Daily State sentinel., 1863-03-24

CwrcAeo. March 23--The Wholesale drug store
OF W ID Harris. situated Southwster street.
was entirely destroyed by FIRE this evening The
amount of insurance Is not known.
WASHINGTON. March 23.-A letter from Rear
Admiral Porter. dated March IL. has been re
ceived. in which he speaks OF the difficulties Of
navigating Yazoo Pass with safety 10 vessels OF
the expedition. The natural impediments are
similar to those heretofore reported
PrrrssrRs. March 23.-Gen. Burnside and
staff arrived here this afternoon. and were greeted
by large crowd az the depot. he departed i'm
mediaiely for the West.
LOUISVILLE, March 23-The city has been
filed all day with rumors Of Rebel advances. All
that headquarters are advised OF is that the Reb-
els. in numbers ranging from 5000 TO o000. are
In the vicinity OF Somerset, and more coming.
Military circles estimaie the number there at less
than 1000, notwithstanding these adsces.
The report of battle progressing near Mur-
freesboro on Saturday is entirely false. Skir-
mishing took place along the line yesterday with
no important results
SALr LAKE, March 23.-Last night the Hum
bodt Indians attacked the station eight miles est
of Deer Creek, killed two men, burnt the station,
took the stage-coach. and large herd belonging
to private parties The stage-drver Was killed
and passenger mortally wounded. Troops have
already reached there, and the route is again
open.
WASHINGTON, March % The Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia organized 10 day.
Present, Justice Carter and Associates On aud
Wiley. X. j. Bowgs, Of Tennessee. was sworn
in clerk Judge Carter addressed the members
of the bar, of whom large number weie in at
tendance. saying. among other things. this being
new court. new rules and regulations beca me
necessary.
The Judge. after consultation. agreed to re
quire the oath of Loyalty prescribed by Con
gress July last to be taken by ali the practitioners
at the bar. This was not from any spirit of ca
price. or because they doubted the loyalty of the
attorneys Ii had been subscribed TO by Senators
and Judges, and no gentleman could decline to
take it,
1t having been reported that the title of the
new Quicksilver Mining Company of California
was finally settled by recent decision of the Su-
preme Court Of the United States. in the Alma
din case it is proper to say the Government holds
and claims the title to the property embraced in
the decision
The question to the surveys and bounda
ries is still in litigation and pending before the
Supreme Court. in which the United States and
the Quicksilver Mining Company parties.
The Quicksilver Mining Company was organ
lied under the laws of --, having
$4,000, 900 stock
The annual net earnings OF the mines are esti
mated at about S15 900
gentleman from the neghborhoOd of Charles.
ton SAYS il is uncertain what point of the Atlantic
coast will be attacked by our forces
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs had a
satisfactory conference to day with the represent
atives of the Cheyennes, Kiowas, Camanches ard
CuddoS These Indians are from the Rocky
Mountains, the borders of New Mexico, &c The
tribes are scattered several hundred miles. A
delegation of Utes is expected this week The
object of the Government is to concentrate them
so to render more safe the routes to the gold
mines and to the Pacific, and to conclude treate:
of peace with them.
The eighth census Of the United States i.
rapidly approaching completion.
Admiral Porter, in dispatch, says he has re
eeived the following information from Com
mander Watson Smith:
The whole expedition arrived in the Talla
hatche, which gives us control OF the lower Mis-
sissippi
The vessels all got through in fighting condi
ton, excepting the Petrel which lost her whee
entirely.
This movement of the fleet evidently alarmel
the Rebels, as they are energeticaIly at work pre-
pairing themselves against all contingencies.
There is much distress at Vicksburg. The,
have meat and were living almost exclusvel,
on corn meal.