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OFFICIAL.
,r,rov,RTtns Army or NoR1u.RS ViRorNIA,
February Is, 1865.

T neral Orders No. ,, Headquarters Armies Of
~ Confederate States having been this day Tromu-
'rtrd to this army, il is hereby announced that in
arcriancc with Its provisions, all enlisted men OF
THIS army who are improperly absent from their
comn,ands. except those guilty OF desertion 10,
arrested in the act Of deserting 10. the enemy,
who have deserted after having been once pardoncd
o. he saine offcnce or who shall hereafter desert
nr absent themselves without authority, who shall,
within twenty days from this date, voluntarily re.
~, their commands or deliver themselves to any
rrc.larlv-arpointcd enrolling officer, rrovost-mar-
ba or other officer duty to be forwarded 20 their
commands shall be entitled to, and receive the bcne
III Of the pardon promised by the General-,n-Chef
on the authority.ot the Prosidento OF the Confederate
States III the order above quoted.
H. General Order No. ;, Headquarters Armies of
III. Confederate States, applies Ia the enlisted men
undergoing sentence or trial, under charges or IN
trest for d.sertion absence without leave. with
the ,xc.p. IONS herinlStprc mentioned and all men
who, under this paragraph, are entitled to pardon
will be al once released from arrest and restored to
duty.
Il, command Of General II. f.. LEE.
w. II. TAYLOR,
fc 2I-eoa3w Assistant Ad)utsint-Uenciyd
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Her Blessed Majesty, the Queen, states
in her speech at the opening Of the Bril-
tish Parliament, February Sth, that she
"remains steadfastly neutral between
the contcnding parties" This is, of
course, the highest, as it is the latest,
exposition of British policy. 1t is not
alone the Queen personally that speaks,
but the Government, of which she is the
mere mouthpiece. We needed not this
new assurance of 4" steadfast neutrality"
nor do VIC see any motive for its "stead
fast" reiteration but profound solici-
tude to avoid the penalty for her " stead
fast" influence in promoting and in
keeping alive the war on this continent,
which it is possible Great Britain may
be called upon one daysto pay.
Among the many evidences Of pro-
found sagacity which Washington, the
greatest man that ever lived, gave to the
world. was his thorough and abiding
distrust Of the British Government It
may have suited the policy of those de-
magogues who assailed his Administra-
ton to represent him as sympathizer
with British institutions and ideas, but
there never was . more groundless ca
lumny. 1fhe reprobated the aggressions
OF France upon other States, and was
ready to draw his sword in defence OF
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SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 25, 1865.

