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From our Special Correspondent. NEWBERN, N.C., Wednesday, April 20, 1864. Advices just received from Plymouth warrant the conclusion that it has fallen into the hands of the enemy. It was attacked by a heavy land force on Sunday evening, (the 17th,) in connection with an iron-clad ram which came down the Roanoke River. In the engagement, the ram sunk the Southfield, (gunboat.) and a small vessel which has frequently been on expeditions up the Roanoke, called the Bombshell. It also partially disabled the gunboat Miami. The ram getting below Plymouth, it is thought impossible for reinforcements to reach the place....
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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 22. The following information was received here to-day concerning the recent disaster at Plymouth, N.C.: A rebel ram came down the river about three o'clock on Monday morning. She floated down with the current and was not discovered until close under the bows of the Miami. Lieut. Commander FLUSSER rushed forward, sighted and fired the bow gun, loaded with shell, which struck the ram, rebounded and instantly killed him, a piece of the shell penetrating his breast. The ram then attacked the Southfield, and she sunk in five minutes. The Miami was somewhat injured. The ram passed...
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Gen. GRANT left here for the front to-day, and Gen. BURNSIDE went by special boat to Fortress Monroe. It is understood that the recent development of the intentions of the rebels renders an early movement of the Army of the Potomac highly probable. Such an event will be in accordance with the expressed desires of Mr. LINCOLN and other leading men here. Without going into details, it is enough to say that the Spring has not keen idled away, and that preparations for the impending campaign have been equal to the importance of the work to be accomplished. There is...
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CHICAGO, Wednesday, April 20. Last evening's Journal publishes extracts from private letters from members of the Chicago Mercantile Battery, dated April 12, to the effect that on the day of the recent disaster to the Thirteenth Army Corps, Gen. A.J. SMITH, with the Nineteenth Army Corps, engaged the enemy and defeated them, capturing 2,000 prisoners and 20 cannon. A letter dated Grand Ecore 11th, from a private in the Chicago Mercantile battery, giving an account of the part taken in the battle, confirms yesterday's dispatch in regard to the disaster to a portion of our forces composing the Red River...
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CHICAGO, Tuesday, April 19. After advancing about five miles from where the Third Division of the command and the Nineteenth Corps were encamped, the rebels made a stand, and our line, consisting of only 2,400 infantry, formed in a belt or woods with an open field in front, and the enemy in the woods on the other side. Gen. STONE, of Ball's Bluff fame, chief of Gen. BANKS' staff, was on the field, and took direction of the movements. Gen. RANSOM was in favor of advancing only in force, but his wish was disregarded. After a skirmish across the open...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, April 18. It is reported that Maj.-Gen. Q.A. GILLMORE Will be immediately recalled from duty in front of Charleston, and ordered on service elsewhere. It is not unlikely, notwithstanding this change, that our iron-clads will be alongside Charleston wharf before the incoming Summer has gone out. Gen. HATCH is mentioned as the successor of Gen. GILLMORE in the Department of the South. The Committee on the Conduct of the War, after consultation with the President and Secretary of War, to-day determined to send a sub-committee, composed of Senator WADE and Representative GOOCH, to Fort Pillow to inquire into...
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WASHINGTON, Sunday, April 17. The reports in a New-York Sunday paper of the perilous condition of the President's health, are fortunately without foundation at this writing. Mr. LINCOLN and Speaker COLFAX will probably visit Baltimore to-morrow evening, by invitation, to assist at the opening of the Maryland Sanitary Fair. THE SENATE GOLD BILL IN THE HOUSE. A strenuous effort will be made by the friends of Mr. CHASE to pass the Senate Gold Bill in the House early next week. It will be bitterly opposed by both Democrats and Republicans, but there are not enough of either to defeat it....
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Saturday, April 16. Yesterday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, dispatches were received here from Gen. SHERMAN, confirming the surrender of Fort Pillow, and the brutal conduct of the rebels immediately afterward, which bids fair to be amply retaliated in that quarter in due time. The Star says: "According to Gen. SHERMAN, our loss was fifty-three white troops killed, and one hundred wounded, and three hundred black troops murdered in cold blood after the surrender. Fort Pillow is an isolated post, of no value whatever to the defence of Columbus, and utterly untenable by the rebels, who have no doubt...
