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Valuable Sugar Plantation for Sale

fA!5 SITUATED in the s
|ssssSH Parish of St. Landry, con- sS
- - taining 900 superficial ar -.slsa>.-
pents having front on the Bayou Teehe of
IL arpents BY the depth Of IS arpents, halfof
which is Woodland, the balance of the rich
prairie, aI1uvial of the Teche.
The improvements consist of comfortable
frame dwelling, negro quarters and all the
other necessary outbuildings, a good sugar
house and mill, (horse power,) with two hum
dred and fifty acres under fence, and in cul-
tiyation. About one hundred and forty ar
pents in cane, which, from present prospect,
ought to yield 200 hogsheads.
This plantation is situated about 7 miles
frou Opelousas, and about the same distance
from the Bayou Courtableau, a fine naviga-
Bile water course. The tracts runs back to wi
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
to Judge Overton, in the city ofNeW Orleans.
Sold with or without the crop.
Opelousas, Goth August, 1853.-6m
TrThe New Orleans Weekly Delta will
please copy three months, and send. bill to
this Office for collection.
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TEE COURIER.
official Journal Of the Parish of st. Landry

.h PUBLISHED on SATURDAY BY
JOEL II. SANDOz & ANDREW MEYNIBB.
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Head Quarters of Fresh Drugs, Medicines &c.
AyoWART's FEVER TONIC, a perma-
VI lanent remedy for Fevers of all descrip-
tonsa-Also, Cowarts Astringent Tonic, for Di-
arrhea, Cholera, Cholera Morbus with the various
degrees OF what is called "River Complaint
These medicines are purely vegetable: no dan
ger need be apprehended IN their use and for the
diseases for which they are RECOMMENDED, are sl-
Numerous references of their efficacy can be given
but trial of the medicines themselves will Be The
best existence of their good qualities For sale BY
JOHN P0SEY, Druggist and Apothecary at hi
Medicine Depot, corner Main and Landry streets.
Opelousas, July goth, 1s53.-8n.
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UNITED STATES MAIL LINE.
Through to Franklin in Is Hours.
'myHE NEW UNITED STATES MAIL
R0TTTE Gro,,n Idronrr;l1a 4a-..:

NyHE 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 Donaldsonvie, and steamboat from
Lake Verret to Berwick's Bay Pattersonvie,
Centreville, Franklin, Charenton, Jeanneretts and
New Iberia, (nine miles below st. Martinsville)
distance 80 miles: and by stage coaches, from New
Iberia to ashington-distance, 81 miles.
Passengers from New Orleans leave in the river
mail boats at o'clock P. NJ, on MONDAYS.
WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS: and will arrive
at Donaldsonvlle on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS
and SATURDAYS, in time for the stages, at six
o'clock P NJ.
For comfort, speed and safety, passengers will
find this route superior to all Others as no freight
taken, and the delays and impediments of the old
routes are entirely avoided. .
VINsoN & RATIER, Propretors.
NAV 18th 1853
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SEAEhRNEE7S SALE.
state Of Louisiana.


Fremont, Guidry & Roy u.s. William H. Parrett--
District Court.-Parish of St. Landry.-No. 3721.
Sewell J. Taylor u.s. William H. Parrott--District
Court-Parish of st, Landry.-No. 1864.
Kirkman Abernathy & Hanna u.s. VIM. H Parrott.
District Court-Parish of st. LandryIeaNo. 1888.
TRY virtue of three writs Of f. fa., issued
ID on twelve months bonds agai~e' Paul
Pandely as principal, and Stanislas FE5mvnt, Sc
curity in the above entitled suits, by the Distmct
Court in and for the Parish of St. Landry, ara 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 ofNovember 1858, commencing at the hour OF
IL o'clock A. NJ, and continued from day to day,
if necessary, all the right, title interest and de-
mand of Paul Pandely, in and to the following des-
cribed property seized to satisfy said wrts of fa
to wit:
The Northeast Quarter of Section No. "a,
Township 3, South Range East, containing 1853
22-10G acres South half of Section S, Township 3,
South Range East, containing 1926 25-10O acres.
The Southwest Quarter dissection S, Townships,
South Range S East containing 100 0S-10G a"~ss.
The Westhalf of North West Quarter of Section ?,
Townships, South Range, S East, containing so Ga
100 acres HARRISON ROGERS.
Sheriff of st. landry.
Sherif7s Office. st. Landry October 1st, 1853.
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q. URfILLY,
Licentiate of the R. c. of Surgeons in Ireland etc,
CIV. DICKINSON,
Member of the r. C. ofsurgeons in London, ETC.,

