Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-05

FIVE HUNDRED REvoLvIEs SOLD IL ONE DAY
The Journal startled its business readers yester-
day morning by asserting in a leading editorial
that 500 revolyers had been sold in this city on
Wednesday last, the day of the meeting OF the
Democratic Convention. That would have been
pretty good day trade on one article. Gen
Najen informs US that the average price ia about
Sl5. Five hundred ut an average of Sl5 counts
up the round sum of 81 500 lett in our city in
one day for one article alone. At that rate, what
amount of money was left him by the congre-
gated Democracy The Journal had one of two
things in view. either to puff the trade and pros
perity of the city, or TO the women and
children into the belief that they were all to be
murdered by the blood thirsty Democrats. In
regard tn the first we don't allow anybody To beat
US, but we have a repugnance 10 tritling with the
fears of nervous and timid people. Thinking we
might make the figures run up TO 500, in the way
of puff TO the trade, and thus beat the figures
of our ambitious neighbor, we yesterday caused
inquiries TO be made at the different houses where
pistols are sold, and could not. when the figures
were duly placed under each other, with all the
arithmetic we could muster count up fifty. Gen.
Nalen is the heaviest dealer-his house is near
where the bulk of the crowd would be before and
after the speaking, and vet he reports only from
ten to fifteen sold We put down the outside
figure. Baldwins reply was one to fiye-we put
reach fifty. We may possibly have missed some
houses where pistols are sold, and if we have we
will be glad TO learn their figures to add to what
we have
indianapolis has proSpered exceedingly during
the war. We have time time, and again asserted
that. and pointed 10 our crowded streets and tne
Improvements a evidence OF the fact. While
other cities have lanquished and declined, ours
hos been going up with three and four story
houses and onward over the corn and wheat fields
OF the surrounding country. Houses are not To
be had TO rent, and material cannot be procured
10 build more than are now in progress and
already engaged. Why is thisg Not altogether
ON account OF the war expenditures here That
has something's great deal to do with IT, But
II l. not the only reason. Ii Is a moral and an
orderly city. The people are law abiding and
have good reputation abroad. Ii has not been
disgraced by mobs or OTIS. and life and property
are deemed secure here. That invites the Influx
nent residents Does the Journal want TO hang
Itself NJ a. q scarecrow 10 irighten all such from
coming TO State and cityr
But perhaps the statement of the large sale of
pistols was only an advertising dodge" on the
part of our merchants We have known the like
TO be done, not however in this State The ad.
dition OF an in advertising a bill of goods does
not make any difference in the price TO the aiver-
tser, and the effect on the reader is of course in
creased ten fold. Five hundred hogsheads OF
sugar sounds much louder than fifty and FIVE
hundred revolvers would make people open their
eyes with broad stare when fifty would hardly
! attract their attention II II was an advertising
dodge the merchants must blame the Journal for
putting II 10 their scarecrow column instead Of
making IL local