tranitiitt 4a;9rositorg.
Wedmeaday, April 5, 1883,
IticruroNn UAS FALLEN !—the rebel cap
. ital rthelast rebel strong-hold, has gar
rendered to the matchless heroism of the
Ariny of the Potomac: The hope so long
deferred: l llas at last reached the fulness of
fruition, and the soldiers of crime retire
from their long and stubbornly defended
citadel of power, with their last army ;that
-tered to fragments; with no safety in re
treat; no hope in further resistance to the
overwhelming might of the brave defend
.
era of the Ri3public.
Let loyal men rejoices We have had
victories before—the same dauntless conr-
age; equal endurance in the defense of
the-right; but never has a triumph been
.achieved so crowning in the' measure of
its results—so .utterly. destructive to tW .
comatry's foes., It leaves them without
an army ;'Without a government ; without
credit; without hope. It is the great ret
ributive stroke which in the fulness of His
time, has vindicated Humanity and Jus
tice!
It proclaims the safety of the Republiel
centAries hence, when the heroism of the
lasqorti years will still be undimmed on
the shifting canvass of the past, the vieto
. ries which culminated in the possession
of Richmond, will be pointed to as the
fields where the sons of the North baptized
their Freedom in their noblest blood, and
re-achieved their title to their proud in
,
heritance—the best, the most beneficent
government on earth.
All honor to the gallant Airily of• the
Potomac! How nobly it has struggled,
undaitnted by defeat. against the choicest
troops of ;the foe, let its sacrifices ou the'
• Peninsula, at Antietam, at 'Fredericks
burg, at Cbancellorsyille, at Gettysburg,
and from the Wilderness to the South-side
road and Richmond. tell. - It has made the
heroism of all armies in the history of
Warfare pale before its unfaltering courage
and grand achievements; and now it fitly
crowns the glory of the war by striking
the last great blow to make treason hated
by all the living. and shunned by all who
shall live hereafter. Gratefully indeed
will a long imperilled Nation cherish the
noble deeds ; the patient endurance ; the
unflagging gallantry of the Army of the
Potomac, aid the memory of ifs slain—
rich sacrifices to the madness of treason—
will live in perpetual freshness in every
patriot heart.
The Republic is rescued from the mur
dert grasp' of Treason,—thanks to a
faithful North and to a just and benefi
cent GOd!
TitE NIAGARA PEACE EFFORT.
We give in another column of to-flay's
paper a letter . 9itten to the Presidielt in
July last, by Mr. Greeley, of the Tribune,
on the necessity of proposing or receiving
terms of adjustment to close the war.
Iniportant as is everything coming from
the penof the ablest journalist and one
of the most intelligent and experienced
politicians of
,the Nation, this letter of
Mr. Greeley possesses especial importanCe,
because of the feet that it was the opening
of a correspOndence that resulted in the
memorable letter of. President Lincoln,
addressed " To Whom it May Concern,"
and proposing terms of peace for the con
sideration of certain rebel leaders then in
Canada.
The remarkable letter of the President,
borne by . Maj. Hay to be delivered to
Messrs. Sanders, Clay and Holcombe,
prominent rebel civilians then at Niagara,
as it then appeared in the public prints
without any explanation of the cireum
stanbes which called it forth, astounded
the ?Nation, and staggered many of the
truest friends of the administration. Few
condemned, but there were few who did
not regret that such a letter had been
written. and so delivered, as it appe4red
to afford the rebel leaders the very pre
text they most desired to " fire the South
ern heart," and unite their desponding and
divided people in support of the rebellion.'
All the public knew was that Mersrc. Clay,
Holcomb and Sanders were in Cimada';
that they had been visited by - prominent
Democratic politicians—such as Hon. Jere.
S. Black, Gov. Bigler, Senator Buckalew
and others of this State ; that a crazy ad
venturer named Jewett had been peddling
peace propositions to and from every
body with whom he could gef audience ;
but in all this there• was no visible motive
for a declaration from Mr: Lincoln in the
midst 'of a Presidential struggle, of terms
of adjustment which the rebels would
most certainty then --reject, and which
might weaken, but could not possibly.
strengthen the administration and its
cause.
We are glad that the letter of Mr. Gree
ley has found its way into the public
prints. How it happened to cot* to us
by wafof England--as it first ,appeared
in the Manchester Examiner-Lis of no
consequence. It is enough that it is now
public property; that the door to. the
j• secret working of the Niagara p eac e ef
fort has been unlocked, and we may now
learn the whole history of that comedy_ of
arm. Mr. 'Greeley opened the corres
pondence on the subject with the letter
we print to-day, and it; will be observed
how earnest is the tone that pervades his
sentences in behalf of peace. He sought
peace not because it would have been
right in the abstract, or because such a
peace was then attainable as the Nation
and its great cause shoaldommand; but
he earnestly sought peace - to sage fresh
conscriptions;" "further wholesale de
vastations ;" " newrivers of human blood,"
and to save some little of" our bleeding,
bankrupt, almost dying country." These
considerations. in ,connection with "the
momentous election 'Soon to occur in
North Carolina" and the "draft to be en
forced in the Free States," induce Mr.
Greeley to.deinand, in the most positive
terms that:Mr : Lincoln should do some
thing to prove to all, loyal and disloyal,
that he wasnot •proreeuting war merely
for the love of war..
This lettr was written in July last—
just at the; 7'darkest period of the year;
when gloom hung over the Nation like a
pall, paralyzing its energies and wasting
its hopes. Grant had reached the James .
Without decisive results. after an appalling
sacrifice of life ; Sherman had been fought
at every step from Chattanooga on his
perilous march to Atlanta. and hii;suceess
was deemed more than diiubtful; new le
vies had to be ordered to save the cotin
try's cause; our credit .wasmore depress
ed than ever before, and the shrewdest of
politicians confessed the Presidential con
test lost unless saved to Mr. Lincolii by
the folly of liL foes. as it was ,by'the Chi
ago platform. It was - under these cir
cuntstanees that Mr. Greely wrote. and
he was evidently prepared tbr peace on
almost any terms that would save us a re
spectable semblance of government, and
he insisted that unless terms were pro
posed, or notice given that terms would
be received and considered, all. Was iuev
. itably lost. The 7iibuie s ;was then as noiv
the most powerfallolittil organ of the
Nation, and au expressibif in its columns
of the convictions of its ' Chief editor as gi
en to Mr. Linciiln in the letter in ques
tion, would have been a confession of
hopeless discomfiture alike in the pending
political Struggle. and in the_ attempt to
'preserve the Union by an appeal- to the
arbitrament of the sword.
