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Cf Cttlicaa" will be visited this week, by acthobizxd apwts for th® purpose of receiving subscribers to the Vide. rf* Persons at the North, or elsewhere, desiring to snb Hrtbo regular!v Ut the Whig, for six or twelve months, •dB ulens- notify os jhrough the mail; and about the 1st jt May we will be able to regulate the terms, and will tfcm forward the bills for the amount of subscription. In Aha meantime the paper will go forward, fiend on your names, and give »ih the proper support. ri»All communications sent to this office must be ac-H Xjmpank'lby th • n i a • in 1 i l lress of the writer. Weg wfiTuetuadertaka to return rejected communications. | OFFICIAL- DIRECTORY. Ma)or Gen. Godebet vVkitzkl and Brig. Gen. G. F. mput have their headquarters at the mansion former yaccupiso oy Jeff. Davis, corner of Clay and Twelfth Mmoto -continuation of Governor street. Brig. Gen. Char. Devens has his quarters at the late msldDoce of Dr Peasants, in Morson’s row, Governor •AaeK. Brevet Brig. Gen. E. H. Rielbt has his headquarter* at tta Chy HaU. * Brevet Brig. Gen. John E. Mcleobd, Agent for the Bxehange of Prisoners, has an office at the “Fomale In* ititatc." corner of Clay and 10th streets-(flrst floor.) Majrvf General A. V. Kautz, First Division, Twenty-fifth irniv Corps, headauarters at Richmond House. Major General Casey’s headquarters are at the corner of Sixth and Main streets. Captain Wm. Vondoehn, Adjutant General. Major Atherton H. Stevens, Jr., Provost Marshal, has hMresidence at the French Consul’s house and his office at Major Carrington's late place. Persons requiring i*r stw. passes, etc., can get them at the latter place. A Military Commission, of which Major J. L. Stack pote, Judge Advocate, is President, is in daily session in tfaa Hall of Congress for the e.xaminotion of cases of per wna confined by the Rebel authorities. Major J. L. Staekpole, Judge Advocate of Department •f Virginia, office in Female Institute, on Tenth street. Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Conover, U. 8. V.. Acting logical Director of Department of Virginia, office in OMob Honse. Sargeon A. C. Benedict, U. 8. V., Surgeon-in-Chief Thwd Division Twenty-fourth Army Corps and Troops stacked, office in Clifton Honae. Aating Staff Surgeon Wm. H. Palmer, U. 8. A., Poet •wgeon, at Stnart Hoapital. Acting Assiatant Surgeon Senders, U. S. A., in charge HI. & Dispensary, corner Broad and Eighth streets. Bvgaoo B. P. Morong, (J. ft. V„ Medical Director of fMBty-fifth Army Corpe, office ox Tenth street, near Liao tenant Colonel John Coughlin, Provost Marshal MmwxI of the Department of Virginia, office in the OMon> Honae, on Bank street. CApUin Abel E. Leavenworth, Ninth Vermont Vole. AMhtent Provost Marshal, Custom Honse Bnilding. Urge, nicely forniahed ROOMS, o« ALSO, A ntae SINGLE ROOM, suitable for a gentleman, apply on the south side of Grot e street the fourth dooi tf«n 8th. ___*1'^ Wj|itlTI’.P. — t enod MARKET O t^' RMKR cat pro or a w.dali atom a few miles from Rich oei d grant that it may not rekindle excite [incut or inflame passion again, a That a state of war, almost fratricidal, should [give rise to bitter feelings and bloody deeds in the ^lield was to be expected, but that the assassin’s iknifa and bullet should follow the great and best [loved of the nation in their daily walks and reach them when surrounded by their friends, is an atro loitv which will shock and annals everv hrmr.rnli!.. man and woman in the land. The secresy with which the assassin or assassins pursued their victim s indicates that there were but few accomplices in this inhuman crime. The ab horrence with which it is regarded on all sides, will, i is hoped, deter insane and malignant men from the emulation of the infamy which attaches to this infernal deed. Wo cannot pursue the subject further. We contemplate too deeply and painfully the terrible aspects of this calamity to comment upon it further. T-iiJ acts, as wo hav.