The Sun (New York) Newspaper, April 10, 1865, Page 1

Rae} NEW YORK, MONDAY, A | wish the tmterview to take place will weet I desire to Know whether your proposals would teud to PRIL 10, 1865. os me. Very Respectfully, that end, Your Obedient ervant, Pe canmoikberefore, meet you with 4 view to eurren- U. & GRANT, rthe Army of Northern Virion & Dat as far as your | i Lieutenant General, | °° Helton may affect the C. 8. f ree: unter my com. | ' s inaud aud tend to the restoration of perce, I should be blessed to meet you at ten &. i. to-morrow oo the old e'are road to Richmond, between the picket lines of the two armics The Terms of Surrender Offered | Aa BD "| REDEEMED by General Grant. ‘hu/duieiciae Appomattox Court House, | Your obedient servant, April 9, 1865.) General R. K. LER, Commanding ©. 8. Aw In accordance with the sabstance of my letter to you of the Sth Inst. I propose te receive the surrender of the Arwy of North- ern Virginin, on the following terma, to wit: | RE General C Lan, 5. A. To Lieut, Gen, Saanr, Comiuanding Armies of the United Siates. GRANT TO LF Arure 9th, 1865 Oneral R SA FB. Lee. Commanding (sesenat Your pote of ye-terday te received, Aas Holla of all the officers and mea to be | | have no anthority to treat on the subject of peace, made in duplicate, one copy to be given to | the meeting proposed for teu AM. to-tay could lead an officer designated by me, the otherto be | "°* o1, 1 will state, however, Gearrel, that I } am eqnally ansions for peace with sourrelf; and retained by such officers ns you may desig~ | the whole North entertain the mame feeling. Th im. terms on which poacecan be had are well understood, Hy the South laying down their arme thes ton that most desirable man lives and bun: yot dertroved, Sincerely boping that all our difficulties may be set ebanged, and each company or regimental tled without the lom of another lite, Laubseribe my- eit, will hae vent, save thousands of ha sof millions of property not The officers to give their individual pa- | roles not to take arms against the Govern | ment of the United States until property ex* commander sign a like parole forthe men Very Respectfully, Your obedient servant, Giant, Lieut, General l of their commands. 1.8 S.A Congratulatory Dispatch from Secretary Stanton. The arms, urtillery aod public property to be packed und stacked and tarned over to j the officere appointed by mo to receive them. bbs, ” This will not embrace tuc side-arms of Wasmineroy, 1, C.950 P. My? SURRENDER OF LEE AND | the oMcers, ver their private horses or bag. | erica ran: eee eae : wage. Thanks be to Almighty God for the great victory This dece—eack officer and omu will be | HIS WHOLE ARMY, } with which Le baa this day crowned you aud the aul TH E a E R M . allowedto returo te their homes, not to be | jaot ary under your command The tha of eB 4 AVIS, | disturbed by Unieed States authority #0 long | this Department, and of t) verument, and of the as they observe their parole aud the laws in | United Sta Officers and Men Paroled and force where they may reside. } deserved Told to ge Home Very Respectfully, : U. §. GRANT, Licutenant General. THE SURRENDER. GENERAL LEE TO GENERAL GRANT, Headquarters Army of ' Northern Virginia, April 0, 1865. / Lieatenant General U. 8. GRANT, Com. manding U.S. A. General: IL have received your letter of | this date containing the terms of surrender } of the Amny of Northern V irgiaia na propos ed by you. # sheir revereuce aud honor have beeo will be rendered to you and the brave aud gallant officers and soldiers of your army for all time howis M. BTANTON, Becretary of War, A GRAND SALUTE OKDERED, We Waniisat Dew amr m D.C. 1 April T ‘ clock PM. Jth, N65. Ordered, That e salute of two hundred guus be fred atthe headquarters of every army eud department, and atevery post and arsenal in the | nited States, and at the Military Academy at West Point, on the day of the pt of thie order, in commemoration nerel Kok rec of the surrender of ( lve and the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Grant aud the army under hie commatd; report of the receipt and execution of thie order to be made to the Adjutant General, Washington, As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your let of the THE COUNTRY WILD WITH JOY, | Sth tnst., they are accepted. 