Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-06-21
Tren,cndous uurricaue,

fge!.--SinktIg Of the CinciHHdtuS -!
The steamer Memphis. from this city, as we learn
by private elegra phic despateh encountered heavy
/ hurricane 90 miles above New Madrid on Friday
night at III o'clock. Her cabin. chimneys aud upper
works were blown off, aft TO the wheel, as was also
the roof of the ladies' cabin--throwing men, women
and children into the stream, many perish!
J Capt. Mann blown overheard, but was rescued
! The following persons were drowned:-
/ James l.. Morton, of Cincinnati.
w. w. Johnson family in this city.
Albert Boyd, pilot. of Cincinnati.
| w Wilcox, bnrkeeper of Cincinnati.
The pastry cook three cabin boys and four or five
passengers were drowned. None of the ladies were
lost. The officers of the boat barely escaped with
their lives.
The injury TO the boat will amount 10 about FIVE
thousand dollars.
The Memphis will be here this morning
The steamer Memphis met the Cincinnatus, Capt
Goodloe, in sinking condtion--having two
feet water in her hold and five hundred barrels of
Flour were thrown overheard to save The boat THIS
occurred eight miles below Paducah Sunday MORN
ing.-Ctncinnati Commercial.
| fe.TLous Kossuih, the President of Hungary, Just
declared an independent and sovereign State is de-
scribed as one of the akabe men of the age
He has certainly shown talents of the most rare and
extraordinary kind. Not only is he orator of the
most surprising power, but be proves to be states
man Of consummae foresight, and chief, civil and
military, both bold and prudent. He born in a
little village of the north Of Hungary, April 81 1906
Of poor but noble family Of Sclayopic origin The
application and talents of the son. found him friends
who not only enabled him 10 finish his studies. but
also continued TO assist him subsequently. In 1885,
when strong opposition existed against the Austrian
government in the Hungarian Diet, Kossuh was en-
poyed to conduct opposition paper and he learned
senography for the purpose of giving true reports of
the Diet, which had been discouraged by the govern
ment, and issued them, with immense labor, in manu.
Il Al 4. q
persons were employed to copy, and the report
sent autographed to every part Of the country This
extraordinary manner Of proceeding surprised the
government. Kossuth was subsequently secretly
seized and confined in prison for three years. This
unjust Imprisonment rendered him very popular, and
year afterwards assuming the editorship Of paper
published in Pesth lis circulation rose TO 10000
copies. Besides opposing the Austrian government
general questions, it brought 10 light many abuses
of administration, both local and general, which,
when known, surprised the people. Ii very soon
after lis establishment to be seen in the hand of al
most every peasant II did MORE also, for the spread
and general use OF the hungarian language than all
the laws of the Diet together Germans and Sclavo-
mans who had formerly paid little attention to that
language now learned it, To be able to read paper
that excited so much the public mind. The Govern
ment, not being able to suppress it, bribed the pub
Usher to discharge him from the editorial control.
He then turned his attention to founding societies
for establishing and encouraging domestic manuac-
lures, and for constructing public roads, and in six
months after the founding of the "protection socie-
ties by Kossuh, than half the Hungarian peo-
| pie were pledged TO wear only articles of domestic
manufatGre. by which they rendered independ-
ent of Austria fer these necessary articles In the
Hungarian Diet which met at Presburg, Nov. IL,
lS47, Kossuth elected deputy from Pesth TO the
lower house, in which he took from that moment
leading part in the great and liberal reforms that
were going on in Hungary, and of which the world
at large seems to have known but little He was at
the head of the deputation, which, the 10th March,
demanded and obtained from the Emperor a separate
Hungarian ministry. From this time forth he was
the soul of the Hungarian Diet. As dangers and DIFF
fculty his influence increased. On the 1Ith
June he became finance minister June 17lh broke
out the war with the Servians. August 18th with
Croatia Sept Goth he president of the ministry.
Sept 26th appears the "lmperial manifest" which
produced the oren rupture between Hungary and
Austria. At the head of the committee of surety,
Kossuih now conducted Hungarian affairs. His his
tory since is that of Hungary itself
Such is the extraordinary man who is now playing
so conspicuous part in the drama of European az
fairs. A very interesting and able sketch of his
career is published in the German Egyhazup.-Pa.
Ledger.