The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, & peace commissioner, ts furnished tm the despatch OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. struggle. Now York, Monday, April 17, 1865. valley, on last Saturday, the object of which, it is un- derstood, was to arrange preliminaries for the sur- THE SITUATION. Yestorday was Easter Sunday, the anniversary of the resurrection of our Savior from terrestrial death to ce- lestial and oternal life—always « glad occasion to every Christian heart. But still, notwithstanding al! the joyful associations which cling around the day, yesterday was af General Leo's surrender, and expressed his purpose to, ad and solemn Sabbath forthis nation. In this city, asf ™intain his organization; but it is#aid that bis troops , throughout the countay, sorrow brooded over the spirite fad 4°8*rted hitn en masse, and that he then left for North: Of the people. The metropolls presented the unprece. fg C8lipa to join Johnston, Many of Loo's paroled men donted spectacle in our history of a great city draped in the sable emblems of mourning for a murdered Ohief Magiatrate of the republic, Along very thoroughfare, miles and miles of wall wero festooned in, Mack and white, speaking forcibly the affection of the People for their dead President. The same evidences, of grief were worn by the streets of our suburban cities, ‘and of ovory city, town and village of the loyal. States. {fm the churches the services and the discourses of the Lee's rebel Army of Northern Virginia, The rebol still prowl through that region, murdering and robbing. Tho news of the assassination of Prosident Lincoln was received in General Hancock's army on Saturday morn- ing, and had the effect of highly exasporating the fecl- ings of his soldiers against the secessionists of the. sur- rounding country; but no violent meagures were re- sorted to. ‘and woro of tho most affecting character. vicinity, Noxt in intensity to the grief over the assassination of| tho President yesterday was the anxiety to learn the latest in regard to the probable results from the attempts & ‘on the life of Secretary Seward and his sons. We are happy to be able to state that the Secretary is considered ‘Out of danger, It appears that the stabs which the ‘would-be assassin intended should deprive the nation of Bi Mr. Soward’s valuable sersices actually resulted in physi- fe EUROPEAN NEWS The steamship Germania, from Southampton April 5, Toached this port yesterday evoning. Hor news is three days later, Tho London Times appears to have had an intuitive @ perception of the approaching dissolution of the rebel confederacy, as it foreshadows the near triumph of Grant and Sherman to the people of England. A diplomatic demand for satisfaction in the case of the Niagara and Sacramento had been made on Portugal. A cal benefit to the invalid Secretary by relieving his system a zaind to the London Times says that when the) : : federal vossels moved ths commander of Belem tower, of ‘an unhealthy accumulation of blood in his head, Hiwno had recoived instructions, called the artillerymen to whioh had collectod during his confinement to his¥the guns and fired «twelve pound shot at the Niagara, s wh'ch sailed in front. she did not, however, stop, ‘and ot 4X more shots were fired from the tower. At the seventh Be shot the N! tary By chor. Of State, The wounds of Major Augustus Seward, the fd of tho ded of several days, in consequence of being thrown from his carriage. | tho recovery of Mr, Frederick Seward, Assistants Hopes also are now entort Sacramento followed. I¢ appears that three n balts struck the Niagara, other gon of the Secretary, who received injuries at the #4 Napoleon declares that it is now ‘too late’ for inter- hands of the miscreant, are not now considered dan. fey V°nton in America. uy f] Tho Spanish Cortes passed the bill for tho abandoment #4 — ge B¥ of San Domingo. FiThe Great Crime—Abraham Lincoin‘’s#@ example of that truly popular system of gov- The despatches which we publish this morning furn'si fa Richard Cobden, M, P., the celebrated English re- i Piace in History. ernment—soon to be in control of all nation- additional details regarding these tragic afiaurs. We also gg former, died on the 2d of April, of asthma, 4 §=6Abraham Lincoln, in the full fruition of hisfalities—which had the moral sublimity and Consols closed jondor < for ie : ; i 4 give the official account of tho inauguration of Prosi ‘econ closed in London, April 4, at 90%, @ 90% for A cioriong work, *has been struck from thet practical virtues of George Washington to Johnson, The funeral of President Lincoln will takeF4 py, riverpoot cotton market was greatly depressed fq Toll of living men by the pistol shot offiguide it through its experimental stage ; and place in Washington on Wednesday of this we onthe dth instant, and closed heavily with irregularpy@n assassin. That is the unwelcome news the perhaps externally grotesque, but morally tations, are toon fats Viwhen: Tour’ he! | eee Breadstuils wero easier, with a dull market. 