1 will proceed J a neers to designate the proper officers to carry the a&e., stiptiations Into effect. Evwin M, Svanton, Becretary of War REJOICINGS Wilmington, Del, Apri 0. Wilmiugton ie in no uproar and blaze of glory, rejoicing over the greatest letorios yet achieved by our armne belle are ringing, and @ large jing through the etreete fluneare fir ine procession is pro Very Respectfally, euch an excitement waa never before witnesred in this city Worcester, Mase,, April 9. The and bis army created an loteure ex- to night bonfires kindled, the fire companies turn Your Obedient Servant, RK. KOL newe of the eur War Departmen, E, General, Wastinotos, April 9th, 1868, - 9 o'clock, P.M. ‘ Po Maur-General Dix, New York Pay The bella were rang, enne oa] | THE PREVIOUS CONLRESPONDENCT. The following is the previous correapondence be d many stores and buildings were iMumi- Pitteburc, Fa. Apel 9 The to-niaht brought noarly the entire population into the streets The veerutiing bootha were turned wnho bon’ eulutes were tired, epoechos were made, and bands played Trenton, received bere The peop nr ‘i : news tween Lieutenant-General Grant and General Lae This Depa:tment bea rece: the offcial report referred to in the foregoing Welegram to Une Secretary of War of the surren Jer, t's dey, of General Lee aud his emmy to Licutenant-General Grant on the terme Proposed by General Grant. Meraile wil be given as speedily as poawible Eowie M, Staton, Becretary of War There hes been bw relaxation in the purenit during ite pendency GRANT TO LEE. Aruu, 7th, 1805 J. April 9 with re TUrDAME OUS ef Mase Lo receive and ver the gind tidinge shia April % the plorions news was cheering and ringiue of bella, General R. E. Lee, Commanding C. 8. A The glorious announce: GEN. GRANT TO SEC. STANTON eNRRAL—The remit of the last week inust con- | Mut of Leeta surrender was received here about vince you of the hopelessnees of further resistance on | Pine o'clock. It was telegraphed to all eeetions of the city, and waa announced in the several churches. Headquarters Armies of the the part of the Anny of Northern Virginia in thas | The bell of lndependence Hall was rung by the order etruccle. | feel that it fe 0, and reward it aetuy | : United States, @uty to ebift from myself the rexponsibility of any { % his ee rte Sremen gS ly sent farther effusion of blood, by asking of you the aur- | 60¢ blocked up tho etreew, Balutes were Sred, sud 4.30 P. M,, April 9th. render of thet ee es the eat rite Btetes | the whiatles of the steam engines, and the cheers of i \ the aseernbled multitudes wade the whole city rir Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, ihe isla tidy oh mice eee ol Promdence, Ro, April 9—Midnight,—Bella are Very reapectfully, your obt. servant U.S. Gmant, Lieutevant-(eneral, Commanding Armive of the Lulted stated LEE TO GRANT., Avun 7 General I have received your uote of this date } Yhongh not entirely of (he ringing, eannon are firing end the eltizens are out Secretary of War: General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon vpon the terms propos- ed by myself. The accompany rejoieing over the news of Lee's murrender Albany, April i0.-1 A. M. There is great rejoic- ing here over the uewe of the surrender of General lee and biearmy About midnight State and Vearl atreste filled with people avriouely inquiring the particulare, The belie are ringing, cannon tiring, lous pinion you express of the Interrstiug article, embodying remimeceucea of the rebel Gewmiat farntly, together with @ description ot bie mayniti- cent ancestral bow stead on she Potomac, in which he resided bef ra the war, WO extract from the Narrovar Lerectioascru of the Ob inat A visit to the Ariinston t and surronnd To Lieut,-Gen. U8, Grant, commanding armies of the Uulted Stvted Lieut,-Gen. TO GENERAL GRANT, April ?, 1865, General:—1 received your note of this @oruing onthe picket line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely Lea aod his | popelesanees of further resistance ou the part of | while the multitude are tnda'ging in flreworks, ‘Tho ; the army of Northern