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VOLUME X.
PLAQUEMINE. PARISH OF IBEK VILLE, LA., SEPT. S>3, 1857.
NUMBER 8
rUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY MOKSISG BY
WILLIAM P. BRADBURN.
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i Thrilling Scene.
Returning from a visit to New Or
leans we were fortunate enough to se
cure passage in a line steamer with but
few passengers. Among the ladies,
one especially interested us. She was
the widow of a wealthy planter and
was returning with only one child to
her father's house. Her devotion to
the child was very touching and the
eyes of her old black nurse would fill
with tears as she besought her mistress
"not to love that boy too much, or the
Lord would take him away from her."
We passed through the canal atLou
isville, and stopped a few moments at
the wharf, when the nurse wishing to
see the back of the boat, where, by a
sudden effort, the child sprang from
her arms into the terrible current that
sweeps towards the falis, and disaps
peared immediately. The confusion
which ensued attracted the attention
of a gentleman who was sittin? in the
front part of the boat, quietly reading.
Rising hastily, he asked for some arti
cle the child had worn. The nurse
handed him a tiny apron she had torn
off in her efforts to retain the babe in
her arma. Turning to a splendid New
foundland dog, that was eagerly watch
ing his countenance, he pointed first
to the apron, and then to thespot where
the child had gone under. In an in
stant the noble dog leaped into the
rushing water, and also disappeared.—
By this time the excitement was in%
tense, and some persons on shore sup
posing that the do? was lost as well às
the child, procured a boat and started
off in search for the body. Just at this
moment the dog was seen far away
with something in his mouth. Brave,
ly he struggled with the waves, but.ii
was evident that his strength was fas
failing, and more than one breast gav<
a sigh of relief as the boat reached hin
and it was announced that he had ths
child, and it was still alive. The?
were brought on board—the dog anl
the child;
Giving a single glance to satisfy he
self that the child was really living-,
the young mother rushed forward, aid
sinking beside the dog, threw her arris
around his neck and hurst into teais.
Not many could view the sight ua
moved, and, as she caressed and kiss»
ed his shaggy head, she looked upto
his owner and said.
'Oh, I must have this dog! I am
rich; takealll have—everything—but
give me my child's preserver.'
The gentleman smiled, and paling
his dog-'s head, said.
4 I am very glad, madam, he has
been of service to you, but nothing in
the world could induce me to part with
him.'
The dog looked as though he per.
fectly understood what they were talk
ing about, and giving his sides a shake
laid himself down at his master's feet,
with an expression in hi» large eyes
that said plainer than words—"No!
nothing shall part us.'
Had no '0' to his Name.— We
witnessed a scene at the railroad station
a short time since, which afforded
much amusement to the bystanders.—
A very well, and rather showily dres
sed man, with a very prominent nose,
alighted from the cars, and stood
watching their departure, when he was
bluntly accosted by an old ragged son
of Erin, (a recent importation,) who
still retained the frieze coat and cordu
roys, and was evidently but little Am
ericanized, in the following manner:
"Arrah! an- be me soul—is this your
self, Mr. O'Nayle?'
The gentleman (?) looked first sur
prised, and then shocked, and lastly
indignant, replied:
'Ye're mistaken, sir>r, me name is
not O'Nayle.'
'Which.'
'Me name isn't O'Nayle.'
"Isn't it now! an' ye're not an
O'Nayle, an' yees didn't come from
Skibbereen; an' ye're not the son of
the widder Bridget; an' may bi Patrick
poor feller, that's dead an' gon,'wasn't
ye're father, nather? an' ye didn't go to
Baltimore with the rich jintleman, an'
git intil the rag bizness, an' make a
power o' money: an' ye're not an'
O'Nayle? Well, well, well! be this
an' be thatst, this bates all out entirely
—an' d'yees think I would'nt know
yees, Patrick] well I wud? wid that
nose to the fore I'd take the Bible oath
t'yees in open court, before the jidge
an'jury, an' ivery sowl that was in it.
