Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-04

The Lafayette Courier says in reference to


The Lafayette Courier says in reference to
encouraging volunteering:
Col Miller has called special meeting of the
Board OF County Commissioners. 10 convene on
Wednesday Of this week. to consider PROPOSE
too submitted by the Central Committee, sub
stsntially as follows: To pay an extra bounty of
$50 TO each recruit necessary to fll the quota OF
the county. and also to appropriate $40 per month
to the f-mily OF each volunteer.
The SYNOD Of Indiana. o 5 was in session
at Bloomington last week The deliberations Of
the SYNOD. which was composed Of some of the
sblest ivnes of the West. were devoted eIclu-
sively to religion and not to politics
jan DELIvERY.-The Clark County Demo-
crst says: Our Jail was opened on Thursday
last. how and by whom no one knows. and three
prisoners. CALDWELL. GALLOWAY and SrERREr.
teok their leave. T~so others. WIILEr and VIA
wa. declined going
-THE CONFESSION OF REUBEN SIour-The
Delphi Times thus comments upon the confess
sion of REUBEN Srorr. who was resident If
C,rroll
In obedience to an order from Gen Burnside
Reuben SHUT WAS shot on the 23d inst. tor the
killing of Sol. Huffman. The Journal publishes
a long article in this weeks ISSUE purpcrt;ng to
he a Confession made by Stout, while awaiting
his execution. We don't believe Stout ever made
any such confession Ii he did. and was induced
TO desert by members "a the Knights of the
Golden Circle. he omitted one very important
poin, IN ms confession, which TO sensible man,
condemns the whole He should by all means
have exposed TO the country the leaders OF the
order and the locality in which the unreasonable"
!
Whole sub-tauce of the confession" is base
and wicked lie-with the exception of that por-
ton which relates To the killing of Huffman. and
that was gathered from the testimony taken be
fore the court IN which the case was tried-writ-
ten by some unprnclpled and unmitigated abo-
ton scouudre for political purposes. The same
points with regard To the q C's. have been
repeatedly published in the Lafay cite Journal
and Courier and the DELPHI Journal. long before
Stout Was condemned TO be shot and there is SO
much similarity in the language and sentiment
expressed in the confession and that formerly
published in these journals that we are OF opinion
4 that Stouts confession was written either ia La
/ fayette indianapolis
Stout. we are informed, was an uneducate man
ami not possessed of more than an Ordinary degree
OF intelligence. Now any one reading the con
/ iesslOn IN the Journal will once see that il is
shaped and worded m"re like political paper
/ W III Aht O'hic-NtO. VI II man, kuOWlnE
/ that hi- days were numbered.
! There Is no'hng, now days. too low and con
temptible tor Abolition politicians to be guilty Of
doing They will tell unmitigated lie. and
face the devil himself and swear TO it. They
will commit frauds at the ballot box, and swear
It l. a military necessity which c"mpels them To
do 50. They will denounce their neghbors as
/ traitors aud enemies To our soldiers. and come
ami beg those traitors for sanitary stores, (and
they always let them.) and turu right around TO
the soldiers and tell them that they are indebted
/ to the Unon men" Tor luxurie- sent them when
ut least one half OF those Injuries are given by
"copperheads Some of their merchants won't
support ''copperhe I'd" Dem ,cratc paper, but
will urge TRAITORS. "copperneads" and butter
nuts" To buy of their goods. and after receiving
their money. turn round without the least hesta
tion. say they are I'D copperheads !" and that
''ali such men ought tn be hung" This is abo-
tiOn consistenc, and honesty.