressed masses of France and England a |. charge, and Nagle and Levi Coit. zs MATTERS AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. ‘Tho steam frigate Susquehanna ts:now ready for sea, and it is expected that she will proceed to the Brazilian station. The United States steamer Shawmut is now in the carpontors’ hands undergoing repairs, and when finished ‘she will in all probability go into commission as a vessel of instruction for midshipmoen, for which sl.e has ample accommodations. ‘The work on the frigate Colorado is progressing rapidly, and when she is ready for sem she will bo tho pride of the American navy. . ‘The news of the capture of Richmond oreated erics of exultation among the Jolly tars of the vessels now at the Yard, aud cspecially on board of the gunboats Shawmut and Nyack, which are sister ships, and which fought side by side during the engagements before Wilmington. ‘Tho following resignations have taken place tm the flect:—Acting Ensigns John A. Davis and Gardner A, Churchill, of the Shawmut. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ere yWasuisarom, April 9, 1865. - "PRE QUESTION OF THX VINGLNIA STATE GOVERN- The proposition of President Lincoln, as stated in the Richmond Whig, to reassemble the Virginia Legislature at Richmond for the purpose of authorizing a convention to take back the State into the bonds of the Union, in- terferes with the government claiming to represent that State, with Plerpont as Governor and its capital os Alexandria, The Legislature. at the latter place several months ago, having received from the Secretary Of State.a certified copy of the proposed constitutional amendment to abolish slavery, rati‘ied the same by « nearly unanimous vote, and amo, ocber acts conferred & franchise for constructing « railroad from Wash!:gtom to Fredericksburg. The Pierpont goverument contem- plates an early removal to Richmond, but the event to which reference is above made does not encourage the consummation of that design. BETUBN OF THE PRESIDENT FROM CITY POINT. ‘The President and Mrs. Linooln returned from City Point to-day, The President is looking much better foe his extended absence from the capital. PROBABILITY OF AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS. It ts considered highly probable that an extra session of Congregs may be called in a few weeks, to conside: matters connected with the restoration of the rebellious ‘States to the Union. , NEWS FROM RICHMOND. Ex-Judge Campbell was still in Richmond, as we learn from parties just returned from that city. Also ex Congreseman Roger A. Bryor. ‘It was understood that the former had communicated to the President his viows as to the terme upon which the rebel army would lap down its arms, and submit to the laws of the Union, OPINION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL SPEED RELATIVS TO RESIDENCE OF ENROLLED MEN, Attorney General Speed, in reply to @ communicatios from the Provost Marshal General asking his opinion os the legal definition of the term actual residence as ap plied to men liable to draft, and the ‘locality to which t» doubtful cases credit should be given for the enlistment of such persons liable to enrolment and draft under the Jaw, replies as follows:— Firs—As to the meaning of the words, ‘ actual resi. residence,” as employed in the fourteenth section of the Enrollment act end the proper mode, according to MAILS FOR THK EAST AND WEST GULF SQUADEONS. ‘The United States steamer Bormuda, Acting Voluntecr Liout=pant Commander J. W. Smith, commanding, will sail from tho Navy Yard, Philadelphia, on Saturday, April 16, for the East and West Gulf squadrons, Persons having letters, packages or boxes for officers or s-amen of said squadrons, can have them delivered free of charge, if put on board prior to sailing. Arrivalof Rebel Prisoners. ‘The steamship Matanzas, Captain Liesegang, arrived yesterday morning from City Point, bringing nine hun- dred rebel prisoners, part of those captured by General herman at Bentonville, Goldsboro and Columbia. They are in charge of Captain N, W. Perkins, Thirteenth Con- noctiout battalion, with » guard of one handred United Biates veterans, among the prisoners aro the following rebel field and staff oficers:— Colonel Alfred Rhott, commanding a brigade, of Fort Sumpter notoriety; Captain F. D. Blake, F rst rogiment South Carolina aitillery; Captain Mitcbell King, Fist Te- piment fouth Carolina infantry; 1, W. Perrin, First nth Garotina to ‘try; Lieut. John Harlestin, re t Bouth Garoline nétillory; Lieut. Kaw st rogiment Youth Carola imfantry ; Licut. 3. P, Mellard, Acting Aid-de-Camp to Colonel Rhett; Liout. H. Pain’, Twenty-sixth Tennessee pefantey Fi Lieut, L. D, terling, Twenty-fourth South Carolina infant 4 Second Licut. a.m Fone, A, C. 8; Lieut. in V. BF, John MeKollar, Fifth North Carolina cavalry; Lieut, George B. Moattop, Sixty-soventh regiment North Caro- lina troops; Lieut. T. G. yw, Sixty-seventh regiment North Carolina troopr; Liout, T.'W. Carr, Sixty-sevonth reg ment North Carolina troops. Porser J. C, Caro, of the Matanzas, to whom we are in- debted for favors, reports that Admiral Porter arrived at City Point on the flag ship Malvern, on the evening of the 6th instant, from Richmond. The River Queep, (President Lincoln's boat), was at City Point when the Matanzas left. ‘The Matanzas also brings the following ‘passen- gers:—Lioutenant John Oolligney, Twenty-eighth Iowa; Lieutenant A. C. Cunningham, Third Massachusetts light artillery ; Captain Hoff, Twenty-cighth Iowa. Shooting Affray Among Alleged Gamblers on Broadway. About nine o'clock last evening a shooting affray oc- curred at the corner of Broadway and Amity street, be- tween two well known sporting mon, named Peter H. Young and Robert L. Willis, Young is the reputed Kooper of a gambling house at the corner of Broadway and Amity