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Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

THE UNIVERSAL YANKEE NATIoN.-The
London Athenaum INDUCES in a bit of pleasant
try over the ubiquitous qualities of the Universal
Yankee nation-"No land is too far-no nook
too dark for their researches. If a taste for
copper should lead you to the bottom of a
Cornish mine, there will be found one of the
sovererigns of the great Republic: should a
cool morning tempt you to the top of the
grand pyramid, there you will find cousin
Joathan astride the apex: the oasis of Sievah,
the Dead Sea, the Chilian mountains, Beloo-
chistam and Timbuctoo, all know his visits and
have heard of the glory of his native Cities
Should the North-W Passage ever be dis
covered, a Yankee will probably be found there
settled on a strandad iceberg; and some fine
day we expect to hear that NJ. d. Abbadie has
come upon a camp of Yankee-Arabs picnicing
at the sources of the Nile. The adventures,
energies and powers of our cousin-german
grow quite alarming. Rough and Ready has
~extinguished Bonaparte; the march of Col,
Doniphan into New Mexico has put down the
Retreat of the Ten Thousand; 'Mardi' has for
ever eclipsed Marco Parlo. Lieut.. Wilkes has
put down-but we must take breath. Time
and space fail us before such an enumeration.
An American has said of his countrymen that
the genuine Yankee would not be able to repose
in Heaven itself, fhe could travel farther west
ward. He nus go ahead. Prophecy looks
forward to the time when the Valley OF the
Mississippi shall overflow with this resistless
population-and Europe be subject to anew
emigration.S"Wha do | consider the boundaries
ofmy country, sir ?"exclaimed a Kentuckian.-
"Why, sir, on the East we are bounded by the
rising sun-on the North by the aurora borealis
on the West by the procession of the equi-
noxes-and on the south by the Day of Judgg-
ment!w
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

IND1Go-cUR1oUs FAcr.-The Indigo plant
was a native of South Carolina 1t grew spon-
taneously among its weeds and woods. More
than one hundred years ago the planters there
commenced its cultivation. In the year i74s,
South Carolina exported to Great Britain 2oo'
600 pounds, and the Parliament granted a boun-
ty of u cents per pound to induce its greater
cultivation. In 1887, when that ordinance was
passed, Indigo was one of the staples Of South
Carolina, and we believe of Georgia also. Now,
in 1S4e, not q single pound Of Indigo is raised
in South Carolina, Or, as far as we know, in all
the South! A plant which is indigenous to that
region, and which in its early cultivation, was
exceedingly profitable, has been driven from ex-
istence by the cheap labor of India. Great
Britain now pays seven millions of dollars a
wear for Indigo raised in India.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03
Napoleon Esonapartc's Poverty i'm
early Life. ?

NJ. Theirs, in his History Of the Consulate.
relates some very strange and previously I'M
known particulars respecting the early life and
perjury Of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1t appears
that after he had obtained Il subaltern's com
nilsson in the French service, and after he had
done the State good service by his skill and
daring at Toulon, he lived for sometime in Paris
in obscure lodgings, and in snch extreme po-
verify that he was often without the means of
paying ten sous Give pence for his dinner, and
frequently went without any meal at all. lie
was under the necessity of borrowing small
sums, and even Worn-out clothes, from his ac-
quaintances. He, and his brother Louis, after
wards King of Holland, had At one time only
one coat between them, so the brothers could
only 90 out alternately, time and about. At
this crisis the chief benefactor of the future
emperor and conqueror, "at whose mighty name
the world grew pale" was the actor Talma, who
often gave him food and money. Napoieon's
face, afterwards so famed for its classical mould,
was, during this period of starvation, harsh and
angular in its liniments, with projecting check
bones. His meagre fare brought on an un-
pleasant and unsightly cutancous disease, of a
type so ~virulcnt and malignant that it took all
the skill and assiduity Of his accomplished ply
stefan, Corvisart, to expel it after a duration of
more than ten years. The squaiid beggar, then
the splendid emperor atterwards-the thread
bare habilamcnts-thc imperial mantle-the
hovcl and the palace-the meagre food and the
gorgeous banquet-the friendship of u poor
actor-the homage and terror Of the world
and exile and a prisoner-such are the ups and
downs Of this changctul life, such the lights and
shadows of the great and mighty.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

