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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

CT Our friends of the Jownal, notwith-
standing their structures on our remarks in the
ROSETTA case, evidently perceive that the
course Of Judge PARKER, IS practical multi
feation Of the Fugitive Slave Law. But
they, no doubt, are glad of it, as they style
the law odious To declare the girl free be-
fore she had been claimed as a slave, was a
ceremony as idle as to declare the editors OF
the journal free. To take her out of the
hands of the Commissioners, after she had
been arrested by his warrant, was to make
him cipher and his functions nullity.
There are laws in the Southern States, by
which those who are wTongfully claimed as
slaves. may assert their freedom; and the
Courts there lean as strongly in favor of free
dom as they do here 1t is a great mistake
then, 10 suppose that an erroneous or corrupt
decision Of the Commissioner would finally
condemn a freeman to slavery. The case,
cited from louisiana, in these very proceed
iugs prove this assertion.
As TO Mr.. DEENIsoE, we think the language
of our friends. harsh and unwarranted.-
Swearing to lie" IS a serious charge-per
jury, ike other crimes, consists in the iaten
non; and every one can readily understand
how Mr. DESSIsoS, even if ii turns out tina
he was wrong, may have acted conscienti
0usly. We presume that he acted under tn,
advice of able and disinterested COUNSEL
But we postpone further comment until ",
hear from the Commissioner and, perhap.
his decision may render further comment I'M
necessary
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
American Library in Paris

The city Of Paris has recently appropriated
a liberal sum to construct thirty-two alcoves
in the rooms at the Hotel de VILE set apart
for the American Library in Paris, of which
ten thousand volumes have already been re-
ceiyed through the philanthropic labors of NJ.
Alexandra Vattemere.
1t is hoped every State i'm the Union will
forthwith send yet more of their abundance,
that France and every other nation here rep
resented may have a ready and ample refer
ence To American literature
The recent change in the common senti-
ment of France, in regard to the expedieney
and necessity Of giving the English language
prominence heretofore unknown in Their
schools, renders this donation peculiarly ac-
ceptable at the presant time.
The discourse Of NJ. Guizot at the Insti-
tute of France, Feb. "a, before the Academy
of Moral and Political Sciences, on the sub
jet of International exchanges in matters OF
science, literature and art has tended much
to enlist the enlightened public in this sys-
TEN. Nj. NJ. Cousin, Dupin, Chevalier, Ouch
atel and Others concurred in this object.
France, opening to the foreigner her vas
libraries, her galleries of art, her gardens ana
museums of national history, will honorahly
reciprocate in the formation of cabinets by
sending boxes Ofduplcate specimens of books
paintings, drawings minerals, and other pro
ductions of nature and art, through constituted
agencies entitled to confidence.
France is prepared to enter heartily into tn,
system zealously pursued by Mr. Josiah IIol
brook for more than thirty years of his devoted
life, and now so efficiently developed by tn,
triumphant labors of NJ Vattemere.
DAVID P. H0LT0N.
Paris, March ., 1856. No. q Rue des Ma.
ons-Sorbornne-N u Times.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

AN INTERESTING INcIDENT.-0n the side
walk in the broad avenue in Albany, that
leads from the Hudson river TO the Capitol,
stood, one day last week, marked aud re-
markable man. He had numbered more than
four score years and those years were full OF
honor and usefulness. Age had not dimmed
his eye, and had but slightly bowed his manly
form. Snow-white locks crowned and adorned
a countenance full of intelligence, benignity
and dignity. A young lad, robust, active, and
bright as a sunbeam, came along trundling a
handcart, | saw him stop to catch look
from the good and great old man. Immedi-
ately he was recognized words of kindness
were spoken, and the friendly hand of the
venerable patriarch was extended to him.
Never shall | forget his graceful and deli
cate acknowledgment of the coveted recog-
milton. The little fellow raised his cap, kissed
the hand so kindly offere 1, made low bow
and was off IN a twinkling. The man was
the distinguished President of Union College
the boy was a nephew of Louis Kossuth-
How Charming to see age, distinction, and nm.
disputed eminence, attracting to itself no
only the learned and influential, but the little
enand-boy as he dashes along to do the
work of his employer. How charming to Sc,
children with such nice sense of the respec
due to advanced age and exalted virtue
/ AHany Argus.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

