The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-02
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LOCAL MATTERS.

/ TRIAL OF Mr.. DAyIS.-It is understood
that the trial of Mr.. Davis, which had been
set for the Sd instant, will be again post
poned until October. 1t was believed that
the trial would certainly take place at this
term provided the Chief Justice got through
with the impeachment trial; and the i'm
preston very generally Observation-Disclosures
Of another postponement q noHe ProSeQa1
would be, entered. The present. postpone
ment seems, from what we can learn, to
have been made by agreement Of the lead.
ing counsel on both Sides. II ..gEs -s-,
Chief Justice Chase is expected In Rich.
mond to-day. He will be the guest Of Judge
Bond. T5T 700 SSH .5IiI:a ae
GENERAL SToNEMAN SUCCEEDS GENERAL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF HIS MILITARY LIPE.
The following telegram was received from
General Schofeld yesterday: aa3g
at.# "WAsH1NGToN, June l, 1868.
g To GoloneliS. p. ChaLin, :.a 2 fazs
s-st-.'sH" Assistant Adjutant- General:
any command Of the First Military
District ceases to-day. Inform, General
Stoneman that he will succeed to the com
mand Of that district. :. ...., -
al. ~ j. M. ScHoF1ELD,
- -;.,f IL |" Secretary of War"
IS General George SLOVENIAN, our new district
commander, is a natiyeof. New York. Hewas.
cadet at West Point from July /, 1s42, to,
July l, 1916, when he graduated, and was
promoted in the army to breyet second
lieutenant First dragons = served in the,
war with Mexico; promoted to second lieu,
tenant First dragons. June IL, lS47, and
to first lieutenant in July. 1854 served as
aid to Major-General Wool in 1865; pro-
NOTED to captain in Second cavalry March
3, 1855. He9seryed in the operations on
the Rio Grande against Cortinas's marau-
ders in B5g-'60, being engaged in the COM
bats near Fort Brown, Texas, December IA
and Il, 1859. s.s,,.a: 30 i, s,s..s gizr..
General Stoneman was distinguished
Federal oficerin the late war. AS major
of the First cavalry he was in command of
the cavalry advance across Long Bridge for
the capture Of Alexandria, was on the staff
of General Mcclellan in Western Virginia,
was appointed brigadier-generalo United
States volunteers August Is, 1861; was
chief of cavalry, of the Army of the Poto-
mac in the Virginia Peninsula campaign of
1862, being engaged in. the siege of York
town, the action of williamsburg, in COM
mand Of the advance Of the grand move
ment on Richmond, was in the skirmishes
at Slatersville, New Bridge, and Mechanics-s
vile, and in the cavalry operations of the
seven days. battles around Richmond. He
was made ,msjor-g general United States vol
nnteers November 49,, 1862, and COM
manded the Third corps. Was promoted
breyet colonel in the regular army Deem
Der 13, 1862, for gallant and meritorious SER
vices at the battle of Fredericksburg.
He commanded, the. cavalry corps on the
raid towards Richmond in the spring of |
1863; was In command Of the Twenty |
third army corps in 1884,, promoted to
lieutenant colonel of Second cavalry, regu-
lar army, March 80, 1864; in command of |
cavalry corps, Department of the Ohio, in |
1864, and engaged in the Atlanta cam
paign, and was captured at Clinton, Ga.,
while on q raid to Andersonville to release
the Federal prisoners confined there. He,
was held as q prisoner from July 81 to
October II, 1854. Was in temporary COM
mand Of the Department Of the Ohio in Mo- /
vember, and commanded the raid to South
western Virgins in the winter Of ls64-'65.
Was in command Of the District Of East
Tennessee in February and March, 1866; /
in command ofthe expedition from Knox
vile, Tenn, to 2Asheville, N. Co. from
March goth to April goth, 1865; and was
on the 18th March, 1855, made breTet bri-
gadier-general United States army for gal
liant and meritorious services inthe capture
Of Charlotte, N. c., and on the same day
was made brevet major-general United
States army for gallant and meritorious SER
vices in the field during the war. In April, F
1865, General stoneman destroyed the
Virginia and Tennessee railroad, cap-
turedo Salisbury, M c., destroyed the
North Carolina Central railroad, and,
captured the Confederate garrison at
Asheyille, N. C. From June ~, 1865, 70
June 5, 1865, he was in command Of the
Department of Tennessee. July %, 1866,
was promoted ccions1of the Twenty-frst
infantry. Was in command OF the Depart
ment Of the Cumberland from June 9Th TO
August Is, 1866, and Of the District Of the |
Cumberland to the close OF that month, I
when be Was mustered out of the volunteer
service. On the nth Of the following De-
eernberhe ives appointed to the command Of
tho District OF Petersburg, and on yester-
day, BY virtue Of his rank, succeeded Gene
raj Schofeid In the command OF the First
Military District. " I
Z CaNsERyArryE MEETiNs i. At noyERf
was . Conservative s~set-
!ng al Dover Mines Inland county, on,
last, which was largely attended,
py both whites and blacks, at which etissingl