DISASTROUS STATE OF THE TRADE IN ALE
HAN Co.-The Committee of Iron Men who
waited on Gen. Taylor, at Pittsburg. declared
that "tourNffhs Of the Iron Houses Of that
County had failed wahin the past gear and a halt,
and those that still kept up, did so al a ruinous
sacrifce."
Gen. Taylor replied that he would cordially
cooperate with the other branches of Govern
ment, in any amelioration of the present Ia
riff system, to which alone the Committee attri-
buted the present disastrous state of the Iron
Market.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

1.-THE Warren IN. j. Journal mentions
the singular circumstance that the horses of
John Teel, of Blairstown, while p%loughing a
few DAYS since, were severely stung by a swarm
of bees, and Mr.. T. was so badly stung in his
efforts to save them that he was left completely
blind. The horses fell in the harness from the
severity of the pain, and had they not been re-
leased from the harness by the wife of Mr.. T.,
who covered herself so as to be safe against
the attack of the bees, they would in all pro-
liability have persisted.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03
500 it, BOb-tail:'

A specimen of the genus "iIoosier'was found
by Captain , Of the steamer - If
the engine room of his boat, while laying at
Louisville, one fine morning in June. Tho
Captain inquired 10 know "'Vhat he was doing
therc!'
Have You seen Captain PerryF' was the in
terrogative response.
"ldon't know him: and can't tell what that
has to do with your being in my engine roon,'
replied the Captain angrily
Hold on That's Just what | was getting
at. You see, Captain Perry and | walked down
town together. Captain Perry asked me to
drink, and so-Idid. knew that | wanted to
drink, or / wouldn't have been so cussed dry
So, Captain Perry and | drank two or three
times. Captain Perry and | went to Il ball.
Captain Perry was putting in some extras on
one toe. | sings out, go it, Captain Perry, if
YOU bust your biler.." With that 4 man steps up
to me-, and says he,
"'Sec here. stranger you must leave"
"Says !, "Whatm must | leavefur?'
"Says he. "You are making too much noise"
"Says |, give been in bigger crowds than
this, and made mere noise, and didn't leave MI
ther."
with that, he TUX me by the nap of the neck
and the seat of the b~reeches, and left - As
| was a shown down street, | met Il lady. |
knew she was a lady bya remark she made
Says she,
young man, l reckon you'll go home with
me?'
And I-wentw
ed bin in her house but a short time, when
| heard a ID of n knockin' on the door. |
knew the chap wanted to get in whoever he
was, or he wouldn't have kept up SIGH a thun-
derin' racket. By and by, said a voice:
"Ifyou don't OPEN, I'll bust i'll the door,"
"And so hedid -
81 put on a bold face" and says |,
"Stranger, does this woman belong to
you"
"Tays he, "she does"
"Then," says |, "she's v~irtuous, I think, from
all that | have seen ofher.'
'With that, he came at me with q pistol in one
hand, and q bowie knife in the other: and bein'
a leetle pressed for time, | jumped thro' the
windy, 4 leavin' the bigger portion of my coat
tail. As | was 4 streakin' it doWn town, with
the fragments ~flutterin' to the breeze, ! passed
a friend. | knew he was a friend, by remark
he made. Says he,
"Go it, Bob-tail hes a gainin' on YOU"
"And that's the way | happened in your en-
CINE room. inns good swimmer, Captain, but
do excuse me-, if you please, from TAKIN' WA
TER"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

THE PEACE CoNGREss.-The English dele
gates of the Peace Society gave a handsome
dejeuner at Versailles to the American delegates,
and passed a resolution in honor of them. MIR.
Golden, as chairman Of the English delegates
made a speech, in which he spoke with great
kindness of the American delegates, and after
wards presented to each of them a copy OF the
New Testament in French, with an inscription
bearing his signature. The speech of Mr.. Cob
den was replied to by Rev. Mr.. Allen, OF Mas
sachusetts.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

