Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-21
TELEcRAPHIc.
From New York.


NEw YoRK. March l9-The banks generally
advanced the rate OF interest to per cent but
the street loans we're freely made at sac per
cent
The 25th Ohio, 440 men, arrived from home
to day en- route to South Carolina.
A special to the Commercial from Washing
ton says:
Gen. Grant is expected Wednesday next.
accompanied by his wife, who will remain in
Washington.
Rumors have been received here of a rebel
demonstration on Norfolk but no crcdence is
given them. Our forces are well prepared for
them.
A special to the Post dated Washington, March
49, says:
The Naval Committee OF the House has taken
nearly 9D0 pages of testimony in its investigation
of the affairs OF the Navy Department. There is
not particle Of evidence yet produced to show
that the Department has been mism ,naged.
Mr.. Qnintard. of the Morgan Iron Works.
testified before the Committee that that cs'nb-
lishmeut has lost sl50000 by its contracts for
iron work for the Government
A to days Philadelphia dispatch from Gull
pepper c. H. says:
The signal officers on Cedar Mountain re-
ported Yesterday that the rebels who have been
camped across the Rapdan all winter broke up
their encampment. set fire TO their huts aud then
marched off in the direction of the Shenandoah
Valley
A special to the Post dated Albany. March 10,
says:
The Canal Board have adopted report in ia
vor of enlarging the Erie and Oswego Canals.
The plan is 20 widen these canals and enlarge the
locks so as to admit large vessels
The Hendersol,, N. O.. Times states that nine
tenths of the people of that county have signed a
petition to Governor Vance, asking him to call a
State Convention.
NEW YORK. March 20-The statement that
the Government has seized or threatened TO seize
certain locomotive shops at the North is unfoun-
ded.
We learn that the locomotive manufacturers
have responded cheerfully 10 the request of the
authorities for large supply Of locomotives
The Times Washington special says the ex-
element about threatened raid by Stuart has
subsidized.
A detachment of the enemy crossed the Rap
pthannOrk at Fredericksburg on Wednesday
night and the following day Col. Ryan of the
18th Pennsylvania cavalry captured twenty of
them.
On Friday morning detachment of the enc.
my crossed at Mortons Ford and drove in the
9TH Michigan pickets but were subsequently, re-
pulsed and forced 10 cross the river.
The second corps discharged all their pieces on
Saturday forenoon perhaps this my account for
the report of the firing heard at Duniries
There are other indications of rebel demon
STATIONS not proper to state.
Stuart is masSing bis cavalry at Charlottesville
where he has three brigades and two nj Fred
ericksburg.
The report that the enemy had effected cross
ing at Racoon Ford is not correct
The LIST Michigan. veteran cavalry. twelve
hundred strong, went to the front last Satur-
day.
Twelve deserters from The 10Th Louisiana have
arrived within lines within the last three DAYS
They had got hold Of the Presidents proclama-
ton. distributed in Fitzpatrick raid.
The Herad's New Orleans letter of the 18th
says that Col Tevis yah the 81 Maryland Cav
airy arrived Yesterday from Jacksonville They
had secuted. from jacksonville. nearly all the
country between the Tange2ato and Pearl rivers
The 9Th and 10Th bittalions of Louisiana cav
airy we're driven from the Chappala River, and q
number OF them captured; also some blood
hounds with which they had been hunting cor-
scripts.
Thirty negroes captured by the rebels from
plantation near Fort Pike, we're re aiken ON the
9th. There was not an armed rebel within sixty
miles of jacksonville, except possibly few
straEglers.
number of rebel soldiers paroled at Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson. endeavoring to escap,
couscription. have been brought in by forces
Large quantities of cotton discovered il
the country through which our forces passed, bu
could not be removed, for lack of transportation
The sentiment of the people was unmistakabl,
Union.
portion of the 81 Maryland consists Of 40l
formerly rebel soldiers. from Fort Delaware
who took the oath of allegiance aud enlisted
There have been no desertions from it in face o
the enemy
The cavalry marched l40 miles before return
Ing here by steamer from jacksonville.
The Herald's West Virginia dispatch of tn,
18Th SAYS all quiet in the Shenandoah Valley
The latest information from the Kanawha Val
ley does not confirm the rumor that an enemy
force is marching Barboursvlle
There is no positive indication that the enem,
contempates AN extensive raid in the kanawhi
region.
Still the truth is that the enemy are preparin!
IN the neighborhood of New River for an as We