New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-24
INDIANA.
A child shot by her -Intempsranes-
Hereditary urzheius and Phrs.
uology- Railroads, their increase Ia tie
West Education Ceuaty scmiBaries- =
Plank Reads, &c.


Correspondence Of The Tribune.
NoBLEsvLLE, lni Thursday, ApnlR
MyIast communication was dated Shelbyv1s
county town Of increasing importance, si.u'isi
In direct line "a miles south of here. Bat 10
come from that place TO this II is preferable %
take the Shelbyville and Edinburg RAILROAD
running southwest l6 miles to its intersection
with the Indianapolis and Madison Rallrosd-sni
thence 10 indianapolis, thence on the Peru and Ia.
dianapolis Railroad - miles to this place being
On that route distance of IS miles. But thi. s
the most judicious route. This place, the county
town Of Hamilton County, is increasing rapidly Ia
populatop, enterprise and wealth. The RAILROAD
has been completed 70 this place but shorttme.
but since 1t became known that Il would DO con
suucted the population and business Of the placs
has been doubled. 1t is pleasantly located %
the east side of White river a beautiful sheet
and in the heart OF part Of Indiana, which To-
beauty and fertility of soil is not surpassed In Va
Western country. -,
A few DAYS ago the Circuit Court at Greenhe3
determined a case OF material Importance Ha
volyed the murder OF Mrs Sarah A. Hadson 81
her own father Thomas Kennedy, eight monaa
ago 1t appeared in evidence he came 70 a9
house about y O'Clock in the evening, and Smother
dead through the window. He had been 10 prison
eight months prior TO his trial. He IL aboa, v
years Of age, and apparently quite emaclsted
body and broken In spirits by mia long inoacert
ton. 1t is said he was intoxicated when he COM
mitied the awful crime. HIS own daughters
swore as coolly against his life, as they said be
had been cool and deliberate in the murder Of be-
child. The whole case evincss the truth OF 10
doctrine expressed in the proverb rather nss
apothegm,D Like parent like child. he Tho
Kennedy is in his organization peculiarly anini,
and his habitual treatment OF his vile and co..
dren, and his wifes conduct all went TO she's
that bad feelings propensities, procliyltlea ri
every thing bad or abnormal are hereditary 10
q sad sckening thought that the world Is 20 nl
on, perhaps for long and calamit0us ages be'os
the high and sublime truths OF Phresology, %
clearly and periodically preached by SParzne1
and the Combes, will 10 appreciated and Pracised'
The laws OF Nature. in all their operations
eynced 10 the perpetual causes and elects W"
surround US, demonstrate that the human family
can never become what IL may and ought 10 Dc
until the laws regulating intermarrisge, crime
and punishment, are materially and radically
changed. Persons who are strongly predlspOsea
10 disease, dissipation and crime, by oaa OF
ssnsm, have no natural law TO sanction tneh
acts in the propagation of the human species
Legislators are In the dark, Wilfuy or sDS
rsntly.
have spoken Of Railroads in the preceding
part OF this article, and in previous letters lse
signs Of the times are, that in less than ten ye.'
Indiana will have moro miles Of Railroad Mn
any State Of the Union. Plank Roads are oelos
extensively made in these parts Of the West
One has just been completed between lhdlanf
polls and Greenfield. on the National h0ad-ot
lance, % miles. IL will be continued on
Knightstown, II miles farther East, aad coz
plesed TO the latter place ia two or three monIn
These Plank Roads are fine ia this muddy COW
try. They are easily and cheapiy constructed
They are durable, lasting from eight to ten yen
with little repsirs.
The cause OF Education is commanding
creased interest In the State. If the new Or,
stitution shall be adopted, the foolish fsbdea
county semiDaries, connected with tho Ss1
machinery, Will fail 10 the ground They bw;
injured, very materially, the Com mon Schools
IndiaLa A Ane seminary OF this Kind 10 90
nearly completed in this town, some so By =,
tao stories high, at cost Of about $4,000 Bat
will be useless should the new Cons.itutiOd %
adopted, as it will, IN all probsbility-Eeyh1gu
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