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PLAQÜEMINE. PARISH OF IBERVILLE, LA., SEPT. 19. 1S57.
NUMBER
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORKIKG BY
WILLIAM P. BRADBURN.
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A Veritable Tnrk.
The Defterdar, as he is always caled,
was the son-in-law of Mehemet Ali, !ind
the realization of all the stories of Turk
ish and tyranny. His palace is in font
of the Ekbekieb, hut since his deatlihas
passed into other hands.
He it was who heard the complain of
a poor woman that a man had drank nilk
from her measure and then refused tonay
ber.
The man denied it entirely.
'When was it V demanded the Deter
dar.
'This moment.'
'Well, now, woman—listen—I wil rip
this man open. If I find the milk infiim
it. is well —you shall be paid. If i»t, I
will rip you open in the same way.'
It was doue instantly on the floor |"bis
room by his men, Le and the wcnari
looking on complacently. The millwas
found in the man's stomach, am' the
Defuirdar ordered the value uf theiiilk,
ten paras, or about one cent, to be *ken
from (he dead man's gown and p#i to
the woman.
In another instance, a tax collect«; had
levied on a poor man's cow, his sole
possession, fur one of the onerous ares
of Mehemet Ali. The cow was 'orth
two hundred piastres. The tax was'orty.
The collector took the cow, sentfor a
butcher, made him kill the cow ancbut it
into tea pieces, and then sent for tetmen
nnd forced them to take and pay fr the
pieces six piastres each. It was heap
meat, but they would never have toched
it except under force.
The man complained to the Defcrdar
that bis eow, worth two hundred had
been in this manner sold for sixty, ad by
the oppression of the collector I was
. left destitute. The Defterdnr sent boat
to the village, and brought all the arties
and witnesses to bis palace.
It was a clear case of oppression
'How dared you kill this man'eow V
«aid he to the butcher.
*1 was afraid of the collectd He
made me do it.'
'Do, then, what I tell you. Ki that
man, the collector, and cut him jto ten
pieces.'
It vvas done on the spot, a»c every
man who had the beef at six piaste, wan
made to buy a piece of the colfctor at
'twenty, and so the poor man had t( value
of his cow.
These instances are both on thaide of
justice—-but others, countless st«es of
his cruelties are told, which are p-fectly
reliable.
His horse Was badly shod, sohat a
nail pricked his foot, not nn unenmon
occurrence with the best of blaclmiths.
But be went to the shop, and lu a hot
shoe nailed on the foot of ttae aitli.—
These and other similar accountsjay be
relied on. Every one in Cairo lows a
hundred such.—Wm. C. Prime Boat
JLife in Egypt.
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A monster Reptile.
A correspondent of the Abingde Dem
ocrat, writing from Walnut Hi, Lee
cotity, Va., who is, as the Demorat as
sures its readers, 'a gentlçman i whom
implicit confidence may be place,' gives
the following account of tie killiig of a
monster reptile in Harlan county, Sy. He
says:
• About three weeks ago'five nr®
to gather whortleberries iff the gt° ut *^ in
oils part of Harlan county, Ky-»^^h e
their travels came to a small disioys
foot of a sleep ridge, wh«ce
ered a smooth beaten *
slide, that led (row ^
ridge. Curiosity tempting them to know
its meaning they followed the trail to the
top of the ridge, where, to their astonish
ment, they found about an acre of ground
perfectly smooth and destitute of vegita
tion, near the centre of which they discov
ed a small sink or cave, large enough to
admit a salt barrel.
They concluded to drop in a few stones,
and presently their ears were saluted with
a loud, rumbling sound, accompanied
with a rattling noise, and an enormous
serpent made his appearance, blowing
nnd spreading his head, and his forked
tongue protruded. The men were struck
with wonder and affright, and suddenly
the atmosphere was filled with a smell so
nauseating that three of the five inen were
taken very sick; the two, discovering the
condition of their companions, dragged
them away from that abode of Death.—
About ten feet of the snake had, to their
judgement, made its appearancce, when
they hurried home and told what they
had seen to their neighbors.
