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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

being extended and had to be carefully watched.
We messed az the same table with him and were
often entertained by the stories of bis adventures
told in a modest, unassuming manner. When
the army was almost surrounded at Elkwater and
the telegraph wire was cut that connected the
Generals quarters with Col. Kimball at the sum-
NIT, our hero, all alone, wended his way through
the woods filed with the enemy and delivered the
message which he could not send on his 'spet
line." But we hare not time to speak as We
should like of bis services and exploits. We had
not forgotten him, and had often wondered how
long even a constitution such as his could "hold
up" under such laboFs. A few weeks ago we
we're accosted on the street by pale, feeble,
emaciated man, who seemed to have suffered
everything that "hesh is heir to-" We only
recognized the trembling voice as that of our
friend 4. r. Bryant, the Cheat Mountain tele
graph operator. Though be had not been en-
rolled "soldier," we felt he had been host in
himself so far as results were concerned, and
whilst he bore no wounds he had yet sacrificed a
healthy constitution for the good of his country.
Col. Kicker, Superintendent of the I. and r. r.
R., has employed Mr.. Bryant as his principal
OPERATOR and we trust that he will soon recover a
little of his former vigor and strength.
FRIEND.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
aDistinpuishedn yisitors.

The New York Tribune announces in its issue
of Saturday, in two different columns, the impOr-
tant fact that the family of the distinguished
"contraband" who is at present the executive of
Hayti, are to honor our commercial metropolis
with visit during the present mouth, coming in
the Haytien man of war, "Twenty-second of De
cember." We are further informed that they are
on their way to Paris, and are highly educated
and refined people, and tie hope is expressed that
''they will meet proper reception from our coun-
trymen." They come at most opp0rtune
time to be loaded with hohors. Our law
makers and rulers are negro mad, and the
Geffrards will, doubtless. be made much
of. A short stay at the White House, grand
ball in Washington, at which the Massachusetts,
monomaniac Sumner would lead out one of the
colored damsels; an ovation at New York; an
address of welcome from Wendell Phillips at
Boston, we hHmbly suggest as the skeleton OF
programme on which our Black Republican
friends will of course improve. Cable ceebra-
tons, japanese Ambassadors. Prince of Wales
honors will sink into insignifcance in contrast
with this triunphal tour of the first "darky"
guests of the nation Bridgeport Farmer.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

While the West has severely felt the pressure
of the war, and while its principal products, corn
and pork, have been sold at unprecedentedly low
prices, the East, and particularly New Englrnd,
has been enjoying season of remarkable and
unusual prosperity. The New York Herald
gives list of dividends of the leading manufac-
turing corporations which in the aggregate repre-
sent capital of twenty-five millions The half
yearly dividends amount to upwards of a million
dollars, averaging fully eight per cent per an
mum. The amount of dividends paid on the
same stock last midsummer was only S5l7 900.
Facts like these speak their own comment, and
yet it is said they only partially represent the
gains of the last six months; for many of the
corporations after paying liberal dividend, have
added handsome amounts to their reserved funds.
Chicago Tribune.
just said few days ago, the East is en-
joying itself while the West pays the piper. The
East furnishes army supplies, and the West will
be called upon one of these days to foot the
bills, besides being deprived of the ability to
meet them by depreciation in prices. The East
can afford to let the war 60 on, while the est
has anything left to pay for it.-Galena Courier.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
Coutrabands I'm tho district.

8. Monday curious spectacle was presented near
the Federal Capitol--about sixty contrabands, of
every age, sex and condition, marching under
military escort to the contraband headquarters
on Capitol Hill. They were mainly from Caro-
line county, Virginia, and about Fredericksburg,
and were brought up last night on the steamer
from Acquia Creek 1t is noticeable that "like-
ly boys and valuable girls" are few in these
crowds of contrabands.
They are mainly lame or decrepid men, and
mothers with infants and very young children,
not easily run off by fleeing masters. The con-
trabands are sapidy accumulatng in the District,
and seemed TO be maintained at the public ex-
pense until white people hire them. This is a
very serious and improper drain upon the public
treasury, for many are so feeble and so encnm-
bered that they cannot earn living. This Dis
trict bids fair to become National asylum for
pauper blacks.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

