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The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1853-09-10
WIN RS
MADAM RMIF y GE,
WARRANTED PURELY VEGETABLE.

1t safe in its operation; and more easily admin
stered than any other. Some of the symptoms
which indicate the existence of the worms In the
bowels, are as follows the countenance is PALE ofa
leaden color and sufiised with occasional tushes;
the eyes are heavy and dull the breath fEtid, the
upper lip swollen, itching in the nostrils, which
the patient to pick his nose: the sleep is dis
urbed, the patient often awakening in great fright
and is liable to starting and grinding the teeth; the
appetite exceedingly irregular, being sometimes
voracious others feeble, and in instances it is
deprayed.
To the following certificates numerous others
hight be added, but it is believed that these
sufficient to establish the fact that Wners Cana
dian Verrnifuge is superior remedy for worms.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
We, the undersigned, having frequently admins
tered a medicine prepared by Mr.. John WIner OF
this town. designated j. Winer's Canadian Vermi-
fuge,o and being fully satisfied with its efficacy
confidently recommend it as safe and efficient
remedy for the expulsion of worms from the intes-
final canal.
G. O'REILLY,
Lcentiate of the R. C. of Surgeons in Ireland, etc,
G. w. DICKINSON,
Member of the r. C. of Surgeons in London, ETC.,
From the Reu. J. Flanagan, Of Banbrook, C. w.
J. Winer-Sir: have made the trial of your
Canadian Vermifuge and with the most happy re-
suits. In my own family, and in every case which
has come to my knowledge the expulsion of worms
has followed the administering OF your Vermifuge
and every here prefer it to any other as its ef
fects are certain and children take it more readily
which is great point gained in giving medicine
to children.
Jaly 16. 1915. JOHN FLANAGAN.
~ Physicians generally now use Winer's Ca
madam Vermifuge. This medicine is a simple
vegetable preparation, and can always be admins
tered with perfect safety and confidence as to the
result, as it will always destroy worms and restore
the patient to health.
Over one thousand certificates have been sent to
the Agents from planters, merchants and physicians
bearing testimony to the efficacy of this infallible
remedy.-Warrantedi in all cases.
Prepared only by JOHN WINER, Manufactu-
ring Chemist and Wholesale Druggist, Hamilton,
Canada West.
10 Sold wholesale and retail, at atmanufacturer's
prices by J. WRIGHT & Co., New Orleans.
Isl Chartres ST., under Orleans House
For sale in Opelousas, by A. J. Thompson & Co.,
also by John Posey.-Sold in Washington, by s. D.
Alis. -5
Opelousas, 18th June 1s53.-1y.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1853-09-10
BOARDING & DAY-SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES.

SUpERINTENDED BY Miss BERGER.
HyEIS Institution is situated in one of the
= most retired and agreeable part of the
town of Opelousas offers all the advantages desra-
BILE for house of Education.
The course of Instruction will embrace, the
french, english, reading, writing, History, Geogra-
ghy, Mythology, Arithmetic and all kind of needle
works The study of the English Languages is the
object of particular care it will be taught by an
American Lady, residing in this Institution.
Religion, the basis of all good education, is fol-
lowed and taught with care. Miss Bercier will
spare no care, and pains to obtain the welbeing
of young ladies under her direction and to deserve
the confidence of their parents. @
" The terms per quarter are as follows:
Instruction, $1,000
Boarding, s25 90 s.
Music s1S 90
Each student must be furnished with bed stead
a mattrass, bolster, musquitto bar, four sheets
six towels, fork, knife and spoon.
Opelousas 18th March 1553.-9m
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1853-09-10

FEyHE NEW UNITED STATES MAIL
- ROUTE from Donaldsonville, termi-
mating at Washington, Parish of st. Landry, La.
is now complete, by stage coaches, to Lake Verret
% miles from Donaldsonville, and steamboat from
Lake Verret to Berwick's Bay, Pattersonville,
Centreville, Franklin, Clarendon, Jeanneretts and
New Iberia, nine miles below st. Martinsville,)
distance 80 miles: and by stage coaches, from New
Iberia to ington--distance, 54 miles.
Passengers from New Orleans leave in The river
mail boats at o'clock P. M, on MONDAYS.
WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS: and will arrive
at Donaldsonville on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS
and SATURDAYS, in time for the stages, at six
o'clock Z. M. t
For comfort, speed and safety, passengers will
find this route superior to all others as no freight is
taken, and the delays and impediments of the old
routes are entirely avoided.
VINSON & RATIER, Propyietors.
may 18th, 1858.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

