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THE HERALD QF TIIE
WILMINGTON.
APRIL 28
LOCAL IHTELLICEMCE.
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A Dat or Mocejhsc. According to thejrders
:..ud from Headquarters, Wednesday was ot-
Mrred as a dZjot mourning in view of tbVdeath
f President Lincoln. All places of business were
flM,d the flaw of the, vessels, and upon public
a nr;T.to houses were at half mast ; and
Tces uv f t
n intertals of every half hur, from sunrise to
nstf, agun was fired.
' The gun as stationed upon Castle street, near
ibe river bank j.U was draped in mourning ; and
wn pUced under a handsome arch of eTergreen ;
: roni the top of which were suspended the words,
formed of evergreen, " We mourn." The whole
arrangement reflected credit upon the ingenuity
and good Lute of those having it in charge ; who
were; we understood, members of the 23d Indiana
Battery.
T Chlkbratiom Yxstf.bday. The death of
President Lincoln was commemorated yesterday
b v the colored people. The procession was formed
according to the order announced in the published
T.rogramme, and must have been at least a half
mile in length. The arrangements were in good
(aete ; the fire companies are especially to be no
ticed for the becoming style ot all their' arrange
raeats. We hear that the church was handsomely
-decorated.. Of the performances at the church we
know nothing except what was announced in the
handbills. We heard of no instances of disorder.
KTcrything passed off quietly.
Tbiatkz. A great crowd was out last night at
the Theatre to attend the complimentary benefit
given to Mr. Griffith old uncle Jack late po
licemen of the city. Every one present seemed to
njoy the performance, and the acting was very
Ice, indeed.
Tc-night, Friday, we have a new name on the
till Mr. A. M. Sherman, who appears in the in
teresting and exciting drama ot Momentous Ques
tion or the Poaeber'sJ)oom. Let all go and see
him. Cous n Joo, with Dan Townsend as Joe
and Mis Ida Morton as Margery, is the after
FIT OH THE SnEXANDOAII.
1m render , of rttoseby to Oen. Han
cock Roiser Ready to Give Up
the Contest.
Washington, April 18, 1865.
Advices from .Winchester of the 18th instant,
Ute that Colonel Moseby, of guerrilla fame,
surrendered hi forces to General Chapman, at
Berryville, at 12 o'clock yesterday. A Lieut.
Colonel of Moseby's command tame to Win
chester on Sunday and arranged with General
Hancock the terms of the surrender. They are
similar to those accorded to General Lee's army.
It is understood ttiat General Rosser has also
asked that his command be included in the car
vel. The exact number of men in Moseby's
command is not known, but it is supposed not
to vary much from seven hundred.
Great numbers of rebel soldiers are arriving
within our lines a few direct from Lee's army.
They scout the idea that any portion of their
army had gone to Johnston, and say that when
it is fairly understood that they can return to
their homes without molestation, it will be im
possible tokeep any considerable number of
i hem tog ther.
A rev w of all the artillery in the depart
ment tooik place yesterday.
Vic Preaidt Hamllm mm Praldnt Jabn
a ton.
The Boston Advert ser says :
Mr. Hamlin aesurts us that from a most inti
mate acquaintance with his successor for eigh
tten years, be knows the country has nof reason
to doubt that in Mr- Johnson's hands the cause
which all loyal citizens now have so much at
heart will receive no harm that the new lres
ident has a soul full of the good of his country,
a rrill to enforce it, and a determination which
no sympathy with rebellion can jar or swerve a
tittle from its true object. No recent occurrence
has bad the effect on Mr. Hamlin's mind to di:
minish in the least the confidence he has always
f.it that in the selection of Mr. Johnson the
people made no mistake. -Considering the posi
tiara rvff tf r. Himlm and his connection with Nr.
Johnson on the cccasioxw alluded to,1he assu
rance has great weight
SALISBURY, SOUTH CAROLINA,
CAPTURED.
Nineteen Cannon and Uore than
a Thousand Prisoners taken.
