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H AISOJf D'EDUCATION r«»r «s femmet Bern Hielte!. —DJRIGEFWAR M'M. VAN NOOTEN— f\v nsportéeà Plaquemine, Paroisse d'Iberville La., sera ouverte pour la réception dt Pen sionnaires et d'externes le 10 Février, prochain. MADAME VAN NOOTEN ayant accom pli son voyage cri Europe, et complété ses arrangemens pour attacher d'une manière per manente à sa maison des professeurs dignes de. aa confiance et de celle des parens, s'empresse - d'en informer ses amis et le public. Les parens et les tuteurs sont respectueue anent invités à visiter la localité vaste et spaci euse des lieux où, à la demande des principaux habitant dP Plaquemine, l'institution a été transportée. De plus amples informations sont contenues fa prospectus de l'établissement qui se trouve à l'académie même et chez les libraires la N. Orleans, ou pourront être obtennea en •'adressant aux soussignés : Plaquemine. New Orleans. Mr. W. E. Edwards , Le Rev. Dr. Neville, Le Dr. Ch. Clsmekt , Mr. A. Hesse*, Mr. Zuor Labauve, " J. Robb, " H. C. Cammack, im " Fred. Frey. P««r prévenir a l'avenir tonte etreur par rapport è ess condition», Madame Van Nooten s'est déci dée à le* publier coiimieci-dessoii« PENSIONNAIRES. PensiMi at instruction générais en Franèsis et enAnglai*, Pian«, Chsnt, Le Ossein et la peinture, Danse, 3 mois de l'année, Blanchissage, FXTEKNE8. Instruction générale en Français et en Angls is (selon l'sge et les P*«"* tfsséléves,) 010, $8 et $6 per m N. B. On donnera des vacance* de quinze jours il moi* de Juillet, et pendant les Ries de Noel.-— Les pensionnaire* ce pendant, pourront rester à rétablissement, si les parens le désirent. $20 perm. 8 '• 6 " 6 " 6 '• 150" \n\n OFFICIAL JOURNAL. PLAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, LA., SEPTEMBER 14, 1850. VOLUME III.—NO. 6. EDUCATION, &C. TBS NEW ORLEANS FEMALE SEMINARY, —DIRECTED BY MRS. VAN NOOTEN— Trans/erred to PLAQUEMINE, Parish Iberville, La., will be open for the recep. tion of Boarders and Day Scholars on the IQlh February, prox. TkTRS. VAN NOOTEN, having returned JJ j L from Europe, and completed her arrange ments for attaching permanently to her insti tution teachers in every way competent and ac complished, respectfully solicits patronage for her establishment. Parents and guardians are requested to visit the spacious and commodious buildings, to which, at the request of several of the gentlemen referred to below, the insti tution has been removed. For further information, Mrs. Vas Noote* begs leave to refer to her Prospectus, (to be found at the Institute and at the principal book •tores in New Orleans,) or to the following gentlemen : In Pluquemine. It New Orleans. W. E. Edwards , Esq., Rev. D. Neville, Dr. Ch. Clement, Alfred Hessen , Esq., Zeros Labauve , Esq., James Robb , Esq., H. C. Cammack . Esq., feb(J - Fred. Frey , Esq. Mrs. Van Nooten hastens to contradict the report which has been spread, that she does not receive young children. Pupils of every age are received at the Seminar)'. To «void any ftitlire uiisreprereMation* in regard to bar term*. Mrs. Vsin Nooten ha* concluded (o publich the Mine, ns following;— BOARDERS, Payable Quarterly in Adtantt. For board and general infraction in Cnfrli*h and Fiench, and all the ne* «•«very branches), including needle and fancy work, Munie, Singing, Drawing and Painting, Dancing, three months in the year, Washing. dat scholars. General Inatrnction in English. French, and all necessary branches, including needle and fancy work, (according to . the age of the pupils,) $10. $8 and $6 per m. N. B. Vacations ol two weeks each will be gi ven in July and during the fete daya. Boarder* may remain if desired. $20 per m. 8 " f, » 6 " 6 « 1 50» Motice. rpHOSE indebted to the undersigned for JL Jbb work, subscriptions, &c., will find their accounts by calling on Henry Sullivan.