The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1865, Page 4

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Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, ‘merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- -gorted in the Waexty Hexaxp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United “tates. THE SITUATION. ‘The demonstratiens of joy over the surrender of the -entire Army of Northern Virginia, which began at a late hour on Sunday night, as soon as the news, which spread utapidly, became public, continued yesterday. Here and ‘4m almost every city, town and village the streets were Iined with the Red, White and Blue, salutes of artillery wero fired, people with smiling faces thronged , “the thoroughfares, Impromptu ‘meetings of rejoicing wore held, and the Northern air was stirred far and vwide with the glad peals of thousands of church bells. In this city meetings were held by a large number of “the leading associations, at allef which a spirit of the most jubilant patriotism prevailed, speeches being ‘made, resolutions of thanks to the President, Generals Grex, Suviman, Sheridan, end all our military and ‘Baval officers and soldiers and sallora being adopted, aud the proceedings closing in tome instances with the sing- Ang of the “Doxology.” Apprdpriate action was taken ‘P eathustastic meetings of the members of the Chamber Commoeroe, the Produce Exchange, the New York Woiversity and various other bodies, At # mooting of She Custom House committee having charge of Dae = arrangements for the celebration on the 20th inst. it was resolved to send # congratulatory Jotter to President Lincoln, and an invitation was ex- ‘tended to the citizens generally to be present at Trinity church at eleven o'clock this forenoon, to join in the an- them of Te Deum Loudamus, to be chanted by the entire choir, with the adjunct of the chimes. The Metho- dist Conference, still in session in this city, unanimously ‘adopted resolutions suitable to the occasion, and, after addrosses by several of the ministers, adjourned for the day. The United States District Court was adjourned over for the day in honor of the glorious victories, A umber of buildings in the city were illuminated last night; but owing to the stormy weather this portion of the patriotic demonstration was not general. A salute of one hundred guns will be fred at Union square to-day, by order of General Sandford, A meeting of the CommaaGounell and of the citizens’ committees to arrange for the celebration on the 20th inst. of our national triumphs was held yesterday after- noon in the Chamber of the Board of Aldermen, when it was proposed, in addition to the thankagiving cére- monies, to have a general illumination of the city at night, and additional committees were appointed to per- foct the plans. @cho Inman steamship City of Dublin was despatched for Europe at five o'clock last evening, om the special mission of conveying the news of the rebel General Leo's surrender. In Washington the excitement and enthusiasm over the conclusion of the rebellion were of course great. A Prominent feature in the celebration was the formation of a procession, which visited the White House, the vari- ous departments and tho residences of distinguished gen- emen. Speeches were made to the jubilant throngs by the President, General Halleck, General Butler and others, Tt i@ estimated that the rebel force surrendered to General Grant on Sunday by Gencral Lee numopered be- tweon twenty acd twenty-two thousand men. The total Bamber of goueral oicers who have become prisoners to Goneral Grant since ‘he Sth inst. is eighty-two, includ. Ing Genoral Leo himself. { Statements regarding the hearing given by President Juacola whie in Richmond, to Judge Campbell and ‘pther functionaries of tho late rebel government at Rich- Ymond, tm which it was reprosented that tho President urged to issue a proclamation stating the terms on bwnich Virginia m ght return to the Union, have already im the Henatp. It is said that Mr. Lincoln did ‘mot think proper to take such action while Gen. Grant was {putt pursuing Leo, but that now there is roason for be. Woving that ho will adopt this course. Tho Richmond , Whig says @ Commitioe of citizens of that place were to om last Saturday to inform the rebel Governor Boilih and the members of the rebel Legisiature of Pre ident Lincoln’s terms for Virginia's resto. yettoa, It i@ reported from Washingten that General Ehopt y, Military Governor of Richmond, has granted hai duct to the rebel Senator Hunter to enter and re ‘hat city, and that certain distinguished rebels, prcouy Mr. Hunter and Judge Campbell, will shortly Pict! ve national capital to lay before the government y F plans for arettiomont of the difficultica regarding ‘¢ present position of Virginia, {, Despatches from Goldsboro, N,C., of the 6th inst., the ovmoustion of Raleigh by the revels, and wie there was a rumor in circulation in th’s city yesterday that it had been occupied by Gen ral Sherman; but this latter story could be traced to uo reliable so re. Refugees and deserters arriving at Goldsboro say {ho Pedols are eroct og furtifeatlons on the line of Tar river, at Rocky Mount, N. ©., forty miles from Golds- boro, on the Wilmington