The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-06-29
The Situation.

folio wing items:
The steamships George Cromwell aud
!. Evening Star, which arrived here yestsr.
day from New Orleans on the 10Th inst,
brought US important dispatches from our
correspondents in the Gulf Department
They furnish interesting accounts of the
incidents preceding, attending and follow
ing the occupation of Bro W ns7ille. Texas.
on the 3lst ult. by the nutionsl troops
under Gen. Brown. The rebel troops.
previous to evacuating the place, mutt
MED, pillaged the town and made prison.
ers some of their officers until their de.
nlands for the payment of their back dues
were complied with. The rebels left the
day previous to Gen. Browns arrival, not
waiting to be paroled or to comply in any
manDer with the terms of General Kirby
Smiths surrender. Large numbers of them
moved across the Rio Grande into Mexico,
taking with them their arms. Their artil.
lery they sold to the Mexican imuerialists
at Matamoros. 1t is said that the last of
the rebels were driven from Brown wnsville
by Mexican residents, who organized q
home guard for the preserv alton of order
soon after the evacuation commenced.
Alter :aking possession of Brownsville,
zen Brown wrote u letter to Gen. Meiia.
the mrerial!sts commander at Matamoros,
assuring hun that neutrality would be OBJ
served by the American forces in REGARD
to tie coule't III Mexico between the re:
pubilcans aud lnperialis,s II is said that
The rebel Een. Magruder, rs we'll as Kirhy
Smith. mas gone to Mexico The iatttr
cnrric'; with HIM considerable amount of
money.
On the 2d inst, the rebel Generals Ma.
Sruder ami Kirby Smith were received on
board the United States steamer Fort
jackson, Capt. Sands, off Galveston. when
the articles of surrender of all the rebel
Trans Nj Mlssfsslppi. forces were sirosd bv
Gen. Smith. The tleXt morning the rebel
officers were conveyed back to Galveston
ami on the 9TH inst. Capt. Sands and other
officers pre- coeeded up to the town. landed
received its surrender from the Mnvor and
once more uniurled the national fac ever
the public buildings. in the presenc. Of =
large but undeuonstrative and orderly
| assemblage Of the people.
1he rebel Governor of Texas has issued
call tor the Legislature to meet in An.
gust, aud also for m election to choose
delegates to State convention.
| The Presidents amnesty proc]a,ostion
created much excitement in New OrI.,n.
The classes excepted from pardon wcr.
more numerous than had been expected
Large numbers of paroed rebels. officers
as we'll as soldiers, have recently arrived
IN New Orleans and settled down t. the
quiet routine of private life. Generals
Beanregard and Dick Taylor nav. been
for some time residing in the vicinity of
the city, awaiting the proceedings Of Go.
vernment In their cases. The business of
the city was rapidly reviving.
\ TTLa 1oyn rohoI a.,
mas issued farewell address TO tie people
OF that State. acknowledging the inexora.
bic logic of events, the failure Of tb. r..
bellion, and that he no longer assumes to
be their Executive. and ceunsellingr them
to submit gracefully to the nat,ounl uu.
thorities.
The Alabama State archives removed
by the rebels to Augusta, Ga. on the nd.
vance of Gen. Wilson's cavalry wer.
recently recovered, and arrived ut Mobile
on the .lth inst., on their wav to be- re
turned to the Capitol at MONTGOMERY
The stolen archives of the State of NI;ss;s.
sippi had also been secured, aud were e..
route to the State capital The late rebel
Gov Moore, of Alabama, has been arrest
ed and sent North under guard. Un;on
meetings are being held in different pare
OF Alabama, and national banks are to he
immediately established in Mobile and
montgomery. In Mobile, as we'll as the
other Southern cities President Johuson's g
am esty proclamation excited much inte
re and discussion
LION. GEORGE "A. TRESHoLM.-It is with
great satisfaction that we learn that this
gentleman has been released on his parole,
and is now at large in the city of Charles
ton.
| SALES ot' SOUTHERN Property.
Philadelphia Leaycr's Washington CORES
pondent says:
The recent order susrenlins the sale Of
Southern real estate, in default of the