The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-04-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.
THE AMEEsTY.

GFrem the Richmond Dispatch of the 18th.
What are the terms which Abraham Lin
coin offers He exempts from his amnesty
a host of the best citizens of the South in the
army and in civil life. To others he offers a
free pardon upon condition that they will take
an oath not only of allegiance to the United
States but of obedience to all the proelama-
tions of Abraham Lincoln, and to all the Abo-
lition deerees of his Black Republican Con-
gress. And these terms he offers not to ac-
knowledge rebels but to sovereign States not
to crushed rebellion but to powerful Gov
Eernment, which Ahasi1 1~thos-6s1a-eHaa afny 20
strong that, after calling for more than two
millions of men to crush it, and failing in the
effort, he is new calling for, half million
more in the same breath that he processes to
treat the Confederacy conquered people.
Is it not evident upon the mere statement
of the case that Lincoln's amnesty was>never
ez pected or designed by himself to have any.
other effect than irritation and insult to the
Southern people No one, however, knows
better than~AbEaham Lincoln, that any terms
he might offer Southern people which
contemp plate their restoration to his bloody
and brutal Government, would be rejected
with scorn and execration. If, instead of de-
voting to death our President and military
and civil officers, he had proposed to make
JEFF Davis his successor, Lee Commander-in-
Chief of the Yankee armies, and our domestic
institutions not only recognized at home but
re-adopted IN the Free States, provided the
South would once more enter the Yankee Un-
ion, there is not a man, woman child in the
Confederacy who world not spit upon the
proposition We desire no companionship
upon any terms with a nation of robbers and
murderers. The miscreants whose atrocities
in this war have caused the whole civilized
world to shudder, must keep henceforth their
dis stance They shall not be our masters, and
we would not have them for our slaves.
[From the Richmond Enquirer March 15.]
s'BIRDs OF FEATHER" LOCKED UP TO-
GETHER.
BY convenient and appropriate arrangements
the Libby Prison is now prepared to receive
aud accommodate special well as general
prisoners of war. Among the specialities
meritiDg mention at this time may be noticed
ten Yankee officers, some from negro regi-
ments, the others from the pitch and oakum
horde that. endeavorded to get into Richmond
some weeks ago, and four massachusetts &c vol
unteers" of African paternity, all of whom are
comfortably locked up in tho same room where
they have the continuous and uninterrupted
enjoyment of each others company. They
tsmess" together, bat as it is to be presumed,
they love one another with all tie devotion of
compatriots in the cause of equalizing the
nience from that circumstance.
The intelligence of the darkies is said to be
as brilliant as the characteristic niger of all
climes, and especially this one, usually is
One, upon being asked what had induced him
to .'voIunteer" in the Yankee army, respond
ed, "W'li, sar, you see got compressed. y
Their capacity for handling the hoe has not
been improved on in vain by their Yankee
mastt rs in favor of the musket. One of them,
t.I,o ofo r0ff he
throug h the manual with tolerahle precision.
In spite of his expertness, however, he said he
would 'truther had muffin tall to do wild it
Twas mighty nice to play wild but when two
un en- got at it, den dar niger don't stand no
chance"
A GRAND RECEPTION.
[From the Richmond Enquirer, March 16.l
Richmond opened wide her arms yerterday.
For hours the hills at Rockets bloomed with
beauty, and the str ,ets about the Navy Yard
were alive with throngs of pleased, expectant,
joyous-hearted people. The glittering musk
cts of battalion, shone in their midst, and
the music of band added to tho attractions of
the scene. At halfpast one o'clock, two stea-
mers loaded with Confederate soldiers just re-
leased from Northern prisons, after ten months
of cruel captivity, appeared, coming slowly to-
ward the wharf. Cheers from the shore and
cheers from the boats arose. As the boats
touched the wharf, the prison-worn "heroes of
many fight" were seized upon by thousand
aides or more, and welcomed with Virginia
warmth and Fomanly enthusiasm.
The military presented arms the band did
its best; the people cheered. Everybody did
something, or said or shouted something that
evinced overhowing, irrepressible, indefnable
gladness The prisoners were then escorted
up town. The march was a triumph. They
stopped in Capitol Square and were addressed
fIcm the monument by the President, the
Governor, by the gallant j. Lucius Davis, iwbo
was ;sone of them," and by Captain Hatch of
the Exchange Bureau. Five thousand per-
sons were present. More cheering, music and
welcome Edbles and drinkables were circu-
lated. The Marseillaisa by the band, and the
"prisoners'' were escorted, amid showers of
smile and hurrahs, TO camp, on the Western
suburbs. Our report in detail is crowded out
until tomorrow.
WAR ITEMS.
The Atlanta Con fedcYacy learns from scouts
and citizens Immediately from the Federal
lines, that the enemies strength at Ring
gold and Chattanooga is under 10000 effec-
tive men.
The Mobile Register gives satisfactory ac-
count of the "situation." The shelling of
Fort Powell by the feet on the Sd inst, had
little effect. The fort is stronger than on the
first days attack, and the garrison in the f.
nest spirits.
A correspondent from the 'front.' near Jack
sonville, Florida, writing on the 9th to the
Savannah Republican, says they are daily ex-
pecting an engagement. The enemy have
been driven inside the Three Mile Branch
They occupy from there to Jacksonville. Their
forces variously estimated at 5000 to 25,-
600. Gp. Gilmore is in command
1t is reported that on last Friday morning
Mosby attacked the Yankees near Charles
town, Va. killed Major, three Captains and
and number of privates, besides capturing
twenty five prisoners, with their horses and
equipn ehts. Our loss, none.
Three prisoners were brought down on the