Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-28

lie man in the opposition, il would no doubt have
furnished another evidence of the great plot 1t
will be attempted to be made out that there l.
grand conspiracy al the North 10 overthrow the
Government. Ii IS understood that Gen. Rose
Grams has lent himself TO some such absurd idea
against the opposition
IL hss been known for a long time that this city
IS filed With Government detectives. who are
looking after mares nests and by bogus officials.
Who occupy their time principally in leyying
black mail on unfortunate people Who come in
their way. Innocent Unioni-is Who come here
having escaped from the South, are hunted down
and heeced by these bogus detectives, under
threats of being cent % Fort Lafayette. They
have no friends here. and have 40 means of
proving their LOYALTY, and are. therefore, at the
mercy Of shaFpers The article published ia the
World of March 18th. detailed fulls their mode
OF operations II shown. too, that there
were three hundred special officers of the War
Department in this city. costing TO the Govern
ment about fiiy thousand dollars per month.
The Provost Marshal Of every Congressional dis
trict has corps OF detectives.
HOW rRE ARMY PAY ROLLS ARE FILLED WITH MEN
NOT IN THE ARMY
This, perhaps. may give Us clue to discover
where the immense number of men that are Oh
our army rolls TO be found. Senator Wilson
said that seven hundred thousand men had been
enlisted re-enlisted from the 10Th OF October
10 the sth OF June last, one hundred thousand of
whom only were negroes. The country has
wondered where these men are The spies of
the administration in the North are probably all
the pay rolls Of the army. Every fellow en-
plOYed in tampering with the mails, or employed
with the provost guards, under pretense Of hunt
ing deserters. but really to keep up the net work
OF espionage and corruption all over the North
md tr.l lie hr. I I'll.
people for another four years, somehow, no
doubt, figures on the Paymaster's lists. The
army OF fellows in the North in the disreputable
employment of prying into honest peoples bust
ness, would, perhaps. make an army Sufficient to
capture Richmond by very force of numbers
for they would not be likely to do il by the exhi
bition of moral or other courage. They should
either be made To go to the front, or to obtain
honest livelihood, as other people have to do. e.
pecially as citizens, who are helps to the commu
nifty, are liable TO graft to I'LL their places.
CORRESPONDENCE or THE WORLD TANPEREo WITH,
AND MONEY STOLEN.
The " orld has suffered especially by this NUS
ance of tampcring with the mails Letters ad
dressed to the editors in this Office have been
opened and some have never reached here
We are constantly losing the money addressed
to us by our subscribers. Ii is not great effort
of the understanding to conclude that persons
who engaged in the business of surrep,itous-
ly opening private letters would have enough OF
the instincts of the thief about them TO appTOpri
ate TO themselves whatever money might be found
in them, especially rs il is come to be rather an
exception than rule TO find government Off
cial who will not steal. These men lingering
the mails would naturally make business of
pilfering letters addressed 10 the World on the
plea that il is "iraitoIous" sheet We have
fhna lncf lar of, II
We sent a correspondent some time ago to
Fortress Monroe-Gen. Buffers department.
and for long time received none of the(ktters
which he wrote. At length a number of the let
tiers reached reinclosed in envelopes dated
from Buffers headquarters, showing, without
concealment that the letters had been seized and
opened
Butler, in bis arbitrary acts, has been more
barefaced AID shameless than other minions of
the administration, and has done openly and de
family what they have done sneakingly and
secretly
Another gentleman who had something to DO
with iron-clads there sent US a letter of very
interesting details as 10 what was taking place,
and his letter was seized. His name was not
attached to it, CT perhaps he might have been
arrested
ALL OF GEN NcLELLAN's LETTERS OPENED.
IL has become notorious, and it is not a matter
of one year but of several, that Gen McClelan's
letters are regularly opened, and il ls stated on
pretty good authority-not Gen. Mcclellan ;
authority, however. but by people who profess to
know-that the direct reason of his supersedure
after the battle of Antietam. wss a letter which
he wrote TO friend in the irritation he was under
at the absurd o5ders of Gen Halleck and Mr..
Lincoln, IN which some expression was con
strued to be a reflection upon the President; and
hat sais in
for the extraordinary personal spite and malice
manifested against him by the administration.
OF the latter, the recent removal of Colonel
Bowman, and reduction In rank OF Lieutenant
Colonel Clitz, members of the committee which
invited Mcclellan t. deliver the West Point ora
ton. are instances.
GEN. FREMoST's LETTERs oPESED.
In the case of Gen. Fremont the tampering
with lns letters has become so regular and palpa-
BILE that he has found il necessary to have his
correspondence addressed TO some fictitious name
to receive it in due time by the regular course OF
the mail kilograms to him are also delayed in
the same way, and a singular fatality attends all
kilograms relating 10 the Fremont movement.
When the great meeting held at ST Louis il
took two days for an account of il TO get through
by telegraph, and two kilograms sent arrived
barely in time To be read at the Fremont meeting
in this city.
Mrs. FremOnfs private letters to friends are
also opened, and il is stated that occasion
il became annoying that she wrote to west
ern, postmaster that il he would be kind enough
to let her letters pass through without delay she
would mail with them to him duplicate of each
for him 10 examine at bis leisure.
Several letters enclosing money in the envel-
opes used by the Fremont men in this city have
lately been missed and the money not yet found.
The letters of we'll known gentleman Of this
city who is know to be a democrat and fast
friend OF Gen. Mcclellan have been regularly
DELAYED and opened, so much so that he made il
a subject of especial remonstrance with the gov
eminent, and the fact was not denied that his
letters were watched Letters of friends OF
Mcclellan regularly watched.
Soldiers letters, too, when IL II thought worth
while, are opened. and what is found in them
used il their favor otherwise
THE CASE or Mr. HILTON
1t will be remembered that Cbalker, of Gus
tom-house notoriety. succeeded in procuring the
arrest of Mr. Winthrop F. Hilton through the
postoffice Somebody. it is supposed under the
advice of Captain Chalker, wrote letters pur.
porting TO be from Mr.. Hilton 20 rebel agents in
reference 70 supplying the Confederate Govern
ment with material for making their notes
Captain Chalker il is stated, gave information
of these letters, and they were opened. and or
this evidence Mr. Hilton was arrested and is still
in Fort Lafayette. although his Innocence j.
clearly proved
TIE NoDUs oFERANDr.