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INSTITUTION de PLAQUEMINE
pour les jeunes garçons.
M ew. J. SARTA et }. HENRY, directeurs.
Munis de leur vieille eipérience en tout ce
qui a rapport à l'instruction de <a jeunesse
«t pleins de confiance dans l'iutelligence de leur
zèle appuyé de laborieux et consciencieux efforts,
les directeurs de cette nouvelle institution se bor
nent à annoncer tout simplement aujourd'hui l'ou
verture des classes, fixée à lundi prochain, 28 Août
courant.
La lecture, l'écriture, la grammaire, l'arithméti
que, la ; géomptrie, l'histoire enseignée simultané
ment aveç la Orographie, et la tenue des livres com
poseront la matière fondamentale des leçons.
Les langues anglaise et française, base première,
essentielle de tout euseigncment aux Etais-Unis,en
Louisiane surtout, conduites de pair, serotit un ob
jet de sollicitude sérieuse pour les professeurs de
l'établissement. _
Les idées religieuses devant être la règle et le
complément de toute bonne éducation, ne îecevront
devant les élèves d'autre interprétation que celle
émanant des principes généraux de la doctrine et
de la morale chrétiennes.
On enseignera le latin et le grec, selon la volonté
des pères et mères des enfans.
Les heures des classes sont établies : le matin,
de 9 heures à midi : et le soir, de 2 à 5 heures.
On recevra des pensionnaires et des demi pen
sionnaires.
Recommandations: J. SARTA,
J. HENRY.
Dr. Clement, Dr. Hîriart, P. R. Oril
lion, J. B. Rills. \n\n SOUTHERN
to
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VOL. I.
PLAQUEMHE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE. AUGUST 31,1848..
7.
PLAQVEMINE MILE ACADEMY.
M enu. J. SARTA and J. HENRY, Directors.
GUIDED by an experience of several years in
the education of the young,confident iu their
own zeal, and aided by their conscientious endea
vors, the Directors of this new Academy respect
fully inform the inhabitants of Plaquemine and vi
cinity, that the opening of their classes commences
on MONDAY, 28th of August, 1848. Reading,
Writing, Grammar, Arithmetic, Geometry, History,
combined with Geography and B"ok-kuping will
constitute the basts ef tne course of studies. The
English and French languages will be paiticnlarly
attended to a nd gramatically taught. C hristian mo
rality will be inculcated in the minds of the scholars.
The Latit. and Greek languages will be taught, if
required by parents. The Academy will be open
ed from 9 to 12 o'clock in the morning, and from '2
te 5 o'clock in the evening. Day Boarders as well
as those by thequarter or year, will be admitted in
the establishment.
J, SARTA, I Dj rec tor«
au28 2t J. HENRY, } üireCt ° r '
. References —Dr. Clement, Dr. Hiriart.
P. R. Orillion, J. B. Rills.
OTH, BROTHER & CO, are nowreceiv
„ iug from the North a general 'assortment of
Best quality Jewelry—received diiect from the
manufacturer, and is warranted in all cases
of the best material and make.
Clothing for genu, of best quality and style:
Shoes and Boots of all kinds, and well made
A general assortment of Hardware. au'21;
R
ON COMMISSION by ROTH, BRO &.CO,
15 Bajass Carts;
15 fine Horse Cane Carts, all with iron axle
tree;
£ Ox Carts, with irorvaxletrec;
1 large Cane Wagon;
100,000 shingles, best quality. an2l
TWO Thousand yards Lindsey; 1500 yards
Jeans, for sale by
au 21 ROTH, BRO & CO.
FIFTEEN bdls Packing Yarn;
25 bbli Lard Oil for augar house;
10 bales Oaknm;
10 tons assorted Iron, suitable tor plantation
use;
Barrel and Hogshead Truss Hoops;
White Lead and Linseed Oil.
For sale by Qi21 ] ROTH, BRO & CO.