The intense glorifcation Of the enemy
over the evacuation of Charleston is
what every one expected. How many
tons of powder they have expended in
salutes, how many church bells they
have cracked, how many summerscts
they have executed, we have no oppor-
tunity of ascertaining. The hot-bed of
the rebellion in their hands, the original
nest of vipcrs crushed, the imprcgnable
Sumter fallen! All these, in staring
capitals, We had seen in the minds eye
before they appeared in Federal journals,
and are by this time accustomed to the
contemplation. We can therefore en-
dure with philosophy the extravagant
jubilations of the Northern newspapers.
Nor are we without sources of consola-
ton and pride. Scbastopol became i'm.
mortal by holding out eleven months
against the combined powers of England
and France. Charleston held out four
years, and fell, at last, not by the supe-
rior strength of the enemy, but because
our own military blunders permitted him
to make strategic combinations which
rendered the evacuation of Charleston
inevitable.
The defenders of Charleston have lost
all but honor. Sumter, in its grim ruins,
is a monument of Southern valor and
endurance, which may we'll challenge the
admiration of mankind and of posterity.
The spirit that once tenanted those
crumbling walls has made every fragment
of them sacred and precious thing
That spirit still survives, and will create
a new Thermopyl;e At every spot where
Freedom unfurls its flag and bids def
ancc to the oppressor. Sumter will live
in history and in song, and so, indeed,
will thousand other battle-grounds
where the lofty courage and inextin-
guishable endurance of this great people
have wrestled with gigantic foe. Not
Greece, it it's noblest exhibitions of hero
ism and fortitude, surpassed this glorious
Southern people. General Sherman
might we'll say that there is no disgrace
in being overcome by such odds as have
been brought to bear against the feeble
means of resistance in his front. Nor
could that resistance have been over.
come, if the little army which faced his
overwhelming numbers had been al
ways guided by skill equal to it's valor
The world will proclaim that the rank
and file Of the South have, with rare cx-
ceptions, done their duty, and found
themselves the Romans of the age.
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was cast into chains and slavery, where
he died an ignominious natural death,
with his whole crew, leaving not ono to
tell the tale. Peace to his Ashes and
their'n.
"Sir, the discovery of this continent
was the greatest invention in b year
1892. Fernandez island was TIE step
ping-stone to the settlement of this coun-
try, the United States, North and South
America, Oregon and Asia, Hindoostsn
and Beloochistan, England and Turkey,
Franco and China, and many others too
numerous to mention. Behold these
countries, traversed by steamboats,, rail-
roads and telegraphs, and ask yourself
would these things have been, 4 it had
not been for Columbus; and your reply
would certainly be, Certainly not, sir
If it had not been for Columbus, Gene>
raj Washington would not have been a
man but suppose he had, what then
What did Washington ever do that was
great benefit to his country? There
is much said about his talents for war.
To be sure he performed several mas
terly retreats; but what is that an evil
dence Of? Sir, it is that he was cow
ard.
"'General Washington q coward?'
screamed one of the opposite orators, in
a voice of thunder. General Washing
ton coward? Who so base as dare say
it? Look at him at the battle of the
Nile; look at him at Waterloo, the Cow
pens, on the plains of Marathon, at the
Pyramids, at Stillman's defeat, at Bad
Age; and, Sir, look at him at the battle
of New Orleans!'
"Gencral Washington at the battle
of New Orleans interrupted another
debater, gesticulating violently. Mr..
Speaker, is there such an ignora-
mus in the house?' Sir, any school.
boy knows that the battle of New Orr
leans was fit before General Washington
was born. Let the gentleman read Plu-
tarch's lives, the lives of the Signers of
the Declaration Of Independence, or let
him read Arkwright's History of the
Black Hawk war, and he'll find that
General Henry Dodge fit the battle Of
New Orleans"
We trust Mr.. Charles Francis Adams
will accept the above as the only thing in
the way Of Washington-anniversary elo-
quence that we can now produce with
out violation of his patent.
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The leading Paris journals seem to
concur in the opinion that the close of
the contest in America will be the be-
ginning of another war upon the Monroe
Doctrine. Says the Patrie, in that sig
niicant article which appeared in our
issue of Thursday: "The day is not,
then, far distant when the whole of Eu-
rope ought to unite and turn all its pre-
occupations toward America. Solemn
hour-gigantic struggle-which will
bring the two continents face to face"
1t is obvious from the tone of the Paris
press that the French Government has
no intention of relinquishing, without a
struggle, its acquisitions in America.
1t may be supported in this determina-
ton by Austria, scion of whose royal
family wields the sceptre of Mexico; and
by Spain, whose magnificent Cuba colony
will be absorbed by the United States
as soon as that Government is permitted
to give the law to this continent. Eng
land, in view Of the perils of Canada
may become member of the same ALI
ance. Nothing less than such a comb
nation could prevent "the Monroe Doc
trine" from dominating America if the
Confederate Republic should withdraw
the only breakwatcr which now keeps
back the tide Of Northern aggression.
We have never been of those who
dccried the military and naval capaci-
ties of European nations, and held that
the American Eagle could easily pick up
all the Lions, and Bears, and Birds of
the Old World, and soar away with
them to parts unknown. Weknow that
in all the arts of both peace and war We
are far in the rear Of more than one
European Power. But in all that con-
stitutes good manhood, in pluck, perse~
verance and physical resources, there is
no deficiency on this continent. There
have been exhibited in this war, on both
sides, military qualities which Europe
has never surpassed; and, above all,
there is between the two continents an
ocean so wide that neither can invade the
other with any probability of inflictins
serious injury. In the event of war
upon the Monroe Doctrine, the European
Powers would be under the necessity Of
crossing the ocean to maintain their
claims. Louis Napoleon discovered in
the Crimean war the immense difficult
ties of transportation at such distance.
and frankly admitted the fact. The
combined Powers scarcely made an in
dcntation upon the rough bark of the
Russian oak, and would have been still
less successful if Russia had possessed
naval power and enterprise to harass the
fleets of her two enemies.
It is only in the success of the Con.
federate cause that the possessions Of
foreign Powers on this continent can be
made secure. We are fighting their
battles as well as our own, and they have
left us to fight those battles alone. We
shall owe them no obligations for victory
and independence.
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The late anniversary Of Washington's
birthday passed without any special OBJ
servance in this country. This is not to
be attributed to any decline in the popu.
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EOR SALE, an excellent six octave
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his own country against similar wrongs,
no one was more sensible Of the debt Of
gratitude which America owed to France
for her powerful aid in the Revolution,
and not Jefferson himself was less in
fiucnccd by English prepossessions.-
Lord Brougham, in his eloquent eulogium
Of the character of Washington, says:

