Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-21

that IL will then make another Peninsula cam
pagn towards Richmyld. and this time proper.
ly supported by myrtar fee; and naval force
A few days. however. may change the whole as
pert Of Affairs.
The news that Gen Hunter has found il neces-
sary To disbsnd his negro soldiers has been re
cesed here with universal satisfaction. The ex
pertinent of arming the American negroes and
organizing them into regiments tried by
Gen. Hunter under more favorable circumstances
than can ever be hoped 10 be net with any
where else. The experiment has resulted in the
most complete and disgraceful failure. The ne
groes were found 10 be utterly unfit for military
duty of any kind. aud utterly incapable OF learn
ing the simplest OF military sciences The ex-
pertinent has been costly one 10 the Govern
ment Indeed there is no end to the money Law
ished on negroes.
| hope every reader Of the Times will peruse
carefully the Order which Gen. Mcclellan has
just issued respecting pilfering and plundering
from private houses and in regard To the placing
OF guards TO houses in which there are females.
III there is noble heart this earth, il beats in
the bosom OF George b. Mcclellan. De takes
for the Use of the army whatever forage, &c,
may GALL in bis way, but he prescribes the manner
in which alone this shall be done; not in any
by Unauthorized individuals, but by the proper
officers aud only by them when they giverecepts
for it, in order that il may be paid for hereafter.
He denounces pilage and theft by the soldiers,
and declares that any offence of that nature will
be severely punished. And be declares that
guards will always be posted, as heretofore,
around houses in which there are women and
children. for their protection. AL honor to the
noble soldier, who so well understands the proper
wav of conducting war.
You will have seen before this the details Of
the remarkable interview which took place the
day before Yesterday, between The negroes of the
District and the President. The President had
sent for them, IN order TO persuade them 10 per
suade their ow-negroes TO 90 TO the colony in
Central America, which, he said, he WAS going to
provide there Tor them. There we're some sensi-
BILE remarks IN what he said to them. Whatever
effect his remarks may have on the men who
beard them, fear they will have very little on
the mass Of the negroes, either in this District
or in the North at large. From very early
period of INV life. have observed that the most
remarkable feature about the character of the
American negroes j. their strong, tenacious, and
unaccOuntslble attachment TO this country. Ii Is
a trait common alike To free negroes and
slaves | have conyersed with hundreds of both
kinds particularly during the last three years Ii
there Is any idea regarded by them with peculiar
ahtipathy, il is that OF being deportei colonizel
punished from the scenes that have become IA
miliar to them. This Is the predominant idea
with the thousands of negroes now here. The
''free negroes" in many cases, have acquired IA
little property, and are, in "A measure. comfort
able Most of those who were slaves would do
any thing in their power it they could get back
their kind masters aud comfortable homes. Yes
terday. in passing through the negro quarter,
witnessed scene that inexpressibly shocked me.
Disease, filth and neglect are causing great NOR
tality among the negroes here. and il is impossi
BILE, | suppose, to afford them the necessary med
zeal aid
In wretched cabin. the hot sitting air in
which felt like that of anrDven, and the thin
boards of the walls of which were no protection
at all against the burning sun, young negro
woman knet on the floor, with clasped hands
and streaming eyes. Before her, on IA miserable,
dirty quilt lay the dead bodies of two negro
children, should suppose five and seven years
old. One had died the night before the other
that morning. i cannot record the expressions
OF the grief of that poor woman, but they seem
Ell To be less account OF the death of her chill
dren than account of her Cwn loneliness and
desolation. One thing that she said to me that
will repeat: ''Ah. Nasal 1t was not so at home.
When my other baby died, old mssus and
laid her out herself, and had clean bed to lay
her on. and Miss Emily put flowers in her little
coffin"