Indiana State Sentinel

Contradictory.

The telegraphic reports to the press are getting more and more unreliable, although it is announced that they are supervised by government officials. Through that medium of intelligence facts only should be given to the country. That is all the people want—not comments by news agents incapable, at the best, of enlightening the country, and who, in addition are generally bitter partisans, and color the news to suit their own notions. The telegraph of this morning in reference to Gen. Burnside is an illustration of the contradictory news which the telegraphic reporters send over the wires, and it is of daily occurrence too. In the first place it states that the late battle of Chickamauga would have had a different result if Gen. Burnside had obeyed the positive orders he had received to reinforce Rosecrans, and that the Government is not satisfied with his proceedings, nor is the necessity manifested for his neglect to obey the order given him in express terms. The same channel of information then, in another paragraph, relieves Burnside from all responsibility in the matter. It says that that officer was at Knoxville on the 25th; that he did not know of an impending battle: that he could not have reinforced Rosecrans if he had known it, and that the battles had been concluded long before the news reached him.

Then again the telegraph states in one place that great anxiety is felt in the army circles in Washington for the safety of Burnside, and under the same date, with great positiveness, it states that Burnside is entirely safe in his present position.

What confidence can the country place in an institution which should be entirely reliable and unbiased, when it daily circulates such contradictory reports? The people have but little faith in it now, and a continuance of the present management will destroy it altogether.