Vircinia, I reciprocate your | Governor was called and brietily addressed the throng ing additional correspondence desire to evold nueiees etfusion of blood, aud there- | gathered around his residences. Tbe State House will show the conditions fully. fore before coustdering your proposition, ak the | and many private residences are illuminated, terme you wil! effer, on condition of ite *urreuder? General Lee and b amily Signed, U. 8. GRANT RK. E. Lex. General - : ‘ The following | GENERAL LAE GRANT TO LEE. Ara S, 1506 To Gen RE Lae, Commanding C, 8 A ankion GENERAL :—Your note of last evening in reply to | ing estate, @ few « ae ni » Ulled us with « rea- what terus were embraced in your pruposle | mine of same date, asking tho ouditivas on whicn L | an ean : ¢ lanct x re hee oa. Fo AF h rae 0, . robert a, cutonant-colonel of cavalry tien of yesterday with reference t# the sur | wil accept the surrender of the Army of Northern | faints Using army, and pow Commandersin-Obiet vender of this army. | Virginie, t9 just received of the rebel army, waew.th bie fanuiy in thebappy 1 pow request an interview in accordance |!" reply, 1 would say, that peace being my first de- session of that raguificent inheritance. More fihe estat , cons vere! witli @ #ting of a thousand eudid forest of oak aire, there is but one condition that 1 must insist upon, vie { than one-half acres, d other tiinher, with the offer contained ta your letter of Yesterday for that purpose. anil the | fron Mount Vernon me a meh and productive, That the'men surrendered shal! be disqualified from and of culture, To-day Very Kespectfally, sekiug up aris again against the Goverument of the venerable ancestral mansion, Your Obedwut Servant, United States until properly exet ad erected by the bo pou by adoption of the Fa R. b. LER, General. I will meet you, or designate officers to meet any | ther of his Cour ys ud for balfe century bia cul- fo Lieut. General Grant, Commanding officers youmoy uame for the same purpore, at any wy ia! ne ole aia gs Ra We ct me | U.S. Armies, | point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranving | Oe ee vervice of their country, Two GENERAL GRANT TO GENERAL LEE. definitely the termes apon which the surrender of (he | hundred and fiity scree ot this hate, sur “ Army of Northern Virginia will be received | rounding t tasnsion have been ausutly ap- | April 9, 1865. Very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, propriates fur buna! purposes by the Government, » wubate tial and hanasome fence Nearly five thotinead pulliera have already been there buried, aud the Pp er ie daily growing larger, In 1504, Mre Curva the moter of Mrs, General RK. &. LEE, Commanding Conted. } erate States Armies: | Your note of this date ty but this moment, | ! und enclosed t 5, Geant, Lieut -Gen!, Commanding Armies of the Loited S\ates, iO 01:50 A. OL, received, ' LBE TO GRANT. Genoral Lee, died in the Ariir « on mansion aud In consequence of my having passed Apri. 9, 1505 wan buried in a eequertercd and aelivhtful crove dhe Richmond and Lynchb sD fi ‘i Ganenat'—I received ata late hour your note of | near the manaiou! 1 in 1857 Mr Custus dad, eod 23 ynchburg road tothe |. 1... in en.wertu mino of yesterday. | hig remains were depsbeu Ly her side, a vast cot Farmville and !ynchburg road, | am at) 1 did not tutend to propose the surrender of the | his writing, about four miles west of Wal- Army of Nortberm Virelola, Wut .o ask the terms of ers church, and will push forward to the | your prop sitiva. Tobe trank,1 de not think the gent fer the purpose of meeting you, eimervcuc, bee arisen to call for the surrender, But as Netioe seut to aro on this poad where you | course of persuus uf every rank testify, thor reverance tur the departed’ by their presence at the cba quies, That sequestered grove, thus selected by its owner as the last resting place for hiuself and his, has been in the tempest of the timars in- the resoresien of youre suould be the sole oLUOGt of tlle L Vaden bag faved bas been analorined wa » Ot | aad | eand Mary L of te dead, and the two mar! le columos marking | the remaina of George Washington Parke Custis ¢ Fitrhu, by bis wif, pow rise in the toidet