ONE Thousand pair best and second quality of
Russets and Brogans; for sale by
au21 ' ROTH, BRO & CO
G
ENEBAL assortment of Willow Ware, for
sale by ROTH, BRO & Co.
GENERAL assortment of Fancy Goods for
Ladies, for sale by
au21 ROTH, BRO & CO.
FAMILY Cooking Stoves and pot ware of %ll
kinds and sizes, for sale by
ao21 ROTH. BRO & CO.
LOOKING GLASSES of all sizes for sale by
au21 ROTH, BRO & CO
UMBRELLAS of best quality silk and Scotch
ginghams, for sale by
au31 ROTH, BRO & CO.
To tbe Public.
CHEAP GOODS—COME AND BUY!
THE subscriber, having entirely "enewed his
stock from tbe Northern market, offers for
•ale the most complete and valuable assortment of
PnncioUt, laues, DMrints, Platforms, tçc., ever
offered to the Southern market. His articles are
carefnllv selected to sait every age, taste, disposi
tion and climate; and he warrants that every custo
mer, no matter what may be his creed, shall be ex
actly suited. He has on hand a variety of lives of
General C mi » which are exceedingly low.
Having no farther use for bis old stock of Issues,
remaining on hand oinee 1844. and anxious to get
rid of diem, he offers them for sale on the most rea
sonable terms. The attention of purchaser? ispar
tieularly called to the Oregon Question, for which he
®aly ask* 54 40, bat will take 49 00 rather than
have any difficulty.
au!7 It DEM. PARTY.
A SUPERIOR LOT of Old "Bourbon" Whis
k*y, for aale by
au!4tf BRINEGAR.
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!
Mr. Fillmore vs. the Demor ratic
Pamphlet—Judgement by Default.
At a regular mieeting of the Central
Rough and Ready Club of the parisli of
Jefferson, held ti Rough and Ready
Hall, on Monday evening, the 22d instant,
the President having invited Alexander
Phillips, E^q., to the chair, and appointed
Dr. James Jones, assistant Secretary,
called the attention of the Club to their
proceedings at the last regular meeting,
in reference to a pamphlet which has been
circulated in that parish, charging and
purporting to prove from the journals ol
Congress, that Millard Fillmore is an
Abolitionist, and with a few explanatory
remarks, submitted for consideration the
following preamble and resolutions, which
were read, and on motion, unanimously
adopted :
Htareas, At the last regular meeting
of this Club, on Monday evening, the 14th
inst., the President brought to the notice of
the assembly a pamphlet supposed to have
been put forth by the leaders of the so
called Democratic party of Louisiana,
charging that Millard Fillmore, the whig
candidate of the true Republican party
for V<ce President, is an Ahditionist; and
purporting to contain extracts from the
journals to prove the charge by his votes
iu Congress.
And Whereas, The said President on
his official responsibility, in the name of
tili« Club, then and there pronounced
said charge to be false and slanderous,
and supported in said pamphlet by a sup
pression of the most material and impor
tant parts of the record, and by exhibiting
unfair, uncandid and garbled extracts
from the journals, which, if fairly given,
would have proven it to be without the
shadow of foundation.
AnS Whereas , The said President, then
pioceeding to review said pamphlet,
clearly showed to tbe satisfaction of every
candid man present', that it was a tissue of
false, fraudulent and deceptive represen
tations, arfully and cunningly devised to
make a false and erroneous impression
upon the mind of the casual and unsus
pecting reader. That in attempting to
prove the charge by showing that Mr.
Fillmore voted against Atherton's resolu
tions in 1&38, the first and the only one of
them involved the question of abolition
ism, and which emphatically declares that
Congress has no power to interfere with
slavery in the States of this contederacy
is wilfully suppressed, because Mr. Fill
more voted for it, and that vote of itself
proves that he is no abolitionist. He also
showed to the satisfaction of all candid
minds, then and there present, that the
said pamphlet was false, fraudulent and
deceptive in this, that it represents Mr.
