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Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-08-27

A YOUTHFUL TRAvELLER.--The Wheeling
Times mentions the arrival in tha5 city of John
jacques, an orphan boy, aged fifteen years,
from the State IF New York en- route for Cali
fornia, overland. He states that he reached
Philadelphia BY slowing himself in "a car or
freight train and remained there two weeks sleep
ing in he.market- houses, and subsisting on offal
given him by the servants at the hotels Fin
ally, railr lad conductor allowed him to ride on
the platform Of a car to Baltimore, where he
staid more than month, serving as an errand
boy and newspaper carrier; afterwhicI1, he pro-
seeded on foot to frederick, begging enough to
sat from the farm-houses on the road here he
engaged as ostler. alta tavern, but leftsit in a
week on the topof q bugxSWagon for Harper's
FerryssNhere he aecideag picked Up a So
bill, ands took the cars fof Cumberland a gcna
tleman there paid his way to Wheeling; at the
latter place, he is endeayoring to engage as a
cabin boy on board of steamboat for st. Louis,
where he hopes to engage as herdsman or cattle
driver to California. Perseyering boy, that.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-08-27

AsfMALeULEs IN WATER-The idea enter
tanned by most persons that all water,
whether found in spring, wells brooks;
ponds, or cisterns. Or even that fresh rain
water is filed with living creatures, is, as
far as the microscope enables us to ascertain.
without foundation Water is compound
Of two qases-hydrogen and oxygen, and
the existence Of animalcules in it is alto
gether dependent on certain causes, prin-
cipalIy on its contact with vegetable matter;
TINS, if yon take a bowl of water, and place
handful of hay OF other vegetable matter
in ii. in a few days the top will be covered
by scum, which. by putting small quantity
under the microscope will be found to be
mass Of aninralcules, but only Of the lower
order, most of Them being the monads; the
smallest Of this class being so minute that
ninety millions can swim about in one drop.
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Ih W losT gHrLp FouSp.-Some DAYS ARC
sase an extract from i letter dated Ckococ--
as.se East Florida, July 81, containing an %
y. s1s y me loss Of girl about twelve years OF
& NJ aausnter q Mr. Tillis. in the neighborhood
Ia, wv Tampa, who had wandered away fro,n
n III snd, g was feared, had been DESTROYED
me-. ~ beasts n the woods; and stating that
4 tas q forty men were securing the country
arss sisss, g her. We are glad to learn from,
~ 49, 81 sester 20 the Savannah News, that the
I'm. III Has found BY her father Oh the 22d iii
\ n !. Kas eentn day that she had been missing.
I'M H., ssndered some eigteen or twenty miles
~ ~, ana although very much reduced.
run 70 her father wben sla . .;rst ss
q II 81. ae little girl of only twelve years of
Hleseryation in the woods for SO lon1 .
~ almost miraculous. At last ac-
II 81 sne Nas doing well. - 80 = - -
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alton, particularly of Saturday nights and on
Sabbaths, by the devout ~worshlppers of Bac-
chus who Just before they fall PROSTATE at
his throne pour forth their alterations in song
and whoop most devoutly. And it is pre-
sumable there would be a glorious conten-
ton for rights, iftheir Saturday night or Sab
bath devotions should be interrupted by any
means whatever. But we have rights and
however much you may esteem your rights
and privileges to make and sell lianor, you
indeed have no right to exerciAsthis right to
the prejudice Of the. rest Of mankind. And
since you have long enjoyed the right by law
to ruin your neighbors and murder your fel-
low-men by the wholesale, bear with us while
we stop by legal enactment, your deVotions
to your despotic master, Bacchus.
How bitterly will liquor sellers oppose leg
~islation on this subject! With what union
they will cry out Invasion of rights" and
then how plaintively they will plead, and how
sternly argue, that they pay tax for license
and are thus aiding in the support of the gov
eminent. The liquor license a support to
government! what support? why surely no
other than such as wolves give to lambs
The money that comes into the treasury
through this channel, is the price Of blood,
