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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
Naval Abadamy at Annapolis.

The board Of examiners made their report
to the Navy Department on the 10th of June
The Acadamy seems to be in very flourish
ing condition; and the examination of the
midshipmen was most satisfactory. The
report says
FINALLY, the board begs leave to say that
1t would be impossible to enter the walls ol
tins institution, and to become familiar with
Its direction, rs general organization, its or-
der, It's lnssrucrons, and its examinations, with
out percelving that the highest usefulness is
produced by the most suitable means; that an
elevated tone Of duty prevails everywhere
and that the aeadamy. as conducted at pres
ent, cannot fell to fulfill the expectations OF
the department and the country.
The board made the following suggestion
on the necessiI of using steam in the prac-
tice-ships.
The board visited and inspected the prac-
tic-shlp Preble. now ready to receive the
second and foufth classes of acting -midship-
men for the usual summer cruise. They will
be embarked as soon as the examination is
completed. These two classes consist of more
than eighty members, an / the Preble has not
the capacity 70 accommodate them properly
The number next year may be greater and a
ship adapted in all respect for the service
should be provided She should be fully
rigged and fitta with auxiliary steam power,
and her crew should consist of men distin-
guished for good department and skill as sea
men sTPhisssss II,. J. = !. 3 ! ,srs,,. : !, te,,
has been said before in favor of fitting the
practice-sllip with auxiliary steam power
instruction in the management of the steam
engine, and the duties of the engineer, are
acknowledged to be hardly less indispensable
to the perfection of the education of the
naval officer of the present day than seaman
ship itself. He is as liable to be called tc
command vessel propelled by steam as one
of which wind is the moving power His
education, therefore is partially neglected il
a practical familiarity with the working o.
the steam engine is not added to the theoret
ieal instruction concerning it.
The value of this institution cannot be toe
highly recommended. The shame is tha
there are not half dozen such established
by our government Men prate about peac,
and the diffusion of benevolent principles
and cessation of kloodshed, when we are liza
Bile at any moment to be involved in wa
with powers whose naval force could sweel
our infant marine from the face of the ocean
We are like those people who build and plan
on the edge of volcano regardless of romot,
and contingent danger and only mindful o
present enjoyment Our ignorant impatienc'
of expenditure for naval purposes will som
\ actar
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
Candidates for the Presid ency

The man of the future is yet yelled figure,
whose coming greatness is unknown to the
world and to himself. Aspirants are seldom
successful Poor General SooTT, consumed
by unsatisfed vanity, was ANONYMOUSLY re-
jected, while Gen. TAYLOR, without thought
or wish on the subject, was elevated to the
highest honors by acclamation. So in other
cases. CLAY, CALHOUN, CAss, and WEBSTER,
the slaves of the last inirmity of noble minds
and ambition, were not wise enough to hold
the pride of power as a bauble; and three OF
them have already descended TO the grave
without the qualification of their most ardent
wishes.
1t has been said that every member of the
United States Senate has hopes for the Presi-
dency. We cannot vouch for the truth OF
the assertion, but we believe more than sixty
men in the Union have such hopes. 1t i:
possible but not probable that some of the
sixty may be selected. A man who studies
his own peace Of mind will studiously sup
press all wishes on the subject and remembe
what was said by one whose practice did no
correspond with his theory that the Pres
idency was an Office neither to be sought no
rejected
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