- So much the-public are now advised of
by Mr. Greeley:s letter: but the ultole
story is far from being told. No public
explanation of the "Tip Whom it; 4 ay c4on
fitly
cern" letter was made by 'esident.
because it could not be done Ohotft giv
ing to the NN'orld Mr. Greeley's first letter,.
in which there werok-such sad: -- - and as
events have proved, such . gromlless eon
fessionsof politicalandNational weakness.
Such a letter published at any time before
November 1864, would have been the most
potent political doctusent the I"allaudig- 1
hams and Woods could have circulated.
and it-would have been . worth a corps to
the insurgent army. It could not, there
fore. be given to the world, and without
it there could be no explanation of the se
ries of events which led the President to
startle the country by proposing terms of
adjustment to the rebel citizens in Canada.
Butfnow the •Nation can afford, to have
the whble history of this bungling diplo
macy-It:mil we trust that it will be speedily
given to the public. Some twenty letters
and dispatches passed between the Presi
dent and Mr. Greeley on the subject be
fore tine President consented to take the:
step proposed. and then, as his letters and
dispatches will show, he did it with the
extremest reluctance, without hope of its
SUCee:•,... and accepted it only as a lesser
evil than have so powerful au organ as the
Tribune,,practically surrender the Pt esi
dentin' election and the war.
When the entire Correspondence shall
be published, atc'we doubt not it will at
an early day, it will be seen that the Pres
ident fully vindicated himself fox refusing
Mr. Stephens safe conduct to Washing
ton, and that he • clearly fotes.riN - the re
sult that-attended his proposition, bat as
a necessity lie •accepted the ein{ditionim
posed, and framed his term )t adjust-
Ment in substantial accordance 1 - itlt Mr.
Greeley'. suggestions. In otluq. ds—
he mope-Hi such terms of peace as Mr.
Greeley—who plead the claim s the in
formal rebel commissioners to recogni
don-I—laid down for His guidance. and such
as Mu. Greeley evidently lwelieved aitd
affirmed ,-would 'prove acceptable to thti
Sonthern people.
is now due alike to . Me. Greeley,
to the Pregdent mid- to , the cmtntry that
the entire correspondence by gilfen to the
public, and Ave hope to see it putilished in
a very few days. When it shall appear
many who censured President Lincoln
for the course he was induced to take,
will feel that b acted-Then, as ever, with
eulightealar judgment and unfaltering
fidelity to our imperiled government.
AT the time of this writing we have no .
definite information of the course taken
by Lee wlien he retreated before Grant ;
but presnine that be is attempting to join
Johnston by the Danville railroad, while
Grant has doubtless strained every effort
to !a t ertk!pt him l It Matters little what
route Lee nifty tat!. If he joins. Johnston
141u:i'man ;Ind, will confront him,
and if he ;attempts ! to retreat by 'Lynch
buriehe will be met by Thomas and Han
cock: Go whence lie will, he will find
brave men to engage his dispirited, shat
tered amt hopeless army. We may have
some delhils by telegraph, before going to
press.
IT T is not probable that Lee will go out
of las way h. his retreat to form a junction
'with-Gem EatlY, the commander of the
rebel army of the Shenandoah? At last
accounts E . arly's army consisted of him
self. an orderly and one Titivate, and the
prit ate has doubtless deserted long ere
this. Wherever Lee may go, it is clear
that Jabal E. is not the entertainment he
will prefer. If Lee :wants particulars of
Jubal's army, let him inquire of one Phil.
Sheridan, tai , ga trooper of , WinChester,
Richmond, 8:c. •
Ir it, a TCllllllkablC fact that the hot-bed
of treason Alas byal captured by negro
troops. General Weitzel, commander ‘4)f
Gen. ButleCA negro brigade, was the first
to enter that doomed city with his brave
soldiers, and the "first families" are now
under military rule with dark skins.
—Ttio negro Captain Robert Sniall returned to
Charleston a few days since, in the same - vessel in
which he escaped from the,s,ity in the spring of
1862—the:P/anter. As it passed fort-Sumter it
had all its three flags flying, void the Captain's
face beamed with satisfaction — ante saw the Stars
and Stripes on its parapet once more. The Plan
ter has been refitted since its flight from Charles
, ton. at an expense of *40.000. •
WAS INGTON
Large lint:Ober of Bebel Deserters in
Washioilton--Charges between Wanh•
ington and City Point—Order from the
War Department on - Raising the Old
Flag over iinmpter—Bewilderment o f
the New York papers as to who was the
hero of Fort Steadman Supplemental
- Draft in the District—Orders to Return
ed Prisoners, de..
of the Franklin Itep,,sitory
- trIIINGTON Cray Marob
A stranger arriving in this - My at any timo
during the - past week would almost imagine him-,
self in a place occupied by the rebel army. The{
number of greybacks to be seen wandering
and down the street,,often eitheed tbow-of one,
own boy 4irblop, two to one. Still the - iv come,
not by do-ens, but by hundreds. Most of them_
go' North to seek employment. Those who re
main find ready place .as tetunsters or laborers.
