Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-20

of the republic This generation, perhaps the
generation alter. will never see those happy days
again We have got 10 20 through the revOlu
uon When II Is all over h0Never.-when the
usurrer his been hurled from p0wer and the
Constitution and the Union restored a. they
were-then al these things will come back
again
Military matters remain in about the same state
as al the date of nv last letter The regiments
that have been home on furlough. that have
been lighting 1.-THE copperheads" in the northern
states, have continued 10 return every nav for
the last month. and are being dispatched home
daily IA various directions Burnside's corps at
Annapolis Is growing to colossal proportions. aud
u i nov said that il will he landed ut Beaufort.
Vi North CarOliua and will march thence To
attack GoldsborOugh. point on the Wilmington
ahd Weldon Railroad, a. co operative move
ment III the anticipated attack upon Richmond
III THIS has really been determined on, il requires
no prophet 10 ioretell that such a movement can
only result in defeat This railroad l. the one
over which all the blockade goods received at
wilmington are transported TO Richmond. Its
lmportance-the vital necessity OF its saiety-to
the Contedera ties, is such that body OF rebel
troops. considered fully adequate to its defence.
mas been constantly maintained upon IL Tor many
months past. Ii Burnside's movement toward
TINS railroad : made therefore as i appears to be
made. under the impression that IL is inadequatey
defended. the butcher OF fredericksburg will
meet with signal defeat in North Carolina
as he did in December. 1862
he idea that such A movement can be a CO
operative part of an attack on Richmond proves
that the attack by three armies. moving upon the
rebel capital by three different routes, has not
been PLANNED by General Grant or by any other
soldier, but by Lincoln and Stanton.
he effect of tho tarrif,ie r.in-Sform of la 81
Saturday has been even more disastrous than in
tlmated IN my last letter All communication
with the Army of the Potomac has been
pended. and must remain So So far as any good
can be accomplished, tor many days yet Sup
pose the movement on Richmond in three
columns had been commenced, and this army
had got rs far a. Mine Run or the Wilderness
when thus overtakeh by such storm: what them
And such storm Is quite as likels TO happen
any time before the end of Nav Are the d>as-
tiers OF Charlottesville, the Wilderness. and Mine
Run to be repeated? 1t looks very much il
they would be- unless this Qnix0tie movement
In three columns" is abandoned.
Besides eight smaller reiOuts and earthworks
there are thirty toIr principal forts around this
city. forming perfect network OF fortlhcaton
vi the guns mounted on these works it might be
improper To speak. further than to say that they
are a numerous the space will allow, and OF
the largest calibre, the longest range, and the
most effective description known in modern war
fare The artillerists, most of whom have been
III the works ever since their construction in 1851
are Kept in daily practice. and. suppose, are as
well drilled ang in the world They number
about ID 900 mon. Even that is twice As many
as Is necessary 10 work the guns effectually. But
in addition TO these there have been, ever since
Pope's retreat in the fall OF 1862, about thirty
regiments of infantry, numbering in the aggre
gate -, 600 men. who have been retained in and
these forts. and between them and the city
'ior the protection of the capital il is said
but really for the protection of the great ex Ri
Splitter. There is no more for them here
than At Philadelphia and New DIRK Gen. Gram
understands this, and wishes them TO he ordered
TO take the field To this Lincoln demurs. anC
30 strongly that as yet Gen Grant has not in
sisted upon it. Y