tijt Vrtss. THURSDAY, TUNE 1, 1865. FORNEY'S WAR PRESS, 1/0E TIM 'WM MUM SATURDAY, 'Talcs 3, DM I. VORTEX. —" The Battle- by Bryant— " The Post's idiesion." by James Linen—" Mani" Mme 4114 Oft," by Amelia B. lidwarde — " Ascension Day - ' , —"Hereafter"—" a .1 Claim Fon taine." a Ditnadian legend. IL "OWEN LEAVITT," an original novelette - mistimed. 111 THE RIX TO THE MYSTERY," an original -alleteb. by Minnie Minty ood. IV. EDITORIALS —The two Great Liberators—Mr. Lincoln's Policy of Compensation—The Great Criminal --Rebel Cruelty Mom Prisoners—Jed Davis and Aaron Blur—Trials for Treason—National Debts dca. Y. LITTERS FROM '• OCOASIOSAL. " NI. TRIAL OF TEE ASSASSINS.—SW/11121127 of the Evidence. TM PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS. - -Amnesty -P.ToelliMlltlo3l by President Johnson—Froelsmation for =the worse nization or North. Carolina. vra Igo OF THE WAlL—Thelast Force of thole. billion Conquered—Orlielal Annonnetniant of the Ear render of Kirby Sinn — All the Rebels in West Arbon.. egg expected to Sturender--Oood Feeling in the South west—fdalif ry aid Cobb prisoners. IX. ARMY RIVIRWS.--Grand Review of Sherman's Army at Washington—Farewell Review of the 2d. VOWS. at Munson's Bill, on Tuesday—Ong special as X. GENERAL NEWS. —Dreadfal and Fatal Explo sion at Mobile—Plan t, pay off the National Debt Toe &win Poison. Sthems--Condition of Mexico— ligeswit of Er. Worthington on Soldiers' Orphans-- -Aleduotion QOnapi,CW in law York, Ate. XI. CITY IRTELLIORICE e-Fortrth of Jaly—Fan of the Statue of William Penn—Pesth at Dr. McMartrie —,lpecle for the People, Re. XII. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. •- . The WAR Puns also contains a large amount of in teresting matter, not Included in the above enumera tion. Air Specimens of the "WAR Passe" will be for warded when requested. The subscription rate for sin .gle copies is $2.60 a-year. A deduction from these terms will be allowed when clubs are formed. Single copies, ilms up in wraPPere, ready for mailing, may be obtained as the canter. Prise live cents. PROCLAMATION: The Day of fasting and ilnmiliation By the President of the United States of America A PROOLAMAT/ON. Whereas, By my direction, the Acting Secretary of State, in a notice to the public of the In re quested the trariOnS religious denominations to as tremble on the loth instant, on the occasion of the obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, and to observe the same with appropriate ceremonies ; but Whereas, Our conntryhas become one great house of mourning, where the head of the family has been taken away, and believing that a special period Should be assigned for again humbling °undyed before Almighty God, in order that the bereave* meat may be sanctified to the nation Now, therefore, in order to mitigate that grief on earth which Can only be Meuse e 1 by communion with the Father in Heaven, and in compliance with the wishes of Senators and Representatives in Con- Riess, communicated to me by resolutions adopted at the national capital, I, Andrew SehliSOU, Presi dent of the United States, do hereby appoint Thursday, the let of June next, to be observed, wherever in the United States the flag of the coun try may be respected, as a day of humiliation and Mourning. And I recommend my fellow-eitizens then to assemble in their respective places of wor ship, there to unite in solemn service to Almighty God In memory of the good man who has been re moved, so that all shall be occupied at the same time In contemplation of his virtues and in sorrow for his sudden andviolent end. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Bet my hand, and ceased the eeel of lee United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the 25th day of April, in the year of our Lord oue thousand eight hundred and sixty-fire, and of the intlependenee of the United States of Amerioa the eighty-ninth. (I. a.) ANDRBW JOHNBON. By the Prea!dent : W. litlriTatt : Acting Secretary Of State. Tbe Trans-Mississippi Department. The surrender of the rebel forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department not only signalizes the entire overthrow of the re bellion, which thus loses its last vantage ground for defiance or refuge in defeat, but it may be considered as opening a prospect for the complete pacification of some of the Most disturbed portions of our country. Nowhere have the special crimes and follies which initiated and continued the rebellion been more boldly and persistently exhibited than in Missouri and Arkansas. The very causes that led to secession, and almost the same warfare that has followed it, have existed in those States for a long period of time. Unionism and disunion lam, free and slave labor, Northern endu ranee and strength, Southern aggression and weal mesa have been there brought face to face -anti the daily life in these great struggreliqa-far_trears_tizicartAa.- last and crowning act of that completed warfare will be their entire pacification on grounds which will secure its permanence. Krne thorn's surrender reassures to us the possession of a large extent of country already occupied by our forces, annihilates the last lingering hopes of the Secessionists of Louisiana, Missouri, and tirkansas, and also brings back the erratic "lone star" to its home in the constellation of States. Texas bas been so fortunate as to escape many of the ills entailed by secession, and ehe may well be congratulated that she did not beeome the last battle.ground of a -wicked and desperate rebellion. Happy is it for her, that she is at length allowed peacefully to re-enter that Union which she once sought so earnestly, and re assume the proud position won by such an expenditure of blood and treasure. If the fugitive Southern Government bad made Texas its refuge, and gathered into her boundaries the last remnants of its armies from the terror and desolation thus established, she would have remem bered those long years of anarchy and con fusion which made her the asylum of dis contents and manrauders, as her golden age of prosperity and peace. But, fortu nately for her, she has not met the fate of Virginia or Carolina, and can return in safety to the Union with undiminished wealth, and with prospects of, peace and security never vouchsafed before. It has been repeatedly urged upon the attention of the public, and can hardly be reiterated too ohm, that the fortunes of the war-desolated South can only be re trieved by an improved method of indus try, and that agriculture presents an open held, and the most speedy and certain re turns to the labor of that mighty band of warriors who, with " occupation gone," are now dispersing to their homes, both North and South. To the Northern agriculturist, Texas offers more attractions than any of the other Gulf- States. The salubrious and temperate climate has already won so many German and other European emigrants to establish themselves in the Western part, as to almost create that portion into a free state. Their system of small farms, in telligent culture, and the labor of their own hands, have successfully proved that in - that district, at least, cotton and sugar can be raised most abundantly by free white laborers. The eastern part of Texas has been oectt pied to a considerable extent by planters from the neighboring slave States, and they have established large farms and slave labor, but with the advantage of .a soil most admirably adapted to the cultiva tion of cotton and sugar, "while there are none of those marshes and swamp dis tricts, which render some of the other States sO UnWbolesome. The cotton and sugar pro duced are of most excellent quality, but the whole line of islands which border the extensive coast are capable of growing as fine a quality of cotton and much heavier crops than the sea islands for which Caro lina and Georgia, are so famous. The great variety of surfape, level along the coast, gently undulating in the inte rior, and rising in the north and north west into elevated table-lands, endows Texas with a greater variety of vegetable prOdlletS than any other state of the Union. Cotton and sugar grow abundantly on the coast and the inland plains, wheat and all the other cereals in the north, and corn luxuriantly everywhere. The fruits em brace those of the temperate, sub-tropie, and even many of those of the tropic zone, while the cacti, geranium, dnd dahlia, the sheltered favorites of our northern clime, ilame in the forests in all their equatorial luxuriance of color. The heavy and mag. nificent timber also represents the growth of the different zones, and the extensive .undulating plains are covered with nu merous fine native grasses. Various fine marbles, sandstone, and limestone occur in many districts, and the prevalence of calcareous substances insures great and continued fertility to the soil. Iron, lead, and copper ore exist, and ex- Senaive coal beds resembling those of His sour!. 'Saltpetre has been recently found in considerable quantities, and the State geologist reports the appearance of petro leum on the surface of the acid springs. So that the mineral wealth, although pre viously neglected, promises much in the future. The suitability of the soil of Texas to al most every product grown through the whole extent of the Union has been fully tested, although, as a whole, the State Might be fairly regarded as but a grand hunting field, abounding in every species of animal—from the buffalo and mustang to the squirrel and hare ; with birds of endless variety—from the serviceable prairie hen to the gorgeous paroquet and musical mocking bird, and with both inland streams and salt-water inlets rich in fish of many kinds. The vast tracts of unoccupied land may be judged from the fact that, with six times the area of Pennsylvania, Texas contains about one-fifth of her population. Under the new and better order about to be inaugurated throughout the laud, how grand a future opens for a Country of such great extent and luxuriant soil, blessed with a climate which, although allowing tropic growths, possesses an invigorating power which makes it the choice abode, alike of the fair-haired Norseman and Swiss, and the dark-tressed Mexican and Span iard. The Price of Ice. A just and general complaint has been made in New York of the increased price there of Ice, that wholesome and refresh ing article, which has ceased to be a luxury, and is now an almost essential necessary of life. The price of ice naturally "went up" with the advance in the price of other arti cles. Last winter there was a longer " cold spell" than usual, and the Knicker bocker and other ice companies here availed themselves of it to house a con siderable quantity of ice. The same might have been, and no doubt was done, in New York and other places. The home yield was insufficient for the demand, as it always is, and a considerable quantity of ice bad to be obtained, as usual, from Boston and other parts of New England. Of course, the distance from these places to Philadelphia being considerably greater than to New York, the freightage of the Boston ice is necessarily greater to the former than to the latter place. Notwith standing this, and the fact that a large quantity of home-produced ice was gar nered in during the fortnight's hard frost last winter, the unconscionable New York ice-dealers have further advanced their prices this season, and public indignation has very naturally and properly denounced their cupidity. In Philadelphia, on the contrary, the ice companies have this year voluntarily made a reduction of fifteen per cent us their prices. It is only fair that this liberality should be generally kmiwn, and we mention it as