follow in any such work. 1t is idle to expect
any people to mako any permanent advances
in the way of improvement where there IS an
entire neglect of their local and home policy
al call it local and home policy. mean
by this. that these subjects enter into and
form the very heart life. and strength OF the
body polite.
In government like ours, scattered ovei
such an extent Of territory, embracing such a
variety of interests, combining every kind oi
character and people, and with such grow
ing diversity of materials, how is it possible
that we can preserve our institutions if there
shall continue TO be. as there has been, ru-
nous neglect of what denominate the local
and home policy.
Can you expect the heart of this republic
to be free from corruption and fraud when
the little streams and rivulets that nourish
that heart are neglected and become impure?
The fountain heads and syringe of this ma
tion-the people of the several States, IN
their primary organizations, in their local
policy, their laws customs, and manners-
are the sources from which the national gov
ernment must derive, politically, whatever Of
virtue, or wisdom, or strength it may possess
"When we shall live up to our privileges
as members of our happy form of State gov
eminent, and discharge our whole duty in
the small circle in which we move; when
we shall adapt our laws and institutions,
which affect Us every day in all the relations
OF life, and in all our intercourse with each
other, so as TO make each man feel that upon
htnr rests a portion of the responsibilities OF
life; when we shall. come up to shat fall
STANDARD Of State prds, State anstitioa, State
vftg7s<s, <that-ouf forcfathers desighea ne
should occupy, it will make but little differ
ence what three hundred men at Washington
do, or whether this or that act of Congress
shall pass. The top may trensble and dgitate,
bat the base i0iH Be insmOuaHe-tle foundation
tCiH be secure"
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
Tas. Watson w ebb on Know Nothings

Jas. Watson Webb on Know Nothings
The New York CcssTier and EnQuirer, the
great gun and godfather Of American Know
Nothing Whiggery, draws the following
truthful picture of the present dark Lantern
party"
The American party lacks manliness. IL
has not yet acquired the great masculine vir-
tues which give strength to character. and
enforce the respect of the world II would
scorn the act of being unprincipled, and, yet
If it has principles. nobody can specifically
tell what they are. II never talks about
principles at all if it can help it, and when It
does its language is never alike on two differ
ent ways or in two different places Hers
you find it saying it win support no candidate
who is not pro-slsvery TO the midrif, there
that it will support no candidate who is not
anti-slavery to the backbone; to-day it will
exclude all Catholics from Office, tomorrow
that it believes in the broadest religious toler-
ance; here that the naturalization laws should
be amended, there that the naturalization
laws should be repealed; to-day that no can
didate not member of the Third Degree
should DO voted for; tomorrow that coali-
tions may be made with other parties and
their nominees to be supported to suit cir
cumstances. The very name the Know
Nothings have taken TO themselves, Is any
thing bet manful and chivalrous one. IL
implies coucealment, art, and dissimulation;
it suggests all the associations connected with
cabals and juntas; it dishonors truth by as
suming that truth works best when it works
in the darki and it insults intelligence by
taking as its very badge of distinction ths
counterfeited Lack Of IL The Know Moth
ing organfz. zof, ~ i > now constituted. car
not permanently prosper. American though
it processes to be in aim and policy, It's secret
and banded character is opposed to every
American sentiment and instinct. The Amer
ican people cannot be made to lelieve that
American liberty is yet so badly off that it
can only be saved by being hoodwinked and
gagged. They complain, and have a right to
complain, that the titles to American citizen
ship have been, of late years, scandalously
cheapened, by dealing them out to all sorts
of interlopers; but they have too much sense
to think of cutting the evil by mailing their
own titles to the counter as a sham thing and
making themselves over, body and soul, un-
der oath to divan of darkness.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

As mankind becomes more liberal, they
will be more apt to allow that all those who
conduct themselves as worthy members of the
community, are equally entitled to the pro-
lection of civil government. l hope ever to
see America among the foremost nation in ex-
amples Of justice and liberality. And pre-
sumo that your fellow-citizens will not forget
the patriotic part ,chich you took in the accom-
plishmen Of the revolution, and the establishment
of their government; or, the important assistance
they received from a nation IN which the Roman
Catholic faihs is prcfessed
REPLY TO THE CATHOLICS OF THE UNITED
STATEs.-Sparks Lys and Writings Of Wash.
iagton, Vol. XII
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
PosrAoE ON BACK NUMBERS OF NEwsp,

PosTAeE ON BACK NUMBERS OF NBwsPA-
PERs.-Ths Post-ofice Department gives no
tice that back numbers of newspapers, if ad-
dressed to regular subscriber, are chargeable
with a postage of one cent each, payable either
at the Office Of publication or the Office Of de.
livery; buff sent to person not a subscriber
they are considered transient papers, and al
such arc chargeable with one cent each if pre-
paid, and tro cents if not prepaid. None bu
regular subscribers of newspapers are entitled
to the be nsft of quarterly or yearly prepay
ment IL -----.n.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

