New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-29
Items from the aouth.Wcst.

emo H.. Saturday May q. 1865.
Mai. Gen. Wilson has ordered that all the
Confederate States mules horses harness wagons ana
leather required for the Of his cavalry corps 10
be turned over 10 Col Foster QuaFtermaserHener a.
70 be distributed among the poor people a. ioan iron"
the United States but reiurnablo Ia the United States
whenever called for by the proper authority.
Two hundred and fifty bales OF cotton passed up to-
night for Cincinnati. and 100 bales for 81. Louis.
4 Memphis dispatch Of May ~ says that teIceraphic
communication has been opened 10 New Orleans.
Gen Forrest j. on his plantation at Tahoma Miss.
Jackson advices state that the Rebel Legislator. met
there the 10th and directed Gov. CLARK 10 appoint
judges Sharkey, Fisher and Gorgus Commissions Ia
go 10 Washington and confer with President johnson
the subject Of calling convention with view 10
restore Mississippi 10 the Union
The Memphis hlLefia's New Orleans special dispatch
Of the I'D says Gels Price. Backner Brent and nine
stan officers arrived TO-DAY commissioners from
Kirby Smith to negotiate with GeD Candy for terms OF
tao par, 81 the Rsbsls. and Gens. Candy aud Heron
bad consuitase, hs result Of which rrpoTted 70
oe ,hr surrender =, MI the heseis Ia he trans M'sis
simi Department the same terms were accorded
10 Tens. Johnston and Lee.
To Ncto-Ori>dHs Times Of the ODD inst that the
rnu boat Little Rebel arrived here yesterday from the
mouth Of the Red River. with dispatches from Lieut..
Commander Foster and Gen. Kirby Smith for Gen.
Candy
The Rebel flag of.truce boat Champion that brough,
the Federal officers. Col Sprague and Major Bundy.
fcm Shreveport l. still lying at the mouth u the Red
River
An exchange OF prisoners was agreed upon at the
mouth OF the Red RIVER on the 2Jth inst.
Two hundred and forty Rebel exchanged prisoners
arrived nj Shreveport on the 10th inst.
Col Julian T.. Bryant. nephew Of VIM. G. Bryant,
was drowned recently while bathing In the Cuff OF
Mexico.
The interior OF Texas is In terribly disorganzcd
condition
telegraph line IL to be constructed from San Anto-
Mo and Austin "a Matamoros.
The French and English war vessels off the Rio
Grande Joined the United States sOopof-war in firing
half hour guns mark Of respect 10 the memory OF
the late President Lincoln.
Six hundred and forty bales Of cotton passed here
Cairo for ST. Lous to day aud upward Of one thou
sand for Cincinnati
FORT SMITH, Saturday. May q, lsdJ.
Rebel desertcrs and escaped prisoners of the
sd Iowa Regiment Just arrived from Texas. report
that the Union prisoners confined at Tyler, Ierns are
allow ed q escape IN large numbers, the guards saying
that when they all gone they viii have nothing to
do and then 60 home.
The enlisted men in the Rebel army are unwilling to
fight any longer and do not respond 10 Kirby Snith's
They acknowledge themselves whipped
and anxious for peace.
The surrender Of the Rebels east OF the Mississippi
was credited ut first but 1t Is now generally be-
lieve ed.
Gen Russcy is now negotiating with the Rebel Of.
cers OF Western Arkansas for the surrender Of their
Quite q number have already come In, and
Others will doubtless do 30
uerrillas have ceased moestng boats and telegraph
wires