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Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-01-25

DEPOT D'ESCLAVE.
MARION EN- PRISON.
uM liza etc amene a la geole a Plaquemine,
a. Paroisse dIberviIle, un Negro arrete COM
a. me maroon qui Sc nomme HENRY, ct dit
~ qu' il appartient d M. VIM. Stark, residanl
d environ 2 miles de la vile Mobile, Alabama. LIE
ait Negro est age d'environ rs ans ct de S pieds S
douce de taifle.
nov2 HENRY SULLIVAN, Geolier.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-01-25

Succession de I Cour du Sixieme District, pa.
Patrick Kelley, }roisse d Iberville.
A TTENDU que EDWARD REILLEY a pre-
= sente une petition a Ia Cour demandant lad-
ministration de la succession de Patrick ReilIey-
avis est par lie present donne d 'tous ceux que celia
concerne d'avoir a deduire sous dix jours de la
publication de cette notice, les ~raisons pour les
quelles la demande du dit petitonaire ne lui serait
pas accordee- Par ordre de la Cour. '..-...t
ADONIs PETIT, Grefier.
&c 26 deeembre, lS4s.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-01-25
~ REMOVAL.
CHARLES SIMON

U'Begs to notify his friends and customers that
he has removed his place of business from Plaque
mine to BATON ROUGE, where he has always
on hand alarge assortment Of every description of
RAADY MADE gb0TElSNgg
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

" THE PRESIDENTS ToUR.-We learn, says the
Washington Republic, of the 9th inst, that the
President will leave the Seat of Government
during the present week on a tour through some
of the Northern and Eastern States. Having
long since been invited to Pittsburg, and being
recently reminded of his promise to visit that
city, and having been also urged to view the
great iron and coal establishments of Pennsyl-
vania, his journey will, in the first instance, be
directed to that State. He will then proceed to
Boston, expecting to reach that city early in
September, and will spend several days there
and in the vicinity. Thence he will proceed to
Syracuse, where he expects to attend the Agri-
cultural Fair about the middle of Semptember;
and returning to Washington, he will visit, in
succession, New York city, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore. We understand that the President
makes this journey to become better acquainted
with the manufacturing, agricultural and other
interests of the North, and to crafty, at the
same time, the numerous friends who have "a
vored him with their kind invitations; and that it
would be his choice to travel and to be receiv-
ed in the plainest and least ostentatious man.
ner.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

TIME WORKS WoNDERs.-About twelve OF
fifteen years ago two persons, who have since
become very distinguished, pursued. in the city
of Cincinnati, occupations one would have
thought not very likely to form generals, states
men or soldiers, but who have each occupied
no small portion Of the attention of the world
The first of these, a working tinman and brass.
founder, became the distinguished Gen. Arists
of the Mexican army: and the second is the
famous Garibaldi, then keeper of cafe. Al
the same time Maroncelli, the companion OF
Silvio Pellico, taught music i'll New York
Louis Napoleon was writing his treatise OF
artillery at Geneva, in Switzerland, and Aclille
Murat was practising law and planting sugar in
Florida. There are certainly GIBBS and floods
in every mans fortune.-W Washington Repub.
4,
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

FIRST FAMILIES OF VRGINIA.-A friend
says the Savannah Republican, has sent us the
following ingenius examination into the probable
claims of the first families of Virginia. Ate,
all, it seems by this demonstration that there
are several chances Of every body's actually be.
ing connected with this numerous class. The
article runs thus:
Until the subject is examined few of us are
aware of the great number of ancestors only a
short distance above us, and the yet greater
number of collateral relations around us. Each
of us has one father and one mother, two grand
fathers and two grandmothers, four great
grandfathers and four great grandmothers. So
that, in the third degree, we have eight ances-
tors, liz the fourth sixteen, in the fifth thirty-two,
in the sixth sixth-four, in the seventh one hun
dred and twenty-eight, and in the eighth two
hundred and ffty-six. Now, as the State Of
Virginia has seen more than eight generations,
almost every young gentleman travelling West
from that State has two hundred and fifty-six
chances to have descended from one of the
first families. But, as collateral relations are
much more numerous than ancestral, by count
ing back to the eighth degree, and supposing
each family to consist of four children only,
each of these young gentlemen has 65,506
chances to be collaterally connected to one of
the first families.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
To Hon. John iii. HarmansOn.
from the Feliciana Whig.1

