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Private Mcaeer, Co. c. LIST Art. lntemp'ce.
3" Usher, . Con ump'n
CANNED, Rupture
The number of permanent residents
on the 23rd Of August when the fever
commenced, was / 10. The total num-
Der Of deaths by yellow fever, l3,
showing an average of one death in
81 persons.
No. of cases Of yellow fever 90. 10
Showing a proportion Of deaths of
one in 5, S-l3 Of those attacked. OF
the 10 inhabitants of the garrison and
Arsenal three-fourths were unaccll-
mated and had been in the South
less than three years.
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TJALF BARRELS FLOUR.-25 Half
Ii Barrels Fancy st. Louis Flour, to
ayritr about the 0 prox.
Oct. 1fd. JOSHUA brAL
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nyWe see in the Plaqremine Sen
final that F. A. Woods is spoken of
as Senator for Iberville aud West
Baton Rouge.
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G. A N D Id A I L S

rry~We are authorised to announce
CHAs. f.. GRENEAUX, as candidate
for the office OF State Treasurer.
ny-We are authorized o announce Maj
A. NJ DUNN al candidate for the Le-
gislature. Election in November next. y
-
FprroR CoMEr Please announce II. v.
RABIN, Esq. the present incumbent. as 3
can lidatu Tor reelection 10 the office OF
SurrIrr Election 10 be held on the first
Monday in November.
4 THE PEOPLE.
~ We are authorised to announce
MANUEL MUREAO. the present incum-
bent. as candidate 70 reelection. TO the
Office of Clerk Of the sixth Judicial District
Court.
~ We are authorized 10 announce
SAML. sKOLFlELD the present incum-
bent, as andldaie for reelection to the
Office of Parish Recorder y
IT, You are authorized 10 announce
GEORGE V. TRUDEAU. as candidate
for the Office Of Parish I'ecorder Election
in November. MANY klENDS.
r~ We are authorized to announce X.
StBLEY STUART as candidate for the
office Of A s.ss or Of this rarish.
- 800 -
ny We are authorized 70 announce II.
NJ. PIERCE as a candidate for Assessor Of
this Parish
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Notice to Contractors.

PROPOSALS. will be received for the
L completion Of the grading, and bridg-
ing, and for falling the timber on the sides
OF the Crosse Tete end Baton Rouge
Plank Road. Address Cuas. A. SLACK,
president.-Grosse Tete Post office.
JAS. II JOHNSTON.
sept 13-f. Secretary.
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BARON Rouer, Ia. Sept. 50th 1853.
do hereby certify that ! attended the
hoy JOHN confined in the Jail a. this
place, runaway and that he died Of yell
low fever, which is prevailing now in this
place as an cpedenfic
TupMAs T. BURLINGTON.
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L LII sNNz :
'o1v's1cr - n .'1..s zsAITH.

O1yIo1O1 - AQA1D 0EMBAITH.
ossostl a. 1859
RAPPORT Of ~ deaths within NE City Of
Daicn Rouge, for the - houn ending I
o'clock, r. N. Monday, the ssd OssYler,
Rich. McNabb, IA yrs. Proving Epidemic
Child of p. A. Kngler yrs. Z
Ffitz Niver. 81 years
Jacab Seibut, 10
Mary Harnor Female Orphan Asylum)
81 WM. r. TUNNARD.
Secretary.
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HAYl HAY loo bales choice Hay
IL on hand and for sale by
Dci Ord. JOSHUA bEaL.
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Cloalxs, MantiIIas & TalInas.

w ID. PHILLIPS has just opened his
w fall stock Of the above good, con-.
sistirg of plain and embroidered ELK and
cloth talmas; silk, satin and velvet mantii-
las; cloth, velvet, and satin cloak; rich hg-
ured mantillas and talmas. la ostrich.
seD1C
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Ncm A0pcrttsfments.

