FROM GEN. SHERMAN: He Undertakes a Treaty with Gen. Johnston; They Correspond About a Basis of Peace (4/23/1865)

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 22. Yesterday evening a bearer of dispatches arrived from Gen. SHERMAN. An agreement for a suspension of hostilities, and a memorandum of what is called a basis for peace, had been entered into on the 18th inst., by Gen. SHERMAN with the rebel Gen. JOHNSTON. The rebel Gen. BRECKINRIDGE was present at the conference. A Cabinet meeting was held at 8 o'clock in the evening, at which the action of Gen. SHERMAN was disapproved by the President, by the Secretary of War, by Gen. GRANT, and by every member of the Cabinet. Gen. SHERMAN was...