The next day were mounted some ten
of the hardy mountaineers, armed with ri
fles, determined to destroy the monster.
On approaching within one hundred
yards of the dwelling of his snakeship
their horses suddenly became restive, and
neither kindness nor force could make
them go nearer. The men dismounted,
and, hitching their horses, proceeded on
foot, with rifles cocked, to the mouth of
the cave. They hurled in three or four
large stones, and fell back some fifteen
steps, when the same noise was heard as
before, and out came the dreadful reptile
ready, as his looks indicated, to crush
the intruders.
About the same length of the snake had
appeared from the hole, when eight or
ten bullits went through his head, and as
the mouster died he kept crawling out,
until twenty feet of that huge boa lay mo
tionless on the ground. It was a rattle
suake with twenty-eight rattles, the first
was four inches in diameter, the rest de
creasing in size to the last. With difficul
ty the men dragged him home, and his
skin can now be seen by the curious in
Hurlin county.
How to Treat touh Husband . Study
your husband's temper aud character; but
be it your pride and pleasure to conform
to his wishes. Check at once the first ad
vance to contradiction, even of the most
trivial nature. Beware of the first dis*
pute.
Let your husband be dear and of more
consequence to you than any other human
being; and have no hesitation in confies*
sing these feelings to him.
Endeavor to make your husband's h ab*
itation alluring and delightful to him.
Let it be a sanctuary to which his heart
may always turn from the ills aud anxie
ties of life.
I know not two female attractions so
captivating to men as delicacy and mod
esty.
If possible, let your husband suppose
you think him a good husband, and it
wiii be strong stimulus to his being so.
No attraction renders a woman at all
times so agreeable to her husband as cheer
fulness and good humor.
In the article of dress study your hus
band's taste, and endeavor to wear what
he thinks becomes you best.
Make yourself as useful to him as you
can, and let him see you employed as
much as possible in economical pursuits.
Endeavor to feel pleased with you hus
band's friends.
Encourage in your husband a desire
of reading aloud at his leisure hours.
How indecorous and offensive is it to
see a woman exercising authority pver
a husband, and saying, 'I will have it so,'
'it shall be done as I like,' etc.
Animai» Diet Bao for Children.
There is no greater error in the manage
ment of children than that of giving them
animal diet very early. By persevering
in the use of an overstimulating diet, the
digestive organs become irritated, and the
various secretions immediately connec
ted with, and necessary to, digestion, are
diminished, especially the biliary secres
tion, and constipation of the bowels and
congestion of the abdominal circulation
succeed. Children so fed become, more
over, very liable to attacks of fever and
inflamation, affecting particularly the mu
cous membranes; and measles, and the
other diseases incident to childhood, are
generally very severe in their attack. In
inference to this last remark, a distinguish,
d medical gentleman mentioned to us
that, in families where children lived on
sinple diet, if they were seized with meas
les, whooping-cough, mumps and similar
diseases, he never called but once, as he
knew there was no danger; but in families
Where an opposite Course was pursued,
r^aAJxguble.
«HjJton ofGor. WalkVSîfdJeïtedln
Tea as a Summer Drink .—A little
editorial of ours with the above caption
has been going the rounds of the city and
country press without credit. Of course,
the latter circumstances is, as Toots would
say, of no consequence, but one of the
country papers prints the article with the
concluding remark, 'So says Dickens,'
which induces ns to say that Dickens
never said anything of the kind, but that
ours is the voice that sounded the praises
of iced tea. And, by the way, let us re
mark that iced coffee, with sugar and
cream, is a summer beverage that goes to
the exhausted spot most effectually. We
wonder that some of our saloon keepers
don't advertise these delightful drinks
"which cheer but not inebriate,' among
their sodas and water ices and creams, all
of which are inferior to them both in re
freshment and sustaining power. But
improvement, as Burke said of confidence,
is a plant of slow growth, and we suppose
it will be a century before the public finds
out what luxuries iced tea and coffee are
in the summer solstice.—Sat. Eve. Post.
