The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-20

through Richmond, none took place, ow
ing TO the bad feeling between General
Sherman and Ha!leck, generated it is VI:
derstood BY tie proceedings of the latter il
! counteylr: audlug the orders OF the forme
to his subordinates during the truce wit
Joe Johnston.
The n. Y. Nas<s' Washington special Q
tie 18th. says: The Mexican Enigratio.
business here attracts little or no attention
President johnson and several member
O. the Cabinet, visited Secretary Sewart
today. Tde Secretary hopes 70 Be a, hi
Office next week.
The Government to-day paid to the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad Company, 81, 500, COO
being the irst installment due on the com
pletion CT the first section of thirty miles
Another section viii! soon be completed.
The Navy Department has made arrange
ments to give the Stonewall warm recep
ton, should she attempt operations on oul
coast. It is believed, however, that hei
commander will abandon his enterprise
! now that the rebellion has collapsed.
The 711bune's Washington special says
r. NJ. T. Hunter has been arrested and
brought to Richmond and confined on q
Hunter, for year past, has been DESTROYS
for reunion, being satisfied that further re.
sis,ence was hopeless.
Additional persons have been impl:ca.
ted in the assassination conspiracy bJ new
confessions.
Extensive arrangements are making sol
the sra nd review on the other side OF the
Potomac.
Most ofFCock's cavalry have gone q
Lytchburg, where it is said disturbances
have occurred between the black and white
people. Taese are various rumors con.
corning the origin of the trouble. Some
saying the whites are the aggressors, and
Others that the blacks commenced hostiii-
ties with arms picked up on the late battle
fields.
The Pos"s Washington special says the
trial Of the conspirators was resumed this
morning. aud it is believed the examina-
ton Of the same witnesses who have beer,
on the stand for the past two days was con-
tinued.
The Associated Press viii! soon be fur.
ossheG with all the evidence deemed pro.
per to publish.
I. Is understood tia. eight of the princi.
pals IN the plot are now on trial.
6eneral Sherman is coming up with his
army.
The army &C the Potomac is gradually
approaching its o.d camping ground.
Mr.. Harlan, of Iowa, the new Secretary
OF the Interior, has arrived here, and will
enter upon his official duties on Monday
mex.
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ment ut the rate OF 900 per month.
New YORK. May 1.-THE Herclds
correspondent details the particulars OF
the surrender of Dick Taylor, which took
place at Citronville, Ala, on the 4.h, 80
miles north Of Mobile. Taylor made
strenuous efforts to get the most favorable
terms. but Candy was indexible, aud
granted only those rendered Lee.
Taylor commanded al the troops in Al
ALBANIA. Mississippi and East Louisiana,
and this completed the surrender of ali
troops east of the Mississippi river.
NEW YORK, May l5-In q general or.
Major General Dana from the command of
the Department Of the Mississippi, and or.
dered him to his place of residence to re-.
port till further orders. Major General
Warren succeeds General Dana in com.
mand.
The Herald's Montgomery (Ala.) CORES.
pondent gives additional details of the cap.
tcre Of that place: The place, 1t will be re-
memoered, was first taken possession of
by General Wilson on his grand cavaly
raid through Alabama and Georgia, durin9
the early part 0flast month. The prosecu-
ton OF his enterprise requiring Gen. vii.
sons abandonment of the town, il was UNI
occupied by the national forces from the
18th to tho oath ultimo, ut which latter date
General A. J. Smith, with the 10th Army
Corps. after participating in the capture Of
Mobile, arrived and again unfurled over
the place the glorious national banner,
never again to be supplanted by the vile
ensign Of treason. The rebel forces. pre-.
vious to evacuating Montgomery. burned
81 ,0UO bales OF cotton.
The correspondent says that the great
mass Of the people of Alabama are rejoice
i0g at the downfall of the rebellion and
Roa al nsSe 20 he Tat
the HeratfA Washington specia; saws.
Dick Turner, the brutal dungeon keeper,
escaped night before last from the cellar to
which he had been consigned in the scene
OF his former brutality. His recap,ure is
regarded as certain.
The Tribune special has the following:
Arrangements are making 1T the Trea-
encamped In rear of Alexandria, within
the next two weeks. 5.
The Government has paid out $3.50, 900, 900
for its debt during the month.
The Government expect to be in tele.
graphic communication with Mobile bv
tomorrow night. -
The guerrillas have subsided, and thus
the wires have not been molested between
Washington and Georgia. M
A civilian who came through Virginia
On horseback in the track on the I'd Corps.
and two days in its rear, reports that he
neither saw nor heard Of guerrillas, and
that he was wholly unmolested. In every
county there were some rebel officers and
soldiers returned, still wearing their uni
forms for want Of other clothing, and going
vigorously to farming with their own
hands. A. few women are still defiant. but
the men are subdued and seem as anxious
now to be alone for the sake of peace and
agriculture, as they were four years ago 10
bs lot alone in the wicked work Of des.
stroying the Union.
Maj. Gen. Howard has been appointed al
the head OF the Freedmen's bureau.
NEW YORK. May l5.-The Tri0eSne's spe-
cial says the report that there were in cir.
culation in Germany counterfeit United
States bonds, grew out Of the jealousy of
the popularity of our bonds, and was re-
sorted TO by brokers in their efforts to mid
the sale of home securities. There are now
held In Germany alone, about three hun
dred million dollars of our 500 bonds. and
this demand has been 90 great that Tor
weeks past exchange has been / per cent.
In our favor. It il source Of 9ratidcstion
to our Government that these Eurorean
capitalists who had faith in our cause M
me .Sksx dsys Of tAe struggle, haye lived
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