Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-02

last, having IN tner possession three stolen
horses. These men were pursued from Ripley
county, where the theft was committed. The
names of the thieves were Goodpasture 1.-TWO
brothers) aud Warren. The thieves were seut
to Versailles as fugitves from justice.
The cAIL FOR %, 600 MEx.-our readers
were doubtless astOhished when they read the
procla nation Of o. p. Morton, calling upon the
people of Indiana for 20 .0OC additional men for
the space Of 100 days-or till about the middle Of
August. liz has been understood Gov. Morton
and the War Department have both proclaimed
that Indiana has filed her quota under all the
calls for troops, while il is notorious that all the
Eastern States are behind, and draft ordered
to make good their deficits 1t appears that
caucus of Governors at Washington had deter
mined TO make a call for $1,000 men from the
agricultural States of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin, of which we are required TO furnish
this 20. 900 called for by Gov. Morton.
The distress which will inevitably ensue from
taking this vast number of laborers from the al
ready depleted West must be apparent to all. 1t
will take the men from their farms at the very
time when their labor is necessary to plant and
work the corn crop. and secure the wheat, hay
and oats harvests
IL 65,OOO additional men are needed for one
hundred days, why is not the call made on those
States which have failed 20 fill their Quotasf
Why are the Eastern manufacturing States ex-
emptsd from this new and unexpected bufden,
aud the agricultural States alone compelled to
bear il? Is il more important that the manu-
facture of wooden nutmegs and sboddy clothes
should be continued than that food should be
produced to keep the people and the army from
staryaton9-lN. A. Ledger.
The wheat cropin this county promises very
poorly; that in the bottoms will produce no more
than one-third of average crop, while the up
lands promise still less. The peach crop viii
be almost total failure, while apples and pears
will be an average crop.
Our farmers are complaining of the unusual
backwardness Of the spring. The season in this
Latitude promises IA be at least four weeks later
than usual. and has prevented entirely the prepa-
ton of land crops--the weather during April
being Of the character we should have had in
March, Cannelton Reporter.
TIM UNION STATE Organ TURNING DIsoR-
GASrzlR-We have referred TO tho sermon with
which the indianapolis Journal has SO kindly
favored the peOole Of this Congressional District
after the nomination-denOuncing their system
| of popular nominations and otherwise instrucung
them IN their political duties That paper had
hoped. prayed, and. as far ms il dare labored for
different result. the nomination of Gen. Mere
dith. IL had prostituted its columns TO perfect
aud consciously dishonest pufery of him, for
months aud months Had Meredith been NOM
mated. the journal would have had no " ord of
censure for any mode 10y which that result might
have been reached: the popular vote system
would then have been all right and every way
commendable and admirable.
Nevertheless. when IL was all over the Jour
nal did assume show OF fairness IL promptly
acknowledged Julian's nomination and has since
repeate the admission over and over again. Ii
proiessed TO deprecate profoundly any further
continuance OF contention over the matter, aud
begged correspondents TO withdraw the contro-
versy from ts columns
! Now, after all this. what honest man would
have supposed that the Journal editor would him
self, after the lapse of nearly month, have re-
vved this matter, and not only so, but that he
would hy in the face OF all his previous admis-
sions and the most unquestionable factsg Yet
this he did in his issue OF Tuesday last where he
saws that Tin the 5th district the contest does not
appear 10 be over yet" quotes a tissue Of bare
faced lies from a number of the Telegram two
weeks old to prove il. aud closes by saying that
1.-THE quarrel is likely to be revived" and by re-
commencing the dropping Of both the late can
ddates and the taking up of new man.
And all this when every man knows that no
fact ever better established than the fair
nomination Of Mr.. Julian BY the peoplei The
nomination OF Gov Morton and the rest Of the
State ticket. is not whit more valid than that
of MIR. Julian.
the editor OF "a State organ meddlins in the local
nominations, and assuming TO set them aside
when fairly setilei-one who, at time like this,
when il is well understood that we shall have no
strength TO waste in dissensions among ourselves,
does not scruple to leopard the success Of the
State ticket TO crafty mean prejudice against
a prominent man of his own party. whose only
crime is that he has been twenty years in advance
Of this editor politically, and is sustained by the
people in spite of the venomous, long continued
opposition Of all his pigmy triheI And know
ing. as he does, that such a course can
only benefit the enemyG Certainly we think the
man. when he penned his article. must have
been-as credby informed he frequently
is-too drunk to know what he was about. or
else he possesses a recklessness of consequences
which a copperhead might envy.
More to the Journals kind supervision os
the affairs of the Fifth District Meantime
would suggest the necessity of new Union Or
gan at the capital of the State. or new editor
OF the old one; otherwise the good people Of the
| Fifth District at least, owe it to themselves to,
and VT believe will, drop the unprincipled, viii
famous thing. as Mt present cOnducie1.-[ Center
/ vile True Democrat
- The Lafayette Argus says the one hundred
days war meeting in that city was a happy affair,
or in other words, good thing. Judge Test
urged the importance of the occasion and the
necessities of the case. but he did volunteer.
Col VIM. c. Wilson advised every one to volun-
teer, regardless of consequences. but he did not
volunteer Judge Vinton also hiauted, but he
did not volunteer, - The Argus says:
A soldier belonging TO an Indiana regiment
modestly announced that he detailed upon
the recruiting service; that he judged from the
manifestations, that every body present was in
tensely loyal. and that he prepared to give
them chance TO prove that such was the fact by
giving them a chance TO enlist for three times
three hundred aud sixty-fve DAYS service. in
stead ot the contemplate little lone hundred
days" offered by General" Morton. We have
not, so far, heard that he obtained ray" re-
cruit.
The Vincennes Sun saws the proposition Of
the ladies of this city take the place of men in
business at home, and let them go to war lis put
ting the patriotic masculines Of indianapolis in
tight place." and asks how will they get out of
it7
Or A HIeH-Says the v;acennes Sun of Fri
day last:
The RIvER-THE 0vERFLOw.-The river Is
now on a stand, having risen about Is feet ia the
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