Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-16
Noon Reports.
REPORTED EVACUATION OF RICHMOND
jefferson DaviS's Secret Circular.
w HIN TON NEWS
HUNTERS ABOLITION PROCLAMATION
AFFAIRS Nv VIEW. MEXICO.
NEWS FROM TENNESSEE.
G O - @ Il Z - - ION A L f.
jefferson Davis's Secret Circular.
WAS SHIN TON NEWS
HUNTERS ABOLITION PROCLAMATION
AFFAIRS Nv. VEN. MEXICO.
NEWS FROM TENNESSEE.
CON RE - AL.



WASHINGTON. May IA special to the Tri-
bune saws:
The French Minister has receive intelligence
from his Consul at Richmond to the effect that
the rebel Government had notified him that should
it be necessary TO evacuate the city the French
tobacco must be destroyed with the rest, at the
same time the rebels offer to paw for it; propo-
sition not much relished by the Frenchman.
The Frencl. Minister .discredits the rumors of
European Intervention in our affairs, and it is
generally thought here that whatever purposes
NAV have been entertained by England and
France the news from New Orleans Will cause
their indefinite postponement
The SIS prisoners recently released from Rich
mond will arrive here by way of the Potomac TO
morrow A few who came through Baltimore
arrived to-day.
The prisoners say the rebels are as determined
as ever, and believe that after the two great i'm
pending battles they will, if whipped bad, herd
together in small guerrilla parties and fight TO
the very last
They represent the treatment of our prisoners
rs barbarous in the extreme; that officers who
alone remain in the prisons, all the privates hav-
ing been set free, will not be released at all.
Col. CorcOrans health is good. He is anxious
TO be released. and contTadcts the atement made
some time since that he said he preferred remain
ing where ne was, believing that he could be OF
more service. and adds that the only way in
which lie wishes TO serve his country is OH the
battlefield
Col Bowman's health is failing rapidly and
his eyesight nearly lost He can survive his pres
ent treatment but few weeks longer. His long
confinement has affected his mind so much that
he rs at times looked upon as insane.
The rebels offered every nducement to prison
to join their armv, but only two have done 50,
namely: John A. Wicks, Quartermaster of the
DoporpSS md nrivata of he 9Th Ohio ma mol
Wilson. As soon as it became known 90 the
prisoners that Wilson intended to desert them,
they proceeded 10 hang him. The guard, how
ever went in ami cut him down before life was
extinct. In punishment of this act the prisoners
were upon bread and water for ten days
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs hay
ing authorized Mr. Gooch to report the Senate
bill establishing diplomatic relations with Hay Ii
and Liberia, it will doubtless be passed to vote
at All early day.
Dispatches to the Herald say:
The steamer kennebec arrived here this after
noon with 2l3 wounded rebels and "a wounded
Union soldiers from Williamsburg. Among the
latter is Col Dwight. His wounds are less dan
gerous than at first supposed. The rebels re
ceive precisely the same treatment as our own
wounded and are sent 10 the same hospitals.
The rumor that General Mccall had resigned
command of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps is
untounded. He has no intention 10 resign until
the army of the Union has accomplished its mis-
sion to suppress rebellion.
4 special dispatch 10 the Times sayt:
Gov Sprague says our losses at Williamsburg
in killed, wounded and missing will amount to
about two thousand. The rebel loss was not less
He saws the battle at West Point under Franklin
was much more severe than reported; that al
least five hundred OF our men were taken prison
ers, the enemy taking advantage of landing ouI
The UunbOatS n good time
and saved Franklin from suffering a severe dis
aster.
Gen. Burnside has very quietly put an extin-
guisher on c. II. Foster, the gentleman who has
been SO long trying to get recognized as mem
Der of Congress from North Carolina. He ad
vertised himself to address the citizens OF New
bern few evenings since, a thing which, as Gen
Burnside put it, he thought would be very foolisl
for him to do, or the General to permit. TIL,
Military Governor appointed by the Presiden
was to shape the policy of the Government il
the State, and he could not permit anything tC
be done which hereafter might prove to be
source OF embarrassment.
The following order has teen issued from tn
War Department.
1t is ordered that all applications for passes t
visit Fortress Monroe. Norfolk, Yorktown al,
all other places on the waters OF the Chesapeake
be hereafter made to Ma ior General John A. Dix
of Baltimore. (. NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, May l5.-In addition to tn
steamees Hero and Kent which brought hithe
the released Union prisoners last night the Ken
nebec has arrived with upwards of $50 Wounds
rebels from Williamsburg. These men are, TO
the greater part. slightly wounded, and are at
tended by rebel surgeons and nurses. strc
guard is kept over this boat. No visitors are per
4 niitted
The steamer State Of Maine also arrived wit
about $50, the J p. Warner with 400, and tn
| Elm City with $50 sick and wounded prisoner
/ from different Union regiments. They are bein
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