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SAYAOTAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. I—NO. 89. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) IS PUBLISHED BY 8. W. MASON A CO., . At 111 Bay Steeet, Savannah, Georgia, TBBjp; Per Copy .Five Cents. Per Hundred < $3 60. Per Year $lO 00, ADVHBTISIMO: Two Dollar* per Square of Ten Lines for first In sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear In the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. [From our Extra of yesterday afternoon.] . MOBILE. 1,000 Prisoners & 3,000 Bales of Cotton Captured* FROM GENERAL HAirooos. IOSBT'B COMMAND SURREND ERED. H£ IS HFITED BY BIS OWN JB£I. Booth and Accomplice* Harbor ed in Maryland. Rebel Sympathizers There to be 5 Held Accountable. OFFICIAL WAR BULLETIN. War Department, > Washington, April 22,1861.) Major Gen. Dix, New York: In a despatch dated at Mobile, 6p. m., April 14th, Major General Canby reports as follows : # “We find in Mobile, and its defences, on the west side of the bay, over one hundred and fifty guns, and a very large amount of ammunition and supplies of all kinds, and about one thousand prisoners. Inventories are now being taken and a detailed report will be forwarded as soon as they are com pleted. The quantity of cotton will probably reach thirty thousand bales, and there is a large amount of provisions and forage.” Major General Hancock reports that near ly. all of Mosby’s command have surrendered, including nearly or quite all of the officers, exeept Mosby himself. Some of Mosby’g own men are hunting him for a reward of $2,000 for him by Gen. Hancock, who has been directed to establish his headquart ers at Washington. The counties of Prince George, Charles, and St. Marys, have, dur ing the whple war, been noted for hostility to the Government, and its protection to rebel blockade runners, rebel spies, and ev ery species of public enemy. The murder ers of the President harbored there before the murder, and Booth fled in that direction. If he escapes, it will be owing to rebel ac complices in that region. The military com mander of the department will speedily take measures to bring the rebel sympathizers and accomplices in murder to a sense of eheir criminal conduct. Edwin M. <3tanton, Sec'iy of War. gSCXUBTAM* SEWA2UD. His Condition more Comfortable. PARTIAL RELIEF OF MB. F. SEWARD. 4 DELICATE SIRWCAL OPERATION. Wa»hin«ton, April 22, 1865. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Sir I have the honor to report that the Secretary of State is stronger and more com fortable to-night. Mr. P. Seward’s condition justifying and requiring it, a further removal of fragments of bone was made this evening. The opera tion was borne well, and has tire of partial relief. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, 1 - J- *. Banjos, Surgeon General. SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1865. [From our Extra of Yesterday Afternoon .] SHERMAN JOHNSTON OFFERS TO SUR RENDER. BHBB.BgAgr a TEAMS DISAP PROVED. Jeff* Daris Likely to Escape ! HIS PLUNDER ENORMOUS. esi. earn gone to ioetb caboum. KBITS RATION OF UR. LINCOLN’S IN STRUCTIONS. Renewal of Operations Against Johnston, OFFICIAL WAR BULLETIN War DIIPARTMfeNT, > Washington, D. C., April 22 lOp. m.j Major General J. A. Dix, New York : Yesterday evening a bearer of despatches arrived from General Sherman. An agree ment for a suspension of hostilities, and a memorandum of what is called a basis for peAce, had been entered into on the 18th in stant by General Sherman with the rebel General Johnston, the rebel General Breck inridge being present at the conference. A Cabinet meeting was held at 8 o’clock in the evening, at which the action of General Sher-* man was disapproved by the President, by the Secretary of War, by General Grant, and by every member of the Cabinet. General Sherman was ordered to resume hostilities immediately, and he was directed that the instructions given by the late President, in the following telegram, which was penned by Mr. Lincoln himself at the Capital, on the night of the *d of March, were approved by President Andrew Johnson, and were reiter ated to govern the action of milirary com manded. On the night of the 8d of March, while President Lincoln and his Cabinet were at the Capitol, a telegram from General Grant was brought to the Secretary of War, in forming him that Gen. Lee had requested an interview or conference, to make an arrange ment for terms of peace. The letter of Gen. Lee was pnblished in a message of Davis to the rebel Congress. General Grant’s tele gram was submitted to Mr. Lincoln, who, after pondering a few minutes, took up his pen and wrote with hie own hand the fol lowing reply, which he submitted to the Sec retary of State and Secretary of War. It was then dated, addressed, and signed by the Secretary of War, and telegraphed to Gen. Grant: Pieaidtnt Lincoln’. Instruction*. Washington, March 3, 1860, 12 p. m. Lieutenant-General Grant: The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to hare no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitu lation of General Lee’s army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He in structs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political ques tion. