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Dans la succession ) Etat de la Louisiane,
de feue Mary F. Cie«V Paroisse d'iberville,
nient, épouse de Ger- ) Cour du 6me District.
\a : s tSchlatre.
\ TTE.YDJ que Gervais Schlatre a ce jour en
Xi liasse dans le bureau du Greffier de cette
cour son compte de Liquidation et de partage de
la succession de feue Mary F. Clement —
Avis est par le present donné à tous ceux que
cela concerne de deéuire sous trente jours de la
date de ce present les raisons pour lesquelles
le dit compte ne serait pas homologué et fait le
jugement de cette cour.
Bureau du Greffier, Juillet 3. 1857.
jyll M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
Dans la succession ) Etat de la Louisiane,
de feu > Paroisse d'iberville,
John Micheltree. ) Cour du 6ème District.
A TTENDU que Elizabeth Riggs a ce jour en
Xl. liasse dans le bureau du Greffier de cette
cour, son compte final comme administrator de la
succession de feu John Micheltree —
Avis est par le present donné à tous ceux que :
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours délai
date de ce present les raisonss pour lesquelles le^
dit compte ne serait pas homologué et l'executeur
déchargé de toOte responsabilité en cette affaire.
Bureau du Greffier, June 26,1857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
Dsns la succession j Etat de la Louisiane,
de feu > Paroisse d'iberville,
Charles Leblanc. ) Cour du 6ème District.
ATTENDU que George Troxcler a ce jour en
liassé dans le bureau du Greffier de cette
cour, son compte final comme administrator de la
succession de feu Charles Leblanc —
Avis es par le present donné à tous ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours'de la
date de ce present les raisons pour lesquelles le
dit compte ne serait pas homologué et l'executeur
déchargé de toute responsabilité en cette affaire.
Bureau du Greffier. "June 26. )857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
Dans la succession ^ Etat de la Louisiane,
de feu > Paroisse d'iberville,
Duval Capdeville. ) Cour du 6ème District.
ATTENDU que Peregrin P. Sugg a ce jour
enlias é dans le bureau dn Greffier de cette
cour, son compte final comme administrateur de
la succession de feu Duval Capdeville —
Avis est par le present donné à !,tous ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours de la
date de ce present les raisonss pour lesquelles le
dit couerne ne serait pas homologué et l'adminis
trateur déchargé de toute responsabilité en cette
affaire. Bureau du Greffier, June 25, 1857.
je27 M. A. ESTENAN, Greffier. \n\n =9
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VOLUME IX.
lAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, LA., AUGUST 1, 1857.
NUMBER 52
published every saturday morning by
WILLIAM P. BRADBURN.
■Office on main street.—
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JOB WORK Cash on delivery.
THE Cl'DGliED HUSBAND.
As Thomas was cudgled one day by his wife,
He took to his heels and fled for his life ;
Tom's three dearest friends came by in the muss,
And saved him al once from the terrible ' cuss;"
Then ventured to give him some sober advice—
But Tom is a person of honor so nice,
Too wise to take counsel, too proud to take warn
ing i
Three duels he fought, thrice ventured his life
Went home, and was cudgled again by his wife.
[Swift.
3Hsc£ul Hccctpts.
Hoof Ointment. —Take one pound each of
tar and tallow, and mix them with li.ilf a pound
of common turpentine, in a stoneware di*h.—
Slir l hem well until they are thoroughly incor
porated tooerlier. This forms an excellent
dressing for the sore hoofs of horses and oxen,
To Keep Eggs. —Eggs, which will soon be
pcurce, can, it is said, be better preserved in
crirn meal than in any other preparation yet
known. Lay them with the small end down,
and, if undisturbed, they will be as good at the
end of the year as whan packed.
Removing and Preventing Rust. —«Some
persons unptoy an acid to remove rus! from
knives; this should never be done under any
circumstances. Nothing surpasses rotten stonè
i*nd oil for scouring knives and forks. To
prevent stoves and grates from rusting during
summer, if placed in damp situations, give
them a thin coat of lard and rosin melted to
gether, ill the proportions of three parts of the
ioriuer to one of the latter.
©ïiîifl an® îSnîrs.
"Thing:»" from Harper's Weekly.
Many complain of neglect who never tried
to attract regmd.
Consider with yourself whether the wise und
gopd would value you more or lets if they
knew your »hole character.
