Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Hubbard, OF I1ailowell, as their candidate Tor Gover-
nor.
The city council of Jcfersonville have voted in ia
vor of taking 500, 600 in the stock Of the Jefferson
vile and Columbus railroad.
DELIBERATE SUIcrDE.-In Cincinnati. on Monday
afternoon. a man deliberately walked down to the
river, juaped in and drowned himself.
The seventh plank road leading frnm Utica, New
York, is about to be commenced. Those now in
operation pay fifteen per cent. per annum on an in
ycsiment Of $500 600.
An exclusive privilege for Ten years has been
granted 10 Senior Don ]. dc la Grnnja, for an cstab-
lishment Of al electric telegraph throughout The Re-
public Of Mexico.
BY a late arrival from Mexico, it appears that a
declaration of independence of the northern States Of
the Sierra Madre of Mexico was published on the
10Th nil.
The hungarian leader, kossuth, has appointed his
sister gcnernl superintendent of the military hospitals,
and she has published an address, calling on ull the
ladies, 10 lend their assistance in this work Of charity.
The sons of Henry Clay. John J. Criitenden, and
John Davis, have all been appointed to lucrative OIL
cs by Gen. Taylor. THIS is al excellent method to
secure the good will of the fathers.
The Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN has been invited By
the City Council of Lancaster, TO deliver a oulogy ON
the life and character of JAMES x. Polk, late Presi-
dent Of the United States.
A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger SAYS that du-
ring the late cruise of the United States ship indie
Pendence, there were inflicted Oh the crew 1885
lashes.
Nearly every democrat in Office in Rhode Island
has been swept out. The Worcester Palladium says
%"there Is one little mail agent left. and there is a hot
chase after him."
BENTON IN MAssAcHUsETTs.-The Lynn Tribune
and SwampscottH Herald, is the title of a new demo-
cratic paper published in Lynn. 1t has the name of
Thomas H.. Benton at Its mast head as the candidate
for the next President.
= POLITICAL PowER.-The free States have thirty
Senators, one hundred and thirty nine Representa-
tives, and one hundred and sixty-nine Presidential
Electors. The slave States have thirty Senators,
ninety-one Representatives, and one hundred and
thirty-one Presidential Electors.
Mr.. Polk rose through various offices 10 the Presi-
dency, from the situation of assistant clerk to tie
Tennessee Legislature, which place he held about the
year 1917. Ii is said of him, that he predicted his
elevation to the Presidency, some years ego, to a
company of friends.
N. Y. True SUN.-We notice with regret IN an
nouncement that this valuable democratic paper has
been suspended. The True Sun was the only regular
democratic paper in the city-the Evening Post and
Globe both belonging 10 the Van Buren, free soil
faction.
One q. IL. Brown, a sort of n Fitz Warren fellow,
stole n march upon his brother federalists in Groton,
Mass, and got O good Taylor man removed and him.
self appointed postmaster. Whereupon one hundred
and spuenty-Seren federal voters of that town, four
dfths of the party, signed a remonstrance and petit
ton for his removal. But as yet, Fitz has not done
it, and probably will not, for he has a great partiaIity
for knaves and tricksters.
A new wing postmaster in Wisconsin snapped two
caps on q loaded pistol, at a mail carrier for rafting
at the door of the post Office. TO arouse him from his
slumbers 10 deliver n mail in the night. The post
master excused himself on the ground that he had
been dreaming he was the second assistant postmaster
general, and wastrying to defend himself agains, the
attacks Of his creditors.-OH. (IR) F. Trader.
The STATE CAPITOL OF TENNESSEE, Al NASHVILLE,
is said 10 be one Of the grandest edifices af the kind
in the Union, exceeding in Its dimensions, Girard
College, at Philadelphia. II is two hundred and forty
feet deep, by one hundred and t%hirty-6ve feet front
and will be supported by twenty-eight columns, each
forty feet in height. The height of the building will
DC eighty feet. The Banner says that the whole
building is 10 be constructed of stone and iron, inside
as well as outside. Unlike any other building in the
United States, the interior is to be of dressed stone.
TREES OF INDIA.-Mr. Mcgowan, missionary &c
CllinO, has sent over to the American Institute seed.
of the plant from which the Chinese mai c their grass
cloth-somethIng like silk and linen; the seeds Of the
tallow tree, from the berries of which they make theiI
candles, and the seeds of another tree from the berries
of which they manufacture lamp oil. If all these
seeds grow and thrive here, their introduction into
our country will be very useful.
A New York letter in the Philadelphia Inquirel
says:
Lieut.. Mayne Reid, who conducted himself 81
gallantly in the late war with Mexico, is making
preparations to embark for Germany, for the purpos,
of assisting the Hungarians in their struggle with tn,
Austrians and Russians. He was waited upon nm,
solicited to take command of a company of Hungari
ans in this city, who have determined to cross tn
Atlantic, and release Hungary fiom her ihrnldom
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route to the scene OF the war In that part of Europe
He will finish his story of " War Life" as soon a
possible, and then be Off"
WAR OF ANNExATIoN.-BatA .frst.-The Indo
pendent, a weekly paper published at Quebec, con
tains the following warlike statement:
"On Friday last, al the ordinary session of III
CITY Council; one of the members proposed a motto
of the nature of which we are ignorant, but whic
another member objected to, rcmurking at the sam
time that an three months ue uould be American.
Hereupon, the member who had brought forward tn
motion, crossed the hall, and administered a tremef
dous blow to his opponent, which Frustrated him o
the floor. The war spirit then communicated TO otl
ers, and the combat threatened to become genera
when the Mayor called In the police, who put an en-
to the quarrel and elected the audience"
TfIE FOREST EIREs--Caldis, (Maine) June 22d
p. M.-Thc weather to-day has been exceedingl
warm, the Thermeneter in the coolest place being u
to 96.> We have had no rain since the first week
April.
The fires in the woods are still raging in every d
rection, and more than six million of acres of Tin
Der land have already fallen a prey to the ~devoprin
element, in this part of Maine and the Province 4
New Brunswick. There is no water for driving log
Nearly all the present stock is sawed. The lumbt
business must be suspended for the summer, and III
best fields of grass, it is likely, will not be worth Gu
ting. The prospects Of the country were never mol
gloomy than at present.
DR.. CooLIpGE.-A teIegraphic despatch 10 the Boz
ton papers from Portland, states on the authority
DIR. Mann, of Skowhegan, that the body buried ther'
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