Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-03-25
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OFFICIAL war EulietIn.
WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON. March %, lo65.

WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON March %, 1855 {
Mai Gen. Dix:
The following extracts from the Richmond
pspers were received this evening at $50 .. m,
from General Grant:
The following 70 from a dispatch from North
Carolina: Ii is understood in ofici, circles that
| fighting has occurred in n )rth Carolina since
SUNDAY, and from all we can learn il appesrs
that Sherman has attempted no advance since
his check on that day.
Hariee's victory of the 10th was a very i'm
portaut one. aud regards the enemy most
bloody affair
Johnston telegrapbed that our loss in the bat
tie was $50 while that of the enemy was 5000
the fight took place on the pc Fear river. half
way between Raleigh and Fayetteville
John-On defeated the enemy last Sunday at
Removable
towards ,leigh in two columns. one moving
due north towards Fayetteville, the other north
ives; from Newborn
Assistant Secretary of War.
NEw York, March "a =.
Arrangements are making today for the exc
and hotel burners Robert Kennedy will be
| Besll
The agents OF the Pennsylvania Central, New
| York Central. and Erie railroads announce all
damages by water to the railroads. repaired, and
trims now run regularly
The Herald's London correspondent states
that within couple OF years the prince lmoerial
of France is to make royal visit TO The United
States, and take a tour through the country
He is 70 be attended by spleLdid suite, and
move about with brilliancy which will com
pletely ecIpse that of the Prince Of Wales
Prince NspoleOns organ eulogses General
Shermans operations and tactics in the highest
ter ms, ard accuses the rebels with having fred
| Charleston.
1t adds: They have never been anything but
rebels against a just government, having for
their wstch6 ord-slavery.
/ The Hersld's n o. letter savs:
Gen. Wallace has left o on a special mis-
sion 10 Mitamorss for the purpose Of inquiring
into The arrangements of NJ jia the Mexican com
mander With the rebel commander in Texas in
regard to the delivery to the latter of rebel refu-
gees escaping into Mexico.
IL ia reported that the detection Of Cortinas
from the imperial cause has been auihoritstively
conradcted He still devoted.to Msxmil-
liam and engaged in SURPRISING guerrilla troubles
The Pope ia said to have demonstrated against
/ the imperial order decreasing the liberty of wor
chip aid cou6scaiing church property for state
purposes
Various movements on the Rio Grande indi
cate some fresh plot on the part of the rebel
agents at Brownsville and Matamoras.
The Richmond Wing of Tuesday prints re-
port made by the committee on military aft ,irs
of the rebel House on Jeff Davis message.
The Wing SANS il not adopted. but it is
understood that the report expresses the senti-
ments OF large majority OF The II ,use The
report is similar in tone 10 that adopted By the
Senate but is couched in more moderate terms
The report says the House objected to giving
Davis the sweeping military law he asked for
simply because it had slready placed at his diapo
sal all persons between Is and 50
The Raleigh Confederate makes an appeal to
the people and heads of families to initiate The
example of The citizens of Richmond by throw
ing open their doors to receive and their purses
20 sustain the sick and wounded officers and
soldiers whom. the fate Of war is bringing into
that community.
The Richmond Wing of the 2lst saws large
number Of ladies aud gentlemen assembled in
G ipitO square Yesterday to witness the promised
parade of the first company of negro troops
raised und the act of congress, but owing to
the fac, that the new recruits have not vet been
supplied with uniforms and equipments, the
parade vas postponed
WASHINGTON, March -
The postmaster general mas invited proposals
for conveying the mails by means Of a monthly
line OF first class American sea gong steamers,
between Stn Francisco and ports in the Chinese
empire. touching at the 5 njSlch Islands This
service Is in accordance w,h the act of congress.
which provides thst TO bd shall be considered
which amounts to more than FIVE hundred thou
sand dollars for twelve round trips per snnum,
nor unless the same Is from citizens of the UuI-
It'd States
There are no indications Of any rebels near
Culpepper c. II except occasional visits Of
guerrillss
Report save Davis ia very hard for asking for
more conscrip;s when he has already admitted
that halt of the army sas absent wIrhoui leave
/; Is suggested that as Laws already made for
{ the government of the army, cannot Dc execut
ed they had better not make any more
Ia regard the delay in passing the negro
soldiers oil. the report quotes Davis own mes
sage at the adourniDg OF The session. wherein
T he declared that. beyond employing negroes as
pioneer aud engineer laborers. be did think il
necessary TO 20
sixty refugees Who we're allowed 20 come
through from Fayetteville BY permission Cf Gen
: sherman, have arrived here
{ This party consists of srmOrers from the FaT
eiteville arsenal and their families. all in desli
, tute condition. The men were formerly en-
ployed at Harper's Ferry. and vent to Faye;,e
willie when sbe machinery was taken TO that
place
They report Sherman army as greatly eucum
bered by refugees. there being some 6O0 who fol
low ed him from Colunois
/ Several transports sailed from Washington YES
ierd4y tor Beaufort with clothing tor Sherman
1 army
. The largest squad OF rebels iha. lave ye. De
. serted reached here YESTERDAY.