A grammarian conjugated the increasing heat
in somewhat the following style: "Hot. hotter,
hottest; hottentot, hottentoter, hotUntotest;
liottentotissimo, hoi as an oven, hot as two ov
ens, hot as four ovens, hot as seven ovens red
hot!" How comfortable to contemplate this
away down below zero weather!
"Jimmy, are your folks all well ?"
"Ves, ma'am, all but Polly Ann."
"Why, what's the matter with her?"
"Oh, not hin' particlar—only she's had the
hoopin' cough once, and she hain't never got
over it. The cough ain't any account now,
but she has the hoop desp'rate."
Some hearts, like primroses, open moät beau
tifully in the shadows of life.
The following was picked up in the street a
few days since, accompanying a little bunch of
glossy brown hair, which looked as if it had
.been polled out with a fine-tooth comb:
Och, Biddy, me darlint,
Here's a lock of me hair,
An' if there's a snarl in it,
Never a bit do I care.
Any how!
I'm goin' off, Biddy,
To work on the track,
Ye can take it, and kape it,
Until I get back,
If ye like:
But if you don't, you can let it alone; bedad I 'm
not particular.
A Dutchman, in describing a span of horses
which he had lost, said: "Dey wash very
mooch alike, 'specially de off one. One look
ed so mooch like both, I could not tell toder
from which; when I went after de one I always
caught de oder, and I whipped the one almost
to death because de oder kicked at me."
Nervous Old Lady. —"Dear me! what makes
the cars stop here; is there anything*he mat
ter?"
Smart Young Man. —"Yes, marm; a chaw
of tobacco is lying right before the locomo
tive. As soon as it's removed we'll he under
way again."
The man who wrestled with adversity wore
out his silk stockings and got worsted.
They who drink away their estates, drink
the tears of their widows and the blood of
their impoverished children.
QThe tobacco chewer is said to be like a
goose in a Dutch oven—al ways on a spit.
A Lost Inheritance
Thesis correspondent of the New
York Ij^ress writes:
I ha|a story to relate to your readers
this w<^ which, though occupying more
ispace tn I usually dovote to incidents,
iconyeyi) excellent a moral, that 1 have
yieldetfthe temptation to give it in full,
Theâin from Paris to l.vons stormed
a t the Äion of Joiwtiv -i town unon the
ttlOtl OI JOI^Iiy, .1 tOY\ H U])0!l tile
\ TOUte, m again Went OH, after leavtng a
iu., T «„i mi ] * r ~
lW pafflgCTS. I lie depot, for a 1110
raen : <f c *'ded with railroad agents and
iookerMl), Was SOOU deserted hy all but
two ;nji^duals.
r \ t.1 i i t i
Oieofthese Was an old mail, tlrCSSCtl
in the ^ab of a well-to-do farmer; the oth
er> a 0 f five-and-twenty, who seem
ed to lie vaiting for some one to meet
him, T« tjis personage the old man fi
nally addicted himself. 'May I presume
sir,' said lie; 'to inquire if you are Cle
ment 13.'
'Yes. my good man,' replied the youth
tvith a haughtiness of manner; 'and 1 have
so doubt jo| are Mr. Martin.'
'At your tervice, sir.' returned the otli
ir.
'Well, Mt Martin,'continued Clement
îi the samebne, 'I began to imagine you
intended to jkeep me waiting. That
vould not hsfe been the best manner in
vhich to hav'insinuated yourself into my
jood graces.'
The old mm, instead of replying, let
iis head fall ipon his breast as if in deep
sffliction, anq conducted the new-comer
towards an 4<1 fashioned carriage, to
vhich a rougMuoking horse was harness
ed.
'Here is your carriage, sir,' said Mar
tin. 'If you »ill be good enough te get
is, 1 will have the honor of conducting
yflu to the Hermitage.'
'That my csrriage!' cried Clement.—
'Why, I shall be taken for a travelling
ptdler!' Notwithstanding, as there seem
ed no means of avoiding it, he took his
seat beside the old man, but not without
expressions of disdain. In another mo
inwt the man bad .seized the reins, and
the horse had started on a clumsy trot.
lut a few days before, Mr. Clement
B.,who now put on so many grand airs
was,a simple clerk in a crockery store in
Pars, and possessed the reputation of
heirg a quiet, unpretending little fellow.
Whit, then, had brought about this sud
den ind radical transformation? He had
becone, since the previous day, a rich
man and it may be well understood that
the possessor of an income of 20,000
fran« a year finds it difficult to retain the
mod(fet demeanor of a poor clerk. On
the previous day, while dusting the piles
of crockery under his charge, a letter had
arrived for Ititn by the post, containing the
starting intelligence that one of his uns
cles,0f whom he had often heard as an
ecceitric and very wealthy old man, but
whora he had never seen, had just died
at hî chateau in Burgundy, leaving his
nepfew, Clement, sole legatee of his es
tates to the exclusion of many other heir.