Be FIRM-The wind and the waves may beat
against a rock, planted in a troubled sea, but it
remains unmoved. Be you like that rock,
young man. Vice may entice, and the song
and the cup may invite. Beware-stand firmly
at your post. Let your principles shine forth
unobscured. There is glory in the thought that
YOU have resisted temptation and Conquered
Your bright example will bet the world what
the lighthouse is to the mariner upon the sea-
shore. 1t will guide hundreds to the point Of
virtue and safety.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03
The DEAD SEA EXPEDITIoN.--An Englisl

The DEAD SEA ExPED1TIoN.--An English
periodical remarks: "Curiously enough, that it
has been reserved for the piety of the navy, and
the enterprise of America. to accomplish an OBJ
ject which has hitherto escaped the notice or
defed the nerve Of European travellers. Lieut..
Lynch is the first who has ever performed the
voyage from the lake of Galilee all down the
Jordan into the Dead Sea, and all round that
lake which now covers the ancient plain of So
DOM"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

GoLD.-A correspondent of the London
Times says: "It will hardly be believed that the
whole quantity of gold currency in the world,
taking it at it's usual estimate Of l5o,0OO,ooo
sterling, would only weigh about i,l5o tons;
and that in bulk a room Of 90 feet long, IL feet
wide, and 10 feet high, would hold it all"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03
UThe small quantity of language that a

UThe small quantity of language that a
man can do business with is really surprising.
A friend of ours at the Isthmus says, that four
weeks after he arrived, he only knew seven
words of Spanish; and yet, with even them, he
managed in less than a week to quarrel with
his washwoman, stick his landlord, and run away
with an heiress! To effect the latter, he says
it was only necessary to use six, fall in my
arms, my love" ana she fell in.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

GEN. BuRGoYSE's WATcH.-Mr. Baldwin, a
gentleman of New. York, met with a venerable
Dutchman, who had in his possession a watch
which formerly belonged to the British General
Burgoyne, of revolutionary memory. 1t is very
large, being from three to three and a half in
ches in diameter, and about three-fourths of an
inch thick, and would probably weigh about
seven or eight ounces.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

MURDER AND TROUBLE IN ARKANsAs.-We
extract the following paragraph from a letter
dated batesville, Ark, September Is, address,
ed to the house Of M. Greenwood & Co. of
this city.-Picayune
Dreadful times exist above us in the neigh
borhood of Yellyille. Nine men have been
shot, and the sheriff with $50 men sustains the
murderers. They have fortified themselves
and bid defiance to the law. A party has al
ready gone to take them, and we are expecting
the result hourly.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

o. The following expressive lines were writ
tenPya gold digger, Capt. Samuel Whitney, at
jamestown, Stanislaus diggins, in the month of
June last. They admirably paint the isolation
to which the search for gold condemns its vo-
tary. We feel for the poor digger, home-sick
and ome-haunted, as he must necessarily be,
in the midst Of the solitudes where nature has
scattered so profusely the yellow dust:
LAMENT OF A GOLD DIGGER.
Bear lie far from all the pleasures
of the digging-washing gold, a p
California! with your treasures
Could your hardships e'er be toldl
Witness any toiIing creature,
We from morn till dewy eve,
Does not every care-wOrn feature
Prove how much your tales deceived
Watch him when the "cradle rocking"
Watch him digging in the sand,
And then say, was it not shocking
To lure him from his native land.
Watch him, his old tin pan backing
To and fro in search of pelf,
See hin pick and shovel packing
"Aint he soIdl" Why ask himself.
See him stewiug Jerk for dinner,
See HIM drawing off his tea ,
Ask the disappointed sinner
How he such an ass could BET
See him, wet and sore, and dreary,
Stretch'd upon the cold, hard ground,
Ask him, if Homes joys so CHEEKY,
Are not with a halo crown'dl
Ask if in that Home 10 dwal;;no
Wife or child, or sister dear,
When for them his heart is swelling,
Ask him, FOOL what dost thou here7"
Gold. gold! gold! mans chief reliance,
Curse upon thy power to charm;
Give me back Gods best appliance.
Home! with all its friendship warm.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

