Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-09
Terrible Storm at Greenwood.
Large Arrival of Cotton at Cairo
Wore About Charleston.

CIxcixxArf. April --The entire Union ticket
was elected by nnjority averaging about 200
The Democrats elect six COuncilmen. and the
Union men fourteen. The Union majority in
the rev Council, including those holding over. Is
eleven The total vote OF the city is % 600
A special to the Commercial from Murfrees-
borO SAYS:
A batch of Rebel papers just received are filled
With Trades against contractors and grief over
short supplies The Charleston Mercury saws:
The Yankees evacuated Jackson vile with all
their stolen property just before the Rebels, un-
der General Fennigan, had got in readiness to
attack
Adyices from Mississippi to April LIST report a
terrible storm at Greenwood. Trees we're blown
down. and four soldiers of the 47th Indiana killed
and two wounded.
The Rebels are building batteries on Yazoo
Pass, three miles from Greenwood
The ram Switzerland has been repaired, and
sent up Red River.
The Rebels are constructing feet of cotton
protected gunboats at Shreveport.
An expedition of gunboats went up the Yazoo
River on the LIST inst
Twenty two hundred bales of cotton arrived at
Cairo on Yesterday.
NEW York. April S.-The steamer America,
from Nicaragua, is below.
The World has the following:
WASHINGTON, April T-Offical information
was lately received at the War Department that
movement against Charleston had been initial
ed by landing a small Federal force near the zoo,
of James Island.
Private letters received to night from Com
riander Rodgers second i'm command under Ad
mira Dupont, also from Gen Hunter dated Fri
day, fully corroborates Rebel accounts Of the
landing of our forces on St Johns Island, and
the withdrawal OF the enemy's pickets. They
speak in the most sanguinary manner of the con-
templated movement resulting in great success,
no less than the fall of Charleston
The Department will probably have official
dispatches To morrow.
A correspondent at Hilton Head states that the
town of Plata Florida. was taken by negro
troops under Colonel Montgomery. Fifteen
Rebels. including a Lieutenant. were captured
Subsequently they returned to jacksonville
which place has also been evacuated and burned
A Port Royal letter states that two commits
stoned officers and three men were captured by
Rebels, while route from Fort Pulaski tC
| Ogeechee River; also, an important mail.
An immense meeting was held at the Academy
81 last night, to provide for the suffering poor o.
! Ireland. Addresses were made by General Me
/ Cleilan. Bishop Hughes and others.
WASHINGTON, April S-Hon. John Tucker
late Secretary oil War, has published pamphle
addressed to Secretary Stanton, and replying &c
! charges made bv the Committee of the Senate, u
chartering transports for the War Department
| Il is a complete vndication of his official con
duct
| ST. Louis. April o--Official returns Civ,
! Chauncey j Filey, Radical candidate for Mayor
2,64i majority over Oliver ID FIlley, COnserva
| tive. and / $50 over Joseph O'Niel. Copperhead
! The combined Radical and Conservative vot,
| gives majority of 1856 over the Democratic
vote The entire Radical ticket received abou
the majority Chauncey j Fiiiey.