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Mean time you are to press to theutmost your mili tary advantages. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. The orders of General Sherman to General Stoneman, to withdraw from Salisbury and join him, will probably open the way for Davia to escape to Mexico or Europe with his plunder, which is reported to be very large, including not only the plunder of the Richmond banks, but previous accumu lations A despatch received by this De partment, says: “It is stated here by respectable parties, that the. amount of specie taken south by Jeff. Davis and his partisans is very large, including not only the plunder of the Rich mond banks, but previous accumulations.— They hope, it is said, to make terms with General Sherman or some other southern commander, by which they will be permit ted, with their effects, including their gold plunder, to go to Mexico or Europe. John stoa’s negotiation* look to that end.” 9Alter the Cabinet meeting last night, Gen. Grant started for North Carolina, to direct | operations against Johnston's army. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Memorandum, or Basis of made this eighteenth day of April, A. D. 1865, near Durham Station, in the lstate of North Caro lina, by and between ak f. Joseph E. John ston, commanding Confederate Army, and Major General W. T. Sfannan, Commanding Army of the United States, in the State of North Carolina, both being present : 1. The contending armies now in the field re main in statu quo, until notice is given by the commanding general of either one to its opponent, and reasonable time, say forty-eight hours, allowed. 2- The Confederate armies now in exis tence to be disbanded, antyconducted to their several State capitals, theiein to deposit their arms and public property |n the State arsenal and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of both State and Federal % authorities. The number of arms and muni tions of war to be reported to the Chief of Ordnance at Washington City, subject to the future action of the Congr&a of the United States, and in the meantime to be used solely to maintain peace and order within the bor ders of the States respectively. 3. The recognition by th| Executive of the United States of the State govern ments, on their officers anddegislatures tak ing the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States; and Where conflicting State governments have Resulted from the war, the legitßhacy of all shall be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. 4. The re-establishment of all Federal courts in the several States, with powers as defined by the Constitution and laws of Con gress. 5. The people and inhabitants of all these States to guarantee, so far as the Executive can, their political rights and franchises, as well as their rights of person and property, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, and of the States respectively. 6. The Executive authority ofthe Govern ment of the United States not to disturb any ofthe people by reason of the late war, so long as they live in peace and quiet and ab stain from acts of armed hostility, and obey the laws in existence at the place of their residence. 7. In general terms, the war to cease, a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command, on the con dition of the disbandment of the Conlederate armies, distribution of arms, and the resump tion ot peaceable pursuits by the officers and men hitherto composing said armies. Not being duly empowered by our respec tive principals to fulfill these terms, we individually and officially pledge ourselves to promptly obtain an answer thereto, and to carry out the above programme. W. T. Sherman, Major General, comd’g Army U. S., in N. C. J. E. Johnston, General, commanding C. S. A., in N. C. disapproval, and reasons therefor. It is reported that this proceeding of Gen. Sherman was disapproved for the following amonyother reasons: 1. It was an exercise of authority not vest ed in General Sherman; and on its face shows that both he and Johnston knew that Gen. Sherman had no authority to enter into any such arrangement. 2. It was a practical acknowledgment of the rebel Government. 8. It undertook to re-establish the rebel State governments that had been overthrown at the sacrifice of many thousand loyal lives and immense treasure* and {Raced the arms and munitions of war in the hands of the rebels at their respective capitals, which might be used as soon as the armies of the United States were disbanded, and used to conquer and subdue the loyal States. 4. By the restoration of the rebel author ity In their respective States, they would be enabled to re-establish slavery. 4. It might furnish a ground of responsi bility by the Federal Government to pay the rebel debt, and certainly subjects the loyal citizens of the rebel States to the debt contracted by rebels in the State 6. It would put in dispute the existence of loyal State Governments, and the new State of West Virginia, which has been re cognized by every department of the United States Government. 