Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-05-29
Current News Items.

bulletin announcing the receipt Of a dispatch
from General Canby dated New Orleans, May
26, announcing that arrangements for the
surrender Of the Confederate forces in the
Trans. Mississippi Department had been con.
cudsd, and includes the men and material Of
the army ani navy With this capitalization
on the part Of Kirby Smith, the rebellion is
ended, aud there is now no formidable force
arrayed agaius, the authority of the United
States
The Commercials special Washington cor
respondent says "In political and military
circles the Stanton sherman cmbroglio creates
good deal bitter feeling The friends OF
General Sherman arc awaiting the publication
Of his official eport on the negotiations which
he had with Johnston, ard predict that it will
be complete vndication Of bis course in the
matter, in every particular On the other
hand certain influences are beeing brougbtto
bear, to solicit General Sherman to resign.
These will not. Of course, succeed
The Euquirer's special from Indianapolis
says: ~ understand that the Grand Jury of
the United States Court, now in session here
arc calling witnesses before them regarding
Bowles, tMlligan, and Horsey. with view
ofindicting them, and bringing them to answer
before the civil courts, and demanding them
ofthe military authorities. Next Friday is
the day fixed for the execution of Bowles and
Milligan."
General Logan declines Brigadie rship in
the Regular Army, and proposes, as soon as
his services can be dispensed with to retire
10 private life
Major General Shermans headquarters as
Commander of the Department of Mississippi,
are to be located at CINCINNATI. The Army
of the Tennessee, ienetal logan command
ing, will be located near Louisville, where it
will be gradually mustered out.
There is trouble in the Army Of the Poto-
mac, and nm outbreak occurred in the Ninth
Corps. A regiment of regulars, sent to quiet
the outbreak, ware pressed back by the vol.
unteers
Sherman's soldiers are being literally feted
at the Capital.
The United States District.Attorney, at
Washington, has notified the authorities tha,
the Circuit Court is ready to proceed with the
trial of JEFF, Davis, on the indictment for
treason.
The payment of all the armies will be made
Immediately
The sales of 1905 on Saturday amounted
tosl,5lO,OO0. The subscriptions of the week
we're S9733 500
Ii is reported that Mljor General Thomas
will supercede General Halleck in command
nt Richmond.
General Howard is to deliver the address
lt tho dedication of the Soldiers Monument,
at Gettysburg, on the 4tk OF July.
General Sheridan's headquarters will be at
Baton Rouge, where he will organize his army
for Texas.
General Edward Johnson will be witness
for the defense in the conspiracy case.
At a late gathering at the Cooper In
stitute, New York, George Thompson,
the notorious English abolitionist, made a
speech in which he said that "he did not
claim the right of suffrage for the black
man simply as an act of justice, but as
right; because he is a man--no .more---no
less'
To which the Holmes County Farmer
Pertinently responds: "Now, VIC submit
that, in place of endeavoring to confer
the right of suffrage upon four million ne
groes in this country, Mr.. Thompson
would look much better in trying to Sc
cure the right of suffrage for twice o thrice
the same number of whites in his own
country. Let him attend first TO securing
freedom FOR the white slaves in England,
and then he can appropriately labor for
the freedom OF the blacks in the United
States"
The Republican press, says the Oincin-
natl Enquirer, have just discovered that
when Colonel Samuel w. Black, of Pitts
burg, made his response in the Cincin-
natl Convention 10 the nomination Of Mr..
Buchanan, that he pledged Pennsylvania
to go with the South, and they declare that
was an agreement, to which Mr.. Black
was privy, that meant secession from the
Union. As a specimen of how little they