another instance of the real superiority of Philadelphia over New York. LETTER FROM 66 OCCASIONAL:O WASHINGTON, May 31, 1865 Strange, indeed, are the mutations of time, especially when itsrogress is marked by events which disfrb and dis locate the most intricate human relations. The rebellion has been like one of those great convulsions of nature, which, while destroying hecatombs of lives, sometimes effect the most salutary changes in the configuration of the soil and in the courses of 'mighty. rivers. What was intended, for example, to be a sudden stroke of death to liberty and law, has, in a few years, almost annihilated what looked like an im pregnable fortress of crime, and turned the current of society into new and entire ly different channels. These results are not realized merely in laws, or in the triumph of theories. They are organic, positive, physical. Slavery is extinguished over an empire several times larger than all of Great Britain, and ati_its_lurialtftly. -- autt—ifoerty - inalie all nature revive and rejoice. The transfer of millions from ab ject dependence to the exact reverse, teaches thousands of families, heretofore wholly inert and luxurious, and therefore cruel and tyrannical, the hard but essential lesson of labor. How wonderful the in fluences and the effects of this, the noblest offspring of the success of a mighty Go vernment. They have been felt to the very extremities of the continent ; felt everywhere in the South, and very conside rably in the free States. How could it be otherwise, when what was called " pro perty" in man had been bought and sold like so much real estate or merchandise— when four thousand millions of dollars in vested in such "property," being about the amount of our nationai debt—perished almost instantaneously ? A distinguished but now despondent and penitent rebel declared, a few days ago, that no people would give up so much property without a hard fight. The day for protesting against the inevitable, however, has died with all this crime. The mitred magnates, commu nities, small aristocrats, non-producing men and women, who have lived on sla very, must now, get to work, and the sooner the better for themselves. They get no sympathy from any quarter. They made the war and have been whipped. They put up slavery as the prize, and it has been forfeited. As the corpse of their hopes is flung into the grave dug by their own bands, their grief is only matter of mirth to those who ineffectually admo nished them that the guilt in rebelling against their country would be terribly punished. Nothing better illustrates these' reflections than the spectacle of the return ing leaders of the great revolt. How dif ferent from their manner of leaving the Federal capital in 1861 t Their defiant I insolence and haughty predictions will not soon be forgotten. They flattered them- , selves that they would easily succeed in their splendid programmes And they were heartily seconded by their "great friend," President James Buchanan. Having de clared that the Government had no power under the Constitution to " coerce " a State to remain in the lJnion—in other words, no power to punish treason, he was their most efficient alder and comforter. He accepted the resignations of navy and army officers with an alacrity only the more zealous because he knew what dreadful crime they were about to commit. His companion and coun sellor, John Slidell; his devoted cham, pion, HowelrCobb ; his faithful Secretary of the Interior,WhO held onto the last, Jacob Thompson, "Duke" G win, of California, and the elderly lady at Fortress Monroe, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, made their prepara tions to leave Washington with the air of men about to start on on a voyage of plea sure. And the real ladies of the several royal households, how they gossipped over their delightful summer recreation, and how, in anticipation of their aristocratic pastime, they sought to induce their young friendly in the army and navy to resign their commissions and make part of the gay cavalcade. Nor were these noble dames at all reserved in their move ments. They flocked to, the capital daily, and even nightly, to applaud their lords and masters in every treasona ble utterance, to excite then to yet bolder deeds, and to sneer at and even hiss all who dared to speak for the hateful Union and the Yankee flag. How they raved Whenever one of the " chivalry " halted about taking the final plunge, and he had no relief save in absolute surrender to these seductive Delilah& And how they hated Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee I Heavens t what a demon's spirit shot from the lovely eyes of these gentle ladies whenever that au dacious Commoner chastised their husbands In the Senate till they shrieked with agony and rage. At last the g ran d exodus took place. And when James Bu chanan said farewell to Washington, he Was almost the only one remaining of the dangerous men who had provoked, assisted, and precipitated civil war. Behold the return of these men and women nowt Can these be the same who treated us with such haughty contempt four years ago ? " What! will the aspiring blood of Chivalry sink in the ground ?" And, worse than all, when they come voluntarily, or by consent of the authorities, or are brought here prisoners, it is to Andrew Johnson they must report—the same so bold in his early exposure of their rebellion, the same so proscribed and denounced by themselves. It needed but this to com plete the poetry of the sequel. Yet, surely, those who must pass the or deal cannot call it harsh. Like all the rest of their trials, it is self-inflicted. There is not a step that plunged the nation into strife which they did not initiate. Lin coln fell by the hand of one reared in their school. So that while they find Andrew Johnson in the judgment seat they have no right to complain, for they helped to place him there. While many of these re turning leaders try to assume a haughty and a defiant air, as if to show that they do not regret the infamy to which they gave their consent, others take amore com mon-sense view of their own condition, and the condition of public affairs. The rebel "Governors" and " Ex-Governors," Vance, of North Carolina, Brown, of Georgia, and Letcher, of Virginia, are said to be in very ill humor ; but a much better spirit is that of W. W. Boyce, of South Carolina, Geo. W. Jones, of Tennessee, and others of the more moderate class of Southern men, now in Washington, by permission or by order of the President They see that the -In evitable cannot be resisted, and they yield to it with dignity. A 0. P. Nicholson, a Senator from Tennessee, with Andrew Johnson, when the traitors fled from Con gress, and by them seduced into co-opera tion, is now a suppliant to his former asso ciate for pardon for the commission of a great public crime ! Another - curious and yet eloquent contrast. What a study is the experience of the plain and unpre tending gentleman in the PresidOntial chair 1 It was almost a romance before the rebellion. Here is a man who had fought the battle of life through a full generation of years, against an intole rant aristocracy, and won it, too, with out the advantages of the education of the schools, and in the teeth of the most severe social prejudices ; beginning on the tailor's bench, and rising step by step, from member of his little village coun cil, thence to the post of burgess, then to the Legislature, then to be Governor, then to the Lower House of Congress, and at last to the V. S. Senate; and all these ad vances weremade against a constant tempest Of hatred, detraction, and jealousy. With the rebellion began a new course of per secution. He was outlawed by his old foes ; his family forced to fly for their lives ; and his property destroyed. Return ing to his State at the head of an army, he was nominated for Vice President of the 'United States, and elected by the loyal peo ple. The murder of the President made him Chief Magistrate ; and now his life-long foes, since then become the life long foes. of his country, are all at his mercy. An other illustration of Byron's Mazeppa. The application is all the more faithful as we reflect upon public events before the trai tors left Congress, and, indeed, after the war broke out; when Davis, Benjamin, Wigan, Slidell, Hunter, Jo. Lane, Mason, and the whole gang of bloodhounds, were set upon Andrew Johnson. But the devastation of the South was not his work, and his re venge is not that of an individual, but of one who m , in his duty to his country, can not hesitate to inflict deserved punishment upon her betrayers_ Referring to the debt he owed to them, he might well say, with Mazeppa "I paid it well in after days ; There is not of their castle gate, Its drawbridge and portcullis' weight, Steno, bar, moat, bridge, or barrier left, Nor of Meir fields a blade of grass. They little thought that day of pain, When latmeh'd, as on the lightning's flash, They bade me to destruction dash, That one day I should come again, With twice five thousand horse, to thank Them all for their uncourtecua rids. They played me then a bitter prang s _ __. ...reurroamm g - zial tr. - At length I played them one as frank - - - Tar time at last seta all things even.. And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, it untbreiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong." 000ASIONAL. rmvTrrnITTTMMIM97Tr!=MM From the Washington oorrespondenoa of the Bos• ton Advertiser we clip the following items, which will necessarily be of great interest to the public: BOOTH'S MISTRBSB., TO TESTIFY. —The young woman, Ella Turner, who, it wilt be remembered, evinced her atfootlon for Wilkes' Booth by attempt ing suicide on learning of his Crime and flight Trout the city, has been summoned as &Witness by Paynire counsel, and much curiosity le manifested to learn what she may know of the conspiracy: She has been In the witness room at the Arsenal since Saturday morning. TDB DISPOSITION OF BOOTS'S BODY—TEN P.SP, POILATSD SPINAL VNIITSBRA IN TEE ARAM MIDI. CAL 13117SEIIN.—It is nearly four weeks since a state ment was made in this correspondence as to the dis position made of the bdtly of the assassin John Wilkes Booth, which, since then, has been widely reported throughout the country, and many times contradicted, Of the substantial truth of the main particulars there can be no doubt. It will not be very many days before the visitors to the Army Medical Museum in this city will be granted a view of the portion of the spinal vertebra of the murderer through which passed the avenging 'bullet. The relic will be esteemed a most valuable one by those skilled in medical science, exhibiting, as it does, plainly the exact nature of the wound, and demon strating the totem agony in which Booth must have paned his long hours of lingering death. It hi now in process or preparation at the Museum, and not yet accessible to the publlo.• A Sensible Coroner's Jury. In the case of John Stewart, who was fatally shot in Jones' wood, the Coroner's jury returned a ver dict that the deceased came to his death at Jones'• wood, on Tuesday, May 23, 1865, by a piatol•Bhot wound at the hands of Patrick Curran.” Tney fur thermore recommend the Grand Jury to take some action in regard to the place where the said affair occurred, namely, Jones' wood, stating "aa far as this jury have been able to find out, this place is a public nuisance, and according to the testimony of one of the witnesses, as well as Of the police force generally, a place of resort of thieves and prosti tutes. At times when a festival, such as the one which took place on the day in question, the pollee force of the Nineteenth precinct Is so Innen weak ened in some places in consequence of an extra force required there, that the property and persons of the citizens are left partially without the protec tion which they should have. In the opinion of this jury this place should be closed up." Curran is nineteen years of age, born in Ireland, and lives in &cello. He Bays he is a boiler and brush maker. In relation to the charge preferred against him, Curran said he had nothing to say till he had the advice of counsel. Coroner Gamble committed him to the Tombs to await bit trial. FitiGHTPIII, DETAILS OP A Smetennot.