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Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-04-25
a CARD.

II AvING rented cne-Lalf of the store No 1l5 Broad
II street between 4h and 9Th street: w0pld Iespes-
to take look at nv assortment Of faney ana DRY
GOODS, which was fortunate enough 70 secure ron
the late great conf lgaton. also call the atleaiCn
those of my customers who left some WITCHES AID
JEwELRY with me, to he repaired, al m' OILS stsaa.
corner Of Main and llth street 10 call az ne l'gyg
place and get them as was fortunate enourh II saFe
someof them. h. WENAsA.,
Formerly at the old stand Of s = Nyeu
an 22-3t. Corner Main. and 1881 esresss
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SOLDIERS CASKET.
2 L e & i L At
NATIONAL WORK
E0yZHLY DEN1TKD 10 s"fDLEEs
-ETE2E>Z
Each number Is divided into sppop.a;e Eagartne-ts-
namely
The Recording. The Personal. The
Literary. The Editorial and XaA
Miscellaneous Department..

THE RECORDING DEPARTMENT is devoted estireJg,
20 authentic records of the correct name company reg
ment ship &C., Of volunteers n the Army or NAVY VI o
have performed. who may perform any liant or
praseworthy deeds in behalf Of their couLtry and %
give full and detailed narrative Of the same y fu;rra
such record will be far more brilliant and sccspttks
not orly the memory of the dead but also the feel
ngs Of tie living than the grandest marble 1Meu-
It will be an Encyclopaedia Of American Her hm 1hA
our descendants can refer to with just pride,
General officers, correspondents volunteers henielyts
and their relations and friends earnestly requested ~
interest themselves in this department By fesng "a ~
counts OF any appropriate incident within their kEEg
ledge. with correct names. dates and particulars.
THE PERSONAL DEPARTMENT. which IL 9specse
feature Of He CASKET, is devoted entirely shd gE1B
20 aifoTding commune alton between I'd
eers and their friends at home. and also between Der
selves. Thousands have lost sight Of each othe. By re
accidents Of and unable 10 advertise ewing 90
the expense and uncertainty Of iEdng ont what 9kSy
wish Bat as THE CASKET will seen be circulated Il
every camp and in every household inquiry O. rs2y
in this department is 20 reach the sired par37 az
thus hope con;entment and happiness win be s5r-
% many soHowiDg heart.
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HEADQUARTERS, }
Ni-TAcHIETT AiKY oE TIKI gAX1& :
Richmond Va, April u, 1853. J

3
QrTAcEAETT ixY oF TIKI tAXIz
CEiEsAI oEoTz,e
30. =
P-c.eotoa q hereby extended 70 oil cburshes ant
places Il public wsrship.
Religions services nay Be continued vi.iou. interrup
tca, &c times . profound peace. This protection
nrst nct however speered for the rtteranoe 70 sDy
Er Of Wo-ahipcg reasonable sentmen on expreee,ons
WAan thus perverted Il VII DC withdrawn
Ia az churches ahers prayers have heretofore beer
offered fo- tie s0-cal.sd 1seaasnt o. lie Confederate
sases similar mark CT respsot Il hereby ordered TO be
paid % he President Of The United STATES.
81 command o. Major General &. WEIgzsI-
2. ,. WHEELER,
apl2 Asst Adj, Gen.
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REGNAULT & CO.,
Aact;oaeerS and Commission Merchants,
OFFICE CORNER MAIN AND Ninth STREETS,
Opposite Adamsl Express Company)
DY PERMISSION Of the Provost Marshal General,
ID have res med their business General Auction.
GERS and Commission Merchants and respectfully offer
their services 20 their friends and the public generally
for the sale OF all kinds Of
MERCHANDISE,
GROCERIES,
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
FURNITURE &c.
Their storehouse was destroyed by fire the 81 Of
April last. larger and more commodious one viii &c
at CAGE erected opposite the Spotswood HOTEL and for
few weeks olr Office will be the corner Of Main and
Ninth streets, opposite the Office Of Adams Express
We promise strict attention to all business with
JOHN F. REGNAULT,
WIN. L. MAULE,
apie-6t EM. j. BEVILL.
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BOUKs AND PERIODICALS.

