Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-04
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
The proceeds of the Boston Sanitary raj
will reach $4,000.

cannot live much longer. De Is in his eighty
first year.
According to President Lincoln's amnesty
proclamation, whole States may be brought into
the Union under the government of negroes.
Major General Burnside and wife are at the
9th Avenue Hotel, New York. The staff of the
General is with him.
Gen. Corcoran was born at Carrowheel,
county Sligo, ireland, Sept Dist, 1897 He en-
igrated to America in lS49.
Congress is trying to Iegislate against the
expectation of gold If it will wait another year
no legislation will be necessary. there will be
none left to send away.
The cattle disease has made its appearance
in Littleton, Massachusetts, in the last few DAYS,
and one person has been obliged TO kill sixteen
head of cattle.
--Parson Brownlow saws he ran away not out
of cowardice, but because he well knew that if
the rebels took him he would have to pull hemp
without footstool.
The Newburyport Herald SAYS twenty years
ago, in the better days of the Republic, that 49,
600 lee would have sent Jonn p Hale home; and
it ought to now.
Three years ago. not a pound of salt was
made in Saginaw Valley, Michigan. There has
year not less than 100000 barrels.
Jenny Lind, il is said, has lost her voice.
This is related to have made itself painfully APP
parent on the occasion of her singing in the Ell
jah" of Mendelsohn lately in England
The Washington Aqueduct is capable of
supplying 81 600 900 gallons of water per day to
the city By the shape in which il will be drunk,
the quantity of the fluid will probably be doubled.
Two splendid private carriages have Just
been made in London for the King of Dlhomey:
one for himself and the other Tor his Queen.
They are constructed to be drawn by twenty aud
ten slaves respectively.
-"Can you tell me how the world saloon is
speltf" was asked of cockney by PHILADELPHIA
an "Certainly," said the Londoner, with q tone
of triumph; there's hess. and hay, and a
hell, and two hoes. and hem
WIN McEwen, late foreman in the age"
Office, Phila'!ephia, bound in $500 bail
to answer for an assault on one of the composit-
ors in that office. who refused to join in strike
| The offence is punishable by an Imprisonment of
three years and fine of 81 900
Chicago received 100 900 hogs in one week
recently. In continuous line, they would form
a hog telegraph $50 miles long, or 4 sausage line
3.cOh miles in length, enough to reach from San
Francisco to New York.
The Philadelphia Age ssys: Our Magma
Charta was not wrung from amy tyranny, our
habeas corpus from any Charles ii y There is
the trouble II FIVE had won it through tears, suf
fering, ard blood, il would not have been SO
carelessly thrown away.
-Captaln Levi Sortwell of Cleveland. Ohio,
died last Thursday. agel sixty nine, leaving his
total property, valued at forty thousand dollars.
10 the Cleveland Orphtn Asylum He came 10
that city thirty -tlmee ears ago II poor man. He
was bachelor.
"A citizen of rmaica, l. | . was neatly sold
by his wife lately She managed t. make him
find baby ther own in basket at the street
door. a pinned to the child's dress said he
was the father. which lie stoutly denied, until
the joke was explained.
The legislature of Texas has refused to pass
resolution recommending the rebel Congress to
declare treasury mites legal tender A Hous-
ton paper remarks: "The legislature is believed
10 be under conservative influence though devo-
| ted 10 the Confederate cauSe"
"A curious and interesting discovery has re-
Gently been made in California, of pyramid
very similar in construction to the Egyptian pyra-
ini,ls, only very mich smaller. The stones COM
posing the courses average six feet in length,
aud from one foot TO three feet in thickness
The New York Tribune argues that because
there are twenty two shareholders to only
one STAKEHOLDER in Louisiana. slavery ought to
be abolished in that S ate Well In New York
there are twenty non-real estate owners to one
who owns real estate. Why no, abolish property
in real estate in New York?
The following singular announcement ap-
peared recently in the advertisements columns of
New York morning Journal:
SIX bridesmaids and gronmsm en- wanted, by
- couple shout to be married who have but few
friends in this cit. aud wish To be handsomely
united. To respect lille rites lair compensR
ton viii he paid Address, &c
john P Hale advocates a suspension of the
writ OF habeas corpus in orler e. get offenders
against the Government into prison and beyond
The reach OF law and then sells his Senatorial
influence with the imm tcuaie Stanton to get
them out ION parole" This j. radical, loyal
league patriotism 1t is giving the Government
practical support"
There a good many machines for sepa-
rating chaif from wheat, but he who shall invent
one Ia these days for separating truth from false
hood will lee doing the greatest servi-e. We
conservatives want to know truth and falsehood
aprt that We m tel only the former, and the
rebels and nl' ,lliohisi- that they may tell only
the latter i Louisville Journal.
county. within the bounds of single school dis
trict, there have been eighty cases of diptheria
aud twenty three deaths from il during the past
two nOtth-l There were five funerals there last
week: twn children lay dead Yesterday; three
more were not exlecied to live ~ hours; and
three new c'ses we're reported by physicians yes
terday morninei
Sail, Jones, have YOU done that sum yet?''
"No, thir. cant 30 IT," Cunt do I'll Whv,
at your age. eoud do any sum that was set me-
Sally, | advise you to avoid that word can't;
there is no sum thAt emit be done | tel you I"
Il think fhir, that know a thum that you can't
thifer out. "Hl-well, Sally, let's hear H."
at is trith. sir: il one apple cauihel ruin to the
whole human raith. how many apnies will it take
TO make barrel of thiJer that shall drown The
human raith again. thir?' Miss Sally Jones,
you may turn to your parsiDg lesson .
The New York Evening Post tells of a Con-
nectcut man who has twenty-five children and
grand children IN the Government service" as
il that fact should entitle the family to the graft
tude of The countfS IL fails, however, 10 notice
the particular service i'm which they ARE en-
gage]. Ii IS not very unusual to find whole
families serving" tie Government in fat Offices
with large salaries aud wide opportunities. The
Prince OF Loyal Leaguers Henry b Stanton. and
family. were i'm ''Goyerument service" i'm the
New York Custom House until the ihieving op-
eratious ia their department were discovered.
WAR SENATOR HALE's FRIENDS THINK OF
HIS 'RErAlShR1' The radical correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette. who holds the Office of
Librarian in the House of Representatives.
writes: .,
Hates explanation yesterday about his taking