Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-16
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WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE following has
been received here from the Tribune's correspon-
dent with Gen. McDowelfs corpo, dated Manas-
sas, June l3:
A report has just been received here that a
guerrilla party numbering $50 dashed into War
renton last Monday evening and captured TWEEN
ty two sick soldiers left in the hospital and TWEEN
ty five TO thirty stragglers from Gibbons brigade
in Kings division.
Small guerrilla squads have been seen to-day
in the neighborhoOd of Huntsville and Major
Dufie has gone out to capture them.
The Times dispatch says:
We have Information direct from secession
sources here that six North Carolina regiments
refused to 90 into the battle of Fair Cakes and
that these regiments are now under a strong guard
in Richmond.
Gov. Bradford and Ex-Governor Hicks, Of
Maryland, are both said TO favor a special session
of the Legislature to take into consideration the
Presidents emancipation message.
A letter to the Times from the army says the
Richmond Dispatch of the 9TH contains an edito-
rial the tenor of which is most discouraging to
the rebel army.
The writer fears that our design is not to en-
gage them in battle but to starve them out. a
plan which he considers not impossible tor us to
accomplish.
The same letter dated the 10th says:
Deserters arrived from Richmond last night
bringing intelligence that the rebels are assidu-
ously at work throwing up additional e~arthworks
around the city. They have also dug e~arthworks
and rifle pits along the routes between here and
Richmond and have mounted a large number of
guns.
The rebel troops are kept on short allowance.
The daily supply of each man amounts to but one
pound of -four and half a pound of bacon without
coffee. tea, sugar, salt, &c.
The Tribune's special says:
Edward L.. Pearce, agent of the Treasury De-
partment at Post Royal, arrived here yesterday.
His report of the agricultural condition of the
Islands cultivated by free negro labor is encOur-
aging. Some $4,000 acres are planted, nearly
half in cotton, and the crops are forward and
well cared for.
News had reached Beaufort of the appearance
at Port Royal Ferry of a rowing party of rebels,
who fired at our pickets, killing one man and
wOunding several. 1t was supposed at first that
a general attack was intended, but it soon ap-
peared the alarm was raised by a small guerrilla
band.
The Massachusetts stopped several hours off
Stone Inlet, and there picked up some vague ru-
mors touching the position of things on James
Island, where Gen. Hunters army had landed
and found itself confronted by an Unexpectedly
large rebel force, believed to have beer increased
by heavy endorsements from the late COrinth
army. Some said that Beauregard himself was
there, and that not less than 10000 rebels were
opposite Gen. Hunter on the Island. Some fight
ing had taken place, in which the 18th Highland
regiment of the Massachusetts cavalry had par
~ticularly distinguished themselves, but the 2Sth
Massachusetts had not done itself credit. Sew
eral batteries had been carried by~storm. and a
general engagement was thought to be imminent.
Firing in the direction for half an hour was heard
by the passengers of the Massachusetts,. As she
was wing off Charleston in full view of Fl. Sumter,
the British Consul, it was reported, sent word
to the Captain of a British man of war lying off
the bar, that there would be a fight on James
Island within twenty four hours.
1t was understood that our forces, which went
within three or four miles of Charleston. were to
be the attacking party. Eight vessels were block
aiding Charleston, and Cir. Pearce is surprised to
hear that arms have been Struggled in there with
in a week.
Gen. Burnside was in town yesterday, returning
to Fortress Monroe by the afternoon boat. His re
ports from the Peninsula, where he spent several
hours with Gen. Mcclellan, are favorable. He
sees no reason why, with good weather, our army
should not be in Richmond within a very few
days. He does not think that the rebels are
strengthened by their forced levies, but believes
that undisciplined numbers Injuries an arm as
was the case at Newbern when the raw North
Carolina militia threw the whole rebel force into
a panic. Gen. Burnside sees some signs of loyal
ty in the Old North State, but is not so sanguine
of its early return to the Union voluntarily, as
are some of the newspaper correspondents.
The Decotah. which arrived at Fortress Mon
roe yesterday, brings dispatches from flag officer
Farragut, who was at New Orleans when she left,
on June ID. He went to Vicksburg in the Rich
mond, but returned without attacking the place,
leaving a number of the g~unboats as a blockad-
ing squadron. The town was under their guns
but lies rather high above the river for assault.
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On his way down stream he was fired at several
times by m~usketry from the banks of the river,
and he expresses the opinion that the war on the
Mississippi will henceforward be of this character.
New Orleans was quiet.
After a long debate in the Senate Yesterday,
the amendment of the committee making appro-
p%riatiOns for contingent expenses and another for
repairs to the building of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, was adopted.
An amendment was adopted that after the LIST
of November, 1862, spirit rations to the Navy
shall cease.
By an order of the Secretary of War, the De
partmeGt of the Mississippi is extended so as to
include the whole of the States of Tennessee
and Kentucky. All the officers on duty in these
States will report to Major General Halleck.
The Mountain Department is extended east
ward to the road running from W~illiamsport to
Martinsburg, Winchester. Strasburg, Harrison
burg and Stanton, including that place; thence
in the same direction southwest, till it strikes the
Blue Ridge to the southern boundary of the
State of Virginia.
The Department of the Shenandoah is extend
ed eastward to include the Piedmont District and
the Bull Mountain range.
A large number of volunteers are absent from
their regiments, who are now fit for duty. To
enable them to return, the Governors of States
are authorized TO give them passes or certificates,
which will entitle them to transportation to the
station of the nearest United States mastering
officer or Qu~aTtermaster. who will pay the cost
of such transportation.