From the Reu. J. Flanagan, Of Bandrook, C. W.
s J. Winer-Sir: have made the trial of your
Canadian Vermfuge 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 Vernifuge
and every here prefer it TO any other as itsef-
fects certain and children Ia ke it more readily
which is great point gained in giving medicine
to children. ~
July 16. 1915. JOHN FLANAGAN.
10 Physicians generally now use Winers Ca
madam Vermituge. This medicine is a simple
vegetable preparation, and can always be adminis-
tered with perfect safety and confidence as to the
result as twill always destroy worms and restore
the patient to health. a.
Over one thousand certificates have been sent to
the Agents from Planters merchants and physicians,
bearing testimony to the efficacy of this infalible
emedy.-Warranted in all cases.
Prepared only by JOHN WINER Manufactu-
ring Chemist and Wholesale Druggist, Hamilton,
Canada West.
G|Sold wholesale and retail, at manufacturers
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 SD.
Alis.
Opelousas, 18th June 1s53-1y ...
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WIN ES11'S
G A N A DIAN VERMIF Z GE
WARRANTED PURELY VEGETABLE.

It is safe in its operation, and more easily admin
istered than any other. Some of the symptoms
which indicate the existence of the worms in the
bowels are as follows the countenance is pale ola
leaden color, and sufused with occasional fushes:
the eyes are heavy and dull the breath fntid the
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.
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 Vernifuge is a superior remedy for worms.
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PATENT MEDICINES, &c.
N1NEER?S e
GAN 40 IAN
web M|''||UGE M|''||
a ChE1bRs AIN
REMEDY t5IwoRMs.

z 7 is a fact, established beyond the shadow
q of doubt, by the experience and testimo-
ny of the most eminent physicians, than three
fourths of the diseases with which children are
afflicted, are caused by worms, and thousands OF
children die annually from those diseases when the
cause is either not known OF attributed to some
thing else. Various are the preparations Which
have been recommended as remedies for worms.
but experience has proved them all more or less
nefectua the end however has at length been at
tanned, and remedy found which has nevejfailed
to destroy worms, wherever they have existed
This assertion is supported by the testimony of the
most eminent physicians and respectable indiyidu-
ais in the country. The remedy is
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A Difference In Opinion

The New York Tribune, which processes to
regard the Wing party merely as thing that
has been, has some hopes of organizing politi-
cal party in favor of railroad to the Pacific.
Thomas HART BENTON, however, whose coun-
sells are not always to be disregarded, says:
"Happily, we have subject to occupy Us which
is independent of party, and above party, and in
which all citizens may unite heart and hand, and
work together cordially and zealously, to produce
a grand contamination which is to rebound to the
benefit of every part of the community, and to
every section of our country, and to the whole
Union, and even Europe and Asia and to the latest
posterity."
We concur in the view here expressed by
MIR. BENTON, even though a subject for party
division should not present itself in time for the
next national election. But so long as the Con-
sttution of our country is maintained by the
American people, so long will the Tribune and
its especial contrsrss find grounds of opposition
to that instrument, and those by VIII I'm it is
upheld. They therefore need not despond,
though the railroad should fail them.
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The DEATH OF Rosxar G.. CAxPsrLL, ESQ.,. of
New York, Is announced in the city papers. MIR.
Campbell was quite young maa-only about
twenty eight-and yet be bad been highly honored
oy bis telow'citiZsns and by distinguished public
men In various positions. For two years be re
presented the 10th Ward in the Assembly or the
State. There his qualities became 20 we'll known
TO the then Comptroller Fillmore, that when Mr.
Fillmore became President he sent for him TO be
his private secretary, position which he occupied
for some time in the early part of bis ADM nistra
ton, but " bich he had to give up in consequence
of his anxiety to devote himself to his profession of
the law. He was afterwards elected a delegate TO
the Baltimore Whig Convention. and after that he
was nominated for Congress, nomination be de-
cliued to accept The judges of the superior
court of this city selected him as clerk of that
court--a valuable and highly honorable place
which he held up to his death; and Governor
Hunt, upon his election to the gubernatorial chair,
made him aid de camp. 1t was thus his good
fortune to win the confidence, the respect, and the
support not only of his fellow men, but of men
among the most eminent, who showered donors
upon him. He fully merited all those honors for
his character and worth such as to enttle
him to them; and his qualihca tions and amin bility
were such in those positions endeared him to all
of his most intimate friends, his untimely
loss and mourn with bis relatives if not as they
mourn, for a son and a brother, at least for one
whom we dearly loved, and whom we shall miss
foreyer.-Nsw York Erprsss, 23d.
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IJoder our telegraphio heading viii be found