The:se deserters do not seem as . if they had any
desire to remain idle. They seek work at once
and go to work with a will. When they first ar•
rive they arc indeed objects of pity, for they up
pear'sn sad and melancholy that it almost gives
one the blues to lock at therm This appearance
leaves them utter 'a. few day A of work and con
vei,atlon, and they become as: lit ely and chattt
fls any of us
The government tudillmatt between here and
City Point elm4te seven dollars Ims.suge fait. of
an officers passing betv.'cen these points.—They
also charge a dollar for a meal, and a dollar and
a half for a berth. This may be all will enough
on some occasions. To charge it of an officer
with a shattered limb or a ball through his body
is cortainly - a gross outrackt. This wa.: the case
last Saturday. and ever since. Some of this' offi
cers lad not the money to pay it, and on that ac
count were made subjects of insult by those in
charge, and it is said that many were left at City
Point for want of the money. •
The fullowinordtir has been issued from the
War Departvent:
runt trivaraT AWL TANT GENEILVCS OFFICE,
Wh•bington. March 27, 1663:
Gr i m-m.lh ORDERS No. 50.
nitpttitED,—First—That at the hour of noon,
on the 14th day of April, I i, Brevet 3114 . 0 en.
Anderson w will ntite and plant upon the rains of
Fonrt Sumter, in Charleston Hai but', the same
Coifed States flag that floated over the battle
ments of that Bert during fhe rebel assault, and
which was lowered and saluted bas, Vim mid the
%mall force of his cowman %%hen the works were
vaco:tied on the 14th day of April. Ittftl.
..ri - Serond—That the flag, when raised, be saluted
by one hundrodgyns front Fort Sumter, and by a
national salute from ever) fort and rebel battery
that tired upon Fort Sumter.
Third—That suitable' i'itremonies be had upon
the occasion. tinder the'direction of Major Gene,
ral 1. Sherman, whose military opera
tions compelled the rebels to evnenate Charleston,
or. in ite , ab,cnee, under the burg of Majrtlen
eral Q. A. Gilmore. commandmg the department.
Among, the ceremonies will be the delivers of a
pulthe address by the Rev. Fleur) Ward Beecher.
Fenteth—That the total titres at Charleston.
and their. Commander on, that Aation, be int itch
to 'participate in the 4:MMllomrs of the o c c asi o n.
By order of the President United States.
EDWiN M. . - ST INToN, Secretary tit War.
E. D. Ttra - NTEND, A•s't AZh't General.
some of the NeW York papers scout is a glori
ous State ofbewildernAt ns to who really was
the exact hero of the fighting at Fort Steadman
The Times ea). it was not Gen. Hartsuff but
Gen. Hortroupt. The Express says Grit. Hort
roupt was the per,on. w title the Post sa)s it w'as'
Gen. Ilartranft.
A supplementary dratfig about to he enforced
in this Di•triet under the last cull. Very lets
Men were obtained trout the.draw ins jur:t emit- -
plot:J. I don't know how the enrollment was
male outside of this District, but 1 do know
that the names ofseveral thuusaud periods living
hundreds of wiles away, trod who perhaps net er
.traced one week in. this city in their lire., are
(ni the list. anti as these people can't be found.
the is heel "keep a turning an the time, having
scarcely ceased more than a week at it time col*
the host six months, and at the present speed of
taining Men still have to keep turning Mr the
next three months to come, before the quota it
The following important orders to the returned
risoner-: lately arrived from rebel prisons have
n i lied
WAR Dt.e.tartmyr Ao.n. - rAvr OENEIt U.' , OFFICE. /
WAsiim,r(vt, Mar,h go.
Gr.Nr.it tt, 08 ocos, 40.-oflicial notifica
tion has beearermved of the ti dam, inc e x e h A nges
of prisoners of war:
All Unifed States officers and mem pri , aners of
V. IV. toot laqtdolore deel, red exchanced.) who
here del ered uu par Ole at - Sat annuli, Georgia.
a.d Charles - tom South C.,rolina, durinc the nautili ,
of N ',Yen I tier and December, Ist:4 ; and all (not
,iaetof , re declared exchalged) delis ered on pa
r‘dc on the James riser, Virginia, from the 25111
doy of Not ember, Istll. to the 25th day of March,
dstr,. both days inchtsire : and all naval prisoners
Mitered at any points up to March 10, 1865.
The officers and enlisted men of the military
, ervicerivilose exchance is announced above if in
,epot,.atill lie to sieved to their respective corn
dands if on kart , of absence, will join their prop
er commands at the expiration of their leaves'.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSP.ND, Ass't Atilt Gera
GENERAL OnoEns,' No. 40.—A1l citizens held
as prisoners under parole from the rebel authori
ties delivered to tin , United States authorities at
whatever place, on or before the 15th day of
March, 156.5. arc declared released from such-pa
rule.:
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. Tow SSEND. AsslAdj't Genet.
During the mouth of March 2,850 deserters
trout Lee's army had Ihe oath of allegiance admin
istered to them in this city. This is a large . in
crease over February, When there were but
:
Bain has been pourise down in torrents PiIL
the last thirty hours ThittlnithOW or other is
alit ay. the cane• when thi. army of the Potomac
moss e. It enllnUt Litt interfere greatly with the
movements now, going on.
171) to 111 i. writing 2111 Pre.ident ha, not re
turned from city Point, nordoe• ntf3re know or
Late an idea 01 when hels corning back. S.C.
11.R111S111:1;.“
The Vitlnge—lierplexitie% of Onr
Corre%pondent— rho priti in litly_ol%-
trict—l'enn , ylannin unit Iter Executive
fitro.in--.lack Itei%lanti in r
Auditor
Corre.t..titlPtlert of 11 Frailk!it. ilepth:tiory
ii,:, .litr,l I. li-65.
The capital hm. quieted down again; the land
lords have collected their handsonie bills from the
Sotons of the State: the Susquehanna has eome
down to civil demensions : borers and sreulators
have %misled like the ;flints of the un7rning; two
investigating committees have been charged With
the %indication of tlo virtue of the two Houses,
and order, raceand serenity reign in Harrisburg.
