Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-16
Bv Telegraph.
For Later Dispatches see ard Page
Miscellaneous Dispatches.

NEW YORK, May l5.-In general order
Lieut.. General Grant has relieved Major
General Dana from the command of the
department of the Mississippi, and ordered
him to proceed to his place of residence
and report for further orders. Msjor 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 in his grand
cavalry raid through Alabama and Geor.
gis during the early part of last month,
the prosecution of his enterprise requiring
Gen. Wilson's abandonment OF the town.
It was ,uuoccupied by the national forces
| from the 14th to the Gath uIt., at which
latter date Gen. A. J. Smith with the 10th
army corps, after participating in the cap.
tufe of Mobile, arrived and again unfnrled
| over the place the glorious national banner
never again to be superceded by the vile
ensign of treason. g.,
The rebel force previous to the evacua-
ton of Montgomery, burned $4,000 bales
of cotton.
This correspondent says that the great
mass of the people of Alabama are re-
joicing at the downfall of the rebellion
and their restoration to the Union.
The Herald's Washington special says:
Dick Turner, the brutal dungeon keeper,
escaped night before last from the cell to
which he had been consigned in the scene
OF his former brutality. His recapture is
regarded as certain.
The Tribune's special has the following:
Arrangements are making at the Treas.
ury to pay off the ID aud 9th corps, now
| encamped in the rear of Alexandria, within
the next two weeks. The government has
paid out Sl30,oO0,0 900 for it's debt during
the month.
The government expects to be in tele.
graphic communication with Mobileg By
to morrow night. TheguerriIlas have sub.
sided, and thus far the wires have not been
molested. '-'-''''> i''s02 i!s- aa
a civilian who came through Virginia
on horseback, in the track of the I'd corps
and two days in it's rear, reports that ne
neither saw nor heard of guerrillss, and
that he was wholly unmolested., In every
county were some rebel officers and sol.
diers returned. still wearing their uniforms
for want of other clothing, and going vig-
orously to farming with their own hands
A few women are still defiant. but the men
are Bubdued and seem as anxious now to
be let alone for the sake of peace and sgri.
culture as they were four years ago to be
let alone in the wicked work of destroying
the Union.
Maj. Gen. Howard has been appointed at
the head of the freedmen's bureau.
Gen. Sherman's army started from Rich.
mond on Friday and will be here, with the
General at it's head, on Wednesday or
Thursday.
The Tribuue's Richmond correspondent
says:
Railroad communication between Rich.
mond and the South is being established
as fast ss possible. There Is but very lit.
tie material in the country ft to repair the
roads with.
The Times learns from a source of un-
doubted authority that JEFF. Davis will be
lconfiued at Fort Lafayette.
rhe Times' Washington special says, the
work of re-organizing the army is engag-
ling the earnest attention of the General
in. 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 time ex-
pires prior to the lst Of October, will be
FIRST attended to. It is believed, however,
that in recognising. the army an oppor-
tuuity will be given for every worthy officer
and every good soldier to remain, in the
service. To this end an order will soon be
issued requiring department commanders
to ascertain the number of officers desir.
iug to remain in the service, and to appoint
boards to determine their qualifications
and report thereon.