Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-04-03
NAIL BREVITIES.

THE OLD CRADLE OF LIBERTY REFUSED TO THE S
)IsUNIoN AGITAToRs.-The fact stated on TUESDAY
hat the use of Faneui Hall refused by the mayor
nd aldermen to the abolitionists for mass meeting
gainst the fugitive slave law shows that our municipal
authorities do not countenance the agitators-DoS'o"
Post.
q The Nashville Banner (WhgS is opposed to Gen
Scott mere military man, who rs no politicians or
he Presidency 1t adds: He ought moi to be- and has
10 chance to be the Wing candidate But the Free SOIL
Wings of Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana, say he
shall.
IL project has been mooted to divide the State
Of New York and out of the city of New York, the /
counties of Kings Queens, Suffolk Richmond and some
others the river State, to be called Man
haitian, which will comprise population oil million
at least.
GsWilliam Alexander, of Gosport, Ia, who has
heretofore been very successful trader, lost
hatboat the ID nst Natchez, which had cargo
of meat worth SIC, 600 and not insured.
70 General Eggeston, of Geauga county, Ohio, who
makes annually from 5000 to 10,OO0 pounds of maple
sugar, has camp Of some 900 trees, and employs
u The people of Fayette county, Ky -, voted on
Saturday last in favor of subscribing each to
the Maysvile and Danvlle railroads In Lexington the
vote stood 1904 for subscription to 43O against 1t.
10 The people of Lake county, Ia, have this year
sent 10 market 20 900 prairie hens, which brought
them enough cash pay their State and county taxes
IL Some 400 English Mormons reached New Orleans
on the 17h and started up to ST. Louis on their way to
Salt Lake.
DEATH OF HON. IAAsc HmL.-Hon. Isaac Hill, Of
New Hampshire died at Washington city, Saturday,
aned about 20 years Mr. Hill had long filed conspc-
nous space in the politics of New Hampshire, to which
State he removed early in life from his native place,
Charlestown, Mass.
u The ancient and widely known ''Brown's Hotel
in Washington City, to be RACED to the groand
and and splendid Hotel erected upon is SITE
.I,o & ha
is to be enlarged by the edition of 81 rooms.
ry-Hon. Richard H Stanton is announced a candi-
date for Congress- in the Maysvie District, Kentucky
a-yMartin Farquhar Upper, the English poet, came
passenger in the Asia. He is staying at the Astor
House. New York, where he has already been called
upon by scores of our New York Hterati
1.-THE Convention of coored people. composed of
clerical and lay delegates, held in New York last week,
advocated an amalgamaon with the whites as the sur
est and easiest method of elevating the negro race.
This is somewhat racy.
rJ-Lately in Belgium, shot his father during
dispute but abandoned intention to commit suicide
on religious scrupies
CANNOT READ AND Misunderstanding to tables
made from the schedules of the Assistant Marshas
there in Virginia nearly eightytree thousand white
persons the age of twenone who cannot read and
write.
OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA RAIL RoAD.-The work
of laying the track of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Raj
Road from Pttsburg to Massillon, distance of lOl
miles, has Just been allotted to Bailey, Hayden, x Co.
of Boston 1t is to be completed by November connect
ing with the Cleveland Rail Road at Alliance
GFMr Chauncey Jerome, of New Haven, Conn. ha
actually made a .time-piece which he will warrant q
keep good reckoning and which he sells for 60 cents
wholesale and 81 at retail The works are all made o
brass. He makes upwards of eight hundred day o
these articles
1.-THE people Of Fountain county agitating tn
question of removal of the county seat from Covngto
to Chambersburg The question is to be decided by
vote of the county on the first Monday in April.
IJQuicksver mines in California are worked exten
svey, and the produce the past amounted to tn
value of several millions OF dollars
STATE TAx-The rate of taxation for the presen
year rs fixed by the bill of last session, is, 70
State purposes q cents the hundred dollars valu
alton, and 70 cents poll tax.
PR1zE F1GHr1NG.-Tom Hyer is out with challeng
fight any in the world for S1O.O 900 side, and O
ers to give any man from England 50 900 to hir
here We hope that our country will be disgrace
by such brutal exhibition.
r-It is stated that Mr. Washington the proprietor
Mount Vernon informed the President that he had bee
offered $500 900 for hundred of the estate
cludiag Gen. Washngton's tomb, and he should expec
the from the Government of the United States
should it be purchased for Military Asylum.
1.-THE Grand Lodge of |. o. o. F. of Indiana ha
forwarded to Washington city block of native marbl
for the Washington National Monument Ii is four fee
long, two feet face and sixteen inches bed, and is il
S scribed as follows:
e PRESENTED THE RIGHT WORTHY GRAND
LODGE OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF
ODD FELLOWS THE STATS OF IND.
IN GOD WE TRUST.
Enclosed in three links
AMICITIA, AMOR, EFT VERlTAS
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY; THE EARTH FOR ITS
= DOMAIN, ETERNITY FOR ITS DURATION.
LARGE LAND ENTRY.-A few days since the Hor
II. l.. Ellsworth, of Lafayette, entered in the Land
fee at this place. 1876 quarter sections of Land maxim
%, 160 acres. We understand the Company for whic
he is acting, have authorized him to have 5000
in cultivation during the present year.-Cracfordsr
Journal.
A CALIFORNIAN AT WEST PoINT.-Mr. Gilbert fo
warded to Adronic Vallejo. of M. G. Vallejo, h
appointment cadet at West Point. Mr.. Vallejo b;
the honor of being the first Representative OF Cailorn
in the Military Academy.
u John Stevenson, son of the Teller of the Bank
Lawrenceburg, was instantly killed the steam,
:. HoOsier State, the 26th 10y the falling of fender
n C-Gov. Wright has appointed Elihu Stout, Esq,
be Recorder of this county for the unexpired term
Col. Robert Bunn, deceased The selection is one th
will be unanimously approved by the citizens of the cou
! ty, we believe.--ViacenReS GGzeH