of more than four thousand pstriot soldiers greves early ‘he whole of the timber ani wood bas been ewept from the entire estste and used or war pirposes, Toe Freedman's Vilage te estat lished upon one portion of the lan thus ciesred, acd {t sail leing put uncer cultivation by coutre band negro labor Mr Custis inherited this estate from his father, who Was the son of Mrs, General Washington by « former bnebeud. Boon after bis mother dird, in 18.4, Le thea about twenty-five ‘8 of age, Came bere trou Mount Vernon, aud with hia young and accomplished wife tock up their remdence in the Arlineton mansion, which he had then just erected, sod which evermore wan their beautiful and culti- vated howe, Vhe fruite of thie Union were four daughters, all of whom died in infancy, exce Mary Custis, the wife of Gen, Robert E. Lee. * * The mansion ia now occupied by the officer in commend of the post aud biv subordinates, The dining-ball te usel as an office, Io this room are three o hioned bookcases, containing some four bundred volumes principally old books—bro- ken @ote, aod of very emall value, The parlor ®ijo uioy the hall is not ocupiel, the only artiele in tt being ® mahogany sideboarnt, which came In the p y sofas and mix mulled mahogany chaira, covered with scarlet velvet, two marble-top tables, « aide- hoard, and ® piano stool, matching the chairs. On the walla are severs! coarse larce porwaite, and 006 or two fine oll sage, There are also two old engravings, of a claasica’. mythological character, hanging with therest. The roum tm the southerly wing, used ty Gou. Lee for bie offica is now use age bel-room ; und all the upper part of the mangion ja used fora like purpose, The building fa not injuret. The flower garden bas been en- cloned by a new fence and wae laid out and taste fully adorned this apring The grave of each soldier is neatly marked by @ len at the head and the foot, paintea white, inscribed with the name of the soldier aud an erd revimen', and ata Utsle dissance thease a) have the eppearance of marble, TLe mounds are to be neatly covered with a General Kobert Edmund Lee ie the ral Heury Lea his com sof G of Revolutionary memory, aod known es “Light Morse Harry,” whore mother westhe beautiful Miss (Grimes, General Wasbin. tons firwt love, and whom Le celebrawd as ‘ihe lowland beauty.’ Genera! Henry Lee was twice marne! By she firm marriage he had two child reo, Henry (en officer ta the war of 1512) and Lucy By the second wife—« Mise Carter, of Bhirly —be had five children, two daughters, Anne and Mild- rel, and three gona, The eons were Charles Carter, Robert Edinund, (the Genes +!) and Sidney Biunith, the last-named ap vificer in cur wevy, aud now in the rebel navy. General Robert EF, Lee was born fm 180 consequentiy, filly-seven years of age, atel excond iu his class, in Isl¥, (Judge Cusrles Mason, of this city, and formerly Commissioner of Patent, standing firetin thatclaaa,) and wae as aired to the Eoyineer Corps, ee second lientenant in 186 Asmistant Astronomer, fixing the boundary between Ohio and Michigan; in 1886 promoted firet Heutenant; ec in in is3s; chief engineer under Soot, lu Mexicoy, and greasly distinguished, being promoted successively, by merit, major, heutene: colonel, and colonel, for bis gallantry; in Isd2 au- perintendent Military Academy; in 1506 transier- red as lieutenant colune! of the new regiment of cavalry; March 14th, 1461, promoted colonel of the let cavalry, resigned April 26tu, following, end re- luctant!y eubarke! in the rebellion The following are the childrea of General Lee: George Washington Custis Loe, about thirty-three years of age, Mary Cusue Lee, about thirty; Wil- liane Menry Fitzhugh Lee, about twenty-seven ; Annie Lee ied at Berkeley Bprings, in 1563, end would have been now about twenty-tive; Agnes Lee, shout twenty-three; Robert E, Lee, about twenty; M.ldred Loe, ut eighteen, Nove of thew have married except William Ionry Fiizhugh, whose wite, Mina Chariowte Wickheu, died at Rivhinond io Inks, The oldest son, George, graduated e the head of bieclsesy at West Point iu isd, and w firat eutenant in the corpa cf engineers when ha followed tos tesher into the Bouthern service, Wil lian) tie ry wee