Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-10
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
There are lao sick soldiers in the Washington

There are lao sick soldiers in the Washington
hospitals.
The English papers are beginning to "cut"
Uncle Tom, and eulogze the condition Of our
Southern negro slaves as really benehcent,
Col. CoLr's FoRruxE-The late Colonel Colt
left fortune which is variously estimated at from
FIVE to ten millions.
General Scott is living quietly at the Brevoort
House in New York. General Fremont and his
family are in Obscurity in Washington.
The Saints at Salt Lake City are fond of
amusement as well serious devotional exor-
cises. They are building an elegant theatre
a new and very striking Balmoral has made
its appearance. 1t is composed of black alpaca,
with gold stripes about six inches apart. They
are very much admired
The Republican newspaper correspondents are
trying to make out Mr.. Ely Secessionist because
he expresses some anxiety about the result of the
present contest.
A Washington dispatch says that Mr. Gamer
on was so lamentably ignorant of the details of
his department, that in his annual report TO Con-
gress he represented 100000 more volunteers en-
listed than can-be found on the books.
j. B. Jones, of the Passport Office, writes TO
the Richmond Examiner that the whole amount
of contributions to the Confederate army in Vir-
gna during the last three months has not fallen
short of three millions ofdollsrs:
MOrrissey, the prize fighter, is sick in the New
York Hospital, with compound fracture of the
leg. He kicked by a bully, or tell off the
horse cars it is uncertain which.
A correspondent of an Illinois paper calls Sum
ner the polished Bostonian" He is Black
Republican Of so sable dye that his polish must
be paste blacking ng.-LOuisUilIe Democrat
DIsINTEREsrED PArRIoTs seeking IN
Washington is more of disease than ever.
There are no less than 500 applications for
Paymasterships, and for places in the Depart
ments the applications are legion.
We have no doubt but three four;hs of the
people of the North to day who think at all will
soon be satisfied to let slavery alone. as the re-
lation is infinitely better for the negro than any
one they can substitute for it.-EoHisUilIe Demo
cTGt.
Charles Sumner, with "olive green gloves
on his "quivering finger" appended to his "vi-
brant frame" must have produced great sensa-
tion-dmong the ladies in The gallery. No wonder
"WilsOn looked in his face and another Senator
CROSSED his legs"
1t may be true "human nature is always the
sane, but how different are the phases and fan
ceS of this same human IA ture, How differently
people look upon dancing, for example \ family
ball, which is the paradise of Mary Ann is the
purgatory of papa, and and pandemonum to the
house keeper.
The theatrical critic of a New York paper
puts forward certain claims to popular apprecia-
ton follows: The pedal extremities of NJ lie
Louise are alone enough to fill the house" On
footing up this statement, il is apparent that the
manager whJ has provided such immense at
fractions must be bothered to know what to do
with the audiencel
"The sole object of solicitude with the Aboli-
tionists,' says Wendell Phillips, ais the negro. "
The thirty millions of white people are not re-
garded at all-the sole object is the negrol Why
don't they all 60 to Africa. then? They could
indulge their "solicitude'' there without harm to
any one except the "object" of it.
WAR LAcoNIc-An amusing sword present
at on was made on the 18th by the officers of the
18th Pennsylvania to their Colonel VIM. Sirwell.
The presentation speech of Capt Gillespie was:
Here are. and here IT is. This is a bully
sword, and comes from bully fellows. Take il
and use it in bully manner"
Colonel Sirwell's reply was: Captain, that
was bully speech. Let US take bully drink -
"A cotempOrary, in speaking of the continual
clatter Thaddeus Stevens keeps up in Congress
about negroes, says:
"Let Mr. Stevens stick to the financial duties
of his committee; :Or the liberation of Uncle
Sam is more pressing question than the eman-
cipation of Uncle Tom. A little less of the mig
ger, and little more money for the Treasury, il
you please, Mr.. Stevens