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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19

The following article of war was referred to by
General ScHoyiKLD, in his late general order No.
IU1:
Arr. 5. Any officer. o ~rsoldier, who shall use
e~ontemptuOus or disrespectful words against the
President Of the United States. against the Vice
President thereof, against the Congress of the
United States. or against the Chief Magistrate or
Legislature Of any of line United Yates in
which he may be CHARTERED. if q commissioned
officer, shall be cashiered. or otherwise punished,
ss a court martial shall direct; il a non commits
stoned officer. or soldier. he shall suffer such
punishment as shall be inflicted ON him By the
sentence Of . court martial.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
H PRISONS AND THEIR INHABITANTS.
From the Richm nd ENQUIRER, Oct. IL
The Massachusetts Republicans and
Negro Equality.

The following resolution was adopted by the
Massachusetts, Republican State Convention:
R~esotUed. That the policy of employing colored
soldiers is wise and just, and should be enlarged
and liberalized by putting such soldiers on a per-
feet equality with whites as to rights aud compen-
sation while in the service. The nation has a
right to the services of all its subjects in every
portion Of its DOMAIN, and no pretended or real
claim to service on the p-rt of master or en-
ployer, in the South or the North, should be al.
lowed to interfere with the primary allegiance
which is due to the country itself.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19

The reOel leaders at the South have great con-
tempt for 'reconstructionists." So have the
radical destructives Of the North. Reconstruc-
ton is the reverse of their theory. Lord Lyons.
the British Minister, was made ware of the rad
ical programme as long ago as November IL.
1862, when he wrote 10 Earl RUsskLL:
The political interests Of the party now in
power render a continuance OF the war a Deces
sity To it, | have. indeed. heard it maintained
that Great Britain should recognize the indie
p~endelce OF the South as soon as possible, with a
view to impede the success of the efforts of the
conservative party to reconstruct the Union.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19

Is The total number of Union prisoners now
in Richmond is given in the following article.
from the Richmond Enquirer. of Wednesday
last, which also fixes the number captured by
Brace at Chattanooga:
THE PRISONS AND THEIR INHABITANTS.
From the Richm nd Enquirer, Oct. ~
The Libby record on yesterday displayed a
force of $685. Federal prisoners, including S25
general. regimental and other commissioner Off
GERS. OF this number 1850 were received from
Chickamauga, which, including $500 sick,
wounded and played out, paroled on the field,
makes the total number Of captures on that famous
field, as far as ascertained, 1850. including 290
officers. Besides the combatant officers in the
prison, there are % surgeons and nine ~chaplains
In Castle Thunder are 900 prisoners, of HON so
are Confederate deserters and stragglers, 80 ne
eroes, and the rest Yankee Unionists, traitors,
spies, bushwhackers, and other prisoners of the
same stripe.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
Gen. mcCielIan---An EIectioneerIng
Lie Nailed.
A New York dispatch dated Monday. says:

A New York dispatch dated Monday. says:
Gen. Mcclellan has written a letter TO Hon.
Charles j. Biddle of Philadelphia, requesting him
to deny the statement in the Philadelphia Press
and other newspapers, that. if he voted and spoke
in the Pennsylvania political campaign, it would
be in favor of Gov. Curtin. He says that, after
a full conversation with Judge Woodward, he
finds that their views agree, and be regards his
election as Governor of Pennsylvania called for
by the interests of the nation. and he would. if il
was in his power, give to Judge Woodward his
voice and his vote.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
Under winch King, Bezonian,

The abolitionists say: 1.-The will of the Presi-
dent is above the Constitution and laws in war
times, Whoever disputes this is a secession
sympathizer."
ANDREW JACKSON said:
The laws of the United States must be exc
cuted. have no discretionary power on the
subject"
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19

E-The Cincinnati Commercial after abusing
V~ALLAsDIeHAM in the hiost opprobrious Terms as
a traitor and rebel, nOp recommends the Presi-
dent to revoke his edict of Punishment and per-
NIT him to return home
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
me Recent elections.

