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-JIM, i ? 1 ^B'_--- p . " ?eily Paper $40 a Month. ) ;. 'Let our just censure'- ? j Tri?Weekly $30 a Meath. * ; payable in Advance. J Attend thertrue evevt.1b-Shak*peare. "] ( " Payable in Advance. By J. A, SELBY. COLUMBIA, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 4,1865. VOL. ?.-NO. 31. 1H? COLUMBIA PHONIX it PUBLISHES ?AILY axn. TKI-WEKKLY, *T JULIAN A. SELBY.j Tbe Daily ia issued every morning, except j Sunday, at"$40 a mouth. Tri-Week ly, Tuesday. Tnuieday and Saturday, at. $?t> a numil?, invo? rcabiy hi advance. Single copi?s *2. Advertieements inserted at .$10 ptr square etea linee) for each insertion. Tb? desolation of Moah. IS AI A II XVI. Ale*l the fields of Heehboo. They languish in their shame; Tfie vine el S thumb di*th ' Because of Moah* bittier ; The Princes of the Heathen Have swept With wrath the land, And smitten, even to Jazer'e walls, Tb? green pjants ?f her baud. I, too, bewail.with Jaxer The vine of Sibmah's fate; > Witb tears will waler Heshbon's fields, *. That now lie desal?te. Bow lovely were their harvests all, How sweat their summer fruit-! Alast the sword of wrath that smoW '. Their harvests ta th? roots. .Tbe Lord of Hesta hath, spoken, "Hie wrath hath a??de te cease The shouting of the vintage, Aad Death takes ?lv-ce (ff peace; The vineyard song is silent That spoke ef,ample store, * _ And thef who trod the red wins out - Shall taste ef wine no morel "W. G. 8. The Capitulation of General Lee. The- correspondent of the New York JJereld writes* as follows from Appomattox Cont House, April 0-6 P. M.:* The glorious consummation so long dc vbu;)y . withed; for has at length been.at: tamed. The constant aid unparalleled arjirobing and fighting of the last twtlv? dava has,culminated to day in thc- furrendfr of Geaeinl R. E. Lee and bi? cnliic army to the victoricUB^egiosa led on by General Grant. > ? The remnant of his army is -variously ! estimated at from twenty thousand to thirty* ilousnr.d. hi y own opinion is that it will exceed the outside fig ajee. ' j The .trirt?.S have be*-? terribly cut np and ; M] tured by uss'<ne? the roninenrernent of bi? retreat from Rici mond. Besides there he hue beeD conpelied lo abandon and ?rrestrty large mimi ers, until the remainder! will fall below the uj-ual'allowance for such r. forte. His artillery bas l?eob suffering ibe sauft??depletion, and >"* ?at dew? to the ?minimum with whioh au auny xA equal siae .rat moTet. . A coi respond?ante, looking to the sur .render of Lee? ?iiry, comm* retch between himself, and General Grat't d^y before yes? terday.' The purport ci General Lee's first note was to ascertain the beat terms I on which be could surrender bis. army. General Giant ic understood to bava-offered i 'oper?le 11 "e officers snd mea, a'nd allow ihtm to letuinjo thxir borne* until regu aily cxclaiigeS. To this General Lie ! een.p-to have demurred. - He at least tried the dodge, of replying to this com m un i cation by 'requesting a persona ^interview :it a certain place, al 10 o'clock a. m., to? day, to arrange 'terms of pea*?.' As this was changing the question nt issue and under discussion, and one ?bicb Ge ?ern 1 Giant bad reither the inclination nor the authority to decide, he replied in a note which admitted cf no misconstruction, and wbic?i virtually er.dcd the negotiations. On receipt of. this General Lee at once dis patched another, requesting *a personal in? terview for the object named in General Giant's communication of yesterday, viz: the surrender of bis entire army. G UK ral Grant ar d staff were at General Meade's headquarter* last bight, In rear ol the second . corps, wbssvo the flag cf truce bearing the respfctiyeconisr.ur.ications bad been sent and received. Supposing all further negotialicns referred to tbs) arbitra? ment of the sword, Gen. Grant breakfasted a 1.6 o'clock in the moTuin?, nr:d rtarted im mediately for the extreme left of onr fine held by Gen; Sheridan, in-the vicinity, p Appomattox Court House. Consequently when tue communication was received, i was for warded by Xi: jor Pence, of Genera Meade's staff, who overlook General 'Gran about five miles from the Court House,he ?tween ll and 12 o'clock. . A eommuaicalion waa immediately de spntclted to General Eeej appointing Appo mattox! Court House as the place of meet General Lee was soon reaebed by flag c tm re, and repaired to the 1 ouse, oi Mt Wilson McLean, one cf. the three rcmaii ing householders in the village. Gene? Grant arrived about fifty* minutos late and entered the parlor where General Le waa awaiting bim. The meeting was ver nearly-a private one at the outset. After few n-onienta* conversation, General Grant staff < Akers were called in .and io?giall presented. The conversation was sont and confined solely to business, except few allusive to the pa at between Goner: Lee and peneral Seih Williams, and pe h^npt ooo or two others. The tettns of ??rrender vere soon agreed upon, reduced lo writing and signed", after which Lee soon departed to within the lines ot his own army. ? '* By {he time the papers were drawn and signed, it was too late to^-proceed te the formal ceremonies of the* occasion, and lurthe/ proceedings were postponed until tomorrow. ' General Lee WAS accompanied only hy.- " Colonel Marshall, foi mei ly of Baltimore, ey at. .present aid-decamp on his staff, ana Orderly Johns, who has served him in that capacity for fourteen months. L?? . looked very much faded and worn, but, nevertheless, presented the same magnificent 2>hhique for which be has always been tioled. ' He whs neatly 'dressed in gi ey doth, without embroidery or soy insignia oi rank, except tbree stars worn?on the. turned portion* of bis coat collar. His < hecks were very much bronzed by ex? posure, but still shone ruddy underneath it all. He is .growing quite bald, and wears ,one of th?~ side-locks of bis hair thrown across the upper portion of his forehead,. . which is se white and fair as a woman's. He stands fully six feet one inch in heigh:, . aud weighs (something over 200 .pctiiids, without being burdened with -an ounce cf superfluous flesh. During the whole i:i-^ terview, he was retired and dygajfied to a degree^ bordering on tacitutgpiy, but was I ree from all exhibition of teni(p??r.or moi? tificatipn.' His. demeanor was that of a thoroughly"possessed gentleman w ho bri* H. very disagreeable duty to perform, but v?;-. determined to get through it r.s well r.r.d . * as scon as he could. He rode an ordinary . grey boree, with p::tin equipmerts cin:ih;r. to vhofc of our cavalry t flieers, slid his o r'oerly stated, that this was the only anitfmi be had, here. He bivouaced last ri'gbt near a pince known as'the 'Stone Chimney,' is: a grove/ and made bis breakfast this ni< ?niLg on 'corn dtdger.' Hirr troops are ever, worro oil. . - No one but a few of Iii? ?fflceis susp^c?. ed that he conten 'plated sui tendering h.:s army, until this morning. . A number "of our cftieers ?cde over to the rebel -lines and conversed freely ajid frankly with both cffiti-rh ?!<?: meii. They were very anxious . to kn. w winn they would be paroled and allowed lo no home; what bad become-of JoI.ioUt ; il they would bo permitted to et;, n thur :pi i vate property, and so an ei.d|. ss? firing < f que iions, to .which nnsweiA ?> i,, tl ? i iowp* Conclvdtd en Fo?rlh Pog*.