and shame on that government that would
feed on the innocent blood of its citizens
Our legislature has legislated on the liquor
interest, and if legalizing the traffic is not I'M
constitutional, of course prohibiting its traf-
fc will not be. ). G.
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the eyes of the mass Of people could be open
ed that there would be no difficulty in eradi-
eating the old King from our free land and
our country would then be afree country in
deed.
have been as much opposed to temper
ance societies, / reckon, as any a and l
have thought that they would be the means
of the freedom our country being destroyed;
and | used to fear they would bring our
country to perdition. But all these notions
sprang from ignorance, from the want of in
formation, and it is from this cause that so
many do oppose the good cause. I have
lived in the vicinity of E., ever since |
was twenty years old have seen men rise
and fall, | have seen friends and kindred pass
away, and | have seen much Of the evils of
intemperance-enough to convince me that
we should be better off if no alcohol was
used only for medical or mechanical purpo-
SEES. If ak public and professional men
would put their shoulders to the wheel, it
would he no hard task to drive alcohol out
from among us. If the Age would be read
in every family, this would soon be the case.
Notice when and where you will, if alco-
hol is prevalent, children are uneducated,
ragged and dirty but go to a community
where alcohol is not, there you will find kind
parents, good, smart, healthy, lovely children
and a good share of intelligence. Go to the
d~runkard's cabin, you will find his wife sit
ting in the smoky corner with a patched
dress on his daughters will tremble with
fear, shame and disgrace his sons will bt
loafng about without any employment. ART
they not to be pitied? Will the people suf
fer it to be? Will humanity not hear th,
cries of the widow, orphan and lunatic p
Arise, every friend of humanity, and put OF
your whole strength to the great temperate,
car now in motion, and never rest till tn
Temperance Banner shall wave over Ian,
and sea. "a CONVERT.
THE above IS a frank, o~pen-hearted con
f@ession and pledge of amendment from a
honest farmer, and we commend its perusa
to thousands who, like him heretofore, hav
been opposed to the Temperance Reforme
ton, because they had been duped by design
ing d~emagogues and hypocrites into the bC
lief that the liberties of the country wer
endangered. -EDIToR.
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n- 1t is said that the Secretary of the
Navy intends sending, Immediately. a corps
Of typographical and coast surveyors to Beau
fort, N. c., to make fulland complete explo-
ration of that harbor, with q view to estab-
fish a Naval Depot there.
STEAMBOAT NAvIGATIoN-We learn from
the Milton(N. c. Democrat that a gentleman
by the name of Parks, from Jersey, proposes
to run iron steamboats, in Dan RIVER from Gas
ton, N. c., up to Milton and Danville. Va,
and that the Ro ,noke Navigation Company
have agreed to accede to him this privilege for
ten years.
FATAL AFFRAY IN VIKGINIA-The Clarks-
vile (Va.) Tobacco Plant states that on the
3Ist ult. an affray occurred in the bar-room
ofthe Ciarkville hotel, between Edward HI.
Gillespie and Green B. Elliott, former a
citizen of Mecklenburg, Va the latter ofGran-
vile, N. O., which resulted in the almost IN
slant death of Mr.. Gillespie, and the dangerous
if not fatal wounding, by a stab in the left
breast, of MIR. Elliott. The latter, it is alleged,
acted in self-defence.
MONTPELIER, VT. Nov. 16.-Three ballot
ings for U. S. Senator were had today. Or
the last ballot the vote stood Kellogg, dem.
80; Collamer, whig, 80 Shafter, F. S., 5
scattering D.
[The previousreport ofthe election of Judg
Kellogg was premature.
KILLED OVER A CoFFIN.-Pleasant M. Huff
man, a Cabinet-maker of Huntsville, Tenn,
was killed by his partner in that place on tn
I'd inst. The two were making a coffin, an
came to some misunderstandin about a plan
"a scufie ensued, in which Huffman wa
shot by the other, and died the same day.
Mr.. 0. HIP Corprew, ofNorfolk, has jus
been appointed Professor of Natural PhilosC
ply in Randolph Macon College.
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MARRIED..

