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The Greek Slave

Bacchante, Venus, Flora, Hebe. and the
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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
Wars Int erludes-Ehect Of a Flag OF
Truce.

The instant the flags were hoisted friend
and foe swarmed out of the embrasures. The
rifcmen of the allies and Of the enemy rose
from their lairs in the rife pits. and sauntered
towards each other to behold their gnm hand
iwork. The whole Of the space between the
Russian lines and our own was filed with
groups of unnamed sOldiery. Passing down
by the Middle Picket Ravine, which is now
occupied by the French, and which runs
down in froHt of the Light Division camp
came out upon the advanced French trench,
within few hundred yards Of the MamelOn
The sight was strange beyond description
French, English, and Russian officers were
walking about salutng each other cautiously
as they passed, and occasionally entering into
conversation, and a constant interchange Of
little civilities such as offering and receiving
cigar lights, was going on IN each little group.
Some of the Russian officers were evidently
men OF high rank and bree ling Theirpsl-
ished manners contrastod remarkably Win
their plain, and rather coarse clothing. They
wore, with few exceptions, the invanabIe long
gray coat over their uniforms The French
officers were all ca graIide te41le, and offered
striking contrast 10 many of our own officers
who were dressed a Ia Balalyva and wore un-
couth heai-dresses, catskin coats and nondes-
script paletotes. Many Of the Russians look
ed remarkably like English gentlemen in
style Of face and bearing. One TALL fine look
ing old man, with a long gray beard and
strangely shaped cap, was pointed out 70 rs
as Hetman of the Cussacks in the Crimea, but
it did not appear as if there were many men
of very high military rank present. The
Russians were rather grave aud reserved, but
they seemed 10 fratemize with the French
better than with ourselves, aud the men GER
tainly got on better with our allies than with
the few privates of our own regiments who
were down towards the front-Lozdoa 7fsaes.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
GLORIOUS Democratic victory

indianapolis is redeemed, regenerated, and
Disseminated Republican principles have
triumphed, and the people have declared, in
an unmistakeable manner, that political ques-
tons shall be discussed in open day, and po-
htical action shall be determined by free
and fair expression of the public will, and
not by the pre-aTanged plans of oflice-seek-
ers ans religious bigots. The victory here is
bit the prelude to the humiliation of the
midnight party. 1t must sink, and like the
South Sea Scheme, and the Kazoo Claims, be
remembered only as among the exploded
villainies of the past.
Would to God, that all remembrance OF
this organization could be erased from the
.alilets Of memory and of history, SO that
future ages might not know that such dia-
boLcal plan, to overthrow republican institu-
rions, had ever been invented; and thus thai
its temporary success might never be used as
a precedent and an encouragement for sub
sequent iniguities of the same character.
Let US thank Heaven that our citizens have
decided that proceedings which, like the fou
mysteries Of the BoSA DEA are shrouded il
darkness, shall not be encouraged amongs
US.
Hereafter men, 50 far from seeking to en-
ter this order, will shrink from it as from the
touch of pollution, and those who have be-
longed to it viii strive, by penitence and gooC
behavior, to efaes all memory, Q. their con
nection with it. The handwriting on the
wall. has appeared,-the order has beer
weighed in the balance and found wanting
it is doomed to death and infamy.
The election of WISE will complete on
satisfaction. Nor can we permit ourselve
to doubt for m oment that chieftain so gal
lan,, sustained by followers so true, will l.
successful. If WISE is elected, our friend
may cease to concern themselves about othe
results, but rest assured that the Union am
the Constitution are safe.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
Life i'm Nehraska

