Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-18
ALI SORTS Of PARAGRAPHS.

Kentucky has about Is 900 negro troops IN
the field. aud about IS 600 subject 10 draft.
The venerable presiding bishop Of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, Thomas Church
Bcownell. ID d., died at his residence IN Hart
ford, Conn, on the 18th inst.
Since the publication of the income lists in
Chicago, the government has received 5000 in
fines and $50 900 in amended returns.
Boston has l04 churches aud halls open on
Sundays for religious worship, aud the average
attendance ia 68 .47O. The population of the
city is $4,000.
"A Washington letter says. in referring 10
kalloch: This eminent Boston divine, some
what celebrated because of his eloquence and
fondness for the aromatic compound known as
whisky skin az well as a weakness for finely
developed female humanity, is now at the head
OF an educational institution among the Ottawa
Indians, and is represented TO be doing a great
work among them. 1T the parson is true to his
reputation, the next generation of Ottawss, in
his immediate vicinity. will be much improved
physically as well as mentally"
1t is said that when Gen. Sherman's march
through Georgia was determined upon, the secre
tary of war informed him that the president de
sired Gen. Hooker should be appointed second in
ommand Gen. Sherman replied. expressing his
preference for Howard; he was again informed
that the president particularly desired the appoint
ment of Hooker. Gen Sherman answered that
his resignation WAS At the presidents disposal,
when the secretary wrote 10 Sherman, 4" Ap-
point whom you please
A correspondent Of a Boston paper writes
from that city that General Mcclellan leaves for
his European tour the first week in February.
IL -. I..l.-ol H. 81 Af tho rrtyafa upzsal
rendered by his friends. He leaves in the steam
err China. and will be gone a couple of years.
he is made perfectly easy in pecunisry matters.
He will make q thorough study of the military
science in Europe.
1t is said there are now IN the coal regions
of PENNSYLVANIA, men who call themselves wiz
ards and claim the power of pointing out rich de
posts by the use of the divinlng rod in the shape
of a hazel twig. Ii is alleged that some of the
largest flowing wells of oil in Pennsylvania and
Virginia have been discovered in this manner.
The Henderson (Texas) Times states that
Col. W A. Broadwell, chief of the cotton bureau
trans Mississippi department, has imported into
that department. %. 900 pair of blankets, $4,000
pair of shoes, $50 600 yards of shifting. 10000
pounds of powder, 2G0, 900 pounds Of lead. 5000.
900 percussion caps, 40 900 yards gray cloth
and a large quantity of guns, hardware. copper,
~saltpetre and a great quantity of small stores
Seventy wagon loads have already passed thro
Henderson, and The cry is still they come.
There is much excitement at Harrisburg,
Pa, occasioned 10y a proposition before the Leg
~islature of the State TO give the entire bed OF the
Allegheny River to a company of spectators
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
SAYS
The effort TO donate the bed of the Allegheny
to one oil company is too stupendous to pass by
without a more extended notice than it has yet
received. Estimate, il you can. the value of one
hundred and fifty miles of land (or water half a
mile wide, at a thousand dollars per acre, which
is very low and see if the aggregate does not
make a sum sufficiently large TO pay of the
State debt Yet this is to be given to some hall
dozen spectators.