The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Our Washington Correspondence.

"ASiliNoioN, H. u, MarCn IAN, 1864.
There is litto doubt that Gen. Meade
will give place, as Commander o. tho Army
OF tho Potomac. to his successor, within o
few days, and tho point ngitated now is.
who will that successor be-? Everythue
tends to tho settlement of this question, in
the mind of your correspondent, By fixing
upon tho veteran Gen. Vim. f. Smith, who
has already been nominated to the Senate
for promotion to the Major Generalcy made
vacant by the advancement of Cen. Grant
to the high and deserved rank of Lieuten.
ant General. 1t will be remembered that
Gen. Smith formerly commanded corps
under Mcclellan. and was originally in the
old ermy in tho Engineers Department ;
and, Notwithstanding tho sovoro loss sus.
tainod by Vermont Regiment in the affair
which occurred before Yorktown, and for
which he was so violently ceusured und ar
raigncd as responsible, in the campaign on
the Peninsula, and subsequently,, he has
won imperishable laurels, and vindicated
himself proudly of the want of skill with
which ho has been charged.
Commodore Dahlgren is hourly expected
10 return from his trip to Fort Monroe, and
beyond under flag of truce, whittier he
went few days since, on the painful mis-.
sion OF endeavoring to obtain the body OF
his gallant son. the lato Col. UIrioh Dahl.
gren. who fell in the recent fruitless efforts
put forth by tbo'Government for the lbera.
ton of our suffering boys IN the hands of
the Rebels at Richmond. His efforts have,
doubtless, proven of little avail, as we learn
through the columns of the Richmond
press, that the body of Col. Dahlgreu was,
even after death and its arrival in Rich.
mond, treated with studied indgnity, and
barbarism unequaled in the annals of civ.
ilized warfare and that, after exposure
with fingers and toes severed, and other m IL
tilations of the body, for whole day, at the
Railroad Depot, tho body was buried by a
squad Of men, the authorities of the city are
ignorant where.
Gen. Fitzpatrick, with his force, tits off.
cially stated, has returned and reached AL
exandria. Va. The General himself is here,
and states that he penetrated, with the
command under him, to tho exterior line
o: works around Richmond, and that, but
for tho failure Of the corps under Dahlgren,
the demand for tho surrender of the city,
which he had written out, would have been
made, and intimates that with the addition
to his own force of that of Col. D., he would
have been enabled to enforce the demand.
As it is, tho expedition was failure.
The President yesterday "dined" the dis
tinguished Military Commanders who arc
at present 10 this city, among whom were
Generals Meade, Doubleday, Sickles, Ram
sey, Hunter, Wood. Crittenden, McCook,
and others. Mrs. Lincoln was escorted to
the table by the gallant Generals Hunter
and Wool.
The letter of Mr.. Chase, Withdrawing his
name from before the people as a caudi.
date for nomination by the Baltimore Con.
vention in June next, is spoken of only in
terms of highest commendation, and does
honor to him as patriot and man of high
and inalienabe adherence to the good OF
the country, without reference to personal
aggrandizement and personal preferment
The voice of the mingled masses goes forth
in one loud and and unbrokon acclaim fol
the denomination of our present worthy
Chief Magistrate, and, until that voice
change, and the people speak through theil
respective representatives next June, le
clamor cease, let unity prevail, and, in tn,
coming election, lot US rally in unanimity
upon the regular nominee, and in harmo
nious cooperation show the brazen hordes o
copper-pated treason that there is a power
more mighty than the sword. and that II il
found in the votes of united and virtuousl,
patriotic citizens. who. when the time shaI
come, will be found ready to battle will
arms in hand as at the ballot.box, whom III,