Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-28

Ner DeUtces to Spend -hOHey-hHfOns 70 Oe
Squandersd in Attempts 10 ErpGtriafe the
BLacks-The Need Of Good SurgeOns-Ihe
Army rafting for Shoes.
WASHINGTON, October %.
One of the most striking evidences of the I'M
fitness Of the present Administration for its high
trust is the fact that il lends the whole weight Of
its influence TO all schemes for wasteful expendi-
ture of the public money. This would be bad
enough even in prosperous times. when there
we're no unusual demands on the treasury. But
now when the treasury is literally bankrupt;
when United States Treasury Notes have sunk
thirty per cent below par; when the demands of
the contractors upon the treasury are so enor-
nous that paper money not be manufactured
fast enough to paw them; when the Government
is short of funds that even its brave soldiers
have had 20 go unpaid for the last five months,
while their families of course, suffering at
home; when the people ground down with the
weight of taxation on every conceivable article
of daily use; when the country is burdened with
a public debt that is rapidly increasing, debt
that will cripple the energies of succeeding gen
erations for centuries to come and that possibly
will never be paid under such circumstances,
for the Administration 10 give its countenance
and support to such n wild and chimerica project
as that of the deportation or colonization OF the
four millions of negroes in the Southern States,
is the surest indication that could be given
that the Administration lacks wisdom. to say the
least.
The particular project which the Administra-
ton has in view, in this direction, is the purchase,
for several millions Of dollars, say from five to
ten millions (the Government is so flush of funds
that few millions, more or less will not be re-
garded), of few thousand square miles of land
in some of the South American or Central Amer
lean States.
This land will be bought of some person or
persons who have no right TO sell it, and who
give no valid title to it. This fact will involve
in constant quarrels and law suits with the
true proprietors of the soil, and no doubt, also,
in with the native Governments
The up-shot will be, that we will get nothing
for our millions, and will be compelled TO look
out for n new location. Even if the Utopian idea
of the Administraton-of deporting the blacks
could be carried out so far to have the p-opos-
ed colony established that would be but the be-
ginning OF troubles.
Our Government has received official notice
from the Governments of nearly every one of the
Central American and South American States.
that they will not consent to have thrust upon
them four millions or any less number of beings
whom we consider unfit members of society. We
would either, therefore, have TO protect them in
their new homes, and therefore become involved
in wars with the native governments. or else we
would have TO leave them to their fate, and see
the one case, our Government would be saddled
with an enormous and an endless expense. In
the other case, we would be Justly chargeabe
with the nhumanity of enticing these poor peo-
pie away from their happy homes i'll order to have
them massacred by South American savages. In
the face of the fact. however, that the negroes,
both slaves and free, don't want to 90. (of which
fact the evidence is ample and incontrovertible,)
the Administration is dong its utmost to forward
nj of no ion of fhph
Money is to be lavishiy expended on the foolish
project 1t is stated to-day that $50 900 has
just been drawn from the Treasury, as the first
iTstsllment OF untold sums that are 10 be squan-
dered in this ridiculous chimera
The story that the fugitive slaves now congre
gated here. at Norfolk and at Fortress Monroe.
have expressed willingness to be transported to
some foreign State, is entirely unfounded in fact
Not one negro in hundred, in any or in ali parts
of the United States. can be found to be in favor
of il. / have conversed with many OF them,
here and have not found one in favor OF il.
They think il very hard, too, that the Govern
ment. after enticng them here, now wants to
Danish them like criminals.
The secret of the whole affair is, that il is an
immense swindle on the Government By parties
who see that they make prncely fortunes
out of it if cunningy managed. OF the $50 900
which has just left the Treasury, $4,000 will go
into the pockets of those shrewd philanthropists,
and $1,000 will be expended in preliminary
surveys and explorations
Since the battle of Antietam have satisfied
myself. by personal visits to several hospitals,
that the complaints made by our soldiers of i'm
proper surgical treatment, and Of no surgical
treatment at ALL when wounded, and after a bat
tie. are too well founded Dozens of cases of
needless amputatons. of deaths from slight and
easily cured wounds, and of deaths from sheer ex
posure and neglect, have come 10 my own per
sonal knowledge
In one hospital that visited the soldiers stated
that no surgeons had visited them for five days in
succession Now while know these TO be facts
know also that many of the army surgeons are
skillful, untIring aud devoted in the performance
OF their duty and no reward could be too great
10 bestow on labOrs like theirs On the PeninSu
la particularly. / have witnessed, Immediately
after battle. and for days after. conduct on the
part Of our surgeons that would have riyaed
woman in tenderness and Galen in skill, and in
consequence of which hundreds OF valuable lives
have been saved. The fact Is. that our army has
got TO be so enormously large that the supply OF
good surgeons has necessarily fallen short. and
their places have been supplied by ignorant and
unfit persons Ii Is in the power of the Admins
tration, however. to remedy this great evil JUS
tee to the thousands of the brave men who have
left the comforts oi home tn fight for their coun
try demands that this should be done immediate
". IL u bad enough 10 De wounded or manned
IL Is brutal that wounded soldier should be left
for days with bis wounds undrsSsed, or that he
should have limb cut off thai could just well
be saved.
When the statement was made few DAYS ago
that the reason why tho ARMY of the Potomac
does not cross that river and attack the enemy
was that the troops waiting tor shoes 10
merely excited a smile But the fact il actually
a stated. The troops are actually IN want OF
shoes. and can not march In comfort without
! them. Why this Is so-why. with treasury so
rich a. ours. our soldiers are not Kept properly
shod--is a. yet one OF the unexplained myste-
ries of the war. The shoe dealers of New York
found out the fact two weeks ago. and 70 their
honor be IL said. kept il quiet while one of their
number came on 10 this city aud offered TO
supply the lack IN week which would have
been a week ago. The offer was refused as the
/ JOB had been let out by contract Why the con-
tractors have not been called 90 account l. anoth
eF Of the mysteries OF the war. When II is re.
menlbercd. however. that the men nov IN power
are desrous OF protracting the war ill after next
! January. we have kew 60 the mystery