— Henry Worsham, Esq., is duly authorized to receive and receipt for moneys due the under signed. £myl] P. E. JENNINGS. Twice a Week. r. a. JM.mil racM flip**. Tor ike Cdast, Donaldsontille, Baton Rouge Port Hudson, Waterloo, Bayou Sara, and Intermediate Ijanaings. The new steamboat GIPSY» 1 J. H. URE, master, leaves New Or Bleans every SUNDAY at 9 o'clock every WEDNESDAY at 5 P. M. j Of— Passes Plaquemine on Monday and nights. jv8 ■wr trlcm aid Op«I«asas Packet. The good, safe steamer ANNA, Jas. Johhstok, Master, will leave , , . rf |New Orleans every Wednesday at _J owech K., tad will arrive at Plaqnemine on Tnnimy at 5 o'clock, A. M. Returning, wiil leave Opeloons da Sundays at tO^'clock A. IL, snd a m vest Plaqu ewir)« on Mondays at 2 o'elock -V..T* ' j A»NA:#^[ land regularly at Plaque v 11 *» ttl *rn §te ^ 10 wit) be further information, ap Wheat Float-. ïïtu? S*** ¥ barrels Wf for cash only. BI8SELL & BCHLATRE, M., published evert saturday, By William P. Bradbnrn. OJJice on Main street. terms ox the sestisel. SnascairTioN:—Fir* Dollar» per mourn, inviriably in ad vance. No aabscriptioa taken for a If sa period than on* year. AuvfKTiUMc:— One Dollar per cquare,(10liiier or le»«) will becbargedfor the firat, and Fifty Cent« forevery inser tion thereafter. All advertiaementa not specified a> to numberof insertions, willbe published until Turbid, and charged accordingly. In both languages,charged double 17Announcementa for office (10, to be paii* iarariably in advance. PLAQUEMINE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1850. Late from California and Ha vana. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP OHIO. The U. S. mail steamship Ohio, Jas. Findlay Schenck, U. S. N., commanding, arrived at he r wharf at 2 o'clock this morning (says the Picayune of the 6th) from New York, via Charleston and Havana. The Ohio left New York on the 26th ult., and arrived at Havana on the 1st. The steamer Georgia, from Cha gres, arrived on the 30th ult. The Falcon sail ed for Chagres on the morning of the 3d inst., with a large number of passengers. The steamer Panama left San Francisco on the 1st ult., with upwards of 500 passengers, about 250 of whom were Mexicans, and landed at the different ports along the coast. She ar rived at Panama on the 21st, and is reported to have had on board three millions of gold dust on freight There is reported also to have been several cases of cholera on board, from which a number of passengers died on tlie voy age. There were no other steamers at Panama on the 21st. The health of Panama was generally good. There were but few Americans in town as all who had steamer tickets had sailed for California. The Ohio left Havana on the 3d inst She brings 150 passengers, the California mails and a small amount of gold dust, most of which trat consigned to Maunsel White &. Co. The excitement in the Southern mines had readied such a height on account of the mur ders and robberies daily perpetrated, that the Americans held a meeting and resolved that all Mexicans and South Americans should be ban ished from the vicinity within a week. About 110 Mexicans had been arrested, to gether with some who were found where the four murdered Americans (mentioned aome time since) were discovered. The Democratic candidates for Aldermen in San Francisco, Messr^Green and Grant, were chosen by a large majority. Great discoveriea of gold had been made near the Sierra Nevada. In one part of the southern mines, a lump of gold weighing four pounds was found. The miners were generally doing veiy well. The average yield of the precious metal does not seem to II decreased. Information of ui extraordinary suffering among the overland emigration had been re ceived at San Francisco. The ship Sea Witch arrived out in nffiety eight days from New York. This is the quick est trip ever made. The U. S. store ship Supply had arrived at San Francisco from Valparaiso. The Journal of Commerce, the office of which had been twice destroyed by fire, has again ap* peared. In relation to the troubles in the Southern mines,the Senora Herald give« us the follow ing information : During the night of Monday, some hundreds of armed men entered the town, and on Tues day morning there could net have been less than 2,000 riflemen in the streets. As may well be imagined, the excitement of the people was most intense, and groups of men might be observed in various places, discussing the events of the past few days, some arguing in fitvor of Judge Lynch, while others as reso lutely supported the law, as at present consti tuted. The proceedings in the District Court a L .'