A NV ISvESTIOS.-Mr. CAMPBELL, of
Columbus, Ohio has recently applied for a
patent on new and valuable invention. Ii
consists Of making bond of union between
cast iron at a very high temperature, and
glass ia state Of fusion. and is designed for
boxes in which axles are to revOlve. The
glass is for the interior OF the box, and as there
is but little friction, but little fabrication is
necessary. which makes it more economical
than cast iron. The National Iatel7igeaoey
says -
The test 10 which the specimen we have
seen has been subjected, at once convinced us
that glass thus imbedded IN iron could sustain
extraordinary pressure and the most powerful
blows but doubt arose in relation TO the
inequality in the contraction and expansion of
the two materials by sudden changes in the
temperature. Iron, however, expands and
contracts by heat tar more than glass, and the
cast iron box being expanded to its utmost
when the glass eongeals all its after tendency
by this means must necessarily be 10 embrace
the glass within and, this glass being in the
form Of an arch, with its bases and apex both
embraced BY the iron, it can yield to no power
that is not capable of literally crushing it to
powder,
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

THE New RUSSIAN MINISTER OF WAR;
General Rudiger has been summoned from
the high position he held in the army in Po-
land TO take the direction of the Ministry OF
War, in place of Prince Dolgorouki. This
officer was the same who entered into negoti-
ations with Georgey in 1S49 to bring to a ter
mination the Hungarian campaign, and who
afterwards endeavored to check the reaction
AIRY measures taken against the Magyars. lie
is aman of experience and moderation, whose
influence is likely to be decidedly opposed IL
that of the fanatical Russian party, which Ia.
attempted to give to the war the character of ;
national crusade.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

RECRUITING FOR THE CRmEA.-We under
stand that the recruiting offices opened in this
city and elsewhere, to supply Deficiencies in
the British army, and furnish food to the car
rion crows of the Crimea, find great difficulty
in inducing persons to accept their terms
Neither the Irish nor the Germans seem very
willing to go. These enlistment offices should
change their tactics, and take recruits Cor the
Russian government There are plenty &c I'll.
ibusters here of eli nations who would be dad
10 catch at such bait. 1t would not grieve
US much if we were to get rid OF few Of
them.-Aelc York Herald
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

SINGULAR PHENoMENA.-The Aberdeen Ala
Conservative has a correspondent who thinks
the river TOmbigbee is not the only object
affected by the late drought. He says half
bushels and peck measures have wonderfully
contracted, steelyardS and scales loose their
balance capriciousl y, and yard-sticks set at de-
fance the dimension of extension; per con-
sequence, a half bushel is mysterious changed
into the capacity of an ordinary blue bucket
five pounds of soap at one place refuse to be
more than four at another, and the yard meas
uring thirty six inches at one time. after much
persuasion can be with difficulty induced to
make thirty-two at another.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
Importance of the Straits of Flor ida
to the Union.