In short, there is not point raised by our CO.
temporary but what has been boldly taken hold of
by the Democratic Convention. All that he
wants declared affirmatively by the approaching
Republican Convention, has been for months be-
fore the people, as the platform of the Democracy
of Indiana boldly and freely uttered. All that
he desires to see condemned has been denounced
without reserve by our Democratic Convention,
by every Democratic statesman, and every Dem
ocratic editor. What more does he desiref
Surely any one who hesitates to support the
platform and ticket, basing their objections upon
the grounds stated above, is anxious to seek a
pretext for a change of front-to cover his retreat
to the enemy. We would have more respect for
men who come out openly on the side of the
scheming, dsunion, sectional Republicans. than
those who wear glasses, and, like scurvy politi-
clans, pretend to see things they do not" in the
platform now receiving the support of all who
deserve the name of Union Democrats-the plat
form laid down on the 6th of January last. Be-
ware of all such meni-Vincennes Sun.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
The Waste of War.

The Boston journal has letter from Pitts
burg Landing, dated April 26, wherein the writer
says:
1t is raining hard to day. Yet as / look along
the river bank see thousands of sacks of meal
and barrels of bread exposed to the rain. Near
by is a quantity of moldy coffee, wet in some
former shower and poured upon the ground.
Many of the sacks Of meal have burst by hand
ling, and bushels are wasted. Yesterday / no.
ticed a teamster give half bushel OF oats to a
mule. The animal ate perhaps four quarts, and
the remainder was wasted. He had had enough
oats, or, as the farmers say, he was cloyed and
refused them. 1t is waste everywhere. No one
thinks of economy. No one cares to save any
thing. So from millions of streams flows the
treasure of the people. o, We thrifty farmers
and mechanics of New England, who are taught
to know that if you take care of the pence the
pounds will take of themselves, who rrac-
tice economy as virtue, that you may have to
give to him who needs, one glance at war--at
the camps-at the riches trod into the mire-
wasted By neglect, and destroyed ruthlessly-if
you could but see the broken wagons, the dead
horses, the harness, saddles, equipments, the
tents, baggage kicked about, knocked about,
stripped, torn, battered, thrown aside, abandoned,
you would raise one universal cry of Indignation
But let me inform you that Indignation amounts
to nothing. What does an irresponsible team
ster care for mules? 1t is his prerogative to
thrash them, to pound them over the head, to cut
them up with lis tremendous whip, to bang
wagons over logs and stumps regardless OF conse-
quences NOBODY calls him to account What
does a soldier detailed from the ranks to carry
corn care ifthe sack bursts open when he tosses
it upon the ground? Nothing. 1t not his corn.
He did not enlist to carry corn? What does a
Lieutenant care if the men under his command
do waste the stores9 He is after military glory.
So with the Captain, so the Major, the Colonel,
the Brigader. 1t is not their business to look af-
ter the little details. They have other matters in
hand. Besides, ever before the eyes of a military
commander shines the dazzling. delusive light
glory IN the field. There is patriotism at home,
but it is modified in the army. Understand me.
Our soldiers, our officers will fight bravely, he
roicaly, VIGOROUSLY, but underneath all the bra
very is the pride, the desire for renown, which
makes men, officers especially, selfish, jealous,
which stiles patriotism, and which, if not guard
ed against, leads to a sacrifice of public interests
for private advancement
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
Our Army Correspondence
PittSburg Landing.

