The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-05-05
WAR NEW s.


meut communicating dispatch from Lieut.
Gen. Grant, dated at Raleigh, 10 P. NJ, of tn
26th instant we learn that General Joseph
Johnston, the Confederate Commander, has sur
rendered to Major General Sherman the forces O
his command, embracing all from the poin
where he was then located, to the Chattahoochi
river The surrender is on the basis agreed upor
between Generals Grant and Lee, when the lat
ter surrendered the army of Northern Virginia.
The number of troops belonging to Johnston's
army who surrendered to Gen. Sherman, is est
mated by newspaper correspondent, writing
from Newbern, at 81, AGO. including the militia
from North and South Carolina, Georgia and
the Gulf States. Gems. Beauregard and Hardee,
it is stated were included among the officers
surrendered, but Wade Hampton is reported to
have gone with Davis. .........
Advices from Vicksburg, Mississippi, state
that the Confederate ram Webb ran out of the
Red River about o'clock on the night of the
23d Of April, and passed the Union gunboats and
ivon-clads, at the rate Of twenty-five miles an
hour. She passed New Orleans, it is said, on
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o very rapid rate; but when a short distance
below the city, part of her machinery became
disarranged, and TO prevent capture she was de-
serted and blown up. Some of her crew were
subsequently, taken prisoners and brought to
New Orleans; the rest escaped.
Senior Don Jose A. Godoy, the Consul of the
Mexican Republic at San Francisco, California,
being DESTROYS of settling authoritatively the
status of the several parties claiming to represent
Mexico in that State, addressed, during the lat
ter part of March, letter to General Mcdowell,
commanding the military Department of the Pa
cifc, asking him which of the respective claim
ants was recognized by the United States Gov
eminent as the accredited representative of Next
co. In reply, Gen. Mcdowell said that he knew
Of no other Mexican Consul at San Francisco
than Senior Godoy--the representative of Juarea
and directed subordinate officers in the Fede-
raj service to respect him &C, ordingly.
Major General Halleck, now commanding the
Military Division of the James, and who has es-
tablished bis headquarters at Richmond, has is
sued an order permitting the clerks of Courts oil
Record in Richmond and Petersburg to resume
their functions on taking the oath of allegiance.
All persons licensed to practice any profession,
or following any trade or other business, and
the officers of all corporations are required
TO take the oath Of allegiance Those who
violate the order are to be put under arrest
Every person claiming the restoration of pri.
vate property must take the oath OF allegiance
before he will be entitled to have his claim
considered. No permits to land or to ship goods
are to be granted to persons refusing to take the
oath. No marriage licenses are to be issued,
unless the parties desiring to be married consen,
to take the oath of allegiance; nor is any clergy
men to perform the marriage ceremony, who has
not taken the oath prescribed.
The information from the Shenandoah Valley,
in Virginia, is to the effect that all paroled rebel
prisoners going home in that direction are re.
quired to take the oath of allegiance. Many Of
Moseby's guerillas are reported to have come
into Winchester with the paroled soldiers; among
them, his second in command, Lieut.. Colonel
Chambers.