Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-23
MORE VESSELS ORDERED TO
THE GULF 5'' 1a d
FROM ARKANSAS.
The Rebel General Pike wants
an Armistice. s75a
Gen. Banks in the Field
NEWS FROM SOUTHERN SOURCES.
From the Potomac Army-Iore
d Vessels Ordered to the GuIf-Hee-
cruiting for Cavalry Regiments
stopped--Lee's Army Being Rein
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New YORK, March 22.-A special to the
| World, dated Washington Dist, says: Gen.
| Grant will be here in the morning. On
| Thursday he reviews the entire Army OF
the Potomac. In the reorganization about
| to be effected, it is learned correctly that
Generals Hancock, Sedgwick and Warren,
will be retained as corps commanders, and
that Gen. Meade retains his present posi-
tion, Gen. Grant exercising supreme con-
troll of the entire army.
The House Judiciary committee. unani-
mously authorized its chairman to report
the following and ask for its adoption by
the House: A joint resolution submitting
to the Legislatures of the several States a
proposition to amend the Constitution of
the United States by adding:
Article IL, Section 1st. Slavery being in
compatible with free government, is for
ever prhobited in the United States and
involuntary servitude shall be permitted
only as punishment for crime.
Sec. I'd. Congress shall have power to en-
force the foregoing section of this act by
appropriate legislation.
The House Military committee at length
to day the question of reimbursing the
States for calling out the militia, but came
to no conclusion. The amount involved i'm
this matter is several millions of dollars.
1t will meet with considerable opposition in
both committee and House.
Gen. Grant has directed that recruiting
for cavalry regiments shall cease.
The House Judiciary committee to-day
decided to dismiss the impeachment case of
Judge Miller, of Wisconsin, no evidence hav-
ing been adduced to sustain the charges
preferred.
In pursuance of an earnest request by
Admiral Farragut, the Navy Department
ordered the sloop of war Brooklyn and the
double turreted Monitor Onendaga to be
prepared for service in the Gulf immediate
ly. The ships will proceed to sea this week.
Orders have been issued for the Canoncus,
Tecumseh, and Lassocus Monitors to follow
Immediately.
The Herald's special, dated Washington
2lst, says: There is no probability that any
sale of surplus gold in the Treasury will
be made until at least after the result of the
spring is ascertained. The restrictions i'm
posed by the bill would, of themselves, pre-
vent immediate sale of any quantity suffi-
cient to affect the market.
No reliance is to be placed upon the nu-
merous reports sent from here of the terms
of the new tax bill. The fact is, members of
the committee of Ways and Means are them
selves still ignorant of the rate of tax that
will be imposed on some of the most i'm
portant articles. r,i
There is no doubt of the fact that Lee is
daily receiving accessions to his army, and
is preparing for an early opening of the ap-
preaching campaign. His cavalry is being
re-organized, and although smaller or
ganization than last summer, is equally for
midable. Infantry forces are coming up
from various quarters, and In few weeks
we will doubtless have in our front an army
not at all inferior to that which confronted
us last season. II hrr la.gg. hsav
The reorganization Of the Army of the
Potomac is not yet commenced. All corps
remsin intact as yet, though 1t was gener-
ally understood last week that the first and
fifth corps were to be merged into the third
and sixth. a vs. = - 80 -
New York, March 22.--The Commercials
SUMMONED before the War committee to-
day, to testify as to the management of the
Army of the Potomac.
The indications now are that Meade will
be temporary retained in command of the
army, which is to be divided into three di-
visions, under SedgwiCk, Hancock and
Warren. Gen. Grant will also have two
corps under Burnside and Sigel.
Official advices from Arkansas state there
is steady return there of citizens to their
allegiance, many prominent rebels being
among the number. e9ft3 ia.83,u1i
Gen. Albert Pike has, it Is averred, made
overtures for an amnesty. a
The Posts special says the charge that
the Government has paid transportation
for. civilians to return home to vote, is as
certained to be entirely false. U lt
The committee on Elections has taken up
the Kentucky contested election case. The
contest is based upon alleged military in
reference. is.i.t4 Nel gsa
The Philadelphia Enquirer's New Or
leans letter says Gen. Banks took the field
on the 9th, leaving for Franklin to dictate
operations. The force is composed of thir-
teen thousand cavalry, with twenty -four
light guns, in four brigades, under Gen.
Lee, and will sweep across the country, and
thence into Texas. IS,. u .ts ,oessla5 "a "a