7. It practically abolished the confisca tion laws, and relieved the rebels of every degree who had slaughtered our people, from all pains and penalties for their crimes. 8. It gave terms that had been deliberate ly, repeatedly, and solemnly rejected by President Lincoln, and better terms than the rebels had ever asked in their most prosper ous condition. 9. It formed no basis of true and lasting peace, bnt relieved the rebels from the pres sure of our victories, and left them in con dition to renew their efforts to overthrew the United States Government and subdue the loyal States whenever their strength was re cruited and any opportunity should offer. FROM CHARLESTON. VSN'WV'. wwws> Important Expedition by Gen/ Potter. Bates to April 26th. Our special correspondents have forwarded us files of the Charleston Courier to April 26th, from which we make the following ex tracts : general potter’s expedition. General Potter arrived in this city Sunday. His forces, composing the late expedition, were returning, General Potter having been advised of the cessation of hostilities by the rebel General Young. The latter’s head quarters were at Statesburg, S. C. The re bel officers at the flag of truce interview, held at Fulton, S. C., with some of General Potter’s Staff, did not appear very sanguine of the adoption by the United States au thorities at Washington of the Convention between Generals Sherman and Johnston. On the appearance, however,. of the Union officers among General Young's troops, com posed of a brigade of Kentuckians and a brigade of South Carolinians, the troops cheered heartily for the Union and the “Old Flag.” Their enthusiasm was unrestrained, and was shared in by a great many of their officers, A general desire was manifested for the termination of the war. From an officer we have received some additional particulars of the brilliant aucceas of the late expedition. After the fight at Sumter the rebels were again encountered on the 19th instant, in a strong position at Boylen’s Mills. The 25th Ohio Regiment of Volunteers and the 157tbNew York Volun teers, charged through a swamp up to their waists, completely touting the enemy, who were afterwards pursued by the 4th Massa chusetts Cavalry, under the command of Major Webster. The rebels left on the field seven killed and twenty-two wounded. Our loss was only one killed, and three wounded. General Potter then pushed on his command to Camden, S. C. Along the Wateree trestle and at other points, he destroyed thirteen locomotives and a large number of cars, be sides tearing up for some distance the track between Camden and Florence. A large number of negroes followed the expedition. While the expedition of General Potter was so successfully making headway in one part of the State, another expedition under the command of Colonel Kipman, of the 107th Regiment, was operating on other por tions of the line through Sumter and other districts. UNITED STATE* TAXES. A rumor has been in circulation for sev eral days that the time for the payment of the United States taxe* had been extended. On inquiry at the Tax office we learn .that no order* to that effect have been received by the Commissioners. A memorial of cit izen* sot such extension has been forwarded to Washington, but they had heard of no re ply. • • SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. By a gentleman who arrived here yester day from Columbia, we learn that Governor Magrath has issued a call for an extra session of the South Carolina Legislature, to meet at Greenville, S. C., on Tuesday 25th Inst. PROM THE REBEL LINES—DESPATCH FROM SEN. BEAUREGARD. The following is a copy of a communica tion sent by flag ot truce and received by Gen. Hatch Sunday afternoon: Hkadq’rs Oeanokbcro C. H., > April 21st. 1865. i “To the Officers Commanding Federal Forces in my Front: “Under instructions from Major General Lovell, commanding District of South Caro lina, I am ordered to send, under flag of truce, to the commanding officer in my front, the following despatch, which he received yesterday tor telegraph from Gen. G. T. Beau regard, at Greensboro’, N. C., viz: “A truce for the purpose of the' final set tlement was agreed upon yesterday between General Johnston and General Sherman, ap plicable to ail the forces under their com mands; the contending forces to occupy their positions. Forty-eight hours notice to be raven in the event of the resumption of hostilities.” - Please give prompt intelligence of this in formation to all the officers m command of your forces, as I will immediately extend it along pur line. V*ry respectfully, . Jfour obedient servant, - • John Jenkins, Major Third 8. C. Cavalry, Commanding Advanced Forces, Death of Commodore McKean. Binghamton, N. Y., April 22,—Com. Wm. W. McKean, United States navy, died at his residence near this placwthls morning. He was in hi* fifty-fourth year. - r * PRICE. 