farming upon the White House es- tate, which belonged to the C # \uberitan. y when tue war opened, He was commissioned second heuienant in the Oth tufantry in 1867, but resigned in 1860, Hubert wae et @ mili wine, The sone, it ie well ku in the rebellion he three surviving daugoter aro with their mother, who, it ia believed, bas lar terly been at L, hburg. Mr, Custis, at the tow of bia death, owned some two bupdtred slaves, who, by hia will, were to be froe at the termination of five years from his desth, cb period expired October Lvs, 146%. The moat tac slaves Were kept on tue White House a nd all valusvle portion were carried south ; some twenty or more oid men and women and young children were jeff at Arlington. Mr, Custie’s mother owned the White House estate, and resided there, when abe becawe the wile of Geuer- al Waetlagwa. From Richmond. Toteresting Items from the Whig of the Gth, The Kiehmond Wate, of the 6th imet., (publiehed ander Luion auspices), couteine mach interveting watter relative tw the evacuation of Kichmond, to- wether with scenes and iucidents precediug that event. It appears that the necessity of evacuating Kichmond had been manifest to Lee for a mouth pro- vious tw it# actual cecurrence, and « vast amount of Material belongiug to the rebel government had al. femly Leen removed, The citizens of Kichmond, however, were kevt blisatully in ignorance upou this polnt, aod until the very lawt they felt contident that the city would be successfully detended, Matters continued thus until the suudhy moruing preceding the evacuation, whe Lee telegraphed to Davis that had beco pegetravd ip e number of places by our ope, and that uolese he could revain the lost ground, Kichinond must be evacuated the tollowing night fe alae added that hie men were not * coming uptother work" A tew hours afterward Loe eent another dlepateh to Kichmond, to the eifect that all etforie to re-establish his lines had proven fruitiess, and that Rlehmond wuat be given up On the receipt of thie news the ret riedly begau their preparations fordeparwure Brill the people were kept in the dark regarding the true condition of affairs, and althouesh ihe #hiewd ones begeu to distuver the actual or the situation the greater part of tue population rematoed in ige ance of the tacteuntil evening The coin belonging to the Louisiana banks which had been “approprimted’ by the rebel government, wee huriled to the ruilrow! and started for Danville, to gethor with the epecie of the Kichmoud banks, ‘The beat thiue the offeiue did wae to take care of them. meivesand their taort waluabie effects, Beveral trains wer made upon the Lauville road. Davie left asT o'clock, thd Bieckiurdee, who seme w Lave Leow 1 officints hur. the piuckicet of the jot, waited until the following mo be, when, at an varl buck, late hour be started out on ing ww follow the fortunes of the . Uy Sunday eveuiue, when the facts became gen. erly known, the Kichmond Council beld @ merting aud ¢ iniued to destruy all the liquor in the erty ag & precaution a'eluat outrages from drunken straggien and sold era, wheo there was uo longer o forgo wo eirain thew ed for each we t ccordivagly, @ commities w and ai! the liquor uod was einptied :uto the street, soldier and vas. wade bow ver cid vet enough to ineure drunkea bees, aud duiing Burday Kiebmond must have pre sontad a acoue akin to Maudemonutum fires burping fe appoint. that could be fu tidsy base of the elty, the streets light b. the flames thelr Durning buildings, eg Are light bu drunken wen ahone forth, com. mnitting all manner of exceews, The Government ou roa aud private stores were broken into, aud we outente thrown toto the eteet, ite Witd,in concluding the article from which thie la & cobdeneaion, eaye: ‘Truly, the wave of Providence are inscrutable Thig berning of our woudly wity would peeia at fret glauce en univer evil, Bul there ia wnother view to be ‘ bes one cerudn good efiect, If there Yin ered ip we hoarts Of aly of our people one #park of atfovtion for the Devie dynasty, this ruthiens, useless wanton bending over vo the fluunee their tair city thelr buueud hey, ys e¥ely old and silver | \ PRICE O CENT IN GOLD {rwo CEN TS IN CURRENCY, ADDITION at