Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-16

fTOgreSS OF negro worship al HdShtHqtOn-
Negroes 10 be Enlisted in the Army as Soldiers
Hoo The Rebels at Richmond get their Meas of
our Military Mouements-G General Joseph f.
Johnston and 100000 Rebel Troops at York
tOWn-Strength and Ertent of the Rebel Works
there-Progress Of the Siege of Yorktown up TO
April 10.
\ WASHINGTON, April IL.
1t might be thought that enough had been done
for the negro here by this time. But not so think
the negroes friends in Congress- They have set
him free in the District of Columbia $50 far as
they cam; they have u committee in session de
vising means set him free in all the States;
they provide him with meat, drink and rament
cotton handkerchefs with the Declaration of In
dependence printed thereon, wooden shirts and
straw hats; they invite them to the lectures at
the Smithsonian Institute, and to come into
Gauter's and eat ice cream with them; they en-
courage them in Sinking all kinds OF work, in
idleness, in mpudence in actual insults to ladies
in the streets; and now TO crown all they are 20
ing to make soldiers of them. These negro
worshipping philanthropists have suddenly discov-
cred that down at Memphis and New Orleans, at
Mobile at Savannah, and in all the Southern
States, it will be hot this summer, Their bowels
of compassion yearn over our brave ankee boys
accustomed TO the cool breezes of Lake Michigan
and of New England, now to be exposed to the
fervid heats Of torrid cline. And so they would
have the negroes of the South enlisted, 10 5ht
side by side with the soldiers OF the Union be-
cause il is hot at the South There is no joke in
this. although it looks like one. The measure is
actually being pressed at the War Department,
and the pressure is greater than that which caus-
Ell officers of the army to be forbidden to return
fugitive slaves, or that which caused slavery TO
be abolished in the District. Let not the country
be surprised, therefore, TO learn that the negro
Will soon be eligible TO military honors. If such
measure should be adopted it requires no
prophet to foretell the result The white men OF
the Northern States who are fighting the battles
Of. the Union will never consent to be so de-
graded.
The absurd restrictions which have been placed
upon the transmission and publication OF war
news have not deprived the rebels in a single in
stance, of the speedy knowledge OF our military
movements The rebels at Richmond get the
New York papers regularly on the third day at
ter their publication, and this they have done du-
ring the war without missing single day. They
make, of course, copious extracts from them,
particularly of the foreign news But they do
not and never did depend upon the newspapers for
the news OF our military movements. Not a
word was said IN any CT the Northern newspapers
regarding the movement To Fortress Monroe of
the greater part of the Union army of the PotO-
mae until the actual operations against York
town had commenced. Yet the movement OF the
army from Washington TO Fortress Monroe was
known at Richmond from the very day il com
menced The principal part OF the Union army
OF the Potomac, having retraced their steps from
Manassas 10 their old camps around Washington
10y the 10th of March began to embark AT Alex
andria on the 18th. \ great number of vessels
had been provided by the Government. and in
these the four corps d'arHsCe. commanded by Gen.
Sumner, Gen Hentzelman, Gen. Porter aud Gen.
KEYS transported TO Fortress Monroe. the
movement continuing day after day until it was
completed. And IL was not until tue end o! March
that the last OF the l25, 900 soldiers had lett AL
exandria On the 18th of March the commence
ment of the movement was known at Richmond,
and the progress of the movement thenceforth
day by day was minuiely and accurately known
at the rebel capital During the first days of
April the Union troops began To advance 10
ward Yorktown, il was 40 longer matter OF
doubt to the rebel leaders what object they had
in view.
But they had not looked on in silence. Their
capital was threatene1-was in danger Cen
Magruder was at Yorktown with $1,000 troops,
but that was not enough to resist l23 .OOO. There
was no longer any lear OF Union army advanc-
ing from Manassas Their scouts had ascer-
tanned that there were not $4,000 Union troops
between the Rappahan ock and the Potomac. IL
was time therefore for their grand army OF the
Potomac. with Gen J. F. Johnston at its head,