Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-11

WASHINGTON, June l0.-A special 10 the Post
saws
The Spanish Government has made formal
proposition through its Minister here TO take all
negroes who escape from their masters and re
move them to St. Croix free of charge 1t then
proposes to put them under an apprenticeship of
three years permitting them 10 receive regular
wages. At the expiration Of their apprentice
ship il proposed to free them Internationally.
The correspondence has been sent bv the State
Department the House Judiciary Committee
The United States transport Eastern State,
from Hatteras, brings l52 OF the released Union
prisoners.
The rebels are urging the exchange Of General
Buckner for Gen Prentss and promise to release
Corcoran and make an equal exchange OF prison
ers If Buckner is given up.
The statement that the rebels have 900. 600
men at Richmond is believed to be false at the
War Department.
The Ways and Means Committee will report
the tariff bill on Tuesday.
Among the list OF released prisoners per steam
er Eastern State are the following Indianians:
James Rogers, 18th; Levi Renolds, 18th, and
Charles North, 22d.
The President has sent message to Congress
saying that it is desirable that such legislation a.
may be necessary to carry the Seward Lyons
treaty for the suppression of the slave trade into
effect shall be enacted as soon as il may comport
with the convenience ot Congress.
The Navy Department has received dispatches
by which it appears that Commander Prentiss of
the Abauoss recently sailed up the interior WA
tiers of South Carolina to Georgetown. He
crossed the bar on the 2lst with his own vessel
and the Norwich, Lieut.. Commanding Duncan.
and entered Wyman Bay. Alter passing a small
deserted redoubt. which was near the light house,
an extensive fertilization was observed on South
Island, with apparently several large guns mount
ed, which turned out TO be quakers. This fort
WAS found deserted. Another abandoned fertih-
cation was found on Cat Island.
On the 22d he stood for Georgetown, entered
Swamptree creek and steamed past the city wharf.
Not being prepared 10 hold the place he abstaned
from taking it, knowing that a contest with the
artillery and cavalry in the place would destroy
the town. He having assembled the WAcomen
river point ten miles above Georgetown
through a fine country, and meeting no resistance
He brought off eighty contrabsnds.
The rebels were leaving their plantations and
driving their negroes before them in all direc-
tons.
One hundred and fifty nine prisoners captured at
Front Royal. were brought here to-day and trans
ferred to the Provost Guard iy whom they were
escorted TO the old capital military prison.
Information has been received at the contract
Office of the Postoftce Department, which leads
to the belief that all the mails dispatched from
the East to the Pacific coast by the overland
route via ST. Joseph and Placervle between the
lst and 23d of April last. have been lost or de
tanned by the depreiatons of the Indians at some
point east OF Salt Lake City, and that the mails
sent from the Pacific TO the East by the same
route between March Goth and April 9th have
also met with a like detention, and from the
same cause.
This information is given that correspondence
within the dates mentioned may be duplicated.
Mails are for the present dispatched from New
York for the Pac tic by steamer, by way of Pan
anna. the LIST, 9Th, 10th and oath of each
month. An agent has been directed TO 90 oyel
the route from St Joseph for the purpose of re
covering the missing mails if possible.