Each number i. divided into sFpropr:ate z,ar,rszas
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Lieutenant Colonel U. S. A.
HDQR'S DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA.
Army OF THE JAMES,
RICHMOND, Va. April "a, SEQ. }
Richmond, April a, 1860.
CEeERhL ORDERS, :
No. SO. (

CE,ERbL ORDEEs1
For the purpose Ofcaryng out The requirements Of
General Orders No IS current series from these Head
Quarters it is ordered that all officers and soldiers having
captured horses, carriages other private property in
their possession. turn the at the Quar.
easer Of their respective commands be forwarded
10 The Depot Quartermaster al Richmond Of in case Che
property taken from citizens in or near Richmond
90 he nearest Provost Marshal 10 be returned 10 the
Citizens having such captured properly IN their
possession viii turn the 70 me Provost Mar
gba
Any person neg!ecting to comply promptly a.tl his
order VIII be placed in arrest and punished. Command
Ing officers viii be held to strict Accountability in re-
porting az cases Of delinquency within :her respe live
commands. Provost Marshals viii make strio. search
Tor captured properly in tie hands Of officers and use
the utmost ygance in attending 20 the execution o. this
order.
By command Of MajO. General ON
Ed v. sc7H,
Ass.tar. Ldit. Gen.
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: VLHEILIIAM,
Os GENERAL EEGRAvER AND JEwELER.
Masonic emblems, Breaspns, Badges DC, made 70 Or
der at the shortest notice and in the best style
E[No. g WALL STREET, RicHxoSDs YA:-d
SD tqLIW
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SPECIAL PREMIUM
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mond we will send by return mail a PPEAIUA OF EK5
DOLLARS.
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mond We viii send by retsrn mail a PREMIUM 0y FIVE.
DOLLARS.
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OFFICIAL
10 TaE rAV1LA Or AlChNOED AND ITS
YCiNITK.


The inhabitants Of the various counties near
Richmond are hereby informed that no difficulty
win be made IN admitting them 20 bring market
wares to this ely. They a~e invited 20 commence
their ordinary traffic at once, and assured OF pro-
lection in passing to and fro within the lines of the
Uuited States forces.
The citizens Of Richmond and sLopkeepers ana
Others axe also requested to resume their ordinary
ayOcations as speedily as possible 1t is the wish
and intention Of the military authorities to protect
all good and peaceabe citizens, and TO restore in
as great a measure as may be practicable, the for
mer prosperity of the city. No molestation by
soldiers or others will be allowed, if possible, to
any who are engaged in peaceful pursuits.
Orders wi! be issued to military commanders in
conformity with the above announcement.
BY command of Maj. Gen. ORD.
ADAM BADEAu, Lieut.. Col. U. S. A..
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-06
WEST VIRGINIA FREE.

West Virginia is Free. Erected into State
and admitted into the Union with constitution
prohibiting Slavery, only after term Of years,
she now has abolished this remnant Of bar.
barism. Both Houses of her Legislature con.
cured in the following:
Be 1t enacted by tho Legislature Of West Virginia;
l. All persons held to service labor slaves in this
State are hereby declared free.
O. There shall hereafter be neither Slavery nor invol
untary servtude in this State except in punishment Of
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
The Constitution requires no amendment,
but permits this legislative act to assume the
validity of organic law; for the Constitution
gave no further sanction to Slavery than to fix the
period beyond which Slavery should not exist.
The above is therefore a complete legal emanci-
patton, and, as it takes effect Immediately. is
far in advance of any possible ratification of the
amendment to the United States Constitution.
Thus early and nobly does the young State OF
West Virginia indicate her claim to place in the
Union, which is hereafter to be Union of Free
States only.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-06
THE "PEACEn RFFORT.

