Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-14
The Citizens Leaving Memphis.
Particulars Of the Fight im .s'esr
.NericO.
CONGR RE - SIGNAL.
THE PEA RIDGE BATTLE.
GenPRICE WOUNDED


WASHINGTON, March IA dispatch to the
Tribune says:
The Naval Committee of the Senate agreed
to-day TO recommend an appropriation of $3.50,
0O0 for the construction of furnaces for the man
ufacture of 2O-inch Dahlgren guns.
The Washington Star, OF this evening, says:
We have positive information that the rebels
have retreated rs far Gordonsville. Our scouts
have probably penetrated the country at an early
hour this morning as far Culpepper Court
House. thirty five miles in the of Manas-
sas.
The statement published that council of war
i'm Washington decided six to four that the army
of the Potomac could not be moved against the
enemy present is entirely untrue The Gen
erals were unanimous that an advance was pos
sble and proper the only difference was as to the
plan OF the attack.
A correspondent of the Times, who accom-
panied the advance upon Centerville and Manas
sas, has just come in.
1t was only last Friday that the retreat of the
rebels from Centerviile commenced.
Cen Johnston left on Friday morning.
Gen Smith left on Saturday afternoon and Col.
Smart left on Monday, the day our army left
camp on the Potomac.
The retreat conducted very orderly at first
and nothing left at Centervie that could be u.e
iul 10 tie United States.
BILE They commanded the roads and the fire of
not less than hundred guns could be conveyed
upon any approach to the detenseS, but the guns
were never brought from Manassas to mount the
Centervllle forts
A railroad track extended from Manassas to
Centervile and telegraph.
The rebel Generals had their headqua rters at
Centervile all together, and "A more convenient
and complete military establishment could not be
found in Washington than they had.
Through Manassas the enemy continued their
retreat as quietly rs it began.
They carried off all their heavy guns from Ma
nassas, forty to sixty in number.
Part of their army marched by turnpike to
Warrenton and part To GOrdOnsvile, where it Is
said they would make stand
1t was on Monday evening that the first sign
of panic noticed at Manassas.
part of Stuart's rear column was preparing
a train to move southwark by the railroad, when
they learned that some excited rebels had set fire
to the bridges ahead of them.
They Immediately began burn and destroy
and run away in general confusion.
Five hundred barrels OF -four, piled up in ranks
had their heads stove in.
Barrels of molasses suffered the same way.
One hundred and sixty barrels or kegs of pow
der were left, which they did not know how to
destroy In safety to themselves.
III seems 10 De confirmed tliat the enemy llad
two weeks since between 30 900 and 90 900 troops
at Centerville and Manassas, and that they only
began their retreat last Friday.
Why they went is mystery, as that number
Der of men in their Notifications would have been
equal to three times the force assailing them
They must have feared trust their men, whose
enlstments were expiring or their powder,
which many accounts agree, is of very inferior
quality.
The strangest news brought by the Times's
correspondent is that Gen. Jackson aud one half
his army. whom Gen. Banks yesterday supposed
he was closely watching in Winchester went down
the railroad to Manassas one week ago. and qu-
etly marched off southwark.
The other half are said to be moving south
ward in the valley of the Shenandoah