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Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-17

LARGE ard well selected assortment Of Groceries
~ receiving and for sale A. low 81 any house
In the West Country Merchants and City Grocers invited
20 examine our stock. RUGER A CALDWELL
jel362 -d&wly 6s East Washington 20.
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CAVALRY HORSES.
WE ARE DESTROYS OF PURCHASING IMMEDI.
w ately
1000 Cavalry Horses,

And will pay the highest market price IN cash. We
be found Wood foudray's Livery Stable Pennsy
vania street, indianapolis.
BUTTOLPH, SAVER, a co.
Government ContTa actors.
NOTE.-We will contract with persons deliver 10
in a specified time from horses three hundred.
Jyl4-dlw r., 3. a. co.
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DEsT American and French Window Glass; 500 boxes
ID Window assorted, from sxle 70 3sx50 In and
for sale at lowest figures by
BROWNING SLOAN.
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MO and No ? MsckereI in Barrels Half Barrels. and
} }$$ !: !: . 900. :
Inn BOXES Goldfish;
0An BOXES Smoked Halibut
For sale low BY
RUGER CALDWELL.
es East Washington st
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GROCERIES.
Ruger & Caldwell,


Hill, ENlIt CQ0CEVV
tttM MINIMUM MtRt III AMIN
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-17

INSURANCE..
Indiana Fire Insurance Co.,
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,
Omce--.v'O. - odd F'eIfOiCS' Hall.
ENSURES Dwellings. Household Furniture, Barns Hay,
Grain and Live Stock therein. Also Churches, School
Houses and other detached property against loss and
damage by FIRE and LIGHTNING, for the term Of five or
seven years.
DIRECTORS.
J. $. Harvey, indianapolis, F. d Marsh indianapolis.
William c. Lupton, ID. y. Heath, Greencaste.
Frederick Bags. James Burgess, Danville.
William T. Gibson, indianapolis.
j. HARVEY. President. FsEDERicK BAGos. Treasurer
WIN c. LUTON, Vice Prest WM 7. GIBsoS, Secre airy.
may2- dlmw2m
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-07-02

peated his catalogue Of persuasions. At this
point one of the sides Of the square opened,
and in marched a company of about forty stall
wart Irshmen, whom their captain, in loud
and exultant tone, announced as The Mitch
ell Guards; we volunteer, colonel, in body.
The colonel was delighted He proposed
three cheers for the Mitchell Guard, and the
crowd INDUCED not inordinately in the pull
monary exercise. The requisite number did
not seem to be forthcoming, however, and the
colonel made another little speech, winding
up with an invitation to the black drummer
and ffer to perambulate the quadrangle and
play Dixie, which they did, but they came as
they went-solitary and alone; not the ghost
of a volunteer being any where visible in the
Ethiopian wake. The colonel looked as blank
as if he was getting desperate, and draft
seemed indispensable.
"As a dernier resort the colonel directed
all who had excuses to advance to the centre
and submit them for examination. Did you
ever see a coward run away from falling
building at a fire, or toward dog fight or q
street show? Ifyou have, you can form some
idea of tie tempestuous nature of the wave
that swept toward the little table in the CEN
tre of the square around which were gather
ed the four grave gentlemen who were to ex-
anime the documents It was scene which,
as an uninterested outsider, one could only
hold his sides and laugh at. Hats were crush
ed, ribs punched, corns smashed, and clothes
torn. Every hand held its magical bit of pa
per, from the begrimmed digits of the individ-
ual just from a stable or a foundry to the daiu-
ty gloved extremity Of the dry goods clerk,
just from his counter. Young and old, rich
and poor, neat and nasty, Americans, Eng
lishmen, Irishmen, Germans, Frenchmen,
Italians IsraeIites and Gentiles, all went to
make up the motley mass. What pretty
lot of sick and disabled individuals there were
to be surel Swellcd arms, Emping legs, spine
diseases, bad eyes. corns, toothaches, constitu-
tional debility in the bread basket eruptive
diseases, deafness, rheumatism, not well gen
erally-these and thousand other complaints
were represented as variously and heterogen-
iously as by any procession Of pilgrims that
ever visited the Holy Land.
"And so the day progressed nearly ten
hours being consumed in the endeavor TO Sc
cure a draft. This afternoon the absenteeS
were gathered together, and the efforts re-
newed, when, strange to say. every man who
found the liability imminent of his being fore
cd to enlist, protested that he was just on the
point of doing So and willingly put his name
to the roll"
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Joe Harris,s Panther Fight.

