Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-05-25

DISCHARGE OF oUARTERMAsTERs EMPLOYEES.
Orders have been issued by the Quarter
master General, dischargng over fifty thous-
and employees Of that department.
PAROLES OF JoHNsToN's s ARMY 4 2
Col Wherry of Gen Schofeld's staff, ar
rived here to-day from North Carolina, with
the paroles of Johnston's army. The rolls
contain the names of about thirty-seven thou
sand officers and men who were paroled at the
time of the capitulaton. ,,.'...r.. ...., g.
. 'r..,, GEN. SHERMAN. oa. All 4, SIN
Gen. Sherman will arrive here on Friday
or Saturday. ..l I'D ,or f
| H. E. GoyERNMENT PAYMENTS. 3
| The Secretary of the Treasury has signed
the last reuuisition from the War Department,
and nothing now remains unpaid except the
army. "a "a' q" f5t" 70
GEN. sIGEL TURNED EDITOR
General Sigel has entered into partnership
with William Schnauffer in the publication of
the Baltimore Daily Wecker. ..'...,
The Herald's Chester correspondent says:
The rebel Governor, Vance, of North Carroll
ma, was arrested in Buncombe county,
on last Friday, by detachment of Fitzpatrick s
cavalry, by orders from Washington, whittier.
it is said, he will be sent, to stand his trial for
treason. twas reported that another detach-
ment of cavalry was in pursuit of Governor
Magrath, of South Carolina. Je.,,, 4.
The rebel General Joe Johnston is at Char
lotte, N G. It's said he applied for permis-
sion to be allowed to 60 to Canada, but was
refused. .....
The pirate Captain Semmes, with some
companions, is endeavoring to reach the coast,
and make his escape out Of the country by
sea. r.
The Heralds Richmond correspondent says
the news of the capture of jeff Davis was re-
ceiyed there by the old residents and the re-
bellion sympathizers with the greatest aston
ishment and the deepest sense Of the humili-
alton of their traitorous cause.
r. 'Jr VIRGINIA ELECTIONS .fu a 81
New York, May H.-The Herald's cores
pondent says: Governor F. Fl. Pierpont, of
Virginia, has issued an address to the voters
of the LIST, I'd and 7th Congressional Districts
of that State on the subject of the elections.
The fourth Thursday in May is the regular
ELECTION day, but as the districts above-named
are not thoroughly organized no election can
be held by the laws Of Virginia. The Execu-
tive is empowered to call special elections to
fill vacancies. o Governor Pierpont therefore
advises no polls to be opened for members of
Congress, either in the counties already or
ganized or in those unorganized, assuring the
people that as soon as the county officers in
the unorganized portions are elected he will
order special election for the above-naIhed
districts when there will be a fair opportunity
to choose representatives ,g.
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
New York, May 1.-THE Raleigh Stand.
ard of the Ilth, says it is probable that steps
will be soon taken to call a aconvention to con.
struct loyal State Government
"A letter, dated Fayetteville, May 3D., says a
delegation was appointed by the Mayor of that
place to proceed to Wilmington and procure
food for the inhabitants. The result was, that
twenty-five or thirty Thousand rations were at
once forwarded; and though the secesh swore
they would not eat anything from the Yankees
they were the very first to rush in with bags
and baskets. Government horses and mules
are also furnished the farmers to work with
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES BY MR.. FooTE.
New York, May lS.-The Herald's Wash
ington correspondent says that the question
which has long been agitated, as to who is re
sponsible for the cruel treatment of our pris
! oners confined in Libby and other prisons il
the South, may now be considered as definite
ly settled through no less q person than eX
rebel Senator Foote 1t appears that Mr.
Foote was member of the committee in the
Senate to examine into the treatment of the
: prisoners, and the reports of their harsh husage
: and starvation. His story, as told by his owl
relatives, shows a'deeper intention than has
been generally supposed, and fastens upor
jeff Davis and his Cabinet crime both start
ling and appalling in its details. Mr. Foote
it is said, states that the investigations showed
conclusive evidence thatit was decided in Cab
met meetings, to reduce the rations served
out to the prisoners that it should SO weaker
their constitution, in connection with theil
confinement, that it would destroy them al
soldiers and make them, when exchanged
worthless.a,a4 .ra.a.l ri. r#a .u4t (.
Senator Foote determined to report thest
facts to the Senate, but the balance Of the com
mittee overruled him and suppressed the facts
My informant further states that it was on thi
point that the quarrel between Davis anG
Foote broke out afresh, which resulted in tn,
latter leaving Richmond, and seeking somt
sequestered spot where such horrid deed
) were not committed. Here, then is the evi
, dence conclusive of jeff Davis, and his asso
, cates' guilt in the diabolieal deed of starving
: our prisoners, deed which makes the mos
stoical person shudder to contemplate Mer
: who will coolly and deliberately plan scheme
like that will conspire to assassinate Presi
dent or any other person. It lisa fitting seque
that the authors of such deeds should end the
careers In cowardly manner, dressed in pet
l ticoats. No wonder jeff Davis cloven foo
revealed who he was -.4i .r tW ~
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
New York. May 1s.-One, of the Herald
! correspondents, writing from General Kilpat
: ricks cavalry camp, near Lexington, Nortl
Carolina, says that the planters of the sur
rounding country are greatly troubled regard
ling an anticipated scarcity of hands to per
form the necessary agricultural labor, and de
: sign visiting the North to procure laborers
: They soy that the negroes, now that they ar
9 free, Ere unreliable, and that the poor white
g of the State are too lazy to work. The disso
f luton of the rebel armies threw loose upoi
|, North Carolina, as well as other States, thou
> sands of disorderly characters, who roame,
: through the country, plundering from friend
!. and foes Unfortunately, and causing a reigl
: of terror and anarchy This condition o
1 things has been, to o great extent, terminate,
by the judici ous distribution, at various point
Q through the State, of detacaments of nation
!. al troops p; -f 49, tss .., To- -aioa. ~
The Tribune's dispatch from Raleigh, o
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