NEW CROP OATS 800 bushels
IN Choice Oats Of the New Crop. For
sale by Oct JOSHUA BsaL.
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CTAR CANDLEs--2O boxes just ie-
- ceived. Oct. q iosnuA BrAh.
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ny We are authorized 70 announce II.
NJ. PIERCE as a candidate for Assessor Of
this Parish
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Curious DISCOVERY The COf-
yicre Mercantile Of Genoa, quotes a
letter of the 18th. mentioning the dis
coyary at Pompcii Of three human
skeletons, evidently belonging to one
family, together with that Of a dog
The postures in which they were found
lead TO the presumption hat they
were engaged in flight al the time Of
the eruption, but were overiaken by
the lava, the dog refusing to leave his
master They had bags Of gold and
silver coin with them ; one ofthe ske'-
ctons still displaying rings and orna-
ments, was hat Of a young girl proba-
bly, the daughterof the fugitive
H-At recent trial of Kidder's
gas regulator in the works of the
Screw Company at Providence, h. l.,
it wa found to effect saving in the
consumption Of gas equal to thirty.
zine per cent. Two accurate tests
were made, and bofh showed that
without the regulator 1900 feet were
bum in pseife time, whilst With it
lul 1900 feet were required an equal
amount of light being obtained
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ry~We are authorised to announce
CHAS. f.. GRENEAUX, as candidate
for the office of State Treasurer
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will be right so long as they stick to the prin-
eiples they announce. They stand by the Con.
stitution; they stand by the rights of the States
by the fngitiye-slave law by the north and
by the south; they stand by the national demo,
cratic party. Whatever party asserts these
things in theory and sustains them in practice,
must be an honest and patriotic party. This
is the party to which Dickinson, Bronson, and
O'Conor belong. Until it can be shown that
Van Buren,, Cochrane, Fowler, &c, have given
in their adhesion to such platform as the
above, we do not think that sound democrats
can givein their adhesion to them. Between the
two divisions southern men certainly ought not
to halt. One would so construe the Constitu-
ton as to deprive the south Of its most i'm
portant constitutional rights the other would
so interpret it as to secure every protection to
those rights.
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Heavy Tnrkeys and Geese.

Accounts have been given in several period
Gals OF the second poultry show of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England that was held
this last summer, at Gloucester. Some of the
turkeys were enormously heavy. Those be-
longing to Lord Fairlee weighed forty-nine
pounds each. Wouldn't that be a bouncer for
a thanksgiving dinner?
Among the geese, it is stated, there were
nine pens containing gander and two geese
each, and each averaged thirty four pounds
Those which took the premium, weighed re-
spectively, 4l,4O, 491, and 39.lbs The variety
called the Toulouse goose were the heaviest.
Such heavy geese would give Christmas
dinner to half Of a common sized parish, and
leave fragments enough for washing day
dinner besides, while two or three of them
would yield feathers enough to make a good
bed Maine Farmer.
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AGRICULTURAL.
Kennebec Agricultural society.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE on AGRICUL-
TURAL IMPLEMENTs.-The committee on agri-
cultural implements and bee hives would re-
port that there were five ploughs entered for
your premiums, by Mr.. Garfield, of Augusta.
These were manufactured by him, and exhib-
tied evidences of skill and workmanship in this
branch of mechanical industry.
We award your first premium for sward
plough to No. rs, (Prouty a. Mears } presented
by Mr.. Garfield. Your second premium for
the same, to the Proutys Michigan plough, so
called.
AS there was no seed plough entered for pre-
MUM, although two were exhibited, we did
not feel authorized to bestow your premium on
either. i34a
There was one Of Prouty & Co.'s sub-soil
ploughs, offered by Mr.. Garfield, but as there
are later improvements on this implement than
whatare exhibited in this, your committee came
to the conclusion not to award your premium
on this one.
Mr.. Garfield also exhibited very handsome
ly made swivel, or side-hill plough, which we
commend to those who wish to purchase such
an implement.
Mr.. Cofren, of Readfeld, exhibited some five
or six ploughs, Of the Minor & Horton pattern,
manufactured by himself They were not en-
tered for premium, but we recommend them to
the attention Of farmers.
Two kinds of straw cutters were exhibited
by Mr.. Garfield. One of them was Hoyey's
Patent, No. 8, and the other was Stiles Patent
These, though very different in their mode of
operation, are nevertheless very excellent inn
plements. No premium was offered for straw
cutters, but we take the liberty to commend
them to the attention of farmers.
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From tho Norfolk lyn.l News.

