Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
WAR ITEMS.


-"Substitutes" are already advertised in the
New York city dailies. Prices ranging from 500
to 81 600
1T is rumored that when our forces in Vir-
ginia are fully concentrated Major General Hal
leck will take the field in person as Commander
in Chief
The Providence City Council have offered
bounty of $500 to three years men and 1925 to
nine months men.
The West has raised $50 900 men for the
first grand army of 100000, and it now has to
duplicate the number to fill the call for 600
more.
Sir Francis Head suggests mild plan for
the defense of Canada, viz: At the first attempt
at Yankee invasion let British cruisers lombard
and burn Boston and New York.
The New Orleans Advocate figures up a loss
to that city of $3.50 600 as the effect of Sc
cession already experienced. Of this $50 ,0OO,
900 is set down as the value of agricultural pro-
auctions lost to the commerce of that port by the
suspension of trade. This is paying dear for the
whistle.
Secretary Stanton is reported to have said
that draft will certainly be made on the LIST OF
September. if for no other reason than to assert
the National majesty. and to show the power of
the nation to command its subjects for the nation
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it was very foolish one.-BOstOn Post.
Father Dunno, very estimable Catholic
priest of Chicago, has volunteered in the service
of the Union, and been appointed to the command
of a regiment. Col. Mullgan, the hero of Lex
ington, writing his congratulations, says: "To be
a priest according to the order of Melchisdeck is
a great thing, but to be a Colonel according to
the act of Congress Isl speaking mildly, bully ,"
The chances are a regiment will be squeez-
ed out of Washington after all. 1t has been sug-
gested that the duties of many of the very able
bodied young clerks in the departments, could be
performed by ladies and old or delicate persons,
especially where so much of the work is mere CO.
pying-and thus the army in the field have added
to it from the National Metropolis some very
good material.
"A Busy WEEK.-Twenty thousand men will
cross our State borders this week. In twelve
days, thirty five thousand, and in thirty days.
sixty thousand of the SOUS of New York will an
swer to their names at roll-call on the banks of
the Potomac! In sixty days New York will have
her entire levy of one hundred and twenty thou
sand in the feld-making grand aggregate from
the State of quarter of million of men-Al-
bany Journal.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes state
ment furnished by "a contraband to the effect that
some of our soldiers stripped white woman and
whipped her terribly for expressing rebel senti-
ments. The lying negro had been prisoner in
our camp and said "he never wants to dwell
among Yankees again-he has enough of their
brutality toward white and black to disgust him
with the race forever" This is the stuff Greeley
wants to make Union soldiers from.
-IRIsH WIT.-At war meeting in subur-
dan town the other night, one of the speakers
was an Irishman, "a recruit,) who called upon his
n o,,J
that the stout arms of those who had constructed
our railroads, dug our canals, and laid the "Stone
walls of our buildings, were wanted by the Gov
eminent. "lniact," said he, "there is a certain
"StOne wall' in Virginia, that sadly needs laying
and by the blessing of God wen finish up that
job forthwith. "-TrareLler.
The most violent attacks have been made
on Gen. Mcclellan for his placing guard over
the house and property of Hill Carter" Now,
what are the factsf When the advance guard
reached Carriers farm, in the retreat from the
ChickahOminy to the james river, with some six
hundred of our wounded, the family devoted
their whole attention to their care tore up all
their linen and cotton sheets, towels, everything
in the house, for bandages and lint Over six
hundred head of the cattle of this family we're
taken by General Mcclellan for his army, the
horses of the farm, and all the saves to work in
the trenches; and vet the iendish Abolitionists
denounce Gen. Mcclellan because he protected
the women and children of this family from out
rage or insult.-BOStOn Post
- The New York Sunday Times asks how it
would do for the enrolling officers, Under the new
militia law, to carefully provide themselves with
the names of all the members of the "Wide
Awake" clubs which were so numerous in that
city Just previous to the late Presidential cleo
tiong There were (said to be) thirty thousand
young gentlemen attached to those clubs, and
although few of them perhaps, were entitled to
a vote, the majority of them were over eighteen
years of age and consequently liable to a draft.
As they were very enthusiastic at the time, no
doubt they would delighted at an opportunity to
turn that enthusiasm to patriotic account; and as
they marched and countermarched in our streets
with great effect there is nd reason to suppose
that they would be less effective on field where
actual fighting would be substituted for huzzaing
and lantern waving.