Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-06
0elf0rapblf Nems.


WASHINGTON Jan. Sit is said that circum
stances have transpired within the last few days
leading to the belief that it will not be difficult
to designate with certainty the source whence the
rebels have derived their information within the
last two months. ~
Special to the Tribune says:
A dispatch received here this evening from
Louisville, states up to latest advces from Buels
army no engagement had taken place, and il
was expected that but little time would eiapse
before there would be decisive battle fought or
arapid retreat The rebels were reported to have
taken their position and the Unionists were with
in one and half days march of them.
The Norfolk Day Book of January lst con-
tains the following telegram:
NASHVILLE, Dec. 3l.-A special dispatch to the
Louisville Courier IRON Hopkinsville, says that
Col. Forests cavalry, about 800 strong, and the
Union cavalry about the same number, met at
Sacramento on Green river, on Saturday when
skirmish ensued. fts f.fs Tg
About fifty Unionists were killed, wounded
and taken prisoners. Our loss consists of Capt.
Clay Merriweather, of Louisville, and one private
killed, and one wounded.
The enemy fed in great confusion.
The Richmond Enquirer Of the 30th ult., says
that Hon. VIM. III. Brown, an Englishman, form
erly editor of the New York Journal of Com
nierce, has been commissioned as acting Secretary
Of State during the temporary absence from Rich
mond of the Hon. R. NJ. Il. Hunter. This con-
firms the report that Hunter, with Breckenridge,
had sailed from Halifax for Europe.
The Richmond papers of the 9th say Charles
ton was fred in several places on Sunday even
ing last and several buildings of but small value
were destroyed.
1t is almost certain tina. the English will, if
they have not already occupied Matamoras, with
the design, it is feared of opening commerce
with the rebel States by way of Brownsville, ex-
porting cotton and importing contrabands.
The Herasd's special says:
A fight occurred on the I'd inst. between the
Union gunboats Yankee and Auacosta. OF the
Potomac iotilla, and the rebel battery at Cock
pit Point.
The missils from the rihed guns of the battery
struck the Yankee, doing but small damage.
Several of the projectiles from the gunboats
took effect in the midst of the battery
The Times has the following correspondence:
Six rebel prisoners were taken to headquarters
to day. They were taken BY our pickets of the
left wing of the army Their Information is
deemed of high value, and stringent measures
were taken TO prevent all communication with
them. tet
The rebels are expecting an advance of our
army along the whole line. 49,.
The rebels are reported to be more than ever
discouraged by discord among their p lblic men.
General Magruder is believed to have been re-
lieved of his command.
Gen. Wise, who has been quiet since his return
FROM Western Virginia, is expected to assume
Command at Yorktown, or if not there, at Fred
erick.
There is a we,l-founded belief of serious dsaf-
lection in the rebel Government at Charleston,
amounting almost to Instruction, by means OF
the apparent Abandonment of the South Carolina
coast to National invasion and the immense de
struction Of property that owners have willingly
consigned to the flames. They have destroyed
not less than $40 ,000, 600 worth of cotton which
at last accounts, they were deplorng, as they
supposed the blockade was about to be raised BY
England and they might have shipped and sold it
They were holding JEFF Davis responsible for
these disastrous losses and many citizens were
bold enough to say that the old Government war
better than the new.