gssr The Soathside Democrat speaking Of
the removal Of Collector Bronson, used the
following language:
We are friends Of the President We be.
lieve that every measure and opinion and APP
pointment that has emanated from him since
the delivery of his inaugural has been the re.
suit OF a sincere conviction Of duty and an
earnest desire to promote the best interests of
the democratic party. That he has committed
errors in the application of his impulses in par,
ticular cases We agree, but they have been few,
very Few. The recent dismissal Of Mr. Bronson
is an error Of this idnd-ona that we shall not
defend, but be candid to admit Only by the
democratic journals of the country pursuing
this course can the administration be kept on
the right track. Administrations will run off
occasionally; and when they do, they should
be informed Of the fact. This is the course we
intend to pursue.
We fear, in the recent sentence, interested
councils have prevailed in the cabinet. We
much mistrust whether the benefit enuring to
the whole democratic family has been as much
considered by some of the presidents advisers,
in this matter, as have been consulted the pro-
bable effects Of a reverse course npon the fil-
ture political fortunes Of certain distinguished
gentlemen
But we forbear 10 trust ourselves further on
this subject. We shall await with anxiety the
progress Of rapidly Transporting events. Before
we have done, however, we have word Of
counsel to tender the northern "hunkers."
1t is to preserve temperance and forget not
their principles. !. Is to avoid, what many
will doubtless urge, a cooliti6ii sr'M the fchfgs.
1t is to abstain from imputing to the President
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Fraud in Fruit Trees.

The Worcester SPY states that during the
past two seasons various counties have been
visited by pretended travelling agents of large
and well known nurseries. Those who have
been inveigled into purchasing fruit trees Of
them have almost invariably been disappointed
in their trees, some to such an extent as to re-
fuse to set them out. These trees are said to
be manufactured in an obscure part Of the State
Of New York, by the process of root grating,
which is done by taking the roots of old trees in
the winter and cutting them up into small pieces
into each Of which is grated a scion. These
are planted in the spring, and grow vigorously
for three or four years, but soon come to a
stand, assuming the appearance and decrepi-
tude of old trees. Many kinds, naturally good
bearers, when propagated in this way, will
hardly bear at all.
The raising and importation of fruit trees
has, within few years past, become an import
ant branch of trade. No business is more open
to fraud, and in few is more deception prac-
ticed. A horticulturist should never buy trees
of strolling, irresponsible dealers.
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From the South Side Democrat Of 21st inst.
4 The Bronson Letter.

Collector Bronson's letter, in reply to the cir
cular Of the Secretary of the Treasury, is before
the people. 1t is calm defence Of himself,
from the charge Of favoritism in the distri-
button of the Offices in his gift made in the
letter of Secretary Guthrie; and, as such, de-
serves consideration, apart from the character,
ability and position Of its author. The treasu,
ry letter we lamented as an ill-advised and un-
dignifed interference in concern with which
the secretary should not have busted himself;
and this, because it is exalting the squabble Of
a State difference into the position of ma
tional affair, and raising the factions of a small
minority into the aspect of general disruption
to say nothing Of its legality. We confess we
had expected a different reply from collector
Bronson, but found no little pleasure in seeing
that he has not allowed personality, and the ex.
hibition of feeling to mar the respect which
should attach to so grave document.
The publication Of the letter but confirms us
in our opinion, that the proper, the only safe
course to be pursued, is to let the difficulties
and differences Of New York politics be settled,
if possible, in that State, and, with this view,
we must deprecate any interference in the mat
ter from without as unwarranted and iniudi.
cious.,
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From the Virginia Woodstock Tenth Legion.
Secretary Guthrie and Collector Bronson.