On the evening of the 9Th inst, by DR.. j..
T. Leach, Mr.. Seth Woodall to Mrs. Mary
Tomlinson, all of Johnston county.
BF Christian Sun please copy.
In Wake county, on the 9th inst, by Prof.
w. T. Brooks, Mr.. j. Turner Hunter to Miss
Melvina A. D. Justice, daughter of D. JUS
tice, Esq.
In Windsor, Berthe county, onthe 9th inst.
by the Rev. Mr.. Hoskins, the Hon. John
Branch, of Enfield, North Carolina, to Mrs.
Mary E.. Bond.
In Edgecombe county, N. c., on Tuesday,
the 9Th inst, by Rev. j. L. Gotten, DIR. Robt.
III. Marriott to Miss Temperance A. Battle.
On the 9Th instant, in Duplin county, N.
c., Lawrence Badger, Esq, Editor Daily
Globe, to Miss Katy Ann Wells.
In Newbern, on Thursday the 10th inst,
by the Rev. DIR. John Wilson of Milton, to
Miss Cornelia W., daughter of Jas. c. Ste
%venson, Esq.
In Duplin county on 3rd inst, by Rev. A.
B. Alderman, Mr.. Ollen NJ. Lewis CT New
Hanover, to Miss Susan, oldest daughter OF
Mr.. Charles Page, Of Duplin.
In Granville county, on Tuesday 1st inst.
Mr.. Henry House of CASTOR, N. c., to Miss
Mary Jane Burge, daughter of Rev. William
Burge-
Near Chapel Hill, ON the 18th inst, by J.
B. MeDade, Esq, Mr.. John Wesley Gattis tC
Miss Lucinda A. Siler.
On the 18th inst, in Sampson county, by
the Rev. Geo. W. Hufam, Mr.. Isham r
Faison, of Duplin, to Miss Virginia j. Fai
son. of Sampson.
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RECEIPTS FOR THE AGE.

SINCE OUR LAST IssUE.-SI each John w Pritch-
EFT, Greensboro; R S Skies, Baden; j Green,
Chatham; T B Holleman, Wake; w G Douglass,
Wadesboro'; R M Burgin, S C; Sarah Griffs, Ma
son Hall; w w Powell, Lumberton; j Reed, H H
Thomas, Winston; Mrs. A Edwards, Rev P j Car
raway, w II Edmondston, Greene ] NJ Smith,
Min. Cr.; H NJ Sossaman, ASHORE; R Cape, Hills
boro'; ] L Doggett, Rutherford; Rev P H Joyner,
Franklin J w Rogers, Wake Miss S Williams,
Somorton S2AJ Cunning, Berthe 81 Woodal, 7
Barker, Raleigh; Rev J NJ Gum, Jonesville ] M
Watson, j Midget, Lake Landing; DIR R P Toney,
Granville S. ] Fl Mcneil, Fayetteville SO W
H Bass, R M College 81 Joseph Weisner, Wins
ton 81 I w Davis, Carteret; S. H w Alternately.
Lincolnton; 81 ] H Carr, Kenansville; 81 John
Brock, Shaliotte A Chadwick, So II p Russell
Wilmington; Sc ] w S CrowsOn, Lexington; S.
J White Arson $11 John D Smith, Lilesville
81 c L Harris, Rutherford; 81 John A Selby
Greenville.
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GreensbOrOugh Female College.
FACULTY.

u
Rev. CHARLES F. Deems, ID. D., President, and
Prot. of Natural Sciences and Bellies Lettrcs.
REV. TURNER NJ. JONES, A. NJ, Prof. of the An
cient Languages, and of Mathematics.
Hons. ERNEST JoUANNE, (of the College of Henry
~. PARIS Prof. of the French Language and
Literature.
THEODORE WOLFE, Esq, Prof. of Music.
Miss n. JANE SPEER, Miss MAMIE 7. SPEER, and
Miss LUCY MGEE, Assistants in the Literary De-
partments.
Miss AUGUSTA HAGEN, Madame JoUASSE and Miss
CAROLINE E. BLAKE, Assistants in Music.
Miss R. L. SIMPSON, Drawing and Painting.
Vt IHE next Session viii open December %, 1853.
There is no winter vacation. The terms are (;
SO a session for tuition and board, including wash
ing, fuel, lights, attendance, and furnished rooms.
$40 extra charged for Music or Painting, and IS
for Drawing, OF French or Italian. The course of
study is as extensive as that in any of our highest
Female Schools, and the instruction as thorough as
the Faculty can make ii. The solid branches of
education are especially regarded, and proper at
tention is given to the morals and manners of all
the pupils. Their expenditures are now under the
direct supervision of the President, and during the
last few sessions have been reduced to as low a stan
dard of economy, as is probably consistent with
their actual wants.
Full information of all the operations of the In
s~titution will be given on application to the Pres
ident,
Nov. 81. 1853. 12-6t
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Wavna Instituta and
NOE NJ a u GR
G0LDSRORO, n q

