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TO 4 VIOLET.

~ SlOLEI.
Sweet flower Springs earliest, loveliest gem
While other flowers are idly sleeping,
Thou rear'st thy purple diadem;
Meekly from the seclusion peeping.
Thou, from thy little secret mound,
Where diamond dewdrops shine above thee,
Scatterest thy modes, fragrance round;
And we'll may Natures poet love thee
Yes have envied thee, sweet flower
And long d like thee to live obscurelyi
SHELTERED in some benignant bower,
And breathing forth my soul so purely
Thine is short, swif, reign, know
But here,-thy spirit still pervadng-
New viole, tufts again shall blow,
Then fade away-as thou art fading.
And be renewed: the hope how blest,
% may thar hope desert noe neverO
Like thee 10 sleep on Natures breast
And wake again, ard bloom for ever.
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POEIlCAI..
For the Enqcirei
For The Enqdrer
APPEAL. FOR NATIONAL UNION.

For the Enqotrer
APPEAL FOR NATIONAL UNION.
sy R. +. II. LEvERIxG.-4ir, "HdAace."
Spirit Of the Holy OSE,
Spirit of our Washington,
Handed down from sire Ia son,
Inspirations source
Spirit Of the field and flood
When our fathers battling stood,
Let that principle imbued,
Fire with pristine force
On each altar'd heart uprear
Freedoms off ring burning clear,
Sacrifcial glory there
To the Con OF TRuTH;--
As the gath'risg hosts attend,
Patriots for patriot end,
While our spirit fathers benn'
Witnessing our oath
By the British ,ask-man's stroke,
By the royal chains we broke
By the proud oppressors look,
Freezing souls TO death;--
Bv the Thraldom's thick'ning spell,
Broken soon as breath'd from hell
Swear we that the "uNloS stih 49,,
Bright our land shall wreathe
By our patriot fathers gone,
By the victories they won
By the bloody graves when don.
Freedoms task sublime -;
Bv their spirits hov'ring now,
Warding off the fatal blow,
Swenr The "UNloS's" flame shall glow
Through all future time
BY each foreign myrmidon,
Watching for our setting sum-
Bv each curse they heap upon
Glorious liberty
By Disunion that they spread,
I;,h;np lopu fh. SfnS dead,
Swear We that its fire shall shed
Light til they be free
BY our coun,ry's rising fame,
By the "USIoS's" deathlcss claim,
By the States with diff rent name,
Yet with COMMON right
BY each patriotic heart,
Sworn 10 act The patriot part
Swear We that no foul upstart
Shall the "USloS' blight
By our glorious flag uniurfd,
Starry Der II bright ming world,
Showing tyranny is hurld
Lower in its gloom,
By that banners brilliancles,
Freedoms herald DER the seas,
Swear the ''USioS" still shall rise
Ger DIsrSIoS's tomb
This our sacred oath TO Cop,
Sign'd by truth and seaPd with blood
Showing that our fathers trod
Where their sons shall tread
This our record through all time,
'Scutcheon'd on our scrolls sublime,
Read in ev'ry glad ming cline
"USIoS's'' flame 10 shed
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-21

To the Eiiiors Of the Enquirer:

WAsmSoToS, May Is, 1850.
Dear Sirs You ought have been here to-day on would
have been delighted TO have heard Mr. Clays great speech
IN California. His compromise will probably pass. The
question will be disposed OF By the 18th Of June. Con-
siderable discussion took place in the Senate to-day be-
tween Nessrs Clay Rus and Davis Of Mississippi on the
boundary OF Texas ana think considerable dust is TO he
kicked about this before settled Her boun
dairy proper, is that designated al the time VI her admission
into the Union.
The committee appointed 10 investigate the GalPhin
claim and the Of oncr the Doorkeeper Of the House
have reported and may report this session. that
Homer will keep his place until they report and perhaps
afterwards. So you how they work the wires here
Bul, of the Republic, has had real justification Of a
blow with the Cabinet and resigned Ii upon the
promise he split, Allen Hail. ESQ., assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury takes Mr.. BGis place in conducting Re-
public. 1t is said Mr.. Bul will edit the Southern paper
TO be established here.
You need not be surprised hear BY the next from
Cuba OF outbreak Ii is a humbug some suppose
but a reality. know personally, of companies that have
been formed and sailed or Cuba So look for squalls
from that region soon. Yours, respectfully.
THE LOWELL FACTORIES.-The Lowell Advertiser,
in noticing the assertion that o the factories in that
city had stepped running because they couldn't sell their
goods says:
Some of tho mills IN Lowell are To be s;or,ed 10 have
heir tchinery repaired and improved and su5st
tute the Turbine for the old wheel But not one we think
account OF depression of the manufacturing business
says also that the intend getting rid of their
egn lahorers 10 great extent and back the American
and whose labor after ALL is cheapest on
count of their r-eatcr skill
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MISCELLANEOUS.

