Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-21
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MORE WASHINGTON RUM0RS.
Probable Success Of the Yazoo
Expedition.
viCKSBURG PRACTICALLY OURS.
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
SOUTHERN NEWS
Fall Of the City Of Mexico Denied.
The Expedition Against Charleston.
The deraI Force in
Tennessee River.
Fall Of the City Of Mexico Denied
The Expedition Against Charleston
The Fee deraI Force in
Tennessee River.

WAsHrseroS, March ia special to the
Herald says:
Ii is understood o-day at the Treasury De
pariment that a depntation from foreign bankers
had waited upon the Secretary in person and Of
tered large loan of specie at current rates of
change.
Gen. Burnside is still in the city awaiting final
instructions.
A special To the Tribune says:
Advices hav been received here from Cairo in
dicating that the Yazoo expedition has probably
proved successful aud that Vicksbarg is practi-
cally ours.
The Mexican Minister and others we'll in
formed with respect TO military matters, utterly
discredit the statement OF the Richmond papers
that the City OF Mexico has been captured by the
French
The Worlds special says:
IL is reported that the rebels paroled General
Stouehton and other officers captured with him
Commissioner Ludlow, however, knows nothing
of il.
Ii il understood that the course of the Govern
ment will he To call extra session of Congress
Immediately on the departure of another pirate
from British port, and recommend that vessels
under the British flag shall either be nterdicted
entirely from loading in American ports or be
subjected to tunnage duty of about three dollars
per tun.
the subject decided not to grant letter of marques
and reprisa but in their stead it is understood all
vessels fitted out by private parties for the pur
pose of capturing rebel pirates will be duly COM
missioned in the navy aud allowed to go on their
mission.
NEW YORK, March 20-The following ex-
plains something of the recent matters near Port
Hudson:
Dispatches from jackson, Miss dated 18th,
IIeto ol,nJ
in the rear on Mo day, the eth. and that heavy
firing was heard there on the 18th.
ST Helena is about % miles in the of
Port Hudson, in AN easterly direction. and when
remember the forces of Gen. Banks have been
for some time moving in that direction from
Baton Rouge toward Port Hudson by the Amite
River. the heavy firing may probably be
counted for. from the fact that Port Hudson is
being invested by land and water.
1t is "A remark able fact. in this connection. that
the Richmond Wing, of the 18th. mourns over
reverses in the Southwest: and it is equally re-
markable that dispatch from Port Hudson was
read in the Rebel Senate on the same day which
caused lively sensation.
In the late cavalry fight on the Rappahannock
seven of the 9th Ohio were wounded. Their
names are not given
A Newbern letter gives account of the re
connoissance by Gen. Princes division. The
The expedition returned to Newbern, the enemy
failing to make IA stand.
Another force DESTROYED Rebel encampment
on the north side of the Trent River dispensing
the Rebels
PHILADELPHIA. March 20-The Inquirer's
special from Washington says:
Rebel prisoners report that six or eight gun
boats passed Fort.Sumter on Monday and Tues
day and that Charleston was being bombarded.
This needs confirmation.
CINCINNATI March pa special from Co
lumbus to the Gazette says:
A resolution offered in the House expell
inc Otto Dressed for offering resolutions dlsloyal
in sentiment and insulting to the country.
Advices from Vicksburg represent the health
of the army improving, and the troops enthusl
astic with the prospect of speedy engagement
Ii was thought the Lake Providence canal
scheme would be abandoned, as the canal oppo
site Vick,burg would be successful.
There has been large movement of transports
ana gunboats up Yazoo Pass. The fate of
Wick sburg depends this movement.
The Atlanta Southern COnfederacy contains
detailed accounts of successful raid IN North
Alabama by a Federal brigade under Colonel
CorwiR
The expedition, accompanied bv FIVE gunboats,
reached Tuscumbia the Odd of February. The
gunboats DESTROYED two ferryboats at Tuscumbia
and another at Florence, and afterwards dropped
down the river below Tuscunba
Sometime after dark the advance guard of the
Federals dashed into Tuscumbia and dispersed
the Rebel cavalry. who fled to the mountains.
Col Corwn occupied the town and issued an or
der eyying assessments on the wealthy Rebel
inhabitants
On the 25th Col. Corwn proceeded into the in
terror taking considerable plumber with him.
Nothing is published concerning the further
progress OF the raid.
The same paper complains bitterly Of numer-
Gus atrocities committed by the Yankee troops
fire occurred in Evansville yesterday de
stroying FIVE buildings Loss considerable.