8 sa Gations of churches throughout the country arefgd TOV HONS were dull, oMcially invited to assemble at their places of worship | MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 4 for tho purpose of solemnizing the occasion with appro- rine fe 6th of April, show that under the working of tho gs remonies. py nglsh governmental ayatem in the British islands, as The persons supposed to be the murderer of the Pres ¥ well from that of Fi in Martinique and Gaudaloupe, dont and the attempted murderer of Secretary Seward fil the condition of the people is deteriorating daily. The have not yet been arrested. made poor and more poor, property, in some instancrs, In the midst of the mo:ruing over the assassination of FH has become valueless, and the export trade is fast dimin. President Lincoln we receive the announcement oth ishing. Some cotton had been shipped from Jamaica ‘nother grand triumph of the national arms. A despateh pig fr England. , from Cairo states that General Canby’s troops captured ig ihe ioemon (sameles) dpernet ot ie Sty of April te BA ports that a call of the Dominican government for a loan Spanish Fort, with the rebel garrison of three thousand, bal of one hundred thousand dotlars has been promptly and {4 and entered the city of Mobile on the 9th instant, In tho oity three hundred guns were captured. Tho rebel kenerously responded to by the people, notwithstanding Ld troops im the city fll back up the river in gunboats. FY ary broke out In te extensive five story cooperage oxtab- The same despatch contrms the previous reports that fd lishment No. 650 Water street, and communicated to an General Wilson has captured in Alabama the rebelgadjoining lumber yard and to the bonded warchouses | General Roddy's entire command. Bil Nos. .549, 561 and 653, on the opposite side of the street, Thore was a rumor at Fortress Monroe on last Friday, Pings and the lumber in the yard. The vale of tho brought down the James river from City Point, that the BM buildings and stocks of gooda destroyed it is thought \ rebel army under General Johnston had been surrendored ag ¥25 at least @ million and # half of dolurs. It is ynder. to Genoral Sherman. This report, however, needs con- poe were insurances on the greater part of this) Sirmation, Wo havo previously had similar reports. Bl Tero wore also fires carly yesterday morning at 284 General Schofeld’s command, of General Sherman's Mi] Madison street, doing damage to the extent of one hun- army, commenced its northward movement from Golds. Bg ‘red and fifty dollars; at 224 avenue A, entailing a loss) ! Voro on the 8th inst The other two columns, under po! two Hundred dallas, and on board the propeller Rssox, Generals Howard and Slocum, followed on the succeeding one thousand dollars day. Largo quantities of supplies for General Sherman’s fi army have beon sent through the Dismal Swamp Canal in barges, the anohorage of which is in the vicinity of Roanoke Island. It appoars that General Ord’s revocation, alluded to in yesterday's Haran, of the permission granted by Gene- ral Weitsel for the Virginia rebel Legislature to held « seasion in Richmond, was promulgated after consulta- tion with Genoral Grant, and by his direction, General Ord, on assuming special supervision of affairs in and around Richmond, also issued an order inviting the people in the surrounding country to bring in their| supplies of marketing, as formerly, and calling upon the various industrial classes to resume their' ocoupations, and assuring all of protection. The! Denodicial effects of this latter order are said to have een almost immediately perceptible. Another order from Gondwal Ord informs all soldiers of the rebel army of Northern Virginia who were not present with that or- ganization at the time of its surrender that they can) Avail themselves of all the benefits of that act by appear ing within tho national lines, reperting themselves andi Jaying down their arms. About three thousand rebel prisoners were held in Libby prison on last Saturday. It is said that the rush of Richmondites to take the oath of allegiance to the government is now so great that it fs difficult to meet the! domand for the necessary blank forms. GF Additional interesting details of the ceremonies attend. ing tho surrender of General Lee's army are given by! our correspondents. The work of paroling the rebels) commenced on tho 11th inst,, and it was thought that President Andrew Johnson—His Char- acter—His Views and His Union Policy. The stunning blow which bas fallen upon the country in the death of President Lincoln derives nota little of its force from a painful solicitude in regard to his successor. At a crisis like this, when a man is needed at the White House not only of great experience in and sound views upon public affairs, but a man o sleepless vigilance, and with his wits always about him, like the trusty night pilot of a great] steamer in a rough sea upon & dangerous coast, the question recurs is Andrew Johnson) equal to these requisitions? We think he is, and we look for great things from