_ aatiék Ann A> 4tVA nîtrîl with two civil a L .'_ aatiék Ann A> 4tVA nîtrîl opened this morning with one or two civil eases. .... At 3 o'clock, the trial of the four Mexicans, for the murder of the two Americans at the Green Flat Digging. The prisoners were ar raigned, when a circumstance took place which threw the court into the utmost confusion. When the prisoner pleaded "not guilty," one of the guards who was standing on a bench, dropped his double-barreled gun, the» hammers of which struck against a box, and both barrels went off with a valent explosion. Numberless revolvers were forthwith drawn, and the tumult became indescribable. One man, in his haste to get out, struck his gun against a board, and it likewise went off The efiect of this incident can only be imagined. The straggle to quk the room on the part of the multitude f was terrific. Doors, windows, and every means of egress were put into re quisition. A cry of alarm was set up by some persons, and the street even was cleared in stanter. . . The Mexicans who were In the crowd were deliberately fired at by some men. We «sked the reasonf One replied that thay «red "on general principles;" anoiher said that they fired "promisciously among the Mexicans," who, they thought were attempting to rescue the prisoners. As soon as order could be obtained the able District Attorney, Mr. Booker, elo quently addressed the mu ! titude in the street. The excitement for a time was intense, but finally subsided, and the trials continued with out interruption. The news from Oregon respecting the gold discoveries, was not favorable. Some had been found, butin very small quantities. The Alta California has received the follow ing news from China, which is one month la ter, being to May 25th : On the 27th April, the Governor, his wife, and three secretaries left for Shanghai, on the steamer Lady Mary Wood, leaving Major Gen. Stavely in command as Lieut. Governor. On the first of May three pirates were hang ed at West Point. ^Through some mismanage ment they were kept upon the scaffold, with the halters around their necks,- for more than half an hour. The bolt could not be drawn, and, after shaking the gallows violently, the police sent to the Naval Stores for a hammer, with which they knocked back the bolt. Two of the criminals fainted ar.d were held up until t he bolt was forced back : the third kept cal ling—"fidee, fid^jp," be quick, be quick. The Lieutenant Governor had pardoned about twenty prisoners who were under sen tence for various offences. The Friend states that a report is current that the Portuguese Government is sending out a naval force and 3,000 troops with a view of obtaining satisfaction for the murder of the \ j ! i ] j late Governor of Macao, and that Portugal had pawned Goa to the East India Company for $150,000 to raise the funds. A Portuguese frigate of fourteen guns arrived at Singapore early in May, with the new Governor on board. A very fatal disease commonly called typhus, but said by some to resemble the plague wh desolated London two centuries ago, jnd by i some the yellow fever of the West Jnd ; es, hail i broken out at the city of Canton and the 1 neighboring villages. The Chinese will not receive the advice of the European physicians. The East India Company's steamer Semi ramis, with three companies of the Ceylon Ri fles arrived at Victoria on the 11th May; she sailed for Singapore, Ceylon and Bombay, on the 18th, carrying back three companies of the Rifles, who have been for some years in that garrison. H. B. M. brig Serpent came in on the 4th ; she relieved the Pilot at Whampoa ; the latter bra gone north. The Amazon frigate arrived frojft Singapore on the 19th; on the fol lowing dajr* the Hastings sailed for Singapore. Caot. Troubridge, of the Amazon, is for the present the senior naval officer on the China j station. . ! . j • . . uv ID" A new mode of obtaining sugar has been recently discovered in Ceylon. It is obtained by cutting off the stem of the cocoa nut flow er, attaching a vessel to it, and evaporating tIl liquid thus obtained, which is said to flow from the tree in quantities almost incredible. The sugar thus obtained is described as equal in quality to that furnished by the sugar cane— and the milk or sap of the cocoa tree can be Atained in almost any quantities. But how many year*a tree that is tapped in this way will exist, is not stated. Shocking Outrage in De Soto Parish.