Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-14
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The city was electrified last night by a rumor
that was ndustriously circulated to the effect that
Gen. Mcclellan had taken Yorktown. that Ma
gruder had been wounded and taken prisoner.
that 300 of the Confederates had been killed.
that the bulk OF the rebel army there. estimated
at 1000 strong. had escaped towards Richmond.
that Gen. Porter had been wounded by she'll
which had killed his horse, and that our loss was
two men killed and eleven wounded. To-day II
is known that not only is Yorktown not taken,
but that it can not be until has been battered two
or three DAYS by the heaviest siege guns; that Ma
gruder has certainly 40 600 men 1t Yorktown and
$4,000 more within supporting distance aud that
Gen Porter was not wounded. Everybody aid
mits now, what told the readers Of the Times
long ago, but what was persistently denied ever
since. that the works at yorktown are of immense
strength and extent, and that all the approaches
to Richmond are strongly fortified and well de-
Tended. Yorktown will of course be taken Rich
mond will certainly be ours. But il will only be
after hard fighting and great carnage on both
sides. Those who wanted blood and shattered
limbs NJ Manassas, and "cried for very rage"
when they found neither there. will have enough
of both in the peninsula. When Gen. Mcclellan
advanced into Virginia and told the soldiers that
he was about To bring them face To face with the
enemy, he knew what he was talking about lie
asked them at the same time to have conf
dence IN him in whatsoever direction they might
move and however strange my actions my
seem 20 you"
That last sentence puzzled the Cincinnati pa
pers dreadlully. "Strange," said OF them, lis
not good word to use" His soldiers thought a
few days afterwards, when they found themselves
marching, not against the rebels on the Kappa
hammock, but back from Manassas TO Washing
ton. that "his actions were Strange" indeed
Therefore he had used the right word. But they
never lost confidence in him for moment
Never You mind" said one Of them 10 me
"little Mac said he would bring us face to face
with the secesh If we are going away from the
Rappahannock, it's because they amt there We
don't know where we are going. and we don I
care. Little Mac leads and we follow. All we
know is there's fight in his eve, and YOU may
depend on it, we're going to fight" And so il
has proved.
The cause of abolition goes bravely on in Con
gress. Step by step the work of emancipatiug
the slave goes forward. Ii the members are dill
gent. and make the same progress in future that
they have since the commencement of the ses
sion. slavery will be entirely abolished in all the
States before It's close; that is so iir il can be
done by legislative enactment. On motion OF
Mr.. White, of Indiana. the House yesterday
passed resolution 10y vote Of 67 10 80 ap-
pointing a committee "to devise plan for the
extinction of slavery in Maryland, Virginia, Ken.
lucky. Missouri, and all the other slavehodng
States" What now has become Of that solemn
pledge of the Republican party, that it is not
their purpose tn interfere with slavery in the
States were it existsl Was any body ever 81
silly a. To believe them when they made that
plelgey IL is encouraging To know that there
are fifty two men in the House who voted against
this atrociOus resolution.
LATER.
Tuesday Epening. april Sit is stated by
gentlemen who came up in the Old Point boat
this morning that the steamships Merrimac
Jameston. and Yorktown all came out of the
Elizabeth River in the night between Sunday
and Monday, aud sailed up the York River
Also that up to last night the Union loss was
fifty killed, and the Confederate loss much great
er; and that General Mcclellan had fallen back
from Yorktown General Magrnder has beer
largely reinforced