Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-01
SUNDAY Night Dispatches
from Cincinnati.

Brig Gen. 4 Mclean has been appointed
Provost Mashal General OF the Department of the
Ohio, with his headquarters ut Cincinnati.
The Commercial has the following Southern
news:
The Appeal SAYS: Two gunboats have been
sunk at Vickshurg Col. Griersons cavalry
made another raid from Baton Rouge. capturing
and DESTROYING largeRebel camp. Pembertons
Qusrtermaster succeeded i'm running seven hund
red mules out Of Vicksburg. thereby reducing
the consumption o: Grierson has full
tons for ninety DAYS.
The Atlanta CommOnw of the 18th no
tees the arrival OF General Breckenridge at that
city.
a dispatch from Burnside to Bragg announcing
his determination TO hang all Rebel officers in
his hands ia case retaliation lor two spies tried and
executed in accordance with the ,ges of
should be resorel u. was Yesterday conveyed
from MurfreeSboro under Il Z of truce.
From Washington.
WAsHIxerox. Nav 81 The following tele-
gram received at the Navy Department
to day:
FLAG Sur BLACK HAWK. Miss SeuADRoSl
Near Vcksburg, May 25
SIR: | have the honor To inform YOU that the
expedition under Lieut.. Commander Walker,
after taking possession of the forts at Haine's
Bluff, perfectly successful
Three powerful steamers and a ram were de
stroyed at Yazoo City. The ram was a monster
30l feet long and 20 feet beam. and was to have
been covered with four inch iron plates The
fine navy yard with machine shoos of all kinds
blacksmith shops &c, were burnei The prop
ertv destroyed and captured amounted to over
So 900 900
Had the monster ram been finished she would
have given some trouble.
One battery WAS DESTROYED at Drury's Bluffs
Our loss i'm the expedition one killed and
seven wounded. DAVID ID PORTER.
Rear Admiral
4 telegram was received this afternoon from
Gen. Stah, dated Fairfax c II to day. in which
he says MOsby's cavalry, with 2l0 men and one
howitzer, attacked our train of near Catett's
Station Yesterday, aud the guard h ,ving escaped
he burnt the train. The locomotive is not much
damaged
Col Mann, OF the 9TH Michigan, who had com
mand in front. hearing heavy firing took "A por-
ton of his force and followed them two miles
from Greenwich, where they had taken very
strong position. Col. Mann charged the Rebels,
who replied with grape and canister, but we
dashed upon the Rebels aud took their guns
Col Mann returned at dark to his camp in
front. bringing in the captured artillery and all
our dead and wOnnded-ioug OF the former and
ten of the latter 1t very hot fight. We
took many prisoners, including Capt. Haskins,
an English officer in the Confederate service
tery Both OF these officers were so severely
wounded that they could not be removed, and
were paroed. The enemy loss was very heavy
in killed and wounded, and they were entirely
dispersed
From New York.
NV York. May 81 This mornings papers
print the following:
LHAvExwoRrH, Nav 29-Col Phillips com
manding the Indian Territory, had a severe fight
A, IL
enemy crossed the Arkansas river near Port
Gibson. Col Phillips drove them back Our
loss is 80 killed, and the enemy's much greater
The enemy lei by Generals Steele Cooper
and Mcintosh They are now massed in our
front, claiming | l 900 men and considerable ar
tillery. Wehave only 3 900 men and one battery.
but are well fortified. This is evidently the ad
vance of Prices main army
Dispatches from Fort Ltrned inform OF the
approach from the southwest Of a large Rebel
force of Texans and Indians designing to inter
cept the trains en- route 10 New Mexico
The guerrillas on the border are becoming
more numerous. The National force is made
quate Gen Blnnt. however, will ma Ike the best
possible fight
The Heralds Washington special has the fol-
lowing:
Recent arrangements relative to the exchange
of prisoners will restore about 4 900 men and 200
officers To duty.
The 1000 prisoners recently arrived at Mem.
phs will be sent to IndlnapoIis and Fort Della
ware.
Is believed operations by General Grant will
leave the balance of prisoners in our favor
Times dispatch states that Mosby's guerril.
las destroyed ten and a locomotive on the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Gen Stahl
afterwards gave the guerrillas sound Ihrashing,
capturing number OF men and two pieces OF
artillery. At last accounts our cavalry were pur-
suing them
Potomac dispatch Of the 30th says the Reb-
els helda grand review near Hamilton Crossing
OH the 29th
RumorS are rife of a cavalry skirmsh at Bea
town Station.
There are indications of All attack by Lee. but
all is quiet
Newbern dates Of the Goth state that there
were indications OF another expedition about TO
start for the interior gnerrillas A
large body of troops we're notified to be i'm re iii
ness TO leave and gunbOats and light draft trans
ports were being fitted up for the occasion.
Preparations were being made AT all points and
at Newbern to receive large numbers of Rebels
who have been lately making suspicious move
ments
southern News
MURFRhEsBoRo, My 80 The Chattanooga
Rebel of the 29ih has the following under date Of
Mobile, May p:
Reports from below Vicksburg state that Banks
crossed with his army at Bayou Sara
Grant sent in az Of truce yesterday. regard
ing the sick and wounded:
The slaughter of the Federals was TAR greater
in the assaults upon Nicksburg than in any battle
of the war.
The MissisSppian OF Tuesday SAYS:
The battle of Saturday before Vicksburg was
the most stubborn one Of all
The Quartermaster at Canton saws that the
snkee gunboais have left Yazoo CITY
RICHMOND, Nav 27-Private dispatches from
Canton. say that all was well. Yesterday yicks
burg holds out bravely
The Chattanooga Rebel saws that Capt; De
Myers Of the Georgia cavalry was killed in the
skirmish near Readyvie on the Both
The same paper believes the Army of the
Cumberland IS in better condition 10 day than il
has been at any time since the battle OF Murfrees
boro. 1t also thinks that Rosecrans reinforced
Grant
The Rebel thinks that yalianiighaIn's chances
for being Governor of Ohio are very fair. With
such a man Tor President Of the United States, se
could always have peace.
SHELBYyILLE. Nav - --yallandighsm is still
here, bet will 60 10 Virginia. in few DAYS
Additional Foreign News.
-NEw YoRK, May 3I.-L,vard stated in Par
lament that the British Consul at Mobile was
promptly dismissed for stopping specie on a
fl-h