The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-08
WHEEIJNG w. w. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1865
Foreign News.


PoINT AU BASQUE, May 6-The steam
or Hibernia, from Liverpool on the 18th
| via Londonderry on the 2sth of April, ar.
l rived off this point at 2:30 P. NJ. to-day
Her dates are five days later than those
already received.
The London corn market was short OF
supplies, and there was a better business
'doing in English and foreign wheat, at
an advance in prices.
Rowing to break in the wire at Pert
| Hood, we were unable to get the cOnclii-
| sion of the Hibernia's news.
NEW YORK, May THE steamship
/ America. from Southampton OH the 26th,
arrived to-day.
The Times says the end has come at
last, and the great American war Is vir-
| tually closed by Lees surrender OF the
Virginia army. The tone of the cores
pondence between Grant and Lee is hon
orable to both. The conditions were such
as it was no disgrace for an overwhelmed
army to accept. Not even Napoieohs
grand army could count series OF more
brilliant victories than the Army OF Fir'
ginia. They won victories until victory
was no longer to be achieved by human
valor, aud then they fell with honor =
Two years ago Lee might have escaped
to Lynchburg, but now the Federal gen
erals made moves with as much rapidlty
and attack as NapOleOn's Marshais. The
Federal army is entitled to rank among
those of the very first military nations.
All attempts to establish a Southern
Confederacy must be abandoned.
The Times of Tuesday says with the
defeat of the Southerners the difficulties
of the Federal Government set in. Al
ter the restoration of Federal authority
and reduction of the South to obedience,
an overwhelming prospect will open be-
fore the Lincoln Administration. bet ween
the conquest of the South and the restor,
alton of the Union in the face OF political
problems of unexampled difficulty. -
Such questions as the regeneration Of
currency, reform of tariff, and manage
ment Of the national debt, important as
they are in themselves, may appear ln-
significant.
The Canadian deputation proceeded
TO London Notwithstanding the strong
sympathy felt for the South
At Liverpool the intelligence OF Lees
surrender was received with great salts
faction, causing increased confidence in
commercial circles.
FRANCE-Count Walweske has been
appointed President of the Corps Legis-
latif. The Mexican Embassy will be
officially received by the Pope shortly,
The American ambassador was received
by the Emperor and Empress. The Sec
retary of the Russian Legation was as
sassinated in France by Russian
RussIA.-The Car died at Nice on
Sunday. -.
BELGIUM.-A meeting was held at
Brussels, followed by a grand denonstra-
tion in honor of the late Federal victor
les An immense procession repaired to
the Federal Consul's residence. The
Consul received the deputatiOn with a
speech. Congratulatory speeches fol
lowed.
The London Times says there seems to
be ou the part of President Lincoln a
desire to conciliate his vanquished fel-
low citizens, under the guidance of Mr.
Seward, who has creditably distinguish
ed himself in the Cabinet by his moder-
ate counsels and whose life will, We
trust, be spared at this crisis to the I'm
ion. He may by gentle measures restore
tranquility, and perhaps before his term
of Office expires calm in some degree the
animosities which have been raised by
these years of war.
The Daily News of Monday, after conf
plimenting Lee for surrendering, alludes
to Mr.. Lincoln's notification to foreign
nations to withdraw the regulations to
which Federal vessels of war are now
subjected in their ports. 1t says this
will not affect us, as with our harbors
at Halifax and in the West Indies We
have no occasion to enter, much less to
remain in n port of the United States.
1t is therefore probably directed against
other nations, whose constantly impen-
ding threats of recognition of the South
has, during the war, so added to the dlf-
ficulties and perplexities of the North
1893 miles of the Atlantic cable are
completed, and l,4O0 already on board
the Great Eastern.