Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-05-05

SUOV0 OStO AVO0
There has not been known 50 late a spring
- the present one for many years. The far
msrs Of Long laland have just commenced
blowing. which they have generally done by
the middle Of March. In Texas, 20 late a spring
has not been known for thirty years past.
OF 7s2 ~convicts 10 the Auburn State Prison,
SIT were never instructed 10 any trade or call
ing whereby to earn a subsistence.
The resolution in the Massachusetts, House
of Representatives, relative to aliens, has been
so amended as to allow them to vote and hold
Office after a residence of 81 years.
Louis Napoleon has been investing large
sums in California in the names of other par.
ties. So says the Washington Star.
A dovetailing machine has been invented
and is IN use in Boston, which enables a single
workman to dovetail with ease from eight hun.
dred to one thousand bureau drawers a day.
The officers Of the missing sloop-of.war AL.
bany have been stricken from the rolls of the
Navy Department as men deceased, and their
places have been filled by the promotion Of
surviving Juniors in the respective grades, all
hope Of their being now alive, on the sea or on
the land, having been abandoned by the gov.
eminent.
The press of Boston alone distributes annu-
ally some sixty millions Of newspapers.
The corner stone Of a Jewish Synagogue
was laid at st. Louis, on the 10th inst. It is
the first structure of lsraelitish worship ever
commenced west Of the Mississippi.
Sergeant Peter Clark, of the U. s. Marine
Corps, and late Orderly Sergeant of the Marine
Guard at Pensacola, has become heir to an
estate in Ireland worth six thousand pounds
per annum. He has been in the U. s. Service
for Is years.
The Herald, published at Camden, 10 the
State Of Arkansas, gives . sad picture Of the
long. continued and desolating drought 10 that
section, which has never been equalled, at least
10 the amemory Of the Oldest inhabitant."
Ayouth in Boston was 10 love, and being
possessed with a sorrowful suspicion that
somebody was trying to cut him out, went to
the post Office and possessed himself Of . Val.
entine addressed to his dear. His dear, indig-
nant At such a bold interference with woman's
rights, has brought a criminal action against
him, and he is now under bonds TO appear for
trial before the United States District Court.
a lawyer in the Boston Municipal Court has
been suspended from practice for having said
to one Of the jurors: ~You know that you
and l belong to the same political party. You
are the only man | know on the jury, and |
shall rely on you. / have about forty liquor
cases in Court, aud expect to gain half of them.
A disagreement Of the jury is just as good for
my purpose, you know, as an acquittal."
Captain Downing, lately dismissed from the
Navy, has claimed that the proceedings Of the
court martial were illegal, on the ground Of the
temporary absence Of u member Of the board
at the trial. 1t has been decided by Attorney
General Cushing that the dismissal 10 a con-
summated fact, and that he cannot Be restored,
even if the proceedings are illegal, except BY
re.appointment and confirmation.
SAN gas contains moisture. The watar Va
por condenses within the pipes that pass up
ward through the lamp posts. and in severely
cold weather freezes, forming crystals Of ice,
and SO rapid is this action that it cannot be
f~oreseen 10 time to prevent the evil. Lamps
which burn brightly one night are found to be
frozen the next; others which burn well ia the
evening will freeze during the night. All that
can b done'is to clear them 40 quickly a. pos.
sible, and this il done."-Mr. Roome, If the
Manhattan Gas Co. - \
Mr.. c. H. CoIlette, Of London. has patented
an important improvement in the manufacture
Of sugar. It has been for SON time known
that the yield Of sugar from came juice, molss.
ses, beet root juice, and other sacchsrine juices.
10 smaller than it ought to be-; and the cause Of
this small yield has been attributed " the use
Of Z large quantity Of charcoal TO clarity the
syrup. whereby q considerable portion Of the
sugar becomes absorbed, notwithstanding the
careful manipulation. Mr.. Coiletts's pro.
cess is said to admirably meet this difficulty.