Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-03
pesial correspondsnee to the Chicago TIme..


RiGoRoUsLI ENFORCED. 4c. &C
Special Correspondence to the Chicago Times
WAsHIxGroS. May 81.
The news from Gen. Grants army has up TO
this moment. absorbed everything else of public
Interest, even in Washington Foroncet The tele
gr ph has been allowed TO tell the people the war
story as il tnId to the Government, in the face
Of Secretary Stntens protests TO the contrary for
this time the President took the matter IT, hand
and permitted everything received by him to be
Published As yet no official dispatches have
been received direct from Gen Grant though
publications to that effect haze been made The
Rebels claim, through Mobile papers received
her elast night 10 have successfully re, ulsel the
Mon fou ces; hut as the advices on hand here are
one dsy later. the statement probably has nothing
more than rum0r for lis origin. The friends OF
the President claim that Grants successes are
fitting commentaries upon those Senators and
Representatives who. IN the language ~ the off
cal organ here, .'honored the President for his
removal
The Cabinet changes have been rung out unon
the popular ear again for the thoustndth time
perhaps aud yet. so far as am able To learn. the
President saw that all he knows OF them he
lie rms from the newspapers. IL Is true that In
outside circles there has been a movement for
seward adu StaHfnit removal anu Tor pltcinR
Butler and Sumner in their places. but assnr"u-
ce. direct from Mr. Lincoln. that he intended. f
possible. to preserve the unity OF his Cabinet.
speedily lei to abandonment or the entire sf
fort So siraightway the radical Senatorial elect
ment here eneyed their determination to secure
a place of some kind for Gen Butler. and trora
this report arose that he had been ordered here
A. vet nothing definite his been done. the Presi
dent positively refusing TO make anoiher change
IT St Louis so that Gen Butler might 90 there
The indications that II General Burnside keS
the field. the former my he sent IN Cincinnati in
command of the civilians in the Department of
the Ohio This much. and nothing more, embra
ces the vii situation
Yesterday. Gen Hooker had long interview
with the President, Gen Haleck aud the Cab
net The fact that Gen Ensalls. Chief Quarter
m 'ster of the army. was present. has led TO the
believe that the Army Of the Potomac is to
change its location for the offensive. to make
n retrogade movement toward this city. Ii the
latter is possibly true il is basel on the almost
certain evidence that the enemy intends an al J.
vance Ii IL Threatened IN 40 manv words IN the
Richmond journals: and every intmation which
reaches from le-erters and Others, almost
surely confirms IT, If true il is probably on This
contingency. that most of Beauregard's army.
/ from Charleston ann Savannah. has gone 70
| defend Richmond from any advance of our troops
Ibln the ifDfii~hla, Wtlft ffli Lee MIKE "
forward movement The Richmond papers init
mite IN Il our orcupltiono West Point is for the
purpose of holding i'm check their army the
| RappahannOck. aud the necessity Ia cuunteract
ahat movement. therefore. is evident The he
/ e OF general advance Of the enemv's force
receives almost universal crelence here. while
numerous reisbns might he given for il. such A.
| the supposed tkness OF our army. the delay in
raising new tro,ps AMI the apparent necessity OF
Il ch in.e of policy with the enemy
A great deal of Misrepresentation. in one way
and another. has been made regarding the mum
/ bfr OF prisoners ttken on eich side IN the late
battles on the II iprahannock As they have just
been exchanged. the truth il coming out. some
what IN confirmation of the boasts of the Rebel
prisoners, who while being M ,rched down Penn.
s,lvania avenue. shouted out TO the crowd. 'Well,
there IA Just twice rs m4ny OF your fellers going
the other way" And thus il appears The
number of Rebel prisoners is $40 while SOM
of our men. captured i'm those battles have Just
| been paroled for exchange bv the enemv Bnt
from what L learn. there his been no ex isgeri
ton in the enemy'S losses; their killel and wound
eel alone footing up to nearly 10 000. aud. with
the Missing and prisoners making quite MANY
own. with the large balance of prisoners
losC on side. thus reducing the number of
killed and wounded
Mr. Coburn OF the n ew York w orld who has
just rearhel here from Richmonl bore messae e
to the President from The Rebel authorities mott
| fvine him that they intended adopt strict
measures with regard to prisoners hereafter taken
especially civilians.
! The draft is to he enforced and vigorously too.
! There is no longer any doubt of it. The cal
! will be for not less than three hundred thousand
men. The work of re eulisting does not promise
much 1t Is SAID that huff Of the PennS vvanra
regiments would re enlist, hut some If them have
almost gone b, the time allowed [thirty days. }
and vet not one man has shown any practical dis
position To do so Yesterday some PENNSYLVANIA
| regiments returned from the field EN- route for
! home. with a. many men when they starte
nnt The llrh NJ iSSachusetts battery proeeede,l
| homeward with every nun they took out and
without having ever fired shot in action There
can be little doubt, | think but that the three
hundred dollar exemption clfuSe will he ignored
| II found To produce more money than men.
Secretary Seward hiving caused To be tele
graphed all over the country that our t,,feign
relations quiet. has closed up his residence
here. and. with his family. has gone on summer
jaunt To his home in New York. Theradicals DO
not miss him much
The weather has been very cold for two davs
| past. but the thermometer is strding towards 90
degrees again X