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. ? V I l l - do not seem of that class oj bandit* and cut? throat* of which 'they:hove been charged. Several *>/ Wosby'a- chief officer* af? among them,.TVtr? walk .( Wstrcets of thc town attired' in. full.suits.of rebel erny; among them I no? ticed Ll?tlU Col. Chambers, Mosby'? eecond in command. Hs ia a young, lith?*, tine looking specimen of' a man. well educated, and alto^ pether.such a om> ns would inspire a person ns th? beau ideal of a soldier. Iiis faith in the confederacy is dispelled, and he intends in future to lead the life'of a peaceful citizen. Another of Mosby's officers, Capt.. Franklin, is among tlie paroled prisouers. In ? conversation with him yesterday, in referring to the blockade vanning trade on the line of the Potomac, he says it was very successful, and that the arresta of blockade runners was only one arrested where nincty,nino were successful. Ile very emphatically said that this trade was carried I on under the connivance of "high-ranked Fede j . al officers," who, tn use his owu language, were in "cahoot" with Mosby's blockade runners. Gun. Torbert is determined to allow no sus? pension or. relaxation of strict military disci? pline on account of the prevalence of a state of apparent peace. ?The troops are drilled daily-artillery, cavalry and infantry. A weekky newspaper, to be called the Ka tional Union, is about to be established here, to be devoted to general news and literature, the unconditional return of the rebellious Southern States to their allegiance to thc Union, ?fcc. Foreign News. LORD PAi.Mer.sxo N'S Horus AKD FHA KS. If thc Federals really bare gained tho vic? tory over Lee's army, which the Northern tele? grams represent to have been gained, they must now be about to enter upon the real diffi? culties of the task which they have undertaken to accomplish. It has taken them four years to do what, at the commencement of the war, they expected to do iu as many months. Wc assume, for argument's sake, that the armies nader johnston and Lee will be uuable to make any farther decisive at sud against the hosts which are closing tn upon them from edi quar? ter?-Grant from the East, Sherman from the South-east, Thomas and Stoneruan from the South-west. * * * Of course, if the Southern armies, or what re? mains of them, should disperse and prove unable to bold any of the strategic points, or offer auy farther effectual resistance, to over? run the country and occupy it, will be easily accomplished by Ute armies under Graut and Sherman and Thomas. But, when it is thus occupied, what will the Federals do with ii? How will they be able to deal with the whiter? llo-v will they be able to deal with the black-? Slavery, as we know, hos been abolished-upon paper. What is to be done with four millions of negroes, whose habitual occupation will be gone and whose whole life has incapacitated thurn from following the pursuits and falliug iuto the system of free white laborers? * * The practical difficulties of dealing with the blacks are only second, if, indeed, they are aecoud, to those of dealing with t.e whites, so that altogether the re ?1 difficulties before the North-assuming the Confederate armies to be broken up and dispersed-appear to be just beginning We have not thought it worth whi.e io the present article to criticise the de? tails of thc military news. When there are men enough, ot course, the strongest position h?ld by the -.blest general may be turned uud rendered . untellable. Tue Federals having m.tssed troops round Petersburg and Richmond, till they probably outnumbered the enemy na much as three 01 .ir to one, were able to at tack him .with success, but still were not able 'to pr? veut bia ie treat with at Jeast a large i or? tion of hi? army. [London Post, (Oov. Organ,) April IT. ?N IKbU VIKW OF KKCOMSTitCCriuN. Slavery at the South to Qioe Place to the Labor of Free Emigrants. Thc publia- witter-.* aud speakers who, during ? I ' I ?' :0 i \" " f" - ;- j the last three years ?and srbalf, have occupied lliemseves in demonstrating that the North could never conquer the South, are now btfeted with A very different and not altogether con? sistent problem. They establish, to their own momentary satisfaction, .that. the South, of whose ultimate '"subjugation" they scarcely venture to hint a doubt, can never be held nnd administered as part of a? free public. It will be, they urge, the Poland pr Hungary-on the con ti Ufr. i they are so unkind as to say the Ireland-^-of America. If the authors of these ; doleful pr?sagea had ever been right in ?ny ?single point arisirg'out of the rebellion-if they had not blundered from rust to ?nit upon the military problem-we sliould enter? tain greater confidence than it is possible for us now to feel in their political vaticinations. On every element of the great theme, they have gone wildly astray. They understood j neither the material strength nor the moral character of the Northern aud Southern popu lations, nor the social organizations which are (1 ?video from each other by Mason and Dixon's linc The ignorance--including a tot.il indif? ference to the facts of American history and biography-vitiates their, political prognostics tiona as completely as it has reversed their military prophecies. Their fundamental error lies ii supposing that the Federal Government will have to deal in peace, mainly, if not exclusively, with, the I people whom they have been coiubattug in war. This is not the case. J?ven if we look solely to the present population of thc South, we must distinguish between the crimes of thc Confederacy aud the bulk of ita inhabitants. The great slave-owners of th?