— We have rarely had occasion to chronicle a more disgraceful outrage than the one de scribed in the following paragraph which we copy from the Mansfield Advertiser of the 17th instant : "We received information this morning that Thomas Benton Weaver, of this parish, in the Keechi neighborhood, on last Thursday night, shot at Miss Jane Collins, Iiis sister-in-law, and daughter of Colonel Thomas Collins, living in the same place. The contents of the gun pas sed through her dress, but without injuring her person. He fired a second time but took aim at her shadow, thinking, as is supposed that he aimed at her body, and the load was lodged In the door. The friends of Miss Col lins interfered and disarmed Weaver, other wise he might have carried his nefarious design into execution. The cause of Weaver's ma lice originated, says „our informant, in expres sions of disapprobatjem uttered by Miss Collins in relation to his marriage with her sister. Weaver was arrested yesterday and committed to jail. Earth's Early Inhabitants .—It is strange that, in a thin bed of fine clay, occurring be tween two masses of sandstone, we should thus have convincing, but unexpected evidence Creserved, concerning some of the earth's in abitants at this early period. The ripple mark, the worm track, the scratching of a small crab on the sand, and even the impression of the rain drop, distinct as to indicate the direction of the wind at the time of the shower; these, and the foot-printe of the bird and the reptile, are all stereotyped, and offer an evidence which no argument can gainsay, no prejudice resist, con cerning the natural history of a very ancient period of the earth's ^story. But the waves that made that ripp'e mark have long ceased to wash those shores; for ages has the surface then exposed been concealed under great thickness of strata; the worm and the crab have left no solid fragment to speak of their form or structure; the bird has left no bone that has yet been discovered; the fragments of the rep tile are small, imperfect, and extremely rare. Still enough is known to determine the fact, and that fact is the more interesting and valu able from the very circumstances under which it is presented. ICrShort-lived as man undoubtedly is, he in many instances survives himself; his soul, his understanding, passion, fancy, remembrances, «fen 4>t befi*» Me body. ; Courting in French Hollow. BY "SOLITAIRE." "Courtin" is all slick enough, when everbody is agreed, and the gal aitlt, got no mischief in her: but when an extensive family, old maids, cross daddy, and a romantic old mammy all want to put their fingers into the young uns' dish of sweet doings, and the gal's fractious, besides, why, a feller that's vearnin' after matri mony is very likely to get his fires dampened, or burst his biler." Thus reasoned Tom Bent to a select party of river cronies, who were seated around him upon the boiler deck of a Mississippi steamer, as she sped along one bright night in June, somewhere in the neighborhood of Bayou Teche. The subject was courtin, and on that particular question Tom was considered an oracle: for, besides having a strong penchant for the fair sex, he had run many risks to ingra tiate himself in their affections Tom was now fast falling intas the sere and vol ow leaf of bachelorism,and although he had vowed unal tered affection to at least one fair one in each town between the mouth and che rapids, he still remained in unblessed singîeness. "How about that afarr of your'n with o'd Fecho's gal in St. Louis, Tom?" inquired one of the circle. "What, that little French gal," inquired Tom J with a grin; ttfll, that thar was a salty scrape, boys, and though the laugh is agin me thar, I n < blessed if I don't give you the sarcum-1 stance. So Tom squared himself for a yarn, wet his '>P S with a little corn juice, took a small strip ot Missouri weed, and "let out." "That