him. The 4th of March stands out in gloomy relie against this opinion; but in his favor we have! the evidence of twenty years of a pnblic life in numerous responsible positions, State and national, and still ascending, till he stands on the summit of the pyramid. He appre- ciates and will gird up his loins for the! great responsibilities of his new position, He begins well. On Saturday last, in taking the oath of office, “he appeared in remarkably mgood health,” and exhibited “a high and real- izing sense of the hopes that are centred In| him. His manner was solemn ‘and dignified, and his whole bearing produced a most grati-| fying impression upon those who participated in the ceremonies.” Subsequently he appeared! ata Cabinet meeting, at which “he stated his intention of carrying out the policy which had throe or four days altogether would be required to com- Hi heen inaugurated by President Lincoln.” Hel plete it, Tho number of men under General Lee's im Bialso requested the present members of the mediate command covered by the surrender was esti fi Cabinet to retain their positions. It further] mated at only about sixteen thousand, including officers, appears that in a later conversation with a privates and toamsters. The surrendered artillery isf¥distingnished person President Johnson said supposed to comprise one hundred and seventy pieces, Behe saw no necessity at present for an extra) Seven hundred wagons also formed part of the Union session of Congress, From these incidents it prize, So nearly exhausted were the provisions of tho will be perceived that he not only bas a proper| rebels that while the surrender was in progress alargommestimate of his new and great responsibili- umber of them had to be supplied with food by Genorai fa ties, but that, with the landmarks and the asnist- Grant's commissariea The majority seemed to moregg ants lefthim by Prosident Lincoln he feels woleomo than regret the surrender. Rebel officers trans. song enough to enter upon his work without} the aid of Congress, foted & brisk business in disposing of their fiemes 00 the cleus of the ‘nticnsl ommy, There was another observation of President} ak. aed Cite tepreaatiin, te tenes Johnson, on Saturday last, which, in connection ef Sek eve cenhtonay Wy.0 waivers! tetund with his well known views apon the cause and the leaders of the rebellion, we cannot over- look. He said that “he would not commit him- self to @ policy which would prevent him visit ing condign punishment on traitors. He had been fighting rebels bere and in Tennessee, and bis previous course might be regarded as an indication of his future conduct upon this subject.” Thus it will appoar that traitors in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln have not} improved their chances of escaping the halter. That murder, that act of blind ferocity, was the: most stupid and will probably prove the most disastrous to them of all the stupid atrocitios hey have committed. ‘That Andrew Johnson is settled and inflexible in his views of “condign punishment” we can-| Corroboration of the rumor noticed in Inst Friday's Henato, thas Genoral Loe had gone to Danville, Va, asfgnot doubt, When the cotton States, following to tako rebel money in payment. The Second and Sixth’ corps of the Army of the Potomac left Appomatiox Court House on the 11th inat., moving back towards) Burkeaville Junction, leaving the Fifth corps behind to| take charge of affeirs till the surrender was terminated. The ultimate destination of this portion of General Grant's forcos has not yet been made public. Gonoral Lee, in his farewell order to the rebel Army of Northern Virginia, after his surrender, tells them that he has ywided from no distrust of them, but because he wns] fatistied the circumstanoes were such that he could ac Complish nothing further which would compensate for tho loa of life which would bave attended a prolongs tion of the contest, one of our Richmond correspondents. It was previously reported that General Lee had gone thither to induco Johnston to surrender his army, and thus avoid a use- tess effesion of blood. It ts now said that the prinotpal, object of bis visit is to endeavor to provail on Joff. Davis himself to desist from furthor prolonging 4 hopoless A flag of truce from Colonel Farrel, in command of the rebel troops formerly under Imboden, was sent into tho lines of General Hancock's army, in the Shenandoah render of his force, as constituting @ portion of| General Rosser rofused to comply with the torms of Bborder slave States,” and that, “whenever a have arrived at their homes in the valley. Guerilla bands FF s rousing Union speech om the 2d of March, 51861, which oreated an unparalleled outbreak of popular enthusiasm in the Senate galleries, It is stated that General Washburne has resigned : pastors wore appropriate to the melancholy occasion, pa‘? command of the national troops at Memphis and iM apenas sgl Betis ie A an on its vessels, an Ow yo States I would have all such arrested, and, aI would have them bung.” pect, under President Lincoln, of