Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-23

that of Wertz, the AndersOnville prison
keeper. which was to have commenced
this week, but has been put off for a few
days. The witness and counsel are all
ready. however, and next week will prob
ably see this great william tried for his
barbarities towards the poor federal pris-
oners,
The gratifying announcement is made
that all the soldiers in the field have been
paid up to June 80, except in Sheridan's
department, and a paymaster has been
dispatched there with the necessary funds
to cancel all the government Indebtedness.
There is nothing of interest from Texas,
the only military division of any impor-
lance now. Gen. Sheridan, the comman-
der of the department, has been at Browns
Vile, looking into the state of affairs
there, but was expected to remain only a
few days. The three military divisions
10 Texas arc commanded as follows: East
ern by Gen. A. j. Mower, with headquar.
ters at Galveston central by Gen. d. s..
Stanley, with headquarters at Victoria !;
northern by Gen. L. Steele, with head
quarters at Brownsville. 1t is reported
that the rebel general Shelby has organ
lied a mounted force Of 1000 men for SER
vice in Mexico and is to command it.
Many of the ex-rebel officers who went to
Mexico are getting sick of their service
there are returning to Texas. The war
department has published a roll of honor
giving the names of the soldiers who died
in the defense of the Union and were in
tered in the cemeteries of the District of
Columbia, up to June 80, 1865. The
whole number is 20,727, of which 49,
900 were white and 1900 natives of this
country. Capt. Moore telegraphs to
Washington that he will have completed
the intcrment of the deceased Union SOL
diers at Andersonville, Ga, by the last
of this week. During the war our armies
captured over 100000 prisoners, besides
parolling lG0,000 more at the final sur
render. The tw~enty-four regiments of
veteran reserve corps are to be consolida-
ted iuto six regiments, and the officers
thus relieved will be mustered out. The
disbanding of the signal corps has COM
menced by order of the secretary of war.
The claims on the general government
that have teen filed by the different st ltes
for expenses incurred in the war, amounts
to $27,7l5,864. Gen. Hooker has made
an order dividing his department of the
East into six divisions with a major gene
raj at the head of each. Maj. Gen. Sick
les is commander for Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Vermont, with headquar-
ters at Boston. If the southern states are
as strongly differed and governed as New
England and New York, we need have no
fears of any outbreak there. Gen. Hooker
has just been made a major general in the
regular army. Maj. Gen. Pope has been
made a brevet brigadier general in the
regular army, and his department has been
enlarged so as to embrace the states of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa and
| Missouri, and the territories of Dacotah,
Montana, Nebraska, Utah and Colordo
headquarters at st. Louis.
The returns from the recent elections
in Kentucky are singularly slow in COM
ing in. The latest advices from Kentucky
show that the pro-slavery candidate in
the second district, B. C. Ritter, is elected
over Geo II. Yeaman, anti slavery and
member Of the last Congress, so that the
pro.slavery mel have five out of the nine
congressman Of the complexion of the
legislature there IS as yet no statement,
but it is probable pro-slavery men will
control both branches, and Garrett Davis
or man of his stripe be returned to the
q. S. Senate. 1t is also probable that
the ratification of the abolition amend.
ment to the United States constitution is
defeated by a considerable majority. 1t is
asserted, and apparently onigood authority
the military authorities damaged the Un-
ion cause by interfering with the election
in an uuwarrantable manner, and the
charges should be looked into by the gov
eminent. 1t is now considered certain
that the election in Tennessee resulted in