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Important.
A Last Energetic Campaign Against tho
Enemy.


A Last LHcrsetic Campaign Against tho
| Enemy.
WNR pErAErNENr, W AsutSoruN)
Ma Gen DIR:
TIE department hs. received tho following di..
patch from hsjor-Generai Halleck, commanding tho
military division Of the James.
Generals Candy and Thomas were instructed
some days sso, that sherman. Arrangement with
Johnston uns disarproyed by the President and they
were ordered 10 disrogsrd IT, and TO push lhe ouemy
| In every direction.
EDWIN N srASroy, Secretary Of war.
IRON oGSrHAL HALrrcE.
RioHsosh Ns--93oPMl
April 20, 1858 !
Non. y. NJ. stanton, Secretary " var
Generals Meade, sheridan aud Wright are acting
under orders 10 pay regard any truce or Orders
OF Usnera sherman respecting hstil ties, on the
ground that shernan's srcrmeni could bind hls
own command and no other They NJ, directed 10
push forward, REGARDLESS Of orders from any one cr
ccpt General Grant, and cut on Iohn,ton'. retreat
besurcgsrd has telesrsphed to Danviile that q new
arrangement has been made With Sherman and that
the advance Of the Sixth corps va. 10 be su,pondcd
until further order'. have telesraphed back To
obey no orders Of shennAns but 70 push forward as
rapidly ~ pr~sibly
INV h'i' nhNf intnTmhton 10 Gay tnht
Jcf. Davis's specie IL moving south irom Iiill-boro
in wagons, s fast NJ possible. | suggest that orders
he telcsrsphed, through General Thomas that Wilson
OBEY no order from sherman, and noiit Ing him and
Candy aud all commanders the Mississippi, 10 tate
measures to intercept the rebel chiefs and their plum
der Tho specie taken with them Ia estimated hero
Of from siS 10 thirteen millions.
| H. W hALLECK, Major General COMMANDING.
| Shcrmnn's Peace Conference 80 Full and
Interesting Details.
Atthe hrt meeting at which Gene raj Johnston only
was present, no terms wero finally a.,rced upon; a,
the second meeting, however at which Brectlnh ise
oficated conditions we're accepted and papers sign.
cd. General Johnston, on the first day, probably
learned what General shcrinan's terms vcry. Amer
ull consultation with lCf. Davis. who wss AZ
lillsboro, he concluded N accept them, tall In
breck,nrdse with him however, TO draw up tho
P"IRrrTt.' ,,,,,,-,
ton Of the rebel General, Who on tho ith inst, sent
by nAg OF Truce request Tor cessation OF ho-l
until General Grant could h. sent for General SHEER
man ansreted Immediately by saying that II the
surrender Of HI, army a. the object OF such truce hs
was competent sttoud to such van hut fam thing
else wn desired, he wished 10 kno~ IT, Shrn he would
decide whether OF not II would be- necessary 20 read
ior The Lieutenant General. lie was info mod that
he General Sherman, wa. ready To meet him al any
time 10 confer OH the subject Of his want his offer
Wa promptly accepted, and, through Wade llampt, IA,
N" point OF meeting VA agreed UPON. At Nj. Jane.
Bennct- litto hut on the lett Of the ChaIe nm
road, five miles from unrhAm'i station, and Thirty
FROM RALEIGH, the M morabe meeting tcok place.
ienora sherman was accompanied by Iis right and
man, his able Chief Engineer, Col. .. NJ. ro, and
,enctnl Barry with others OF hi. st.h and met zen
johnston, with MAJOR Johnston and hvtRIn HhTup-
ton OF his staff both gencfAls ~eIe nrcuiIpsnied
y, their cavalry generals fitzpatrick and " ade
Alter the more important question, had teen act.
tied Gem. Sherman and .IOhn,ton cOn,.r.,d nsely
and frankly. Gen Shernrn said and ten. Johnston
fairly Admitted, that the grand army Of the Misrsp-
~ vas the less army ever mhn,haied VIII" sa!d
'Iohnson tiny engineer, ny officers and the people
Of South Carolina all insisted u,,on H. that no my
could ever penetrate salkahstchc s-amps, and you
have not only marched your army throuyh H. but
corduroyed and bridgod 1t for mules, aud then dr"s
het you your ifnmtn Se supply train. The liAr could
not hav" leen done hy any other array"
General Wade llAInpton's actions and ccniuct In
thr hsht OF such manly and candid aln,ia'Iln, are
dignity the ahOring classes aud tholuugh fAnstic.m
o. his notion. OF Southern superiority nd chiyalry
worrtad and July Ie-announced the theory that one
Southern man could ship three Northern men. We
Odds, even In hia opinion, from i've TO thee. During
Tue nt"iN ~ Of the two Generals, Col Poe and Ma
joI Jonston, Chief Engineers Of the two armies. had
aIons sud Il endly Interview. MAJOR Johnston cG-
pressed his sdmiTation for tho engneer-
in' .b"iy manifested By shsrman's army
Two officer. questioned each other about INC depart
mems, and =, ne ct oil engineers Teues. Zoe show
200 Owed himself a thgoush gentleman, and M ho
parted from aeor Poe, cEpetsod a hope that they
Ia speaking OF tho armies Of the SouthWesL sherman
Inquired yh.'e ten. wilson with his cavalry was
Nhh Tor toD's FAKE that you would rtop llu. Or he
- iidins al through thai country, tearing eve hing
20 the devil" Gen. sherman tlen SHOW ed johnson q
ditptch he b q Just received tom fillmore, saying
mat Potter with iorce OF infantry aud c.vary Sn-
hnifhinP the work Of devastation In south Carolina
sherman iOtcstaled Johnrtous request 10 have that
stopped b. saying that ho thought II would not hurt
that people 10 heArasi heavier burden. Let Potter
burn tile LONGER" sAid he. zen. Breckinridge
was morose and Teticent. lie shOncd plainly how
deep was his humiliation. lie c1nyeTsed, however,
witu tho.e who addIossed him, and TO zen Sherman
~ dgcur'ion a. to the slavery question made tu.s
remarkable confession. he discussion OF tho claw
cry question II At an end. The amendment 10 the |
Constitution forbiddng slavery Ii perfectly
~ and vi be accepted Ia that 'p,rt BY ia, pcOpe
o N" south" II this Ia the tenV OF the clAsD lac
pEt,rIlsrIy Iepfeseutr, we hail II With gladucss
lac COWS Oi the assaSsinAIiOn OF hr. Lincoln was
received by sherman while al kilpatGick head
quarters on hir way to the first days meeting. We
''o u from lea, sh 'rnsn himte that Gen. john
ron "a checked aud maAiirstcd much feeling
NO c1nCeIn ~ an intimate freud would have done
~" ,l,oi cAlefuin expressed himself deeply psined
a. lie unfortunate event.
General Shermnn's Order Announcing the
Presidents Death.
FrEcIAL FIELD mn so. 50.
HFATQr AEIf RA MILITIA. ..iy. OF THE Nrasta.I