The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-23
THE SITUATION.

Orders have been given BY the President for the DIS
charge on parole Of all the prisoners Of war; including
che general ocer on their subscribing to the oath Of
allegiance.
Interesting and important intelligence respecting the
rebel pirate Rappahannock lately made over by rebel
sxesss TO Liverpool merchants is contained in
Knss.o~n Ursland, correspondence. is stated that
Captain Wake the United States Corvette sacra.
asuto on learning that tins redoubtabe 'neutra YES
sel had put for Liverpool from Southampton, where
she had been lying her liberation from Calais,
tarsed m pursuit. with the fixed intention Of capturing
the ex-pirae and bringing her TO this country to be
adiudicated upon in q prize court Az the Rappahan-
mock according the latest advices reached Liverpool
I'm safety on the 9th inst It Is probable that Captain
Wake did not get up with her in time to put her as
sumed neutrality to the test
San Francisco despatch reports that the Both Of
March last In the Pacific Ocean, the voyage from the
Microncsian Islands to Honolulu the Hawaiian schooner
Pfe was boarded by tho officers Of vessel believed to
have been the rebel pirate Shenandoah, though her
capain said she was the English ship Miami She car
ried English colors; but the boarding officers were
Americans She was then the track Of returning
American whalers among which II was supposed she
designed TO operate. Australia advices OF late date
give rumor that tho Shenandoah was cruising of the
coast Of Now Zealand and that she had recently burned
IN American vessel in that vicinity.
The highly interesting narrative Of the fight Of JET
Davis and his accompanying fugtves by OF his staff
officers is continued in todays HERALD In the portions Of
this chronicle heretofore given the writer has detailed the
circumstances Of journey through Virginia and South
Carolina The present chapter Is devoted TO the passage
through South Carolina thus preserving the connection
of the story The details not very credabe to the
once rampant and boasting chivalry OF the Palmetto
s,ae showing as they that but little hospitality was
shown to the fallen rebel chief and his followers by the
people who had proclaimed the loudest their deter
nlnaton 10 die In the last ditch In support Of
b,s and their own cbimera Of Southern empire Tho
bouses were closed against JEFF and the other high
rebel digntaries They were compelled to live In the
cars on the railroad track the few necessares they
got we're given grudgingly There Is said TO be ne
mistake about the South Carolinans being thorough,
subdued The various departments Of the rebel govern
ment-ssate, War; Navy Treasury, Judiciary and Post
omcewcre located in the and scattered for miles
along the road waiting for the signal which never came
70 again assemble together some safe place The ar
chvcs Of these different departments destroyed IN in
stamens at different points the fleeing government
moved southwark and hope after another for IT.
ultimate re-estabsment expired. Thus the Navy De
partment ceased forever to exist Charlotte, n c. the
State Department at Lexington, and on, one after
another these institutions collapsed by the roadside il
rnerited obscurty and ignominy
The rebel General JEFF. Thompson is among the recen
applicants for Executive pardon.
One Of the HsgAR correspondents who has been sraye