Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-16
MORNING REPORT.
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS
LATER FROn TEXAS.
The Texas Rebels en- route to
Mobile and Atlanta.
OPERATIONS AT MOBILE.
THE CITY UNDER FARRAGUTS GUNS.
Condition of the Fleet.
Grant and Sheridan Inactive.
The Rebels i'm Force i'm the Shen-
andOah valley.
THE CITY UNDER FARRAGUrS GUN,
Condition of the Fleet
Grant and Sheridan Inactive
The Rebels i'm Force i'm the Shen-
andOah valley.
&c. &c, &C., &c &c.


NEw YORK. Sept l5-we have news from
Texas papers as late as the 2lst
An order has been issued by Kirby Smith to
enroll all male negroes, free and slave, for army
service.
Shreveport correspondent says:
| lPolgny and Walkers divisions have crossed
the Mississippi, and are said toihave gone to
Mobile
The correspondent thinks they will not stop
short of Atlanta
A destructive FIRE occurred at Gaveston on
the 9th
Brownsville is reported almost entirely de
serted
The Federals have fortified Brazos Santiago
and will probably remain there to close the port
and then blockade again.
The Herald's correspondent with Sheridan on
the 18th, SAYS:
Yesterday reconnaissance developed the fact
that the enemy is still in force IN the vicinity OF
Bunker Hill A short but sharp skirmish
ensued
The Herald's correspondent in front of Peters
burg. with the 9th corps, gays:
Deserters continue to report great dissatisfac-
tion among the rebel soldiers
new regulation has been established that
if a rebel soldier advances beyond bis post with
out his muskst, be is TO be fired on by his com
rades If he comes forward with his piece, of
course he is likely to be fred on by our pickets
The lst DIVISION 9Th corps has been consoli-
dated with the ID and 3D.
The Herald's Mobile Bay correspondence OF
the 4th says:
Everything is quiet, and there is no probabil-
lty OF immediate military movements upon Mo
bile
The sunken rebel iron clad Baltic still effectu-
ally blockades the main channel across the Dog
river har hutt tha In
monitor, has found passage through the obstruc-
ton to point nearly opposite Mobile. aud can
drop eleven and fifteen inch shells into the city
The Metacomet, Sebago and Kennebec have
also reached the same place and are in line OF
battle ready to shell the city at signal from
Farragut.
Mobile is literally at our mercy
The distance of the war vessels above Mobile
is but three and half miles, and their largest
rihed guns can throw shells into the rem0test
suburbs
The rebel rams and gunbosts are in plain
sight, but do not make the slightest hostile dem
onstratiOn. They seem to have had enough OF
Admiral Farragut and his feet in the recent com
bat.
The rebel vessels referred TO are the rams AL
ALBANIA National and Tuscaloosa, the gunboat
Morgan, and one other. name not known. They
remain above the city in the mouth of the Ala
oama river and Just out OF range.
The gunboat J p Jackson mas succeeded in
capturing the largest one OF the three launches
that have been lowering around the Mississippi
Sound of late with the object of attacking the
Teutonia.
The launch had on board a hOwitzer and other
evidences of warlike character, as stated in a
late Mobile paper.
General Granger's troops have constructed
splendid fortiications at Cedar Point and other
places, so that il Hoods whole army should re-
inforce Mobile and attack our position, with the
assistance of the gunbosts the enemy could be
easily kept at bay.