Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-10-23

! Upt0 yesterday, > LOO nOrSeS, pufcnaseu TOT the
United States Government, have passed through
Iris city. The average price paid for each horse
has been so. which will make a total of ST.
SIS. 100.
= Seven boxes Of blankets, clothing, &C. ar
rived from the ladies of Rockville Yesterday for
Capt. Foot's company Of the l4th Indiana. now
in Westen. Virginia. The liberal and patriotic
donation of these loyal. kind. hearted and true
women will be dispatched without delay by Adams
Express.
= The Charlottesville Repielo, speaking Of
the necessity of contributions of blankets, &c,
for our soldiers, says:
Lee. every one in Montgomery county, who has
a spare blanket, bring the same in and deposit it
at Campbell. Galley & Harter's. This is no dona-
ton for the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands
or Passamaquoddy Bay, but a debt schieh ICE must
pau to our brave troops who are shi ~ering on the
mountains in Western Virginia.
w. T. II. Brooks, U. S. Army, recently APP
pointed Brigadier General. arrived in this city
Yesterday from Wisconsin, where he has been
performing the duty of mastering officer of the
u. S. Volunteers. Gen. Books, with his accom-
plished lady, a daughter of Gen. Drake, of this
CITY, is en- route for Washington, where he is Or
dered to report himself.
- We learn that Colonel Durham of the 50th
Indiana, has now, at Camp Heffren, Jackson
county, in the Second Congressional District,
over 600 men, and the work of recruiting is pro
crossing rapidly. Colonel Dunham's command
viii probably be ready for marching orders with
in two weeks.
t,o,& Ho.rv Vau1ourift of Oanfain
Jacobs's company. Colonel Sol. Meredith's regi-
ment, the 18th Indiana, having rendered his
resignation on account of i'll health, and which
was accepted, has arrived at home. We are sin
cerely sorry to chronicle that Lieutenant Vande-
grift's eyes are seriously affected, and it will prob
ably be some time before he will be able to take
part in the wal again.
- The band Of the 18th regiment United
States regular infantry, discoursed the magnificent
music on the occasion of the reception of the
Secretary of War, General Cameron, night be.
fore last. and not the band of the Irish regiment
as we mistakenly stated.
= The ladies of Parks county have donated
one hundred and fifty blankets for our suffering
volunteers. Contributions of gloves, mittens,
shirts. drawers, blankets and socks are pouring
in from all parts of the State.
= We notice a telegrapllic correspondence be-
tween the Hon. Robert Dale Owen and Major
Montgomery, U. S. Quartermaster at this point,
with regard to the purchase of 1000 o~vercoats
for our army in Western Virginia. These pur-
Lchases were made. it seems, under the direction
Of Major Montgomery and not of Governor Nor
ton as heretofore understood. The correspon-
dence with regard to this matter concludes as
follows:
Governor Morton suggested Mr.. Owen to me as
a proper person to make these purchases. This
is all he had to do with the matter. His Excel
lency has done so much to merit the thanks of
the people of his State that it is not necessary to
"steal thunder" for him, and misrepresent the
General Government by attributing to him what
he has not done.
Respectfully yours,
A. MONTGOMERY,
Major and Quartermaster.
The 18th Pennsylvania regiment has been
ordered to Kentucky over the Bellefontaine and
Indianapolis and Jacksonville railroads.
The Sheriff of Wayne county, Joseph S.
Stidham. resigns his Office, worth 81 900 a year,
in order periodically to raise a company for the
war.
Mr.. A. j. Morley, late of Bracken's Ran
gers, arrived in the city yesterday from Western
Virginia. Mr.. Morley was discharged honorably
ON account of i'll health. He represents the con-
dition of our gallant boys, as respects clothing,
deplorable indeed. In fact there is absolute suf-
fering among them. Still they keen up their
spirits and are determined against the foe.
The rolling mills hands have contributed
Sl0l for the purpose of clothing the Indiana
troops now in service, to be expended under the
direction of Mrs. J. NJ. Lord and other ladies.
The subscription will be increased, as all the
han S we're not in the mill when the paper was
presented. This liberal contribution speaks well
for the patriotism and generosity of the hands in
the employ of the rolling mill company. The
clothing is to be made up Immediately and will
probably be sent to Gen Reynoldsis command
"A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper, re-
plying to a statement of George Wilkes, in the
New York Spirit of the Times, to the effect that
"Geueral Mcclellan has two hundred and forty
thousand men on the banks of the Potomac
has the following;
A little analysis will give us the truth in this
matter. If there rae 24O,0 600 men on the banks
of the Potomac, whence came they? The West
has not over IL 900 there, (viz.: Minnesota, two
regiments; Wisconsin, six; Michigan, FIVE; In
diana, two, and cavalry to fill the baIance); Ohio,
Illinois, Iowa and Kansas have not contributed
New England has not over $4,000 there. wiz.
Maine, 1000; Vermont, 5000; New Hampshire,
5000; Rhode Island, 5000; Connecticut, 5000
and Massachusetts, l6,0nU.) New York, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey are left to make good
the remaining 10000. Do they7 New Jersey
has furnished 5000; Pennsylvania, 2S,OOO and
New York 6 5000, in all 100, 900. leaving $4,000
vet to he accounted for. Whence come they
Why, from the excited imagination of Mr.
Wilkes. as did also tho Confederate reinforcement
of &c, 1000 men at Bull Run. so grandiloquentl
described in Mr.. Wilkes's letter-dated July 22-
as The Pageant of the Enemy's Reserves"
Anoth + of his statements, with which he
would gull a too creduious public, is, that tht
army of the Potomac is "a host, mighty beyonC
parallel of modern warfare" Suffice it to men
ton merely, the Grand Army of Russia, of Ma
pOleon j, in 1912; the Grand Army of the Allies
that adernced on Paris under Schwarzeuberg
the armies of Francis Joseph and Napoleon III
at S~olferino, numbering over 400 900 combatants
But il is not numbers only that make a might,
host" drill, discipline, and experience max,
armies mighty. Those great European armies
were mtde up chiefly of veterans-the army o
the Potomac of raw recruits. Again, the army
of the Potomac has a line of operations extend
ing over seventy miles, with important divisions
detached, under Banks, p. 900 under Stone
5000; under Sickles $1,000. in all $4,000 men
Leaving $4,000 men to occupy the works ON thu
Virginia side of the Potomac, and a small force
of 1000 at Washington, Mcclellan would have
left, with which to advance against the rebels
numbering at least 100, 0gO-just $1,000 men.
Mr.. Wilkes foundation of facts gone, hi cas-
ties in the air go with them; his grand strateg,