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Lee, Com'g N. A. Blockading Squadron. The armies in Northern Virginia.--review by Grant.--Speculations about General Lee's movements. Grant is having reviews in the Army of the Potomac. On the 23d inst. he reviewed the Second Corps, (Hancock's,) which the letter writers inform us passed him in "resplendent column." The Washington Star contradicts the report that Gen. Lee is moving towards the Shenandoah Valley, and says he is still in his old position on the Rappahannock. It adds: . Two new regiments have already been formed, and the recruiting is progressing. On Saturday Lincoln assigned Major Gen. F. P. Blair to command the Seventeenth (McPherson's) Army Corps, now in the Department of the Mississippi. Maj. Gen. W. S. Hancock has been presented by his friends in New York with a beautiful carriage and harness. The General expects soon to take the field. Eugene Le Mar, a rebel spy now imprisoned at Fort McHenry, has been tried by a military commission, fo
Miscellaneous. Martin R. Delancy, a full-blooded negro, has received a commission as major in the United States colored volunteer service, and has been ordered to report to General Saxton, at Hilton Head, for assignment to duty. This is the first instance of a negro receiving a commission as a field officer-except as a surgeon. The House Committee for the District of Columbia have, by investigation, as certained that recently seventy persons committed to the jail of the District of Columbia have been bailed out and sold to substitute brokers. Five or six of them were charged with grand larcenies, the remainder with trivial offences. It is reported that Major General W. S. Hancock will be assigned to the command of the Department of West Virginia, as the successor of Major-General George Crook, captured. Hon. E. E. B. D. Ogden, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, died at his residence in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Friday last, of pneumonia.
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