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i ki it iV- '1 It 1... Pages 13 to 20. VOLUME LXXYIII. LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBKUABY 7, 1892. TWENTY PAGES.

NETV SERIESNO. 8,439. TELL AT ID i Part Two.1 IE Wl WE IE III Tell jour father, tell your brother, tell jour uncle, tell jour neighbor, that never before la God's round world were such bargains offered in Men's Fine Clothing as at the Mammoth this week. OVERCOATS. "It is murdering merchandise that's what it is." That's what you'll say when you see them.

Magnificent Imported Dress Overcoats, in Beavers, Meltons and Kerseys, Fur-trimmed Chinchillas, Warm Winter Ulsters, that sold regularly for $25, $22, $20 and $18, go this week for the insignificant price of Magnificent goods insignificant prices Every garment made and trimmed in the best possible manner, and equal in fit and finish to the highest style of merchant-tailor work. Yet you get your pick and ohoice for half the price merchant tailors would charge you. Every overcoat in our Fine Clothing Room in this sale. Don't forget TIIE BEST GOES FIRST, And you should come in early Monday morning and make your selection. Drop everything and run for our store DON'T PUT OFF BUYING ANOTHER DAY.

Our surplus stock will quickly melt away at this price. MORE DAYS OF OUR NIGHT -SHIRT SALE! Startling prices on all onr fine Night Shlrtu 42c rootli cot down to 29c; COc to 42c; Sic to 49c; $1.23 to 74c; $1.50 to 9Sc; $2 to $1.25. Dreadfully oterstocked wnst clear it out I KLEIIMHAIMS SlfVIONSON, iammoth Shoe Clothing Co. Market Street, bet. Fourth and Fifth.

GEN. SHERMAN. Eelations of President Lincoln and the Dashing Soldier. Sherman At First Disappointed apd Lincoln Distrusted His Ability. The General's Service In Kentucky and Why He Was Temporarily Believed.

The Terms of Surrender. Granted Gen. Johnston and the Subsequent Controversy. LINCOLN AND RECONSTRUCTION (Written fop the Courier-Journal.) Abraham Lincoln and William T. Sherman had never met until Shermin caiuo to Washington to visit hU brother, the.

present Senator Slierman, ten days after I mtiiu Ailuu. UUCAU.au Ultr ion to the Capital waa not to obtain a command. lie had resigned an President of military institute in Louisiana, ba cause, a be frankly said to the State officials who controlled the institution, be could not remain and owe allegiance to a State that had withdrawn from the Union. In hi letter of dated January 18, lea, be said: Should Louisiana withdraw from the Federal Union, I prefer to maintain my allegiance ta the Constitution an long a a fragment of it survives, and my longer etay here would be a wrong in every eene of the lie left New Orleans about the lst of to make hi homo In the North. Like Crant, he tendered his services to the Government, but again like Grant, his offer was not answered His first meeting with Lincoln was in company with his Senator brother to pay a brief visit of oourtiy to the President.

After th Senator had transacted suine political business with Lincoln, he turned to his brother and said Mr. President, this is my brother. Col. Slierman. who Jost up from Louisiana; he may give you lnlornutuon you want." To this Lincoln replied, as reported by Sherman himself; Ah! How are thev getting along down there Sherman answered: "They think they are setting along swimmingly tby are prepared tt vrax.

1o wriou Lincoln responded Oh, well, I we'll manage to keep house. Sherman rtates in his Memoirs that he was sadly disappointed" in Lincoln, and adds that his damned the politicians generally" aylng to his brother: You have got things in a hell a fix; you may get them out as best you can." Sherman then, as ever, waa tuggedly honest and patriotic, and often moie Impressive than elegant in hi a man ner of speech. Some old St. Louis friends had obtained for him the Presidency of a street railway of that city at a salary of $3,500. Speaking of this position, be says Hi is suited me exactly, and I answered Turner that I would accept with thanks." Sherman was one of the very few Gen erals who seldom grieved I An coin.

