Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-12
nesnforcemens. for Ro.ecran..

lt has transpired that two entire corps d.drmee
are now on their way from the Ohio river to re
inforce Rosecrans, and not less than another
corps are on their way up the river for the same
purpose. IL was requested in dispatches from
Washington to the press that these important
movements Of troops should be kept profound
secret, but the Republican papers both in New
York and Chicago could not restrain the impulse
to relate all they knew ifnothing more Hooker
will probably succeed Burnside and Gen. Pope
will probably sunersede either Crittendeu or Nc
Cook Troops have been concentrating both at
indianapolis and Louisville
The foregoing we find in the Milwaukee News
of Friday last Especial orders were forwarded
from the War Department to the press here and
elsewhere prohibiting the publication Of any in
telligence in regard to the movement of troops
from the East to the West. So particular was
His Excellency, Governor MoRroS. that he even
requested US not to publish an order from Capt.
wilcox. the Provost Marshal here. ordering the
saloons to close for an indefinite time. because
the Captain stated in the order that il was done
under the direction and by the authority of Major
General HOOKER But Eastern papers and West
ern papers published to the country that General
W. s RosEcRANs was to be reinforced largely
from the Army of the Potomac. and even
the telegraph under Government censorship
stated that Major General JosEPH HOOKER
was to have an important command in the West.
The facts which the Government attempted to
conceal from the enemy leaked out through Re
publican channels. but no notice is taken of this
disregard of the orders of the War Department
The Rochester Union, in noticing the resuscta-
ton or resurrection of HOOKER, thus refers to
what il terms the last mad freak of the Admins
tratiou:
1t is announced from Washington on all hands
that Gen Hooker, the braggart and blunderer of
Charlottesville, has been assigned to an mpor-
tant command in the field understood 20 be
Burnsides, and that he has taken his departure
westward to assume il. A greater freak of mad
ness than the entrusting of Joe Hooker with
any command whatever in the army of the Union
can not be well imagined While no one
doubts his mere physical brute courage, and
no one questions that in subordinate position
at the head ofa division OF ev,n corps he has
fought well. every one knows that he is utterly
incompetent for the chief command of a de
partment or separate army. The blood of the
thousands slain and still larger number woun.
ded upon the field of Charlottesville without
avail and solely through his lncompetency, at
tests this fact But even if bis military skill
were conceded, who believes that the man who
de6ed his Creator to prevent him from over
whelming Lee and marching on to Richmond, is
worthy of commanding place in the Fedora
armyI Who desires to see such blasphemer
restored to servicel Certainly the Christian peo-
pie 10 not But the in6del abolitionists do, and
that, with the Washington authorities, is suffi
cient and conclusive.
This reinstatement of Hooker is, it seems,
already producing its fruits, in driving from the
service meritOrious officers who refuse to serve
under him. The resignation of Gen. Slocum,
commanding the 18th corps. was announced a
few days since. The General resides at Syra-
cuse. aud the Journal (Republican) of that city
saws:
"It is understood here that the reason why
Major General SlOcum has rendered his resigna
ton, is an unwlllingness to serve under General
Hooker again. It is said that Gen. Hooker has
been designated to succeed Gen. Burnside. and
that the 18th corps (Gen. Slocums) is ordered to
join his command in Tennessee"
Another cotemporarv remarks:
IL is singular CONTINUOUSLY coincidence, that
Hooker has relieved Burnside after the Chicka
manga defeat. just he did after the Fredericks
burg disaster. Will the parallel be completed