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VOLUME X
PLAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, LA., AUGUST 15, 1857.
NUMBER 2.
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Useful Rcwpts.
|||iedy for S ick S eaucs :.—Dr. J
H* gives the fâowiç eeipe for sic
jimmtncing wà th twlfth of a graisjbut
sse s a fourUofignin. The pill9|
night, si tfcn sspend for the'|
ve appitnty èoiinished the
ie r., uat^jis.
'follow
dwlved
wtj brittle,
aft a race,
dnrfidil.
OrmG
ci'-'huo hixk'i
«•ut Uir pants
le<f. 'lif tlotM
no ottide
V.nlis jsl as wt
witV, wu {ms ;
utaH tfees.— (
es F kthng the M outh.
ely frothing at the
my iaie's nuuth out with
ire .:4k drahrns of alum
t iS sat; te&using it in a
■ oiidefresta race- horse,
ti- |y n?o ou 1 .— -Cor. Lon
tST ALrm*-Fot boys from
ff**'» t/Mt is atrood way to
f'"* » ithnly on seam in the
P» hi- diniled o»r so there is
P- It Uts no Qioro cloth,
f 3 "d ^ tV'time br a farmer's
ohipi„ j(j,f car( , an( j c hores
Ohio Cilkaltt.
VVA®ss Cu
<lpa1 oftoo\ache,
vi'oin:in*<iu\i rin
warm. Whckthe
water for stare 1 », fi
the rinse wiit«, H
lite boiling sods i
rinse '«ter —Cor.
*Es.—Ittouldstve a great
id ugiw, md ehls, if every
herclo&s in later a little
eakettWs pn on to boil
full, t«d pi some into
ii'e clotlier fk better if
lued, ins-; #.>f the last
Ci I .. 4
ITA company iM,e.s the fol
lowing question: ■Wf w t fcsHm duty of
«nan ?" One of them c|ntenc«î vrth success
that it iras to pay dry-goods ills!
M akes H is Gov ^or T reat .—Tie Spring
field (Sass.) Nonpareil stateithatits editor
»ctuallj overheard tte followiig cosversation
betwea an Irish lad',en years of age and his
father:
/?ojh-"Pap! Pap!,! "
Fahr —"What's waited ?"
/i<9-"Can't you traAe me to a me drap?"
Faùtr —"Yes, only where is it?"
Bo}~"Y ou know d—-d well where it is?"
Up« this both startedfora grog-èop.
S yktoms of V anitv.- T o offer i barber a
$50 Ml in payment for a Stave.
To isk a girl to marry jon the irst time
she Iw ever seen you.
On tearing it observed byîhe wire-pullers
of yOJ political party that "astrong cindidate"
must fe nominated for the wxt election, im
mcdiatly to offer yourself.
Toay double the value form article when
you fcow you can get it elsethere for what
it is erth.
Tees to I the excellent w*y fa which your
fath«brought up his children.
•Fohire a thousand dollars at ftrec per cent
a m<*h, and keep it on deposit «»bank till
pay-4/.
T«say, with Pope Urban, «Oh, »hat a pro
dig^f sense is that man; he thinkaij wa y S j U8 t
Ticram your book-case with th< WO rks of
KaslHegel, Aristotle, Sir Williarattamilton,
and iher deep thinkers, and read on» Cobb's
mas^pieces, The "Bandit of theirbuzzi"
and îllow-covered literature generally, '
Tbe elected Corporal of a milit«^ CO m
panjand immediately go to 8tudyiDgT ureDne
andfauban, or become eloquent too n the
hoifrs of war.
CDr. Darwin informs us that th« reason
w %the bosom of a beautiful womfc f s an
o>9t of such peculiar delight, aristt f r0 m
That all our first pleasurable sections
of irmth, sustenance and repose araierived
ira this interesting source— Boston J^st,
t. Darwin's theory was considerti very
^factory till a tough, hard brained, psctical
metaphysician suggested whefcer the
^sensations of delight would be pnduced
who in his infancy had been Cursed
^»bottle." This confounded the i^t 0 r,
aa opset hia theory.
5*The skin of a boiled egg is said tobe the
efficacious remedy that can be applied to
•w. Peel it careMly, wet and applj it to
*«ipot. Jt will draw off the matter asd rei
!il *the soreness in a few hours.
