WASHINGTON, May 20. – Hon. Edwin Stanley is on the eve of departure for North Carolina. – To-day he received his commission as Military Governor of that State. He is invested with the powers, duties and functions of that State, including power to establish all necessary offices and tribunals and suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the pleasure of the President, or until the loyal inhabitants shall organize a State government in accordance with the laws of the United States. His powers are exactly similar to those with which Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee, is vested.
An army officer, just arrived here from Port Royal denied the published statement that at the last accounts our pickets were within four miles of Savannah.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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