The St. Landry whig., 1845-07-31
NEWS or n WEEK..

for annexation.
The repairs ofthe White House having been
the President and his family lett their
private quarters on the 9th inst, and returned to
he Executive mansion.
Two hundred and thirty horses and mules pas
ned through Minden, La, a few days ago, on
heir way to Fort Jessup, for use of the U. 8.
troops. Forty new wagons are said to be at
some point on Red River for the same destina-
ton.
A slave named Edward was tried on Wednes-
the 9th inst, at Natchitoches, for the muir
Of his master, J. B. Vaacocu, and sentenced
to death. WI
LOUISIANA MANUFAcruREs.-The steamboat
Clinton, Capt. Baird, took up the other day a
large assortment of Lowells manufactured at
the Louisiana penitentiary, by Messrs Pratt,
McHatten g. Co, and ordered for the Kentucky
market. They are better and heavier than those
made generally in that State.
LOOK OUT FOR HIM.-The Planters Gazette
calls attention to q notice of a German call.
ing himself Frederick Hartman, a butcher, who
ran off from Plaquemine a few days ago, alter
swindling and stealing promiscuously. A re.
ward of $50 is offered for his arrest, and more
will be paid if required. He is a young mali
say 22-rather above the middle height, brown.
ish hair, blue eyes, rather a youthful look, not
much beard, and speaks bad English.
We understand that cotton is beginning to
open ON the bayous, back and in a few weeks
expect to hear Of some planters having common.
ced picking. The crops ere said never TO have
looked 6ner.-Point Goupce Tribune l2h inst.
Elworth, the Pedestrian, who, a few weeks
since, achieved at Carrolton the astonishing feat
of walking a thousand miles in q thousand hours,
walked, at st. Louis, about a week ago. fty-sir
consecutive hours without rest, and when done,
said he was willing to walk still longer if the
audience desired it.
DANIEL WEpsrER.-It is said, says the New
York True Sun, that Daniel Webster, after hay-
ing become eligible by citizenship, will be sent,
il possible, by the wings ofthis city, to the State
Convention. Mr.. Van Buren, will also be a
member, and it is probable the contest for the
presidency of that body will be between the
friends of those two eminent statesmen.
One Keough, post. master at Richland Hill,
Parish of East Feliciana-a new appointment
broke Jail a few nights since and 'absquatulated
to parts unknown. For what crime he had been
confined we do not learn.
A fire occurred at HatonkRouge on Wednes-
day, which destroyed a fmail tenement in the
rear Of the residence Of FEne Bundy, a free man
of color. s.
ANOTHER D1scovER{t M.Daguerre is said to
have made a discovery almost as wonderful as that
to which his name has been given. 1t consists
OF a process by which hogan give to a young tree
in three months the same developments as in a
/ state 0F nature renuirtnR ne m0nC 70 y This
is done bya sort of grating at the root.
A Mrs. Chance or Miss.chance, of Burke
county, Ga. lately gave birth to three children.
all borne at once, and of the common size, two
of whom were united from the a1ilIa armpit to
the upper part ofthe hip bone, the union being
perfect. The single child is living, but the doub.
let's lived but a short time after their birth.-N.
Y. Courier.
THE ENGLISH N South AMERICA. Patagonia
Seized. John Bull has taken possession Of Pa.
tagonia, as appears by the following :---
Capt. Deming, of the ship Mexico, arrived
yesterday in 90 days from Valparaiso, reports
that Capt. Rogers, from London, arrived there
list April, and informed him that he had landed
Capt. Gardner, of H. NJ. Navy, and Mr.. Hunt,
in Cape Gregory Bay, Straits of Magellan, ON
the Goth February. They have gone to this
desolate region for the purpose of civiIizing the
Patagonia Indians. Capt. Rogers also stated
that he remained in Cape Gregory Bay i've day,
and built them a comfortable home for the win,
Ter.
THB METHODIST EPIscoPAL CMuRcM.--A
convocation Of the Bishops ofthat Church was re
Gently held at New York, to take into considera
lion the action Of the Louisville Convention re
lative to the question of separation. Three ofthe
Bishops, Andrews, Soule and Hamet, were no
present. The resolutions adopted are understood
TO be a full recognition of the separation agreed
upon at the late Louisville Convention, as in &C
cordance with the authority and action of thu
late General Conference ; and also a decision
{ that a majority of every society on the borde
} Conferences have authority TO determine b.
vote to which side Of the line they will be alta
ched, and the Bishops attending those confer
ences will act accordingly. new plan of visi
tation has been agreed upon, the jurisdiction owe
the Southern conferences being regarded as ter
) minated on the part of the bishops adhering t
the North.
The Wooduile Republican draws a deplora
BILE picture of the cotton crops in that sectio
Of Mississippi. Similar accounts reach US fror
? every portion ofthe South.
ELECTIONS IN OLDEN TIME.-lt was the 10,
in Massachusetts, in the year l643, that ''for til
yearly choosing of Assistants (new Senators
the freemen shall use Indian corn and beams
The Indian corn to manifest election, the bean
g contrary and if any freeman shall put in NOR
o than one fadiGn corn or bean for the choice {
refusal Of any public officer, he shall forfeit, fc
9 every such offence, ten pounds, &C." The ust
II III election ery-''to the polls ITO the pools
which we still preserve, no doubt originated vi
the party vosing beans; and was, by no mean
an inappropriate e1ordium to preparation f