Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-08-19
NEWS AND MISCELLANY.

Among the psrdOns granted last Monday was
enc to Senator Fitzpatrick, of Alabama.
Brigadier General Dent has been assigned to
the command of the garrison at Washington.
James II. Gerard, State Treasurer of Kentucky
died at Louisville on Monday the fourteenth inst.
Several citizens of Richmond are in Washing
ton to make representations concerning the recent
municipal election in that city.
1t is reported ia Nashville that President John
son has psrdoned Gen. Gid. J. Pillow and Judge
West u. Humphreys.
Stevenson, Temp, of which mention was often
made during military operations in that quarter
was almost nti.ely destroyed BY fire last Monday
The bodies of 70 murdered men were found on
the railroad track near Jehersonvllle n.y. q lew
nights since. One was discharged soldier.
Robert Ould late Confederate Commissioner for
Exchange Of Prisoners, has arrived at Washing
ton for medical treatment
fire at Annapolis on Sunday destroyed the
American Housa and damaged an adjoining resi-
dence.
Benny Eyler, aged eighty-ive, and Anna Gray,
aged seventy-hve, married and set up house-keep-
ing in Xenia, Ohio, las. week,
One man has seen thirty drowned persons ia.
ken from the Ohio, at Cincinnati, since the let of
March.
A Government paper in France proposes that
no one be allowed to write fOi the newspapers un.
til he has been subjected to an examination and
received diploma.
Hon. r. NJ T. Hunter has applied, through In.
Auential friends, for parole of two or three
weeks, TO visit his family, who are suffering In
heavy domestic eftictions,
W. W. Corcoran, Esq, OF Washington, who Ass
been absent abroad tor more than two years, de-
signs returning home in the early part of the en- =
suing autumn.
Secretary Seward left Washington again for
Caps May, Tuesday morning, by steamer, his ply
stefan deeming that SEA- voyage would lie bene.
fetal to his health.
Charles Cockey, of Baltimore county, has been
arrested by the United States Marshal upon pre-
sentiment for treason made by the Grand Jury of
the United States District court. The accused
is said - have been in the Confederate service.
Major Generate Charles Devens, late in command
of military district under General Terry, has
been relieved and ordered to report to Major Gene
raj Gilmore a. Charleston General Devens ar
rived in Washington Tuesday evening.
Tie family of General Preston, of Kentucky,
since they were refused by order of the War De-
partment, a landing from one of the Cunard
steamers at Boston. have been residing in Nova
Scotia.
grand balloon expedition from Evansville,
Indiana, on Sunday, resulted disastrousIy. The
and the eIonaut had his hip broken. He will pro-
badly die.
Alfred Tennys"n, the poet laureate of England
is failing very fast. He was just recovering from
q severe throat disease, when, walking one eve
ming in his Isle of Wight garden, he took cold
and now, it is said, symptoms of cons umptiOn are
evident. His friends are gOiGg to remove him to
the south of France at once, as the only chance
of saving his life.
Al. Al.
Commercial generally agree that the Northern
soldiers aIe less humRnely disposed towards the
cOlored population than the southern people
even the late slaveowneTs From their course
much of the disorder and hindrances to the resto.
rstion of good feeling are owing. 1t is DIS.
graceful fact, and but for the proof we should he
Inclined to doubt it.
In the Sierra Nevada there are gigantic trees.
Visitors who will insert marble slab in the bark
and enclose the tree with an iron rail, have the
privilege Of naming the tree Mr.. Benjamin C.
Howard, of San Francisco while on a visit TO 81.
ezra recently chose one three hundred feet high
and ifty-one feet in circumference, whose bark
was two feet thick, and named it Henry Ward
Beecher." The tree stands next to one called
Lincoln"
a New Orleans correspondent says the property
of John Slidell, comprising eight hundred and
forty-two lots and squares of ground, with stores,
dwelling houses and banking house, We're sold
for sl00,4l0. Before the war it was estimated at
SS0000O ConfscatiOn at this rate is not likely TO
add much to the U. S. treasury by way of reim-
bursement of the expenses of the war, Its moral
effect upon the promoters Of rebellion may be
more beneficial.
General George H. Thompson has been ap-
pointed Major General in the regular army, in
place of Fremont, resigned. General SchoGe,d
becomes Brigadier General, in place of Sheridan,
promoted. General Howard takes Thomas place
as Brigadier General. General Terry becon es
Brigadier General, in place of Meade, promoted.
General John 4. Rawlins is appoied Brigadier
General and Chief of Stat Of the Lieutenant
General commanding the Armies Of the United
States.