Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-14
Night Report.

SrRiSosIELp, ILL.. Feb. 10 Resolutions ere
passed in the House TO day that as the canal
bill j. defeated in Congress, the Governor be au.
thorized 10 appoint commissioners TO visit P,rlia.
ment and apply for improved transportation to
the Atlantic.
CAmo, Feb. l3.--Leves on the Mississippi side
OF the river IL miles below Helena ut Zuzoo Pass
have been cut by our forces They have also
been cut at Greenvie and in Arkansas opposite
Lakes plantation.
CAIRO. Feb. l3-Memphis papers of the 10Th
are received. -
The Rebel advance in Mississippi is said to be
at Oklahoma. trying To- repair the railroad
The inclemency OF the weather DELAYS the
movements by way OF Tuscumbia
1t Is renorted that the enemy has moved u large
part of their army from Virginia to Vicksburg
and have also u,ken from Mobile all the garrison
except 900 men for police duty.
The railroad from Selma, Ala, 10 Meridian
Miss, is completed, thus enabling the Conieder
ates to rapidly concentrate their forces at Vicks
burg.
The enforcement of conscription is driving
many from Alabama and Mississippi North.
In consequence OF frequent violation of regu
latlons against carrying contraband articles
South more vigorous measures are To be resort
ell TO.
Downward bound boats are frequently stopped
and baggage examined.
n steamer from Vicksburg Monday reports a
barge loaded with coal as having run the block.
AIDE.
WAsuISGroS, Feb. l3.-The report of the
Committee on Territories made by Senator
Wade 10 day, in answer TO n resolution, shows
that the Utah Legislature suppressed the Gov
errors message OF that Territory; that no free
dom of suffrage j. allowed or opinions tolerated
in opposition 10 church dignity; that polygamy is
practiced TO the fullest extent; that there is no
law giving redress To abuse to the married rela
ton, and that the Mormons are openly inimical
to the Government of the United States though
IN popular phrase steadiast advocates of the Con
stituuOn.
From the tenor of dispatches by the foreign
steamer it is thought that the feeling III regard to
the American war is slightly improved not only
in Great Britain but on the Continent
The House has done nothing more as yet with
the Senate banking bill than ordering it to be
printed
A conrt of inquiry has been ordered to INQUIRE
and report whether any and what officers in SER
vice have been engsged directly or indirectly in
the traffic in cotton or other produce in the
Mississippi river or tributaries The court will
organize at Cairo and hold its sessions at such
places as most convenient.
The Navy Department has received iniorma.
ton OF the capture by the United States schooner
Hope, of the schooner Emma futile, on January
18th. off Charleston. She purported to be from
Nassau. bound for Baltimore. though at the lime
OF her capture she was steering southeast. The
vessel has been condemned unseaworthy but
the cargo. most of which is contraband. consist
Ing OF saltpetrc, has been sent 10 Philadelphia;
also. the greater portion of her crew This
schooner was taken once before, but her crew
succeeded in recapturing her.
BALTIMORE Feb ia dispatch from Gen.
Kelley. dateu Harper's Ferry, February 18th,
SAYS:
Yesterday about o'clock a squad of Bayley's
Rebel cavalry attacked a small scouting party of
the 18th Pennsylvania cavalry from Kearneys
vile Our party consisted OF IL men: of which
number We had killed, , wounded, and were
captured. We also lost several horses. About
p. NJ my scouts from here fell in with the same
! party few miles south of Charlestown. After IA
running fight of several miles men and horses
were recaptured, also Lieutenant Bayley, . of his
men and several horses.
NEW YoRK. Feb. l3.-Capt. Curtis, of the
brig Samuel Churchman. from Morgoane. reports
that on FEB A. latitude a. longitude IS, he saw
large steamer painted black. steering west; she
stood toward Us by night. A heavy rain coming
on aud thick weather.. he lost sight of her. He
supposed her 10 be the Alabama.