FROM WASHINGTON: More Rumors About the Command of the Army of the Potomac; Discussions on the Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendments (3/29/1864)

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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 President in favor of the removal of Gen. MEADE is of such persistence that he can no longer disregard it. The belief gains ground among certain not very well-informed persons that Gen. HOOKER is to be Gen. MEADE's successor. The consolidation of the Third Army Corps with the others created much dissatisfaction among its officers and men. They claim to have won the reputation of the fighting corps of the Army of the Potomac, having participated in every battle fought by it. HOOKER's and KEARNEY's divisions, which did most of the hard fighting on the Peninsula, and in other battles fought by that army, belonged to the Third Corps.

In the Senate, to-day, Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohio, replied to the speech of Senator WILKINSON, made some days since in vindication of the President from the charges preferred against him by Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. SHERMAN got quite out of temper because the Senator from Minnesota had, in his speech, proved, or tried to prove from the record that during that Congress he (Mr. SHERMAN) had advocated the policy of employing slaves of loyal masters as soldiers in our armies, compelling them to fight to save their country,

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From Washington: More Rumors About the Command of the Army of the Potomac – 2
Proceedings of Congress – 2-4
The War in the West: Admiral Porter’s Report of the Capture of Fort De Russey – 4-5
Battle with the Indians: The California Volunteers and the Navajos in New-Mexico – 5
Louisiana: Civil Social and Military Affairs in the Far South – 5-6
The War in the Far West: Gen. Blunt at Fort Smith – 6-7
Editorial: The Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac – 7-8
Editorial: Shall Cabinet Officers Have Seats in the House? – 8
Advice to Grant – 8
Forrest’s Raid – 8
The Naval Academy – 8

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