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NEWS By TELEGRAPH
SHERIDAN'S VICTORY |
Reported Capture Of
Lees Army.
REBEL ARMY AGAIN
ROUTED.
.MGssy Ps.isOssess and Cass-
NON Taken.
Five General Officers Cap
tured.
r1Tz HUGH LEE, E2R.
SHAW AND OTHERS.
SHERMAN AND HANCOCK
IN MOTION.
49, { IL Err PEAtE ECONFERE ENCE
EWELL, r7Tz HUGH LEE, XRR
SHAW AND OTHERS.
SHERMAN AND HANCOCK
IN MOTION.
AatIA Err PEACE CONFERENCE
G 0 L D l4s s-s.
and other Generals Gap ptursd-Wany
Prisoners, Guns and Wagons Taken.

Lees Army Routed-EwsIl, xsIshsw.
and other Generals Gap ptursa-mahy
Prisoners, ouns and Wagons Taken.
Washington, April I'll .. m.
To Major General Dix:
The following telegram announcing
the victory won yesterday by General
Sheridan over Lees army has just been
received by this Department:
(Signed) E. N. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
City Point. April 7-s:35 q. m.
Hon. L. NJ. Stanton:
At 1l:l5 p. IN. yesterday. at Burkes-
vile Station, Gen. Grant sends me the
follow from Gen. Sheridan.
(Sgned) A. LINCOLN.
"April 6-ll:l5 p. m.
Lieut.. Gen. q. S. Grant:
l have the honor to report that the
enemy made stand at the intersection of
the Burkes Station Road with the road
upon which they were reueating. | st-
tackled them with two division of the 9Th
army corps and routed them handsomely.
Making q connection With the cavalry,
am still pressing on with both cavalry
and infantry. Up 10 The present time
xe have can,ured Gems. Eweil, Ksrshaw,
Button. Corse, Debsrry aud Curtis Lee,
several thousand prisoners, fourteen
| pieces artillery with caissons and large
number of wagons. II the thing is press
ed | think Lee will surrender.
(Signedl F. II. SHERIDAN,
Major Gen.
City Point, April To a. m.
Hon. E. NJ. Stanton:
The following further intelligence is
just received.
(Sigued) A. LINCOLN.
| Bufkesvlle, Va, April 6.
To A. Lincoln:
The following telegram is respectfully
forwarded for general information
/ (sigued) Z. S. GRANT
Lieutenant General,
"Second Army Corps. April 6. I
Il f.Oo u. III.
To Maj. Gen. A. s. Webb:
| Our last fight jist before dark at Sailors
Creek, gave us two guns, three flags. and
considerable number of prisoners, 2Ol
/ wsgoos, 10 ambulances with mules and
horses, and about one half The wagons and
ambulances. There are between 50 and
so wagons in addition abandoned and
destroyed along the road. somo battery
wagon, forges aud ,imbers.
/ I have already reported to you the
capture of one gun, TWO flaes and some
prisoners, and the fact tha, the road fol
over two miles is s,rewed with tents and
baggage. cooking utensils, some ammu-
milton and material of oil kinds. The
wagons are across the approach to the
bridge. and it will take some time to cleal
lit. The enemy is in position on the
heights beyond With artillery. The
bridge is partially destroyed and the ap
proaches o. the other side are Of soft bot
tom land We canno, advance TO- -morros
in the same manner We have to-day. Al
soon a. get my troops up little We ar,
considerably mixed) might push
column down the road. but it Is eviden
! cannot follow rapidly during lhe night
(Signed) A. A. HuMPHREY,
Major General"
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NeW Iork, April 4.
The Commercial special says intelli
genee from the Upper Potomac to day
says that Hancock's column ID in motion
up the Shenandoah valley towards Lynch.
burg. Should Lee manage to survive
Grant's blows lie front Hancock viii strike
his rear
The Commercial says this is thb move
ment Il referred to several days si4ce. Az.
ter repeated delays it has at last started.
The troops are Of the 9Th corps.
Another Washington correspondent
says Sherman's column 10 again id motion
and 1t u believed Johnston will not at
tempt to hold Raleigh but retreat to the
interior.
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VastVs APfH &.
L,te Western Louisians a,counts rep
resent great scarcity Of breadssuffs about
Alexandria Mach saitsring and scarcity
Of forage compelled the rebel esvairy q
depart for Texas. The infantry has also
been withdraw from Alexandria and en-
camped 1t Natehitocbss. The Confederate
troops a. Brownsville have been removed
to Galveston.
JEFF. Thnupson's order assuming CON-
mand OF the rebel Northern Sch. District
OF Arkansas directs agents sppointsd 10
each county to exact one-third of oil cot
ton offered for export or collect oue-third
Of the receipts Of cotton exported.
Two husdred and twenty -pine bales Of
cotton received yesterday from Memphis
for st. Louis.
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New York, April I.