JOE HARRIS was the youngest of three broth
ers, the Oldest, Bill and Sam, being tall, raw
boned, fair haired, fair complexion men, noisy,
insolent and quick of quarrel, and constantly
engaged in fights, in which, by the way, from
their great personal strength and activity, they
generally proved victorious. Joe, on the 9th
er hand, was about the middle size, with dark
skin and eyes, and his bullet head covered
with short crisp curls, of the jcttiest black
Quiet and cool in his demeanor, he seldom or
ever got into difficulty, but when hechanc-
ed to be drawn into one, gave ample proof
that he was by no means behind any of his
family IN fstic prowess and accomplishments.
They lived in Crawford county, Arkansas,
some thirty years ago. It happened on one
occasion at a quarter-raee-at place famil
iarly known in those days as Pin Hook, but
is now the thiclly settled town of Van Buren,
that Joe got mixed up in a fight with one
Of the bullies Of the neighborhood, and was
knocking the conceit out of him "hand over
fist" when Bill the eldest brother who was
standing by, and hadn't had a fight for more'n
a week, jumped in between, took the fight off
Joe's hands, and demolished the fellow in the
twinkling of bed-post.
After the affair was over, and before they
had time to liquor on it, Joe took Bill one side
out of ear-shot and very deliberately remark
ed to-him:
"Look here, Bill, III tell you what it Is,
I've no objection in the world, if you see that
fellers Citing the better of me, that you
should cut in aud get US apart, but I've no
notion, when I've got a feller as good as
whipped, that you should run in and take all
the credit Of the fghtl 'Tain't the first time
you've done it and if you ever do it again. I
give you fair warnin, I'll turn right round an
lick you like Il Now mind if don't !"
every well, said Bill who was well aware
that Joe would be apt to be as good as his
wood. "TI try and remember"
They then went back to the crown, and
clinched the understanding with smile of
baldface.
A few weeks after the conversation and
fight aforesaid, Bill and Joe walked down in
to the river bottom, either to hunt up some
cattle or hogs, or to look for timber stocks.
| Bill had his rife, but Joe was Unarmed. AT
ter forcing their way some half mile or such
matter, through the thick underbrush, COM
posed in part of the red buckeye, with It's
brilliant blossoms, they were suddenly start
led by low, savage growl, which sounded
uncomfortably near, and ere they could look
about them, or make any preparation, with a
wild shrek of exulting rage a large female
panther sprang from limb overhead full upon
the shoulders Of Joe.
To twist himself around and seize the ami
NAL by the throat was but the work Of an in
slant on the part of the intrepid borderer, and
then commenced a struggle for life or death.
After being stripped to the skin and receiving
some severe scratches, Joe got his knite in re-
QUESTION and put an end to the panther by
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CUR1osITIEs OF SLEEP.

IyTurkey, if man falls asleepin the neigh
borhood of poppy field, and the wind blows
toward him, he becomes narcotzed, and would
die, if the country people, who are well ac-
quainted with the circumstances, did not
bring him to the next well or stream, and
empty pitcher after pitcher Of water on his
face and body. DIR. Appenheim, during his
residence in Turkey, owed his life to this
simple and ef1icacious treatment. Dr.. Graves,
from whom this aneacdote is quoted, also re-
ports the case Of a gentleman thirty years Of
age, who, from long continued sleepiness, was
reduced to a complete living skeleton, unable
to stand on his legs. It was partly owing to
disease, until at last, unable to pursue his
business, he sank into abiect poverty and woe.
DR.. Reid mentions friend Of his who, when
ever anythingo ccurred to distress Inn, soon
became drowsy and fell asleep. A student at
Edinburg, upon hearing suddenly of the un-
expected death Of near relative, threw HIM
self on his bed and almost instantaneously,
amid the glare of MONDAY, sank into pro-
found slumber. Another person reading to
one Of his friends stretched on his death-bed,
fell fast asleep, and with the book still in his
hand, went on reading, utterly unconscious
of what he was doing A woman at Hamadt
slept seventeen or eighteen hours a day for
fifteen years. Another recorded to have slept
once in four days Dr. Mancish mentions a
woman who spent three-fourths Of her life in
sleep, and DR.. Elliotson quotes a case Of a
young lady who slept for six weeks, and re-
covered. The venerable st. Augustine, Ui
Hippo, prudently divided his hours into three
parts-eight to be devoted to sleep, eight to
meditation, and eight to converse with the
world Maniacs are reported, particularly in
the eastern hemisphere, to become furiously
vigilant during the full of the moon, more es-
pecially when the deteriorating rays of its pol
arized light are permitted to fall into their a
partments hence the name Of lunatics. There
certainly is create proueness to disease during
sleep than inwaking state, for those pass the
night in the Campagna di Roma inevitably be-
come affected with noxious air, while travellers
who 60 through without stopping, escape the
niasma. Intense cold produces sleep, and
those who perish in the snow, sleep on til
the sleep Of death.
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gil Sorts of @uu0 8eaOipg.
A Draft at savannah--IudiOrOus Scenes.