The trausition from enor ciated currency fo reagouabie t hoe come #0 suddenly upon the forne time before th Ha ter, that was ee pi otifulat fifty and sixty cente ay Trew mw” prices ant ates aod ult 104 lug ous of th uati nof the city by & the three hundred and tite the stare Pow tent de ivery of ‘hy | d od of them we | etitatio | Sutlers’ atorew are +) | tL over the bustoess by the fire, and old i it of the euletantia'e ws war put them beroud ¢ mond, beovle will their being ouce 5 A mail la toade up on o'clock in the moruina, of Clty Povut, Portion hoithern return mal» hous of the deve e government who + when the covernment Heed ari@ated, towethe: with Wile ‘Towader unter Conteaerar Bhailer, the Confederate bre Loion prisoneraand all co i Prinou Aa immense number of Cont with th , ary wa aly chy ’ ' + breathe & aeuatic faey focliant mi te for avery | The tunets f the stave ‘ ela surpended tor the preseut. aus iit ’ the elty lathe 5 A thie is, perhapa, poor time we may look to pal gover PeeUAPLic eren! Une t entupon a of legisiatiou io a BY TELEGRAMH Washinyton, Apri vit Friday, the Tih tn Mrs, Grant aritved ¢ pauied by | rode through th | cavalry, aud returue whither the I other prow that enya ¥ ' rey euby \ aident Johnson, Senator Hal ret Alug, and Assistant Secce The river obatru Aitioualy as powwible elapse, *o oping, before Rockets New Y Baltimore t Butlers teot a bring their auppile renovation and reconstruction in the wake of the Union arutos | as wall ae things inaterial A wtroug force of laborers te to be nee work on the broken points of the } ericksburg, Acquian Cieek & Vou is competion, which will oecu weeks, will put Kichinond with th pital of the | mite d Staer a ‘ bands broken by the again, will onon 6 Donde too strony to be pat ar ter A great many mien whom scription hae for three year di jee, day, and toreed to bide and ekille lk | by the presence of thot | Bpanglod Ranuer, Mave veut themvolves among | time during the war quiet and life and prope uncouth than the sound of » wasone disturtw the oa an t ore and burglars that iniested either knocked the dust of the and followed the Confoderste tl they t dence enough to forege the practice ot bead arte. The Petersthure railroad and bed, except in ove of two plies from that city to Richmond. I on the road, and the weloome tive le heard again The Wuta also contains the f RECONHTREOCTION Seine OF THR + An informal meeting ginia Jegivlature remaining in, { the law baliding, Franklin, hers consideration of Khe propeeitions oft ' to reamomble thy Tevieiaure for th: mnthorizing ® @émvention to lake \ ' the boads of the Finca ‘The itho Ive Lincola were laid before the ment ing was appolnied to take afternoen, to wile! The Virgiala Lag March, to meet on the on the rh without « Conatituiion they coulis, | only adjourn from « tod i Bunday last, the day of the evacua held a meeting in the evening wat 4 resolution, sumo gulag olf wi soe loaving on & boat artered fo poee, according to law t elty are the ouly remains the State of Virvin re 4 the Legislature of 105 be aatho tion to ew) « Convention aod mijustiog the | question be rettled purpove iy ow | Hilect of Mr. i lacoln’a Proposition 1 Virginia imgistacare, Washington, Apnig Lincoln, af stated tn the | Virgin sone are ae and for P ' we hear o élrect iron rk 1 Mink perinite t tol 1 the river at ¢ t wit rulliows } re reoun a A ion forces a ed their tel the nt wee ! th anal e for t barle of repr bute Couveution calle, went ibe proposit ' w ' ia Legislature at Ki ) thoriming a Convention tu tu | the bonds of the Union, jute | ment claiming to represent that | a# Governor, and its capital at felaturo at the lattor ple ing received fram the | Coby of the propmeed cont ’ sbolleh alavery, ratified eva Mune vote; and er chise for construct! Frederichabury, 1h Plate au es val w to whie! t the cousuumation of & From Mobiie. The Operations Well Under Wayne. « tant Sacc a rallro o Pier ot governing Kiebu rew iy r wey The newn fre : plicit form ° are now fairly at work, snner that warrant coms, Mc} the pro. rose of operations th. > louked upon with marke pomtion, having good fense and theee here been we j k Quntinived on tne Wes puye, tle being the 4 th uy hae