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,fhs brilliant success. Il sAsss lms
thr.shs.s q visAoss pafasis' h ~ aaaak q Nh
Machinery.
Mere tAaa tyvseo q many wore unoao
and sold as year - were ever before made ard eoa
By any other Threshiag Machine conesSn y - aae
period Of 10 existence.
1sg .: I. . .::s az: :s'y z. s; :::.: e.:
Georgia, and met With their m0Se marked 0nes
cess In the very etatss, and even q lhe vssy
81. @.s - shs ss = = $:
gsnt Farm Machinery. Leading the vaa u hsssahse
ssaE I'd s s:.n: =: :rs e
saving Of grain BY Farmers who have employees tea
They commanded q choice or JoAa,
and usually from one,h az cent 70 two eente pss
Of work long after other kinds were "laid up," 8
cause they saved the Iarmers' grain fto9 going
Int, Int. the str.w pile! sIssne1 !. q ior I'LL.
SOr their horses
Their capacity n remarkakle, Moy
only in ordinary condition. q Wheat Oats Rye and
their Advantage: are peculiar, y veil ~ Y :ao-
In FLAX they arc unrlvalea, even
By expensive machines made on 2uyposs for Flax ssd
Their disslncsavs advantages d sav.
ing and cleaning result from the admin bic and
eesesivs plan 81 .sh.kdnE shs fs.in ont
Ing apparatus
Their Ease <of: Draft, Cheapness or
Repairing, Ease Of Manag ement, etc., from their hav.
Ing no Bsdters, no Pickers, no CdaUds Gr0in- Car.
riers, no Paddles, and only about Aaif a. any
Belts Gear Wheeis Boces, Journals, SHAFTS, Rul1svs
""tob b lxpt IN REPAIR, as OTHER kinds. =
\ EveryiThresh crman should lleollaeo
before investing In the old style Of AAehinss which
are going out o. date, because be can ct them On
"long wnded" terms, or poor pay at little less
price The difference In price between tho best md
the poorest onlyabout ty to one hundred dollars,
while Ydi6erencsvin the first ssGsons edsMta1s
sag fS'sererat hundred dollars, % say nolhng Of
disqualification Of running tie BEST or III sako6sness
sfte6 one, two or three seasons use. .
ersSwhOsEMRLOY, can decide,
ithey choose, schdts Eisd Of Machines shdJ Be used
fM asir neioh6orhoods and should investigate their
merits. III kind will save enough grain more than
should know it
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Passes.

l have received for distribution
from Gen. N. B. Bakor, sec'y OF
the Soldiers Reunion Committee,
passes to Dcs Moines, with the fol
lowing Instructions:
You will see that no one, except those who
served In an Iowa regiment in u. s. service
during the lat rebellion, has these passes.
The railroads have been liberal. See that
no tmpositions are practiced upon them.
See that the pass Is properly filled out before
you deliver the same. Trust to no one else.
All passes not used, you will return to me-
Keep list Of those to whom you deliver
passes, with letters of company, and number
OF regiment to which person receiving said
pass, belonged.
AS you deliver the passes, tell every soldier
to bring with him hts blanket, one tin cup,
one tin plate and knife and fork.
Truly Yours, N. b. BAKER,
Adjt.-Genl of Iowa, and Secretary OF Ex
Com. OF Iowa Soldiers Reunion.
No one who does not come within
those instructions need apply.
d&wtf J. NJ. HEDRIcK.
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BUILDING Ur.-Have You becn
down among the maze Of switches
the railroads arc putting in on So.
3mautha strcot1 If not. . trip there
swculd pay, just to see how bswilders
led you will get. Not long ago, that
plat was . barron one, almost swami
by; but now tits I'll built over with
railroad and other houses, and just
now the N. NJ. R. 4. is putting mp .
Freight transfer depot 26x60 feet.
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A. & r. Melcher have started q
new Pottery at Port Richmond, and
manufacture all kinds of stone-ware,
drain tiles and fro bricks. sF e5A
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Good News

