Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-06-10
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

We have New Orleans papers 0f The u b con-
tanning intelligence FRONT Mexican frontier.
We extract the following items:
Orders from Washington. Gaines ves-
terdav received Off :iai nnnicati IN from
Washington, counIermanding his Older for raising
a regiment of mounted GUNNER.
The Legislature OF Louisiana has voted $500
for sword for Gn. Taylnr. Memphis has rails.
ee 800 volunteers for the u S. service,
The Mexican steamers. whose departure for
Cruz we noticed yesterday, were IN the possess
siou of firm a, Havana as security for a loan Of
$6OO,000 The firm being DESTROYS OF prot-cl-
ing their interest, ,o.k advantage OF The alb
sence Of The American squadron under Com. Con-
ner, to send them TO Havana. neuiIaf port. under
the colors of their nation. This is the prob
able cause, and upon the face Of things II is very
unlikely that the British Government has auyihng
Ia do with it.
The U. s. schooner Fiirt. iIh a crew Of 62
men, left the city last night for the BRACES San,i-
ago. Not the frs, dollar of appropriations have
yet been made here. The dsbUrsng officers are
over head IN debt. They do not seem to under
stand matters a. Washington. o. Bee 27M.
STEAMBOAT ACClDENT--w regret 10 learn
that a serious accident occurred Oh the steamboat
Gen. Scott, last Saturday afternoon. her trip
from the Saut to Mactinaw. When about p
niles east of the latter place, her boiler burst, seal
ding three men. Que Of them, Dominique Will
ams, fireman. died the next morning. The
other two, John L. Packard, a fireman, aud Ja-
seph Robur, deck hand were not dangerously i'll
jured. --Detron Advertiser.
MAKING AN ODD FELLOW an anus
ing Trial came off last week before the court of
Common Pleas of this district. Ii appeared that
party OF mischievious Sand Hill ways perswua-
dtd am indolent fellow named Bareniine that he
cauld get rid of working if he would let them
make him an Odd Fellow; that the order in Co
lumbia would allow him lweniy- five dollars per
quarter for life, when he was initiated which was
done by branding! The persuasous Of his COM
rades and The prospect OF ease and comparative
af1cence, influenced him to submit. to the OPERA
ton, which was done IN most barbarous manner
with common cdt,.e-brand applied to the fleshy
part of his body seuen times. The fellow stated
hat The first application hurt 90 much that he beg
ged them desist, but they told him unless it was
well done he could not pass an examinaton.-
When cross-questoned by the defendants counsel
with implied doubt Of the truth of his evidence.
he offered to exhibit the stern reality itself in
confederation, but mis- honor the Judge said he
would dispense with that sort oftestmony. The
fact however was established to the satisfaction
of the court by other testimony. The perpe,ra-
tors of The outrage were found guilty, bu, appeal
ed from the verdict of the jury Columbia Chron
Contentment.- Is that beast better that hath two
or three mountains to Craze over. than little bee
that feeds on the dew, or mama. aud lives upon
what falls every day from the store houses heav-
en-, clouds and providence? Can man quench
his thirst better outsof river than full urn; or
drink better from fountain which is finely paved
with marble, than when it wells over the green
turf?