ANoTHER DEMOCRATIC VIcToRY-PRo-
sREss OF THE REAcTIoN.-Norfolk, Virginia,
that on the oath of May gave FLouRSoY. K
N. candidate for Governor, majority of 1896
hes now elected HUNTER WooD, the anti K
N. candidate for Mayor, by forty-two major
ity. Quite revolution in zone little month";
Perhaps the citizens learned to decyphsr the
Cincinnati Times, OF was 1t the work Of the
hwmssiOss gathering at Philadelphia
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

SENTENCE OF DRIsKILL AND RIcE.-1'he
Court House filled at the opening on
Tuesday morning, called together to hear the
sentence of death pronounced on Tim Dris-
kill and Abe Rice. Judge Petit addressed
them as follows.
Abraham Rice and Timothy Driskill stand
up You have been indicted by the Grand
Jury of the county for the murder of Cephas
Farenbaugh on the night of the Sd of May
last; you have been fairly tried by Traverse
jury defended by able counsel Of your own
choice, and after the most earnest and zeal
Gus defence that could be made. you have,
as fully believe, been Justly convicted, and
the Jury found that you should suffer death.
1t becomes my solemn duty to ask you If you
have any legal cause TO show why Judgment
shall not be pronounced against you, which
now do, and pause for your reslppss IL you
have any to make.
have none, sir"
The duty havc to perform is a ,eilful
one, and one that would gladly avoid ard
willingly and earnestly pray God that NAV
never have 1t to perform again; but having
taken upon myself the responsibilities Of a
judge, under an oath to perform it, duties
and having no doubt of your guilt, or the
business of your conviction and punishment.
all Of which arc fully established and war
ranted by the evidence on your trials, and
the subsequent confessions and sworn testi.
mony of your younger partners in the dread
full crime, leave me no alternative but to pro-
nounce the sentence of the law.
The divine and revealed law of God.
| Genesis tx, g. says that Whose sheddeth
mans blood, by man shall his blood be
she'd" And again, (Deut. xix, 2D "Thins
eve shall not pity; but life shall 90 for lifs."
! In Exodus xxi, IA, il is said, "If man
come presumptuously upon his neighbor TO
slsy him with guile, thou shalt take him
from mine altar that he may die"
This has been the law of all nations since
the earliest dawn of civilization, and Is at this
! day our law. The laws of God, the wisdom
of enlightened, learned and profoundly phil
osophic men and sages, in all ages of the
world unite with our laws in proclaiming
your punishment Just.
| advise you to entertain no expectation of
a reversal of this judgment in the Supreme
Court, or Of pardon from the Governor, nor
Of any possible escape from this certain doom;
but on the contrary, let a solemn conviction
settle on your minds that you must make an
attonement with your lives on the scsfford,
for your crime, to the violated laws of God
and man And further advise you at once,
to set about an earnest and uncessing prepara-
ton for an eternal existence in another
and trust, better and happier sphere. You
wee associated in crime while living, and it Is
mete that You should suffer together in death
The several judgment of this court Is, that
you are guilty, and that you suffer death as
found by the jury; and it is tho further jujg
, meut of the court that this punishment shall
be inflicted on you on Friday the l4th day
of September, 1856, between the hours of
O'Clock A. NJ, and O'Clock p NJ. Of that
: day; and may God have mercy on your souls
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

