Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-02
L.sTEsT FROM THE sOUrH
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
English Press on the Polish Question
THE COURSE OF RUSSIA DENOUNCED
IN LONDON.
LATER NEWS FROM KENTUCKY


Herald says:
Intelligence received 10 night from Winchester,
Va, shows that by the recent reconnaissance il
has been ascertained that there is no rebel force
within thirty FIVE miles of that place
A special to the Times says:
Under the stringent enforcement of the order
issued recently by Gen. Heintzeman disloyal in
habitants in that vicinity find it almost imposs
bic to maintain communication with their friends
across the border.
T.. O. S2auldirg. of Buffalo, has been men
toned today as the possible appointee to the va
cant office Of Comptroller Of Finances
1t is said that the President positively refuses
for the present to grant authority to laise any
more negro regiments.
A special To the World SAYS:
The President will visit the Army of the Poto-
mac to morrow, the weather permitting.
special to the Tribune from Gen. COUGHS
headquarters. dated 3lst says:
Major General Howard commanding the ID
division of COUGHS corps, has been assigned
temporarily TO command Sigel's corps. General
Gbbon has been assigned to command Towards
division.
Recent rains and snow storms have left the
roads in very bad condition.
The War Department to day finally finished
the list Of Provost Marshals for the several
States They will be announced IN a few DAYS
Arrangements have been completed for the
change of all Union officers held by the Rebels.
The day after the announcement of the inten-
ton of the Medical Department to manufacture
its own quinine the price declined 33 per cent
The Department has received proposals offering
TO furnish it at the reduction OF 40 cents per
ounce
INV YORK. April 1.-The steamer City of
Washington, from Liverpool March Is, and
n,,o NJ, 80 a.;
morning
Parliamentary proceeding were not of import
ance.
The Polish question has assumed great promi
hence
An important French diplomatic correspond
ence has been published, showing the gravity of
the Polish question.
The French Senate has been debating petitions
in favor of Poland.
An influential meeting in London denounced
the course of Russia, and called for cessation
of diplomatic intercourse with her until reform
was brought about The morning Post sounds
threatening and warlike on this question, but the
Times repudiates the idea OF breaking off inter
course.
The Polish instruction shows no change Re
ports continue obscure.
Other Continental news is unmportant.
a Polish Legion, fully equipped is forming
in London. for Poland.
The Daily News does not the smallest sign
of the North stopping the war, or of combining its
operations 10 the question of a boundary.
| The Confederate Loan has been formally in
troduced into the market, and with success 1t
/ is FIVE per cent premium, and attracts attention
and causes some debate IL will receive no Off
| cial sanction however, in the stock exchange.
| The preliminaries of prize fight have been
arranged between Heenan and King
\ C,pf Inca NJ he Rrtish bark Crusoa ho
arrived here yesterday from ST. Thomas, March
| 18th, reports that the English screw steamer
! Pet, from England, and the Ives, which had pre-
/ viously landed cargo of cotton in Porto Rico
/ from Mobile, had both sailed on the 18th for
! Secessia
The British frgate Phaeton sailed in company
with the Pet and Ives as convoy.
The British steamer Neptune arrived the same
day from England. She was to start for a Con
federate port in few days
! By the City OF Washington We have the fol
/ lowing:
An important engagement occurred on the 10th
at Londek. Poland The Russians were com
| PEELED to retreat, and the town WAS burned The
| insurgents numbered 1900
A Hilton Head letter of the 9th says:
! wrote you day or two since account OF
the alarming deSttution existing in the city OF
| Savannah. Since then We have received into our
! lines several deserters from the Rebel deenses az
| Austins Bluffs and Thunderbot who more than
confirm nv statements. They affirm that the
| daily ratiOns OF the troops consist of tour ounces
! of bacon and seven of cOrn-meal In consequence
of their privations very MANY of the Rebel troops
are falling sick and are all eigning sickness. The
last lot of de>erters who came in assert that only
for the fact that they kept at inside post duty
the entire regiments TO which they belong would
desert
From what is deemed To be source entirely
Trustworthy learn that all the women and child
rem had been ordered out of Savannah. They
/ left the city on Monday and Tuesday. This
measure was induced not more by fear of at
tack than by the inability of the commanding
General to subsist troops while so many non
combattants were to be fed
\ LOUISVILLE, April An official Somerset
despatch says:
Gen Gillmore's forces attacked the Rebels un
der Pegram in strong position near Somerset
Yesterday, and fought them from five TO six
hours. and whipped them badly, driving them
4 toward the river. The Rebels Outnumbered US
two TO one. Our loss not exceeding 80 Rebel
loss not stated.
NEW YoRK, April 1.-The steamer Shedrake
from Havana on the 25th ultimo, has arrived.
There is nothing later from Mexico, and all is
quiet at st. Domingo.
The prize steamer Mary Jane from Nassau
has arrived. She captured off Wilmington
and bad cargo of sal! and coffee
Two more gunboats were launched. yesterday
ToRoNro. G. W, April 1.-The Welland Ca.
nal will be navigabe on the 18th inst.