The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-10


3.-Gen. Weitzel, with his colored troops
enters Richmond.
4.-Tuscaloosa captured and destroyed by
General Wilson. President Lincoln holds a
levee in jeff Davis house at Richmond.
5.-Secretary Seward thrown from his car
riage at Washington, breaking his arm and
jaw. Lee is intercepted by Sheridan at
Burkesville, Virginia.
6-Lee is struck near Farmville and gains
partial success, but Sheridan defeats him at
Sailors Creek, capturing over six thousand
prisoners, sixteen guns, four hundred wagons,
&c. H. s. Foote returns to New York by
the Etna.
Pursuit of Lee continued; he crossed
to the north of the Appomattox, and is con-
stantly harrassed General Grant writes him
that escape is impossible and proposes to re-
ceive his surrender
8.-Lee replies inquiring terms of surren-
der. Sheridan makes more captures at APP
pOmattOX Station.
9.-Generals Grant and Lee meet at Apo
mattox Courthouse, and the rebel army of
Northern Virginia is surrendered, with its
arms and material of war;
11.-Mobile evacuated by the rebels.
12.-Mobile occupied by Union forces.
fisherman pushes forward again john
ston and occupies Raleigh. The draft and
recruiting ordered to cease.
14.-President Lincoln shot at Ford's
Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, an actor
Secretary Seward attacked at his house,
while in bed, and seriously wounded by an
other assassin who also dangerously wound
ed Mr. Frederick Seward. Correspondence
opened between Sherman and Johnston on
the latters surrender. Montgomery, Ala,
abandoned by the rebels and occupied by
General Wilson. The anniversary of the cap
ture of Fort Sumter celebrated by imposing
ceremonies at the fort, and replacing the flag
by General Anderson.
1j.-President Lincoln died at 7.2O o'clock.
A. NJ, having remained insensible since his
wound. Vice-President Andrew johnson
becomes seventeenth President of the United
States.
16.-Fifteen hundred prisoners, tifty-two
guns, two gunboats and vast stores taken at
Selma, and much railroad stock, &C.. at the
latter
H. Capture of Mrs. Surratt and Lewis
Payne. Edward Spangler arrested
Fisherman agrees to suspension of hos
tilities with Johnston.
19.-Funeral services of President Lincoln
at Washington. A. G. Atzeroth,
arrested near Germantown, Md.
a0.-Macon, Ga, surrendered byrebel Gen.
eral Cobb to General Wilson, with go guns,
1 200 militia, &c.
A.-Sherman's agreement with Johnston
disapproved by the President.
26.-Johnston surrendered his army to
General Sherman on the same terms as Gen
eral Lee John Wilkes Booth and David G..
Harold discovered in barn on CARROTS
farm, near Fredericksburg, Va; Booth re-
fuses to surrender, and is killed by Sergeant
Boston Corhatt, of Sixteenth New York cav
airy; Harold slrrenders.
a7.-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean reappear-
ed in New York, in Broadway Theatre
2S.-The boilers of the steamship Sultana,
with 1000 paroled soldiers, burst near Mem
ohis she then took fire; over 1900 persons
we're burned to death or drowned.
29.-President Johnston removes trade re-
'trictions over most of the South.
2.-Reward Offered for the arrest of JEFF
erson Davis, ]. Thompson, c. C. CLAW, B.
Tucker, G. N. Sanders and w. C. Cleary.
4.-Rebel General Dick TAYLOR surrender
I'd to General Candy all the remaining forces
west of the Mississippi.
9.-President Johnson announces the war
1t an end, and rebel belligerent rights
ceased.
10.-The trial of President Lincoln's assas
inns pOn,pprnnG Iaff,nroo,, Do,,;, lno,,ol
n woman's clothes, captured in his suit and
amily near Irvingsville, Georgia, by Colonel
oritchard, of the Fourth Michigan cavalry
md a party.
LITTLE Marquis de Montholon. the new
French Ambassador, arrived at Washing
on.
13.-R. NJ. T. Hunter, ex-United States
Senator, arrested for treason. Over thirty
millions of the Seven-Thirty Loan subscribed
iOr on this day.
19.-Jefierson Davis and his fellow-pris-
'ners arrived at Fortress Monroe The rebel
am Stonewall surrcnded at Havana.
A.-The armies of Tennessee and Georgia
passed in review before the President. The
main ordnance department at Mobile ex
Dloded, killing about three hundred persons
md wounding many Others; the whole city
injured by the explosion.
27.-Sabine Pass Fort surrendered to
United States troops
29.-President johnson issues his Procla-
nation Of Amnesty to rebels. He also an
points W. W. Holden Provisional Governor
IF North Carolina.
This day was celebrated as a day of
national humiliation and mourning for Presi
lent Lincoln. Hon. b. G. Harris sentenced
% three years imprisonment and disqualif-
,ation from office forever, but pardoned by
he President.
2.-General Grant issues congratulatory
address to the armies.
o.-The Sixth corps was reviewed by the
President and General Meade-the closing
pageant of the war;.
9.-Secretary Seward walked to the State
Department for the first time since his in
uries of April and IA.
13.-The President appoints William. L.
'harkey Provisional Governor of Missis-
'ippi.
14.-John Mitchell, rebel late of Rich
nond, and editor of the New York Daily
Ne'os, arrested for treason.
l7-Hon. James johnson appointed by
he President Provisional Governor of Geor-
ga, and Andrew j. Hamilton for Texas
edmund Rufiin, who fired the first gun at
fort Sumter, committed suicide.
Sl..Hon. Lewis E. Parsons appointed
Provisional Governor of Alabama.
23.-President johnson proclaims the
blockade at an end.
4.-The last commercial restrictions re-
moved by proclamation of the President.
2S.lGeneral Meade bids farewell to the
rmy of the Potomac.
JULY.
5-The assassins of President Lincoln
ound guilty, D. E. Harold, Lewis Payne,