gal of old Fecho's wur obout the poo tyest creatur, for a foreigner, I ever took a shute arter; her eyes just floated in her head like a star's .shadow on a Mississippi wave, and her model was as trim as the steamer Eagle; 'sides her paddles wur the cleanest shaped fixins that ever propelled anything human, and her laugh rung lise a challenge bell on a 'fast trip'—it couldn't be beat. »She run into my affecshuns, and I couldn't help it. I danced with her at ! some on the balls in Frenehtown, and thar I 'gin to edge up and talk tender at her, but she ., .u j "♦ *9 • i a 4 _ t. j on v laughed at mv sweet nm. Arter a spell, 1 on v laughed at mv sweet nm. Arter a spell, - r - ' when 1 cum its rong about affecshun,and the needcessity of towin' side by side together, she told me that her old daddy wouldn't let her marry an American! Ef I warn't snagged at this, I wouldn't say so. The old feller wur a sittin' on a bench s,mokin' and lookiu' on at the dance, and I jest wished him a hot be-th for a short spell. 'Well, Marie, said I, 'ef I melt the old man down, will.you gin in ?'" " 'Oh,' says she, 'you so vair strçng at the vat you cab coax, 1 shall not know how to say you leetel no ?" "So, bavin' fixed it all with her smooth as a full freight and a June rise, I drew up along j side of the old feller, just as he had cleaned his . ! chin.ley for a fresh draw of his pipe. Old Fecho had been a mountain trader, was strong ' timbered, not much the worse for wear, and | - lookMl wick , d as a trw - d bear . ! fircd up and generated an inch or two more steam, and then blew off at him. That's an onconseionable shek gal of your'n, Monsieur,' savs I, to begin with; and it did tickle his fancy to have her cracked up, 'cause he thought her creation's tinishin' touch—so did I ! •Oui, Sair,' says old Fecho, 'she vair fine little gal, von angel vizout de wing; she is, sair mine onlv vn„ ff?/»' "'Well, she is a scrouger,'answered I; 'a perfect high pressure, and no dispute!' "«Vat you mean b V him, eh ? vor von call s-c-r-r-ouge ? vat is he, sair ; mv leellê gal no vol you call von s-c-r-r-r-ouge, sair!' and here old Fecho went off into a mad fit, jest as ef I'd eal ed her bad names. I tried to put down his 'safety vaive,' but he would blow off his wrath; andworkin' himself into a perfect freshet of out whar he located; and arter an eternal long windin' through one street a, 1er another, down he dived into French Hollow. Jost as he wur about to entera house built agin the side of the hi 11, the old feller heard mv foot and turnin' round in the darknes stepa, shouted " 'Ah ! ha ! von sneak Yankee doodle, vot call my leetle gal von s-c-r-r-ouge, I shall cut you all up into von ieet'e piece vidout von whole.' "You know, boys, 1 aint easy skeer'd, but I own that old fellar did kind a make me fkerry; they told such stories about the way he used to skin Ingins,that I gin to think it'was about best to let him have both sides of the channel efhe wanted it, so I didn't dar to see Marie fur a long spell. One day I felt a strong hanker in', and jest stroled along the holler to get a glimpse on her, and, sure enough, thar she wur a ieanin' out the winder, smiiin' like the morn in' sun on a sleeping bayou. I sidled up to the house and asked her if I darr cum and sit up with her that evenin.' I told her I was just frit'erin' away all to nothin' thinkin' on her, and a small mite of courtin' would spur me up amaziu'; and then I gin ber such a ; ook, that she fluttered into consent as easy as a mockin' bird whistles. '"Oh, oui, you shall come some time dis night, when mon pere ja gone to de cabarret ; but you must be vair quiet as von leetle rat, vat aey call do mouse, and go vay before he comes back to the maison "In course I promised to do just as she said. I kissed her hand, and said aur ravoir, as the French say for good bye, and then paddled off to wait for night. I felt wuss than oneasy un til the time arriv, and when it did git round I gin to crawl all over—1 swar I was a leetle skeered. Hows ever, it warn't manly to back out now when the gal was expectin' me, so I star ed for the Hollow. I think a darker night w&s never mixed up and sp ead npon this yearth—you