Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-19
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Noon Reports.
W A SHI NGT0N NE W S.
The Rebels Preparing to In
wade Ohio.
Their POntOOns on the Way TO
the Ohio.
THE POSITION OF JOHNS0NpS ARMY.
John Morgan Preparing for a Raid.
A Large Auction Sale of
Wool.
&C., &C., &C., &c.
&C., &C., &C., &c.
From New York

NEw York. February ls-The steamer Nc
Clellan from the mouth of the Mississippi anC
key West on the lth. has arrived
She lett at Kew W est the steamer Demaly with
troops; also the Tioga Metacomet and Huntsville
also the prize steamer Cumberland, captured q
few davs previous by the gunboat De Soto. Sh,
had cargo of ammunition &c F., and was bound
from Havana 10 Mobile
Special TO the Herald dated W sshing ton Feb
ruary 18TH says
lt j. understood that on the 22l Of February
Mr. Lincoln will issue PrOcl tmation of uni
yeTsai emancipation, including the Border States
IL j. probable the Committee of Conference
will agree on some plan similar 10 that Of the
Senate in regard TO the tax on whisky.
Special to the Times dated Washington Feb
ruarv l7th, says:
The Committee on the Conduct of the War
will soon examine into the causes OF the inactiv-
ity of the ironclad fleet off Charleston
Special TO the Tribune dated Washington Feb
ruary I7th. saws:
Brig Gen Mitchell was to-day relieved of
duty as President of the general Court Martial,
and ordered West
The Court j. thus reduced to less than a min
imum ana therefore di>sol ed
The World'S special dated Washington Feb
ruary l7h. saws:
IL is understood that every member of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee believes the House res
oiu'ion foriei'ing the property of rebels beyond
the lie estate, to te unconstitutional
Ii was stated at the W,r Department and Pro
vost MarShals office 10 day that il will be next
TO impossible to carry out and fully execute the
new enrolment hiil IN the coming draft
The gold bill of the WAYS and Means Com
mlttee will he extensi, ely debated
The House Military Committee to day discus.
sed the question OF changing the Provost MIR
shals office To make the head of that Depart
ment Brigader. Ii will probably be adopted.
The object Is 10 get rii of Col. Fry
The Conference Committee on the Conscrp-
ton act met to-day.
he House Committee insist on 1900 as COM
mutation end the Senate side urged S4n0. ard
that it apply an exemption to one draft
The Ways and Means Committee are to re-
port next week the amended tax bull on tobacco
petroleum &c.
1t Is hardly thnushs a additional tax will be
placed manufacturers In the new bill.
HEADQUARTERs DEP,RrMENT WESTERN VA f,
February l1th "A correspondent OF the Herald
at Gallipolis Ohio informs me that he has had
an interview with Mr. Wyhart, a fugitive and es
capped conscript from near Jefferson, \. c., and
that Mr.. W gives him important information as
follows:
About three weeks ago over 30 new long mar
row, open boxes, caulked and tarred, were sent
to Wytheville. Wythe county, Western Virginia.
These boxes were stolen pOntoons Officers had
arrived and sent out men TO collect strong, light
wagons, aud horses, fcom the farmers in the
heighborhoUd. IL was whispered among mil
itary men that there would soon be raid into
Ohio, and that the pontnons referred to would be
drawn overland To the Kanawha river and worked
and tloared down the Ohio. and that the same
would be crossed at two points, one column 60
ing by way of Barboursville and Guyandotte
1t was rumored and expected that troops wonld
arrive for concentration from both the Eastern
and Western rebel armies.
la regard to the above report | can only say
that rumors have been in circulation for some
time past OF mysterious movements on the line
OF the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.