The hotels are like banquet halls deserted ;Alm
maje-ty of intellect and the proud bearing of our
distinguished legislators, are missed on our streets
and we havesettled down, Micawber like; to wait
for the next convention, draft, .swarm of bounty
sharks, or the next war, to turn up -We live by
crowds; by lCgislatures; by lobbyists; by specula
tors; by black-legs in mery guise, who come and ,
go like the fleeting clouds, but ever leaving golden
mementos behind thetii. •
The week after the adjournment of the legisla
tare is usually the dullest of the year. We all
flatten out when theluminaries of State withdraw
from us. and it requires us a little time to recov
er. All this is well for bankers, brokers, lawyers;
merchants, cA-drivers and boot-blacks; but it is
a fearful infliction upon a correspondent. News
or, nn news, the letter must be written or lam
accused of indifference or neglect; and your many
readers would imagine the wheels of government
out'of joint. If we only had a respectable draft
it would afford abundant materials for a most pa
thetifl afid poetical letter ; but we are not • so in
dulged. Judging from the solid, fine-printed col
umns of the REPOSITORY giving lists of con
scripts, I conclude that your quotas IMP been,
fratiklin iteposituro, kttpitnbasburg., Pa.
m ultiplied by at least ten, and then not leas than
ten hundred per cent eteess drawn. I have
scarcely seen 11. copy of the paper for several
months past that had not a list of the favored tined
in some part of your district who had drawn pri
ze's tom the government wheel. Will the thing
ever stop upyour way 1 Why don't you have im
pressible boards of enrollment, stich as we have
had in times past, and employ-a bevy of scienced
and scrupulously honest bounty brokers,who won't
put a man in over nineteen. times for cash; and
thus fill your quotas without exhausting the re
sources of the border t This system may be some
what objectionable to such stupid fellows .as
Grant, Meade, Sherman, Sheridan and other rid-
tap worshipers ; but it is highly approved by J.
Davis Esq , Mr. R. E Lee and, others I could
mullet Besides it has another merit that has been
suggested by President Lincoln. If 300,000 men
are called fr, and but 30,000 actually reach the
army, it, is clear, by all 4ccepted niathematical
rules, that our resources, out, ernf the ranks;are
4 . 270,000 men better than if the 300,000 had act
ually entered the army.
What would the National authorithr do if they`
had not Guy. Curtin to appeal to iu Avery emer
gency / Twice have Pennsylvania troops saved
Washington; and in every dark hour that has
clouded the hopes of the patriots ofthe laud,
Guy. Curtin and his noble old State have ever
-broken the gloom and rallied the Nation and its
holy_ cause. He has organized as Many - more
troops as New York since' the war commenced,
and he has just added 7,000 volunteers to the
brave Army of the Potomac,within the last six
weeks. When the impartial historian comes ti'
chronicle the heroism of this fearful smuggle,
foremost in the brillian galaxy of patriot-states
men will shine the name of our honored Executive.
- - .
We have a little stirM polities Merely by IA ay
of keeping ‘nir hands!in. We can't sit on the
lonely porticos of the."_ hotels, smoke our cigars
and whittle our sticks without talking about
something, so we occasionally reach for the next
election. An Auditor - General and Surveyor
General will be to elect, and of course th6re will
be about as many more presented and voted for
as will be electeNl. Col. Janes P. Barr, present
incumbent, will doubtless be re-nominated for
Surveyor General by the Democratic Convention
to-meet here on the 21st of June ; but Mr. Slen
ker, present Auditor General, will be retired on
account of age and infirin health. Who will take
his place I could not guess. Seveml•gentlemen,
are named as the Union candidate; but I am for
jolly Jack Heistand, of the Lancaster Fxaminrr.
If he can't be elected, there's no use in holding
an eleil•tion. 'and if elected, he would sweep the
frowning cob-webs out of the Auditor General's'
office, and Jet a little streak of sunshine into it.'
Slenkei:is ghostly as death itself, and Cochran,
his predecessor, loved the dispepsia better than
his victuals. lam for turning Jack 10 loose, and
renovating_ the establishinent. What' say the,
Union press of the State? Gen. R. B. M'COmb,
of Lan renee, is favorably mentioned for Surveyor
General. HORACE.
—.John 0. Saxe. the witty poet, after a long
•ind severe is convalescing. \
—Hon. Wm. Whiting has resigned Ins position
Solicitor of the War Department.
—A sister of Gen. Gratit died-at the residence
of her father in Covington; Ky., last week.
—fag. Blaimlel,.of Nevada, is said to have at
t Lined the respectable height of six feetand four
inelitN
-I'. T. Barnum, the great showman, ci one of
the Union candidates for member of the Connect
icut LeniAature in Sandford county.
—lVor Brigham Young ia a widower. One of
his wires &cat on the 224 of last month: titlo was
the handsomest of all Brigham's wires, except
six.
—General Robert Anderson is en route for
Charleston. to carry . out the President's order
in relation to raising the old flagovkir Fort Bum
ter.
—William Cullen Bryant, the veteran editor
and poet, haa•parchased a 'numiner , residenee in
Cummington, - Nens.sachusetts, of which place he
is a -native.
—The property of John Slidell and Judah P.
Benjamin has been condenTned as forfeited to the
United States government in the District Court
at New Orleans. •
—According to the Pennsylvania School Jour
nal; three hundred and tifty-three children of-de
ceasedaoldiers have been admitted into the orphan
Schools of this State. •
Hooker is to be the recipient of a cane
costing $5,000, the same to be pt - esented to him
'by Senator Connes, of California; on behalf of
friends in California.
—The officers of the Sixth Corps are raising
6 4 10,000 for the purpose of erecting a bronze
memorial at West-Point in honor of the late Maj
or-General Sedgwick.
—Rev. J. L. Kephart, Chaplain of the Twenty
first P'enna. Cavalry•, was presented a copy
of "Harding's Pulpit Bible" by the members of
Company B, on the 24th ult.
—General Roy Stone, of Penna., eomnumdtkpt
of the military station at Alton, 111., has tendered
his resignation to the War Office ht Washington,
and the same Inia been accepted.
—Mrs. Catharine B. Waugh, widow of Rev.
Bishop Bes :- Crly WFiugh, of the M. E:Church,
died in Baltimore on the 22d Wt.:after an illness
of but a few hours, aged 74 years. ' ,
—John Overotn, the Tennessee millionaire,
who gave $5,000,060 to aid the rebellion, has de
serted the cause, 'taken the oatlf. and is once
more a peapehble citizen of Nashville.
—Gen. Kautz, commanding cavalry, Army o
tlw Jameß. hag been relieved and ordered to're
mirt to General Weitzel. Gen. gkenzie, o'.
the Army of the Potomac, imecemb; hint.