Harsh Words of Edhors.-Inour estimation
nothing so much lowers an editor and his pro.
~fession, than in the use Of low epithets against
each other--though, we admit, there are times
when it is difficult to restrain ones feelings in
this respect. Giving another the lie, and such
like epithets, does not make him so by a great
deal neither does it warrant the belief that
one acts cowardly by not in any manner re-
senting or replying to such a charge. Our plan
is, that when a contemporary so far forgets
himself, his argument, and what is due to the
feelings of others, as to use towards US vile
and unbecomiDg personal epithets, we never
afterwards notice him, under any circumstan-
ces or upon any conditions.
These remarks were induced by reading a
paragraph in the Baton Rouge Gase1e of last
week, where the ''lie" was given to the Visa
Wis, in consequence of that paper having sta.
ted that the Gazette of the week previous con-
tanned an article which upheld the Belcher
fraud, or to that amount; when, really, if we
are not very mnch in error, that paper compli.
mented its contemporary Of st. Michael for an
editorial article of "great power relative to
that subject, and stated that, at the commence.
ment of the excitement, he (the editor of the
Gazette was fayorabIy disposed towards the
Belchers, but that he had now (~perhaps on
reading the article alluded toy had entirely
changed his opinion. The Vis-a- Wis certainly
could not have misunderstood this language of
its contemporary, and probably the assertion it
made which brought forth the "lie," was moth
ing more than a typographical error of some
kind or other. Whatever may have been the
cause, there is no excuse, according to our idea,
for an editor to use language such as quoted
with reference to another.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

Expanding The Chest.-Those in easy cir
cumstances, or those who pursue sedentary
employment within doors, use their lungs but
little, breathe but little air in the chest; and
thus, independently of positions, contract a
wretchedly small chest, and lay the foundation
for the loss of health and beauty. All this can
be obyiated by a little attention to the manner
of breathing. Recollect, the lungs are like a
bladder in their structure, and can stretch open
to double their size with perfect safety, giving
a noble chest, and perfect immunity from con-
sumption.
The agent, and only agent required, is the
common air we breathe, supposing, however,
that no obstacle exists, external to the chest,
such as twining it about with stays, or hav-
ing the shoulders lie upon it. On rising from
the bed in the morning, place yourself in an
erect posture, with your head thrown back and
your shoulders entirely off from the chest, then
inhale all the air that can be got in; then hold
your arms off behind; hold your breath as long
as possible. Repeat these long breaths as
many times as you please. Done in a cold
breath is much better, because the air is much
denser, and will act much more powerfully in
expanding the chest. Exercising the chest in
this manner, it will become flexible and expan-
sibIe, aud will enlarge the capacity and size Of
the lungs.-Sciemyfe American.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10
Ingenious Escape off Prisoner.-Jas. Dunn

Ingenious Escape pfa Prisoner.-Jas. Dunn,
a convict at Sing Sing, N. Y, on Friday last eff
feeted his escape from that institution in a We
ry ingenious manner. Procuring some strips
of India rubber, he made an alright tube some
six feet long, to the end of which he attached a
bag Of the same material, shaped like a duck.
Managing to elude his keepers, he came to the
river, where he threw off and secreted his
clothing, and with his new life-preserver plung-
ed in, and when at the bottom kept one end of
the tube in his mouth, the bag meanwhile float
ing on the surface and supplying him with air.
In this way he passed the whole of the prison
docks, and had proceeded about half a mile
down the stream to Colyer's dock, when, his
pipe giving way, he was forced to swim ashore,
where he met q crowd of people, and informed
them that some one had stolen his clothes, and
left them in pursuit of the thief, which was
the last that has been heard of him. He was
twenty years of age, had served one term of
confinement, and was at the time of escape un-
der sentence for life.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

