Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-05-31
CHASING ACTS OF the WAR.

IIeSlutul JunuoNh NNS
nation taking off all trade restrictions
from the ports of the U. s., except those
in Texas, and throwing them open to the
commerce of the world after July |. Ira
ding in goods cOntraband of war is excep-
ted and the proclamation further gives
notice that the U. S. will henceforth dis
avow to all persons trading or attempting
to trade in the L. s. in violation OF the
laws, all pretense of beligerent rights aud
priyileres, and from this date all such Of
tenders will be treated as pirates. The
proclamation also removes all restrictions
to trading east of The Mississippi, except
contraband of war, and with the reserva-
ton of the rights of the U, S. to proper
ty purchased in tho territory of the enc
my, and to the 25 per cent upon purchas-
es of cotton. These are wise measures,
and will do more than almost anything
else to convince foreign nations that the
war is really at an end, and that the I'm
ion is to be restored.
Augusta, Ga, was formerly occupied
by Gen. Upton on the Sd, and Gen. Mol
ineaux of Gilmore's staff, arrived soon af-
ter and assumed the direction of affairs.
About $40, 100000 worth of confederate
stores were captured there, besides the
powder mills, arsenals, &c. About TO-
900 bales of cotton and $4,000 in bull
lion were also captured. Several hundred
thousand dollars in specie, that Davis
was attempting to get away have also been
secured since his arrest There was a
bread riot at Augusta before our troops
occupied the place. 1t was carried on by
women principally, and private as well as
public property was freely plllaged.
Rear Admiral Thatcher, commanding
naval forces at Mobile, reports that Com
modore Il. Farnaud, commanding the reb-
el naval force in those waters and on the
Tombigbee, has surrendered all his ves-
sells and men on the same terms as those
granted to Dick Taylor. The surrender
was completed on the 9th and includes
IL vessels, Two commodores and $50 9TH
er officers. st. Marks and Tallahassee,
Florida, surrendered to our forces on the
9th, and the rebel steamer Spray surren-
dered to the U. S. vessel Mahaska on
the 18th.
Col, Sprague has been sent up Red
River to confer with Kirby Smith about
the surrondei of his army, by invitation
of Smith, which looks as though he was
not so much disposed to hold out
as he tried to make us believe. If he
concludes to fight it out, however. he will
soon have a chance, for Gen. Steele's ar
my is fitting out for Texas, and Sherman's
cavalry are also ordered out that way.
Gen. Candy has forbidden all intercourse
commercial or otherwise, with the country
west of the Mississippi, and has dscou-
tinued the draft in his department.
The rebel Gen. Hill has turned over
all his men in Tennessee, 700 in number,
with their arms and horses. to the United
States.
The late influx of paroled rebel troops
into Memphis caused great excitement
among the negro troops there, and they
got up plot to murder every rebel sol,
der in the city, in revenge for the Fort
Pillow massacre. The plot was happily
discovered, and the white troops succeed
ed in preventing the negroes from carry
ing out their design, after killing twenty
of them. ...... t.,.
The rebel ram Stonewall still remains
at Havana, under the protection of the
captain general The vessel has been
towed to the arsenal, her flag lowered and
the officers and men paid off and put ashore.
There we're SO many United States vessels
around that the Stonewall did not dare to
20 out, and her career is doubtless ended
forever.
Four hundred rebel prisoners were re-
leased at Indianapolis on Monday, on TAX
ing the oath Of allegiance, and 400 more
on Tuesday.
! DAVIS AND BREoKINRIDGE INDICTED FOR
TREAsoS.--1he grand jury of the district
of Columbia on Friday found bills of in.