Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-28


Gen. Grant has issued an order prohibiting
the presence of negroes IN the camps of white
troops. and instructing Provost Marshals as to
their disposition.
An abolition paper says that Mr.. Lincoln
inherited from James Buchanan "an exhausted
and bankrupt treasury" We should like TO
know what the successor OF Abe Lincoln will
inheritf M
"A FoReER.-A music teacher in Springfield,
who is also a member of the church and Superin
tendent of a Sabbath school, has recently been
arrested for forgery His piety was beautiful,
and so was his penmanship.
"A letter from Provost Marshal General Fry
states that the excess of Illinois over previous
requirements is 44.s5l men. which gives a sur
plus over her present quota of S,l5l. There will,
consequently. be no draft in the State under the
present call.
-JEwIsH SrNAGoeuE.-The new Jewish
synagogue which has been built at Berlin. sur
passes in size and in magni6cence, the largest
buildings ofthe kind in Europe-those at Pcsth.
Vienna and Cologne. The edifce has in the in
terror five large and five small cupolas, lighted
from above.
The following is an accurate statement. in
round numbers, Of the business at the Pension
Ofice:-Invalid applications to date, 30. 900; wild
ows' applications, 0,O00; number of certificates
of disability received from Surgeon Generals
Office. 25O, 900. They are still coming in at the
rate of 800 a day.
"A NEW NARcoTIo.-At a recent meeting of
the Royal Society OF Tasm mia, a quantity of
"Pitchery." a narcotic plant brought from the
interior of Australia, where it is usel Dy the ma
tives to produce intoxication. was produced by a
gentleman, who remarked that on one occasion
Mr.. King. the explorer, swallowed a small pinch
Of the powder, the effects of which he described
as being almost identical with the effects pro
duced by a large quantity of spirits.
"A great novelty was on exhibition at the
Vermont State Fair. in Rutland. last week Ii
is in the form of a steam pleasure carriage adapt
Ell to moving over common roads. This machine
is of exquisite workmanship, and. when supplied
with wood and water for a trip of II miles,
weighs only $50 pounds. Some four weeks
since. this carriage made the run over the public
thoroughfare from Lowell to Roxbury, a distance
of q miles, in 80 minutes. Ii is claimed that it
will move on a common road, a mile in two min
utes.
The STATE DEPARTMENr.-It is stated in
political circles that some trouble exists in the
Cabinet. growing out of "A recent effort of the
President to ignore the State Department in an
official communication TO Minister Adams. IL
StcuiS lhaJ upOn " OutWdTu IT'D Oh the
steamer Scotia, "A Mr.. Oakland was sent as a
special bearer of dispatches from Mr. Lincoln to
Mr. Ada ms. which were never submitted to the
Premier. 1t is also said that in order more eft
fectually 10 conceal from Mr. Seward the fact of
this special mission, no demand was made upon
the State Department for money to defray ex-
penses, but it was obtained upon a temporary
loan at Boston. Since the return Of the Scotia,
the facts have leaked out, and excite much in
/ dfrnafinn in tho St,fa nonarfrnanr
BLOCKADE RUNNERS AT BERMUDA.-A gen
tlemen who has recently arrived at Boston from
the Bermuda Islands, says those ports are liter
ally jammed with blockade runners, which arrive
aud depart with almost the regularity of crusa
ders- The ware houses, wharves, and every
available place are crowded with cotton. which
is landed wherever there is a chance for olsen
barkation. Three Northern vessels were engaged
in the contraband trade, one of which this gentle
men sailed in up the Hudson river. All the
blockade runners carry the Confederate flag, and
when they depart from port the welkin rings with
the shouts OF the people assembled on shore.
Here is an exhortation from the writings of
Junius that the American people will fnd speci-
ally adapted to the present political crisis In this
country:
"Let me exhort you never to suffer an invasion
of YOUR political constitution; however minute
euC ~ may appear " Tvs wv pass ~ Ol
without a determined, persevering resistance
One precedent creates another. They soon &C
cumulate and constitute law. What yesterday
was a fact, to day is doctrine. Examples are said
to justify the most dangerous measures, and
when they do not suit exactly the defect is sup
piled by analogy. BE assured that the law that
protects us in our political as in our civil rights
grows out of the constitution, and they fall or
flourish with it,"
Bob Liucoln, 1.-THE governments" Oldest son,
and Il stout. athletic young man. is spending his
summer at the White Mountain. Why don't
Robert try his hand with a musketf What bet
ter is he than those OF others for whom Mr.. Lin
coin has made such calls. and whom he threatens
to force into the service? 1t is hard to resist the
conclusion that either the President is a very
great h~ypocrite and does not believe the war TO be
the holy thing he Processes. or that he is too
selfish to make the sacrifice he demands of other
parents.
His son is not a whit better than thousands Of
Others who have given their lives in this struggle
to emancipate the negro.
National Currency Act.