Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-01

provements. These all run from the Ohio river.
At the North. the plank road from Michigan city
to Lnporic, is finished within Of a mile of the lat
ter place. brancl from Orr's to Closser's Corners
will be completed in few weeks. The Fort Wayne
Sentinel says;-The Fort Wayne & Lima Plank Rond
is rapidly approaching completion Twenty miles
finished, extending from within about two miles
of this place TO Mchell's in Noble C0unty-with the
exception of miles between Hunteriown and Tim
mermans. and 2 miles more beyond Timmerman's.
The whole will be finished this fall. if the weather
continue favorable and in any event will all be done
except miles beyond HuDtertown. and the road
there is naturally good that if not panked this fall
but little Inconvenience will be experienced. The
road fully answers the antcipatons of the
gune, and has convinced the most skeptical of the
great superiority of this kind of road ali others
1t is acknowledged TO be emphaticalIy the farmers
road. and will be greater accommodation TO those
living along the route and enhance the value of their
property more, than railroad would Farms 10 or
Is miles from Fort Wayne will now really be worth
and for all practical purposes be nearer market.
than those miles distant formerly were. A
person living 20 or 25 miles from here can come to
town. sell his wheat and return home the same eve-
ming. instead of taking days formerly; besides
hauling double the quantity a load that he could
without the roadthus reducing the expense Of trans
poriaton ,hree-ourihs-to say nothing of the saving
in wear and tear of wagons and horse flesh, travelling
expenses &c. The citizens OF Rossville recently held
meeting in favor Of plank road from Lafayette to
the Michigan road, via Rossville They appointed
committee aid in procuring charter from the
Legislature. which is unnecessary, there is gen.
eral law the subject.
tha ifv haf Rus
and Turkey. the Pa. Ledger thinks, if war should
grow out of it, that the other powers of Europe
would be obliged to participate in the general melee,
and Observes
"a Hence the coalition will present liberal Europe
and Turkey side, and Cossack Europe and
Asia the other. In this struggle the hopes of
liberal Europe; aud the probability, almost certainty
Of such quarrel, The result Of this Russian inva-
sion of Turkey makes the news too good to be true
and therefore leads to doub, il.
"Such a war would bring n new element into the
politics of Europe. in aid Of liberal institutions Ma
hommedansm, which is progressive, and mas al
ways been highly favorable To socnl molals ap-
pears in tile superior honesty, sobriey, charity and
piety of all Mahommedan communities, would aid
federation against the corruption uf the Roman and
the rapacity Of the Greek churches. AIahommedan-
ism, which recognizes the Old and New Testaments
with the Koran, is like Judaism strictly nonothetic
eminently democratic in tendency. and therefore the
the partisans Of Church and STATE but it true"
The probability now is that shall have such
Russia, doubt, will take the back track.
0trThe editor of the Madison Banner recently.
took ride about that town, 10 ascertain how many
houses had been built during the present year.
The result is follows: Brick and stone buildings
one hundred and seventeen, frame buildings seventy
nlne-total one hundred and ninesy-six In the list
4f hrf,l ~,,l
lie edihces, such as churches, hotels. jsi engine.
houses, &c. In the list of frame buildings is also
included church Fourth street for the use Of
congregation of colored people of the Baptist denom
nation 1t is proper TO remark that by substantial
buildings We mean dweling-houses stores, and man.
ufacuring-houses shops of the larger class, and
that ou-buildings, such small stables, smoke
houses, &c., were not counted.
Strike my dog and you strike me.-Cin. Enquirer.
The editor of the Enquirer. in order to adapt the
/ phrese TO his own case, should alter it ttle-Strike
| me and you strike dog Louisville Journal.
A Whig editor in Indiana says /" there is a saga
| ciOus paragraph in late number of Chapmans pa
| per-" If Chapman has said sagacious thing. it
ought to be recorded in the edition of the work
entitled " Anecdotes of Sagacious Dogs"-Louisrile
journal.
OSrThe cit of the Louisville Journal is about on
par with its honesty. The pretended quotations
above, which are used ns basis for the doggish
bnckguardism, both of them forged for the pur-
pose. Both appear in the number of the Jour-
nal. showing the very prolific character of the black
guards imagination. Decency wings may think
such wretched bngsgate worth twenty Thousand
dollars year :" but they could hire a negro
blackguard great deal cheaper. However, De
| gustibus &c.
DoNKEE HorEE (Don Quirote. .)-Our old and
venerable friend, John Ewing Of Nokes, lately appoint
ed Land Receiver by Taylors Regency Banditt
has undertaken, for the hundredth time. to demoish
newspaper Not having succeeded heretofore un-
der his aopath attacks, he administers his doses
on the "Indan' system. Maybe he will succeed |!
Go it little one, and ''cap your hands -
SENTENcED.-1he Fort Wayne Sentinel of the
/ 9th states that James Dedaro or Goddard, who re-
Gently killed Cornelius Murphy, an account of which
published in last. has been tried, found gull
ty Of mansaughtsr and sentenced the PeDiteniiary
81 years He is represented TO be mos, desperate
wretch.
ANoTaER DIFFIcULTY.-A letter received by a
house in New York. from Lisbon, states that the
American charge had received orders from Washing
ton demand positive answer from the Portuguese
| Government, before the lst of November, whether
they would settle the claims for wrongful seizures of
American vessels not
OrEx-President Tyler has lately written letter
upon the Proviso, to Judge Huntington of Indiana in
which he holds that the 5 applied to Cali
fornia is a abstract, and that free soil is now
just secure in New Mexico it is in Minnesota.