Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-13
Extracts from the Rebel Press.
POrter's Terrible Feud 'Enfer ON
Christmas Day-A Perfect Rain OF
shot and Shell for EIghtHours.
From The Richmond Dispatch, Jan 6. ]


Our Wilmington correspondent states that an
English officer who was with Sir Charles Ma
pier in the Baltic, and who also in Sebasto
pol says that the fire of the federal fleet upon
Fort Fisher, on the 9th uit., exceeded anything
he had ever seen. But fearful as this lombard
ment was, il was mere prelude to the internal
fire or Christmas day. From ID in the morning
till 6 in the evening there was such rain of shot
and shell as never before fell upon any spot of
earth since gunpowder was invented, and yet
the fort remained unDured, aud not dozen
men were killed.
GENERAL HOOD ACROSS THE TENNESSEE.
From The Richmond Examiner, January6
The telegram from General Hood announces
that his army had crossed the Tennessee, without
material loss since the battle in front of Nash
vile. implies that he had previously reported to
the president, or to the war department, some of
the facts of the unfortunate battle. If any such
dispatch has been received, it has been filed
among the archives of the war department. The
details on our side will come in form sufficient
ly authentic, no doubt, to enable the public to
form a more clear or definite opinion Of the grand
Tennessee campaign, and the manner in which
il conducted, than can be arrived at in the
absence of official statements. Ii is not proba
BILE that Hoods army will be in condition TO
make n new advance for two or three weeks. A
very large pOttOn Vi the incu inust oc surety ih-
tigued by the long and rapid march which they
have just concluded; and we presume that many
of them require an outfit of clothing and shoes.
What the facilities of supplying these wants are
We do not know In the meantime, it becomes
a question OF interest what phase the next cam
paign in the west will assume.
GEORGIA IS NOT READY FOR SUBMISSION.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 9th inst. has
the following:
Every one must have observed the difference
in the tone of Sherman's letter addressed to the
Yankee commandant at Huntsville from that
employed by him in his communications with the
people of Georgia. Then he announced the pol
icy OF the federal government to expatrlate the
population of the south and supply their places
with slaves and aliens. Now he is all kindness
and clenency The people OF Georgia are to be
protected in their persons and property. DE ex-
poets TO own thousand slaves. Emancipation
is a war measure to cease with submission. Ne
are told that the people OF Savannah are to be
better taken care of under the Lincoln govern
ment than under that which thew elected them
selves Georgia is not ready for submission
We demand public meetings in Georgia We
want to hear the voice of her brave and true pa
triots Rally the men. Encourage the people.
Comfort the feeble. Warn those who conhde IN
the transparent cheat of the Yankees. ANNA
ted with determination to stand together. the
passage Of Sherman through the state will not
weaken our cause. The stern determination of
the people will close behind the invader as the
water follows the keel. and the world will be
convinced that, united in resistance, We are
invincble