PITTsBuRG LANDING, Tenn, May Z, 1862.
JJ BINGHAM, Eso.-Time here drags its slow
length along--the only relief to the monotony of
the amphbious life on the river hotels being the
arrival of all sorts of exciting yarns from the
advanced camps, which hunted down prove to be
sheer inventions of the fertile fancy of the team
sters and army followers.
The lines are gradually but very slowly clos
ing around Corinth, and bets are two to one that
no enemy of any considerable number will be
found in the intrenchments of that noted place
when our army reaches them.
The heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday
nights delayed operations. which the fine weather
of week previous had fairly set in motion. The
heavy siege guns have to be dragged along by
oxen, and one nights rain renders the low
swampy grounds of the ravines impossible for a
day at least TO. anything larger than a lap-dog.
The soil of these low places is peculiar to them
selves Cover them with water, which few
hours rain will do, and they perfect quick
sand Give the water day to run off, and they
dry out with few hours sun, and become passa
BILE again have seen division move its artil-
lery and trains over one Of these places with
scarce the trace ofo wheel on the ground. and
one nights rain render it utterly impossible to
bring an empty wagon back over the same road.
You can conceive then the difficulty of moving
forward the immense army.
The good people at home must be patient and
take matters coolly, as the sanitary people and
curiosity hunters here have to do; and if General
Beauregard happens to give Halleck the slip,
they must not grumble until they come here and
see the difficulties the latter had to overcome 10
get at the active little Frenchman.
Gen. Pope's division on the left have had the
principal part of the skirmishing as yet. He oc-
cupied Pennington after shirp resistance, and has
had some opposition to nearly every days move.
He has taken great many prisoners, but no two
gangs of them, am informed, agree in their
statements OF the number Of troops, or the con-
dition of things in Corinth. The impression,
however, grows that the big fight of the war will
not come off in this ''neck of woods" ~
The orders about persons not in the army GO
ing TO the front, are very strict, but strict as
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

they are, people without shoulder straps will get
there at the risk of being shot. If the army had
the spirit of adventure of some of its followers,
it would get licked, or do something before many
days. Gen. Halleck need not be afraid of any
one, from personal observation, learning his force
or its disposition. 1t cannot be done. Spies with
in his lines would be as harmless as sucking
doves. His stringent orders must have some 9th
er object in view than simply that of keeping the
world in the dark in regard to his plans and their
progress.
Iwould Judge from what can gather that our
advanced line is about four miles from the enc
my, and that fight or foot-race cannot be de-
layed for many days. / enclose you an order
from the rebel General Chalmers, picked up by
Lieut. Messenger, of the SD Ohio, lin deserted
"secesh" tent) on Friday last, May ID, ten miles
south of here. You will observe that the in
structions for the order-to muster out certain Of
ficers-is from Gen. Bragg. The impression
here is, that the officers named as mustered out
of the Confederate service, had charge Of the
lines hastily collected before the late BATTLE for
thirty days, as there were many such then at
Corinth
Our indianapolis friends here are well as far as
| can learn. Capts. Harris and Lyman, of the
Quartermaster's Department, have floating quar-
ters on the river. Myers, Stevenson and Yohn
of the Pay Department, arrived yesterday with
pockets full of rocks for the boys, and daily
see dozens of faces well known on Washington
street. tnf t.a
The news of the evacuation of Yorktown
reached US yesterday and was published to the
army. The boys call these frequent euacuations
the Tennessee Quick STEP" B.
Copy of order found by Lieut.. j B. Messenger,
SD Ohio, ten miles south of Pttsburg Landing
in tent of deserted "secesh" on Friday, May lst,
1862:
HEADQUARTERS 2D BRIGADE, WIrHERs's Drv.,l
Corinth, Miss. April l5, 1862.
GENERAL ORDER, No. %: In obedience to in
struefion from Major General Bragg it is hereby
ordered that the following officers be honorably
discharged from the service of the Confederate
States:
Capts. Moses McCarley, Dick Allen. Lieuts
Daniel Allen, Stringfellow and Stevenson, Sd
Mississippi.
Capts. Milan, Wilburn, Alcorn, Young, Lieuts
GLEN, Holdhouser, Tate, H. II. Fowlkes, Capt
L. NJ. Laishea lst Mississippi.
Lieut.. Cooper, Captain Reed, Doth Mississippi.
By order of Brig. Gen. Chalmers.
W. 7. STRICKEN, A. A. A. Gen.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
The Cheat menntain TeIegrapher


