Daily State sentinel., 1863-02-21
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MORE WASHINGTON RUMORS
BUTLER TO HAVE A NEW DEPARTMENT.
Heary Thefs in the QM0rsermasfer
Department.
Colonel of the goth Indiana Dismissed
Melancholy Accident at
Baltimore.
The Attack on CharlestonG 4 Savannah
LATER FROM MEXICO
CONTINUED SUCCESS OF MEXICANS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN NEW ORLEANS
CONTINUED SUCCESS OF MExICANs
MILITARYAFFAIRS IN NEW ORLEANS

WASHINGTON. Feb ia special to the World
saws:
The Republican confirms the statement of
Buffers being ordered 10 an important com
mand 1t is not n ew Orleans but is regarded as
an important field of operation probably an en-
tirely new department
The Ways and Means Committee have de-
cided to place additional tax on whisky No
decision vet on tobacco. probably a slight tax
will be added,
The committee have decided to reduce the
duty on imports of printing paper. The exact
amount to be left is unknown probably not un-
der per cent.
\ dispatch TO the Times says:
Persons in position. say at least S25 900 900
have been stolen from the Quartermasters De-
partment in the last few months.
Gen Burnside will AZ once enter on the du-
ties of his new command He left for New York
tonight
Col Van Valkenburg of the 20th Indiana
was dismissed the service for disloyalty and un-
becoming conduct
Herald dispatch saws
Yesterday the detective corps of Col Baker
Provost Marshal OF the War Department, ar
rested at Berlin Maryland. 7. NJ Filler aid
Joel Mann, both belonging to LoudOn Co.. Va +,
with - 600 in Confederate money upon them. di-
rected to Rev. DIR. Mc(iili Richmond; also IA
large number of letters Tor various parties at the
South They had $4,000 worth of coutraband
goods in wagon. They came from Baltimore,
with pass from the military authorities at that
place
In the Senate the Naval appropriation bill
amendment was adopted appropriating S4O0 900
for Marine Barracks at Mare Island, Califor
MIA.
The amendments striking out the appropria-
tons for sectional dry dock at New York and
Norfolk Navy-yards were agreed to, and several
minor amendments were adopted, when the bill
passed
Representative Couch said to-day, in the
House. by instruction of the Committee on the
Conduc. OF the War, that the recently published
statements that Gen. Meigs refused To testify TO
the treason of an officer is without foundation
The same authority gives an emphatic denial TO
the statement that Mcclellan has been summoned
before the committee to meet grave charge pre-
ferred against him.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The Heralds special
says:
Official information has been received that the
Rebel Congress refused TO sustain Daviss proca-
nation regarding the exchange of Federal
officers. lr has also taken action with Il view of
releasing Unionists in the South who have been
arrested and imprisoned for alleged political of
fences.
FoRraEss MONROE, Feb Is-Gen Foster ar
rived to-nigh, on his way South.
BALTIMORE February l9-rhis afternoon,
while General Butler, III company with the recep-
ton committee and General Schenck and staff,
visiting the forts aroaRd the city, melan-
choly accident occurred They had visited Fort
McHenry, Federal Hill. and Fort Marshall.
where a salute was fired. just the party had
passed along the ramDarts, out of range of the
guns. one of the gunners supposng the party had
passed, fired thirts two FOUNDER; but, unfOrtu-
nately, some of the party had loitered behind
and a. they came up, one of them-Commander
Maxwell Woodhill-received the whole charge,
blowing the flesh from his lower limbs. causing
his death in few minutes
| New YORK. Feb. 20-The Times SAYS it has
been positively stated in Washington that the
attack on Charleston is to take place on the 2Uth
/ to day
! The steamer Eagle has arrived from Havana
/ Mexican advlces represent the smallpox and dys-
entery making sad havoc among the French
troops
The French war steamer Lance was burned at
! the abandonment of Tampco.
Three vessels, one laden with ammunition and
the others with provisions were also abandoned.
! The Mexicans claim to have beaten 200
/ French at FL Organo, causing them to retreat
with the loss OF % killed and 80 or 40 wounded
/ They also have captured Jaapa. The French
have established themselves AZ Perote and Que
coac. In the latter are 1000 sick
The steamer Mcclellan, from New Orleans the
/ 10th. has arrived
Nothing OF military moment had transpired in
| New Orleans.
The Delta had been suppressed by Gen Banks
but the EMPLOYEES waited on him. representing
that their subsistence depended on its continu-
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management of the book keeper.
II was rnmored the Rebels had attacked the
blockading feet Mobile. but the report is un
/ confirmed
The Brooklyn and Scioto were blockadine
! Galveston