and Weldon Ra‘lroad, and that they aro destroying the road, in the expectation that General Sherman will move @'rectly on Weldon. ‘Now that the mainstay of the rebellion, Genoral Leo’s Army of Northern Virginia, has coased to ex st, there ts every indication that all the other rebel military orzanizations in different parts of the country will soon collapse. We have further confirmation of the reports which we gave in our New Orleans do- spatches a few days ago, that the rebel Trans-Missis- sipplarmy under Kirby Smith is ready to surrender and disperse, and that the people of ‘Texas are making arrangements to return to the Union. It is said that the government is also satis- fied that little further trouble will be expenenced from Joo Johnston’s army in North Carolina, and that if itis not surrendered to General Sherman it will soon melt away after being informed of the fate of Lee and his veterans. ‘Tho report was current in Memphis, Tenn., on last Saturday, that Selma, Alabama, was captured and burned a few days previous by the national cavalry force under General Wilson, and forming # portion of Gene- ral Thomas’ army. This cavalry column consists of four divisions, In the Hunat of the 27th ult. its start, on the 2ist, ona raid through the heart of Ala- ‘ama, was announced, and on the 6th inst. we published @ despatch from our correspondent accompanying the force, giving intelligence of ite safe arrival at Russell- ville on the 24th ult, We have also the report that Gen- eral Wilson's cavalry recently defeated and complotcly routed the rebel Forrest’s army near Tuscaloosa, Ala., and took many prisoners. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation declaring closed a large number of ports in the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, Among those enu- merated are Richmond and Petersburg, in Virginia; Newbern and Wilmington, in North Carolina; Charies- ton, im South Carolina; Savannah, in Georgia, and Vicks- burg, in Mississippi. From Charleston, 8. ©., by the steamship Fulton, which arrived here yesterday, we recoived our despatches tothe 7th inst, Bands of rebel cavairy are hovering around Georgetown and Summerville, 8 C, and land and naval forces have been sent from Charles- ton to clear the country of them. It was reported that the rebele in ‘the vicinity of Summerville num- bered five hundred. On the Sth inst. they made a dash into the town, captured a few negroes and threatened to shoot all the white people who had taken tho oath of al- legiance, Large quantities of cotton and rice are said to be concealed on the South Carolina plantations, A Union meeting was to be held shortly in Charleston. All the St, Albans raiders were yesterday discharged from cubtody in Toronto, excepting Young, who was com- mitted for trial, Adeapetch from Commander Parker, of the Potomac flotilla, confirms the’ report given in Saturday’s Herat, that the rebel robbers who stole the steamer Harriet Deford in Patuxent river last week had burned and sban- doned her in Indian river, Va., on last Friday. Com- mander Parker says she was in flames when his gunboats got in sight, and burned to the water's edge, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the New York Fire Depart- ment Funa bill and the New York and Bay Side Ferry ‘Company bill were reported. Bills were passed to close @ portion of 139th street, New York; for the improve- mont of Third street, Brooklyn; ratifying the smend- ment to the constitution prohibiting slavery; to incor- porate the National Turkish Bath Company; to incorpo- rate the North American and Italian Steamship Com- pany, and authorizing the extension of the track of the ‘Third Avenue Railroad. In the Assembly the bill relative to the Harlem bridge was reported. Bills were passed relative to false certii- cates of death in New York; the New York City Bounty and Bond bill, and to enable the New York and Housa- tonic and Northern Railroad Company to accept a grant from the State of Connecticut, The privileges of the floor were extended to ex-Governor Pollock, of Pennsyl- vania, and George H. Stuart, President of the§Christian Commission, and, on being introduced by the Speaker to the House, they congratulated the members and the people upon the recent great and glorious victories of General Grant, In evening session the bill to confirm the ordinance of the Common Council of New York authorizing the Third Avenue Railroad Company to extend their track was reported. A motion was made and adopted to go into Committee of the Whole on the bill fixing the compensa- tion of membors of the New York Commot Council. An amendment was made to the bill prohibiting the accept- ance of any donation, or increase of salary, by any mem- bor of the Board without permission being granted by a. vote of three-fourths of all the members. Progress was then reported, and the bill advanced to a third reading MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the brig Grace Worthington, Captain Lind, at this port yesterday, from British Honduras, we received im- portant advices from our special correspondents in Be- lize, dated to the 18th of March. Maximilian of Mexico had undertaken his first war outside the limits of the empire. Four thousand of the