A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE,
About tbree or four years ago, more or
less, I was practicing law in Illinois, in a
pretty large circuit. I was called on one
day in my office, in the town of C— ,
by a very pretty woman, who, not with
out tears told me her husband had been
arrested for horse-stealing. She wished
to retain me on the defence. I asked her
why she did not go to Judge B , an
ex-Senator of the United States, whose
office was in the same town. 1 told her
that I was a young man at the bar, &c.
She mournfully said that he had asked
a retaining fee above her means, and be
sides did not want to touch the case, for
her husband was suspected of belonging
to an extensive band of horse-theives and
counterfeiters, whose headquarters were
on Moore's prairie.
I asked her to tell me the whole truth
of the matter, and if it was true that her
husband did belong to such a band.
'Ah, sir,' said she, 'a better man at
heart than my George never lived; but he
liked cards and drink, and I am afraid
they made him do what he never would
have done if he had not drank. I fear
that it can be proved that he had the
horse; he didn't steal it; another did, and
passed it to him.'
I didn't like the case. I knew that
there was a great dislike to the gang loca
ted where she named, and feared to risk
the case before a jury. She seemed to
(observe my intention to refuse the case,
land burst into tears,
I never could see a woman weep with*
feeling like a weak fool myself. I
0 ok the case and she gave me the partic
1 ] ars> *
'f lie gang, of which he was not a mem
^ f |ac | pursuaded him to take the horse.
i Ie knew the horse was stolen, and like
fool acknowledged it when he was arres
ted. Worsestill—he had gone and trim
ed the horse's tail and maine to alter
appearance, and the opposition could
ove it.
I The trial came on. The prosecution
pened very bitterly: inveighed against
to
lievns and counterfeiters, who had made
m land a terror to strangers and travel
Is, and who had robbed every farmer
i tht; region of their finest horses. It in
Î duced witnesses, and proved all and
I re than I feared it would.
The time came for me to rise for de
f|ce. Witnesses I had none. But I des
twined to make an effort, only hoping
s|o interest the judge and jury as to se
qfe a recommendation to gubernatorial
cnency and a light sentence. So 1
p jited this picture: A young man enter
eqbito life, wedded to an angel; beautiful
inlerson, possessing every gentle and no
bl|ttribute. Temptation was before and
allrourid him. He kept a tavern. Guests
thi were many; it was not for him to in
qiw into their business; they were well
drt$ed; made large bills and paid prompt
ly. .At an unguarded hour, when he was
insâe with the liquor they urged upon
hirrîhe had deviated from the path of
recede. The demon of alcohol had
reig^d in his brain; and it was his first
offe|e. Mercy pleaded for another
cha^e to save him from ruin. Justice
did t»t require that his young wife should
go dfvn sorrowing to the grave, and that
the sfcdow of disgrace and the taunt of a
felonfcther should cross the path ofthat
sweeèhild. Earnestly did 1 plead for
them The woman wept; the husband
did til same; the judge fidgeted and rub
bed h; eyes; the jury looked melting. If
I coui have had the closing speech he
woulc|iave been cleared; but the prose
cutor ifid the close, and threw ice on the
fire I Md kindled. But they did not quite
put it (it.
Théiudge charged according to law
and evfence, but evidently leaned on the
side oftiercy. The jury found a verdict
of guilf, but unanimously recommended
the pri<>ner to the mercy of the court.
My clièt was sentenced to the shortest
imprisonment the court was empowered
to give.lnd both jury and court signed a
petitionto the Governor for an uncondi
tional pirdon, which has since been gran
ted, butriot before the following incident
occurred .. ,
Somethree months after this, I receiv
ed an amount for collection from a whole
sale houie in New York. The parties to
collect tern were hard ones, but they had
property,and before they had any idea of
the trap laid, I had the property, which
they were about to assign, before they
broke under attachment. Finding I was
neck ahead and bound to win, they ca
ved in' and 'forked over' three thousand
seven huidrcd and ninety-four dollars
and eighteen cents (per memorandum
book) in good money. They lived m
Shawneeuwn, about thirty-five or forty
mifes southeast of Moore's prairie. 1 re
ceived tbe funds just after bank opening,
but other business detained me till after
dinner. I then started for C , inten
ding to go as far as the village of Mount
Vernon that night.
