Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05
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WASHINGTON, Nav 3.-The latest accounts
show that there are los Brigadier Generals and
that twenty six in addition await Senatorial ac-
ton.
A favorable report has been made on the re-
nomination of Daniel E. Sickies and there seems
no doubt that he will soon be confirmed.
The bill proposing TO limit the number of Brig
adler Generals to 200 and Major Generals 10
twenty-six will in all probability soon become a
law.
Thus far or within two days applications have
been filed for compensation for forty-two of the
slaves manumitted i'm 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 to inform the De
partment of the arrival here of the rebel steamer
Isabel Ella Morley in charge of Lieut.. Wilson and
a prize crew, she having been captured by the St.
Jago de Cuba, Com Ridgely, 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.
am informed by Lieut.. Wilson that the st.
Jago de Cuba discovered and chased the Nash
vile, but the latter was 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. F. DUPONT,
Flag Officer Commanding.
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy.
On the 18th uit., the army forces under Gen.
Reno debarked at Cobb's 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
The following dated United States steamer
Commodore Perry, off Elizabeth City, North
Carolina, April Goth, is the report of the success
full accomplishment of the work:
SIR: In obedience to your orders / left this
place on the Odd 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 Albemarle and Chesapeake
canal at the mouth of the North river.
We were Joined by the Shawshee, having in
tow a 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 we're
landed on each bank. while a launch with a
heavy IL FOUNDER was 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 distractions
hCoA Nv hlOuAh tn0b ny UCh huliC ~ MOIh
might be under cover of the guns of the steam
ers, and the enemy prevented from moving 1t.
The schooner was sunk just inside of 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
23d, and from half past seven on the morning of
the Oath till half an hour after sunset. Earth
was thrown in by hand as far as could be. We
had no wheelbarrows to carry it to the middle.
Prof. Maillefort, of the New York Submarine
Engineering Company, and his assistants, we're
of the greatest assistance to me. Indeed | was
merely governed by his advice, as he is more
familiar with this sort of work than l am. He
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 a halt.
He SAYS it will be easier and cheaper to cut a new
outlet than TO remove the distractions.
The rebels have, | think, no thought of using
the canal, as they have themselves been obstruct-
ing it above and below the bridge.
Ii would be well to send a steamer there daily,
until the lumber is well water soaked and sunk.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
G. w FLUs<ER, Lieut.. Commd'g.
To s. @. Rowan, Commanding Naval Forces
Inner Waters of N. G.
The War Department. has received dispatches
from Gen. Halleck, dated to-day, from Pittsburg
Landing. The army was well, in high spirits,
and eager TO meet the eEemy.
Mr.. Lathrop. recently appointed Collector oil
Customs at the port OF New Orleans, did not, al
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 bad been in New Orleans since 1888, engaged
in mercantile pursuits, and was well known fO
his energy and ability.