The Term op Egyptian Beauty.—
Beauty if it exist at all in Egypt, is ex
ceedingly short lived. I should not doubt
its existence, for I have seen among tho
copper-colored countenances of the native
girls, some whose mould was of the finest,
whose features were chiseled with great
regularity; but the downcast look—the
worn and weary air—the sad eyes and
heavy lips, idicate the early decay of all
that is lovely. They are usually mar
ried at twelve or thirteen years of age,
and life then, among the lower classes,
becomes more a burden than a joy.
Among the wealthy, who live in luxury
and ease, I am told it is not very different.
The form does not retain its "roundness
and elasticity even to the ordinary age of
young beauty with us. Women are old
here at twenty, very old at thirty, yet they
live to be much older, of course; and at
sixty or seventy they are not very different
in appearance from thirty or forty.—
Prime's Boat Life.
The Sizb op London When the
stone in Panyer's alley was placed on
its site three centuries since, the circum
ference was about five miles. At present,
howeuer, to make a pedestrian expedition
around the metropolis would to most per
sons be an undertaking of some import*
ance, as may be seen by referring to tho
following particulars, which have been
gathered from a recently published map :
From Chiswick to Kentish town, 12
miles; from Kentish town to Milwall, 17£
miles, from Milwall to Chiswick 28 miles
—total 57J miles, very nearly three days'
journey at the rate of 20 miles a day; and
it will be observed that in the line drawn,
Battersea, Ciapham, Canning town, and
many other pieces, which even at present
can scarcely said to be separated from
London, have been left out. 'As the crow
would fly" across streets and houses from
the point whence we started at Chiswick
to the farthest east, the distance is nearly
eleven miles, and the greatest width from
north to south upwards of seven miles.—
The Builder.
It appears from the ccnsus of Great,
Brit ain of 1851 that, in that year, there j
were in the country nearly six millions of I
women above twenty years of age, of
whom one million seven hundred and six
ty-seven thousand were unmarried and
seven hundred and ninety-five thousand
widows.
The London Lancet states that n new
remedy for neuralgia has been for some
time prescribed with success by Dr.
O'Connor, one of the physicians of the
Royal Free Hospital, in the cases of pas
tients suffering from that very painful af
fection under his care at the above hospi
tal. The remedy used is the valerianate
of ammonia, a new chemical compound.
An Irish Woman's Prayer .—The
Franklin Democrat states that Widow
Burns, who was recently tried and sen
tenced to imprisonment in the county for
selling liquor, made some pertinent re
marks to the justice, at the conclusion of
which she fervently prayed that his'Honor
might never live to see his wife a poor
widow, and obliged to sell rum to sup
port the children.'
A FIGHTING TURK.
'Pierce Pungent,' in the New York
News, tells the following good story :
During the operations of *'ie allies
in the Crimea, it was reived to carry
the water in from a beautiful spring of
the finest Croton the camp. Leather
pipes or hose were employed, which
poreiaid on the ground. One morn
ing, while the water was being sup«
plied, the minarat sounded to prayer,
and one of the Turkish soldiers im»
mediately went flop on his knees to
praise AllahUnfortunately he went
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down right upon the hose, anil hb.
weight consequently stopped the cur
rent of î hat 'lirst ot elements,' us Pin
dar culls water in his first Oiympaid.
'Get up,'cried an English -oldier.—
: \otile vous avez, lu boute, mon cher,
Monsier le; l'urque,' cried a French - *
man, with native politeness, 'to git up. :
■ 1 hat ain't the way to make a Turk
move,' cried another, 'tliisisthe dodge.'
So sayinff, he knocked his (urban off.
Still, the pious Musselman went on
with his devotions.
'I'll make him stir his trumps,' said
another Englishman, giving him a re*
markable smart kick. To the wonder
of all, still the unturbaued, well-kicked
follower of the Prophet went praying
on though he was a forty horse parson.
'Hoot way, mon— I'll shew ye how
we serve obstinate folks at au Id Beek>
ie,' quietly observed a Scotchman—he
was, however, prevented for the Turk,
having finished his 'Allah vis en allah,,
rose and began to take off his coat—
then to roll up his sleeves, and then
to bedew his palms with salivq, und
then to put himself in the most ap*
proved boxing attitude, a la Yankee
Sullivan.
