The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-24 00:00:00

States' Armies.

" GENERAL LEE TO GENERAL GRANT.
"April 7.
" General,—l have received your note of this date.
Though not entirely of the opinion you express of
the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of
the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your
desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and there-
fore, before considering your proposition, ask the
terms you will offer on condition of its surrender.

" R. E. LEE, General.
" To Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, Commander
of the Armies of the United States."

" GENERAL GRANT TO GENERAL LEE.
" April 8.

" General,—Your note of last evening, in reply to
mine of same date, asking the conditions on which I
will accept the surrender of the Army of Northern
Virginia, is just received. In reply, I would say
that, peace being my first desire, there is but one
condition that I must insist upon—viz., that the men
surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms
against the Government of the United States until
properly exchanged. I will meet you, or designate
officers to meet any officers you may name, for the
same purpose at any point agreeable to you for the
purpose of arranging definitely the terms on which
the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia will
be received.

" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General Commanding
Armies of the United States.

" General R. E. Lee, Commanding Confederate
States' Armies."

" GENERAL LEE TO GENERAL GRANT.
" April 8.

" General,—l received at a late hour your note of
to-day, in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not
intend to propose the surrender of the Army of
Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your pro-
position. To be frank, Ido not think the emer-
gency has arisen to call for the surrender ; but as the
restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I
desire to know whether your proposal would tend to
that ; and I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view
to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as
far as your proposition may affect the Confederate
States' forces under my command, and lead to the
restoration of peace, I should be pleased to meet you
at 10 a.m. to-morrow on the old stage-road to Rich-
mond between the picket line of the two armies.
" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" R. E. LEE, General Confederate States' Army.
" To Lieutenant-General Grant, Commanding
Armies of the United States."

" GENERAL GRANT TO GENERAL TARE.

" April 9.

" General,—Your note of yesterday is received•
As I have no authority to treat on the subject of
peace, the meeting proposed for 10 a.m. to-day could
lead to no good. I will state, however, General,
that I am really anxious for peace with yourself, and
the whole North entertain the same feeling. The
terms upon which peace can be had are well under-
stood. By the South laying down their arms they
will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands
of human lives and hundreds of millions of property
not yet destroyed. Sincerely hoping that all our
difficulties may be settled without the loss of another
life, I subscribe myself,
" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General United
States' Armies.
" General R. E. Lee, Commanding Confederate
States' Armies."

" GENERAL LEE TO GENERAL GRANT.
"April 9.

" General,—l received your note of this morning
on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you,
and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced
in your proposition of yesterday with reference to
the surrender of this army. I now request an inter-
view, in accordance with the offer contained in your
letter of yesterday for that purpose.
" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

" R. E. LEE, General.
" To Lieutenant-General Grant. Commanding
United States' Armies."

64 GENERAL GRANT TO GENERAL LEE.
"April 9.

" General R. E. Lee, Commanding Confederate
State Armies,—Your note of this day is but this
moment 11 50 a.m. received, in consequence of my
having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburg-
road to the Farmville and Lynchburg-road, and am
at this writing aboutfour miles off Watter's Church,
and will push forward to the front for the purpose
of meeting you. Notice sent to me on the road
where you wish the interview to takeplace will reach
me.—Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General."

THE TERMS.

" Appomattox Court-house, April 9.

" General R.E. Lee, Commanding Confederate
States' Armies,—ln accordance with the substance
of my letter to you of the Bth inst., I propose to
receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia on the following terms :—Together with rolls
of all the officers and men, to be made in duplicate
one copy to be given to an officer designated by me,
the other to be retained by such officers as you may
designate, the officers to give their individual paroles
not to take arms against the United States until
properly exchanged, and each company or regimen-
tal commander to sign a like parole for the men of
their commands. The arms, artillery, and public
property to be packed and stacked, and turned over
to the officers appointed by me to receive them.
This will not embrace the side arms of the officers,
nor their private horses or baggage. This done,
each officer and man will be allowed to return to
their homes, not to be disturbed by United States'
authority so long as they observe their parole and
the laws in force where they may reside.—Very
respectfully,

" U. S. GRANT, Lieut.-General Commanding."