Fillmore in numerous instances as voting
alone with Adams, Slade and Giddings,
to make the impression on the casual ami
unsuspecting reader that Mr. Fillmore
generally acted and sympathized with
those men, when .a candid exposition of
the votes would have shown that in al
most every instance he voted also wiät a
large niimber'of the leading members of
the so-called Democratic party, whom
the authors of this pamphlet are now
proud to claim and act with, but whose
names have been purposely suppressed in
order to mislead and deceive the honest
voter, and make him believe this false
and slanderous charge.
He further showed that, said pampMet
gravely charges Mr. Fillmore with hav
ing justified, by his votes,, mutiny and
the murder of white rneu by negroes.—
That an attempt is therein made to prove
this monstrous and shocking charge, by
merely showing that he voted against a
motion to lay on the table Gidding's reso
lution touching the mutiny and murder
on board the brig Creole , in 1842, That
a fair and candid extract from the jour
nals in that case would have shown that
his motive in giving that vote was not to
favor said resolutions, but, on the contra
ry, to prevent them from being received,
or in any mariner entertained by the
House. That in this vote, on which this
ternble charge is founded, he voted with
a majority of 1-Jo, including a large num
ber of Democratic members, still hailed
with pridt as brethren by the authors of
this pamphlet, and among others were
John B. Dawson, Edward D. White and
John Moore, the entire delegation from
Louisiana.
That in defiance of all truth, the at
tempt is made to prove that Mr, Fillmore
supported and aided Giddings in his dis
graceful and fanatical course on that oc
casion, because he voted against a reso
lution to censure him—when a fair expo
sition of the whole truth would have prov
en the reverse, and that he opposed him
at every step. That so far from giving
him aid or encouragement, when the
speaker had decided that Giddings had a
right to speakon the resolution as a ques
tion of privilege, Mr. Fillmore took an ap
peal from the decision, which appeal was
sustained by the House, and Giddings
thereby prevented from speaking in bis
own defence.
He further showed that said pamphlet
containing these false and infamous slan
ders, and these fraudulent, unfair and
garbled extracts in pretended proof of
them, had been sown broad cast over this
parish, and probably over the whole State,
in such a manner as to avoid and escape
all responsibility on the part of i s authors.
That it is addressed to the people of the
State of Louisiana, without date, or any
mark on its face to show from whence it
issued, or any other evidence^of its pater
nity than its striking resemblance to cer
taiu leaders of the so-called democratic
party in this quarter. That those who
concocted it, and put it forth to abuse and
scandalize one of the best and purest of
their fellow citizens, merely to gain' a
party advantage, were bodi ashamed and
afraid to put their names to it. But
having been distributed among the peo
ple of the parish of Jefferson in the pre
sence of said President, by the President
of the Cass and Butler Club of this city, in
the presence of Col. Isaac T. Preston,
President of the Central Democratic As
sociation of the State of Louisiana, and
with his implied sanction, the said Presi
dent of this Club, then and there boldly
challenged that distinguished individual
to appear before the people of this parish
in its defence within a reasonable time,
and notified him that in case of his failure,
he should consider all his charges and al
legations in reference to it as aforesaid,
taken for confessed, and that he would
proceed to take judgment in the premises
by default.
And Whereas , Seven days have since
elapsed, and service of said notice having
been acknowledged on the record, by an
announcement in the Morning Chronicle,
and the said Isaac T. Preston having
failed to appear and plead, answer, or
demur to the indictment thus brought
against the association, of which he is
President, before the bar of public opi
nion, it is therefore ordered, adjudged and
decreed by this Club that judgment be,
and is hereby taken against said pamph
let, on all and singular, the foregoing alle
gations, by default.
