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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

~ An unsophisticated genius down east,
who don't know Old Abe 80 we'll as we Spring.
field people do. innocently asks If there is not a
mistake in the signature Of the celebrated letter
to the Springfield convention. He thinks It
should be A. Ward instead of A. Lincoln.
[Springfeld Register.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21
streprth of the government.

General JACKSON, in one of his veto messages.
in speaking of the strength of the General Gov
eminent, said: Its true strength consists in
having individuals and States IS much as possible
to themselves: in making itself felt, not in its
power. but in its benifcence; not in its control,
but in its protection; not in binding the States
more closely to the center. but leaving each TO
move unobstructed in Its own proper orbit"
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

- The colored population of Kansas are
holding a State Convention at Leavenwortb,
"for the purpose of taking into consideration
their political. educational, moral and social con-
dition as nominal ~eitisens of Ksnsss." As We
can understand il. this mems simply negro
equality.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

tB-senstor SINNERS speech on our foreign
relations takes up seventeen columns Of the New
York Herrld, 6ne print.
We looked over il and found it Was negro, ne
gro in every column. with a smattering OF Alme-
mac learning and Latin. wherefore 1--WE quit"
fCleyeland Plain Dealer.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21
A short Argument with Peace men.

-
Under this head a religious paper in this city.
claiming to be orthodox, lays down the law and
gospel as follows, in reference to the repeal Of the
Proclamation OF Freedom: ..
God forbid that our country should ever descend 90
that depth Of infamyi No. The only coarse Of honor
snd Of justice is that which the President quietly but
kept" So "4tt
The story of "Jeptha's daughter" is precisely
in point. The latter was slain BY the parent,
because Of a previous vow that he would do 90.
in a certain contingency. The infatuated man
conscientiously believed that he must commit
the horrid deed. rather than break bis promise.
This religious paper probably thinks. too. that
the "only course Of honor and justice for Herod
was that "the promise being made 20 Herodias
must be kept" and John the Baptist behesded
accordingly. Queer commentaries viii be writ
ten by the new reIigionists ofour day In. Y.
Journ. Of Com.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21
w Judge Cosr, who has just been electe

EB Judge CosY, who has just been elected
Governor Of Maine, says that his first vote was
cast for Gen. JACKSON for President, in 1882, and
that he has voted for every regular Democratic
candidate for President from that time to the
present, his last Presidential vote being cast
for Mr.. DOUGLAS In 1860. He also states that he
has voted for every Democratic nominee for
Governor since he became a voter. and that in
1861 and 1862 he voted for Gen. JAMESON. Mr..
JAMESON was the candidate ofthe war Democrats
for Governor at the last election.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

The grand opera house IN Paris viii cost
Eve millions of dollars. The foundations. which
are completed, are said 70 be a. solid a. tboss Of
the Colosseum. - Eors
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21
ssSIavery - the Cause of the war
Therefore slavery Should be Exter-
nal

minated
This is John Brough's doctrine, and it is the
doctrine of the Abolition party. 1t is repeated
with a great air Of wisdom all over the State. IL
is the silliest piece of humbug ever started. Hon.
William Allen in his great speech at Hamilton,
Butler county, said: Slavery is not The cause of
the war. Il is the intermeddling of men with
other mems business. If any fellows should
come here and undertake to dispense this crowd.
this evening, and should happen to get hurt. they
could not say that this meeting pos the cause of IL.
The cause of it would be that they tried to break
the meeting up. If slavery was the
cause of the war, it would not have required an
Abolition party to bring it about.
Every man knows there have been great wars
about religion. MOI long since there was a thirty
years war in Europe. About what? About re-
ligion. Well now, according to the abolitionists,
religion ought to have been e~xterminated liz
order to have got rid Of the wal.
That is unjust. Religion has been the cause Of
war in no sense than that it has afforded a pre-
text for one set of men to i~nterpose in the reli-
gious opinions Of another. . There
has been no war IN the United States about reli-
gion. Why so2 Our fathers did not declare that
there should be no religion here. What they did
was to insert a clause Of religious tolerance to all
sects in the organic law" &C.. &c.
This sort Of plain sense utterly demolishes the
dimsy ~souhistry by which Brough and his party
are trying to reconcile the people to their revo
l~utionary dognias. r ~
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

~ The Journal nan boasts that he has
made a great deal of money out Of the war. Did
be ever contribute one cent voluntarily for the
benefit Of soldiers disabled by wounds or diseaseS
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

~ Diptheria is raging f~earfully at S~tratton,
Vermont. Some neighborhoods are go afflicted
that it is with difficulty that help can be procured
to take care Of the sick. n, fls
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21

a. The Republicans, generally. are against
furnishing men for the war. When conscripted
they pay the $500. s.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21
The Same Old Spirit.