a policy of unexampled charity to the leading rebels of the South; but it is apparent that under An- drew Johnson they will be turned over to jus- tice. The assassination of President Lincoln abolishes all party lines in the North and unites its people in support of his successér| fj and his policy. be true to himself in order to give the fullest satisfaction to the country. ara turned round, camo back and cast an- pa which has, mevery loyal heart with sadness, horror and fa burning thirst for retribution. That is the Our files from the West Indies, dated in Jamaica the #4! news which has swept away from the public pf mind every sentiment of leniency or concilia- pition towards the conquered brigands of the South, and in whose lurid light, as by the phos- RY Produc? of the soil diminishes in quantity, the people are ff phorescent flames recently enkindled in the 4 crowded hotels of this city by men with rebel 7 commissions in their pockets, we are again ter- i ribly reminded of the absolute barbarity and utter devilishness of the foemen we have now ¢ fitichtly clutched in our victorious grasp. The kindliest and purest nature, the bravest and most honest will, the temper of highest geni- A lity, and the spirit of largest practical benefi- cence in our public life, has fallen a victim to g the insane ferocity of a bad and mad vagabond, who had been educated up to this height of scrime by the teachings of our “copperhead” oracles, and by the ambition of fulfilling those instructions which he received “from Riob-| mond.” to the South and to all Southern sympathizers which must follow his act as inevitably as the thunder storm follows the lightning flash, we ado not care in this moment of benumbing regret and overwhelming excitement to allow their sufferings and general impoverishment by the war. k4 Botwoen two and three o'clock yesterday morning aff fq consuming nearly all the contents of the several build. while, for the present, we can but throw out some few hurried reflections on the character of| the giant who has been lost to our Israel, and the glorious place in history his name is destined to occupy. by those who were opposed to him as to the calibre of our deceased Chief Magistrate, or the place he is destined to occupy in history, all men of undisturbed observation must have recognized in Mr. Lincoln a quaintness, originality, courage, honesty, mag- nanimity and popular force of character such) as have never heretofore, in the annals of the human family, had the advantage of so eminent, ‘a stage for their display. mixed product of the agricultural, forensic and frontier life of this continent—as indigenous to our soil as the cranberry crop, and as American in Bis fibre as the granite foundations of the of our whole people—what may be called our judgment, as the type man of a nowy dynasty of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. APRIL 17, 1865. in the lurid wake of South Carolina, began to fly off into the abyss of secession, like planets from their courses around the sun, and when, except one, the whole posse of Southern demo- grats in the Senate at Wasbington were changed to insolent and threatening conspirators, the exception was Andrew Johnson, who, from the first, faced them and fought them right and left. For instance, in a sweeping speech against them, running through two daye (Feb- ruary 5 and 6, 1861, while Buchanan was still President), Mr. Johnson eaid that his views of; the destructive tendencies of secoasion dated back to 1833, and epeaking of an appeal to the border slave States to join the Southern confederacy, ho sald, “This is simply @ ques- tion of interest, and not of friendship, for the pier—perbaps sadder—era; and Jefferson Davis, ith his subordinate conspirators, flying from their capital betore the armed hosts of the gnation which kad elected and re-elected Abraham Lincoln, may be regarded as a trans- figutation of imperialism, with its satellite aristocracies, throwing down the fragments o a broken sceptre at the feet of our American— the democratic—principle of self-rule. The patriarchal system of government was, we may presume, as simple as the lives of those over whom it was exercised, and has left but very imperfect traces of its existence. Of the theocratic or priestly form of government, we have had types in the characters of Moses and Mohammed—both powerful and original men, and true representatives of the ambitions, needs and poetically superstitious temperaments of the nations thoy respectively ruled. With Rome came the full development of the imporial sys- tem, based on military subjugation and absorp- tion; the system which Louis Napoleon believes is about being revived —wholly oblivious, appa- rently, that his volume of moody aad fantastic dreams is printed on 9 steam press, and not copied painfully from waxen tablets, as were the memoirs of Julius Cesar, hy the stylus of a single copyist. With the epread of Catholicity came the feudal system, of which Charlemagno was but an accident and by no means the creator—that system having been