Under our telegraphie heading will be found
a series of items Of interest. The steamer
franklin has arrived at New York with South
ampton dates to the llth of May. European
affairs are quiet, and American products in
pood demand. A destructive FIRE occurred
Yesterday at Brooklyn. Two churches were
yesterday burned in Massachusetts. The
steamer Uncle Sam, with three hundred pas
sengers and $500, 900 IN gold, from California,
has arrived at New York; and the steamer
Crescent City, with the mails and t,co millions
in gold, has been telegraphed. An awful rail
road calamity was barely escaped yesterday at
Salem Falls. The train of passenger cars,
unable TO check its speed, passed over burn
ing bridge, rhich fell directly after, The Eu
rops. at Halifax. brings Liverpool dates to the
l4th. The commercial intelligence is encour.
aglng. Austria and Russia have induced the
expulsion of the political refugees from Turkey
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Tomorrow is the appointed day for these
elections. In the first, second, ninth, tenth,
twelfth, and thirteenth districts the Wings
make no contest. The Union states that "the
probable result will be the election of every
Democratic candidate" We suppose it means
the election of a Democrat from every district.
1t will be seen that the fifth and eleventh dis
tricts have two Democrats each in opposition
to one Wing; but Of the fifth the Union says:
"lt is probable that one of the Democratic nom
inees will beat the Wing candidate, JOHN t.
g WoorrES, by small plurality;" and OF the
eleventh, that "SrERRErr WhigI Will proba-
bly, be defeated"
If these predictions are not to be verified, we
shall give the Democratic party IN Virginia
credit for less adroitness in parcelling of the
districts than they have heretofore evnced.
The candidates are as follows:
FTrst Distyiet.--Bayly, Democrat, without oppo-
siton.
opposition.
man, Whig
roW" D'sufcl.-1oooe, Demooras, aho Saiu-
we'll, Wing.
Fifth Disirict = Bosock and Averett, Democrats
| and Wooten, Wing.
Sirlh District Powell, Democrat, and Nose
| ley. Wing
Seventh District.-Smith, Democrat, and Snow
den, Wing.
| Eighth District.-Faulkner, Democrat, and Bote
| Ter, Wing.
Ninth Distict.-Letcher, Democrat, without op
position.
Tenth District. -Kidwell, Democrat, without op-
| position
Eftvenh Distiet,-Snodgrass and Lewis, Demo
Gratis, and Sterrett. Wing.
Itcefh Distrtet.-Edmondson Democrat, with
| out opposition.
Thirteenth District McMuen, Democrat, with
out opposition.
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Stake AT THE UNITED Stairs RoNDrp WARE
HousEs.-On Wednesday last the laborers and
alongshore.men at Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, struck
for an advance of twenty. five cents per day in
wages. They had been paid 81 Is and demanded
S so. The custom. house did not accede to their
demand, but ordered new hands to be emp oyed
at the bonded warehouses, and also sent men over
from New York. An advertisement likewise ap-
peared in the newspapers of Thursday, calling for
"6ty laborers to be employed IL Atlantic dock
The appearance OF new laborers exasperated the
old ones, and the consequence has been a success
sion of confusion and mobs. On Thursday, Fri.
day. and Saturday evenings, the men were even
beaten and stoned, and made to promise never to
return work. Scarcely any protection, police
or otherwise, has been afforded to the new ha nda
in coming to and going from their labor.
[Ne.c York Journal Of Commerce, 23d.
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MARYLAND LEanLArros.-From the Baltimore
Sun We learn that the bill to divide the State OF
Maryland into six Congressional districts on
Monday rejected BY the Senate, and that the same
body referred to the next General Assembly the
bill authorizing the sale Of the State stock in tho
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. This lat
ter measure had passed the House, and ia thus now
defeated by the Senate.
In the House, the Elysville Railroad bill. which
proposes a branch from the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Elysville in Baltimore county, round