remember, Bill, the night you steered the Eagle square into the bank at Milli kin's bend I well, it were jest a mite darker than that! A muddy run winds along thro' I the ravine whar the house stands, and I wur particularly near flop pin into it several times. , A piece of candle in the window lighted me to whar the gal was waitin,'and when I tapped at the door below she pattered down and • I I j i j me up to the sittin' room, whar we sot down and took a good look at each other. She look ed polished enot»gh to tempt a feller to bite a piece out on her, and had all sorts of good things made up to say when a chance offered, and here the chance wur, but cuss me ef I could get out the first mutter. Whether it wur skeer at the idee of the old Frenchman, or a bilin' up of affecshun for his darter, that stuck in mv throat so tight, I'm unable to swar; but thar I wur, like a boat fast on a sand-bar, bio win' some, but niakin' mighty little headway. " 'Vat is de matter wiz you, Mounseer?" said Marie: 'you look vair much like de leaf in von grand s'orm.all ovair wiz de shake!' "'Well,' says I, 'I do feel as ef I wur about to collapse a flue, or bust my biler, for the fact of the matter is, Marie, they say your old dad dy's a tiger, ami ef I »et caught here thar'll be suthin' broke—a bury in'instead of a weddin'; not that I am the least mite skeered for myself, but the old man nii?ht get hurt, and I should be fretted to do any such a thing.' " 'Oh, mon amie , never be fear fur him, he is von great, strong as vat you call de gentleman cow?—von bul—but, mon Dieu! vat shall I do wiz you, suppose he come, eh ? He will cut you into bits all ovaiff' " 'But, my angel,' ses I, he shan't ketch me, for I'll streak it like a fast boat the moment I hear steam from his scape-pipe—the old man might as well try to catch a Mississippi catty with a thread line as git his fingers on me.' I had no sooner said so than bang ? went the door below, and old Feeho^ juicy as a melon, came feelin" his way up stairs, muttering, like a small piece of fat thunder, and swearin' in French orfully. I know'd thar warn't much time to spare, so 1 histed the winder and back ed. Jest as I was about to drop, Marie says to me, 'Oh, mon Dieu ! don't drop into the veil !' and instanter shut the winder. My har riz on eend in^i moment—don't drop into the well I'll tell you what, boys, a souse into the Mis sissippi in ice time warn't half as cold as her warnin'made me. *It was so eternal dark that I couldn't begin to tell which side of the build ing I wur on, and that war an all-impor'antper ticuler, for it was just three stories high on one side, towards the Hollow, and it warnt only ' 4l w . one on the other side next the nil!— m course j all the chances wur in favor of the well being on the low wide. I'd ein all I hnfl then to know which side was wait in' below for me. I look ed up, as I hung on, to see if thar warn't a star shinin'somewhere, jest.to give a hint of what was below ; but lhey'd all put on their night caps, and wouldn't be coaxed from under the kiver; then I'd look below, and listen, until I made sartin in my mind that 1 could hear the droppin' of water, somewhat about fifty feet be low me! Old Fecho was a tearin' about through the room, and a rippin' out French oaths in an uncommon rapid manner, and de clarin' that he knew some one had bin thar, for he'd been told so. Two or three times he ap peared to be rusliin' fur the winder, and the little gal would coax him back again, and then he'd cuss the Yankee Doodels, and grit his tee'li most owdaciously. Well, efl warn't in anoneasy situation all this time, then I'm more than human; my arms jest stretched out to about a yard and a half in length, and gin to cramp and get orful weak. -I couldn't fur the life of me think on any prayer I'd ever heerd— f l ,' ea r ^ j" st , a * one hand was givin' way its hold ' 1 hort °, f rt s, ; ,rt "f. t0 sa >' J hen a younker, and mutterm 'Here I drop me down deep, I pray the Loni ray bones to keep!' ~ s " t / n > r ,eeth to ^. ,h f r ; d T *\ Ion / bre!u1 '; f ut «7 eyes, *nd let go \-whp ? r-r-r-ip ! J }. ^PPosed-about fifty ,eet; j holler, when I lit and roied -,°.