HIGHLY CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN COM
ING TO NEW YORk.-Hs Excellency, the venerable
Odon Boetby, Guardian Of the Hungarian Crown OF ST.
Stephen Chief of all the Civil Governors in Hungary, and
of the Supreme Court the whole country coming from
Hegoand New York, escaping Austrian persecution IN
Hambup II il ude. stood that lie will accompanied BY
the celebrated Hungarian poet Baron Zosko oi Iransy
yana distinguished member OF the late Hungarian gov
eminent.
SOUTHERN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONFER
ENCE-Ths conference still in session al ST. Louis on
the 9th instant We notice the proceedings the passage
of an &C, establishing Conference in Western VIZ
ri MA TO include all the territory in Virginia not included II
the present Virginia. North Carolina and Hosieln Confer
ences. The Conference have elected one Bishop -
First Bulor-rascom Of Ky Il; WYnans, 8; Pierce
IA; Patton wadsworth a Boyle, II Early, 10; Aexan
der /; Mural l.
IA; Wynans, s.
So Mr. Bascom declared elected. The committee re-
ported in favor Eastern and Western Book Agencies ane
no Book Concern.
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-21

To the Editors Of The En0uirer.

nc q IlNYUVeT.
Gentlemen have long lived in quiet and obscure
OF the country, without niemedding in any way
with politics. Recent events, however have startled me
from apathy The dark cloud of abolition hangs and
the chief sentinel Of the people has taken sheeres he
get plessly pced The enemy may steal into the
and fire magazine, but the hero Of Buena Vista heec
notthe storm might take the shine OF his regimen
tails"
Thank God, Mr.. Editor, was who supported for
the Presidency that man who slaves" nor
did write 10 "beg a hair rom Old Wheys tall" was
not SO much infatuated With the Of the sword
eve ne could s easy in the chair of State in the saddle
Of Old Whitley Gen Taylor may have the arm Of Hecu-
les but gazing nations ha, he lacks the head Wash
ngton. He is the first President who has been set up "a
rival in fame and an mitator Of that whose is held
sacred by all who love institutions and by three ourhs
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MARRIED,

MARRIED. Ne E9s'
MARRIED On Thursday morning. 10Th infant. ~ Is, FOal
Mchaels Mr. JAMES b BINGHAM 10 Mi=sJtLiah va
all OF this
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Eastern Shore, II .-ylanI, An:i! Il.

Is"SttIH toIIUIVI 1tI'I'Il
CONNECTICUT l.. S. SENATOR The Hon ,J [.
S Senate br caucus Of democratic members Of 'r f
latu-e as successor 10 the Hon. Roger ). BALDWIN
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-21

Finding it utterly impossible to pu: in The full debate in
ne Senate on the Compromise Bill, to-day land shall!
hercai'c) publish the sketch from the Republic which pre-
very good bird Of the important discus
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-21

The Charlottesville Jeersonian substantially confirms the
Wings statement of the explosion of the powder house al
the Blue Ridge Tunnel by the little of Mr. James H.
Bailey, in rn. train in sport-which led Ia The death o
The little engineer IL appears however, that the little boy
lived till next mornng-and the black boy not Killed
but will probably There 60 cansiers of pow
der put away in loft the Kitchen; all but Is Of them
blew
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-21

b. Johnson Barbour, Esq, Of Orange, has declined The
appointment Of delegate the Nashville Convention,
part the Wings. He has given his reasons in letter
10 the Charlottesville Jcicrsonan but the Editor has not
vet received it, The District Convention Charlottesville
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-21

