Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-23
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.EEroRrED ssSTIsEL I
Noon Reports.
W A S HI n e. TON M W S.
Gen. Grant to Review the Potomac
Army.
THE REPRESENTATION TO BE EFFECTED.
II Proposition to .fnsend the Con-
SfifufiOn of the United States.
War Vessels Ordered TO the Gulf
DAILY ACCESSIONS TO LEES ARMY.
&c, &c. &c &C.. &c
&c. &c. &c &C.. &c.
From New YORK.

Nkw YORK, March 22-The Herald has the
following dispatch from Washington, March 81
Gen. Grant will be here n the morning Or
Thursday he will review the entire Army of tie
Potomac:
In the reorganization about to be effected. il
is learned correctly that Generals Hancock
Sedgwck and Warren will be retained as corps
commanders, and that Gen. Meade retains his
present position. Gen. Grant is exercising su-
pervisOry control of the entire army
The House Judiciary Committee have unani-
mously Authorized the ch airman report the
following, and ask its adoption by the House:
A Joint resolution submitting to the legisla.
lures of the several States, proposition to
amend the Constitution of the United States by
adding 10 article l3, siction that slavery being
incompatible with a free government, is forever
prohibited in the United States and involuntary
servtude shall be permitted only as punishment
for crime.
SEC 2 Congress shall have power to enforce
the foregoing section of this act, by appropriate
legislation
The House Military Committee considered at
length to-day the question of reimbursing States
for calling out militia, but came to no conclusion.
The amount involved in this matter is several
millions of dollars It will meet with consdera-
bic opposition in both the committee and the
House
Gen. Grant has directed that recruiting for
cavalry regiments shall cease
The House Judiciary Committee to-day deci-
ded TO dismiss the impeachment case of Judge
Miller, OF Iowa, no evidence having been ad
duced to sustain the charges preferred
In pursuance of the earnest request of Admi.
raj Farragut. the Navy Department has ordered
the sloop-of-war Brooklyn and the double-tur-
reted monitor Onondago to be prepared for SER
vice in the Gulf Immediately The ships will
proceed TO this month Orders have been
issued for the monitors Cononicus, Tecumseh
and Sassacus to follow Immediately
The Herald's Washington special of the 2lst
says:
There is no probability of any sale ofthe surplus
gold in the treasury being made until after the
result of the spring campaign shall have been
ascertaned. The restrictions imposed by the
bill would of themselves prevent the sale of anv
quantity sufficient TO affect the market.
No reliance Is TO be placed in the numerous
reports sent from here of the terms of the new
tax bill. The fact is the members of the WAYS
and Means Committee are themselves still igno-
rant OF the rate of tax that will be imposed on
some important articles.
There is no doubt of the fact that Lee is daily
receiving accessiOns to his iSarmy. and is preparing
for an early opening of the approaching cam
paign. His civalry IS being reorganizei, and al
thougha smaller organization than last summer is
equally as formidable Infantry are coming up
from various quarters, and in few weeks we
shall have in our front an army not at all nie.
rior to that which confronted US last season
The reorganization of the Army of the Poto-
mac has commenced. All corps remain intact
vet. though il was generally understood last
week that the lst and 9th corps were to be
merged into the 81 and 5th