Washington telegraph., 1865-05-17
From souTHRRN PAPEgs.

ne SlrETppOrt news saws fnHt LDl.
Sprarue and Major Bundv. Federal COM
missioncrs 10 ask the surrender of the
Department. arrived at Shreveport on
the night Of tie Sth inst.
The New Orleans Pieayune. of the
27th says: Msj j.-Gen Candy has gone to
Mobile for the purpose OF receiving the
surrender Of Lieut. Gen. Taylor and his
army, which has been definitely agreed
on, 10 ID mace on the same terms which
were granted in the case Of Ge2. Lee
C1his can scarcely be true:)
The Houston Telegraph says. 1t is
reported that force Of 1860 Yankees
has landed on the main land thirty miles
from Brownsville. Tt IS also reported
that Cortiua, who has ''pron1unced'
against the Empire, i rnagshing "a Nat
amor.s. 1t il telieYed that the Yankees
and Cortina are moving in concert and
that breach win be provoked which
will serve as al excuse to the yankees
to march force upsn Mexican soil, to
be made the entering wedge for the en-
forcement Of the Monroe doctrine. Ill
these things mayseem Of little comparative
importance but they may within few
months assume magnitude second only
to the killing of Lincoln and the surren-
der of Lee The Monros doctrine, iavi-
ted By Cortina. and sought under orders
Of Lew Wallace, may BE- the excuse for
European alliance with the Confederacy
Who knowsl Who knows to the con
traryl .." l Nv a4aHl.--
Washington, April 30.-Ths Sunday
Chronicle Of to-day has the following
important Intelligence :.- o-a~tt, 7r-. ~
The Lieut.. q eneral reached Washing
ton yesterday morning. having left the
front Of the army before ,Ealoigh. on the
9th inst, after complying with the d.
rection of the President Of the United
States, IL countermandipg the negotia-
tions between Sherman and Johnston
We are gratified 10 announce that Gen,
Grant j. in the best Of spirits, aud re-
ports that the orders of the Government
were obeyed with alacrity hy Gen Sher-
man, and carried into effect, under his
direction, by his corps comu anders. -
There was not the slightest whisper Of
insu5ordiuation in any quarter The
spirit with which the orders of General
Grant were obeyed By Gen Sherman,
proves himself to be, a. he has always
shown himself TO be, true soldier, and
reflects the highest credit upon his well
tried patriotism. r7'7.l- ' aaaf-
One Of the beneficial and desirable re-
suits of the surrender Of Johnston is the
reasonable assurance Of that commander
that he will exercise the utmost vigilance
and authority to repress and to punish
all hushT Thacking or guerrilla warfare,
and from what we have heard, similar
course viii be pursued by GensraI Lee,
late commander of the Army of Northern
| Virginia. rraL.s Iy. I1-. s-a sna.a '-.
Another fact may be stated in this con
nection: that the officers Of the rebel az
my now frankly admit that further con
tinuance Of this war, on their part, would
not only be 2 military impossibilisy, but
be inhicting the greatest injustice and
misery. on the Southern people. The
condition Of. the rebel army was such
that when the ultilatum of the Govern
ment was made known BY Gen Grant /.
orders to Johnston and his associates, it
was yielded to at once, thus showing
that it would have been wholly impossi.
bic for them to maintain the conflict had
not the negotiation taken place between
Sherman and Johnston --
Gen. Grant having returned from his
mission to North Carolina i at Lis head
NJ quar- ters IN fhis cify - "hAh~