A Murderous and Mysterious Afar-We
take the following from the Young American,
which issued its first number in this town last
Wednesday:
"Last week, while the R. M. Jones, Bayou Sara
packet, was lying at the wharf in New Orleans a
large box was deposited among her other freight,
marked merchandise, and directed to a well known
business gentleman of this place. Not until some
ten or twelve hours or more, afterthe box was re-
ceived, as we understand, did the boat leave on
her usual trip. She had scarcely got under way,
however, when a very bad scent prevailing in the
lower part of the boat, search was made, when
it was found to proceed from this box. It was
instantly opened, when, 10! there was the corpse
of a man inside, wrapped up in shavings, having
on his usual every day clothes. The box was
Immediately taken ashore and buried, and on his
arrival here, the captain informed the gentleman
to whom the box was directed of the horrible af-
fair, much to his surprise as may be imagined
He Immediately wrote to the Mayor of the city,
who viii doubtless leave no means untried to un-
ravel this mysterious affair. No other reason can
be assigned for such an ACT, than that which would
influenced murderer.n
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

A Melancholy Incident.--A few days since
MFR. C. Fl. P. SPRAGUE, a young man formerly
of Arkansas and q resident here for about a
year past, not hearing any tidings from a VII
dowed mother at Carrollton, and fearing that
she was sick, he left a few days since to 60
and see her. He was on the Gypsy but a few
hours when he was taken with the fever, and
so severe was the attack, that he died a short
time after he was landed at the above place. 1t
was afterwards learned, says our informant'
that his mother was lying at the point of death
at the time he expired. Such is one of the
mournful events attending the desolating
scourge now closing the eye.lids and sorrow
ing the hearts of all in it's path.
MFR. SpRAeuE was a young gentleman of a
most amiable and winning disposition, and be-
loved by all who knew him.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10
Facts About the Feuer.--A few months age

Facts About the Feuer.--A few months ago
a merchant of this city took to his home and
heart a youthful bride, and went TO reside in
the Fourth District. Wishing to live in priva-
cy, he engaged only one servant--a fresh green
Girl, from the Emerald Isle. She took the fe-
YER, and in a few days died. Another was
hired, and shared the same fate. A third and a
fourth filled the vacancy in the household, and
followed in succession the sweeping summons
of the same fell destroyer. Following the
impulse of a natural dread, the merchant went
to Mobile to avoid the destructive visitation of
the scourge, and the next day buried his young
and beautiful bride. Disguised with a home
where nought but empty chambers served to
call up the memories Of departed Joys he re-
turned to the city to sell out his household,
determined to leave a locality to him so sugges.
tive of sorrow. Ie died the next day. When
our informant visited the premises, there was
but one living creature there. It was a solitary
parrot, swinging in its lonely cage, and wailing
unwittingly its deserted state. Alas, poor
Pol - Crescent.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10
The Tomb of Napozeon.-William C. BRYAN

The Tomb of Napoleon.-William C. Bryant,
the poet, has recently visited the tomb of Mas
poleon in the Church of the Invalides, France,
which has just been completed. He says, in a
letter, that there is not upon earth so magnif-
cent a mausoleum as that Of the handful of
dustthat remains Of the warrior who in his
lifetime was the terror of Europe. The tomb
is in part constructed Of American marble. the
resting place of the remains being surrounded
by a circle of colossal figures, one of which, a
winged figure, is to represent the angel of re,
surrection, who is in the consumation of earth
to call the mighty warrior from his sleep, to be
confronted by the spirits of the myriads who
were slain in his sanguinary wars.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

1.-THE present Sultan is the first Turkish
monarch who has not murdered his brother -
This dangerous relative lives, and is regarded
as the head of the old Turkish party. The
Sultan abhors war, and detests capital punish
ments. He has a great fondness for music,
but after learning it all his life, be has only
been able to play one tune on the piano it is a
march, which the Sultan obligingly plays for
everybody. on all occasions. He is also very
fond of champagne, which he drinks under the
pretence that the Koran only forbids fermented
drinks.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