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FROM CAIRO. CAIRO, Thursday, April 14. On Tuesday morning the rebel Gen. FORREST attacked Fort Pillow. Soon after the attack FORREST sent a flag of truce demanding the surrender of the fort and garrison, meanwhile disposing of his force so as to gain the advantage. Our forces were under command of Major BOOTH, of the Thirteenth Tennessee (U.S.) Heavy Artillery, formerly of the First Alabama Cavalry. The flag of truce was refused, and fighting resumed. Afterward a second flag came in, which was also refused. Both flags gave the rebels advantage of gaining new positions. The battle was kept up...
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PARIS, Tuesday, March 29, 1864. One of the vessels built at Bordeaux by M. ARMAN Deputy in the Corps Legislatif, for the Confederate Government, was launched on Thursday last, and shows herself on the water to be a most beautiful specimen of naval architecture. An English vessel is lying in the same port with all the necessary equipments on board for the new vessel, the articles having been put on board the English vessel at Havre. The new vessel will not be ready to sail yet for some weeks, and she is audaciously announced in advertisements as being "up" for...
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CAIRO, Wednesday, April 13. The rebel Gen. BUFORD sent a flag of truce at 7 o'clock this morning, demanding the surrender of Fort Ralleck, Columbus, Ky., the white soldiers to be treated as prisoners of war, but no protection promised to colored troops found in arms. Five hours were given for the removal of women and children. The steamer Crawford arrived here at 1 P.M., crowded with the latter. As she was leaving Columbus two steamers arrived from below with 3,000 veterans, en route home on furlough, and a battery, which were landed, and which would doubtless materially change the...
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At 4 o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 1st inst., the army steam-transport Maple Leaf, while passing down the St. John's River, from Pilatka to Jacksonville, Fla., ran against a torpedo, moored in the stream twelve miles above the latter place, which exploded and sent the vessel to the bottom. HILTON HEAD, Tuesday, April 5, 1864. At the time of the explosion the Maple Leaf had on board about forty persons, including the officers and crew, all of whom escaped harm or capture, except two firemen and three deck-hands, who were sleeping on the deck, near the forecastle, and...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, April 11. GEN. GRANT'S MOVEMENTS. Gen. GRANT is expected here to-morrow. The reorganization of the army will be completed in the course of a week or ten days. The excitement in the House to-day has been intense. The galleries and corridors, and all approaches to the Hall, were literally jammed with crowds of people of both sexes. Gen. SCHENCK's philippic against his colleague (LONG) was severe and terrible in its denunciation of treason. The debate continues to-night, and no vote will probably be reached before Thursday, as Congress will probably adjourn over Wednesday for the purpose of attending...
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From Our Own Correspondent. ALEXANDRIA, La,, Wednesday, March 23, 1864. Quite an excitement has been created by the first movements of the army from this point. On Monday, March 21, Gen. SMITH ordered a forward movement of about 3,000 infantry, under command of Gen. MOWER, accompanied by three regiments of Gen. LEE's cavalry, under command of Col. LUCAS, and four squadrons of Col. DUDLEY's command, led by Maj. MAGEE along the Red River road in search of the enemy. Col. LUCAS led the advance, and about thirteen miles out came up with skirmishers of Col. VINCENT's Second Louisiana rebel cavalry....
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 5. Mr. CONNESS, of California, presented to the Senate a memorial of the American Ethnographical Society, in favor of sending a commission to the unknown parts of Eastern Asia, for diplomatic, commercial and agricultural purposes, as proposed by Surgeon McGOWAN, United States Army. Gov. MORGAN also submitted a memorial from the American Institute, commending the comprehensive enterprise of Dr. MCGOWAN, as one which "cannot fail to increase the number and variety of our agricultural products, and which must lead to the acclimatizing of various useful animals, giving an impetus to our foreign commerce, and promoting generally the...
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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 8. The Treasury Department is about to issue a circular giving instructions in relation to the shipment of distilled spirits for exportation. They provide that whenever a distiller or owner desires to transport spirits, subject to an excise duty from a distillery or bonded warehouse, to a port of entry for exportation, without payment of duties thereon, he shall make an application in writing to the Collector of Internal Revenue in the district in which said distillery or bonded warehouse may be situated, for a permit to do so, the spirits having first been duly inspected by...
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CAIRO, Wednesday, April 6. The steamer Atlantic, with New-Orleans dates of the 29th of March, has arrived here. The election in Louisiana, on the 28th, for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, resulted in the complete triumph of the Free-State party. The steamer J.H. Russell, with seven hundred bales of cotton and a quantity of cattle and hogs, was consumed by fire at night, at Pequermine. The steamer was on her passage from Vicksburgh to New-Orleans, and took fire from the sparks of her torches. The mails from Alexandria, together with the dispatches of Gen. LEE to the headquarters of the...
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