imperial troops had reached Le Sal, Yucatan, en rowle for Bucalar, in order to attempt the complete conquest of Yucatan and the subjugation or exterminstion of the Mazenal or Maya Indians. One-half of the Mexican force is made up of Belgians, the other of native Mexicans, Their enemies number half a million of Indians, brave, vindictive, patriotic toa fault, and very superstitious, Since the year 1849 the Mexicans have held a smail portion of the State of Yucatan. They now seek to take and hold the remainder, with the capital While the inhabitants of Belize were agitated by the news of this movement a corps of French officers from Mexico arrived in their town—anevent which increased the excitement The Frenchmen sald they were naturalists, journeying on a scientific expedition; but it was feared that their object ‘was more strictly professional in @ military point of view. ‘The produce of sugar, rum, molasses, coffee, eocoa and tobacco in the colony will be abundant; but the cotton crop ie a failur’. ‘Trade was dull and money was scaroo, Colonel Dodge, Assistant Provost Marshal General for the Southern division of this State, in response to Inqui- ries, has written a communication in which he says it is great error on the part of the people to suppose that owing to our recent victories no more men will be wanted for the army, and that consequently no further appre- hensions of the draft need be entertained. Ha states ‘that all the men required by the President's last call are still needed, and that there is no reason to doubt that every one required to O11 the quota of each district will be exacted by the government, He gives notice that whenover a provost marshal is not kept busy in muster. ing im voluntecre or substitutes he will commence draft- ing, and that the poople of New York as well as othor Places must disabuse their minds of the impression that the full quota will not be insisted on. There was no drafting in this city yesterday, volunteering continuing somewhat active, though not as brisk as could be desired. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday the only business of general interest transacted was the adoption by unanimous vote of « proumblo and resolutions sctting forth that, in consideration of the recent great national successes and the virtual extinguishment of the rebel- lion, there seems to be no further necessity at present for enforcing the conscription, and that President Lin- coln be respectfully requested to defer it for sixty or hinety days, in order to givo an opportunity to fill our quota hy volunteering. A committee was appointed to lay the matter before the Presidont and receive hia reply. The Board of Councilmen did not moet yesterday, @ quorum not being prosent at the call of the roll, where- ‘upon the Clerk adjourned the Board til! Thursday. Judge Garvin, of the Superior Court, was engaged yes. terday in trying the enge of Anne Baxter versus the Second NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL Il, 1865. was run over by one of tho dofeudayt’s cars while at tompting to cross the Byfeot, and was permanently in-. Jured. She claimed that the accident was caused by the negligence of the d fondant in not having a brakeman on the car, and laid her damages at six thousand dollars. Tho case lasted all day, and resulted in a vervict of three thousand dollars for the plaintiff, In the Supreme Court, circuit, Judge Leonard prosid- ing, the caso of Frederick D. Winne versus Marianne Baxter was tried yesterday, The defendant is # young lady of o'ghteen, and lived several months in th> house of the plaintiff, who brought gult to recover pay for her board. The defence was that the young lady was stop- ping with Mr, Wiane as @ visitor, and that it was woder- st od she was not to pay forher board. Besides, it was alleged that she performed a sufficiont portion of the work of the house to more than compensate the plaiutiff. Tho jury were directed to bring ina sealed verdict this morning. In the Supreme Court, olreuit, before Judge Peckham, yestorday, an action was brought by the Flint Bteel Min- ing Company to recover from their formor secretary, Mr. Samuel J. W. Berry, the amount of losses incurred by having to make good toa certain stockholdor intorests alloged to havo been, forfeited through Mr, Berry’s neglect. In the case of Richard Stillwell versus the Mariposa Company, where the plaintif® sued to recover on Afteen unpaid and overdue coupons of the frst mortgage bonds of this company, Judge Brady, of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday held that the company were liable and could be sued on their coupons as promises to pay, and that tho plaintf could choose between an ordi- nary action of this kind in our courts and a foreclosure under the laws of California, Fourteon other sults have ‘been commenced against the company for similar course of action. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, William Smith, who was indicted for the homicide of Daniel Lawrence, by stabbing him with a knife, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth degree. It appeared from the complaint that the parties had a dispute about a woman om the 26th of February, at s house in Hester atreet, and during the altercation Smith stabbed Lawrence in the abdomen, inflicting a wound which in two days after proved fatal. The prisoner was remanded for sen- tence. Abraham Ricks (colored), indicted for an assault with intent to kill Catharine Allman, pleaded guilty to an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm. The accused had a diffculty with Mrs. Allman about a board bill, and when she was proceeding to a grocery store he stabbed her in the back with a large knife, Recorder Hoffman said that board bills should not be settled in that way, and sent the prisoner to the State Prison for five years, Mary O’Brien was tried and convicted of grand larceny, having on the 22d of March stolen one thousand dollars from James Smith at adisreputable house in East Broadway. She was sentenced to the State Prison fortwo years and six months. Henry Langworth, jointly indicted with Chris- tinia Tietman (who was convicted last week), was found guilty of grand larceny, in stealing a large quantity of English sovereigns from Ergest Rutter, on the 7th of March, at 227 William street, The prisoner was.arrested as he was taking passage on a Bremen steamer, and ad- mitted that he was concerned in the larceny. He was sent to the State Prison for three years and six months. In the Surrogate’s Court yesterday, the trial of the Jackson will went off for the term. ‘The will and codicils of the late Mrs. Lucy P. Howell were then taken up, be- ing the fifteenth case on the April trial calendar, The decedent was about seventy years of age, and loft a pro- porty of about forty thousand dollars, The will is con- tested by her daughter, and the question raised is as to the mental capacity of the deceased. The government transport steamship George C. Col- ling, from Hilton Head, 8. C., laden with commissary goods, went aground on the bar of St. Augustine, Fla, on the 2ist of March, and it was thought that she would Prove & total loss, Another large party of excursionists who design taking part in the rehoisting of the old flag over Fort Sumter left this city at noon yesterday on board the steamer Oceanus, ‘The Fort Sumter Committee their last meeting at the Avtoy House yesterday. ‘The programme of arrange- ments for the celebration at the Acadomy of Music was fully agreed upon and announced, The leading features are original music by Grafulla’s full baad, dh original poem, entitied ‘The Flag of Sumter,” and an oration by A bold robbery was committed at 112 West Thirty- ninth street on Sunday evening. Just after dark the street door bell rang, and Mr, Gerardus De Forest, a man aged eighty-five years, the occupant of the house, an- ewered it. On opening the door he was immediately seized by three men, who tied a cloth over his mouth to prevent any alarm being given, bound him on a bed, and then proceeded to rob the premises, stealing among other things three thousand dollars in gold and one thousand dollars in greenbacks, They escaped with all the money but six hundred dollars of the notes, which in their haste they dropped on the hall floor; but it is thought they will yet be arrested, Abraham Sickel, a merchant, doing business in Roches- ter, was yesterday required to give six thousand dollars bonds, in the Tombs Police Court, to answer a charge of obtaining goods on false pretences, preferred against him by a merchant of this city. A coroner’s examination of the case of Robert L. Wil- lis, who, it is alleged, was shot on Sunday night, in Broadway, by Peter Young, took place yesterday, and on its conclusion Young was committed to awn the result of the wounded man’s injuries, -Wiiile is not yet rogiment for Washington at the commencement of the war, on the 19th of April, 1861, the armory of the rogi- ment will be illuminated on the night of the 19th inst, and a salute of one hundred guns will be fired at cight o’clock tm the evening. The Missouri ional Convention finally ad- Journed on Saturday Inst, after adopting the constitution by a vote of thirty-eight in favor to thirteen against it, It will be submitted to the people on the 6th of June, and if adopted will go info effect on the 4th of July. According to the City Inspector's report there were 465 deaths in the city during the week ending April 10— ‘a decrease of 1 as eompareu with the mortality of the woo previous, and 7 less than oecurred during the corresponding week last year. Of the deaths which oo- curred during the past week, 236 resulted from acute discases, 208 from chronic diseases, and 21 from external causes, kc. There were 823 natives of the United States, 79 of Ireland, 18 of Englavd, 99 of Gormany, 4 of Bcot- jand, and the balance of various foreign countries. There ‘were nineteen deaths ‘from smallpox during the past ‘week, the same number that occurred from this disease during the week previous, ‘The stock market was active and buoyant yesterday. Governments were strong. Gold opened at 140 and closed at 144%. At the evening board the closing price was 14536. ‘The great war news caused a large fall in gold yester- day, and this unsettled commercial affairs again, and rendered prices nominal again. The transactions were very light, and only the rain storm prevented the day from being another gala day similar to that which suo- oreded the announcement of the fall of Richmond. Domestic produce was lower; but very little was done, Foreign goods were dull and nominal. On ’Change four declined 100, a 20¢., while wheat was nominally 20 lower, Corn and oats were in limited request, and scarcely 80 firm, Pork was 260. a 500. lower, with but little doing. Beef was dull and heavy, Lard was @ trifle easier, with a moderate demand. Freights were dull, and whiskey was lo higher and active, ee Waers are Jnrr. Davis axn Hrs Castner ?