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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

KIND WORDS. Kind words are like the
gentle rain and refreshing dews; but harsh
words bend and break like the angry tenn
pest. The first developo and strengthen
good affections, while the others sweep over
the heart in devastation, and mar and deform
all they touch.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

fw~ The Nashville Banner of the 9Th an
nounces the death of the Hon. Morgan W..
Brown, Judge of the U. S. District Court for
Tennessee. He died at Nashville on the It'll
after long and painful illness.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

BALTIMORE, March IA.
The Bridge at Cohoes, near Albany, and
the Saratoga Rail Road Bridge, have both
been burnt by incendiaries.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

W""If body see body carrying of
his wood, should a body whale body-if n
body could"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-The Ha-
vre Cotton Market had advanced, and the
sales duringthe week comprised 10000 bales.
France was quiet.
HUEGARY.-At Pesth extraordinary pre-
cautions were observed, as an outbreak was
apprehended.
NORTHERN IrALY.-Mazzini was lurking
in Milan. He had planned the seizure of an
Austrian steamer, but was frustrated in his
design.
PRUssIA.-The report that an attempt had
been made to assassinate the King of Prussia
was unfounded.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.-A war is likely, il
is thought, to occur between Russia and
Turkey; the latter has sought the arbitration
of England and France.
Await is rumored that the King of Bur.
nah has been dethroned by a revolution.
.B' The N. Y. Herald says, the leading
men as debaters in the Senate, as at present
organized, leaving the free soilers out of the
question, will doubtless be Cass, Hunter
Mason, Soule, Atherton, Butler, Douglass
Rusk and Houston, on the democratic side
with Clayton, Everett, Pearce, Dixon, Jones
Badger, Truman Smith, and Geyer, on thai
Or The wings. Gen. Cass and Gen. Dodge
are the two Oldest men in the Senate, being
over seventy years of age. Most of tn,
others have been born during the present
century, and the average ages of the forty
five Senators whose years are known is abou
fifty.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

sB" Col Perry, of Greenville, who is en-
gagged professionally in the Gardiner case,
saws he has no doubt of DR.. GARDENERS inno-
cence in the whole matter, and the existence
of the mines. He further says:
al am sure God never gave such face
and countenance as his to a scoundre. He
is an accomplished gentleman, and have no
doubt his trial will prove him honest"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

~ One Mr.. Goodenough, recently mar
RED Miss Toogood! We suppose they,
being combined, make things just about right.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

~" TeIegraphc dispatches inform us of
"a tremendous crowd of office seekers at
Washington. So great is the number that
they have damned back upon Baltimore. Be-
fore long they'll be damning all over the coun-
try.-Murf. Tel,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

sB" The Savings Banks of New York
have on hand unclaimed deposits to Ito
amount of nearly one million of dollars, and
the Legislature has just passed n law provid-
ing that all deposits unclaimed for twenty
years shall escheat to the State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

az There is good deal of truth in the
following aphorism, which we find in the N
York Mirror: "Sef-sacrifce often invites I'M
kindness A man who shows any desire to
do good is at once made a pack-horse; and
those who cannot use him call him hypo-
orita
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

~" Peter G. Washington, Esq, has been
appointed and entered upon the duties Of
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in the
place of VIM. l.. Hodge, Esq.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, has issued his
proclamation for the election of five members
Of Congress from the State at large.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 6.-Ben. Nc
Culloch, the noted Texan Ranger, had an en-
counter at Browns dinner table, to-day with
West, lawyer from New. Mexico. West had
insuted McCulloch, and finally threw glass
of water in his face, whereupon the latter
knocked West down with n tumbler, broke
a pile of dinner plates over his head, and beat
him with a chair until he was seriously
tbouph not dangerously injured
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

w" Miss Gould, the poetess, gives ludi-
crous incident of the mistakes of the press
in reference to poem she had sent to a
country editor. She says:
"For the dew drop that falls upon the
freshly blown roses"
The barbarian made it, from "freshly Jlown
nOSeSp
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