IITJirjEtf SE QUANTITIES OF MU
NITIONS AI SUPPLIES f
SECURED.
Seven Thousand Bales of Cotton
Anions tbe Spoils. !
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KSMAX'B DBS PATCH, j
Tenn. ih the Fizld, )
telle, N. C, April 13,
la.,, April 187 A. M. j
Thm Se-r cjm-Till rty Ziokn.
PnjL4DKrjmA, April 20. The subscriptions
to the Seven-Thirty tban taday reported by J.
Cooke amount to $3,052,300, inclnding a single
cnK.mRtmn from Pittabnrffof.S30i.500 : one
of S210.000: one fom Memphis
of $100,000 ; on$ from New York of $170;55&;
aai one ironv. v? asnmgtn oi iiuv,vuv.
Tlie Official Dlapatchcs.
sxckktaby 6tant0kto general dpt.
War Department
Washington April 18, 1865.
Major General Dix, New York
The following despatches, containing details
of the expedition under command of Major Gen.
Stoneman, have, been forwarded to the depart -
mont Kt ATn?orfln Thnmaa- i
H'dq'rs Kashfillb, April 191:30 P
Major Gen. H. W. Halleck, Chief of Staff
J forward the following report from Major
General Stoneman, just received, for the infor
mation of the Secretary of War and the Lieut.
General, and take pleasure in specially inviting
their attention to the importance of the work
performed by General Stoneman, who, in spir
it, fully executed the orders given him before
starting on the expedition.
The, officers specially mentioned by General
Stonemin Major Keogh, Captains ; Morrow,
Allen and Cbamberlainbave heretofore on ma
ny occasions distinguished themselves by gal
lantry and good conduct in battle. i
0N. STONEMA2T8 DBS PATCH,
H'dqrs, East
Camp at Statxsvclle
Via Jonssboro. Ala.
To Major Gen. Thomas Commanding Depart
raent of the UmDeriancl : !
I have the honor to report the follewingj, as
the result of our operations since mv last des
patch from ;-Boone, N. C. From Boone it be
came necesary to cross' the Blue Ridge into the
Yadkin ijiver Jbottom, in order to obtain sup
plies for Sraeoknd .horses. There we were de-
tained tnree days oy wesnes. x rum mcuce
we struck for Christiansbure. On the route I
detaehidj Col. Miller, with a portion of his brig
ade. to Wvtheville. and Major Wagner, with a
portion of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania, Palmer's
brigade, (to Big Lick. These three points were
struck almost simultaneously. Col. Palmer; at
tacked, and after some fighting, captured
Wytheville, destroyed the depot of supplies! at
that point, and also, at Mair's Meadow. Ma-
L . . - . . 1 T -VI
Liick, pusnea on towarae Ajyncuuurg, ucur"j
ine on his way the important bridges over :the
Big and Little Otter, and got to withm four
mifes of Lynchburg with the main body, and ef
lectually destroyed the road betweed New river
and Biff lick, and then struck for Greensboro,
on the North Carolina Railroad.
Arrived near . Salem, JN. J., 1 detailed pal
mer's brigade io destroy tbe bridges between
Danville and Greeasbaro, and between Greens
boro and Yankin river and the large d.-pots of
supplies along the road. This duty was per-i
formed with considerable fighting, the capture
of four hundred prisoners, and to my entire sat
isfaction. With the other two brigades, Brown's
and Miller's, and 1 the artillery under tne com
mand of Lieutenant Keacon, we pusnea: ior
Salisbury, where we fou..d about three thou
sand troops under the command of Major Gen
eral W. M. Gardiner and fourteen pieces of
artillery, under command ef Colonel (late Lieu-
tenant liencral) i'enroerion, uic nuu wnuw
behind Grant's creek, about two mues ana a
half from Salisbury. As sobn as a proper ois-
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position coald De maae a oraercu
charge along the entire uie, wau ieamvwM
the capture of tne wncie iourteeu iiucb y .
tillery, one thousand three hundred d sixty
four prisoners, including fifty-three officers.;
All the artillery and one thousand one hun
dred andliixty-four prisoners ire now with f. us.
