The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-25

On proof of these facts, he was con-
victed of acting as spy and carrying
on irregular and illegal warfare The
nersDn who testified to his confession OF
having SETON fire Barnum's Museum and
one Of the hotels in the lower part OF
the city was not under duress or an &C.
complete, was a reluctant witness, ana
could have had no motive to make false
statement. He is corroborated by other
testimony.
4 YANKEE SENSATION "REBEL-
LION" DEAD AGAIN.
The New York papers have a new
sensation, and this time have pronounced
the Confederacy dead, and Coroner Lin
coin sitting upon the body. A WASH
ington Telegram q the Goth, in the New
York Herald, says:
The Administration has received di-
rect intelligence from Richmond, within
the last forty eight hours, to the effect
that jeff. Davis, as well as General Lee,
gives up the ship. JEFF. Davis has also
nroposed to withdraw from the contest
himself and leave the arbitrament OF the
whole affair to General Lee and General
Grant. Let those two generals settle
the terms of adjustment.
This fact has come so well authcptl:
Gated to the Administration that the
president and Secretary Seward have
had a lengthy consultation over it. But
it seems that they'do not agree. Secre-
tary Seward urges that they had better
accept that mode of settlement, but the
President opposes it. The latter declares
| that, if there are no more negotiations,
the rebels will soon accept his terms
offered at Hampton Roads, and we will
then get rid of the leaders. But if we
leave it to Grant and Lee to arrange
terms, the latter will try to retain his
place in the United States army, and
secure offices for all his associates, even
JEFF. Davis. Says the President: 1t is
said that you are candidate Tor the
Presidency, Governor who knows but
that The cnpperheads may not yet run
jeff. Davis against you for this Office, Il
we 81 tile this affair without getting rid
of the leaders?"
An arrival from Richmond today re-
presents things in the rebel capital as
almost in q state of chaos. Every per
son able to render military. service Of
any kind has been seized and put in the
ranks. The operations of Sheridan had
created the widest panic, and everybody
, is looking out for himself.
i The person bringing this information
!, had no difficulty in getting to our lines
, He says that the prices of everything
!, had more than doubled since Sheridan's
wholesale destruction of the canal and
railroads. Flour is selling at fifteen hun
dred dollars per barrel, meat at ten dol
lars per pound, whiskey at four hundred
dollars per gallon, and other things in
4, proportion. Board at the hotels is one
hundred dollars per day, and the com
monest board per day for laborers is ten
d ,llrs.
There was special Cabinet meeting
here this afternoon, it is understood, il
: i reference to the news fr0m RlchmOfis
and the impending. breaking up Of tn
military forces of the rebellion.
It is also reported here tonight, Of
r what is claimed to be good authority
I'll that jeff. Davis has abdicated in favo
. Of Lee, who will assume the dictator
ship IS last desperate hope Of post
poning, for brief time. the complet
r breaking up and destruction Of the Con
: fedsracy.
I The HeyalTs editor, desiring not I
b behind in closing up the "Jef
Davis Government" puts in the follow
Ing on his own account:
{ The rebel Congress has adjourned %
s cleared out; and, II not already gon,
q before they are irretrievsbly hemmed il
81 the rebel President Cabinet, scrip "a
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