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voluntarily given them selves up to the Confederates. All business here is suspended. Many of the houses have been taken as quarters for the remnants of the "grand army," and our principal hotel was yesterday seized for a barracks Lincoln, Seward, and two military characters, visited this city yesterday, and manifested their usual indifference and cheerlessness, though witnessing the misery and wretched conditions of their hirelings. The soldiers are very much disgusted with the falsee did you ever sing 'Carry me back to Old Virginia?'""Yes, often.""Then, never do it again, for if I was a thousand miles from Old Virginny, I'd never want to see it any more" I had the honor of seeing the entrance into the town of "Lincoln, Seward and McDowell," in an open barouche, followed by the President's Life Guard. The pressure of business allowed them but a ten minutes visit, and then they whirled away. I could not but contrast this picture with that I had seen of the wounded and
l the blood of the slaughtered thousands who sleep the sleep of death at Manasseh out forever. At the date of Mr Lincoln's inauguration he found commissioners from the Confederate States Government awaiting his accession to power to propose negotiations for a peaceful solution of the questions in controversy between the sections At the request of the Secretary of State, they delayed a formal communication until the 12th of March, when Messrs Forsyths and Crawford addressed a letter to Mr. Seward, in which they said: "With a view to the speedy adjustment of all questions growing out of the political separation upon such terms of amity and good will as the respective interests, geographical contiguity, and future welfare of the nations may render necessary, the undersigned are instructed to make to the Government of the United States overtures for the opening of negotiations, assuring the Government of the United States that the President, Congress and people of the Confederat