Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-03-23
Mrs. HAMMER who was found guilty Of i'll |

INSTANT 10 SIX mOHlnS lmpfisonmcnt Wy ouuSe
Kelly. Among series Of cruelties, it was
alleged that she applied red-hot iron to his
naked flesh, leaving terrible scar.
"At the announcement of the sentence, Mrs.
Hammer swooned, and Mr.. Hammer, (who was
tried and acquitted on the same CHARGE labor
ing under great feeling, while the tears run
rapidly down his cheeks, asked permission to
say few words, which was granted, when he
made strong appeal that she should not be
sent to prison, as he feared her reason would
be entirely overthrown, or her life sacrificed.
Judge Kelly, however. expressed his detcrmi-
nation to punish her, when Hammer asked that
the court remand the child to his custody.
Judge Kelly replied: "No. Had your own
admissions upon the former hearing, that you
took the child out of bed while asleep, and
whipped him with shoe been given in eyi.
dence, the Jury would have convicted you also.
In that event, would have sent YOU to the
same prison for the same length OF time, bat
not to The same CELL" Mrs. Hammer was i'm
mediarely conveyed to prison"
CALHOUN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIoy.-The
ceremonies Of this anniversary took place at
Charleston, South Carolina, last Saturday.
The occasion will be long remembered. The
procession was very large and imposing COM
posed principally Of the military, fire compa-
Mes civic authorities, and associations. The
grafton in the theatre, which was crowded from
pit to dome, was delivered by the Hon. W. D.
Porter and is said to have done justice to the
orator and the occasion.
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INDIAN CAPTIyEs REcovErEp.-Our readers
will recollect the interesting narrative of the
capture and escape of Mrs. Jane Adeline Will
son, by the Camanche Indians, last summer,
by whom she and her two brothersinlaw,
(boys) were taken of prisoners. When Mrs.
Wilson escaped, the boys were still in the pos
session of the Indians One of them has since
been brought into Fort Washita, Choctaw Ma.
ton, by halcbreed who purchased him of the
Indians; and the whereabouts Of the other
was known, and immediate measures taken for
his rescue.
MEANS OF ESCAPE from houses on fire have
recently been adopted by the police Of London.
They have stout canvass sheets prepared, which
are stretched beneath the house on fire, and
into which the persons in the building throw
themselves, and are caught. The canvass es-
cape has been tried, and has given the greatest
satisfaction as to its utility and safety. Per.
sons who could not be persuaded to descend
FIRE ladder have lcaped into the CANVASS with.
out hesitation.
The LATE GALE IN ALDASY.-The Daily
Knicker5ocker, of the goth, contains in nearly
three columns list Of the disasters from the
gale Of Saturday last. 1t appears that every
portion of the city shared its proportion OF
damage, and hardly house but showed the ef-.
fects Of the violence Of the wind. Many per-
sons were injured by the falling parts OF the
buildings, though but one pcraon was known to
have been dangerously wounded.
A New MOTIVE PowER.-An Avignon paper
chronicles the arrival there Of vehicle driven
by compressed mir which had come from Mar.
settles, distance of fifty miles in four hours
The carriage was divided like house, into va
rious compartments, for different uses, and con.
veyed upon this its FIRST trip one hundred per-
sons. French high roads permit easily speed
Of twelve miles an hour.
The HoosAc TUNNEL. The lower house
Of the Massachusetts legislature passed to
third reading the Hoosac tunnel bill. The
New York Dutchman says: /" Should it go
through the senate and become law, We can
furnish the directors with a bore that will
augur his way through more granite in an
hour than any machine that has yet been in
vented. He is the middle-agcd gentleman who
sends, us twice q week, a few lines dedicated
to a water-lilly.'"
HoRr1cuLTuRAL- ExHrDITIoys.-By permits
sion the weekly exhibitions of the association
will be held in the agricultural room in the
basement of the Patent Office, to commence on
Saturday next, the 25th instant. Specimens
should be in before ten o'clock, and each con.
tributor is requested to provide for the arrange,
ment and preservation Of his own specimens.
"SAsTA ANNA, it is said, has sent an order
to Messrs Ames, the great cannon manutac-
turers Of Springfield, Massachusetts, for two
hundred guns OF from ten to fifteen pound
calibre each, and the payment of the order,
which of course includes the supply OF q vast
amount of ammunition, musketry,. reviewers,
&C., is to DO made contingent on the passage
of the Gadsden treaty"
1.-THE payment is contingent upon the ratlti'
cation of the Gasden treaty, present indications
are that Santa Anna will have tho " best end Of
the bargain"
TIE TusK OF MAsropoN, or some other
enormous animal Of an extinct species, was ex-
humed near Cincinnati few days since. 1t
was discovered in q sand-bed, thirty feet below
the surface. It measured six feet two inches
in length, and was in state OF good preser-
walton.