FROM WASHINGTON: Gen. Gillmore to be Relieved from Command; Passage of the National Bank Bill in the House (4/19/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/19/1864

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WASHINGTON, Monday, April 18.

It is reported that Maj.-Gen. Q.A. GILLMORE Will be immediately recalled from duty in front of Charleston, and ordered on service elsewhere. It is not unlikely, notwithstanding this change, that our iron-clads will be alongside Charleston wharf before the incoming Summer has gone out. Gen. HATCH is mentioned as the successor of Gen. GILLMORE in the Department of the South.

The Committee on the Conduct of the War, after consultation with the President and Secretary of War, to-day determined to send a sub-committee, composed of Senator WADE and Representative GOOCH, to Fort Pillow to inquire into all the facts relating to that affair. The committee will leave this evening for the scene of their labors and expect to be absent about two weeks.

The Ways and Means Committee to-day considered at length the Senate's amendments to the Naval Appropriation Bill. They have adopted most of the Senate's amendments, and will probably report it to the House to-morrow.

The Senate Military Committee have reported against the House bill providing for the payment of twenty-five dollars bounty to nine-months' men.

Gen. PLEASANTON is still at St. Louis, awaiting orders. Gen. KILPATRICK left this evening for Memphis.

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 18.

In order to correct erroneous impressions, it is proper to state that the President's order, of March last, requires that the amounts of men raised by voluntary enlistments be made up to April 15, and the draft be made as soon thereafter as practicable. No authority is given for the assertion that it will take place on the 1st of May. There are more or less necessary and real delays connected with a proper adjustment of accounts with a view to a draft. But the reports of additional and unreal ones, to which currency has been given,

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From Washington: Gen. Gillmore toe be Relieved from Command – 2
Proceedings of Congress – 2-3
Department of the South: Capture of the Blockade-Runner Alliance – 3-4
The War in the Southwest: News from the Red River – 4
The Chenango Calamity: Burial of the Victims Yesterday – 4-5
The Metropolitan Fair: Visit of the Public School Children – 5
Editorial: Congress – The People - Taxation – 5
Editorial: A Word to the European Admirers of Southern Chivalry – 5-6
New Commander for West Tennessee – 6
Blue Monday in Wall-Street – 6
Concert To-Night – 6
April Nineteenth – 6