Sir: In your speech delivered in this place
on the 9Th inst, in order to demonstrate the
value which you placed upon the lands included
in your famous Swamp Bill, you admitted that
you had entered at Congress price ONE THOU
A ACRES! You also informed us that when
the enquiry was put to you at Washington
City, "Whether these lands should continue to
be open to entry" yonr advice was in the a-
yfrmatire. Now, Sir, the question arises, did
you do your duty to your constituents when
you gave this advice? If you had consulted
the interest of the State alone, should you not
have given an opinion directly to the contrary?-
Should you not have answered, SSH, if you
continue to permit these, lands to be open to
public entry, do you not perceive that the best
Of them will at once be appropriated by specula-
tors, whereby the State will not only loose the
vast expense of draining them but also the
increased ralue that must accrue after having
been drained? But, Sir, so far from giving
this disinterested and wholesome advice, we are
informed by yourself in person that you were
among the first to pounce upon one thousand
acres at ten bits per acre, which according to
your arguments of the value of this vast ac-
QUESTION, will probably be worth S. or $40 or
500 per acre. and consequently, as have stated
above, the State will not only loose the increa-
sed value Of the land, but also the great
expense that must be incurred in draining it.
Whom then, Iagain ask, will realize the
profits thus gained on the thousand acres of
swamp lands which you in your wisdom have
thought proper to enter? Will they be APP
proprated for the clearing out of Bayous and
for the erection of 1evees for the benefit of
your constituents! No, Sir. According to
your own statements, all that will be realized
over and above II per acre, piA go to the pockets
of Hon. j. H. Harmanson, the disinterested
Representative of the 3rd Congressional District
of the State of Louisiana.
If one thousand spectators, such as you
have confessed yourself to be, under the spe-
cious garb of "treemen" should follow your
example-what becomes ofthe great boon which
isnow your boast of having conferred upon
our State! Will the refuse that shall remain be
sufficient to defray the expenses of surveying
and draining, not only the refused parts of this
precious gift, but also of the million of acres
which you and your brother spectators shall
have SO tenderly appropriated to yourselves?
Echo answers, No! For it clearly appears that
you will have set apart to yourselves the meat
0 fthe egg, while you have very kindly left the
shell to the PEOPLE. A CITIZEN.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

MEcHAK1cs.-The Washington correspon-
dent Of the Baltimore Sun states that one of the
Generals in our army, resident in that city, and
in af1uent circumstances, has been wise enough
to learn his well-educated son a trade, and the
youth, with all the true dignity ofone ofnature's
noblemen, is welding the axe and a jack plane
This noble example merits commendation.-
@Give a boy a trade and you give him an
estate"
One of our citizens has displayed like good
sense, and we trust we shall be pardoned for
making it public. N. M. Ludlow, after giving
his sons a good education, placed the eldest in
a foundry at St. Louis, where he rapidly ac-
quired a perfect knowledge of all the details in
the establishment, and at the end of his ap-
premiership, came out a practical engineer; lie
is now noted for his general intelligence and
gentlemanly bearing. Another was apprenticed
in a similar workshop to learn some other
branch of mechanics, and the third is now en-
ployed in the pattern department of Messrs.
Skates & CO.. foundry of this city. MI. Ludlow
will thus leave a better legacy to his sons than
if he had a million to apportion each.-Mobile
Herald.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
COOPERAGE.
Maguire's Daguerreotype.

