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WASHINGTON, Thursday, March 31. Gen. GRANT, accompanied by Mrs. GRANT, Gen. MEADE, and a portion of his staff, went down the Potomac to-day on a visit to Gen. BUTLER at Fortress Monroe. His mission has an intimate connection with recent changes in commands in the army and the forthcoming campaign. The President pronounces the Statement made in the New-York Tribune that the Blair family had recommended Gen. MCCLELLAN to command the defences of Washington, to be altogether incorrect. Senator WILSON, Gens. GARFIELD and SCHENCK, and Mr. DEMING, leave here to-morrow to attend the great mass meeting at Hartford on Saturday...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 30. THE AGENCY OF THE FIVE-TWENTY LOAN. The Secretary of the Treasury will soon make his report in answer to the inquiry of Congress, in regard to the employment of JAY COOKE, as agent for the disposal of the Five-Twenty Loan. His reply will show that on the ten 'millions, Mr. COOKE received a commission of one-half of one per cent. For his commission on the balance he was limited in gross to three-eights of one per cent., which he was bound by contract to apply as follows: One-eighth to sub-agents; one-eighth to expenses of publication and...
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 29. THE CASE OF CAPT. FITCH. A Court of Inquiry to examine into the removal of Government stores from the front and from Culpeper on 7th of February, for which service a hundred cars were ordered by Capt. FITCH, Quartermaster at that post, have reported that no further action was necessary. Gen. MEADE, in reviewing the proceedings, says. "No severer censure can be passed, upon the court than the publication of its own statement of facts and opinions thereon. A Quartermaster," he says, "in charge of a depot, without orders from any one, proceeds to break up...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, March 28. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE TEN-FORTY LOAN. The First National Bank of Washington has received authority to receive subscriptions to the ten-forty loan. The number of National Banks authorized up to to-day is three hundred and forty-seven, with a capital of $45,500,000. It is the impression of the Committee on Bankruptcy that no Bankrupt Bill will pass this session. There is considerable opposition to it on both sides of the House. Gen. GRANT's visit here yesterday is understood to have had connection with the change in the command of the Army of the Potomac. The pressure upon the...
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CAIRO, Saturday, March 26. Reports were circulated here this morning that the rebels, under FORREST, attacked Paducah, Ky., 50 miles above here, yesterday, and burned part of the town; but as telegraphic communication is cut off, no authentic information could be obtained. The steamer Ialan, from Nashville, passed Paducah at 5 o'clock this morning, and the Joseph Pearce, which passed two hours later, brings the following account of the affair: Gen. FORREST, with an estimated force of 5,000, captured the place at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, sacked and fired the City. Col. HICKS, commanding the post, occupied the fort below...
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Correspondence of the New-York Times. FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, Friday, March 11, 1864. Your correspondent finds himself in this important point, after a pleasant journey from Kansas, in company with the troops escorting Gen. BLUNT and Staff to this point, where he expects to reassume command of the Army and District of the Frontier. We left Fort Scott on Friday the 3d inst., and reached here on Wednesday following, making the trip of 200 miles in five days and a half. No incident occurred on the entire march. The command was entirely undisturbed, no armed men being seen till we reached...
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From Our Own Correspondent. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Saturday, March 19. The weather for the past four or five days has been decidedly cold and disagreeable. Business, however, and travel, all the time increase. Immediately in our midst, outside of the military, nothing is transpiring of moment. For the past few days there has been a considerable buzz around headquarters. and yesterday Lieut.-Gen. GRANT, Maj.-Gens. ROUSSEAU, DODGE, SHERMAN, and SHERRIDAN, and Brig.-Gens. GRANGER (BOB), GILLEM, BARRY, WEBSTER, RAWLINGS and MANSON -- quite a group of luminaries -- were assembled at one time. Gen. SHERMAN went to work immediately upon his arrival here,...
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CINCINNATI, Thursday, March 24. A dispatch from Cairo says: "We have good news from the Red River expedition, which comes from undoubted authority. Gen. A.J. SMITH landed his forces from transports a few miles below Fort De Russey. The rebel Gen. DICK TARLOR promptly marched against him with his whole force, and attacked him in his rear. Gen. SMITH, instead of attempting to keep up communication with the river, proceeded by forced marches toward the fort. When TAYLOR saw the trick, he started for the same destination, and for a time the race seemed doubtful. But finally the Yankees came...
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FROM CAIRO. CAIRO, Tuesday, March 22. The steamer Pauline Carveil, from New-Orleans, has arrived here with a cargo of sugar and molasses for St. Louis. She brings no news of general interest from New-Orleans. The steamer, on leaving Memphis, learned that a block of twenty buildings, used as commissary storehouses, had fallen in, burying beneath the ruins about forty negroes and from five to six soldiers who were guarding the buildings. The steamer Von Phul passed up for St. Louis to-day, with the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, (veterans,) enroute home on furlough. Maj.-Gen. MCPHERSON and staff arrived here on the Von...
