Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-01-19

The Richmond Sentinel of the 10th says
Reliable scouts just in from the interior and
| rear OF Grants lines, says the Petersburg Ex-
press of the 18th instant, reports com plete mac
| uvity on the part of the enemy SO far as any
military movement is concerned. The enemy
| is completely mud bound, and in this condi-
| tion is calmly awaiting the issue of movements
| elsewhere. One thing is, however, very ap-
parent in the enemy camp-the incessant drill
| ling Of the troops. The white and biack SOL
! diers, but particularly the latter, are put
| through the rigid discipline of the manual. In
| this respect we think our own officers might
| be taught lesson.
From the Charleston Mercury, JAM 121
The condition OF this military department,
| as embraced within the limits of Georgia and
| South Carolina is anything but satisfactory to
| any man who Is aware OF facts, and has ca
| pacity to understand their bearing. We pre-
| sumo there is no one in this department to
whom the condition Of our present military or
ganiZation is less satisfactory than to the gen.
| eral commanding. Probably there is no one so
| thoroughly aware OF the lamentable disorgan.
ization that prevails in certain corps and sec
! tions OF his command. Yet it would scarcely
| be fair to hold him responsible for this con-
| dition OF things. His department has been
| newly turned INTO his hands, and many of the
| troops are new to him and to this department
They came TO him under the command of i'm
| beetles; he has received them, herd of strag-
| glers and outlaws. What has been done to
| eradicate this fatal evil we shall not stop TO
inquire. The time has been short to do IN uch,
and the forces have been much scattered. But
| the very last moments are arriving when all
IL us pc tddL lS " DC UOu6, Wueu all lust
| be done that can be done The enemy does not
intend TO wait upon eur leisure. And there is
much 10 do.
Northern copperheads and foreign secesh
| sympathizers, who have been wont to contrast
jeff. Davis and President Lincoln unfavorably
to the lat ter, will find an unpleasant morsel in
the following extract from one of the ablest
papers in the Confederacy:
From the Charleston Mercury, jan 1Ol
When Abraham Lincoln took the chair of the
Presidency OF the United States, he promised
in his Aat-boat lingo TO 'srun the machine as he
found it." Whether he has strictly kept his
promise, those may doubt who choose to con-
slider the subject. II is enough for us to know
that, whether "running his machine" in the
pathway OF his prede ecessors, or not, he has run
it with a stern, inflexible purpose, q bold,
steady hand, a vigilant, active eye, a sleepIess
energy, fanatic spirit, and an eye single to
his end-conquest-eman He has
called around him, in counsel, the ablest and
most earnest men of his country. Where he
has lacked IN Individual ability, learning, ex-
perience and craftsmanship, he has sought 1t,
and found it in the able men about him, whose
assistance he unhesitatingly accepts. whose
powers he applies to the advancement OF the
cause he has undertaken. In the Cabinet and
in the field he has consistently and fearlessly
pressed on the search for men who could ad-
vance his cause, and has unhesitatingly cut off
all those who clogged it with weakness, timid-
ity, imbecility or failure. Force, energy,
brains. earnestness. he has collected around
him in every department. Blackgaard and
| buffoon as he is, he has pursued his end with
an energy as untiring as 1t is Indian, and
singleness OF purpose that might almost be
called patriotic. II he were not an unscrupu-
lous knave in his end, and fanatic in his po.
litical views, he would undoubtedly command
eur respect as a ruler, so far as we are con-
ceyned Abroad and at home, he has exercised
alike the same ceaseless energy and ciTcum.
spection.
We turn oar eyes to Richmond, and Ihe contrast
is appalling, shocking to he heart.
South Carolina Troops frem Lees Army.
fha Vol 10 nlinio I
As we pen these lines, glad shouts, ringing
louder and louder in the night air, greet our
ear. They come from the hearts of our own
gallant sons, led by a South Carolinian, who
has, with his sword, engraved his name upon
the tablets of fame: they come from the veter-
ans of hundred fields, now for the first time
upon TO battle for liberty on the soil OF their
own beloved State. The record they have
won in other States presages what they will
do in the defence OF their mother. We bid
them, and we know with us, the entire State
will hid them We leone home.
From the Richmond Enquirer, of Jan. 16l
Ii is believed that Blair returned with the
simple assurance that this Government has at
all times been ready and willing to send or
receive commissioners to treat upon terms of
peace-nothing more. 1t is said that upon this
assurance Blair bases the hope that the Lincoln
ne urpatlon will accede to the appointment OF
snch commission, and that confab on the
subject of peace will formally take place, but
that there will be no cessation Of hostilites in
From the Richmond Examiner, OF the 18th.]
Blair went away on Saturday, carrying q
clip of paper, on which it was written that
Davis 'tods tcillin." He is replaced in the esti.
nation OF the gobemouches by the Hon. Mr..
Singleton, &c.
The city article in the Examiner, of same
date, says:
The rnnnofs concerning the nature of the
paper negotiations old Blair carries back with
him are very numerous, but we are confidently
assured that the mission has brought the peace
Question to q point that provides for the ap.
pointment of Commissioners from either side,
with authority to lay peace foundation.
That's oil. -
MT, Blair sought an interview with the Pres.
ident ostensibly for the purpose OF procuring
certain captured documents, and broached the
subject Of peace, but admitted that he had NO
authority to negotiate on the subject. The
answer OF the President is said to have been
that the Confederate Government was now, as
1t had always been, ready to receive properly
authorized commissioners from the United
States, or to send commissioners to that Gov.
eminent to negotiate q settlement Of the diff.
cultiee now existing. r-. 8.