An'so ye're notan O'Nayle? well, then,
'tisn' any denyin' it; ye're the image
o' ye're father, so ye are! but I see!
Oh, shure 1 heerd how grand ye wor,
an' what a fine jintleman ye wor, an'
how yees didn't know poor men at all;
an' shure 'tis an illegant coat yees have
on, so it is, an' very purlite yees are,
wid yer big looks anddelutherin ways;
divil £ one I ever seen yet was altered
aquil to yees; an'ye're not an Irish
man nayther! Mebbe 'tis a Yankee
yees are, all out! divil a one o'me
doub;s it, and ye're not an O'Nayle;
I'll eigage yer ain't an Irishman nath
er—tn' shure ye're not an O'Nayle!
Might I make bould to ax yer name?'
All this was vociferated very rapid*
Iv, and in a tone of deep indignation,
as the 'jintleman of the rag business'
replied:
'Me name is Neil, sirsr, but I've no
O to the name.'
'in' is that it? Ye're niver an O to
yer name! Did yees lose it after yees
karae to Amerika?'
'No, sir r, I did not. I never had
ai O to me name.'
'Do yees tell me that? Well, thin,
Iinind the time, Mr. Nay le, when there
vas O to yer name, big enough to
drive a horse and cart through, what
aimever ve've done wid it since.'
The 'jintleman' declining further
controversy, left, indignantly denying
the soft impeachment.'
Little Girls.— There is some
thing inexpressibly sweet in little girls.
Lovely, pure, innocent, ingenious, un*
suspecting, full of kindness to broth
ers, babies and everything. They are
sweet little flowers, diamond dewdrops
in the breath of mo ill. What a pity
they should ever become women, flirts
and heartless coquets!
£3=" A poor fellow, having got his
skull fractured, was told by the doctor
that the brain was visible, on which
he remarked, 'Do write to father, for
he always declared that I had none.
J3"(31ass should be washed in cold
water, which gives it a brighter and
clearer look than when cleansed with
warm water.
gj=»Henceforward we will publish
no advertisement from a distance un>
less accompanied by the money.
§3*To ascertain whether a woman
is passionate or not take a muddy dog
into her parlor. *
fijpThe largest lake in the world is
Lake Superior, four hundred and thir>
ty miles long.
Dj^There is a good reason why a
little man should never marry a wid
ow. He might be called 'the wid
ow's mite.'
The Tongde. A white fur on the
tongue attends simple fnver and inflam
mation. Yellowness of the tongue at
tends a derangement of the liver, and
common to billious and typus fevers A
tongue vividly red on the tip and eJgc, or
down the centre or over the whole sur
face, attends inflammation «f the mucu*
ous membrane of the stomach or bowels.
A white velvet tongue attends mental dis
eases. A tongue red at the lips, becom
ing brown, dry and glazed, attends a ty
phus stme. The description of symp
toms might b;: extended indefinitely, ta
king in all the propensities and obliquities
of mental and moral conditions. The
tongue is a most expressive as well as
unruly member. [Scientific American.
The Cauicl iu Auicrica.
We observe many gratifying and in
teresting aceounts in the papers of the
successful employment of the camel in this
country. The following, on the subject,
we take from the Philadelphia Presn :
In March, 1355, Congress appropriated
$30,000 for the purchase and importation
of camels, entrusting Major Wayne with
the execution of the affair. In little more
than twelve months he had selected and
sufely brought to Texas thirty-four camels
and dromedaries. After another year had
passed, during which these animals had
been, to a certain extent, domesticated
and acclimatized, the majority of them
were placed at the command of Lieut,
Beale, to be used by him in making the
Southern Wagon-road across to Califor
nia. He reports that, weighing each camel
with seven hundred pounds burden, they
traveled most successfully from San An
tonio to El Paso, living on bitter herbage,
which the mules would not eat— herbagi
which abounds in the most barren of our
deserts. While every unshod horse and
mule got lame from traveling over what
are graphically called "grinding roads,
the peculiar gait of the camel enabled it
to avoid friction, and its unshod hoofs
were wholly uninjured, even by tedious
travel over a road 'consisting of sharp
coarse, irregular, flinty gravel, about the
size of a pea, and smaller, acting on the
feet like a steel rasp.' In all respects they
are superior to mules, and are peculiarly
adapted for carrying burdens; or for con
veying the mails, over the extensive arid
plains which abound in Texas, Califor
nia, New Mexico, Utah, and the Mesilia
Valley.