to the eastern border Of the city, to unite there with
the Philadelphia railroad, was referred to the In
ternal Improves ent Committee.
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THE SUsPENsIoN BADGE AT NIAGARA FAILS
The Iis has the following in regard to this great
work.
"First of importance in the way of usefulness
and attraction to the iegions who will pass it in
view, ia the great combined railway carriage and
foot suspension bridge, now under construction by
the International Bridge Companies. The work
is being pushed forward with energy, and
will be ready for the trains about the frat Of May
next The mason work, towers, &c are being
constructed on the Canada side by Mr.. Brown
contractor, and on the American side by Mr.
Gage, favorably known as contractor on various
public works A large portion of the materials
are now on the ground, and much of the rough
hewing, sinking of anchor pits. &C., has been done
and the immense anchor plates and chains are
coming into place short year will present one
Of the most stupendous works in the world, as q
work of art-well worthy of place by the side Of
the great natural wonder, the Falls of Niagara
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A LONG WILL.-Henry A. Hamilton was last
week engaged recording. in the books of the pro
bate court of this county, of the longest wills,
perhaps, OF record in this State ii not in the Uni
ted States. The will ia that of the late Gen James
Taylor, of Newport. Kentucky. 1t covers twenty
one and half pages OF royal octave, closely, and
we may add we'll written. The fee for recording
1t amounts to twenty-one dollars and eighty cents
1t relates to property valued at four millions OF
dollars, and gives freedom and property to more
than twenty human beings and their postsrity. As
the testator was the owner of real estate in twenty
Six counties OF this State, the will has be record
ed in each OF them. The land owned by him in
this county lies 10 Miami township, in the vicinity
of Clifton.-Xenia (Ohiol Ibrchlight.
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SUCCESSFUL FARMING ON THE EASTERN SHonE-
A correspondent Of the Centrevile (Md) Times
relates the success of a farmer of that county by a
liberal of manure. 1t appears he purchased
the farm in 1874, (pravious to which it scarcely
produced enough to support family,) and since
then, now nine years. he has used l0, 1893 bushels
of ashes. II ,S65 bushels of stone lime and $500 OF
shel lime, besides street manure, in all costing
5 .224 So. In 1874 the produce of the farm sold
for S49l So, and was gradually increased until
1852, when it sold for $3,504 Al. The sales of the
nine years amount t. $l6,2l5 20, or $l2,99O 50
over and above the cost of the manure. At the
rate of he yield of 1874 the aggregate sales of the
nine years would have amounted to only S4,424 %;
so that he has clear gain, from produce alone, OF
1886 80, by the application Of manure for nine
years; in addition to which HE farm of 3O8 acres
which, in 1910, was assessed at 81, 1923, is, this
year. assessed at s O,7S0-increase in value 8 s..
$50. During the nine years he also sold s / 800
worth of wood and rails, making total increase
Of s l6,3lS 80.
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Rock Or BAssE FIsHIsa ExraAoRptNARY-we
are informed that Mr.. Champion, the British min
lister, and MIR. Lanman, captured at the Little
Falls of the Potomac yesterday morning about
ttco hundred and fifty pounds of ths exc client Fl n
The total number sixty four, the largest weigh.
ing nearly twelve pounds, and all taken with the
delicate but powerful tackle manufactured by the
Messrs. Conroy, of New York. But what il still
more remarkable, the fish were caught within the
space of two hours-from five to seven-and from
one single rock This is said to be the beat sport
which has been experienced at the Little Falls for
ten years past. This is "hsh story" to which
Wa can testify; for some of the fab we have had
the satisfaction of enjoying, and the Iargest the
polite anglers presented 10 the President.
Union of Tu<sday.
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Sale Of Printing Materials.

An extensive sale of Hoes Cylinder, Wash
iagton, and Smith presses; several large founts
OF type; and a variety Of other articles useful
In hrst-cass printing house-being the bulk
of the establishment of Mr. A. BoYD HAMIL-
TON, late printer to Congress-are to be sold at
noon to-day at public sale. For particulars,
see advertisement in another column.
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y ALsosI.-This peerless singer 10 to appear once
in the United States before her departure for
Europe. 1t will he at the concert given to Artit,
at Metropolitan Hall, thu week. She will sing,
besides other things, capital selection from Tan
credi, which she has not before attempted here,
and will be assisted by Forti, Revere, and Others
Madame Alboni will leave Saturday, after a
tour in the United States, which, we are told, has
been both amply remunerative and gratifying
Her success has not equaled that of Jenny Lind or
sontag. but han been Of substantial and compli-
mentary kind-Neu York Euening Post, 23d.
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NoRrH CARoLISA CoPPER.-The Wilmington
Journal of May 23i informs us that the editor has
seen some very beautiful specimens of copper ore
from Chatham county, in that State. The largest
Jumps contain about twenty to twenty-five per
cent. of pure copper, embedded in white quartz.
The smaller Jumps are very nearly pure, the por-
ton of quartz being not more than ten per cent.
This copper business, the Journal says, certainly
bids fair TO grow into OF the most important
interests in the State, and the editor has little no
doubt that it will be much more profitable than the
copper region on Lake Superior.
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ESTATES IN South CARoLINA.-An important
case in reference to the distribution of an estate is
thus noted in the Charleston Courier, as having
been made at Columbia, in South Co, ona
"The court of errors has decided the great Field
er case in fAvor of the half-blood. The late Hon
John M Fielder, of Orangeburgh district, in this
State died intestate left estate, chiefly in lands
and negroes, worth near half million of dollars
and left two brothers and sister of the hal-blood
and the children of a deceased brother of the hole
blood, Ii. e. nieces and nephews,) as heirs of his
rich estate The question was whether the hall
brother and sisters would take only per capita, l. e.
only equal shares with the nephewe and nieces oil
the whole blood, whether all would take pc,
stripes e. whether the brothers and sisters of the
half blood would take full shares brothers, and
the nieces and nephews only take among them the
share of their deceased parent, by representation
A majority of the court has decided in favor Of the
latter alternative, giving literal and think just
construction to the clause OF the act of seventeen
hundred and ninety one on the subject.
"The doctrine, however, is unpopular that places
the half blood on superior footing to the whole
blood, and the Legislature will probably change or
amend the law at the next session 1t is said, too,
that estates have been hitherto usually divided on
the now overruled construction. The court Of err
stood one to eight on the question-Judge
O'Neall dissenting; and Judge Glover, who was
engaged as counsel for the two nephews and nieces
of the whole blood when called to the bench, taking
part in the decision of the cause; but it is
derstood hat he concurs With Judge O'Neall The
decision ID yet pronounced, but will be deliver.
ed on Monday next. The nephews and nieces oil
the whole blood are nine In number, and will get
but about ten thousand dollars or a little upward
piece. They were represented by Mesars. Petigru
r. DeTrevile, Bauskett, and Maxcy Gregg. The
two half. brothers and half sister will get one hun,
bred thousand dollars and upward piece. They
we're represented by the Hon VIM. F. Desaussure
and Edmund Belinger, esq, who will divide be
tween them the large fee of fifteen thousand dol
lars The brothers and sister of the half blood viii
make up, learn, among them handsome purs,
tor the widow and children of half brother Of the
intestate-their whole brother-who comes in fo
nothing under the law There are, also, learn
children of deceased nephew of the intestate ,wh(
aleo get no share by Iaw,'