A Draft at Observation-Disclosures Scenes.
A SAvAyHAH correspondent OF the Charles
ton Courier furnishes an amusing description
of the scene which ensued on the occasion of
draft for four hundred men in Savannah, to
complete requisition for troops, the requisite
number not having volunteered. Fifteen
hundred of the business men and mechanics
Of the city were drawn up in hollow square
on the parade ground, all in high state Of
excitement when the following proceedings
took place:
The colonel now takes his place in the
centre, and, from the back of magnificent
horse, in a few well-timed remarks calls for
volunteers. He said it was a shame that a
Georgian should submit to be drafted, and dis
honorable to a citizen of Savannah to be fore
ed into the service of his country. He ap-
pealed to their patriotism, their pluck, and
their-pelf. He told them of good clothes,
good living, and fifty dollars bounty; and Oh
the strength of these considerations invited
everybody to walk three PAGES in front No
body did it. An ugly pause ensued, worse
than dead silence between the ticking of a
conversation. The colonel thought he might
not have been heard or understood, and re-
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-07-02

A YAxKEE Trick IN FRAEcE.-A novel way
Of smuggling is reported in the French pa
pers. A matchmaker of Allencon having
lately offered some Swiss watches at exceed
ingly' low prices, was asked how he could
afford to sell them so cheap. "Oh, that is
simple enough, he replied; 81 bought them
of wild beast Snowman who had Just come
from Switzerland" Before leaving Geneva
he bought quantity Of watches, which he
concealed under the litter Of his lions cage.
It is hardly necessary to mention that the
Custom-House officers at the frontier did not
venture to search there for eontraband goods,
-NsU York Erening Post,
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Incidents.

THERE is such q mass of matter for history
created by great battle that it is impossible,
when one desires to present the salient points
hot for the press, to record incidents in de-
liberate order I shall undertake to present
them as they are offered to my attention.
Among many worthy of note, none is more
prominent than two in which 1t. T. J. Blake
ney Of California, aide-decamp to Gen. Burns,
distinguished himself
Battle was raging, Blakeney was carrying an
order when he observed the Colonel Of a regi-
ment manifesting improper symptoms. For
getting in the ardor OF battle, the difference
due to rank, he upbraided the Colonel with
cowsrdice, and in the presence of his COM
mand ordered him to the head ofhis regiment
with TIE alternative Of being reported to head
quarters. Said Blakeney: throw down
your sword and yield the command to a sol
der. Forward, or I'll take command myself
The Colonel apologized that his horse was
fractions, but dismounted and moved forward.
Some time after, Blakeney met a Captain with
his company moving from the battle field.
The case demanded inquiry, as the men ap-
peared dissatisfied. "Where are you going2
quoth Blazeney. "Taking my men out Of
fire, said the Capt "Thc line is full there is
no room for me-" You're coward, shout
ed B., your men arc anxious to fght-about
face ce!-iorward forward march r. yell
ed Blakeney. and the men responded with q
shout The Captain moved rapidly to the
front, and his company did its duty.
AN IRISH YANKEE
A Georgia Sergeant who had been captur.
ed, boasted Extensively to me of our Lieuteu.
ants-that the Soutnerners could whip the
Yankees two to one. An Irish private who
overheard the collOquy, impudently insinu-
ated can't you snake (sneak) off av yor
Place behind the house foreninst yes, anC
leave me show you. Couldn't yees now, my
honey. Shure I'd like to show yees don
yees how one Yankee would bother yees.'
The Georgian, evidently disgusted, protested
that it was shameful to permit privates to in
suit prisoners, but he evinccd no desire t,
" snake off behind the house ferninst' hin
The provost guard made dash at Pat, bu
he fed. Pats language was less respectful
than I have recorded it--Con Co1aT from
Ne Clellaa'S Army
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king Cotton.
TIE Nashville Union saws:

TIE Nashville Union says:
'The rebels crowned Cotton King sons
years ago, but the loyalists took it into their
heads that they would have a coronation Of
their own, as the old dsspot grew too exact
ing. So they pummsIled him at Beaufort
until he was ching they bombardel him at
Fort Donelson until he was qaa-kiHgj they
terrified the old tyrant at New Orleans and
Memphis so badly that he is shaking and brea-
Eing. His throne is now on FIRE, and we sup
dose that he will die smoking and oroa-king.'
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The Way Cummings Defended washington.