DAs well may you expect the native plants
ofhis own sunny home to thrive amidthe SHOWS
of Lapland, as that Gen. Taylor should sud-
denly make a statesman and be fitted for the
Presidency. THOMAS RITcHIE, IN 1849.
GAS well might you undertake to make a sal
lor of i cock, or a soldier of a goose asa Pre-
sident Of Andrew Jackson"
THos. RITCHIE, IN 1928.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

ED1FY1NG.-To hear some of the most noto-
rious ninnies in the corps editorial, plying the
ignorance and imbecility of Gen. Taylor, and
others, the most INSCRIPTIONS knaves, deplor-
ing his want of principle.-S0merset Wing.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

ADVICE GRAT1s.-Be c%ontented, so long az
your mouth is full, and your body warm; remem-
Der the poor, kiss the pretty girls: don't rob your
%neighbor's hen-roost; don't drink liquor; never
pick all editors pocket nor an idea that he is
going to treat; kick dull care to the ID; black
your own boots, and pay for your newspapers.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

nit strikes me your countenance is familiar
as one of our patrons said, when our collector
had called upon him for the twenty-third time.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

Observation-Disclosures difficulties you
have to encounter, be not perplexed, but think
only what is right to do in the sight of Him who
seeth all things, and bear without repining the
result.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

GEDanicl Webster, in a late speech before an
agricultural society, said that the pursuits OF
the farmer are "tirst among occupations, as
charity is first among virtues"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

AFalt is only necessary" says Goethe. ITO
grow old to become more ~indulgent. I see
no fault committed that | have not committed
myself"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

uThere are 302 divisions of the order of
the Sons of Temperance in Tennessee.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

UWorth dwells alone in the open and can
did mind.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-03

did mind.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10
.Why don,t ne take .ides,,.

The Democratic organs insist that General Tay-
lor must show his hand, and take sides with the
North or South. General Taylor shows his hand
do by his former profession and Just as he actually
did at Palo Alto, Resaca, Monterey, and Buena
Vista, viz: ON the side Of the whole country The
flag he fights under has all the stars as well as the
stripes on it, and when he is asked what side he
takes, he points TO that flag, and the American
people desire him to take no other.
His enemies may rest satisfied that General Tay-
lor is neither hasty sectional in his movements
They may be perfectly certain that, when he does
and has not the youthful elasticity, even if he has
the inclination, to hop from $40 4O to 49 or per-
form any similar feat of activity. "Why don't he
take sides'" Let his Northern opponents, who de-
nounce him the leader of the slaveholding inter-
est, and his Southern enemies, who supported Mr..
Polk notwithstanding his signature of the Wihnot
proviso in two territorial bills, inform us ,oaat side
General Taylor ought to take Richmond Repub
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10

You will at once how "poor Simon" comes
out-he gets single vote the last ballot. There
were extraordinary exertions made ON the part of
MIR. Drum and his friends. Letters were written,
some ten days before the convention met, to every
delegate in the county, urging them to support
Drum, as upon the nomination of Drum depended
entirely the success Of their party in this State this
fall.
have been requested by number of politicians
to write to you in regard To the prescription of poor
old Simon. Locofocos cannot talk any longer
about prescription by the WHIGs, when Drum has
been prescribed by his friends for six different
Offices, from sheriff down TO commissioner.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10
Foreign Personalities.

Sheridan Knowles has become the manager of the
Prncess's theatre.
new shilling piece has been coined in Eng
land, called form
Gutta percha tubes arc now laid down in some
English churches, from the pulpit, to the pews OF
deaf persons, by which they enabled To hear
the preacher.
Pierce Egan. the we'll known sporting journalist,
is dead.
When the Queen arrived at Arrochee, in Scot
land, from Belfast, she out Of provisions -
Three gentlemen happening To be at the inn heard
OF her dilemma, and rowed of to the royal yacht
with all the eatables they could find seven loaves
and twenty four herring. Their arrival was OPP
...a -h-.- N~s..-..
ON the loaves and fishes in a most miraculous man
The priests of the Greek church, in order to EN-.
courage the recruits raised for the Russian army
assure them that if they are killed i'm Hungary
they will rise the third day at Moscow!
The Rev. }. Richmond, of the United States, made
speech at the Hungarian meeting at London
which was well received.
Another colony of atter-day saints is about leav-
ing England for California.
Homeopathy is said to be much favored in the
English royal household.
A young officer Of the horse guards, Mr.. Fox, has
been sued for bills issued by him to Plymouth
Jews, TO the amount Of $4,000, on which he had
received but 10000. The bills were, however, in
third hands, and verdict was rendered against
him, by the jury, most reluctantly.
II is a fact that three large steamers are nearly
ready at Liverpool. to ply between Galway, in Ire
land, and Halifax. They expected to make the
trip in six days.
The dean and chapter Of Westminster Abbey
charge s. 900 for place on the wall for bas
lief two feet nine by FIVE feet six
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10

