Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-31
From the PhHadoIphia North AmsrisAu.
Peaee CornnIsted.

At length t6as gre btobIe6i Is. fnIly
la0lVetls The last Remnant Of civil war dis
appears with the surrender Of the rebel
forces In, the traus- Mississippi department.,
and peace now reigns supreme from the
British provinces to Mexico and from
ocean to ocean, over an empire embracing
three millions of square miles of territory
and thirty three millions of intiabitants.- =
We have in an official gazette from ths
War Department these glad tidiugs. Gen.
lCsnby, in command of the Department of
the Gulf, sends . dispatch from New Or
leans dated the 26tb. in which he ssys that
arrangements have been, made for the sur
render of the confederate forces iu-the
trans Mississippi department, and that the
a surrender includes the men and material of
both the army and navy. ~ %
Recent estimates raised the strength of
Kirby Smiths land forces to the astonish-
ishing number of one hundred and Eve
thousand men, of which the available array
was about seVenty-fiVe thousandi 1Of these,
by far the largest part were cavalry and
mounted infantry, mostly we'll mounted and
disciplined, though since thesurrender of
the rebel forces of the Mississippi river
desertion had set in to such an extent as to
demoraliZe the armies, It is true that
many fugitive soldiers and officers from the
armies of Lee. Johnston, and Taylor have
gone across thelriyer and Joined Smith,
but not IN such numbers as has been sup
posed. In fact, the surrender was every
day becoming an unavoidable necessity, in
consequence of the inevitable melting
away Of tha tebelifcFees.{ III
In Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri,
the enemy met with no encouragement
whatever for protracted war, aud the most
| Snv /
fast abandoning the contest and returning
to their homes. SO much has this been
the case that all Arkansas is rapidly bein1,
reorgani1ed pesCefulIy, under the suthofr
ity Of the loyal free. State government.
Thus Smilhgfound his resources disappear
ing from his grasp, and q settled hostility
towards him growing up everywhere near
his stronghold atShFeVeport. . Tho people
OF that southwestern region know very
well how utterly pTeposterous would Be
any attempt on the part of Texas to with :
stand the whole military and naval
strength of the victorious United States,
and had no wish to experience the horrors
under which other rebel sections have
groaned during the last fonr years., It is
beyond question, too, that Smith has been
peaceably disposed eYe1 since he beard! of
Lees surrender, though he cou'd not agree
to the terms, offered, and being surrounded
by fre-eaters, did not dare to ACCEPT them
Without'at least q shoW Of resistance.
! Hhls resistance he has made, aud the
hte'eaters having had ample time to look
ABOUT them, measure the extent of their
: power aud our own, and think over the
subject, have no doubt arrived at the con.
d clnsiOu that discretion was the better mart
of ValoF. Smith sent his chief of staff to
confer with Pope, on the subject of surran-
der soon sitter the surrender Uf Lee, aud il
( toen seemedh highly probable that he would
? aoandon the contest. But suddenly an
unexpected turn was given to affairs in
Il mat region BY the arrivsl of the traitors
= benjamin and BIeckinridge at Shreveport,
Wno' no doubt, stirred up Smith to q var
J. Pitc1 by representations of aid from the
Emperor Maximilian aud of the severitv
with which our Government Wonld trest
the Confederate leaders,
:, InlSfWas rendered manifest byIthe.tone
> OF o!eVAdo suddenly assumed By all the
EeOel leaders in the department, and es-
peclHuy BY Aagruder, in the speech in
Wnlcn ne referred 20 the respected aid from
d Ms1imillian. BsOjamin ct the sAnde timA
nAuaReo TO get into circulation, through
'ne loysl press OF the country, statements
. aI!sel9g thatAaximillian had senk,envoys
20 Teat with the confederate leaders ThiH
mas been officially contradicted bv the ac.
i credited representatives of MaTimiIIian1.
. government. The Texans also. no doubt
! found ont the cheat and have edlieISde5
t matt ls useless to protract the war. Il
tne seneme to carry on a lingering contesl
E IN te1as lay all the hopes of the rebel ref.
g usses 4ntoad OF Ultimate amnesty and
4 'sslon 70 return1to their homes. Il
r way @ originally eoueocted by JEFF. Davil
!. eno nis associates in Richmond as = 3-Iasl
resort In case of the failure of tbs, vEar n
: tue east, but the end overlook tbarnf 4, srF,I
manner as to prevent their reaching Texj
lsI however, clear now. from m,
azure Of bspjsminand Breckinridee. lhat
@ the whole rebel government hat
soue 70 Texas, the war would not hayi
: tiou. Oh tnss sec
i It was, indeed, strange, that these iDfs.
S1 S rebel leaders should suppose th
People OF Texas ready to bear the Who'll
sHen OF . stupendous war, which all tn
IN sF H:N ET9el States bad, been unable k6 isds
Soa5. & II vas sdiE-more strange that the
vs ;Dc1s s sI SoGeld y think the Texsos willing I
od -. 80 - N.I .He tersoTs aud calamitiss Of
oi ~. so temat tka6le for its devastation an
An carnage ss this has been Al a 49, -
Al me rest Of the south e Fei,rnins, ~ q
he S"5 -as',so peace and tranquility. The
Sib JI no. tS.,i tiHed through the last fur 7eaf
v n;"LtH MI Susa eyes shut. They had seen thi
TSsS @ Siy S.5 s5fegglS tn,ell its varying phase
= snS ~ ~ seen the Whole issue fairly mad
SSI, 10y .O,;!s IGaghtOut, and must be now q
Welt satished to accept fhs - -;
2Fttnrenr OF The rest ofthe sontIsry, SstSts
: 20 oO1monl Ullh The whole eonnf,y ~
u9ss nHve yearned for the return Of .Dro,
I. Texas had hst, all of Independence o
neg own account before she suecsedsd