The recent letter of the Secretary of the
Treasury to Judge Bronson, collector for the
port of New York, and the rejoinder of the lat
ter, have created a considerable stir among the
quid nuncs. Mr.. Guthrie charges Mr.. Bron-
son with having violated an obligation binding
upon him, and assumed by him when he ac
cepted the collectorship, in the appointment of
his clerks, &C.; that he had made his appoint
ments from the old bunker branch of the party
almost exclusively, instead of distributing his
patronage equally between that branch and the
freesoilers, or barnburners. Mr.. b. says, in
reply, that 1T is undoubtedly true that more
appointments have been made from one section
OF the party than from the other; and single
reason will be sufficient to show why it was
proper to pursue that course. Most of the GUS
tom-house appointments for this port have al
ways been made from the counties of New
York and Kings, in which are the three large
cities which form a part of the port In 1913
the democratic and freesoi vote in those coun.
ties bore the relation of more than four for the
former to one for the latter" Mr. BIS arcu-
ment is, therefore, that he has made pro rata
distribution of Offices between these two sec
tons.
We can appreciate the good intentions of
Mr.. Pierce and his cabinet in their efforts to
conciliate and unite the New York democracy,
by distributing the patronage at its disposal
equally between the two contending branches
OF the party; yet, judging from what has already
TRANSFERRED, we think it highly probable that the
result will be, that the administration will find
itself ere long aoundering in the meshes of one
of the most corrupt political organizations that
was ever known in this country; an organiza-
ton which, in truth, is " held together by the
cohesive power Of plunder," and which must
fall to pieces whenever there are no offices,
State or federal, to be bestowed. In our humble
judgment, the national administration would
tain its own dignity, by abstaining from any
participation in the local questions that agitate
and divide parties in New York, and that the
most prudent course will be, to leave the settle
ment Of the question of the distribution Of pat
ronage with those in whom it is invested by
law.
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The best Fowls for Farmers.

My blooded fowls do not prove equally prof
table; the Polands, being yarded and well fed,
having lime and gravel and little fresh meat,
have laid more eggs than most other varieties
but, when without meat, the eggs have been
few
My Bolton Greys have eat little and laid well.
without setting; but several itters of their chick
ems have all been taken by the rats, and have
labored IN vain to raise any where rats could
get to them.
The Golden Pheasants are more beautiful !;
have laid almost continually, and none of their
chickens have been taken, though running upon
the same ground with the Greys. The Grey
chicks are weakly, while the Pheasants are too
sprightly to be caught. $@
Guilderlands, after being with cock of an
other variety, produced halfbreeds at first; but
the second litter was obviously pure They Law
the largest eggs, though less in number, and
propagate their marks of purity like q wild
original breed.
The Black Shanghais find no demand for,
nor any satisfactory specifications of their faults
leaving us to reflect upon their likeness TO an
unfortunate race. The Dominique or Grey
Shanghais seem every way valuable. The
White are delicate, and do not rear as well.
had seven chickens hatch from sixty eggs, and
hive OF them lived; while nearly all of the buff
colored Matched, and are doing well.
can discover no superior utility in the longer
legs and necks of the Cochin Chinas, yet their
great size and other faultless qualities speak
volumes in their praise. OF the eight varieties
which | breed, the buff Shanghais sometimes
called red, sometimes Yellow / like the best.
With me they, have reared the best, even the
common dnnghill not excepted. They have laid
q good number of large eggs Of the best quality,
and have nursed their broods we'll Those Of
the best stock weigh from s to 10 pounds One
OF my breeders weighed 50 pounds, another 81
pounds.
Ii the farmers who have not yards for sepa-
rate breeding would supplant all others with
this variety, it could not fail to increase his
income. And when the hen fever shall be past,
and its high prices fall away, his chickens, in
common market, would sell, not for shilling,
but for half a dollar and would give proper
tionable supply of the finest meat 1T home.
ag.A OhiOIC nlticnt0r
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TRUE BASIS OF NATIONAL DEMO-
CRATIC ORGANIZATION.
THE YOUNG MEMS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL cL,
OF NEW YORK.

