Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-01
Dispatches from Various Sources.

!or the pardon OF Jeh. Davis aud the other
leading insurrectionary conepirators, but
the Lieut., General would listen to nothing
OF the kind and Johnston was compelled
10 oe satisfied with the conditions granted
to Lee.
The Herald's Washington special SAYS.
information has reached Washington that
! the rebel steam ram Alinda, alias Stone.
wall, arrived ct Teneriffe, in the Canary
!slsnds. on the 3lst of March, in three days
from Lisbon. She was allowed to coal and
provision. She. was ordered to leave the
port 10 "a hours. She left on the lst inst,
steaming rapidly southwsrd, but her desti.
nation was unknown. The Navy Depart
ment in anticipation of the appearance of
the StoneWall in some of our harbors. ia
making proper distribution Of suitable ves
sells along the Atlantic seaboard
Intelligence of the arrival of JEFF. Davis
and his accompanying fugitives, as far
south as South Carolina, has been received
in Washington. 1t is thought he will be
intercepted before reaching the Mississippi
river. 81.
The Herald Selma, Ala, despatch says:
Among the prisoners captured here are i5O
officers. :
Lieut.. Dick Taylor made his escape in
steamboat.
N. B. Forrest, Dan Adams, Roddy ARM
strong and Grassland, under cover of the
darkness, reached a swamp east of the city,
and eluded capture.
The officers composing the staff were
taken. -
Forests ordnance officer, Capt. Bond,
reports Forrest as wounded 10 two places
in the arm. ..a-a .,.a
McOrecken and McOook attacked Jack
sons front and rear at Tryon, but having
travelled by widely different roads their at
tacks were not simultaneous, else be must
have been destroyed. The. destruction of
the bridge over the Cahswba, and Croxton's
movement towards Tuscaloosa rendered
it utterly impossible for Forrest to carry
out his plans. -
Cahawba cspitulsted yesterday, and
about 20 of our prisoners confined there
for long time we're released. They had
been we'll treated.
The Herald's Washington special says
the post mortem examination of Booths
body showed that the ball did not touch
the brain, but striking the spinal column
produced immediate paralysis. The opiu-
ION OF :he Surgeons is that he must have
died terrible death, the brain being &C.
tive and consciousness complete up to the
very moment of dissolution. Nearly all
the parties directly implicated are now in
custody.
Surrat, the Seward assassin is brother
OF the st. Albans raider. There are six
brothers, all reckless and daring. Two
were with Walker in Nicaragua.
Edwin Booth arrived here to. day to ask
for his brothers body. The request will
not be granted.
INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL LEE.
The Herald's Richmond correspondent
recounts an interview he has had with
General Lee. he called on him to obtain
his political views aRd lay them before the
public. On informing General Lee of his
object, the latter said, al am q paroled
prisoner" and added. ~ have never been
a politician and know but little of political
leaders. am q soldier" He further said
he was ready to make any sacrifice or per-
form any honorable act that would tend to
the restoration of peace and tranquility to
the country. He said that as q believer in
State rights, he had considered his allegi-
ance due primarily to his native State. He
had opposed secession, but when his State
went out he considered it his duty to 20
with it. When he accepted command un.
der the rebel government he considered be
was serving his state. He regarded his
surrender as Of military, not political sig
nifcsuce; that it was not a surrender of
the doctrine of State rights. When the
South was wholly subdued, only would
the doctrine of State rights be surrendered.
The surrender of q single army was only q
military necessity. When the South sur.
renders ell its forces and returns to the
Union, then only will she surrender her
tavorite position. That principle will then
be settled by military power.
On this question of State sovereignty,
hn FanfaNHu khoPo aviafa
eGSus 6eli. The question was left unset.
tied in the convention forming the origi-
nal law, and the war is destined to settle
1t. Therefore the war raised in this Issue
cannot be called treason. If the South
is forced to submit, it, Of course, can only
be looked upon as the triumph of the fed.
eral power over State rights, and the forced
annihilation Of the latter. The South have
not been, and are not yet, prepared to beg
for terms, but are ready to accept fair and
honorable terms, their own political views
being considered. As to slavery, they con-
slider it dead, and the best men have long
been anxious to do away, with it. He ex1
plicitly expressed the opinion that, should
arbitrary, or vindictive, or reyengeful poli-
cies be adopted, the end was not yet.
he regarded the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln ss crime beyond execration.
~ Oou'u uob 10 hpPEoteu W Auy Roou mRu
from any conceivable motive. AS to the
terms of peace, to the suggestion that the
political leaders only be held to strict &C,
countability, he asked, "would that bejust2
What has Mr.. Davis done more than any
other Southerner that he. should be pun
ished2 1t is true he has occupied prom
inent position ss the agent of the whole
people, but that has made him no more
nor less rebel than the rest. His acts
were the acts of the whole people and the
acts of the whole people we're his, acts. he
is not accountable for the commencement
of the struggle. On the contrary he was
one Of the last to give in his adherence TO
the secession movement, having strenuous.
ly opposed itifrom the outset, and portray
cd its ruinous consequences by speeches
and by writings.
CoIUMBus, April 2s.-Notwithstanding