NEW BERNE, April 25, 1864.

Colonel CLAASSEN:

The ram is no myth. Rest assured of that. The Roanoke ram was considered such until she produced the greatest disaster to us of the year.

PALMER,

General.

WASHINGTON, April 26, 1864-2 p.m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

Culpeper, Va.:

A spy, whose information has heretofore proved correct, reports on the 16th that Longstreet's baggage was at Richmond and his artillery at Lynchburg; that Pickett was sending 5,000 or 6,000 men, from North Carolina to Lee, and that the latter had eighty days' supplies at Gordonsville. Also that the rebels were planting torpedoes in the Rappahannock, below Tappahannock.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General, Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 26, 1864-9.30 p.m.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

I have not heard to-day from the Pennsylvania Reserves. I published an order warning them of the consequences of refusing to do duty and promising to obtain a speedy decision from the War Department in their case. I also received and transmitted to them a telegram received to-day from Colonel Townsend, promising prompt action in their case. I will telegraph to the commanding officer and advise you.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 26, 1864-10.30 a.m. (Received 10.55 a.m.)

Brigadier-General BENHAM,

Commanding Engineer Brigade:

General Burnside has been authorized to call on you for a bridge in case he requires one to replace the one of ten boats now laid across the Rappahannock. You will answer his requisition and furnish the necessary detail from your command to superintend the laying of the bridge and taking the proper care of it.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major-General, Commanding.

FORT RICHARDSON, VA., April 26, 1864.

Brigadier General HENRY J. HUNT,

Chief of Artillery, Army of the Potomac:

GENERAL: Yours of 23rd instant is received. I have now ten 4 1/2-inch guns, with carriages, implements, platforms, &c., complete, afloat.