- o.fijiilly ascertained them, are subjoined: The President visited Ford’s Thea tre Friday night, and about thirty minutes past ten o’clock, whilst leaving the Theatre, was wounded in the head by a pistol shot ‘Jred by John Wilkes Booth. He died at twenty-two minutes past seven yesterday morning. • | Mr. Seward was also wounded in his own house, lie is in a fair way to recover. ! The people of Petersburg bad this afflict ing news yesterday before it was made public here. Judge W. T. Jovnes, Roger A. Pryor, John Lyon, and other prominent citizens, united in a call S.>r a public meeting to express, if words could do so, tbeir grief for so sad an event, ^tbeir abhorrence of the deed, and their sympathy for the be rear d. We know that the citizens of Richmond will take similar action. TF any arguments wers now needed to convince ^the people of the South that the effort to destroy the Union waa an act of folly rather than of wis dom, euch arguments would be found In tbs uttc sverthiow of the false philosophy on which the disunion leaders based their movement. The Insti tution of slavery is only one of the many publh interests which were Involved In the questions at Issue; but as It is one of paramount Importance we will briefly show how little the disunlonints an derBtood its true position, and how unfounded hav» been their hopes concerning It. The great and patriotic men of the South, in th< days of Washington and Jefferson, saw the radlc: ovlls of slavery, and sought to avert them by lnau ,orating a system cf gradud emancipation, am from that day forward the wisest and most thought ful of our Southern citizens— men holding broad ands and working them with their own. elavee hivc felt and known that the sentiment of tho civil Izad world war agalnat the institution, and that th< only hops of retaining It was by retaining the pro tection which the Federal system afforded it in th< Statu where it existed. But a favorite dream of the dlsuni nist wee th< establishment of an independent slavehdding Re. public. The apostles of the Secession creed taughi that a dlmoludon o/the Union would confirm anti permanently establish slavery in the South ; tba' the institution. Instead of being weakened and de stroyed, would be vindicated in the eyes of th< world as a Divine appointment of labor, lntende: to endure ae long a3 man Inhabited the earth. The immediate objxt with which the Nortberr prop’e entered upcn the war was not the destrncti' i of slavery. 1 heir design was to preserve the Union to nphild the jn*t authority of the Nation, to de I tend the right of a people to protect them wive from rniu end dlsoTganlaitlcn by the ecte if thoe ••bo bad no substantial came of compUat agalnt heir Qoternme&i. Iu the early months of the war, Southern hud-B ere clalmod that slavery war an el.-ment of m')!'a*o* strength to the South ; that the slaves w u d wo k|* be farm’, ralsacorn, wheat and bacon, whil* tliE j^ite men fought In the armies. F^r ecmet'miB this delusion continued. Bat In proportion a; tb t advance of the United States arml b cccurr. d, b«B inevitable result, foreseen by the wisest of S^u b-E srn statesmen, followed. The solution cf the q re; r tlon of slavery l£8 been pu ely the result ol thl, laws of war. When tho Sru’h icvlted vac, s' >| abandoned slavery. To suppoie that 1 vadlrg'rf n lei wcu’d fall to weaken thofr advercar'ei by ut extensive embarrassment and dislocation. T> substitute for th s Invjlun'.ary servtude f.rrerl} prevailing the voluntary servitude in which cor -.racta are made, wages are al'oTel, time i r compu 1 od and all the relations of tho free labor eyst nn iro recognized, will