—The Governors and Legislatures o f theloya!
States of West Virginia and Virginia have nni
fed in requesting President Lincoln to appoin
Col. D. H. Strother, Port Crayon — ) to a for
Men mission:
--- 1 -Maj. Hay, assistant private secretary of the
President, will be the secretary of Mr. Bigelow,
the new United States Minister at the court of
St. Cloud, and will leave for Paris, in company
with Mr. NiCholai, the new consul.
, —The Prpsident has appointed Hon. John
Wikon, of Chicago, 111., to be Second Assistant
'Secretary of the Treasury,,in place of Mn: Fields,
Who retires on account of ill heiltlf, and who
trill probably acwpt'a position abroad.
—Augustus R. S. Foote, sOn ofthe late lamen
ted Admiral Foote, has received the appOintment
of Assistant Adjutant-General,- with the rank of
Captain. He is now ordered to ddti on General
Grant's staff, and will tenet. in a day or two for
the front.
—The President during his visit to the front
with Gen. Grant, approached to within six miles
of Richmond, and also witnessed * Sheridan's :cav
alry crossing the James river. The health of the
President has'gretly improved since his absence
from Washington.
—An -order ha: been issued by President Lin
coln; directing that the order ofbanishment in
the case of Mrs. EWell, wife of the rebel Major
General, be revoked upon her taking the amnesty
oath. In regard to Mrs. Ewell's money and
property, which had been seized by the Provokt
Marshal and held for confiscation, aothing was
said in the Presiden'c'y dispatch. The presump
tion is that her property and money - will be rea
tqred to her.
Q ' -
PERSONAL. ,
bait taken a self.impoe§ii pledge to not
drink any more,until be ,ball base vshibed Sher
idan. This is corisidereil4sbiridah*s officers as
equivalent to-the rebel General's haiing taken the
temperance pledge fin- life, to theclio small dam
age of the Confederate distillers, and a eitirrespon
,
ding fall in the price of corn.
—Bishop Hamline, of:the Methodist Episcopal
Church; died ofi the 23dult., at Mount Pleasant,
lowa. He was, many years ago,-a member of
the Ohio Conference, subsequently assistant edi
,tOr of the Western Christian 9droiare; then editor
of tie Ladies' Repository, , and chosen Bishop in
141,a position that he Soon after resigned on ac
count of his health.
—Maj. Gen. Sherman arrived at City Point,
together with'sorne of the officers of his staff, on
Monday evening. Mnrch 27th, and left to return
to his army on the ffillewing dab-after an inter.
view, on lakard, the River Queen, •with the Prem. ,
dent lirthe United States, Lieut. Gen. Grant,
Major Gen. Meade, Major Gen. Ord, Major, Gen.
ShOridanand others.
—Two lade, John B. Ray, aged fifteen years,
and John H. Cladderbuck, aged sixteen, each .
four feet five ihehee high, have arrived in Harris
burg, after trat ersing . a large district of country
in their efforts to reach a place ot safety. The
boys were conscripted by the rebels, lit Rockhig
ham county, Va., in. February last, hut deserted
before they had been placed in the army. They
Caine into our lines at • Winchest4r, and walked
, oin there to'llarper'a Ferry,. thence to Wheel
ig, and aftet;xarda to Harristiurg.
-Major Michael Sanno, an old and esteemed
citizen of Carlisle, died in that place on the 20th
ult. Maj. Sanno was a native of 'Berke; County,
but - for more than sixty years had been a resident
of Carlisle- He served in the war of 1812, as
First Mein: of a Rifle company, under the Coin
ungid of Capt. George Hendel, and bore the rep
utation of an efficient officer and a gallant sol
dier. Subsequently, he was_, appointed Barrack
Master, at that post, and served. in that capacity,
until the establishment of the eavalry School of
Practice, when his duties ti-eio-flianged tolliat of
Inspector of-Forage.
--Governor Curtin has appointed Major Henry
H. Gregg,_ of Huntingdon county, military secre
tary, vice Col. Grey, resigned. Major Gregg has
been in the. ivar since its commencement, and,
rising from the ranks, has reached the position
of major iu the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. -He
has been in all the engagements of his regiment
except during the time he Was in the hands of the
rebels as a prisoner. la his , two imprisonments
his health has marerially suffered. He is a highly
intelligent man, of excellent business habits and
qtialifications!and will honor the office. His ap
pointment is a just recognition of the services of
a brave and worthy soldier, and we are glad to'
•
commend it. •
—We give in another place sketches of two of
the general officers mentioned in the despatches
relating to the battle 'of Fort Steadman. The
others—Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys, com
manding the Sc 2 cond Corps, and Maj. Geri. John
G. Parke, commanding the Ninth Corps, are al
ready so extensively known that they do not need
Any such particular introduction to the public. It
may be well to remark, however, that both are
Pennsylvanians—Humphreys being a - native of
Philadelphia and Parke of Chester county. Both,
also, are experienced and skillful soldieisoind
both aPe dikingnished officers m the Corps of Hu
gineers--Hurnplireys being a Lieutenant Colonel,
and Parke a Majoi in that select organizaticin,
which ie. reputed to contain the highest military
genius in our service,
—Brev:et-Brigadier-General N. B. McLaughlin,
captured on Saturday,- during the nannult on Fort
. StenAman, is if Captain of 'the Fourth United
Stittes Cavalry. and is a_rsident of Oboes, New
Yoe. He entered the West Point Academy from
irerinont and graduated in 1861 as a Second Lieu
tenant. He served with his regiinent until Octo
ber, 1862, acquiring the rank of Captain in July
of that year, for bravery and gallantry in action.