A correspondent of the " Y Herold has
the following picture. Every man to his
taste, but as for ourselves, give US the COM
forts Of civilization:
Talk of comfort and pleasure, surrounded
by the turmoil and confusion Of a city life.
why, il is no more TO he compared 10 this than
wolf meat to good ierked venison. Ten nil
lion acres Of the loveliest country I'M the
world around us-nOt white man In Twelve
or fifteen miles-no corporation restrictions.
or actions for trespass-plenty Of geese. ducks
brants deer, wolves, prairie hens. &c. &c
within rifle shot-plenty of good coffee and
whisky to dnnk--no wives to sc0ld us--no
women to tease-no heating feather beds to
sleep OHIO fonnalities to be bored with
no rents to pay-and plenty Of good. strong
buckskin breeches to wear Why. we wonld
not change one hour of this glorious natures
life, surrounded by lovely scenery fresh from
the hand Of God, for months Of pampered
city life. There is an unalloyed pleasure in
it concerning which your old fogiedom Of the
States know as little how to appreciate "a =
Hottentot does Of the blessings Of civiliza-
ton, or hog Of the glories Of salvation.
But yonder comes a team from the settle
ment two days out | must see if il brings
any newspapers from the States or Letters from
loved ones away. Reader, if Won come this
way, give me a call.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
The Election.

The election of city officers for Indianapo-
lis was alluded to in our yesterdays issue =
the Official vote is presented incur columns to-
day. The general city ticket elects Demo-
Gratis entire by majorities Of from 81 to 248.
OF the Councilmen for the different wards,
we have elected from the Democratic ticket
only six This result, which may seem sin
gular in consideration of the fact that fUe out
of the seven wards gave the Democratic Mayor
decided majorities, must be attributable to the
running of Independent Candidates in several
of the elective precincts. Had the effort been
stronger, and the system Of working at the
polls more perfect-half as perfect as that of
our midnight opponents-there is no doubt
whatever that the Democracy would have
secured ten or twelve comcilmen, instead of
six, and have poled anajority Of three or four
hundred votes, instead of two hundred and
forty-eight. Many of our voters in the city
were not at the polls; many who should
have been here, were taken away and kept
away, laboring upon the railroad, until the
hour for voting had passed.
Yet, we have no reason to complain; we
have great cause rather TO rejoice in the res
cue of indianapolis from thraldom worse
than that which letters the limbs, more in
Eolerable than that which enehains the free
dom of the will. To feel THAT you are slave
10 a master, or serf to despot, and to en-
dure it, is to feel what hundreds have felt and
thousands have endured. But to know, that
whilst surrounded by the empty forms of
republcanism, we are enveloped in the folds
of political serpent, unseen, inscrutable, but
felt and dreaded, whose poison tongue drops
secretly its venom on our lips, whose putri-
scent carcass entwines itself unobserved
around our neeks,--to feel and know that we
are surrounded by an engine, with an I'M
known motive power, which may crush us or
elevate Us at its will; this is to feel. and this
IS 70 know the slavery of a despotism which
binds the soul in iron links, and makes mans
heart hell
We love tine friend, and admire an open
foe, but we despise the individual who will
bite us at the back, and hold as a craven
deeply dyed in infamy. the miserable assas-
sin, who presents his dagger to the barred boz
som Of an enemy, but shields himself behind
a self-ereeted monument Of darkness. To
think freely, to speak freely, to act freely,
and openly, are the boosted privileges of
an american citizen. True Americans, brave
men-rnen who are not afraid of daylight,
and who Ioathe craven, will never, can
never tolerate q secret political institution
whose motto IS darkness, and whose watch
ward is cowardics. The incipient step in the
regeneration of Indiana, has begun at the
Capital 1t will continue to 90 on purging
and purifying until the pestilence of Know
~Nothingism is swept away from our midst,
IL vestige left to tell where once it
~tie reigns of power. !
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
Should Wings Sustain the Know
Nothings?

