Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-01
Noon Reports.
LATER FROM CHARLESTON.
ONE HALF OF THE CITY DAMAGED.
The Union Sentiment Quite Large.
The .srEaHsa COnrenfiOn.
Arkansas Made Free State
Forever.
WASHIN GTON NEWS
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WASHINGTON NEWS
EREL DEsERTIoNs


NEw YORK, January 3O.-A lady who left
Charleston on the llth of January gives impor-
tant information from there TO the Herald One
half of the city Is abandoned and damaged by
Gen. GmOres shells from the battery to
Wentworth street In about the middle of the city ,
all the houses are demolished or greatly dam
aged. while the earth and payements are ripped
up in all directions All the hotels are so much
injured to be closed except the Pavilion.
The effects OF the shelIng on Christmas day was
dreadful. several persons being in ured and
lady killed and the people wercthrown into pan
ic. The Hibernian Hall is demolished all the
banks and the postoffice damaged and the
newspaper Offices removed TO the extremity of
the city. Prices for everything are fabulous and
increasing. The Union sentiment Is quite large
and increasing. The couscription takes every
man not foreigner or incapable There were
forty batteries around the city. and reiniorcements
daily arriving
special to the Tribune dated Washington,
29th, SAYS:
Trustworthy intelligence says Iowa has fur
nishei her quota
virgiuian just from Berkeley county states
that rebel deserters are coming in in large mum
bers and taking the oath One company of them
have been sent to the field in service and
another is soon to follow.
Five Maryland deserters from the rebels ar
rived here and have taken the oath of allegiance
They represent that nearly all OF the Marylanders
in Lees army would do likewise if assured of
the lenient treatment in accordance with the
Presidents Amnesty Proclamation
A letter from Little Rock dated on the 17th
says
a Convention. composed of some of the most
respectable men from various parts of the State
some thirty countes-elecied delegates in fifteen
of them, and voted at their ordinary precincts
without the presence of single soldier Nearly
bO,UOO votes were cast. They are in session
now, and have engrossed the Constitution and
made Arkansas free forever. There was only
one dissenting voice. DIR. brakes, from Helena,
was in favor OF gradual emancipation
To this letter t NAV be added shat General
Steele has officially recognized the Convention
The Worlds special dated Washington Jan
uary 49, saws
Rumor prevailed to-day that large body of
guerriilas had crossed into Maryland. Investi-
CATION proved that it originated in twenty de
serters surrenderinS themselves to our forces.
The Times special dated Washington January
29. says:
1t is reported that the sickness of Vice Pres
iden Stephens, in Georgia, is regarded in official
circles a blind 10 cover open rupture with
Jelf DAVIS, his abandonment of the Richmond
administration, aud his public condemnation of
the rebellion.
The Military Committee of the House matu-
ring the recommendation to the President To mus
ter out OF service al unemployed general Of
iicers
The Judiciary Committee will probably report
resolution tor the Imprisonment OF Judge Nil
ler OF the U. ). District Circuit Court for charges
of malfeasauce on the Bench
The number Oi rebels in our hands, il is of
icially stated, are 1000 officers. and between
$1,000 and - 0J0 enlisted men. All rebel pris
oncrs OF war in the old Capitol, will he taken TO
Point Lookout To morrow
Sir. Sasson's till 70 regulate the purchase of
cotton, provides that army officers. So desgna
ted. may buy cotton of parties havin. il in their
possession with certificates OF ndebredne to be
paid after The rebellion is suppressed, and is
sued for only one halt the value of OF cotton on
seaboard ana directs that all cotton seized by
our forces shall be sold for account of the Gov
eminent under Treasury regulations
The Secretary OF the Treasury has opened the
ports OF Nicksburg aud Natchez: X X Hart,
Collector of the former and John Mcdowell of
the latter.
The Richmond Examiner of the 25th has an
article on the Presidential election in the United
States. which shows deep interest therein Ii
says:
u i evidei.t The whole solution OF the mighty
question which now agitates the country may
hang upon 1t /, j. safe to infer that any change
will be bcuefci ii To the South.
In the rebel Senate. oa the 3D. debate took
place on the bil TO employ free negroes aud
slaves in the army as laborers on military de-
fences or in military hospitals The bill includes
all male free negroes between the ages of Is aud
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The Examiner of the 25th says:
John Morgan will leave Richmond on We'd.
nesday or Thursday next for Decatur, Ga, where
hlS command j. assembling