Who Stole Them?

The Boston Post has a special dispatch from Washington to the following singular effect : " Within a few days it has been discovered that all tho archives of the War Department pertaining to the seoret history of the rebellion have been stolen. It is known that they were all in the War Office when Mr. Stanton retirod. He had them systcmatically briefed and stowed away in a safo place, and had he livpd and remained in public life they would probably have figured largely in preventing the appointment of men to office who have since shown that they wero no better fitted for the civil service than they were for positions of trust and high command in the army. These private archives covered a period of time from the first battle Buil Kun down to the surrender of Lee's army. They einbraced orders for courts-inartial with with their fiudings, some of them sentencing the offouders to be shot, records of which tho peopla were ignoraut."