The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-23
Rebe1 Mnnufactured victories.

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HOW THE MISSISSIPPI REBELs LIED WHEN
THEREBELLIoE's LAST MOMENTS CANE.
LFrom the Jackson miss Free Trader. SAy2.J
DIR. Il. J. Holmes, of Spring Ridge, in
this county, reached our city last evening
from the immediate vicinity of Columbus,
Ga, leaving there on the 18th ultimo, and
brin ging Us Columbus papers of the 18th,
the last papers published in the city previ-
Gus to its fall. No mention is made in
th6m of Lees surrender. His loss st Rich
mond aud Petersburg is put down st 90
600. The doctor says Lees surrender was
not heard of until he reached Selma, and he
is decidedly of the opinion that that i'm
portant fact will be nel0s to Lee himself
when he does hear Of it. He represents
the general feeling of the people where he
has been as eminently sound, and that the
raiHs have only tended further TO excite
their indignation and intensity their ami
mostly and determination TO fight it out.
He reports Lee as having obtained q great
victory over Grant about the time OF the
reported surrender, and OfhAving reinforc-
ed Johnston, who attacked and nearly an
initiated Sherman, killing, %wOunding and
capturing 28, 900 men. Lee was heard from
a. late a. the 18th, in official communica-
ton with the President and WAS in good
condition These reports are confirmed In
nearly every particular, by several psssen-
gers on the eastern train from the Caro-
linss and Virginia, who arrived here last
evening.
The following is said TO be the official
dispatch to General Taylor st Meridian, on
which was predicsted she dispatch to Cen
Tucker, at this place, relative to the ar
mistice;"
alt is officially reported that Generals
Lee and Johnston whipped General Grant
in two successive engagements. Grant has
lost one hundred thousand A truce WAS
then agreed upon to try and arrange diff
culties.
"This came from General Beauregsrd
st Greensboro, North Carolina via Angus
ia, Macon and Columbus, to Gen. Cobb,
telling him to stop the Wilson raiders. A
muzssEuv-bhut ufrsCT rum SbosaAAA=US
on its way TO Wilson. Forty-eight hours
notice is to be given in case hOstilities are
resumed"
GENERAL z NOT C~APITULATED.
From the DemOpOlis [AlA.) Herald, April Isl
By a gentleman who arrived here yes
terdsy evening, we learn that the cspitu-
lstion of General Lee, said to have occurred
on tho 9Th, and the manufactured address
of General Lee to his troops on the 10th,
is false. That up 70 the 18Th nosLcb thing
had occurred. It is said, however, that
General Lees rear guard, comprising about
seven thousand men, had surrendered, but
General Lse was rot in the rear guard.
THE HERALD ? JoYl-PEACE THE END IL
GRANTLosEs loo, 600 MEN.
IFrom the Herald Of the 25th.l
We are glad to be able to greet our read
ers with the glorious intelligence that a
general armistice has been agre edupOn be-
tween Gen. Lee and Gen. Grant for the
final settlement of the controversy between
the United States and the Confederate
States; that the interview was solicited at
the instance of Gen. Grant. The imme-
diste cause for asking fot the srmistice has
arisen from the fact that Gen. Grant had
lost one hundred thousand men from de-
=%ertion, consequent upon the death Of Ian
coin.
Ibis glorious intelligence was telegraph
! ed by Gen. Besuregsrd to Gen. Howell
Cobb, of Georgia, and by him to Gen. Dick
Taylor. There is no doubt OF the above
being the fact, for q gentleman of I'M
doubted veracity informs us that the tale
gram undoubtedly wen through the De-
mopolis Office last night
General Cobb also telegrsphed to Gen.
Wilson, the raider 10 this section, that such
is the fact in regard to the srmistice, and
that he would soon be officially informed
of it. He had therefore, requested Gen.
Wilsonto abstain frLm any further hostili-
ties till so informed. Our heart is full to
over1owing a. the glorious prospect now
dawHing for the Independence OF the South.
Where will be the long faces now ? Where
the cater wauls continually ssssiling those
who have held fast to the faith that
Independence and liberty would be the
final inestimable boon Of their country 2
We envy not them their feelings. WHAT
becomes OF that address of General Lee TO
his troops upon capitulAting, and which so
many so greedily swallowed Our read
ers will notice that it bears the stamp of
forgery upon its face. 1t is Headquarters
49, EEE SSASFAAaAEoo Is boO
exact s man to make such a mistake. and
it should be Headquarters Armies Of the
Confederate States" But enough. The
tale IS told. THE dol0nfaH Of Lincoln ends
the S0GT.
CONFEDERATE MONEY.
If the result of this Htruce " should be
the Independence of the Confederscy, there
is no man who can or will deny that Con-
federste notes will grestly enhance in
value, and finally command coin at but a
small discount, if not at par. On the
other hand, if we should surrender sll and
lose our nationality, let it not be forgotten
that the individual States of the South, in
solemn convention and by legislative en-
actments. became the endOrsers of the Con-
fsderacy, and are pledged to the redemp-
ton Of the Confederate issue or notes.
Why should the people, then, be afraid to
take their own money
John Mitchell