We publish to-day the letter of THOMAS
5. GHoLsoN, Esq, an eminent lawyer of Pc
tersbug Virginia, on this question. OF all
the good things which have been written
against the so-called American party, this is
the best. 1t is calm, philosophical and law
yer like. Mr.. GHoIsON'S eminent position al
the bar will give it, in Virginia, wide circu-
lation, and we hope that it will do good ser
vice for Mr.. WISE. Mr.. GHoLsoN has been
the pet of the Wing party for years, in South
Eastern Virginia, and his opinions are emit
tied to the serious consideration of all Wings
We especially recommend to them the
concluding paragraph. 1t contains truth
which we have been trying toimpress on on
readers for some time past
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
Repeal of the English Stamp Duties on
NewspaperS

When Horace Greeley was last in England
he was called before Parliamentary Commit
tee TO give evidence as to the probable effect
of repeal of the stamp duties on newspa-
pers. His disclosures of the difference in
prices, in circulation, and in the diffusion of
general knowledge, between the English and
the American Press, were thoroughly startling,
and aroused many members of tho Commons
to a sense of the advantages enjoyed by our
own country which they had never before re-
allied. 1t was then that the struggle for re-
peal began, and although opposed at every
step by the Conservatives, vet as we learn by
recent intelligence, it has finally triumphed,
and the duty is no more.
The stamp duty has been in force during
period of one hundred and fifty years 1t was
imposed in the early part of Of the reign of
Queen Anne, for the avowed purpose of con-
trolling the press; and it is but Justice to the
sagaclty OF Its originators to say, that the re-
suit fully justified their expectations. Most
of the liberal journals Of that period were
either crippled or driven out of existence; and
those of an independent character had no al
tentative left except unconditional surrender
or certain humiliation.
The triumph of the government was per-
feet; the aristocracy, freed from their great en-
envy, rioted on the sweat of the nation; and
the utmost exertions of the English people
have barely been able to save them from alb
solute and hopeless despotism. And having
found their power in this respect the aristOc-
racy continued to use it. Whenever tumult
or discomfort prevailed against the Govern
ment, the stamp duty was raised, and the mass
of the people cut off from information, sank
back into sloth and ignorance. In this man.
ner it reached the enormous sum of eight
cents on single sheet, and had wars and other
national diversions continued, tits probable that
the ignoble days of cold hearts and narrow
minds in high places, would have contin-
ued until now. But the general peace in
augurated more reforms than those of the rot
ten boroughs or the corn laws, and this amongst
them. The general sentiment of the com
munity began to make itself felt in Parliment.
and in 1886, in an evil hour for the aristocra-
cy, the stamp duties on newspapers was redu-
ced from eight to two cents Since that peri
cd the change has been more rapid and pre-
ceptible. The tone of the press has become
liberal and independent, and topics which, in
the last century, were considered as too sacred
for general investigation, are now discussed
with as much freedom as the current events
of the day. Now, that the press is complete
ly diseathralled, we may look for the speedy
overthrow of weak and imbecile dynasty.-
Already it is shaking in the wind, and sim
gle blast from the Thunderer, sends chill
through its veins that makes it tremble with
apprehension.-Missomi Democrat
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03

0TH Virginia defeats WISE for Governor
and declares in favor of acknowledgment,
the Abolitionists and Freesoil men &C Indi-
ana will feel that they have gotten into strange
company. There is good reason to believe
that the whole South is about 10 adopt the
policy that the exclusion of foreigners from
citizenship is their safety. Nearly all for
eign emigrants settle in the free States
and thereby out-number the slave population
in the slave States. If they would be kept
at home, or from increasing the strength OF
the free States, the natural increase of popu-
latien in the SlIve States Icing in an increas
ed ratio over that Of the whites in the free
States, the preponderanee Of slave power
would be thereby increased and sustained
How the Abolition States of Massachusetts,,
Vermont and Connecticut and the Abolition
party in other free States can relish the doc
trine and policy, we are at loss 70 discover.
II no more Germans or Irish are allowed to
this country, Northern men would never set
tie the vast domain of Texas, New Mexico
and our future Southern acquisitions of ma
tional territory; therefore, this extensive area
might be appropriated by settlers from the
slave States, and the slave power the;,-taby
hisintain itself in the Senate and Congress
of the Union. We shall look with interest
to the result of this Southern policy-and
the Virginia election will indicate much to
the rejecting mind.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
Madison and it's Prosp ects.

