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VOLUME X.
PLAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, LA., OCT. 21, 1857.
NUMBER 12
PUBLISHED EVEEY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY
WILLIAM P. BRADBURN.
~©fflce on Main street«*»
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A Battle Incident,
At the battle of the Thames, a laughs
able incident occurred, which is thus
related by one who was in the engage
ment:
The British General had formed his
men in open order, with their cannon
pointing down the road, by which the
Americans were advancing. Gen.
Harrison immediately took advantage
aitiiftiduii lUiiiKuicnciy tuuiv uuvnmavc
of this, and ordered Col. Johnson's
mounted regiment to charge at speed
by heads of companies, (so as to çx
pose the least possible front,) pass
through the open intervals, and form
in the rear of the British forces. This
movement was brilliantly executed by
the battallion under tlie command of
Lieut. Col. James Johnson, at the
same time charging the Indians with
the other battalion.
It happened that in one of the com*
panies under James Johnson's coal
maud there was a huge, brawny follow
named Lamb; he weighed about 240
pound«, was a brave man,and as good
luunored as big —brave meu proves
biallyare. Lamb had broken down
his Kentucky horse by hisgreat weight,
and was mounted instead upon a short
stout, wild Canadian pony; from whose
side« his long limbs depended almost
to the ground, while hi-> bulk^ frame
rose high above the beast—looking not
tinlike an overgrown boy astride of a
rough sheep.
When the charge was made, Lamb's
pony took frighi, and brokewto a run
Lamb pulled until the bit broke »»the
animal's mouth, and all command of
him was lost. The little pony stretch
ed himself as to the work, dashed out
of the ranks, soon outstripped all the
flu t^o irinn^nn i« ;.dv»«rfi
file leaders and pushed on in advance
of the company. Lamb was no lon
ger master of his horse or himself, and
he was in a quaudary. If he rolled off
he would be trampled to death by his
friends; if tlie horse rushed upon the
British lines with him, so far ahead of
the rest, he must be killed. Either
way death seemed inevitable; and to
use his expression, he thought "he'd
jist say something they could tell his
friends in Kentucky, when they went
home."
He struck both heels into the pony's
flanks and urged him to his utmost
speed. On they drove, some fifty
yards in front of tlie leading file,
Lamb's gigantic person swaying from
side to side, and his legs swinging in a
most portentious fashion—the little
Canadian "pulling foot" all he knew
how, his tail straight, his nostrils diss
tended, his ears pinned back, and his
eyes flashing from under their shaggy
foretop, with all the spite and spleen of
a born devil. Just as he got within a
stride or two of the British, Lamb flour
ished his rifle and roared out in a voice
of thunder: "Clear the way. G d
d n you! for I'm coming!"
To his su rprise tlie lines opened right
and left, and he passed through un
hurt. So great was their astonish-'
ment* at the strange apparition of such
a rider, and such a horse moving up*
on them, with furious velocity, that
they opened mechanically at his word
of command, and let him pass. So
soon as he gained the rear of their po^
si(ion, Lamb rolled on the grass, and
suffered his pony to go on his own
road. A few minutes more, and he
was with his comrades securing the
prisoners.
j
!
!
ing, they met at a low pot-house and
the bodily interference of friends alone
prevented a fight between them. The
prisoner was heard to vow vengeance
against his rival. The wretched'vie
tiim left the house, followed soon after
by the jriÉrtier, and Was fonndjon the
Circumstantial Evidence.
Sheridan Knowles tells the follows
ing strange story of circumstantial ev
idence in the course of his recent lee-»
tures:—"Some years ago, I went espe
cially to Clonmell assizes, in Irelrnd,
and accidentia witnessed a trial which
I shall never forget, A wretched man
a native of that country, was charged
with the murder of Iiis neighbor. It
seemed that an ancient feud existed be
tween them. They had met at a fair
and exchanged blows; again that even
another'man" had' been murdered, that
roadside, murdered, and his face so
barbarously beaten in by a stone, that
he could only be identified by his dress.
The facts were strong against the pris
oner; in fact it was the strongest case
of circumstantial evidence 1 ever met
with. As à matter of form—of his
guilt there was no doubt—the pris
oner was called on for his defence.—
He called—to the surprise of all—the
murdered man. And the murdered
man came forward. It seemed that
the identification by his dress was
vague, for all the peasantry of Tippe
rary wore the same description of
clothes; that the presumed victim had
g «t a hint that he would be arrested
under the White Boy act. had fled,
and only returned with a noble Irish
j . r « ,
feeling of justice, when he found that
his auctent foe was in jeopaidy on his
«ccount.
The Judge told the jury it
was unnecessary to charge them —
They requested permission to retire;
they returned in abont two hours,
when the foreman with a long face,
handed him the verdict, "guilty:" Ev*>
ery one was astonished. "Good God!"
said the judge, "of what is he guilty?
Not of murder surely! 1 ' "No my lord,"
said the foreman, "but if he did not
murder that man, he stole my mare
three years ago!"
A green-horn, from somewhere, stan
ding carelessly upon tlie end of one
of the East Kiver piers, watching a
Brooklyn ferry-boat, accidentally lost
his equilibrium and found himself sud
denly in the "damp." He, however,
soon clambered up again; and while
blowing off the superfluous brine, he
was asked by a bystander how he rel
ished old Neptune's soup, to which he
replied:
"Wal, I hain't got much agin it; but
all 1 have to say is, that whoever put
m
«v
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A man who does not possess a pars
'aient, satista hmiself by des
P«">g >«i here moves thts obstacle
which .stands between him and merit,
and by this means he finds» himself on
a level with him whose labors he is
afraid of.
The subject of dollars and cents is
the only theme that keeps up its inter
est. Just as if by becoming a million
aire, you could aat more than three
meals a day with a relish, or wear
more than one suit of clothes at a time.
Paddv in America . Strike out what
the Irishman has done for America, and
the country would be set back fifty years
in the path of progress. Corn would grow
where the Erie canal bears the freight of
millions of fertile acres; the lumbering
stage coach would take the place of fly.
ing trains ou ten thousand miles of rail
road; a million spindles now running
would never hare been built. Fifty thou
sand Americans now relieved of the drud
gery of cotton mills, and engaged in more
profitable employment, would still be con
fined. Hundreds of millions of dollars
could not purchase from the American
people the property and the advantages
that have absolutely been bestowed upon
them by Irish labor; and they can hardly
get a mea lof victuals without it to-day.—
Irish labor is in the corn fields and the
cotton mill. It digs all our cellars, and
carries all the bricks. It mans half of our
marine. It fills the rank of our army. It
mows our door yards and digs our gard
ens It waits on the tables at the hotels.
It washes our linen. In other words, it is
an essential element in American thrift
and progress; and we could not lose it for
a month without reco^pnce of chaos. If
Americans carry the Wwfos of enterprise,
the Irishmen carry the hands.
Without good nature and gratitude
men might as well live in a wilderness
as in a civil society.—(Dyer.
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ANNOUWrŒBÏÂISNTS.
For Assessor.
03"" We are authorized to announce U. S.
HAASE as a candidate loi Assessor—election
next November. feb7
For Sheriff.
Mr. Eslitor: Please announce me in your paper
as an Independent Candidate for Sheriff"
jan31 J, M. 1! ILS.
For Recorder.
Mr. Editor : Please announce toy name as a
Candidate lor the office of Recorder at the ensu
ing election. ADONIS PETIT.
For Coroner.
We are requested to announce J. A VOISIN
as an independent Candidate for Cononer at the
ensuing November election. my26
Justice of tlie Peace.
