Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-07

There are 900 students in Oberlin College
New Hampshire has voted TO hold a Consti
tutional Convention.
The project Of cutting a canal through the
Istbmus of Panama has been again revived
"A New Jersey farmer has taken q .00
pounds of tobacco oil of twenty acres Of land
this year.
Prentice thinks that the stream of powei
that foss from Washington ought to DO damned
The lager heer brewers OF this country pas
81 900 900 annually for ice To he used in the
manufacture OF that beverage
Some one has taken the trouble 10 calculate
what it costs to support all the dogs in the world
and has concluded that the expense amounts &c
about $50. 0O0, 900 annually.
Edwin Forrest has recently created an ex
traordinsry furore in Philadelphia and Washing
ton by restoring "Coriolanus an slmos, lost
Shaksperean play.
The apparatus of the Philadelphia fire de
partment consists of forty steam fire engines
with the necessary appurtenanceS The support
os the department has COS. the city during the
last year about 100000.
They tell of New York regiment which
land more than Il 900 miles, fought 90 genera
engagements. marched through fifteen States
aud has been under Burnside. Pope. Mcclellan
Mcdowell, Meade. Sherman and Grant.
Queen Victoria has given TO every fsrmeI
within several miles of her Highland Palace oil
Dalmoral, copy of " The PRINCIPAL Speeche-
and Addresses of HIS Royal Highness the Prince
COnsort," with her autograph on the fiyleaf
About half Of them being able to read the gift
- Of great value.
The Newark Advertiser says it learns upon
inquiry at the Office in NAT city of the Morris
and Essex Railroad. that the story which origin
atei with the Herald. that General Mcclellan has
been appointed Engmeer-in Chief OF that road
with salary Of S25 900 per annum. Is entirely
without foundation.
An article in French political paper VA
recently suppressed by the censor of the press
The next day i've columns of the journal, the
space the article would have Occupied were LET,
blank leaving only the heading - hither are
We going 7" and the signature Of the author ~
the foot of the vacancy
When Mr. Seward uttered his prophe.v
about its requiring our armies from sixty 10
ninety days 20 "hnish" the rebellion Ire no doub,
wanted conssrne his words like the geoio-
gsts constFue the "davs" mentioned in Genesis
each oneas an age WeaFe nov in the sge Of
Norses.
"A gentleman. writing from Paris. Sys that
he has witne>se; exhibition Of system OF
teaching the deaf and dumb ~ speak A little
girl. he effie-. eho nd received ,ui,ion. wss
able 20 speak lew seateoces in French The
pupils are zught by means Of the hand alphabet
10 form their mouth. and place their tongue in a
certain position. and when once they get the
figh, sound and BY encouragement, they retain il
Tor future use.
The 81 Albans affair has made the Yer.
monters suspicious A party Of them saw some
signals the other day-knew they did-and
raised an alarm steamer vas cleared for ac
ton. ana fpn for the spot designated. when tie
"5gbais~~ere found 10 be TWO innocen, sea
gulis summing themselves The "Green Moui-
tsin Boys" now eonlsss that they we're "guled %