The remainder of the torce was cnasea tnrougu
and several miles btfyond the town, Dut scawer-
ed and escaped into the woods , : ;
.JVe remamea at oauauurj m " -0
which time we destroyed fifteen miles of rail
roa utAlxi& the bridges towards Charldttee,
and then moved to this point. From here we
shall more to the south' aide of ihe Catawba
rWer, and be in' ft position to operate ward
Charlotte and Columbia,,or upon the fiank of
an army moving south. t i
The lollowing is ft partial list of the public
property captured northW Salisbury and de
stroyed by us Four largo cotton factories ftna
seven thousand bales of cotton ; four large ma-
thousand stand of Small
rma a.nd iuw mfivmflntt ; one million rounds of
small arm ammunition, one thousand rounds of
fixed artillery ammunition, and seven tnousana
pounds of powder, thirty-ave thousand bushels
of corn, fifty thousand bushels of wheat, one
, undred and sixty thousand pounds of cured
u-t, r,o. tinndudk thousand ctuts of grayin
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iforms and clothing, two Lundred and fifty thou
sand army blankets,, twenty thousand pounds
of harness leather, fen thousand pounds of salt
petre; also a very large amount of sugar, salt,
rice and other stores and medical supplies, val
ued by the rebel medical directors at one hun
dred thousand dollars in gold. In addition to
the arsenals at Salisbury, the military work-
i nj and Rebel parties, and a good social time
wak enjoyed. i ;
The result was that the ClinCon, bearing r.
Cklonel of Wallace's Suffi with despatches (o:
General Can by, was sent back to New Orleans,
with orders to land at the wharf of Gal teston en
her return. " v
General Wallace remained in. Texas. ITwS
shp was being fitted up. and was filled with I probably now at Galveston awaiting the arrivaf
machinery sent from Raleigh and Richmond ;rro'f the Clinton. She sails for that port
to
night.
The same informant states that the Rebel
leaders cf the Trans-Mississippi Army, fully
convinced of the utter hopelessness of the caus :
hate resolved to secede therefrom and proclaim
the! independence of Texas; as a sovereign State,
preparatory, probably, to Seeking readxnission
into the old union. . -
he Brownsville jRahchqro bitterly denounce a
this sch' me, which proves;; that there must t
some foundation for it.
OP MOBILE
all of which was destroyed.
l ne opots along tne. route traversed oy on
various narties nave fumisned us with a bun
dance. The nomber of hores and mules cap
tured ana tax en alone tne road i nave no means
of estimating. ' 1 can eay, however, that we are
much better mounted than when we left Knox-
vilieV We have a surplus of lead animals, and
I sufBcient besides to haul off all of our captures,
mount, a poruon 01 uie prisoners ana aoouc a
thousand contrabands : and this after crossins
Stone Mountains once and the Blue Ridge three
times, and a march made by! headquarte rsBince
the 20th of last month of nve hundred miles,
o rH mtiVft mAfo Kv vAiiiva irf f rio Ammen1
The rapidity ef our movements in almost every SUVal OpCratlOBS r PreCCalng It.
instance causea our aavance guarq 10 neraia
our approach and make the surprise complete.
General Gillem, the immediate commaader of
the division, who is entitled! to a full share of
whatever is due, will make the detailed report
ox the expedition. .
The only casualties m my staff was Uaptam
Morrow, Assistant Adjutant General, who,
while gallantly assisting Major Keogh, my aid-
de- camp, leading the Eleventh Kentucky cav-
airy, in tne ngut at oansnnry, was on nis twen- nnhnt to th rantura of
tieth .birthday, severely but not dangerously Snanish Port. desDateh No. 53. 'dated Anrn
jjf iL 1 ifni s. I . . , :. .
wouuubu m mo ten. Knee, ixnese two toudz oth th mmhflat KtorariL Limt. Commander
officers, as was also Major Bascom, Assistant wi W Law. and thu irori-clada were enabled
THE CONDITIO!! OF THE CITY
Haines of the Killed and Wounded:
Wt Gnir Squadroa.
j ; : . U. S. Flagship Stockdals, . j
OrF Mobili, April 12th, 865. y
Sir I have the honor to inform the Depart
ment that on Monday, the! 10th instant, subfe-
r ort Alexis and the
Adjutant General, my chief of staff ; Captain
Chamberlain, my chief quartermaster, and
Captain Allen, Assistant Adjutant General, I
wish to bring to your special attention, and
torougn you so me uenerai-in-uniei.
