Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-07

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BALTIMORE, MAJ 2, 1854
REPORT or rue CAPTURE OF NEwsERS.

REPORT TuE CAPTURE OF NEWBERS.
IL is reported here to-day. that Washington at
the head Of PamlicO Sound ia North Carolina
sa- evacuated by the Union forces on Thursday
Of last week that, on the 9th ult.. the enemy
in strong force appeared before Nesbern. in
vested that place closely on all sides. and de-
nnauded is surrender. Besides The roucad gun
boats. the reoels are said TO have at the mouth
of Neuse River their iron-clad battery for
sharpshooters and three powerful rams The
land forces are said TO consist of the same troops
Who captured Plymouth. reinforced By some other
brigsdes that were at that time At Kingston aud
Wilmington. the whole under command of
Major General Picket They are said to be
twelve hou.and strong. IL this report is true,
there can be little doubt that ewbern has fallen
and that ali our military stores. munitions Of
war aud artillery, both at that place and at
Washington. are now Ia the hands OF the rebels.
From the information which ! get from other
sources. am satisfied tLat The report is true, or
At least that il will be verified by the events that
will ,ranspre in few days. II the loyal people
OF the North were deceived BY the plausible as
snrance of General Butler, THAT be had sent
feet of gunboats down TO Aibemarle Sound 10
DESTROY the rebel ram and retake Plymouth"
the rebel authorities were not. They knew that
our little force at Newbern and Washing ton and
cur works at those places. were st their mercy,
from the moment that their ironclsd vessels and
ram. from the head waters of the Roa noke River,
had glided over and past the himsy distractions
above Plymouth
WHEN THE REBEL TROOPS ~ NORTH CAROLINA WILL
CONE NORTH.
When Newbern is captured the Union forces
will no longer have ioOthold in North Carolina.
The whole of that State will then have to be
abandoned to the tender mercies of the rebels, as
Texas, Florida. Northern Louisiana and Eastern
Tennessee have recently been abandoned: and
then the fifteen thousand or twenty thousand
rebel troops now in North Carolina will be
ported rapidly 10 Richmond, and will take an
important part in Gen Lees Northern campaign.
The idea that the rebel forces in that State would
abandon it. aud would fOrego the capture of
Newborn with its vast stores OF artillery, etc. at
a time when that olace was completely within
their power, an idea worthy OF Butler But
no military officer with any pretenslOns to com
mon sense could have credulIty enough to be
lieve it.
DEVELOPMENT OF GEN. JoHNsToNs CAMPAIGN To
WARD THE SoREH.
1t is understood at Richmond that Gen. Grant
has drawn largely upon the Union forces in the
W est. in order that he may have sufficiently
large army in Virginia for his campaign in the
East. IL is believed by the rebel leaders that
two whole army corps have been withdrawn from
Sherman near Chattanooga and sent east for that
purpose, and that other points in the West. and
even one point on the Mississippi river, have been
greatly weakened by the withdrawal of certain
divisions and brigades which have been sent to
the same destination. / have no means Of
knowing. and state to you frankly that do not
know, whether such movements have been made
or not. only know that at Richmond they are
A
lar corps ana divisions thus moved, their officers
and the route they took in order to reach Viz
GINA. are said to be no secrets the reoel War
Department.
RESULTS OF FORESTS MOVEMENTS.
1t is said also that, in consequence of these
movements, General Sherman has been so
weakened that he will be compelled To postpone
his contemplated advance on Atlanta; and the
opinioned is even expressed that lie will be unable
to maintain himself ana keep open his communi-
cations at Chattanooga. but will be under the
necessity OF falling back to Shelbyville and the
line Of Duck river, and possibly even to Nash
vile The recent campaign OF Gen Forrest in
Western Kentucky and Tennessee, and his rapid
march just accomplished from Memphis to Holly
Springs in Mississippi, and thence TO Decatur in
Northern Alabama. no doubt the precursors
of the grand aggressive rebel movement IN the
West but il is regarded also at Richmond as an
extensive reconnaissance in force. His couriers,
whom he sent daily to the rebel capital (lor he
would not trust to the telegraph.) are said to
have brought the most startling and important
intelligence in regard to the military status in
Tennessee and Kentucky, aud the state of feeling
there among the people.
GENERAL JoHNsToN's ARMY TO MOVE IMMEDIATELY.
At all events. it is believed by the quid nuncs
- 4.
TO begin the movement which WAS shadowe Ell
forth IN my letter of the l4,h utimO. General
Sherman : whole force. including all his detach-
men,s. even those at Huntsville and Decatur,
which may have been by this time gobbIed up by
Forrest. is thought by them to be now. not
sixty thousand men,, while General Johnston has
fully seventy-hve thousand troops Thew be-
eve that now i the suspicious moment for them
TO strike the blow which they have been med
tating - long for the repOssessiOn of the whole
OF Tennessee and all of Kentucky west OF Lex
lngiOn. ana for the invasion of Indiana and Ohio.
The disprOp0rtion between their forces aud ours
in the W est. they say. never more marked
than now, while the disaffecton existing all over
Kentucky. in consequence OF the forced enlist
meut OF negro soldiers from the border States.
will be equal 10 them TO a reinforcement OF 90
900 men and many horses. They think that
Gen. Grants movement GA Richmond must take
place before the middle of Nav that every
available soldier in the West has been sent To
swell his army and they believe that the gus
which open ms cannOnade will be the signal Tor
johnson To begin his northward march.
EFFECT or THE RED RIVER DISASTER AT RICHMOND.
The rebels at Richmond are iubilant over their
recent victories. which they regard a bright har-
bingers of the result OF the whole Summer cam
paisn. IL cannot be denied and indeed it will
soon be very evident AT the NORTH that our de-
feat on Red River was IL victory. the fruit, of
which they will continue to reap for months to
come IL Is said that in connection with this
victory, arrangements foot bv which the
rebel Generals in the Valley of the Mississippi
will Join their forces expel all the Union troops
from Arkansas and Missouri, seize and iortify st
Louis. occupy Cairo capture Memphis. and Ike
such other measures will entirely close the
navigation OF the Mississippi river. Their chief
object aud great inducement in doing this will be
to again obtain control of the country west of
the Mississippi. particularly Southern Arkansas
and Northern louisiana so as 10 be able TO make
the productions OF those two States. and above
all the productions of Texas. available TO the
Coniederacy.
PANIC AT RICHMOND.
There is terrible panic at Richmond, owing
20 the apprehensiOns that are felt there OF the
capture of that city by Generals Grant and But
leT; but it affects the rebels in a different way
from the panic which experienced AT Harris-
burg before the battle of Gettysburg AT Rich
mand, money. such as il i. is plenty. and bust
ness Is very lively The stores are crammed