for the ladies Of Ottumws and vicin.
ity: We arc pleased to learn that
an eastern firm will open, about. the
first Of September, in Strsng's new
block, Front street, the finest stock
Of Fancy Goods that was ever bro't
into Iowa. In connection with the
Fancy Store they will open a Hoop
Skirt Factory. We would advise
the ladies to wait and sec for them.
selves. 1t will certainly pay them
d&w1t.
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3 No matter who have failed, read
what DIR. Whittier says in his Pam
iphlet, mentioned in another column.
The Doctor advertises in every State,
bis patients are alloyer the Union,
and success means merit with the
Americ "a people. 'ssa'sf ~ ''i
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TESTIMONY. Thousands Of mothers
are constantly speaking in exalted
terms of communication OF the mag
ical effect OF Mrs Whitcomb's Syrup
for soothing infants tecthing.
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OTTUMWA, loWA.
Treats Diseases Of tic Eye End Ear, ca
tarrh, diseases Of the A4da Ihr0a& Lanls,
Heart, Liver, Stomach, Old 60rs q Cano6Ess
Piles, Malignant Tumors, Scrofula, Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia, and all Nervous Its
oNsee,
Diseases Peculiafto Hnak 10
(Which are many ore treated successfully,
and with that dslicacy' which they
mand.
DR. WILEY having attended both the
Alopathic and Eclectic Medical COLLEGES,
and having had unbounded sHccess IN Z
practice,
Intites those ,Dho haze been pro-
ncunced incurable BY other
physicians Z
To apply either personally or by letter. as
many such have been cured, certificates of
which can be seen by calling at his office.
Patients from distance can have COM
Portable rooms and board furnished while
under treatment.
June Is, lS60-d6t-w3m-C9O -
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Agricultural Meeting.

The wapelio County Agricultural socie-
u meets at the Court House.. Saturday
next, at 10 o'clock.
They respectfully request our citizens
to..meet with them TO aid in arranging pro-
gramme. &C.. &c.
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>THANks.-Dr. j. M. Shafer, the
accomplished Secretary Of tho State
Agricultural Society, sends us COM
Elementary ticket to the annual Fair
to be held at Kookuk, Sept. 70, Is,
II, Is and 10th. From all we hear
Of the preparations the approaching
exhibition promises to eclipse all its
predecessors.
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HOWARD .sssIEAFY AID AssoGlA'

For the relief a,Itl cdre of the erring and
and Uufartsinate, on principles 3of the
Ea IA, CHR ~ ian j hilNnthrophy. "a
Essays ON the Errors Of Youth, and
roflies OF Age, in relation to Matriage
and social evils, with sauitary aid Tor the
AMI ctsd. sSentfre In sealed enyelopAs.
Address, HpHArd Association, BOX II,
Philadelphia, "a. tnay2wly. Z
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VAST QUANTITIES OF Ivory DIES
acknowledgements of teeth that
might last q lifetime are lost every
year, simply because the parties con-
cerned either forget or do not appre-
ciate the fact that Sozodont, duly
applied, renders the dental substance
proofagainst decay.
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Festival,

The Odd Fellows of Kirkyille have
Festival at that place, on Tuesday
night. the 10th inst, TO which the
fraternity hereabouts are respectful.
ly invited TO attend. 1ee'
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DEsCRIpTrYE. CIRCULARS.

Call for or send and get Descriptive
Circulars and Factory Price 1lses, giving full
particulars coneesnin1 9 C0arLEfE TAl1eH
TORS" alone, and the ele sara, rghs-draft ann COZ
vertible MOUNTED and Down 8 and 10 Horse
POWERS (Which are sold separately. vhsD fesigeds
with reports from multitndes Of practicAt 1ks3g4sS
men and Farmers who have pur chased and ssl tAam.
. Notwithstanding their m afkea sue.
cess, many well considered and amply tested I'M.
PROyEMENTS Ia details, for convenience and sfsct.
ipeaess, have been added since last year, For
list Of them see Circulars. Es& 4tst8 "a
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PRIVATE MATTERS

|sLAIsK. e. D.. III. D.. the regular old es-
fSear Nonrnel confidentfaliy consulted. Fee
male Pills, sure In all eases. 81 W PEI box,
French safes, $40 each, or for SS.o: senu
WORK IN self Abuse. Address letters, Or. +.
p.CEAlsK, iIs south Clark st., Chicago.
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From Daily August 9th.