d
GOLDSBORO', N. C.
WIN. ROBINSON, President, and Principal of
w the Classical Department.
John Robinson, Principal of the English Depart
ment, and Professor of Mathematics,
Miss Emily Webb, Principal of the Female School.
TRUSTEES.
Hon. Thos. Rufin, VIM. K. Lane, Richard Wash
ington, John A Green, VIM, T.. Dortch, j. J. Baker,
VIM. B. Edmundson, John 7. Kennedy, Council
Best, VIM. c.. Bryan, and William Robinson.
The Winter Session will commence on the Both
of November, inst, and it is highly desirable that
students should enter a week or two before the close.
rather than after the commencement Of a session.
The school is in a fourishing condition, and the
large number of students already in attendance.
fully attests the wide spread reputation of Mr.. Ron.
INsoS as a thorough and practical teacher, who.
with competent assistants, is laboring with indie.
fatigable zeal, for the prosperity Of the Institution,
The Annual Examination and Commencement
viii be in June. There will be a vacation of two
weeks at Christmas, of which parents at a distance
are requested to take notice.
For rates of tuition, terms of admission &C., ad.
dress the Principal.
JOHN A. GREEN, Sec'y.
Goldsboro'. Nov. ID I253 II
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Henderson Male Academy y.
GRANVILLE COUNTY, N. G.
TT. d. RRACY. PRINCIPAL.


offering this School to the public, the Trus-
tees fatter themselves, that they have procured
the services of a gentleman, pre-eminently qualified
to direct it with ability. He comes well recon-
meaded as a Teacher of the highest order a Grad
uate, capable of teaching a thorough course, pre-
paratory to entering the highest Glasses in the uni
versity of North Carolina, and from the experience
he has acquired in teaching, he fatters himself thai
he will be able to give undoubted satisfaction.
There is now nearly completed in the Town of
Henderson,, removed from the business of the place,
one of the neatest Academies in the State, which
has been built by the patriotic citizens of the
place, bringing also to their aid the friends of Ed
ucation round about, and that too at a heavy ex-
pense, and it would be suicidal in US as Trustees,
not to place it on the best footing.
The gentleman whose services we offer to tho
public, is a native of Virginia, by birth and educa-
cation and therefore has feelings allied With oar
own, as he wishes to make this permanently his
home, he would ask all wheknow him to aid in this
great work, the education of the heart rs well as the
head, and when this shall be done, he can have the
pleasing qualification of knowing thai be has per-
formed the part Of the philanthropist-the scholar.
Henderson presents one Of the finest fields for
the encourag cement of education in the State, COM
kning healt !, morality and intelligence. 1t has
also other advantages; it is easy of aeeess-being
situated Immediately on the Raleigh and CASTOR
Rail Road; also at the terminus of a branch of the
great Western Stage Line, ~affording to all who may
Wish ~ PdIiOhA6O VIZ ~ NJ
The Scholastic year Of this Institution is divided
into two Sessions of five months each. The Spring
Term to commence the first Monday in January,
1854. The Fall Term viii commence the first Mon
day in July following, and at the close Teach Term
there will be q public examination.
Board can, be had i'm the Village or country, as
May Be desiaed, at usual rates.
No deduction for loss of time, except in cases of
protFacted illness.
We wonld impress upon all who may wish to
patronize the School the necessity of being ready
to enter on duty the first of the Session.
TERMS:
Tuition for Primary Course, per Session, SO 90
do Higher Branches of English, per Ses. IL SO
do Mathematics and Languages, Is 90
For further particulars, address the Secretary.
By order of the Board of Trustees.
LEWIS H. KITTLE, Sec'y.
November 10th, 1851 12-t15F
rs The Standard will please copy till the 18th
of February and send account to the Secretary for
eoffomant
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In Edgecombe, on the 18th ult., Brother
Warren I. King, a member of Town Creek
Division, S. of T.; to whose memory the fol-
lowing tribute was paid by his surviving
brethren:
Resolued, That while we bow implicitly to
the will of Providence, who doeth all things
according to his own benificent wisdom, yet
we mourn the loss of our brother.
ResoEred, That in him the Order has lost a
Jealous, ornamental and philanthroplc mem
Der, society a useful, %virtnous and 6enevo-
lent citizen, and the church a worthy and
consistent member.
Resolutions for publication and wearing
the usual badge of mourning were also adop-
ted.
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MIR. COPELAND has taken rooms On Fayette-
IN vile street, above the store Of J. B.. G.. Roul-
hae, Esq, where he is prepared to execute Portraits
of every description, from miniature to full life
size.
Mr.. C. has had a great deal of practice in his art.
and feels confident he can please all who may favor
with q sitting.
Three or four short sitia9s, only, win be required
to complete an ordinary portrait.
Ladies, if desired, will be waited on ut their pri-
vate residenceS
Visitors are respectfully invited to Mr. C.'s Gal
lery, to examine specimens Of his skill.
Raleigh, Nov 14th, 1853. liz
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PETERSBURG MARKET.