—From the Boston Traveller we learn that a fearful disaster Lae befallen the British brig Leader, (isolate Pig. mama, which lett Montreal for St. Johns, N. F., No vember 22, laden with flour, the (WOW Consisting or eight persons, including the Captain. On the jolt of December the captain made the western there of Newfoundland, his vessel having previously lost all her canvas In a storm. On the Silt the cabin was washed overboardcwith all Its contents, Including four of the crew. At this time the captain and another man were severely Injured, the letter having had his back and both his hip bones broken. On the morning of the 10th made the land again, and shortly-after the vessel went ashore In a oove, the sea making a clean breath over her. Later in the morning two of the men swam ashore, leaving the two disabled ones on board, to seek for some assistance. After vainly searching In the neigh borhood the men camped for the night In eight of the wreck. Next day they continued their search for relief, walking as far as fifteen miles in a snow storm, and getting lost in the woods, from which they emerged to rind tbemselvee in the neighbor- • hood of the camping ground on the previous night. One of the men out his foot during this jOlirney, and was unable to move the next day, hie foot being also badly frozen. The other man, Mr. A. Mender, second mate of the vessel, made a bed for him is an old but foundhn the beach, and swam back to the vessel to ascertain the condition of those left on board, when be found the captain dead, and the other man living, though unable to move. Mr. Mercier, for four weeks, made almest daily visits to the wreck, for the purpose Of feeding this poor ores, ture. At, the end of this time, the but proving too wet anti cold the two men got on board tile vessel, the fore batch Of Which was tight. Removing this, and throwing overboard eatflalont hour, Me. Men ear made room in the hold for himself and compa nions in misfortune. The sufferings of the man who accompanied AIL fdercier on shore were in tone., the flesh dropping from his legs and feet M he crawled about the beach. Hie feet were also badly frozen, and he bad to remove his boots by (tat ting them off. The 28th of January saw his oompa- Mons dead, leaving Mr. Mercier alone on a wreck, near to a barren shore, in the depth of winter, with nothing to eat but flour and raw pork, and nothing to drink but snow water 1 In this condition he re• mained, surrounded by his dead companions, till the 2101 of March, when he was rescued by the crew of a sailing vessel, and brought Into St. Johns. When discovered, Mr. Mercier was in a sinking condition, having nothing on but some canvas, In which he bad wrapped himself to avoid being frozen to death, Fniginruu AoOrminT.—On Saturday afternoon 'set, about three o'clock, a fearful acoldent 000urred at the railroad bridge over the Allegheny river, The workmen were engaged in placing one of the large iron girdles, weighing over twenty tone, on the pier and stonework erected for the support of the first span of the brlQge, when it broke loose from its supports and fell on the side, breaking at two points, and in Its fall Crushing the lower half of the body of a man who was at work below. The hip bones and lower portion of the back bone were com pletely broken up, both thigh bones and the bones of both legs broken, and the soft parts of the right thigh lacerated. A doctor was immediately Called, attended the wounded man to we home, but, after examination, pronenneesa hie case hopeletle. In about an hour the unfortunate sufferer died. A SINSLII DAY'S OR.IIIHt IN Nsw YORIC.—The criminal record of New York City for one day— Tuesday last—is of startling proportions. The list reported in the papers of that city °eatable a re. vetting wife•murder by a botattrjamper, the arrest of three counterfeiters for a murder In the Brooklyn" woods, the arrest of a hardware dealer for using false measures, three street robberies, an attempt at recket r picskuw, a thee, by a washerwoman, a lar. cony of greenbacks, and a barglary. v:ILO TRURSDAL, ,erl7N7, 1, 1865. nVir"6 - Ml. n rrril His Testimony to the Committee on the Conduct of the War. A COTIDENSATION OF HIS REPORT. What he Thinks of the Course of Secretary Great Advantages of the Armistice. Watintiewron, May 22,1886. Major Gen. Sherman, being sworn and examined By the Chairman: Q. What is your rank in the army 1 A. lam major general In the Regular Army. Q. As your negotiation with the rebel Gen. John ston in relation to his surrender has been the ettojeoe of much rabbi dominant, the Committee desire you to state all the facts and eironmetances In regard to it, or which you wish the public to know 1 A. On the 15th day of April last I was at Raleigh, in com mand of th ree armies—the A rm y of the Ohio, the Army of the Cumberland, and the Army of the Ten nessee ; my enemy was Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, of the Confederate army, who commanded 50,000 men, retreating along then railroad from Raleigh, by Rillsbero, Greeteboro, Salisbury, and Charlotte ; commenced pursuit by crossing the curve of that road in the direction of Ashborough and Charlotte ; alter the head of my (edema had crossed the Cape Fear river at Avon's Ferry I received a communt Cation from Gen. Johnston, and answered It. copies of which I most promptly sent to the. War Depart ment, with a letter addressed to the Secretary of War, as follows: HBADQ'TBIII3 MIL. DIV. on TEM MissaissirPh_ IN 'ran Pram /Larnaca, N. O. April 18, 1865. " Gen. U. S. Grant end Secretary of War : "I send copies of a ooiresponaence to you with Gen. Johnston, which I think will be followed by terms of capitulation. I will grant the same terms Gen. Grant gave Gen. Lee, and be careful not to complicate any points of civil policy. If any eaval ry bee retreated toward me, caution them Wife pre pared to find our work done. It is now raining in torrente, and I shall await Gen. Johnetonet reply here, and will prepare to meet him in person at Chapel Bill. " / have invited Gov. Vance to return to Raleigh, with the cavil cfficers of his State. I have met ol eos,. Graham, Messrs. Badger, Moore, Fielded, and °there, all of venom agree that the war is over, and that the States of the South must resume their alio glance. subject to the Constitution and laws of Con grew, and must submit to the national arms This ' great fact was admitted, and the dated® are of easy arrangement. T. SiLanate.l4 Maj. Gen." I met Gen. Johnston in person at a house Ova Miles frOln Durham Station ; he said to me, since Lee bad surrendered his army at AppomattoX Court Rouse, he looked upon further opposition by him ae the greatest passible of crimes; that he wanted to know whether I could make him any general concessions. if so, he thought he could ar range terms satisfactory to both parties. Re wanted to embrace the condition and fate of all the wades of the Southern Confederacy, to the Rio Rio Gifted.. I asked him whether he could control the late of all tie armies to the Rio Grande. Re answered that he thought he could obtain the power; he did not know where Mr. Davit/was, bat he though if I could give him the time he could find Mr. Breckinridge, and he could pledge to me his personal faith thatwhatever he undertook to do would be done. I fended time to finish the railroad fromthe News bridge up to Raleigh, and thought T 00II1d put in four or five days 01 good time in malting repairs, even if I bad to send propositions to Washington ; I therefore consented to delay twenty-four hours, to enable Gen. Johnston to procure what would satiety me as to his authority and ability to do what he undertook to do ; I therefore consented to meet him the next day, the 17th, at 12 noon, at the seine place. We did meet again, and he remarked he was then prepared to satietype that he couldfuldil the terms of our conversation. Re then asted me what I was willing to do ; I told him, in the first place, I could not deal with anybody except men recognized by us as "belligerents," because no military man could go beyond that fact. The Attorney General has since so deetded. I told him tile President of the United States, by a published proclamation, had enabled every man in the Southern Confederate Army, of the rank of colonel and under, to prociure • and obtain amnesty, by simply taking the oath of allegiance to the United States, and agreeing to go to tie home and live in peace. The terms of Gene ral Grant to General Lee extended the same prin. ciples to the officers of the rank of brigadier gene ral and upward. I was, therefore, willing to pro ceed with him upon the same principles. - Then a conversation arose as to What form of go verenieut they were to have In the South. Were the States there to be (Mesmer], and were the people to be denied representation in Congress? Were the people there to be, in the common lan guage of the people of the South, slaves to the people of the North? Of course, I said, "No; we desire that you shall regain your position as Minus of the United States, free and equal to us in all re. sperm, and wish representation upon the condition of anbMisBlo/2 to the lawful authority of the United States." Re then remarked to me that General BrCOlthirldge was near by, and, If I had no Ob jection, he would like to have him present. I Called his attention to the fact teat any negotiations be. tween us must be confined to belligerents. Re re plied he understood that perfectly. "But," said he, hßreckinridge whom you do not know, save by public rnmor, as iitioretary of 'Ware is, in fact, a major general. Rave you any objection to his being present as a major general?" I replied, "I have no objection to any military officer you desire being preempt as a part of your personal staff." + Breckenridge came and joined in the converse- E'en ; while that conversation was going on a cou rier arrived and handed Gen. Johnston a paekage of papers ; one of them was a slip of paper, i written, as Gen. Johnston told_me be Jar psers , me. - rejected it at once. We then disarmed matters; talked about slavery, talked about everything, There was a universal anent that slavery was as dead as anything oonld be. As to reconstruction, I told them I did not know what the views of the Administration were. Mr. Lincoln, up to that time, in letters anti by telegrams to me, encouraged me to believe in his desire twat I should make terms with civil authorities, Go vernors, and Legislatures. It then occurred to me that I Might write off some general propositions, meaning little or meaning much, according to the construction of parties, and send them to Washing ton. That would enable the new President to give me a clue to his policy in the important juncture which was then Won us, I therefore drew up the memorandum (which has been published to the world ;tor the purpose of referring it to the proper Ex ecutive authority of the United States, and enabling him to define to me what I might promise, simply to cover the pride of the Southern men, who there by become euboidinate to the laws of the United States, civil and iollittery. I made no eonoeasiona to G.D. 