Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-26

Important Official Announcement-The Presi-
dents Proclamation does not Remove Martial
Trial of MIR. Dsvis, &c.
IMPORTANT ANNoUNCEMENT-TH PREsIDENTs PROC
LAMATIoN DOES NOT REMOVE MARTIAL Law.
WASHINGTON, April IL.
The following appears in the Southern papers:
Wv Department., Washington, d. c., April g.,
1S66.-Brevet Major General M. Branner, Angus.
ia: The Assistant Commissioner of the Bure:n OF
Refugees, Freedmen, &C., for the State of Geor-
ga, having inquired whether the PRESIDENTS proc
lamation removes martial law, and stated that the
Department Commander does not feel authorized
to arrest parties who have committed Outrages on
freedmen or Union refugees, the Secretary of War,
with the approval of the President, directs me to
inform you that the Presidents proclamation does
not ,emore marital lac, operate in any way the
Freedmen Bureau in the exercise of its legitimate
Jurisdiction. 1t its not eXpedlent, however, to
resort to military tribunals in any case where JUS
tice can be attained through the medium of civil
authority.
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General
FROM SAN FRANCIsCo-TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AND LOSS
OF LIFE.
SAN Francisco April ia terrible explosion Of
what is supposed to be aglycerine occurred at
II o'clock this afternoon, near Wells Fargo &
Co.'S building The explosion shook the earth like
an earthquake for the circle of quarter OF mile.
Samuel Knight, superintendent of Wells Fargo
d Co.'S Express died in half an hour, of injuries
w. w
instantly killed. Mr. Wallub, Wells Fargo &
Co.'S assayer Joseph Elliott, John Gallagher,
Frank Webster and Wilson Justin were also killed.
Eight dead bodies mutilated that they
could not be Identified
Louis McLane and Captain Eldridge, of the Pa
ciic Mail Steamship Company, and Judge Hof-
man were bruised and cut. Felix Lamax, D. Sta
cey, Jefferson Taylor H. Blame, clothing dealer,
Capt. J. e. Ayres, Frederick Leiz, Frank Morris,
and others, were injured, but not fatally.
Some of the killed will never be identified, as
fragments of human flesh, bones and brains were
found nearly two blocks distant.
Montgomery, Sacramento and California streets
were lined with broke glasses scarcely window
for several hundred feet remaining whole. Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s horses and every thing ill the vicin-
ity animate or inanimate, were blown into frag-
ments. The damage is estimated at $500, OOO-
VIM. Ravens, hook-keeper of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company is ascertained to be among
the killed.
The cause of the explosion is mystery. The
freight agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, says two boxes, each measuring about four
cubic feet taken from the steamers dock to
the place where the explosion occurred. One box
was consigned to Idaho City, and the other to Los
Angeles Both are stained with oil. The con-
tents are unknown. A gang of forty men are now
engaged in removing the ruins.
Correspondence Of the Baltimore Sun.
TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS IN vIRGINIA-THE PRESI-
DENTS COURSE MATTER.
Washington, April 1.-The impression has become
general that Mr.. Jetf DaYls IS soon TO be brought
to trial before United States circuit court in Vir
ginia. The residentisrepresentedash having found
ed this mode of disposing of the If he is
convicted of treason, then the President may ex-
ercise the power of pardon. The rumor that the
President will pardon discharge Mr.. Davis was
founded upon the belief that neither Congress nor
the United States Supreme Court will make any
provision for his trial a general amnesty may be
declared if the President persist in his conciatory
policy, but it is not probable that he would dis
charge Mr.. Davis individually and unconnected
with general system of cOnciliatOry policy.