Mr. Editor : Please announcd OSCAR LAUTE
Esqr.. as a candidate for Justice of the Peace for
2nd Ward. [sepl9] HIS FRIENDS.
Notice.
Those who get our p;tper from this date,
without having ordered it, are simply requested
to accept it, without charge, till November,
when it will be »topped unless ordered other
wise. We ask all sueh to receive it till that
time, as a faror.
the 0156gr to the south.
The New Orleans Crescent, notices an article
in the Vieksburg Sun, under the above caption'
which it warmly endorses. It takes, says the
Crescent, almost the sarae ground thai has
characterised that paper for months past, and
we may assert for ourself that it is the ground
which the Sentinel has occupied since Novem
ber last, and, in our opinion, "the true ground
that every foul he rn journal should occupy.*'
"A oneness of sentiment, feeling and action,"
has been the mainspring of our argument hith
erto, and will eoutinue to be ; it would be that
'•wa J of adamant" expressed by Mr. Gibson, of
Terrebonne, and the "unbroken Soulhern pha
lanx" which we contended for in our paper of
the 6th of December last.
After showing the inroads which Bi.ick Re
publicanism is making on the borders of slave
territory in every direction,and the propability
of an early addjjion of four or five Free States
[O the Union, the Crescent goes on to say :
With the Sun, we say, says the Cres
cent,'We aie no alarmist. We are no
panic maker. We would not wittingly
add to the fears of anyone, much less
prognosticate evil without a good reason
for so doing. We could have no motite
for saying that the South was doomed, so
far as the action of the general govern
ment is concerned, unless we firmly be
lieve such to be the fact. We may as
well make up our minds to look the danger
which threatens us full in the face, and
meet it like men who know their rights,
and knowing dare maintain them.'
After stating that it is the opinion of
sagacious statesmen that the Union will
not last four years, 'unless a great reac*
tion takes place in the North on the sub
ject of slavery,' the Sun makes the sub«
joined practical remarks:
The Abolition sentiment is growing
daily, and it will continue to grow until it
darkens the whole Northern horizon.—
'When we drive slavery out of Kansas,'
said Senator Wilson, 'we will attack it in
the States where it exists.' This is their
programme to which they are committed.
To carry it out, they will employ every
agency that the mind can conceive, or
ingenuity invent. 'We elected a Speaker,'
exultingly said Horace Greeley, 'and why
can we not elect a President V That they
will èlect the man of their choice for the
Presidency, without an interposition of
Providence, is not only the opinion of a
few, but it is the opinion of nearly all our
most far-seeing statesmen.
Many long months ago we predicted
that, in 1800, they,' the Black Republi
can#, would 'elect the man of their choice,
—Senator William H. Seward—to 'the
Presidency,' unless there was a remarka
blechange in Northern popular sentiment,
of which there then appeared not tha
slightest probability, and of which there
appears not now the slightest probability,
we are able to discern.
The Vicksburg Sun thus brings its
clear and well-written article to a close :
Seward is the man we will have to con
tend with in 1360; and in him we will find
a foeman well skilled iu all lite arts of
war; a strategist without a rival, and a
political chieftain of great deliberation,
unparalleled sagacity, and wonderful
foresight. To defeat a well disciplined
army, led on by such a man, will be no
easy task. Already is he mars-hailing his
forces preparatory to the great contest of
I860.
What are we doing? Taking our ease
on the couch of inactivity, and regarding
the muttering» of the thunder, which litT
tokens the storm cloud, with supreme in
difference. We must arouse ourselves
from the dream of security in which we
are indulging. When the enemy is thun
dering at our gates it will be too lute to
offer him effectual resistance. A oneness
of sentiment, feeling and action should
animate the people of the South. Let
there be no division among us when the
great day of trial comes. Let us evince by
our unity of action that when our rights
are assailed, we know how to defend them,
that we dare defend them, at all hazards,
and to the last extremity. We must put
am* iu mu icisi extremity • we must put!
our house in order, in view of the threat.
ening danger. We miist prepare for the
great battle which is to decide the fate of
the Union, as becomes the descendants of
those who fought and bled to secure the
inestimable blessings by which we are on
ail sides surrounded.