From an article in Andrews Report, S.
Doc. liz, entitled ".The Gulf of Mexico and
the Straits of Florida" we extract the fol-
lowing paragraphs, which give general out
line of the amazing importance of the latter :
There is no other such sea as the Gulf
Of Mexico, so entirely surrounded as il is by
countries of such superior agricultural, min
eral, and commercial resources. No similar
gulf exists; the natural and INDISPENSABLE outlet
for vast interior States, with population of
many millions of republican freemen, unequal
ed by any people noticed in ancient or mod
err. history for general intelligence, industry,
thriving and prosperous beyond example.
"fhese State extend upwards oitNelye
lr7ssI.. 4 ll.tit FINN u.
= evr1r9r'7'z ~ 's,'-7 ~ 5Iis.,f.t,. s.sa-
aui,ssunief. and .is, "a, sssII sssstean sneh
number inFpienty Their soil, and especially
that u the great valley Of the Mississippi, is
Of surprising fertility; and their contributions
to the commerce of the world through the
gulf are the varied productions of region
spreading over eighteen degrees of latitude,
and adapted to the diversified wants of near
~ every other country. And this great in
land sea- though easy of egress, is, at the
oaihC tiiiV, iCduiiF SuSCcpllOic vi uclcHCc Is
a mare clauSum by the States situated on its
shores against any foreign intrusion they NAV
decide to interdict. The Mediterranean or
Adriatic is not equal to it, nor the Baltic nor
the sea of MarmOra, nor the Euxine, superior
to it in this respect. Page 795.
"The chief portion of all our trade, COM
nerce, and navigation with Cuba and the
West Indies, and especially with Jamaica and
the Windwmd islands, and with the eastern
coasts of South America, now passes through
these straits, (the Straits Of Florida and like
wise the trade, commerce and navigation of
Europe with those places, iE sailing vessels,
on their homeward voyage. Steam vessels,
on their outward passage from the Atlantic
States, also pass through the straits and most
of our coasting vessels, even of the largest
class bound for the Gulf, they generally
crossing the Bahama Banks. The voyage
through the Windward passage, or the Mona
passage, going near Jamaica and around Cape
Antonio Is sometimes pursued but it is sew
eral hundred miles longer and attended with
peculiar hazards, and also delays that render
the other passage preferable, Page 797.
An estimate of the trade, commerce, and
navigation of the Gulf now annually passing
through the straits of Florida, and also of the
other trade, commerce, and navigation of the
United States and other countries above re-
lerred to as pursuing the same channel, has
stated it as probably amounting to $4,000
OOO."-Page ibid.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

4 GRAvE-DIGGER or THE French Revolt
TIoN.-An old French Republican, named
Bernard, who was the grave-digger of the Ex-
ecutive Government in 1898, has just died in
a village near Lyons. 1t was he who receiv-
ed from the hands of the Able Sylvan Re-
maud, first vicar of the Church of the Made
lem, for the purpose of burial, the bodies of
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, which
were both placed in open collins
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

RussIA's PowER-The great extent of Rus
STA is well expressed by De Quincy, who in
one of his essays, says:
Russia, mighty empire as respects the
simple grandeur magnitude, builds her pow
er upon sterility. She has il in her power to
seduce an invading foe into vast circles Of stara
tion, of which the radii measure one thousand
leagues"
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

mr. II IS due 70 AR. willard te say that be
- .-ff<.ine }nfsffsred h si.x 2i.Ber 10
- $znass sctin. o.. -
-.rz.< -i,il{ he Isl nisss 81 he .sesssstl,
sld sc ar aIspssed t. think th;e 50 far -
his actinH-1sas concerned, the Sfnate conld
nave taken up the biiiat auystime, If they
had been willing to do so.-kadiand State
Journal.
o precious breath o invaluable gas,-all
to have been expended in rearing an air castle,
transparent and fragile, to be ruthlessly
demolished by one paragraphic dash of the
journalist
The Senate was a t0icked Senate.-its presi-
ding officer was Wicked presiding officer and
the action of both was transcendently d.
abolical. The apportionment bill was lost
by the high handed nsurpation of Governor
Willard; winked at and encouraged by the
Democracy of the Senatel This was the sub
stance of the Journals charges, and its echoes
reechoed it throughout the State Of Indiana.
Excited to boiling heat in virtuous indigna-
ton at Wizards outrage, fusion editors filled
their columns to overlooking with the gurg-
ling outpourings of their indignant spirits.
The statement proves to have been all I'M
fou1ded-the Journal retracts, and its follow
ers throughout the State are left decidedly in
| the "suds."
Something else, manufactured to order, will
serve again to call the attention of the people,
for awhile from the inbecility of the late
Fusion Legislature.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
The New Presidential Nov em ent--
Live Oak George Law.