The dromedary has one hump—the
camel has two. Their hoofs are softer
more spongy, more elastic than the hoofs
of other animals, and, yielding to the près
sure, are not to be worn out by almost any
quantity of work. Their stomachs (of
which they have four) are so framed as,
after thirst is supplied, to enable them to
take in and retain as much fresh water as
will last them from ten to fifteen days
They bear hunger with great patience,
and their appetite is easily satisfied with
the coarsest herbage. They carry from
1,000 to 1,200 pounds burden. They are
good-tempered ('though so high-spirited
that they recent ill-usage) and easily man
ageable. Some of these camels will acs
complish a regular speed, day after day,
for a month, of from thirty to one hundred
miles a day. In China, where they are
much employed, they are called fong kyo
to, which signifies 'Feet of the Wind.'—
They are much used in Tartary, Arabia,
Hindoston, Persia, and Asiatie Turkey
wherever, in short, vast arid sand plains
are lo be traversed. In Africa they are
much employed, particularly in Egypt.
Lord Byron has mentioned that the Arabs
poetically designate them as 'The Ships of
the Desert.'
The acclimation of such an animal
must be considered as a great national
boon. Where the horse and mule will be
knocked up, from hunger and thirst, the
camel will exist and even thrive. The
least inviting herbage feeds them. As for
water, they carry it with them, and they
can scent a spring, lake or river, at a
distance of two miles. Major Wayne has
done good service to the country in intro
ducing the camel into such parts as they
are parlicularly adapted for. We shall
watch the progress of the experiment with
interest, but not with anxiety. A thing
well commenced is already half accom
plished.
The Mormon L«afer).
Both Brigham Young and Heber C.
Kimball areNewlorkers. Brigham lived
near the linedividingOntario and Monroe
counties, in the town of Victor, at the
time he became a Mormon. He had al
ways manifested proclivity to religious
fanaticsm, or rather he was a lazy rapscal
lion, good for nothing, exccpt to how! at
camp-meeting. He livedin aJog shanty,
with a dilapidate, patten;, suffering wifa
surrounded by a host of tow-headed - d ''"
dren. Ocasionallr he made up °f
axc-helves and traded them off- or sl 'o ar
and tea : in o-^er fits of indus;ry he vould
do a dtivk work in the hay fieb' for a
neighbor» hoe the potatoes in his°wn lit
tle p*tch, or pound clothes for H wife on
a cashing day. But his spe«^' mission
was to go to camp-meetings ""revivals,
where he managed to get ,s *'y bread
out of the more wealth' tJ ^ eat '" n o cor! *>
sideration of the uncC* w " 1 w "' c h he
shouted 'gal-Io-rah !\ n ® u , ocas'"'
Brigham took no t>£* of
■ * r ,1 ,J on his o d "Ool hat.
btitceeifullypn^ Wth rio|iri
wouldk^ehs the(ioorte||i «
she would
that tne Lo£ borrowing f rom he'
baye to stmU h ° f
oeighborj^rood herself, and with an
chopped net, Nararino style, went to
?i S J\Pt , Wnter ' thoroughly con
16 pd r was ,10t thu easiest,
vm* €U
c
waa
and that her husband was, to use a west-1
ern expression, an 'ornarv cuss;'in which !
sentiment all who knew him joined. Peo- !
pie were getting very tired of Brigham j
when Mormamsm turned up. lie was I
just the utan for religion- seemad ex- j
pressly adapted to him. He became a j
convert, held neighborhood meetings, j
ranted howled his doctrines into the
minds of others as weak as himself, and
great religious sect. He has just the mix
ture of cunning and folly which is requir
ed for success in fanaticism or quackery.
