FROM WASHINGTON: IMPORTANT CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS; The Senate Passes the Resolution Increasing Duties 50 per Cent (4/29/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/29/1864

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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 been stationed here through the Winter, left their camp a day or two since for the army. It is now generally understood here that LEE will endeavor to bring on a fight without leaving his intrenchments.

THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.

A letter received here to-day from Admiral PORTER pronounces BANKS' recent expedition a most disastrous failure. Besides ever thirty pieces of artillery, a large quantity of small arms, several hundred wagons, and a first-class gunboat -- the Eastport -- nearly four thousand prisoners have been lost; and, in addition, the Paymaster's safe, containing a million dollars in greenbacks, was captured by the enemy.

The reports in circulation that Gen. BANKS is to be superseded by Gen. SICKLES are untrue. Gens. FRANKLIN and STONE, who lie under the imputation of having, through neglect and carelessness, contributed greatly to the disasters in Louisiana, will be relieved, and probably court-martialed.

HORSES AND AMBULANCES.

Hereafter no officer of the army will be permitted to use any horse, ambulance, wagon, or vehicle of any kind belonging to the Government, whether for the transaction of his official or private business, without an order in writing from the Adjutant-General. Every officer of the army,

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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From Washington: Important Congressional Proceedings – 2
Proceedings of Congress – 2-4
Southern News: A Rebel Account of the Capture of Plymouth – 4-5
Rebel Salt Works Destroyed: Official Report from Admiral Lee – 5
From Plymouth: A Flag of Truce Rejected by the Rebels – 5
Department of the Gulf: Encouraging Accounts from Gen. Banks – 5
From the Far West: Quantrell Moving Toward Kansas Again – 5
Kentucky Affairs: Governor Bramlette’s Visit to Washington – 5-6
Rebel Ravings – 6
Editorial: President Lincoln’s Kentucky Letter – 6-7
Editorial: The Glorious Patriotism of the West – 7