require time and patience. Bel toe work has been commenced, and t! e vlte am >nj oar people will soon be sat'sSsd that their condi lot will not bo the worse for the change. The eman* •lpated negroes will also learn that if they will ea hcy must work, and that industry and good tern per are their best policy. AMERICAN VESSELS FIRED UPON BY A PORTUGUESE FORT. The United States frigates Niagara aai Sacra mento have for some time been engaged in chasing the rebel ram Stonewall. The latter has at lengti • ucceedcd in escaping from the port ol Ferrol. On March 27th her arrival in L this matter. Toe rebel organ of London, The Indejr, volunteers the further announcement that the great Powers would protect Portugal if the United States should at tempt to impose upon her. It would be useless to offer any comment upon this afl'aii until the !acts have been established.— If the statements of the Commanders of our steam ers aro correct, our Government will know how to vindicate the honor of the national ting. At all events, the relations of the foreign Governments to Rebel vessels are now on the point of undergo ing a revision, which will make the renewal of such event* impossible.—New York Tribune. Washington, April 13—It is believed that no official information has yet been received in regard to the firing by the Lisbon forts on tno United States vessels Niagara acd Sacramento. This event may be regarded as a fresh illustration of the compli cation almost inevitable in case of tho eonti nuance of the policy of fore ign Powers in rogard to oui rhips of war, a-tainnt which the proclamation ot yesterday so emphatically protests. There is rea. son to anticipate that the etToct of that p.oclama. lion will be to restore our vessels hereaft >r to the enjoyment of customary rights ajid hospitalities in foreign ports, and in the meantime this occurrence is not likely to pass without such action on the part of our Government as the facts when ascer tained shall be found to demand. SINGLE COMBAT. Th? correspondent of the New York Tones says s One of the most singnlar and lamentable events of the war, carrying oue back to the daya of th® ebivalric Knights, when each foetaan challenged his adversary to hand-to-hand conflict, with the attend ant hosts as spectator*, oocurred on Friday last, on the left of the line, dnrlng a skirmish between a portion of the Twenty-fourth corps and a brigade of Rebel cavalry. Gen. Reed, Chief of Staff to Gen. Ord, being up at the front, suddenly recognlied an old acquaintance in the person of Gen. St, Clair Peering, commanding a brigade of South Carolina cavalry. Whether they had been in former times frdenes or foes I cannot say; but they met now as roes, and, in full view of the opposing forces pre sent, they held a tournament of de ith, fighting with pistols, until, almost simultaneous, Reed fell dead, and Peering mortally wounded. The French Embassy at Washington U reported to have received intelligence of the dangerons illness of the tm jeror Napoleoa._ Atlanta, or what remains of it I* occupied J»y * rebel force under Ho well f’obb. and he ha* his headquarters there. The railroad has been repaired, and Is now ma iling regularly between Atlanta and Macon. T.leutenant General Grant, accompanied by Chief of Staff arrived »t Washington Thnradav fro»u Citv Point. It a reported lliat General Grant will visit his home is Philadelphia before returning to the arir.y. !flOBE TICTOBIEI. ■ .YNCHPURO RGRRENDEPRD TO A ^(>'<)T 1NJ PARTY. U SELMA Ahrn MOE TOOMEi: Y CA ETUHEt) H [ )rri ’T*I, w-'• EU Zt*V* ] fll W u r> f .M.:<:ST, A\ r: 12, ^B A!