IL
OF NEW YORK.
The following is the chart Of principles
adopted by the organization known as the
Young Mems Democratic National Club Of
New York.
"A faithful support of the Constitution Of The
United States and i.s compromises, gratefully ac-
knowledging the benefits conferred and enloyed
thereby, with Willingness 10 discharge the obi
cations enoined.
San unyielding determination TO maintain in its
integrity the democratic republican party, with a
sacred regard TO IFS principles and usages, as the
same have been from time 10 time declared by its
regularly authorized delegates ln the various ma
tonal conventions Of the party, but especially
the platforms adopted by the conventions Of 1918
and 1852.
"A hearty support ofthe principles upon winch
the present administration were elected into power,
including faithful execution of the fugitive slave
law or amendments of the same, II amendments
shall be necessary 10 render il more efficient and
certain.
" A firm opposition 10 the application Of what is
| known as the "Wilmot provison either in the ac-
QUESTION Of territory, in the establishment of
territorial governments for any territory which
may be hereafter acquired by the United States
This chart contains the very essence Of
democracy. A faithful adherence TO the prin-
cipies here lald down, Will protect them against
any error, heresy or scism. There is no room
on such platform for the disorganizers and
destructiyes ofthe freesoil faction. II Is hardly
10 be supposed, from what is known Of them aud
their affiliations that the young Van Burens and
such like would construct so strong and salts.
factory platform, if they were to form young
mems organization. Such are the sentiments
and principles Of the national democrats, and
vet some II the presses Of the country have had
the presumption to "a. "d mem ont OF The demo
cratic party. We want no stro."ser, sounderi
purer democracy, than is contained in the abo1Vee
chart of principles.
Nobody, we presume, viii doubt, that the
Young Mems Democratic Club Of New York,
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From the Southside Democrat.
Daniel s. Dickinson and the Virginia DE
mOcracy.

mOCfdCys
The New Tork Epeniag Past quotes some
extracts from the Norfolk Argus to show that
the true patriot, whose name heads this para
graph, is losing friends in the south, especially
IN Virginia. We find among these extracts
the following:
sour people will not consent to become the
victims of corrupt and t,aitorous demagogaies,
bllndly bent on the accomplishment Of their
own selfish schemes of factious ascendancy.
with all the past professions and noble SEN
tnents which have heretofore characterized the
course of the Hon. Daniel s. Dickinson, and
endeared him so much to the south, his posi-
ton, under existing circumstances, is well cal
culated % excite suspicion and distrust. Dis
corning minds think they can perceive in his
present superserviceable zeal, a disposition TO
promote has o,cn rieps and party schemes
rather than an anrious desire TO benefit the
cause Of The south"
The Norfolk Argts speaks, of course, for H.
se!t, as We venture that not half dozen of its
southern readers indulge either in such "sus-
p'ctonp or discern in his rgcsentcourse any dis
position 10 promote his otrn rie,rs and party
schemes" On the contrary, they view him as
they have ever done, the noble self,sacri6cing
statesman, who stood by them in the hour of
adversely when many Of their own timid natu-
raj defenders quailed and ANONYMOUSLY left
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SCENE IN A CouRT IN MAINE.--At the Su-
preme court in Alfred, Maine, on the 18th inst,
William h. Haskell, who was convicted on two
indictments for store breaking, being asked by
Judge Howard if he had anything to say, made
some hypocrtical remarks calculated to prom.
tiate the Judge, and received sentence Of two
years in the State prison on each Indictment.
County attorney Drew observed that the pris.
oner was a dangerous man, and should have
had more severe sentence; and Haskell re.
piled in some personal remarks, which brouobt
down the audience in perfect nproar. so that
some time elapsed before order was restored
The sheriff then informed Haskell that denntv
Lord would take him back to jail, but the pr;s.
oner objected, and expressed,a Willingness to
go alone with deputy Moulton. This arrange.
ment was not approved by the sheriff; and
when an attempt was made to take Haskell ont
OF the dock q tremendous fight occurred
sheriifs, police and lawyers assisting to bind
and carry off the prisoner, who fought like a
mailman. For this freak, the Judge reconsid,
cred ere, one OF his sentences, and sent him to
Ihomaston for seventeen years, instead of four.
lie had prepared heavy bludgeon with which
to knock down sheriff Moulton, which was the
reason of his anxiety for the. pleasure Of the
company Of the latter to the jail