"Towards England, whom he had only known as
atyrant, he never, in the worst times of French
turbulence at home, and injury to foreign States,
would unbend from the attitude of distrust and de-
nance into which the conduct of her sovereign and
his Parianent, not unsupported by her people, had
Nor was there ever, among all the complacent self
delusions with which the fond ancients of national
vanity are apt to intOxicate us, more utterly
fantastical than the notion wherewith the poiti-
clans Of George Ills school were wont to flatter
themselves and beguile their followers that simply
to the bravadoes Of the Republican1nvoy or to the
fierce democracy of Jefferson, he had, therefore,
become weary of republics, and friend to monar-
chy and to England. In truth, his devotion to
liberty, and his intimate persuasion thatit only
be enjoyed under the Republican scheme, constant
~ gained strength to the end of his truly glorious
life and his steady resolution to hold the balance
even between contending extremes at home, as well
AS to repel any advance from abroad incompatible
With perfect independence, was not more dictated
by the natural justice Of his disposition, and the
habitual sobrety Of his views, than it sprang from
profound conviction that commonwealth is most
effectually served by the commanding prudence
the peril that chiefly besets popular governments"
The insidious and malcvolent policy
by which England finally succeeded in
the disruption of the American Union,
and the " "steadfast neutrality" by which
she has helped each party to injure the
other in this war, demonstrate the pro-
found discernment, and justify the in
eradicable antipathies of Washington.
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ANA, No. 900

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FPAULETTES WANTED, gold and
~ silver; the highest price paid at Miss Sc
MONS Military Store, No. 90 Main street. Also
GOLD and SILVER FRINGE or TASSEL0.
fe 23-6tt
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WANTED, LEAD and PEWTER
w The highest price will be paid for LEAD
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was filled with desire to discover that
country which he so often saw in his
youthful dreams; actuatcd by this de-
sire, he petitioned the great Pontiicial
Pope of Rome to give him three yawls
and jolly boat to carry out his design.
That distinguished man at first refused,
but his wife, Cleopatra, being pleased
with the promising looks Of Mr.. Colum-
bus, and actuated with a magnanimity
which is q caricature of her sex, pre-.
vailed upon him to grant Columbus's re-
quest; whercupon, providing his vessels
with stores and men out of his own
pocket, Columbus got ready, and in a
certain year he set sail from the holy
sea Of Rome, and after . long and tenn.
pestuous trip, he set foot At last upon
the Plymouth Rock, on the island Of
Juan Fernandez. It was on that occa>
sion that he exclaimed: 'Breathes
there any man with soul 30 per-
fectly dead AZ never to himself has
said, this is my own, my native land 7
"Sir. Mr.. Columbus did not long sur.
vive the hardships Of that journey, and
was taken prisoner by tho king Of tho Can
non Ball islands, and with all his crew
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at this office. fe 2l-6ts
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The New Vice.Presidents

Special Dispatch to The N Y. Tribune
WARRINGTON, April l6, 1865
The Governors of several States are in town,
and large number of United States Senator's Senator
Foster OF Connecticut, now VicePresident, arrived
this morning He is pronounced by our ablest public
debaters thelmost accomplished Paramentarian in the
country.
A venerable Cabinet Minister, under q former Ad
ministration who has recently returned from abroad
says that the quiet and harmonious movements OF our
Republican form OF Government under our appalling
calamity, will be the greatest marvel among foreign
nations.
The Messrs. Blars have been indefatigabe in their
efforts to assist the Government in its hour OF sublime
trial. They have also the credit Of having done much
TO temper the overwhelming grief OF the Presidents
stricken household.
Mrs. Montgomery Blair has deicately extended to
Mrs. Lincoln earnest and feeling invitation to make
her private residence her home long as she may re
main in Washington.
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better AID the case Of his Frederick is regarded
|by his physicians TO be not altogether hopeless.
An autopsy was held at II o'clock ths morning OF th'
Presidents body by Surgeon.Gen. Barnes aided by
humber of assistants. On examination, the ball, which
las has been stated entered the back Of the head neal
the base of the brain, found to have taken diree
course toward the right eye the orbina bone OF wkc'
liz struck and rebounding lodged several inches ron
1.-The surface.
The ball was found TO have been fattened and re
|sembled in shape the canteen commonly carried oy 'n
soldiers The orfce in the back of the head is perfect
y round and the skull unfractured so close was TN
murderer when he fired the fatal shot. The orcula
piece of skull was taken from the head one and nal
Inches from the orifce.
The piece, together with the Deronger pistol lei
behind by the assassin and the bullet were duly seale'
land deposited in the War Department