1 had gone aloDg ten or twelve miles,
when I noticed a splendid team of double
horses attached to a light wagon, in which
wore seated four men, evidently of the
high-strung order. They swept past, as
if to show how easily they could do it.—
They shortened in, anil allowed Hie to
come up with them, and hailed tue, asked
me to.'wet,' or, in other words, diminish
the contents of a jug of old rye they had
aboard; but I excused myself with the plea
that I had plenty on board. They asked
me how far I was going? I told them as
far as Mount Vernon, if my horse didn't
tire out. They mentioned a pleasant tav
ern ten or twelve miles ahead, as a good
stopping place, and then drove on.
I did not like the looks of those fellows,
nor their actions. But I was bound to go
ahead. I had a brace of revolvers and a
nice knife; my money was not in my va
lise or my sulky, but in a belt round my
body. I drove slow, in hopes that they
would go on, and I should see them no
more. It was nearly dark when I saw
a tavern sign ahead. At the same time
I saw their wagon standing before the door.
I would have pressed on, but my horse
needed rest. I hauled up, and a woman
caine to the door. She turned as pale as
a shee^when she saw me; she did not
speak, but with a meaning look she put
her finger on her lips, and beckoned me
in; she was the wife of my late cliant.
When I entered, the party recognised
me, hailed me as an old travelling friend,
and asked me to drink. I respectfully
but firmly declined to do so.
'By—, you shall drink or fight!' said
the noisiest of the party.
Must as you please; drink ! shall not!'
said I, proposely showing the butt of a
Colt which kicks six times in rapid suc
cession.
The party interposed, and very easily
quelled the assailant. Oifc offered me a
cigar, which I reluctantly refused, buta
glance from the waman induced meto ac
cept. She advanced and proffered me a
light, and in doing so slipped a note into
my hand, which she must have written a
moment before. Never shall I forget the
words. They were:
'Beware! they are members of the gang.
They mean to rob and murder you!
Leave soon; 1 will detain them!'
I did not feel comfortable just then, but
tried to do so.
'Have you any room to put up my
horse?' I asked, turning to the woman.
'What, are you not going on to-night?'
asked one of the men; 'we are.'
'No,' said I; 'I shall stay here to-night?*
'We'll all stay, then I guess, and make
a night of it,' said another of the cut
throats.
'You'll have to put up your own horse,
here's a lanthern,' said the woman.
'I am nsed to that,' I said. Gentle
men, excuse me a minute; I'll join you
in a drink when I come in.'
'Good on your head! More whiskey,
old gal,' shouted they.
I went out, glanced at their wagon; it
was old-fashioned, and 'lynch-pins' secur
ed the wheels. To take out my knife,
and pry one from the fore and hind wheels,
was but the work of an instant, and I
threw them as far off in the darkness as I
could. To untie my horse and dash off
was the work of a moment. The road
lay down a steep hill, but my lantern light
ed me somewhat.
I had hardly got under full headway;
when 1 heard a yell from the party I had
so uncerimoniously left. I put whip to
my horse. The liext moment, with a
shout, they started. I threw my light
away, and left my horse to pick his way.
A moment later I heard a crash, a horri
ble shriek. The wheels were off. Then
came the rush of the horses tearing along
with the wreck of the wagon. Finally
they seemed to fetch up in the wood. One
or two shrieks I heard as I swept oil, leav
ing them far behind. For some time J
hurried my horse, you'd better believe 3
'rid!' It was a little after midnight when
I got to Mount Vernon.
> The next day I heard that a Moore's
prairie team had run away, and that two
men out of four had been so badly hurt
that their lives were despaired of; but Ï
didn't cry. My clients got their money
and I didn't travel that road any more.
Live Within your Means . Next to
the slavery of intemperance, what slavery
on earth is more galling than that of p"v*
erty and indebtedness? The man who is
everybody's debtor is everybody's slave,
and in a much worse condition than he
who serves a single master.
For the sake of the present, then, as
well as for the sake of the future, we
would most earnestly urge upon every
working man and boy to live within his
means. Let him lay by something every
day, if but a penny, be it a penny, it is
better than nothing; infinitely better than
running in debt a penny a day, or a pen
ny a week. If he can earn a dollar, let
him trv fairly and faithfully the experi
ment of living on ninety cents. He will
like it«
'People will laugh. 1 Let them laugh.