While be was one ot the most voluminous writer, on eveiy plutse of the war and every que'ion arising from it, ho never assumed to be wiacr than lie Govern ment, and he never committed a serious blunder. He had the moit profound contempt fcr liolitieians in arid out of the army and for political methods generally, and his bluntrics of both manner ana expression emphasized his views and pur pose mi tnat none could misunderstand thrni. Natuially impulsive, bo often felt keenly tlie many complications which surrounded all great General, and lie spoke ai.d wrote with unusual freedom, but always within the clearest lines of military subordination, lie was an ear-net, arlent, outspoken patriot and had more eonuover.v than any otlier Gen- i -ml with the luncw exception of Mo. Clellan; but I doubt whether there is a ingta important utterance of Sherman's during tlie four Ion? years of war, when new and (rave piottiem had to lie met and solved from time to time, that he would h.ive renalled in later years of his life. lie hnd learned elm if, the most profound respect for Lincoln, aU thougfi they never met alter his first introduction to the President during the early period of the war.

until the nprtntt of 1 8T at City Point, after Sherman had made his march to the sea and bis grrut canipaizn had practically ended at R-lolch. North Carolina. (There i- no doubt that IJniVilnTb earliest impiMinns of Sherman were 4uite a vnfavorable to Sherman as were bbenuau'a early impressions of Lincoln. It was not uotjl Stieruian hnd been as-sigm-d to Kentucky, along with Gen. Anderson, that he attracted, tle attention ot the country.

Along with a number of others ho had won Ms star at Bull Kun, and on the 24th of Augubt he was sent with Anderson to Liouifcville. Anderson '6 feeble hi-alth soon demanded that he should be relieved, and wa left in command. The position of Kentucky was a most delicate and importitnt one. Slierman succccdl to the command on tlie 8th of Uotober, and within a few we-k. thereafter it whs whispered throughout Washington that he was a lunuti-.

Tbia leiief was accepted in mot if nmt all military circles at the Capital, and wan tioubtless by Lincoln uioiM'lf, a in a little more than two months alt he had Bumi-d command in Kentucky he was ordered to report at lienton iktrrutks, St. Louis, and Gen. Hue 1 1 wai a-nigned ah hit successor. lho attitude of Kutuoky attnisted very general int rejl. throughout the country, and tlie repeated elmnes of cmmandrs caumd great Milicitudn.

I rememler calling on CoL Scott, Assistant SiM-retary of War. on th day that the announcement was made of Sherman's transfer to Mis souri and Kuell's appointment, to Kentucky, iind nsking him TT7.it it meant. Scott anaweri-d "Sherimin's gone in the head," and upon inquiry 1 found that eitt simply votood tlie general helwf of th.w. who should have been bedt in- formeil on the subjeet. Keprts were published in all the leading newspapers tf country speakinz of Slierman as mentnlly unhalanned, and it naturally mortihed tlie blunt, straightforward sol dier to the lant degree.

rfn. Hlledr. in lott.T to MeClellan asking fr mom oflicers, Kaict 1 am that en, Sliermaii's phynicul and mental condition coiiipletely broken by labor ailti care a to r'n'ler lam, for the present. unOt for d'lty. l'erhtip- a fw we'ks' rest may restore him." But it is only just to Slier ma to, hay that the c.hicT reason for the military autunrilira in Washington assuming that he wan a lunaUo, was hi report, soon after a.uming in Kentucky, stating that it would mnuire an army of 60.000 men to hold Kentucky and men to open the Mi.Msirtl rivT an-1 cnnuer the rehel- llim in the N.iah.veot.

TLi was at that time regarded conclusive evidence of his insanity; and his mental comlition was a matter ot almost uny discussion In the public journnls, with Halstead'a tipcinniM Commercial, puniiitnca in his own State, leading tlie cruwle ugainit urn mental capa-uty. Wlien Secret-ary Cameron nnd Adjutant-General Thomas weie returniur from their investigation of General Fremont's Department, nn arter Mierman bad assumed 'command of Kmtncky, Slierman took special measures to prevail upon Cameron to t4op over in Ioukille and personally inquire into tfeie condition of that State. Cameton did so, and he had a confidential conference with Slierman at tlm Gait ITnohe in wbfeh Slionnan said to Cameron that for the turpose ni aerenae in Kentucky die should ave 40,000 men. and for (Ten Hive move. incnto 200,000 would be jieeesfary.