T N. would respectfully return thanks for
- the liberal patronage bestowed on him
since he first had the honor of introducing the
DAGUERREOTYPE into New Orleans, five
years ago, during which time he has taken
more portraits than amy other person in the
world. His specimens were exhibited at the
Fair, in competition with others taken by the
best operators in New York, and he was award
ed the First Premium. No specimens exhibit
ed at his establishment but those taken by
himself. J. NJ. assures the public that his por-
traits will continue to be what they always
have been-the BEST. His long experience,
and constant practice are the best inducements
to persons DESTROYS of instruction in the beau
tiful art. Genuine Highlander Cameras 90
per cent cheaper than any in the city; all other
articles the same. Plates at 50 per dozen; SEQ
Wills No. l for So 25-guarantied the best
plates made in the United States; Cases 80 rs
and So 20; New Work Cameras at 1913.
uOrders from the country promptly attend
ed to. Entrance No. 6 Camp street. au22tf
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

WEAR OF THE NIAGARA FALLs.-The TO-
900 tons of water which each minute pour over
the p~recipice of Niagara, are estimated to carry
away a foot of the cliff every year. Taking
this average, and adopting the clear geological
proof that the fall once existed at Queenstown,
four miles below, we must suppose a period OF
twenty thousand years occupied in this recess
sion of the cataract to its actual site-while in
the Delta of the Mississippi, nearly $4,000
square miles in extent, an, estimate founded on
its present rate of increase, and on u calculation
Of the amount Of earthly matter brought down
the stream, has justified Mr.. Lyell in alleging
that sixty-seven thousand years must have
elapsed Stree the formation of this great deposite
began.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

How TO ENLARGE VEGETABLEs.-A vast
increase of food may be obtained by managing
judiciously, and systematically carrying out for
a time the principles Of increase. Take, for
~instace, a pea. Plant it in very rich ground;
allow it to bear the first year, say half a dozen
pods only, remove all others, save the largest
the following year, and retain of the produce
three pods only; sow the largest the following
year, and retain one pod; again select the largest
and the next year the sort will by this time have
increased in size and weight. Ever afterwards
sow the largest seed, and by this means you
will get peas, or anything else, of a bulk Of
which Nc at present have no conception.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

OvERFLow OF RED RTvER.-The Caddo pa
pers state, says the Bee, that a portion of that
Parish has been inundated by the waters of Red
River. The steamer J. T. boswell, Capt
Kimball, from Shreveport, the 9Th, reports that
the water there was falling fast-that it was at
q stand at Natchitoches-that the crops on
the river are totally destroyed by the overflow:
that the water is from four to eight feet deep on
all the plantations between Shreveport and
Natchitoches; that below, on the Bondieu, the
stock is nearly all destroyed. That there has
been great destruction of property at Grand
Ecore, caused by the caving in of the ware
houses; that Col. De Russey's Clubhouse fell in
the river with about an acre of ground, on We'd
nesday morning last; that Alexandra still con-
tinues dry, protected by thelevee, which is on
" a few inches above the surface Of the water;
that the levee broke in three places below AL
sxandria; and the river is two feet higher than it
was during the overflow Of 1874.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
sNNEMERM sEMZAAEAe
Tne Troubles i'm Florida.

We are glad, says the P~icayune, to perceive
that the General Government is making use OF
the most energetic measures to crush the In
dian outbreak which has so Unexpectedly taken
place in Florida. The troops Stationed at
Charleston and Savannah have been ofoefeo
to the scene of action, and a large NUMBER Is 10
be despatched from this city and us 'lclnity'-
In addition to these several volunteer companies
have alreadv been raised in the State itself, so
that there will soon be a sufficient force concen-
trated in the disturbed district to quell at once
the rebellion before it acquires much strength.
The Government, we think, is entitled to much
credit for the alacrity it has displayed in thus
promptly coming to the rescue of the people
of Florida. The protracted nature of the late
Seminole war, its delays and vexations, are still
fresh in our minds, and it seems that the Federal
authorities are determined they shall not be re-
peated. The policy of suffering the remnant
of the hostile Indians to remain in Florida has
always been considered an unwise one, and its
fruits are now apparent in the destruction Of
life and property which we have lately recorded.
The savages who still remain ought certainly to
be removed without delay to the territory west
of Arkansas, occupied at present by those of
their tribe who have already emigrated. Moth
ing less than this will satisfy the Floridians.-
They demand it not as a favor, but as an act of
justice. As long as any, even a few, of those
blood-thirsty marauders are left in the almost
impenetrable hammocks and swamps of the
State, the lives and property of our fellow-citi-
zens on the peninsula cannot be considered safe.
They will be exposed to incessant attacks by
a foe whose nature and education impel him to
robbery and murder. As long as such a state
of things exists the prosperity of Florida will
be injuriously affected, and the increase of its
population prevented. Hence it is absolutely
necessary that the predatory bands of Indians
who still Turk in the peninsula should be COM
pelled to join their brethren in the Indian Ter
r.tory. .
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
Mr.. CLAY.-The idol of the Wing party,