'Johnston's army, and If any concessions ware made in those general terms, they Were made because I then believed, and now believe, that they would have delivered into the hands oe, the United States the absolute control of every Confederate officer and soldier, all their muster rolls and all their arms. It would save US all the ineldental ex pease resulting from the military occupation of that country. It would have surrendered to ne the armies of Dick Taylor and Rlrby Smith. I never designed to shelter a human being from any Rabin ty. incurred to the civil tribunals of our country, and I do not believe a fair Interpretation of my terms can so construe them. If studied closely and well, It will be found that there is an absolute Bub minion to the Government of the United States, either through its executive, legislative, or judicial autlitrities. Every step in the programme of these negotiations was reported luny. And yet I neglect ad not one precention necessary to reap the lull benefite of my position incase the Government eb so/utel,y . annulled those terms. As those matters were nedessarlly mingled With the Military Mowry of the period, I would like to submit to the com mittee my official report. It was made by me et Man cheater, Va., after 1 had returned from Savannah, whither I went to open up the Savannah river and reap the fruits of my negotiations with Johnston, and to give Gen. Wilson's force in the interior a safe and sure base from which he could draw the neces sary supply of clothing and food for his command. It was only after that I ' learned, through the public press, that my conduct had been animadvert ed upon ' not only by the Secretary of War but by General Ralleck. 1 did feel hurt that Mr. Stanton coupled with the terms of my mentoradum a copy of a telegram to General Grant which he had never sent to me. Ile knew that when he was at Savannah I had negotiations with Mil parties there, for he Was present in my room when those parties were conferring with me. Those were civil negotiations, and, filt from being discouraged from making them, I was encouraged by &watery Stanton himself to make them. By coupling the note to General Grant with my memorandum, he gave the world fairly and clearly to infer that I was in possession of it. Now, Mr. Stanton knew I was not. Next met me Gen. Balleck's telegram, endorsed by Mr. n which they publicly avowed the violation of Stanton, 'my terms, which I bad a right to make. Next they ordered an army to pursue my enemy, who was cur rendering tone, in the presence 01 Gen. Grant him self, their Superior officer; and finally sent orders to Gen. Wilson and to Gen. Thomas-my subordinates —to defeat my orders and to thwart the interests of the Government. I did and do feel indignant. As to my own honor, I can protect it. In my letter of the 15th of April I used this language " I have in vitee Governor Vance to return to Raleigh with the civil officers of hie State." I did so busman Free!. dent Lincoln had himself encouraged MO to a simi lar OttllBo with the Govemor Of Georgia. And here was the eyportunity which the Secretary of War should have taken to put me on my guard against making terms with civil authorities. Red Presi dent Ltecoln lived I know he would have sustained me. The following is my report, widen I desire to have Incorporated into and made part of my testimony: ORMILRAL BRIABALAII'S /IMPOST OP RIB MILITARY Under date of Oily Point, Va., May 9, General Sherman forwards a detailed report of his opera tions from April 1. He says :" At that date all were busy in repairing the wear and tear of our recent hard march from Savannah, and in replenish• lug clothing and stores. I bad previously, by letter and 1n person, notified the Lieutenant General, commencing the armies of the United States, that the 10th of April would be the earliest moment at width I Could hope to have all thingB 111 readiness, and we were compelled to use our railroads to the very highest possible limit In order to fulfill that promise, owing to a mistake in the railroad depart. ment In sending the few locomotives and ears of the four. feeteigntand-a.hairdnoh gauge already in, North Carolina with seen of the old stock as was captured by Major General Terry at Wilmington and on his was up to Goldsboro ; yet such use was made of these, and such industry displayed in the railroad management, that by the letn of April our men were reeled, the wagons reloaded, aim a fair Mount of forage accumulated. In the meantime General Stoneman, operating from East Tennetileb with a 'division of cavalry, had reached and de stroyed the railroads about. Greensboro, N. O. and had pushed along to Salisbury, and extended the break in the road to Catawba bridge. Tide Was fatal to the armies of Lee and Johnston, who dea Tended on that road for suppliee, and as their Hit'• mete line of retreat." He also details the operations of General Wilson with his cavalry corps. He received the news of the battles about Petersburg April 8. Ills purpose had been to move rapidly northward, feigning on Raleigb, and striking straight for liarkesville, thereby interposing between Johnston and Lee ; but the auspicious events in Virginia had changed the', whole military problem, and in the expressive lan guage of Lieutenant General Grant, the Oonfedei rata armies of Lee and Johnston became the straa tegio points.." Gamma Grant was fully able to take care of the former, and my task was to °senile Or destroy the latter. Johnson at that time—Elprll 8-1 had his army well in hand about Smithfield, inter posing between me and Raleigh. I estimated Mr infantry and artillery at thirty-nye thousand. He, was superior to me in cavalry. I bold General BIV patrick in reserve at Mount Olive, . with orders to recruit his horses and be ready to snake a rapid , march on the 10th of April." He then details his own movements and those of the enemy up tO April 14. Johnston's army war re treating en the roads leading from Hillsboro to Greensboro, he himself being at Greensboro. 4, Al though out of place as to time, I here invite all mili tary critics who study the problems of war to take their maps and compare Um - positions of my army on the loth and lath of April with that of Gen. Balletic about Burkesville and Petersburg, Va., on the 28th of April, when, according to his tale- gram to Secretary Stanton, he offered to relieve ore of the task of cutting off Johnston's retreat. It, may be that Gen. Baikal; troops can outmaroh mine; but there is nothing in their _past history to show it ; or it may be that Gen. Haileck can inspire his troopil with more energy of action. I doubt that also, save and except in this single instance, when he knew the enemy, was ready to surrender or H 0 met jeknototi on April 17, as arranged. w The Stanton and General Haneck, IMPORTANT LETTER OPNEATIOI.II3 AND ZLEGOTL&TIONS. interview was frank and soldierlike. Gen. Johnston said farther war on the part of the Confederete troops was folly, and that every life recrilloed after the surrender of Lee's army was the highest poeeible erime. Johnston admitted the terms conceded to General Lee were magoanimous, and -all he could ask, but wanted some concessione to enable him to allay the natural fears and anxieties of his lowers. also wanted to embrace Conhe seine general proposition the fate of all the federate armies that remained in exists:loe. I never made any ceneeeeion as to his own army, or Maimed to deal authoritatively in regard to any other." They met again on the lath, and renewed the con versation. He eaye "Inasmuch as General John- Mon did not feel authorized to pledge his power over the armies in Tease, we adjourned to meet the next day stamen. I returned to Raleigh. All my gone. rel officers urged me to conclude terms. All dreaded the laborious march after a dissolving army over the very countr where we had toiled so long. If contrary opinio n s were entertained they were with held or Indulged in only by that erase who shun the light and the march, but are louden, bravert, and fiercest when danger Is past. I again met General Johnston on the 18th, and we renewed the conversa tion. He satisfied me then of his power to disband the 'rebel armies in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi ana, and leans, as well as those In his Immediate command, namely: North Carolina, South Caro lina, Florida, and Georgia. The points on which he expressed especial eoticitude were lest those States were to be dismembered and denied representation In Congress or any separate political existence whatever." " President Lineolnef message of 1884, tie amass ty proclamation, and General Grant's terms to General Lee, substantially extending the benefits of that prtclamaticn to all officers above the rank of colonel, and the invitation of the Virgicia Leah!. lanais to =reassemble in Richmond by General Weasel, with the approval of ear. Lincoln then on the spot ; a tirm belief that I had been fighting to reestablish the Constitution of the United States ; and not least, the general desire- were the leading facts that induces Inc to pen :the memorandum of April 18. It was designed to be, and so expressed on its face, as a mere basis for reference to the pre iddent el the United States and constitutional ConiMandepireChlof. It admitted of modification, alteration, and change. it had no appearance of an ultimatum, and by no false reasoning can it be con strued into a usurpation of power on my part. "The news of President's Lincoln's assassination, on the 14th of April, wrongly reported to me by telegraph as having oeourred on the 11th, reached mo la, the "nth, and was announced to my command the same day in epeeist field orders No, no I was Imps eared with its horrible atrocity and probable effect upon the Country. But, when the property and interests of millions living were involved, I thought rather to manifest real respect for his me• mory by following, after his death, that policy which, if living, I felt certain he would have ap proved. 