The Presidential mauifcsts of olive Oak
George" has excited sensation. Among the
latest "notices" Of Live Oak George we find
the following in the Washington Sentinel:
A New PRESIDENTIAL MOvE.-Man, in
whatever condition found, has a sense OF reli-
gion In the highest state of civilization, or
the lowest depths of barbarism, he IS still a
religious being. If the much-quoted philoso-
pher, who described man as "an animal. who
cooks his own food" had described him as a
being with sense of religion, the description
would have been more accurate. But to turn
from serious to light things.
The Egyptians worshipped the ichneumon,
besides an infnity of other untold detes. In
one place the crocodile, in another place the
monkey is the deity. But politicians, as well
as people, have their divinities and their pc
culiar ceremonies. We have a party at this
time, in this comtry-this free coantry-in
which men have not been. wont to meet in
secret and speak in whispers, that has its pc
culiar ceremonies. Its ritual is an incOmpre-
| hensible iargOn-its ceremonies are (if reports
may be credited) far more absurd than the
EXTREMIST ceremonies of the Catholic church.
which they so much ridicuie-their deity Is
George Law-their prophet the New York
HeraM-and their object the heaven of gov
eminent plumber.
The most Absurd political movement that
ever occurred in this country, is that in favol
of Mr.. George Laws political and Presiden-
tial aspirations. They cannot boast of hi.
services to the country. He has rendered
none. He has never been 4 statesman. Bu
they are endeavoring to operate on mechan
les, by representing him as a sympathizer witt
mechanics. They call him olive Oak Georg,
Law" They begin already to initiate the
base nomenclature that prevailed in othe
canvasses. But that nomenclature was based
on realities; this has no more solid founda
ton than fiction.
Mr.. Laws muskets and Mr.. Laws Prcsi
dental aspirations are about on the same foot
-.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
The Slave Case.

Yesterday morning the case of contempt
against II. H. Robinson and Rev. II. NJ. Den
nisOn for re-aresting the girl Rosetta after
she had been freed OH writ of habeas corpus,
by Judge Parker Of our Common Pleas Court,
was dismissed by that Judge on his decision
reserved for delivery Yesterday morning.
At % p. NJ. Judge Parker heard the an
swer of the L. S. Marshal to the second writ
of habeas corpus, which was, that he would
not produce the body of the girl Rosetta. He
fined Mr.. Robinson $50, and sentenced him
to Imprisonment until the order to produce
the girl was obeyed.
He was sent to Jail and the door locked on
him, but having prepared an application of q
writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by
Judge John Mclean of the L. S. Supreme
Court, now in the city, Mr.. Robinson, after a
short Imprisonment, was discharged.
The writ which is retunable to Judge
Mclean, will be heard this morning. 1t in
wolves the right of Judge Parker, of the Com
mon Pleas Court, to issue habeas corpu:
to ascertain the cause of capture and de.
tention of the alleged slave Rosetta and
will test the question whether the L. S. Com.
missioner has the exclusive jurisdiction il
cases where the party is claimed as fugi
tive from labor3S
This morning at 10 o'clock, is the hour the
L. s. Commissioner has appointed to decid,
as to the extradition of Rosetta - rs fugi
/ tive slave.
The question whether the Jail of Hamil
ton county could be used to incarcerate per
son charged as fugitive slave was, on tn
part of Mr. S. p. Chase, representing larg
number of our citizens, proposed for solu
ton, by the suing ont of writ of habea
corpus by him against G. Brashears Sheriff
in whose custody the girl was since Saturday
but the L. S. Marshal had removed the gin
from the care of the Sheriff an hour before
1t is not known where lac secTeted her but b.
will have her before Mr.. Pendery thi
morning.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

0TIf iorty-nine inches make an ell, how
many square feet are contained in the whole
alphabet?
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

OF 1t is said the Know Nothings are de-
nouncing COLUMBUS for being a foreigner,
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

