Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-05

There are | .l40 sick soldiers in the Washington
hospitals.
The English papers are beginning to "cut"
Uncle Tom. and eulogize the condition of our
Southern negro slaves as really beneficent
Col CoLr's FoRTuNr-The late Colonel Colt
left fortune which is yariously 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 we'll serious devotional exer-
cises. They are building an elegant theatre
new and very striking Bamoral has made
its appearance. Ii is composed OF black alpaca
with gold stripes about SIX inches apart They
are very much admired.
The Republican newspaper correspondents are
irving to make out Mr. Ely Secessionist because
lie 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
hls department that in his annual report Z Con
gress he represented 900 600 more volunteers en-
listed than eau 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.
short OF three millions ofdollars:
Morrissey. the prize fighter, is sick in the New
\ ork Hospital, with compound fracture Of the
lee. He was kicked by bully, or tell off the
horse cars il is uncertain which.
y correspondent ola Illinois paper calls Sum
ner the polished Bostonian He is 4 Black
Republican OF so sable dye that his polish must
be paste backing Louisville Democrat.
DIsINrEREsrED PATRIOTS Office seeking in
Washington is more OF disease than ever.
There are no less than 500 applications tor
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 "a the re
lation is infinitely better for the negro than any
they substitute for Ito uisUiHe Demo
Graf
Charles Sumner. with "oive green gloves
on his ''quiv erins finger, appended to his wi
bgant frame must have produced great sensa-
tion-anoRg the ladies ia the gallery. No wonder.
Wilson looked ia his face ana another Senator
"croSsed his les"
1t may be true ''human nature Is always the
same > but how different are the phases and fam
Gle, of this same hnman nature, How differently
people look upon dancing, for example. y family
ball, which Is the paradise OF Mary Ann, is the
pursatory of papa, and and pandemonium to the
house keeper
The theatrical critic Of n New York paper
puts forward certain claims to popular apprecia-
tion follows: "rhe pedal extremties of NJ lie
Louise are alone enough TO fill the house" On
footing up this statement il i apparent that the
manager whJ has provided such immense at
fractions must be bothered TO know what to do
with the audieucel
The sole object of solicitude with the Aboi-
tionistS s.sys Wendell Phillips, "is the negro. -
The thirty millions OF white people are not re
garled al all-the sole object Is the negro. Why
don't they all 20 TO Africa then? They could
indulge their "Solictude there without harm to
ans one except the object OF il.
y FRY LACeNIo -Anamusing sword present
at on vas made on the 18th by the officers OF the
18Th PENNSYLVANIA q their Colonel Wm Srwell
The presentation speech OF Capt Gillespie was
Here lre are and here Il is. This is a bully
sword ami comes from bully fellows Take il
and use it in bully manner"
Colonel Sirwel's reply was: Captain, that
was bully speech Let take bully drink -
"A contemporary, in speaking OF the continual
clatter Thaddeus Stevens keeps up III Congress
about negroes. SAYS:
Let Mr.. Stevens stick 70 the financial duties
Of his committee, .or the liberation of Uncle
sam Is a more pressing question than the eman-
cipnt of Uncle Tom y little les Of the nig
ger and a little more money for the Treasury If
YOU please. MIR. Ste, ems.