a necessity for the perpetuation of Church pro- jperty and the protection of the non-belligerent religious Orders. With the discovery of print- ‘ing, immediately followed by Luther’s insur rectionary upheaval in the religious world, commenced the mental and moral preparation of mankind for the acceptance of popular insti- tutions and the right of self-government—in a word, for the democratic principle of which Cromwell was the first forcible expression, and Napoleon Bonaparte, in his earlier triumphs over kings and empires, the armed and irre- sistible assertion. False to the ideas which caused his elevation, this Napoleon was hurled from the throne he sought to build on the ruins and with the materials of prostrate popular liberty; and it was thus reserved by an All-wise Providence for this latest found of the conti- nents of our earth, to give the first successful line of division is drawn. in this country it will ‘be a line of civil war, and the work of tho. Here Andrew Jobnson spoke as ‘= prophet, and here, too, he gives us satisfactory proof of his sagacity as a faraeeing statesman. Next, in we find him speaking as the executive bfficer of traitor. If I were President of the United when tried and convicted, by the eternal God The man thug publicly declaring nimself in 1861 is now President of the United States, and commands all the necessary powers to carry that oath into effect. There was a fair pros- Thus sustained he has only to for the last two days, filled magnificent, figure of Abraham Lincoln to be present supreme moment of its permanent crowning. This estimate of the place inevitably to be occupied in the world’s history by the great National Chief whose loss wo mourn may not prove either a familiar or pleasant idea for the mere partisans of the prosent day to contem- plate; bat it will be found none the less a true ‘and philosophical estimate. In the retrospec- tive glance of history the “accidents,” as they are called, of his elevation will all have fadéed out lof sight; and’the pen of the historian will only chronicle some such record as the following:— From the very humblest position in a family subsisting by agricultural labor, and himself tolling for dally bread in his early youth, this extraordinary man, by the gifts of self-educa- tion, absolute honesty of purpose, perfect sym- [pathy with the popular heart and great natural lendowments, first rose to eminence as a awyor; then graduated !n Congress; was next heard of as the powerful though unsuccessful tival for national Senatorial honors of the democratic candidate for the Presidency, over whom he subsequently triumphed in 1860; and four years later we find him, in the midst of overwhelming financial embarrassments, and during the uncertain progress of the bloodiest ‘and most desolating civil war ever waged, so completely retaining the confidence of the American people as to be triumphantly re- elected to the first office in their gift They will claim for him all the moral influences, which—acting through material forces and agenciee—have led to the abolition of slavery, and the permanent entbroning of popular in- stitutions on this continent; and, in their gene-' ral summing up of this now unappreciated age in which we have our feveriah being, and in their pictures of those events wherein the clamorous partisans of the past week were prone to urge that Mr. Lincoln had been but ® passive instrument, his name and figure will be brought forward in glowing colors on their canvass, as the chief impelling power and cen- tral organizer of the vast results which cannot fail to follow our vindication of the ‘popular form of government. And surely some hundred years hence, when the staid and scholarly disciples of the historic Muse, bring their grave eyes to scan and their brief tapelines to measure the alti- tude and attitude, properties and proportions of our deceased Chief Magistrate, their sur- prise—taking them to be historians of the pre- sent type—will be intense beyond expression. It has been for centuries the tradition of their| tribe to model every public character after the style of the heroic antique. Their nation- founders, warriors and lawmakers have been invariably clad in flowing togas, crowned with laurel or oak wreaths, and carrying papyrus rolls or the batons of empire in their out- stretched hands, How can men so educated— these poor, dwarfed ransackers of the past, who have always regarded greatness iy’ this illusory aspect—ever be brought to comprehend the go-| nius of a character so externally uncouth, #0 pa- thetically simple, so unfuthomably penetrating, 80 irresolute and yet so irresistible, so bizarre, grotesque, droll, wise and perfectly benefi- cent in all its developments as was that of the’ great original thinker and statesman for whose death the whole land, even in the midst of vio- tories unparalleled, is to-day draped in mourn- ing? It will require an altogether new breed and school of historians to begin doing justice to this type-man of the world’s last political evangel. No ponderously eloquent