Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-03
AIl Sorts Of Paragraphs.
The cost of the CrimeaD war is said to ha
noan c050 O00 000

ctccioH HON VI a otCaih htV Oh-hO1 bhN MANU-
facture OF her own mechanics.
The New York World says that about one
third Of the German population of the West are
applicants for consulships.
Rev Thomas Whittemore, distinguished
Unversalist preacher, died at Cambridgeport,
Massachusetts, on Friday last.
MIR. A N. Miller, founder. of Savannah, has
Just completed piece of ordnance for the State,
twenty four FOUNDER, by way of experiment.
There is young lady in Boston so refined in
language that she never uses the word "black
guard. but substitutes "African sentinel"
Quite sensation was created in Wheeling
the other day by a bogus dispatch, announcing
that the Harriet Lane had been fired into by the
Carlisle battery.
A Baltimore letter says that "ab0ut six hun
dred young men have left this city during the past
two months, as enlisted soldiers of the Southern
Confederate army
President Lincoln's reception in Trenton,
New Jersey, for a few hours, cost the State 3d.,
00Sl This is even more extravagant than the
Albany one.
"A buxom dame lately sued in a London
Court for divorce on the ground that her hus-
band was Objectionable because he wore silver
nose.
Mrs. Cora D. v Hatch, ''the medium"
says she has received a lecture on secession from
Gen. Andrew jackson, and has published it in
pamphlet form.
The New York Commercial Advertiser offers
reasons why Fort Sumter should be blow mp
rather than be allowed to pass into the hands of
South Carolina in its present condition.
Under the head of terrible retributon" we
find il choronicled that young, unmarried girl
of St Louis, who loved not wisely, but too
well,' gave birth, on Tuesday, to three children
All are doing well.
Senator Wilson, speaking of his belief that
Lincoln will stand firmly by the Chicago platform,
asks, " When ought man to forsake his princi
piles 20 When they are bad" replies the New
York Daybook
Not long since M. Jacquet died at Rouen,
leaving all his fortune to lady in Paris. Singu-
lar to relate, the lady died about the same hour
leaving to NJ. Jacquet all her money. The heirs
of both are to contest which was the survivor.
-Aningenious English inventor proposes to
remedy the want of bust in ladies of ga given
thickness" by a jacket, to be inflated by the
wearer to the proper shape, and, as Willis would
say, ''plumptitude.
"A fellow down East being asked whether the
liquor he was drinking was good article, replied:
oval, / don't know, guess so. There is one
queer thing about it, whenever / wipe my mouth
| burn hole in my Shirt
Some 300, 900 tons of old bells have arrived
in West Troy, New York, to be re-cast. They
come from Mexico, and bear very antique APP
pearance One purports to have been cast ninety
seven years since, and the others range in date
from fifty to seventy-five years.
1t is related at Washington that recently an
Office seeker called upon Secretary Chase having
with him his wife and children, and expected as
he expressed it, to be set right to work. He
came from Indiana. The children, wife and the
baggage were all up to the Secretary's office.
Don't put too much confidence in the low
er's vows and sighs,' said Mrs. Darlington to her
niece; "let him tell you that you have lips like
strawberries and cream, cheeks like tarnation
eyes like asterisk; but such things oftener come
from a tender head than tender heart"
AN unhappy British merchant writes to a
London paper his complaints of female extrava-
gance, and says his three daughters clothes cost
him 1000 per annum. He pretends that he
wouldn't grumble if his dinner was always dressed
as well as his family.
Says the pleasant Providence Journal:
"There is no trusting to March. Only last
Sunday jolly old cock strutted over our tulip
bed and crowed Justify under our chamber win
dow, and yesterday, under the same window, a
tight young Irishman shovelled and sung in a
snow bank"
The town of jacksonville, KY, was about
half burned down on Saturday week. A mother
father, and two children, named Aikens, were
burned to death. The building in which the fire
started was set on fire by drunken fellow out Of
revenge against the proprietor. Two arrests have
been made.
The venerable Mrs. Harper, daughter Of
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, who died in Balti
more some time since, was present as a chile
when Washington resigned his commission al
Annapolis Her picture may be seen as one o
the two auburn haired girls in Col. Trumbull!
painting in the rotuI,,ia of the national capital a
Washington.
Some of the papers say that the wife of Pres
ident eff Davis is native of Indiana, having
been born near Vincennes. We presume refer
ence is made to the first wife of Mr. Davis,
daughter of Gen. Taylor, who was at one tim,
stationed at Vincennes in military capacity
The present Mrs. Davis is daughter of Col
Howell of New Orleans.
1t is not only a very remarkable coinci
dence, but very significant fact, that on the Att
of March, the day which ushered our new Admin
istration at Washington into power, MIR. Gregory
in the British House of Commons, "gave motto
that on an early day he would call the attention
| of her Majesty's Government to the expedienc
of prompt recognition of the Southern Confed
eracy of America"
/ "A correspondent of the Providence Pos
writing from Newport, says:
1--WE have looked to-day, by the invitation O
the Hon. VIM. b. Lawrence, into his magnfc en-
orchard house, which is covered with glass for
distance of three hundred feet in length, and
divided into eight compartments. From this al
tificial garden have been gathered new potatoe:
strawberries, &C., for the proprietors table sine
Christmas. Pineapples have recently ripenec
and have been sent among his friends. Fruit
grown in pots and in graceful hanging baskets
much to the wonder of the behoIder. TIL
orchard-hous is one of the lions of Newport.
The Charleston correspondent of the Ricl
mond Dispatch writes:
There have been but two Postmasters in tn
e city of Charleston since the days of Washington
General Washington appointed Mr.. Balotin 49,
who served until his death, when the present il
e cumbent, Mr.. Huger pronounced Uger) was az
pointed by Mr.. Monroe. Mr.. Huger is now ov
seventy years-Huguenot blood gentleman
a commanding and venerable appearance.
a eve have never had at this port but four Co
, lectors of the Customs since the formation of Il
: United States and one of these Collectors di,
: soon after being appointed.
One by one the wolves which prey upon Il
= lower classes are being cornered and shot. TT
e next downfall among the vulpine genus promis
: to be that of the pawnbroker Last Wednesd;
: afternoon there was meeting of gentlemen
o New York to consider the propriety of orgal
! ling Pawners' or Loaners' Bank similar to Il
one which has been established for one year
Boston. 1t is proposed that the capital of II
!. bank shall be $500, 900; that it shall not be
: bank of issue, and that one and half per cent.
y month shall be charged on all loans. There a
: fifty four pawnbrokers' shops in full blast in Ne
< York. The largest amount of money kept
loan in any one of them is $l5O,000. Fro
u ninety to ninety five per cent of the pledges a
redeemed. Most of the shops charge twent
o five per cent on all loans. The loans of one co
:. Germ amounts to $500, 900 per annum.
i = Louis Napoleon has now to contend wi
: the greatest moral power in France that he h
4 yet encountered His policy in Italy has broug
ID down on his head the anger of the clergy, who
denuncations are, as may be imagined, the
IS verse of fattering. The Bishops have taken Il
4 lead in this work of vituperatng the head of q
State, and one of them, the Bishop of Poictie
> compares him to Pontius Plate. The rece
= pamphlet of the Bishop of Orleans, in reply