Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-04-04

JENNY LIMBS Vfslr.-It is determined that the
Swedish tngale shall really visit this country,
and curiosity is eylnced respecting The details
of her engagement and how she Intends to come be-
fore the American audience. statement published
in the Herald, which comes doubles from Barnum
himself says:
She will employ the time allotted the 15O
certs, in about 20 cities Of the Union, which gives to
New York II, Boston $, Philadelphia 6, Baltimore 4,
Washington q aud to Charleston; and
of Mad'le. Limbs great inducemen to visit Ameri-
ca is to the Falls Of Niagara. the Mammoth Cave
of Kentucky, and other interesting features of
country. concerts will very probably be given at Al
bnny, Rochester. Syracuse. Buffalo, North, and Gin
cinnati and Louisville, West, and TO New Or
leans"
The price Of tickets the writer Of the article is not
ale t. siaie reserving that probably for considera
ton, but we told in the statement that
ain Lnudon the price of tickets ranged from FIVE
10 fifty dollars; the provinces of England. from
three to fifteen; the continent the same; but have
very often been SOLD nj auction for enormous sums;
and we have before account Of two con-
certs given by her IN the town Of Norwich, IN Eng
land. place of about eleven thousand inhabitants,
where A. l43 tickets were sold, which realized f1,-
$50 lis, about 80 800, in mere village, which
to enable her to establish fund for the
purchase of fuel for the poor of that place in win
ter"
The plbc may guess from this how much Jenny's
songs are to cost We see by the Boston Transcript
that a movement has been made towards The erec-
tnn of n great musical hall in that city, and Of
the assigned for that is that, be-
sides the general demand for large musical halls,
Jenny Lind's entertainments would require such an
ed6ce 10 contain all who wish to hear ter..
A THUNDER CLAP.-During the severe storm of the
night of the lst of March. the inhabitants of the viii
lage of Poquonock, IN Connecticut. aroused by
a vivid fash of lightning accompanied by an explu-
biri,i "a i,ra hoo
bred pieces of the heaviest ordnance, shaking every
thing to its foundation" So vivid was the light that
persons in sound sleep were awakened. The Hart
ford COurant says:
'rhe next day il was nscertained that the light
ming. or, as supposed a meteor had fallen upon
a large oak tree which stood in open pasture, west
of Phelps's Hotel. The about three feet in
diameter and without limb to the height of thirty
forty feet when it branched out and formed heavy
top The lightning first struck the at the forks,
dropping the branches, aud scattering the trunk in
every direction The trunk shvered into small
pieces no Of them il larger than can lin.
Even the roots scattered about, and many pieces
were carried distance of more than thirty rods.
Some portions Of The ireewere crushed ne saw
dust. The fragments of eight or ten
acres"
0rAt "Union" meeting. recently held at 81.
Louis. the following, among other resolutions.
adopted.
RESOLVED, That, in opinion, the holding If the
contemplated convention at Nashville, in June next,
and all similar conventions whether at the North or
Souh not only of doubtful expediency, but Of dan
gernus tendency. We think such serious crisis
has arisen IN affairs. justify the calling of
n convenrion exclusively sectional in its character
and purposes and composed partly Of delegates as
sumIng to represent sovereign States in their
ereign capacity. The assembling Of such body. for
purposes not clearly defined, involves n dangerous
precedent, and muy lead To the most fatal results.