The President and Secretary of State have
returned from Fortress Monroe to Washington;
the three eminent Confederates have likewise
returned to Richmond: whereupon, cloud OF
telegraphic witnesses proclaim the Peace effort
failure. We take liberty, as on Mr.. Blair's
return from like errand, to demur to this
chorus of confident assertions. knowing no.
thing whatever of what was proposed. on this
side or on that, at this latest interview. We as.
sumo that our neighbors are just as
we'll informed as we in the premises,
that no revelation has been made OF what passed
between the parties who met on board a steam
boat off Fortress Monroe. We can with safety
infer, however, that Gov. Seward set forth and
the President confirmed the conditions most TO-
vorable to the Confederates on which our Gov
eminent was willing to make Peace; that there
were countervailing propositions submitted by
Stephens G. Co.; that there was free and earn
est though courteous discussions; and then the
conferees separated, to report what had been
proposed and set forth to their associates at
Washington and Richmond respectively. Such
we Judge to be the substance of what passed at
the interviews in question:; and we arc quite
willing that those who choose should stigmatize
the result as failure so long as they permit US
to enjoy our adverse opinion.
Those who read and swallow the current re-
ports will be puzzled to satisfy themselves why
the President went down at all. Gov Seward
was there q day before him, had met the
Confederates, and must have known lin SUBJ
Fortress Monroe to confer with three Confedcr
ate chiefs, the Southern people will ask, "What
did Mr.. Lincoln propoSei What terms did
he offerf What e1actons insist on i"-and
thew will insist on knowing. 1t will not suffice
to tell them that he came to Fortress Monroe
to tell them that they must give up everything
to pile insult on humiliation-they will
know q great deal better. And thus,
even IL the immediate result Of this con.
ference were such as is commonly asserted, and
as we disbelieve, we should abate no jot Of hope
of an early Peace. The Leaders may try to hold
out until after the 4th Of March, 90 as to see
what may turn up in their behalf in Europe;
but the masses will feel and say, "We have had
enough Of this Let us have an end Of blood
she'd" And, though the organization Of the
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gro, we mey as well concede that his rights as
citizen are under the protection Of law. 1fthey
are not, then let US make law that shall pro.
tect them. Senator Wilson's bill seems well
conceived for its purpose; we hope to chronicle
its speedy passage.
We may add that we believe the corporations
upon whom the decision of this question is like.
ly otherwise to fall would prefer to have it
settled by general legislation. They will be
saved the necessity of such mock.parade Of
Difference for public opinion as the street rail-
way corporations in Philadelphia ere just now
exhibiting. They can receive no odium BY
obeying law which puts negroes on board
their cars. When the question Of exclusion
was raised In Massachusetts,. Charles Francis
Adams said in the Senate: Gentlemen Di.
rectors, advise you to yield before the neces-
sty of examining into your regulations on this
point provokes general investigation into your
powers, and duties, and conduct" They took
the hint, and from that day to this black faces
have passed unchallenged in Massachusetts
cars. Corporations of other States will gladly
initiate the example.
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him. Hs was Deputy United sts,ss Collector h -

him. He was Deputy United States Collector 1t -
town Of Goshen, and was In the receipt of large suns
Of money. 1t Is not known how much he had on Aas
particular evening. probably not large sum. - -
had made deposit in one Of the Goshen banks thse
day. Near his body was found largo pock et-book b
which he was In the habit Of carrying his money TAs
CLASP Of the pocketbook had been broken. the money
abstrscted and the papers lay scattered around ~
snow. revolver (Which IL Is believed will be idsIC.
fed a. hia. with one barrel empty and the othsy
loaded. was found near the body.
The theory which obtains general credit In regard -
the circumstances Of the murder is this: that he w.
wayaid In the lonely piece Of woods by two or mere
robbers one Of whom seized and stopped his horse -
whom he fired his pistol while another assassin stepped
up to his sleigh and shot him. His death must have
been almost instantaneous The assassns then draggsA
his body out Of the sleigh started his horse back -
ward Goshen, and rned his pocketbook Of s valuahls
contents The marderers must have decsmped 10 has(s
perhaps alarmed BY the approach Of Mr. Webb tSv
did not take the murdered mans watch.
Mr.. Seay was about IS years Of age. He lssvss .
wife and two children, and an aged mother.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-06