.y" 1t is stated that the Legislature of
Pennsylvania has, among other projects, n
bill for an incorporation to raise chickens.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

eW A Mr.. J. Kemp Thomas was killed
by runaway negro near Atlanta, Ga, few
days since.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

tJS- See advertisement j. A. Wright &
Co., Sweetwater.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

The DISEASES OF NATIoNs.-Rev. Tho
mas Starr King, in his lecture on "Show and
Substance" holds post morton examination
over the remains of ancient nations, and finds
they did not perish by the might of foreign
conquerors, but by their own innate corrup-
ton. Such would be the verdict: Babylon
died of deirum tremens; Ninevah, apopleXy
Persia, weakness of the spine, Greece quick
consumption; Rome, paralysis" The pre-
sent characteristics of nations were hit of
happily, thus: Ireland was hungry and dirty
France was troubled with Neuralgia and St
Vitus's dance; Spain had the scurvy, Austria
was bad off with COLES and cramps, that re-
CURED the utmost nursing skill of the Rus
sian Gar; Germany was subject to the govt
and headache; England had plethora; while
even in our youthful nation, signs Of Il can
Ger might be seen on our limbs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

Here is the last connubial regret in our
drawer
Would you like'to subscribe for Dickens
Household Words! inquired sombre ma
gazine agent.
Household Words have played the dickens
with me long enough was the feeling reply.
EcoNoMY.-A man who chews $40 worth
of Tobacco annually and stops his newspa-
per because he can't afford to take it..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18
Awriter upon Mexico speaks of the Churc

IHU IHt PTIeStHUUu rs IUIIU"S'
While, however, the State is bankrupt, the
Church in Mexico revels in wealth. The &C.
clesiastcs amount to about 5000 who
possess great riches, masses of plate, jewels
and golden ornaments; and, in the absence Of
bankers, they act as the great money-lenders
of the country. The clergy, as a general
thing, are without morals; taken chiefly from
the lower classes, they are also without re.
finement or cultivated habits.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

~" W. Henry Vesey, it is said, has been
nominated as Consul at Havrc, vice Lorenzo
Draper recalled, and John w. Pagan, Consul
Mt Nassau.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18
<&%SSAAC = .
KNOXVILLE, TEsv.-The following "Fan-


cy Sketch is part of n speech recently
made in the House of Representatives, by
the Hon. VIM. NJ. Churchwell, upon his pro-
position to appoint inspectors of steamboat
hulls for the sport of Knoxville" with sala-
ries of $500 each. Our readers acquainted
with that city and its localities, will readily
recognize the trutlfuness of the picture:
"Ifigh up in the rich and fertile valley OF
the Tennessee, on gentle eminence over
looking the lovcliest natural panorama the
eye ever scanned, with a beautiful river
washing its base, and bearing upon its bosom
the products of its soil, may be seen tall
churches, a towering university, female insti-
tutes, and splendid deaf and dumb asylum,
tlourishing manufactures, and an hundred
springs of the purest water, amid valley OF
salt, cliffs of marble, and mountains of iron
with soft and healthy climate, equal to any
known to man, with a rapidly increasing
population, and commerce doubling itself
every year. Sir, this point is the centre OF
five extensive railroads, proposed and being
constructed - only twenty-four hours distant
from the southern seaboard at Charleston and
Savannah and will soon be connected by the
great Central railroad from New York
through Virginia and Tennessee, to New Or
leans, with the Chesapeake, the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, end the Gull of Mexico
Here on this point is situated the city OF
Knoxville; look at your map and You will
see that it is the present ceutre of the States u
We regret that we have not room for
additional extracts; but we reckon that will
do the reader for one sitting. How the pro-
position failed after such brilliant display
on the part of our late Representative in
Congress, is what we can't understand. Per-
haps the House didn't "look at the map"
HIsToRY DEFENDED The N. Y. Tribune
says the public should not too hastily con-
clude, from the Inaugural's sclf-complacent
allusion to "my brief experience as a SOL
der" that the new President was the Con-
queror Of Mexico. That honor pertains to
Gen. Winfield Scott. A generous victor in
such Presidential contest as our last could
not have forgotten this fact, nor missed so
excellent an opportunity for Il graceful if not
grateful allusion to it, wise man would not.
THE GOLD FoGIEs."-A Washington let
ter writer, noticing the new Cabinet, says:
"Gov. Marcy is a conservative. He be-
longs to the class of statesmen who turn in
stinctively towards what is safe, and estab-
lished in national policy. The Old Fogies
are in the ascendant.
Mr.. Buchanan and Gen. Cass both have
their Lieutenants in places of power and re-
spOnsibilty. Gov. Marcy was himself a can
didate for nomination against General Pierce
and almost n successful one. Politically Gen.
Gushing is friend and ally of Judge Doug
lass; but there is nothing of influence, pat
ronage, or power appropriate to the position
to which he is called. The progressive par
ty therefore has virtually no representative
stationary principle8is impersonated in at
least three of its membe
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-18