New York, April I.
Another spontaneous meeting took place
on the announcement Of ths capture and
capi,ulasion of Lees army. It was sds
dressed BY number of leading citisens
A committee va, appointed 70 visit the
Governor and request him to designate
some other day than Good Friday for the
great celebration day.
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sHERMAN,s GENERAL ORDER.
We have been kindly furnished By our
friend, Col. Archer, with the following
General Order of congratulaiion ISSUED
by Gen. Sherman to his victorious army
Headq's Dept and Army Of the Ten J
ne.sce, near Mill Greek, N. c..
March gid. 1865.
The General commanding takes great
pleasure and pride in publishing the FOL.
lowing congratulatory order Of the Gen
eralin Caief:
Headq's Nil. Div. Miss. in the Field !
near Bensonvile, N. O., March 22. I
The General commanding announces to
this army lhat yesterday it beat, on its
chosen ground, the concentrated armies
OF our enemy. who has fsd in disorder,
leaving his dead, wounded aud prisoner
ia our hands and burning the bridges on
his retreat.
On the same day Maj. Gen. Schofeld
from Newbern, entered and occupied
Goldsboro. and Asjor General Terry from
Wiimisgton, secured Cox's Bird 9e cross
ing and laid ; pontoon bridge across
Nsu1 river, - thai our campaiga hiss 70
suited in glorious success after marcf
Of the most extraordinary character, neal
Eve husdfed miles, over ssamps ant
rivers deemed impassabls to others, u
the most incleunsas sesSoAI of the year
and deriving our chief supplies from ,
poor and wasted eo1nary.
I thank the army and assure i tha
our Govessnsat and EpeOpls shenor tAen
for this new display Of the physical an'
moral qualities which reject hosor upo
tho Whole nation.
You shalt nov have rsst, and Ill d
suppliss that can Be brought ffon q
|reh ssaaaries and stcrshoases of -
magnificent countFy bstess senis emtafl
ias o asw asd aatfis1 dagger.
(Sieass W 4. 6nEa1lAN,
Major 0s1ssAl Co.. = 11isg.
Il foarI0IAt y
- 1s,sene, - I ~ oson.
&C., z4 4x z5xa4s II s4*4~E
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Nfw zepfrfisflllents.

+ IST OF LETTERS REMAINING
~ in The Post 0nce, at Esokuk, o. The sth day q
April, 1895.
TO obtain any of these letters the applIcanas mnsi
call for a1seSsd issys give the OF his list and
pay one cent Tor sdsertislne.
Arlf not called Tor within ens nDskh they viii be sent
70 the Dead Letter O6sAe.
RA nssssssfor Jktsrn Of letter to the wrter
unclaimed within thirty days less written printed
With the writer's ssn<, Pose.Gss and STATE the
efthand end Of the envelope, tls face side viii be
complied With st the usual prepaid Of postage
able when the letter 10 delivered to the wrfer-bec r.
uT1
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Philadelphia, April 7.

Jay Cooke hss received I dispatch from
Washington stating that the report that
Gen. Robert E Lse is taken u contradict
ted. II il Fits Hugh Lee. We have sbs
army, however. excspt small ffagmsalDI
whose capture sith Lee, Sheridan reports
inevitable.
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g. Louis, APnI I.
Extensive frauds By Illinois vbi,key
dislillers have been discovered amount.
ing to half million dollars, BY evadine
the revense tax. 1904 barrels
consigned to merchants in this city have
been seizsd during the past week By the
authorities.
The rebel eapturs Of Fort Smith has
been coatradioted. The Federals occu-
pied il on the Sd.
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New York. Aptil I.

