Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-01-31
LATE FROM TIE SoUTH.
REBEL yIEw OF PEACE RUHoRs
THE COEFEDERATEs ADMIT THAT TBB
BALANCE OF EXCHANGE ON PRISON
" KRIS IL AGAINST THEM SINCE
THE sUkRkNDHR AT Ar
KANSAS POST
SENATOR FOOTE'S PEACE PROPOSITIONS.

The Richmond Rzdniner OF tn. 9th thins.
the peace rumore from the North don't am ,unt
70 much. %
Ihe Esdmiaer goes on TO say:-Thc PraS,dent
pays no attention TO uiCm, his mind, accori ng
10 the Sanders dispatches, being absorbed in
chorts to repair the disasters to the Keatusky
campaign by "new combina,ious' and old
Generals But Jerusalem swallows them All
happily, the people have a number of solid
iacts TO steady them, and arc in Ro DANCER of
being carried away by the whirl wind of fiction
Ihey know that several thousand prisoners
have been taken at Arkansas Post and infer
that the Pre- ssident will have TO resort to . new
combinations" in the matter of rrtslation f,r
the epenly have more OF our officers th,n 20
have OF theirs. The fail OF Arkansas pestlaaves
Little hock open to McClernand The, InSs Of
me Sialr tapltai may ROUSE Gen raj Holmes
from MS stupor, bat II remains to ue seen nv
nat strategy hc will bring together uindman
Rains and Parsons, and thus prevent them frurn
being cut OFF in detail
In Tennessee Bragg, with An oyeruork,d
army, Is confronting Rosecrans, who l. heing
reinforced with all the recruits from the cams
OF instruction i'm Illinois, Indiana, aud ONO,
report l. abroad that Gen. Johnston has ra
TUNED 10 Guilaboma, and taken corp mand n,
person OF Brafg's army. We trus; the renort
m;y be true, but even Johnston will nred All
MI skill 10 cope with the enormous columns of
hosecrans, unl' IS his command Is strength
'nrd. The telegraph this morning b.iugs as
tidings OF formidable movements in No-tb
Carolina, and the enemy claims 10 have
crossed the Rapp6hanBock preparatory 70
anoth' hattie AZ Fredericksburg
These facts show that the sensa1ionists from
Washington and Baltimore, when they tell ms
Si peace within ninety days, are hat SO many
GulilNers and MunchauSpns, who would he
kicked back TO Washineto ton by any Govern
mtht Iess eulllble than our own. The Yankee
army now In the field is very large. 1t will be
mace 10 fight When ii is W hipprd, and we'll
whipped then, and not till then, we NAV me-
gin 10 thnk OF the possibility OF peace.
REBEL PEACE PROPOSITIONS.
IN he kefeI Sena'e. Mr.. Foote had offered a
f'res OF resolutions setting forth the terms
upon which the "Confederate States, will ne
eo;late for peace. we extract two or three
specimen propositions:
z. "While the Confederate States of America
are lot al all responsible for the existing war
and have been at all times ready to participate
In such arrilngements as wonld b. best suissi
10 hilng II 10 close, in a manner consistent
with their own SAFETY and honor, they could
not yield their consent to an drmiStirc of single
cav or hour. so long as the incendiary procfa-
nation OF the atrocious monster now bearing
ruleln washington city shall remain unre voked:
Tor could the Government Of said CJafedprate
States agree 10 negotiate at ali in regard 10 n
suspension of hostihties, except upon the bysis
OF formal ard unconditional recognition of
their independence.
3. "Whenever the friends of peaca in the
North shall grow strong enough h to constrain
Abraham Lincoln and his nagitious Callupttn
Sdlu proclamation. and prGpOSa
aTmisuce upon the basis aforesaid, the Govern
ment Of the Confederate States will be ready
10 accede TO said proposition OF armisticr with
a view TO the settlement OF all existing diffi-
cults. .... ,..=.
4. .'Should peace be at any time brought
about, the Comic dc rate States of America would
freely consent to the forma ton of a lust and
mutually advantageous COMMERCIAL treaty
w ith all the States now constituting the United
States, except New England-whos. people
apd I q in whose ignobie love Of gold apd brutify-
people OF the Coniede States of America are
1irmly and deliberately resolved 10 have no in
tercOuTse whatever hereafter, either direct or
indirec', political, commercial, or social, under
;rnS circumstances which could b. possibly
magined 10 exist, with said States of New Eng
lard or the people therPiu resident.
5. The Government of the Confederate States,
In consideration of the change in public senti-
ment which has occurred in several of the
Northern States, wherein political elections
have beon recently held-sympathiZing most
kindly with these by whose manly exertions
that change has been brought about-would be
willing 10 conclude just and honorable peace
with any one or more OF said States who ire
nouncing all political connection with New
Eneland) may be found willing TO stipnlate for
desistipg at on CO from the further prosecution
of the war against the South, and ia such case
the Government of the Confederate States
would be willing 70 enter into league, offensive
ard defensive, with the States TINS desistipg,
of permanent and enduring character.