A wiser man could not. hold his place.
A man must be half fool and half kuave
to be a successful quack.
Heber C. Kimball was a man of more
respectability. He was born a fanatic,
and if he were not a Mormon, would be
something else just like it. In hischurch
he was a Baptist originally—he was one
of those pestilent fellows who want re
solutions passed at church meetings with
holding fellowship from somebody else
and insist on having a political codecil
added to the Bible. We believe he had
some property. Ile has much more talent
than Brigham Young, but is inferior to
him in the elements of quackery. He
has very respectable relatives now living
in the part of Monroe county from which
he started.
Docsticks ill Boston.
The famous 'Doesticks' has furnished
the New îork Picayune an account of his
visit to Boston, from which the following
extracts are made :
Ninety-nine extra-sized angle-worms,
loco-moling at high pressure speed about
a garden-walk of a showery afternoon, and
being perpetually turned back when they
get to the edge, and compelled to cross
each other's trail in innumerable direc
tions, would, if the ground were soft and
their every foot-step plainly visible, draw
on the garden-walk aforesaid a tolerably
accurate map of the city of Boston. It is
crookeder than nine acres of rani's horns,
and has got more corners than a cord of
cross-cut saws.
You see your friend, and you call uut—
'Jones, wait a minute,' and you start to
see Jones, thinking he is just across the
street.
Misguided man! far-distant Jones! You
climb nine hills, and turn ninety corners
before you get within hailing distance of
Jones I gain !
The streets look as if they had been
made somewhere else, and dumped here
in a huge tangle, and nobody had ever
taken the trouble to straighten them out
again. It looks as if somebody had beeo
building a lot of cities by contract, and
the job hadn't come out even, and he had
thrown down his remnants of streets, ami
odd ends of alleys, and little snipped off"
bits of lanes and avenues, and called it
Boston. If any street in the town should
be cut a straight mile in any direction, it
would go through a dozen private parlors
and forty-five public music halls. In fact,
Boston looks as if first-rate material for
an excellent city had been melted and
poured through a seive on a side hill, and
left to cool.
" r S {1 " ,sm an ?. t!,e
W ords of C aution *. The following
from the Washington Intelligencer lins a
very general application, and may be of
service to some of our readers:
'Phe present season is prettv sure of
having its full proportion of billions cow«
plaints and intermittent fevers. Heat and
moisture for several weeks atmost exceed
precedent. To these have naturally suc
ceeded, by reason of the vast evaporalion
upon the earth's surface, cold and damp
nights, »»«k a f ew hours in the day of a
high scorching temperature. Such are
thfi fery conditions foj* lowering the ton
of the^ human organism and the gene
l added inf^creSonlT» 1 fârailr "
mur rewni.K .
''"
°f
personal habits, sickness cau^l''^' be
avoided. Windows must be, '' 1Ut '
save the smallest aperture f-, esca ' ,e
of vitiated air, aud not o' ,e( a f, am 1,11
an hour after sunrise. p^ onf,! ablutions
so as to keep the ski' , ' ,ef,ltli y action,
should be frequent ' t!,or °ugh, and un
ripe fruits, or fit* to excess > cautiously
avoided. Whr Ulsei j se bas actually ta
ken hold, we st refer the patient to the
medical fn-' r "' l y' w ' l0s<i business is to
cure. F' ourse l ves we go no further
than ef rts at prevention.' j
'f)d weather described above is just
so^ti weather as we are having here now,
ana as we already know of some cases
c ague and fever, those now well should
profit by the 'caution.' [Sentinel.
|a°"You need a little air,' said a
physician to a maiden patient. 'If J do '
waa the cute reply, «I'll wtI j t till I ffe 't
married.' Bolus looked thoughtful.