THE SURRENDER. •
"Head-quarters, Army of Northern Virginia,
April 9, 1865.
" General, ---I have received your letter of this
day, containing the terms of surrender of the Army
of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they
are substantially the same as those expressed in your

The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
has caused great rejoicing throughout the country.
Yesterday the Government employes in Washington
were released from duty and paraded the streets.
They called upon Mr. Lincoln for a speech, which
he declined to make then, but promised them one
to-day, when he expected a formal demonstration
would be made. They were, however, addressed by
Gen. Butler, who argued that after the South should
be conquered her military leaders ought to be hanged,
her legislators deprived of the rights of citizenship,
her misguided soldiers in the ranks paraded, and her
blacks raised to equality with the whites in every
respect. He was applauded. Last night there were
illuminations in Washington, Baltimore, and other
cities.

A number of the leading citizens of New York
have addressed the President, asking him to appoint
a day for national thanksgiving.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, who
has recently made a tour of observation through the
Confederate trans-Mississippi department, reports
the effective military force at 53,000 disciplined
troops, plentifully supplied with provisions, clothing,
arms, and ammunition. General Kirby Smith is in
chief „-:nmand.

Mr. Lincoln to-day issued a proclamation declaring
that all Southern ports, t.oopting Alexandria, and
Norfolk in Virginia, Beaufort in North Carolina,
Port Royal in South Carolina, Pensacola and Fer-
nandina in Florida, and New Orleans in Louisiana,
will remain closed to commerce until hereafter
opened by his special order. •

The condition of Mr. Seward's health was considered
less favourable yesterday, symptoms of erysipelas
being observed by his physicians.
Both Houses of the Federal Legislature of Ten-
nessee have ratified the constitutional abolition of
slavery.

The Vermont raiders were brought before the
Toronto Court yesterday. All but Capt. Bennett
Young, who was committed for trial, were dis-
charged.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Gold has varied to-day between 1451 and 1472,
closing 1462.
Exchange, 109, for gold.
United States' Sixes, 1881, Coupons, 1082 ; Five-
Twenties, Coupons, 1082 ; New York Central, 100;
Erie, 69 ; Illinois Centrals, 104.
Cotton,3sc. Breadstuffs and provisions improved.
Sugars and coffee firm and quiet.

APRIL 13.
The siege of the eastern defences of Mobile con-
tinued on the 3d. Fort Spanish is reported com-
pletely surrounded by the Federal batteries, and the
ferocity of the fighting to have beenunequalledsince
the siege of Vicksburg. On. the 31st ult. the Federals
lost 420 men on planting a battery to prevent com-
munication between the port and Mobile by water.
Three Federal ironclads have been destroyed by
torpedoes sent adrift from the city.
A general assault is expected on the 4th.

General Granger, at Huntsville, Alabama, has
forwarded to General Thomas, at Nashville, a non-
official statement that General Wilson captured
Selma on the 2d inst., together with the entire com-
mand of Generals Forrest and Roddy. He also
reports the capture of Montgomery.

Mr. Stanton announces that a Federal scouting
party took possession of Lynchburg on the 11th.
Non-official advices from Goldsborough of the
10th state that General Johnston's army was still
in the vicinity of Smithfield.

Mr. Lincoln has added Key West to the number
of ports at which commerce will be permitted.
On Thursday he issued a second Proclamation, to
the effect that hereafter foreign war vessels will re-
ceive in the Federal ports only such privileges as
are conceded to Federal vessels in foreign ports.
He considers that whatever claims and pretences
may have existed for refusing full maritime rights
to Federal war vessels, the United States are now
entitled to claim and receive an entire and friendly
equality of rights and hospitalities with all mari-
time nations.

On Tuesday evening he made his promised speech
to the citizens of Washington, which he devoted
almost exclusively to advocating his one-tenth plan
of reconstruction, as acted upon by Louisiana. He
considered it the best that had yet been suggested,
and urged that it be adopted by all the other seceded
States as they desire to return to the Union. The
speech has caused much disappointment, both in the
Republican and Democratic parties.

Mr. Seward is better, and almost, if not quite,
out of danger.

On Tuesday the employes in the Brooklyn Navy-
yard suspended work in consequence of a reduction
by the Government of 50c. per diem on their wages.
General Grant has rescinded his order of the 10th
ult., prohibiting trade within the States of Virginia,
North and South Carolina. and Georgia.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Gold, 1461. Exchange, 109, in gold-T.
Sixes, 1881, Coupons, 1081 ; Five-Twenty Cou-
pons, 107 ; Ten-Forty, 931! New York Central,
1011 ; Erie, 681; Illinois Central, 1131.
Cotton, 33c. Breadstuffs and provisions fin.
proved. Sugars and coffees in good demand.