Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-22

days of September, 1855, as the days on
which the next annual Fair of said Society
will be held.
or Hon. T. A. HENDRICKS, has again re-
sumed the practice of the law-his favorite
profession. Mr. H. while at Washington, was
admitted an Attorney and Counsellor in
the Supreme Court of the United States.
CHOLERA on THE MIssIssIPPI-A pas
senger from New Orleans lately arrived, in
forms us that nineteen or twenty slaves had
died of cholera on the plantation of Mr.. BA-
NON, not far from Baton Rouge.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, ESsLAND-l
From an article in the last Westminster il ap-
pears that the annual income of all the col
leges OF Cambridge is one hundred and
eighty-five thousand pounds sterling.
A NOVEL PLEDGE-In Sullivan county, one
of the candidates for county clerk was
pledged to give one half the proceeds of the
office to the widow of the late clerk, and the
other promised in the event of his election to
marry The aOsdoiO.
OF Died at the residence of JAMES p
BRBsGLE, in Carlisle, Sullivan county, on the
lst inst, Judge JAMES ScoTF, aged 81 years
and 10 months This gentleman was one Of
the three remaining pioneer lawyers who
were practitioners in the first territorial courts
OF the North West Territory.
0r Might as well be hung for an old
sheep as lambs a saving which was
verified a few days ago in two sentences bv
the Allen Circuit Court. A man stole a coat
valued at from three to FIVE dollsn, and was
sentenced to two years in the State Prison
another, who stole horse, was sentenced for
the same period.
OF The New Haven Palladium SAYS that
he nest of young incendiaries and burglars
which the police have very much disturbed,
was bound together by the most solemn obli-
cations, and that the penalty for disclosure of
its operations or of its members, was death.
0TA young lady boarding in Sussex street,
jersey City, was attempted to be carried off
on Wednesday evening last by four young
men from New York, one of whom pretend
ed to have been paving MS addresses TO her
previously. Efforts are being made to bring
them to justice.
(eT The locomotive, London, with tender
attached. crossed the railroad suspension
bridge, near Niagara Falls. on the afternoon of
the 9Th inst Several persons were on board
and the trip was made twice forward and
back" causing great sensation on both sides
of the river.
0rAt Syracuse, n. Y, the jury in the
case of ALFRED FyLER, on the charge Of
murder of his wife, who has been on trial for
seventeen days, after being out about FIVE
hours, returned with a verdict of guilty.
OTMr. J. ]. BRowS, says the New Alba
nv Ledger, declines the Know Nothing nomi-
nation for Council in the Third Ward. He
SAYS he has not I" fully recovered" from the
Fusion nomination for Agent of State, at In
dianapolis.
OF The arrival and departure OF heavily
ladened steamers at nearly every hour, says
the Madison Banner, both day and night, has
had a most sensible effect upon business.
The river is in the finest possible condition
fol navigation.
SERVING WARRANTs.-We learn, says the
Louisville Democrat, that the Marshal of the
| CITY. and his assistants. served warrants on
such tavern and coffee house proprietos sus-
pectel of violating the Sunday liquor law.
The penalty is heavy-S5OO fine and forfeit
| of license. Stand from under.I
or The aggregate expenses OF Congress
for the year, consisting of pay, mileage, COM
pensation of officers, contingent expenses and
library. amount, according to the appropria-
ton bill, TO s1,479,69 The diplomatic ex-
penses for the year amount to S733,390
nT In the case of the United States,
against Bartholomew Blanco, merchant oi
New York, being charge of slave tratfeing
between the West coast of Africa and Cuba,
in the bark Milandon, Commissioner Morton
rendered his decision, dischargng the accused
! from the variant Of arrest
0T De QUINCY in one of his essays, says :
Russia, a mighty empire as respects the
simple grandeur of magnitude, builds her
power upon sterility. She has it in her
power to reduce an invading foe int' vast
circles of starvation, of which the radii meas
ue thousand leagues
OF Rev n. RIaHTER, agent of the Amer
ican Bible Society in the East writes from
the camp before Sevastopol, stating his kind
reception by Lord Raglan, and his distribu-
ton of the Scriptures in the army and among
Russian prisoners.
OF Connecticut has twenty-eight clock
factories, employs five thousand two hundred
hands in the manufacture, has one million
dollars invested, and makes annually seven
hundred and ninety Thousand clocks. One
fourth of these time-keepers find market in
England.
OF Capt VAN CLEyE, for thirty years EN-
ployed upon Lake Ontario, has rendered his
resignation to the Ontario and St. Lawrence
Steamboat Company, to take effect on the lst
Of January next. No loss of life or accident
resulting in the damage TO the amount OF
! 800 ever occurred under his command.
lJ The model of the new Collins steam
er, to take the place of the Arctic, has been
agreed on. She is 10 be 3l5 feet long (40 feet
more than the present steamers) and the pow
er of her engines is to be so per cent. greater
than those of any American steamer ahoaL
She is expected to cross the Atlantic in nine
days.
0E Under the new bounty land bill, which
gives one hundred and sixty acres of land To
everybody, and in case he Is dead to his wife