Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-05-15

Lieut.. Gen. Grant has relieved Mai. Gen.
Dana from the command of the Department
of the Mississippi, and ordered him to re-
port for further orders. Maj. Gen. Warren
succeeds Maj. Gen. Dana in command.
The Herald's Montgomery (Ala.) corrc-
spondent gives additional details Of the cap
ture Of that place.
The place, it will be remembered, was
first taken possession Of by Gen. Wilson on
his grand cavalry raid through Alabama and
Georgia during the early part oflast month.
The prosecution Of his enterprise requiring
Gen. Wilson's abandonment Of the town, it
was unoccupied by our forces from the 14th
to the oath ult., at which place Gen. Smith,
after participating in the capture Of Mobile,
again unfurled the glorious national banner,
never again to be superseded Of the vile en-.
sign of treason.
The rebel forces previous to evacuating
Montgomery burned 81, 900 bales Of cotton.
This correspondent says that the great mass
of the people Of Alabama are rejoicing at the
downfall Of the rebellion, and their restora-
ton to the Union.
The Herald's Washington special says !:
| Dick Turner, the brutal dungeon keeper,
| escaped night before last from the cell to
| which he had been consigned, the scene of
his former brutality. His recapture is re-
garded as certain
The Tribune's special has the following ::
Arrangements are making at the Treas.
ury Department to pay off the I'd and 9th
corps, now encampcd in the rear Of Alex
andria, within the next weeks.
The Government has paid out $3.50, O00,.
O0O IF 70 debit during the TnOnth.
The Government expects to be in tele-
graph communication with Mobile by to-
morrow night.
The guerrillas have subsidized and thus far
the wires have not been molested between
Washington and the South,
A civilian, who came through Virginia
on horseback in the track Of the I'd corps
and days in its rear, reports he neither
saw nor heard Of gucrrillas and that he was
wholly unmolested. In every county were
some rebel officers and soldiers returned
still wearing uniforms 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 to be let alone for the sake
ofpeace and agriculture as they were four
years ogo to be let alone in the wicked work
| Of destroying the Union.
Maj. Gen. Howard has been placed at the
head Of the Freedman Bureau.
Gen. Shernan's army started from Rich
nond on Friday and will be here with the
General at its head on Wednesday or Thurs
day next.
The Tribunc's Richmond correspondent
says
Hunter was arrested in his house in Es-
sex county by squadron Of cavalry under
Col. Mcintyre, goth N. \.
Railroad communication between Rich
mond and the South is being established as
fast as possible There is but very little
material in the country fit to repair the
roads with.
The Times learns from undoubted author
ity that Jelf Davis will be confined at Fort
Lafayette.
The Washington special says:
The work Of recognizing the army is en-
ioying the earnest attention Of the General
in-chief, the War Department and many Of
the leading commanders The question as
to which troops will be mustered out and
which retained is not fully decided, but it is
probable that those whose terms expire
previous to October LIST will be first attend
cd to. 1t is believed, however, that in re-
organizing the army an opportunity will be
given for every worthy officer and every
good soldier to remain in the service. 10
this end an order will soon be issued requir-
ing Department commanders to ascertain
the number Of officers desiring to remain in
the service and to appoint Boards to deter
mine their qualifications and report thereon.
NEW YoRx, May 15.-The Tribune says:
II. S. Foote, late Of the rebel Congress,
who was some time since released from
prison here on parole, was few days since
notified that he must either stand trial for
treason or quit the country. He accepted
the latter alternative and is now supposed
to be in Canada.