, 1864-03-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

FKVM WASHINGTON.
| Gen. Grant and tlac Summer Campaign
moM 9nao ItsoRRtches MtHnRps1ao11 from SSasisinsfon-
Pay Of Colored Troops-From Libby
Prison.
IFrom our Regular Correspondent
WAsuHoroN, Narch II. 1894.
GEN. GRANT AND TILE suMNER CAMPAIGN
| Irroto that Gen. Grant has hnd lengthy
interview with tho Presi6ont, Secretary OF
War, and Gen. Hsllcck, upon the subject Of
| the military situation generally, and the
spring and summer campaigns particularly.
Yesterday he visited tho army OF the Poto-
! mac, and iB expected to return this evening.
| It is stated that Gen. Grant differs With Gen.
| ual1cck. respecting the importance OF Rich.
mond to the rebels. Gen. Hallcck has held
the views Of Mr.. Emil Schalk, with regard
l to tho robel strong hold, viz: that it was not
| of 80 much etrategical importance to the
rebels and to rs as has generally been sup
! posed; but that on the contrary 1t was Of
| more Importance to us to destroy the armies
Of the rebellion than to capture Richmond
| itself THIS iB said 10 be ono reason for his
| pe1sisting in the present nj odo Of advance on
Richmond, which proposes the destruction Of
Lees army in the field, as at least prelimi-
nary to tho capture OF the city. Gen: Grant,
1t is said, on tho other hand, proposes the
capture Of Richmond first, and the dstrnc-
tion Of the rebel army afterwards. He looks
upon Richmond as the head Of the rebellion.
IND its capture as-proluctng an immense
moral effect, both at home and abroad. The
capture OF Richmond neccssitatcs the eYacu-
tion Of Virginia by the rebel armies; and tho
separation Of Virginia from the remainder Of
The confederacy, is like seyering the head
from the human body. Besides, Richmond
dominates not only Washington, but also
Western Virginia, East Tennessee, and
through the latter, Kentucky and the cities
and towns on the Ohio river, including
Louisville and Cincinnati. Gen. Grant,
then, . I understand, considers that
more attention should be bestowed
upon Richmond, and for the present
less upon any further advance into tho heart
Of the rebel territory, via of Ch1ttanooga,
Yicksburg, DC. He must reduce the line Of
rebel territory, great portion Of which is
now defended BY inaccessible mountain
ranges, by the capture Of Richmond, many
hundreds Of miles, and thus bring US ut all
points nearer the baae Of our supplies, leave
US much shorter line upon which to operate,
besides altogether removing the theatre Of
nlous and wealthy Northern cities. I do not
know whether Gen. Grants plan Of opera-
Eons includes an advance on Richmond by
shorter l{ne Of march, but presume from the
fact that all his plans ut the West involved as
much dependence upon water communfca-
I should imagine 1t did. Indeed believe
| from what as well as others know Of Gen.
Grants operations heretofore, that he will
| eDdeayor to lay siege to Richmond In such
mode as he did to Vicksburg (as nearly as
circumstances will pernit), SO that when he
captures it the victory will not be altogether
Corinth. From what hear of Gen. Grants
much good. That it viii infase % new liis and i'd
vigor into the army Of the East, is at least a,
consnmmation most devoutly to be desired.
| How CoPrERHEAD PAPERS MANuP4cTuRE DIS
| PATCHES FROM WASHINGTON.
Yon will remember that short time since
| the New York 1Ford published dispatch
Sherman had been defeated In his late raid,
bis army cut to pieces, captured, &c. It also
published dispatch from here, about the
same time, to the effect that France
bad Ind (or vas t soout to- recognize tho
IS arc gottsa up 70 eSPe heip tse ssSpi!sa geld
market and the Mcclellan political stock at
the same time. For be It known the news of
rebel successes causes gold and Mcclellan
stock to 60 up; and on the other hand the
news ne, Of rebel defeats causes gold and Nc,
laughable humbug dispatch have seen In q
long time Is that In the N. Y. World of the
Sth, purpoTtipg to have been received from
this city. 1t Is 70 the effect, that Queen Vic
-toria had gone crazy and was about to abdi-
cate the throne, and that Lord Palmerston
had intimated to tho English public ~ that
change in the monarchy may speedily be
anticipated; that the Princeiof Wales was to
ascend the throne, &c. Now this dispatch
was manufactured in New York, the material
having been supplied by the following piece
Of gossip, which ie taken from the aLeMorial
Dip'o'aotsque, published on the continent of
Europe:
AT recent Cabinet Council, On the Danish
question, Queen Victoria rose from the table de-
claring tfai shc could come to decision without
soneuldnS With Prince Albert. retired into her
closet, and, on emerging, announced that the Prince
was hostile 70 aay act OF war bJ England.
Ths saks Rsesof Of s9a alteration
the abdicatton Of the Qneeu and the fact that IN
stead Of Joining his mother ut Osbornc the Prince
nards, is Interpreted as an indication that Edward
VII. ts preparing to mount the throne md to In
4usnIse new foreign policy in the affairs Of Great
It is certain that the present attitude Of thoEns
lith Government cannot long be maintained II Eng
= q ffSR Sc of e e m ss.
On lie part of Great Britain: that abdieation IS
likeIy to be iusiated upon and accomplished with
no unnecessary dcl:r.
It will hardly be credited that New York
copperhead paper would scisserlzc a Wash
ington telegraph dispatch ont Of an old Euro
pean newspaper, but nevertheless such Is the
PAY or coLoRED TROOPS.
The bill for equaiizing the pay OF colored
Of discussion and amendment passed the Sem
ate yesterday It puts them on the same ba-
sis ns white troops after june 1, 1864, except
as to bounty, which the President shall de-
tcrmiue- Colorcd volunteers under the call
Of October II, 1858, rccelre bounty. Colo7cd
volunteers who bare been mustered into the
service shall receive pay and clothing as 9th
cr volunteers from date Of muster into the
service, provided that 1t was pledged or
promised to them by authority of the War
Department. The same premium shall be al
lowed colored recruits as shall be allowed by
law for whites, provided the Secretary Of War
shall assent to the same.
FRoAL1BDY PRISON.
Col. F. A. BartlesoD, Of tho Tooth Illinois
volunteers, a resident Of Joliet, Will county,
arrived here last evening with other exchang
ed prisoners from Richmond. Col Bartle-
ing, considered himself too weak to attempt
an escape With those who worked their way
out By digging q tunnel some time since.
Col B. says there is no abatement in the Bit
tcrness Of feeling with which the rebels re-
gard the United States Government. On the
the contrary, he says 1t is more decided aud
uncompromising than eyer. Though suffer-
ing great hardships, they are resolved to fight
it ont to the last The indignation was so
great at Richmond upon the news Of the
finding Of the orders ito burn the city and
kill Davis and his cabinet} upon Col Dahl
gren's person, that 1t was with difficulty the
people were prevented from hanging his
dead body in the public square. Tho Union
officers arrested at the time Of Col. BIS cap
ture, have been put in irons, and the people
were Mt one time clamorous In favor Of hang
ing them. Lee Is looked upon BY the South
crn people as the greatest General Of the age,
and his army, 1t is confidently boosted, is
can send against it. By the bye, the raiders
came very near capturing Gen. Lee, who was
on train on bis way from Richmond to tho
rebel army. Col. B. says the rebel soldiers
suffer for food; and he has no doubt that the
Union prisoners wonld not have escaped by