Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-15
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

EXEMPTION MoNEY PAIp-One thousand
conscripts in Lancaster county, Penn. have paid
5000 each for exemption.
"A greenhorn standing by a sewing machine
at which u young lady was at work. and looking
attentively at the machine and at the fair opera
tor, he at length gave vent TO his admiration with
by ingol its pretty-especially the part covered
with caliker."
When Cecina Severus. to flatter the Emper-
or. proposed in the Roman Senate the erection
Of an altar To Vengeance. To commemorate the
death of PisO, Tiberius wisely replied that public
monuments should commemorate foreign con
quests, not domestic calamities.
ORR SEAMEN DEMOCRATIC On the Dist nit
there were fifty vessels belonging To Eastern
Maine lying in Portland. having on m average a
crew of four each. With Il single exception, the
men were all Democrats.
-CoSscRiPrs-The Syracuse Constitutional.
ist argues that-
"a man coerced sgains, his will,
To 60 10 war. will seldom kill"
The Pit sburg Eagle saws . firm in Lee has
been caught manufacturing bank note paper for
the rebels The Provost Marshal has gobbled
up the lot. l. had &C 5. A." woven in on each
bill in water lines. II was made by hand
-MERIT IN THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY Wendell
Phillips the pioneer Republican in one of his
speeches made in 1856. thus extolled the Repub
lican party. tie said:
There ia merit in the Republican party. tits
the first sectional party ever organized in this
country II Is the North arraved against the
South. The first crack in the iceberg is visible
You will vet hear it 80 with a crash through the
center"
The crash has indeed come. and the Repuhli
can YnFfy was the cau=a of il Ipr Mr. ph5nips
and his Republican friends have all the credit
they can manufacture of it.
Governor Pierpont, of Virginia. has estsb.
lished himself at Alexandria. and for the present
the affairs of the State will be administered in
that city
"A sad sight to see in free America-men
marched through this city manacled to a claim
their destiny 10 become unwilling soldiers The
spectacle was visible here the other day IN. Y.
Argus.
A SPECIMEN CoSrRAcTos-Last wear a man
named Latshaw commenced serving the Gov
eminent as Quartermaster at Louisville, buying
mules and horses. and so on. He was then in
comfortable circumstances. Now ne keeps nine
splendid steeds. with magnificent outfits, and
lives in a stsle of the most lavish expenditure
Lat.hsw has been arrested and an investigation
ordered. but at the best the Government will lose
over $751;
-"DIs Az MAssA LrSKuS's PRocLlxArroS."-
Two negroes Who had deserted from the military
service. in Massachusetts,, were arrested a few
days since. As the Gu Ird were tsking them down
&c the wharf in Boston. heavily handcuffed. on
the way to Fort Warren. one of them held M bis
manacled hlnds and exclaimed: DIS am Massa
Linkun's proclamation" The effect can be bet
ter imagined than described. We have the facts
from one who saw and heard.- Argus.
TIE DRASr-Irs PoLIoY II, requires about
80 200 men TO make the present draft all over the
country-enrolling officers. assistants. boards of
examination, &c. and so on. These cost the
Government. in salaries about eight times the
amount paid 70 soldiers. Multiply 80 600 by 3.
and we have 24g. 000-or. in other NO ds. the
means TO paw 2i0. 900 common soldiers, as long
as the army OF enrolling and drafting officers.
with their assistants, are continued in Office In
addition to this expense IN carrying on the draft,
The Provost Msrsbsls have guards" and more