had orders to come along, but the ram got stuck quarter of a mile from where she was built. They are now trying to raise her, but the general feeling is that the ram can't come down, "she " drawing 9 feet. Beaureguard commands the Department of North Carolina. Hoke has been made a major- general. Pickett has been ordered to General Lee. Corse's brigade is ow at Kinston.

P. J. CLASSEN,

Colonel, Commanding Outposts.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION,

Numbers 1.
Near Portsmouth, Va., April 28, 1864.

I. In obedience to General Orders, No 47, April 20, 1864, current series, headquarters Eighteenth Army Corps, the undersigned assumes command of the calvary of this district.

II. This command will constitute a division, composed as follows: First Brigade: Third New York Cavalry, First District of Columbia Cavalry; commanded by Colonel S. H. Mix, Third New York Cavalry.

Second Brigade; Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry; commanded by Colonel S. P. Spear, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry.

III. Captain M. Asch is announced as acting assistant adjutant- general at these headquarters.

AUGUST V. KAUTZ,

Brigadier- General of Volunteers, Chief of Cavalry.

CULPEPER, April 29, 1864.

(Received 2 p. m.)

Major- General HALLECK:

Send all the horses for the Army of the Potomac here instead of mounting men there. Horses are now worth more than men and horses.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant- General.

[Indorsement.]

Copy with orders to Lieutenant- Colonel Ekin, April 29, 1864.

R. N. S.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
April 29, 1864- 8 p. m.

Lieutenant General U. S. GRANT:

General Burnside has just been here. He will have relieved all my troops by 8 a. m. to- morrow. He has returned to Warrenton Junction for the night, and will take an engine and run up to Culpeper to- morrow if you desire it and so advise him by telegraph.

GEO. G. MEADE,

Major- General.