The letter was from a notary of the prov
ince, tvho desired liim to leave Paris im
tnediitely for Joigny, the town near which
his utele had resided, where he would be
met Ly Martin, an old confidential ser
vant of the defunct, and conducted from
the ralroad to the 'Hermitage,' the name
which the deceased had given to his cha
teau and his estate, which constituted the
main. Almost driven out of his senses
by such an unexpected stroke of fortune
he hastened to obey the notary's direc
tions; and, upon his arrival al Joigny,
joined old Martin, as we have seen.
OnjoRed the queer vehicle, in which
our hero had so contemptuously taken a
place, until after a ride uf several miles
the occupants arrived at their destination.
Martin ofjered the honors of the Hermi
tage to tin new proprietor, called all the
servants, and introduced them to their fu
ture master, and dien conducted the lat
ter to his apartments.
'This was the sleeping apartment of
your unele,' said Martin, as they entered
a vast apartment, furnished in old fash«
ioned style.
'It was the room he died in ten days
ago.'
But the lepht w, instead of evincing
any emotion upon being shown the cham
ber of his bene!" ictor, threw upon all
around a look of îorn, and cried, 'Upon
my word, I can't îy 1 think much of the
old boy's taste! I never saw anything so
frightfully ugly in ill my life.'
'Notwithstanding, sir,* replied Martin,
'It's the best tAjre n here; and i?you can
not content pl<rscl;',l do not really know
where you wiflhind other lodgings.'
I live here ® You don't imagine I'm
hope. For us young
Paris is the old place; so
Id rookery at once, and
such a donkey,
fellows, d'ye »
I shall sell this
be off.'
•Sell the Hen
ite place oftesi
we serrants, wh
uoder this n
•Mr. Martin,'
Stage, your uncle's favor
ence! Impossible. And
[hoped to end our days
Itvhat iill become of us!'
I the young man,
'let me have none of your complaints, 1
beg. Get me some dinner, and after
ward you will drive me to my notary's. '
After having eaten a hearty meal, not
withstanding lie found the meats insipid
and the wines sour, the legatee, still ac
companied by Martin, re-entered the old
carriage, and the two again started off.
'If I am not mistaken,' observed Mr.
Clement, after an hour's ride, 'we passed
this spot this morning, and that'—poin- j
ting to a building—'is the railroad depot: j
do we take the cars?'
'You, alone, will do so,' responded his J
companion, speaking very gravely, and in |
a manner which caused the young man to
tremble in spite of himself. 'I, sir, am
your uncle, and happily, I am not yet
dead. Having heard good accounts of
your conduct, I had resolved to make you
heir of all that I possess; but, before do
ing so, I wished to know whether you
were deserving of my generosity, and I
had recourse to stratagem, which has
thoroughly exposed your true character
to me. Good bye, Mr. Clement. Return
to your shop, and remember that your ar
rogance and ingratitude have lost you that
which will never again be placed within
your reach.'
The old man then gave his foolish
nephew a few hundred francs to indemni
fy him for the expenses of his trip, took
leave of him at the door of the depot, and
returned home. The feeling of the youth
may readily be imagined, but, as the yel
low-covered novels say, 'they connot be
described.' I think this true story is an
apt illustra: ion of the maxim: 'Never hal
loo until you are out of the woods.'
Ancient Jewish Notion on Marriage
and its Ditties.
Marriages were supposed to he arran
ged in heaven; and forty days before the
birth of a child, it was there announced
to whom he or she was to be wedded.
The marriage relation should be entered
between eighteen and twenty; but these
ties do not prevent the zealous student
from prosecuting his studies. The poli
cy of second marriage was considered
doubtful, as nothing could make up for
the loss of a wife. ('Isaiah liv. G.) An
unmarried person was without any good.
(Gen. ii. 18); without jov, (Deur. xiv. 26);
without blessing, (Ezek. xliv. 30); with
without protection, (Jer. xxxi. 23); with
out peace, Jer. v. 24; and could not prop
erly be called a man, Gen. v.2. In choice
of a wife, regard should be paid to her
family, as daughters generally imitated
their fathers, and sons their maternal un
cles. The most prized connection was
that with the family of a sage, or at least
with that of a ruler of a synagogue, or
the president of a poor's board. Connec
tion with the unlettered could not be al
lowed, unless the wealth so acquired were
to be devoted to assist the sage in his stu
dies. In general the unlearned were
'deatfeven while living.' Isaiah xxv. 14.