-jo* General Dir AVtc York : gH h Co'i'lru ' f S lc.n by 'nr for«.ee L; *tp r.hv Li.»,TrnM , Ap^tt 11 1P66 f ifl Major Gennd H. H'. llaUeck, Chief of Staff: ■ 1 <«• d tte lolloping, just reeeiv d from Hants- ■ ille, Ala , Lr iho Inform *;loa oi the R creiary of ■ V ar. I em ir.clk.ed to believe ltr altbougo, as yet, f hire jece’ved no report direct from General W.lson: Hchtsvill*, Aua., 9 A, M., April It. Mayor Otsural G. B. Thomas : Tre foil wing Is just received from Col. Hoover, .t S. msivllle: • Men directly through from Selma report that -•dace cajtared by Gen Wilson’s forces on the 2d nst. Forest and Reddy, with their entire ccm oands, were capture f Oar men dismounted ana iharired tie Intrei cbmtr,'s and carried all before htm Tnsy also report M mtg rn ry captured.” (Si?'td) R S. Gbaroee Ger. H. Thomas, Major General. City Pjibt, Va., Ap#l 12, l%5 Bon E'trin M. Eltntcn Secretarytf Far. LvnchhU'g surrendered ye?fe day to a L’eutenan! of G iffi i s lorces, at the head of a scenting party Jtneral Grant Las ordered M ckeuzVs brg ade of nvalry to occupy the town and take care of public iropertr. 0 A. Dab a, Assistant Secretary of War. TUB ERA OF PEA1E. HIGHLY IMPORTANT ORDER FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT, THE CLOSING UP OF THE WAR. 4J1 Draftiag and Re April 13, IMW—6 P. M. $ To Maj. Gen. DU, New York: TLij department, after mature consideration and consultation with the Lieutenant General upon the results of the recent cau paigns, has come to the udlowir g determinaiions, which will be carried into ■•fleet by appropriate orders, to be immediately i*. >ued s ^Hr,s(._To stop all drafting and recruiting ia iio loyal States. Second—To curtail purchases for arms, amaae.#: lion Quartermaster and Commissary supplies, and reduce the expends of the military establishment id its -everal branches. Third.—To reduce the number of general and •tart iffl'.-ers to the actual necessities of the ser vice. Eburth.—To remove all military restriction* upox trade and commerce, so far m may be consistent with public satety. Aa aoon as these measures can be put in opera tion, it will be mide kao-vn by public orders. Edwin M. Stamton, Secretary of War. THK ORDER SUSPENDING TRADE OPERATIONS .S CER TAIN STATER REVOKED. HrwiRs Abmied op tuk United Staten, > In the Field, Virginia, April 11, 1865. $ Shkcial ('rdeb, No. 74.—Second paragraph if Special Orders, No. 48, of the date ol March 10, 1865, from these headquarters, suspending trsde —» operations withiu the Slate of Virginia, except that [fornuu inwn u •-• —~ „f North Carolina and South Carolina and that portion of the State of G orgia immediately bor leringon the Atlantic, including the city of Savwa aah, until further orders is hereby revoked. By command of Lieut. Gkn. Gr-ant. T. S. BuWk«3, Assistant Adjutant General. non ft hope. THE FIRING ON THE NIAGARA. OUB CONSUL DEMANDS RBDRE&S. Halifax, April 13_The steamship Enrepa, fro* Liverpool on tile 1st. via Queenstown on the 2d. ar. rived here a two o’cio:k this morning. The American Minister has demanded satisfac tion of the Portuguese Government for firing inte the Niagara, lie demand* that the American flag ■ball be' saluted bv the torts which lired into our vessel*, and tbo dismissal of the Governor of tba port. The American commanders deny any inten tion of »ailinB wbep flrf d at* , • Other European political news ie unimportant. The surrender of Montevideo to Flore*, and it* occupation by the Brazilians, la confirmed. COMMERCIAL IXTKLLIl MI*Cf. Livkrfool, April 1.—Cotton lean firm, hnt qui«t. and prices unchanged. Breaiaiuffs quiet and steady Provisions dull. Produce quiet. London, April 1, P. M—Conaola 89 7-8»90 f»r money. Illinois Central 61 3-4*61 1.4; Erie 36 United States Five-Twenties 67 l-5a68 1-4. | SfiaitnaL.—Mr. John H. Addioon, aLondon orgy kef, who has recently l>een praised by the ualiwt jonrnals in England as “one of the stfOMp medio ms who has yet appeared,” has amnsed hpa^ self, first by performing before select vkw.\ of mends all the tricks of the Dave port Br