Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-03-17
fmteresttng Summary.

uThe French in the Crimea now muster, it
is said, $4,000 bayonets.
Dlt is said the President is afraid to appoint
Shields Brigadier General on account of the Know
Nothings.
Ex-senator Fish, of New York, now in Havana
is said to have been very cooly received by Gen
Concha.
UUnited States steamer Fulton has returned
to Pensacola, after a fruitless search for the miss
ing ship Albany.
The Fillibusters it is said have been endeavor-
ing to purchase two fine large ships at Boston, to
be engaged In transporting parties to Cuba.
USoyer, the prince of Paris cooks, has volun-
teered his services to the British government gra-
tuitous]y, to proceed to the Crimea and make
things agreeable extraordinarily.
UIn five years the number of believers in spi-
ritual rappers has, it is stated, increased in this
country to over two hundred thousand, and they
now support eleven newspapers.
UA salute of 100 guns was fired on Boston
Common, at noon on the 5th inst, in honor of the
Inauguration of Franklin Pierce as President, two
years ago. What a waste of powder!
UE. H. Ansley, charged with forging a check
for Sill, 900 on the Canal Bank at New Orleans,
has been brought to that city, from Paris, France,
where he was arrested.
I'm. Layel, a French chemist, says that he
has discovered that by grinding tea in the same
manner as coffee, before infusion, the quantity Of
exhilarating fluid obtained is nearly doubled.
ULate English papers reportthe death, on the
| I'd Of February, of the venerable Rev. G. Fletcher,
at the age of one hundred and eight years. He
was at the battle of Bunker Hill.
under a requisition of the Governor of Pennsylva-
| MIA, charged with obtaining goods in Philadelphia,
under false pretences.
rThe Boston Recorder, one of the Oldest pa
pers in the United States, is taking strong grounds
against clergymen leaving their pulpits to become
legislators Or politicians.
from Europe, which has hitherto arrived at New
Orleans, is 10 be diverted to the northern cities on
account of the great exposure to sickness on the
Mississippi.
E-The New York Herald contains a list of
the town elections recently held in thirteen coun-
ties of that State, which have resulted as follows:
Total Know Nothings elected, lGI; Democrats,
60; Wings, ~. X. Ms. over all, 10.
GA boy named Wallace, aged - years, de-
liberately shot his twin brother, at Ohio, Mo-
hawk county, New York, a short time since. The
little Cain committed the murder in presence Of
his mother, who was unable to prevent him.
UThe Shield, published at Helena: Arkansas,
of Feb. 10, complains that no rain of consequence
has fallen since September, and no snow. 1t pro-
nounces the past autumn and present winter 'most
extraordinary seasons"
U-Robert Nc O'Blenis. we'll known in St.
Louis for the general recklessness of his conduct,
on the 2sth ult. shot and killed Benjamin F. Brand,
a Deputy County Marshal. in the bar-roomo of the
Planters House.
wT, is said that the last ukase of the Gear. !
calling for a levee, en- masse, has excited great
dissatisfaction among the mobiles, as it will de-
prive the soil Of hands for the purposes of cult
walton, and will ruin trade.
UGov. Medill, of Ohio, has made it a rule, in
pardoning convicts; to publish his reasons therefor,
together with the substance of the recommended
tons of the prosecuting attorney and judges,
when those officers join in urging the pardon.
UA An act was passed the late session of Con-
gress, which provides that whoever entices away
any one from the service Of the United States, or
conceals any seamen and boy, and refuses to deli
yer him up, shall be subject to Imprisonment for
one year and $500 fine.
D-A bill to secure to women equal rights
with the sterner SEX, making marriage a species
Of limited partnership, with private and joint pro-
perry, and securing to widows the guardianship
of their children, has been ordered 10 a third read.
ing in the House of the New Jersey Legislature.
I-ln St. Louis, on the Cd instant, there were
sold OIL Change six hundred bushels of wheat at
dollars per bushel-being the highest price,
ne 81. Louis Republican says, ever obtained in
hat market. The quality was choice, but the
rice is evidence Of the scarcity of the article in
hat market.
0-The Roman beggars are a great curiosity
o a stranger. They sit in chairs at every church
loor, and rattle their tin boxes at every passer by.
)ne copper is generally the extent of their de-
nand, and if the charitably-disposed person has
70 copper coin, they are always ready to change
he piece of silver.
@-The name of the gentleman who purchas-
d the Webster farm at Franklin is Rufus L. Tay,
So, and not Fay as has been announced by the
apers. 1t is only a few years since he was an
pprentice to a carpenter at Concord, but came to
was successful in business, and now re-
Tres to his new purchase at Franklin. as his ner.