5 CENTS (For the Savannah Daily Herald.) OUR WILL IK WILL CORK NO MORK. Lines written in Memory of Sergeant W. C Bennett. BY C ABB IK BEU. SINCLAIR. - “ Wa will meet, but wa will miu lilm, Tbare will ba una vacant chair I Wa will linear to careaa him Wh«u we br.atha our areola* ptwyer.' Oh l Just when the voice of gladness Wa* filling oar hearts with mirth, And the shadows were growing brighter Around ear evening hearth; When we looked upon smUng faces, And watehed at the open door, Why—why did the tidings greet a* ’ That Willie would come no more t Oar heart* were light and joyous, A* we listened to hear his tread: For we knew not that he was steeping Far off with the dreamleas dead; But still with a ■ tailing welcome, We watched at the open door. One came—bat alas Ihe told as Oar Willie would come no more! The smile on oar lips grew silent. And ha* bed'is each sound of mirth; For now there is gloom and sorrow Round many an evening hearth. There were two to command we watched for them. One came—but not the other— Oh t Father, I thank thee lor giving back The darling, only brother l , And oh! I tried to meet him With a smiling welcome too; Bat oh! the tq|rs—the bitter tears, * Dear Willie they were for you; And now aa I sit beside him, And gaze on the youthful face, Thy smile, and thy earnest sye <?t blue On that fhlr brow I trace. God pity the Mother—tha Sister l , Yes, for they loved him too; There’s on* still left—bat Willis |—the best Os their love was given you. But alas! for the cherished Idol, Wa never will clasp him more, Till we meet him oves that valley By the light of the golden door I Twaa a bitter night we parted, And my heart throbbed so with pain ; But he kissed away the tears, and said: “Hush! Willie will come again." Ah i me, they were words of comfort, But I knew *twas a hope too bright ; And I knew that onr last good-by on earth We had spoken that very night. And when he turned to leave us, I lingered still at the door, And every footstep seemed to say— He is going to come no more! Oh 1 Willie, onr household idol | Onr darling—oar pet—oar pride I How many brlghV hopes have perished With thee—h6w much Joy has died Farewell I—bat I will not murmur. Bat try tossy “Peace, be still," To gather np strength and courage. And bow at Goto holy will. Bat oh I I will miss the*, darling, I will miss thee everywhere; And every path thy feet had trod To me will be more dear! And when the quiet moonlight Looka down on the rippling wave, I’ll come—for I promised you I would— And kneel beside shy grave. And when froin the careless world I steal. To kneel at that spot in prayer, I know you will come from the aprit To meet and bless me there i Oh I beautiful, white-robed angel* i O’er the form of oar Willie bow; And smooth back the golden tresses From over the snow-white brow ,- And the hands of the peaceful sleeper Fold over the qnlet breast; Then bear him a spotless spirit With thee to a home of rest. Savannah, Ga., April Seth, 1866. the IRISH EDITOR. Mr muhculine parent was reared In Weehawken. The merchant who hired him was Timothy Dodd * °f alljthe young clerka there waa non. Uke me For he waa tho ealtaman that carried the hod. One day he was flying right up a ahteep ladder With piinty of bricks in his nod and mshat- Andjqost as he shifted his foot tore second, ’ ▲ rung it gave way, and me parent fall flat. They aint for a coroney’a Jury and docthor. The laat was too late and the former waa not • An inquest was held and a verdict waa gives * •Twaa: Death from a a un-stroke of whiskey tea And thus waa 1 left for a swate little orphan, Joosi twenty yearn old and with nlver a «tnt • Surrounded by those whose intention wm only To trate me with grace till me fortune waa splat. ’Twaa lncky I had inch a flue education, By raisin of making the Area for a school; I wrote a large hand, and spoke Greek Ilka a Be> brew— % At laste I was towld so by Terence OToolei *O, what do I start but a newspaper spacious, And called it the “Irishman's Morning Gazette ’> Got paper, and printing and “items" on credet. And talked of the aheot to whoever I met. Ah, sore, but a mighty nate thing I made of it: I towld es great doings before they occurred- I got up flesh maiders for ache of me Issues ’ And blackguarded all that I wonted absurd. I went into politics up to the handle, And proved that the country wm mined I .ailed the po.tmasther a thief and a scoundrel And eulogised freedom, free lunch and free Made. I trated'pf things that were doing In Enron* And wrote editorials all abontkinga: I got up an illigant faney news item. About a strange pig that wm troubled with wfrgs. I published the easaya or patent quack docthor*. I criticised acton, and pictures, and books?' *oAscription. I spoke ot 'the affabfe Mr. ’§ good books." Och, mnrther 1 bnt didn't I lather the yps'nfWL v prettod «l to edit the News; I called him a mace, egotistical twaddler, Not worth the tobacco a gintlemaa chews. Ah, tore, twia a gintleman's paper I made It— That dignified journal, the “Morning Gazette And nothing wm wanting to finish me fortune. Bat all the subscribers! hadn’t got yet. One morning, however, me giant edition Wm taken as quick as it came from the press: The person who took ft was known as the sheriff, And what wm the raisin I lave yon to guess. Thenceforth I retired from the footstool of genius, To mercantile'life in th» service of Dodd; And now, like me father, I'm years truly, * The dexk that inkMaoAar and aairiMth* hod.