Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-02
DAILY SENTINEL,
TelegraphiC Dispatches.
srrOHrrD s1rursstr ,Os rHr DAILY STAN srsrIsrL.
MORNING REPORT.
The ARMY OF TIE POTOMAC.
Preparations for the Coming
Conflict.
BRILLIANT VICTORY IN ARKANSAS.
The Rebel Price OutgeneraIed.
EXCITING MILITARY RACE.
CONG IL ESSI ONAL NE WS.
Negro Soldier. 10 be Placed on an
Equality with the Whites.
&c &c &C &O
xcIriNc MILITARY RACE.
&C., &C., &C., &C.


/ NEw York, April 30.-A special to the Times
saws:
Officers from the front to night profess to be-
lleve that active operations will not be com
nenced just now.
The enemy is busily engaged in throwing up
earthworks and digging rifle pits. covering vari-
Gus iords along the Rapdan.
The rebel picket has been strengthened along
the whole iront and extended further down the
river toward our left.
Picket firing is again resumed and small skir-
mshes take place almost daily on the out
posts
There is no truth in the report of the rebels
concentrating large force ia the Shenandoah h
Vale, near Front Royal
The rebel iOrce ia the Valley is E.rlys dvs-
ion. of E~ell's corps, which troops there out
humber Two 10 one
Early's forces are augmented by irregular cav
airy. of lmboden, White. Mosby aud Gilmore,
AID Go not ia all amount to six hundred
Something important is expected before long
from Gen Averill
Burnside visited Gen Grant to day on bus-
CONNECTED with his Department
The rumor that Hooker has come on from
the West aud was at Harper's Ferry is utterly un
iOunded
special to the World says;
Senator Howe has prepared resolution which
he will ofsr to morrow, Tor the appointment OF
c"mmlttee 10 investigate charges preferred
by Blair in his speech, and also officers Of the
Treasury Dep ,riment, which has just come to
light IN the currency and printing bureau.
caucus OF Republican Senators was held to
day upon The abpve subject aud ii decided to
have this matter thoroughly investigated
The new fifty per cent extra duty Oh imported
goods went into operation at l O'Clock this after
hoOn
The merchants who had come forward in ex-
traordn'ry numbers after the new tariff bill was
Introduced tU Congress- were, from the hour
mentioned, quite Indifferent To the withdrawal
OF these goOGs, and the press of business has
come to a close.
The receipts atihe Custom House for duties
have reached, duri the present week, the i'm
meuse figure of uenrl, re million of dollars. al
most exclusively in coin
A Specml TO tue Commercial dated Washing.
ton 80. says:
The bark bill Will be passed by the Senate on
Monday. with locl and State taxation, although
earnest opposition il IN ,de Io IT,
Ii l. underio0d that the Union National Con-
ventlOn are periecting arrangements tor the Bal
timOre Convention None oi its members have
advocated puslI ouement. The railroad c0mpa-
MES have declined to pass delegates at reduced
fares
special to the Post dated Washington 80,
says:
There is nothing from the ARMY of the
Potomac The rebel army is quiet
There is no probability that the War Depart
ment will grant the request Of the Pennsy yIvans
Legislature, TO muster OuL the Reserves for that
State in Nav
Ii is expected that the Senate bill. raising the
pas of colored soldiers. will pass the House to-
day
Gen Shepley late military Governor of Lou
isrna. is now Governor of Norfolk
Lite news from New Orleans 18th, reports
nothing important having occurred at Grand
Ecore
The Sth Indiana has arrived at New Orleans
from VI tagorda
Gen. Wetzel would leave New Orleans on the
23d. tor a command in Virginia.
small fleet had gone 40 the Wachta river
sperial to the Herald saws:
Chase IL still absent, but II has been ascer-
tanned that he has no intention OF resgnng his
position, AT least not until all charges against
HIM has been investigated
The Worlds correspondence dated Fortress
Monroe 2S SAYS:
We have to-dav another exciting rumor in re-
gard to affairs in North Carolina Report is that
Little " ashington captured by the rebels on
Monday, aud that the investment of Newbern
would Immediately follow
The steamer YazOo arrived this morning from
New Orleans 2lSl. She brings no news of in
pOrtance
letter from Alexandria the 18TH saws all is
quiet at Grand Ecore The enemy Is still around
u. and hone when we are ready tor for
ward movement again they will not be want.
ing
The same letter confirms the death OF the reb
el Gen Greene. in fight with the gunboats
Red RIVER j. slowly falling but the Mississippi
is rising ias', and rise is expected in conse-
quence in Red River
Gen. Stone ard Others of Banks staff had ar
rived en-route for New Orlean.
The steamer C,tA~ba. from New York with
SIX hundIed troops had arrived ~ New Orleans
The Newberu Times OF the 9th, saws on Fri.
day l'sr large rebel force appeared in front of
Little Washington. hut their lines were soon
scattered and Il is said vigorous stampede to-
ward Richmond commenced