Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-02-17
THREE O'CLOCK A. NJ.

NEv York. February l6
confederate agent named Cartel committed
suicide yesterday while the officers attempted e
arrest him.
The Times gives the particulars of The ideu,i
fcation of Beall. the pirate and sentenced to b,
hung yesterday
The steamer Philo Parsons was brought her,
from Detroit and selected Beall among party o
twenty At the time the clerk came here Id
was not aware Of the arrest of Beall. and offeret
the sail keeper $4,000 in gold to allow him tc
escape
The Times Washington special says the west
ern senators and members of congress wer,
backed no By the delegations from Indiana, snc
are pressing McCulloch's name as the new sec
rotary of the Treasury Their argument is the,
require projection for western interests agains
the peculiar influences of ths east in the fnan
cial policy OF the government.
The Herald's New Orleans correspondent SAYS
Nearly all the rebel troops, about 80, 000 hsv,
evacuated Arkansas They are in the vicinity
of Shreveport and Alexandra. and vel
clothed by supplies received through Matamoras
In General Walker attempting TO get his com
mand TO the east side of the Mississippi. to s
sist Hood. his men positively refused to move
several hundred of them deserted.
Sterling Price was recently sent to Mexico BY
Kirby Smith On some kind of mission.
The Tribunes Savannah special says in our
recent movement Colonel Swain, of Ohio, los,
a leg Lieutenant Kirby, of General Blain's staff
was wounded
The correspondent says the immediate objec
tive point of the 18th corps was midway on the
South Carolina railroad, ten miles west oil
Branchville, and near Smiths fork of the
Edisto
The rebels obstructed the road over Sisters
Ferry with felled trees, placing timbers among
them in such position that they would be ex
ploded by an attempt to remove them
The Heralds Savannah correspondent. speak
ing of the probable convention IN Georgia
saws:
II the convention assemblies the doctrine OF
state rights will again be INDICATED and the state
by the people constitutionally expressed through
the convention, will secede from the confederacy
and return to the union
The draft all one way The current daily
strengthens and in a short time will be able to
sweep over all obstacles.
Some Georgia union men predict that the state
will secede within sixty days
The Worlds Savannah correspondent think
Sherman will soon effect junction with Soho
field, who is supposed TO be moving from Viii
mington
The Richmond Enquirer. in article on the
rebel public debt, says the army is hatless, shoe
less, naked, hungry and suffering. 1t recon-
mends the impressment of cotton, tobacco meat
forage, negroes and treasury bonds. 1t thinks
that the currency can be made valuable bv re
pu6iating the rebel debt
The Sentinel censuTes the rebel congress for
not acting with promptness in the present state
of affairs
The Examiner says The prisoners al Alton
and St. Louis are badly treated. This calls for
retaliation.
|, refers to Burleigh, the Lake Erie pirate. and
demands that JEFF Davis shall protect him II
says Davis is too tender hearted to adopt meas
sures of proper severity
In the order offering amnesty to all deserters
aud sbsentees who return within 20 days. Gen
Lee says the people have to choose betw cen war
and subjugation. and declares that no amnesty
will ever again be offered
NEW YORK February l6.
The Raleigh Standard of the 2lst ult has al
editorial stating that gentlemen from Alsba ma
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina report that
the people Of the latter state are the worst
whipped set they ever saw or heard of The gen
tlemen believe that Sherman will meet no ob
stacles The people want the best peace they
can get, and want ii now.
WASHINGTON. February 10.
The following general order has been pIomul
gated from the war department:
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJr GEMS OFFIcE,l
WASHINGTON, February 10, 1865
General Orders No. H.
The state of Kentucky viii constitute the mil
itsry department of Kentucky.
Major General J. NJ. Palmer, u. 5. V, is as
signed to command the department of Kentucky
2 The department Of Cumberland will include
the state of Tennessee and such parts of north
ern Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi as may be
occupied by the troops under the command OF
General Thomas.
All the troops in the departments of XIV. and
the Cumberland will, in the absence of General
Sherman, be subject TO orders from Gen. Thorn
as, except the posts on the east bank of the Mis-
sissippi which will be subject to orders from
Gen. Candy for the protection of the navigation
of that river, and whenever time will permit he
will communicate his orders through such com
manders.
The fourth department of the Mississippi will
embrace so much of that state ~ may be occu
pied By troops
The department of the Gull will embrace the
states of Louisiana and Texas
Other military districts on the Gulf of Mexico
will report direct 20 the commanding general a
the military distric,
(Signed) d. TOWNSEND.
The Richmond Wing has the following dis
patch, dated Wilmington -: There has been
considerable skirminshing at Sugar Loaf.
On saturday the enemy made attacks in
force, which were handsomely repulsed. During
the attack the enenys whole feet opened on
Hoods eit.
Our casuties were % men.
On the same day the monitors shelled Fort
Anderson, killing one man and woundng
another
All has been quie; since
BosToN. Feb rs
a ID. Richardson correspondent of The New
York Tribune, who has recently escaped from
the rebel prison. told story Of bis advententurei
this evening in fremont Temple, before 81
audience OF 3 900 people. he related many il.
cidents showing the attachment to the union Oh
the part OF the people OF East Tennessee, which
we're heartily applauded