The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Specials to New York Press.
The Latest from Montgomery.
The Department Of the MississiPpi-
Latest from Montgomery-No Guer.
riIlas in virginia-Railroad and Tel
egraphic Communication with the
soath-Keoraanizaii Of the Army.
TPress Dispatch.


egraphic Communication with the
south fseSrsanizai alton Of the Army
Press Dispatch
NEW YORK, May l5.-In a general OF
der, Lieutenant General Grant has re-
lieved Major Gen. Dana from the com
mand of the Department ofthe Mississlp-
pi and ordered him to proceed to his
| place of residence and report for further
orders. Major Gen Warren succeeds
Gen. Dana in command.
The Herald's Montgomery, Alabama,
correspondent gives additional details OF
the capture of that place The place, it
will be remembered, was first taken pos
session of by Gen. Wilson, OH his great
cavalry raid through Alabama and Geor-
gia, daring the early part OF last month.
The prosecution of his enterprise requir-
ing Gen. Wilson's abandonment of the
town, it was unoccnpied by the National
forces from the l4th to the oath ult., at
which latter date Gen. A. j. Smith, with
the 10th Army Corps, after participating
i'm the capture of Mobile, arrived ana
again unfurled over the place the glorl-
ous national banner, never again to be
superseded by the vile ensign OF treason.
The rebel force previous to evacnating
Montgomery burned 81 900 bales Of cot
ton This correspondent says the great
mass of the people of Alabama are re
ioicing at the downfall of the rebellion
and their restoration to the Union.
The HeralI's Washington special says
Dick Turner, the brutal dungeon keeper,
escaped night before last from the cell
to which he had been consigned III the
sccne of his former brutality Bis re
capture is reported as certain
The Tribune's special has the follow
ing: Arrangements are making at the
Treasury to pay of the 2d and 5th corps,
now encamped in the rear OF Alexandria,
within the next two weeks. The govern
ment has paid ont Sl30,0OU,OOO for its
debt during the month.
The government expects to be III tele-
graphic communication with Mobile by
Tomorrow night. The guerrllas have
subsidized, and thus far the wires have
not been mOlested between Washington
and Georgia.
A civilian who came through Virginia
on horseback in the track of the I'd corps
and two DAYS in its rear, reports that he
neither saw nor heard of guerrllas, and
that he was wholly unmolested In every
county were some rebel officers and sol
diers 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 de-
fiant, but the men are subdued and seem
as anxious now to be let alone for the
sake of peace and agriculture as they
were four years ago to be let alone i'll
the wicked work ofdestroying the Union.
Major General Howard has been ap-
pointed at the head of the freedmen's
bureau.
General Sherman's army started from
Richmond on Friday and will be here
with the General at its head on Wednes-
day or Thursday.
The Tribune's Richmond cOrrespon
dent says R. M. T, Hunter was arrested
at his home in Essex county, oy squad
of cavalry under Col. Mcintyre, of the
3Oth New York.
The railroad communication between
Richmond and the South is being estab-
lished as fast as possible. There is but
very little material in the country mt to
repair the roads with.
The Times learns from a source of un-
doubted authority that jeff. Davis will
be confined at Fort Lafayette.
The Times Washington special says:
The work of recognizing the army is
engaging the earnest attention of the
General-in-C 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
yet fully decided, but it is probable that
those whose terms expire prior to Octo
ber next will be first attended to. 1t is
believed, however, that i'll reorganizing
tSe army an opportunity III be given
for every worthy officer and every good
soldier to remain in the army To this
end AN order will soon be issued rogulr-
inc departmant commanders to ascertain
the the number of officers desiring to remain
in the service and to appoint boards TO
determine upon their qualifications and
report thereon