George Bancroft can properly rehearse those inimitable’ stories by whiob, {n the light form of allegory, our martyred President has #o frequently and| 60 wisely decided the knottiest controversies o his Cabinet; nor gan even the genius of a Wash- ington Irving or Edward Everett in some future age eclocutionize into the formal dignity of a Greek statue the kindly but poworful face of] Mr. Lincoln, seamed in circles by humorous thoughts and furrowed crosswise by mighty anxieties. It will take a new school of his- torlans to do justice to this eccentric addition to’ the world’s gallory of heroes; for while other men as intoresting and original may havo held equal power previously in other countries, it is Of him, however, and the bitter fruits Whatever judgment may have been formed He was essentially a} tion; but, taking him for all in all, the very noblest impulses, peculiarities and aspirations continental idiosyncrasies—were more collec- tively and vividly reproduced in his genial and yet unswerving nature than in that of any other public man of whom our chronicles bear record. If the influence of the triumph of popular institutions in our recent struggle prove so great over the future destiny of all European nations as we expect it must, Mr. Lincoln will ‘stand in the world’s history, and receive its nation-rulere—not for this country alone, but for the whole civilized portion of the human family. He will take his place in a sphere far higher than that accorded to any mere conqueror; and, indeed, without speaking profanely, we may well say that, since the foundation of the Christian era, no more re- markable or pregnant passages of the workl’s history have been unfolded than these of which Mr. Lincoln on this continent has been the cen- tral figure and controlling influence. It is by this measurement be will be judged, and by this standard will his place be assigned to him. Under his rule oar self-governing experiment the best and strongest rule for every intelligent people is & government to be created by the popular will, and choosing for fteelf the repre- sentative instrument who is to carry out its purposes, Four years ago it appeared an even chance whether Furopo, for the next century at least, should gravitate towards democracy or! Cosarism. Louis Napoleon was weak enough to hope the latter, and has destroyed himself by the folly of giving his hope expression. The triumph of the democratic principle over the aristocratic in our recent contest is an as- suranoe that time has revolved this old arth ¥on which we live into a new and perhaps hap-j both its representative and martyr in the fonty in the present age of steam, joten figured in assumed tragedy upon the Zund prying newspaper reporters that » subj stage where his defiant announcement of o eminent,’ both by genius and position, could jm the real tragedy he had then aocomplished wae have been placed under the eternal 0 made as he cried out “Sic semper tyrannis!” in if of critical examination. the presence of the horror-sirickem audience. As to the immediate effect of Mr. Lincoln’si All these incidents will reour now with pecu- ‘death, our institutions are fortunately of force. character not depending on the fe of any in-M Howe Down Tus Assassuvs.—Tho misoreante dividual for their maintenance or progress. who assassinated Mr. Lincoln and attempted We shall miss his wise guidance and the radia- the life of Secretary Seward are still at large, tions of that splendid wit which bas illumined’ ithe military and police authorities of Washing. oman of oe tae ton and all over the country are actively en- four years o! le ver exe- erate “the deop damnation of Na taking of" Me sow ye adnan everyPesble am jand may doubtless—for we are but human— nor by every cltizen. Let cach man resolve [bloody dood the full penalties of their heinousfyParins. Do visi non & Nee ponte Hcrimos, Nevertheless the progress of tho! for justice, It is duty which every man American government is upward and onward lowes to his conscience and his country. casting flowers as it passes upon the grave 0 leach new martyr, but never halting in the) CAPTURE OF THECITY maroh of its divine and irresistible mission. In Vice President Andrew Jobnson—hence-| forward President of the United States—we have: Three Thousand Pris- oners and Threo fw man of similar origin with Mr. Lincoln; equally a child of the people, equally in sympathy Hundred Guns Taken. with their instincts, and perhaps botter in- formed as to the true ‘condition and govern- mental necessities of the Southern States, Self- educated, and raised by personal worth through years of laborious industry and sacrifice, no accident of a moment can be accepted by the judgment of our people as reversing Mr. Jobn- son’s claims.to the confidence and respect 0 the country. In Secretary Stanton and General Grant he has two potent and reliable advisers, who will give the first steps of his administra- tion such wise support and guidance as they may need; and while we all must mourn with sad and sickened hearts the success of the