* South-the ten or twelve thousund men for whose interests nn<! at whose instigation the war began-will bc impoverished i.nd discredited. Their aseen dancy will be forever overthrown. The class of "poor whites," by whose docile euffragee aided by the three tiftlis vote, they maintained their political influence, lias^een thinned h> thc war; ?nd those of them wnora disease anc the sword have spared-have been taught some, thing as to the guidance which they have sc blindly followed. The elemente of di*affcctior have been, to a very great degree, burned out by the war. The class whioh remains-mopallj stronger than it ever was before, and propor tionately far .more numerous-never lyjd anj quarrel with the free States, and ie not now, s< fur as cnn be judged, illwrffected to the Ur.'mn .But even if thc entire population of tin South were animated by the bitterest hostilitj to their Northern fellow citizens and to th, Federal Government, and transmitted this feel k.g to the next generation, the difficulties con jured up iu the way of peaceful re-union, ot the bo sis of equal rights and free institut ions would be by no means inseparable. It ha o fi en been shown that the descendants of tin Americans of the revolutionary period lorm ai exeeeding) .. small element m thc present popu lalion of tho United States. That consist chiefly of emigrants and the descendants o emigrants, from Europe, whose course hn* beei directed exclusively to the States of the Nort! and North-west. The moral plague of slaver has kept free industry outside the region which are cursed by human bondage. Th South is still largely an unoccupied territory Laud once cultivated is now waste and desert e"d. Land which elsewhere would hive bee reclaimed generation^ ngo, is still virgin forest In Yirgiuia, the free population numbera on! fifteen persons to the square mile. In the a>i joining free States of the Atlantic ooasts, i themselves far lesa inviting to settlers, over a equal area, is eighty-two persona to the squar mile. Slavery, and slavery alone, has mad this difference, lt has defraudad net mere! the negro of his birthright, but the superabui daut populations of Europe of a land of ur equalled promise. The wrong done by it t millions of the old world is only less than thi indicted on the bondsmen of the new. Whe unce it h remece?, ut?'? peace ir' rectore?, ibex B?S? -.-,-,-J--- ? . . . will be a ratdi of emigrants from Europe and the Northern States to the South. A new popu? lation will arise, which not only will hare no qnarrel with the North and Union, but will owe everything to them; and whioh, together with ita descendants, will, in the course of a generation, form the great bulk of tue popula? tion of the South. In thus human deluge, the relics of the old society will be submerged and lost. A homestead act for the South would . briofe to Virginia the prosperity of New York,, and enable Florida and Alabama to count wealth ?nd men with Ohio and Illinois. To effect this end, there will be no need ef confis? cation. In the unreclai ned or abandoned soil of the slave States, there are farms for.millions . of freemen. By small grants of land to the ' landless whites, who arc, or were, the.strength of the rebellion and the hope cf those who . count on future disaffection and'troubles, they . may probably be converted into peaceful and industrious citizens, thus helping to confirm the new ord?-r on the basis of the old one, in the overthrow of which they have been blind in? atmments. The bugbear of**a tropical climate need not weigh much with us in thus forecasting the future. No part of the United States is within thc tropics; and Texas, the State which roost* i nearly approaches them, is the seat of Gerinpa I settlers, employed in that form of industry-the 1 cultivation of colton--in whioh we are asked to believe that uo European cnn engage and live. lu this instance, and in almost every other, tho facts which are alleged to disprove the possibility of tho reconstruction of the . Union on the btsis of a homogeneous society. North and'South, have no existence outside of the imaginations of those whose wishes shape their thoughts. {Northern {Belfatt) Whig, April 18. Executive Order Removing Restrictions on Trade In the Southern States. The New Y-ork Herald publishes the follow? ing orden EPECUTIVE CHAMBER,' WASHINGTON, April 26, 1865 Being desirous to relieve ?ll loyal and well - disposed persons residing in the insurrectionary Stales from unnecessary commercial re/trio lions, and to eucc-urnce'iheiii lo return to peace? ful pursuits, it is hereby ordered: First-That all restrictions upon internal, domestic and coastwise commercial intercourse be discontinued in su.-li part of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Goorgia, Florida." Alaoama, Missis? sippi and no mach of Louisiana as ties East of the Mississippi Biv?r. as shall be embraced within the lines of the national military occu? pation, excepting ouly such restrictions as are imposed by the Acts of Congress, and regula tious in pursuance thereof prescribed by the Secretary of thc Treasury and approved by tho President, and excepting also from thc effect of this order the following articles, contraband of war, to wit: Arms, ammunition, and all articles from which ammunition is manufactured; gray un-?forros and cloth, locomotive, cars, railroad iron and machinery for operating railroads; telegraph wires, insulators and instruments fer operating telegraph lines. Second-All existing mditary and naval or? ders in any manuer restricting internal, domes? tic and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above named, be, and the same are hereby, revoked, and that no military or naval officer in any maimer inter? rupt or interfere with thc same, or with any coats or other vessel .engaged therein, under proper authority pursuant to the regulations of the Secretory of the Treasury. ANDREW JOHNSON. IWILL be funnd in the Souih Carolina Col? lege buildings, in the Library, from 10 a. m. to 12 m. JAMES D. TRADE WELL, M>y 4