Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-06-13
Another Senator Dead.

Hon. Franklin III. Elmore Of South Carolina died
at Washington the 30ih ult. He took his seat
in the Senate on the 9th Of May, under an appoint
ment by the Governor uf South Carolina to fill the
place made vacant by the death of Mr. Calhoun.
He reached Washington in feeble health laboring
under fatal malady, disease uf the lIngs) which
in the damp atmosphere of the Capitol soon iermna-
ted fatally. He was gentleman Of pure and
alted moral character great intellectual endowmens,
of calm and conservative temperament necessary
in Legislative Halls this crisis. The Senators
had scarcely divested themselves Of the weeds of
mourning for Mr.. Calhoun, before they were called
to follow his successor to the tomb ''What shad
ows we are, and what shadows we follow" In read
ing the eulogies pronounced in the Senate and House
on the occasion of his DEATH forciby struck
with the beauty and simplicity of the closing remarks
of Mr.. Woodward of South Carolina. When he
reached the point in his eulogy to speak of the dis
consulate widow he said "Upon the social
ties that have been broken, choose not to make any
remarks The disconsoate heart shrinks from the
g Le of the world and what our eyes may not look
at but our lips forbear to MENTION"
trial of considerable ineres, is now in progress
before the Circuit Court of the United States Judge
Mclean presiding in which John Norris of Boone
county, Kentucky is plaintiff, and Leander B. New.
ton, E. B. Crocker and several others defendants
This is suit for the recovery Of damages from de-
PENDANTS. for aiding and abeting the escape of slaves
Some twenty or thirty witnesses are in attendance
and the trial will occupy several days. The alleged
escape of the slaves was at South Bend in this State
Norris had captured his negroes four in number. in
Oh IS ro;Io fror
Bend, and returning with them, on his road to
Kentucky, they were taken from his possession, at
South Bend on a writ of habeas corpus, and dis
charged by the Probate Judge of ST. Joseph county.
Norris subsequently arrested the negroes on writ
from the CLERK Of the Circuit Court, when of
great confusion ensued, in which clubs, pistols and
| bowie knives were drawn, but no body hurt. The
slaves were finally taken to the county jail by the
sheriff, late in the evening. The next day the Ken
lucky party, five six in number, arrested for
assault, assault and battery and rot and one of
them fined and of the others bound to
Court. Norris demanded his negroes from the sheriff
but refused. n second writ of habeas corpus
had been sued out, and on which the negroes were
second time set free-Norrs not appearing at the
second trial. His effort seems to be TO prove that
there settled design, on the part of many of
the citizens of South Bend and others, to rescue his
negroes from him, and he has made the sheriff of the
county defendant in the suit. As this is the point
which the fate of the suit is supposed to turn it
would be improper to say any thingon this part of
the subject.
Messrs. Lston and o. H. Smith are cosnsel for
the plaintiff, and Jernegan and Marshall for the de-
PENDANTS AT the summing up of the evidence there
will be measuring of strength between at least two
of the giants of the Indiana bar. and considerab bic
anxiety will be felt TO hear them.