'Up to that hour I had never received one word of instruction, advice, or counsel, as to the policy of the Government looking to a restoration of peace. Whenever asked for an opinion on the points involved I tied always evaded the subjeet. My letter to the Mayor of Atlanta has beep pub. Mailed to the world, and I was not rebuked by the War Department for it." General Sherman then Wee his ideas upon re construetion, and refers to interviews with Mr. Stanton. On the 24th Major Hitchcock returned, accom panied by General Grant and a member 01 his staff, bringing Information that the memorandum was disapproved, and orders to give at once the forty eight hoard notice and resume hostilities. General Sherman says : "I governed myself by the substance of a despatch dated March 8, from. eeeretary Stanton to General Grant, but , not so. ectopanied by any part of the voluminous matter bandied upon the public in the New York journals of the 24th of April. Tnat was the first and only time I ever saw that telegram or had one word of Itttruction on the important matter involved in it, and It does teem strange to me that every bar-room loafer in Now York can read in the morning jour nals 'Melee matter that is withheld from is Ge neral whore!. Command extends from Kentuelty to North Carolina. "Within an hour a courier was riding from Dur ham's Make toward Hilleboro, with notice to Ge neral Johnston of the suspension of the truce. I published my Order, No. 62, to the troops, terma natieg the truce at twelve K. on the 28th, and or dome ail to be in readiness to march at that hour." All things were in readiness to advance, when, on the TUG/ flaw of the 2.5 th, he received another letter from General JobnittOn. Under the approbation or General Grant an meeting was arranged, and took place at 2 o'clock the next day. "We then,", he eaye, "consulted, Concluded, and signed the field terra; of capitulation. Thetis were taken by me back to Raleigh, submitted to General Grant, and met hie immediate approval and signature; "Thus was surrendered to us the siffend great army of the manned Confederacy, and though undue im portapere has been given to the so-called negotis, tions which preceded it, and a rebuke and public disfavor cast on me wholly unwarranted oy the' facts, I rejoice in saying it was accomplished with out further ruin and devastation to the country; without the loss of a single life to those gallant men who bad followed me from the Miselasippi to the Atlantio, and without Babjectinat brave men to the ungracious teak Of pursuing a fleeing foe that did not want to light. As for enyeelf, I know my mo tiveS, and challenge the Instance during - the past four years where an armed and defiant foe stood be fore use that I did not go in for a fight ; and I Weald blush for shame it 1 had ever insetted or struck a fallen foe." he proceeds to detail his movements, and those of the co-operating forces for the next few days, and the goon contation in which he found matters at Savannah. ." On the evening of the 2d of May I re turned to Hilton Head, and there, for the iirettiMe, received the New York papers of April Dith, Con- Mining Secretary Stanton's despatch of 9 A. IC of the 27th or April, to General Dtaincluding General Halleok's from Riotanend of 9 P. K. of the night beforeavetich seems to have been rushed with ex treme haste before an excited public—namely, morn irg of the 28th. These despatches were published while General Grant and I were together in ha. Leigh, N. tr., adjusting the terms of surrender of the Only formidable rebel army east of the Mississippi river. Not ono word of intimation had been sent to zee of the displeasure of the Government with my fficial conduct» The most objectionable features of nil memorandum had already (April 24) bean published to the world, and the contents of my so campaneing letters to General Halleck, General Grant, ana Mr. Stanton, of oven date, though at hand, were suppressed. In all these letters I had stated that Johnston's army would not fight, but if pushed would .disband' and "scatter Into small and dangerous guerilla parties, as injurious to the interests of the United States as to the rebels them. team ; that all parties admitted' that the rebel cause of the South was abandoned ; that the negro eorrilmrto 'Although this despatch (Mr. Stanton's,of April 270 was printed 'official,' It had come to me only In a questionable newspaper paragraph. As the Secretary had taken Upon ninrserf to order my en bozdfDate generals to disobey ,s 'orders,' I ex plained to (general Gilmore that I Would no longer confuse bins or General Wilson with orders tnat might conflict with those of the Secretary, which, as reported, were sent, not through me, but in open disregard of me and of my lawful authority." General Sherman then goes on, at considerable length, and with much severity, to comment on 01,31. Halleckei order, ridiculing the idea of cutting off the retreat of Johnston's army from Burkesvitie and Danville. "The last and most obnoxious feature of Generale Halleck's despatch Is wherein he goes oat of hie way and miseries that my subordinates, General Thomas, Stoneman, and Wilson, should be instruct ed not to obey 'Sherman's' commands. " We left Charleston on the evening of the 3d of Play, and hastened back to Morehead City, which we reached on the 4th. I immediately oommuni dated by telegraph with Gen. OClielle/d i and /earned from bins the pleasing tact that the Lieutenant Cie- Mal, commanding else armies of the 'United States, had reached the Chesapeake in time to counter. mend Gen. Halleckel orders, and prevent his viola. deg my truce. Gen. Johnston had fulfilled his agreement to the best of his ability, and the oftleers charged with issuing the paroles at Greensboro re plated about thirty thousand already made, and teat the greater part of the North Carolina troops had gone home without waiting for their papers. "About eight hundred of the rebel cavalry had gdne South, refusing to abide the terms of the our render, and it was supposed they would make for Mexico. I would sincerely advise that they be en. cotiraged to go and stay. They would be a nuisance to any civilized Government, whether loose or in prison, • When to the number of men surrendered at Gieensboro are added to those at Tallahassee, Au guns, and Macon, with the scattered squads who wile come in at other military posts, I have no doubt Ana thousand armed men will be disarmed and re stored to civil pursuits by the capitalatiOn made neer 'Durham's Station, N. C., on the NM of A l ma He concludes his report as follows : • There are no longer armed enemies in North Carolina, and a soldier can deal with no other sort. The marshals and sheriffs, with their posses, of apish the military may become a part, are the only prpper Mears to teal with civil criminals and ma, renders. But I will not be drawn out in a discus sion of this subject, but instance the case to show I how dialcult Is the task become to' military officers, When men of the rank, education, experience, nerve, and good sense of General Schofield, feel embar rassed by them. General Schofield, at Raleigh, has a well-appointed and well-disciplined command, is in telegraphic communication with the controlling parts of his department, and remote ones in the di reenact of Georgia, es wall a ll With Washington, and has military poBBooBlon of strategic points. "DIM manner Gen. Gilmore is wall ',bleated In all respects except as to rapid communication with the seat Of the General Government. And General Wilson has in the very heart of Georgia the strong est, beat appointed, end beet equipped cavalry corps that ever fell under my command ; and he has now, by my motet action, opened to blm the sonroe and route of supply by way of Savannah river that sine Ogles his military problem. I hope and believe none of these commanders will ever have reason to reproach me for any 'orders' they may have re calmed from me; and the President of the United States may be assured that all of them are In posi tion ,ready and willing to execute to the letter and in spirit any orders he may give. I shall henceforth cease to give them any orders at alt, for the occa sion that roue them subordinate to me is past, - and shall coehne my attention to the army composed of the Deli and nth, the 14th and 20th Corps, unitise the commanding general of the armies of the United States orders otherwise." Examination Continued. Q. Did you have, near Portman Monroe, a Conte. rence with President Lincoln 1 A. I met Gen. Grant and Mr. Lincoln on board a steamboat at Oily Point, and during the evening of the 27th of March ; I resumed my visit to the President on board the same steamer, anohored in „the stream, on the following day. Q. In those conferences was any arratapment made in regard to the terms of peace? A. Nothing definite. Q. At *hat time ' did you learn that President Lincoln had assented to the assembling of the Vir. 011ie rebel Legislature? A. I knew of It on the lath of April, .I think, but 1 procured also a copy of tie amnesty proclamation on the 20th of Aprll. Q. Tea did not know that that arrangement had been rescinded by the natant') A. No, sir. Q. Then, at the time you entered into tide ar rangement with Gen. Johnston you knew that Gen, Weitzel had approved of the Calling together of the rebel Legislature of Virginia, by the assent of the Preskent? ' A. I knew of it by some Source until.. Q. But yin did not know that that order had been rescinded 1 A. No, sir. Ct. At the -time of your arrangement you also hnew of the surrender of Lee's army, and the terms of that surrender? A. I had that officially from Gen. Grant; I got that at Smithfield, on the 12th April ; I have what..purporta to be a letter from pm to Johnston, which seems to imply that you In tended to make the arrangement on the terms of Lee's surrender; tt contains the terms as to his own army, but the concessions llnade him were for the purpose of embracing other armies. Q. armies? writings you signed were to inOlude other A. The armies of Kirby Smith and Dick Taylor, so that afterward no man within the limits of the Southern Confederacy could claim to belong to any Confederate gamy in existence. Q. The President addresSed snots to Gen. Grant, perhaps not to yen, to the effect of forbidding oftt. rem of the artily from entering into anything but military arrangements,leaving olvilmattera entirely to him? A. t never saw such ¬e signed by President Lincoln ; Mr. Stanton made such a nuts or telegram, and says it was by President Lin coln's dictation ; he made ft to Gen. Grant, bat Peva . to me ; on the contrary, while I was In Geoff An d i s m i s sincoln telegraphed tO rae elMOUraging me tomatters with Governor Brown and Mr. Stevens. Q. In the published report of your agreement there is nothing about slavery, I believe I 8. There wee nothing said about slavery, because it did not ilia Within the category of military questions, and a could not make it so. 4. Then your object In negotiating was not be. dente there was any doubt about the result of a nettle I A. There was no question as to the result of a battle, and I knew it ; Johnston said in the drat five minutes of our conversation that any fur (her resistanee oralslert would be an act of folly. 13y Mr. Loan : In your examination by the chairman you stated that you were eating In par. , uance of Instructions! from Mr. Lincoln, derived tom his letters and telegrams. Have you any of these letters and telegrams I A. I can furnish you a, copy of a despatch to General Ilalleek from Atlanta, In which I stated that I bad Invited GO. center Brown and Vice President Stephens to meatus, and I can give you a copy of Mr. Linoola's answer be said he felt much interested, and en. couraged me to allow their visit ; but the letter to which 'I referred specifically was a longer letter which I wrote to General Halleolt frOMAy *amp Mt desired et eo ißnlillW p a e tßieha t on:2l°‘l in tha t. Washington, s andr l t i e t te sP r ubaPb l trm‘ publish ed , ils a tBt v t6e e BGd mtwetovonhewoiMr:h wouldcfilal who t lniofe frankly, not only upon the military situation, hut aho the civil policy neoessary Mr. Lincoln 811.