We have sufficient returns from the local eIec-
tons in this State. on Tuesday last, to justify us
in stating that the Democracy will have a decided
majority in the aggregate vote. The official re-
turns will fully confirm this statement.
The returns from Ohio show that Mr.. VALLAS-
DIeHAM received a much larger vote than was
ever pOlled by a defeated candidate, and suhi-
cient to have elected him if the balIot-box had
honestly recorded the choice of the people.
The news from Pennsylvania is also encour-
aging. The majority claimed for CURTIN is
rapidly melting away, if it does not altogether
disappear.
There is nothing discouraging to the Demo-
cratic cause in the results of the recent elections.
We believe with Mr.. CHASE, there is a Providence
in them.
There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we will"
The entire responsibility of the conduct of the
war is now with the Administration II has had
no excuse for failure. and will not have the
shadow OF an apology now. The elections
have terminated just as the party
in power desired. The Administration
has had all the bullets it regDired, and it
now has all the ballots. So far as mere party
policy is concerned, the elections could not have
terminated more fortunately for The future tri-
umph of the Democracy. The effect will be to
develop more fully and satisfactorily the utter
imbecility and dishonesty of the party which un-
fortunately for the country has obtained the con-
troll of the government.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19

tB- Philadelphia shoddy paper says: The
lust Of Office seems to have absolutely frenzied
our Democratic friends.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19

EB- The Illinois Central railroad picked up
four and a half millions last year.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
r n READ.

After Mr.. CHASE had delivered himself, as
above, His ExcelIeucy, Governor MORTON, came
forward again and introduced a gentleman named
as previously. who proceeded to his own Infinite
apparent satisfaction to recite some doggerel,
which he said he individually had writ himself.
After that the reception" adjourned to convene
at 8 p. NJ, at the Executive Mansion.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
ixie. There is another class of traders,

Dixie. There is another class of traders,
however, who follow the army like vultures
with sharp beaks, and who aae likely to be
sent to the rear, if not punished by our mil.
itary authorities. I allude to those dealers
who have heretofore been running the
blockade across the Potomac, and who have
done so much to depreciate our currency.
These people have no right to take shelter
behind the army, and buy up articles neces-
sary to the troops, to be sold again at heavy
profit.
All honest men throughout the world
will be rejoiced to hear that that malignant
demagogue and Abolitionist, Thaddeus
Stevens, of Pennsylvania, has received
some of the punishment due for his enor-
nous crimes against the happiness of the
human race. He owns largeiro works, and
mills in Adams County, On the border,
which l am informed have been utterly des-
troyed. His machinery, aqueducts, build
iugs and supplies for his operatives, inolu.
ding it is said, 10000 pounds of bacon,
have been swept away. Amen! will be
the involuntary exclamation of every lover
Of justice, and every foe Of hypocrisy. An
effort is made, in the work of impressment,
to distinguish, as far as possible, between
the friends OF peace and the aiders and
abettors of Mr.. Lincoln. Thus the red
hand of war is made to fall heaviest upon
those who were first to lift it. Some of the
troops complain, however, that they are not
allowed to appropriate and destroy as they
go. If permitted, they would avenge Mis-.
sissippi, Tennessee, and the Carolinas and
Virginia, and leave behind track Of DESC
latiou as barren and enduring as the desert
of Sahara. They give General Lee high
praise as fighter and strategist, but they
say she has nota good pillaging mind. -
Gen. Lee is right, however, as all will ac-
knowledge after while.
Correspondence Sauannah Republican.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15

BUzzARDs.-We saw solitary buzzard
yesterday, the first for aloug time; he was
steering Northwest. A gentleman informs
US that he saw one few days since alight
upon one Of the. chimneys Of the Battle
House, andafter resting awhile, Che seemed
to be very much fatigued,) resume his flight
in the same direction. These are the only
ones we have seen or heard of for Q consid-
cradle time, though we have made particu.
lar inquiries, our curiosity being suggested
by their total disappearance, SO far as our
observation extended, What has become
of them we do not know, but we rather
think they have gone to big dinner party
in Mississippi, given by Gen. Grant the the.
delicacies Of the feast consisting OF raw
Yankee and roast Yankee. ~
So. Mobile Advertiser and Register. =
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
The Private Soldier.

