Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
REBEL BATTERIES TAKEN.
w ASHINGTON NEWS
n Il =
Beauregard Gone to Richmond
BRAGG LEFT IN COMMAND.
from Washington.

WASHINGTON. June 2l-The Tribune has the
following correspondence from Seven Pines,
June Is:
AT noon to day intelligence wa communicates
from the front, that the enemy 30 900 strong,
was in line before Hooker's ad sanced position.
At half past 4 o'clock, under HoSker's order, the
10Th Massachusetts went into ths deep, swampy
woods. and other regiments took up lines of bat
tie upon the edge of the timbe?, out of which
the rebels burst upon Us in unequal numbers, re-
sulting in the death of many OF our brave men.
The musketrr fire was soon si:arp within the
leafy forest. Bramhall's battery sent spherical
case shot over the woods into tAe rebel picket
guard, to assist the infantry skiImishers. This
artillery fire was not replied to for a half hour,
and then only from the far right 1t was Arm
stead's brigade that was in frost of Us to day.
In one spot six rebel dead lay. together. We
drove their whole picket line "a half n mile.
Three men of the 10th were killed, and eight
wounded.
The Times correspondent, carp before Rich
mond. June Is. says:
Another fine day. Every day 5f sunshine adj
vances the fall of Richmond. Three days rain
might postpone operations. The roads are be-
coming hard. The surface of she earth in the
fields, except in low spots, is practicable for artil
lery- We had very brisk picket firing last night
in front of a point halt n mile NO. tn OF Fair Oaks
station. Our side sustained no>damage. This
morning everything is quiet again, 1t is reported
by deserters that heavy reinforcelaents have been
sent from Richmond to Jackson, in the valley of
the Shenandoah.
Another correspondent, writing same date,
saws:
l am positively assured by parties who are re.
liably informed that the life of che arch traitor
JEFF Davis is in extreme danger, She rebels look
ing upon him with the utmost s.lspicion. 1t is
even asserted that he was prevented by an armed
force from escaping out of Richmond. He is the
object of general distrust. Handbills in every
variety are displayed all over the .ity denouncing
JEFF Davis, and applying to him: traitorous and
opprobrious epithets. The rebels declare it is
the intention of Davis to desert them.
Numerous persons have been Arrested and con-
fined for rebelling against the authorities in
Richmond.
A special dispatch to the Tribune says:
The Pacific railroad bill passed the Senate to-
day with five negative votes.
The main route which it fixes a to commence
at a point on the Tooth meridi:n of longitude
within the Territory of Nebraska;
OF the branches, one commences at Sioux
City; another at another point 5n the Western
boundary of Iowa, which will pl:bably be at or
near Omaha City, or the mouth Of Platte River.
Both of these branches TO be cOrstructed by the
Union Pacific Company, which constructs the
main road. The Kansas branch, commencing
opposite Kansas City, is TO be constructed by a
Kansas company, and with this tranch the Han
nibal and st. Joseph road is authorized to form a
connection.
The main road is run by the most direct and
practicable route to be located, Subject to appro-
val of the President. BY the House bill the road
was to commence on the l02d meridian, and the
terminus was not necessarily within the Territory
of Nebraska, but probably the House will agree
to the Senate amendment. There is little doubt
of the final passage of the bill substantially as
it passed the Senate.
Colonel Turchin, of the 18th Illinois, and
Colonel Briggs, of Massachusetts, have been
nominated Brigadier Generals.
A dispatch to the Herald says:
1t is now definitely settled that Congress will
adjourn between the LIST and 10Th of July.
The Government has no official intelligence
confirming the report of the capitulation of Fort
Morgan, near Mobile.
Major Gen. Pope. who has so greatly dlstin-
guished himself by his operations in the west, is
expected shortly to be in Washington, at the in
v~itation of the President.
Yesterday a delegation of progressive friends
from Philadelphia and Delaware called on the
President and presented a memorial numerously
signed for the universal emancipation OF slaves.
The President replied to the accompanying adj
dress, as n gentleman who was present remarked,
in guarded language.
The Committee on Finance on the bill TO pro.
vide internal revenue have nearly completed their
report.