Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-04-27

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NEWS OF THE DAY. #y
official War Bulletins.
Yesterday evening bearer of dispatches
arrived from General Sherman. An agree
mcnt for suspension of hostilities, and a
memorandum of what is called basis fol
peace had been entered into on the 18th inst,
by General Sherman, with the rebel General
johnson. Brigadicr General Breckenridge
was present at the conference. --,-.-.
A Cabinet meeting was held at s o'clock in
the evening, at which the action of General
Sherman was disapproved by the President,
by the Secretary of War, by General Grant,
and by every member of the Cabinet Gen.
Sherman was ordered to resume hostilities
Immediately, and was directed that the in
struations given by the late President, in the
following telegram, which was penned by Mr..
Lincoln himself, at the Capitol, on the night
Of the Sd Of March, were approved by Presi-
dent Andrew johnson, and were reiterated to
govern the action of military commanders.
On the night of the Sd of March, while
President Lincoln and his Cabinet were at
the Capitol, telegram from General Grant
was brought to the Secretary of War; inform
ing him that General Lee had requested an
interview, or conference, to make an arrange
ment for terms of peace. The letter of Cen
eral Lee was published in letter to JEFF
Davis and to the rebel Congress. Gen. Grant s
telegram was submitted to Mr.. Lincoln, who,
ftar tonly hi,
pen and wrote with his own hand the follow
ing reply, which he. submitted to the Sccre-
tary of State and Secretary of War; 1t was
then dated, addressed and signed by the Sec
retary of War, and telegraphed to General
Grant ....,..
WASHINGTON, March 8, lS65-l2 P. NJ
Lieut. General Grant. as-..
The President directs me to say to you that
he wishes you to have no conference with
General Lee, unless it be for the captulaton
of General Lees army or on some minor or
purely military matter. He instructs me to
say that you are not to decide, discuss or con-
fer upon any political questions. Such ques-
tions the President holds in his own hands,
and will submit them to no military confer
ences or conventions. Meantime, you are to
press to the utmost your military advantages
[Signed] EDWIN M. STANTON,
%. Secretary of War.
The orders of General Sherman to General
Stoneman to withdraw from Salisbury and
join him, will probably open the way for Da-
Wis to escape to Mexico or Europe with his
plumber which is reported to be very large, in
cluding not only the plunder of the Richmond
banks, but previous accumulGtions
A dispatch received by this Department,
from Richmond, says: 1t is stated here, by
respectable parties that the amount of specie
taken south by jeff Davis and his partisans
is verg large, including not only the plunder
of the Richmond banks, but previous accu-
mutations They hope, it is said, to make
terms with General Sherman, or some other
commander, by which they will be permitted,
with their effects, including this gold plunder,
to go to Mexico or Europe, Johnstons nego
tiations look to this end. .. .......
After a Cabinet meeting last night Gener-
al Grant started for North Carolina to direct
operations against Johnston army
EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
DO. .a. Secretary of War.
BOOTH AND HIS ACcOMPILCEs. a@
Washington, April 90
Major General Dix: ...
The murderer of our late beloved President
Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. Fifty
thousand dollars reward will be paid by this
Department for his apprehension in addition
to any reward offered by municipal authorities
or State Executives.
Twenty-Five thousand dollsys reward will be
paid for the apprehension Of G. A. Surratt,
sometimes called "Port Tobacco" one of
Booth accomplices %.
twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be
paid for the apprehension of David G. Har-
DID, another Of Booths occomplices. 5.r
A liberal reward will be paid for any infor-
nation that shall cenduce to the arrest of Ell
ther of the .above-named criminals Or their
accomplices. "".t N ..F #r H-@
All persons harboring or secreting the said
persons, or either of them, Or aiding or assist
ing their concealment or escape, will be treat
ed US accomplces in the murder of the Pres
ident, and the attempted assassination of the
Secretary of State, and shall be subject to tri-
al before military commission and the pun
ishment of death o to" sIs. rs.
Let the stain Of innocent blood be removed
from the land by the arrest and punishment of
the murderers. All good citizens are exhort-
ed to aid public justice on this occasion. Ev-
cry man should consider his own conscience
charged with this solemn duty, and rest neither
night nor day until it be accomplished.
.. r.t r.~ E. NJ STANTON,
/ Secretary of War.