\ e \ ' l ", c ... le w r S( jused a " round me ! ' 3n. er ' , ^ n,e oul 1 °h o-o-o, murder ! he people came a ruslnn out of their hou ses ' ^ "gnts; and sich another* jargon of j 1 " 1 ', bro ' {e ex er - v bon e ' nm y bod}-; when, on ' ook,n "P thar wur the old Frenchman and his ° ar ' er 1 8 rl11 "" 1 , out rn ° L f 1 ,' e ,op wi " der ' a , b ? u J t , a " ove nle "' UI j boys. Id drop «ut on the hiU side ° f the house, and jtimp ^et from whar i J. . . my reached.—I had lit on the edge of a water pail, andii flowed about me when I fell over! Arter old Feclio told them the joke, they pretty nigh busted a Klrfin' at me. I crawled off, arter firin' a vojley at old Mounseer of the hardest kind of cusses, and from-that day to thisl ha'nt gone acouriin'in French hollow !" The Nicaragua Dwarfs .—The Philadel phia Gazette mentions the arrival of two In dian dwarfs, brother and sister, from San Sal vador, said to belong to one of the tribes in Central America. It says : They are a greater curiosity than has ever been exhibited in the line of dwarfs, not except ing TomJ^umb, of Barnum notoriety. The Mature prjffe f emale is less than his, while the male i#^(ÊH|MMiat taller. Both are slender, with longWhbs. and bodies well formed in all respects, with the exception of the head, which is extraordinarily flat, the forehead retreating a little above the superciliary ridge, and indicat ing almost the entire absence of the cerebrum, while the cerebellum is normal in size, propor tioned 10 the size of the head, which is small, and resembling that of certain species of the ape. The eyes are jet black and are beaming with intelligence, while the hair, which is slso black,"is long, straight and si ken. The skin is swarthy, and they would appear to be a niix-i ture of Indian and Spanish blood. The boy is said to be fifteen and the girl thirteen, and both are playful and happy, unless when crossed in their will, when they cry like infants, which is all the noise they made while we were present, although they understand when spoken to in Spanish, and we were to d that they can pro nounce .some words indistinctly. The father and mollit r u e represented to have been of. or dinary -izu, ®iey mutually regarded."their children with di.siike, and vevy gladiyrifMhem selves -of any further trouble by Selling them to the gentleman who very humanely provides for all their wants. They are soon to be ex hibited to the public, when they will awaken «ry great inters*. Loüis Napoleon and the Peasant PsorHET. —The Paris correspondent of the Brussels "Independence," relates the following: "I transmit to you a strange story, because it is strange» authentic, and of the present day. In 1817 a brave peasant ofBitche, a little town of the arrondissement of Sarreguemies,depart ment of the Moselle, announced to his neigh bors, friends and relatives, that he had a reve lation from above, which convinced him that Louis Phillippe would soon fall from his throne. The good man said that there were conspira cies; that the ministers, who suspected nothing, would conduct the monarchy to its ruin; and that there was only one measure to be taken— warn the king! People laughed at the man; but, as he loudly demanded that the means should be given to him to go to Paris to see the king, he was told that he ought to be sent to a lunatic asylum. The man was frightened, and said nothing more; but When the revolution of 1848 arrived, there was a great commotion in the little town of Bitche, and People cried " predicted it, and he is a prophet !" Ev ery one consulted him on his personal affairs, but though so learned in politics he knew noth ing else, and his reputation as a sorcerer eva porated in smoke. Within the last few days the man said that he had another revelation; that it was of the gravest character; that it concerned the President of the Republic; and that if means Ä'ere not supplied him for going to Paris misfortunes would occur. As 1848 was remembered, some relatives and friends got up a subscription, and the man came to Paris. He had letters with him stating that he was perfectly honest, # if not perfectly reasonable, and b v means of these he got access to an inti mate friend of the president. Struck by the man's tone of