Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

All are alarmed 80 the receat s,sdeure- uhtf
haze been furnished ~ that oar suer.,is and oar
.0tiiei- baa been taught 10 egaui lii~ IS = gar
- determination. % the p.u. ecuitou - which
neither The la~r 81 God utr ihe laN> and usases
81 ei,il PED nat.ou~ we're % be re-mded
phia4e. theft snd rtpie. have been lie orier
of me DAY. not in Suuth Carolina alone. bat IN
M,s-i-sippl, a. Loai-ian4. anu even IA Virginia
and North Carolina On the 25th ult. il i
stated in a letter from Nrs Orleans, an eYpedi
ton refuruei 70 that city ftomfhe western part of
tuisHna bringing SIX hundrel wagon loads OF
punder, three thousand mules and horses. fifteen
hundred mead Of cattle. aud SIX thousand tie
gr0es
An expedition to BlufTton. South Carolina.
burned town, DESTROYED large quantities of
sto-e- and brought of several hundred horses
and n'erly one ihousand negroes. An expedition
irfm yorktown up the Matapouy river recently
DESTROYED storehOnses iron foundry cotton mill~
sree quantities. OF grain. burns. mill~. &c
They broughtbsrk large number OF cattle aud
one hundred and fifty horses AMI mules. and I'm
mense numbers OF negroes followed our troops
avs the letter
Col Grierson in his great cavalry "rad"
throu n Mississippi carried off large number Of
negrres AMI considerable in this lie Of business
i being d"ne by forces in Tennessee and all
the Southeast.
General BAR, from The army in front Of Eicks-
burg. went up north into the Yszoo country. &c
STRIVING large quantities Of cotton. mills briises.
/ crops ar. and bron zht back several hundred ne
groes This expedition WIS in many respects m
outra geous one and il thus de-cribed IN a letter
+ from M officer, dated at Haine's Bluff early in
! June:
We reached here Yesterday, after a week :
! march MP betw the Black and Yazoo rivers.
! Tire object ct the expedition Ia Destroy the
\ resources of the country. tO Prevent the enemy
! from subsi-ting their armies ami 10 drive ont any
| inrce he might have in that region and if p.,s
-iDle. 10 iscerthin II the euemy concentrating
I in snv considerable f"rce ipr he purpose nf rails
ing The eaeUi Vicksturg We had six hrigades,
numbering something over l00n0 men We
have m,rchei over hundred miles in week
turing the hottest kind OF weailer We lie
~ftovesl ali the forage nnd supplies and cotton,
and drive of all Ike cattle. horses and mules he
fRecn the two lines for dist.nce OF fifty miles
II WIS mule our painful but imperative duty 10
DESTROY every thing-cOru. cotton. meat. mills and
cotton gin~-rhat ~e could find, spring only
dwellings and small supply OF provisions for
| each family.
This ia bringing the war home to their people.
and m king them reaze their own crig-- an
bringing It's calamties upon the country
In this instance he dwelling houses were
spared In very many they hive not heon Ia
Sou'h C.rona the rule il 10 scfep errrpiinq n
the Ground Thus We fud ~ tie New York
/ Tribune ace unit of raid hy the notorious
Montgomery, a Kansas murderer and thief aud
now commander Of regrues AZ Hilton Head, which
| i by means calculated TO increase our ADM
ration of Federal warfare This Montgomery
m ,de the aid e. Bluffton, which We have referred
/ 20 above More recently lie made An excursion
up the Combahee river, about twenty miles from
/ Charle-ton 10 the town of A>hepoo. which lie
al-n pundered and burned The correspondent
OF tie Tribune saws
the soldiers scattered in every direction and
burned and DESTROYED everything of value they
came across Thirty four lar. { mansions known
u belong to notorious Rebels, with all then rich
furniture and rnre works of ant were burned To
tho giouud Nefh'ng hut Snouderg ruins and
puched and cr-ped Skeletons OF once magnif
cent old oak and pilmetto groe es now remain of
these delightful country its
After scattering the Rete artillery, the Hsr
re Wee'l tied IN opposite large plantation
"wnei by Nicholas and kirkland M,j"r Cor
win. ia command of companies B and c. soon
effected landing without opposition The
white inhabitants terrified Il the sight of negro
soldiers with loaded mu-ket- in tber hands. ran
in every direction. while the slase population
rushed To the boats with every demonstration of
jo, and gratitude
Three rice houses well filed with rice, a large
amount of rcks in The ward and four large mills
of different kinds, were DESTROYED. NJ ,nsOns.
| negro. quarters and everything inhamethle. was
consigned 10 the fames Sluices were opened.
| plantations flooded, and broad ponds and lakes
m tde where. but few hours before. lu1urieut
crops of rice and corn were putting forth their
leaves i Providence psf