Show iff BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH SPECIAL TO THE DAILY VEDETTE U 1 1 memphis april the Vic lisburg liewald iier ald of the bas baa dated off the moul bof red lied river eiver which states that at nine this evening tile the famous rebel raw ram webb ran out of red river passing all the gunboats gun boats and ironclads ironclad iron 8 here and des bending the mississippi with speed when first discovered she bad no lichte s and emitted no smoke and appeared like libo a huge mass she was bred tin in from the monitor manhattan when she immediately showed signs of lire life A shot passed the manhattan who sig balled the tand the lafayette started in pursuit the officers of the manhattan estimated the speed of the webb at twenty five fire miles an hour when passing them the steadies S saratoga from new orleans met thi th webb at tunica bend I 1 she attempted to rim down the saratoga but was unsuccessful and continued to run and it is believed she intends destroying y ying in C our commerce on the mississippi and will probably make an atte attempt ampt to escape gulf if nothing happens to the webb she can reach new orleana at daylight day lay light tomorrow to morrow and the mouth os 0 the mississippi by noon gen Washburn fi order declaring th the of april the confederate soldiers within his district would be regarded as felons felona and not as prisoners of af war is having a salutary effect great numbers have surrendered cairo april A steamboat calamity unparalleled in the history of navigation occurred on thursday morning by the bursting of a boiler on the steamboat sultana eight miles above memphis ss she was on her ber way from new orleans to this point twenty two hundred people were on board 1958 of these were paroled sol aers on their way home from the rebel prisons at Ander andersonville sonville ga of thia ghisi cargo carga ot of precious life only are known to have been saved of 01 course more will yet be found but at the iho inside the terrible margin of one oae thousand mancl or fourteen hundred lives will in all pro probability have to stand to the 1 credit of this calamity the accident occurred when all were asleep except the officers the employees boat had bud started out from memphis un on hour before with only elou enough ah steam to propel her eight miles duc during i ing an hour the first mate of the ills ill fated steamer thinks there must have been some som infernal machine put in the coal ys the boat at the time was running very steady and had so little steam on that explosion exposi on was nn possible impossible HZ he describes the scene after the ex a terrible in the extreme jle he inthe pilothouse pilot pile bouse and wits was blown into the river where there was a struggling 0 ling living m miss of bf drowning humanity ibm e with limbs broken and fi sonie some scald scalded ed over which scene was the wreck 01 that immediately took fire and commenced to throw a ghastly glare no io succor was ivas at hand and only the best swimmers aided by fragments ol of the wreck could hope to be saved t f there were fifteen women on board but iivo 1 f whom are known to be saved gaved come some of 1 ibe the people floated down as fa fai r as memphis this bein being agthe jhc first fiat intimation iio that had reached that city A yil yawl Vs js immediately sent out and picked up seventeen ev enteen 1 17 0 jhc the thc steamer Bos the tay down arrived at the lite scene three quarters of a n bour hour after the explosion 1 ibri among the soldiers on board were thirty six corn office s te hc troops were of 0 vario reous regi regimental tnt s b etbel 0 a vally pally to ind indiana aam and illinois in awen twenty ty minutes after the explosion the ahe whole boat was one sheet of fire A dense mass of people estimated at took refuge at the bow of the boat while the flames were driven after them by the wind widd the bonfa soon turned stern down stream reversing the when the entire mass pushpa together many being literally roasted while clinging to the boat the wreck floated down five before sinking gen gan Was liburne commanding memphis mem has ha committee to investigate the late horrible tragedy on the mississippi the mate caf e of the steamer testifies that the boat was running at about ten miles an hour at the time of the explosion that the boilers had been tested in st louis on the last trip and pronounced good the last information is that 2300 were on board of whom have been found alive knoxville may ad A man who was on one of the railroad trains by Ston emans cavalry between greensboro and salisbury toys says jeff davis was on the same train and on his way to charlotte but learning that the railroad was out cut above and below there he with other passengers escaped and turned to gr greensboro ansboro Son Ston emaus emans cavalry are now in the valley of the saluda river with head at anderson and are scouting from there towards augusta ga with instructions that if they can hear of jeff davis and his treasure to io follow him ni long there is a horse left the infantry portion of Ston emans command is engaged in clearing the mountains of bushwack ers atad an d guerrillas and horse thieves they ore are making clean work new york may ad tribunes spec special 1 ial says the president is s preparing a proclamation declaring that all vessels sailing under the confederate flag to be pirates pira and they ire are to be punished and treated as such if captured 1 general grant announces that the headquarters head quarters of the army of the U S willbe will be established in washington washington ad the secretary of state is feeling very well this morning 0 and secretary seward s condition is is more encouraging new york may ad the heralds special says jeff davis remained in danville six days in sim ens pense failing to hear from lee who was expected to reach that place and make staunton on his line of defense the news of his surrender was brought in by scouts but was misbeliever mis believed it was kept secret as long as possible and when it became known there was a great panic shermans Sher mans men between danville and greensboro firedog fired on the thain carry ing davis davia and cabinet the heralds correspondent says the armie armies bf georgia and tenn commanded by schofield eld and howard are on their way to richmond where they will be disbanded or are ordered to a more active field the times special says the the whole number of arrests made of the conspirators is the trial of these have corn coin fenced before the military commissioners and if the facts be substantiated as now disclosed the magnitude of the plot will astonish tle whole cowit country ry hari bolds trial is set for tomorrow new york may lat est in view of the abe thc rebel ram kam stonewall is afloat and is supposed to be making her way to this coast the government has made preparations for her reception iby by placing iron in all of our ba harbors i