The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-04

WASHINGTON, July 2.-The correspond
ence regarding the raising of a negro ori-
gade was laid before the House to-day. 1t
is rather lengthy. Portions of it caused
considerable laughter. Gen. Hunter says
to the first question. 81 therefore reply that
no regiment of Fugitive slaves has been, or
is being organized in the Department.
There is, howeveF,a fine regiment of persons
whose late masters are fugitive Rebels, men
who every where fly before the appearance
of the national flag, leaving their servants
behind them, to shift as best they can for
themselves.
So far, indeed, are the loyal persons COM
| posing the regiment, from seeking to avoid
the presence OF their late owners, that they
are now, one and all, working with re-
markabie industry to place themselves in a
position to join in full aud effective purs nit
OF these fugacious and traitorous proprie-
| tors"
To the second question he says: i" ~
| structions given to Brig. General Sherman
/ by Secretary Cameron, aud turned over to
me by succession, for my guidance, do dis
! tinctly authorize me to employ all loyal
| persons Offering their service in defe. Sc of
| the Union, and for the suppression of this
rebellion, any manner | might see fit, or
| that the circumstances might carl for, with
| out restriction as to the char acter or color
| of persons to be employed, or the nature of
the employ ment, whether civil or military,
| in which their services snail be used
81 conclude, therefore, that | have been
authorized to enlist fugitive slaves as SOL
diers, should any such be found in the De-
| partment. No such characters, how ever,
have yet appeared within view of our most
advanced pIckets. The loyal slaves every
where remain on their plan tations 10 well
come, aid and supply US with food, labor,
| and Information.
In reply to the Sd question, be says:
" II is my painful duty to reply that
have not received any specific authority TO
issue clothing, uniforms, arms, equi pmen's,
&c, for the troops in question. My general
| instructions from Mr.. Cameron, to employ
them in any manner necessary to the mill
tary exigeucies in the Department and the
| country, will be my only, aud, in my judg
| ment, sufficient justifcaton."
New YORK, July 3.-The Tribunes cor
respondence, after stating we were Uutnum-
bered by the rebels, INDUCES in the follow
| ing:
" When loyal New York regiments, lift
ed from their feet by the fire OF rebel brig
ades cry out of their wounds and n death
| for help; when the choicest OF New Eug.
land and Pennsylvania troops, outuumber-
ed in front and on both TANKS, by whole
divisions of the enemy, beg for reinforce
ments, | say that the blacklist crime a
Power can commit is to stalk upon the
field of peril, aud say, q Soldiers, have no
faith in your coz mander, let your martyr
dom proceed"
Aud SO says the army of the Potomac
and if registered tonight, VOWS of ven
geance, as it marches IN the dark from a
position which their diminished numbers,
disabled them from holding, but which is
coDsecrated forever TO them by their suffer-
ings, their labors and their wrongs. The
| politicians and Statesmen who left US here
to be outnumbered and cut off from our
supplies, and the possibility of retreat, are
] doomed men.