GEO STONEMAN j Major General.
G. H. THOMAS, Major General.
Tli Press Despatch.
V " Lenoir, Tenn.,! April 16, 1865.
The expedition under Major General Stone
man. which left Knox vi lie, Tenn., en the 10th
of March, strtick the East Tennessee road on
the 14th inst., at , Wythe'ville, Christiansburg
and Salem, Va. Between these places- thirty-
three bridges were burned, and twenty-five
in consequence of the rough-dragging of Blake-r
Iv river, through the ind eft titrable and intelli
gent exertions of Commander Pierre Crosby, te
move up the river nearly abreast of Spanish
Fort, from which point Lieutenant Commander
Low, with bis rifle gun shelled with great pre-
vision tne torts iiuger ana a racy, ana wun
such effect that both these forts, were captured
on! the evening of the llth,.and our forces took
possession, capturing a few prisoners in the ad
joining marsh. ' .
li ne set torts I snail uoid untu uenerai u.in
bv can zarrison them with bis troops. This
miming I moyed with the gunboats conveying
8,000 men of General Granger's forces to the
west side of Mobile Bay for the purpose of at-
miles of track totally destroyed. Many prison- tackine' Mobile. On our arnval it was soon as-
era were raxen ana consiaeraDie quantities oi certained that the enemv md evacuateaau tne r
eorn and other stores destroyed.
On the 6th Gen. Stoneman moved via-Jack
sonville, Danbury and Manksville, arriving at
Grant's creek, three miles fhmi Salisbury, N.
C, the rebel line for the defence of the town, at
six o'clock A M. on the l2thinst. This line
was defended by artillery and infantry, but was
defences, and retreated with their gunboats up
the Alabama rivjr. The gunboats will in a
few days unquestionably be captured unless de
stroyed by the Rebels themselves. ..a
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General tiranger and myseii nave jnst seni
into MobiU a formal demand to the Mayor lor
its Una mediate surrender, which will undoubted -
soon forced and our forces entered Salisbury at I v be accorded, as the city Is now at rurmercy
ten o'clock A. MM Capturing eight stapd of). Tl navy has already hoisted tbe Stars and
ftiripes over .ine wans oi r9nrimu4uuupuii
River Battery. We also have entire possession
of Choctaw Poinr Battery, ? ml three new forU
colors, nineteen pieces of artillery, eleven hun
dred and sixty-five prisoners, one thousand
stand of arms and accoutrements, one million
rounds of small ammunition, and one4housand
rounds of fixed ammunition (shells) sixty thou
sand pounds of powder, seventy-five thousand
complete suits of clothing, three hundred and
fifty thousand army blankets twenty ' thousand
pounds of bacon, one hundred thousand pounds
of salt, twenty thousand pounds ot sugar, twenty-seven
thousand pounds of rice, ten thousand
pdunds of saltpetre, fifty thousand bushels of
wheat, one hundred thousand' dollars worth of
medical stores and seven thousand bales of cot
ton. . - J
Thirteen pieces of artillery were brought
away, and all the o'tber stores not needed ior
our immediate command were destroyed. The
greater part of these supplies had just been re
ceived from Raleigh. One large arsenal, with
the machinery comp'ete ; six depots, two en
gines and trains, several bridges between Greens
boro and Danville, and also some on the other
side pf Salisbury, with several" miles of railroad
track. Wore destroyed. !
We lost very few in killed and wounded.