great Ecrime which has removed our beloved and trusted President from the final scenes of the contest he had thus far conducted to a triumpb- Mant issue, let us not forget that by the circum- stance of death the seal of immortality has been Pe atamped upon his fame; nor is it any longer in Ithe power of changing fortune to take away from him, as might have happened had he lived, one of the most solid, brilliant and stain-& less reputations of which in the world’s annals any record can be found—its only peer existing 'in the memory of George Washington. Tho Rebel Garrison Retreat Up the River in Gunboats. Confirmation of the Capture of Gen Roddy and His Whole Command, &e., &e., &e. Cancago, April 16, 1865. A special despatch from Cairo says:— Our forces occupied Mobile on the 9th instant. Tho Spanish fort was captured with three thousand THE MEN COUNSELLED TO CALMNESS. The Paroled Men of Lee’s Army Ar- riving at Their Homes. &e., &e., do. Mr. Charles H. Farrell's Despatch. Wincuusrer, Va., April 15, 1866. THR NEWS OF THE ASBASSINATION AMONG THM TROOPS OF THE VALLEY. The sad noys of the assassination of President Lin- coln reached Major General Hancock early this morning. The intelligence sproad rapidly among tho troops of the command, and s combinod feoling of despondency and desperation depicted itself on the countenances of the officers and troops. The regimental colors of the troops were forthwith draped im mourning, the headquarters colors were furlod and drape@, the garrison flags put as fhalfmast, and all drills and basiness of the camp sus- pended, except that pertaining to the Indispensable camp ut Ee ‘THE SOLDIERS COUNSKLLED TO CALMNERS. The officers of the troops counselled the troops te |calmnoss, and not to permit their feclings to give force to jacts against the rebels that would detract from the high character of American soldiers, but to leave justice to be meted out by those in high authority, who would without delay bring the guilty to justice. This good advice had a good effect, notwithstanding the regrets of our gallans troops at the tragical death of our beloved Chief Ma,ia~ trate was forcibly depicted on every countenance. THA EFVECT OF THR BVENT ON THM RECENTLY ANNOUNCED Poucr. jants of this section that this untoward event has oc- curred at a time when Genoral Hancock was doing all im his power, by aconciliatory policy, magnanimous and brave, to induee the people to return to their allegiance and enjoy the blessings and liberties of peace, which, by ‘their own acts, for the past four years they have boem deprived of. Many of those who have heretofore pro- feased rebel sentiments beg the indulgen:o of the publia until the assassination is fully investigated, when they hope to prove that the fiendish act was not prompted by the rebel government, but committed by purtios laboring under a hallucination or wtally insane. it is charitable, therefore, to make this request public and await the ver- dict in the premises. REBEL OFFICERS AND THR COMMANDS OFFERING TO SURRENDER, A flag of truce was received at our picket linewon the Kernstown road this morning from Colonel 0. Farrell, commanding the troops comprising General Imboden’s jate command. H's force consists of two regiment. Tt is understood that he stated that if his troops were a portion of those surrendered by General Lee, he was Teady to surrender his command on the terms agreed upon by his superior officer. His command is encamped in the upper valley, ROSSER RRPUSIS TO COMPLY WITH Lth’s SURRENDER, AND MIX TROOPS DESERT HIM. General Rosser (r bel), who was in the vicinity of Staunton when he received the news of Lee's sure render, informed his troops that he would not comply with the terms, but should resolutely fight to the bittor lend. He subsequently started for Lynchburg to the defence of that place, but had not proceeded far when his t deserted him en masse and returned ta their homes. , finding himself in a dilemma, subs sequently started for North Carolina to join Johnston's army. THM PAROLED MEN OF LRK'S ARMY ALREADY ARRIVING AT THEIR NOMA, ton A of heat may men of Leo's army who reside in ley reached Staunton a ‘or two ago, and were homeward, er again to take up I government of the country. \wending their wa; farms against the ‘THY PAPREDATIONS OF GUERILLAS. The rebel gueritia bands in the valley and West Vir giale are committing depredations upon all citizens in- liscriminately. The hopes of a rebel confederacy having vanished, their only principle is murder and robbery. The commanding general is using the means at his com- mand to rid the department of these marauders, who, when caught, will meet their deserts in a summary manner. ‘The troops in tho valley are in excellent dircipline, The Reported Surrender of Joe Johnston. Fortress Movwor, April 14, 166 By an arrival here to-day from Wilinngton, *. \, {intelligence is received that Genoral Sherman took up hie ne of march northward from Goldsboro last Monday A large amount of supplios have been sent through the Dismal Swamp Canal in barges, and around the capes im steamers, for the use of his army. The anchorage for the vessels ts in the vicinity of Roanoke Island, «t which place they will await the orders of Genoral Beck- with, General Sherman's Chief Commissary. ‘The steamer George Leary, which, arrived from City Point, Va, this afternoon, brings d@wn a rumor of tha —o but i needa A Movurntna Crry.