In October, 1862; eiptain',MeLaughlin was ap
pointed Colonel of the Firk Massachusetts Infau
try, and under his command this regiment partic
ipated in the' fierce struggle at Chancelorsville; in
May.-1863, The killing of the Rebel Gen. Stni3e
wall Jackson, generally said to have been by the
fire of his own men, is thought to have been the
work of the. First Massachusetts, and there are
good reasons for believing it to be true.. At:Get
tysburg, where this regiment was the especcial
object of a fierce attack by the Rebels, the genius
of Cofopel McLaughlin was admirably ilispjayed
in the repulscof the attacking force. Upon the
expiration of the time of the First Massachusetts,
Colonel McLaughlin was appointed to command
the Fitly-seventk Regiment, from the same State;
a picked organization raised catty in 1864. With
this regiment he took part in all the battles ofthe
last campaign against Riehmoild, from the Wil
derness to Hatchery Run. Be, has for some
months been in command of a brigade of the Third
Division of the Ninth Corps, and for gallantry at
Poplar Grove Church, in_ September last, was
breveted Brigadier-General from the date of that
action.
—Brig. Gen John Frederick Hartranft,. the
gallant officer who recaptured Fort Steadman on
the 25th ult., and turned the momentary defeat
into a success, is a native of Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, and is a little less_ than thirty-five,
years of age. - He graduated at Union College,
Schenectaday. New York, in 1553, and commen
ced awes a civil engineer. He finally commence
ed the study of the law, and was-iu practice at
the breaking out of the Rebelling. He raised the
Fourth' Regiment
, of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and commanded them during the three months'
lieriice. At the first battle of Bull Run'he acted
as a volunteer aid oil the staff of Geu. Franklin. -
He then raised the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Regi
ment, and with theta joined Bunisitie's North
Carolina expedition. He remained in command
of his regiment, doing signal service at Second
Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg and other points
South, until Jane, 1863 ; when, prostrated by sun
stroke, he was sent North. In November he re
joined his regiment at Knoxville, and the success
ful resistance during the siege was in a great mea
sure due to.the engineering skill of Colonel Hart
ranft.. In January, lefi4, the 51st re-enlisted,
and Colonel Hartranft re-joined his comrades.
Soon after he was
.appointed to command a bri
gade of the Third Division, and for his valuable
services from the Wilderness to Hatcher's Run,
in the late Campaign, was made a Brigadier-Gen
eral, to rank from May I:2th, 1861 A telegram
fiena•Washington advises ns that Gen. Hartrauft
upon. e n conunendation .of. Gen. Grant, been
breveted Major General "for contpicuous gallant
ly in repulsingand driving back the enemy from
the lodgment made in our lines on the 25th ult.
SUMMARY OF WARNERS
—All prisoners paroled by the rebels prior to
March 23, are declared released.
—Gen. Sheridan IR reported to have started on
a nttw expedition on the 27th inst. •
—3laj. Gen. WilBolll3 cavalry force of 10,000
men was at Chickasaw, Ala., under marching or
ders, at last 11C(.151/1It8.
—Twelve hundred deserters arrived at Wash
ington in February and nearly three thousand in
March They all•took the oath. .
dwarf, eighteen years old, and three and
a half feet high, a deserter from the rebel army,
has arrived at Washington.
—The St. Albany raiders were discharged from
custody again on Wednesday last, in Montreal,
but were subseque4 t*lireitited--upon other
warranti.
:—lttnA„ , b , eea,,aseertained . lieload - doubt-that
" Bill Daron,";liereteforoa most Mitoribits and
desperitte_giterritis leader orithelCeotuely fron
tier, has diedin consequence of wounds received
during a late skirmish with the Kentucky troops
it.
near Clocerp
, . .
—The rebe slear trust many of their negro
troops toget - t. at ichmond. The prisoners
captured at rt dnian assert that they pro
cured their wit captivity and refuse to be ex
changed. Some changes dace taken place in the
Provost Marshal's department of the Army of the
Potomac. , .
—The rebelsin Texas are arranging a•treaty
with the wild tribes of Indiana A scheme is
also on foot to open a way to California, from
which it is expected 10,000 recruits can be ob
tained thr the rebel army. There was an upris
ing of the garrison at Galveston on the night of
the 26. th ult., and several were killed.
—A deserter from/he rebel artily, who arrived
in Washington, .and who is an Alabama planter,
reports that' the rebel authorities have already
placed a number of iregro troops iu the entrench
ments surrounding Richmond, but that they are
afraid to trust them in large bodies, and as a pre
cautionary measure the negroes are simply formed
into battalions. -
—Major Keogh, commanding Stoneman's ad
vance, captured Boon, Watauga county, N. C.. on
the 27th. This place is in the northwestent part
of North Carolina, twenty miles front the Tennes•
see line and twenty-fire miles south of Virginia.
It is abont two hundred-wiles west by north of
Raleigh. The rebels lost sixty-five in killed and
wounded.
—Gen. Smith's corps reached Dsbney's
on Fish river, witiiin twenty-six miles of Mobile,
on the 23d. Fish river is tin the east side of the
bay, emptying through Week's bay. Few rebels
had been encountered. Canhy's more on the
west side of the bay is said to be a Mut. The
monitors are thought to hare attacked the rebel
defences of the city. heavy firing baring been
heard.
—Gen. Halleek has decided that -146 rebel
prisoners. a portion of thoie.capturial on Satur
day at Fort Steadman who claimed that they
'surrendered ou the condition that they thould be
allowed to take the oath of allegiance us this goy
eminent, shallibe held for the_present, but that
they shall - not be exchanged against their will.
In obedience to this decision the prisoners were
returned to Point Lookout.
—A member of the North Carolina Legisla
tures has arrived at Morehead City to take the
oath ot allegiance. He states that .Johnston's ar
my 'only numbers one-half that of Sherman, and
that the - combined armies of Lee and Johnston
will not outnumber those of Sherman and Seim
field: thdt the . Legislatute admit that the " CON
federicy"' is a failure, and that the people are
bringing great pressure to bear upon the State
authorities to return to the Union.
—The Western mail frain for Wheeling, n hich
left Baltimore on Thursday morning at nine
o'clock, A.tis captured by a band of Rebel gueril
las at Green Spring, about sixteen miles east of
Cumberland, on Friday afternoon. The passen
gers were robbed of their watches pocket-hooks;
and other valuables, and the train was set on fire
and nearly de'stroyed: but after the robbers let
the fire was extinguished and some of the cars
were saved.
—Gen. Grierson's expedition is_ said to have
been met and driven back from Tupelo, Miss.
