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By J. A, SELBY. COLUMBIA, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 4,1865. VOL. ?.-NO. 31.
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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*.