lay. Col. Jlo R. Nelson is n candidate for
the State Senate from the Knox district.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
THE COURIER.
effieial Journal Of the Parish Of st. Landry
5es~ PUBLISHED on SATURDAY BY
JOEL II. SAND02 G ANDREW MEYVIER.
CONDITIONS.


Subscription, for one year, payable in advance
three dollars paid at the end of the year. four dol
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less than one year. A subscriber wishing to dis.
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settle up all arrearages.
.Adve1isfng:-For one square not exceeding the
space Of ten lines, dollar for the first insertion
and fifty centsfor each subsequent insertion. Longer
advertisements will be charged accordingly.
All the advertisements will be inserted in french
and english until ordered out until the editors
shall Judge it convenient to discontinue the publi-
cation w &k@s~ V@@sf 81
A liberal deduction made on advertisements in
serted for long period 5 z-r-5t .-~sa~as ..s-s.
No advertisements or subscription win be stopped
until all the arrearages paid unless at the option
Of the publishers. t 80 ~
Noeleetion tickets or other Jobs printed without
the money, the person ordering them to be print
ed is a responsible person.
Ten dollars in advance win invariably be required
for the announcement of candidates for Office.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22

/ i tanning 9uO superficial ar -s@Ans.-
pents, having front on the Bayou Teche Of
IL arpents By the depth of IS arpents, ,halfof
which is Woodland, the balance Of the rich
prairie, alluyial of the Teche. 80
The improvements consist of q comfortable
frame dwelling, negro quarters and all the
other necessary outbuildings, good sugar
house and mill, (horse power with two hun
dred and fifty acres under fence, and in cuI.
tivation About one hundred and forty ar
pents in cane, which, from present prospect,
ought to yield 200 hogsheads 8
This plantation is situated about Z miles
from 0pelousas, and about the same distance
from the Bayou Courtableau, a fine naviga-
BILE water course. The tracts runs back to vi
thin one mile of the line of the New Orleans,
Opelousas and Great Western Rail Road.
Terms made known BY addressing the Edi-
tors Of this paper, 0pelousas, or by reference
toJudge 0verton, in the city Of New Orleans.
!. Sold with or without the crop. -
Opelousas, Goth August, 1853-6m.
1.-THE New Orleans Weekly Delta will
please copy three months, and send bill to
this Office for collection.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
~ N0DH-MG So

TyDMUND JOHNSON, ofths Parish of
- st. Landry, State of Louisiana, ha-
wing filed petition for the appointment of
Administrator of the Estate Of James Ney-
land, deceased, late Of the Parish of ST. Ian
dry; @ :a t.sa aasa(
Now, any person intending to make oppo-
sition to said appointment, will file the same,
in writing in my office, in the Town of Ope-
lousas, within ten days, from the publication
of this notice.
A. GARRIGUEs, Clerk.-
Opelousas, October 18th, 1853. E7tf
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
EDUCATION & LEGAL NOTICES.
OPELOUsAs ACADEMY,
Rev. Thos. RAND Jr., A. II. Principal

Rev. Thos. RAND Jr., A. u. Principal
MIR. RAND would inform his patrons and
NJ the public that he will reopen his
School on Tuesday the 4th Of January, to con
tinue it without intermission, till the 1st of
July. .z~.
He is prepared, with supply of teachers,
to give instruction in the English, French,
Spanish, German, Latin and Greek languages;
also in Vocal and Instrumental Music.
Any person wishing for further information
concerning the School, is invited to call at the
School-Rooms where he may see, and examine
for himself the plan of instruction, and the
proficiency ofthe pupils.
Circulars containing a full statement Of the
course of studies, and Of prices, may be had at
the Office of the Opelousas Courier, at the
Academy, and at the store Of Messrs. I. G,
Anderson & Co., Washington.
Opelousas, 25th December 1852.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
UNITED STATES NAIL LINE.
Through to Franklin in Is Hours.

VHE 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 Donaldsonvine, and steamboat from
Lake Verret to Berwick's Bay, Pattersonyille,
Centreville, Franklin, Charenton, Jeanneretts and
New Iberia, tnine miles below st. Martinsvile,)
distance so miles; and by stage coaches, from New
iberia to ashington-distance, 81 miles.
mail boats at o'clock P NJ, on MONDAYS.
WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS! and will arrive
at Donaldsonville on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS
and SATURDAYS, in time for the stages, at six
o'clock p. NJ.
For confortsspeed 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. -. -
..z@ -, 3VINs0N & RATTER, Proprietors
may 18th, 1859
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
Head Quarters Of Fresh Drugs, Medicines, SC.

Head Quarters of Fresh Drugs, Medicines, &c.
sASOWART's FEVER TONIC, a perma-
nent remedyfor Feyersof all deserip-
tions!l--Also, Cowarts Astringent Tonic, for Di-
arrhea, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, with the various
degrees of what's called River Complaint
These medicines arepureIy vegetable: no dam
ger need be apprehenaed intheir Is4, and for the
diseases for which theYare recommended, are SUI
Derior to any others heretofore offered to the public
Numerous references 81 their efficacy can be given,
buta trial Of The medicines themselves will be the
best evidence Of their good qualities. For sale by
JOHN P0sEY, Druggist and Apotheeary, at his
Medicine Depot, corner Main and Landry streets.
Opelousas, July 3oth, 1s55.-6n.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
SEEERUFF'S SALE.
State Of louisiana.

Fremont, Guidry & RoyU William H. Parrott-
District Court Parish of ST. Landry--No 3721.
Sewell J. Taylor Us. William H. Parrott-Districs
Court.-Parish of st. Landry-6So 1854.
Krkman Alternately & Hanna u.s. Wm H. Parrots
District Court-Parish of St. Landry-No. 1888.
ENY virtue of three writs off. fa., issued
- on twelve 9nonths' bonds against Paul.
Pandely principal and Stanislas Fremont, as Sc
curty, in the above entitled suits, by the District
Court, in and for the Parish of ST. Landry, and to
me directed will be exposed to public sale, for
Cash, without the benefit Of appraisement, at the
Court House of this Parish, on Saturday, the 5th
day of fNoyennber 1853 commencing atthe hour OF
II o'clock, A. NJ and continued from day to day,
if necessary all the right, title interest and de-
narld ofPaul Pandely in and to the following des-
crbed property, seized tosatsfy said writsef fl ia,
to wit:
$ The Northeast Quarter of Section No g24,
Township 3,South Range East, containing l63
22-10e acres. South half of Section S, Township 3,
South Range East containing 325 25-100 acres.
The Southwest Quarter dissection S, Townships d,
South Range 5 East, containing 160 GS,1Oe acres.
The Westhalf of North West Quarter Of Section o,
Townships 4, South Range, S East, containngS0 So
100 acres. HARRISON ROGERS.
She5If of 81. La,n,y.
sheriff7s Office. St. Landry October 1st. 1853.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
PATENT MEDICINES, sc,
MINERS
GAN - IA ~
vER Uc Z
A c Esai AIN
REMEDY ft|| WORMS.

1T is fact, established beyond the shadow
= of doubt, by the experience and testimo-
ny of the most eminent physicians more than three
fourths OF the diseases with which children are
afflicted are caused by worms. and thousands of
children die annually from those diseases, whah the
cause is either not known or attributed TO some
thing else. Various are the preparations which
have been recommended as remedies for worms
but experience has proved them all morepr less
Intellectual; the end however has at.length been at
tanned, and a remedy found which has never failed
to destroy worms, wherever they have existed.
This assertion is supported by the testimony of the
most eminent physicians and respectable individu-
ais in the country. The remedy is
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
WIN ss'S
CAN ADIAN VERMIF UGE.
WARRANTED PURELY VEGETABLE. .