Thomas and Gillem having united, have reached
Greenville, east Tennessee, half way between
Knoxville and Bristol. They are rebuilding the
railroads and preserving their communications, in
tending, the rebels think,•to possess sonthwest
Virginia, capture Lynchburg and then co-operate
with Grant. Dalton, Goo., is said to have been
burned.
—The press, types, files and material of the
Charleston Mercury establishment were burned
at Columbia having reached that point in charge
of the pressman; on their way to a locality out of
reach of the Yankees, when Gen. Sheruian en
tered the place. The car in which they were
storied is said to have also contained the private
and official correspondence of Hon. R. B. Rhett,
from. the commencement of the war, with a large
amount of money, notes, bonds and other callus..
ble papers, all of which were destroyed.
—At the battle of Bentonsvillo the rebels lost
ten guns and seven thousand prisoners, besides
their killed-and wounded, . and deserters come in
largely. Sherthan, reinforced by Schofield and
Terry, can sweep everything. He will soon ad
cuce,.with Goldsboro for his base. The wenn
ded'ari all taken to Nowhere. The people wel
come the Union armies. Much cotton and other
property has been taken. The rebels burned a
thousand bales of the former at Goldsboro.
—Gen. Lee's official report.of the Fort Stead_
mna affair on Saturday is received. He claims
the capture of 9 cannon, ez mortars, and between
500 and 600 prisimers, and that , the : enemy's
(Union) works at Fort Hare were carried.- As
the "inclosed works in the rear, commanding the
enemy's main line,'
_could not be taken without
too great sacrifice of life, Gen. Lee withdrew his
troops and spiked the captured guns, which could
not be brought off.' -The Rebel loss is stated as
"not heavy." Brig.-Gen. Teray and St. George
Cook were among the wounded.
--Sherman's troops lie quietly resting at Golds
boro. The General tells them that the objects of
the campaign when they left Savannah have been
accomplished. They taro caused the eva6nation
of Charleston and the fall of Wilmington. They
have occupied the most important places in South
Carolina, including its capital. They bare march
ed over a rough country, abounding in natural
disadvantages, so that, when they arrived at
Goldsboro large numbers of them were shoeless
and trowserless. Their object from the first was
the occupation of Goldsboro and a junction with
Schofield. This great work they have accomp
lished, notwithstanding there was " a lion in the
path" m the shape . of Johnston. This lion has
roared without exciting terror, and fought with
out advantage. His strategy has been at fault,
his bravest efforts without fruits of victory.
POT.ITICAL INTELLIGENCE.'
—Mr. Valandigham refuses tube a candidate
for Governor of Ohio. Sensible.
—G. V, Dorsey, State Treasurer, is mentioned
as a candidate for Governor of Ohio, should Gov.
Drough decline a re-nomination.
. I —The Knoxville Whig says East Tennessee
will present Hon. Horace Maynard to the legis
lature as her choice for one of the Senators from
that State. -
—The friends in Dauphin Lebanon, Berke and
Schuylkill, of Gen. Jas. Nagle, are bringing for
ward his -name in connection with the office of
Surveyor General. • _
—The new State government of West Virginia
stands as follows: Governor,'A. I. Boriman;
Secretary of State, G. D. Hall ; Auditor, Joseph
kM. McWhorter; Treasurer, Campbell Tarr; At
torney General, Eph. B. Hall; Adjutant General
F. R. Pierpout ; Quartermaster General, George
W. Brown.
—lt is thought that the United States Senate
will refuse a seat to John P. Sto&ton, assumed
to be eleCted Senator from New Jersey. He had
only forty votes, while -there were forty-one
against him. Such a case has never arisen be
fore.
April 5, 1865,
TILE — iviAieekao. FALLS PEACE ICEPOTI.
ATioVS.
NEw•FoliK, July 7, 1e64.
M IiEAR Sin :I venture to inclose you a letter
and telegraphic dispatch iliat I received yesterday
from our irrepressible friend Colorado Jewett, at
Niagara Falls.- I think they deserve attention.
Of course I do not indorse Jewett's positive aver
ment that his friends at the Falls have " full plov
ers ",from J. D., thotigh I do not doubt that he
thinks they have. I let that statement stand as
.simply evidencing the anxiety of the confederates
eVerywhere for peace. So
"much is beyond doubt.
, And therefore I venture to remind you that
our bleeding, bankraPt, almost dying countryalso
,longs for peace—shudders at the prospect of fresh
conscriptions,of further wholesale devastations,and
of uew rivers of human blood ; and a widespread
cbnviction that the Government and its promi
nent supporters are not anxious for peace, and ,
cannot Improve proffered opportunities to achieve
it, is doing great harm now,•and is morally cer
tain, unless removed, to do far greater in the ap
proaching elections.
It is not enough that we anxiously desire a true
and lasting peace we ought to demonstrate and
establish the troth beyond cavil. The fact that
A. H. Stephens was not permitted a year' - ago to
visit and confer with the authorities at Washing
ton, has done harm, which the, tone at the late
National Convention at Baltimore is not calcula
ted to counteract:-
I entreat you, iu your own time and manner,
to submit overtones for pacification to the South
ern insurgents, which the impartial must _pro
nounce frank and generous. if only with a• view
to the momentue election soon to occur in North
Carolina, and of the draft to be enforced in. the
Flee States, this should be done at once. Iwould
give the safe conduct required by the Rebel en
voys at. Niagara, upon their parole to avoid ob
servation and to refrain from all communication
,with theirsympathizers in the loyal States t but
you may see . reasons for declining it.. But wheth
er through them or otherwise do not, I entreat
• fail to to make the Southern peoplmcompre
heud that you, and all of us, are ansious-for.peace,
aml prepared to grant liberal terms. I Venture
to suggest the following •
PLAN OF ADJUSTSIMT.
t. Vito Union is restored and declared perpetual.
1. Slavery is utterly and forever abolished
throughout the same.
3. A complete amnesty for all political offen
ces, with a restoration or all the inhabitants_ of•
each State to all the privileges of citizens of the
United States.