In Nashville have stated, the Southern Convention
rcpudated BY the Wings the ground that mo State has
the constitutional right 10 sccedc from the Union"
On the other hand the Wings of Richmond also rePuda-
ted the Southern Convention bat they eagerly voted for the
secession resolutions Judge Robertson By such totally
adverse The opponents Of the Nashville Convention
geek 10 defeat it,
The Shepherdsown (vfgina) Register (Whs) agrees
with the Nashville men; they take the right ground
ground that they will have retrace aban
DON" The same Wing paper ;hcreupon, openly
the Wing press and party of Richmond for having placed
themselves in such false position Had they not they
would have beaten death, in this Gibraltar Of
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

TR1-WEEKLY MAu-Our Reading ROOM
We are pleased to perceive that the tri-weekly
mail has gone into operation; it will be a great
convenience to the people of this and other par
ishes, and cannot fail to be source of profit to
the Post Office Department. 1t is brought ND
by the Giipsy on Mondays and Thursdays, and
by the Albatross on Saturdays. We will here
take occasion to remark to the young men
and citizens Of Plaquemine generally
particularly to our subscribers, many of whom
have not get visited us-that this arrangement
OF the mail makes doubly valuable our Read.
ing Room, which, we are sure we can say with.
out egotism, cannot be surpassed by any thing
OF the kind outside Of New Orleans, either in
regard to its n~eatness and order, or to the num-
Der OF its valuable journals and periodicals.
AS yet we have received but a limited support
nothing that could encourage us in tie nm.
d~ertaking-but determining not to relinquish
q design whicha all must confess does credit to
our town, we shall continue our exertious to
keep it up according to our original plan. Win.
ter is at hand, and now is the time to subscribe
After tomorrow it will be open every night
Except Sunday till 10 o'clock.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

PRESIDENT FILLMORE AND FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAw.-The following incident is told in
a letter from the Washington correspondent
of Tuesdays Richmond Enquirer:
"a distinguished gentlemen from the West
An ex-senator-called on Mr.. Fillmore, and
after exchanging the usual courtesies, was ask
ed by the President how the fugitive slave bill
was received in the West. The reply was that
the law, although unpopular in his State, would
doubtless be enforced. The remark was play
fully made that, as the President was sworn to
preserve, protect, and defend the constitution
and laws he (the EX-SENATOR presumed Mr..
Fillmore would execute This uu. TO the very
letter, sir was the instant reply of the Presi-
dent-'to the very letter, sir, whatever may be
the consequences"
The Washington Union relates another in
cident, in which it is stated that the President
declared that he was determined to execute
faithfully the fugitive slave law, and would ap-
point no man to office who might be cal,ed up
on and would not zealously cooperate in its
execution.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

BEAUTIFUL SENT1MENT,--The following ex-
tract is taken from Motifs address to vounp
men. 1t is u gem of SURPRISING brillianey and
beauty:
81 would frown on vice, | would favor viz
tue--favor whatever would elevate, would ex-
alt, would adorn character, and alleviate the
miseries Of my species, or contribute to render
the world | inhabited, like the heavens to which
looked, a place of innocence and felicity.
Though | were to exist no longer than those
ephemera that sport in the beams of the sum-
mer's morn, during that short hour, l would
rather soar with the eagle, and leave the record
of my flight and my fall among the stars, than
to creep the gutter with the reptile, and bed
my memory and my body together in the dung
hill: However short my part, l would act it
well, that | might surrender my existence with
out disgrace and without conjunction"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
Hon. C.. Adams, yE.

This gentleman has been mentioned by the
papers generally as one of the most prominent
and available Wings, whose extensive popular
ity and known purity of character would be
well calculated to unite the efforts of the party
throughout the various Parishes that compose
| this Congressional District, in the contest that
takes place on the 3Oth. We are aware that
he has hosts of friends in every quarter who
would hail with enthusiasm the announcement
of his name as a candidate, with his approba-
baton, and whose energies would be aroused
from the lethargy Of past defeat, and enter into
action with that vigor becoming men who bat
tie for principle, and for a champion of gifted
talents: of sterling worth and integrity. But
this pleasure the friends of Mr.. ADAMS cannot
experience in the forthcoming contest-for we
are authorized to say, that under no circum-
stances can he permit his name to be used as a
candidate. He has good and sufficient reasons
for this course ON his part, and they are far
from being selfish ones. He looks to the in
;erests of the Wing party, and not to his indi-
vidual elevation-and believes, that as q Sena-
tor in the State Legislature he can be of more
advantage to the interests of his State, at this
particular epoch, than anything he could posi-
bly, achieve were be elected a Representative
in Congress. This determination does honor
10 the mind of him who formed it; and while a
of modification will pass over the
orows of bis friends in consequence of it, they
cannot, at the same time, repress the exhilira-
ing thought that such resolve on the part of
and Of his well-earned fame, as a higllminded
politician and a faithful public servant.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
Col. Richard A. Stewart.