RErURNED.-James d. Ladd, Esq.
has just returned from Blackhawk,
Buchanan, Benton, Iowa, and other
northern central Iowa counties, and
reports the people as taking a lively
interest in our Ottumwa 4 st. p. Il.
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proyements to the MiIls s. t@.ts5. =.
Burr Blocks, selected 1t the quarrlesfn France.
Send for Descriptive Pamphlet obtaining
Treatise on Millings sent BY mail free, ~
J Address, 'i1sl9 ISAAC STHAUB q CO., =
Cor. Front md John Sts.o Cincinnatb .. >
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May l2,ls70-d&wy
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| New Advertisements.
PATE NsTS'

Inventors who wish To take out Letters Pat
ent are advised to counsel with MUM & CO.,
editors of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, who
nee for over Twenty Years. Their American
and European Patent Agency is the most ex-
tensive ~ the world. Charges less than afiy
ing fril instructions to Inventors Is sentgfatis
cit MUM = Co. 81 Park Row, N. Y. !
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Accidents will occur even in tho
best regulated families, and Spalding's
Glue should be kept handy.
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LEGAL NOTICE.

To Vim. Whetstone: 3E&f5fa#a sEy1t
You are hereby notified that there Is now
on file in the office of the Clerk of the District
Court in and for Wapello county, Iowa, the
petition of Mary i. MILESTONE, praying dis
solution of the bonds of matrinrony now ex-
isting between you for the reasons stated in
the petition.
thereto and defend on or before noon of the
second day of the next August Term OF said
Court to be begun and held IN 0ttnmwa. Wa.
will he entered against you and Judgment ren-
dered III Green according To the praye Of petit
ton. HESDERsHoTT DuhIoS,
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VINEGAR
$500 IN GOLD.

["oTHE AGENT sending US the lar.;e:a
I'll a,aount of Inoncy before January ~,
ISL. ND are endorsed by al, the leading P;e.
pers as being Prompt, Honeraela ami SRA =,
forward,f Send forC1rculars and terms, %'i''
saw whe Ne YOU saw this. ;.l,
- sS.C.THoMPSGN 4 CO.. LOO S3title st-,ef}''
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CoNGREssIoNAL CoNyHNryoN.

Capt D Z Hardy, MAJ A q Ham.
ilton, D G Dinsmore, A i Chamber.
lain, Maj John Wilcox, John W
Hedrick, DR. A G Olney.
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LOVERS GUIDE.

"A now book az "a RACES; containing several
model love letters; all about nntrinlons; now
"a gain the love OF and marry who you pleose
x,sf wonderful secrets eiisuring wisdom,
r1raaaitb and happtuess, nnw and. forever.--
MAILED free for f0eents: Address J; We ~
PIIENS, 1898 Broad ST.. NewarE. Nd
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. Corrected.

There was an error in printing thu
names of the delegations to the State
and Congressional Conventions, in
our Saturdays Daily, and on the
outside OF this Weekly edition. Be
low is the corrected list: a.@,.i
STATE CONVENTION.
j Hedrick. John Il Carver, w.
A Nye, Saml T Caldwell, Chas Dad.
LEY, ] W Dixon, h H MCGUIRE, Thos
Foster, Geo Dickens. r W Boyd, J J
Safely,
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The best Ice Cream in the city
at the Metropolitan restaurant.
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These Mills were tiret made
TO supply the wants Of the
Plan ters and stock Growers
of,the South, but their fame
has spread to ey cry quarter
Of the globe, and they afe
now sold and used inEurope
asia, Africa and South
America. To supply the in
)creasing demand we have
enlarged our Mandatory
and Ndlled valuable Inn
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MACHINERY DEPOT

f41fjG Ess a BIGEIloW, III Monroe street,
frkfS If'iiicago, Portable Engines, Latnes;
Planting hnd. general MaslIinery. at re,itsced
pftces Send for cuts of Machines.
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CHICAGO TRADE.


|-ESNJsIEEIc,II GU AS, dealer exclusively In
Ii TFes,t{iersi "a Lake ST., (eranch 81 Lake
81 Chicago Orders and conSignments so
ifcited. Abstraction gurant eed. 5# t&
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-10-28
THE WAR.

