Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-14
THE UNION FORCES IN RICHMOND.

How the Rebels Left it and how our Troops
Found it.
We extract from the New York papers
of Friday and Saturday some description
| of the interesting incidents connected
with the evacuation of Richmond, and
its oceupatian by our troops:
FLIGHT OF DAVIS AND HIS CHAPLAIN.
At III o'clock Sunday morning, while
! seated in his pew at church, listening to
the lucubratiOns of the Rev. DR.. Hodge,
! JEFF. Davis was handed a dispatch from
| Gen. Lee. Thereupon he instantly arose,
and walked hurridly down the aisle, be-
meath the questionings of all the eyes in
| the house The dispatch was to the eff
feet that Richmond must be evacuated
during the coming night. And so his
ex- -Excellency, the last President Of the
late Confederacy, went forth from the
sanctuary where prophesied the favorite
| high priest of his realm, to pack up his
| portable property in hasty preparation
| for a journey on the Sabbath day. Like
thief in the night, he stole away with
trepidation and fear, and with an agoni-
zing sense of the shortness of time,
As the preacher closed the services, the
his ex-Excellency. The face of the
preacher waxed sickly with despair, while
that of the sexton gloWed with joy too
great for concealment The chargin of
the one was quite as marked as the grin
of the other The former begged his con
gregation to tarry, and told them in sad
utterances that he did not expect to min
lister to them any more. His farewell
over, he too proceeded furious1y to the
packing of portable property also
intended to journey on the Sabbath
TIL, n, HoJro - 1ui11 bo varoa,,, I,o.o5
visited England two years ago, ostensibly
to procure a supply of Bibles, but really
as an emissary Of the Rebellion. He
was largely .teted by the British adherents
of the South, and doubtless did much
harm Since his return he has been in
the habit of making camp speeches, full
of hot JUNCTION and perforated with pre-
sumptuous appeals to the God of battles
A proslavery fanatic of considerable abil
ity, he has been petted and used by Da-
Wis, whose own enormous cunning and
wickedness have nothing of the element
of fanaticism. The two worthless fed
together. Reguje scat!
PILLAGING AND APPROPRIATING.
During the night, stragglers from the
retreating army inaugurated a reign of
terror and pillage. Jewelry, clothing,
and liquor stores, and a few private
houses, were sacked. The fire revealed
immense amounts of provisions-wheth-
er the accumulation of the Government
or of spectators, does not appear, al
though citizens say the latter. Thous-
ands Immediately engaged in the scarce
ly reprehensible work of removing to
their houses family supplies. "The mig
gersigot it all, " said leading citizen, with
a wrath he made little attempt to conceal.
[ do not doubt they 'toted off, largely.
Hunger stimulates theft, and there was
no fear to restrain. Meanwhile, the more
substantial citizens, the actual sufferers
by the wanton destruction, looked on
with apparant uneOncern approaching
apathy. They have been too sternly dis
ciplined these last four years to exhibit
any intense CONSERVATION.
JOHN BROWNS SOUL MARCHING ON.
Day before yesterday Mr.. Chester, the
colored correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Press, was seated in the Speakers
chair of the rebel House of Representa-
tives, quietly writing to his paper. A
scion of first family discovered him
thus and kindled bis ire. He ordered
Mr.. Chester to kim out o'thar ar'-which
would say. Then the scion laid hold of
him to take him out. Then Chester
planted black fist and left black eye
and PROSTATE rebel. Then the rebel
rose and asked an officer, who was a wit
ness of the scene, for his sword ito cut
out the id nigger's heart out. The
officer declined on the ground that he
did not have two swords, that he might
give Chester one. However, if the scion
desired it, he would see fair play for
fair fight, at the same time expressing the
opinion that he would get thraghed
worse than Lee did the other day. The
scion bottled his wrath and skulked away,
meanwhile Chester was coolly writing.
THE RICHMOND wHIG's ACCOUNT.
The Richmond Whig, of Tuesday. |
April4, reappears as Union paper under |
the management of John Z. Smith, its |
old proprietor, before the days of seces-
sion. 1t has the following account of the |
evacuation, written by an eyewitness:
THE evacuation of Richmond COM
menced in earnest Sunday night, and
closed at daylight on Monday with a ter
rltic cOnhagration, which was kindled by
the Confederate authorities wantonly and
applying the torch to the Shock
oe warehouse and other buildings, in
which was a large quantity of tobacco
The first spread rapidly, and it was some
time before the fire brigade could be got
ten to work. A fresh breeze was blowing
from the South, and the fire swept over
a great space in an incredibly short space
Of time. By noon, the flames had trans
terred into desert was that portion of
the city bounded between Seventh and
Fifteenth streets, from Main street to the
river, comprising the main business por-
lion.
I'VE can form no estimate, at this mo-
nent, of the number of houses destroy
I'd, but, public and private, they will GER
,alnly number 600 or 800.
AT present, we cannot do more than