Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-07-02

NEGRO AssAULT-We learn from the
Donaldson Vigilant that on Tuesday last, a
planter named Quiquerez, living near Napo-
leonville; parish of Assumption, was most
horribly cut and wounded by mulatto slave,
and is not expected to recover. 1t appears
that January; the slave had stolen some of
Mr.. Quiquerez's chickens for which he had
been chastlsed Bent upon revenge he APP
preached the dwelling of his victim at night,
and knocked. As soon as Mr.. Quiquerez
opened the door, January struck him several
blows on his head and shoulders with
Ratchet The cries of Mr.. Quiquerez alarm
ed the neighbors, whereupon the mulatto
fed; but being identified by Mr.. Quiquerez,
was arrested and lodged in Jail. Mr.. Qui-
querez, at the last accounts, was in an ex-
ceedingiy precarious state.
+ Jumps OF GoLD.-The statements respect
ing the large Jumps Of gold found in Aus
tralia are confirmed by the English papers,
They say of a 1874 pound lump found in the
Ballarat Diggings that $4,000 had been
offered for it. Out Of the same lucky hole,
the same persons, four new corners, took an
oiher piece weighing 5lb. 5 or. out of one
hole. Three other diggers at Ballarat had
found about 40 yards from the bed of the
"a ID. nugget, two Jumps, one weighing
II ID, or, aud the other SO Id. 6 OF, the pro-
portion of pure gold being more than eight
ninth. And there is another report of the
finding Of a 100 ID. nugget, in the same
golden locality. 1t is in Australia as in
California, great many others find not
enough to keep them fully on the safe side
of starvation.
70 The Bee has we'll written and we'll
conceived article, which it terms an "Apo-
logy for the Profession," meaning the Ed
itorial. Itsays editors are presumed to know
everything. They are not only considered
to be complete repositories of ancient and
modern history, professors of all the known
arts and sciences, and qualified TO utter
oracular opinions upon the quadrature of the
circle, and the most certain method of as
certaining longitude, but are commonly be-
iieved to be gifted with faculties of provision
| far more accurate than the Seers of Scotland
or the Spirit Rappers of America" How
ever fattering this confidence in the editorial
head may be, the editor of the Bee modestly
confesses that it is barely possible there may
be some subjects with which an editor may
not be familiar. .E
editors are usually we'll informed NELL
They cannot, in fact, be editors otherwise
They know precisely as much as one may
reasonably expect from men whose business
it is to exercise, continually, the faculties of
observation and memory. But, at the risk of
shocking the sensibiities of some of our
brethren, we repeat, it is impossible they
can know every thing. They don't know,
for instance, in what year of the world
Cheops built the first pyramid; nor whether
mankind have sprung from one or several
pairs: nor the precise origin ofthe American
Indians; nor how many planets yet remain
undiscoyeredin the realms of space nor how
it is that carbon and nitrogen in certain pro-
portions form one body, and in similar pro-
portions form another very unlike the first !;
nor in fact do they know very many things
which nobody else knows. Strange, too, as
it may seem, they cannot absolutely and
demonstraby prove that there will or will
not be war between Russia and Turkey !;
and we have shrewd suspicion, that in the
| present state of our information on the SUBJ
ject, they scarcely know whether the sue
cess Of the Chinese insurgents, or of the re-
l ,1or e,,ft d.
of Souchong and Imperial green tea. With
this frank avowal our shortcomings, the
| tribe of newsmongers will understand that
| editors have not yet attained infaIlibility or
omniscience. This is progressive age, and
| at the rate the world is travelling, and with
| the help of patent systems, steam power,
electricity, and other means and appliances,
| we would not venture the assertion that the
time will never come when universal know
| ledge will be bottled up in a single brain,
communicated to the first conductor that
desires it. But we may safely affirm that
millennium is YET to arrive, and in the in
term we trust that the aforesaid newsmon-
gers will take our hints in good part, and be
| ing editors for extra information in advance"
/
HINTS 70 PoLITICkL SAT1R1sTs-The Aus
| trian officer in command of the garrison at
Perugia was lately irritated at a satire, the
products of an unknown pen, which made
its appearance ON the walls Of the town,
directing Its iambics against tie imperial
army. Unable TO discover the author the
| officer requested the papal governor to
furnish him with a list Of all the poets of
Perugia. A somewhat embarrassing COM
mission to execute, in a country where
rhyming seems the natural language How
ever, the magistrate after due criticism,
produced five individuals, whom he con-
sidered to have drank Of the Hyperian
springs sufficiently deep to be entitled poets
The Austrian had them all stripped in the
presence of medical officer, whom he
ordered TO examine them, and report upon
the physica capacity of each for receiving
blows With q stick. Naturally belonging 10
genus irritable, and of excitable nervous
conformation, the unfortunate poets were
set down by the. surgeon at charitably
low number of bastiuadoes; and were still
more gratifed when the officer instead Of
actually carrying into execution his 'cntting
up" an operation even more CALLING than
that OF hostile reviewers, contented himself