Iu his official report Of the battle ofMur-
freesboro, Gen. Bragg pays the following
tribute to the private soldier
To the private soldier fair need of
praise is due; and though it is SO seldom
given, and SO rarely expected, that it may
be considered out of place, cannot, in
justice to myself, withhold the opinion ever
entertained, and so often expressed during
our struggle for independence. In the ab-
sence of the instruction and discipline of
old armies, and of the confidence which
long association produces between veterans,
we have in great measure had to trust to
the individuality and self-reliance of the
private soldier. Without the incentive or
the motive which controls the officer who
hopes to live in history; without the hope
of reward, and actuated only by sense of
duty and patriotism, he has in this great
contest justly judged that the cause was
his own, and gone into it with the determi-
nation to conquer or die, to be free or not
to be at all. No encomium is too high, no
honor too great, for such a soldiery How
ever much of credit and glory may be given,
and probably justly given, to the leaders in
our struggle, history will yet award the
main honor where it is due-to the private
soldier, who, without the hope of reward,
and with no other incentive than con-
sciousness of rectitude, has encountered all
the hardships and suffered all the privatious.
Well has it been said: tThe first monu.
ment our Confederacy rears when our indie
pendence shall have been won, should be a
lofty shaft, pure and spotless, bearing this
iuscription-'To the unknown and dpnrecor-
ded dead" -. -.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
The, Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania.

If it be true that the Confederate forces
occupy Harrisburg, the attention of the
commanding General vii! no doubt be d.
rected to the coal fields, which lie within
forty orr fifty miles of that city. His first
aim will be to cut all the railroad connec-
tious, and thus put astop to the trsnspor-
tation of fuel. His next will be to destroy
the most costly and not easily replaced ma.
chinery of the pits. Whether he would
stop at this is questionable He might set
fire to the pits, withdraw the forces sent out
on this special duty, and leave the heart of
Pennsylvania on fire, never to be quenched
until river is turned into the pits or the
vast supply of coal is reduced to ashes. =
The Anthracite coal is found ip large
quantities in % other part5b the world but
Pennsylvania Enormous quantities are
used in the United States Navy, 10 the
countless workshops aud manufactures of
the North, in the river boats, and even upon
locomotives 1t cannot be well replaced
by any other fuel. The bituminpus coal
which is found near Pittsburg would not
answer the purpose, even if it could bear
the cost Of transportation. Our troops al
ready hold the railroads and canal leading
FROM the Cumberland coal fields All that
is needed is to seize the anthracite fields,
destroy the roads and the machinery of the
pits, set fire to the various mines and leave
them. Northern industry will thus be par
alyzed at single blow.
These views may have induced General
Lee to move upon Harrisburg. We doubt
whether he would fire the mines, but the
destruction of the Mauch Chunk Rail Roads
and pit implements would be as legitimate
as blowing up tunnels and aqucducts, or
burning bridges. Of one thing we may be
sure-that whatever is best to be done will
be done by Gen. Lee, and if he thinks fit
to destroy the Pennsylvania mines, they will
certainly be destroyed. Should he leave
them untouched, it will be for the best of
reasons. Butitis impossible not to indulge
the hope that he will avail himself Of the
tremendous power which the possession of
the coal fields, even temporarily, would con-
fer.-Richmona Wig.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
AGood Story.