Gen. STAPP insists that Madison is, and
ought to be, Aourishing city. We think so
too. He explains any little falling off in bust
ness as the result of temporary circumstances:
We are now asked the question-if these
things are true, why has business fallen of
in Madison, as you say it has? We answer
there are two very good reasons for it, one OF
which relates to every other city in the West
ern country as well as Madison-and that is
the depression of business all over the coun-
try. We have over-traded-our expectations
by many millions of dollars; consequently, the
precious metals have been drawn away from
us in such abundance that the depression has
been severely felt all over this widespread
country, and more particularly so in this grea
60 ahead West.
But there is another reason for the fallins
off in the bushes of Madison, which doe
not relate to other cities of the West, (excep
perhaps, to Cincinnati, in some degree.) Pub
lie opinion is set against our prosperity, on &C
count of those roads surroundings as they
do. The imagination is filled with bug bean
and humbugs about the future of Madison
1t has alarmed capitalists and business men
abroad, and has filled some Of our own citizens
with doubts and fears for our future prospect
ty; consequently the former have been kept
away and some of the latter have left us, while
We who remain have not taken the course We
ought to have done to dispel those fears, and
continue that confidence we ought to main
tain.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03

OF WoMAN.-The following, which has
been going the rounds of the papers, displays
an extraordinary discrimination in the art OF
language, and is meritorious in sentiment
1.-THE English woman is respectful and proud
the French woman is gay and agreeable; the
Italian woman is passion; the American wo.
man is sincere and affectionate. With an
English woman love is principle; with a
French woman it is caprice; with an Italian
il is passion; with an American it is senti-
ment A man is married to an English wo-
man; is united to French woman; co-habits
with an Italian, and is welded to an Ameri-
can. An English woman is anxious to secure
lord; French woman a companion; an
Italian lover, an American husband. The
Enslishman respects his lady; the Frenchman
esteems his companion; the Italian adores his
mistress; the American loves his wife. The
Englishman at night returns to his house,
while the Frenchman goes TO his establish
ment; the Italian to his retreat; the American
to his home. When an Englishman is sick
his lady visits him, when Frenchmsn is sick
his companion pities; when an Italian is sick
his mistress signs over him; when an Ameri-
can is sick his wife nurses him. The English
woman instructs her offspring; French wo-
man teaches her progeny; an Italian rears
her young; while an American educates her
child.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
PREPARE FOR A FAMrSr.-The New York

PREPARE FOR A FAMINE.-The New York
Tribune predicts that next winter all kinds OF
breadstuffs and meats will be fifty per cent
higher than they are now, and that as a con-
sequence, will be beyond the reach of masses
of the poor who are doomed to starvation
1t says:
"The only cheap article Of food is sugar,
and that can be bought for less price per
pound than -four 1t should be more largely
consumed as a matter of economy. Let the
poor eat more sugar, rice, tapioca. farini, mac
caron, hominy, dried fruits and less meats,
and much less crude vegetables. Let the
farmer resolve to grow more, and the con-
sumner cat and waste less, or the present
prices will prove only the beginning of sor-
row."
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
OTThe execution Of Madden and Keel

TThe execution of Madden and KeefeI
took place on Friday last.
The Fort Wayne Standard of that day
says.
The act is performed and who is any the bet
ter for it? Madden and Keefer were hung
this morning at 90 o'clock, TO satisfy the de-
mand of the law; but does this, in any way,
prove that those demands were Just and right?
certainly not. Who is benefited by this act?
Is it any relief 10 those whose friend was kill
ed by them? Will it in any way mitigate
their sorrow? Has it added anything to the
morals of community, or to the interests of
the State, to deprive them Of life? But it is
said they killed a man; we do not doubt it;
but this will not bring the man back TO life,
neither in our opinion does il have anything
like salutary effect on community. We are
asked if we would have them left to go at
large; surely not, but We would not take their
lives. Shut them up securely in prison and
make them labor for their support during their
lifetime, would be to our mind.