Up to the present time, it has not been
known certainly that Col. STEWART would be.
come a candidate at the approaching election.
But we received a letter on Thursday which
says that his name will be brought forward,
that "this movement has originated with his
friends, without his knowledge, and that he
canno. and will not decline the proffered post
ofhonor."
There seems now to be no bar to an unani-
nous concentration of the party upon Col.
STEWART, particularly since the declination
that we assert of the Hon. C. ADAMS. Col. S.,
then, may be now considered by the Wings of
this and the other Parishes of the Third Con-
gressional District, as THE CANDIDATE OF THE
WING PARTY, whose name and principles, and
known vigor of character, combined with high
moral worth, are to battle with the Democratic
nominee on the 3oth. We give him Of course
our full and cordial support, as we have hitherto
done, and call upon all true Wings to walk up
to the battle box on the day of election, and
have these words on their ticket
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

Col. WIN B. RoBERTsoN.--Ihe Democratic
Nomapation.--We admit that we were surpris-
ed to learn Of the defeat of Col. ROBERTSON,
and the nomination of Mr.. PENN of .Liyingston,
who received the nomination by a majority of
two votes, after several ballotings. There
must have been some adroit Juggling at Ba-
ton Rouge to have produced this result for if
talent and ability of a high ~order--every requi-
site indeed for a popular candidate and the ac-
complished and successful representative-had
alone been taken into consideration, the gen.
tleman whose name heads this paragraph would
have had but little competition alongside of
those who were his opponents in the Conyen-
ton. However, as far as the interests of our
party are concerned, we may rejoice at the re-
suit. dtEt
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
To R. A. Upton, Esq.

MORE GAZING IN OF THE BANK.-On Satur-
day night last the batture and levee with the
road, over the bayou, fell in, taking about two
acres in length and more than a halfin depth,
the property Of Gervais Schlatre. The night
following the destruction extended to the old
race track. This cave has left a narrow neck of
land for the upper bank of Bayou Plaquenine,
which is already cracked, and will give way,
making the mouth of the bayou about one-thira
the widh Of The Mississippi rirer! The earth
hereabouts is said to be all quicksand-and
cracks are perceived, likewise, for some distance
back. We leave to Others to speculate upon
the results of this change. When high, the
whole force Of the current of the river will
sweep directly towards the mouth of the bay
on.
On the same night, the batture in front of
Louis Desobry's residence gave way, but up
to this time has extended TO further. We hope
it may not. A heavy rain, however, will show
US the worst.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

THE WEEKLY CREsCEST.-We cannot re-
frain from calling the attention of our citizens
to this admirable weekly. The editors of this
paper. are gentlemen of high character and fine
%tslents; and the columns of their journal show
a taste and Judgment in its selections rarely to
be met with. But this truth applies with equal
force to the weeklies of the Picayune and Del
ia and the semi-weekly of the True Della
four journals which have few if any superiors
in point Of talent-none in typographical beau
ty. We believe that the Crescent has an agent
at present IN this vicinity, soliciting subscrip.
tons.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

ENERGY IN PLAoUEMINE.-Six weeks since
the large double "Mammoh Store of THEo-
DoRE JOHNSTON was standing on Front street.
Since that time, in consequence of the caving-
in Of the bank, it has been torn down by MIR.
HART, brick by brick, and regretted on the
corner of Main and Bank streets by Mr.. HEN
RY KELLER, and SO far completed that Mr..
JOHNSTON, we believe, intends occupying it in
the course of a week. This is an incident of
energy and industry seldom to be met with out
of a large city, where great business demands
speed, and where mechanics in any number
can be procured: such work is indeed rare for
a village, but that is a term which Plaquemine
will soon discard.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
COL. RICHARD A. STEWART.
A New Hotel.

