Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-15
wAsHIHGToH NEWS.

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headquarters in Washington. He is now
there. The rebel Gen. Ewell is also there
on parole. Gen. Lee is reported as gone to
see Johnston and urge him to surrender,
The Philadelphia Pres says that Lee is
"truly penitent." The New York Worlds
special says that
As soon az General Lee decided to sur.
reader, he set to work to devise a plan by
which such action would result 10 peace.
he proposed to Gen. Grant that if gener
Gus terms we're granted him, he would
himself go to Johnston and urge him to
surrender. General Grant is understood
to have met this proposal in the spirit in
which 1t was made, and considering that
he could represent President Lincoln in the
matter, granted Lee even more liberal
terms than be suggested. IttWas finally
decided that General Grant should pro-
coed to Washington, and. urge upon Mr..
Lincoln to stop all recruiting, and issue a
proclamation otsmnesty; or in lien thereof,
make it known that he would deal 10 a
liberal manner with the soldiers and PEG.
pie of the South. Meantime Gen. Lee
would visit Johnston in person.
The New York CommeTeiaps special says
that Secretary Stanton is going to resign
as soon as peace is declared.
The HtTalTs Richmond special says,
JEFF. Davis, Hunter and Thomas T. Semmes
have long contemplated the formation of
Mississippi Confederscy, to be
composed of Arkansas. Texas and West
Louisiana, with such, disconnected Me1i.
can States as might join them.
The Evening Star says: The side of Mr..
Stewards face, injured by his fall, has been
placed in wires instead of bandages. Since
that time the swelling has reduced, and
now be does not suffer much. He is I'M
able to leave his'bed, and ia more easy in
the day time than during the night.
Another Washington writer says:
Mr.. Seward does uot'Fally from his late
serious Injuries. 1t could hardly be ex-
pected, with his years, with his low phys.
icsl power and his over. wrought nervous
system, that he should do so. The conn
try may be prepared, at least, to witness
bis retirement from public life-perbaps II
may soon be called to mourn even bis
death. Either event is a great public. ca
lamity. His4wisdom, his caution, his ex.
perience, are az much needed now in the
government as at any time during the past
in which be has borne so important part.
"DRulD," the Baltimore secesh corres,
pOndent, writes to the N. Y. World, that
JEFF. Davis. attended by select retinue of
mourners and friends of the deceased and
his family" is making his way toward
Texas, with view to final disappear
ance or an attempt ct a trans Mississippi
''nation" under the fostering care of Louis
Napoleon. Jetf's. fret attempt at "nation"
creating has SO sigpally failed, that he may
possibly not be deemed an expert by so
ssgacious q master of state.craft as the
French Emperor.
"Druid" also admits that the Confederacy
is actually destroyed. l8.
BE says ''tbe military power of the re.
belIiOn is gone forever. The Southern
States, incredible as it may seem, are as
completely conquered and subjugated as
any conquered country ever has BEEN
They have no power to demand terms.-
They must submit to the terms of the CON
querors. II remains for the Administra,
ton, therefore, 10 decide what is the better
fate of the Southern people. Whatever
that decision may be, the South cannot re-
bel against Il, or resist lts execution. They
nust submit. They have no power to do
otherwise. No matter what the terms are,
they must submit to them and accept them,
even the enforcement of the Con.
tiscation Act. They may submit unwiI.
lingly, but submit they must, from the
simple reason that they have no power to
do otherwise. They will not again attempt
OF hyyf Of ~. =
the United States Government"
This is broader statement of the case
than We have yet had from secession
source, bat it is undoubtedly correct one.
Assuming that it is just estimate of the
situation, the appeal to magnanimity in the
adjustment of the vexed questions of the
war is strengthened. -
The Richmond Wing. now issued as a
loyal paper by one otits former proprietors,
is TO be edited, as we have before noticed