MINERAL WEALTH OF ALABAMA.--The
Legislature of Alabama at its last session, au-
thorized Geological Survey of the State, and
appointed Prof. Tuorey to take charge of this
important undertaking. The survey is not
yet completed, but enough has been done to
show that Alabama is by no means destitute
of mineral resources-is, indeed, rich in all
the mineral products that are found in the
system Of rocks, which underlie this and the
neighboring States "Those who have not
examined the subject will be surprised Il
learn the extent and the variety of valuable
minerals which abound in the mountain ran.
ges of the central and upland counties Iron
ore, in the greatest abundance, AMI Of the fines
quality; Coal of different kinds, and in sufii-
cient quantities for the fuel and commerce OF
the entire gulf coast Limestone quaries
Marble deposits, Slate formations, Grindstonc
grit and Granite rocks Copper, Lead, Gold
Quicksilver, Petroleum, Tripoli, and variou,
/ pigments, each and all are known to exist
These minerals, in the broad acres which
they occupy, cover superficial area fully
equal to all the cultivated land within the
| limits of the State"
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05


DEATH AND BURIAL or THE REcRUITING
ScHEME.-From all accounts it appears that
the scheme for recruiting the British army in
this country has been a total failure. The
recruiting offices in New York were killed
dead as King David by quiet visit from our
reporter. In Boston We hear Of fifty able
bodied men being shipped; but it is stated,
probably with truth, that they are to be nav
vies'' not soldiers; and even if not, what can
Great Britain do with fifty men ? In Phila-
delphia, few patches of men, a dozen at a
time, have been arrested as recruits and the
police of that city seem determined not to al
low the business to go on there Altogether
we think it safe to say that hitherto Great
Britain has failed. In this country a man is
not mere food for powder and shot And an
able-bodied Briton or German who throws ap
his chances here, and goes to the Crimea to
tight the battles Of European monarchs, rich
ly deserves to come back minus Leg or an
arm. So says the New York Tribune.
| LAND WARRANTS UNDER THE NEW ACT-
The Washington Star of the 18th saws
We are told that numbers of persons are
under the impression that the Land and Pen
sion offices are prepared to issue land war
rants at once 10 those entitled to them under
the new bounty land bill This is a mistake,
and the sooner this erroneous notion is cor
rected the better it will be- We understand
that the Commissioner of Pensions will net be
| prepared to Issue these warrants for at least
three months TO come. The plates are vet to
be engraved, the blank warrants printed, the
clerical force increased, and other necessary
preparations to be made. The act giving land
to those who served in the Mexican war
passed Sept, %, 1850; the first land warrant
under this act was not issued until January
i III, 1851, more than three months after the
law was passed. We presume it will take at
least as long 10 get the new warrants ready -
/ VI MIR. Roebuck, the member of Parlia-
ment, whose resolution of inquiry into the
war with Russia, caused the resignation of the
English ministry, is said TO be very diminu.
tive man. He is smaller than Lord John
Russell, and no doubt the smallest public man
in England. He measures in his stockings a
little rising four feet He is eloquent. but
very bitter IN has invstivss.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

K us themselves, Mr. Fs11en r. elected sx-
elusive of the Eleventh Ward, by at least
100 majority.
HAMILTON, o., April 2-Tbe votes are all
counted. The Democratic candidate for
Mayor has sixty-eight majority; and for
Marshal fifty-two. The probability is, the
whole Democratic ticket is elected.
NEW RICHMOND, o., April 2-Sanderson,
the Sag NIGHT candidate for Mayor, is elected
By two majority and C. Cooler, Sag NIGHT,
for Councilman, by FIVE majority. The vote
for Marshal is tie The other officers elect
ed are Know Nothings.
PIoUA, o., April 2.-The entire Know
Nothing ticket, for both city and township
officers, is elected by large majority.-Cm.
Conn
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

THEJEwI sH PAssovER.-Next week i the
Jewish Passover 1t viii be observed. as Gus
tomary annually among the Israelites. in com
memoratlon Of the departure Of the children
OF Israel from Egyptian bondage and slavery.
by the eating of unleavened bread for eight
days, the reading of the Hayadch, aud divine
worship IN the Synagogue on the two first and
two last days of the festival.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

OF The New York papers contain the
following particulars of foreign news by the
Asia, in addition to those we published on
Saturday: