Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1861 — Page 2

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I A n. ral EnrlliueKt. We took the position sometime ago that the only fair way to raise an army of sufficient magnitude and efficiency to meet the of the country, was a general enrollment of all who are capable of benring arms. The Confederate States can probably raise a million of men if that number should be needed to maintain their independence. To overcome the rebellion we shall re quire an army larger than the enemy can bring into the field. It is evident that we can not raise an army of this magnitude by the system of volunteering. By drafting the burden of the war is equalized. Under the present plan Indiana and Illinois are the only States that have met the requisitions of the Government. It is a singular fact that the abolition districts fall far behind the conservntivu sections in furnishing men for the war. Shotld not those who are the most clam orotu for prosecuting tlte war with rigor be made to contribute, at least their proportioa of the men aud means to carry it on? The only way to reach this class is by drafting a general enrollment of every man capable ofbearing arms. The Cincinnati Pres takes the same view of thequestiou, and we quote from it the following suggestions in reference to the necessity of a general enrollment, to show that it is the only fair way of raising an army of the magnitude that the ex igencies of the country demand: It is coming to be apparent now, that the true plan of raising troops for the war has not been adopted. Only one State in the Union has furnished her full quota. Next is Illinois. Some of the other States have furnished two thirds, some one half and some less. Carrying on a great war by the volunteer system will not answer. It is too uncertain to lie depended upon. The first thiug should have been the enrollment of the entire population of the country. Then any tie in. mil. however great, could have been supplied immediately Willing as the people are to enlist, they do not come up fast enough to aus wer the" requisitions of the Government; and it would be the part of prudence to resort to the enrollment immediately. Conduct off the War. That there is a jjreat lack of efficiency and energy in the conduct of the war on the part of the Federal Government, is an admitted fact. The Administration has been promptly furnished with all the men and money that have been re quired, but as yet without accomplishing the results that the country had the right to expect. We have the So .thern coast blockaded, and all Northern supplies rut off from them, yet the rebels are prosecuting the war with great vigor, and thus far with HsesSS. The Louisville Journal says that by a private letter received in that citv on Fri 1 ly last from Washington, it learns that the aggregate Federal force on the Potomac at present is two hundred and eighty thousand. What is this immense army doing? Is it not more numerous and better apjioiiited in every re spect than the opposing army? Is it not equally as well disciplined and ready for the field? The Cincinnati Commercial, with well directed sar casm, says in response, "with reinforcements at the rate of three regiments a day, and unlimited supplies of the heaviest and best artillery, the capital will be protected uutil the rebel army wears out its shoes, and will be compelled by the want of leather and shoe makers to return to pri vate life. The civillians of Washington may eat their oysters in peace." With a splendid army the ruling powers have permitted the rebel forces to build strong fortifications in sight of Washington, and line the Potomac with masked batteries, until now it is announced that they have effectually blockaded that stream, leaving our army to be furnished all its supplies by a single line of railroad, and that liable to be cut oil" if the Confederates should make a'successful movemeut upon Maryland. There seems to be over caution on the part of our Generals when t'-iev permit these operations of the enemy alL;, woh imoonitv ' most with impunity. And how is it at the West? Gen. Frkmot is assigned the command of the Western division and he assumes it with a grand flourish. Without regard to cost lie orders munitions of war almost indefinitely until he is amply supplied with all the appliances for defensive and offensive operations. Instead of driving the invaders out of Missouri, he employs himself in lortifying St. Louis with earth works at an enormous cost, as though the war was to be of long continuance and that city stood in imminent danger of being captured. It such fortifications are necessary for the protection of St. Louis is it not a concession by Gen. Frehovt that the rebels are likely to maintain their independence? He has built a bridge of boats to Paducuh, and the St. Louis Dnnocrat says another is to be made across the Mississippi at that point. The Cincinnati Commercial, in commenting up on these operations, remarks: We beg respectfully to inquire whether a bridge of boats across the Mississippi is considered an essential part of the fortifications of St. Louis? It there are any developments of Gen. Fremont's strategy that puzzles us more than other things connected with this World, they are his bridges of boats. If there is anything in this world more iti..otiip: -r.e.:b!e than anything else, it is that bridge of boats at Palucah. Now, f we are to hae another one at St. Louis, we fear that we shall be entirely overcome. While these operations are going on, this sa:iriins General jiermits the enemy to deceive hi in by a feint upon St. Louis, while he is mustering an army to overcome Lvox at Springfield. By similar stntecy Mi llioak is defeated at Lex ington, at a loss to the Government of at least $3,0011,1)00 besides the disorganization of the forces under his command. While our (ieneraU arc getting ready to light and are arranging their campaigns, the enemy make a line ot defense from the Potomac to Kansas which of itself will require an immense force to maintain without regard to offensive operations. Where rests the blame, we again ask, for the lack of energy and efficiency in our military Derations? If we should say it was owing to a weak heul we might be charged with being influenced with partisan prejudices, and we will therefore let a Republican print answer the inquiry: A weak bead is a weak system. Weakness at the head ot the Government insures weakness througltout all its oeuartments. That nehme ahum akiiess at the bead of our Goventifest enough, not ouly at Washing11 every place where operations are A trulv great man infuses his spirit ment is mat iogton, but carried on. into every thing that is done under his authority; a truly little one reduces every thing to the stand aid of his own diminutive capacity. This Administration has undertaken the heiviest contr.tct that has fallen to the lot of any national Government of modern times, with, to all appearance, as little ability for its Performance. It has collected the means fur its own protection, is securely entrenched behind walls and hills crowned with batteries, and there it lies, to all appearance, unable to see beyond its own fortifications, and thinking as little as possible of the vast and actire conflicts soon to take place in the Wc-t , and towards which events ars hurrvincr with unexampled rapidity. What the Government wants of the vast array of troops now upon the line of the Potomac is tiian can be divineu. Sureiv an liundreil men is enough to defend die capital from even a remote possibility of capture There is to be no advance upon Richmond from that quarter, as all persons acquainted with the sub ject, military and nun-military, agree. The thiug is simply impossible; and Richmond is as safe from any advance upon it by land -s New Or- . Why, then, if Kentucky is to be s.ved to the Cuiou, are not the troops that hav been trained, and disciplined, and reviewed, and found perfect under Gen. McClellan, and who long for active service, sent in this direction t Why rely upon soldiers who a fortnight ago were figuring in the walks of civil life, to do the work in that State, when there are a plenty of others? If General

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McCHellan is to serve as simply a drill and parade master of the Government, why not tend raw re emits to him to be prepared for service, and use those that have been through the school and have graduated under his instruction? There is work preparing both in Kentucky and Missouri that will need men to do it, end the sooner they are supplied the easier will be the performance and the sooner it will be accomplished. A Review off Fremont' Generalship. The New York Time contains the following review of Fbemoxt's conduct: Waamxeroa, Monday, Sept., 1S61. Gen. Fremont was absent from his post the nfiir oiirf of i month after Ins nnnoiiitmeiit.

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Ou the very day of his arrival at St. .Louis (.July ivur 01 "lusulou nj m uwi.a.u 25,) a special agent of Gen. Lyon called on him ' heathen nation who thus sought to avert the for reinforcements and to explain that the land- j wrath of heaven The discourse is just what ing of Pillow at New Madrid and the march of I . . . , , . Hardee to Pocahonta. ws not a combined move- m'gh' f Pted from a sincere and zealous ment upon St. Louis, as their organs oetenta- j Christian pastor anxious to be about his Master's tiously gave out, but a feint to prevent reinforce- j business. The sermon was adapted to the occaments being sent from St. Louis to Gen. Lyon, Tt . -jB-t. r

I whom Ben. McCullough was preparing to fiht. j ! This not succeeding. Gen. Lyon sent his aid and I

also a held officer to (Jen. rremont; they also : proht. In making these comments we nave no failed. Fremont insisted that Pillow eras about intention 0f reflecting unfavorably upen the serto march fiom New Madrid upon St. Louis, and , . . f ... .. ... to meet this he decided le S 5,000 men to a mon9 of other clergymen of this city on the same point opposite Cairo to hinder and obstruct Pil- occasion, but hope that they were all imbued with low's march, and with the remainder of his forces i a similar Christian spirit and freedom from poto commence fortifying the city of St. Louis! I ,ilical d sectarian basis. Lyon was left to die; Fremont decided that Lyon a judgment was at fault in supposing that South- j sermon. west Missouri, and not St. Louis, was the point mn and beast be covered with 5ac -cloth, and

whieh .l.ff ,vihail or. I ere. I l.i loreei to strike. : So much for subordinating an accomplished mili " . ; ,. . 7 7.7 : tary mun like Gen. Lyon to a civilian like Fre mont, who had never studied a military book nor even so much as seen a bat tie. Fremont sent his 5,000 to meet the terrible Pillow, and then commenced his fortifications at St. Louis. He is actually fortifying it now! Thus, bv allowing the we ikcst, silliest, most i -e .it .1 ...a .a ... A llicoilu .ein oi ail uic icuci vcinriai2 uc- . . . , - . i . ... I ceive nun dv a transparent inia, aiiu uei;uiiiiig him into the wrong placing of five thou-tin! sol diers, Fremont lost to the country General Lyon ! and his army. This loss occurred on the 10th of August. Shortly after this, General Price left ' Springfield for Lexington, about miles off. He marched directly to his object, and on the usually traveled route, with an army of upwards : ot tweutv thousand men To prev ent the cap- ' . . ' , ' porta nt citv, General ture of this beautiful and important Fremont ordered it occupied by fifteen hundred men! lie allowed his sixtv thousand men to re ni mi m attered tnm Dan to Beers!. etn ; he hal . A , . . . , u . 0 , , t- ... i lett Lyon to hold pringbeid with five thousand 6- A ve hundred men, against more than twenty .I- .u . .i .a-.. 1 ' thousand, and vet in the tace ot that disaster a . . ,. . . disaster proiu'eii bv setting up his inexperienced i . . ' . j .. ' L . I rTIHUII 1 ' 'IKI II II '111 rii tillf III .'III X I ! I - ! enceil Genen! Fremont placed Mulligan in i Lexington to resist twenty thousand men with a j j force smaller by two thousand men than was that ! of Lvon! Hence a second armv was utterly lost. j Lst by reason off the same want of judginet.t ! that caused the loss of the first. Lost, not by j treachery, not by cowardice, notbv want of skill on the art of those who fought the battles, but ' by the lack of judgment exhibited by the civilian I who controlled movements of which he has neither theoretic il nor practical knowledge. lien. McCullough in a day or two, according to the latest accounts, will arrive at Lexington j with some 12.000 regulars of the rebel army, to ; unite with the victorious Missouriuns. This j great force will be swelled in its march to Jefferson Citv by the force of Martin Green, Parsons, o l - M i j .;n ;.,- X .. ( IVCTJ, .11114 UllXH 'U IO.". II'MC, Uli ..III l.c '..ll......l. f.,-.- .. SO HI! Iii rear-h-rth Sr:.te r,.,,iL.l III- er be will he met bv the West force w. i mm .. - "J that can be collected readily by a civilian who has demonstrate! with such painful distinctness that he knows not how to handle troops. The result of the battle to be fought will determine the fate of St. Louis, and of Missouri, and of the Union. If the decision is against us St. Louis

""""" fvmmr l,v hi tmon friend in the over ! I Uli l.UUIII.IL,'', 'HIM Will I y- illlSl UICMIM'MI IV-IC i lature that c.n legally fastet, on the State the ! exrwenditurcs, script, kc, made since April, and ! amounting to seven or eight millions of dollars. in iiAimtiAJ rtt will iritrO ltnn rl Ik? It 11 ltfl lo-'lil. Union the cities of the Ohio river will insist upou the employment of the Ohio, Indiana, aud Illinois troops in driving the confederate troops out of Kentucky, lest niter some temporary success they should destroy one or more of them. Hence, if Fremont is allowed to lose a third army, it cannot soon be replaced; anil Europe seeing the contederates not only holding their own territory and shutting the Government up in v a-hington, but actually conquering the largest city of the United States west of the AUeghan.es holding it, would u.iaiiiiuousl v iecog.,ie the I rebels " I rebeN. Are not these things so? Fellow countrymen of the East, can you, any more than we of Mis souri, afford to unnecessarily hazard the very existence of our Government? Will you not witn na in nur- n i rnn.'f nnn 1 1 tri tlm A tW nr: . tration to place an educated military man at l.llUltllV'1 Ullllb.ll 1 III I.. i the head of our troop, to fight a battle upon I which ci ervthing dear to us depend :.r to us depends Wehave lost two armies in Missouri another will ruin us. I am aware that the Administration is wholly made up of politicians, but I am of the j opinion that heu reflection teaches them how j much depends upon the defeat of the large ar- : my or Hen. McCullough, that they will conj sent to the wishes of Missouri and allow an eduI cated soldier, of the highest skill and of actual I experience, to lead our army against the enemy, j They can not afford to risk another defeat ' 'f'i-,.ii!.l f ittl IT t Kara a ! ir ' M..n:itr ! for piittins a civilian at the head of our forces I m Missouri, on an occasion so momentous, it would be different. But there is no necessity none at all no reason can be given that will prove that a civilian should, on this great occasion, command our army in the coming battle instead of a military man. Fellow-countrymen, we pray for your influence to have sent to us, not an army, for wehave ! soldiers enough, but mi able, experienced, soberj minded commander, who has the the solidity of a Zack Taylor, and the military skill, comprehen i sion and rapidity of a Lyon. Fremont has never i acquired the theory of, nor ever practiced, the j military art we beg for a man who is familiar with both the theory and the practice. We have 1 had enough of high sounding proclamations of ! what is -omit to lie done to satiate even our Mex- ; ican neighbor!-, and therefore desire a man who act mine ind 'oroclaim'' less. (Jive us an old : officer like Wo 1, or u young one like McClellan, ! who says little and does much, mid we will soon send the disunionists south across the Arkansas I line howlins. But if the inexperience and inca S pacity of Fremont is to be placed in opposition to ' the experience, dash an! skill ot Ben. McCul1 lough, the history of the ir encounter can be as easily w ritten now as hereafter. Incendiary. I "Yes. and that's the cry all over the West; and i though the politicians who are making Presidents j while carrying on the war may succeed in oust- ', ing him from his command, the people have taken I up his name, and will make them hear it again. ! Fremont! He's worth more to the Union cause than all Kentucky. Chicaqo Tribune. The above extract will go to Kentucky. It will be heralded throughout the South as nn ex position of Northern feeling. Rebel leaders will quote it on the stump rebel newspapers will spread it among the people. It will be adduced everywhere bv the traitors as evidence that the t North will not support the President, anil that I northern men consider one untried soldier of

falls. In that event the election which comes ff ; riu.cu u. u run. ronuc... ecouin a few davs will enable Jackson to te re elected om,sU m7 detect re;isons satisfactory to their

more importance to the Union than the hosts j imitation, sorry am 1 to say that whilst we are j-who are now in arms against the reliellion under ' professedly a Christi iu people, there is great oc1 the brave Gen. Anderson. Fremont worth moie ! easier, for the same humiliation on our part as we

than all Kentucky! One man worth more to the L'ni"ii cause than a sovereign State of the confed eracy! It is not true. The North does not think so. But we doubt not that the Chicaijo i Tribune, and those wlio follow it are sincere in I the expression. They are conscientious in their I adherence to one man power provided that man i is an Abolitionist. They would not hesitate to j place Fremont, or any other one who favors their i views, above Constitution. President and States. I To advance their own narrow political policies, i they would hail with joy the rebellion of Kentuckv. and the defection of ever v slaveholder south of Mason and Dixon's line. We do not doubt that they are chaeriried and en meed because in Maryland, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, JJelaware, 1 ennessee and Kentucky there are hundreds of thousands of loyal men 1 who cling to the flag of their country. To drive them off is the aim of the Chic a jo Tribune. No union with slaveholders has been its cry for years, ana no union with slaveholders means now, as it ever has meant, a northern and southern Republic. Hence Fremont, and every oilier man whose acts tend to drive the inhabitants of slave States into the arms ot rebellion, "are of more worth to the Union cause than all Kentucky." This is the deliberate-sentiment of Abolitionism ; but it it not the enftment of the great mae$ of the northern people. They desire to retain every inch of the soil of the Union to strengthen every man who is loval to the old flag Timea. Chicago

Fast Day Herrn on by the Rev. Horace Strlagfellaw, Jr., ISector of Christ hurra 21 timiliution ana Repentance the Dleaaa of Securing Dmnr lartr. By request of a number of citizens who lieurd the sermon of Rev. Mr. Stkikqfkllow, rector of Christ's Church, in this city, on Fast ilay, we pro cured a codv for Dublication. and it appears in

our issue of to day. It is a forcible and eloquent exposition of our national sins, and the changed condition of our country caused by the civil war now raging, and the necessity of humiliation and repentance is earnestly urged to again enjoy the . en i :u . . l u .. : f ' . . . f , . ,, nd one wh,ch can Perused b? al1 w,tn fry miKuniy unto uoo; yea, ei uwni urn ctj- . nis evil way. and from the violence that is in their hand-. Who can tell If Ood will tum and repent, and turn away from hin fierce anger, that we perish not! And God .taw their workv, that they turned from their evil way; and GodTepented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and be did it not. Jonah iii. 8 10. There are but few of us. I imagine, who, in the days of our childhood, have not read ot t e wonderful results accomplished by the fabled lamp ot Aladdin how magnificent palaces rose , - ... .r . . . r in a moment trom the earth and faded from the sight the poor became instantaneously rich, and the rich man poor. Scarcely less remarkable the c'iange that has come over the surface ot our country. In November last, we assembled to keep our Sanaa) thanksgiving. From every part of the land arose the welcome cry, the h;irvest is over our garners are full. From morning to l I .ll in ti .. ' - - .aUaM .,.1 1 ...... p . t r-. M,f5"k ,u "l"'"c'' ' --'. n j, the busy sound of the hammer and the spindle . J, ... . , . . " . evidence of the wonderful pp.eritv with which : i. ..i - ...i , c . . . . . . . .. r f . To dav we are assembled at the bidding ot the . , .Til Uli, nubil'M i i , nut k i ' I . t i i : ' .iiatiB.a tuv via . , , . , - , , -r cumstances bv which we are surrounded. The r .. . . . . . worst ol al calamities b resting aooa perooei , . . , , ti d e .u i . happy and united country. The roll of the drum ." . the marshalling of forces the booming of the cannon as it belches torth its messengers of death the sight of the battle field with its dead and dying, h ive all become familiar sounds and sights. Every Jay the telegraph setids, with the speed of lightning, the account of some feirful engage I n ent, in which the men who wielded the ham- ; mers, ftd the spindles, and handled the plow, ; have been cut down by a brother's hand. The deep recesses of the mountain, where was only ; heard the sweet melody of the birds chanting 1 their daily song, in ignorance, though it might be in praise, of their great Creator, now reverberates with the crash of the musket. The peaceful val ley, witn the corn standing so thick as to laugh and sing, is now laid waste by the tread of ntj niies. Four hundred thousand men are drawn up ! in battle array, etch watching their opportunity "a-o ut"u'J a it families are broken UP :U11 divided friends of years standing are eemW me augei oi peace n ueparieu. and in his seat may be seen the grim visage of civil war. The gates of the temple ot' Janus have been opened, and are each day settling more firmly upon their hinges; when they are to be close, no man can teil. It does not become me to trace the causes that I I I .1 i i. Ti:.: .i "w" . " " ,l" u,e;C ,lft e "owning to uu. in minds. The President has not summoned us touether for a a"-v such Pf He.duCd u,3 t() V ,n animation and recnm.i.at.oii; he does not ,,k to P0" out ol wrath upon those wnum eacn one may oeneve u nave iiicurreu wie greater guilt; but he calls upou the nation, in view ot the great danger to which our nationality is exposed, to look beyond secondary causes to the great Christian principle thai we are now being scourged for our transgressions, and visited for our iniquities. Hence, in his proclamation, we can read the command of the King of Nineveh, "Let man and beast be clothed with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one tram his evil way, and from she ;.'"e,1V,e. " l"e,rt m w tarn? : e'ot. herce anger that we perisl violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if nd turn awav from his h not." Men of pro fane minds may pour contempt upon such a re quest, and ridicule the idea of a national fast ns being of the slightest use in arresting national judgments. The humble believer in an overruling Providence will not fail to see a. id believe that SUch a course has been prescribed by God, . . , . . j - "H ' lV r' OI .e " . ,es 0,veu ine.re,n, ne na? ortei! oeen pieasea to gm I the most signal success. If, as individuals, we approach the throne of grace with the assurance that God will he ir and forgive, no less the confidece inspired, when a nation falls low before his footstool with the earnest cry, we have sinned and done wickedly; O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! The repentance, and the consequent deliverance of Nineveh, a heathen nation, stands as an encouragement to all the kingdoms of the earth. The wickedness of this city was so great that having determined upon its destruction, His P was set; w to miorm mem ot ue.rimpeno- ... ; . ... ... l l i .. . i.i .-..I i ni i inn. jv.iitc mm. ne occult ins sorrow iui mission, when Ml all ranks ol people, from the highest to the lowest, trembled at God's displeasure entered earnestly upon a season of national humiliation, if perchance they might prevail upon him to turn trom his fierce anger. The success of their efforts leads me, upon this solemn occasion, to set before you the conduct of the Ninevites as a means for an instruction and a pattern for imitation. Addressed as they were by a perfect stranger, who belonged to a despised nation, the people, it seems, immediately believed his testimony, de j livered as it was in Jehovah's name. Their heathen deities were forsaken, and though never before having acknowledged the one true God, possibly nevci- even having heard of him, they set themselves to implore mercy at his hands, and to deprecate his threatened judgments. The king and his nobles proclaimed a fast, in the observance of which all his subjects cordially concurred, even the royal robes were laid aside the sound of the minstrels was hushed the festive boards were forsaken and not one of them "ate bread or drank water during the entire day." To their lasting they ad ed prayer; "yea they cried mightily unto God." They were not content widi mere formal unmeaning acknowledgment of their sins. They i ewailed their guilt. They saw how deeply they h id merited the Divine displeasure they offered no excuses as apologies iu extenuation, but strove by earnest supplications to ward off from themselves the judgments which the aveng ing Diety was about to inflict upou them. The sincerity of their rejientance was manifested by an instantaneous reformation of their lives. Their heathen deities were renounced, their siniul practices abandoned their besetting sins forsaken, and a solemn engagement made for the future to consecrate themselves tn Jehovah us a holy and obedient people and what was the result of uch a fast? "God saw their works that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did it not." Mv brethren, I have said that 1 the conduct of the Ninevites is well worthy of our have seen in them. Though no Jonah is now marching through the length and breadth of the ' country proclaimingour destruction, yet that man must lie blinded bv ignorance or party prejudices who fails to perceive that the sigtui of the times are big with coming woe. That the present scourge with which we are visited is from the Lord. That whatever may have been the second causes "if there be evil in the citv the Lord has done it" we are now being severely chastised for our sins ans that have been rapidly accu mulating during the short time of our nationa , existence. We have sinned against God as much I as any people upon earth; our backsliding? have been very many, and our inrrruities do testify j against us wehave forgotten God, vea the en- ; "re nnseiiee oi nis name in our i 'institution nas furnished the infidel with the argument, that as a nation we do not even recognize his existence. . i i- .i i. .i uur prosperity, nnexampiea in me nistorv oi tne world, hns blinded us we have gone with such rapid strides toward wealth and fame, as to cause us to ignore his guidance and protection whilst we boast of being a Christinn nation, how little ot the genius of Christianity can be discovered in our midst. Other nations there are perhaps who exceed us in wickedness, hut it is only because they full far srR.rt of us in the advantages they possess for knowing the will of (rod. Let a man go throughout our country; let him see what is daily transacted, and he will find that the mar riage relation fe disregarded: that adultry lifts its J filthy head without rebuke: that licentiousness of

evary kind has left its witherinj mark upon every grade of society. He will see tcbow low a sundaid honesty and integrity hai- feilen among all classes, of men hat willfol flisregard of laws, both human and divine, and tat not merely by the ignorant aad depraved, lut by those who pride themselves upon their relnemeut and if I mistake not he will be safe n saying, as the resuit ot his observaUou, that infidelity, pride of opinion and position, senstslity, greediness of gain, contempt of God, andi daring opjiosition to Hfe will, constitute the leaing features of our portrait as a nation; and yet. n the midst of our sins God has blessed us. H has not been as a stranger in the land or as a wayfaring man that tarrieth for a uight." We kve builued houses

ami otx.iineu wealth me coin in years nas oe corns possessed of the power ind resources of the man. How could the Lord tave laid any people under stronger obligation tohis service? What returns has he not a right to expect from such a nation as this? But alas, e have yielded him evil for good. Having by lis power aud might digged our wells, planted our vineyards and builded our houses, we haw forgotten the Lord our God. In the midst of our wouderful prosperity, when ad ancing withgiant strides, he has not been in all our thought Iiis Sabbaths have been profaned indifference for his church and sacraments everywhere seen disregard of all law, hrttli human anA rlt.rir, jlit m 'in i felted Wlnlt ingratitude for mercies! Whit impenitence under ' sin? What un mindfulness of Gods presence? What contempt for bis wotl? What evil dispositions' hat corupt affections and vile propensities may be laid t our charge! It is true that we still bear the tame of a Christian land that whilst many who professing to be the ministers of Christ have usd their position only to serve selfish ends, in ia-ulcating party pre" cents and nartv nlatt'o.-ms. nstead of the simple

injunctions of the meek and lumble master whose the Quartermaster's warerooms. Throughout name they bear; yet that he voice of many a ! day before yesterday trains of wagons were runfaithful messenger' has beei heard, like that of UIMl it I transporting the supplies. Jonah, reminding us that Gd deals with nations . r and iiunishes them for the wickedness. These The 33d regiment, OA. Coburn, ordered to warnings have been disregtrded. God's forbear- ! Madison, has been thoroughly equipped with evance BSesM to be at an end. and in the whirlwiud j ervthing requisite bv the assistants of the U. S. of to day. in the reeling and tottering of the Gov- ; yÜKrtm:i9U:r Major Montgomery, eniment even to its Nise, in the dark uncertainty of the future, remtering it doubtful yvhether w'e Tent sufficient to supply eight or ten regi shall ever be able to return to our old landmarks, j ments were received at the U. S. Quartermaster's

l near nothing out uoci s voice; i see nothing out ; his avenging hand. Oor present troubles are a chastisement from Him on account of our sins, national and individual , hence, in the language of i the proclamation under which we have met, "it is pecuiiarily fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this visitation, and in sorrowful remembrance of our owu faults and crimes to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His tnerey."' Would to God 1 could believe that this advice would be strictly followed, that every sermon preached this dav would inei livite sneh hleaseil !esnna- t'i it nation was bending with sorrow for the past be fore the Great Being that controlls its destinies; j that every where, from the President who has I proclaimed this solemn fast, to the humblest in- j dividual in the 'and, all were uniting m the ear nest cry: Spare us, good Lord; spare Thy people ) whom 1 hou hast redeemed with 1 hy most precious bloood, and be not angry with us forever. Then the future would not seem so fearfully gloomy. Dark as is the present cloud, I shouid have hope that behiud it all lay the bow of promise. I believe this to be our only hope. That if we do not view his hand in this dispensation we can have no i, that they will be exchanged for mercies. 0 what can we do as a nation if t i forsakes us or withholds his powerful interposition! He may not yet have giveii us over to ruin. He may eveu yet be resting, as in the days of Jerusalem, upon the mountain in order to see what will be the charucterof this our national humiliation; to see whether, whilst we cry unto Him, we are determined, every one of us, to turn uwuv, like the Ninevites, from our besetting sins. Unless we do this, better not go through the mockery. Without this, uo fasting will avail, no prayer will be heard. The fast he has chosen is , not merely "to bow the head as a bulrush, or to afflict the soul, but to loose the bonds ot wicked- I ness;" to search out the peculiar evils which we are most accustomed to commit. Then, and not till tlieil, may we hope that His fierce aimer wherewith He has visited our laud may be removed, and icice and harmony once again fall ' .... o our borders. God forcave the heathen Ninevites. "He repetited of the evil that He said He would do unto them, and He du! it not." With how much greater confidence can we approach Him! His character changeth not, and though as a father He sometimes seourgeth His people, He is stiil "a gracious (too and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness." He delighteth not in horses and chariots and in the sound of the battle. Sometimes this is the rod He uses for a nation's chastisement. We ere thus afflicted; let us bumble our souls before God. The naüon of which you are members demands it of vou. Whatever be your judgment, with respect to politics, there can i be no doubt that we have all contributed to autri . .... ment the guilt of the nation, and are therefore bound to deprecate the judgments now hanging over it, to confess the grievous sins that has brought this trouble upon it, and to turn away from all iniquity. Hitherto everything has been done in native strength, the controliug power of an overruling Providence has not been recognized. When our present troubles existed only in anticipation and we were urged to ask God to spire us, the request was sneered at in the public prints and disregarded by the people. Iii our ' pride we forgot God. W hen he slew us we sought Him. May we not forget this lesson. May humility, and earnest sorrow ,and purposes of amendment, characterize everywhere the observance of this day, that so very speedily we may hear the sound of war no more, but a lasting and honora ble peace rest upon our land, overshadowed with aoanner ensenbed upon its to ds, "Kighteousness exalteth a nation,but sin is a reproach to any people." For the Daily State .Sentinel. Dictation. Editor Sentinkl: Allow me the use ofa small space iu your columns, to show my Republican friends and te voters of Marion county gener ally, how they are being dictated to and controlled by the Wallace, Jameson and Journal clique. The name of William Wilson, Esq., S good and true Republican and Union man, has been announced as an independent candidate for the Leg islature, to fill the vacancy of Dr. Kendrick; but Mr. Wilson does not and has not acted as a collar dog to the above named clique, therefore they determined to decapitate Wilson, and place on the track any Democrat who would suffer himself to be used by the clique, thereby hoping to gain a few Democratic votes for Wallace for County Clerk. The clique and their tools were very busy all day Tuesday hunting up a man to their liking. Have they found that man yet? We shall see. Who is the lucky Democrat that will lend himself to this immaculate clique to help elect Wm. Wal1 lace Clerk of Marion county? The very rettite chances for a seit in the Legislature, must be, in j the eyes of those managers, a big bait to a Detnocratto help them elect Wallace. IamoftheopinI ion they will find it a hard job to get any respectable Democrat to take the chances of such nn i election. He must be a poor, truckling syco I phani, indeed, who would sell himself so cheap. I Wallace and his friends are frightened quite ont I of their boots since the offer of the DeraocnticCen tral Committee to set aside pirtv nominations; they know the true and conservative men of the Republican party feel that the offer was liberal and just, and ought to have been accepted by the Republican pirty, and no doubt would have been, but for the efforts of this same clique and Wallace himself, dogging at J. C. New, threatening him with dire vengeance should he, for one moment, allow his name to be used. Poor New had not the courage to stand the pressure. The clique told him to wilt, so he wilted. The County Committee were next beseiged and received their instructions from the Wallace Journal clique not to notice the proposition from the Democratic County Committee Wallace must have the office at all hazards. These doings are pat ent to certaiu Republicans and should be to the entire voters of the county. This rule or ruin policy of the Journal clique, headed by Wallace and Jameson must be stopped. The Republican , k.i kimii tn-i mi rratl hv these ifir mom n t . peculiar pets, all the fat offices, then go to work to whip the faithful into their plans. For one I hare stood these things long enough. I believe at the present time, all men ought to exercise C ' their own judgment in voting, and support the i- i Xs er . a' .. .1..,.. i .. . men. for the different offices, they think best suitI ed to the times and places for which they aspire. ! I hope all Republicans willjignore politics and eonskier themselves free to vote as they choose; in this way they will better serve their country and have the conciousiiess of not having beeu led by

JTiT i 'ST. iif ".ig tRSrSJaT ! " --pw ta publican and always voted my party votes, but I this chivalrous corps. Among theold men I bom am done, and here set forth the course I think as Wallace, a brother of Gov. Wallace, now deought to govern all true patriots, I mean Dem ceMed brought up the rear, shouldering his musocrats as well as Republicans, a course that I at I ,t . . . - ... - mM shall follow-vote for who I please. k " mh thQSh lhe frosts of moMJ Lin I.om; Whm; am. Rkftblk an. i than fiftv winters whiten Ins head. The patriotic

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.Hiittary 1 teas a. It is stated that a regiment is being raised j a Jew- nMeai in Indiana. Each man . ..... ... ,s to furnish ha own clothing. The Governor has authorized the raising of (j regiment to rendezvous at Kushvilie, Rush I 52d indiaDÄ. William j - c- Mc Reynolds Colonel. ' Colonel Streight's Mechanics regiment is j 11 51st Indiana, and will be full next . j j Walter Newman and V. R. Hart of this city, have received appointments in the regular

army. Several companies, we learn, for the new regiment to rendervous at Auderson, Colonel James R. Slack, are ready to go into camp. C donel Willich 's German regiment has now about BOO men, and is one of the finest in the West. The citizens of New Albany have subscribed fifteen hundred dollars to uniform the companies organized under the militia law. The Commou Council of the same city have appropriated $2,500 ,or lhe slne purpose. Henry C. Tenney has been appointed Ad jutant of the 40th Indiana, at Lafayette. William H. Morrison. Jr., of this city, goes with Paymaster James 0. Ychn, in the capacity of clerk. There were during the past two days, heavy receipts of army blankets, clothing, shoes, kc., at ware nom9,0n Thursday last. Thirty teams, detailed for the service, are in constant use by the U. S. Quartermaster. Two hundred horses and fifty army wagons have been sent from this point to Louisville, Kentucky. Three thousand stand of arms arrived in the city yesterday and were stored in the arsenal. We have been favored with the perusal of a "J f,c""t,u-" a member of the 22d Indiana, in which he speaks of the unfortunr.te affair near Glasgow, Missouri, b wbich Major Tanuer wounded. He savs lo:W of M;l.'or TllIer s the greatest the regi ment could feel. " 1 he men fairly idolized him, and I have heard a great many say they would follow wherever he led them. I do not think he will recover." A fellow named James Crawford, of Capt. Hawley's company, belouging to the 30th regiment at Fort Wayne, cut one of his fingers off to escape being mustered into service. He ami two others, nho refused to be sworn, were drummed out of camp. The Common Council of New Albany recently made an order placing two of their cannon at the disposal of Gen. Mansfield, at Madison. The Latayette Courier has reliable information that Rev. R. H. Allen, formerly pastor in charge of the Old School Presbvterian Church in tnat CTt was t ,,,e h;ltl,c of Manassas, serving . . T . a8 Chaplain in a iew Orleans regiment The Evansvillc Journal says further ad vice from Creen ri er strife that the Secession. isU havc uestroved severa, ,otks on that stream : . . .... ... i i TJ ' : 1 1 ....a .............. ......... . .... oilmen uiuaa 9 uiiu uiiu tuiuuiiucu uuier outrages. Sixty young men, all mechanics, have arrived from New Albany and joined Col. Streight's regiment, the51st. The following dispatch, authorizing a regiment to be raised and encamped at Logansport. is published in the Daily Pharot: India.vapomk, September 20, 1861. Hon. R. P. DeHart Loaanport : Hon. Graham N. Fitch, N. G. Scott and T. H. Bringhurst are authorized to raise a regiment to rendezvous at Logansport. Build your bniracks, hurry up the organization of companies and put them into camp. By order of Gov. MORTON. W. R. Hollow at, Sec'y of War. Mr. Holloway, it seems from this, is at the head of a new department created by the Governor the War Bureau. Hon. C. L. Dunham has been authorized by the Governor to raise a regiment the 50th IndiI ana. It vill rendezvous at nevmotir, Jackson county, and the Colonel has named the camp in honor of the distinguished Lieutenant Colonel Horace Heffren. We understand that Colonel Dunham is authorized to receive men in any part of the State, and that he has already about six j hundred tendered him Without doubt. Colonel Dunham, with his well-known energy, will speedily organize his corps. Hancock county is now getting up the sixth company for the war. Four thousand car ridges were yesterday shipped from the arsenal to Aurora by Adams' ; Express. Amunition, shell, shot, signal rockets and the like were yesterday shipped from the Arsenal by Adams' Express for Jefferson City. Dr. B. V. Mullen who has taken a great interest from the start in the formation of the Irish brigade, addressed his fellow countrymen night before last at Jefferson ville, urging them to volunteer. Dr. Mullen speaks to night at Lafayette. He is indefatigable and eloquent in stirring up those of his own nativity, but now American citizens, to rally in defense of the flag in this its hour of trial. The Governor has authorized the formation of the 53d Indiana regiment, to be raised in this district, and rendezvous at this point. Indiana has 1,400 Enfield purchased, all to be delivered by the middle of October. Dr. Joel Vaile, of Richmond, has been appointed surgeon in Col. Bridgland's cavalry, and David F. Bates Colonel of the Third regiment First Brigade Indiana Mil'tia. A million of dollars in treasury notes have just been sent General Fremont for the use of the Western Military Department. Several hundred head of cattle passed through the city yesterday for the army at Washtag tun. Major John G. Doughty yesterday received his commission as Quartermaster of the 51st regiment. A full company of railroaders, from the Louisville, New Albany, Michigan City and Chicago railroad, will be tendered to Colonel Streight in a day or two for his Mechanics regi ment. Hugh B. Read has been appointed Colonel of the 44th, rendezvousing at Fort Wayne. George W. McConnell has leen appointed Quartermaster of the same Charles Case has been appointed Adjutaut. Capt. Russell's cavalry company paraded yesterday through the principal streets. They showed themselves well drilled, and they are evi The 33d Indiana, Col. Coburn, left yesterday morning for Kentucky, over the Jeffersonville railroad. The regiment, fully armed and equipped, moved down Washington street in gallant styl 3, Col. Coburn with his staff in the lead. The 33d Indiana has been hastily got ready lor the field, but the men are brave aud patriotic, many of them being from among our best citizens, and we can safely trust Indiana's honor to them and their

old aan had previously told his friends that be

was determined to go if he had to "go on his own hook." The Home Guards of Indianapolis, on the receipt of the recent news from Kentucky, beW, I on Saturday night last, meetings at their various I rendezvous and paasetfresolutions that they would not leave the city unless it was attacked. Three hundred and fifty tons ot lead have i been contracted for tj be delivered at the Arse ' ual , and fifty tons of it have already arrived, i Lewis Jordan, Jr., has been appointed Col onel, and Thomas McGrain. of Harrison county, Lieutenant Colonel in the Indiana Legion. Fourteen thousand Enfield rifles will be stored in the Arsenal by the middle of next month. It costs the State of Indiana about $41,000 to raise a regiment. This sum for each particu lar regiment, and the aggregate of all these sums for all these regiments, our people confidently conceive that the General Government will ulti mately reimburse. We can not say about this, let the case be as it will.

Col. Wood, U. S. A., mustering officer for dationr ot ourC-jvertiment; the early immigration Indiana, is absent on business connected with being mostly Protestant. public affairs in Kentucky. We have departed from the teachings and pracThe field officers of the German regiment, ; of our pious ancestry. The influence of our the departure of which for the seat of war we t Protestant Christianity has been partially neu have noticed in another paragraph, are: Colonel, j trulized by Pajwl and infidel immigration. RevAugustus Willie!-; Lieutenant Colonel, Henry I erence for the bible and Sabbath is sadly dimin Von Dreba; Major, Frederick William Schuakeu- j ished the one cast out from public schools, the burg; Adjutant, Carl S.-hmitt; Quartermaster, j other shamelessly violated even by our highest Ed. Mueller; Chaplain, Emil Beschsoff. legislative assemblies. False notions of individuThe gun boat Gillum, commanded by Capt. j 1 rights, without a recognition of individual reScott, recently made an expedition from Evans- sponsibilities; the demoralization of public men, ville, and captured at Hawcsville. at midnight, the greed for office, party caucuses, the corrupt the steamer Storm, with no one on board but the appliances to obtain nominations and elections.

Captain, who said not a word, it is said. The ; Storm belongs to a Secessionist at Memphis, and is confiscated under the late act of Congress. Andrew Walker, a private in the 19th Indiana, died in the Potomac army hospital during the week ending the iWth. Mr. Charles W. Vajen. the State's Quarter master at Camp Morton, informs us that every thing iu his line is passing off smoothly. Mr. Vajen, as we arc told by some of his superior officers, is most attentive to his duties, ami has already by his energy and tact obviated and removed tnauy causes of complaint in his department hitherto. Captain More m, of the cavalry, is, we are sincerely sorry to learn, down with the ague. Drs. Jameson and Kitchen are his surgeons and physicians. The German regiment, Colonel Willich, Lieutenant Colonel Von Dreba and MaJ. Schnakenburg, brake up their camp near the city on Saturday night and took up the line of march for Madison. The appearance of the men as they moved down Washington and Pennsylvania streets to the depot was splendid. The vigorous und elastic step of hopeful soldiers whose hearts were in the cause for which they had shouldered the musket characterized every one of them. Unquestionably the regiment is one of the most superior ever mustered in Indiana Cars were in readiness for them at the Madison Depot and their embarkation was effected in good order and without the slightest accident. Nine car loads of ammunition, brought over the Belletontaine Railroad, were yesterday ship pel to Jeffersonville for Colonel Coburn's com mand. We have had the pleasure of conversing with a gentleman who left Muldraugh's Hill on Friday evening. He represents Union matters in that vicirity as in a very flourishing condition. The Indiana boys are in good spirits, and enjoy the best of reputation with the people of Ken- ! tucky. Their reception at Louisville reminds j one of the early days of Camp Morton, during , the Fort Sumter excitement. The Louisvillians seem thoroughly aronsed, and avail themselves of every opportunity to display Kentucky hospitality. During the fore part of last week, the troops suffered some inconvenience from the want of teams to convey their camp equipage, and were obliged to leave it under charge of a detail at Lebanon Junction, the place where the first railroad bridge is burned. Through the energetic exertions of the Quartermaster General, Mr. Frank Harris, formerly of this city, these difficulties are fast being obviated. The bridge across Nolin Fork, at Lebanon Junction, will probably be completed so that trains can cross it by Monday or Tuesday, when trains can run bevond Eli.abethtown without impediment. Union men are pouring in from every section, volunteering their services to protect Kentucky, and wipe the rebels from her soil. Many of those who volun teered as home guards are now enlisting for the war, or as long as their services are required to protect the stars and stripes. The destruction of the Green river locks, and other acts of vandalism perpetrated by Buckner, have so incensed the people, that they are flocking in from every portion of the State, anxious to lend their aid in driving this vile traitor from their soil. Xlie SevenXbirty Loan. Thetotal amount of subcriptions to the 7.30 per cent, loan within the Inst fortnight is $16,365,0110. The whole amount paid up to Sattir day night, since the first subscription, is $33, 740,00(1. The whole amount of private subscriptions from the 19th of August to the 21st of Septem her is: At New York. $10.640,000; Boston, $5. 000,000; Philadelphia. $2,294,000; other agen aea, say $1.000.000. Total, $18.934,000. Hew York Tril unc, Sept. 26. New Exglasp Patriotism The New Bed fold Mei cury says: Certainly in no mode at all commensurate with its wealth and intelligence has New Bedford demonstrated its appreciation of the terrible nature of the struggle and the vast interests de pendinc on its result. We think we do not overstate the case. From a citv having more H.:... 30 (MM) ir.lmhit.nu not a inaU ,omranu ha

yet rnltitrd for the war. We know of no sacrifice their shutters up, and so far as matters pertained worth the name, that has been made in any di- to them, the Sunday by proclamation was "fast" recl,ou- ! emphatically faster by far than it ever is upon y The Cincinnati Pre 3ays of the obser- the Lord's day. vance of the fast day in that city: "Upon the i We hfve sketched the sermons, but wehave whole, the fast may be looked upon as a succss; said nothing of the drinking and feasting, be and it will not be unreasonable to expect decid- j cause, in our judgment, such matters, iu this criedlv good effects from jr." j 8jc Qf our beloved country, ought not to be made Fast Day Sermon ana Observances. ' public. Thursday last, the day of fasting, humiliation ; For tin,. Sut Sentiael. and praver appointed by the President, was ob- What are we Flgntins; Far!

j served by all classes of our population. The I places of business generally were closed, and the j whole aspect of the day was that of a solemn Sunday. 1 he evidence existed on all sides that the minds of the people were impressed with the m a . . a t. a. a. momentousness oi me reasons wnicn, in una ter rible crisis in our national affairs, induced the President to invoke tlie whole county to liumhle itself with prayers and penitence before Almighty God whose divine providence alone can work out a solution of the evils which are upon us, for our lasting good. The churches of the city were opened and the congregations in each were througed. The re ligious exercises in some w ere such as they should

j have been. In others, we regret to say, political j fc sons. Has not the Government j and inflammatory harangues were made from the given every assurance that the constitutional sacred desk. riffln of the South would be respect! that the The Rev. A. J. Hobbs preached or rather pro- j war was not being waged against their institutions, claimed in Christian Chapel. His theme was but for the preservation of the Union, the CosaSiOur National Sins." Covetousness, licentious- ,tulio the laws? The Reverend gentleman . . knows this to be the cas-. but vet attempt to I ness and political corruption were some of our different impression. Give his utter

sins, but the chief of tliem, snd the sum of all our villanies, was the enormous sin of slavery. And he was for an immediate repentance of this heinous sin, and an immediate removal of it for fear of the further wrath of heaven, which would be visited upon us if we attempted to thwart the Almighty's purposes. This is but a paragraph with regard to what this rank Abolitionist said, and we know that

there were nxany who heard him wbo tell the

deepest disapprobation of his conceived that be, for one, was crathag ihs President's appointed Sunday, The Ree. Mr. Hecktsan preached in the Third Presbyterian Church. He made do allusion to slavery in a political sense. If the war had not come upon us on account of slavery it would nave occurred upon some other issue. It was visitation upon us for our sins. We do not reoog nise the hand of God, the supreme ruler, as we ought to recognise it. We set op idols to oer selves. First we had Gen. Scott. But God was against us in the battle of Manassas; yet we learned not to reverence Him and look to Him alone. And now we had Gen. McClellan for au idol. Until the whole nation learned to bow to and reverence the Supreme Being, recognizing His hand in all things aud obeying Him in humility nd love, we, as individuals and as a people, will be visited by His chastisement. Mr. Heckmau traced the early hutory of our country, showing the important part which Pro testanisra had played in laying the massive fouueven judicial offices made of brief tenure and trusted to popular vote and partisan preferences; these arc some of the evils of the times conse quent upon our forsaking the teachings and the conduct of our Protestant ancestry. And for our sins God'sends upon us the judgment of civil war. The slavery question is merely the occasion. This question could have been settled by a Christian people and in accordance with the bible without the untold evils of war, had our ways pleased God and had we walked in His commandments. It is only by returning to Him, acknowledging our sins and humbling ourselves in His sight, that we may hope He will withdraw His anger from us. Services were held in the German Catholic Church, Rev. Mr. Secrist. and in St. John Chureh, Rev. Mr. essonies. The exercises in loth these churches were purely devotional and in accordance with the solemn reason which, under the President's proclamation, had called the conjugations together. The Rev. Mi. Hyde preached in the Congre gational Church. He stated that in what he should say he would aim to be very moderate. He spoke of the iniquities of the people. He spoke of national sins. He quoted from Isaiah: "Loose the bonds; break the yoke; let the bondman go free," and applied the text to rlavery, as it exists in some of the States. We as people were given to many sins, but the sin of .lavery was the one for which we were the most accountable. If we believe that the Almighty rules we, must believe that this war is ent upon us for a punishment. We must humble ourselves before Him. w e must remove the nin, in ance with justice and right, and hi seve tisement will be averted. This day, notwithstanding the omission made in Mayor Maxwell's proclamation, who called ! only on Christians to"close their places of busi ness and repair to their respective places of worship, was also celebrated by the Hebrews all over the world as the Sehrmini hag Gnarereth, the day of the Feast of the Holy Assembly, be ing the Eighth day of the Feast of Taberna. cles. The Rev. Mr Tindall filled the pulpit in the Second Presbyterian Church. " Confession of Sins," was his subject. We had National sins to answer for, but we had also individual sin. The reverend gentleman enlarged upon these latter sins, which all admitted to be numerous indeed, ; and closed with but a brief, moderate, and geoeral refereuce to national matters. Each person should search his own heart, and humble himself before Gon, and not cast the burden of his transgressions upon another person or upon many other persons, or upon the nation at arge. The Rev. Mr Brooks, of the Fourth Presby terian Church, was for carrying the war vigorously forward. We must crush the rebellion, and with the rebellion would go slavery. He remarked in the outset that it was not a regular day for 1 reaching, but a day upon which a man could express himself freely from the pulpit. He was for the war, and he was for the extinguishing of si a very. He recognized the hand of God for that particular purpose, in the troubles which now be set us. We print elsewhere an extended report of the Rev. Mr. Stringfellow's sermon, preached in I Christ Church, (Episcopal.) A correspondent furnishes us with a notice of the Rev. Mr. Colclazier's sermon, delivered in lloberts' Chapel, under the head of "What are we fighting for ?" At the First Presbyterian Church, tlie Her. Mr. Nixon filled the pulpit. The remark.- ol the eloquent and able gentleman were eminently mi- ' servative and appropriate, and we regret exceed i ingly that we have not space to give au extended ! report of tbem. Mr. Nixon also addressed the ! congregation at Roberts' Chapel in the afternoon, speaking as he spoke in the forenoon, as !ecome a Christian gentleman and a pastor conscieu I tiously concerned for the welfare of the people. In conclusion, we may remark that the day in Indianapolis was, as it is reported to have been in . " " - '," j Ma. Editor: I was among the listeners to the ; discourse of the Rev. Mr. Colclazier, at Robert's j Chapel, on Fast Day. I was not led thither from jue curiosity, but out of respect to the day, and to hear discourse becoming the occasion. In I , gard tj,i8 sermon I have to sj that j of Rifled I was mortHied. The ,n .wi:.:,.., ,.. .nd woni(1 h.v done rrl.t to the most rabid of abolition orators. Iu aliud ing to the war he sustained Fremont's proclama tion. Said he: "What are we fighting for? If it is not for the freedom ot the negro, what is it?" Now, Mr. Editor, if such sentiments are not trea son, I should like to know what is. The publi cation of newspapers has been stopped for l ances credence eitlier at the North or South, and what would be the effect? We would then no longer be a united North, and at the South there would be found none to aid in quelling the rebellion; even our armies would be divided, and thou sands woukl return to their homes unwilling to sacrifice their lives for anything but the Union as it was. I will here leave this Fast Dav sermon for' own criticism and that of the public. CovrnTVTION.