Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-19

with servsuts-all on too thousand dollars q
year, less The Govern ment tsr
But this Il modest and moderate. The Off
Ger at least made the one house serve oil his
purposes Another officers Colonel on duty
bere--ls less easily satisfied. He has no family,
bas he fnds Que OF the largest and best furnished
| houses In town. only sufficient for his bachelor
wants. a. q private residences. Another house,
equally spacious aud eligible, = required Tor the
| uses OF bis othees And IN general. our people
seem 10 20 upon the theory that, having con
quered the country. they are entitled 10 the best
IL has
These houses are generally such as we're shut
up By the rich rebel owners on the approach OF
the troops below the city.
One regrets TO see that the loosest ideas often
prevail a. 20 the execution OF the abandoned
Property" Act Of the Thirty seventh Congress.
Deserted houses not absolutely needed for mill
tary purposes can be rented for handsome sums.
and 20 Whatever amounts can be thus realized
the Government has an equitable, as well as
legal, claim.
The practice Of regarding everything left in
the country as legitimate prize to the first officer
who discovers il, has led IN some cases. to per
formances little creditsble to tho national uni
forin What shall be thonght oftbe officer. who.
finding a fne Law libary-straightway packed IL
I'D and sent IL 20 his Office in the NorthE Or
what shall be said OF the taste OF that other
officer, who, finding in an old country residence
Q series Of family portraits, imagined that they
would form pretty parlor ornaments anywhere,
and sent the entire Set embracing the ancestors
Of the naughty old Svuth Csrolinisns for gene
ia.ions back, to look down from the walls from
bis Yankee residence.
SIGNIFICANT the negroes Of the Gov
ernmen. train we're camped in this vlage, one of
the abolitionists Of the town approached one of
tint "darkies." and with view to draw icon
6rnation strong as Holy writ to bis position
from him, said:
Lincoln did great deal for you fellows down
South7"
Dsrkie was silent, aud Al. insisted:
"Lncoln did great deal for you felows, in
setting you freei'
Darkie shook bis head doubtiully. and replied
with some feeling:
Don't know bout dat. massa; done a heap
more hard work since dis war dan ever did
afore, OATS sure
The Ab. did not press the subject further. but
quietly withdrew - Brookville Democrat
LITTLE DRoP OF WATER" &c-The town OF
Waterbury, in Connecticut has the most varied
and extensive manufacture Of brass articles of
any place in the country, or perhaps in the world;
and all spring from making set of
brass buttons lie was ratber al Ingenious man,
and he thought he could make set of brass but
tons cheaper than he could buy them. He
punched out the blanks from piece of sheet
brass, turned them up very nicely in lathe, SOL
dcred eyes to them, and had them sewed upon
his coat. Some Of his neighbors then requested
him to make sets OF buttons for them. and he
thus drawn into the manufacture. His ex-
ample was followed by others, and from this
small beginning have grown the extensive brass
manufactures OF Waterbury
Very "BL AcK Mail Last winter the Leg
slature OF Massachusetts, passed a Law timing
every landlord who refused to allow his colored
boarders to sit at the table with his white guests
the sum of fifty dollars IL 10 said that several
negroes have been making small fortunes in
Boston by taking advantage of the law. They
put up at certain hotels demanded places at the
public table, and when they are refused they re-
mid the landlords OF the penalty aud offer to
compromise for five or ten dollars Talk abou.
black mail This is the blacklist kind of black
mailing by the blacks.-Pittsburg Post.
"A German in New York has succeeded in
producing from Indian corn syrup said to be
equal to any in market for all purposes The
operation is spoken Of as being quite profitable.