Litchfield enquirer., 1865-04-13
News of the 10eek.
 MORE GLORIOUS RE EWS!
THE SURRENDER OF LEE AND HIS ARMY TO GEN. GRANT.
THE VIRTUAL END OF THE REBEL
 LION

1he facts preceding and concluding this blessed result are briefly stated as follows :- From the hour of Sherilan's victory over Lees ] right wing. on Saturday week, followed imme- 1 diatey by the grand assault along the whole line and the capture of Petersburgh, the Con- 1 federate cause was lost. The evacuation of Richmond on the following Sunday, put Lee ! in rapid and almost disorderly retreat He l hoped to be able to escape by or around Burkes-
 vile Junction, with mere chance of getting off toward North Carolina, and perhaps with a
 fai prospect of forming junction with John ston. But Grants pursuit was :oo vigorously
 pressed His irresistible cavalry, led by the
 hero of the Shenandoah and backed by Grant
 in personal comm and, swept down the South
 side Road, seized the junction, shut Lee of
 from 50 much as crossing the Appomattox, and forced him to abandon all hope oi help
 from Johnston. That Lee struggled hard aud
 fought hard to avoid this disaster; our columns
 have already shown. He had, then, but two
 things to do to make bis way to Lynchburgh,
 where he could only hide behind his vast forti
 fcations and be starved out, or come to d com plete surrender. Lyrchburgh, strong by nature and by art, would have been place of safety for the present, if he had reached it. But Grant had already provided for this emergency Thomas was coming from East Tennessee, and | Schofeld from the Shenandoah Valley with i powerful columns, which, with Grants own
 forces, would speedily have besegel the rebel chief with circunvallation of bayonets that for half year have gistened with victory j; every avenue of supplies would have been In our hands; every railroad, canal, river and turnpike would have been crossed by our fortI- 1 fcatlons to remain would have been death-,to fight out would have been accepting odds that might have appalled, the most reckless. Thus 1 brought to bay, and hourly harrassed by pur suit that knew no such word as rest, Lee has succumbed to his fate. On Saturday, Gen. Grant sent note to Lee lntimating that he was willing to accept reasonable terms ot sub mission. This appears to have been anticipated by Lee who was on his picket-llne when the note reached him He replied desiring an inter view. Grant returned answer that he would hurry forward to meet him. The next note gives the terms proposed by Grant, which are as follows:
 Il propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to witt Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officers as you may des- ignate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take arms against the Govern ment of the United States until properly ex- changed, and each company or regimental commander sign like parole for the men under their commands. The arms, artillery and public property to be packed and stacked and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to their homes, not to be disturbed by United States authority l so long as they observe their parole and the laws in force where they reside.
 To this proposition, Gen. Lee immediately returned answer in the following terms:
 have received your letter of this date, con- taining the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those ex pressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stlpulations into effect.
 Thus upon terms both honorable and gener ous, upon terms which place the responsibility of their breach upon the rebel leaders, the only really great army, the main stay and very soul of the rebellion, gracefully yields to the over whelming power of the Union-that Union soon to rise from it's baptism of blood, regener- ated, purified, and conscious of a strength that shall withstand alike the jealousles of rival powers abroad and the shocks of treason with