New York. April I.
Tho Washington Intelligeneer Of yes
terdsy on good sushorisy rays that the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue
will in day or two issue an order author
ixing the taxation Of all tobacco brought
from any Southern port to the North,
there being no officers Of internal reveus
there for the time being
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cg The Congregationalists have es-
tablisbed q church at Salt Lake City.
- The Central Bank At New Yo

Ez The Central Bank At New York,
which lately had 69, 900 in Goveromen.
bonds stolen from its copnter. paid 0iO.-
0OO for the recovery Of the properly
Half Of it went to the great mogul Of
New York thieves, together with prom
ise from the bank thas nobody should hs
prossealed. 81 stealing i ssts sAd
pseGsabie b1aiaslD = llsv Fefk.
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Toronto. April. I

The ST. Adams raiders arrived here to-
day frpm Montreal. and we're bsoaghs s..
fore the Recorder chsrged wi,h nisds.
meanor. They applied ior delay % %.
tsio counsel which was gsaslpd. 4ksy
wsrf ssmaaded ssd ~ sase sdisasoed
|tin 9eadag. 80 s.
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xes's whole Army Captured.

HI'aue'PHias APtI =
Jay Cooke received dispatch from
II. p. Cooke at Washington, l:l6, stating
that Lees whole army Is coraered and
has surrendered. This il positive.
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New York. Aptil !.
The steamer Empire City, from New
Orleans and Key West, brought one hun
dred and seventy bales Of cotsdn con-
signed to Capt. Wagner, Who will sell it
Immediately Tor the bene6: Of rebel pris-
oners, it being the balance Of that turned
over by the rebel General Maury for that
purpose.
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Oltawa, H., Apfil Z.
The Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph
Company has declared semi annual divi-
dend Of per ceot.
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Washington, April Z.

WasHfHEtUHy AHfH z.
Secretary Seward is rather mo com.
Portable today than yesterday. His in
juries are psinful but exhibi. no unfavor-
able symptoms
The Navy Department has received the
following:
Point Lockout. April 6.
To Hon. Gideon WeIies:
The Harriet Dfeoyd il 10 fndiaA Greek
blockaded BY several Of my gunboats.-
As soon ss the light draft gunboAts get
up she will be recap,ured Of des kroyed
respectfully, +. A r..
Commanding Potomac Flolllla.
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osll llalkst.
Nsw York. Anil !.

Specalatiea i quiet in the gold room.
There is 40 abuodauss Of cash gold ia the
market. Sheridan's brilliant sncesss pro.
duced slight shock upon the price.
which opened at 1904 and fell to Ia.
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Washington, April I.

A salute was 6red early this afternooI
on the reception of the intelligence Of
yesterdays victory.
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pOARDING Persons wishing pri
rate Loard can hear of vsry pleasant pace ny a
dressing D., Of this Office. srrs-iIt
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Cola Market.

New York, April I.
Gold tonight l49s.
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"ANTED-By . respectable young
W lady. situation in d Fancy or Dry Goods store
Who talk both English and German. Address, Miss
L. y. W., r. o., keoknk, Iowa apr7-det
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-02-13
The Alexauaria Gazst1e
MONDAY EVENING. FEB l3.
ggws BY ro~Dzy's Nail.

