The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-29 00:00:00

APVIttl3B OF *JEFFICRBON HAWS.
, • (amnia TILOORLDII.)
I Tie Inman steamship City of Baltimore, from
164 Cork on the 18th' inst.% arrived at Queens-
town at IL4O p.m. yesterday (28th March) With
197 passengers and 31,000 dolls. and 1,5001, in
specie. She landed 18 passengers and proceeded at
11.50 p.m., Al) well. ,
•
Oity of Baltimore, via Oreekhavaa.)
l, ,l NOY Y Bic, Mason 18, ileums.
•,-.44sesdeng Devi& his a message to
that
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Confederete Congress, dated the 15th, which says
events have so materially affected the state Of
the country as to evince the necessity of further
and more energetic legislation than that of No-
vember last. The oceinatry is environed with
perils Which it is our duty to calmly contemplate,
and thus alone can the measure* necessary to avert
the threatened calamity be wisely devised and
effiriently enforced. Richmond It now threatened
and in greater danger than heretofore during the
war. Though the oountry is in danger, calamities
will be averted and triumph secured by fortitude,
courage, constalley, and endurance. The President
urges the necessity of legislation to modify the
militia law, and recommends the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act as almost indispensable to the
sudesesful mildest of the wax. With the prempt
adoption of tlib 'measures recommended, and with
the 00-operation of the Congress and people in the
elocution of the laws and the defence of the
country, the South may enter upon the coming
campaign with cheerful confidence in the result.
Lincoln will accept only abject and unconditional
submission. President Davis proceeds to state that
at the peace conference at Fortress Monroe the
Confederate commisMoriers proposed, to avoid
Lincoln's objection to treat with the Confederate
government, a military convention of the com-
manding generals of both armies. President
Lincoln, not accepting the suggestion, was after-
wards requested to reconsider his conclusion upen
the subject of the suspension of hostilities, which he
agreed to do, but said, after mature consideration,
he bad determined it could not be done.
Subsequently General Ord, commanding the
army of the James, requested an inter-
view with General Longstreeh General Ord
informed General Longstrest of the possibility
of
arriving at a satisfactory adjustment of the dill- I,
collies by means of a military convention. Lee
would be granted an interview on the subject, if
belied authority to act. Lee, in consequence, wrote
to Grant on March 2, proposing a conference on the
subject, stating that he was vested with
the requisite authority. General Grant re-
plied that be had no authority to accede
to the proposal for a conference. His power being
only military, General Ord meant that an interview
would not be ref used on any subject on which
General Grant could act. "No choice remains,
then," continues the President, "but to continue
the contest to its final issue." The people of the
Confederacy can have but little love for him who sup-
poses it possible they would ever consent to pur-
chase, at the cost of degradation and slavery, per-
mission to live in a country garrisoned by their own
necrosis and governed by officers sent by the con-
queror to rule over them.
The President's message announces that the com-
missioners and officers report that with 2,000,000
dole. in corn, the armies of Virginia and North
Carolina can be supplied for the remainder of the
year. The measures adopted to raise the re-
venue, though liberal, being clearly inadequate
to meet the arrears of debt and the current
expenditure, some degree of embarrassment
in the management of the finances must
continue to be felt. Men and supplies are
needed to carry on the war successfully. Both are
within the country sufficient to attain success.
Sacrifices are still needed in prompt and resolute
devotion, and men and money for the achievement
of independence.
President Davis urges the promptest legislation
for the replenishment of the Treasury and the modi-
fimition of the impressment law necessary for the
purchase of supplies.
He recommends Congress to devise measures for
melting corn within the Confederacy available for
supplying the army.
A steamer from Wilmington has reached Fayette-
ville, and announced that Sherman returning, met
a ganboattwenty miles below Fayettevilleasconding
the river. Johnston is reported to be concentrating
at Raleigh, where it is supposed that Sherman will
meet with his first serious resistance.
The Herald asserts that Sherman will move:front
Fayetteville on Goldsborough. Sherman's recent
casualties are estimated at 1,000 killed, wounded,
and miming, and that of the Confederates at 1,200
men.
Sherman has 3,000 prisoners and 4,000 white