Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-02-04

The PlunderinG OF the Court Organ.
In our article yesterday. noticing the malic
ious and slapderous personal assaults upon US
by the court organ. several typographical errors
occurred. snd we republish this morning a por
ton of that article for the purpose of correcting
those errors In this connection we take the OPP
portunity to state that We intend hereafter to
vindicate ourselves from all assaults Of such a
character. come from whom they may. We
have suffered these attacks upon our in
tegrity for the sake of peace. with the
consciousness that time would make Us
more than even with our sdversaries, but we
nnd these motives are not appreciated. hence we
propose hereafter TO defend ourselves. let the
consequences fall where they may. We are con
scious that the public generally take but little
interest in editorial newspaper controversies. and
for that reason We have arrested them. Hereaf-
ter. when assailed in this way, We intend not
only to vindicate ourselves from the assaults,
but TO carry the war into Africa. We have
abundant materials for this kind Of warfare. and
IL provoked we shall use them to demonstrate
the hypocrisy and corruption OF our assistants
The following Is the extract to which we re
fer, with the typographical errors corrected
The Index for the House Journal for the year
1861. contains Ss pages Of nonparsil type. of
which 80 pages is index matter, for which the
Law allows IS cents per ! 900 ems. and IS pages
rule and figure work. for which the Law allows
IS cents per l 900 ems. Each page of %nonpariel
type contains 4 500 ems. printers count. so that
the index matter would amount to 81 02le
50 371a per page.
On the 30th Of September, 1861, a bill was
paid to the Journal company, for printing. which
was sworn to by the editor Of The Journal and
state printer. B. r. SuLGRovE, in which the
state is charged wish the following item:
Sept. 20. 1861. To Index House Journal. Regu-
= lar Session ...-..-.-------- $sas "
The following is the correct bill for this work,
according to the Law regulating the con-
penssiiOn Of the public printer. passed in
1859:
Composiuon-3o pages index matter. at
O 02n per page. .......& 90 D
IS pages rule aud figure, at
81 sly per page. .--...l95 20
Press vork-6 forms Of tokens each, is
40 tokens, al 40 cents per
token ..... .......... 10 81
Folding 9 ferns index at OIL 60 cents per
~
Total cost for index. at the rates estsb-
hshed by lsw.......s.... $2s2 ~
overch.rx. in this one ten ...... s56s lC
Again. in the folding Of the House Journal.
the bills paid are as follows. as can be seen by
referring to the vouchers in the auditors office:
June e. lssi. House Journal. foiiing ..-..--.-.siso oo
July, 1851. House Journal, fold:ng...-.....- 60 u
Total paid for fielding House Journal .......... s240 o.
Now there is in the House Journal of lSGS'
sixty eight signatures. up to the index. which.
multiplied by 1000 copies. mskes los. 500 sheets,
and at 10 cents per 100 sheets for folding. the
price allowed by law. the folding amounts TO the
sun of SOS 80. showing an overcharge in
folding OF $l3l %. making the entire over
charge in the index and folding Of the House
Journal alone. Of S697 80
This overchasge in one job Of work by the re
publican state printer would buy l4O reamso
paper. at the price paid for paper in 1860.