Ereret's Progressive like Everett's pro-
gress of the heart as well as the head; Of the
citizen as we'll as the public man. 1t is the
progress of the Christian, the statesman, the
philosopher and patriot. There is q heroism
in everyday life. This heroism is what Everett
would raise monuments to; the heroism that
| makes the honest and industrious maj and the
good citizen. Everett would teach US to sur
round our homes with comfort and our fire.
sides with cheerfulness. Eyeretts is the pro-
gress of men acting under the impulse of their
noblest qualities--his opponents the progress
Of men with every baser passion aroused
Everett would enshrine each hearth with the
flowers of domestic peace; his opponents would
rear one high artificial wreath as a mockery to
hide the universal woe. One seeks to gain an
extensive domain purchased with blood; the
| other, to spread out what we have, the pleasant
verdure Of rural culture and waving harvests.-
One delights in the clash of arms--the other,
in the anviI's ring. One would have a feet to
carry death and destruction over the sea; the
other would have the ocean whitened with
sails engaged in peaceful trade, and messen-
gers Of love. One would have a Punic war, the
other twenty-five years ofpeace.
There is flag, white and pure in lis represen-
tation of innocency, which heralded the advent
of a new era, tie era of universal peace
There is no blood upon it. 1t is not wet with
tears. 1t has been planted on every shore and
in every land. 1t is worshipped at everyfire-
side. 1t waves from our affairs. 1t waves from
our cross; and though less obtrusive and
gIaring than the red banner whieFfeevil likes, it
is the hope and soIace of the world.
This is the age of bcnevoIence, and it is
gratifying to witness in one so exalted, the
evidence that ambition and the affairs of State,
have not made him less man. Edward Everett
is now the shining Statesman of America
HIS progress is true progress, and it will be
we'll if the American people listen to his voice.
baltimore Times.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

Health Of 1t Tovn--Since our last issue
several deaths have occurred in town, some of
which were pronounced yellow fever, and ma
ny have been sick, but now'convalescent. The
weather this morning friday is cloudy and
chilly and very unfavoroble to health, and we
fear there will be no improvement in health for
the present. The deaths, so far from fever,
with the exception of W. children, were for
eigners, who have been in this country but a
short time. All, whether acclimated or not,
should be careful to clothe themselves accord
ing to the weather, and to keep their minds en-.
tirely free from agitation or fear.
AT the present time, Friday afternoon, we
hear of several new cases Of fever.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10
The Police Jury

The September session convened last Mon
day. Present, Messrs. Thos. CssBrown, Pre-
sident, Louis Hebert, E. D. Woods and R, A.
Upton-three members absent.
The following commissioners Of Elections
were appointed for the term of one year:
First Observation-Disclosures Comeau, Mag
loin Landry and Forestein Daigre, at the Buena
Vista Hotel.
Second Disrct-Court House, Plaquemine.
--Lucien Landry, Trasimond Roth and Octave
Haase.
Third Disrict-lndian Village.-John A.
Dardenne, Joseph Kleinpeter and Alexander
Roth.
Fourth Districl--Paul Dupuy's residence
Camille L. Landry, Balthazar Dupuy and Vale
ry Hebert.
Fifth District-Gomez's Store.--B. F. Moore:
Edward Leblanc and Pierre Richard.
Sirth Disrict--Leon Picon's residence
w. R. Boote, Amedee Rlouin and Leondias
Redditt.
Serenlh District--Ives' Mill.--Lucien Le-
Blanc, Valery Templet and Joseph Texada.
Eighth District--Jas. P. Longley's Store,
Crosse Tete.-C. W. Keep, J. P. Longley and
J. H. Johnston.
The sum of $500, on motion of Mr.. Upton,
was appropriated to the benevolent purposes
| of the Howard Association of New Orleans.
The charges of twelve and a half cents per
wheel at the Plaquemine ferry, were reduced
to five cents per wheel.
Mr.. AdoIphe Grass, Treasurer Of the Parish,
sent in his rcsignation-which was laid on the
table.
A pension of $40 per month was allowed
Mr.. Julien Silcuit, an INDECENT resident, to be
paid quarterly.
A petition was presented by the citizens of
the Bird Police Jury Ward, praying that said
ward be divided into two districts-laid over
till the next regular meeting.
A petition from citizens of M%arangouin was
granted, allowing them till next February to
build their levees and make their necessary
roads.
Mr.. A. Talbot was elected parish Attorney
for the unexpired term of H. F. Deblieux, re-
signed.
A parish Tax of twelve and a half cents on
every hundred dollars of taxable property, was
levied, and an ordinance passed to that effect.
Accounts amounting to Sl7o 97a were paid.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