'They will call mo stingy,' Better call
you stingy than say you do not pay your
debts. 'They will wonder why 1 do not
have better furniture, live in a finer house,
and attend concerts and the playhouses.'
Let them wonder for a while; it won't hurt
them, and it certainly won't you. By
and-by you can have a fine house and
fine furniture of your own, and they will
wonder again, and come biling and coo
ing around you like so many pleased fools.
Try the experiment. Live within your
means.
T he P oet B erangkr D ying, D f.ad.
The glorious o/d chansonnier, who I» -is
sung France into two Democratic revolu
tions, lies on his sick, mayhap his death
bed. No sooner was it known, than fick
le, fashionable, turbulent, but loving Par
is, and Paris is France, is weeping at the
door-steps. The people crowd to it as
though they would barricade it, and pre
vent the soul of the mighty minstrel from
escaping from beloved France. The
humble dwelling of No. 5 Rue Tendome
au-Marais is the shrine of momentous
anxiety, of deep sympathy, and the lofti
est respect. Statesmen, historians, poets,
lead the people in the siege of the poet's
chamber. Conspicnous amongst the first
were Thiers and Lamartine. Famous
physicians, such as Bernard, Trousseau,
and Yabin, in brotherly rivalry, attend
the bed-side. Bulletins marking the chan
ges of the disease, (of the brain, the liver,
and the heart,) are published in the jour
nals, the same as rre issued when Euro
pean potentates are on their death couch
es; and is not Beranger 'every inch a
king?' He has been the monarch min
strel of the people; and base indeed should
the nation be that would not grow dim
when such a light is flickering in the sock
et.
The telegraph, with the Europa's news,
breaks in upon us as we write. It tells
us that 'Beranger is dead.'
A C uriosity . The Selma (Ala.) Sen
tinel, of the 1st inst., says:
We had in our office the other day a
piece of silver coin, which is 1750 years
old. It was a coin used by the Isrealites
before the destruction of Jerusalem, and a
great curiosity. On one side of the piece
is a figure of the Tree of Life, in Hebrew
letters the words 'Jerusalem the Holy.'
On the other side is an urn, inscribed in
Hebrew characters the words 'Shakel of
Isreal.' The coin must have been made
before the fi ll of Jerusalem, which, if our
recollection of Divine History serves us
well, was about seventy years after the
birth of Christ, h is of a poor character
of silver, about the size of half a dollar,
and is worth, in pure silver, about fifteen
cents. Mr. Elicsberg, of this city, who
is the owner of it, informs us that it has
been the property of his family near nine
hundred years.
Aptitude in Men . It is very true that
no man is fit for everything; but it is al
most as certain too, that there is scarcely
any one man who is not fit for something
which something nature plainly points
out to him by giving him a tendency and
propensity to it. Every man finds in him*
self, either from nature or education (for
they are hard to distinguish,) a peculiar
bent and' disposition to some peculiar
character; and his struggling against it is
the fruitless and endless labor of Sisphy>
us. Let him follow and cultivate that vos
cation he will succeed in it and be consid
erable in one way, at least; whereas, it he
departs from it he will, at best, be incons
siderable, probably ridiculous. [Lord
Chesterfield.
gtj^A wag proposes to publish a new
paper to be called the Comet, with an
original tale every week.
Good Advice to an Editor . In a con
versation had with a member of Mr. Mad
ison's Administration, (the Secretary of
State,) Mr. Gales, the senior editor of the
National intelligencer, in his Diary, re
lates, that the Secretary gave him, then
young in the profession, a piece of advice,
which was, in the words of the Secretary:
'Above all things ax oid altercations with
other editors, it is always disagreeable to
readers, and a paper is more respected
for carrying itself above it.' 'You ought,'
said the Secretary to the Editor, 'no more
to condescend to do it than the Secretnry
of State would.'
0"An inveterate coffee drinker, two days
after his marrwge, on a visit to his parents,
vps, as usual, handed a cup of the delicious
beverage, and astonished the table by expres
sing his preference for tea.
Wondering what could have produced the
sudden antips'^y, his anxious mamma inquired
the cause.
He replied : "Why, it kept me awake toe
last two nights!" .