Cameron's answer, reported by Slierman himself, was: Great God, where are they to come from I That demand of Sherman's convinced Cameron that Mail Orders Filled Promptly. Slierman was mentally unbalanced, and on his return to VVahinkton he united with all the military authorities of that day in ridiculing Sherman's demand for men to make the war successful in the Southwest and open the Mhtfiv sippi river. All who have distinct recollections of the war, well as every intelligent reader of its history, need not now be reminded that Sherman was tlie only military man of that day who thoroughly and accurately appreciated the situation in the Southwest, and that his original estimate of the forces neoeosary to overthrow the rebellion in that scctj-on of the touutry Is proved to have been substantially correct. Buell, who succeeded Sherman In command of Kentucky, hud nearly OUU men when lie was ordered to Grant at Shiloh, and fully 200,000 men were 'taper in the harvest of death before rebellion (Was oariuernd in the Southwest and the Father of Wsters sgain went unvexed to Cie sea. Slierman wa not permitted to tke the field until after tlie capture ol Firts Htiry and Donelson and the city cf NachvlUe.

Prom December 23. 1861. to the lath of February, 1H62, lie was In charge of tlie St. Louis barrack as military Instructor. Ho vn first ordered from t.

lentils to take command of the post at IVducah, wliere he remained until the lOth of March, when be was placed in command of a division and ordered to join Grant for the hikh campaign. It will be rtmemlcred that bo exhibited gret skill and court ire as a General during the dixngtrens first day at LShiloh. That was the first action in which Slierman had an opportunity to prove his ability as a military commands, and it is safe to sny that from that day until the close of the war Grant regarded him as the best lieutenant in his entire army. He was with Grant at Vickr.burg. chared Grant's victory at Missionary Eidgo, and when the Atlanta campaign was determined upon in the spring of 1864 there no qurtttion in military circles as to tho pre-eminent fitness of Slierman to take the cemmxod.

His campiiign from Chattanooga to Atlanta wa ene of the most brilliant of all the campaigns of tlie war. It exhibited the most accomplished military strategy coupled with tlie wittrst direction cf an army that had to contend with the enemy always intrenched, and to fight every lnle under the greatest duwdvantagea. Mnny even of our uccen.ful military campaigns have been severely criticised, but 1 doubt whether any intelligent, military man at home or abroad has ever criticised Sherman's neralship in his Atlanta campaign. With all his natural impetuosity cf temper lie was alwnya clear-headed and abundant In caution when charcvd with the command of an army. In his march to Atlanta he was pnssing through a country that was.

use his own language, one vat fort," and with at lent flftv miles of connected trencher with abatis and finished lotteries." With the single exception of nis assault uuin Johmton's lines at Kenenaw. he did not meet with a serious revere until he entered Atlanta, and it. was his to Lincoln, announcing the capture of that. city. Oiat rewrsed the iM-litical tide of tho country and assured Lincoln's re-election.

The names of Lincoln snd Sherman are indissolulily linked together in tlie yet continued disnute over Lincoln a nrigiuul sttitudn on reconstruction, as Sherman claimed to represent them In the terms of the first suircnder of Johnston to Slierman at Durham Station, North Carolina. On the 18th of April, 165, Sherman and Johnston met at the house of Mr. Bennett to agree upon the terms for the sui render of Johnston' army. On the 1 3th of Anril Slierman liad ai nonnced to his army the surrender or ie. iwj auya later a nag of truce was received from Johnston proposing to stop the further ctTusion or iiiooci and iievastauon or property.

a id suggesting that tho civil authorities of tlie Stntc be permitted to enter into the needful arrangements to terminate the existing war." Sherman' answer of the same date said I am fullv emnnwefed to arrjnere with rnn ftnv Uti for the suspension of further hos tilities between tlie armies comciamled by you and those commanded by myself." An interview with Johnstou ri'nvtnir been arranged bv a staff ollicer. Sherman ctnrted from Kilelgh on the 11th to fill the appointment with Johnston. When he wu about tn enter the car he was stopped by a telerranh operator who gnve him tTm startling Information of the assassination ot Lincoln on Jhe 14th. lie gave orders that no publicity should he riven to the death of Lincoln, ana ne am not even lniorra the staff officers accompanying htm. As soon as he was alone js.llh Johuaton be Communicated to him the fact of ci lu's RxnaiHi nation, and lie adds that the perspiration rame out in large drops on Ids (Johnston's; forehead, and he did not attempt to conceal hi distress." This conference with Johnston did not result in formulating the terms of surrender.

