Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-18
&C.. &c. &c. &c.
from New York


NEw YORK May 1.-THE Herald's Chester
5 O. correspondent says.
The rebel Gov. Vance, of North Carolina,
was arrested in Buncomb county last Friday by
a detachment OF KilpatricK's cavalry, by orders
from Washing gton. whittier il is said he will be
sent to stand his trial for treason
! 1t was reported that another detachment of
cavalry in pursuit OF Gov McGrath, of
North Carolina.
The rebel Gen, Joe Johnston is at Chaflotte
n. o. 1t is said he applied for permission to
be allowed to 20 to Canada, but had been re-
fused
| The pirate Capt Semmes, with some compan
ions, is endeavOrlng to reach the coast and
make his escape out of the country by the
sea.
The Herald's Richmond correspondent writes
as follows:
The news of the capture OF JEFF Davis was
read there by the old residents and the rebellion
sympathzers with the greatest astonishment and
deepest sense of the humiliation of their traitor
Gus cause
The Herad's Washington correspondent has
the following:
Gov. j. H. Pierpont, of Virginia has iss ued
an address to the voters of the 1st, ID. and 7th
congressional districts OF that state on the sub
| ject of the elections. The fourth Tuesday in
May is the regular election day, but, as the dis
tricts above named are not thoroughly organ
lied. no elections be held by the laws of
Virginia.
The executive is empowered to call special
elections to fill vacancies
! Gov. Pierpont, therefore, advises no polls 10
be opened for members of congress, either in the
counties already organized in those to be
ganized; assuring the people that as soon the
county officers in the organized portions are
elected, he will order special election for the
allowed named districts There will be fair op-
portunity to choose representatives
BY the way of Havana we learn that the rebel
leaders ir Texas and Western Louisiana were
still, at the last accounts, proclamng by public
meetings their determination TO carry On the war
notwithstanding the failure of their cause in the
east.
Gen. Magru1er made a speech on the 2ith in
which he announced that be could see nothing
discouraging for the rebels in the military situa
ton, mysterously limiting that they had neigh
Dor near at hand, regarding whom, he did not
feel at liberty to say anything further at the
time.
Old Sterling Price of Missouri and Gen Hind
man of Arkansas are both said to be still alive
and in Texas
The rebel blockade runner and pirate Owl ,
Capt. Maffit, arrived at Havana from Galveston
on the 9th inst. The steamer Imogeue, from
the same place, with 1000 bales OF cotton on
The Times Special says of the visit Of the
military commission TO the theatre
1t Was found that the assassin run, after falling
on the stage, to get out of the building a distance
of ninety feet The passage six feet wide
entirely un0bstructed, and is on a level with the
ground In the rear of the building so the assas
sin had steps to ascend or descend. There
narrow hall leading from the stage on the south
side of the theatre on both streets on which the
building fronts IL was at the front door of this
ball that Booth. Spangler, and another man.
whose name is not yet IN the evidence. were
gagged in the mysteriOus whispering and maneu
verings which attracted the attention OF Sergeant
James Dye. IA detailed 10y him in his
mony Yesterday Everything remains undisturb
ed inside the building, just as il at the time
Of the assassination, except that the chair i'm
which Mr. Lincoln sat when he was shot has been
taken away. and the blue flag which hung in
front of the box, in which Booths spur caught
has been removed
The WorlJs Washington special says:
The president has respied Bowles and Mill
gan, the Indiana conspirators
The steamer Sciota took out TO day nearly
million dollars, aud three hundred passengers.
Key West advces say the steamer Columbia
which arrived there from Havana. reported TO
our authorities that the pirate Stonewall was
hurriedly receiving men and ammunition from
the Owl aud other confederate steamers and
blockade runners. Capt. John Matliu had as
sumed command of the Stonewall
The United States steamer Powhattan went TO
sea from Kew West, on learning the movements
of the Stonewall