Such an innocent reply set the table m a
roar.
0*Mind your own not others' business.
drop 1
Ar k i 1'is.v.—w—- ———
: Arkinsaw beats mders,
bars, putty \viinmen )T ui for black
Sranger I've seen t reo» jo- timber.
that the fust limbs weriso so high
and so, big, that it would 1* sight,
to walk round 'em. A fello \\yeek
ou licet to walk through one Med
holler. He didn't take any vittle« s
him, and starved on the way. \
'I was goiu' up the Mississip' ounc
in one of them little up country boats,
when we met a big Arkinsaw cypress
floating down. 1 tell you, stranger, it
was a whopper. The capen run his
boat 'long side, and fastened the ropes
to it. Off she started snortin' and
puffin,•' but it didn't budge a peg. The
capen ripped aroun' and hollered out,
'fire up below there, you lubberly ras
cals.' The wheels clattered away,
and the blaze rolled from the chimbley,
but that log was actilly carryin' us
down stream.
'Dreckly up comes a feller in a red
shirt, and says he, 'Capen, you are
strainin' the inline mitly.' 'Cut loose,
arid let her go,~ then,' says the capen.
When they cut the ropes, dod burn me
stranger, if the boat didn't jump clean
outer the water. We run a little ways,
but the ingine was ^-alyso exhausted,
that we just had to stop. Next day,
there comes along a fine big steamer;
we h.iiled her, got aboard.^nd there
was that same log hitched alongside.
We wooded off o' that cypress all the
way to Memphis.
'Black bars are bigger, plentier, and
more cunnin' in Arkinsaw, than any^
where else. The old hes have a way
o' standiu' on their hind legs makin' a
mark with their paws on the bark of
some certin tree, generly a sasserfras.
It's a kinder reckurd they keep, and I
s'pose it's a great satisfaction to an old
he bar to have the highest mark on the
tree. I was a layin' hid one day closet
to a tree whar the bar wur in the habit
of makin' their mark, waitin' for one
of'em to come along, for 1 tell you, I
was mity hungry for bar meat. Dreck
ly I hears a noise clost to me, and look
in' aroun' dod burn me, stranger, if
there wasn't a small bar walkin'
straight on his hind legs, with a big
chunk in his arms. 1 could 'a shot
him easy, but I was mity curious to
see what he was soin' to do with that
chunk. He carried it rite to the tree
whar the marks were, stood it on eend
against it, and then gittin' on the top
of it, reached way up the tree, and
made a big mark about a foot above
the highest. He then got down, moved
the chunk 'way off from the tree, and
you never seen such caperin' as he cut
up. He would look up at his mark,
and then he would lay down and roll
over in the leaves, laughin' outright
just like a person; no doubt tickled at
the way semebody would be fooled.—
There was sumthin' so human about
it that I actilly hadn't the heart to
shoot him.
'Jest to show you how cunnin' bars
are, I'll tell you a sarcumstance hap
pened tome up in Arkinsaw. You
see one Fall, before I gathered my
com, I kept missin' it outer the field,
and I knew the bars were takin' it, for
I could see their tracks. But what
seemed mity curious, I never could
find whar they eat it—nary cob no
whar about. One mornin' 'arly, I
happened aroun' the field, and there I
saw an old she and two cubs just come
outer the patch, walkin' ctfwith their
arms full 'o corn. I was now deters
mined to find out what they did with
so much corn, and follered along after
'em without makin' any noise. Well,
after goin' nearly a mile, I saw 'em
stop, and—stranger, what do y on think
—thar was a pen full o' hogs, and the
bars were feeding 'em. You see, that
Fall the hoirs were so poor, on acconnt
of havin' no mast, that the bars had
actilly built a raihpen, put hogs in it,
and were fattenin' 'em with my corn.
Dod burn me, if it ain' a fact.'
Porter's Spirit.
n^An Englishman, speaking in f« s
vor of his own country, said to Dr -
Thompson: .
'You have no coal, and it is this that
gives England its manufacturing mis
portance.'
The Doctor replied :
'We are not altogether destitute ot
coal; we have one small bed, ca
coal field of Illinois, which is larger
than the whole of England If yon
wait till we scoop some of it out, and
then bring your island oyer, we
• Mn and annex you.