The Tricks OF TRADE.-A week or two
since the Tribune contained "telegraphic
dispatch" from somewhere out West, an
nouncing that Mr. Thompson, who has
written three excellent, forty indifferent, and
a couple dozen miserable literary effusions for
the press, had been accidentally killed
Nearly all our contemporaries copied the re-
port and were "sold" Doesticks is alive and
we'll, and profting, doubtless, by the amount
of public attention to his book which the
hoax has attracted.
About the beginning Of the week the
Evening Post put forth a story that Napoleon
III had sont 10 this country a gold and dia-
mond snuff-box as present to some old
friend, against whom the Sheriff of the City
and County of New York had some especial
grudge; that the Sheriff had grabbed the
valuable article at the moment of its arrival
on our shores, and would expose il at auction
under authority Of fe,i taaas next morning.
Next morning accordingly, every daily paper
but this one fell into the trap, and rctailed
the wonderful "sell" that was to ccme Off
The Times of yesterday was the first to sus-
pect that it had been hoaxed into advertising
gratuitously, the speculation of "sonie Gun.
ming Israelite." To our mind the trick waI
Christian enough.
The Express editor gets up a pamphle
containing the unabridged correspondence
between Brooks and Hughes-ratherdu dull anc
dry reading to those out of ecclesiastical or
ders. 1t is necessary to make it sell.
poor pedlar is furnished with copies, made Il
poke them under the noses of sundry piou
Irish Roman Catholics arrested by a stupi,
policeman, committed by still more stupi'
polio justice, and released next day. Yester
day he was parading Broadway-his. case be
ing meanwhile "fully reported" in all tn
papers that could be hoaxed wit it--with
a big placard about Romish oppression on hi
bosom. and selling his pamphlets as fast a
he could supply them! The pamphlets wer'
not the only things sold.
Well, tho world loves to be- humbugged
and even we editors are not quite exempt from
human frailty-National Democrat.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

or Gov. CLAsx, Of New York. recently
pardoned man named E. w. Higgins out Of
prison-attached to the pardon, the Rochester
'Union' SAYS, is the condition that he shall
abstain from the use Of intoxicating liquor.
except In case Of sickness when ordered by .
regular pgscticing physsiazs
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

0rA man living about forty miles from
Cairo. on the Railroad line, named Evans
was bitten by mad-dog recently, and died,
or rather was murdered in consequence. II
is said that during his paroxysms five men
were unable to hold him and, in compli-
ance with his earnest entreaties, number ol
persons placed him between two feather beds
and smothsred him to death.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
The RELIGIOUS TEsr-The New Orleans

The hELlHIOCb IEoI.- 10 -NtW OIIcdHs
Bulletin of the 18th inst, says:
ave understood last evening, that after
the succession of the malcontents from the
convention, the regularly authorized delega-
ton from Louisiana were admitted, which, if
such be the fact is equivalent to abolishing
the religious test, which act we have over
and over again said, and now repeat is indis-
pensable to the organization of the party as a
national party" iaas
| Hsw is this, gentlemen, usysnnss
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

GrThe people of Chillicothe talk of star
ting an iron rolling mill In that city.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

New YORK, June 10th, 1855.
The work mentioned in the above article
may be had in short time at the Book
Store of STEWART & BowEN, in this city
Ed. SENTINEL
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-11-08
NUMBER ~.

regards the general government In no other
light than that of q civil Institution, wholly
destitute of religious authority.
What other nations call religious toleiation
we call religious rights. They are not exer.
cised in..Virtue of governmental indulgence
bu, as rights, of which government cannot
deprive any portion Of citizens, however
small. Despotic power may invade thcse
rights, but justice still confirms them. Lei
the national Legislature once perform an aos
which involves the decision of q religious
controversy, and i. will have passed its le-
climate bounds. The precedent will then
be established, and the foundation laid for
that usufpaton Of the Divine preroga,tve in
this country which has been the desolatins
scourge 10 the faresl portions OF the old world. Z
Our constitution recognises no ofhsi power
than that Of persuasion for enforcing religious
ooservances. Let the professors of Christi.
anlly recommend their religion by deeds of
benevolence, by Christian meeknees, by
lives OF temperance and 6fifess. Let Them
combine their effort to instruct the ignorant,
to relieve the widow and the orphan, to pro. ?
mulsate 10 the world the Gospel of their Ss-
vior, recommending its precep,s by their ha.
bituai example, gcverumen, will find ito le-
gilimale object in protecting them. Il can.
not oppose them, and they will not need its
aid. Their moral influence will, then, do in.
initely more 10 advance the true interests of
religion than any measures which they may
call Oh Congress to enact.
The petitioners do not complain of any in
ir'nsement upon their own rish;s. They en-
JOY all that Christians ought TO ask a. the
hand Of any governmeu,-protec,ion from all
molestalion in the exercise Of their religious
sentiments
Resoiued, That the committee be disohar.
ged from the further consideration on the sub.
jeot.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-11-08
APPETITE.