In consideration of the premises, be it
therefore unanimously resolved, as the
sense of this Qltib, that said pamphlet
contains a false, slanderous and libellous
charge against an American citizen,
whose character, both public and private,
is not otjly above reproach, but above sus
picion. That the evidence in support of
said charge is false, fraudulent and hypo
critical, that the authors of it have given
proof that they knew it to be so, by fail
ing to put a responsible name to it, and
sending it forth as a miserable, fatherless
bantling, that they are ashamed and afraid
to own. That the authors of it have
been guilty of an attempt to cheat and
swindle the honest and unsuspecting voter
out of his vote, by "false and fraudulent
pretences." That such conduct, in the
ordinary transactions of life, and a resort
to the same disreputable means to obtain
the goods or property of a fellow-citizen,
would be justly visited by the laws of the
land with severe and ignominious penal
ties, and that as a moral and political
crime, it merits no less than the unquali
ficd censure mid côndemnatic a of all good
men of all parties.
Iîesolved, That the foregoing preamble
and resolution be published in the Com
mercial Bulletin, the Bee, in French and
English, the Commercial Times, Die
Glocke and Live Oak.
JAMES II. ADAMS, Trcs lent.
E. G otthel, )
J ames J ones, J
Sect - ' '.aries.
Out With It.
One of the richest specimens of the
mingled hyp crisy and hardihood of the
Locofoco leaders, is to be seen in the fol
lowing note to the Milledgevdle Recorder.
Just look at it, honest Democrats, and tell
us what you think of the dirty and dis
creditable manœuvre :
[For the Recorder.]
Correspondence between Southern De
mocrats and a Northern Abolitionist. —As
soon as it was certainly known tli!?t Ho
race Greely of New York, had joined the
Democratic party, a portion of'he Demo
crats in one of the counties of the Seventh
Congressional District wrote to him Lr
help to beat Mr. Fillmore, since they had
got to be one and tbe same, and wished to
know if Mr. Fillmore was not an Aboli
tionist! Greely said no : that he was so
strong a slavery man, that he could not
support him. Disappointed in the object,
the letter has been laid away. Certain
Democrats have got it, ar.d the public
want to see it. Come gentlemen, pub
lish it. O glethoppe.
The idea of Southern Locofocos en
deavoring to unite with Horace Greely—
the most formidable and violent of the op-
ponents of the South—for the purpose of
obtaining proof that Millard Fillmore is
not sound on the slavery question, is cer
tainly a master piece of ingenious effron
tery. But, unfortuuately for the base de
signs of Locofoeoism, instead of obtain
ing the proof, it has caught a Tartar.—
Greely, in his unmitigated hostility to the
South, says to the letter writers that "Mr.
Fillmore is not an Abolitionist, but that,
on the contrary, he is "so strong a slaveiy
man that he (Greely) could not support
him." It is worthy of remark, in connec
tion with this reply, that all the Northern
Abolitionists oppose Fillmore. Giddings,
Vau Buren, Tuck, Dick, Niles, Hale,
W'ilmot and Prestun King are his bitter
est foes. Yet Southern Locofoco prints
pretend that he is unsafe and unsound
upon the slavery question. If Mr. Fill
more was opposed to the South, would
tlia Abolitionists go against him 1 Would
they not rather support him, if he belong
ed to their faith 1 Would an Abolitionist
oppose an Abolitionist ? The idea is pre
posterous.
We trust the Taylor Press of Georgia,
continues the Bee, will never cease cad
ing for the publication of the correspon
dence between the Locofoco leaders and
Horace Greely, until it is produced. Out
with the letter ! Give Locofocoism no
respite until it lays before the public all
the particulars of this contemptible but
abortive intrigue.
Anecdotes of Gen. Taylor.
Occasionally it occurs that a man will
want to write a letter to his frends, and
has no materials to do so. Without hesi
tation he applies to the "old man" and
gets »II he wants, pen, ink, paper, and
wafer, which comes from his private stock,
which is always at the service of the sol
diers.