The stories of the wonderful success
es of the French at Paris, Orleans, and
Metz, though announced officially, APP
pear i'm the light of latter information
to be largely. If not wholly, fictitious.
On October II, the date of the reported
operations which it was said by NJ.
Gambetta had resulted in driving the
Germans from their advanced positions
before Paris, there was no fighting at
all and during the whole of the past
week there were only two uni.nportant
skirmishes. The positions carried by
the Germans in the battle of Septem-
ber 10, in which, it will be remembered
the French General Ducrot was defeat
cd at ChatillOn, are still held by them,
and in such strength that they are
likely TO remain in German possessions
until vacated for stronger ones nearer
the Capital itself. The withdrawal Of
the forces operating against Orleans
does not seem to have seriously en-
barrssed the main army before Paris.
Instead of being weakened, it appears
that the Germans at Paris are being
rapidly re-enforced TO the number of
100, 900 men, fresh from successful siege
operations in the eastern departments
of France. During the present week
all OF tlleSe forces VIII Dc III 'front.' OF Iaf-
Is. 1t may he safely assumed therefore
that, instead of being forced from their
positions and weakened in numbers,
the Germans around Paris are stronger
than ever, and almost ready to make
the attack in force.
The stories of the escape of Bazaine
from Metz and the surrender of the
Prussians operating against Orleans
are too absurd to require serious con-
tradiction. The news of the Metz affair
is furnished from Tours, which is 400
miles away through the enemy's lines,
while LuXemburg and Brussels, points
in neutral territory but a score or two
of miles away from the scene Of the
reported French triumph, mention
nothing about it. The Orleans story
was contradicted In the same dispatch
es which announced it. The operations
of the French there ms elsewhere en-
ded i'm defeat not yet reversed. At
scissors, too, they have met with dis
aster, and after brief siege of four
days the city has fallen into the hands
Of the Germans. ". y. Tribune.
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Cause OF Gen. Lees Death.
A correspondent of the ". Y. Tri.

A correspondent of the N. Y. Tri-
June says of Gen. Lee:
The physicians who attended him
in his last moments say that the re-
mote cause of his death was long
continued depressing influences Incl
dent to responsibilities resting upon
him during the .last year of the war,
the disastrous termination Of the
struggle in which all his energies
were enlisted, and the Affections of
the South since the surrender of the
Rebel armies.
What he has gone through since
few can know, who have not seen how
he has been burdened with the sor-
rows of the whole people, who SEEM
ed to look to him as a father. lie
has borne calm exterior, but the
very fibers of his heart have been wear.
ing away by degrees, until at last they
have broken, and the vital spark has
fled His physicians concur in the
opinion that he died rather from men,
tai than physical causes, declaring
that his physical development was al
most perfect and that there was no
merely physical reason why he should
not have. lived many years longer
The immediate cause of his death,
however, was, they say, "Mental and
physical fatigue, inducing venous con-
gestion of the brain, which, however,
did not proceed as far as apoplexy or
paralysis. but gradually caused cere-
bral exhaustion and DEATH"
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THE CADErssiIP.

In all our knowledge Of politics
and in all the tergivisntion and
anfra actuosities Of modernpoliticians,
We know of no case, which for sub
lime and startling strategy, can equal
the case of Judge Butler, with re-
gard to the Cadetship.
We are gravely to d that the thing
was not sold. Yet for the money
which it brought, some nine hundred
dollars. Judge Butler says he did be-
stow it on Judge Tyler's son, aud
with the money he did pay two East
Tennessee newspapers, and by it he
did bribe Gen. Schofeld. not to seize
the +. T. & Va. II. II. Why the
thing seems to have passed around
like greenbacks, and it actually paid
three debts (?). Yet there was no
sale. We think that for the half OF
nine hundred dollars we can find
quite a number of young men in East
Tennessee, who can stand West
Point Examination. Try us
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THE CABINET.

Between the upper and neither iiiill-
stone Of events the Cabinet Of Grant
goes to pieces in fine style. Dlstin.
guished by no grand idea; unmarked
by the cohesion Of any great or COM
Prshensive policy; its disintegration
10 AZ steady and irresistible as the
erumbliug of linic kiln in an April!
drir1lc. The piscatory head of the
State department is announced to re-
tire with the opening Of the Spring
The withdrawal Of Secretary Cox is fix
cd for the opening of Congress. and
the puking Ackerman is to be pitched
head foremost into the great outside
at an early day. Cox was found
honest and Conservative and of course
he leaves in voluntary disgust to
make room for Delano, Senator
Williams is booked for Ackerman' S
shoes. and then comes again the lost
mission to the court Of St. James.
What will they do with it7 Moxa
Morton, the bugle sounder of the
Senate. is in trouble about the Dem.
oerstic victory in Indiana and if he
does conclude rot to go to England.
then the beaten Schenk is to be
crowned with the appointment. Ii
the Government can last till the De-
mocracy get control of it, there is
yet hope. But God only knows.
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ELOQUENT REMARKs.-Att the Peters
burg meeting, Colonel Cameron made
an address, from which we copy the
following beautiful passage in regard
TO General Lee:
"As he is laid away in dust to sleep
whith that corps of our army which
has gone before. we will reverently be
there. Though no pomp of war shall
attend his burial, no national pageantry
mock his funeral rites-though noun
tains and valleys lie between us and the
grave which will be his-yet shall we be
as of old in serried co.
umns tatterd banners floating in the
NIFTY air, laundering guns pealing their
echoes through the shades of memory,
1t shall be our arms that tenderly cover
him, our love that shall be the greenest
turf above him, and our tears that shall
longest follOw-our sorrow that shall
most fitly enshrine-the name and fame
of Robert Lee"
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JUDGE BUTLER.

