Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-01


For some time we had an idea that there was
a peace party in the North sufficiently strong to
defach some of the States and to oppose Lincoln
and his demonstrations acts; but the passing of
the Conscription act and Finance Bills by Con-
gress has dashed these hopes TO the ground, and
the South is prepared to conduct the war ON a
more gigantic scale this spring than heretofore.
The emancipation scheme Is believed here &c be
nonsense. The slaves do not want to rise, and
win not do so unless under the press re Of North
ern bayanets. The Yankees thought they could
raise a servile war; but they have failed signaliy.
see little chance now. though / thought differ
emily some time ago, of this war ending until
Lincoln retires from Office; but il cannot be car
ried On at its present prodigious scale unless the
Yankees meet with some great success.
FORWARDING A NAIL.
MAncH 10, 1863.
am finishing this scrawl, as the gentleman
who is to take il to England leaves to morrow.
We are living here very comfortably. aud enjoy
ourselves. although w still expect TO he attacked
every day by the Yankee armada. The weather
is lovely.
Richmond Correspondence Of London Times, March 81.
FEARS or TIE FATE or
There is little apparent ground for the belief
which seems TO have found favor IN England,
that the greatest and most ~eventful struggle of
this war will occur At Vicksburg- From aeci
dental circumstances. and chiefly from the 'sen
sation" writing of the New York press, an
amount of interest has attached itself to Vicks-
burg, which is by no means entertained with re
gard to il in the Southern Confederacy. Ii ever
my letter from that remote point has made its
way to England. it will have been seen that the
chief strength of Vicksburg consists in its mac
cessibility. From the river alone can it be for
midably attacked. and all the haiistOrms
of shot and shell which have hitherto been thrown
into the little city from the river have produced
indeScribabiy little effect. In bali n dozen diff
.erent WAYS have the Federals tried to n, aux or
evade il. Apparently. the least formidable of
all their efforts has been through what is called
the Yazoo Pass. A fort at the mouth Of the
| Tallahatchie river has driven the Yankee gun
boats and transports headlong back to the Mis-
sissipDi, nor is il likely that the New York Her
aid. the correspondent OF which announced, with
the c%uStomary farfares of That Journal, the adj
vance OF the f%otilln, and all that it was about to
accomplish, will record its disastrous tliScomft
ure and headlong retreat The canalor "cut of"
in the immediate neighborhood Of VickSburg is
more than ever considered, what it appeared to
me. an entire failure OF a third attempt-the
uerforation of a route through Lake Providence.
on the right blnk Of The Mississippi. by which
an entrance into the Red liver has been sought
to be effected-b bat little information has reached
us: but the impression is that the Federals have
abandoned The enterprise
POINTS OF DEFENSE AFTER vIcKsBURG-
nVicksburg can be turned or in some manner
nesatived, there remain hundreds OF other points
round which the Confederate batteries would i'm
mediately cluster. Such n point is WarrentOn,
where the Hartford has recently been beaten off;
such a point is Natchez, where the bluffs are said
IN he more favorable for defense than those ut
Vicksburg. 1t Is not TO VickSbnrg, OF generally
~ the Mississippi river. that the eyes of the Com
federates are auxiously turned. but rather to
Charleston, where the long delayed blow mu:t
inevitably tall shortly or never; and to Tullaho
ma and the army of Gen. johnson. Ny own
impression still is that want of sagacitv has been
shown by he Confederate Government in not
strengthening the army OF Gen. Johnston by such
large enforcement as would make the issue Of
the impending battle "hevond a peradventure .
1t is 70 an ordinary spectator incomprehersib'e
how on both sides the policy of Napoleonic con.
centration of troops has been neglected and over
looked 1t is known that many of the wiSesl
heids in the Cunfeleracy, and among them Gen.
Joseph L Johnston. have warmly advocated the
concentration OF all available troops in Southern
Tennessee. even though Texas and Arkansas
should ne left destitute of men, and the defenders
of Vicksburg should be reduced one half Non
tia Dis Dlacah. For SON. inscrutable re lson, the
strength of the Confedcrs,cy is frittered away hy
squandering troops IA insignificant numbers over
vast areas of territory, and hy provoking such at
tacks as recently led to the surrender of more
'h IN 4.OO0 COntederates at a place called Atkan-
sas Post. The consequence is that war anguish
e. on without any victory being gained by the
Confelerates in the West Of such magnitude as
to confOuud the mendacity of Northern journal
lists, or to strengthen the hands of that large and
growing party in the Northwestern States who
sec that out Of the vast ocean Of blood which ir-
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possible that peace and Cancellation should have q
chance ofarising.
FoATtFTcATIoSs OF RICHMOND.
But ii ever again the fortunes Of war shall lead
to the collision OF great hosts of comb ,tants in
the vicinity of Richmond. let no such advantage
be again looked for by the North. On every bill
and c,eSt in the neighborhood of this city, OF
every stream and point of vantage ia the neigh
borlod of Petersburg, works and ratification;
have. under the Inspiration of the best engineer
officers of the United States army. been elnbo
rately prepared, and well NAV the confident allie
gation that against such works the whole nigh
of Yanbcedom will expend itself in vain. ano
credence in the breast of any observaDt specta
tor.
Is THERE A FAMINE.
Meantime, in Secessia, more than in Yankee
dom, the rapid and i~ncessaDt Manufacture of pa
per pro nises to pay continues to depreciate ih'
currency from day TO day. and it is idly fancie'
in New York that no nation which is giving s.
a pound Tor coffee. and SIS a Darrell for -four
(its price in Mobile can long protract its resist
ance To no effect are the Yankees told tina
never was a determined nation checked by q de
probation of its paper Board in tho hotels
which six months ago. was 81 per day. has riseI
TO IS; the scarcity OF supplies, and still worse
their uncertainty. make il hardly possible for no
tel keepers and owners OF boar'ling hou.es To fur
nish food for their guests But not Tor a mnmef'
let il be The thought that scarcity will ever ascen'
to famire. that a nations which j. more thar
equal TO its enemy in the fsi'l will yield to th'
quaint dictates of a monitor. who, it ~necessit,
arose. would he resisted as NJ essen, resisted hin
NJ Genoa. and the intlomitable Protesfants of lie
laud fought him AZ Londonderry. Eyerv~her
evidence Is offered to rrnve that nn sach necesSi
ty can arise; everywhere il Is admitted that thre'
short months will carry MS over the pinch.
The correspondent at the New York World
who was captured neir Vicksburg, thus sums u
his experience ia Dixie:
L. The confusion formed in a three weeks so
furs within The limits OF the Confeieracy. and
tripalmost across the entire extent nv a circuitou
route that led almost down to the Gnlf. then "a
again through the mountains Of E,st Tennessee
20 Richmrml md along the valley OF the james
NAV he thus briefly summed up: 20. q,
l. me people are brave, afr
in the main. united.
Seccnd-1'here NAV be temporary suffering 10
want OF sufficient food, but starvation Is impos
lie. ga
Third-Although they can never prababl
have their army again at as high "A NUN YER a
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