Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-18

Tie Scientffe Anlerican saws il anticipates
for petroleum r5orel rapid extension TO great
variety OF applications than marked even the IN
PRODUCTION of India rubber.
The President Of Gsntamaia desires a colony
of free blacks TO settle on the haciendes on his
territory. and commence the raising Of cotton.
Some two hundred tons were raised there last
season, and it has proved to be good cotton
country.
Carl Schurz, it appears, signs to return to
his adopted country Madrid possesses little of
the geniality Of social life. and there is more
scenery" about the suburbs than in the desert of
Sahara. -rfrs 5s-ll "a .-A1s FL sra1
There are seventeen fugitive slaves at the
Washington navy yard. They have all been com
fortably provided for by Secretary Welles, and
most OF them are working for a compensation Of
SO month. p 81 s sft
Commodore Levy. the owner eff the Mont
cello estate in Virginia, who remains loyal, has
prepared his viii, IN which he leaves the JEFF
ferson homestead, and 100000 20 keep it in
repair, a legacy to the United States Govern
ment.
Gov. Letcher, of Virginia. in his message,
estimates the force which Virginia has in the field
at $4,000. He says Virginia must not be dis
membered, and that the northwestern part of il
must be recovered. He insists that the Union
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never be conquered --it.ts ~ -
The Boston Liberafor calls the Presidents
message .'feebIe, rambling and ridiculous says
Mr. Lincoln "makes a merit of bis imbecility''-
styles the colonization project "nonsense,' and
the President impertinent" for suggesting il. and
finally characterizes the whole paper as week
and common place TO a pitiful degree"
Il. ". Fowler, once Postmaster of New
York. is carrying on a tobacco manufactory in
Tepec, Mexico, and is said to be making money.
Aaron Jones, the pugilist, is at Mobile. where
he offciates in some connection with the City
Troop or Home Guard.
- The total number Of arrivals in New
York since the commencement of the year is
81 sos, which. when contrasted with 100. 900,
the number for a corresponding period in 1860.
shows the effect Of the war ON emigration.
= On Saturday the Prussian Minister gave
diplomatic dinner to the Orleans Princes in Wash
ington. The representative of royalty, forget
full or careless OF the social law dun pcneris Ro-
name Romano uirito more, seated the Prince de
Joinville and the other princes above Gen. Nc
Clelan.
English papers contain accounts of the effect
of the mildness ofthe weather on vegetation. In
the south of England new leaves and new fruit
are forming on trees that have already borne good
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and pear trees are frequently met with good sized
fruit on their branches
WHIPPING WOMEN IN RussIA-The Paris
PreSse publishes extraordinary news from Russia
Three young ladies-M'dIles Cors MI Bluthner
and Badanow-who attended the lecture at the
University of st. Petersburg have been arrested,
and one of them M'dIle Badanow, whipped at
the Office of the secret police.
1t is stated that in more than three quarters
of the regiments native Americans are in the ma
! jority. The Germans are in the majority in only
six, the Irish in only five out of a hundred. Near
ly two thirds of the army are Americans. Nine
tenth citizens. The average age of the pri-
Yates is over twenty-four years. Threefourths
are single men.
| Recruiting for the navy, brisk as it is, is not
brisk enough to supply, the demands of the ser
vice. One hundred and thirteen vessels are now
fitting out, ard 5000 more seamen are wanted to
man them. The prestige of the navy and the
prospect of passing the winter in the sunny South
ought to bring the reqnist number of men at
once. Flag Officer Foot also wants 900 men
to man the Mississippi flotila. He expects them
| to come from the Lakes. r Etr
1t is at Brussels, says the Moaiteur White
OLE that the greatest quantity of beer is eonsum-
| ed; at Stockholm the most brandy; at Madrid
the most chocolate: at Paris the most absinthe;
the greatest quantity OF strong wines s
The world of fashion is indebted to the EN-
press Eugene for the hoop skirt, and TO Queen
Victoria for the Balmoral. The other day Mrs.
President Lincoln in doing her shopping in New
York, carried home her ewn bundles, and now it
is fashionable" for ladies to do it. Mrs. Gov
ernor Morgan, of New York, not to be behind
hand, attended lecture at Albany, a few even
ings ago, occupied a prominent seat, and knit as
industriously as her grandmother, on soldiers
stocking. Great is fashion, when teaching by
example. Cincinnati Com.
Mr. Robert Dale Owen, who is now in this
city, and staying with the celebrated trapping
medium" and one of the original Rochester
knockers" is an enthusiastic believer, and ex-
pores the secrets Of the other world with ardor
One of the latest manifestations" in the dark
circles has been the appearance of stray light
quivering in the air, and echoed or followed by
the raps. The other evening, while the ex-dipo
matist was gazing, transported, on this phenome
non. the sudden descent of heavy body TO the
floor startled him from his celestial observation
| When the light was turned down, he was still
more surprised to find on the floor the fragments
of a very earthly looking bottle, containing phos
phorus Mr.. Owen unused deeply on this Incl
dent, but his faith in the medium is too strong tC
admit the idea that there was any cheating on tn.
occasion.--N. Y. Cor. Phil Eng.
The New York Tribune complains that mil
lions of loyal negroes are left unarmed who ar,
painting to fight for the Government. We viii
not discuss the loyalty of the negroes, but men
ton, for the benefit of the Tribune. that there arr
now, and have been for months at Camp Doug
las, near Chicago, more than three thousand tcku
soldiers who have not now, nor ever have haS
muskets enough for two companies. Shall W.
prepare plans for armtng negroes when no plaI
has yet been matured for arming thousands OF
thousands of the SIX hundred snd sixty-six thou
sand whites who now in the armyf We hav'
no objection to the Fremo:es Belgian guns being
turned over to the slaves and so getting into th'
hands of the rebels. Perhaps no better mean
could be desired to equip the Confederate force
with worthless weapons and to give our own mel
effective ones; but we must insist that the arm
ing of negroes shall not even be talked of un
til we can do better by our white troops than w
have yet done. r
Our Army Correspondence--Th 7tl
Indiana i'm Western Virginia.
GREEN SPRISG, Va, on THE ONO X. R.,)
December 9TH, 1861.