Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-24

EXEMPTION MoSRY PArD,-One thousand
conscripts in Lancaster county, Penn, have paid
$500 each for exemption.
"A greenhoru standing by a sewing machine
at which a 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 jingol its pretty-especially the part covered
with caliker."
When Cecina Severus, to fatter 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.
-OUR SEAMES DENocRArIc-On the 2lst ult.
there were fifty vessels belonging to Eastern
Maine lying in Portland. having on an average a
crew of four each. With a single exception, the
men were all Democrats.
-CoSscRIPrs.-The Syracuse Constitutional
ist argues that
"A man coerced against his viii,
To go to war, win seldom kin"
The Pittsburg Eagle says a firm in Lee has
been caught manufacturing bank note paper for
the rebels The Provost Marshal has gobbled
up the lot. 1t had &C. S. A." woven in on each
bill ia water lines. 1t was made oy hand.
-MERIrI IN THE REPUBLICAN PARrY-Wendell
II uitliDS lDt plUDttF Rtpuuuca0 IN one OF MS
speeches made in 1856, thus extoiled the Repub-
lican party. He said: a-
There is merit in the Republican party. Its
the first sectional party ever organized in this
country. Ii is the North arrayed against the
South. The first crack in the iceberg is visible.
You will yet hear it 90 with a crash through the
~centerl"
The crash has indeed come, and the Republi-
can party was the cause of it. Let MIR. Phillips
md HE poDnhltoap frtap1s haya Ill sbo o.a1,t
they can manufacture of it.
Governor Pierpont, of Virginia. has estab-
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 to become unwilling soldiers. The
spectacle was visible here the other day.-[N. Y.
Argus.
"A SPECIMEN CoNTaAcToR-Las year a man
named Latshaw commenced serving the Gov
eminent" as Quartermaster ut 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 style of the most lavish expenditure.
Latshaw has been arrested and an investigation
ordered, but at the best the Government will lose
over Sl75. 000.
The DRAFr-Irs POLICY Il requires about
$1,000 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 to soldiers. Multiply 5000 by 8,
and we have 240 .000-or, in other words, the
means to paw 240. 600 common soldiers, as long
as the army of enrolling and drafting officers,
with their assistants, are continued in office. In
. 1lee.- A. ~. = .~--.- - IL 1..E
the Provost Marshals have "guards," and more
than so 900 Invalid Soldiers are distributed
over the country to aid IN enforcing the draft.
Most Of these are able bodied soldiers. fit for
duty in the field. Ii is evident that the cost of
the draft, with the Provost Guards. is equal to
the nay of an army of 500 900 men. through the
present year, at least. Indeed. the soldiers dis
tributed through the free States excel in number.
we believe. the whole force that the Government
will raise by the draft. The policy of the draft
does not appear to be a remarkably wise one,
when we consider its cost. and the number of sol,
diers withdrawn from the army to enforce it.
Hartford (Ct.) Times.
There are 400 prisoners confined in the mil
itary prison at Louisville.
The number of persons drafted in Philadel-
phia was IL .97S out of a total population of 1885,
S4l; or about one to every twenty six persons,
tCiA0tb ntC dnd dlu ultu tAtmpb
from age or other causes.
Wooden barracks are to be constructed i'm
mediately in all of the notifications and at every
post in the Department of Washington. for the
accommodation OF the troops. These buildings
are cheaper than tents, more pleasant and
healthy. and will last for a number OF years.
The rebels have between 500 and 600 Union
commissioned officers in their hands, whilst our
Government has over a regiment Of the same
class of prisoners of war now on johnson Island,
in Sandusky harbor. Lake Erie.
Mine reporters were drafted in Philadelphia,
and eleven printers had the same luck in Roches-
The administration at Washington are more
Just and generous towards General Grant than
towards General Mcclellan. They have prompt
ly published General Grants report of his opera
tons in the capture Of Vicksburg. They with
hold General McClellan's report of his battles
and campaigns in Virginia and Maryland.
Farther reliable information from Pennsyl-
vania demonstrates that a large part of the lead
ing Republicans will not support Curtin for Gov
ernor at the next election.
Military men in Washington are astohished
to find from General Grants report that less than
a thousand men were killed in his five battles.
Many persons have. claimed that il was the P.esi-
dent, and not General Grant. who originated the
idea of taking Vicksburg.
-FRoM THE FRONT The latest news from the
front represents all quiet there. the terrible heat
Of the weather alone being quite sufficient cause
nor non action. Meantime. however, everything is
kept in fighting trim. Officers find il as difficult
to get furloughs as if they might be called into
action the next hour, and everything indicates
that the discipline of the army is admirably main
tanned When an army is in this excellent train
ing shall have its ranks filled up with the new
men now rapidly reaching it, we may be assured
that no army JEFF. Davis can raise will be able
to oppose its progress towards the very center of
the rebellion .-(Washington Star. August IL
The worst raids for the nation is niger
aids.
-ARTrFIoIAL IcE-A great degree Of cold is
produced by a mixture of ~salt2eter and Glauber
saults, and there are now manufactured in Eng
land and exported to India, &C., in large quaint
Ties. chemical mixtures known as freezing powder.
By means of which five pounds of rough ice can
be produced in fifteen minutes. Mt a cost of about