did not assume to possena authority to surrender all the various armies yet in the field, but a Jefferson Davie, with Breckinridge, his Secretary of War. and lieagan. Ida Postmaster General, were within reach of Johnston, lie proponed to meet Slierman on Uie folio wing day. when he hoped to have authority to surrender the vutire Confederate armies remaining in the service. ben they met strain Breckinridge waa with Johnston without asmiming to act in any official capacity, and ttte term ot surrender were formulated and signed by Slierman and JuimHon.

So far aa tlie purely military Win were involved, they were practieally tlie snnte as those agreed upon by Grant and Lee at Appomattox. Tlie third article of tlie basis of agreement provided for tlie recogni tion try the Executive of tlie united States of tlie several State Governments, their ollioers and Legislatures taking the oath prescribed by tlie Constitution of tlie Inited States." Ibe firth article provided for substantial amnesty, so far as in the power of tlie President, to ail who aeeepted the terms of surrender, who should be protected li- tlieir poliricl rights and franchises as well as their right of person ami property." It was provided also that the armies of She man and Johnston should refrain from all warlike movements until the terms ot surrender were finally accepted, and in tlie event of failure, forty-eight hours notice should be given by eitlier side for the resumption or hostilities. Slierman transmitted tin agreement to the Govern ment through Grunt, and Stanton pub- nsrieu Mie disapproval by the Administration with most attentive reflections upon Sherman. But for the dispute that arose over Sherman's original terms of surrender with Johnsttn, Lincoln's views' ss to rccontt ruction would never have lieen eryxtallized in history. The fact that Sherman claimed to act under the direct authority of Lincoln in the term he gave to Johnston and to the civil governments of the insurgent States, brings up the question directly as to Lincoln's contemplated method of closing the war; and it is notable that many of Lincoln's biographers have injected partisan prejudice into history, ami have studiously attempted to conceal Lincoln's ideas as to tlie restoration of the Union.

Whether he was right or wrong, it is due to tlie truth of history that his convictions lie honestly presented. The plain question is this: Did, or did not, Lincoln expressly suggest to Sherman the terms lie gave to Johnston in his oririnal agree ment of surrender If he did it clearly imru-ays jancoin purposes as to recons struction, and fully vindicates Sherman. If lie did not thus suggest and instruct Sherman, then Sliernim is a deliberate falsi her: and who Is prepared to doubt tlie integrity of any positive statement made by William T. Sherman Tin-re were four persons present at the conference held at City on the 88th of March, 1B65. Tliey were Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Admiral Porter.

It was before these men that Lincoln freely-discussed the question of ending the wsr, and in Sherman's Memoirs he says: Mr. Lincoln was full and frank In hia conversation, assuring me that in hia mind he waa already for the civil reorganization of affairs at the South aa soon as the war was over." Had Lin coln stopped with the general asao ranee of his purpose to restore the Snth to civil government, it might be plausible to assume that Slierman misinterpreted his expressions, but Sherman adds tlie following positive statement: "He (Lin. coin) distinctly authorized me to assure trov. Vance and the people of North Carolina, that as soon as the rebel armies laid down tlieir- arms nnd resumed tlieir civil pursuits, they would at once be guaranteed all their rights aa citi zens or a common country; and that to avoid anarchy, the Slate rovernmentM. then in existence, with their eivil func tionaries, would be recognized bv him as the governments tie facto till Congress could provide otliers." There was no portability for Sherman to mistake this expression of Lincoln.

He was distinctly instructed to assure the mT- ernroent of Nrrth Carolina, the State in which Sherman's army was then op erating, that upon the surrender of the insurgent forces all would be guaranteed their rights as citizens, and the civil government then in existence would be recognized by Lincoln. There waa no chance for misunderstanding on this point. Either Lincoln thus 1st- -structed Slierman, or Sherman states wast is deliberately untrue. These were the last instructions Sher man received from Lincoln or from the Government until the surrender of Jolin-aton. In a little more tlian two weeks tiiereafter Lincoln was assassinated, and the only event that could have been reetrdod aa en additional amide to Sner- pnaa waa the surrender of Lea, la Vbinh ul tlie rights that Sherman accorded to Johnston a army were Riven to army by Grant.

