Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-11
ALI vORHs or PARAGRAPHS.

There are eight newspapers in Raleigh
". C.
The Turkish ambassador to France is a
Roman Catholic.
Housekeeping in Paris costs twenty FIVE per
cent. more than in London.
The first thing a man takes to in his life is
his milk-the last is his bier.
"A billiard saloon has already been opened
by a speculative individual 10 Charleston, South
Carolina.
An agent of Brigham Young is buying cot
ton seed in San Francisco to put in the Sandwich
Islands.
The Memphis Argus says that the mate o.
the Sultana thinks that the explosion was caused
by a torpedo got up in the shape of q lump OF
coal, by rebel incendisries, and thrown into the
furnace.
MIR. Ephraim Potter, of Vantage, n. j..
has a breed of turkeys OF extraordinary size,
some of which, at one year Of age, weigh thirty
pounds. The eggs weigh over FIVE ounces each
The rebel General J Z. B. Stuart is the
same cavalry officer who had command of all the
cavalry forces in Washington at the time Of Dir,
Lincoln's FIRST Inauguration.
BE silent always when you doubt your sense.
And speak, though sure, with seeming difidence;
Some positive, persiste { tops we know,
Who, if once wrong, VIII needs be always so:
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critic on the last.-POpe.
One hundred millions of dollars would prob.
ably fall short of the expenditures of the rebels
in their defensive gunboats, iron clads, rams,
floating batteries and transports, and where are
they now3 Captured, burned, blown up OF
sunk.
Howell Cobb, who was captured by Wilson
at Macon, is the identical gentleman who made
the very eloquent speech at Augusta. a few
weeks since, in which he exclaimed: "Put me
in the grave, but never put on me the garments
of a sub missionist 4"
MIR. Hoxton, a fine old English gentleman
of seventy-hve years. ate fourteen hot cross buns
after breakfast. on Good Friday. and died shortly
aiterward. An autopsy revealed the fact that
there wasn't room in his body for his stomach
with such an enormous load in it.
From the report of the Franco Polish Com
mittee, il appears that 1000 Poles are literally
dying of hunger in Paris; several have been
found in the Seine during the past week. three
have been reported by the police as having died
OF hunger, and one general officer lived for ff
teen DAYS on cups of tea. and has since died of
starvation.
The Sandusky Register says: alt is per-
haps not generally known that large quantities
of cedar wood are annually cut on the islands
adjacent to this city, and sent to Europe for the
manufacture of pencils. At the islands it is sold
at thirty dollars per cord. but when we purchase
it back il costs at least as many hundreds.
"A northern man sAuntering about Richmond
writes:
The women are nearly all dressed in mourn
ing Sad have been the ravages of death in
Virginia. Yesterday | visited the cemetery, and
the vast space now oceupied-for il has been en-
larged to nearly twice its size-contains Gu, 000
new graves. Hardly any tombstones have been
erected during the last four gears. Even the
grave of ex President Tyler is unmarked by
anything but the modest inscription. There are
some four private tombs. Here are the Ritchies.
the Faulkners, the Letchers. the Wises. and a
hnndred Others, besides Monroe, Madison, and
Others of national celebrity, surrounded by lots
OF new earth. 1t is said that General A. p. Hill
was privately Inferred here y~estedsy. Ii is q
beautiful spot, and perhaps the most populous
city Of the dead in the south. All. what sighs
and tears have been lsvished upon it, Its inhab
itants rest. After life's ftful fever is over they
sleep well Domestic treason, foreign malice,
nothing can touch them further.
TIE Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. the
leading republican paper of western New York,
takes the following view of the requirements of
the situation:
We begin to appreciate the utter impossibility
of visiting the full measure of our first purpose
CT revenge upon the southern people. We see
that il is undesirable and ifhuman, as well as
impossible But" say some, IAN example
must be made. IL will not do to permit so gross
a crime 10 go unDunished. We must hang the
To 81 at endI Is not the south al
ready sufficient .sya-tated md impoverished!
HISS not their bra vest aud best blood been spilled
in vain. and has not an ignominious defeat burnt
into their souls Ike bot ironl l. not their darl-
ing institution OF slavery gone forever? Would
it not be a greater punishment to them to be
permitted to live, than 10 be clothed in the robes
of mariyrdomI We doubt very much the poll
CIV Of hanging or shooting, even the leaders, as a
final tonic for rebellion.
There is a good augury in the fact that all
or pearly all of the papers speak kindly of Presi-
dent johnson since his Inauguration, whatever
some of them may have said OF him before. The
disposition 10 aid, and rot embarrsss, him in his
exceedingly difficult position is strong and all
but universal. We have never had a chief mag
istrate that was treated with more fairness. and
we trust that the treatment now extended 10 him
will be continued to the end Of his administra-
However muck be mAy al times
have erred IS a Tennessee politician, we NAV
hope much from him a. president, for hs expe-
renee and advancement have no doubt given
him increased wisdom, and - surrounded by
as bis advisers. Andrew johnson has
bitten been spoken OF a. q malicious. malignant
Anc vindictive man, but We have just been as
sured by two ptomiueat members Of The Tennes-
see legislature. who have known him long and
fsmiliarly, thai, when properly approached, even
oy enemies. be is ever the most kind and gentle
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