Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-31
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The BRITIsu ARMY IN INpIA.-Accordng TO Sir
Erskine Perry member OF the British House of
Commons, the British Army in India is now nearly
half million strong, and is in condition Of the
highest efficiency. OF this immense force, thirty
thousand troops in the Queens service, and
forty thousand are European troops in the service
of the East India Company. The gentleman
named recently submitted motion for the APP
pointment OF a committee 10 considO how the
army in India might be made the most available
for the war in Europe, and 10 inquire into the
steps necessary 10 be taken if it should be deemed
expedieni 10 constitute The army OF the East India
Company into royal army. Singular enough,
all the circumstances considered, the proposition
was rejected by a vote of III 10 81.
JuDIcIAL ELEcTIoNs- Elections are TO be held
in Louisiana on the 18th of June for Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court TO ill the vacancy caused
by the resignation OF the Hon. Thomas Slidel
and for Associate Justice of the same court TO
supply the vacancy caused by the resignation Of
the Hon. A. N. Ogden. The chief justice will be
voted for all over The State. The second supreme
judicial district is composed OF The parishes of
Jefferson, 81. John the Baptist, 81. Charles, 81.
James, Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, In
terror, Terrebonne, West Baton Rouge, Iberville,
and portion OF the city of New Orleans.
FROM CURAcoA-Mr. Lewis Horan, passen-
ger in schooner Maria l. Davis, arrived yester-
day from Curacao. We learn MIR. J. H. Young
the United States consul had arrived and entered
onsthe duties OF his Office The salt crop would
be delayed in gathering, owing 10 heavy and
expected rains both at Curacao and Bonaire,
until the latter part Of July or the LIST of August
The yacht Flying Cloud, formerly of this city and
owned by Messrs Brown Brothers, was disposed
OF at Curacao on terms not made public. The
yacht Alata of Boston, which conveyed Mr.. J.
II. Young 10 this island, would be run as packet
between St Thomas and ST. Cruze.
SPANISH ArFAIRs.-The Madrid correspondent
OF the London Times, writing under date OF May
Z, says:
Mr.. Perry, secretary of the American legation
has formally announced that his government ac-
cepts the arrangement proposed by the Spanish
cabinet in the affair of the Black Warrior. His
note on the subject expresses, In the name OF The
President of the United States, The most friendly
sentiments, and the hope that the conclusion Of
the affair will draw closer the relations between
the two Countries
BREACH OF PRomsE- SEVEN THousxA$ DoLLAns
DAMAGE.-The case of Miss Mary Hedrick against
Henry Protzman TO recover damages for breach
OIL promise TO marry was recently tried IN Cincn
natl, and resulted in verdict of $1,000 in favor
OF the plaintiff, who is represented as being a
virluous. industrious, and modest girl.
A STRINGENT bird law was passed by the Penn
sylvania Legislature, at lis last session. for the
better protection and preservation Of game, and
10 more ehectualy prevent the destruction of
insectvorous birds.
RrMoR Is current in Europe, and the state
ment has appeared in several foreign musical
journals, that the United States have passed a
law imposing tax of 500 on each foreign mus-
clan visiting this country.
The Buffalo Commercial says that free hi train
consisting OF one hundred and forty cars, sixty
one OF which were loaded with cattle The balance
with freight. left the city over the Central road
on Saturday. Seven locomotives were employed
in the drawing process
THE Chicago and Milwaukee road is completed
one hundred and ninety miles long. An excur-
sion party went over the road a week ago
The Rochester american says a gentleman. is
engaged in breeding fish on the banks of the
Canandaigua lake, and expects to stock the beau
tful sheet OF water with speckled trout.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says twenty inches
of snow fell in MontviIle, Geanga county. lind.
on the 9th inst. The storm continued for twenty
hours
TERRIBLE hurricane with rain and hail, swept
over Yorktown, Texas, on the 7lh inst, demoIish-
ing several houses, destroying the crops uproot-
ing trees, &c. The stage from Victoria was
upset and broken.
Monday last
THE Legislature of Massachusetts, at lis re-
cent session, abolished Imprisonment for debt
ANOTHER steam fre-engine has arrived in Phil
adelphla from Cincinnati 1t is claimed 10 be
superior machine.
THE Bridgeport Farmer. says snow fell to the
depth Of SIX inches in Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,
last Saturday.
A LUMP of silver from Lake Superior, ninety.
SIX pounds in weight, and warranted 10 be 70 per
cent. pure metal, has been received at Detroit
THE Buffalo Democracy says there was never
such time for counterfeit bank notes ms the
present
BILL 10 regulate the tenure of church pro-
perry, similar 10 that passed in New York has
been introduced into the Legislature OF Con-
necticut
Es- Capt. Andy Walker, an old Indian fighter,
died at Corpus Christi on the 18th He was a
native OF Kentucky, and had been in Texas since
1886.
" Captain 9. X. Lewis was killed al Corpus
Christi N the 18th bv I C. Xarrtnr.on