Among the latter was Capt. R. Morrow, Assis
tant Adjutant General of Gen. Stonemaa's
staff. ' -'
STATE OF TEXAS j TO SECBDE
FJSOITX TXIJG COtf FJBDEItACir,
Meeting Between Oen. Lew. Wal
lace and the Rebel Gen. Slaugh
ter. !
' 1 Prom the New'Orlean ?icaine, Apiil 12.)
'A trustworthy gentleman, who has just re
tumei from the Rio Grande,'' give the followr
in 2 important facts : s
ine atoamsnirt uunioo caincu wut w
Santiaeo Maior General Lew. "Wallace, who
was sent to the Rio Grande on a special mission.
supposed to concern the expulsion of our Con-
am it Msumnrat nv &i iTimnau . luu vuv r-
tnrn of Rebel deerters bv MeiisL
Tbje result 5f the Consul affair is not Jkaown.
It is not even known that any explanation what
ever WftSdmanded; but the conference with
ii.;ui ontiMiv Ati;fac:torv. That cfScer
v.j nmni jintaMi) Jntft an 1 arranreme&t ' witn
hft Rftbel Gen-. 'Slauzhter for the delrvery or
murderers' and thieves escaping fronv their
Kft- nt a note to Gen Wallace;
requesting an interview, which"wa9 granted
A K TTiPPtinir toot nlace at Point Isabel, Tex
as:'". Thsbest SUng ixiatedf etweea
eIiow it. within Larew'a Bend.
I shall place a suffice t lumber of gunboats
directly in front of the city! to gife efficient pre
tection to loyal "inhabitants,-ot trbicb, 1 learn.
there are a great number. J
Gen. Canbv. with the forces under his imrae-
diate command, is f present at Blakcly; though
I hiaye constant telegraphic! communication With
km. -. -1.
I send this despatch by Lieutenant Commah
dei J. II. Gillis, whose vesarl, the Muwaukie.
was, as the Department has already feen in
formed, destroyed by a torpedo. 1 subsequent
ly gave him charge 61 a natal battery onshore,
with which ne rendered vely effective servicein
shelling of Fort Alexis and patlihrort. I
commend him to the attention of the Depart
ment for seal and gallantry.
I am also much indebted to uommanucr
Crosby, who ha been untiring in treeing the
Blakely mer of torptdovs,' having succeeaea id
removing over one hundred .and nliy seryice
demanding coolness, judgment and-.pepever .
ance. - ; .
I I have the honor to be very respectfully,
Tour obedient sen ant, t
; f H .RV Thatch,
j Acting Rear Admial.
! , Commandinf West Gulf Squadron.
Jlon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy
A Remliiaee vr.pjaiMikl Paler.
nBnMl.Tnhn M. P&msr. iccfenillv appented
to! command the miliUry Distiict of Kentucky,
was ft delegate to tbe famous Waiionai ionvso- ,
don which assembled in iTuiladslphia in lt556.
and nominated Fiemont for the FreMdency.--After
the Con ven'iou had made a choice of a
Presidential candidate. Owen Lovejoy arose snd
itantl Abraham Liccoln, of Illinois, for
PVW President. X- M. Palmer seconded ths
nomination in an admirawespeecn.auring wuico
he aaid he had known UtJf. LiiTcbln a long time
and conld testify to hi noe qualities of heac
and heart. Mr. Lincoln wa" n adrairable law
.a ft profound statesman and n honest man
Sir," aid Mr.'Palnwr, fl kt
now ind apprea
aUiits great abilities, having uf ten met him on ,
the stunrp in Illinois when Lincoln ws whg -and
I was a democrat.", Then looking comical
and confosed, he 1 continued, addressing Henry
a-Lane; of Indianftrhowaa in the Chair, "Ut
President di4 I Eay I bad met Mr. Lincoln ir.
debate, if I did, ! waut to take it c back, fx
when Old Abe came around John 3It ""'jfe
always took to the wooOV It was a n"& -
pfiment from one great man to anou jSt
conrifl ! brought down the house ty & '
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