Very well said and very correct. With
all our heart we reiterate the saying that
there should be 'a oneness of sentiment,
feeling and action* among the Southern
people; that there should 'be no division
among us when the great day of trial
comes;' and that'unity of action* and uni
on of feeling should characterize our con
duct iu the future. Otherwise we will,
necessarily, be illy prepared for the great
struggle that is approaching, and which
our enemies are determined to force upon
us.
3Xaj. Xlcrrou's Speech.
The following is the conclusion of the South
West's review of Maj. Ilerron's speech at
Green well :
How stands Mr. Davidson on the Kan
sas* Walker question Î On this all-import
ant subject, the opinions of an aspirant
for Congressional honors, should not he
left in doubt. Gov. Walker's unwarranted
intervention in the affairs of the people of
Kansas—his utter disregard of the plain
precepts of the constitution—his flagrant
departure from the principles of the Cin
cinnati platform, and of the Kansas and
Nebraska acts, and his complete sacrifice
of Southern rights, and Southern interests
iu the Territory of Kansas, have received
the unqualified condemnation of the De
mocracyof Georgia and Mississippi, in
convention assembled. Otherconventions
have denouueed his course without meas
ure, and among them the convention that
nominated Mr. Sigur. The mass of the
whole Southern people without distinction
of party, are convinced that a great wrong
has been perpetrated on them. Then in
a matter of this vast importance to the
South, I repeat where stands 1 bornas G.
Davidson. I assert that judging from Ins
letter published in the Argus, he occupies
neither side of the question, or both sides,
according to the construction placed by
the reader upon the document. In one
sentence he praises Walker to the skies,
and hoots at the idea of the interests of
the South being endangered in his keep
ing; in another he gently objects to Mr.
Walker's imperial interference. In one
place he endorses Walkers, gratuitously
advising the people what they shall do —
In another he thinks he has gone rather
far. Thus as usual he has prepared liirrt
self for He may, with
any emergency.
out the charge of gross inconsistency,
hereafter endorse or repudiate Walker as
it suits his purposes at the time. No one
should receive our suffrages who is not
clenrly and beyond the shadow of a doubt,
true to our interests.
Laurent J. Sigur, the other Democratic
candidate, comes recommended by his
many good qualities as a private citizen
the honorable, high-minded, high-toned,
chivalrous gentleman; the breath of suspi
cion even, has never ruffled the surface of
his pure and clear and honorable reputa
tion, as a man. True, bold, independent,
he is indeed, a chevalier sans peur et sans
reproche. As a man worthy in every re
spect of our confidence. Asa politician
he commands our respect and admiration.
His characteristic boldness and indepen«
dence, eminently qualify him to represent
us in Congress at this juncture. His
known and admitted ability gives every
assurance that our public interests will be
in safe and reliable hands; his great en
ergy and industry is a sure guarantee that
the private interests of his constituents
will not be neglcctcd.
Ile is a consistent Democrat, of the
State-rights school. The charge that he is
a disunkHiist is brought by his opponents
against him. I deny the charge; I fee! au
thorized to say it is false. This cry of
disunion, which periodically is raised by
submissionists, against those who dare
advocate the rights of the States, and
vindicate resistence, even to the last ex»
tremity, to the aggressions of those who
would piecemeal fritter away our consti
tutional rights, will be raised in vain, a
gaiust .Mr. Sigur. He stands upon (he
Cincinnati platform upon the slavery
question, he endorses the Calhoun resolu
tions adopted by the convention from
which be received his nomination; he
opeidy, unequivocally and without re»
serve, condemns Gov. Walker's interfer
ence in the affairs of the people of Kansas.
