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WASHINGTON, Monday, May 2. THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS Several members of the House called upon the Senate, to-day, to urge the adoption of the House resolutions fixing the last day of May as the time for adjournment. Congress will be ready to do so as soon as the Tariff and Internal Revenue bills are disposed of. All of the large appropriation bills have been acted upon or passed in committee. To-day the naval and civil appropriation bills, with Senate amendments, were considered by the House Ways and Means Committee. The belief is that they will be reported to the House...
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ST. LOUIS, Saturday, April 30. Advices from Camden, Arkansas, say that Gen. STEELE's army is there. Gen. THAYER joined Gen. STEELE at Elkin's Ferry, on the Little Missouri River, where the rebels were driven from a line of breastworks commanding the river bottom. The enemy next stood at Prairie de Anna, which was fortified with a line of rifle-pits and epaulements for guns on barbette a mile and a half long. Gen. STEELE flanked their position and Gen. PRICE skedaddled, after a brisk fight, towards Washington. Other skirmishes occurred during the march, but our total loss was less than 200....
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The Yazoo, from New-Orleans, April 21, the Columbia, from the same port, April 23, via Havana, and the Merrimac, from New-Orleans direct, April 24, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. We are indebted to the officers of the respective steamers for the prompt delivery of our news packages. Among the passengers in the Merrimac is Gen. ANDREWS, also a number of other officers, and 220 sick and wounded soldiers. Gen. WEITZEL is a passenger in the Columbia. The reports previously received via Cairo, of skirmishing at Grand Ecore, and the probable imminence of a battle, are repeated by these arrivals,...
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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 29. The Congressional Republican caucus this morning agreed to ask for the appointment of a Joint Committee of Congress to investigate charges made against Secretary CHASE by FRANK BLAIR. Senator HOWE will offer a resolution to that effect in the Senate tomorrow. This action is demanded by Mr. CHASE'S friends, who desire to give an official and effectual refutation to the slurs heaped upon him. THE FRENCH TOBACCO. The rebels may endeavor to make capital out of the refusal of our Government to permit the French vessels to ascend the James River, but the French Minister here...
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 28. Facts showing the determined energy with which the rebels are concentrating troops in Virginia continue to multiply. The President to-day received a dispatch from Gen. BUTLER stating his belief that the rebel forces were withdrawing from North Carolina and hastening to reinforce LEE. So far as heard from up to 11 o'clock to-night, nothing of much importance has transpired at the front. Note of preparation is still heard, and indications are that collision cannot long be delayed, Gen. BURNSIDE left here on yesterday by special conveyance to join his command; and the signal corps, which has...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 27. A squad of twenty-five deserters from the rebels, belonging mostly to the Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, arrived here from the front to-day. They escaped while out on picket duty. They agree in their statement that LEE has been of late receiving heavy reinforcements. One of them, who left on Monday last, asserts that much of the heavy artillery had been sent back to Richmond, and the belief was current among the soldiers that an early retrograde movement upon that city would be made. One of LONGSTREET's divisions has been sent back to Richmond from LEE's army. Report...
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 26. AFFAIRS IN THE ARMY. The latest intelligence from the front to-day left everything quiet there. A heavy reconnoissance into the valley developed the fact that no considerable body of rebels are this side the Rapidan. The belief was general that LEE would not venture an offensive movement. A report prevailed to-day at the front that LEE was removing his heavy artillery to Richmond. REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. The reported advance of the enemy toward Warrenton was caused by the falling back of Gen. GREGG's Division to Three Mile Station for military purposes. There is no...
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FORTRESS MONROE, Sunday, April 24, via BALTIMORE, Monday, April 25. Capt. WEATHERBEE, of the Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment, has just arrived from Roanoke Island. He makes the following report: "Gen. WESSELS surrendered to the enemy on Wednesday, the 20th inst., when the rebels took possession of Plymouth, N. C., after four days' hard fighting. Our loss is one hundred and fifty killed and twenty-five hundred captured. The rebel loss is fifteen hundred killed. The Richmond Sentinel of April 22 says the following dispatch has been received by Gen. BRAGG: PLYMOUTH, N.C., April 20. To Gen. Braxton Bragg: I have stormed and...
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From Our Own Correspondent. NEW-ORLEANS, Friday, April 15, 1864. DESPARATE BATTLE IN WEST LOUISIANA. The whole City has, for the last day or two, been in the utmost condition of excitement over the news of the bloodiest fighting that perhaps ever yet occurred on the soil of Louisiana. Amid the many conflicting rumors now current here -- for or against us, just as they may emanate from friends or foes -- it is extremely difficult to get at the real particulars; but from what I have gleaned of the many eye-witnesses with whom I have come in contact here, the...
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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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