Indiana State sentinel., 1850-02-07
NEWS OF TmE DAY.

60 OF ms iare on board the schooner Alabama. from
Mexico.
TAXING The VklL--Ii is asserted by The Cinein-
natl Times, that Miss Irving, Of Mobile favoriie
granddaughter Of Henry Clay. has expressed her de-
termination TO take the veil. This determination hos
occaslOned much grief and sDrrow to MIR. Clay
o. The Legislature of Georgia has passed law /
repeating all laws parts of laws civil and criminal,
forbIddng or in any restricting the imporia-
tion of slaves into that State. from any other slave
holding State in the Union s
" The last report Of The Boston Prison Inspectors.
shows that during the past six months POI persons
have been imprisoned for debt In majari'y of
the parties were Immediately released upon tkng The
poor debtors OATH
OF The Printers. festival, at St. Louis, the 27th
inst. a grand affair. Col. Chambers, Of the Re-
publican, presided the table, and Capt Phillips, Of
the Union, delivered the address. The ball was ono
of the most magnificent given in that city.
SALARY OF A CALIFORNIA CLEReYMAS.-Rev. o. c.
Wheeler, who was sent to California by lie Baptist
Missionary Board. receives S12 600 per ennum; pAy-
able monthly IN advance, by vote of the Society over
which he oficaits. and the Missionary Board are re-
eved from further Pecunary responsibility in regard
10 him.
--Ey- The Madison Courier says-It would be a mer-
cy OF Providence if there corner of ter
rltoy that could be set uf for madhouse and all the
Northern and Southern Iunatics sent to ii. The
try would then be rid of Of the greatest nuisances
that has ever infested il.
MIR. s. NJ. Catching, wealthy planter of Pike CO.,
Miss, murdered Christmas morning by one Of |
bis negroes. The boy had been punished for stealing
the day before. and probably fearing that he would
not be allowed his Christmas holiday he procured a
gun, and hOisting the window Of the room in which
Mr.. Catching slept, shot him as he lay in bed.
SOMETHING NEw-For the first time in this coun-
try, says the Ohio State Journal one hundred head OF
fat Cattle, belonging to Mr.. SEYMOUR RENcK, have
been shod with iron shoes for the purpose Of travel
ing over the mountains. II the experiment proves
good 1t IS the inention of MIR. RENIC to shoe eleven
hundred more.
Or The Scientific American il authorized 10 state
that one OF our Gutta Percha manufactures stand |
ready to lay down and guaranty its integrity for ten
years. line of perfectly insauraied wires covered
with Gutta Percha, in the Atlantic ocean, from some
point in the UnIled States TO point IN England
for to exceed three millions Of collars 10
be completed in twenty months from ile Gate of the
contract.
The Philadelphia North American. from cerinin
data which it exhibits estimates the present popula-
ton of the Quaker city al 10000 souls, of whicE
10000 free persons of color. Philadelphia has
made tremendous strides within the last years. and
the probability is that the will show at
ger population than New York can show. ThirIy-fve
hundred houses were built there last year.
o. The Philadelphia correspondent OF The n. Z.
Herad furnishes that paper with the amount of BRAN
dy imported into the port of Philadelphia during the
last five years. Tho increase has been very lapd.-
IN lS45 there imported l42gaI gallons; 1916,
l7O,272 do; lS47, 2l2, CSC do lS4S, 249 .352 do;
1e49, 500,S ,S54. We presume the imports into New
York, Boston, New Orleans, oDd other ports have al
go increased annually in a similar rate.
AREnARKABLE VoYAGE.--The whaling ship Junior,
of New Bedford, after unsuccessful course in the
southern hemisphere passed from $50 S. to 66o n,
thus making III seven months and twenty days run
Of more than thousand miles. exclusive of the
distance in cruising for whales, and obtaining in the
meantime full cargo of oil and bone, accomplishing
the distance from the South polar circle The Norll
polar circle, aud taking 1000 bbls. oil in five months
and Ten days.
THE Press IN CALuoRNIA.-Cap'ain J. NJ. Scofeld
writes from San Francisco to the New LoDdpn Star
that William Faulkner publisher of the Pacific News
has already made % 0OO dollars by printing that sheet
only few months, and asks $4,000 dollars for one
third Of the concern. HIS expenses at the rate
of S45,OC0 year. He keeps his press running con-
stanlly, employs Of hands, aud has ordered
from The States steam press and apparatus for sn
extensive Job office.
DEATH OF an EDlroR.-JosEPm Norris. ESQ.,, the
tall editor of the Kentucky Fog died at Maysyille,
Of Inflammation of the brain, on the Sd inst. The
NIaysvills Herald. referring him. says: F" He was
studious and industrious in remarkable degree, of
delicate constitution, and the tallest man in Northern
Kentucky a friend who assisted in laying him out,
ANOTHER BuLL.-Mr. Meredith, in his report, Gays
Z" The cotton seed GeGrS The relation fo the
cotton rtich the rac cotton b,arS 10 the manufactured
article - in other words, seed To the Cotton SO
is the COTTON the calico. Cotton is what in The
mates is called " mean proportion " beiwecn the
seed and the calico; the seed is small in bulk and
tire cotton large, the Manufactured article
be Immensely larger than the material Of which it is
made. The widows cruise of oil has lad resurrec-
tion in Mr. Meredih's political economy Brooklyn
Eogle.
SINGULAR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HUT, ESQ. I,
whose mysterious disappearance from New York,
about two years since, is probably in the recollection
of many of our readers, has at length been seen in
England The idea was generally entertained that
he had been drowned He possessed a large fortune,
which, after all hope of his recovery had been given
Nd. was regularly administered upon. A gentleman
from New York recently had q conversation with bin
in Liverpool. tie stated tut for The last two years
he had been making tour through the principal
countries Of Europe.
The time has not yet arrived when the selection of
suitable person bear forward the standard OF de-
mocracy is to be made, and Of course any remarks
upon that subject now would be premature We will
venture, however, to give II opinion, that Gen.
Joseph Lane, if elected that high post Of honrr
would discharge lie duties with far greater credit to
himself and mole benefeially to the country and al
Tie rest ef mankind than Grn. Taylor inns done dur
ing the fret ten mouths Of his administration
frankfort (Ky-) YeomaH. -
The message of Gov. Lane, cf Oregon Territory,
tn be making considerable impression in the
United States aud l. Tend with great interest. 1t is
the first message from governor Of that territory,
and from it much valuable nforuin ion is obtained Of
that extensive region of country. Yet Gov. Lane Is
the man Win has beeu removed 10 make room for