The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-04-05

heavy while wheat ruled exceedingly quiet but prices
without material change Corn and oats we're IN
limited request and prices declining The pork mar
ket nrmer and active Beef ruled steady while lard
was Hrmer, Freghts were rather frmeE Whiskey i'd
vanced materially; but the demand moderate.
The market for beef cattle was heavy this week. and
with fair receipts prices fell No &c. per h., ranging
from 14c. TO 22c. 24c-thc latter an extreme rate
Mich unchanged and sold, at $46 to 500 .
$780, Veals were steady q LOG lbc. Sheep and
lambs were in fair demand from 81 50 to ~ SIS
Hogs dull and lower selling at from 10 12kc
The total receipts 4,s43 beeves, 2l4 cows 4o
veals s,S33 sheep and lambs, and 5,417 hogs
The News from Virginin-The Destruc-
ton OF Lees Army and the Coincide
racy.
we give to-day very full and particular &C.
counts of the fighting of Sunday, the decisive
day Of the great struggle at Petersburg. The
important fact established by to-day's news is
that Lees army is utterly annihilated as
fighting force. The estimate is that fifteen
thousand of Lees men are killed and wound
ed and twenty-five thousand are prisoners Of
war, thus making total of forty thousand
men put out of the combat in one series of
operations. It is certain that such loss would
leave to Lee but mere ineffective remnant of
troops, even If he had what lis left
in one body; but, in fact, what is
left is split into several detachments,
retreating in the suave q,a pea style, and Lee
is in all probability ignorant of the present
whereabouts of the larger part of the force not
captured. Blenhcm or Waterloo were not
more destructive to the beaten armies than the
fighting at Petersburg he's been to Lees.
Out of all this we should realize very dis
tinctly the grand fact that there is no longer
any Southern confederacy. There is no longer
any power besides the United States in the
limits of the old Union that can set up even
the fimsiest pretence to nationality. At this
hour the rebellion is without civil or mill
tary organization" and "without the emblems
or the semblance of nationality" This is the
admission of the Richmond Eraminer-which
no one will accuse of prejudice in our favor.
That journal stated in advance the position
that the rebellion would be in when it should
be compelled to leave Richmond, and argued
that Richmond was so identified with the
rebcl cause that it was to all men and all
nations, the visible symbol Of it, and that to
abandon one was to abandon the other. Thus
we only repeat the admissions of the enemy in
saying that the rebellion IS an organized power
is dead, and that it gave up the ghost in the
hour when it was forced to leave the first and
last of its strongholds. And the country can
not accept too literally this acknowledgment,
made in advance in Richmond, that that city
was the last possible resting and rallying place
of the rebellion; that by its capture the rebel
lion is put down, and that they who may be
still in arms are mere vagabonds and fugitives,
without cause or purpose or power.
All dignity and elevation SO far as the enemy
are concerned has now departed from their
struggle. So long as they could, with
some appearance Of justice, claim q nation
atty; 30 long as they had cities, cap
ital, and established means of intercourse
with nations, their position before the world
was respectable. But now all that is done
with. They are mere group offugitives from
justice; and while but yesterday they had the
noble ambition to change the fate Of nations,
to-day they only hope to escape from the conse-
quences of their own acts. They repeat, on a
large scale, the act of Semmes, and being with
out the manliness to look fate in the face and
give up hopeless cause, they sneak out Of
sight and run for IT, Even from the same Rich
the force now with Lee is no longer an army.
II has degenerated from it's former proud Sta
ton to an almost mental one. Il IA 90 mere
body guard for few officials" It can accom-
plish no national purpose; It can merely pro-
tcct the fight Of q few leaders, and will be
scattered in the mountains or hunted down in
the highways.
Mr.. SEwARD's BRIEF STATEMENT OF Hrs
FOREIGN PoIIcY.-In the little speech delivered
by the Secretary Of State to the rejoicing pso-
pie of Washington on Monday last, we have Q