strest. Willis, it is alleged, was im the habit of frequenting the place against the wishes of Young, who had repeatedly warned him not to come there, The parties met in front of the house last evening, and had some words, when Young drow a revolver fired at Willis, the ball entering the abdomen about three aches below the and a little to the left of the medial line, and lodging the Interior, O'Riley, of the Filtecnth precinct, ran up on heari tho, shot fired ani took the pistol from Young’s band an Fy dew bape wounded man was attentied by Dr. jement ity sti . The bail rool not be fornd, it having lodced inside, beyond reach of the probe, Young was locked up in the Fifteenth precinct station hous’. He |, states that an old feud had long existed between bim and Willis, and that the latter annoyed him excessively by coming to his , and that last night Willis assaulted him and ho fired on him in solf-de An investigation of tho case will be had this morning. Police Intelligence. WHOLESALE THEFT OF RUM—THE PROPERTY RE- covxRED. Captain Petty and officers Field and Henderson, of the Fifth precinct, yestorday brought before Justice Hogan, at the Tombs Police court, two men named Randolph Barnes and Nicholas Brooks, whom they had arrested on ®@ charge of grand larceny. The facts elicited went to how that on last Thursday morning the porter emplored in the store 207 Duane street opened the place at tho F is t i ad 2 i ay : i Pe 7 | E i § i i f Li 5 é iy FH “tl +! geek i E rs 5 i r+¥ ayyt? Hil : : zt i Precinct, arrested Dominick Connolly, one charge of as sault and battery, and whilé going io the Station House, the prisoner turned upon and knocked him down. tho fall one of the barrels of @ revolver in the officer's exploded, the effect thigh Mu hoe tauair se 0, 84. Roosevelt < i ref sonns wou, Connolly was DANGEROUSLY BEATEN BY HER MUSBAND. James Sullivan, a pedier, residing at No. 436 West Siz- e ‘his wife in. ecg need ‘that i a prosinct tation Hoteo to amalt the, fender action of the authorities in the matter. Bhould she be able to converse intelligently, her ante-mortem deposition will be taken. fellow-citizen, Moses Taylor, Keq., who has advanced the necessary funds to Treasurer McMurray to pay the force, pan tar MTR The Damascus Outward Bound. Posramp, April 9, 1868. Jaw, of determining the actual residence of men offering as recruits. ‘Second—Where the actual residence of the recruit ts in one sub-district and he is enrolled in different sub- district, where shall the credit be given ? Tied—In ‘cases When the recruit has no logal domicile or actual residence in any enrolment sub-district, shall he be crodited to the sub-district or district where he is enrolied, or shall he be allowed to select locality ? The Ors} of (ae skert. questions divided {nto to paris_hrst, a8 to the tidahing of the words, “actual residence,” and, secundiy, a8 i tie proper he ¢ ascertaining the “actual residence,’? it is very difficult give a test by which the question of actual residen: may be determined in each particular case. A fow gen- pe rules may be given, however, by which a vast ma- jority of the cases can be readily mi Fine, reson puust be presumed to have an actual real- deni mewhere; S0OHd, a man can have but one ac- tual residence at’one and the same timé; third, a reel- dence once acquired remains until another is acq:tred; fourth, the pla ¢ of a man's origin is that of his ‘sctual res.done> until he acquires another; fifth, minors have their actual residence with their parents, L ehinr yy or, if apprentices, with their masters; sixth, adults resid» at the Places of their dwelling, A manls dwelling is in contra- distinction to his place of business, trade or less populat'on floating like to remain long at any piace, | and wherever the hope of employment pay savite oe fancy dictate. Such persons have their act: al residence in tho community in which they. may dwell at the time of the enrolment. As to’ the mode of ascertaining the actual residence of a recruit the statute gives cmp | make les te SE TasteacTion ws Will enublo. tho boards of en ve Buc! rad 3 \- Sriment and mastering officers. £5 ascortain the facts and assign the credit accord ng Fa caret In most casés the alldavit of 2 enrolled man would de- termine'the matter; but as. it isd Fe aie ane sub-districts have aa interest as well as in¢ toqguits, and as recruits may, for bounties or bribes, declare to the fact thelr places oF reside ‘and especially from the words in bn S: Rotbiag. oles appease’ it must be taken for granted that the act te the of enrol mont, and. the credit given accordingly. however, 1 be made to a is thet, Comes in a par- ticular sub-district hes actual then this statute no rule by which the cap be en. In case the credit must be given law or according to the rule in force from San Francisco of yesterday's date show that there ta not the slightest foundation for the published report that President Juarez is coming to Washington. He is a the city of Chihuahua, and does not contemplate visiting here, having enough to do at home. ARRIVAL OF REBEL DESERTERS. to-morrow and be sent wheresorver they may profer The Burning of the Gen, Lyon. ONE MAN ONLY SAVED BY THE UNKNOWN SCHOONER. ‘To THE BDITOR OF TUE HERALD, Monmnmap Crry, April 8, 1868. Aschooner which arrived here yesterday reports the steamef Gen. Lyon, with four hundred and .ifty soldiess and refugees on board, from Wilmington, as having been Set cece Seeded iy prets ou croc 3 wae & steatly killea on Saturday night, nota head fore- “moat, a second story window Tesidence to the Court by ay rage Ba 2 “ Sik ee eee i ip ante PE Fy #3) 5 i 382 fe teste. oars of or ti ten ocock A Nw im, Sess en, dbo ieis, Saha, fede, 100s, 1040, ast ASN ie Se gh as, ar 8, Ne yan i MAILS FOR EUROPE. published at tem o'cloc!r, to. morrow morning. Ginale cupies, in wrenners resdy for maili =x cami