TIE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE contains all the
Editorial articles, not merely local in character
Literary Reviews and Art Criticisms Letters from
our large corps of war correspondents; Foreign
and Domestic Letters; Special and Associated Press
Telegraphic Dispatches; a careful and complete
Summary of Foreign and Domestic News; Exclu-
siye Reports of the Proceedings of the Farmers
Club of the American Institute; Talks about Fruit,
and other Horticultural and Agricultural InforIna-
ton; Stock, Financial, Cattle. Dry Goods and Gen.
eral Market Reports, which are published in The
DAILY TRIBUNE IL frequently contains articles
which the great pressure of advertisements will
not permit US to put i'll the Daily Edition. THE
SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE also gives, in the course
of year. three or -four of the BEST POPULAR NOVELS
by living authors. The cost of these alone, if
bought in book form, would be from six to eight
dollars. If purchased In the ENGLISH MAoA INES
from which they are carefully selected, the cost
would be three or four tiuies that sum. Nowhere
else can so much current intelligence and permanent
literary matter be had at SO cheap rate as in THE
SxM.WEEKLy TRIBUNE.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-06

Richard NJ. Sears, highly respectable and
wealthy farmer residing in the town Of Goshen about
four miles from the village brutsly murdered
Wednesday night last Mr. Sears left the village OF
Goshen about IL O'Clock In the evening. for home.
About IL O'Clock. Mr.. John Webb. who lives on the
same road. met Mr.. Searss horse returning towards
Goshen. and little further on. In Stewards Woods,
about mile from the village. found his dead body lying
BY the roadside He had been shot. apparently with a
pistol held close to burn his hair the ball enter.
ing the right temple and lodging in the head The
body was taken to Goshen and Coroner Lewis Little
summoned jury Of inquest The inquest was In session
on Friday. and without concluding the investigation
adjourned over till Saturday As yet thsre II no clue
to the perpetrators Of the crime and far as We can
learn. no person 10 suspected.
Mr.. Sears was undoubtedly waylaid and murdered
for the money which BE- was supposed to have with
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THE RIGHT TO RIDE.

Henry Wilson introduced on Saturday into
the United States Senate the following bill:
BE enacted, DC. That no person shall DO excluded
from travel upon any railroad or navigable waters OF
the United States account q color or by reason Of
any State law municipal ordinance. or Of any rule
regulation or usage Of any corporation company OF
person whatsoever, and colored passengers shall be
subject and amsnable to tho same laws. ordinances
rules regulations and usages a. all white passengers
and any corporation. company. or person. offending
against the provisions Of this act shall upon conviction
In any court Of the United States be punished by fine
not less than $500 by imprisonment not less than
six months provided that nothing herein contained
shall interfere with any executive order made under
the laws Of the United States"
A fit corollary to the Amendment which
abolishes Slavery. Such law will save end.
less controversy in State Legislatures, and city
councils, and corporation boards of directors.
The barbarous and senseless prejudice prevail
ing in many communities against color, only
needs to DO summarly dealt with in order to be
ashamed Of itself and disappear. Let law of
the United States once enact that all public
conveyAncss are open to all decently behaved
and honestly paying passengers. and We shall
wonder they were ever closed. 1t has been the
fashion to exclude negroes-it will speedily be
the fashion to admit then-or rather, let Us soy,
the law will recognise their presence as rightly
dependent on their own choice. Tho blacks
have as much right to exclude whites q whites
tho blacks.
Having recognised the citizenship Of the ne.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-06