Tux President boldly assumes all response
biIity for the corruption Of Alexander Cum
mings. Here is one list of articles purchased
by Cummings as army supplies, with which
to defend the Capital:
$50 doz. pints ale and porter
800 boxes herringsl
200 boxes cheeset
6 bbls tOnguesl
1870 doz straw hats!
1850 pairs linen pantsl
% bbls pickles!
25 casks Scotch ale!
10 casks London porter!
It must be remembered that the President
iustifes the purchases Of Cummings upon the
sole great necessity" then existing for de-
tending Washington. What was the use Of
ale, herrings, cheese, tongues and pickles IN
defending the Capital-4f7Vapbss Hsu'.
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THz London Morning News remarks:

THE London Morning News remarks:
General Mcclellan has given evidence Of
higher strategicaI powers than those which
help the American press to sensation head
ings Of paragraphs; and the tactics which
drove strongly posted enemy to inglOriOus
retreat from behind Notifications that could
could have resisted the attack Of almost any
army that could be brought against them,
viii surely be admired more by real soldiers
than any enormous bOmbardments which
sergeant Of artillery would conduct"
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Az Ezpensivs Wonan s,eea YssF, Ago.

The jewels of the Egyptian Queen AahKotep,
who died eighteen hundred years before
Christ, and whose tomb was discovered by a
French archeologist in 1850, viii be exhibit
ed at the international Exhibition in London.
When found at Gounah, the body Of the
qneen was covered with objects in gold and
silver such as a diadem of massive gold, en-
crusted with precious stone, elabOrately chas-
ell with the heads of spbinxes, and bound to-
gether with tress; collar Of gold having
depending from it three flies Of solid gold,
supposed to be the decoration Of the Egyptian
honorary Order of the Fly; two heads Of
lions; and boat of Death mounted on wheels
ana with little figures of towers in silver.
The sitter is supposed to represent the deceas-
ed queen, and the chanter in thSDoOat is os
gold; his finger Is placed upon his lips as if
enioining silence.
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9pttr1 for tse ganr,
RrFepoN uoErra.


Say, darzies, hab you seen massa,
Wild de mufstash on his face,
Go long de road some time dis momin',
Like he gWlne to leab de placeY
He seen q smoke way up de ribber
Where de LinInm gunbOats lay,
He took him hat-lef berry sudden,
And spec he's ran away.
De massa run, ha hai
De massa run, no hol
It must be now de kingdom comm,
And De year ub jubilee.#
He six feet one way, two foot tudder,
And he weigh tree hundred pound,
His coat 60 big, can't pay de tailor,
And It won't 20 half way round,
He drin SO much dey call him cap'n,
And he get so dreffuI tann'd,
I spec he try and fool dem Yankees,
For to tink he's eontraband,
De massa ran, &c.
De darlies feel so lonesome, Hbbing
In de log house on de lawn,
Dey move dere tings to massa's parlor,
For to keep It while he's gone,
Dere's wine an cider in de kitchen,
And de darldes dey'H hab some;
Ispose dey wiz be cOrnfscated,
When de Linkum soiers come.
De massa run, &c.
De oberseer he make Us trouble,
And he dribe us round a spell;
We lock him up in de smOke-house cellar,
Wild de key trown in de well,
De whip am lost--de han'cufs broken,
But ole massa'n hab his pay,
Hes ole enough, big enough, ought TO lnO
better,
Dan to went and run away.
De massa run, ha ha!
De massa run, no hol
Il must be now de kingdom comm,
And de year NIB jubilee.
in singing, "jubilO."
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The New Monitors.