While reviewing them, to see, no doubt,
how they looked after their scrimmage,
an old soldier, who served under him in
the Florida war, proposed, at the topof his
voice, "Three cheers for old Rough and
Ready," which were given with all the
honors. As soon as they had subsided,
the old general, every feature in his ope«
countenances speaking volumes, giace
fully took up his chapeau and returned
thanks, and added—"Gentlemen. I would
be happy to treat you all, but I have got
nothing, except some Rio Grande water,
with which to do it." '
On one occasion a volunteer, getting
tired of discipline, thought he would re
lieve himself of it, for a time at least, and
with that view absented himself for a week
without leave, and made a trip to the
country. As soon as fiia absence was
known in tf e camp, he was proclaimed a
deserter, and men sent in pursuit of him.
He retu ned, however, before he was ar
rested, and immediately madefiis way to
the old general, and told him, in mitiga
tion of punishment, be was always accus
tomed to open backwood life, and it went
hard with him to be confined so much.—
"Well," said the general, "don : t do so
again, my boy, without leave," and direct
ed him to go to his quarters. That man
thinks General Taylor is the best man
living, and he would willingly lose life it
self at his bidding.
A Noble Sentiment .—In Matamoras,
a gentleman said to General Taylor, "i
understand, general, that you have said
you were here as the officer of your gov
ernment, and asked no questions as to the
right or wrong of this war." The old
general, with much animation replied :
"Beuveen my government and a foreign
nation, I never ask a question— my gov
eminent is always right.
General Taylur's Letters .—Many
have supposed that the letters and des
patches ofGen. Taylor were not written
"by himse'f, but by another (Major Bliss.)«
The doubt arises from their excellence
of style and sentiment also.
Not forgetting that General Gibson has
said that on seventeen different Court.
MartiaU at which he and General Taylor
met, the latter was invariably selected by
the other members to draw up their re
port, our object mainly is to relate what,
has been stated to have been the sub
stance of a conversation on this subject
between Major Bliss and another highly
respectable gentleman in the western part,
of this State. It was this : •
"Well ! Major Bliss, they say the Gen
eral (Taylor ; ) don't write his own letters,,
but that you do it for him "
Major B.— "I suppose I know about as
much about that as any other man; and
all that I can say is that every despatch
during the campaign has been written by
the General himself—The most I have
ever ventured to do was to dot an i or
cross a t, and I should like to see the
man that would dare do more.— Salem
Gazette.
The most Millingtaryest Man in the
Nation. —A rabid locofoco who was very
much dissatisfied with the nomination of
"Old Zack," began cursing the "Feder
als" for their inconsistency in supporting
a military man. "These Feds,"
said he, "made a great outcry against
Gen. Jackson because he was a military
man, and now they have gone to work
and nominated the most millingtaryest
man in thtnation.—N. Y. Mirror.
Lower Classes .—Who are they ? The
toiling millions, the laboring men and
women, the farmer, the mechanic, the
inventor, the prodocer? Far from it.
These are nature's nobility, God's favor
ites, the sa'.t of the earth. No matter
whether they are high or low in station,
rich or poor in pelf, conspicuous or hum
ble in position, they are the upper circles
in the order of nature, whatever tbe ficti
tious distinctions of society, fashionable
or unfashionable, decree. It is not low, it
is the highest duty , privilege and pleasure
for the great man and the whole-sooled
woman to earn what they possess—to
work their own way through life— tobe
the architects of their own fortunes. Some
rank the classes we have alluded to, as
only relatively low, and in fact only the
middling classes. We insist that they
are absolutely the very highest. If there
is a class of human beings on earth, who
may properly be denominated low, it
is composed of those who spend with
out producing, who dissipate the earn
ings of their fathers or relatives, without
being or doing anything in ai*l of them
selves.
A beam has been found in the ruins of
ancient Ninevah, which must have been
there for several hundred years before
Christ.— Ex.
That is nothing ! An antiquarian, now
travelling in the eastern countries, has
found a dried fig leaf in the Gardeft of
Eden, supposed to be one of those which
Adam used to cover his nakedness ! Now
that if worth telling.—Hartford (Ct.) Ga
zette.