Mr.. CLAY.-The idol of the Wing party,
bowed down by sickness and old age, is now at
Saratoga, and we trust its waters will restore
him TO his accustomed health. On his way
from Ashland, the veteran statesman has been
received with open arms by his friends, and with
respectful courtesy by his political opponents
He has the gift-rare among p~oliticians-of
inspiring affection. His political adherents feel
for hima warm personal regard, which We have
no doubt he prizes in his heart beyond all
political fame. If he has been yictimized BY
mercenary partizans, he has the consolation Of
feeling that q minority, of whose love and
confidence any man might be proud, have
stood by him in every vicissitude.-NOah.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

u 1T was contemplated by the early founders
Of the Republic that Canada should form a part
of the United States, as appears from the fol-
lowing article, specially inserted in the old
Articles of Confederation of ITS
cart IL. Canada acceding to this Confedera-
ton and joining in the measures of the United
States, shall be admitted into and entitled to
all the advantages of this Union: but no other
Colony shall be admitted into the same unless
such admission be agreed to by the nine States"
Boston Trans.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
Washington Gossip.

The correspondent of the Baltimore Sur
writes as follows under date of the 9Th inst:
J. II. Marshall, Esq, of Indiana, has been ap
pointed Governor Of Oregon, in place OF Col
Lane, removed.
The rumor that the Home Squadron had been
| ordered to Havana to demand the release OF
Rcy, who, it is alleged, was abducted from New
Orleans, is of course incorrect. The President
will act promptly enough should the charge
turn out to be correct; but in the absence OF
official information, he will of course take no
steps. We understand that the latest accounts
received by telegraph from the U. S. Dist. At
tor1ey, express great doubts as to Keys abduc-
ton; the impression beng that he went away
voluntarily. The Home Squadron has been or
dtred to be in readiness, however, and, should
it turn ont that the charge is true, 1t is believed
viii receive immediate orders TO proceed to
Havana, and, if necessary, use the most strin-
gent measures for the recovery Of Rey and the
vindication Of our outraged national honor.
No new developments have been made with
reference to the Mosquito question. The atti-
tude taken by the government is OF the most de-
termined kind. 1t has long been an ayoWed
American principle to prevent, in all cases,
any further colonization upon this continent.
by European powers. and the Mosquito trans.c-
ton is neither more nor less than an attempt
upon the part Of England TO establish a colony,
and thus obtain the command Of the gulf of
Mexico and the route to the Pacific. The present
administration is determined to uphold this
principle, and has already plainly informed the
British government that any further interior
ence in the affairs of Mosquito will not be per-
mlttcd, and that a torcibtc attempt te prevent
our citizens from enjoying the privileges of
navigating the st. Juan, as granted them by
the government of Nicaragua, will be deemed an
act Of open hostility to this country.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

A SMART BoY-The Yarmouth Register
tells a pretty good story about an incurable
young reprobate, who, while travelling in the
cars from Portland, was lectured by an old dea-
con on the sin of profanity:
you are on the road to perdition," said the
deacon. The young man drewa ticket from
his pocket, and eyeing it with a look that
pauperizes description, said, "Just my id
luck, old fellow--I bought a ticket for Bruins
wick" .a.=
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