We heard a good story yesterday related
by q German who was confined in one of
the hospitals at Nashville, which proves
conclusively that sick soldiersap appreciate food
for the stomach more than food for the
mind. IS. -
A rebel lady visited the hospital one
morning with white linen cloth. She ap.
preached our German friend and accosted
him thus:
care you good Union man ?"
ri ish dat" was the laconic reply Of the
German, at the same time casting hope
ful glance at the aforesaid basket.
"That is all I wanted to know" replied
the lady, and beckoning the negro to fol,
low, she passed to the opposite side Of the
room, where rebel soldier lay, and asked
him the same question, to which he very
promptly replied-NNot by a id sight"
The lady thereupon uncovered the basket
and laid out bottle of wine, mince pies,
pound cake, and other delicacies, which
were greedily deyoured in the presence OF
the Union soldiers, who felt somewhat in
dignant.
| Oa the following morning, however, an
other lady made her appearance with a
large covered basket and she also accosted
our German friend, and desired to know
if he was q Union man.
ri ish, by Got; no care what you got;
I bees Union"
The lady then set her basket on the ta-
BILE, and our German friend thought that
the truth availed in this case, if it did fail
10 the other, But imagine the length of
the poor fellows face when the lady uncoy-
ed the basket and presented him with about
bushel of tracts. He shook his head dole.
fully and said:
"I no read English, and, peside, dat
rebel on to ponter side of te house need dem
SO more as me"
The lady distributed them aud left.
Not long afterwards along came another
richly dressed lady, who propounded the
same question again to our German friend
He stood gazing atthe basket, apparently
at loss for reply. Atlength he answer
ed her, in Yankee style, as follows:
"By Got, you no got me dis time; Vot
you got mid be basket"
The lady required an unequivocal an.
swer to her question, and was about to move
on when the German, shouted out,
'"If you got tracts bees Union; but il
you got mince pies nit pound cake and
vine, I bees secesh lax te tevil. Yankee
Paper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
The two Invasions--A Contrast.

The New York World thus draws the
contrast between the Yankee invasion of the
South and the Confederate invasion at.the
North:
The organs of the administration are be-
ginning to discover that the miserable
scouudrels who devote themselves to burn
ing defenceless towns, and robbing non.
combatants at the South, are cursing the
cause which they are paid to serve. The
man must be blind, indeed, who does not
see that the contrast which these villanies
establish between our own. invasion Of the
South and the rebel invasion of the North,
is one of the most effective blows that has
yet been struck by the administration at
the hopes of the Union. It is childish to
attempt to parry this blow by appealing to
the destruction of our ships at sea by the
rebel .privateers. The laws and usages of
civilized war, which utterly forbid the sei.
zure of private property on land, permit pri,
vate property to be seized at sea. A ship
belonging to private citizens is the lawful
prize ola belligereut commodore; but e
belligerent Major General who takes pos
session of the silver spoons Of a private
citizen is simply thief
The vessels which are burned at sea by
the Alabama, or the Tacony, those "char-
tered libertiues'' whom Mr. Weiles makes
free Of the Atlantic, are the property, by
the laws of war of those who burn them,
and would be adjudged to be BY the courts
if carried into peutral port. But it would
be hard to fud;any court which would con-
firm the right Of cavalry colonel to chop
up silver salvers with an axe 10 order to
cram them into his holsters, or which would
convey to negro corporal the fee:simple OF
the houses which he burns over the heads
Of women and children by the order of his
white faced but black hearted commander.
When we find Gen Lee. retaliatiug upon
the farmers of Pennsylvania all that Hun
4 ter has inflicted upon the planters of Gecr-
gia and Carolina when rapine and arson,
set up in the captured toWus OF the North
1.-THE same internal carnival to which they
haya been invited in the South, then, and
not till then, we may call upon the world
to witness that the officers and soldiers of
the shareholders rebellion are really as
reckless of humanity aud Of decency as the
officers and soldiers of liberty and the I'm
ion! In the meantime, it is the solemn
duty ofevery man who respects himself and
his country, its present honor aud its fu,
ture fame, to protest with all the power
that God has given him against course OF
policy which saps the foundation Of our
hopes, and makes our very name "hissing
aud reproach" among the nations. q
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
Federal Devastations in Arkansas.

