Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-03
WHOLE NO. 1856.


All Sorts OF Paragraphs.
mo rain has fallen in Minnesota and Iowa
for six weeks, and the crops are suffering severe
ly. Spring wheat is greatly injured
NAPOLEON CAEsAR-The Emperor Napol-
cons Life OF Caesar is at last in the printers
haLds- Ii will fll three volumes.
One of the "Smiihs" in Boston. who was
drafted, on being asked by friend il be intended
to 60, replied: mo. You see the paper SAYS
drafted man gets s402 bounty. the same as a
volunteer. Itonly takes $500 TO get exempted,
and I'm going to tell Capt Shaw I'll take Sl02
and crl it square"
The Providence Post says:"Gen. Meade was
one of those officers of Doubtful loyalty in the
beginning of the war, when radical nobs tried to
bring befure them 10 swear alleciancr' i'm their
presence His refusal to- do this in Detroit
caused him To be denounced a sympathzer
with the Rebels, and efforts were made TO have
his commission revoked. He was shortly after
refused promotion the ground that he was
not Sound on the black goose"
MIR. Smith. ian army contractor, ordering
books for his new house up town, n,)-'It's no use
bringing me these books to look at. | know
nothing about them. just measure and see how
many il will take 10 fill the shelves. You may
scatter some Bibles and Testaments among EN-,
just to give moral tone 20 the affair And be
sure and have plenty of gliding on the backs.'
"A HoARDER The Independence Beige al
ludes to the case of an old woman who bad
boarded up about IA 900 francs in gold since
1890. She did not ike to trust banks Had she
put the money out at compound interest il would
have grown to 100000 francs.
GEN. WADswoRrH on LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
A Washington special to the Tribune says:
Gen Wadsworth went home on 4 thirty days
leave of absence in this evenings train. II is
doubtful whether he will return to the army. He
is not tired of fighting the Rebels. as he has been
doing with devoted patriotism from the com
mencement, but he thinks the army overgener
aled, there being on the average one officer with
a star on his shoulder to every 500 men.
Gen. Wadsworth, although Republican, is
opposed to selling CoIonelcies at 81 600 for
commission.
Albert g. Brown, of Mississippi. who took
the oath of allegiance at Snyder's Bluff after the
capitulation of Vicksburg, United States
Senator with JEFF. Davis when secession was com
menced, and is now member of the Rebel Sen
ate at Richmond.
NEITHER PATIENCE NOR PROVIDENCE COULD
SAVE THEN.-Tbe Boston Traveller says: "On
the Island of Patience, in Naragansett Bay, there
are but three men, two of whom have been draft
Of Prudence, near by, there were only about
dozen men, three Of whom were taken, all
from one house. After this the Isles of Shoals
may not prove safe place for refugees"
Says the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Mr.. vallandigham and Mr. voorhees, have been
in public life since the war commenced. and his
tory has 10 brighter page than that which records
the self sacrificing devotion to principle they dis
played under the most cruel persecution and pro-
scription that ever disgraced our annals Had
they cringed and bowed TO power, the highest po-
sitions of the country would have been offered
them. They preferred to fall with honor and un-
popularity rather than rise In dishonor TO an emi
neuce their talents would have attained. They
will in tn, future have their reward, and be re-
membered with pride and pleasure when their
detractors and prosecutors are rotting in oblivion.
-Itappears that Andrews. prominent leader
ofthe rioters in New York, is not a Virginian,
as has been asserted, but old and well known
resident of tha; city, and Tiltonian Abolition
ist. His practical application of the Reverend
Tiiton's theory is manifest in the subjoined ex-
tract from the New York Tribune:
Andrews was arrested by detectives McCord,
Farley. Raeford and Dusenbury They found
him in bed with colored woman.
"A MINISTERIAL AMENDMENT TO THE CoxsTI-
TUTIoS.--A convention of ministers of several
Pittsburg, with view to have the Constitution Of
the United States amended by inserting in it
some clause recognizing "the being and attributes
of Almighty Cod the Divine authority of the
Holy Scriptures, the Law of God as a paramount
rule, and Jesus, the Messiah. the Savior and the
Lord of ALL" They have just adjourned sine die,
after appointing a committee, with very large
powers, 70 agitate the subject by addresses to the
people, aud TO call a national convention Of per-
sons friendly to the object. whenever and wher-
ever, in their opinion, the end sought will be pro-
NOTED thereby.
The DEaocRATrc STATE TICKET IN KEN
TucKY.-The Democratic State ticket in Ken
lucky has been completed. Ii is as follows:
For Governor-Hon. Charles A wickliffe. of
Nelson county.
For Lieutenant Governor-W. B. Reed, Of
Larue.
For Attorney General-Thos. T. Turner, of
Madison.
For Audtor-Grant Green, of Henderson
For Treasurer-H. G. Kalfus
For Register-Thos j. Frazier
For Superintendent of Public Instruction--T.
Mckee
The election is on the FIRST Monday of August
The NEw YORK RIoTs The New York
Herald, in commenting upon the recent riots in
that city. remarks:
But the late riots which have so disgraced our
city have been exaggerated by our radical AbO-
lition organs into grand Rebel conspiracy in be
half of JEFF Davis. Nothing could be more alb
surd, except the absurd speculations of some Of
the newspapers of rebeldom. The Richmond
Dispatch, for instance, supposes that these New
York disturbances are but the beginning OF a
general Northern rebellion against the Lincoln
despotism, and that by these outbreaks the Da-
Wis confederscy is to be lighted to its national in
dependence Such are the straws that drowning
men will snatch at Ii will not be long before
these Southern newspaper philosophers discover
their folly and stupidity in believing for mo-
ment the partisan claptrap of our Abolition or
gans in regard to these late riots. They are
ended; for we are sure that President Lincoln. in
returning to the business Of the draft will, in q
liberal application OF the law, render il accepta-
BILE even to the working man. who has nothing
but bis daily labor TO depend upon for the sub
sittence of his family
The PUBLIC DEBr-The Secretary of the
Treasury reports TIE public Indebtedness up to
the 1st Of July as follows:
Aggregate debt per cent interest sas , ss SSs s %
4si,275,s74 n
"7s-lo ao'sco 90
g z" without interest sss.7al.oss Is
Total debt rst July. 1853, as ex-
hibited by the books Of the
The Boston Courier says there Is good deal
Of alarm lest the skill Of our Generals and the
valor of our troops should bring the war 10 a
termination much sooner than is agreeable among
the John Brownies and shod6y patriots, Who in
the words of General Ewing, are stealing them
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