— The arch-rebel Davis and his Cabinet are now fleoing from the wrath to come—from the exe- cration of their own people, which is more ter- rible to bear than any punishment which the government could inflict upon them, had they falien into the hands of justice, Henceforth they will be vagabonds upon the face of the earth—Cains, with o brand upon their brow for the unaccomplished but attempted murder of this fair republic. It is told that when » dis- tinguished French statesman once met the tral- tor Arnold in the south of France, not knowing who ho was, he was charmed with his manner and conversation; but when he learned that ho was the wretch who betrayed his country, he shrunk away from him in disgust. Thus itwill be with Jeff. Davis. His own people will abhor the treachery which led them to ruin and bloodshed; and he will fnd no home abroad Avenue Raiirond Yomvany, The plata i aoyoars, | hat will not be s bed of torment, —_—_— — Military Diplamsseehs Coe cipelRenes Tho, Peace omeral..Grant’s ‘Terms 1: ag ta pan Presi- dent Lincoln, We are momentarily expecting the announce- ment of a proclamation from President: Lincoln to the people of the rebellious States which will bring them to the saving alternative of sub- mission and to the good work of the restoration of the Union. We cannot doubt that the gener- ous terms of surrender accorded to-General Lee by General Grant were the result of a previous understanding with the President. We are sure that no better basis for a concillatory procla- mation could be adopted; and we trust, there- fore, that ina liberal amnesty, and {in a fra- ternal spirit, Mr. Lincoln will enlarge upon the good example of his sagacious and patriotic General-in-Chief. We are told, however, that the laws of Con- gress, and their pains and penalties of treason, death, imprisonment or exile, and the confis- cation of the property of the parties proscribed, with the forfeiture of their political rights, are the impediments which stand in the way ofa broad and general amnesty, From the numer- ous bills bandied about between the two houses of Congress during the last three years, we know that various provisions reach the penalties indicated, although we find it difficult to get at the laws actually in force. It is suf ficient for our present purpose that they do not | debar the President, in the exercise of his mili- tary discretion, from extending to all concerned in the rebellion the terms of surrender extended to General Lee, We believe, too, that Mr. Lin- coln, in a new amnesty proclamation, widening the scope of that of December, 1863, 80 as to include the leaders of the rebellion in its bene- fits, can now, without further bloodshed, secure the capitulation and dispersion of all the re- maining fragments ot the rebel armies from Virginia to Texas. The “confusion worse confounded” resulting from the various Executive and Congressional experiments of confiscation and reconstruction can be remedied only by Congress itself, and to this end the occasion suggests not enly the expediency but the necessity of an extra ses- sion of Congress. This necessity, we expect, will be recognized by the President in his forthcoming proclamation. As for the South- ern institution of slavery, it is dead, and may be quietly left to the burial provided in the con- stitutional amendment upon the subject, which now requires the ratification of only seven more States to make it part and parcel of the su. preme law of the land. . The debt of the “so-called Confederate States” is simply out of the question. Were there no positive and absolute declaration of Congress against it, there would soon be a very positive and abselute protest from the loyal States against any recognition of this thing in any shape whatever. This national debt of Jeff. Davis must share the fate of his co . A gigantic armed con- spiracy, striking for the destruction of the gov- ernment, may be pardoned when thrashed to the point of submission; but the payment of ite expenses would be a new thing under the sun. In casting his “Confederate bonds” by the cart-load into the strects of Richmond, with his cvacuation of thé city, the followers of Jeff. Revie recognized them at their true value. yable, upon their face, by the rebel trea- sury, one year, three years, or five or ten years “after a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America,” so let them stand, Let the present insurgent generation of the rebellious States bear the burden of ther so-called “Confederate States” debt, for the next generation will owe them nothing. But as immediate peace—adopting the pow- erfal language of General. Grant—will be the saving of “thousands of lives and of hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed,” we cannot