The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-06-09
GENERAL NEWS.

announcing that his functions as Governor had
been suspended by Major Gen. Gilmore, and
counselling the people of South Carolina to for
bear hopeless opposition, and to submit to the
Government Of the United States For himself,
whilst protesting against the power to displace
him, as claimed and exercised by Gen. Gilmore,
he declares he is ready to answer any and all
charges that may be made against him. He
adds, that whatever he has said he believed it to
be true, and whatever he has done he believed it
to be right, and he has no desire to avoid, delay
or hinder the closest scrutiny into his conduct.
Gen. Kirby Smith surrendered to the United
States military authorities the forces under his
command on the 25th ult. Major Gen. Buckner,
acting under authority from Gen. Smith, con-
Quoted the capitulation.
The Memorial Diplomatique states that Presi-
dent johnson has instructed Mr.. Adams to re-
quire of the English Government prompt deci-
sion in regard to the indemnities due to the
United States for losses caused to American citi-
zens by Confederate cruisers constructed and
equipped in English ports.
The Memphis correspondent of the New York
Tribune states that a number of Confederate Off
GERS and soldiers have been summoned before the
United States District Court with view to tes-
tifying against General Robert t. Lee and other
prominent officials of the late Confederacy, on
charge of treason.
Newbern, N. c., advices of the 3lst ult., state
that the result of the investigation at Toronto,
showing that the yellow fever which prevailed
at Newbern last summer, which carried off some
two thousand citizens, was introduced by the in
famous DR.. Blackburn, has caused the utmost
horror. The people of the State are fast becom-
ing reconciled to the free labor system. The
strong attachment which in many cases existed
between masters and their former slaves, induces
them to seek each other, and they were making
satisfactory terms for labor.
Hon. James l.. Orr is addressing the citizens
of Pendleton, s. Carolina and other districts on
the propriety of their thorough yielding to the
views of the government and speedy return to
their allegiance. A large number of the citizens
of Columbia are daily taking the oath of ale
glance and throughout the State the people very
generally express desire for speedy return to
the Union. Hon. T. ]. Goodwin has resigned
the Office of Mayor Of Columbia, and is succeeded
by ]. g. Gibbes, Esq. VIM. Gilmore Simms, the
novelist, is editing the Columbia Phenix. The
upper districts of the State are overrun by stray
glers, who are pillaging the whole country
Hon. VIM. Porcber Miles, formerly member of
the United States Congress, and his brother, DR..
Miles, were recently attacked by a gang of out
laws and robbed.
1t has been decided by the Second Comptroller
of the Treasury that under the act of March 3,
1865, to entitle a soldier to bounty, the wound
for which he may be discharged must be d.
rect result, or necessary incident of his military
SERVICE and that the wound must be received in
the line of his duty as soldier-notin the peace
full occupation of citizen. The wounds for
which bounty is provided must be the conse-
querce of hostilities actually going at the
time.
An idea may be had of the extent of the reduc-
ton in the active naval service of the country,
and of the expenses of the Navy Department, from
the fact that the number of vessels in commission
on the Atlantic seahoard, of all descriptions, is
ordered to be reduced from about six hundred to
ninety. The West Gulf squadron is to be re-
duced to twenty, and the Mississippi squadron to
fifteen vessels.
The Secretary of the Navy issued circular d.
recting that in the employment of mechanics and
others in navy yards, at naval stations, or else
where in the service of the Navy Department,
preference begiven to such as have been honorably
discharged from the navy and marine corps, and
especially to those who have been wounded or
disabled, provided they are capable of perform
ing satisfactorily the duties required of them.
A Richmond letter says that members of the
English Parliament have offered to Gen. Lee
splendid residence in London, sum of money,
the interest on which would support himself and
family for life.
The government has decided to retain the pro-
vost-marshals in all the States except Rhode ISL
and, and the present officers will hold their
places in every Congressional district. The same
system will be extended to the Southern States,
and officers of the government apprehend that it
will be a year before it can be relinquished.
Wade Hampton has escaped, and his where
abouts is unknown. Columbia is garrisoned by
the 258th Ohio Volunteers The citizens are
taking the oath of allegiance in crowds. Other
towns in the interior of the State are strongly
garrisoned. -i ----
The steamer Helvetia, from Liverpool and
Queenstown, arrived to-day with twelve hundred
and seventeen immigrants on board The Hell
veta has the credit of bringing the largest cargo
of human beings that ever crossed the Atlantic
in single steamer.
The Hon. Benjamin G. Harris, of st. Mary's
county, who was recently tried by court martial
at Washington, and sentenced to be imprisoned
for three years and TO be forever disqualified
from holding Office under the Government of the
United States, has had his sentence promptly
remittcd by President johnson, who also ordered
him to be released.
The leaders ofthe Mexican emigration scheme
OF San Francisco have been held to answer for