The following sketch of one who has rendered
valuable service to his country was furnished US
by Professor FLRroHER just previous to his un-
timely end, and which, from that circumstance,
has a melancholy interest TO the friends of both
parties:
When We read of the movements, sufferings,
reverses and surprises of our armies now in the
field we only hear associated with these the names
of those who are sOidiers-either officers or pri-
yates. Yet there many who play import
ant part and who are essential TO the well being
of our army, who never wear the shoulder straps.
and whose names are not chrOnicled BY the putting
letter writers OF the regiments. One of the pc
cuIiarities of this has been the celebrity with
which the telegraphic lines have sprung up in tie
va ke of our progress Through the forest and
valley, and far away over the lonely mountains,
TO the very threshold of the enemy, have the
wires been stretched. Could the story Of the
"sImy telegrapbs" be written, it would abound in
widest adventure. Few can realize the labor
and suffering, the watchfsl care and sacrifice de-
m mindel TO perfect the system that gives US evenF
mnJraing- as we sip our coffee, the news OF the
prseeding day. Who guarded the linesl As you
sit thus comfortably and complacently in yonr
plfs,sant homes far away in a lonely tent lies the
ever active operator. The damp ground is his
couch: rubber coat his covering ALI night
he has rode with one or two assistants, 10
s-reDzir the line," then back to his tent
TO .cIick" TO you the news, and then stretching
hi nself upon the ground endeavors 70 catch a lew
nrpment's sleep. and at the same time catches the
cold that will eventuF y destroy bis constitution
Bit our object was 70 say word OF one individu-
al We leave the subject hoping that It may re
ceive the attention Of aber hands. On the Ith
of June, when Gen Mcclellan took command in
Western Virginia. he had in bis employ as prInci-
pal telegraph operator young man from New
Albany. When the former left for the Potomac
or operator continued with Gen. Sleigh' and
when our own brave Gea. Reynodsc came. he yas
siill m charge Of all matters connected with the
Telegraph" twas at Cheat Mountain Pass we
isst sae him. He seemed rsver tn tire but day
apd night was on the myve The lines were
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
A Libel on the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
Indianapolis Sentinel and r.Schna-
bel.
We find the following in the indianapolis Jour
"FINDs HIS LEVEL

"FINDs HIS LEVEL.
''Mr. Schnabel, the somewhat notorious Penn
sylyania politician and lecturer at Connecticut
peace meetings, has turned up, since his liberia
ton from Fort Lafayette, at Yellsville, Arkan-
sas, at the head of l 300 men, as Colonel.
"This Schnabel is one of the men whose arrest
was proclaimed by John @. Breckinridge in the
Senate TO be 'an outrage on the Constitution
and which the secession Democratic papers ofth
Cincinnati Enquirer and Indiana Sentinel stripe
declared made our Government "a despotism
worse than Austria Both the prisoner and his
apologist are now in the rebel army, while their
editorial advocates are doing their best by divi-
ding the loyal States to assist them"
1t is a sufficient reply to the above scurrilous
and Iibelous assault OF the Republican organ, to
give the following, which we find in the New
York Tribnne (Abolitic..J of the 7th inst:
The story that Mr.. sSchnabel of Pennsy ylvania,
who was recently released from Fort Lafayette,
had gone to rebeldom and taken command of a
regiment, is contradicted by the New York Free
mans Journal, which says he was in that city on
the 4th inst"
The Journal may thank its good luck if it is
not held to answer before legal tribunal for its
libel upon Mr. Schnabe, who is much better
Union man than any person connected with it.
It's about time that these shameful attacks upon
private character were brought to a close by the
parties who indulge in them being heavily mulcted
for damages, as they will be ere long before the
juries of the land. The Journal, which has the
audacty to stigmatize secession. openly
advocated the letting of the Southern States 60
out of the Union in peace. After Lincoln was
elected, and the Southern States began to move
toward secession, this par ereetence Union print,
the indianapolis Journal, said:
'Of what value will Union be that needs
links of bayonets and bullets to hold it togetherT
Ii any State will go from us. let il GO"
The Southern States took its advice, and our
civil war is the econsequence.-Cin. Eng.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

IL is hinted that portion of the extra appro-
pration of thirty millions, which passed the Sen
ate Yesterday, is covertly designed to defray the
expense of uniforming and arming negroes to
fight on the Union side during the fever season
down South. IL is said that we shall have, un-
der this appropriation, margin Of fifteen millions
for red breeches and freIocks for the Greeley
Brigade - Wash. Cor. N. Y. Herald.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

rE- At the election for town officers in Can
Melton on Tuesday the entire Democratic ticket
was elected. Among the officers elected is Mr..
d. L. Armstrong as Trustee, whose letters were
recently opened by the postmaster in that town
on suspicion that they contained reasonable mat
tern. A. Ledger
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

