Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-12-11

PEACE PRoPoSIIIoNS.-I The Washington
correspondent of the New York Tribune profess
ses to give the particulars Of informal propo-
sitions, made by the Rebel leaders with a
view TO peace. He says that the movement of
our vast armies, the near approach of the LIST
of January, and the panic and WEAKNESS of
the Southern people have fairly compelled the
foremost Rebel leaders TO offer to come back
to the Union, providsd the Government iciN
ollo,1 them to do so and resume their old mas
teJy in he couasel8 Of the reunited nation ];
that he has Just learned through what sources
Fernando Wood received his communications,
and what the precise state of the case is be-
tween the Confederate and Union authorities.
He then proceeds to give the particulars in
full, wherein one DIR. Barney, of Baltimore,
figures as the messenger between the rebels
and the Woods and other northern democratic
leaders Of note; that DIR. Barney has had an
interview with both the President and Secreta
ry Seward since he came north, and according
to his own story, these offcia declined to con-
slider the matter in the shape in which he pre-
sented 1t to them that he has since that time
visited New York for the purpose of seeing and
oonversing with John Van Buren,, the Woods,
| and Gov. Seymour; that the plan now is to
| bring the matter before the country at as early
a period as possible, so as to create a public
! feeling in favor Of the amnesty asked for by
! the Rebel leaders. 1t must be understood that
! this whole matter has been engineered from
! Richmond, and there is reason for believing
/ that the recent proposal for an armistce by the
| Emperor Napoleon has a relation to this Rebel
scheme, and was timed to act with il so as to
affect Northern sentiment, and force the Presi-
dent into The Obey laid out beforehand 10y
! jeff. Davis and his advisers. What they ask
Is the granting of an amnesty TO all the militia
Try and civil leade S Ut the rebellion SO that an
election for Members Of Congress can De made
during the coming Winter, and that body be
called together at least as early as April
| WITH the heavy Democratic gains in the late
| elections, the Southerners see that they could
eentrol both the Sena.e and House, and set
l!ement, in which they will have controlling
voice, In the next Congress, they are vii ing
to abide by.
The matter, the correspondent further aays,
has come to the knowledge Of the leading Re
publcans at Washington, who agree in believ-
ing that the Rebels have really 40 wish to come
back; that their object in this shrewd manou-
vre Is to divide the sentiment of the North
and embarrass the action of the Admnistra-
ton. They think it would be a plausible sto-
ry to come before the country that the South
really wishes to come back, and merely ask:
for suspension of hostlities, and an amnesty
to allow it to hold an election for members o
Congress, the real effect of which would be tc
save them from the Emancipation Proclana,
ton, and the havoc our armies will soon Great,
in the Slaveholding States.
A Il this, and much more to the same pnr
pose, this correspondent afirms upon "the mos
reliable authority" We give the report fo
what it may be worth