Ordnance map Of Great Britain, in l5 cases, Tin
complete, but now in course of publication under
the direction of the Ordnance Department,) and
Cassinis map Of France, in 80 cases of $50 sheets
Antiphonale ad usum Canonicorum Regularium,
ON velum, and bound in thick boards covered with
purple morocco IL was taken from French con
vent during the revolution, and has heavy brazen
mountings and clasps.
The Journal of the House OF Lords and Commons,
i'm 200 folio volumes.
Shakespeare, original folio edition of 1923 from
the library of the Duke of Buckingham; also, LIST
edition Of Homer.
There also large collections of French and
English history, catalogues of various libraries
transactions of various learned societies, public
documents, works on photography, voyages, trav-
els, &c.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10
CORRESPONDENTS.
GnEnNspune, pa. } Ser

GREENsBURo, (Pa,) Sept. s, St9.
To THE EDIToRs: l notice in the Washington
Union Of the oath of August last, that the senior
editor has not yet forgotten "poor old SIMON
DRUm." suppose if he sees the result of yester-
days ballotings for Prothonotary for Westmore-
land county, that he will for ever hold his peace.
Mr.. Drum at the last Locofoco convention in
June, and then also defeated for small, petty
county office. His friends then promised him
something better the first opportunity, but what
have they done' He candidate for the candi-
dacy Parliamentary and it appears that his
friends still had some sympathy for him, bat not
enough 10 give him 80 important and lucrative an
Office.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
Robbery in The Post Office. Huntington, d. c.

Robbery in the Post Office, Warrington, ID. c.
ON the fifteenth day of July last, Sunday or
" the morning following, our entire mail was
stolen from box in the Post Office in this city.
The letters received usual and placed in
box upon the distribution of the MALL after
which they taken out of the box by of the
Post Office clerks, who charged with the post
ages due, tied them into parcel and replaced
them preparatory to delivery. Nert morning they
gone. 1t at clear that bold and dar-
ing robbery had been committed within the walls
Of the Post Office and under the very eyes of those
| employed there. BY special request we refraned
from taking any active part in discovering the per-
petrators of the robbery, leaving the whole matter
| in the hands of the Post Office Department A
month has elapsed, and the Department is yet with
| out any clue to the robbery. We, therefore, give
to the public the following list Of the contents OF the
letters fair ascertaned, and offer reward OF
| Fire Hundred Dollars for the detection of the thief
and recovery of the money, or proportonate part
| thereof for the amount recovered:
| In letter from Metcalfe, Spcer & CO., dated
Baltimore, July l4th IS49-
Virginia bank notes, all sizes. ........ q 800
District Columbia small notes ...... ll2
In letter from Purvis & Cover, same date
District Columbia bank notes. ....... 10
Check Thos Parker, on G. & t. Parker ~
Draft ]. H. c. Mudd, on Jourdan w.
Maury, of this place, dated July l4th, ,,s
1919, at four months. ...........' 10
In a letter from Drexel & Co., Phil,del
phia, July l4th, ls49
VIRGINIA District Columbia, and Wheel
ing bank notes. ..........' of@
In a letter from Tbos. l.. Bocock, Apo
matox Va, Land Warrant No. "A ,lb2, Is
sued To Robert A. Richardson dated .th
February, lS49. ................... LOO acres
There were other letters, but, 80 far az we Know
they ecoltsipsa nothing Of value .e;i.n,r4.paAco