Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-10-11
Interesting Items
From KdISbS Paris letters 10 the NJ Il. jour.

The Turkish Government has established sys-
tenn for gratuous medical aid throughout the en-
pre. Physicians appointed, with salaries, to WIS.,
it and attend the SICK and prohibited to take any fees
from the poor. They are report their every
three months, officially. They subjected to pen
aties, if they neglect the poor IN favor OF other
classes.
The discussions of the cholera, at the second meet
ing, in London, Of the South London Medical Socle-
ty, are remarkable and perpexing those of the
first. One eminent member observed-"We labor
under this difficulty, that we do not know what the
cholera - another condemned the use OF wet
sheets; third declared he had found it almost inva-
riably successful &C. &c. When DIR. Stephen
rose to speak, Dr. Gun cried, els he of US Is
he capable of judging of Diseases" The Stephen
answered that he was physician OF the College OF
Physicians at New York He had new cure 10
name; but his clrcumlocutory preface exhausted the
patience of the faculty. According to the Report,
he made, on the whole, sorry figure. The meeting
equally divided, when the chairman asked wbe-
Their they desired to vote to the contagious nature
of the disease. He then thought it best that the
question should not be put to vote.
Lord Brougham's long, and, as ii appears to me,
able letter. dated the 9Th ult, 10 Sir James Graham,
Making and Digesting Of the Lato, will not pass
UNDECIDED by your lawyers and law-glvers. Parts of
it applicable in the United States and the whole
is instructve-Q presume just too)-on foreign
legislation with VIII CHI American jurisprudence has
old and present relations of Importance. HIS lord
ship describes his new effusion of moderate di
mensions but it occupies IN small type, Sin OF tue
broad and long columns of tie London Morning
Chronicle.
The Bank Of France las nearly as much specie in
vault, amount of notes In circulation aud this
nearly four hundred millions of francs aud 1t is still
exempted by law from specie payments. No parai-
lei for the phenomenon TO be found IN the history
of banking.
Europe has two million of men under arms, and
disarmament must be simultaneous. How can this
he sod undp cal q
cial circumstances the hostile array of principles
aud docrines-of secls against the governments,
both relying on force and violence-and OF race
against race, within well without particular
empires Typhon is the personlfed principle OF
evil and destruction. He was believed by the
clients established himself in the but he would
seem to have removed terra frma, or at le,st to
have become amphibious What work in his line
have we not witnessed on this continent since I'D
February, 1S4S
You may Judge how obsolete has become the D-
vine Right of KIngs,-a doctrine widely maintained
only few years ago,-by the following paragraphs
leach from principal organ OF the French Legit-
mists: Legitimacy Is not even a contract between
family or race and nation, but a national conf
pact implying self government by delegation. Ii is
a constitutional system of monarchy, to which peo
pie binds themselves for their own welfare" - s-
tabish hereditary power, and you guaranty all the
social and domestic hereditaryshps;-the secure
transmission of property and all transmssible rights
The principle of order and stability, is concen
traton of authority and force in an hereditary Chief
and with legislative assemblies, elected by universal
suffrage Let liberal, enlightened, tutelary dietd
torship be thus created and France is saved"
Among the articles exhibited at the magnificent
display, just closed, OF French domestic Producis,we
remarked corks for bottles, which are made by ma
chinery. Numerous and costly experiments TO super
sede manual labor had entirely failed But Messrs
Luprat g. Co. of Cistres, devised and executed an
apparatus, by which, at their great mandatory OF
corks, they out hundred thousand daily, oil The
best formation and finish, easily 10 be distinguished
from those of haudicraft in common use. BY multi
plying the machines, the manufacturers could meet
any amount or demand. Hitherto for the essential
operation,--the rounding (tournage)--workmen ct
special skill and practice were Indispensable, aud re-
ceved wages of four francs per diem, for the thou
sand corks they we're able 10 furnish. BY the ma
chine called In Iburneuse, piled with little fatigue,
by a child the supply is 10000 per day;
an economy in wages of nearly hundred francs
ANOTHER GREAT FIRE AT Sr. LOUISA fire broke
out ON the 2S,h in Lewis Tobacco Store, ON Green
street, near Third, which destroyed large amount of
property including ak large four-story buildings,
formerly occupied as Scott's Hotel. The damage to
the buildings is estimated at $4,000 The upper
stories were occupied by Elet furniture rooms,
whose loss is $4,000, of which $4,000 is covered by
insurance. The buildings were insured for $4,000.
The Union Compauy's lumber yard was also burned,
the loss of which is not ascertained The whole loss
is probably $4,000. es..es