New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-23
may be found guilty Of disloyalsy any practices
nnhecomiuo thar noaition

may be found guilty Of disoyal!y or any practices
unbecoming their position.
II Is to be hoped some good may result. from thin
Investigations but fear there will be little result
albeit the effort may be earnest and energetic. Our
army there 10 much reason to believe, Is an Augean
stable, and Gen. Thomas is not the Alcides who car
cleanse il Of its impurities, unless indeed he could
use the mighty Misssspp as Hercules did the tabled
river Of old.
The President aud Cabinet, It Is understood, are
no. only willing but anxious that all officers oppoeed
10 the Administration, and who have not their hearts
IN the cause, should resign at once, and give their
places to w0rthier and truer and more patriotic men.
Bat this will not be OF course Those who abuse the
Administration will be the Last to surrender their
positions; but will hold on 10 them with the most
perssvering pertinacity. They have q passion for
abusing the hand that keeps them In power, and to
which they owe all that they are having neither
the heart TO be grateful, nor the judgment to pre-
serve silence.
| Gen Thomas has been rather indisposed since hii
arrival, but will "a he is able address the
troops, and announce 70 them the policy OF the Gov
eminent in regard TO making soldiers of the blacks.
Man of the officers IN the army have displayed q
strong dispo,ition TO obtain positions in the negro
regiments 10 be raised, aud have applied 10 Gen.
Thomas for that purpose. Numerous are the lieu
tenans and captains, am informed, who are
apyious TO resign their present places and obtain
At Providence, understand, Gen. Thomas ordered
four regiments Of American citizens of African
decent " TO be organized and il is probable they
will coon be IN the iield / know, from personal OBJ
seryaon, that there is excellent material for troops
among The cCntrabands Of Carroll Parish, aud many,
with whom have talked, only want an opportunity
T. ight against the people who have 20 bitterly OPP
pressed them through long series Of painful and
perncious years
TIE Duckport Canal, az the ditch five miles above
Yoangs Point is known, ia rapidly progressing,
and many think II will be completed duriag the
coming fortnight. The labor ie not very great. as
the bayOus will enable boats to flow through TO
New Carthage with very little assistance from the
spade Troops are stationed at different points along
the proposed wster-coane, and at Richmond, twelve
miles bepcs, on the YicksCuIg Shreeport and Texas
Railway we have large force; 40 that there is lit
tie apprehension Of any interruption Of the enter
pn q ON account of the n bells.
Within few days two three skirmshes have
taken place IN the neighbOrhood Of Richmond, and
come twenty or thirty prisoners have been captured,
-mung them three or fVur line and held officers
LientenanJ- Colonel X. s. Taylor Of the 80 Arkan.
sas 10 now ons vi the Transports and making the
lost OF the privileges granted and the questions
asked him, To prove no generous Nature has been
IN creating him trst-class ass.
The Colonel ID tall, raw.boned, fery.faced
fiery he AIDED hree ster, covered from head to heel
with scrolwork utterly regardless Of taste and
With the bro4dett OF negro accents that the entire
military power Of the world cannot conquer the
south; & AZ her future will be greater than tha. Of
any nation history bGs ever known that Slavery
caunot be extnguished; that il Is the divinest Of
divine Institutions, and will yield to the mighty
Conledefaoy" destined TO embrace South America,
Mexico aud the West ludies, her principal strength
influence wealth and splendor.
IL il really amusing TO hear how much the fellow
cnn cay without possessing the shadow Of an ldes.
knowing his weakness, every one sets him of, and
he mouologises hmself into bigh condition of dam
phoosm that borders upon the heroic and supernatu
raj The Union officers take bets on the duration Of
lis lingo, when exploded by a single query and
altogether in this duh place, he Ia better than q
monkey with red frock and two organ-grinders.
Very late Rebel papers speak of the loss Of the
Indianola AS fat accompit; 80 there can be no
doubt, n anything the Southern journals contain
eau be believed, that she is among the things that
were.
Cannonading was plainly beard to the direct east
Of this yesterday morning, n If IL came from the
the YsEoo or Big Black River; but no one has ~
We. been able TO give reason for the waFlike
sounds.
The siege" Of Vicksburg, il II can any longer
be called SUCH Is very quiet. Nothing occurring at
Youngs Point or Providence, though there Is an
active movement to-day on the river OF rams and
Transports moving to and fro with what purpose no
one seems able 10 state JUsIUs.