Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-04-22
Latest from Richmond.
OF JOHNsrON's ARMY
E SITS FOR HIS PICTURE.
JEFF DAVIS AT AUGUSTA.
he Is ON THE RUN TO THE MISsIs.
SIPPI.

We a.,e indebted to Captain Young and Mr.
smith, of tie mail boat James T. Brady, for
copies of the Richmond Wing Of yesterday,
from which we glesn the following items Of
interest:
"THK SURRENDER OF JoHNslo N's Army
Advices from Newbern, N. g., On, the 18TH
inst, state that Gen. Sherman had rece,Y ed
flag OF truce from Gen. Johnston, asking IL,
terms OF surrender. Gen. Sherman replied
that he should tender him the same terms as
were granted by Gen. Grant to Gen. Lees
army. There seems to be no reason to doubt
that Johnston has surrendered, the event taking
place about the 18th or Nth inst, in the neigh
borhood Of Smithfield, before which place, at
last accounts, Gen. Sherman was lying
Smithfeld is about midway between Raleigh
and doldsboro. Before the receipt of this news
the general impression here was that Johnston
had retreated in the direction Of Charlotte, N.
u, and had perhaps reached that point. It
would now seem that he has made no move.
ment since the surrender, wisely determining
perhaps, to regulate his efforts according to the
result OF military operations in Virginia. He
IS said to have been strongly intrenched at
Smithfield.
"For some days it has been reported here
that the so.called Confederate Government,
consisting Of JEFF Davis and a handful of his
ofhce.holders, had reached Augusta and
made q show to establish itself there, pre-.
paratory to a flight to the Trans Mississippi"
General Lee and staff-or rather those who
accompanied him 70 Richmond-were yester-
day photographed In group by Mr. Brady, of
New York Six different sIttings were then
taken of General Lee, eacn in q different pos
,ure, and all were pronounced admirable pic
lures"
1.-The first auction sale since the occupation
OF Richmond by the Federal forces was held
yesterday at the auction house OF E. b. Cook,
sraeeay out hs aHejSnes1 came aown
OF fifty and one hundred dollar bids, and took
eFE a. n to BIDS OF nifty cents and one
tendance was not large neither was the bid.
oing spirited, but good many articles OF fur
hlnre were sold. stained wardrobe, syery
superior and NICE so the auctioneer said
Drougnt eleven dollars-Cenfederate estimate
Two nunared and fifty dollars. A mahogany
five hundred dollars before tho araonot,on
went on not very readily at ele ven dollars and
other necessary articles of houseseenine a.
with icrmer prices. S0np"ieo
1--WE obs., We that Messrs John II o
Brandt, citizens, are about laying the tonrys {"
tons Of an extensive guiding on the eornsr a.
Main and Sth streets, opposite the Spots 800 "a
gists, at the corner of Main and Governor sts
are also clearing away the ruins OF their for
per establishment, preparatory 70 erecting
another. otpers are moving ia the enterprise
WI. be resonant with the music of hammer and
trowel, all over the burnt desert now more
dreary than the ruins Of Herculaneum.
"THR AHTI.SECRssIoNIsTs-T "ordi-
nance Of secession" was adopted by the Vir-
ginia Convention on the I7tn OF April, 1861, by
vote OF yeas Sc. nays SIS. Among those who
voted in the negative were John Janney, of
LoudouR, the venerable President of the Con.
representative in the "Confsderate Congress"
from the ssTenth Legion District" George W.
Brent, formerly Bragg's Adiutant General;
w. II. b. Custis, of Accomac; VIM. H. Dulany.
OF Fairfax; Jubal A. Early, formerly "Com-
mander OF the Department OF the Valley" J.
G.. Holiday, OF Portsmouth; Samuel Mel
Moore, OF Rockbridge; Samuel Price, Of Green
brier, "Lieutenant Governor of Virginia."
Hoa Alex. II. II. Stuart, of Augusta Hon.
George W. Summers, of Kanawha, and Hon
WA. q. Wickham, Of Hanover.