The Richmond " Nig 81 '''s> wa
The proceedings Of the HAAS iilte''''g ae'a 10
Richmond on the 9;h. wlli'h was presided
over by f III. T. Huoter. The resolutions
we're of. red by Il. " Shelley: speaker q tho
f,ouse Of Delegates Speeches we've ul''i>e ~
Mr.. Hunter, Mr Benjamin, aud otherz. lie
resolutions and esches were all togs V1sor~
Gus prosecution Of the war, and were warmly
and enthusiastically adopted and chcered.
The New York News contains-a letter from
f,ondon giving an account OF the sailing OF two
Confederate iron clads from France, destined
70 attack some of the Northern ports, and Of
secret treaty between the Emperor Of the
French and the Southern authorities The
News says it's correspondent IS Trustworthy
but the Northern payers call it sensation
story and 'scanard, and say ii is SO re
garded.
Capt. E. P Scott, IA nephew Of Lieutenant
General Scott and confined in the Old Capt.
tol for some time past as prisoner or war,
has been released upon bis parole, and with
the conditions that he will Immediately re-
port to General Scott in person at New York,
and subject himself to such restrictions as the
General may deem lrcper.
The Washington Chronicle of this morning
says: ''At an early hour yesterday morning,
The Hall of Representatives was filled with
mixed audience of black and white who as
semblel for the purpose of listening to the
sermon of Rev f. Fl, Garnet, the first color
ed man whose voice has ever been heard in
he nations council cham ber -
A Washington special dispatch to the n.
Y. Herald states that the Danish Govern
ment has sold one Of the Bordeaux rams to the
South, and that Consul Dudley, at London, in
informing the e. S. Government Of the fact,
mentions recent shipment of fifty sailors to
man her for Immediate service. The news is
headed, important if true
A communication received at the b. S. Ma
w Department yesterday, announces the des-
truction of blockade runner off Charleston.
She was discovered aground by the outside
blockade, hut she was abandoned and fired by
the crew. She is burnt entirely out Her
hull was of iron:
The National Intelligencer thinks that the
foundation Of peace will be upon State &C.
ton, and hopes president Lincoln will not
reject such States as may desire to come hack
into the Union
The Richmond Wing of the 9th instant an
nounces the death, at Florence, S. c., on the
9Th inst, of Brigader General John Fl.
Winder.
The heaviest tall of snow occurred in Phil.
adelphia yesterday that has taken place for
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Exchange Of Prisoners.
Mr. Wade, OF Saturday, made a report to
The T. S Senate Of Zen. Grants testimony

the u. HaJE VI 'C',H uldht tCobitHohr
with resract to EXCHANGES. The report states
that Gen, Grant has made iii arrangement Tor
| the eycha1ge OF man for man, according to the
original cartel, uali q complete exchange is
ctnsun: mated Il is expected TO deliver the
II ;scners at tie rate q three thousand per
Week. Those at Salisbury and Dunville are
sl1ea<lv I,aiug transferred TO the Faderal lines.
Lieut.. Col .In!hurt! agent OF exchange, lett
{, " arlington On Saturday 'uoroing TO resume
his 10, po;iant duties connected with the ex
GLANCE Of prisoners. He confidently expects
20 make exchanges at the rate Of 5000 per
week. aud to continue reducing she number
in this sort until be shall have furnished 1u}l
exchange
1t is stated that arrests have been made in
| Washington of persons implicated IN frauds as
exhibited by Col Bakers operations IN New
! ork Baker is still prosecuting his lnvest1ga-
tons in this city and vicinity relative to the stu
pendous frauds of the bounty brokers and
bounty jumpers Many Of the brokers, becom-
ing alarmed, have left the city. One man, who
was the treasurer Of thriving house, engaged
in the fraudulent bounty certificate business,
has left for Europe with the funds Of the CON
Germ, amuounting to forty thousand dollars in
gold, in his possession.
| It is stated in the Washington Star that
| decision has been made by the !. S. author
tiles, in the cases Of refugees to the effect that
| whenever it is clearl proven that they have
been driven away from their homes, and are
but temporarily residing in the Federal lines,
| they will be exempt from the draft Parties
who have voluntarily left the Southern States,
! and established their residence within the
| Federal lines are not exempt under this
| decision.
| Gen. Pegram. Of the Confederate army, who
was killed at the battle Of Hatcher's Run, is
said, had been married but few weeks be,
fore TO Miss Hetty Cary, formerly Of Bal.
timore.
| Gen. Sorrell was not killed at the battle Of
Hatchers run. He was wounded in the
| lungs, bat his wound is not considered mortal
1t is stated that the Board of Investigation
appointed by the government to look into tie
alleged misconduct at the Philadelphia Arse
nal, has recovered two hundred thousand dol
lars already, from various sources. and that
tie additional sum of three hundred thousand
dollars is ascertained, and will be recovered
On Tuesday last, about dozen Confeder
ate soldiers dashed into the town of Centre
vile, Upshur county, Nd, and took the ma
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-02-13
y. S. CONGRESS. =