The testimony of Lin coln eould not be had after tlie bwae was raised with Sherman, as Lincoln was then deed; but Sherman knew that on the 6th of April Lincoln had autltor-ised tlie reconvening of the Virginia LKllature. and thus felt sure tnat 1-4 n- eeln was doing in Virginia nreciacly what he had instructed Sherman to do in North Carolina. Grant, always ret- lemt in matters of dispute except when testimony was a necessity, was not calv-d upon to express any opinion as to the correctness of Sherman's understand ijg of Lincoln's instructions. Gen. Badeau, who was with Grant at the time lie received Stanton's offensive revocation of the agreement between Sherman and Johnston, says that Grant pronounced Stanton's tea reasons lor rejecting the terms of surrender to be inramou." An Sntirely new condition had been proofed ty the murder of Lincoln and the suceeesion of Johnson, and had atier-nmn tsvn advised of the frenzy of pub lic sentiment that followed tlie assassination of the l'resident, he probably would mot have obeyed Lincoln's instructions by the promise that the Government would reeognire ue onieaeraie oivu authorities of the States.

The tragic death of Lincoln routed public, sentiment to the highest point of resentment. The new lYesident was ostentatious in his demand for revenge upon tlie Soutliern leaders. Stanton was most -viokut In his cry for the swiftest retribution, and it was in this changed condition of sentiment and ot authority that Sherman' term, accorded to Johnston in obedience to the peaceful purposes of Lincoln, were sent to the Government for approval or rejection. Stanton ta mediately proclaimed the rejection of the terms of surrender in a dispatch riven to the publio press, in which he denounced Sherman with unmingled ferocity as having acted without, authority and eurrviMlerc-l almost eWry Issue for whi-h the wxr had been fought. So viol -nt was this assault upon Shenuan from Stanton that soon after, Vo Sherman's victorious army was rcviewNsV In Washington by the 1 "resident and Secretary of War, Slierman refused the prtfleKd hand ct Stanton Wore tho multitude.

Plesident Johnson subsequently assured Slierman that Stanton's public reflection upon Slierman- had not been seen by him nor any ot Stanton's associates of die Cabinet until it had been published Admiral Porter, who was tlie remaini'ig witness to the instruv tiena rcevivod by ueriuan, tok down notes immediately after tlie conference ended, and within a yenr thereafter he furnlaiiod Slierman a statement of what had Transpired, in which he fully nnd broadly sustained Sherman as to Ian-eoln's Instructions. I assume, therefore, tliat it is true beyond all reasonable dispute, that Sherman in his original terms of Johnston's surrender in North Carolina implicitly obeyed the instructions of Iincoln. and waa therefore not only tully Justified in what he did, but would have been false to Ids trust had he insisted upon any other terms than those he accepted. This i.ue made with General Sherman and feebly mi stained by a few partisan historians of the time, has led intelligent students to study carefully Lincoln's ideas of reconstruction, and they should lie correctly understood to correctly estimate Lincoln's character. I frequently siw Lintoln tiuring tlie Hummer and fall of 1864 and winter of 1865.

Sonic time in August, 1864, I spent several hours with him nlono In the White House, when he spoko loatt earnestly about the closing of the war. He bad but a single purpose, and that was tlie sccdy and cordial restoration of tlie disseverti State. He cherished no rentuient against tho South, and every tlieory of reconstruction that lie tver conceived or presented was eminently- Btnceful. and looking solely to r. at taching the estranged people to tlieir Gftvemmont.