—The spontanicty of feel- tropolis to clothe their dwellings and stores i with the “habiliments of woe” on Saturday, 4 Prisoners upon tho announcement of the death of the fy Throe hundrod guns were captured in Mobile. was an act of devotion to the memory of the & by way of Chickasaw bayou, dead wholly unbidden by the public authori-f¥ Goneral Wiison has captured all of Roddy’scommand, f ties, and not preconcerted by any class or body RT Aaa RRS Mon that day, it was nothing to that presented bi Ss H E N A N D Oo A H 7 Myesterday, when people had more leisure tof} display the mournful decorations. Almost # pal thoroughfares—but in the remotest streets, #4 Among the Soldiers. was appropriately festooned with draperies otf white and black intermingled, the emblems of| 4 try has sustained in the sudden demise of its— chief ruler. In all the churches yesterday the usual fes- aspect. The sermons of the pastors and thei hearts of tho congregations were all infused with the sad spirit which prevails everywhere. preachers to the terrible event which has plunged the whole nation into mourning. The virtues of Mr. Lincoln were beautifully expa-| scribed in language that drew tears alike from ithe sternest and most sensitive auditors. It! may be truly said of Abraham Lincoln that the men do lives after them”—find no signification, in his death; for whatever of weakness or error, human nature entailed upon him, as upon all terred with his bones.” The memory of his genial nature, his honest purpose, his ever‘ear- nest desire to do unto others as he would be of charity and forgiveness, will remain with this people until the last record of their na-| tional existence is effaced. News iv Canapa.—There can be no better] evidence of the high estimation in which Presi- dent Lincoln’s character has been held abroad lsination has been received in the British pro- vinces. From the encouragement which the rebel raiders met with from a portion of the! lcome very general that almost all classes there were animated by a bitter feeling of hostility to! the North, and against Mr. Lincoln especially. by the intelligence of his death show that this feeling was greatly exaggerated. The Governor of Nova Scotia, as #oon as he heard of it, sent business, and expressing his. sense of the loss ‘which the cause of order and good government! had met with in the death of a man “whom he; his intentions.” An English blockade-runner, lwhich had the atrocious bad taste to bedeck itself with flags in token of its joy at the event, to lower thom. In Montreal, Toronto and St. John the feeling of horror is described asi intense, and the evidences of mourning are give expression to the sympathy felt with us at} our loss through the medium of s public meet- ling, convoked by the Mayor. These evidences Executive was held will go far to wipe out any, causes for resentment that we may have had against the people of the provinces. ing which prompted the citizens of the me-# late President, was something unexampled. It fq The garrison fell back up the river on gunboats, and lof the people. Striking as was the spectacle 4 every house in the city—not alone in the princi- uThe President’s Assassination sorrow for the great calamity whigh the coun-# tival ceremonies of Easter assumed a funereal ‘Touching allusions were made by the different tiated upon, and the manner of his death de-| words of the great dramatist—“the evil which men, is forgotten. The good is not to be “in- done unto by them, ins sublime Christian spirit} Tax Natrona. Catarrr—Evrect oF THE than the manner in which the news of his assas-| (Canadian population the impression had be- The demonstrations of sincere sorrow elicited a message to the Legislature suspending all had always regarded as eminently upright in was compelled instantly by the naval authorities} general. In Montreal steps are being taken to lof the appreciation in which our late lamented There are several tnoidents in connection with ithe death of Preskient Lincoln which cannot fail to strike the mind of every one to whom! they are recalled as very remarkable. First, 1aa to the time of his assassination, which was Good Friday, the anniversary of the day upon which the Saviour, not of one nation, but of all mankind, was crucified; the anniversary, too, o the day when the national flag was taken down from Fort Samter in 1961, and the very same day on which it was restored upon the broken! battlements by General Anderson in 1865. And last, in the place where the assassi- ination occurred; for it mast be remembered that Mr. Lincoln was slain tn a theatre, and by the hand of an actor—an actor, also, who had| omfirmation, It is unfortunate for the rebel portion of ‘the inhabit- oh. ‘=