Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-03-19
Summary of Nems, &f.

railroad direct from Boston to New York, is talk
ed Of If built the distance between the cities,
will be travelled in four or FIRE hours
! A new kind of light has been introduced into the
Light House of Boston harbor, which casts shadow
distinctly at the State House. SIR miles distant
In England g. Wales the value of household furni-
ture is 900, wearing apparel FIG ,C00,0c0,
and of plate, jewels, &c, f31, 100000
/ GEORGE W. CUTTER, Esq, of Covington, KY has
sold the copy right to this Poems, TO of the first pub
fishing houses in New York. for $1,000. They are
being prepared for the press and viii soon ap-
pear.
The Rev. Mr.. Southard in declining the call to
Trinity Church, preferred $500 year to S5000 As
this Is unusual circumstance, the Episcopal edi
tors are INDUCING in much well deserved laudation
Mr.. Nelson of Somerset county, Maryland, aged
ninety-one years, has one hundred and fory-ive chill
drcn grand children great grand children living
within the sound of his voice, and if spared five years
more, he thinks he will have two hundred.
Joshua K. Hitchcock. poor mechanic in Balt-
more county, had added to his family the other MORN
ing, three daughters whom he named Mary Florida,
Martha Texas, and Jane Polk. He has now seven
teen children.
The Holmes County Farmer says, that 'ToDD owns
one of the best BANKS in the State-but 1t is coal
bank :! This is the nearest advance that can be
made towards a proof of coalition between honest
Dave and the swindling bankers.-O. Statesman.
The St. Louis Reporter says that about 1900 Nor
MONS mostly young men, have crossed the Mississip-
pi on their way to California. They to form the
dudnt guard of the Mormon expedition They have
started early for the purpose of providing the neces
sary subsistence for those who are to follow.
MORE FAcroRIEs-A correspondent of the Boston
Atlas says that two individuals have purchased the
site at the Falls of the Potomac in the county Of
Fairfax, fifteen miles from Washington city, and
the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal for Sll0
OOO The water power TO be had there is estimated
to be capable of driving 500 factories.
There was built in the cities of Louisville, New
Albany ard Jacksonville, during the past year, forty
two steamboats,, with aggregate tonnage of TO-
625 tons, and at a cost Of $500, 600. Louisville
builders furnished 6,59I tons; New Albany 3 ,6I2
Jacksonville 422 tons.
CATTLE, Stock &c, IN MAssAcHUsETTs.-By the
returns recently made to the Secretary Of State ap-
pears that there Al and mules, 26 549 cat
te 65 ISL horses, 354 943 sheep, and lO4 TAO swine
in the commonwealth. The whole valued at Sl0,-
206, 81. Both the number and value of the above
are probably far below the truth
4 FooT RAcE-The N o. Picayune of the 10Th
gives the result of race between Gdcrsleeve and
Jackson, run on the Sunday previous. The distance
was ten miles and half, and the race in fact
against time, an hour and a half being allowed for
the performance Time won by two min. and 30 Sec,
the distance being done by both men in 90 m. 80
seconds.
The Steamer Congress was sunk on the night of
the 18th, about twenty miles below Princeton on the
Mississippi river. She her way from New
Orleans to ST. Louis with heavy load of freight,
and was on the night mentioned run into by the Sala-
din, and went down In trO minutes and half in such
deep water, that her flag staff was out of sight 1t
was supposed that there were about twenty lives
lost
The Memphis Enquirer states that the steamer
sBell Zane had on board of her, when she sunk
o-cc f1Io
board at Memphis which we presume are lost forever
/ How much money, what amount of drafts. &C. have
been lost, and how many misfortuneS and Affections
have been caused by the loss of these twenty-seven
mail bags, estimate. The extent of the
injury in various ways. will probably be known,
but it undoubtedly is very great.
/ The new Constitution of Missouri, dsqualifes any
man from holding any military civil Office or APP
Ponment IN that State who shall, after the ratica-
ton of the Constitution, be engaged as principal Sc
cond, surgeon accessor abettor, in duel 1t also
makes it the duty of the Legislature to provide the
mode and the manner In which the survivor Of du-
ell, and his estate shall be rendered responsible to,
and be charged with, compensation for the wife and
children of the deceased, whom he had slain.
IDlors.-The Committee on Medical Colleges and
Medical Societies, in the New York Legislature have
made report that part of the State census relating
to idiots By the census returns the number of i'd
lots in the State Is 1910. The true number however,
is supposed TO be much larger The parents of chill
dren of this unfortunate class are naturally very re-
uctant to have them registered idiots, and proba-
bly, pauper idiots only returned in the report.
The committee estimates that there 1000 of these un-
fortunates in that State.
MExIco.-The Courier des Etats Unis, the French
paper in New York, has the following paragraph
The last intelligence from Mexico leaves no
doubt that the Government of that country is re-
solved to reject all peaceful overtures from the United
STATES and solicit the Intervention of Euroneon no
ers to obtain from the Union ndemui6cation for the
loss of Texas, and boundary line under the protect
ing guarantee of France and Great Britain We
know personally that this idea entertained by
Gen. Almonte, where he now occupies an influential
place in the Government.
IsrnMUs OF PANAMA-The French Government is
busy at work with the canal and the report of the
engineer has been received which is valuable and in
teresng 1t declares decidedly for the practical
bility of the scheme. 1t recommends that end of
the canal shall be at Vaca de Monte some few miles
west of Panama, by the valley of the Caimitto the
other at the Bay of Lemon, which is better for
sells than the Port Of Chagres by the valley of the
Ria Chagres. The depth TO be about seven yards,
the width at the bottom about twenty yards and the
top forty-fve. The total length of the canal would
be about seventy six and half kilomet tres the total
expense lbs, 600 600 francs or thereabouts An i'm
mense tunnel would be necessary.
An IMPORTANT INTENTIONAL Pennsylvanian it
appears, has succeeded in inventing a new mode of
propeng steamboats,, by which, it is claimed, speed
of from twenty-five TO thirty miles an hour may be
obtained In navigating rivers or oceans Models of
the invention are now before the committee OF the u
Senate Naval Affairs, and arrangements are being
made to carry ii into practical operation. The New
I York Sum- which announces the invention, says it
entirely supersedes paddle Wheels propellers
&c. and has the merit of operating altogether under
water, beyond the reach of an eDemy's fire. If this
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