Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-07
All Sorts of paragraphs.

"A newspaper says the peculiarly of the
Merrirnac, as a battery, is in having her ram
parts under water.
The national tax bill, as it stands. will re-
ouire the appointment of about twenty-six thou
sand collectors. What an army of Office hold
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INSTRUMENTATION the Italian, was a
jolly boy, and fast, until he was forty years old;
then repented, became abstemious and lived sixty
years more.
The Abolition detractors of Gen. Mcclellan
seem to have a morbid anxiety to see Major
Generals military funeral, without running the
risk of being in the fight themselves.
While Cameron was Secretary os War he
wrote private note TO the telegraph censor di-
recting that all of the I'ribune's special dis
patches should be sent as they were written.
Such partiality is characteristic.
-Yancey circulated the report that he was on
board of one schooner, and then took passage
for Mobile in another. The false scent perm.-.ed
him to arrive safely in the rebel States. He "ho-
cussed'' us all.
"A tax on bachelors is suggested for the ben
eft of the Government.-FraRkiiR Ye0mGn.
Men might stand being taxed into matrimony,
but for the prospect of being taxed worse after
they get int2.-LOu Jour.
-Leotard, the gymnast, has just concluded an
engagement for two years, in England, by which
he binds himself to give eight performances a
week. Fer this he is to receive his expenses.
namely; suitable "bed and board" f500 a week,
or no less than f26.O0O year, equal to $780,
900.
-"Sir," said the Doctor to the Judge. "the
conduct of England toward our Government is
infamous, and never will be forgiven. She has
completely destroyed all affections for our
mother county-she has cut the imbilical cord.
"True," replied the Judge. land thereby lost her
naval supremacy"
With mortar, paixhan and petard.
We tender old Abe our Beau-regard.
These lines were gotten up by newspaper
wags on the occasion of the surrender of Fort
Sumter The kentucky Banner gives a retort
which is good, though we have waited long for it,,
as follows:
With Rebels all routed and flying in fear,
We tender jeff Davis our Foot to his rear.
-GES. SHELDs-The wound Of Gen. Shields
doing we'll yesterday. He thinks be will be
able to ride in buggy in few days, when he will
again appear at the head of his command. Sens-
tors Howe and Doolittle voted against this brave
Generals confirmation, because of bis secession
mpathiesl"-Millcaukee Retcs.
-SUPPREss HosrILIrY.-It becomes all good
men who love this Union. and the greatness of
Its achievements, and the grandeur of its promises
in the future, to speak words of coneiliation. Let
us bear in mind the words Of Crttenden, in the de
bate where Hickman so disgraced his privileges
and position, that "our object is not only to sup
press insurrection, but to suppress hostility, and
then reunte the different sections of this country
in one harmonious whole.-Boston Post.
The list of vessels already contracted for by
the Government, or proposed, is as follows:
The Monitor; the Galena, built at Mystic; the
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the Stevens battery; the Naugatuck; twenty
iron-clad gunboats ordered by Congress; twenty
ron-clad frigates recommended by the Senate
Naval Committee; the iron ram. do: two gun
boats ordered by Massachusetts; the Roanoke to
be plated; six Monitors; total, Sc.
-Beauregard seems to have been great ia
vorite with the rebel soldiery on the Potomac.
Many anecdotes are told of his kindness to the
men under his command, distributing comforts
among them from his own private stores, and
caring for the sick as though they were his
brothers. "Joe Johnston" on the contrary, sue
ceeded eminently in acquiring the hearty hatred
and detestation of the whole army. Carcatures
of him abound in the A v leaves of books found in
camp; his name, coupled with opprobrious cpl
thets, is written over the walls of the huts. This
sentence, "Gen. Joe Johnston is no gentleman,
and incapable of appreciating the feelings of
one, is written on the blank side of an army Or
der, and signed by several members of an Ala
bama regiment.
The Iowa Governor and all the Legislature,
except the Democrats, went on a high old spree
in honor of the victory at Fort Donelson. They
were so frclicsome and so drunk that the newspa-
pers feel constrained to admonish them.
- The Detroit Free Press thinks the time has
come when the Republican party must east off
Aboltionism-when it must declare for the Con-
stitution or against it. Until it does so, the De-
mOcracy have a right to hold it responsible for
all that Abolition has done to produce rebellion.
political warfare against the rebels is no longer
necessary. 1t is simple nonsense-waste Of ink
and paper. The army fights them. The only
political fight which remains for the North is un-
der this very lssue-AbOlition or Union, treason
or loyalty. the Constitution or no Constitution
This is the real issue; and the first and holiest
duty of every citizen is to tear the mask of pa
triotism from the faces of the extremists and to
expose them to infamy co-conspirators with
Davis and Floyd; the authors of schemes
which, if successful, will extirpate liberty from
this continent.