He is willing to await the action of Presi
dent Buchanan, until the time for serding
his annual message to Congress. If he
then disconnects himself clearly and dis
tinctly from the gross outrages perpetra
ted by Walker iu Kansas, he will receive
at Mr. Sigur's hands, as he should re
ceive at tlie hands of all good citizens,
that endorsement he will well deserve. If,
however, Mr. Buchanan should abandon
the principle of non-intervention, the very
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C ° f " e r S °" c the platform on wh.ch he
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was P f 'P .tPfi. nnn nnrinrco IVn Iror 'a innren
was elected, and endorse Walker's course
in Kansas, then will Mr. Sigur be ready
to make common cause with the friends
of the violated Constitution, and mete oat
even to Mr. Buchanan the full measure
of well deserved condemnation already
bestowed on Walker.
Sigur is charged with being afillibustcr.
If by this charge it is meant Mr. Sigur
favored the assistance that Lopez, Crit*
tenden and others sought to carry into the
Island of Cuba to the people of that Isl.«
and desiring to be relieved from the yoke
of oppression which bound them down-—
if it is meant that in consequence of his
sympathy with the Cubans, and in imita
tion of those who in our revolutionary
struggle assisted our infnnt Republic in
its struggles for liberty, he lost a fortune
in the effort—if it means that he is in fa
vor of 'extending the area of liberty' by
carrying our Republican system to our
neighbors—if it means that he is in favor
of the acquisition of Southern territory-—
then he is a filibuster, and so it every true
man in the South.
These are the candidates, these their
principles. You have a right to choose
between them. How can yon hesitate.
Heroic Woman . We read in the Cour
rier de la Drome, a very interesting story
about a woman who has excited much
interest at Valence. The name of the
woman is Hypsen, by birth n Prussian,
mother of four children, and the wife of an
infirm man. Driven hg necessity and
starvation, she disguised herself as a man,
under the name of Michel. For five years
she worked hard as a 'navy' at the rail
ways. Attired thus, she passed for a
young man of about twenty or twenty-two
years, though she was more than thirty
years old. Her fellow-laborers had always
observed the great solicitude with which
the young laborer watched over her bus«
band, whom she described as her father,
as also over her four ehildren, whom she
passed off as her brothers and sisters. It
was observed that the youngest of the
was observed that the youngest of the
children? wJlom she secretly suckled, was
; t|w ob j ect of ber particu | Rr cafe- Her
; generaI conduct also was generally ad^
j m j redi and }j er assiduous industry waa
j >(Jch ag to ; nduce the forenian to raise her
wa g es twenty-five centime« above those
j ofthe 0(herg The impogition wasa tlast
discovered, and astonishment soon gave
j wa ^ tQ adm j ra tj 0 n, which, ere long, mani
i fegted itgejf jn sjmpathy nnd donations
j from a |] partg of , he neighborhood. She
. herse j f did nf)t think anyt hing of what
; ghe had donc jn pure dictation 0 fh er feel
, j „„d when at last she attired as be
came her sex, all she was afraid of was
the inconvenience of the female dress in
her daily labor. However, work more
suited to her sex has since been amply
provided for her.—Home Journal.
Sronop.oM in thk Put.fit . The la
test pulpit anecdote we have seen is the
following, ilhistmtive of the manner in
which the celebrated preacher, Spurgeon,
in London, attracts attention : 'Upon
one occasion he told the assembled multi
tude that the way to hell was smooth and
easy, 'like this," said he; and he straights
way opened the pulpit door, put his feet
over the banister, and slid down, as you
often see little boys do. He then stopped
for a moment,and said: 'But the way
to heaven is hard, like this,' and pulled
himself up again, which was rather diffi
cult; but the congregation received this
practical illustration with great applause.'
Why is a lady pulling on her corset
like a man who drinks to drown his
grief? Because in so-lacing herself,
she is getting tight.