Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-05
BV Telegiraph.
Success Of Gen. WiIson.si Exnedition.

I tsuccsss of Gen. Wilson'S Expedition.
NEw YoRK, May 4.-The Herald's So.
yannah correspondent of the 29th, says
Il Gen. Wilson's famous raiding expedition
arrived here yesterday from Macon. The
following is q condensed history Of the
II trip Gen. Wilson left OhickRsSW, Ala,
onsthe 22d of March. It Is not proper 10
Igtve any statement of the number Of his
force. Ebene1er Church, near Planters.
vile, Ala, was taken after stout engage.
%els with FoErest's cavalry. Three hun
Il dred prisoners were captured and three
guns. Forests forces were driven to
1.-THE west of the OataWba river and seps-
rated. A column was sent to Tuscaloosa
which captured aud destroyed much gov.
Ternment property. -
Selma, t24I miles from the base, was
Icaptured on the I'd of April, with 9. 700
prisoners, 80 guns in position and IS in
arsenal. We destroyed 8 rolling mills
with fixtures, very large naval foundry,
an arsenal, second TO none In Importance
in the oonfederacy powder Wsrks, maga-
zines and large numbers of cars.
We remained at Selma eight days.. The
Alabama river was bridged $50 feet, the
operation occupying five days, from the
i fifth to the tenth. The next place attacked
Was Montgomery, fifty miles distant; de-
stroying all the bridges on the Alabama
and Tennessee riHers. The railroad; to
Columbtana was destroyed. The enemy
destroyed 25,000 bales of cotton. Mont
gOmery surrendered without assault. Five
FguuR fell into our hRnds. We DESTROYED
1.-Two rolling mills and fouudtias, two mags.
zines, one locomotive, 63 cars, steam
boats, captured in the river near We.
sumpka and the nitre work.. The. rebels
burned 80 900 -baIes Of cotton before
eVacuating. Columbus, Georgia, eighty
hYe miles distant WAS taken by
assault by Gen. Upton, after dark on
the 10th. Twelve hundred prisoners were
captured, 80 guns, large cotton factories,
100 Ioo0ss bales cotton, immense quantities
of ordnance, quartermasters and commits
sary stores, large arsenal, pistol fac
tory an accoutrement factory, q naval
foundrySa rolling mill aud foundry, an
arsenal foundry, IL locomotives, over 100
cars, depota, machine shops, &C., were
captured and destroyed "A gunboat
mounting T!inch rified guns, now called
the jackson, but the name of which has
been recently changed, was captured here.
a detour to West Point, by Lagrauge's
brigade, who attacked the works and car
Ete1s them by storm, capturing the gaFri-
son, 800 in number, four guns and killing
the rebel Gen. Tyler, ins commanda Fif.
teen locomotives, were destroyed, 200 cars,
bridges and large factories In the Vi.
cintty. We destroyed large quantities Of
quartermester and commissary stores at
Griffin and the railroad bridges onl the
Selma 3 Montgomery railroad. We cap
tured, along the road, guns. Macon was
taken without opposition. 1t has MT been
necessary, as YET, to destroy any prop
We captured Gems, Howell Cobb, Gus.
tayus W. Smith, formerly street inspector
OF New York city, and Coils. Robinsoh ;,
Mercer and Mccall. The captures are l32
l'guns in position in the field and by as
sault, and 200 guns in arsenals and in
| store, with immense amounts of ordnance,
Iqaartermaster aud commissary stores, and
cotton, aud machinery, railroad stock, SC.
The Herald's Jacksonville, Fla, corres-
Pondent says about 1900 of the Union sol.
dters formerly imprisoned at Anderson.
Vile, Ca, were, on the morning. the
2Sth, stransP ported by the rebels down the
Florida Central Railroad to within 10 miles
of Jacksonville, where they we're uncondi.
tiouaIIy released and left to make their
way into the Union lines, which several
hundred of them reached before night. All
presented pitiful appearance, and many
were barely able to walk, buttheir Joy was
great on fading themselves again under
the protection of the old flag.
The Herald's Hilton Head correspondent
says Of the arrest of Ex-Governor Aiken,
that he claims to be "an original Union
man, en- opposer of nullifcation in Gal.
houn's time, and friend Of the Union and
the Constitution ever since; but there are
feports contradictory 5of this, aud among
others he is accused Of furnishing poF.
ton of the brain which has enabled the
trebels to hold ouef96r years, s6di6E having
held several sRdvis0eS interviews with JEFF.
Davis. These are only reports, bat of
course the War Department must have had
some foundation fOriits action against him.
G. B. Lamar, prominent citizen of Sa-
Tsnnahs has also been arrested. he is an
sVowed enemy OF the Union, was nullif-
cation man, and has been onsiof the most
industrious and successful aiders aud abet.
tors of the rebel cause in GeoreiR He
makes no secret even now Of his bitter hos
tility to the Union. Courteous, aEable and
sociAble in all other respects, he hates
Yankees most thoroughly, and boasts of IT,
1t is understood that the prisoners are
charged with treason, aud Will be regular.
" tried therefor. D;I n .E
A Fribgne's Washington Special has the
followingg - - {, ,5 .- '7
The court room for the trial Of the Pres
ideutiaI assassins, has been fitted up at the
arsenal building and their trials win pro-
ceed without delay. The number likely to
be put onltriapis about 90, aud others now
in custody will probably bs discharged az
the case progresses and their testimony is
given in. Cs
Cot Clark of the rebel army who was
captured BY one Of our scouting parties,
while endsayoring 70 escape from Rich
4 mondzon one Of the last trains from the
doomed city, asserts that hewas in charge
Of ali the specie which Was removed from
Richmond, that when his train broke down
and he found itimposstbia to get iton the
track and OF, and seeing our forces ap.
and thst all his efforts to save the specie
we're nuaYailing, that lihe soldiers -broke
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