~ Daniel s. Dickinson, who was for a real
Onion party in New York, can't stand the late
address and resolutions. He says its authors
tried how far they could depart from the Repub-
could come to the Democratic creed without hit
ting it-LomsriIle Dem.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19

r%-Tbe health of Camp Morton. the surgeons
inform us, continues remarkably good.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-12-01

A SUCCESSFUL RAID. Col j. G.sPazton,1
of the Second Virginia Cavalry, Gen. Co1'ss
army has recently made successful raid into
Nicholas and Raleigh counties. Gov. Peir'
point yesterday received the following des.
patch:-
sUMMERvIILE, Va, Nov. 27.-Gov. Peir-
point-The Second Virginia Cavalry, under
my command, has just made the most success.
ful and extraordinary raid during the war.
have one hundred and ten prisoners. one hun.
dred horses aud two hundred and fifty stan OF
arms We destroyed their camps, stores and
wagons and did not lose man.
j. G. PAXTON, Col. Second Virginia Cavalry.
Wneezng MteIhgencer, Nor. 29th.
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Died.

In Washington, December lst. Of scarlet fe.
yer, JOHN SYDNEY, son Of Jas. NJ. and NJ.
A. Darnall Va The friends Of the family are
requested to attend his funeral on Tuesday NOR.
ming, at II O'Clock, from the residence of Mr..
VIM Hutchings, No. 81 St. Asaph street
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The Raid ct HARDWOOD.


mo. about daylight, two squadrons Of the
Third PENNSYLVANIA Cavalry, doing picket duty
IN the neighborh. cd Of HARDWOOD Church, some
fifteen miles from Falmouth, on the Warren
Ton road were completely surprised by a large
body of Confederate Cavalry, who got in their
rear BY circuitous road and 20 doubt piloted
BY resident of that vicinity.
The two squadrons consisted Of four compa-
MES, under the command Of Capt1in johnson,
Of Company Z. Captain Hess commanded the
Squadrons, Companies c, T, e, and NJ were
captured, consisting of at least one hundred men
and five commissioned officers. Captain E.
jones' Of Company c, is the Acting Lieuten-
ant-Colonel of the Regiment, and thus was not
out with his Company, and escaped capture
Lieutenant Englebert commanded Company G
Lieutenant Heyl also was captured.
Out Of the two sQuadrons about twenty-five
escaped, with the loss of their equipments, -
Westry Fisher, private Of Company G, was
chased over five miles. Fisher received two
balls in his clothes,
-Four of the cavalry were wounded:-Adam
Heigle, bugler, Company F; Sergeant Norris
Company G; Michael McCulloch, CompanyG,
and Edward Arthurs Of Company N. The
surprise, was COMPLETE It was the reserve
camp attacked, the outmost pickets not being
disturbed Captain Garry, commanding anoth
er squadron, rushed to the scene at the sound
Of the firing but the enemy, dividing the pris
oners, escaped on different roads, carrying the
prisoners away with them.
It was bold and dashing act Of the Confed-
crates who came down from Warrenton. The
Federal cavalry are out now securing the whole
country for Confederate marauders
The railroad is now open, and forage is arri
irving in abundance Great activity is mani
tasted at Aqua Creek and the various depots.
Major Pomeroy has arrived il. camp, for the
purpose et paying off the Pennsylvania Re
serves. There is not dozen pounds Of chew
ing or smoking Tobacco in any Of the camps
There are no signs Of movement to-day
The enemy are busy as usual on their fortifi
cations. The weather is clear, but the ladica-
tons are that storm is brewing. The roads
are pretty good to-day, except in the vicinity
of the gullies and branches.
The gun-boats are in the Rappahannock river,
the Second Regular Cavalry met them about
twenty miles down the Rapahannock, from
Fredericksburg, steaming up.
In the Mcdowell trial. now going on on
Saturday, Col! Taylor, commissary Of subsls-
1ence, o. S. A., was the second witness sworn.
His testimony was chiefly in relation to the