Mutual affection and modesty, especi
ally on the part of the wife, was regard
ed as the chief means of obtaining male
descendants. It was observed that God
formed women neither out of the head,
lest she should become prond; nor out of
the eye, lest she should lust; nor out of
the ear, lest she should be curious; nor
out of the mouth, lest she should be talk
ative; nor out of the heart, lest she should
be jealous; nor out of the hand, lest she
should be covetous; nor out of the foot,
lest she should gad about; but out of the
rib, which was always covered. Impro
per marriages, from lust, for beauty, or
for money, were strongly condemned, and
described as leading to wretchedness, in
asmuch as whether good or bad, woman
is always in the superlative degree. The
husband is bound not only to honor and
love, but to treat his wife with courtesy;
her tears call down divine vengeance. In
general, he is to spend less than his means
warrant for food, up to his means for his
own clothing, and beyond that limit for
that of his wife and children. As woman
is formed from a rib, and man from the
ground, man seeks wife, and vice versa;
be only seeks what he has lost. This al
so explains why man is more easily recon
ciled than woman, he is made of soft earth
and she of hard bone. A woman should
abstain from all appearance of evil im
modesty or impropriety; she should al
ways meet her husband cheerfully, clean
ly, and kindly, receive his friends with po
liteness and affability, and be obedient
and respectful.
One of Walker's Operations.
For ourselves we acknowledge an ina
bility to discriminate between the public
and private character of an individual, in
so far as to agree that he may be a scoun
drel in one capacity and a patriot in the
other. That Governor Walker is not a
man of the highest principles of personal
honor will sufficiently appear from the
following narrative of one among many
simihr financial exploits:
When Robert J. Walker was Senator
from Mississippi;- he ascertained that an
old man in Middlesex county in this State •
was disposed to sell a large estate in ne- j
groes. Accordingly, in company with a !
colleague in the House of Representa
tives, Walker made the old gentleman a j
visit, and after a protracted negotiation ;
succeeded in purchasing the slaves. And ;
he got them on good terms, for the old
gentleman, a devoted Democrat, was :
charmed by the graceful condescension of
the distinguished Senator. Tiie nggre- I
gate price of the negroes was something ;
more than forty thousand dollars, for j
which Walker gave a notecr draft pava- j
ble in New Orleans. But the old gentle- j
man would not sell his slaves except on :
condition that they were to be kept togeth- i
er on a plantation in the South.
Well, the slaves were taken to New ;
Orle ans, were put upon the block and dis- j
persed to the four winds, the purchaser I
realizing a considerable profit by the
'transaction.' The note or draft matured
was presented for payment, was protested
and from that day to the present time not
a cent has been received either by the old
gentleman or his heirs for fifty thousand
dollars worth of negroes? Meanwhile
Walker has lived in affluence, and is be*
lieved now to be a millionaire. Will some
one of Walker's apologists impeach the
correctness of this story? Let them try it.
The substantial truth of the statement
shall be verified by testimony which no
body can question.
But this is only an isolated instance.
There were many such in Walker's ca
reer, of which the history may yet be
written. Is that the sort of person to
whom the administration should confide
a responsible public trust? [Bichmond
South, 10th inst.
A Good Example . Many years ago
in an obscure country school in Massa»
chusetts, aji humble, consientious boy was
to be seen; and it was evident to all that
his mind was beginning to act and thirst
for some intellectual good. He was in
search of useful and practical knowledge.
Next we see him put forth on foot to set
tle in a remote town in the State, and pur
sue his fortunes there as a shoemaker, his
tools being carefully sent on before him.
In a short time he is in business in the
position of a county surveyor of Litcefield
county, Conn., being the most accom
plished mathematician in that section of
the Stute. Before he is twenty-five years
of age, we find him supplying the astron
omical matter of an almanac, in New
York. Next he is admitted to the bar, a
selffitted lawyer. Now he is found on
the bench of the Supreme Court. Next
he become a member of the Continental
Congress. Then he is a member of the
Committee of Six tf> form the Declaration
of Independence. He continued a mem
ber of Congress for nearly twenty years,
and was acknowledged to be one of the
most useful men arid wisest councillors
of the land. At length, having discharg*
ed every office with a perfect ability, and
honored in his sphere the name of a
Christian, he died regretted and loved by
State and Nation. This man was Roger
Sherman. We take particular sattsfacs
tion, now and then, in chronicling, the
careers of such men, and holding them
up as bright examples for the youth of the
present day to follow.