Perhaps no public men were more violently
abused by their partisan opponents than JErFER.
SON and jackson in their day, for the simple rea-
son that they were the leaders and representa-
tives of the Democratic party. The abuse of
JEFFERSON was without parallel in the history of
party warfare. Every possible evil was predicted
would result from his election to the Presidency.
Similar were the prophecies in regard to JACKSON.
They we're elected, however, triumphantly by the
people, and their administrations of the govern
ment form the most brilliant epochs in the his
tory of the nation. History, 1t is said, repeats
itself. The same vituperation and abuse which
characterized the opposition to the Demo
cratic party in the days of JACKSON and JEFFER-
SON are reproduced at the present day, and may
we not hope it may be attended with similar
results. All reforms of public abuses meet with
violent opposition. This is illustrated in the
history of both Church and State. The corrup-
tions of the present day have no approximating
parallel in the administration of the Government
since we have been a nation. These contamina-
ting influences have reached far and deep. 1t
must be expected then that the work of reform
will excite the luminosity from interested parti-
sans that it ever has. 1t has done so. Hence
the abuse of leading Democrats from the men
who are fattening upon the drippings from the
public treasury. from thieving contractors and
from their compensated apologies. The most
violent abuse of Democrats comes from those who
have made money out of the very troubles of the
country and therefore desire their indefinite con
tinuance. They care not how long the terrible
civil war continues, for like ~vultures they can
fatten upon the miseries which it occasions
Both JEFFERSON and JACKSON fought against the
efforts to establish a central despotism-an over
s~hadowing centralized Federal power-which the
opposition to the Democracy are now attempting
to fasten upon the country. and it is influenced
by the same spirit which characterized the oppo-
nents of the Democracy when those men we're its
representatives and leaders
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-21
Special Dispatch to the Chicago Times

Great Democratic Meeting at Bucy-
rus, OhiO-rhe Largest Political
Gathering Ever Held I'm Northern
Ohio-5O,0O0 to "a, 1000 People Pres
ent-One Procession 5 Miles Long
Immense En'husIasm->peeches by
messrs. Voorhees,, BartIey, Medary,
McMasters, bliss, Dressed and Lang.
BrcyRrs q Sent IL
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23
From Washington.
WASHINGTON. April 90. Is

Evening papers here make the following
announcement We are glad to be able to
state, upon the best authority, that the Mon
itors are uniniured that the demonstration
against the rebel batteries III Charleston har-
Dor is not satisfactory to the Government
that upon investigation, the latter is satisfied
that, had the programme agreed upon been
carried out, the distractions in the harbor
would have been removed, the rebel batteries
reduced, and the city captured.
Gen. Buell. is here on business connected
with taking dispositions in his case.
Passengers by the last steamer from Port
Royal say they saw Col. Montgomery, Of the
negro regiment, reported killed by the rebels,
alive and well.
1t is stated at the Treasury Department
that the army of the Potomac will be wholly
paid this week. There will not then be over
one months pay due any considerable portion
of our entire army.
The amount Of demand notes still out, in
Guiding those last issued, is four million five
hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars
Of this amount about q quarter Of a million is
on deposit.
Gov. Solomon is visiting the Wisconsin
regiments i'll Hooker's camp.
The whole amount 0 fpostal currency print
ed is nineteen million three hundred and six
teen thousand dollars, % per cent. Of which
about fifteen million, is in circulation, the rest
III hands of repositories. The printing is stop
ped. 1t is believed that the new fractional
currency will be ready before the amount on
hand is exhausted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23
Fam North Caroiinn and Santh-East
virginia.

NEW YORK AprlI 10
The Herald's letter from Morehead CITY an
nounce that Gen. Foster succeeded IN pass
ing the rebel blockade in the steamer Escort;
with the loss of the pilot killed and several
wounded, The Escort was rlddled by at least
Gen. Foster arrived,,a Newborn on the
n;obt Of the 18th, and was joyfully received.
Gen. Naglee is in Newbern.
Suffolk letters reports that our forces hold
the Nansemond river for sixteen miles, and
have defeated every attempt Of the rebels to
get in our rear. The rebels expect to bring
against us, intending reinforcements from
Gen. Hill, some g {, 1000 men.
The delay of the enemy in making1he at
tack is as good as reinforcements to us of1o,-
900 men.
Longstreet has expressed the opinion that
Suffolk is too well fortified for him, with his
present force, to risk a direct assault.
A Norfolk letter expresses the opinion that
there will be no great battle at Suffolk. We
outnumber the enemy there, and have the
advantage of strong entertainments. Unless
Gen. Peck takes the initiative and advances
on the enemy, I am confident that there VIII
be no battle.
A special dispatch to the Herald says;
sOAicial information is received of the cap
ture ON Friday of the Chief Of Staff Of the reb-
81 General French, on the Nansemond river, by
Lieut.. Commanding Gushing, of the Com.
Barney
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23
From CharIeaGon.