He then advanced in true Tom Hyer
style to the Englishman who had
kicked him on the lumber region.
A ring ! a ring !' shouted the soldiers
and sailors, perfectly astonished to see
a Turk such an adept in the fistic art.
The Englishman, nothing loath to
have a bit of fun with a Turk of such
a truly John Bull state of mind, set to
work, but found he had met his mas*
ter— in five minutes he had received his
quantum suff. As the Turk cooly res
placed his coat and turban, he turned
round and said to the admiring bys
standers, in the pure brogue, 'Bad"luck
to ye, ye spalpeens; when yere aflher
kicking a Turk, I'd advise ye the next
time to jist be sure he's not an Irish
man.'
The mystery was sol ved—our Turk
was a Tipperary man !
Cure For Drunkenness .—We
have heard of a great many cures for
drunkenness, but tho following is the
best of all :
'What are you doing there, Jerry V
'What's that to you, Mag V
'Why if your father was sober, he'd
whip you like all the world; what are
you doing anyhow?'
'Jest a pokin this cap's tail down
dad's throat!'
'What for'/'
'Why, ma said, that a cat with nine
tails would cure'im o'this everlastin'
gettin'drunk, an' I tho't a cat wi' one
tail would help some.'
Fond Parent (to his Son.)—
Yes, New York is the place to get on
in. Look at Jones; he started without
a penny, and has lately failed for a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.—
Of course that's an extreme case. !
don't expect yon to do so well as that.
Still, with honesty and industry, I see
no reason why you should not, in the
course of a few years, fail for fifty
thousand dollars.
Bjr-A Western New York farmer
writes as follows to a distinguished
scientific agriculturist, to whom he
felt under obligations for introducing
a variety of swine :
Respected Sir : I went yesterday to
the fair at M ; I (bund several pigs
of your species; there was a great var
iety of beasts, and 1 was astonished at
not seeing von there.
£j""The Paris papers tell of a wo
man, one Madame de lieront, who
when it thundered, used to squallier*
self under a couch, and make all he r
servants lie above, one upon tbe other,
so that, if the thunder bolt fell, it might
have its effect upon them before penes
t rating to her. The force of selfiinness
"could no further go.'
Question for a Wife. Do you rec
ollect what your feelings were immediate
ly after you had spoken the first unkind
word to your husband? Did you not feel
ashamed and grieved, and yet too proud
to admit it? That was, is, and ever will
be your evil genius. It is the temple which
labors incessantly to destroy your peace,
which cheats you with au evil delusion
that your husband deserved your anger,
when he really most required your love.
Never forget the manner in which the du
ties of that calling can alone be fulfilled.
If your husband is hasty, your example
of patience will chide as well as teach him.
Your violence may alienate bis heart, and
your neglect impel him to desperation.—
^ our soothing wdl redeem him, your soit
n subdue him, and the good-natured
untitle of those eyes, now tilling beauti
hilly with priceless tears, will make him
u'i your own.
i wo persons, contending very sharply
on matters relating to a certain election
got to rather high words, when one of
them »aid, 'You never eatch a be coming
out of my mouth.' The other replied!
'You may well say that; for they iiy ont
so lust that nobody can catch 'em.'
A Wedding Present . We have been
shown, says the Boston Traveller, a jew
el box, of solid gold, eighteen carats fine,
weighing six hundred and fifty penney
weights, and costing nearly one thousand
dollars. It is intended for a wedding
present to a lady in Turkey by a mer
chant ot »his city. It is the largest and
moat costly thing of the kind ever made
in this country.
LOUISIANA INSTITUTE,
NEW RIVER.
r PHE Exercises of this Institution will be re
X sumed in September next, under encourag
ing circumstances. The course of studies will be
extensive, embracing, in addition to the ordinary
English branches, the Latin and Greek Langua
ges, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Ike. "
Pupils may be prepared for entering advanced
Classes in our best Colleges, or receive such an
education as will fit them for whatever départ
irent ol duty they may choose. The young La
dies' department will open at the same time, and
will receive a due share of attention. Lessons in
Music will be given, and every opportunity of
improvement afforded.
