Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-01

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w.sHISGToS, July p. 1865.
rHE Crowd AT THE wHITE HoUsE
The crowd and rush in the Presidents ante
chambers yesterday. exceeded anything that /
have Witnessed during the present month They
we're literally packed and jAmned with human
beings, 20 an extent that made violent pushing
and squeezing necessary in order TO get through
the crowd. Fery lev persons were admitted to
see the President during the day. aud the vast
throug went away in the afternoon, billed with
disaopointment and vexatIon. The heat Was 10
tense, and the odor arising from the persprauon
OF 90 many bodies was none Of the pleasantest,
IL Is reported that strong add protrseted effort
was made TO induce the Presidentto recede from
bis recent appointments in MARYLAND lthe Blair
mem and appoint the Hoffman party. But be =
said to hare promised Mr.. Blair that bis acton
in that matter 10 a fuslity. and he will undo1bt-
edly keep his word. Aessrs. Webster, Fulton
and Evans are probably secure II their seals
FATHER w.LrrRis REPLY TO CEN. HARpIE-
The Rev. Father Walter OF this city had pre-
n.red /. reply 10 the statement recently made by
| General Hardie OF the War Department, IN re-
laton 10 the promise exicted by the secretary oil
! War of Father Walter in regard 20 the innocence
| of Mrs Surrztt, which was 10 have appeared IN
the city papers this morning. But bis Grace,
Archbishop Spanlding. caused note 10 he ad-
dressed To him by bis Secretary, IN which, Tor
obvious, and very proper reasons, Father " alter
! is requested not 20 proiong tue controversy any
further but TO let the matter rest for the present.
Those who know The kind heart OF the Archbishop
are fully convinced that he feels deeply grieved
at the terribly distressing circumstances attend
ing the poor voman's death, but the Church
would only suffer IRON prolonged controversy
on the subject. Every Catholic is perfectly sat
isfed With what Father Walter has already SAID
GISERAL sICKLEs.
General Sickles left here last evening for New
York He has been assigned to duty in the De
partment of the East. under Gen. Hooker
The John HAMPTON or AMERICA
Sine Mr. Ford put the management OF lis
aff airs into the hands of Hon Henry Winter
Davis the matter has assumed quite different
| complexion. The War Department has now
discovered that Mr. Ford has some rights which
the Government are bound tc respect; and Mr..
/ Davis has, am informed. concluded an arrange
ment with Mr.. Stanton that will be satisfactory
TO Mr. Ford. The Government, / believe. is to
rent the building for some purpose connected
| With the recent disbandment OF the army, for
SIX months from the lst OF July. at the expira-
| ton OF which time il is expected Congress will
purchase it, The removal of the theatre property
| has already commenced Mr. Ford will now
| Immediately take steps toward the erection oil
another theatre here. which will rival in size and
| elegance the finest structures of the kind in
America The most prominent citizens Of Bal
timore, without distinction of party. headed by
| the Governor of Maryland, the Mayor of Baiu
more, and the leading professional men and
merchants. have rendered TO Mr.. Ford testimo-
NAL benefit at the Holiday Street Theater in
that city, as a mark OF the esteem aud regard IN
which ne is held in Baltimore, and Of their ~ IN
pathy with him in the great loss which be has
sustained here through the action OF the War
| Department in closing his house. IL is needless
TO say that the house will be crammed. But the
value OF such "A testimonial consists in the high
character of the men by whom it is prodered
Mr. Ford mey we'll be proud OF his friends: anC
on their part, the patient forbearance OF Mr.
Ford but At the same time the firm stand which
he has maintained on his rights as an American
citizen. convince them that they have just caus,
TO be proud of him. Mr.. Ford is the Johr
Hampton OF he age.
WORK FoR DEMOCRATIC srArEsNES
The statesmen of the Democratic party ma,
| a. well begin nov TO buckle on their armor foi
| the light that must come on in December next
The radicals are laying deep plans for the sue
cess of their negro suffrage scheme, and for
other innovations yet moro unconstitutional
Gen. Howards order, requiring the owners o
| farms aud plantations in Maryland to support
| feed, clotbe and provide for a lot OF inirm and
helpless negroes, has not yet been approved b,
the President Ii the proper representation.
are made to him. be may revoke the order
which Is in the highest degree unjust. | beg
| your readers to remember the fact which | re
| member very we'll. that the able bodied negroe,
on these farms and plantations were carried of
| ia the years 1863 aud 1864. by officers in the
Federal service, who went there in United
States vessels. inveigled the negroes on board
in droves. brought them up TO Baltimore. and
formed them into companies OF negro soldiers
Deprived thus OF the labor necessary to work
their farms and plantations, the latter went far
toward ruin. The crops rotted in the ground
aud IN lc64 and tbis year scarcely enough was
raised. and that with extreme difficulty, to sup
port the farmers aud planters and their own
children. II their servants had been left to
them. they could have supported these in6rm
and helpless blacks. Bat TO do 80 now, will be
TO bring their own families 10 tho point oi
starvation. The country looks To the Democratic
party, and 10 the Democratic statesmen to dem
ons,ra,c IN the nett Congress the uuconstitu.
tionaliiy OF compelling any class OF citizens "a
support q lot OF paupers who were made such by
the action OF the agents OF the Government, act
log under their orders IL this state OF things h
To be allowed to 20 on. where will IL endg 1,
the country really to 90 governed. not by the
Constitution aud the laws, but by edicts OF the
War Department and orders of the Generals IN
charge of the War Departments? Are we rcally
living under a military Government
now NAY CAN M PRorirABIr TRANSPORTED ny
RAILROAD.
Did your readers ever see bale OF hay sawn
IN two by cross cut saw, OF any other kind OF 4
sawf Certainly not: 10 cannot be done. Grant
ed. yet there 10 exhibited la this city a bale OF
hay, which has not only been sawn Ia two by d
common OF cross cut saw. but which presents on
the inner surfaces thus exposed TO view two re-
maksble peeuliafitea. one OF these surface.
remains Just as thesaw left It. TO all appearance
a smooth board. impefsious 10 the action OF the
huger. and 10 hard aud solid that nail driven
INTO u can only be pulled out by claw hammer
The other surface, after being sawn, has been
| rendered smooth, aud al inscription has been
ca, upon IL. the letters of which are as smooth
as elesniy out aud a. sharply dedued a. an ir.
scupton cut upon marble.
but this Is not all The bale Of hay thus sawu
IA Two was only half the SIZE OF an ordinary bale
OF hay. yet u weighed twice a. much as an otdi
nary bale oi hay, Tor the simple reason that il
contains two of such bales OF hay. Ia other
words. two bales OF hay have been compressed
into one, aud that Que s oIly halt M large AZ an
ordinary bale Here We gst the explanation OF
the saving process The hay has been CON
pressed TO such degree that Il has become q
substance solid enough 60 DO sawed. aud to pre-.
sent when saved surface solid enough to 70
eeive clearly cut inscription. The process by
which hay eau DO thus wonderfully compressed h.