The Shasta courier., 1865-05-06
News Of the Week.

Wow ara cur brovs bound with victorious wreaths
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changd to merry meeting,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures
Grim-visae'd war has smooihl his wrinkled front;
And now,-:nstead of mounting bsrbed steeds.
To fright the souls of fearful adyersariss,-
He capers uinbly in . lady's chamber,
To the laseivious pleasing eff Lutte.
The above is true as to the National posi-
ton q the present writing, even as it was
true of the wars Of the Roses, when the i'm
mortal bard made Richard Duke Of Glocter
yhus spsah Of that event. Unless il may be
10 Texas, there u no srned opposition con.
sentrated n any great force againat the Gov
srnment.
AL the leading military men are actively
engaged 10 the business of reducing the
forces of Government in the field to stan.
dard as low as safety will permit. This con-
trasts favorably with the condition of things
. bare month since, when, instead OF re-
trenchment, every nerve was strung to its
utmost tension to procure more men, more
ordnance, more supplies Of every name and
an army of half million Of men.
JEFF. Davis and few of bis associates in
treason are running the race for life. "Now
we have him, now we haven't" comes to US
daily by overland telegraph. The wish be.
ing father to the thought may have induced
our belief that be and his treasure train will
be captured. God grant the arbitrator,
eonspirator and worse than murderer may
be made to expiate his offences on the soil Of
his birth-in the country he has SO much
outraged.
With mortar, paixhan and petard.
We tender you our Beauregard.
We've got him. Jeff.'s poets some four years
$50 ironically made Lie tender. Grant made
truth of firony. The playful and swift footed
Bcauregard and Gems. Hardee and Bragg,
together With something over q 900 men.
were surrendered BY jos johnston to General
Sherman on the Goth Of April; on the same
terms accorded to the army of Lee.
Much to our qualification, We have the
pleasure Of announcing that the FIRST reports
Of the doings Of General Sherman, in treating
for the surrender of Johnston and his armies
were strangely exaggerated and perverted
Later accounts show that Sherman lost nc
advantage by the concession of few days
armistice, and only granted the rebels such
leniency under mistaken information. There
is no doubt now but that General Grant ant
the Government are entirely satisfied With hi.
conduct in the matter. As evidence of this
Gen. Grant took no command from Sherman
nor allowed the rebels to know of his pres
ence at Shermans headquarters. Johnston
surrendered to Sherman, and when every
thing had been consummated bv the two
principals, General Grant quietly endorsed
his approval upon the written agreement
between them. Happy are we that Shermad
lost none OF bis y;cily earned laurels, and
we believe our readers will participate with
us in that feeling.
Tie Government authorities are in full
possession Of oil the raniifcations of the con.
spiracy to assassipate President Lincoln, and
have already arrested over two hundred
persons who are believed to be guilty as acces.
sories before the fact. The conspiracy was
endorsed and approved by the Richmond
junto, and was carried out as the last forlorn
hope Of the rebellion.