- pressed hizoselt highly pleased elite my views, Q. And by subsequent acts he induced von to he. Hove he approved of these views I A. I know he approved of them By the Chairman Q. The followingla a letter putb• tided in the newspapers, purporting to have been addressed by Yon to Johnston, dated April 21, 1822. Thie letter, touching on the rights of person and property and the vexed question of slavery, sa.Ys ; " I b elie ve if the South would simply and publicly declare what we feet, that slavery is dead, that you would inaugurate an era of pestle and prosperity that would soon efface the ravages of the past fear years of war." The former portion has a bearing simply upon the military pOsltlol3, and has little or no bearing upon the justification of the General. In answer to a report by Mr. Loan, he also fur nished a letter addressed to General Grant or Ge neral Halleck, dated April Is, with which he sends the copy of agreement between General Johnston and himself. The following details his vlewd with regard to ft : "Mr. Breckinridge was present at conference in the capacity of Major General,and eatistied me of the ability of General Johnston to carry out to the lull Went the terms of the agreement, and if ycu simply Indorse the copy and commission me to carry out the terms, I will follow them to the con. elusion. You will observe that it is as absolute submission of the enemy to the lawful authorities of the United States and disposes his armies abso. lately; and the point to which I attach most im portance is that the disposition and dispersement of the arretea 19 done in such a manner as to prevent them breaking up into ft guerilla mew. on the other hard we Can retain just as mean of an army al: we please. I agree to the mode and manner of the surrender of armies sent forth, as it gives the State the means of suppressing guerillas, which we could not expect to do if we strip them of all armies." The rext letter is one to General halleck, with the same date, alluding to the report of Clark's being detected for his own assamination. In con. obadirg, General Sherman states "General John. eton also informed me that General Wilson was at Columbus, Ga., and he wasted me to arrest his pro gress. I leave that to you Indeed, if the President sanctions my agreement with Johnston, our interest is to erase all destruction. Please give all orders necessary, seeordinp to the Views the Executive may take, and Worm tam, if possible, not to vary the terms at all, for I have considered everything, and believe that the Confederate armies are dis. parsed." After this ;we find a letter, bearing date of April 25, to General Grant, which tie writes as MEOWS: It is bet just that I should record the frost that I made ray terms with Gen. Johnston under the Mac. erre of the liberal terms you extended to the army of Gen. Lee, at Appomattox Courthouse, on the 9th, and the seeming policy of our Government, as evinced by the call of the Virginia Legislature and Governor back to Hictunotid under your and Prem. dent Lincoln's very eyes. It now appears this last act was done without any'bonsultation with you, or any knowledge of Mr. Lincoln, but rather In mar sition to a previous policy well considered. I have not the least desire to interfere in the civil policy of our Government, but Would shun it as something not to my liking ; but occasions arise when a prompt seizure of resuits is forced on mill. tars commanders not In immediate communication with the proper authority. * • id Ivo surrender of any army, not &dimity at the mercy of the antagordet, was ever made without !terms,' and those always define the military Meat of the surrendered. Such action in no manner recognises for s mo ment the so called Confederate Government, or makes us liable far its debts or sots. As to punishment ofngst crimes that is for the Jo dielary, and can in no manner of way be disturbed by our acts, and so far as I can I will use my influ ence that rebels shall suffer all the personal punish meat provided by law, as alga the civil liabilities accruingfrpm this past act. What we cow want is the new form of law, by which common men may regain their position of industry, so long disturbed by the war. After this follows a letter to Secretary Stanton, woo a long communication to Genera/ Grant, in which General Sherman alludes to the publication On the 24th of April, above the si gnature , of the Secretary of War, as calentated-, , ,t0 give very erroneous impreselons." In this letter Gen. Sher man defends his course with marked ability. It concludes with the following paragraph : "As you did not undertake to assume the manage ment of the affairs of thls army, I inter that on per sonal !Wootton your mind arrived at a different ecnolusion from that of Mr. Secretary Stanton. I will, therefore, go on and execute your orders to the conclusion, and, when done, will with intense satis faction leave to the civil authorities the execution of the task of whichthey seem to me so jealous ; but, as an hottest man and soldier, I invite them to fol. low pay path, for they may See some things and hear some things that may disturb their philosophy." After this, a letter from the assistant adjutant general of Grant, T, S. Bowers, follows, reporting a difference of views on the part of General Grant, and offering to return the report for any change General Sherman might deem best. To this the General replies, declining to In any way change it, in the following terms: "The past is beyond my control, and the matters embraced in the &Bohol report to which you refer ate Mashed. It is bat just the reasons that actuated me, right or wrong, should stand on record ; but in all future eases, ohould any arise, I will respect the decisions of Gen. Grant, though I think them wrong." After this, two letters written to Mr. Stanton at Savannah, on January 2 and 15, follovr, in the first of which he encloses the copy of a letter written to Major General F. P. Blair. These are followed by a brief letter addressed to General ialleek, and a still briefer one received by him from President Lincoln, on September 16 and 17, neither of the last two havirg flinch bearing upon the points to ninesi the inveetigattelle of the committee were addressed. The conclusion of the General's report is tile fol. lowing rather deprecating paragraph: "I have not pssession here of all my offlelal re cords, moat of which are out West, and I have se lected the above from my more resent letter-books, and I offer them to show how prompt and fall have been my official reports, and how unnecessary was all the clamor made touching my action and opinions at the time the basis of agreement of April 18 was submitted to the President. . . "All Of Vila 10 MOO respectfully submitted. ---orsjort eilf - 2 - 1 --- marMrerSistee Pamir." Asa very valuable contribution to the history Of the was, we have felt it necessary to condense this levgthy account, but at present refrain from db. MIAMI g the grave question which it peremptorily involves. Notices of New Books. The Household Edition of Charles Dickens' works has just been completed by the publication of his "American Notes" and "Pictures in Italy," two volumes, and "The Uncommersied Traveller" in one. The whole series, consisting of forty•nine volumes, has been printed at the Riverside Press. Laid tinted paper has been used ; the binding is in vellum cloth • and the Illustrations, from original designs expressly made for this edition, by Dailey and Gilbert, are executed by the very best engravers in the country. The volumes under notice contain a fine portrait of Dickens, engraved by Greatbaoh, Of London, from a photoraphy . by Messrs. Wet. bins, and a view of his residence at Gad , e Hills familiar place to those who remember Palatalise exploits in that locality. Sheldon & Co., the New York publishers, have fully and liberally kept faith withlhe public in the production and completion of this, by far the most beautiful edition of Diokens ever brought out. They went on with it, steadily and liberally, throughout the war, when amok a speculation was, to say the least of it, somewhat hazardous, and we can have no doubt that a large sale will oompensate,thein for the risk they in. marred and the capital they invested. (Received from J. B. Lippincott 4- Co.) Mr. T. Kohler, 202 North 'Fourth street, the pub. fisher of Dr. Charles 3. Hempel's fine edition of Schiller's Complete Works, rendered Into English by various able transiators,hasjust brought out, in the original German, a neat volume of tales by W. 0. von 110114 one of the most popular of living Teutonic authors. The new volume, just published by Mr. Kohler, is entitled 'I Gesammette Erzabittn gen," and Contains fine tales, the scene being chiefly In Switzerland, on the banks of the Rhine, and the time that of the first French empire. They de• scribe, more or less, but with a , truthfilinges and feeling rarely found, the particular characteristics and simple habits of the Swim peasantry. !I•he first story is called "The Mallehen," from an , old custom by which the country lads bargain, on the first of May in each year, for the privilege of 'toting as beau, for twelve months following, to the prettiest girl In the village. This exclusive right In put up to auction, and, when competition becomes "fast and furious," from the gallantry of the young MD and the charms of the maiden, a high price is ob. tained ; the higher the amount thus realized, the greater the honor and glory of the damsel. The lucky youth who pays highest obtains the exclusive privilege of dancing with the girl on every poem sion, during the whole year, no one else presuming to do so, even with her consent, without his. -This curious custom is the basis of the first story, which is lull of interest. The other tales are "The Inha bitants of the Little God's. house," The Deserters," "The Smugglers of the Rhine," and "The Smith's Workshop," We believe that Mr. Rohler Intends publishing other stories by Yon Horn. *obi W. B. 2leber, South Third street, we have the republished Edinburgh, Review and the Weetinitil atei?Review for April. In the former, though there is no article particularly brilliant or learned, there are several of more than ordinary merit. Ont.( the is a critique,' severe but pet, on Mr. History of Englieh Literature. We may also men. Lion the papers upon Madame Roland, the English Law of Patents, the Church and Mosque of St. Tophla, and, particularly, the Australian Colonies. The new number of the WAlltnrinater Review ie poor. It Opens with a tedious criticism, by T. B. Mill, on the Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Un. der the head of "Modern Novelists," a most tend•. ble estimate of Balwer's authorship Is given—the more severe for its affected candor and moderation. The paper upon St. John's Gospel, which certainly cub Colenaoes Colours, will be held up fullutnno, We are confident, by all who are , opposed to the Well• glom tendencies of this Review. The way in which it deals with the miracles related by the evangelist would do credit to Tom Paine, Dr. straws, and M. Renan—and to few other writers. The June number of Hours at Rome, the new family monthly magazine edited by Mr. J. M. Sherwood, is much better than the first, which it easily could be. More than one-half the contents bee been supplied by lay contributors, - and this makes the publication more readable. The editor, with commendable frankness, credits several pad odloala with articles which he copies from them. The poetry is not vary. good. On page 144, home and come are scarcely allowable rhymes, unless the latter word were pronounced comb, and home and lone are utterly defective. There are several good articles here, however, and "Personal Heaollec. lions of Mr. Lincoln," by F. B. Carpenter, the painter, are excellent, and appear truthful. (Re ceived from T. B. Pugh.) "Faust's Death," a tragedy in five sots, by Ohas. E. Moelling, published, by J. B. Lippincott & (Jo., gives us a favorable impression of the authors abili ty, both in verse-making and construction, but he seems to have forgotten that annul wrote a second pert of his immortal '« Faust," in which bhp hero was finally "worked off,; , as MrDennis would say. Mr. A. Winch has published, in a Cheap form, "The Tax-Payers Guide," being a digest of the taxes, rates, and duties, under all the Acts of Con , FITOIIS, for raising national revenue by excise tax, license duty, and stamp tax. They have been di ceded and arranged, Very carefully, by Mr. Thomp son Wieteott. Mr. W. V. Spencer, of Boston, hat published theological work, by Frances Power Cobb., entitled "Religious Duty." Her purpose to to do:stone Then= as a Religion for the Life no lows than Phi. losophy for the Intellect. We only ear with the lyrist— “ What a PST when