• 4. The Unimi to pay four hundred million dollars
($400,000,000) in five per cent United 'States
stock to the late Slave States, loyal and geression_:,
%like, to be apportionedprerata, according to flick
Slave population respectively, by the census of
lizi3o. in compensation for the losses vif their loyal
citizens by the abolition of Slavery. Each State
to he entitled to its quota_mpon the ratification
by its Legislature of this adjustment. The bonds
to be at the absolute disposal of the Legislature
aforsaid, ,
&. The baid Slave States to be entitled Lena.-
forth to representation in the House on the basis
of their total, instead of their Federalipopulatien,
the whole now being free.
6. A National Convention to be assembledsepoon
a.; may hp, to ratify this adjustment, and make
such chditges in the Constitution as may he deem
eci advisable.
Mr. President, I fear you do not realize how
intently the people desire any Peace consistent
with the National integrity and honor, and how
joyously they wohld hail its achievement, and
bless its authors. With United States stocks
worth but 40-cents irigold per dollar,andlrafting
about to commence on the third million- -of Mon
soldiers, can this be wondered At ? '
Ido not say that a just Peke is now attaina
ble, though I believe it to be so. But I.dea say '
that a frank offer by you to the insurgenta of
terms which the impartial world say ought to be
accepted will at the worst, prove an immense
and 'sorely needed advantage to the National cause.
ft may save us us from a Northern insurrectinn.
Tours truly,
Hon. A. Liscoiir, President, Washington, C
P. 8. —Even though it should be deemed it ['-
advisable tamale an offer of terms to theSebels,
I insist that, in any possible case, it is desirable
that any offer they may be disposed to Make
should be received, and either accepted or rejec
ted. I beg you to invite those now at Niagara
to exhibit their credentials and submit their ulti
matum, IL 9.
THE BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE.
Gen. Sherman Wined the following congratida
ory order to hig troops on their success:. - • _
HEADteI3S, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISEISSIFPI,
IN TIIE FIELD, NEAR BENTONSVILIE, N. 9.,
March V., 1865
The General Commanding announceslo the
army that yesterday it beat, on ita chosen grouhd;
the concentrated armies of our enemy, who has
fled in- disorder, leaving his dead, wounded and
prisoners in our hands, and burning 'his bildges
ou his retreat.
.On the same day Major General Schofield, from
Newbern, entered and occupied Goldsboro', and
Major General Terry, from Wilmington; secured
Cox's bridge crossing and laid a pontoon bridge
across the Neuse river, so. that our campaign has
resulted in a glorious success. After a march of
the most extraordinary character, nearly fire hun
dred miles, over swamps and rivers deemed im
passable to others, at the. most inclement season
of the year, and drawing our chief supplies from
a pOor and wasted country, we reach our desti•
nation in good health and condition
I thank the army, and assure it that our gov
ernment and people honor them for this new dis
play of the physical and moral qualities which re
flect honor upon the whole nation. -
You shall now have rest, and ,all the supplies
that can be brought from the rich granaries and
storehouses of our magnificent country, before
again embarking on new and untried dang . ers.
W. T. SHERMAN, Gen.'Com.
A CURIOUS CASE OF IDEN-rrrY.—A curious
incident regarding the identily of *Geo B. Paine,
line of the St. Albans miners, who was arrested
at Detroit, and subsequently taken tp St. Albans,
iss related by the Boston Herald
_:
It appears that the first intimation the villa
gers of St. Albans had of the raid was the ap
pearance in their midst of several men galloping
about on horses andlischarging firearms indis
criminately about the streets. This caused the
utmost excitement, in which the raiders them-.
selves seemed to participate.
It is said of Paine that he, lost his hat, and
seeing a, man standing in front of the-American
Home, he galloped up, and drawing hia pistol,
cried out; ` - Give uie your hat!" The -limn he
accosted was a stranger in the village, Baring
come from New Hampshire that day on business.
He looking Paine hill in the face, and replied
very coolly, "I don't see it!" "Don't see it!"
thundered the latter; "give me' your hat, or I'll
blow your brains ont." The New Hampshire
man looked him straight in the eye, thrust his
hands into his pockets_ and said, "You blow and
be damned !" Paine wheeled on his horse and'
rode off. When he Was captured his photograph
was taken and placed in the hands of the post
master of the town to which our New Hampshire
friend belonged, with instructions to let the lat
ter .see it in some: casual manner, and thus identi
fy the original.
When he came In the postmaster was turning
the pictures over carelessly in his hand. "What
have you there 1" said he. The postmaster han
ded them over. He looked at them a moment,
rubbed his eyes as if to make certain that he was
right, nod exclaimed, "Why, that's the 'rascal
that-wanted my hat at St. Albans the day the raid
The next day he was taken to St. Albans, and
picked out the prisoner from a number (if other
persons among whom he was sitting:, When he
saw the prisoner in the Sheriff's office he walked
towards him and merely said, "Well, you didn't
get that hat of mine, - did your It was consid
ered a clear case of identity.
A REattansuencr. OF GEN. PALMER.--Gen.
John M. Palmer, reeently appointed to command
the military - District of Kentucky, ciasia delegate
to the famous National Convention - which assem
bled in Philadelphia in 1656, and nominated Fre
niont for the Presidency. After the Convention
bad made a choice of a Presidential candidate,
Owen Lovejoy arose and nominated Abraham
Lincoln, of Illinois, for Vice President. J. M.
Palmer seconded the nomination in an admirable
speech, during which he said he bad known Mr.
Lincoln a long time, and could testily to his noble
qualities of head and heart. Mr. Lincoln was an
admirable lawyer, a profound statesman and an
_honest man, "Sir," said Mr. Palmer, "I know
and appreciate his great abilities, having often
met him on the stump in Illinois, when Lincoln
was a Whig and I was a Democrat." Then look
ing com ically and confused, he continued, addreas
ing Henry S. Lane, of -Indiana, who was in the
chair, President,_ did I say-I had met Mr.
Lincoln in debate? If I , did, I want totalte it
back, for when Old Abe came around, John M.
Palmer always took to the woods." 'twits a fine
compliment from one great man to another, and
rif emote ",bmught down the house."
HORACE GREELCI'