IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON: The Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed by the Senate (4/4/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/4/1862

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WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 3.

SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The indorsement by the Senate, yesterday, of President LINCOLN's emancipation proposition, was followed up to-day, in that body, by the passage of Senator WILSON's bill to abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia, creating considerable excitement in the city, but indicating nothing in opposition to the measure. The announcement, some days since, by a New-York print, that the introduction of the bill had caused negroes to be insolent to pedestrians on the streets in this city, cannot be sustained by respectable witnesses. The bill named above will undoubtedly pass the House.

The bill which passed the Senate to-day for the emancipation of slaves in the District of Columbia was introduced by Senator WILSON, on the 16th of December, and reported back from the Committee for the District on the 30th of February, with amendments, which, however, do not affect the principles or plan of emancipation as embodied in the original bill.

If the House had remained in Committee of the Whole ten minutes longer to-day, the Tax bill would have been reported to the House, so that the latter could have commenced definite action upon it to-morrow; but hunger overtook the members, and an adjournment was the result at about 4 o'clock.

It is not now probable that the House will finally act on the Tax bill till Monday, and in the meantime the many amendments made in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union will be printed.

The following are the rebel troops that occupied Loudon County, Va., during the Summer, Fall and Winter, and until the time of evacuation: The Fourth South Carolina Regiment, Col. BLANDING; the Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-first Mississippi Regiments, Cols. BARKSDALE, FRATHERSTONE, BURKE, KELLEY and HUMPHREYS,

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Important from Washington: The Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed by the Senate – 2-3
From Island No. Ten: A Daring and Successful Expedition Against One of the Rebel Batteries – 3
The Attack on Union City: Particulars of Col. Buford’s Expedition – 3
Great Storm in the West: Damage Done at Cairo and Paducah – 4
News from New-Mexico: Affairs at Fort Union – 4
The War in the Southwest: Important Intelligence from the Rebels – 4
Is the Navy Department to Blame for the Escape of the Nashville? – 4
Editorial: Emancipation in the District – 4-5
The Rebel Numbers in the Field – 5
Editorial: A Cotton Port Upon the Gulf – 5
Commodore Foote at His Old Tactics – 5-6
Precarious Positions of Certain Rebels – 6
Editorial: The Concert Saloons – 6

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