doubt that in their present eltuation the masses of the Southern people, including their soldiers still in arms, will favorably respond to ‘ magnanimous peace proclamation from Preal- dent Lincoln. No fears necd be cnitertained that by giving ine rebel leaders a chance for thelr tives they will remain in the South to trouble us hereafter. The fearful wrongs which they have committed among their deluded fol- lowers will bring their own punishment in a fearful reaction of Southern public opinion. That is the tribunal to which the leaders of this mad rebellion may now be most wisely turned over by President Lincoln. Between Grant and Lee. The brief, concise and decisive correspond- enee between Lieutenant General Grant and General Lee is not leas admirable in its tone and style than it is glorious in the news which it conveys. No unkind or insulting word can be found in the despatches of either general. The letters are completely characteristic of the men. On the one side Grant is simple, frank and soldierly ; on the other side Lee is not less soldierly, although he appears to be rather less straightforward. The two generals understood each other perfectly. Grant knew Lee’s char acter and his predicament. Lee knew that Grant meant just what he said, and that, un- less his terms were accepted, he would at once “move upon the enemy’s works.” This mutual understanding quickly resulted in the surrender of Lee’s army. Grant began the correspondence on the 7th inst. with a noble letter, clearing himself of the responsibility of any further effusien of blood by Lee to surrender. Lee replied on the same day, stating that he was “not en- tirely” of Grant’s opinion as to the hopelessness of farther resistance, but that he was quite as anxious to avoid useless slaughter, and there- fore asked what terms Grant had to offer. The same day our pursuit of the rebels was contin- ued, Ye another whipplns. omic any k fo 0D to Lee, Teng spon but one condition of peace—vis: “that the men surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged.” To this Lee answered that he had not yet proposed to sur- render his army; that he did “not think the emergency had arisen to call for the surrender;” but that he wanted peace, and was ready to meet Grant and talk upon the subject of peace in ® general way as far as it affected the forces under his command, This was a neat bit of diplomacy on the partof Lee. But still the unrelenting pursuit was kept up, and still our soldiers continued to whip the rebels. Writing and fighting at the same time, Gene- ral Grant showed that he was more than a match for Lee either at fighting or writing. Just as he would have stopped any attempt on Lee’s part to encape through his military lines, 40 be stopped this qttemns to escape from the 4 point of the correspondence through a diplo- | march througlr Geo rgis to such @ triumphant matic dank movement. On the 9th he wrote to | couslusion at Sevamab, Columbia and Charles Leo that as he had mo authority to treat. upon | ton, tliere has boep » chrenio patriotic jubilee the subject of peace; “the mueting proposed | amoag the people. As the {ntelligence of the eould lead to no goodj” but that the way to | capture of P. Kasten the peace which the North desired’ was | Richmond asrived the ifover it and the occwpation of i; but the forthe Seuth to lay down their arma. Thus | climax was reached yes terday with the news of bsought back to the main question, Lee again | Lee’s surrender, Salva of asited for terms. Grant artillery vesounded arrnaged | from tie: Park, the batteries at Governor's for an. interview with the rebel general. The | Island and other forts in the Harbor. Acres of interview took place. Grant offered to parole | bunting-kissed the: breeze: in oll: quartews: of the all Lee's army, and give-the officers their aide- | city, alttiough i wasa damp-and dispiriting arms:and' private property. Lee st once ac- | breeze tocaress. Had the sum shone the sight cepted’ this proposition, the fighting’ ceased,.and would have beem magnificent, Satiated' as the the war was practically ended. So, in two | people Have: teen with good news fés some days" time, and by meaas of nine shiest letters, | time past-—and titey have: had s:feest'of it—the the dreadful contest which has disturbed this | crowning: intelligence of yesterday wound up countsy for four years was brought'to-a.citee. | the excitement sptendidly. The witele rebel army, with its arms, artilleryand public property, is in,our hands,. By If cuskids: theeffect here wlieve the people were yrepared fer it, what willibe theeffect these-seldiers home oa parole Grant’ lias pro- | with those. Barepe who scoffediatithe-idtea of vided for the immedfate demoralizatiom and | the Noril.conquering in this war;.willlwhom lon of the rebel forces under:Jobnaton, | “the wish was father of the thought,” ama whe* at Mobile and west of the Mississipp!, and | staked:everytiiiag upon the Cliancos. that the has epened a way, broad and plain, for the re- | wish would be-vealize@? With these peaple the construction of the-Union. Great:asis Grant | collapse.wilk he terrible. the general, he is: equally matchad) by Grant ‘The. Militany Situation—The.New-Mra of ij the statesman and the diplomatiss. Well may National Life., the United States Be proud of their: mest illus Desertem: reported at Goldsbora en the trious citizen. The Rebel Flight from Rivhmond—The True Rebel Character Bevealed. 