Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05
Night Dispatches.
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, May 3-The latest accounts
show that there are los Brigadier Generals and
that twenty six in addition await Senatorial &C
ton
favorable report has been made on the re-
nomination OF Daniel Z. Sickles and there seems
no doubt that he will soon be confirmed.
The bill proposing to limit the number of Brig
adler Generals to 300 and Major Generals TO
twenty six will in all probability soon become
law.
Thus far or within two days applications have
been filed for compensation for forty two of the
slaves manumitted in the District of Columbia
under the emancipation act.
The following was received at the Navy De
partment to day, dated flag ship Wabash. Port
Royal, S. c.. April 8, 1862:
have just time this morning before the de-
parture OF the Susquehanna 10 inform the De
partment of the arrival here of the rebel steamer
Isabel Ella Morley in charge of Lieut.. Wilson and
prize crew. she having been captured by the St.
Jago de Cuba, Com Rdgely, 100 miles north of
Abacco. She is deeply loaded with Enfield rifles
and has, as is Supposed rifed cannon in her fore
hold, which has not yet been examined. These
arms were taken on board of course at one of the
neutral colonies off our coast.
lam informed by Lieut. Wilson that the st
Jago de Cuba discovered and chased the Nash
vle but the latter too swift for her. The
Nashville also had arms on board for the rebels
intending to run the blockade if possible.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
s +. DuPoNr.
Flag Officer Commanding.
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy.
On the 18th ult, the army forces under Gen.
Reno debarked at Cobbs Point, North Carolina,
for the pursose of destroying the locks of the
Dismal Swamp Canal Having retired without
accomplishing the object. Com Rowan deter
mined to destroy the canal with the naval forces
under his command.
The following dated United States steamer
Commodore Perry, off Elizabeth City, North
Carolina April 26th, is the report of the
full accomplishment of the work:
SIR: In obedience to your orders l left this
place on the 22d instant, in the Lockwood. with
the Whitehead and Putnam in company, each with
an officer and "A detachment OF men on board, the
Lockwood towing the wrecking schooner Emma
Slade, with the apparatus for blowing up the
banks to blow up the Abemare and Chesapeake
canal at the mouth of the North river.
We were joined by the Shawshee, having in
tow schooner which had been sent the day be-
fore to Roanoke Island to be filed with sand.
On the afternoon of the 23d, fifty men were
landed on each bank, while IA launch with a
heavy ~ FOUNDER sent up the canal, and
with this force we moved up two miles examin-
ing the banks to find the best place for opera
tons. | concluded to place the instructions
N
might be under cover of the guns of the steam
ers, and the enemy prevented from moving It,
The schooner was sunk just inside o. the canal
and with BRUSH stumps, rails. trunks OF trees
and earth, the passage was obstructed from the
schooner about fifty yards above.
We were occupied from noon till sunset Of the
Odd, and from half past seven on the morning o
the oath ill half an hour after sunset. Earth
was thrown in by hand as far as could be. W.
had cxxha iharva If tn fba mid
Prof Mailleiort, of the New York Submarine
Engineering Company, and hs assistants, wer,
of the greatest assistance to me. Indeed wa
merely governed by his advice, as he is more
familiar with this sort of work than am. H.
is of the opinion that it will require two or three
months LABOR with a dredging machine to re
move what we have placed in a day and half
He saws it will be easier and cheaper to cut new
! outlet than TO remove the distractions
The rebels have, think, thought of usins
the canal, as they have themselves been obstruct
| ing it above and below the bridge.
1t would be we'll to send a steamer there daily
until the lumber is well water soaked and sunk
Very respectfully your obedent servant.
G. W FLUssER. Lieut.. Commd'g.
To S c. Rowan, Commanding Naval Force
Inner Waters of n G.
The War Department has received dspatche
from Gen. HalIeck. dated to- day, from Pttsbur
Landing. The army was WELL in high spirit:
and eager to meet the enemy.
Mr.. Lathrop, recently appointed Collector O
Customs at the port OF New Orleans, did not. a
enormously stated, leave that city on the break
ing out of the rebellion, but some years before
and has since that time resided in Philadelphia
He had been in New Orleans since 1888. engage
in mercantile pursuits, and was well known fo
his energy and ability.
A special dispatch to the Post says:
Secretaries Chase and Seward went to Fortres
Monroe last night.
Measures are in contemplation for the bette
defense of our Northern frontiers.