Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-11-29
Scraps for Hasty Readers.

Rope carpets are coming into general use
in CINCINNATI.
Two more foreign paupers were shipped
back from Boston last week.
Slaves in Brazil, when they find diamond Of
great value in diamond mines, are set free.
The copper coins of the United States are
only struck at the Philadelphia mint.
Light rains are beginning to fall quite fire.
quently in San Francisco, the sure precursor Of
the annual deluge.
The Mormons pretend to have received two.
new revelations lately.
The steamer Jas. Robb, building at Cincin-
natl, is to have three cabins.
Java coffee has grown this year in Caswcll
county, N. c., fully matured.
The Methodist Church controversy has been
decided by ordering an equal division of tho
property.
The editor of the Eutaw (Ala) Democrat
calls Clay and Webster "tcdious old FOOLS
That fellow must be as sensible as his remarks
is courteous.
A suggestion has been made that the Gov
ernment authorize envelopes to be made with
the prepayment stamp engraved upon them.
1t would save world of trouble.
Western editor asks the following ques-
ton: "lf fellow has nothing when he gets
married, and the girl has nothing, is her things
hizen, or his things hern :" swell, we think
so, too
Col. Carter, of the Lycoming Democrat, Off.
ciates as editor, foeman, pressman, compositor,
H. h,1n that's et,
ling compositor will turn up before many
moons
Santa Anna is again talked Of in Mexico as
the only man who can save the Republic. 1t
seems certain that without some unexpected
intervention, the Government must be broken
up.
| Since the election in Mississippi, the BARRIERS
charge Jake Thompson, the defeated disunion-
| ist, one dollar for shaving him. They say his
'sface is so long," that it takes them half a day
to do it. Poor fellow.
Two Hungarian officers, feeling themselves
aggrieved at letter published in the New
| York Herald, relative to Kossuth, defed Ben
nett to mortal combat. He didn't accept-hc
never accepts. 4
The Southern Planter says, one ton of hay
will winter from five to seven sheep, provided
they are protected from the weather. Fodder
| is, also very wholesome for the same purpose.
| The late elections in Pennsylvania Ohio,
Georgia, California, South Carolina and Vir-
ginia, have given unmistakable evidence of the
attachment of the great masses to the Union
and the Constitution.
At the late term of the United States Dis
trict Court, held at Iowa city, Isaac Sloan was
convicted of using Post-ofice stamps Sc
cond time, and sentenced to pay fifty dollars,
and ten cents.
The question is being agtated in the Ten
nessee Legislature to allow the wives and
children of the convicts in the Penitentary in
that State, portion Of their earnings.
The principal information from Ireland is,
that the emigration thence continues at abou.
the average rate of one thousand per day.
A woman quarreling with her husband, told
him she believed if she was to die he would
marry the Evil Ones eldest daughter. "The
law does not allow man to marry two sis.
ters," replied the tender husband.
The Sultan's liberality to Kossuth and all
: other refugees, continued up to the day of
their departure. They cost him $4,000 pias-
tres, or 81 100000 since their entrance on his
> soil.
The worthiest people are most injured BY
slanderers; as we usually find that to be the
best fruit which the birds have been picking
at
4 Nothing is truly infamous but what is wick
ed, and therefore shame can never disturb an
I innocent and virtuous mind @~i-
0 Hope will be your best antidote against all
misfortune; and Gods omnipotency an excel
lent means to fix your soul.
D When thou hast no observers, be afraid oi
9 thyself, that which you are afraid to do be-
= fore men, be afraid to think Of before God.
A good conscience seats the mind on a ricl
throne of lasting quiet, but horror waits upon
laguilty soul.