1t IS safe In It's 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 of a
leaden color and suffIsed with occasional fushes
the eyes are heavy and dull the breath fetid, the
upperlip swollen, itching in the nostrils, which
cause the patient to pick his nose the sleep is dis
turbed 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
depraved. -s
To the following certificates numerous others
might be added, but it is believed that these are
sufficient to establish the fact that Winers Cana
dian Ferniluge is superior remedy for worms.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
We, the undersigned, having frequently admins
tered medicine prepared by Mr.. John Winer of
this town. designated u. Winer's Canadian Eerni-
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-
tinal canal.
&C. O,REILLY, Es
Lcentiate of the r. c. of Surgeons in ireland, etc,
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22

-, - - - U"s7 y y Dtf 1szFsl5y
Sheriff's Office st. Landry, October 1st. 1853
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
BOARDING & DAY-SCHOOL
ToE YOUNG LADIES,
SUpERINTENDED By Mss BERcIER.

6UPERINTEGDED By MISS BERGER.
EyHTs Institution is situated in one of the
most retired and agreeable part of the
town Of opelousas. offers all the advantages desira
BILE for house of Education.
The course of Instruction viii embrace, the
french, english reading, writing History, Geogra-
ghy Mythology, Arithmetic and all kind of needle
works The study of the English language is the
object of particular care, it will be taught by an
American Lady, residing in this Institution s
Reli gion. the basis of all good education,is fol-
lowed and taught with care. Miss Bereier will
spare no care and pains to obtain the well-being
Of young ladies under her direction, aud to deserve
the confidence of their parents. ~
The terms per quarter are as follows as
Instruction, SIG 90 81,
Boarding, s.25 90
Music. "1S 90
Each student must be furnished with bed stead
Il mattrass, bolster, mosquito bar, four sheets
six towels, fork, knife and spoon
Opelousas 18th March I553.-9m.
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22
@DHMa &c

n SHE undersigned respectfully announce
= tothe public of st. Landry, that they
have purchased the Stock of Goods of James
G, Anderson, and formed copartnersIlip un-
der the style and firm of LAsTRAPEs & FoN-
TESoT. They viii continue the business at
the Old Stand, where they win be happy TO
serve their friends and the public generally;
to whom they will sell goods as cheap for
cash as they are to be had IN this market, or
to punetusl customers payable first of march
next.
THEO I.AsTRAPEs.
T. b. A. FONTENOT.
Opelousas, August 9Th, 1858. s.@
The Opelousas courier., 1853-10-22


w BY Write Of a commission from the Hon
ND orable District Court, in and for the
Parish Of RapideS, and State of Louisiana, and 70
directed in the above entitled suit, will be ex-
posed at public auction, at the last residence Of
James A. Thoms on near Bayou Rouge, in the
Parish of Saint Landry on Saturday the 5th day Of
November 1856, commencing at the hour of II
o'clock A NJ, aud continued from day to day if
necessary the following described property belong
ing to the minor heirs of Thoms and his deceased
wife, as follows to wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land situated in the
Parish of st. Landry State of Louisiana being the
North West quarter OF Section No. four, in town
ship No South Of Range No. 4 East, containing
the quantity of one hundred and sixty-two 54tlQO
acres. Also another tract of land contiguous to the
above, containing two 93lloo acres, on the follow.
ing terms, to wit: .r. a
TERMS OF sALE.--one third payable on the first
day of January 1854, one third on the first day Of
January 1855, and one third ON the first day OF
January 1856. The purchaser to execute his notes
with per cent. per annum interest after their
respective nlaturites until paid, the vendors lien
and privilege in conditio3to special mortgage TO
be retained on the proT4E, to secure the purchase
money. .* .ze- - IA A=s
HARRISON ROGERS,
Sheriff Of st. Landry!
sheriff's Office, St. Landry, October 1st 1858.