NEW lORk, Apf1t IL
A Hilton Head letter contains the following
items
A detachment of troops was left ON Folly
Island to cooperate with the fleet in Stone
Inlet, and prevent the construction of new
rebel batteries, and a similar force was left in
Edisto Inlet for that purpose.
Captain Worden is obliged to return North,
on account Of i'll health, and Commander Fair.
fax now commands the Montauk.
The turrets and hulls of the Monitors are
unscathed. In no instance is the armor per
forated. The sum total Of the injuries is the
simple riddling of the smoke-stacks. The
fleet, with this exception, is ready for active
service.
Deserters from Savannah state that Fort
Sumter was preached in several places, and
many rebel gunners put horS du combat, At
one time, General Ripley photographed that
there was a possibility of the fleet forcing the
Instructions. This created a panic i'll Charles
ton, and many citizens and soldiers ran away
from the city, beyond the range of the Yam
kee shells. During the engagement, the reb~
el forces We're under arms, anxiously watch
ing points from which they expected Union
troops to emerge. There are said to have
been 90, 900 rebel troops on James Islandalone
and ~twenty-three earth Notifications on James.
Johns and Morris Islands.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23

In this city, on the sth day OF April inst. liter a brief
illness, MARY JANE, wife of Orson s. Head, aged 86
years.
In this City, April 10, 1868, KITTIE ENWICK
SMITH. daughter OLA. B. SMITH, Gged s years, months
and 3 days.
s'The sun the moon, the stars of night,
And birds and brooks and blossoms bright,
With richest charms are ever full,
With us, they are the beautiful.
Bat little children who are good,
Whose tender feet have never stood
In pathways by the sinfu. trod,
They are the beautiful acih God"
On the 18th inst, in the towr Of somers near this city,
Co. DANIEL SYKES, of Influenza, aged r years, 4
months and 7 days.
C3I. Sykes, like mary Of ur best western farmers,
originated in Vermont, in the town Of Paw,et. When
Of age, he sought his fortune in the northern part ofthe
otste ofNew York, near Sandy Creek, and within the
borders of what is now called Pulaski. Here he became
an extensive farmer, ard by honesty and enterprise &C.
cumulated a good reward of his labors. More than ten
years ago he came to this place, and purchased a beau
tiful farm and pleasant situation a mile west Of Keno
sha, in the town Of Somers. Here he spent the remain
der Of his days in pleasant retirement with the partner
Of his prosperity. He has lett her in the enjoyment Of
a good provision for her advanced years, and a large
circle OF children and grandchildren to revere his menu
DRY.
Friends, wealth, and years each seeker likes: j
All thsse, and more had ColoGel SYKES. ICoM.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23

peril, it needs principle, and especially loyalty
and patriotism. To breed riots, discourage
enlistments, excite opposition to drafts; to
denounce and traduce the Government, while
the toiling business men and yeomanry of the
country, are making sacrifices in earnest for
the prosecution of the war, wont help the city,
or increase its prosperity. 1t may perhaps
give temporary impulse to the sale of lager
beer, and increase the profits Of small dealers
in that way, but will add no substantial adj
vantage to general trade.
The people of the country districts have
very generally, furnished their full quota of
men for the war by volunteers they have
brothers and sons who have voluntarily gone
forth to fight the battles of their country;
they are therefore not in a mood to bear the
sneers and insults of the Milwaukee NegS and
See Bote-papers which are t~heexponents of
the traitorous sentiments of the great mass
of the voting population Of the city. Milwau-
kee will comprehend ere long whether she
can afford to array herself against the free
labor and loyal sentiment of the State. She
may by so doing, keep fast hold ofthe sym
pathies of the anti-draft sovereignty of Ozau-
kee; perhaps that can save her-perhaps not.
There is such a thing left yet as principle !;
the loyal and Government sustaining men Of
the State, cannot without compromising prin-
ciple, aid in building up a copperhead metrop-
oils, arraying itself against the Government
and sowing the seeds of treason. 1t is not
because the great mass of the people of Mil
waukee vote the democratic ticket, that gives
cause of complaint men may be democrats,
yet good and true Union men. But it is be-
cause that city is rampant with d~isloyalty;
brim full of haters of the war, the Govern
ment and almost every thing else pertaining
to our nationality, except slavery.
We have taken no pains to gather public
sentiment on the topic of this article; every
one who has ears that can hear, and ever
travels abroad, has heard all that we here
have stated, and more. As already remark
ed, Milwaukee will find its intensified copper
headism, Improbable IN a uslne point Of
view. 1t has already had some instalments,
and will verylikelyhave more of the same sort.
1t has within a short time past, had its rail-
way communications, whether completed, un-
completed or projected, directed and placed
to the advantage of other rival cities in and
out of the State. While the scramble for the
control of the ~thoroughfares of trade and COM
mercc, were in progress at Madison last Win
ter, the people of the country looked on with
indifference, not seeming to care whether
business channels were diverted from Milwau-
kee or not. These workings. as well as 9TH
ers of like import, go to show that a city in
these latter times that makes apprehension
its boast, will find it is not paying business,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23
Federal Steamers RUN past yicksburg