WE are told that the Blountville
discussion between the gallant Jim
White and Judge Butler was little
lively. The Mullins indictment was
read afresh to the audience. 1t will
be remembered that the loyal Mullins
boldly charged, in Congress, that But
ler had paid pair of Boots as the
price of assassinating rebel captain
named Waugh, and that he contrac-
ted to assassinate Sam Mcqueen for
the premium Of suit of clothes. -
The consequence was Butler was adj
mitted. But the venire is now chang
cd. The case is no longer before
Radical jury. The truth is. Butler is
now warred upon by the men of his
own party everywhere. except in
East Tennessee and even here a large
number Of them will not support him.
The Greencville UniUn refuses to
touch him. The Joncsbero' Herald
swore it would not and has not quite
succeeded in vomiting up that oath.
Ia 1861 Butler presented sword to
Capt. Lockhart, of Fort Donelson,
who commanded company of Reb-
els. After trying to raise troops for
the Confederate ARMY, he changed
about with the breeze and claimed
that his act was one of bad faith
that he was really goi & to desert to
the enemy with them. No wonder
she radicals repudiate him.
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longed to the Brownlow school, which
even this present corrupt age will not
sanction.
TENNESSEE.

The SENATE.-If any thing were
wanting to shiver the Radical party
in the first Senatorial District, it was
furnished on Friday. the 18th, by the
Convention, which met at Elisabeth
ton, and nominated Col. s. X. N.
Patton. 1t brought out Snodgrass.
as independent candidate and snub-
bed Easily, Welsh and Owens.
1t is no longer in the least ques-
tionable who shall be elected. DR..
Sewer is the man.
BURGLARY AT JoNEsBoRo'. On
the night of the l4th the Express Of
fee at Jon.sboro' was robbed of L.
1870, in cash and 81, 500 in private
notes and accounts. The safe was
chopped into, the room having been
entered by window.
Major Jno. Bleving, of Hawkins,
has been unanimously nominated for
the House by the Democracy of Haw-
kins. He goes in
HOMICIDE IN UNION COUNTY
Clay Mynatt was killed at Clinch
Mountain on the 18th. He was aid
ing his brother, Gains Mynatt, in
forcibly carrying away the wife OF
the latter! She was living away
from him and had taken steps to pro-
cure divorce. Gains Mynatt fed
APPoiNT:iENf.-Mr. Oakley, Tele-
graph operator at this place has been
appointed agent of the Southern Ex-
press company at this place. Mr.. o..
is worthy gentleman and will make a
good and accommodating agent. Jones
toro Herald.
MURDERED MANS BoDY FOUND
Last week the body bf Bad Russell
who disappeared in Claiborne county,
very mysteriously last June, was dis
covered. He was identified by his
clothes and suspicion strongly points
to Jim Winkler, brakesman ON the
w. L. & G. Railroad; and steps have
been taken to secure his arrest. if lie
has not already been secured. .-Kndr.
Chronicle.
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A SCRAP OF HISTORY.
TFrom the New York sun.l
[From the Norfolk virsinian.l


On the surrender of General Lee at
AppomattoX Courthouse, he made an
arrangement with General Grant to
use his influence to secure the imme-
diate Surrender of all rebel authority.
By this arrangement Grant was to pro-
ceed to Washington and ascertain the
views of our Government and the
terms, if any, that would be accorded
should the Confederate States Govern
ment at once abandon further resis-
tance and surrender its armies. Lee
was to return 10 Richmond, and there
wait the result of Grants mission to
Washington. On receiving which he
was to be permitted to pass through
the lines and convey the ultimatum to
jeff Davis, and secure his assent to it.
The assassination of President Lin
coin, however, deferred the cOnsum-
nation of Grants purpose in visiting
Washington, and the subsequent sur
render of Johnston's army in Moth
Carolina, and the collapse of the re-
bellion in its organized character, rem
dered the further prosecution of the
mission unnecessary.