We have heard some vague rumors of a new
hotel to be built in our fourishing town. We
trust that such rumors are not without founda-
ton. The Planters Hotel which had gained
such high reputation under the catership ofMr.
]. c. BURDEN, viii soon end its career--Mr.
BIssELL, the proprietor, determining to turn it
into stores and sleeping rooms, Gas will be
seen by adrertisement0 ifthe Mississippi does
not Illustrate his plans. No man, Of any dis
cernmen whatever, who has watched the
growth and interests of villages in our country
has failed to perceive the advantages spring.
ing out of n commodious and well con-
Quoted Hotel. It gives character to a town;
it speaks of enterprise-of prosperity--and
through the laudations Of travellers, the place
it is located becomes known abroad, and
induces business men and mechanics to 90
and settle, and help to build it up. We
trust that something definite in this matter will
be entered into at once. We have large CAPT.
tai in our midst, which, if not idle, could not
be used better than in erecting a fine hotel on
Bank or Main streets. The advantage it would
give to property holders where it was located.
should induce those owning property in a
position on either of these streets. to
move in the matter at once. Ea.1
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
The Journey Of Life.

The matured mind, in moments of sadness
when some deep affection has turned its LIGHT
and buoyant nature into gloom and melancho.
y, cannot repel the thought that life, at best, is
but a dreamy and dreary existence, where man
lives but for sorrow and breathes but to sigh.
From boyhood up, our days are but days of
struggling, and our siumbers at night are but
the lark hours of the souls solitary aspirings
after those countless yearnings of the heart.
which, when acquired, leave still far off in the
distance the glittering jewel Of contentment.-
our hopes and our aims, ever restless and
gEasPing, make up that ambition of which the
poet speaks 49,
"vauiting ambition VII ich o'erleaps ITSELF"
but ever offering new schemes, we are lead on
by the ignus Jfateus of neyer-fading Hope, till
the shroud and the grave put an end to ALL
Comingled pleasures and prosperity are ever in
anticipation, and if not buried with our own
existence, will come in some more poignant
shape. to be broken like a reed by the blast
and at one fell blow, wrenehing from our bo-
som alithat affection prized--all that ambition
coveted-all that could arouse energy, brighten
the eye, Of make light the heart! u
Such 10 the journey Of life. Itisamixed up
with SO much that is good, with so much that
y b q 50 much Of bliss, with so much of
sadness-tfat the heart feels, when years have
brought the wrinkles Of disappointment. that
earth offers but a transitory contentment, which
y even transient in comparison with the length
Of our allotted days, and if we seek for more,
wisdom and the teachings Of youth, point to 4
sphere, where the day of eternity admits no
sorrow, nor gloom, nor darkness, to dim it's ra-
dance and its purity.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23

70 A Great Wing Meeting was held in Fan
euil Hall, Boston, on the night of the sth inst.
Willard J. Hubbard, presided. The speakers
were the Hon. |. I. Stevenson, Col. A. II. Bull
lock, of Worcester, and Hon. F. C. GRAY. while
they all went for a modification of the Fugitive
Slave law, they denounced any notification of
the laws. Resolutions were passed in favor of
the Union, and observance of its laws. The
Hall rang with loud.and enthusiastic cheers for
Daniel Webster and the Union.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
SEWELL r. Taylor,
OF
AAMES = ANNN0NS,
WHOLES4LE T. RETAIL,
Nos. Is l. Is Royal Street,
yVenc. OyYpR tts.
To Discharged Soldiers,

And all entitled to benefits under the late act Of
Congress, granting bounty lands, dc.
THE undersigned being fully prepared with
i the forms and all information necessary TO
enable him to procure land warrants for those
that may be entitled to them under the late act of
Congress, granting bounty lands 10 all soldiers
who served in the late war with Great Britain, pr
in any Indian war, since 1S!0-offers his service
to such as may wish to apply for boun,y-'ands.
He has facilities for communicating with Washing
ton that will enable him to transact such business
with more than ordinary dispatch, and he will make
no charge until the certificate or land warrant is
delivered to the applicant. Widows of deceased
soldiers are entitled to the same bounty That their
husbands would have BEEN
He will procure patents and transact all business
with the General Land Office with the utmost dis
patch, and without charge until the business is
completed.
lie may be found during business hours at his
law office on Main street. one door below Roth,
Bros. J.J. BERRY.
Plaquemine, Nov. %, Is5O-6ln