Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-12
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Irish papers notice an active revival of emf
grafton. gE
The chief engineer of the New York
fire department is to be paid a salary of 8. 900.
Ar ordinary ball dress in Paris costs
$4,000. What must be the value of an extra
ordinary one.
"A company with 81 600. 600 capital has been
Incorporated in New York for the purpose of
gathering pearls aud pearl shells on the Pacific
coast.
-Reirenchment is the order Of the day At
Washington. A large number Of male and
female clerks will soon be dismissed from
the note printing bureau of the treasury de
%partment.
we have now ten new territories waiting 10
be made states They are Wyoming, Arizona.
Colorado. Idaho. Montana, Nebraska, New
Mexico, Utah and Washington.
The day for the grand contest between Tie
man and Goldth waite has at last been announced
II will take place on the 3lst inst. in Cincinnati
800 points carom, Tor $4,000.
Five years ago Andrew johnson voted for
John c. BrecSinridge for president: now he Is
president himself, and will hang John C. Breck
inridge If be can catch him.
a. 1t is said that the construction placed by
the attorney general upon the terms Of Grant and
Lee will not be literally enforced, and the pa
rolled rebels will be free from molestation so
long AS they conduct themselves in u becoming
manner.
The proprietors of the Fifth street railroad
in st Louis. by means of a Tin box 10 which \
check is deposited for every half dime received
by the conductors, have been enabled TO increase
the receipts of the road from sixty to eighty dol
lars per day.
The gross receipts of the leading newspapers
in Philadelphia for advertising last year. were
"a follows; Ledger, Sol 900; Inquirer, S3l 900;
Press, S3l GOO; Bulletin, see. 200; German Dem
ocrst. 0,400.
Mount Vernon is found to be in a good state
OF preservation; none of the ravages of war
having extended 10 that direction. The scouting
parties OF both armies have always regarded il as
neutral ground, and never violated its PRECINCTS
by acts of hostility.
President Lincoln's former residence At
Springfield. is a plain farm house, about SO feet
front aud Is feet high. two stories with a heavy
bracket corLt ice, painted drab and furnished with
green blinds. The rear OF TIE building is 10 the
form OF an l. and sets several feet from the street
and is approached by steps.
President Lincoln, before lea wing Washing
ton on his last visit 10 the army. wrote a call
Tor an extra session OF congress, which was
signed by both himself and Secretary Seward. to
be Issued in case anything happened to him.
The document is now on file at the state depart
ment So says gossip
The following beautiful lines, written by
Longfellow. have been printed on large cards,
and hung up in all the bureaus of the govern
ment:
For the stars on our banner grow suddenly dim,
Let US weep in our sorrow, but weep not for him;
Not Tor him who, departing, leaves millions in tears;
Not for him who has died full Of honor and years;
Not Tor him who assembled Fsme's ladder so high,
From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
1t Is bl' ssed to go when so ready to de-
The lofty plateau OF Arlington has been
converted into a national cemetery for our brave
soldiers and seamen who die IN or near Wash :
ington. IL was opened for interment MAY l..
1854. and within the year 5 900 have been buried
there. In a year or two more il will be the
most p~opulous city of the dead on this side of
the Atlantic. Its conversion into a cemetery
renders IL impossible that il can ever be used as
a residence again. Gen. De Russy has already
removed his headquarters from there to the house
OF Gen. Lees soa, Immediately north. Many
of the graves contain the bodies OF southern sol
diers who died in our hospitals. but in every
case the headbord Of the grave beaIs the word
Rebel" in large letters on it.