Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-05-11


cd. A gunboat mounting six seven-inch riAed
guns, now called the Jackson, but the name
(which has been recently changed, was cap.
tured here. - >a| | ~ W
|, A detour to West Point was made by La
oranges brigade, who attacked the works and
carried them by storm, capturing the garrison,
$50 in number, and four guns, and killing the
rebel General Tyler, in command Thirteen
locomotives were destroyed, two hundred cars,
two bridges and two large factories in the Vi
cinlty. We destroyed large quantities of quar-
termaster and ,commissary stores at Griffin,
and the railroad bridges on the Selma and
Montgomery railroad.
We captured along the road five guns Ma
con was captured without opposition. 1t has
not been necessary as yet to destroy any prop
erty '.4 r. %. ~.
I'VE captured Generals Howell Cobb Gus
tavus Smith, formerly Street Inspector of
New York City, Robertson, Mercer and Nc
Call. We captured 1872 guns in position in
the field, 10y assault, and 200 guns in the ar
senal and in stores, with immense amounts Of
ordnance, guns and commissary stores, cot
ton, machinery and railroad stock, nc.
REBEL ATROCITIES IN MARYLAND.
Baltimore, May 3.--There were brought
here, to-day in charge of an armed squad of
soldiers under Lieut. O'Brien two citizens of
Calvert county, named Dr-N. W. Brown and
William Cochran, and three other men, under
charge of being concerned in the recent as
sassination of Union soldiers stationed there.
Cochran acknowledged that he had been for
months in starving condition, which being
known to Brown and others, he was offered
large sums of money to take the lives of GER
tain soldiers, He accepted the terrible bribe
and deliberately assassinated two soldiers
whilst they were doing picket duty. Cochran
received $l75 for killing the first soldier, and
was to receive $500 for the murder of. the 9TH
cr, but was apprehcnded before the money
was paid The parties charged with the terri
BILE crime were taken to Washington this af.
ternoon under guard, and are now in the
Old Capitol prison
An examination will soon be held. A few
nights since, whilst O Brien Superintendent
of the Government farms in the lower coun-
ties was riding through the country he was
shot at by concealed foe, but fortunately cs-
capped His horse, however, was killed The
rebels in the lower counties for the past two
weeks have become exceedingly, defiant and
dangerous, and have been committing depre-
dations upon the inhabitants and slaug ghtering
numbers of Government cattle
FROM VIRGINIA.
New York. May 4.-The Richmond Wing
of the Sd, has authentic information from
southwest Virginia. No portion of General
Thomas force came east of Bristol. The on
| ly United States force that penetrated into
,,,,o ,pn,
mand. General Echols commanding the
rebel forces in southwest Virginia, 5000 or
1000 in number, has disbanded his troops.
Those living contiguously returned to their
homes
Col Giltner's Kentucky cavalry surrender
ed to the United States authorities on the
terms accorded to Lee
Basil Dukes regiment, formerly Morgai2s,
started for the trans7M Mississippi, and Waugh
ans wildcat East Tennessee cavalry are still
at large.
General Early is confined to his bed at
I.ynchbyrg with rheumatism. ..
! A report from Richmond said that all the
silver taken from the people of Richmond in
the last hours of the Confederacy had been
captured by our forces beyond Farmville.-
Rumor also says that Mai Thos p. Turner
the scoundrel who conducted the Libby under
the rebel regime, has been captured, following
on jeff Davis track and is on his way to
Fort Warren for confinement.
The rebel General Rosser was captured on
the 2Sth, in Hanover county, Va, where his
wife resided.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Hartford, May 4-The Constitutional
Amendment unanimously passed both BRAN
ches of the Connecticut Legislature this NOR
ming.
RS" President Johnson made brief
speech the. other day, in wlich he said very
forcibly and Justly
There are men who ought to suffer thepcn-
altics of their treason; but there are also
some who have been engaged in this rebellion,
who, while, technically speaking are guilty
of treason are yet morally not Thousands
Who have been drawn into it, involved by va
rious infuences-by conscription, by dread
by force of public opinion in the localities in
which they lived-these are not so irresponsible
as those who led, deceived, and forced them.
| To the unconscious, deceived, conscrpted-
in short, to the great mass of the misled-I
would say mercy clemcncy, reconciliation,
and the restoration of their government
To those who have deceived-to the conscious,
influential traitor who attempted to destroy
the life of a nation, would say "On you be
inflicted the severest penalties your crime.
Washington, May 6.-All but four of the
forts about Washington are to be Immediate
ly dismounted their garrisons to be withdrawn
and dismissed and every thing appertainng
to this expensive branch of defensive warfare,
is to be put upon the general retrenchment
path.
Government has given up the. experiment
Of supporting the blacks at Freedman's vii
lage, Arlington. Work is offered to all will
ing to labor, at the usual prices, and rent IS
charged them for,their tenements at 81 per
month All incapable Or unwilling to accept
these terms are to be removed to Mason's Isl
and, near Georgetown.
The Navy Department has ordered the Mis-
sissippi Squadron to be reduced to 25 vessels.
1t was formerly over 100. ..s ,'.'
I Camping grounds for large bodies of troops
soon to arrive, are being erected near this city.
The I'd and 9Th Corps are north of Rich
mond, on their way to Alexandra, where
they are expected in ten days
Howards I'd Corps, with the 18th and 18th
Corps, constituting the Army of the Tennes-
see, will arrive here about June lst and Slo-
Gums Army of Georgia, comprising the 18th
and 10th Corps, is expected in few days la
ter