Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-06

nav YoRK, Feb. THE morning papers
throw no light on the negotiation between
President Lincoln and Sec'y Seward, and
the rebel commissioners. The interview
lasted sixteen hours.
According TO the Herald the President
is reported to have proposed to Messrs.
Stephens, Hunter and Campbell that il
they were prepared to promise q return OF
their States to the Union, he WAS ready to
waive all minor questions; but that as
Chief Magistrate of the Republic, sworn
to maintain the Union, he could make no
consideration, no terms which involved it's
division.
This grand point the rebels confessed
they did not feel able to decide, and so the
negotiation conference took place entirely
on board one or the other of the tbres
steamers which were anchored in Hampton
Roads, where the negotiations could not be
interrupted.
The proceeding were conducted in the
most cordial and frank manner on both
sides, but on the part OF Mr.. Lincoln at
least, with equal frmness. Great anxiety
is now felt to hear from Richmond.
The Herald's correspondent from Sher-
mans army describes the opening of that
Generals campaign by the left wing of the
army under Gen. Slocum, which had ar.
rived at Sisters Ferry on the Savannah
river, 90 miles above the city of Savannah;
without meeting any opposition whatever
from the enemy.
Two divisions of the 2sth corps which
struck out for that point through the State
OF South Carolina, had considerable diff
Guilty in getting through the swamps. The
other troops which moved directly up the
Georgia bank Of the river had not such
difficulties to contend with. On the 10th
ult., all of Slocum's men were at SISTERS
Ferry, and supplies were being rapidly re-
cetved. Tho right wing of the army is
operating in a better country for marching
than the left and at some distance from it,
but communication between the two is
kept uninterrupted.
One correspondent states that Sherman
proposes ''stirring South Carolina at the
rate of 20 miles day
A Port Royal paper gives full particulars
of the loss of the monitor Patspsco and the
gunboat Docking, already recorded. The
Pstapsco was sunk in the harbor of Charles.
ton on the.night of the 18th of last month,
by one of the torpedoes. She went down
in 20 tathoms after she was struck, and
go of her crew were drowned, AZ being
saved. The Docking got aground 10 the
Combabee river, s. Carolina, on the 26th
0Ab "HO hAtSE LuhLubhlQl0R q severe 0R1t
for several hours and it becoming apparent
to her officers that she could not be got
of they set FIRE to her aud she was burned
to the waters edge All her officers and
Grew escaped. a few hours previous to
the catastrophe which befel her the Doeck.
ing captured the blockade runner Co.
quette, from Charleston for Nassau, with a
cargo of cotton.
Gen. Breckiuridge is expected to assume
the position of Secretary of War to-mor-
row. -.......
They have story in Richmond that
troops, from Gen. Thomas army, to rein
force Gen. Grant in front of the rebel cap
ital, have recently passed over the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
a committee of the New York Legisla-
ture recently had conference with JEFF.
Davis. 1t is said that they urged yigor.
Gus prosecution of the war.
a The Richmond Dispatch says that it viii
require several months yet to rebuild the
railroads in Georgia that sherman de-
stroyed. 1t also says that it is folly to at
tempt to Disguise the fact that in North
Carolina, Georgia aud even South Carolina
there is widespread dissatisfactio which,
if not timely checked, threatens to produce
the graYest disasters.
Gov. Brown has called an extra session
of the Georgia Legislature, to meet on
Wednesday next.