1t appears that in Arkansas the.Federals
are practising the same policy of burning
provisions and agricultural implements that
they have practised in other sections of our
land. The besom Of destruction follows in
their train everywhere. Evidently they
have adopted this system Of warfare against
women and children in order, az they say,
sto starve out the South if possible" The
Little Rock True Democrat gives the an
nexed account of their doiugs 10 that State :
It has been known for weeks that the
Federals in Arkansas were destroying all
farming implements, seizing all provisions,
ard preventing the planting Of crops, with
the avowed determination to starve the peo.
pie into submission. Wesupposed itmight
be- possible that thiss.uas the indicative
cruelty Of some cowardly commander, who
vented his spite on women and children
But it is now certain that orders to that eff.
feet have issued from Lincoln's War De.
psrtment. In Phillips, Chicot, and other
counties, where the Federals have foot.
hold, they have and are burning all the
fences, plows and farming utensils they
find. They destroy the. property of widows
as we'll as of male citizens. They are send
ing thousands of women and children with
in our lines, destroying all the provisions
they find, and preventing the people from
planting.
Out Of many cases reported to US is one
Of widowed lady, at whose house num-
ber Of officers aud men called and demand
ed their dinners. After having eaten they
told her that they had orders to seize all
her provisions, destroy all the farming i'm.
plemeuts and fences, and prevent her from
having a crop raised. They left her a
weeks supply Of provisions only. In Phil
lips county they killed every milch COW
shot down every hog and cut down fruit
trees. In Chicot county they have made 0
clean sweep. Il
This is notcivilized warfare. Itisa wa,
upon women and children. 1t is whole.
sale robbery, and national murder. Yet, SC
tirnid has been our policy that we have lei
these Williams navigate our waters because
they protested against the barbarity of firing
INTO boats. We have paroled jayhawkers,
whose hands we're incarnadined with the
blood Of murdered patriots. We have for
borne until forbearance ceased to be q yir.
tue-until it has ceased to be manly. That
an enemy SO violating all the rules of war.
fare, and waging barbarous, fendish war,
should be treated according to the rules Of
civilized war is absurd. Surely these men
shoald be hung as soon as caught. They
have thrown away their stars and stripes
and hoisted the black flag, They are war
ring upon women and children, and wheu
caught their captors would be as justifable
f.in killing them as they would be in killing
a wild beast.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15

sar Major Gen. John Fulton Reynolds,
of the Federal army, who fell on "Wednesday
morning last, near Gettysburg, Penn, q ma.
tive of the State upon whose soil he was kill
ed, died so near to his immediate home,
that we are informed thereports of his guns
might have been heard by his neighbors.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-15
rhe Change of Scene.

A Baltimore correspondent ofthe N. Y.
Herald, writing on the 23d ult., comments
upon the extraordinary change in affairs
which has taken place. His reflections on
the retribution likely to occur are very
apropos:
The scenes witnessed in Baltimore, to-
day, are in striking contrast to those which
were taking place here two years ago, or
even one year ago. Then the streets were
filled with troops, newly raised in the Nor.
theru States, and all marching towards the
South. Then it was hoped that the rebel
lion would speedily be quelled. At all e.
vents, it was distinctly understood that the
war was to be fought on Southern soil, and
any man who had limited at the possibility
of the rebel troops marching against Balti.
more would have been denounced as trai.
tor. To-day, SO imminent is the peril which
is supposed to menace Baltimore from the
rebel army, that the most urgent appeals
are made to the people by the Governor,
the Mayor, the City Council, the military
authorities, aud the newspapers, to turn out
to work on eutrenchmepts, which are being
hastily erected for the defence of the city,
and to enlist in the various military organi'
cations
The american calls upon the citizens,
too, to contribute literally for the supper.
of the families of those who are working on
the entrenchments, and to spur up unWll'
ling contributors drawsa terrific picture
of the city taken by storm, and given up to
sack and pillage. After going the round
of the entrepchments that are being thrown
up on the North and West sides Of the
city, and seeing the thousands of men, black
aud white, engaged in the work-a work
which is being carried on both day and
night could not but ask myself the
question, "Why is it that all this is neces
sary? Why is it that, after two years o.
war, the powerful and wealthy North has
not been able to conquer the weak South
Of whose starved and ragged soldiers We
have heard so much? Why is it that We
are now compelled to fortify our own cities
against the rebel hordes that are advancing
to sack and plumber them? Is the seat o.
war to be indeed transferred from the South
to the North? Are Maryland and Penn
sylvania to witness and to suffer the hor
rors and the deyastations that have desola
ted Virginia? Is Baltimore to be bombar
ded like Fredericksburg Is Harrisburg tt
be pillaged like Jacksonville, in Florida p