arbors the roanoke and other iron elada beside torpedo boats e in readiness i in n this harbor tho the ife heralds 1 special says grant immediately on his return retura to will act abot about making ar 1 the completed beavy do dc crease military in forces and the couse aluin of expenses feriv m that the army will be reduced to four hundred thousand men tho the tribunes special says harrold has made a voluminous confession it has been ascertained that jeff davis and party have not more than three hundred thousand dollars in specie with them gen grant is ia reported to have bave said that when he be informed Sher mari aa of his bis disapproval of the terms be bad fox warded to washington the he latter frankly admit admitted teI he be had made amistade in not having it put in writing that slavery was dead but it was the tate understanding understand Mig between them as to permitting the rebel legislatures to assem assemble lole was because ho be had just learned that the virginia legislature was permitted to assemble by the authority of the president and in tha abe absence ot of official instructions he interpreted the presidents desire to be that the rebel civil government should be maintained for the preservation of order and to avoid main a military force in those states as well as to do away with a citation likely to grow out of a military government As to the amnesty it was only to cover the officers and soldiers and when his attention was called to its wor wording ding he replied with spirit that it does not express the understanding between them the heralds washington special says gen grant returned in excellent spirits he expresses much gratification at the prompt execution of the orders of the government in reference to the agree mant between sherman and johnston gen sherman met the general twenty miles from the front he received his orders disapproving his course with the best commendable good grace and there was no hesitation no murmuring nor any expression of dissatisfaction at the disapproval of the terms the world s special says johnston hiis bas pledged himself to exercise his au tho ity and vigilance to prevent guerrilla bushwhacking or any kind of illegal warfare the herald s richmond correspondent says halleck since assuming command of richmond has established in that city a bureau of public archives in which are to be deposited and preserved all documents found within his department part ment bearing on the history of the rebellion it is believed our government contemplates the arrest of judge campbell Caro who since lees surrender has been very busy in endeavoring to to obtain terms favorable to traitors new york may A dispatch from charleston of the says saya gov wm win aikin left charleston on the with orders to report at washington 0 the expedition sentous sen tout under tinder gen potter had bad been recalled under the orders to suspend hostilities based on shermans Sher mans first arran arrangement ement but on the morning of the 20 th another party was sent out to notify the rebels at orangeburg Orang eburg of the resumption of hostilities tili ties the tribunes richmond correspondent prints a letter which goes to show that one stinson made a contract with the rebel government in june 1863 to destroy the united states vessels navy yards etc on the western waters for which lie he was to receive as pay aper on an the value of property destroyed A letter is given containing the report of ortho the destruction of the steamer J 11 Ri Riis issell ory on the mississippi river in april 1864 by an incendiary employed by stinson Sl inson band and the perce percentage niage claimed amolin amounted ted to over fifty five thousand dollars washington slay acting master fitzpatrick commanding the U S steamer cyreno reports to the davv department under date of aa att off rin doll that chaton on the chhan han tH i op expedition anile under ocra command mat 1 d of brig den efin osborne started to iron ville in three columns one from randolph one by way of river and one from fulton term tenn they returned on the having been successful in capturing several officers and men gen shelbye Shel bys adjutant was killed and one of the men captured was a fellow who has been passing for luxton ile he confessed having burned the st paul and killing one man on board general osborne hung him to a cottonwood tree at randolph and left his body hanging his proper name was wilcox the steamers anna everton and guelph were not burned by guerrillas they came out of the hutchie river all sa safe fe washington may alay ad the president has issued a proclamation the substance of which is as follows I 1 aws whereas it appears from evidence in in the bureau of military justice that the attro cious murder of the late president and attempted assassination of Se secretary ereta seward ww incited conce concocted eted and procured by and between jeff davis late of richmond and jacob thompson clement 0 clay beverly tucker george N saunders W 0 cleary and other rebel traitors against the th government of the united states now harbored in canada now to the end that justice may be done I 1 andrew johnson president of the united states do offer for the arrest of t tle e said persons or either of them within phelim its of the united states so that they can be brought io to trial the fol following lowig reward one hundred thousand dollars for jeff davis davi each for clement clay jacob thompson and beverly tucker for wm 0 cleary late a clerk of clement C clay new york may ad the tribune s special says payne the assassin of seward has made a confession of guilt he said it was useless for him to withhold it longer lie ho bad been fully identified by six persons persona and the government had other evidence in its possession that hs h was the party assigned to that terrible crime the same special says one of the most protracted and important cabinet sessio sessions ns held since johnsons accession to the presidency was held at the treasury department yesterday the subject of the matter for discussion was the free trade questions As regards the south it is understood that the whole system of giving cotton permits and trade permits to a certain class of favorites was thoroughly ventilated and denounced noun ced although there was a decided preference in favor of opening 0 trade in all parts of the south not subject to union authority it is believed as the result of this thia protracted sitting that every advery facility will be extended by the government for all commercial transactions lind and a s a consequence of this fact cotton permits are ata at a decline in the market the heralds mobile dispatch of the says bays L an officer of dick taylors staff arrived just now with a flag of truce at candys headquarters head quarters to make ter terms 1113 for the surrender of himself and command s new orleans papers contain a letter from tho the hon A burwell of miss mis in which he be |