u. S. CONGRESS- In the Senate, On Sa1or.
day, a number Of bills Ct a local char,
acter were disposed Of. The civil aporoprj*
fion hill was perfected and an amt oGaesr
adopted increasing the salaries i I'll ha A..
sistant secretaries Of Departments 70 s. $40
The freedmen bill was made The special ordar
tor Monday.
II the House, Gen Grant Appeared 81, the
floor. and was warmly received The Hoase
went Into committee on tbs internal yeyers
bill, and The proposed anen:jso@nt increasing
tie tax on malt liquors 1T y cents per barred
was rejected. The amendment taxing mirers
$40 Tor a license WAS adopted.
In the report Of the proceedings o. the &.
S. Senate, on Saturday. the following singular
speech is put down as having been made ty
Mr. Salisbury, of Delaware, while the civi!
appropriation bill was Under Discussion
MIR. Salisbury said he had seen General
Grant for the fist time this morning on the
floor Of the Senate aud Il seemed to him
MIR. S. that the President had made gres:
mistake in appointing him u that high posi-
ton; that man who did not know how 70
cut swell better han he ought not to ae
Lieutenant General Why, there wasn't
lieutenant of he Home guard il the State Ct
Delaware that couldn't keep up a bigger style
than this man, whom the President had irju.
diciously selected Tor Lieutenant General
There WASH lieutenant CT provost u'arSha!
that Mr.. Stanton Sent down to keep the PEG
pie Of Delaware from voting. that wou}n
cut better swell than Gen. Grant, He (llI.
S. thought this fit subject Tor tha consider
alton Of The Senate. Laughter.
A very dangerous fifty cent counterfeit note
is in circulation. Good judges are unable to
detect the difference without very close exan'-
nation. TIE paper is somewhat thinner, and
that is probably, the best test to try them ~
Judge Hughes, Of the i. S. Cou't Of CI'lms
has resigned his position On the bench ct that
court. Richard ". Thompson, Esq, OF In
diana, has been appointed by the President 70
the vacancy.
JOSEPH L. JANNE1,
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-10-11
Two Naughty Clergymen,

Robert Burnes, in his day, often had oc.
casion to chastise with his satiric quill the
debauched and drunken clergy Of priest
ridden Scotland, Of whom he wrote:
Even ministers they had been kennd in holy rapture
70 visit theatres and spe I'd their night IN laughter
A hundred years afterwards a case turns
up in Chicago which fits SO nicely in the
above text that, would space allow, the jour
nalist might preach lengthy discourse on
Nhistory repeating ITSELF"
Last evening, at Colonel Woods museum,
during the performance of Speed and Plough
q gentleman in the audlance announced to
the attendance that he had been robbed of
five hundred dollars. The detectives were
out on the scent, ard began eyeing inquls.
lively every countenance in the theatre. AT
length M G.. Edwards, superintendent Of
the museum, discovered couple of gay and
festive paIs,' with eye glasses and canes,
twiring their moustaches in the most fash
ionable abandon, and apparently with much
experience in the business. HIS quick eye
discovered that the hair was unnaturaly
long, and that it sat rather too jauntily on
the face to be the result of nature or un-
guents. He therefore informed the detec-
tives, and the two fellows werc "pulled" and
taken into a private room.
On searching them, what was the horror
of the officers to find beneath the gay whis-
kers and flashing breastpins two clergy men,
who had disguised themselves for the pur
pose Of indulGing in little "unlawful and
unholy amusement" One of them had on
an enormous false monstache and was fixed
up in the most RECHERCHE style, reg rdless
of expense. The other wore thin mask
over the lower part of his face, which com
pletely disguised his features. Papers of a
theological character were found on their
persons, but this was unnecessary, as they
made full confession. saying that they only
desired to see what the theatre was like in
order that they might teach their respective
hocks to shun such evil places.
One Of these theatrical clergyman spends
his Sabbaths in preaching to sleepy Chica-
20 audience the other land thank Heaven
Chicago has not TO father them both,) is q
minister from the country. who has left his
fock few days to visit the State FIir-snd
the Theatre.-[Chicago Tribune, Sept Sth.l