Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-02-04


change to day, and slight Improvement il
prices.
There was little demand for stock
generally. Governments frmer, with
fair business.
State bonds quiet and firm.
Coal and miscellaneous list steady, ant
without marked change.
Gold market opened at 2O5 and remain
ed steady during the forenoon. It rslliec
this afternoon owing to the absence of re
liable news from the peace Commissioners
There is large stock interest which as
sists upward turns.
Money continued easy with downward
tendency.
Foreign exchange in greater demand
PETROLEUM STOCKS.
Petroleum stocks firm to-day Sales Of
Excelsior at 1872; Germania 81; Cherry
Run 90; Rynd Farm 400; United States
2725; Buchanan Farm 200; Webster IT'S;
Mckinley 900; Tack 865.
Petroleum is dull and heavy at 45@46
for crude, 65966 for refined in bond, and
s5@S6 for tree.
1--rEHCE MATTERS.
The Herald expresses the belief that JEFF.
Davis is very near submission, and has no
doubt that peace is near.
The Tribune claims to know that this
peace movement originated in an earnest
anxious desire for peace, on a basis just in
in itself ard honorable to all concerned,
and has no doubt it is prosecuted in kin
dred spirit.
FROM RICHMOND PAPERS.
The Enquirer in an article on peace,
says:
We should try and possess our souls with
equanimity until the worthy gents who
have gone to Washington return to Rich
mond. We are not of those who believe
that pesee talk and peace missions tend
to demoralize the army. We do not be-
lieve that the gallant soldiers who have
braved the storms of battle for four years
are likely to be demOralized by peace talk,
but on the contrary think they do
much good, for our people to understand
in an authoritative manner from men like
Vice-President Stephens, Senator Hunter
and Judge Campbell the exact degree of
degradation to which the enemy would re-
duce US by reconstruction. We believe
the so called mission from these gentlemen
will teach our people that the terms of the
enemy are nothing less than unconditional
surrender. We had better go down fight
ing, better be subjugated and conquered,
than live to recollect that we brought ruin
on our own heads by the deception of re-
construction These missions should en-
courage our people to renewed effort and
nerve them to future conflict
They show us that we have brought the
enemy to consider peace, which at no pre-
vious time during the last four years would
he even stop to talk about. Heretofore his
language has been, No parley with rebel
lion, no terms with traitors. But now he
sends one, two, and three ministers, and
has consented to permit Mr.. Stephens and
others to go to Washington, whom three
years ago he backed at Fort Monroe. There
is great change and considerable improve
ment in the manners of the enemy, although
our reverses. He has learned enough to
make him polite and decorous. Let peace
talk exhaust itself, and we shall be none
the worse off if we suffer not our efforts to
flag and our spirits to fail.
The WHig has a similar article. II
thinks a compromise possible, but not
probable. In the North peace means re-
construction and reunion, and under the
impression of its approach gold falls. In
the South peace means separation and in
dependence, at least that is the general if
not the universal meaning. The fact that
the peace rumors coincide with the fall
of gold, shows that the Southern opinion
on the subject, is the precise autethesis of
the Northern opinion. Until the two opin-
ions begin to loose their antagonism and
tend toward common signifcancy nego-
tistions must inevitably fail.
STOCKS.
At GsIlsgher's Stock Exchange Gold
2O9.
New York Central 1861; Erie III; Read
ing IO4g; Michigan Southern -; Illinois
Central -: Pittsburgh 70; Rock Island
9lB; North Western 836 do preferred
627i Fort Wayne 913; Ohio Certificates
-; Cumberland A.
Stocks dull
Gold strong, and sold at 21O, closing at
2O9B.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.
PRISONERS ARRIVED.
The rebel officers captured by General
Sherman have arrivsd here from Savannah.
Among them are General G. P. Hamilton
and large number of eolonels, majors, cap
tains, lieutenants and several naval officers,
all of whom have been committed to the
old Capitol Prison.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 3.
RATIFICATION.
Both branches of the Legislature to-day
adopted bill rstifying the Constitutions
amendment abOlishing slavery.