Erereu's Orati0n.--The following eloquent
extract we take from Eyerett's Grafton at the
late Plymouth Celebration
IL need not say to this company, assembled
on the shores of the haven for which so many
noble hearts on that terrible voyage throbbed
with sickening expectancy--than quiet haven
where the Mayfiower furled her tattered sails
that a greater, a nobler work was never per-
formed by man. Truly the opus magnuns, the
great work of humanity. You bid me speak OF
that portion of it which d~evolved on the Pill
grims. Would to heaven | could find words
to do justice even to my own poor conceptions,
and still more that | could find conceptions not
far below the angus reality. A mighty work
of improvement, in which (not to speak OF
what has been done in other portions OF the
continent) the poor solitary Mayfower, so to
say, has multiplied herself into the thousand
vessels that bear the flag of the Union to every
sea; has scattered her progeny through the
land, to the number of nearly a quarter OF a
million for every individual in that dropping
company of one hundred; and in place OF the
simple compact which was signed in her cabin,
has exhibited to the admiration of mankind a
constitution of Republican Government for all
this growing family of prosperous States. but
the work is in its infancy. 1t must extend
| throughout the length and breadth of the land;
and what is not done directly by ourselves,
must be done by other governments and other
races, by the light of our example. The work,
the work must 60 on. 1t must reach at the
north to the enchanted cave of the magnet,
within never melting barriers of Arctic ice; it
must bow to the lord of day on the altar-peak
of Chimborazo; it must look up and worship
the Southern Cross. From the ea%sternmost
cliff on the Atlantic, that bushes in the kind
ling dawn, to the last promontory on the Pacific,
which catches the parting kiss of the setting
sun, it must make the outgoings of the morn
ing and the evening to rejoice in the gladstone
light ofmorals, and letters, and arts. Emperors
and kings, and parliaments, the oldest and the
strongest governments in Europe, must engage
in this work in some part or other of the CONT
nent, but no part of it shall be so faithfully and
successfully performed as that which was I'M
dertaken on the spot where we are now ga
thered, by the Pilgrim Fathers of New Eng
Iandn
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

Progress Of the Yellow Ferer.-The fever
seems to be fast extending into the country
since there are but few more victims in the city.
We perceive that it is prevailing in Grand Gulf
and Woodville, and leaves its impress every
where along the coast. In Baton Rouge, we
learn, it still continues. But at Thibodeaux
its rayages have been fearful. We received
the Minerva, half sheet, on Thursday; it re-
cords 81 deaths for the week! It says:
The disease is of the most malignant type,
and has created a panic amongst the citizens
verging on frenzy. All places Of business are
closed. The streets are deserted and look
more like a path in the wilderness than the
public thoroughfares of a thriving commercial
town of 1900 inhabitants. The citizens are
h%urrying away in every direction to get, if pos
sible, beyond the pesteferous atmosphere which
seems to hang over and envelop that hitherto
saIubrious village. .
Up to the 9th uIt, the number@f cases OF
yellow fever in Thibodeaux, was %. On the
evening of that day, the number had greatly IN
creased. Mr.. Anderson, of the Minerva, was
attacked while engaged in making up the form.
All the compositors in the office had fled.
The disease spread rapidly up to the even
ing of the Sd inst, and the number of cases
then exceeded one hundred and sixty.
@sNever," says the Minerva, shave we wit
messed scenes of greater distress and abandon
ment to fear. Parents abandon their offspring,
and children forsake their parents, and leave
them to the protection of the benevolent stran-
ger"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-09-10

% The new Comet which is now visible in
the west to the naked eye, about an hour after
sunset, is a comet discovered on the 10th of
June by M. Klinkerfues. Its nucleus is of the
brightness of a star of the third magnitude /; a
tail of one or two degrees in length can also
be distinguished, extending upward. 1t is
gradually increasing in brightness. Its distance
from the sun is now thirty millions of miles;
but from the earth it is two or three times more
remote.