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 22. The prospect of a speedy return of the people of Arkansas to loyalty and submission daily brightens. Through recent intelligence received here, it is known that two Judges of State Courts under the Confederate rule have voluntarily come forward and taken the oath of allegiance, and a third was on his way to do likewise. ALBERT PIKE writes a pertinent epistle to his wife, hinting in quite strong terms his desire to return to ABRAHAM's bosom, but expresses his doubts if he can do so under the Amnesty Proclamation. Gen. STEELE has informed Mrs. PIKE that...
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WASHINGTON. Monday, March 21. The adjourned meeting of the Union caucus of last week met to-night, but owing to the slim attendance no definite action was had upon any of the matters under discussion. The chairman was authorized to call them together whenever it was deemed expedient. The principle subject under consideration was the duty of Union members generally to stand by the action of committees on all important measures, which was fully acquiesced in by all those present. An extract from a rebel paper sent here by Gen. MEADE contains full details of the proposed reorganization of the army....
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The steamer Havana, from New-Orleans on the 11th and Havana on the 14th inst., and the steamer George Washington, from New-Orleans on the 12th, arrived at this port on Saturday evening. In the fight on Ouachita River, by which Admiral PORTER captured a rebel fort at Harrisonburgh, one of our vessels was struck thirty-three times. Lieut. WILLIAMS, of the Fourth Wisconsin, had been killed by guerrillas not far from New-Orleans. The report of the capture of Yazoo, with the Eleventh Illinois Regiment, is repeated via New-Orleans, but is doubtless untrue. The gunboat Galatea, from New-York for the West Indies, was...
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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Saturday, March 19. The excitement about the threatened raid by STUART has subsided. Notwithstanding the statements that the report in the TIMES was a canard, without foundation, it was nevertheless substantially true, and nothing but the prompt action of Gen. PLEOSANTON prevented STUART from carrying out his intentions. A detachment of the enemy crossed the Rappahannock near Fredericksburgh, Wednesday night, and the following day, Col. BRYAN, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, captured twenty of the party, including two well-known scouts, MCILVAINE and MCREYNOLDS, of YOUNG's brigade, one of the brigades stationed at Fredericksburgh, who captured...
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GOV. VANCE'S SPEECH.THE RELATIONS BETWEEN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE CONFEDERACY. We have already referred to a great speech delivered at Wilkesbore, N.C., on Feb. 22, by Gov. VANACE. The peculiar position of the speaker, and the significance of this utterance, make the appended extracts from this speech of great interest. After alluding to the suffering the people had endured in consequence of the war, Gov. VANCE said: In consequence of this continued suffering, which experience had not prepared the people to endure with the fortitude possessed by some nations who have been nurtured to the shock of arms, a certain...
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NASHVILLE, Thursday, March 17. Gen. GRANT formally assumed the command of the armies of the United States to-day. The following is his order on the subject: HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 17, 1864. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 12. -- In pursuance of the following order of the President: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10, 1864. -- Under the authority of the Act of Congress to appoint the grade of Lieutenant-General in the army, of February 29, 1864, Lieutenant-General ULYSSES S. GRANT, U.S.A., is appointed to the command of the armies of the United States. (Signed)...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 16. DISPATCH FROM GEN. SHERMAN. Maj.-Gen. W.T. SHERMAN, in a dispatch dated Vicksburgh, Feb. 27, via Cairo, March 10, has addressed the following to Lieut. Gen. GRANT, care of Maj. Gen. HALLECK: GENERAL: I got in this morning from Canton, where I left my army in splendid heart and condition. We reached Jackson, Feb. 6, crossed the Pearl and passed through Brandon to Morton, where the enemy made dispositions for battle, but fled in the night. We posted on over all obstacles, and reached Meridian Feb. 14. Gen. POLK having a railroad to assist him on his...
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WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL's OFFICE, WASHINGTON, March 15, 1864. GENERAL ORDERS NO. 100. -- In order to supply the force required to be drafted for the navy, and to provide an adequate reserve force for all contingencies, in addition to the five hundred thousand men called for Feb. 1, 1864, the call is hereby made and a draft ordered for two hundred thousand men for the military service, army, navy and marine corps, of the United States. ADDITIONAL DRAFT OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN. The following is an order by the President of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 14,...
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IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER. WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 14. The following important order has just been published: WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, March 12,1864. GENERAL ORDERS NO. 98: The President of the United States orders as follows: First -- Major-Gen. HALLECK is, at his own request, relieved from duty as General-in-Chief of the Army, and Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant is assigned to the command of the armies of the United States. The Headquarters of the Army will be in Washington, and also with Lieut.-Gen. GRANT in the field. Second. -- Major-Gen. HALLECK is assigned to duty in Washington as Chief of Staff of...
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