Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-29

specfor General TO exin Inc -ome r..opS af -
eesSionviile. town some ten miles from hero.
A. any mument my be allied ont e. hghf. 30
feel glad 70 have hong letter IN readiness in
60. shnuld unex pectedly be disposed OF BY
Yaukee ballet.
For some time We had IN ilea that there Was
= peace p4riy in me North safi. isnily s'rnng 70
defach some OF the States and 10 oppose Lincoln
md his unconstitutional acts: but the passing OF
the Conscription act AMI Finance Bile by Con
greSs has dashed these hopes TO the ground and
the South - prepared To conduct the war on a
more gigaf.ue scale this spring than heretofore
The emancipation scheme y believed here TO be
nonsense. The slaves do not want TO rise. and
win not do 80 unless under the press eof North
err bayanets. The Yankee. Thought thew could
r,,i-e a servile war; but they have f,ilef sgnaly.
see little chance now. though thought differ
emily some time ago, OF this war ending until
Lincoln retires from Office: hut IL crnnot he
red on ut lis present prodigious scale unless the
Yankees meet with some rrea, success.
FORWARDING A MAIL.
MARcn 10, 1863
am finishing tbs scrawl as the gentleman
who IS 10 take il TO EngIand leaves to morrow.
We living here very comfortably, and enjoy :
ourselves. although we still expect TO he attacked
every day by the Yankee armada The weather
j. lovely.
Richmond Correspondence Of London lines, March 81
FEARS or 1HE FATE or RICHMOND
There is little apparent ground for the belief
which seems 10 have found favor in England
that the greatest and most eventful struggle OF
this war will occur ~ VicksbuFg. From acct
dental circumstances. and chiefly from the ''sen
sation" writing of the New York press. an
amount Of interest has attached Itself TO Nicks-
burg. which il by no means enterttined with re
gard to it in the Southern Confeleracy. Ii ever
my letter from that remote point has made its
way to- England. it will have been seen that the
chief strength of Virksburg consists in its mae
cessibiity From the river alone can il be for
mdahly attacke and all the immense hailStorms
of shot and shell which have hitherto been thrown
into the little city from the river have produced
indescrihably little effect In halt n dozen diff
erent WAYS have the Federals tried to fl ,nk or
evade il. Apparently. the least formidable OF
all their Efforts has been through what is called
the Yazoo Pass A tort NJ the mouth OF the
Talahatchie river has driven the Yankee gun
boats and transports headlonG back TO the Mis-
sissippi, nor is it likely that The New York Her
aid the correspondent Of which announced. with
the customary farfares Of that journal, The adj
vance of the hota. and all that it was about to
accomplish, will record its disastrous diScomtt
ure and headlons retreat The canal or "cut of
in the immediate neighborhood of Vicksburg l.
more than ever considered, what il appeared To-
me- an entire failure OF third attempt-the
perforaiion of a route through Lake Providence
on the right bank of the Mississippi, by which
an entrance into the Red river has been sought
to he effected-but little information has reached
MS; but the impression is that the Federals have
abandoned the enterprise
POINTS OF DEFENSE AFTER vioKsBURe-
IfVicksburg can be turned or in some manner
negatived. there remain hundreds OF other points
round which the Confederate batteries would i'm
medately cluster Such point is Warrenton
where the Hartford his recently been beaten off
such point i Natchez, where the bluffs said
10 be more favorable for defense than those al
Vick~burg 1t - not To Vck~burg. or general,
t. the Mississippi river. that the eyes of the Con
feoerates are anxiously turned but rather tC
Charleston, where the long delayed blow mus
inevitably tall shortly or never: and To TullahO
ina and the army of Gen Johnson Nv owl
impression still i that want of slglcitv has been
shown by he Confederate Government IN no
strengthening the army OF Gen Johnston by suei
large renforcements as would make the issue o.
the impending battle "beyond "A peradventure
1t is TO an ordinary spectator iDcompreheusib'
how on both sides the policy of NdpOleonic con
centraton of troops has been neglected and over
looked IL i known that many of the wiSeS
heIds IN the COnleleracy, AMI among them Gen
Joseph E Johnston. have warmly advocated III,
concentration OF all available troops in Snutherr
| Tennessee, even though Texas and ArkanSa,
should lie left destitute of men. and the defender
of Vick>burg should be reduced one half NOI
tia Dis placHn For some inScrutable re ,son, the
strength OF the Confederacy is frittered away l.,
| Squtndering troops IN insignificant numbers Owe
vast areas of territory. aud hy provoking such at
ttcks recently led To the surrender of NOR,
| th IN 1000 Coniederates AT place called AK
sls Post The consequence l. that war anguish
e. on without any victory being gained by tn,
Coniederstes in the West OF such magnitude a:
tn contound the mendacity of Northern journal
ists or 10 strengthen the hands of that large an,
growing party i'm the Northwestern States wht
see that out OF the vast ocean of blood which ir
reconclablv divides the two sections il il no
possible that peace and Cancellation should have
chance OF arising.
Fot rIFIcArIoSs OF RICHMOND.
But If ever again the fortunes of war shall leaC
to the collision of great hosts of comb itants IN
the vicinity of Richmond let no such advantac,
he again looked lorby the North. On every hill
and crest in the neighhorhood Of this city. OF
every stream and point of vantage in the neigh
horhod ct Petersburg. works aud fortiGcatnn,
have. under the inspiration of the best engineer
officers OF the United States army, been clabo
ratey prepared and well may the confident allie
cation that against such WORKS the whole nigh
| of Yankcedom will expeud itself in vain. m,
credence ia the breast OF any obseryant specta
tor.