Southern sentinel. [volume], April 18, 1849, Image 1

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PLAQUEIME, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, APRIL 18. 1849.
NO. 52.
INVITATION!
CALL AND SEE
The Largest Stock of Clothing in the
Southern Country.
ALFRED MUNROE & CO'S
34 MAGAZINE ST., N. O.
0*We'have, duiing the Summer, greatly en
larged our Store, and our facilities for serving cus
' tomers surpass those of any other establishment in
the Southern Country. By recent arrivals we
have received some magnificent goods, and are en*
•bled to place before the public '.he following enti'
cing list:
COATS.
Block, bhre - and-farircy Colored
Cloth Dress Coats, $12 00 to $30 00
Black, - blue and fancy colored
Frock Coats, 12 00 to 30 00
Black, brown and drab Pilot
Cloth Paletots and Sacs, 10 00 to 17 00
French black, blue, brown and
mulberry Castor Paletots and
Sacs, 18 00 to 22 00
Black and fancy colored Cremo
nia Doeskin Paletots and Sacs, 10 00 to 28 00
Fancy colored Tweed and Cod»
rington Paletots, Sacs and O
vercoatr, 7 00 to 12 00
Black, blue and drab Beaver
Cloth Paletots and Sacs, 10 00 to 18 00
Plaid Cassitner and heather plaid
Paletots and Sacs, 8 00 to 9 00
Tweed, Codiington and plaid
Cassimer Polka and Lamartine
Coats, 7 00 to 12 00
Blue Pilot Cloth Bouvelards, 7 00 to 8 00
Black and fancy Tweed, heather
plaid and fancy Cassimer plaid
Bouvelurds, 3 00 to 6 50
Black and blue French and Eng
lish Cloth C looks, 16 to 35 00
Blue Pilot Cloth Cloaks, 18 W) to 20 00
Extra superfine Blankets, Pale'
tots. Sacs, 16 00 to 18 00
Blue, drab, doe colored, green
and white Paletots and Sacs, 5 00 to 16 00
PANTALOONS.
French and English black Cas
simer and Doeskin Pants, 5 00 to 11 00
Blue, olive and fancy colored
Cassimer and Doeskin Pants, 4 00 to 9 00
Mixed Doeskin, Cassimer and
Redding Cord Pants, 4 00 to
French and American Cottonade
Pants,
Tweed and Satinet Pants,
VESTS.
Black and eolor'd cloth embroi
deted Vests,
Colored Cashmere Vests, of all
qualities and styles.
Black Cloth, Cassimer, Merino,
and Bombazine Vests,
Black and fancy silk Velvet Vests,
Rich figured and striped Silk do.
Splendid Tinsel Ball do.
Valencia Vests do.
SHIRTS, SCARFS, CRAVATS, &c.
Superfine (all linen) stitched bosom Shirts,
do. English Muslin do.
do. York Mills do. do.
Medium quality do. do.
French Gingham and Calico do.
Linnen and Cotton Check do.
Menno, flannel, Gauze, brown, white and pink
Undersells and Drawers.
Very rich styles fancy Cravats.
Merino, Cashmere, Buckskin, black and white Kid
Gloves
Cotton, Merino and Linen Half Hose.
Silk and Gingham Umbrellas.
Trunks, Valises, Carpet Bags, &c,
(HF At this t <ablishment, every article is offered
at the vjiry io :c* : price at which it can be sold, and
NO RfcDUC HON can in any instanae be made
ALFRED MUNROE & CO.,
6m 34 Magazine st.
100 to
3 50 to
500
2 50
400
3 00 to
3 00 to
4 00 to
3 50 to
4 50 to
2 50 to
10 00
900
3 50
10 00
6 00
800
3 00
TWICE A WEEK!
JJATON ROUGE PACKET.
■The steamei Capt. J as.
H. Ure , Oester, leaves New
Orleans everjFriday at 10 A. M.