Reported expressly for the SPIRIT Of the Age, ]
By ROWLETT, HARDY d Co., Com. Merchants,
Dealers an Fertilizers, Agriealtsral Implements, dc.
PRoDUcE.-The European advices that were
looked for at the mailing of our last report,
caused, as we anticipated, al Improvements IN
Breadstufs, and both wheat and corn sold
freely at an advanced several cents over our
quotations. The last accounts however, are
not SO exciting and prices have again rece-
ded.
We note sales Corn yesterday and to-day
at 68 a. roc. Red wheat AS to $50, white
148 to l53c-poor qualities sell at lower rates,
Cotton sells at %.
Tobacco-no good qualities coming in,
breaks small and transactions limited.
Groceries unchanged.
Nov. 10, 1853.
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WILMINGTON MARKET.

By e Fl. Kelley, Grocor and Com. Merchant.
WILMINGTON, Nov. 19.-Turpentine-vir-
gin and yellow dip 8 IS to 81, hard 2 Is to
2 Is. Spirits Turp. SO. Common Rosin l 10.
Tar 2 20. Bacon dull at last quotations.
Lard, no change. Fay. super. Flour 6 "a 81
to 81 90. Molasses IS. Lime | Is. Salt
l so to l 60. Timber-about Is RATS sold,
at ST. so, 8, So IS, 8 rs, So 9 so, $40 and
IL so,
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Hair Dye.

Do you admire the Ravens wing,
To suit your wish I'm just the thing,
But not to write a lengthy puff,
To give Black Hair I'm just the stuff.
Apply it when you go to bed,
Next morn you'll scarcely know your head,
And when with joy you rise next morn,
You'll give your thanks to Moore d Vaughan.
We have on hand a large lot of Hair Dye which
we warrant to turn Gray or Red Hair to a fine
Glossy Black. All of you who have Grey Hair OF
RED WHISPERS will please call and have them
Dyed, at VAUGHAN d M00RE'S.
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The following is a sample of certificates received
daily from our own citizens:
NEW York, August /, 1882.
This is to certify that / have been subject at
times to severe headache; sometimes the pain
would be so severe l could rest neither day nor
night. Hearing of Dr.. McLane's celebrated Liver
Pills, Isent and got a b7x, Of which I took two
pills on going to bed, for two nights. They relieved
me entirely. Some time has now elapsed, and I
have had no more trouble from sick headache.
NJ. JOHNSON, lis, Lewis street.
P. S. The above valuable remedy, also DR.. Ne
Lanes celebrated Vermifuge, can now be had at all
respectable Drug Stores in this City.
Purchasers viii please be careful to ask for, and
take none but DIR. M'Lane's Liver Pills. There
are other Pills, purporting to be Liver Pills, now
before the public. "a
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We have changed the heading of our paper
from Wilson to Gold boro'. AT the time we
placed Wilson there. we expected to locate at
Wilson ; but, as we have declined doing so,
we place Goldsboro' Mt the head Of the paper.
Besides, the printing has always been done at
Goldsboro', and it is proper this change should
be made.-ChriStian Friend.
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: 100000 Fine Ernit Trees !

&4A Mostly of large size, beautiful and thrift
%H~ ty growth, consisting Of Apple, Peach,
- Plums, Pears, Aprieots, Nectarines,
Cherries, and many other fine Fruits, ripcning in
succession from the earliest to the latest together
with a select variety of Evergreens and other or
namental Trees and Shrubs.
For sale, by the subscriber, at the Pathological
Gardens-old stand.
va A complete Catalogue will be furnished
within the ensuing year.
THOMAS LINDLEY,
Cane Greek, Chatham Co., N. @.
Nov. 18th, 1858. St