D iakkhea . ft may he well for persons
travelling during the summer to know,
in case a physician i< not at hand, a safe
remedy, of considerable efficacy, is found
in Stirling a little wheat flour in a glass
of colli water until it is of the consisten
cy of thick cream; drink it down and re
pent it several times in the course of the
day, it needed. Meanwhile, eat nothing,
particles are poured into the intestinal ca
nal. Here, diarrheas are often the result
of the greater coolness of the morning
and evening over midday, and the injurf
ous effects of bad air on an empty stos
mach; hence one of the most important
rules for travelers, iu all seasons, climes
and countries, is, never fail to breakfast
before riding. [Journal.
n~r*Sure, and I 'm heir to a splendid
estate under my father's will. When he
died he ordered my elder brother to divide
the house with me; and St. Patrick he
did—-lie tuck the inside himself, and gave
me the outside.
LOUISIANA INSTITUTE,
NEW RIVER.
THE Exercises of this Institution will be re
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
ge s, Civil Engineering, Surveying, &c.
Pupils may be prepared for entering advanced
Classes in our best Colleges, or receive such an
education as will fit them for whatever depart
ment of 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 on 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
while great care will be taken to improve the
mind in knowledge, pains will be taken to
strengthen the heart in virtue. The situation
has been always remarkably healthly, remote
liom any temptation to vice, aud surrounded by
an intelligent community, its position is favora
ble to study and morality.
Persons desirous of placing their children or
wards under its care, are referred to our patrons
for the last year, or toH. Doyal, Esq., Hon. J. S.
Minor, Hon. D. F. Kenner, C. Pelletier, Esq.. R.
Tillotson, Esq.
Terms.
Tuition per Session of Twenty-one weeks,
Boarding per Month, -
Lessonson the Piano perSession,
Use of Instrument, - .... 5
Each pupil finds Uedding and Napkins. Wash
ing Extra.
Rev. SAMUEL McKINNEY,
au22-6m D. D., Pres.
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Simple and Compound.
Prepared by N. HEREU, Druggist and Physician
Superior to all Essences, Syrups and Ex
tracts so named, and to all speciali
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I HAVE for a long time thoroughly investigated
the idea of a general 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 carelul and uninterupterf analysis ofthe at«
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the hope that I conld bring about such a ésult.
and, thanks to my indefatigable researe 'és, it »
now obtained.
I have found in some vegetables u . e neces-ary
means for this grand idea, which, ; ®®d i. ,on an
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' given toit, because its
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pound Lozenges, ir . , ^ ®ight be givea
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remained ur/° f W r n , u " tl1 Wöuderfni results had
satisfied r', 1 had , f !K ' ce fded, and that the
charge <- ' ^ coui( ' not be brought against
attention of physicians and ofthe public is
A to these Lozenges, in order that every one
y witness the admirable results of thè same
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Jhe stomach is cleaned. îh<> hln„,l -.n. ,
cleaned, ths blood is
Tho i
Jhe stomach is cleaned. îh<> hln„,l -.n. ,
1
rally.
I , cleaned, ths blood is purified
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this precious organ and field.
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Prompt and radical cure of all diseases gene
Persons who have used these Lozenge« havo
never had the cholera nor the yellow fev'er
" V enereal, syphiliitic, hepatic, scorbutica!
gouty, rheumatic aurf nervous and bilious diseases'
L'teTonSr CUreJ 3 feW d3ys after the remeJ y
4. Alldiseasesofthe lungs, head, eyes. stomach
bowels and other internal end external com
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I 1 or sale by ihe box, with a prospectus, show
ing how they must be used.
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corner 1 ouiouse and Bourbon streets
AGENTS.
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v niTii 151 Chaitresst.
SÎS?""'
corner of Natchez and Tchonpitoulas s(s.
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r, C H " WEKCKMULLER, •
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