Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-18


Majority of the 9th Indiana. vice Nehringer,
resigned.
between six hundred and seven hundred re-
bel prisoners, recently quartered at Lafayette,
have arrived in the city. and now at Camp
Morton. We shall publish list of their names
as We can obtain it.
The Memphis Avalanche holds forth as fol-
lows. threatening certain Northern cities:
The indignant South will not much longer
brook the deadly wrongs and foul insults inflicted
by Northern dastards. They will not much
longer be permitted to harrass our people with
impunity. The day OF vengeance is AT hand
by invading Pennsylvania, and threaten
ing or capturing Philadelphia Mary land and Nir
ginia Will be relieved; and by attacking the
Northwest, and attacking Cincinnati, Missouri
apai Kentucky will be delivered from their OPP
pressOrs. The armed h0rdes from Illinois, ludi-
ana and Ohio, by which they are now overrEn
ana devastated, Will be compelled to fly 10 the
defense OF their own soil
Col. MANSON UNDER ARREST Letters from
Nashville bring the intelligence that Col Man
son, Col. kIse and Adj kse have been placed
under arrest 10y Gen. Thomas. II is alleged that
Col Manson arrested Tor leaving his brigade
ut the battle OF Mill Spring, for short time, in
order TO communicate with Gen Thomas, instead
OF sending orderly, aud that Col kise and
Adj kse share his fate for expressing their opin-
ion OF Thomas in emphatic and somewhat
oificerllke style The world knows that the
officers OF the 10th Indiana proved themselves
brave and gallant men at Mill Spring-thAt they
stopped not at trfes when battle was To be won.
II court martial results in blazonng still fur
ther the comparative services and bravery OF
these men and Gen. Thomas. it is not to be re-
GREETED. Thomas may yet find himself hoisted
by his own petard.
-RELArIvE VALUE OF PRisoSERs.-By direc-
ton oil Major General Mcclellan, the following
tariff of exchange of prisoners of war. adopted
between the United States and Great Britain in
the of 1912. is substituted for that given in
General Order No. 80. current series:
General, Commander in Chief, or Admiral
sixty men.
Lieutenant General, or Vice AdmIral--forty
men.
Major General or Rear Admiral-thirty men
Brgadler General. or Commodore with Broad
Penant, and Captain under him-tw enty men
Colonel, or Captain OF line ofbattle ship
fifteen men.
Lieutenant Colonel or Captain of frigate-
ten men.
Major. or Commander of a soop of-war, bomb
ketch, fire ship, packet-eight men.
| Captain, or Lieutenant or Master-six men.
Lieutenant or Masters Mate-four men.
| Sub Lieutenant or Ensign, or Mdshipman,
Warrant Officers, Masters OF merchant vessels
and Captains OF private armed vessels-three
men.
Non commissioned officers of Leutenants, and
Mates of private armed vessels. Mates OF mer-
chant vessels. and all petty officers OF ships OF
war-two men.
Private soldiers. seamen-one man.
"A retired sen captain suggests that the tow
er of the Ericsson battery Monitor should be Gov
cred with coating OF soap and taliow, which
would present perfectly smooth surface, and
greatly increase the chance, of shot CHANGING off,
If they happen to hit the vessel.
-TnE LIMITS OF THE NEw MILITARY GEoGRA-
PHIcAL DEPARTMENTs--I. DEPARTMENT or NEW
ENGLAND-Ihe six New England States. Head
quarters at Boston. Commander, Major General
Benz f. Butler.
, DEPARTMENT OF NEW YoRK.-The State oil
New York. Headquarters at Albany. Comman
der, M,jor General Edwin ID. Morgan.
J. DEPARTMENT OF THE POToMAC. The States
of Pennsy lvana, New jersey, Delaware and
Maryland. the District of Columbia, and that
portion o! Virginia east OF the Allegheny Noun
t.ins and north OF James River. except Fortress
Monroe and sixty miles round the same. Head
quarters at Washington or in the held Com
mamder, Major General Geo b. Mcclellan.
A. DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA.-FortreSS Mon
roe and sixt, miles round the same. Headuuar
tiers at the Fortress. Commander Brigadier
General John + Wool.
5 DEPARTMENT or THE MIssIssippI.-Th'
States OF Ohio, Michigan. Indiana, Kentucky
Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois
Kansas, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, the Ter
ritores OF Dlcotah. Nebraska and Colorado Il
the Rocky Mountains. and that part OF Iennes
see lying west OF north and south line Irde
initely drawn through Knoxville, Tennessee
Headquarters at present ut 81. Louis. Commln
der Major General II W Halieck
O. IHE MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT The country
west of the Department of the Potomac and cas-
of the Department OF the Mississippi. Head
quarters at Wheeling. Commander. Major Gen
erai John c Fremont.
Z DEPARTMENT OF NEw MsxIco-The Terri
tory OF New Mexico Headquarters at Santa Re
Commander l. k 5 Candy
: DLPAKrNENT or THE PACIFIc--The cOuntr,
west of the Rocky Mountains Headquarters a
San Francisco California Commander
q DIPARTNtST or FLORIDA The part OF th
State OF FLORIDA not included IN the Department
OF Key West Headquarters at Fort Pickens
Commander. Br-adier General Lewis q. Arnold
10 DtPARrNE>r or NORTH CAROLINA Thu
State OF North Carolina Headquarters in th
field. Commander, Brigadier General y. F
Burnside
DEPARrxExr or KEY WEsr-Kev West tn
Turtu-a- and the mainland on the west coast a
lar as Apalachicola, and 10 Cape Canayeral, 81
the els, coast. Commander. Brigadier Genera
J VI Brannan