Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-06-09
EASTERN TELEGRAPH
LspEcIAL DISPATCH TO rue GOLD HILL DAILY NINs
DATES To MAY 99th.
Persons Imprisoned by Order d
Military Tribunals to be Released,

hASHlNGToSi May N.-lt Is ordered
that in all cases Of sentences by military
tribunals, of Imprisonment during the
war, the sentence be RENTED, and the
prisoners be discharged. The Adjutant-
General will publish Immediately the
necessary instruction to carry this order
into effect. BY order of the President.
(Signed) STANTON.
News from McKee,
CAIRO, May 27.-The New Orleans
Times has Brazos Texas correspondence
to May 18th, which says the Liberal
forces occupied Monterey seven thousand
strong. General Negrete, after occupying
the place, levied a loan Of 100000 in
specie.
In the fight at Saltillo the Imperial
Generals were victorious. Generals Le-
peda and PIER were wounded, but escaped
in the fight.
Cor,inas captured $4,000 in specie,
and 900 prisoners.
While General Negrete was attacking
Matamoras, on the goth Of April, the rebel
General Slaughter fortified the left bank
of the Rio Grande, and opened an artil-
lery fire to prevent his troops from reach
ing river for water.
| Sherman's Report t. be Published
Next Week-Geu. Logan Refuses q
Rrizadier-G eneralship in the ReEu-
lar Army, and will Retire - Fri
Vnte Life.
New YORK, May 2s.-The Heralds
Washington dispatch says General Sher-
mans report will be published next week,
by order of the War Department. Sher-
man will retain command Of the military
division Of the Mississippi, comprising
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana. His headquarters
will be at Cincinnati.
Gen. Logan has refused a Brigadier-
Generalship in the Regular Army, and
will retire TO private lite.
LnyiuK OF the Corner Stone Of the
te-y-The Effect Of the Order Dis
charging Persons ImprisOned BY
Military Authorities.
WASHINGTON, tLcy 2S.-The corner
stone Of the monument at the Soldiers
National Cemetery at Gettysburg, will be
laid on the Fourth Of July next, with mil
itary and civic ceremonies. The Grafton
will be delivered by Gen. o. o. Howard,
who bore conspicuous part at the VIC
tory of Gettysburg.
The late order of the War Department,
that in all cases Of sentences by military
tribunals Of imprisonment during the war,
that the sentences be RENTED and the
prisoners discharged, applies in part to
the citizens arrested before the issuing OF
the Amnesty Proclamation affecting rebels
recently in arms against the L. S. author
ity.
Freedmen mot to be DiSpOsHessed Of
the Lands they are CultiVatiuK-
Moro Evidence against Saunders
and Thompson.
New YORK, May 29.-General How
ard, Commissioner Of the Freedmen'I
Bureau, has issued orders announcing
that disloyal proprietors Of abandoned
plantations in the South, now being Guilt
waited by freedmen, will not be allowed to
dispossess the latter, which they are in
some States making efforts to do; at least
not until after the growing crops are Sc
cured for the benefit of the present cult
vators.
The Herald's special dispatch say, the
Government is in possession of new and
important testimony fixing upon Geo. n.
Sanders and Jacob Thompson, not only
direct completely with Booth, but also
showing their guilty agency in procuring
the distribution Of infected clothing in the
cities of the loyal States and an attempted
introduction of portion Of this clothing
into the White House at Washington.
Terrible Explosion nj Mobile.
CHICAGO, May ga New Orleans
telegram says the main Ordinance Depot,
with the Magazine in the immediate vi
cinity of Mobile, exploded on the 25th
inst. More than 200 persons are known
to have been killed. Eight squares of
buildings were demolished. The loss is
estimated at SS,OOO,OOO. The cause of
the explosion is not known.
Another New Orleans telegram says Of
the explosion at Mobile: II occurred on
the evening Of May 25th. The number
killed is three hundred, and many wound
ed were buried in the ruins. About eight
thousand bales Of cotton were destroyed.
The steamers Colonel Coles and Kate
Dale, with all on board, were lost. A
great portion of the business quarter Of
the city is badly damaged. General
Granger rendered prompt relief to the
sufferers. The ordnance stores were a
portion of the munitions of war Surren-
dered by Dick Taylor, and were in course