Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-16

The BABY.-O, yes, take the baby alon.
by all means. Babies love dearly to ride il
the cars and todde about in steamboats,
Why The baby is the life Of the party. W.
have known whole room full Of people en-
,ertained by one, hour after hour Sleeping
or waking. the pretty little creature tina
can lisp little English or French, one car
hardly tell which, is the universal delight
and many party has been stupid Just 70,
the want OF one.
In old times when they used to journey in
stages, lady who had sweet little chile
with her could scarcely call it her own the
whole way, the gentlemen were so fond O
carrying, keeping and kissing it, Why, the
bachelors loved to play with and dandle hel
on their knees, though at first they nigh,
be little bashful and awkward in takiug
hold of the strange and unaccustomed thing
But the smiles and winning ways of the
baby were always irresistible, and sure to
overcome at last the most obstinate OF
bachelors. People love babies as they dc
flowers. Gentlemen especially. who are
fond of flowers, like babies, the sweetest oil
them all, to carry in their hands, just as they
would put carnation in their button-holes
How babies and butterflies do swarm in
summer, to be sure! 1t is then they are on
the wing. Pray, don't try to keep them
from flying about and alighting here and
there when something strikes their fancy,
opening and shutting their hands and wings
awhile. then fitting away again. Ye, tina,
have babies! don't go anywhere without
them. Better leave your pnrse behind, it
will be less missed. The light of your eyes
will kggquenched, and your tongue will miss
its inspiration. What a literally everlast-
ing topic is the baby! She does this, she
did that. Baby laughed in her sleep. Her
mother does believe it was because she saw
somaasiing which one SO lately from the
skies could only behold. Baby can say this
word, and hides away sometimes from her
mamma, though alt but her nose and eyes
are in plain sight.
Ye, who have no baby! get the lawful
ownership of one as soon as possible. You
don't know what fountain of pure felicity
it is. She is the light and JOY of the whole
house. The sweet little creature is the
brightest jewel in your cabinet, and orna-
mental TO your drawing-room the choicest
garland in your garden; the most mex
haustbIe of entertaining company. There
is no solitude where baby is Care and
trouble disappear at the approach of the
happy laughing little cherub She is chic
reform to your anxieties and exhilarating
gas to your pleasures. We adopt the style Of
advice of money-loving father 10 his son,
with change of word or two" Procure
baby, friend-honestly, of course, but at
any rate be sure and get one" A graceful
vine she will be TO yon in youth, which will
support you in the infrmities of age.
[Neacork ~ J0 Aduocate.
The DRuGGED LIQUOR OF THE HAMPSHIRE
LEGlsLATURE-The Hay it ,cas Done.-Our
readers will remember that some months
ago, when the New Hampshire Legislature
was in session, the wrath of the administra.
ton democracy at Concord was aroused
against the opposition coalition upon the
charge that they had drugged the liquor Of
the faithful, and had thus rendered them
unable to be in the House when their SER
vices were most required. committee
was appointed to investigate the matter: but
we have never had the benefit of their
report upon this dragging business. But it
is at length explained by the Dover In
quirer, as follows:
"At Gass's the headquarters Of the Gun
terrified" there is small back room, where
certain good thsugs" are kept on shelves,
together with the necessary accompani-
ments of sugar bowls and tumblers Mr..
Uri Lamprey, tor sometime past an agent of
the New York Guano Company. tarred for
several weeks OF the session at Concord, and
had with him several choice samples of
pulverized guano which he kept in bowls
and on favorable occasions exhibited them
to his friends among members. One eve
ming being hastily called out, he ncautious-
ly set away his pulverised samples on the
same shelf with the sugar bowls. Shortly
after, some of the members wishing TO
strengthen the inner man." went into the
closet, which was not yet lighted up, and
having used the decanters, took also very
freely OF the sweetening from the guano
bowls. Shortly after drinking, the fertilizing
effect of the sweeteningo manifested itself
in no very agreeable way. The drugged
members, were eventually used up for the
time being, and the inventive genius of But
terfield, Selling upon the incident, pro-
claimed it a trick of the majority played off
at the expense of the liQuorloying democrats
of the House."
This shows the administration democracy
to be in worse condition than we had
supposed. All the farmers say that where
guano fails the case is hopeless. What
hope can there be, then. where guano and
domestic brandy combined have failed to
effect the least shadow of Improvement
Monochrome in the world.-N Y Herald
SOUTH ArR1cA.-From a review. in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, Of a work entitled
Africa and the American Flag" by Cap
tain Foote, Of the United States Navy, we
quote the following paragraph on the pro-
@What may be done in the production of
sugar and coffee no man can tell. James