AlEMHllc5 LADIll ~. lCOO.
Thomas ii. Yeatmau, Special Agent of the
Treasury Department for Memphis, has re-
ceived the appointment of agent for the col
lection Of abandoned property in the district.
The Crescent City has arrived, bringing up
the pilot John Taylor Of the transport Henry
Clay. lie reports that OH Thursday evening
seven gunboats, one RAM, the one taken from
the Confederates some time since, and three
transports left the vicinity of Nicksburg to
run the blockade. All went well till fully
two-thirds of the away down, when the hills
back of the Vicksburg batteries were lit up
with a large number Of fires, Tightening the
country for miles. The Forest Queen, one of
the transports, at once returned. The Henry
Clay was then compelled to stop. AS soon as
she was still, several shots struck her some
below the water line, others passing clear
through her. The captain called to the pilot
to come down, saying she was sinking,
Before he got to the deck, he saw all hands
on board a flat boat, which was the lasthe saw
Of them, and believes they were all lost. The
pilot iioated on a plank nine miles and was
picked up nearly opposite Warrenton by some
Federal soldiers. The Forest Queen was con-
sidcrably damaged, having her steem drum
shot away. She was taken i'll tow by a gun
boat.
The flagship Benton received a shot in her
port hole, killing one man, and %wonnding 9th
ers, All OF them We're got through, except the
Henry Clay. When the Crescent City left the
mouth of the Cutoff, heavy firing was heard
in the vicinity OF Warrenton, supposed to be
the igunboats Smelling the batteries at that
point.
The gunboats below the Ficksburg batter
les now are eleven, including three under Adj
miraI Farragut.
The Government is now occupying and I'M
ming trains over the Memphis & Ohio railroad.
MEMPHIS, April 0, via CAIRO, April 18.-A
part OF the boats comprising the Yazoo fleet
nave arrived and the damages are being as
sessed. Thus far they are The John Bell,
81, 483 Key West, 81, 225; Mariner, 50, 500;
Ieculnseh, $500. Government has sold 800
bales Of cotton at an average Of 504 cents
The tendency is downward. The steamer
Brazil has been seized and the captain put I'M
der arrest, charged with specializing in cot
ton, Paymaster Mitchell is at Helena, paying
the troops for four months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23
Fr thE IeIegTapl.
rs COpperheadism al Paying Esmsincsse

For the Telegraph.
rs COpperhcadism IA Paying Hmsimesse
MEssRs EDITORS The problem IS likely to
be settled in Wisconsin, whether a business
town Or city, can throw itself into the embrace
Of apprehension array itself on the side of
the enemies of the Government, and at the
same time continue to grow i'll prosperity and
agricultural classes, are the life and hope Of
the cities. The intelligent tillers of the soil,
who draw the material wealth of the State
from the products Of field labor, are more than
ever disposed now, to discriminate between
loyalty and disloyalty in the bestowment Of
business patronage. This is proper, and no
one has a right to complain.
The city of Milwaukee seems with singular
unanimity to have become confirmed in its
hostility to the Government, and to the lead
ing measures which have been adopted for
the prosecution of the war. At the late cleo
ton in that city, scarcely a show of resistance
was offered to the rule of the copperheads
the enemies ofthe administration and the war
have things their own way. The Union ele-
ment occasionally makes a little noise, and
talks valiantly, but when it comes to voting
it turns out to be a surprisingly feeble minor
ity. Probably no city north of mason and
Dixon's line, "has for a few years past, cast
such heavy ~pro-slavery majorities in proper
ton to population as Milwaukee. Its business
men seem to be laboring under the strong
hallucination that they can continue to draw
support, patronage and life from the country,
while if not openly, they indirectly, aid and
abet treason, and encourage d~isloyaIty. Mil
waukee occupies a position which ought to
command a large share of the business Of the
State the people of the rich interior districts
might under other circumstances point with
pride to Milwaukee as the business metropolis
of Wisconsin such would be the natural ten
dency. But are such results and expectations
being realized !? How many Substantial farm
ers and business men in the interior of the
State, now express themselves satisfied with
milwaukee,? 1t requires something more than
markets, stored with merchandise and the
commodities of trade, to build up the reputa-
ton of a city. In these times of our country's