Returning, leaves Baton Rouge (very Saturday at
2 P. pf.—Leaves New Orleans érery Monday at
5 P. 1 M. Returning, leaves Bato» Rouge every
Wei Incsday at 8 A. M.
E pThe GIPSY is entirely new, tnd will take
he place of the Majestic. Her accommodations
are Unsurpassed by any boat in the tade. For
frei,- ;bt or passage, apply on bowd. mh21
Höring Establishment.
I HE subscriber has opened « shop ot Front
street, two doors below the cWr-shop of Mr.
A ./Levystein, and would respectfully inform his
frtfends and the public generally that I* is prepuod
T do all work in his line on as good ter« and iits
t a manner as elsewhere.
He respectfully solicits the patronage «f the puW
From his experience in the business, he feels
Confident of givimr satisfaction to those «ho wish
ffiaitoting done. wh!88 tf JOHN AST
ESTRAY.
Eatrayed from the undersignel, a
WÎRAIN COLORED CREOLE M>
,_NEY, white main, yellow tail. A libwnl
• t J will be paidfto any one who will deliver said
lijorse to Mr. SMITH, id Plaqnemine, or Mad.
WlYER, at Bayou Goula. jan 11
i : ev>
SUGAR LIME.
rrio Planters.— The subscribers keep
JL constantly on hand, direct fron the quaries,
-GLENN'S FALLS MARBLE LIME,"
decidedly the best article extgnt for sugar making,
gat up in extra large barrels, and in fine order for
.raowortation. Also, Philadelphia White Lime in
hogatieads and barrels. Also, St. Genevieve and
Themaston lime always for sale on moderate
term* by J. HAYMAN & CO.,
oti 9 6m 98 Magazine st., New Orleans.
FANCY DRY GOODS AND
CLOTHING STORE!!
Waving commenced business on my own ac
count, i beg leave to inform tli» citizens of
his town and Parish, that i have just received a
arge stock of
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS.
ai. SO
fllll ftiTfa A variety of TRUNKS, and a large
assortment of PLANTATION
Ii I I |fi fin i) S, such as Kerseys and Lin»
seys, Blankets and Russets. i will also keep con»
stantly on hand a large stock of
JFatug (Kooïrs ana iaerfttmerg,
and a great many other articles too numerous to
mention.. Persona wishing to purchase will please
call and examine beforegoing elsewhere.
sepl8 a. levystein.
REMOVAL.
CHARLES SIMON
[CPBegs to notify his friends and customers tha
he has removed his place of business from Plaque*
mine to BATON ROUGE, where he has always
on hand a large assortment of every description of
AND FANCY GOODS.
He also begs leave to state that the business is
now cairied on under the firm of
N. DALSHIMER & SIMON,
and that they have in Lafayette street two places.—
The following embrace a portion of their stock on
hand:
Dress, Froclc, Sack and Blanket Coats,
of every description;
Very fine Paletots, Cashmere Vests and
Cashmere Pants;
Very fine Silk and Cashmere Hats;
English and French Prints;
Cashmere, Muslin de Lains, Bareges and
Plaids;
Silks, Gimps and Fringes of all prices;
Vesites and Mantillas, Shaicls, Scarfs,
Embroidered Hd'kfs., Sçc.
nov20 ly N. DALSHIMER & SIMON.
PETERSON'S MAGAZINE ï
(OR, LADIES' NATIONAL.)
edited bt mrs. ann 8. stevens.
THE Proprietor of the Ladies' National Maga»
zine returns his thanks to the American pub
lic for their liberal patronage of his magazine, and
commends to their attention the following
REASONS FOR PREFERRING IT:
As a Ladies' Magazine it stands unrivalled, its
authors being the best in America, and its contents
original.
s a Fashionable Monthly it is first: its fashions
being the real Philadelphia and New York ones,
but issued in advance.
As a Family Magazine it is invaluable. To ren
der fiction useful is the great aim of the work; hence
its domestic stories are pronounced by the press and
the public unequalled in truth and merit.
As a Pictorial Work it is without a superior; more
superb mezzotints appearing in it than in any other
periodical.