I waa stnrtlcd when he Hist suggested that it would be wise to pay tlie soutn atuiMiuu.uisj ss compensation for the abolition of slavery, but. he had reasoned well on tlie subject and none eould answer tlie arguments he ad- vancrd in favor of snch a settlement of the war. He knew that he could not Mail Orders Filled Promptly. then propose it to Congress or to the country, but he clung to it until the very last- He repeatedly rtnewed the subject In conversations when I was present, and on the of February, 165, he went sn far aa to formulate a mea-mi to Congicss, proposing tlie payment of 1400,000,000 for emancipation and submitted it to his Cabinet, only to be unanimously rejected. Lincoln sadly aa a-pted the decision ef hia Cabinet and filed away the manuscript metwapn with this indorsement thereon, to which hi signature was added February 5, 1S65.

lo-day these papers, which ex. plain tbetneelv en, were drawn up and submitted to the Cabinet and unanimously disapproved by them." When the proposed message was disapproved Lincoln soberly asked How long will the war last To this none could make answer, and he added: We are spending now in carrying cn the war Ij.oOO.OoO a day. which will amount to all this money, bcaiilc all the lives." At Lincoln's conference with Sherman and Grant at City Point on tlie 3tth of March, he exhibited profound sorrow at the statement of these Generals tn.it aa other great battle would probably have to be fought before clofcing the war. Sherman saya that Lincoln exclaimed more than once that there liad been blood enough shed, and asked us if another battle could not be avoided." Hia great desire was to attain peaoo without the sacrifice of a single life that could le saved, snd he certainly desired that there should be no policy of retribution upon the Southern people. He Intimated to Sherman very broadly that he desired Jefferson Davi to escape from tho country.

Sherman in his Memoirs repeat a stoiy told by Lincoln to him illustrative of his wish that Davis should escape unbeknown to him," and in discussing the same subject in the White lloue in tlie presence of Gov. Cuitfn, Col. Forney, several otliers end myself, he told tlie same story to illustrate the same point, obviouslv Intending to convry very clearly his wish that tlie Southern leaders should escape from the land and save him tlie grave complications which mut Tollow their arrest. Secretary Welles, in an article in the ftabvxy. quote Lincoln as saying 'on this nibieet: one need expect he would take any part in hanging or killing Hieo men, even The worst of them.

Frighten out of tlie country: open the gatee: kt dowa the bars, scare them off. Enough lives have been sacrificed we must extinguish our icwntments if we expect harmony and Union." Lincoln's greatest apprehension during the last six months of the war was that the South would not return to the Union and recogniie the authority ot the Government. He knew that the military power of the rebellion was broken, but be knew that the bitterness that prevailed among the Southern people would be an almost insuperable barrier to anything like cordial reconstruction. Ha knew that they were impoverished and he feared next to universal anarchy in the South when tlie scattered armies ot tlie Confederacy should le broken up, and instead ot a restoration of peace and industry or anything approaching friendly relations between tlie Southern people and the Government, he anticipated guerilla warfare, general disorder and utter hopelessness of tranquility throughout the rebellious States. It was this grave apprehension that made Lincoln desiro to close the war upon such terms as would make' the Soutliern people and Soutliern soldiers think somewhat kindly of the Union to which they were brought back by force and arms.

It was this apprehension that made him instruct Slierman to recognize the civil government of tlie South until Congress should take action on the subject, and that made him personally authorize Gen. Weitrel to permit the Virinia State government to reconvene, aa ho himself stated it, to take measures to withdraw tho Virginia troops and their support from resistance to the General Government." He meant to do precisely what Sherman agreed to dr in his terms with Johnstou. On Lincoln'a return to Washington from Weitzel'i lieadquarters in Richmond, he was surprised to find that Ida consent to the reassembling of the Virinia State government, like hie proposed message offering (400,000,000 as compensation for slnv. cry, was disapproved by tlie Cabinet, and that it waa likely to be disapproved by the country. He was greatly distressed and lieritated so ne time before 1m attempted to extricate himJf from the ..111 I'l IV kt.ri.

i Galaxy of April, 1872, pae 524, ppeak- iny J1 inn imiiuii in uit? a ii iicv, The subject liad cautwd general gurpriAn, la nasi txf aimn aisaauatiairutlfan SB 1 11 UU v- aeeaa wa ie-Mv ws. -1 1 CIsa ai1 Msa tall lrTHaatl'MI. 'tnuiil aaaaaa -s va especially disuu-bed about it, and Secre We always have, we always will. Nowhere in the world can you buy such fine Clothing as the Mammoth offers this week without paying one-third more money for it. FINE SUITS.

