Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-01
Special correspondence Of the Chicago Times.
From Washington.

The Embargo on Telegrgphic NeIcs-The Cores
pOpdence beta0een Greeley and the President
An Irish Regiment from IOaOa-Ths Case Of
Mr.. Mahony.
WASHINGTON, August 25.
Just now Washington is a very dull, unsatis
factory place. The stringent absurdIty lately
issued by the authorities cuts off entirely the
only source of interest to correspondents and the
public. By its provisions not allowed to
telegraph even the small but unusual fact that on
particular evening Washington was quiet; the
inference being that this would convey the idea
that our forces were not meeting with any seri
Gus and unexpected reverses. To leave the pub
lie to inter so extraordinary fact was deemed
contraband, and of course it was not allowed to
go over TIM wires.
The whole thing is piece of inconsistency
and one-sidedness. All papers are strictly for
hidden to publish anv war news whatever, and
yet the papers here each day give fell particu-
lars of occurrences on the battlefield, and
body says word to them for doing it; the papers
are neither suppressed nor the editors sent to the
Old Capitol Prison. Correspondents without ex-
ception were driven from the Army of Virginia,
and yet the very next day after they reached
here, two employees of the New York Herald
left Washington for Warrenton under passes
given them by Gen. Pope himself. five are to
have an autocracy over the press. let il be an
equitable one-one which will not forbid in one
what it allows in another.
The general opinion here is that Horace Gree
ley, IN his attempt to make himself successfully
represent 10000 900 people, has made failure
proportionate to the immensely of the task which
he undertook. The 30, 900 000' of the enlight-
ened North must be "hard up for a mouth
! piece when they employ such trumpet as old
Greeley trumpet through which has been
brayed all the isms that have lately afflicted
mankind, from that of Fourier down to the sooty
ism of Abol;tiOnism. 1t will be great fall for
Horace when he ascertains that, instead of rep
resenting millions. he only stands as the chop
fallen representative of one very silly individual
viz Horace Greeley.
If the letter of ''Old Bran Bred" was remark
able for the audacity of its assumptions the reply
of the President is no less from its originality in
every respect. No one but Father Abraham
would have ever replied to the letter at all, and
no one but the same individual would have ever
framed peculiar reply 1t pats Greeley ap-
provingly on the back, while it smites him un
mercfullv; it at once shows the adherence of the
writer TO the Constitution and to Abolitionism;
| it eDuDcateS at the same time the determination
of the President TO put down slavery and not to
interfere with it, there is mi it confronting wills
per to the conservatives of the Border States and
a friendly nudge of the elbow for the fanatics Of
New England; in short the whole effort is I'M
equaled save in the single exception afforded by
the late speech of the same individual at the war
meeting.
The Cavours. Metternchs, and other willy di-
plOmatiSts OF Europe, alive or dead. have lost
their supremacy in the sublime science which
they have rendered so famous. They will gnash
their teeth in jealous horror exclaiming, Nv Oe
is u.s. There has come to US Il king from the
Nazareth of EARTH from the Rail Splitters and
Flat Boatmen of the barbarous w est there is born
to us MASTER"
The effect of the paper is various according to
the prOclivitieS of those upon whom it falls Alb
olitionists are positive that it commits the Presi-
dent to their favorite policy; conservatives are
equally certain that the President means to be I'M
derstood that he will be governed by the COnsti-
tuition; everybody goes about with a copy of the
letter, triumphantly assuring everybody else that
Father Abraham has at length become precisely
of his way OF thinking and thus everybody is
! satisfied. All l say of the character of the
letter with any certainty is that it is Old Abolish
nothing more.
Several gentlemen are from Iowa, endeavoring
to get the Secretary of War to authorize the rails
ing of an Irish regiment in that State. gen
tleman came here not long ago from Muscatne,
and | believe succeeded in obtaining from the
Secretary commission for the purpose
Several companies were recruited. but, for want
OF unanmity, the process OF mastering in has not
yet begun. Conceiving that the affair might be
expedited by change of commanders, delesa
ton came on here, urging that the regiment
should be given to Mr.. 0'Brien. of Dubuque. a
brother of the gallant captain who WAS killed at
Cedar Mountain Mr. O'Brien was of good
stock has the confidence of his countrymen to
very great extent, and will doubtless, better
| an nj ms nd hp pffi-
ment.
The case of Mr.. d. a Mahonv is at present a
matter of some discussion among his friends and
enemies. The fact that he is an old man has ex-
cited considerable sympathy for his case, even
among his political enemies, and they would
gladly Join his friends in endeavoring to obtain
his discharge, were it not that il is feared that
his presence Just now in Iowa might have an un
favorable influence upon the coming Congress
siona election; in other words, il is believed tn 1t
i'll keeping the old man in the Old Capitol, he
will be prevented from getting into the new In
Missouri and other border States. overt traitors
are sworn. put under heavy bonds and released.
Should we not be as lenent with offenders among
our own citizens, particularly when the crimes
with which they charged not half as hei-
nous as those Of our Missouri bre hren? 1t is
just barely possible that persistence in such a
course NAV subject the parties interested to the
unpleasant suspicion of being actuated less by
patriotism than political craftsmanship. If Gen.
Butler New Orleans. Schofield in Missouri
johnson IN Tennessee, Grant in Memphis and
Federal authorities everywhere, will receive men
who have slain soldiers by the score, and, af-
ter taking their oaths aud bonds for It's observ-
ance. release them, why cannot we be equally
mercifu, and release upon the same terms para
lytic old man. whose offense, at worst, is that oil
"dscouraeing enlistments" and-being nom
mated for Congress!