UA man named Mr.. Walker, of London, is
manufacturing corrugated iron houses, for Cal
~ifornia, each have three dwelling rooms and one
store room, and likewise iron s~torc-houses.-
Corrugated iron has all the strength of brick
work, without its great weight: it is peculiarly
adapted for portable dwellings and store
houses, being so very light, and packing so close,
that the expense of freight is comparatively
small.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

INCIDENTS OF THF WRECK OF THE CHARLES
B~ARTLETT.-A lady passenger in the steamer
Europa, in a letter to the National Intellirencer,
relates the following incidents in that horrible
catastrophe:
"The wild despair of one poor man | shall
never forget; he literally lost his all-lis wife
and four children: his aged parents, brother, wife
and their children, and his whole fortune. The
poor creature wrung his hands and tore his hair
it was heartrending to see him. There were
thirty-five children under sixteen, and seven
under eleven months on board. Xxx Captain
Forbes, of Boston, as soon as the accident took
place, pulled off his coat and shoes and plunged
overheard, rope in hand, to do all he could; he
saved one poor man, who died before he got
him alongside the ship. A more heroic deed
never saw, and sturdy men shed tears when he
came back to the cabin safe among us. The
captain of the wrecked bark is a sunhurnt old
sailor, with thirty years of his service to look
back to, and, as he told us, this is his first sea
accident: he had never buried a soul from any
ship he had commanded. The tears rolled
down his rough and sunburnt face as he told
us the scene before the vessel went down"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
CARRIAGE MANDATORY,

THE patronage that has been extended to
L us so very literally the
last seven years, while onc~
Common street, has induced E7AiT@W
us to erect a large building ssAszsz-ss7
expressly for manufacturing and repairing Car
riages. We have now one of the largest Shops
in the Southern Country, and are prepared,
with good Northern workmen, and the best of
materials, to build any style of Carriage to or
der, and guaranty them two years, if used in
the country. We are also better prepared than
ever before for REPAIRING CARRIAGES,
and can restore them almost to their original
beauty and durability, although apparently
worn out and useless. we will pay freight on
Carriages sent to us TO repair. We will also
keep on hand sl assortment of NEW and
SECOND HAND CARRIAGES, which will
be sold low. Old Carriages taken in trade for
New ones. We invite the attention of those
wanting New Carriages, or their old ones re-
paired, to call a tour Mandatory and Reposi-
tory. and judge for themselves, at the Corner Of
GRAVIER and CARONDELET' Streets,
next door to the Office of the Commercial Wa
ter Works, rear Of the st. Charles Hotel, New
Orleans.
au22 Nv MATTHEW'S g. DENMAN.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

A PLEASANT MISUNDERSTANDING the thou
sands to whom Father Mathew administered
the pledge in the Catholic Churches at Boston,
week before last, was the Rev. Caleb Stetson,
a Protestant, who received il with all the solemn
ceremonies employed III the case OF Catholics,
at his own request. He said to Father Mathew
that he could see no improperly in any person
protesting to be Il christian recognizing the
significance of the sign Of the cross as the en-
bleln Of mans redemption.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22

How TO HAVE FINE MUrTos-The sheep
as soon as killed, should be disemboweled. It
is the neglect to remove the e~ntrails, at once,
and the meat not being touched by the wool,
which imparts to it that strong mutton TASTE
The reason of this is, that the warmth of the
blood carried off by the loss of blood, is for a
time supplied from the warmth of the bowels,
and thus the Objectionable taste created.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-22
INDIAN TROUBLES IN FLoRDA.-The Florida
Republican of Thursday, the 9th inst, says:

We continue to have flying accounts of fur
Their depredations by the Indians-killing men;
plundering and burning houses, &c; but we have
no authentic statement of outrage since the at
tack on the trading house at Charlotte Harbor.-
We incline to the belief that the startling ac-
counts of subsequent occurrences arise from
the fears and confusion Of the inhabitants who
are flying from their homes in the counties near
the line and taking refuge in the towns
Numbers of people have tocked into Tampa,
Ocaola, st. Augustine, Garey's Ferry, Pilatka,
and some have taken refuge even as far north
as Jacksonville.