It is massacre of prices That's what you'll say when you see them. Fine Businesa Suits. Walking Suits, Dress Suits, in imported fabrics, Sacks, Frocka ana Cutaways, your choice of all the regular $25, $22, $20 and $18 Suit 1a our Fine Clothing Room for Every Suit and Overcoat left over from our great $1450 and $16.50 and $18.92 sales now offered to you for $12.50. No matter what they are worth or what former prices were, you tret them now for $12.50. Merchant tailors can make no finer Suits tnan these.

Think of it and buy quick 1 $12.50 for the liberty of roaming at will through all of our finest Clothing and selecting the best of the best! The values we are giving this week have never and will never be duplicated by any would-be competitor. No other clothing house on earth ever gave or ever will give yousuch a chance to dress well at so low a price. I OFF THE FKICE OF JUYEMLE OYERCOATS for one more week only. 1 $1.50 Overcoat for $1. $2.50 for $1.67.

$4 for So tor $3.38. $6.60 for $4.33, for $5.33. Liery Overcoat in this Department inffera the name red act ion. KLEINHANS Zc SlfflONSON, Mammoth Shoe Clothing Market Street, bet Fourth and Fifth. tary Welles quotes unco in as uuaiiy saying that he was surprised that las object and tlie movement had been so generally unsOisistTued, and under the cir- eeeuing should be abandoned.1 Ia the meantime Lee's army bad sur- twiidered, and Lincoln was given a rea sonable opportunity to stop ine proposeo meeting of tlie Virginia Legislature; and on the 12th of April he wrote to Gen.

Weitrel tJutV aa the proposed meeting had been mUcous trued, and that as Grant had slnoe captured the Virginia troops so that tiiey could not be withdrawn by the lr-gltua Legislature, his letter to Judge Campbell should be recalled, and tbo Legislature not allowed to assemble; but if aav had come in vursuauce of tlie order, to allow thetn a bate return to their homes. In his interview with Julge Campbell and others, in relation to the proposed ametui'liog or the lrgima u'j-Ldature, Lincoln had distinctly agreed that if Viririnia could be re- Stored to t-ne Union, confiscation should be remitted to tlie people. 1 tie evidence is multirlied on every side that Lincoln intended to give tlie Virginian exemp tion lmtn all tlie retributory laws of ar. including. amnesty to all who obeyed the Government, jus as Slierman provided in lus terms of surrender witn jonnston but he was baited in his purpose, as he v.a halted in his proposed compensated emancipation, by the bitter resentments of the time, which prevaifcvi no oniy in his Cabinet, but Uuougliout the country, liad he been able to Sherman after he had revoked the authority for the TreinU liegisUtnrt to arMvnhle, he would doubtless have modified his in-atructiona to him, but Lincoln never strain communicated with Sherman.

Two L. aan alter ins rrTorauun 01 ut 'tikb ord-T he was aasassiniued, and four days after Lincoln's aasiKonation Slsmn made his terms of surrendtT with Johnston. Had Iinco'n heen alive when Sherman's first report of Johnston' surrender vu reri ved in Washinirton. his experi ence in absenting to the reambling of tlie Virgiida State Government would doubt lew have marie lam dianiove tlie terms acceded to Jolinstcn in oisdience to line ln's instructions to Slvrman but lie would have cast no reproach upon tlie htriHo victor ot Atlanta and Savannah, and would have manfully assumed his full share of n-sponsibility for Sher man's action. What policy of recotistru taon Lincoln would have adopted had he lived to ccmplete Ids great wrk, can not be known but.

it is entirely safe to assume tliat, while he would have yielded to tlie mandatory sentiment of tlie nation, he would in the end have taught tho country that, with malice toward none; with charity for all," he could the world that government of tlie pcopk', by tlie people, and for the people shall not periih from the earth." A. K. M-CLUtL Probleaa No. 62. First prise three-mover in the congress Of Xtxe B-iheuilin Chess Avsorlation.

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C. L-, Ellsaoatlxaowm i (k t. Jacutra. Lies Moiaea, sa The Match at llaraaa. Play has beeei pe riT.sln-lai of lite, only oue game having seen ptayet in unc iai wera.

boors, racUcarta. ti Ktciuiix, drawn, 4. IVuaa game, played January SI. TWO DKFKNSsV. White iStelutUi.

