, 1862-04-23
WHAT THE ARMY SAY OF SENATOR
DRlMES'S PLAN.
Let Us Garrison. Forts
With Negroes.
STATE OF OREGON PKOVEH a
REBEL SYMPATHIZER.
Who the Drunken General lat the
East Is.
GUNB0AT REC0NK0ISSANCE OF
THE RAPPAHANN0CK.

[Sre@ial Diapetch to the Chicago Trihunc-1
WASHINGTON, April ~ 1869.
Senator AnthonY's call for the Instructions
to ard correspondence with Gen. Sherman,
while commanding the Department Of South
Carolina, will show the country who is to
blame for his long inactlon there. In speech
Anthony intimatcd that Gen. Sherman did all
he WAS permitted to do, and was fully prepar-
cd to take Savannah, and would have taken it,
when lie was prohibited. It is reported that
the prohibition ca1ue from Gen. Mcclellan,
will out the knowledge Of the President or the
Secretary Of War.
yorktown letters to Baltimore journals say
that the rebel guns, especially those on the
heavy works, are manned altogether By ne
groes, or at least all the work Of swa5oins,
loading and shifting, is done by them, with
white men to oyerseer and direct them, and
white faces peeping over ramparts to sec the
effect Of the ball, and our mark6men choose
q white mark with their rifles in preference to
bIack one This furnishes additional egi-
dercc Of the value Of blacks as artillery men.
senator Grimes has received response to
his speech urging the garrisoning Of un-
TX 11kl3 4C1L WALL lptA1 plACAS, 4ANul 5Ull4ClS
Of the Fourteenth Mississippi, who beg tlat
they may nan guns at Fort Z. rr;gan and
Albany, where soldiers suffered terribly from
fever last summer, and fear repetition Of the
same {This letter is given elsewhere in our
Washington correspondenee.-EDs.)
Persons from Gen. Banks's column report
little UnioDism found in its march. Rebel
journals confirm the report Of the retreat OF
Stcnc-wal1 Jackson, who they SUI is On lis
way to Staunton, and may be Obliged to full
still further back. The Select Committee on
the case of starkc Of Oregon, have reported
against him. Senators Clarke, Howard
Wright and Sherman Wiley find that he Was
| up to November lust, in sympathy with the
rebellion, and that in November he expressed
himself dcsirous, for the sake OF peace,
that the loyal States be merged in the South
esn Confedaracy.
| AL hut Wiley also find that he ia
disloy al at the present time. No testimony,
additional to that submitted to the Com.
nit1cc, was taken, except starke's own, he
declining to send for tcbutung testimony
Starke admitted that be is still willing, for the
sake Of peace, to have loyal States absorbed
in the Southern CogfedeEacy.
The House Committee on Foreign Affair:
have agreed to report bill for the appoint
n1cnt Of commission Of national dcfenses, tx
consist OF two officers Of the army, two o
the navy and two civilians Of scientific attain
menH.
| Garret Davis, who is Teputed the greates
bore in Compress, made heightened prefac'
| 1,{o nc arrofnEf any,
| fscattop. In the House an animated dehat'
on the same topic took place. There va
nearly two to one on yea and naJ rote agains
laving sll bills on the table. The vote o.
Bingham's coD6scation bill tomorrow, stand
postponed till Monday-the result is doubt
1ul An emancipation bill will be discusse
in the Republican CAUCUS OF Congressman to
morrow. The oath Of allegiance was admins
tered to the son Of Chancellor Walwortt
In the military prison. He gave his parol
not to aid the rebels.
| at the Navy Yard. They were fired on b
! batteries on the banks Of the Rappahannocl
i, but nobody was hurt.
r Several schooners were found sunk, and +
t moved. The bridges Of Fredericksburg Al
all thoroughly burned.
Mr. Wight's substitute in the House Fl
J, the agricultural bill is defeated. Fosters
likely to be adopted. It constructs Bures
| OF agriculture and statistics under the Seer
). tary Of the Interior, to have with other dutie
:, charge of taking the census.
>. The drunken General, alluded to to by II
:. Morrill, in the House to-day, is said to be
- Il. Smith, who, 1t is said, at Lees Mills fell
n bis horse twice, and got his clothes and fa
= ezneated with mnd. The Military Commit
"a Of the House have agreed to prepare IN Il
portant bin providing for the appointment
q commission Of two naval officers, two arr
8 officers, aud two scientific civilians, to fora
Al Board which shall examine into the subject
K rational defenBes. AL appropriations for Il
tifcations or national defenses to be epend
t. under the direction Of this Beard.
IL The President has nomlnsted Vim. Haf'
Of the District Of Cotumhta, Consul, to
ID tona, Denmark. and the following Bttzed
at generals: Col C..P. Buckingham, otDh
Msior Ahsalom Rafn3 AaR1sfaut 1psnec