Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-22

HrMoRs OF rBK DRAFr Our neighbor Of the
Journal s very faeetious in reeariing the noted
persons 10 New Eng ND uho have been drafted.
The following item explaius toe results Of the
joke:
OSLT OSr MsS MusrKRED lS.-Out OF sever
al hundred men drafted w ProyiseDee, +.
only one nan has thus Ear been mustered IN J
All the rest paid tive 500 and god of
IL i not to be wondered AZ. that IN cities where
this can be DONE the draft - quietly submit
tefto. bar IN ccmmDui,ies where 70 can not be
done, excitement Is natural and unavoidable
"A Federal soldier violated the person Of a
grand daughter OF Charles Carroll. OF CarrOllton.
The soldier was ordered to be hung Il Chicago
Times A--t- A-a
An English private soldier is now paid about
sll0a year. FreBch enc about $50 year A
Colonel IN France receives about 81 600, and IN
England about $4,000.
The name OF the military commanGant at
Philadeiphis. il Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh
Dams PbOebus
The thirty-days militia who weut from New
York Tor the defense O 4 Pennss lvsaia are to be
credited and accounted for in tue coming draft
on the basis Of three years servlce--that Is, 80
men counting
The modern Interpretation Of the term
"lucky cuss.' is "a man who has been enrolled
in two districts and drafted in both. OF course,
il he fails 10 answer IN either, he Is liable 10 be
apprehended and shot a deserter. Next to the
envied PAT ent of twins, such individual Is the
prince vi good fortune
In two weeks tim, without military organi-
zation and without martial law. the citizens OF
Pittsburg. with pick and shovel. constructed a
fh.f slfs
in extent. The guns for the several forts, con
sisting of and 10 inch columbiads. have all
been placed ia position.
-Bloekhead is appropriate cognomen for
the Republicans The old blockhead Kings OF
Europe thought the only argument to be used
with their subjects who questioned the policy OF
any of their measures was the cannon: 80 the
Republicans. in a Government of the people, cry
amen when any American citizen IS consigned to
the Bastile or exiled from his country for ques
tioning the wisdom or denouncing the despotc
acts Of the powers that be.
%. p VI has gone to Cincinnati to have his
'-picter'' taken 1t i to be framed. and hung
THAT is the "picter'') up in the Council Chamber
ofthat CITY. and that human face divine will be
pointed out to posteritv as the mobile" Governor
who drove out, as Sampson did the Philistines
the Morgan raiders and with sim lar weapon.
-Gentemen IN high official positions assert
that the wife of the Rebel General Wise has re
Gently paid a visit To Washington. aud that while
there she succeeded in securing the exemption oil
certain property belonging to her relatives from
conhscation.
This is what Wen ell Phillips calls Post
master Blair The hucksterng politician OF the
Cabinet" 1.-The man who has uttered the most
stupendOus lie OF the century" .'the bolIest liar
on the continent; ., mpngrel pplitic,an:" "a
truck AMI apOstate: aud he saws tie whole Csbi
net Is Ignorant" ''braiaies-," hybrid" Mr.
Blair is opposed to negro equality and amaIga
nation
Prentice thinks Humphrey Marshall would
havetu march slow he looks as if il would he
heavy task TO fetch up his rear
The editor of the Journal is very indignant
because the rioters OF New York robbed some
huckster Wagons on their way to m ,rket The
act was very wicked. but will it equal in turpi
tube the dodge o. promising brides to Govern
ment officials to secure fat Government war con
tracts aud when obt ,inei to swindle the officer
out of his compensation? See Washburns Re-
port on Government Contracts.