The weekly union record., 1865-01-14
News Of the Week.

the Department OF Virginia and North Caro-
Ina, ard ordered TO report at Lowell, Masza-
cbusetts- Geusral E 0. c. Ord has succeeded
Batter temporarily. The order Of removal vas
received b. Batler II the forenoon. Of .Sunday
(8b] and By three o'clock in the afternoon be
had completed 81 lis arrangements and was
On his way North.
According to the telegraph, smother peace
mission to Richmond Is being iudalged in.
Francis p. Bi4iF, senior, and Democratic
politician, are the lovely pair Who have gone
on their msrrow-bones at the shrine OF JEFF"
The special Of the New York World, Copper
head, gives what purports to be "ihe arrange
ment," which, 10 the absence Of Eastern news
Of greater importance and more reliability. We
give for what il is worth, as follows: The
Democratic politician who has gone on a peace
mission. with the approval Of the President, is
General Singleton, Of Illinois. He preceded
Blair day or two. 1t is said the rebel Con
gress adopted, il secret session, a resolution TO
appoint Peace Commissioners. and they have
been selected and sent to Graut's headquarters
Nessrs Orr, OF South Carolina, Gilmore, OF
North Carolina, and A. H. Stephens, are Of
the commission. 1t is also said Grant has tel
egraphed that Stephens solicited permission to
pass through his lines 10 Ylsi. Washington.
1t is al last known that Blair goes to Rich
mond with the full knovedge and conseDt of
the President, aud is clothed with authority
requisite to open negotiations with jeff Davis
with view to restore peace, and the rebel
authorities will feel assured of this when be
shows bis credentials His Instructions are
embraced iG three propositions: First-Am-
nesly 10 all, no matter what they have been
since the war began. Second-The Constitu-
ton as it is. the Union as il was; the South to
return to the Union with all the rights and
privileges which it held before any of the
States seeded. Third-The total abolition of
slavery. From this point the President will
non retract one iota. He does not insist en-
Immediate abolition, but he does insist that
measures may be taken 10 secure lis extinction
within reasonable length Of time 1t is
stated, on what seems good authority, that
jeff. Davis is strongly inclined to peace meas
nres, and willing to accept more or less liberal
terms than 1t was at first supposed he would,
LShouldnt wonder Lincoln, on the other
hand, is disposed to be as lenient as possible,
but insists that the first public act on the part
Of the South must be to lay down its arms and
acknowledge the supremacy of the Union.
There il no desire to humiliate the South. 1t
is to bow 10 the Union, not TO the North. As
an instance of the temper of the Administration
to obtain peace, it is stated that General Butler
was removed not solely for lis incompcteucy
and misdemoanors, but also as evidence tha.
our Government is disposed to treat with the
South on liberal terms. and is willing to remove
any obstacles that may stand in the way of a
perfect understanding with that section. 1t is
reported that ex Governor Riycs and ex Gov
ernor Orr are now on their way to Washington
on peace mission The Times Washington
special learns that the rebel Peace Commission
consists Of \. H. Stephens and Judge White,
of Georgia, Messrs. Boyce and Orr, of South
Carolina, Leach and Gilmore. of North Caro-
Ina, Rives, Of Virginia, and Smith and Single
ton, Of Mississippi
In the same days dispatches with the above
is lot of stuff from the English papers on
General Dix's order in relation to the pursuit
Of "Coniedegate" raiders into Canada by our
frontier forces. The substance of their com.
meuts is that, unless dlsayowed by the Federal
Government. trouble will result. The Times
comments favoraby on the Presidents message,
and says Lincoln does Justice both to Canada
aad England" He may yet do them justice
but not in a message on paper.
Hoods official report of his defeat has been
received. lie puis as gooi face upon it as
possible, bat Acknowledges loss of 80 guns in
one day. The Richmond Dispatch says that,
even according to bis account, the battle Of
Nashville was bad business. The Dispatch
thinks that Thomas will turn the head of his
columns towards the southwest The Examiner
thinks this would be stupendons undertaking.
with bat faint hope of success. 1t thinks it
more probable that this army will be kept in
Tennessee as a corps Of observation, while large
detachments will be sent as reiuforcements to
Virginia and Louisiana. Hood reports from
rGpeo, Mississippi that Thomas was moyiog
up the Tennessee river, on the 4th, with SIX
gunboa's and six transports, towards Eastport.
The remnant Of Hoods army is reported
fortiiying Corinth, Mississippi, with a view to
going into wiater quarters at that place. 1t
is also said that be is repairing the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad.
The Nieksbarg Herald OF Jan. 9th has
full account Of Grierson's recent raid in Miss
issippi. The expedition left Memphis, Dee.
Dist, 5000 strong. AT Egypt. on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, a considerable force Of the