Virginia North Carolina, Georgia Florida Alabama
Mississippi. Louisiana, Texas. Arkansas and Tenne0
see shall not be counted next Wednesday for Pre'lden
and Vice President of the United States This pSoe'
on the ground that of them wore in CONDITION
vote on the sth of November last.
An election for member of the Pennsylvahia
Legislature In place of Mr. Reed, deceased was held
nm the o4th ult. in Washington and Beaver Counties
J. NJ. Welsh Union, was chosen by large majority
in Washington County the vote was; "esh 800
F. Brady. IT,, Dem 26si; majority for Welsh, Oil
and in Beaver he had about 600 majority
Coy. Lewis of Wisconsin has issued proc
lamation warning the people against countenancine
any outbreak which there are some fears may take
place in connection with a sale Of farm lands mort
gagged in aid of railroads. advertised to take place Of
Berlin Feb. l.
On Saturday night Abraham Kicks and Cath.
crime Altman both colored qusrreled In the base.
ment of No. 10 Nelson Place. and Kicks stabbed
the woman with q carving knife She was taken II
Rellevue Hospital The sssailant was committed by
Justice Ledwith
The prize steamship Blenheim one Of the En-
glish Rebel bockaderunners captured in Cape Fear
River by Admiral Porers feet arrived here on Satur
day morning. in charge Of prizenaster. She has O
valuable cargo Of arms.
A salut of one hundred guns was fred IN the
City Hall Park on Saturday at in honor Of the
ratification by our Legislature Of the Constitutions
Amendment for the abolition and prohibition Of Slavery
The first Postal car on the Erie Railway was
to leave jersey City for Dunkirk at $50 last evening
under care of Mr.. Hobart c. Otis late clerk in the
New.York Post.Ofice.
The Hon. Jacob Vanatta, Democrat, has
written letter in favor Of the ratification by the New
Jersey Legislature. of the Constitutional Amendment
abolishing Slavery
The Canadian Alien bill passed the upper
House Of the Provincial Parliament on Friday night
and received the signature OF the Governor encral
on Saturday. To-day it will take effect.
A train on the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad
thrown from the track By broken rail Tuesday
night last and four or five persons were injured.
Several inches of snow fell i'll Boston yester-
day, which has partially melted
Gold opened at 2l0s and sold ss high as 2l4}.
The closing rate 2 Government stocks In tho face Of
the Peace failure higher and in good demand The 6s
up lO9i dloe the 32O lssi the old 1904
the 1000 and Certificates at 3d. The 7o Cur
rency Notes good demand and II eIpecedthat mod
e,ertion only will be needed get 100000 per day.
which win give the Treasury all needs without issuing
more currency Strong railway bonds in demand and
offered sparingy Railway shares higher under the
stimulus Of advancing gold but the quotations Of the
day are sustained the bea being sellers Of the whos
list the advance At the close Of the day prices are firm
and the tendency upwa ard Money offered in great abund.
ance. and upon long engagements with good collateral u
upon brokers at per Upon ordinary security
the per cent In commercial paper no change
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South is intensely aristocratic, the voice Of the
great majority will soon make itself heard and
respected.
Of course, we neither know nor want to
know what was proposed at this conference.
We have no doubt that the President and Secre.
tary of State understand their own business, as
we presume that the Confederate conferees un-
derstand theirs. And We judge that those who
intenogate the President as to what he has done,
or authorized others to do, in the direction of
Peace-making, will DO courteously and lucidly
answered at the proper time. If there are any
who suspected OF feared that the National cause
would be "sold OUT by those to whose guar
dianship it had been more especially intrusted,
We trust they will live to be ashamed of their
suspicious.
Finally: we believe In an early Peace; but
we do not even guess just how or when it will
come, and We feel certain that it will be
FASTENED by the most prompt and vigorous pro.
vision for continuing the War. If the i'm.
mediate result of the late conference has indeed
been so complete failure as it is currently
represented, we shall doubtless soon be sum.
moned to make concerted and extraordinary
exertons to fill our quotas under the impending
draft; and let US all be ready to respond with
energy and enthusiasm.