d" Asking Jor," that is The meaning Who
asks! Nature; in other words, the law of
our being, the instinct Of self-preservator,
wisely and benevolently implanted in every
living thing, whether animal, worm or weed.
Yielding to this appetite is the preserva-
lion Of all life, and health, below man; he
alone exceeds it, and in consequence sick
ems and dies thereby, long before his prime,
in countless instances.
The fact is not recognized as generally as
1t ought to be. that proper attention 10 the
'askings' of nature, not only maintains health,
but is one of the safest, surest, and most per-
maneni methods of curing disease.
II is eating without an appetite, which in
many instances is the las, pound which
breaks the camel's back nature had taken
away the appetite, had closed The house for
necessary repairs, but, in spite of her, we
'Joreed do,cn some Jtood," and days and weeks
and months of illness followed, if not chol-
era, cramp, collie, or sudden death
In disease, there are few who cannot recall
instances, where person was supposed TO
be IN dying condition, and in the derlum
Of feve:, or Otherwise, had arisen, and gone
10 the pail or pitcher, and drank an enor-
NOUS quantity Of water, or have gone to the
pantry, and eaten largely Of some unusual
food, and forthwith began 10 recover. We
frequently speak Of persons getting well hav-
ing the slrangesl kind of an appetite, The in
diligence of which reason and science would
say would be fatal.
We found out many years ago, when en-
gagged 10 the general practice of medicine,
that when the patient was convalescing, the
best general rule was, eat not an atom you
do not relish eat anything in moderation
which your appetite Graves, from pickle
down 10 sole.leaiher. Nature is like per-
feet ouse-keeper; she knows better what is
wanting in her house than anybody else can
tell her. The body in disease Graves that
kind Of food which contains the element il
most needs. This is one of the most impor-
liant facts in human hygiene; and yet we do
not recollect 10 have ever seen il embodied
In 60 many words. We have done SO, 10
render it practical; and 10 make it remem.
bered, we state fact Of recent occurrence.
Some three years ago, a daughter OF Jas
Damon, of Chesterfield, fell down a flight
Of stairs, bringing on an illness from which
II was feared she would not recover She
did however recover, except the loss OF hear
Ing and sight. Her appetite for some weeks
called for nothing but raisins and candy, and
since last fall, nothing but apples were eaten.
A few weeks ago she commenced eating
maple buds; since which time she has near
" fegained her former health and activity.
hnd her sight and hearing are restored.
We all, perhaps, have observed that cats
Ind otbe. animals, when apparently i'll, 60
out and crop particular grass or weed. In
applying these facts, let us remember 10 in
dulge this "askmg Jor' of Nature, in sick
ness especially, in moderation; Telling our
way along by gradually increasing amounts; !;
thus keeping on the safe side. We made
this one of our earliest and most infexible
rules Of practice Journal Of Hedhh
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-11-08
PWNTIYA!ko
MEOW GOES THE KITTY
ArR.-Pp goes tho Weasel.

AIM w SOes NV psooe''
My hat is new, my boots are too,
My girl is young and pretty,
My cares, alas they would be few,
Blu, meow goes the kitty.
CHORUS.
AL around the country town,
All around the city,
How sweet 10 hear The DULL-sET sound
Meow! goes the kitty.
Bloomsburg girls are wondrous smart,
The boys are wondrous witty
But all, alas! ere sick al heart
With meow goes The kiuy.
CHoRUs.--All around-&c.
Some sounds are dull, few are sweet,
And more are harsh and gritty:
But ali the yells Of devils meet
In meow! goes The kitty.
CHoRUs.--All around-&c.
My vow. is made seize a stick
"l'll form ONE committee,
And put stop most wondrous quick
To" meow! goes the kitty.
CHoRUs.
All around the country Town,
And all around :he city,
How sweet 10 hear the DULL SET sound
Meow! goes the kitty.