Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

tenden Secretary of Safe of Kentucky VIM. L.
Calender, Esq., succeeds him in The Commonwealth
MARRYING A DECEASED WIRES SISTER -Tae bill,
in the British Parliament, to permit the husband to
marry with his deceased wes sister, has been carried
through second reading by majority Of 81; there
being ayes l62, nays 100.
A Naval Court of Inquiry, c,mposed of Commo-
dOres Morris and Shubrick, and Commander Du-
pOb. has been ordered To- assemble at Annapolis on
the 10Th Of April. 10 make investigation into the
capture Of Alvurado by Lieut. Hunter.
OcTMr CLINeMAN. a leading whig member of Con-
gress from North Carolina, in lengthy letter pub
lshed IN the Washington Republic 10 reply To the
speech of his colleague, Mr.. SrANLY, counsels the
Soutlern members to unite in withholding approprla-
ons, especially from the Army and Navy, until the
slavery question shall be adjusted to the satisfaction
OF the South.
TIE REMINGTON BRIDeE--A Bridge which is now
being erected at Montgomery, Alabama, has span
Of four hundred feet. without piers or other nerven-
ing supporters stringers being only three inches
thick in the middle This Bridge will be capable Of
sustaining upwards of 1000 TONS and will cost only
$1,000.
o. The editor Of the indianapolis Journal speak
ing of COL German, heads the article show they ma Ike
great men," We remember once upon time how
the universal wing party made great man-one
Zachary TayIor-srnamedZ Zachary Washington, who
uDmade the whole of whggery. The lesson will
profit them, and not damage the rest Of mankind
Lou Dem.
6TResoluiions, in effect resembling the instruc
ton resolutions of the last session OF the Michigan
Legislature, passed the lower House of the
Legislature OF that State on the I'D uit., and
doubt is entertained Of their passage through the
Senate The action of the Legislature of Michigan
will relieve Gen. Cass from the necessity of resgning
his seat in case the Wimot Provso should come up
In the Senate.
How THE NEWSPAPERS STAND.-On looking over
our exchange list we find that receive sixty pa
pers published in Of the slaveholdng States
tending from Maryland to Louisiana, and out ct the
sixty cannot count up more than about hfieen,
one-fourth, which take decided ground for South
ern convention. The either strongly oppos-
ed it, doubt to its utility, silent the sub
jet Wilmington Chronicle
OH1o.-The fourth section of the act recently pass
ed by the Legislature of Ohio for the calling of
Convention TO amend the State Constitution, provides
that the proceedings shall be copyrighted for publi
cation durable FORM and that only the Statesman
aud Journal newspapers, at Columbus, shall have
liberty to publish them from day to day. This has
created strong feeling throughout the State. and
there are indignant demands that the unwise and
proftless restriction shall be repealed
MIssIssIPPI.-The Legislature of this State ad-
iourned sine die on the 9th instant. Amongst the
laws which passed, authorizing the election,
by general ticket, of the additional. members of Con-
gress to which the State may become entitled under
the new apportIonment so as 10 supercede special
session of the Legislature TO re-distrct the State. II
also said that by another act the State has at last
determined to receive from the general Government
her share of the proceeds of the public lands.
1t is a remarkable fact, that the largest save-hold-
ers, not only In Virginia. but in all the South,
they who advocate the least violent They
ought know their interests well as their oeious
friends. They know that the Union, long it is
preserved in the spirit in which it formed is
eectual protection TO their property. They there
fore opposed all the violent expedien,s Of the DEM
agogues, which tend to endanger that Union. II is
their determination cling the Union to the
ark of safety Richmond Wing.
WHAT THEY THINK OF IA gentleman in Lou
isiana, writing to the Washington Intelligencer in
regard to the feeling in relation to the Nashville
Convention. says:-"Here and there you find a
man who is in favor Of the Nashville Convention;
but the laugh at IT, and the almost universal
opinion is, that ii will result disasrousy for
the people engaged in it, and overwhelm them with
more political odum, than did the Hartford Conven-
ton those engaged in it."
LAW AGAINST TRUANcY.-An importan, bill is al
present before the Education Committee Of the Lee
gislature of Massachusetts. It is reported a petit
ton from a committee of the Teachers Association
in Boston, and authorizes towns TO take all neces
sary measures compel the attendance at school o.
children. between the ages OF six and fifteen, whC
are permitted by their parents and friends to wander
about the Streets and grow up in ignorance and vice
Very important principles involved In this bill
and its exaction would be attended with many dif5
culties.
The SENTIMENTS OF WHIG.-Mr. TooMBs lead
ing Wing member Of Congress from Georgia, thu,
exhorts the South:
This cry OF the Union is the masked battery from
behind which the Constitution and the rights of the
South are to be assaied. Let the South mark tn,
man who is for the Union at every hazard and to tn,
last extremity; when the day of her peril comes b,
will be the imtator Of that historical character Il
whom the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Lana
ban) referred, the base Judean who for thirty piece
Of silver, threw away pearl richer than all hi
tribe"
SLAVE GAZETTE superior court of BIB county
Georgia, has mulcted, the Macon and Western Rail
road Co. in damages for cutting off the leg Of slav
man who had taken passage in the cars, showing
general pass. but jumped off and was injured Will
the train was going The point decided IS. if tn
company take the negro on the cars, without th
know ledge and consent Of the owner, and he be il
jured by negligence otherwise, the company wi
be liable, though the negro have general pass
Bait Sun.
0rrThe New York Courier says that at the Marir
Barracks, on Thursday, Acting Sergeant james Mon
gomery, Of Marines deliberately shot himself hroug
the head with musket. He duty as Qua
ter-Master Sergeant, in the clothing department,
has been observed for the last fortnight being vel
much oppressed by fits Of melancholy. He was col
stanty Studying the Bible and copying maps and cha
of the Holy Land described therein, and doubtless hi
medItated upon the awful act many days previous
the cOnsummation.
William Worsdell was convicted in Pittsburg
last week. of an attempt TO murder Mr. John job
son in that city. The witness stated that he WI
coming over Hand street bridge on the night of d
23d of February, when the defendant started up, d
manded bis money, fired pistol al him, which to
hole in his coat sleeve, stabbed him in the nee
cheek and eye. The defence was that the prison
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