Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-02-03
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MOVEMENT ON CHARLESTON.
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Nrw YORK, February 2-The Hersld's Sa
vannah correspondent Of the 2Sth uit reiterates
7 The statement regarding the Union men of Geor
gia having held meetings aud organized associa
tons for their mutual protection. and called on
General Sherman for assistance, which had been
promised
He says the movement extends over nine
counties --
Ten thousand bales of the captured cotton had
been shipped north, and crowd Of other vessels
were being loaded with il.
The distribution of the supplies Of food and
, clothing from the prison OF this city was being
proceeded with.
meeting to express the thanks Of the people
of Savannah foE these welcomes was held
at the Exchange ON the 25ih ult. Addresses
were made by the mayor and others, and appro-
pirate resolutions were adopted
The gunboa. Dai Ching got aground in the
Combohee river on The 26th, and was set Oh FIRE
| by the rebel guns and burned to the waters
edge.
rebel dispatch dated Wilmington, January
! 2Sth, says: as
About 400 bales OF cotton were destroyed by
fire on the custom house whsrf az that place. and
two car loads of -four miles from town on the
Weldon road, on the 2Sth ult Whether the
. burning was accidental or was the commence
ment OF the carrying out the reported rebel de-
sgn to destroy all the staple in the vicinity does
not clearly appear.
In connection with The announcement Of the
, departure OF theif peace agents for the north,
some of the journals of Richmond give rumor
that bearers Of dispatches from the English and
French governments had arrived in that city. but
add that they could trace il to no authentic
source. H.s
The Dispatch has a report that the French
minister at Washington has demanded his pass
ports
The Herald's Smithville ~ C., correspondent
gives the following:
BY the blowing up of Fort Caswell the rebels
completely destroyed the river face OF that strong
work All the guns in il are spiked and their
carriages destroyed
At Smithrille a small place ON the west side
of Cape Fear river ten miles below Fort Fisher,
the union forces, on occupying it, secured large
supplies of army stores. tobacco and other yslua-
bic property
The rebels had planted totpedos in aud around
nearly all the forts
Petersburg dispatch in the Richmond papers
says:
There was heavy firing between the snon and
rebel batteries on James river. on last Sunday.
The former report that Gen Breckinridge had
been appointed rebel secretary of war is con
frmed
The bill for the employment Of negroes 10
their armies passed the rebel House on Saturday,
and il was said that Lees ominstion general
10 chief would be sent into the rebel senate bY
JEFF Davis, on last Monday, but the latter. as
yet had made no movement towards the reinsts-
ting of Joe Jonson
Mosty. his admirers say is 20 be in the saddle
again in a few days.
The Herald's Eastport correspondents of the
2lst says:
A reconuoissan nee from General Thomas army
az Eastport, Miss, showed that The main portion
Of Hoods army was. on the 2O,h ult. at Tupslo.
Miss.
On the appearance of union troops before Cor
inth, some four hundred rebels stationed there
evacuated. after burning the railroad depot and
Tshimingo House. Between 80 and 40 Of them
were captured.
An order has been issued by tue military xa-
thorities 10 Missouri for the punishment from
that state of the wives and children OF all men
in the rebel service.
The Herald's ST Louis dispatch ssys 8 fight
took place az Dsrdeneile. Ark on the 4th ult.,
in which i; is reported Shelby was whipped and
obliged TO evacua,e the place.
Ii appears by a corrected statement that the
rebels turned over 70 Sherman, in and about Sa
. vannah. two hundred and eighty seryicesble
cannon.
The Tribunes Washington special says: Gen.
Singleton lust returned from Richmond is Of the
firm belief that there will be peace between
Us and the rebels; that there can be none unless
they abandon the idea Of independence. or We
abandon Of reunion. He ssys the rebels
are sanguine of couquering their Independence
The Times Washington special SAYS OF Mr.
Seward : mission to Fortress Monroe:
he does no, carry any Gltimatum tsom The
government neither is the president aware of
Whist the rebel commissioners propose, aud until
he rscertsius tia: fact il s uncertain vhesher
they viii be allowed 10 proceed " Washington.
George l. Stephens writes note - the editor
OF the v Grid. from Washington. con,rsdicting
,he statement that Maximi.ian had ec5ed Lower
California ana other Mexican states % Louis
Napoleon, su,s made DIR G~vnr drse ard vice