Biaek (Taoblcwtax, 1 K4 1 i K4 Kt KB3 kll QB3 3 11-U4 8 Kt B3 4 15 4 I' Q4 6 PxP a Kt-QB4 It Kt3 (cL) Ba 7 IIP 7 PxP 5 sq (a) 6 i XR3 Kt KK3 I li ni.a lO-Q-Ki 10 Catties. U-P t.U13 11-B Kt3 1- i9- Kin.i l.lKl-K3(b 13-K Kq 14-B-QJ 14-B KB 16 I'aMJes (c 1 5 Kt sq (41 jh KKt 16 Kl3 17-11 Kta 17 11 ou 18 Kt B2 18-0 Kt3 1- I Kt4 id 6 k't SO K4 so R5 -l-K-Kta SI K4 2 Hxli in 11 H-QKt fwj E-'i BQ3 J4-KK-QBWJ 84 Kl3 nKR to. i KB Kta 'It MS S'V B4 rr ki or Kt it na trt QlKtP (e) 2 PlP I'xP SS Kt-B3 30-P-KKt5 if) SO Klr-KS JfOTES. (a) Oue or the novelties' invariably ts troduced by Sietnlti during ota wiatehsa. Aa usual.

It li cnnadratly worse taaa Was more "-Impruved up (b) Observe the beautiful poatttoa ef af white Kta. 4 icl forced on account of a. 11 Beginning ai once a vlgorsas asji tbrnht uii tie wraic Q-idde. (e) An excursion which Black saa HI allord. Hi a btg blifndcr.

etctatar rue 1 tliat ha thought hat uu kaa all run; out. Iliatorroftks V. 8. A. Thl- 1h the title of a neat Utile pamphlst hich has been Issued by the Praatdant at the as.M-lailcii, Mr.

J. W. Hulas, of aa. Louis. It gives the history of thm aninta-tion from Its start, and shows the good It bas done.

There is now a oiembarahlp at J1-. and this should be trebled. Tba eh fleers it. Ire to place the asraclatlaa en a linanciid UskIs that will enable to furnish Its own prize funds, and not eotnpal the cities where the meetings are aaat ss do this as well as entertain Ik Kvsry ana Infrevd lu the good of the association and every chos player ahonM be will hers by carefully reading thea suggaatloas, ana Uicn acting on then. KirM lay your dues promptly.

fvioixl one or mora of your a quaintAiiceH lo join the association and rs mil Iti lr dues. Thlrd-levclop any talent that may Biam4 fest li-clf In your nciiibortiood, ant see that an opportunity Is ottered for Us eia billon nt a national uiurncment. fi.iu tti send tlie Secretary a list cf all the chexs plovers in your neighborhood. Hfili I'lAt-e tline circulars where ty will 1 th- iimst good. All Inquiries and remittances may se ad orced to J.

W. Hulse. PrtsMent. la, UhiIs. or Warwick H.

Klpley, tsera tarv, Indlnnapolls, Ind. duH are but dbe ftolair per pans. which every one can spars, and yen wat receive your money's worth ka tale aailnaat report, rnnlulnlng the ehatiipswasbsp snse Send vmir name snd does to the Cum, uaai jy aod Induce your neighbor do so. Chess Calllags. -Mr.

It. O. Volght won flrst prtse tn the rnnrrviment of tho Franklin Cfaeas CliaV, ai T) nr flnlkAm CliMi rSiiH will am a tournafnoiii soon. There have beea atgav teen entris. -T'ic annu.d meeting of taa Hew Tor Aksim-U'I in wll.

eid February SS, at 64 I'nUra square. New York. Browns-m's chcs Journal acaaoaaees Hi slte'iilh pciblfyo tourney. It Is tor aret -o ji ia of books ar a'sefd aa piUiri Addies O. A.

Krownaust. Bea dale. Iowa. -Baltimore News: Herr XL Iaaker Bewi fllows the noble game In Loooon. la otho er vorli, le kdng through the aalll, rtlackbiirjic and Qunt.herc hoid Ma eQ bv tMt slakes, fei other werda, IKey aww.

that lepiitatlon the Muleslent ef pounds, shilling snd pence Losker eouM prabse bl beat anr ef the others except atari lll gemua may, therefoPB. etares the i u.aw tw A of the as agsaisai ttoe paayer the runner oeen never nun' weariness ot rallownesa. anaer atewty. beea yaays'.