For Cheapness and Merit Combined it has no
parallel. At two dollars we furnish a periodical
ivalling the three dollar ones in elegance, and infi»
nitely more nseful to the sex. Onr success in this
reduction of price is owing to a rigid adherence to
the cash system and to payments in advance from
all subscribers.
TERMS.
These are cheaper than any other magazine can
offen Two dollars a year invariably in advance.—
To facilitate remittances we offer the following
terms to clubs:
3 copies, $5 00 j 7 copies, $10 00
5 copies, 7 50 I 16 copies, 20 00
premiums.
To the Postmaster or other person obtaining a
club of three or five, we will send a copy of Trum
bull's celebrated Picture of the Battle of Bunker
Hill, executed on steel, of a size to frame and hang
up in the Parlor. Fora club of seven or sixteen,
either an extracopy of the magazine,or a copy of
the Military Heroes of the Revolution, an octavo
of 500 pages, illustrated with two hundred wood
and eighteen steel engravings, and sold for three
dollars. Address, post paid, the money at our risk,
CHARLES J. PETERSON,
mh7 98 Chestnut st., Philadelphia.
DR. DAVID JAYNE'S FAMILY
MEDICINES.
TAYNE'S Expectorant, for Coughs ;
Jayne'sTonicVermifuge.for Worms, Dyspep
sia, Piles, &c. The Carminative Balsam, is an
nvaluable medicine for dysentery and summer com
plaints Jayne's Sanative Pills, a mild effectual
purgative, free from mercury. Jayne 's Alterative,
W eleansing the blood, removing mercurial dis.
e*es, and for renovating the system after disease or
vident humours. Jayne's Hair Tonic,, to repro
dM» a growth ^>f hair and beautify the head.—
JaynwHair Dye. it colors the hair without staining
the slna. Jayne's Ague Pills, a sure cure. All
the ab*« are for sale in Plaquemine by Richards,
who is gagent for Dr. David Jayne of Philadel
phia. Abaanacs for 1848, will be given gratis to
persons «Hing for them, giving full descriptions
and uses ct&e above remedies.
May 13,Ht8. :tf
V. S. MAIL PRINCESS.
New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and Bayou Sata Regular
_ Semi* Weekly Packet.
The swift steamMjHrîntess, C. H. Fairchild,
master, will leave Ktw Orleans every Sunday and
Wednesday at 10 o'dock, A. M.: and Bayou Sara
every Monday and Ttatsday at 12 o'clock M.
mn28 tf
"Editors Rising."
When we hear of an editor being no.
minated to the House of Representatives,
or some other menagerie of hungry poli
ticians, the cry is, "Editors rising." What
an idea ! Rising from the power of the
press, the grandest power in all the world
—the daily power of scattering abroad,
not only the seeds of knowledge/ but co
operating with the beneficent designs of
Heaven itself, in doing good—aye, by a
single line or sentence promoting some
cause of philanthropy and mercy ; send
ing forth some purifying and elevating
thought ; rallying the benevolent to the
relief of some child of misery and wo ;
scourging vice with a lash of scorpions ;
sounding the trumpet-call for the friends
of education and intelligence to combine
and put forth their energies to deliver their
fellow-men from the deep darkness of un
instructed mind ; leading the van in some
mighty measure of improvement, which
will bring forth from the bowels of the
earth untold treasures of wealth; and
raise a decayed State from the grave, re
visiting her cheek with the bloom of
youth, and circling her brow with the dia
dem of empire—talk of rising from such
a position as this to a seat in Congress ?—
The Editor does not appreciate his posi
tion or vocation who thus speaks. We
should as soon talk of an eagle risin L
from his mountain eyrie to mingle in the
clamoring and squabbles of a community
of puddle-ducks.
As to the offices of the government, we
see no reason why the editor who has
passed his life in fighting the battles and
bearing the heaviest burthens of the cause,
should not be entitled to as much consid
eration as the politicians, whom he has a
thousand times converted by a dash of his
pen from caterpillars to butterflies. In
this country, editors are too frequently
looked upon as tools to raise aspirants to
high stations, and when that is done to be
cast aside as worthless. In enlightened
and civilized France, the very reverse is
the case, and we find the power of the
press acknowledged in deeds as well as
words, and editors placed at the head of
the government.
So it will be here, one of these days.—
Let the editorial fraternity wait in pa
tience, and its time will come. In the
mean time, let it never forget that there
can be no station more truly honorable
and beneficial than its own vocation.—
Richmond Republican.
How to make sleep refreshing.—I.
Take sufficient exercise in the open air
during the day.
2. Eat light suppers, always two hours
before retiring,
3. Avoid tea and coffee and all unna
tural stimulants.
4. Retire early. All animals, except
those that prowl all night, retire to rest
soon after the sun goes down. The early
hours of sleep are the most sweet and re*
f/eshing.
5. Avoid feather beds ; sleep on hair
or cotton mattresses, with a light covering
of bed clothes.
6. Be sure and bave your room well
ventilated.
It is well known that the Duke of Wel
lington, now a hale old man, is accus
tomed to sleep on a hard narrow pallet.—
It is reported that the Duke justifies the
narrowness of his resting place, on the
plea that when a man wishes to turn, it is
then high time to turn out. We seldom
hear the laborious peasant complain of
restless nights. The indolent, pampered
epicure, or the man who overtasks bis
brain and denies himself bodily exercise,
is liable to sleeplessness.— Water Cure
Journal.
The Paris Executioner,
The charge of public executioner of
Paris has for many generations remained
in the same family, and the race of San
son (or Monsieur de Paris as he is termed
—for the headsman and the Archbishop of
Paris share in common the same title !)
may claim the horrible privilege of having,
during the last two centuries, not only
spilled the blood of all that was most atro
ciously criminal and ignoble in the capi
tal, but also, in more recent times, that of
all that was purest—noble—best in the
kingdom-^-the blood of the royal martyrs
and of those whose fidelity to their cause
led to their being involved in the same
cruel fate.
What an awful chronicle might be
compiled from the observations of this fa
mily ! And yet these Sansons, born and
bred to so detestable an inheritance that
the heart sickens at the mere thought of
it, and the imagination cannot divest itself
of the idea that persons exercising their
function must necessarily be characterized
by cruelty and brutality—these men, who
are avoided as Parias, forbidden to enter
a public vehicle or a public theatre, re
pulsed with ignominious scoru from the
bosom of the community, condemned to
associate altogether with those of their
own profession, and in short, treated in a
way but too well calculated to make their
minds overflow with bitterness towards
the rest of mankind—are said to be good,
mild, benevolent beings, exemplary in
their domestic relations, and charitable in
the highest dpgree to the poor ! I remem
ber having occasion a few years ago, says
Mrs. Roman, to go to a tradesman whose
workshop was situated in the street inha*
bited by the executioner of Paris, exactly
opposite to his house ; and that curious to
know something of his fearful neighbors,
I questioned the man abont them, fully
expecting to hear that they were ogres of
the 'raw head and bloody bone' tribe, ob
jects of terror and execration to the whole
neighborhood. What was my astonish
ment at learning that the patriarchal fam
ily of Sanson, of which three generations
inhabited the same dwelling, was full of
human kindness, respected throughout
the district for the purity of their lives and
their extensive charities to the poor, and
that the bourreau himself was remarka
ble for a certain degree of refinemeut in
his tastes and habits, his leisure hours be
ing devoted to the cultivation of flowers,
and playing on the piano ! The man fur
ther added that Monsieur de Paris lived
in very solid comfort, that his house was
very handsome, and that the income ac
cruing from his salary and perquisites
amounted to above twenty thousand francs
a year, a large portion of which was gi
ven away in alm9tothe destitute.
Odds and Ends .—The wny to obtain
fame or notoriety, is to do very little and
make a great noise about it ; as lean wo
men make themselves look like somebody
by the aid of a bustle.