REGARDING the six new Monitore now in
course of construction, the Albany Courier
says:
The new vessels are larger and far more
powerful than the Monitor but the princiE le
of their construction is the same. The tur-
rets are 81 feet in diameter and II inches
thick, which is inches thicker than the Moni-
tors. The armor plates are inches thick
Each vessel is to be armed with two 15-inch
guns, which is inches larger than those o
the Monitor
Their speed will be 10 miles per hour. The
plates are being rolled in Maryland and Penn
sylvania. All the rest Of the iron for frames,
fastenings, &c, amounting to several thousand
tuns Is being made by Corning, Winslow &
Co. and the Rensselaer, Iron Company, at
their works in Troy.
Four Of the vessels are to be completed by
the 1st Of August, and two by the lst of Sep
tember Some 2, 800 men are at work upon
these six vessels, and it is confidently believed
by the contractors that they will have them
completed within the stipulated time. Ii So
it will probably challenge the world for par
allel in mechanical achievement.
An error exists in the popular mind as to
the sea-going proper les Of these vessels, it be
ing generally supposed that they are unsuit-
ed to outside service. 1t was demonstrated
bv the run Of the Monitor from New York
to Hampton Roads, that she is as staunch and
safe as the best-modeled ship. The new YES
sells will be equally safe, and well-adapted to
service at sea.
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A Curious MAcHTNE.-Among the curious
instruments in the Philosophical Instrument
Department in the London Great Exhibition,
is machine exhibited by Mr. Peters for
microscopic writing. With this machine OF
Mr.. Peters, it is stated that words Matthew
Marshall Bank of England, can be written
in the two and a half millionth of an inch in
length; and it is actually said that calculations
made on this data show that the whole Bible
con be written twenty-five times in the space
of a square inch. The words to be written
microscopieally are written in pencil, in or
binary characters, on a sheet OF paper at the
bottom of the instrument. But the pencil
with which this is done communicates, by a
series of levers and gymbats, with another
minute pencil and table at the top, by which
tie ordinary writing Of the pencil and the mi
croscopie writing both move in unison, though
the motion Of the latter is so graduated that
a stroke Of a quarter of an inch at the bottom
is only stroke of millionth Of an inch at
the top, the shape and charactar Of both marks
being nevertheless precisely alike in outline.
As matter Of course, the microscopic writ
ing at the top Is only visible under powerful
magnifers, and the only object of the machine
is to mark bank-uotes with certain minute
signatures for the prevention Of fo1geries.
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NO. Il.

COOL FIGH17G AT HAEoyER.-At the battle
Of Hanover Court House, Virginia, two SER
geants met in the woods; each drew his knife,
and the two bodies were found together, each
with knife buried in it to the hilt Some
men had a cool way of disposing of prisoners.
One, an officer Of the Massachusetts.9th, well
known in Boston as a professor Of muscular
Christianity, better known here as the child
Of the regiment" while rushing through the
woods at the head of his company, came upon
a rebel. Selling the "gray buck" by the COLI
lar, he threw him over his shoulder, with
" Pick him up somebody" A little Yankee,
marching down by the side Of fence, which
sllirted the woods, came upon 3 strapping Sc
cesh, who attempted to seize and pull him
over the rails, but the little one had too much
science A blow with the butt Of the musIet
leyelled secesh to the ground and made hima
prisoner There were many marvellous es-
capes
Returning from the feld Of Hanover alter
the enemy had retreated, a captain was met
( by one of his sergeants with a squad Of North
Carolinians. Saluting. he reported, " Five
ribils, sir,-all prisint and accounted for"
A UNION WoMAN IN PESsAooLA.-"0n the
night Of our arrival in Pensacola, writes
private soldier, two or three of US were tax
ing stroll and during our walk we were met
by fine lady who immediately grasped one
of our party by the hand and seemed 50 over
iioyed that FOR moment she could say moth
ing. At last she told how happy she was at
our arrival and that she had, long prayed for
/ this day; and taking a small silk American
flag from her bosom she presented it to one
of US, saying: For nine months I have car
ried this flag hidden on my person, praying
that an opportunity ike this would present
itself, that might present it to a Union sold
ier. 1t graced my wedding table, and love
it and every soldier who fights for it" The
husband of this patriotic lady was obliged to
flee for his life. on account OF his Union PTin-
ciples.
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WnEy a-horse's age is in question, he is gen
orally Judged out of his own mouth.
NIEx seem to get very tall in prosperity, but
in hard times they generally find themselves
short
TIE smallest woman may FIJI the largest
heart
AN active life, like rapid current may
purify itself By motion.
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Our strrg-GtIItr.

, Pronounced in singing, q ajubilo. "