The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-05-20
News of the Week.
CAPTURE OF JEFF. DAVIS.

At daylight on the 10th inst, Col. Pritchard
commanding the 4th Michigan Cavalry, sur
prised and captured jeff. Davis and family,
Reagan his Postmaster General, and several of
ficers of his staff. The fugitive traitors train
consisted of five wagons and three ambulan-
ces, all of which were taken. The capture was
made near Irwinsville, about IS miles south
cast of Macon, Georgia. By painful mistake
the 4th Michigan and lst Wisconsin Regiments
mistook each other for the enemy and fred
| killing two men and wounding several. The
| firing between our own men was the first warn
| ing Davis had of his danger. In true chivalric
style, he hastily put on one of his wife's dress
| es and took to the woods, closely followed by
our men, who at first thought him woman
| but seeing his boots protrude beneath the GRIN
olne, his sex was revealed, and the Ex-Rebel
President was soon brought to bay. He show
| ed signs of battle with a bowie knife, but the
sight of Colts's revolver brought him to terms.
He expressed great Indignation at his capture
saying that he believed our Government more
| magnanimous than to hunt down innocent wo-
men and children.
| Poor jeff! A man clad in top boots and a
loose crinolne is better subject for a comic
almanac than for o hero's place in history
Too great intimacy with female apparel al
| ways gets a man into trouble and 80 it turned
| out with jeff.
1t seems thecavalry escort with Brecknridge
| and other Cabinet officers, took another direc-
ton in order to create diversion in favor OF
| the fleeing President. They may yet be caught
Davis will soon arrive at Washington, where
| it is expected, he will be Immediately tried for
treason and conspiracy against the life of Mr..
| Lincoln.
| On the 4th inst, the Rebel Gen. Dick Taylor
surrendered his forces to Gen. Candy. This
leaves no organized body of the enemy this
| side the Mississippi. Gen. Kirby Smith still
pretends to hold out on the other side and has
issued frantic appeal to his men to stand by
the Confederacy. His case will soon be settled.
The War Department has issued an order de-
claring that all persons found in arms against
the United States, east of the Mississippi after
June 1st, will be regarded as guerillas and pun
ished with DEATH
Cows. Brown of Ca, and Vance of N. Carroll
ma have both been arrested and are now on
their way to Washington. A cavalry force is
also after Gov. Magrath of S. Carolina.
The armies of the Republic, after their glo-
rious campaign of four years, have returned to
the vicinity of Washington, where they are
waiting to be paid off and honorably diecharg-
ed. Agreneral review of the entire army will
be held on Tuesday and Wednesday next,
which will be one of the grandest displays the
world has ever seen. Preparations are being
made for the reception of our gallant volun-
teers at their homes, and we hope our own State
and county will not be dilatory in this matter.
The trial of Mrs. Bessie Perine, formerly
| living near Govanstown and we'll known in
this neighborhood, will be resumed at Wash
ngton next Monday.
The result of the trial of Congressman
Harris has not been announced.
Merchants from the South are constatly ar
| irving in the North, paying off old accounts
and making arrangements to resume business.
The railroads in the South are being rapidly
repaired. Farmers are putting in crops and
everywhere there are indications that "the hap
ply days of long ago" have indeed returned.