shaming women Writs about things that they don't underetand.'' From J. -B. Lippincott It 00., we bINVO a The Quartermaster's Guide,” by Gel. T. S. Oase, Quer. termester General of Idissourl, publish:A by P. M. PLukarO, Saint /mils. It Winded all the Army Regolatione find General Orden referring to Quer termastem and their duties, brought down to March 31,1885. No doubt it trill be most useful to the Masa of officers for Whom it hae been compiled. It is extremely well indexed. Mr. Carleton, the New York publisher, announces "Looking Around," a new novel by A. B. Ras; " Wylder's Hand," a novel by I. Sheridan Le 'Fans, who is author of the poem entitled "Shamus O'Brien," and a third series of the Orpheus C• Kerr Papers. He has other novelties nearly ready. We announced, a few days ago, that Mr. J. J. Kromer, 908 Chestnut street, was the agent in Phi ladelphia for the sale of Gustave Dore's! illastratedi Don Qffixotte, the Fortnightly Review, and the Shil ling Magazine. lie has the Quixotte as far as pat- Pelted. The Fortnightly Review was not to appear in London until the 15th May, and therefore has not yet arrived, but the first number of the Shilling megazine, which is edited by Mr. Samuel Lucas, can be seen at Mr. Kromer's. It is illustrated, like the Cornhill Maga zine, bet, in essentials, more closely resembles Temple Bar. It has two serial tales to begin with, and is, altogether, a readable and interesting miscellany. We should mention, as an improvement on the old anonymmte system, that this Shilling Magazine mentions, in nearly every instance, the name of the writer of each ar- A Life of President Andrew Johnson, by an able and competent writer, is announced, and will be published in a few days by T. B. Peterson & Bros. It is promised that it shall contain a full and sow rate account of his whole career, With SOW of his Mon important speeches_ FDIIIJOATIoros ItacElVlED—Prom Is I. Kromer 403 Ohestnnt street, the News of the World, Ithi holed London News, and Illustrated News of the World, of May 13, Containing, as usual, a great deal of news and many fine wood engravings. A REBEL COLONRL - Oft THR REBEL " Homs."—Clol. Hatch, one of the rebel 00111011881011- ere of exchange of prisoners, is now In Libby Prison. Just after his imprisonment he sent for Gen. Kul fold. our commissioner of exchange, and asked : 4 . Do you think It Is proper treatment for me 1" " What Is the matter 1" Inquired Mulford. "Dou't you see, " replied Batch, with profane " emphasis, there 13 not a pane of glass in these WielloWe 1" . Oh, that all 1" answered Mulford. 01 Why, Hatch, I have been telling you for the last two sears there was not a pane-of glass in those win• (lows." SLAW. TRADBR Afaussyso.—From the New Bad• ford Standard we tear that one Antoine 'Dreams Was arrested in that city last Saturday by Deputy Marshal Cobb, and was Immediately taken before the District Court, miffing In Boston, and pleaded guilty to three indictments for aiding and abet. tfng Zeno Kelley in fitting oat ahlp maroo tor a slaving voyage ; in enticing and par snading witnesses to go go beyond the juriadiCtion of the court, and secreting them ; and in hiring Matuel Machado, one of the crew of the Tahmaroo, and endeavoring to hire other witnesses to abscond. Be gave two thousand five hundred dollar , ' ball for his appearance at the court from day to day. noLoitau Moors FOR Taxes —The Petersburg (V 11.) &press, of Saturday, says " The co mm a A.rmy (colOrec) cerpth Major General Wetzel d ing, which recently marched through Petersburg, and has since been stationed in the vloinity,of Pity Point, has received orders to embark for Texas, The embarkation has been progressing at the Point for two or three days. As fast as the transports re• °vivo their loads they drop out into the river and anchor. Parties from the Point, who witnessed the scene, represent it as one of much interest. In a day or two, if they have not already done so, these troops will start for their new destination—the ex. treme southern State of the Union. LARGS SAW/ 1,300 GASSIB BOOTS AND We will sell by catalogue, for cash, on Blom:lay monism, Trine a, commencing at 10 o'olocir, 1,800 oases men's, boys', and youths', boots, shoes, balmo rals, gaiters, slippers, Oxford ties, brogans. With a desirable assortment of women% mimes', and children's Wear. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL A few days ago the New York Evening Post at tacked with some degree of virulence the present Secretary of the Treasury for having changed the conditions on which the popular loan could be subscribed to by the people. The artlele in quest tion bee been quoted by many of the journals of the country, especially by those known to be nn• friendly to the Administration, with a view, no doubt, to Impeach the business (tawny and finan cial tact or Mr. Motinilooh. While it is freely confessed that . the change has remitted in de. creased enbscriptionS, it is also true that the Go vernment, if the exigency should arise to justify its taking advantage of the reservation to pay in gold rather than in Currency, will be greatly benefited by the change. The otirrent sub scriptions are up to the expectations of the Se cretary, who is now lees pressed for money than since the war broke out. The last day's tubsorip• lion to the second Series of the 7.20 loan amounted to thirty millions. The average since has been about two millions. l'here is nothing discouraging in this circumstance. It the treasury needed thirty millions a day, it is quite likely thirty millions would be forthcoming. The moderate subscriptions which we report daily are more than sufficient to meet the current expenditures of the Government, and therefore they are doubtless satisfatnory to the fl. aneial head of the Government. Despatches from Washington inform us that there is not a single unpaid requisition in the Treasury Depart ment, and that there are sixty millions on hand waiting to be paid to the soldiers as rapidly as their payrolls can be prepared. Letters have also been received from well-Informed sources stating that tbe oeh.....iir.tees _to the third *even-thirty -renee - continue at the sate- er--Mkko - millions a week (theywere over that last week), it will be quite as fast as the Government will need the money. The subscriptions to the third series began slowly, bemuse most banks and bankers, in anti cipation of a lees attractive loan,-subscribed pre• bably act less than one hundred Winona On their own account for resale, and until this amount is largely reduced, the gigantio subscriptions that marked the close of former loans cannot be expect ed. It would be an insult to Mr. McCulloch's com mon sense to suppose that he is compelled to offer each succeeding loan on like favorable terms to the public. As the situation of the country changes for the better, as its expenditures diminish, the Score• Lary should be able to fund its debts at constantly improving rates. How well and how skilfully Mr. McCulloch has discharged the duties of. hle office slnoe he was called to it by the almost unanimous voice of the people—the raising of nearly lit - e hun dred millions of money in three months, the pay- mon; of the entire floating debt, the perfect balance and equilbrium preserved in the money market throughout the country, and the deoline of near one hundred per cent. In the ,prioe_of gold, without a symptom of panic or financial disaster, all boar abundant witneen. The stock market continues to exhibit the Same degree of inaction that has characterized it for some time past, and a few transactions occur. It Is, how. eveknotlceable, that prices are continually droop ing, and whenever parties want to realize, on any heavy amount of stock, they are compelled to sub mit to low rates.' Government loans continue de. pressed, and the sales effected yesterday were at a .further decline. The 18518 sold at insg, and the 8.202 5t,102).i. A. few lots of the old 7.Bra changed hands at par. State and city loans were inactive ; fOr company bonds there was little or no demand. The railway share list continued weak, and the few eaten reported were at lower . figures. There Wag vary little inquiry for oil etoaks, and bank, opal, Mining, and passenger railway securities were very dull. The general tendency of the market is for a lower range of prices. The following were the quotations for gold yell terday at the hours named : 10 A. DT 11. A. DI 12 111 1. P. X 8 P. POI 4 PAZ The 011bseriptions to the severythirty loan resolved by Jay Cooke yesterday amount to $1,010,800, 100111. ding one of $61,860 from Ninth National Bank, New York, one of $lOO,OOO from Third National, Pitts• burg, one of $60,000 trim Hanna, Hart, k 00., Pitta• burg, and one of $60,000 from Citizens' Bank, Balti more. There were 710 individual subloriptions of ssossloo each. The-Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Ex-, change Company yesterday declared a dividend of $2 per Share, payable on demand. , The sprrender of the rebel foretell liLtlin-trans bilielistppi region disposes, as a matteiThf•eourse, 1011C:the restrictions hitherto imposed upon trade With the foreign ports under the BogliSh, Spanish, aniLMeideap Goverriniente, adjacent to Southern ieits west of the Mississippi. That part of the R'vesldentql proclamation reopening the southern pelts, but excepting ports Weet Of the Mississippi nem its operation, wilt doubtless soon be modified by another proclamation extending equal privilege:l to trade west as well as east of the great river. The State banks of New York city find them selveinompelled to yield to the pressure of the na tion:if-system, and are rapidly ohanging their or faninstion. Oat of the sixty-three banks included j_9 ( fh't, -Clearing House Association, thirty-nine are either national institutions or have taken steps for becoming such. The following city banks have re cently resolved to organize under the Notional Bank law: Bank of New York, Merchants , Bank, Meanies , Bank, Union Bank, Phoenix Bank, City Bank, Fulton Bank, Chemical Bank, Merchants , Ex change Bank, National Bank, Bank of the Statek of New York, American Exohange Bank, 000611 Bank, mercantile Bank, Pacific Bank, Chatham Bank, Bank of North America, Hanover Bank, Irving Bank, Continenal Bank, Marine Bank, Atlantic Bank, Importers' and Tradera , Bank. Besides these, six otherS have it under present con sideration to similarly change their organization. The varioua boards of trade and chambers of cont. memo in the oities of Buffalo, Bay City, Mil !mikes, Hamilton, St. John, N. 8., Toronto, London, Quo bin, Montreal, Oswego, Kalamazoo, Portland, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Plttsburg, and New York have assented to the proposition made by the Board of Trade in Detroit that they all hold a grand °Men tion in that city at an early day. The boring for oil business in Pennsylvania, Oblo, and West Vlrgrala, has not by any means been abandoned, althodgh the damage created. by the spring floods and the sinking of the eacitementin duced thousands to abandon their enterprises and seek less hazardous Drexel & Co. quote : New llMted Staten Bonds. 1891 IOB,ITOSM .1 g< u Certif. of /ndebt'ss. X 99: Quartermasters' Votuthere 913 i 98 0 - old , 149 -- 3fS/01 G-29 Bonds '192306110S 6-10 Bon4o, new .. 1923iC01.03 1040 'loads _ pima 90 bales of Ilipooks, May U. THE MIMIC Bak ID, 100 Big CsidweLt 2 1100 oollatoell...cAsb. 8 -16 16 100 do 2 3 100 do oseh 236 goo. cherry Bun 1160000 Walnut Islend.« b3 .l o 1-16 do lh' ,110 do 116 1100 991.ned0w...... 11C0 2fi Wl* 1100 M1af0..........0ii11 21( . CALL. 200 Kea1int00k......... 100 Dont ard............. .9s 100 Big Tank ..1-63 100 mined. • 100 do 235 500 d 0... . . ... b 30.2.31 100 Keystone 011: 2dy5.1.81 100 X 8O Sybil% iten-t• ..... 