conviction, the friend spoke to the president, and the latter desired to see him. The interview took place on Saturday. A per son who accompanied the man from Bitche wished to be present, but the revelateur de manded to be left alone with the president, and said that as the president understood German lie would converse with him in thatjlanguage He remained more than a quarter of an hour with the president; and, in taking leave of him, Louis Napoleon said, 'Thank you, sir— a thou sand thanks ! At any time mid in any place, you and yours may count on me ? The man of Bitche leaves to-morrow for his native place. He is full of joy." • U*It is said that a cabinet maker in* Paria la preparing a splended suite of furniture, inclu ding a throne, etc., bearing the Napoleon em blems. It seems to be the opinion that Louia Napoleon is thus preparing the public mindfor a coup d'etat. A Splendid Description .—One Paul Den ton, a Methodist preacher in Texas, advertiaed a barbecue, with better liquor than usually fur nished. When the people were assembled, a desperado in the crowd cried out, "Mr. Paul Denton,your rive re nee has lied. You promised us not only a good barbecue, but better liquor. Where is the liquor?" "There!" answered the missionary, in tone« of thunder, and pointing his motionlesa finger at the matchless double spring, gushing up in two strong columns, with a sound like a snont of joy from the bosom of the earth. "There !" he repeated, with a look terrible as the light ning, while his enemy actually trembled on his feet; "there is the liquor which God, the Eter nal, brews for all his children! Not in th® simmering still, over smoky fires, choked with poisonous gases, and surrounded with the stench of sickening odors and rank corruption*, doth your Father in heaven prepare the pre cious essence of life, the pure cold water. But in the green glade and glassy dell, where the reddeer wanders, and the child loves to play, there God brews it, and down, low down in the deepest valleys, where the fountains murmur and the rills sing; and high upon the tall moun tain tops, where the naked granite glitters like gold in the sun, where the storm-cloud broods and the thunder storms crash, and away far out on the wild sea, where the hurricane howls mu sic, and the big waves roar the chorus, sweep ing the march of god—there He brews it, that beverage of life, health-giving water. And every where it is a thing of beauty; gleaming in the dew-drop, singing in the summer rain, shining in the ice gem, tifl the trees all aeemea turned to living jewels, spreading a golden veil over the. setting sun, or a white gauze around the midnight moon; sporting in the cataraet; sleeping in the glacier; dancing in the hail show er, folding its bright snow curtains softly about the wintry world; and weaving the many color ed iris, that seraph's zone of the sky,, whoso warp is the raindrop of earth, whose woof is the sun-beam of heafen. all checked over with ce lestial flowers, by the mystic hand of refraction. Still always it is beautiful—that blessed life water ! no poison bubbles on its brink : its foam brings not madness and murder, no blood stains its liquid glaze; pale widows and starv ing orphans weep not burning tears in its depths; no drunkard's shrieking ghost from the grave curses it in words of eternal despair ! Speak out, my friends, would you exchange it for de mon's drink, aleohol ?" A shout like the roar of a tempest answere4 —"Nor Corn Bread .—Readers never tire of recipes for something to eat.- Here are two for corn bread worth trying : Mix tHVee pints oflndian meal in a quart of sour milk, and thrtSe ëggH, a teaspoonful Sal», ratus, and some salb, heat all to a smooth hat ter, and pour in pans halfan inch deep, and bake quick. This is a sufficient breakfast for half-a-dozen. Here is one for family bread :—Six quarts of water, one pint of lard, one pint of yeast, and • teacupful of salt, mixed with meal enough to make a batter. Let it rise, and then pat in pans to bake. Sound.— In water, sound passes 4708 feet is a second: in sir, from 1130 to 1140. In the Ai*, tic regions persons can converse at mora than a mile distsnt, when the thermometer Hi below «wo.