Somebody, who writes more truthfully
than poetically, says—?An angiel without
money is'not thought so much of rtow-a
days-as a devil with a bag full of guineas.'
A man cannot possess any thing better
than a good wife, nor any thing worse
than a bad one.
They have a new way of hatching eggs
in the West They fill a barrel with eggs
and then put a ben on the bung-hole.
OJ^Byan ancient English statute, a
fine was imposed for not burying the dead
in woollen.
(t^'There is no barm,' says the Rev.
Mr. Montgomery, In smoking tobacco,
except tbat it leads to drinking, drinking
to intoxication, intoxication to bile, bile to
indigestion, indigestion to consumption,
consumption to death—that is-alL'
An Excellent Sermon. —In one of the
sermons of Dow, Jr., the lay preacher of
the Sunday Atlas, we find the following;
which is so good that we quote it in our
editorial columns;
'Perhaps it may not be amiss to re*
member the Printer in my discourse.—
He is in a very disagreeable situation.—
He trusts every body—he knows not
whom, his money is scattered every
where, and he hardly knows where to
look for it. His paper, his ink, his typé,
his journeymen's labor, his living, etc,
must be punctually paid for. You,
Mr. , and Mr. -, and a hundred
others I could name have taken his paper,
and you and your children) and your
neighbors, have been t instructed and
amused by it. If you miss your paper,
you think very hard of the printer; you
would rather go without your best meal 1
than to be deprived of your newspaper.
Have you ever complied with the terms
of your subscription? Have you taken
as much pains to furnish the printer with
his money, as he has to furnish you hid
paper? Have you paid him for his tyjfe/
his press, his hand-work, his head
work?—If you have not, go and pat him
off."
Great Surgical Operation.-»PriVl ash- 1
ington L. Atlee, of the'new Pennsylvania
College of Medicine, performed an tip'erà- '
tion on Thursday, the 15th inst.; which
stamps him as one of the ablest surgeon's
of the day.
The operation was performed in the pre
sence of several eminent physicians.*-'
The tumor* consisting of the right ovalz;
was of a solid,- fibrous structure* anfl im
moveably attached td the bones of the
pelvis. It weighed 8 lbs.* and measured
around its largest circumference 2 feet 3
inches, its smallest 21 inches, being the
largest fibrous tumor ever removed by
this operation. The incision tbrough the
walls of the abdomen, necessary to re
move it, was 15 inches in length. The
patient, aged 26 years, a married lady;
and a mother of four children; is now con
sidered out of danger, no symptom hav
ing occurred to interfere with her rapid
recovery. A mixture of chlofû&rm and!
ether was used to an extent to destroy the
sensation of pain, but not consciousness.
This is the first time this operation has
been performed in Philadelphia.— Phila->
dclphia Pennsylvaaian.
A Comositx .-—'The American Aloe or
Century Plant, in the garden of Lewis
Stirling; Esq.,- near this place, has excited
the curisoity of our citizens for sever«!
days past. It is expected to bloom in a
week ortwo, the flower-stem having grown
some ten feet in almost the same number
of days. We will keep our citizens infor
med of its progress; and we feel confident
that all those who can; possibly, will em
brace the opportunity of witnessing so rare'
a sight.— La. Chronicle.
A Singular Infatuation. —The Ha
gerstown Herald states tbat a man named''
Miller was-on the 28th ult. committed for
stealing a' gallon measure filled with whk
key, from the distillery of Joseph Gabby.
He had 1 twice before stolen thitr identical'
measure, filled from the same whiskey
barrel, and had just served out two year»
in the penitentiary for the last offence.
ÛjMThe President of Prance receives
a salary of $110,000 a year, with a fur«
nished palace.
(£rTt has been suggested that the best*
board of health in the world is the wash-
board.
tt/^A man may do great things, and
yet not be a great man. Which moral
Sam Patch might have delivered, as be
leaped from the summit of Niagara.-