6th.instant—Thuraday last—tket Johnston had evacuated Raleigh, and we now. hare it re- posied Wat Sherman has eceupied it. The The scenes at the capture of Richmond | latter neport comes by wagyof Phiade'phia, change as suddpnly as the scenes of a military | end: wae probably guessed ats: but it is, unl ke drama, The cartain falls upen the confusion | the larger number of the Philadelphia guesses, and carnage ef battle, the ned fire of an incen- | in al probability true. We have no doubt diary conflagration and the rout and riot of »| thatJobnston evacuated Raleigh as soon as hasty retreat, and then prises to disclose the:| practicable after the receipt of mews from Lea peaceful eceupation of the Union troope, the | of the defeat of Sunday, the 24 inst, and hur. enthusingm of the people, who welcome Lin- | ried toward Danville, ant quite as little doubs coln as their deliverer, and that genera} eon. } that Sherman followed him pretty closely. tentment and security which attend upon a | Jobnston’s position isnow aremarkable one. stable, legitimate amd paternal government. | He will perhaps be astonished to find himself No incidents ever represented upon the stage the last rebel commander in the field, and were more truly dramatic than the @ight of | with the opportunity to take as conspicuows a Jeff, Davis, the attempts of the rebels to | part in the last battle ashe did in the fist. But barn Richmond, the rapid entrance of the | Grant is near to bim; Sherman is neeger still, Union army and the unrestrained rejoicings and Stoneman has cut, between Dagville - which greeted our brave generals and gallant | Greensboro, the railroad that might ey soldiers. retreat. He eannot fight, he cannot r. When the rebel leaders prepared to abandon | and he also must surrender. His power w .. Richmond their actions disclosed their true | cient to purchase his own parole and the parole ~ character. Each man looked out for himself | of his officers and men. General Wilson’s pro- and his ready cash; and the rebel motto | gresein Alabama is indicated by the report woes, “The Devil take the hindmost.” The from Memphis that he had captured Selma. rebel currency, which these leaders had| After the news of Lee's surrender all other forced upon the Southern people, was now | mews of the operations of the war and the thrown into the street, and the rebel bonds, of | movements of rebel troops seems unimportant which we have heardso much, shared the same | and trivial.: And such other news is now, in fate. One of the first movements of Jeff. Davis | fact, as unimportant and trivial as it egems. and his clique was to secure all the specie in | We hear these reports of Jobnston’s, Sherman's, the Treasury, and their next operation was to | Stoneman’s and Wilson’s movements very burn all the hooks and papers in the Auditor’s | calmly, as we do all the facts of the military office, that no one might be able to diecover | situation for the day. Similar facts will be how much they had stolen. Then, after insur- given to the public from time to time for some ing thelr own escape, these robbers took meas- weeks, or may be months yet, but naturally ures to burn down the city which had se long | they have lost their grester interest. They are sheltered them. South Carolinians and Geor- | small facts except to those directly interested stems, tn wed Viti were left behind to Spofy the torch. A body of cavalry, under the command of a fellow | nouncement that the Virginians,” | in friends or relatives engaged. The grand news was reached in the an- climax of mili m had laid down his arms— named Gary, was detailed “to come stealthily | that he had gone out “on the old stage road to through the city about daylight, catch up all | Richmond,” ready to pledge his honor that stragglers and citizens and hurry them off to | the survivors of the greatest of the rebel armies the army,” like a prese-gang. The large store- would go home if Grant would permit it. That houses for the army were emptied of their eon- | was the natural and dramatic close—the last tents, and the regenerated Rivhmond Whig, worthy appearance of the rebellion as such. from which we have been quoting, remarke | Whatever is left of the attempt against the gov- that “while the Confederate government was | ernment will melt away; for Lee practically making such ® poor mouth over the reported | sdmits that further effort is useless, Mobile failure of supplies, and while the peo- sees its point of honor conceded by Lee, and ple were y “these immense store- “were bursting with fulness and plenty, t il Richmond—its thoroughfares flow- whiskey and littered with rebel checks. and bills; its businass Tj He ul ble which surrounded them. gtarved that the army | will fight no longer. And Johnston’sarmy will disappear as Lee’s men, on their way home, ge through it and tell of the great fights in Vir finally to utter wreck and waste,” | ginia, and of the generosity of the conqueror. all the mischief possible, the | Soon the police will supersede the army with all the repression