Marmage . If I were talking to my
own daughter, I would entreat her never
to allow herself to dwell upon marriage as
and object of life. Dignity and delicacy
sink, I cannot say how rapidly, when once
the idea takes possession of the mind;
and so, for happiness, there is no more
miserable being in existence than a wo
man, past the excitement of youth, aim*
ing to be married for the sake of being
married. She becomes more and more
dissatisfied and envious, and neglectful
of present duties. May you never be-,
come what I have seen many others, soles
ly from the influence of this one false de
grading principle.
A Decided Test . The Providence
Journal says:
We had a better test of spiritualism than
any Boston experiments could afford.
When the son of Henry Clny took the
stump for James Buchanan, and the spir
it of Iiis great father did not rise from the
grave, we made up our mind that there
was no passing back from the next world
to this.
fjppGen. Cass is strict in his per
sonal habits; will not dine out if he
can help it, and g-oes to bed at 10 o'
clock, P. M. When at Paris, at balls
in his own house, he would quietly
slip off to bed at the above hour, leav
ing his wife and three daughters to en
tertailri the company present. This
regime accounts for his untoward vi
gor at the advanced age of 75 years.
*Maö wants bat honesty nnd indnstr«
independent and I "
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTkCES.
In the succession of ) State of Loui«iaua,
Mary Fort Clement, ' s Parish of Iberville,
dee'd., wife of Gervais ) Sixth District Court.
Sehl at re.
"VT^HElvKAti Gervais Schlatre has this day
V V filed in this Court his account of Liquida
tion and Partition of the succession of Mary F.
Clement, dee'd.—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it ma) r con
cern, to show cause within thirty days from the
(late of the publication hereof, why said account
sbonlii not be homologated and made a judgment
of this court. Clerk's Office, Julv 3d. 1S57.
jyll M A. ESTEVAN. Clerk.
In the succession of t State of Louisiana,
John Micheltree, > Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. ) Sixth District Court.
WHEREAS. Elizabeth tiiggs has this day
filed her final tableau of Administration of
the succession of John Micheltree, dee'd.—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, to show cause within thirtv days from
the date hereof, why said account of Administra
tion should not be homologated and made a judg
ment of this court, and the said administrator ful
ly discharged from any further responsibility in
the premises. Clerk's Office June 26, 18-57.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN. Clerk.
lu the succession of ) State of Louisiana,
Charles Leblanc, / Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. ) Sixth District Court.
WHEREAS George Troxcler has this day
filed his final tableau of administration of
the succession of Charles Leblanc, dee'd.—
Notice is hereby given tn all whom it may
concern, to show cause within thirty days from
the date hereof, why said account of Administra
tion should not be homologated and made a judg
ment of this court, and the said Administrator ful
ly discharged from any further responsibility in
the premises. Clerk's Office. June. 26,1857.
j e37 M. A. ESTi:VAN. Clerk.
In the succession of } State of Louisiana,
Duval Capdeville, > Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. ) Sixth District Court.
WHEREAS Peregrin P. Sugg has this day
filed his final tableau of administration of
the succession of Duval Capdeville, dee'd—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, to show cause within thirty days from
the date hereof, why said account of adminstra
tiou should not be homologated aud made a
judgment of this court, and the said administra
tor folly discharged from any further responsi
bility in the premises.
Clerk's Office, June 25,1857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
NEW AND FASHIONABLE GOODS
For Coat«, Pant« aud Tests.
THE undersigned respectfully informs
his friends and the public generally,
that lie has just returned from New Orleans
with the largest and
Most Beautiful Stock of Goods
for Coats, Pants and Vests that has ever been
brought to this town—comprising all descriptions
of articles for summer wear—and which he is
prpeared lo make up at short notice.
While returning his t hanks for the very liberal
milliner in which he has been patronized by the
citizens of Iberville, the undersigned would res
pectfully solicit a continuance of the same—ev
er promising
1 Punctuality and a Faultless Fit."
Call and see his Goods at his shop on Main street,
nearly opposite the Sentinel Office, and next door
to Vessier's Segar Store.
m y 30 JACOB BERNSTEIN.
OSCAR LAUTE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
PL AQU EfifIN JE, LA.
Qu'Office, the sjrfae as that U Zenon La
; bauve, Esq. - myl7
'^gjSÊF and BEEF TONGUES, for,
ROTH & DEBUEl '