044 2co City Os 95 2CO Keystone brt. 2 1-16 d 0..... ...b5 2 200 blO 1 94 WI: do.— .... .....blO 1-94 OD 2 teo do 2 100 1.11 11. g, 00- do ”...•• Egbert. 5......... 2 011 • 1220021 1(0 Atlas.... .-, - do. . ... 34 let Mio do go 011 ...... ..••5 .b 5 1 10 Tionetta. . 7 4 240 WO. Si 1(0 Atla4 011 b2l 200 Richard Pot, 1 200 /112 100 Mingo •••••••• •-• • 100 do 44 100 100 do 2 44 no 100 do 41400 100 do .. b 5.0 44-100 100 St /110h01a5...._-- 1% 100 .blO. 1% NV Montgomery ~. 01.10 u SOO Shermut— SALES AT TEI HUM IgeParted by Hewes. Miller BITORS 100 Reading IL— ball. 46.4' 600 CIO dweil 011. •••• • 2 100 Maple bhade 15 FIRBT 100 17 8 7•80 Tr X Old.loo 710 Katy 615 Man oa*kk 2414, 308012 Penes 68 -lots 66 8 Penns H. ••-••• ••••• • 66# 1 do ...........••••.. 654 5 Minelll H.,....•. 62 60 entawlsea Prat— 24 rOO Phila & Brie. • 66. 20 100 Itesding H. —430 44X 202 do eILO 44X ICKI do•--• oswn&lnt 4)& 100 do K. 9474 200 do • ........., 100 4411 200 de. • •••••••••• 25. 44% 100 d 0......— -136. 99% 1 d 0......• Trams 95 100 do. ..... ....h3O. 45 REIVE7I 300 Mingo. • •-• ..._., .85 2 SI I 800 ralzell 011......b5 155 ICO Mar Farm .....--.• 81)1 100 Me Mountain..... 3 200 Phil& & Brio 11.••• 20 ' 250 Ticnests Ire 100 Maple bhade• .b2O 106 lq) do sO3 1f,,34 100 do 1.4 It SCO St Bich's Cil. b2O 1g 80018 b 5(0 17 E 7-80 T .11..01d.U0 MO 851 1581. cony iesy. jot, Reading 18.— b5O 4n'.r 185 do ....... 96 95,59 NO /9447—Tri Ds 27 58 Lehigh BAY 64 100 tingar Dale /89 AFTEk 19800 178 5-20E0190.18.102N 1000 new ..• .102% 1298 B Penns 8 cp—lts. 82 2U4) W Chester Be. NS. 77 100 Heading H.... 830. 95 100 2d ye. 5 SALES AT 15(0 17 8 5.28 e old 102% 1/00 do 1110 d 0... ntw....1 0 2% 198 111 Tana Scpt,..-.. 82 20(0 do -.— 82 2000 W Metter 84.15. 87 Ica Reading E..• • s3O 45 110 Curtin....—.2d9n. The New York Poet of yesterday says: Gold is Inactive at 186X6 , 130%. Toe hlghea, Was 1373;„ the lowest At the oloso Hon is inc h% The loan market Is easy, hati, i i! mime at 6 per cent., with transactions at I and 7. Commercial paper Is dull at ntily„' The ;mock market opened dull, noorno tqy afterward rallying, and closing steady. u, meats are quiet, railroad bonds dull, drooping, mining eharee neglected, and peti,,ip stocks lower. Railroad shares are irregular, :kr: western, Hudson, Michigan Sou tern, and I Central attracting the chief attention, The following quotations were made at the tik t as compared with yesterday : Wed. Trio. 40 b . , 17. 0, es. waren 1661.....—.4M% 105!; ' B 640 11011.P01111 Ei.. 5-ito coupons. ii•W.-•••••••Ka.4. 1.; B. 10'40 eih U. 8. et ..... 99 99% l'enneaseare...-----: , 63% 6i „ ilwaourt4-••-,......,....».... 64 64X Atlantis Mail.. ....... .16r% New Yon 8734, 87'3 Brie . Mit 69% Bale prerarreg............. • 81 81 Hudson 94 95 ~, Mi a c d hig an Being.— • •••• 90 90% Michigan Southern • 64% 65 .. ' After the board there was some imorovannl Erie advanced to 'tog; New York Central to ii Hudson to 96X ; Reading to 90%' ; Michigan Sm . ern to 55%. At, the 1 o'clock board Erie chisel 70 ; Hudson at 98; Pittsburg at 67 ; Michigan sue ern at 15%. Later, Erie sold at 70K. The Flour market la firm, and there to mond rug in the way of oaks ; about 6,000 bbia arra fan ly sold, mostly to the Government, at 117.60K0 50 • bbl for common to good and choice quality. tt retailers and bakers are buying in a small from 118.250,50 for superfine, 4707.37 for soN , $7.00@8.50 for extra, family, and $l.O 50011 V 611, fancy brands, according to quality. There h To little doing In either Rye Flour or Corn Meal, prices remain about the same as last quoted, Giamx.—Wheat is in demand, and the ofroriO2 are light; 1000 bus Bold in lots at from el 90, - ki 30 bu for prime reds, and $2@2.25 31 bu for wilt e the latter rate for prime Kentucky. sdye to Inn 1,200 17118 Pennsylvania sold at 910 30 to. Lion L scarce, and prime have advanced ; 1,000 boo ado 900880 30 bu, and small lots at Cl QR ba. Oats Sur also advanced ; 5 000 bus Pennsylvania Hold at it . 680 v bu, closing at the latter rate. Beast.—let No. 1 Quereitron is In demand at ton. COTTOII.—The market is dull, and prleoll it f rather lower ; small sales of middlings are report. I at 48@ 60 0 V lb, cash. Gitudirams.—Ooffee fs scarce and firmly hell Sugar fa unchanged ; small sales of Cub% , making at fiXo 35 lb, in gold. 114 blade Trinidad .3 1 / 1 Woes sold at 45,V0 V gallon. Pwritormula Is rather dull ; small sales are m ckle. at aligafie for crude, 486500 for refined, in bond, an , memo 30 gallon for free, as to quality. Puovonows.—The market is dull at about forma rates, and the sales are in small lots only. No Pork is quoted at $24626 V bbl. limn—Baled Is selling at $2O per ton. Suame.—Oloverseed la very dull, and we hear c! no sales. Flaxseed la selling in a small war $2.41@2.50 per but Winiorv.—The demand 10 better, and VII"' ' 24 looking up; sales of Pennsylvania bblo aro repOtil at 2120 31gallon. By auction, yesterday, 81 bales upland 00MI avid at 7@45%0, and 278 sacks at 7@ti2yio ; 20 bale Sea Island sold at 720. The following are the reeelpte of Flour and Choi at thle port today Fintm. Wheat earn Oats BERATnextureß.—The market for State and We& ern Flour Is quiet and steady; sales 7,000 bble sl SS SSW 25 101 . 8tIpernile State ; $0.6014/0,70 lir exit; State t *3.800.90 for choice do; $5 8 6 tbel 5 fnv ell , partite Western ; *6.7067 for common to medium extra. Western ; 47@7.20 for Common to good 814. plug brands extra round hoop Ohio. Catahas Flour Is quiet and steady ; Sales 400 Ms at Id CO for common, and i117f23.80 for good to tholes extra. Southern Flour Is quiet and steady; sales 800 bbls at $7.20@8.25 for common, and $8.30111 kt fancy and extra. Rye Flour is quiet. Corn Meal le dull. Most Is quiet and very firm ; sales 7,000 bus amber ratobt• gan at kl 72. Rye Is steady. Barley Is qulet Flo ley Malt le doll. Cats are 20 better at 011332 a for Western. Corn IS seams , and I@io better; salsa 13,000 bus new mixed Western at 97107 go. Pgovistoros.—The Pork market is timer 4 NO bbls at 16244224.75 for new mess ; s22 @— for 'O3-4 do, cash and regular way, closing at $73 cash; $lB 2t419 for prime, and $18.58e1810 for prime men. T 1 e Beef market, le dull. Door latsme aro ateadl CM meats are firmer; ealeB 180 pkge at 11Y,6 1 i40 for ShottlderB, andll3,44evnia for dame, The LZI market le lower; melee 1,000 Its at 16@l80, The delnand for Flour was very light, and on some grades holders submitted to a alight decline. The range on choice extras was $5 31@8.30 i on Brice superfinee, $4.50@4.75. White winter extras sold at $9 60, and red winter extras at $6 75, The 'Wheat market was moderately active, bat prima ware from Belo lower than on yeaterday. The market opened at $1 22, advanced to $123 tot No. 1 spring, and gradually weakened to $1.21A 1.22 at the close. No. 2 spring sold at $1 10g,g , 1 11)4. Extra spring sold at $1.24, and rejected at eso, The Corn market ruled dull and holders den• fully submitted to a very material decline, which failed, however, to stimulate busirtewil to any glut extent. No. 1 sold at 57@580, N0..2 at 50@123, aOl reJeeted at 466460. The market closed quiet at side figura& Tam was some Hale Inquiry for cant corn, and sales were made at 062600 606 NO,lationt, ar d at NC for No. Irmo on board. . . Rye and Barley were again comparatively flb gleoted, and the tranartotions were not aufnelent tt establlth prices. There was one sale of No, 1 Rye at 600, but no sales of Barley , by grade. 187 188( 1863{, 137 137 AT THE MBECHAIiTS , IDEOHANGB, PHILADELPHIA. Bark Roanoke, Clookeey,Lagnayra &P Cabello, soon Brig Ella Reed, Taro Havana, 8001 PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF TRADE, ANDREW Wyouramn, EDWARD Y. TOWNSEND, 00M. OP TER MONTE. HORAOI3 J. SRITR, MARINE INTELLIGENCE• PORT or PHILADELPHIA, MAY RI, 8i555.4.41 Sun Surs.7.l9 HamWATaa..9.l9 Brig Rainbow (Br), Cassiday, 14 days from Trial• dad, with sugar and molasses to S & W Welsh. Brig Joseph Hume, (Br), Minter, 14 days from gagua, with sugar and molasses to T Wattion & Sons. Brig Daniel Boone, Tacker, 5 days from Fortress Monroe, in ballast to Warren & Gregg. Brig Mary 0 Marriner, Merriner, from Beaufort, in ballast to D S Stetson & Co. Brig Tropio Bird, Thompson, from Absalom, in ballast to captain. Schr Jae Gareeltn, Anderson. I doss from Milos Monroe, in ballast to Warren & Gregg. Sohr IL E Samson, Blake, 4 days from Fortran Monroe, in ballast to Warren & Gregg. Schr F O Smith, Anderson, 5 days from Fortran Monroe, In ballast to U S Quartermaster. Scbr Pocahontas, Berry, 5 days from Boston, Witt nide. to Twelis & 00. Sohr O Goodwin, Laird, 8 days from AlexandrK in ballast to captain. Sohr J Stroup, Lake, 8 days from WilmingtOM N 0, in ballkst to captain. Bohr S 0 Tyler, Steelman, from Fortress Monroe, in ballast to captain. Soh! Mary E Amsden, Smith,from Fortress Mon roe, in ballast to otiptaln. Sohr Susan West, McFadden, from Fortress Mon- roe, in ballast to captain. Bohr Ida, Blake, from Fortress Monroe, in ballast to Warren& Gregg. Bohr Nary Standish, Blob, from Washington, in ballast to captain. Sam Bliss 1:91111aine, Steelman, from alaucaStort with ice to captain, Sohr Lucy, !Kasten, 1 day from BrandyWßle, Del, with corn meal to R lK Lea. Steamer Novelty, Shaw, 24 hours from New York, with Wee to Wm DI Baird & 00. Steamer D Utley, Davis, 24 hours from Nee York, Kith. Wise to Wm M Baird & 00. • CLEARED. • Bark Florence Chipman, Jones, Musquash. Bark Iddo Kimball, Golfo, Port Royal. Brig Morse Day, Land, Trinidad. Sabi John Wright, Clark, M 1,1.11404% Conn. Sohr r C Smith, Anderson, Norebern, Sobr Wm P Orr, Wingate, Lawn. Behr Fred Rail, Mitchell, Saco Me. Sobr Zampa. Johnson, Saban, Maas. Sehr Sarah Fish, Fountain, Boston. Sohr 0 O Smith, Barrett, Lynn. RohrS B Wheeler. MeGloughlln, CharlestOWn. Bohr J W Brisk°, BnOirniati, Boston. Sohr J B Austin, Davis, Neponset. Sake Star,Calhoun, Washington. Schr E Vrerry, Risley, Newham. Str Ocean Bird, Massey, Alexandria. Str R Willing, Oundlif, Baltimore. MEMORANDA.. Ship Columbia, Euell, sailed from Liverpool , loth Met tor We port. Oldp Indurtry, Mahon, from Liverpool, at Cal• mut& o th nit Ship J 0 Balton Miller, from Callao, at Clalwai 15th Mat. Bark Flor del Mar, Wlewsll , from Buenos AM IN at antwerp 14th Met. BeekTrleste, Sewall, arrived at Sydney:, NSIV• net March, from Tome, with loss Of sevoral sells and a large part of bulwarks during heavy weather. Bohr Waterloo.Warlag, hence for Salem, at Nei York 30th Inst. .....1985G~1973G ASAL. The United States N gtinboat Calypso was spoked lath list oteNuiqulto Inlet, Florida—all wall. Sohr losk MAß am, E f r M mP O l E l L t l l ak m { tor Bestea before reported sunk off the Delaware Breakwater. registered MS tons. was built at SWIM, Mass, In 1814, and owned in Boston by J Denham and others. Captain Munroe, with the y crow, arrived hero Met night, and report that the pilotk from Breaker by the New Yorkboat Mary EFish (mot tug America, as reported,) Oapt BrOei, rreA wpm they reaelvea every attention. PROPLIVII STO K 11XCHAT01,, MO HO do MO do WO ROO 41 1 0). ...... 203 EoRetorn ... 103 BOAILD OF Dm irp., go $ „.4 . 1 1 BOARD, 100 Faltoa 100 Bie) Pam OARD. 1 0 0 do.. 100 '' 00 do 209 do ; ;m i n t 103 do , 4( 9 Lehigh 44; • 17 ... q "ck ' t 101 Rl` Tank: ''''''' 00 Curcio cm"' 100 Sgoolelo; "" 00 J.romy W e ll 100 /00 iftqiitttycl E 611 111147. .... ••• 200 do . ....... 100 Dal2oll im.y ""I 100 Junction de 100 Fulton 004„ ; : , BOARDS. ... 1(0 Oil O'k & 0 li t .t 100 Reading B, . . ~. 100 00 do ' .".::'::::;tip 1 1(0 do 1000 Patina s2d Me lt 203 o a.dwell Oil.. 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