that will be necessary to ‘Wo enter now upon s new era of national the people zoLved by their | life, the real business of which is to settle justly, half crasy by the terri- | perhaps generously, the many socjg] questions that the war has given rise to; to straighten Ina short time after the exit of the Southern | out the national figanses so as to relieve to “chivalry” the Yankee “vandals” marched in | the utmost the necessary burdens upon the and took possession. The first act of these | people that the war has left behind it, and to Northern “monsters” was to put out the fires. direct aright the grand national development ‘Then the “ thieves and cut-throate” of tho Union | directly induced and stimulated by tho war. It army drove off the rebel “<-nti¢inen” who | is this period of a nation’s life that is pregnant were engaged The gitizene P'andering jewelry stores, | with the possibilities of its fate. It is now that 0, it seems, had not been de- | the effect of the changes that the war bas made - . ceived by all the ravings of the rebel press, | is to be seen and to act upon the people, and tarned out and cheered our “mudsills,” and | now that the great energies of the country are burrahed for that “mongrel ape,” President to take new forms and channels. We stand Lincoln. Order was at once restored; the city | upon the threshold of a magnificent future. was placed under martial law and amply po- Directed in one way we may lose ourselves and liced; no outbreak of any kind occurred, and | our glorious growth in the mean and miserable no arrests were made, save of a few rebel offi- spirit of party revenge, and in another we may cers at the Spottswood House, who were | grow even greater than the war has made us, too cowardly to fight, too lazy to run | by the ennobling influence of splendid pur- and too “ refined” not to curse and | poses. We believe that the political head of swear and abuse the loyal troops, The | the nation sees this position in the proper spirit, effect of this contrast between the be- and will be equal to its requirements in all havior of the beaten rebels and the victori- | ways; and we hope and believe that the people ous Unionists may be best illustrated by « few | also know their own greatness, and will not be striking facts, The Richmond Whig says:— | turned from it to carry out the views of any “If there lingered in the hearts of any of our | miserable faction. people one spark of affection for the Davis Personal meee dynasty, this ruthless, useless, wanton handing | Henry C. Clarke and Heary Boynton, Eaqs., have been the flames, On the other hand we find that the | atteation of Europeans, will be sent from Brattleboro. farmers around Richmond immediately set work ploughing their land—one of them begin- ning early Monday morning—as if to show their confidence in the protection of the Union. to Mr. James ©. Derby, No. 6 Bpruce street, New York, has been appointed United States Despatch Agent for the city of New York, in place of Oscar Irving, deceaned. General Todd is staying at the Astor House. Everybody brought out his hidden stock of Probable Loss of the Ship Bidack Prince. on Senda of Frese drc bl dale «poo Bostor, April Captain McDonald, of the schooner Elisa, from Aux Cayes, roports that on February 16, on the outward ‘and dozen, were abundant on Monday at fifty | passage, he fell in with the ship Black from cents & pound for putter and thirty cents a eee’ or unl be Besa, then of geoed dozen for eggs, in gréenback® In a word, the city of Richmond, delivered from tiw: leaking badly, having three feet the So eegues kar vin provaaes eck plbeioa ao at tain of the ship thinking at the time that he could safely of rebel rale, like Memphis, Nashville, NeW Gi | reach port. On the next day the schooner encountered leans, Savannah and Charleston, will find that |» peace, plenty and prosperity which always accompany the government of the United States, gale, and as the ship has never o been heard of since tKere is nd doubt she am all om board perished. Disaster to the Schooner Clara Eliem, Bostos, April 10, 1868, Tue Excrrexenr Yaersnpay—The glorious | The schooner Clara Ellen, from Boston for New York, news of the surrender of General Lee and the | 2°! into Holmes’ Hole, Oth, with damage to bulwarks, rebel Army of Northern Virginia arrived in the 4&0, Previous to her arrival two boilers on deck broke from their lashings and rolled overboard. One sunk and city so late on Sunday night that there was little |’tne other was towed in, They were intended for the excitement among the few who heard it. Yes | steamer Newport, of the Now York and Newport lina, terday, however, when the people woke up in | 4nd were valued at $40,000; insured for $40,000, the morning to learn that the rebellion was virtually at an end, the feeling of enthusiasm and delight ran through the whole metropolis like electricity. Although every one expected such a result from the late victorics, it was none the loss startling when it becamie a reality. Since The New Saratoga bit ye. Mt Oren reins aah pound in peprerine reniay } Reventon tae bpeuing of the neavony june ——_____. Death of Hon. N. B. Bord: jom. Rocron, Ape 10S. Webruscy leat, when Sherman brought bis grand ables names ot