This Institution is pleasantly situated cn the
bank of the Mississippi, 85 miles above New Or
leans. No efforts will be spared to make it a
pleasant home for all placed under its care: and
w»ile great care will be taken to improve tlie
mind in knowledge, pains will be taken to
strengthen the heart in virtue. The situation
has been always remarkably healthiy, remote
tiorn any temptation to vice, and surrounded by
an intelligent community, its position is favora
ble to study and morality.
Persons desirous of placing their children or
wards under it6 care, are referred to our patrons
for the last year, or to H. DoyaJ. Esq., Hon. J S
Minor, Hon. 1). F. Kenner, C. Pelletier, Esq.. R.
TilJotson, Esq.
Terms.
Tuition per Session of Twenty-one Weeks, $25
Boarding per Month, - - - - 12
Lessons on the Piano per Session, - - 25
Use of Instrument, - - - - - ~5
Each pupil finds Uedding and Napkins. Wash
ing Extra.
Rev, SAMUEL McKINNEY,
au22-6m u. D., Pres.
A NEW DISCOVERY.
The Greatest and Most WontUiful in the World!
SAKSAI'AttlLLA LOZEilGES,
Simple and Compound.
Prepared by N. HEREU, Druggist and Physician.
Superior to all Essences, Syrnpa and Ex
tracts so named, and to all speciali
ties heretofore known.
HAVE for a long time thoroughly investigated
. l the idea of a genera! therapeutic agent, sus
ceptible of being applied to all diseases, the de
velopment or morbid principle of which proceeds
from an internal cause, either in the blood or any
of the organs.
A careful and uninterupted analysi» of the ani
mal, vegetable and minerai kingdoms had induced
the hope that I conld bring about such a result,
and, thanks to my indefatigable researches, it is
now obtained.
I have found in some vegetables the necessary
means for this grand idea, which is based ipon an
oleagiiious principle of Sarsapaiilla partly known
to the public. Such is the discovery which I
have the honor this day of advertising. The
form of Lozenges has been given toit, because its
nature precluded the possibility of doing other
wise; and I have divided it into simple and com
pound Lozenges, in order that they might be given
'o children as well as adults.
My first experiments were made privately, and
remained unknown until wonderful results had
satisfied me that I had succeeded, and that the
charge of quackery could not be brought against
me.
The attention of physicians and of the public is
called to these Lozenges, in order that every one
may witness the admirable results of the same.
GENERAL EFFECTS,
*1 '-'stifled to by upwards of a thousand persons.
The stomach is cleaned, the blood is purified
and renovated by removing all impurities from
this precious organ and field.
SPECIAL EFFECTS.
1. Prompt and radical cure of ail diseases gene
rally.
2. Persons who have used these Lozenges have
never had the cholera nor the yellow (ever.
3. Venereal, syphillitic, hepatic, scorbutica!,
gouty, rheumatic and nervous and bilious diseases,
aie completely cured a few days after the remedy
is resorted to.
4. A il diseases of the lungs; head, eyes, stomach,
bowels and other internal and external com
plaints disappear entirely, provided the Lozenges
are resorted to.
For sale by the box, with a prospectus, show
ing how they must be used.
GENERAL DEPOT AT N. HEREU'S,
corner Toulouse and Bourbon streets.
AGENTS.
J. WRIGHT & CO
SI and 151 Chaitresst.
E GUILLOT, Royal street.
H RON NA BEL,
corner of Natchez and Tchoupitoulas sts.
JAMES SYME, 134 Canal st.
C. H. WEKCKMULLER,
102 Camp street, corner of Povdras street.
N. à. —Consultations (gratis) daily at the above
Drug Store.
Agents for thp above in PJaquemine—
au22-ly STOCKLEY & DELAVALLADE.
Shot and White Lead.
JUST RECEIVED and for sale, 150 bags as
sorted Shot—also 300 kegs White Lead.
myO ROTH & DEBLIEUX