Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-26
News Rr evities.

In the California correspondence Of east
ern paper, it is stated that the contractors now
engagedon the railroad from Sacramento city
to Negro Bar find, by experiments recent
~ made, that they can secure enough gold
dust by the excavations making to pay all
the expenses of the removal o. the earth.
A correspondent of the Scientific Amaioun
suggest, as difficulty exist in getting white
paper TO print upon, that black paper might
| be substituted, with white ink. White on a
black ground is more distinct and the eye is
then relieved from the glare of rays from the
white surface.
The Blue Ridge Virginia Tunnel has pro-
crossed though all its difficulties, $3.50 feet;
the remaining 1900 feet will probably offer no
further difficulty than the hardness of the
rock; and the progress at about 20 feet per
month. will complete it short Of eighteen
months.
George Canning, the great English states
man, in speech in the House of Commons
in 1923, said: "If wished for guide in a
system of neutrality, should take that laid
down by America, in the days of the Presi-
dency of Washington, and Secretaryship Of
Jefferson.
The franklin Resie.0 says the wheat crop
in that region of Tennessee is unusually prom
ing, and the only danger now apprehended
to it is that it is growing SO rapidly that the
late frosts may injure it; if not the crop prom
ises TO be first rate one
OF all the officers and privates who served
during the revolutionary war; only about one
thousand now remain who draw pensions from
the government. The number of widows of
revolutionary officers and soldiers who draw
pensions, is about six thousand.
The steamers Matte Wayne, Swallow,
keystone, Eclipse, and Brazil, arrived at St
Louis on the 10Th instant, from the Ohio, with
not less than fifteen hundred persons, COM
posed chiefly of families emigrating to Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs reports
that the stories about thousands of white
families having squatted on the Indian Terri
tory Known as the Delaware Trust Lands are
untrue.
In the Pennsylvania Legislature, on Thurs
day, the Senate received from the State Treas
urer list Of defaulters to the State, the
amount of their defalcations being $4,000
Mrs. Sarah Gregor, late of Norvalk, Conn.,
has bequeathed $1,000 to the Episcopal
church in that town, and $4,000 to Trinity
College at Hartford
In Adair comfy, Ky, on the 9th of March.
the venerable John Pendleton, aged So years,
was married to the amiable Mrs Mary Adams,
aged - years, who is entirely blind.
The Macon (Ga) journal says that John
Mitchell, the Irish exile, has been selected
to deliver the commencement address be-
fore the two Literary Societies Of the Mis-
issippi University at Oxford. ar a
W. A. Cornwall, Secretary of the California
Senate, has been expelled from Office for
using insulting language to one of the men,
bers.
Take one pound Of blue stone, dissolve it
in water. and sprinkle it over four bushels of
wheat, the day before YOU SOW it; it is an in
fallible remedy for smut in wheat. Try it,
The U. s. frigate ST. Lawrence, Com. De
Lancey, has arrived at Norfolk. All on board
are well.
The ice has left the Bay of Toronto, and
navigation has been resumed to the lower
wharves.
The Toronto Globe SAYS wheat has declined
in the Toronto market; s. Ga was paid on
the Goth.
The Supreme Court of Vermont has, for
the third time, declared the prohibitory law
of that State constitutional.