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STAGING.-Friend Holden has been rather
unfortunate of late in his staging operations,
having within the last four days lost two of his
best horses, besides upsetting and considerably
damaging his stage on Sunday last. Mis-
fortunes never come singly, but we trust that
he will not despair, but continue in his endeav-
ors to supply the public with means of travel
during the suspension of steamboat navigation.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

HARPER FOR AuGUsT.-Bennet & Galabert Of
the Literary Depot, hare our thanks for copy
Of this magazine for the current month The
present number is exceedingly interesting.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

Bayn Riyalyes and delicious ones too, have
already made their appearance at our landing.
The cargo met with ready sale at seventy-fye
cents per hundred.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

CITIZENS BANK OF LouIsIANA.-Our thanks
are due to the Hon. J. A. Braud, of New
Orleans for copy of the "Semi- annual State
ment Of the Banking Department of the Citizens
Bank Of louisiana" on the 31st ult The
average period during which the entire capital
Of 81 100000 has been paid in, is less than
seven months, and the nett profit realized,
$161, 1885, A perfectly safe and sound in
stitution we should saw
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

LOUISIANA CANE CUTTER.-The Hon. F. n.
Hatch Of the parish of st. Helena, has now on
exhibition at the Baton Rouge Penitentiary, a
working model of machine bearing the above
name. 1t is represented to be as ingenious in
its arrangement, as it is novel in its design, as
never heretofore has any attempt been made to
apply machinery to gathering the sugar crop.
In cutting cane in the field for the mill, it is
expected to do the work of from thirty to fifty
hands, and in windrowing, from seventy-6ve to
one hundred. If its qualities are not exaggerated
it will certainly prove an invaluable adjunct to
sugar farm, and the inventor will not fail to
be amply rewarded for his discovery.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

MAIL FAILURE. There was, an eclipse of the
mail on Tuesday last If our paper falls short
OF its usual interest the cause is alone attribut
able to this circumstance-the beginning, no
doubt, of regular series-a second edition of
what took place last fall, when We received q
mail regularly every ten days
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

Bas~ Our adyices from GALLON Island are up
to the.15th inst, at which time the sojourners
were represented to be enjoying themselves in
the highest degree.
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THIBOD AU X:
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, 1854.

Bgs- Thanks to the officers of the C. D. Jr,
for their attention in having forwarded US files
Of late New Orleans papers. Do ussso again.
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NOTICE DETECTION

~ Commencement une proclamation de Fho1 no DC
c. Thibodaux President Ju Juri de Police de PaG.s.
Teebonnes DIES Elections dams ze ,rDi
ACCOMPLISHMENTS du Jnr de Police de adte Paros cs
lie 81 AOUT 1854, pour ere I'm Membre du JUN srsices
dams chacuns desdits ACCOMPLISHMENTS, esqueS 's'
commencera lie Ter Lundi de Septembre, 1854 ~
Les lieux de tenr les elections sont CONNIE SUM- pops
I'd Arrondissemeut-A la Mason d'Ecole; .. o
Apguste Iegendre, ct E. Gautreau, Commissares pp
SINE Arrondissemens-A la Mai On de Gabriel MDar
Mathurin Dupre, Eugene Fields, ct F. Sewn,
Les retours dEiections seront rems au soussgne
[35-ted] F. GAGNE, Greier du Jun o' i''- -
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R. G. DARDEN.-It will be gratifying to the
that we have received letter from him bearing
date Hamburg, July II, in which he informs
us of his continued good health. He writes us
that he has visited a greater portion Of France,
Prussia, Belgium, Holland and Germany, and
has not been an inattentiye observer of the
manners and customs of the people, and the
agricultural resources Of the countries through
which he has travelled, and carefully compared
them with those of his native land. From Ham
burg, Mr.. Darden returns to England, and in
tends visiting Scotland and Denmark before his
departure for home
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NOTICE.

IL Pursuant to proclamation Of the Hon H. T. lnlOo'
daux President of the Police Jury Of the Parish OF lew
bonns, Elections will be held in the I'd and sth Ponce s
Wards Of said Parish, on THURSDAY, the Dist dy -.
AUGUST 1884, for the purpose Of eecting Member o. y.
Police Jury in each Of said Wards whose term 'si
shall begin on the First Monday # September, 1851
The Election Precincts as follows to-wit: IN.
I'd Ward-At the School House ]. c. Potts. Ansu'sD'
gendre, and E. Gautreau, Commissioners. ,,..,l,
Sth Ward-At the House of Gabriel DeBGuf; Manu-"
Dupr6, Eugene Fields, and F. Seven, Commissioner
Returns of Elections TO be forwarded to the
lS5-tedl F.GAGNE, Clerk Police july
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Bsg~ In an grafton at Williams CoIlep

BGT In an Grafton at Williams College
Mass, the Hon. Edward Everett once said:
81 would rather occupy the bleakest nook Of
the mountain that towers above u.s. with the
wild wolf and the rattlesnake for my nearest
neighbor, with a village school, we'll kept, at
the bottom of the hill, than dwell in paradise
of fertility. if l must bring up my children in
lazy, pampered, selfsuficient ignorance"
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Ess We notice that our young friend Nelson
Galabert, the junior of the book establishment
is adding more shelving for the accommodation
of that large and varied stock of books, station
ary, ETC., which will soon come to hand. How
IS 1T that our citizens got along so well and SO
long without this now indispensable establish
ment, is wonderful
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nsT :" Be careful forit sWells in the mouth, =
was the humane injunction of one Of our butchers
to an individual who had set up all night in
order to be at market early enough the next
morning to procure . piece of his tough beef
steak, which exercises the jaws but furnishes
no nutriment to the body.
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YELLOW FEvER.-On this day, twelve months
ago, yellow fever first declared itself here May
centuary elapse before it shall again make
its appearance. What melancholy reflection
that two hundred of our fellow citizens, who
were alive and in the full enjoyment of life,
twelve months ago, now sleep in the arms of
death beneath the clods of the valley. How
short is life and how certain is death!
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

B9r Men, unlike guns, ego Off without
being charged-though it is often on account of
charges against them.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

ANOTHER FERRY.-It will be perceived from
an advertisement in another column, that Mr..
W. S. Miles purchased the right of the Ferry
at the Railroad Crossing, about four miles be-
low this place. Mr.. NJ informs us that he has
the best of boats, and is ready at all hours to
attend to the calls of the travelling public.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

Ba| Eggs are now selling at twenty-five
cents per dozen in this market! Have the
hens held another convention, or have they
nearly all died off with the pip? One or the
other, weare sure. must be the case Twenty-Five
cents per dozen for eggs in the country is out of
all character, especially for printers finances
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

Mayoralty of Thibodaux, August 10, 1854
NOTICE TO BAKERS. The price Ct
Fresh Flour being IS co. in the New Orleans Market
Bakers required to give 25 of bread for
during next week. v. D. TERREBONNE, Mayor.
Marie de Thbodaux, ce 10 Aout, 1854
4 Wis AU BOULA\GERS. LIE prix de
la Farne frache eant 50 90 sur lie Marche de la Nou
vee Orleans, les Bouangers requis de bonner Is
onces de pain pour dix cents, durant la semane pro-
chaine. V. D. TERREBONNE, Mairs.
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New CoScERN.-Our young friend John R.
McEvers, has purchased of Thos. Conklin his
entire interest in the grocery establishment,
corner of Main and Green streets, where the
business will be continued under the name and
style Of "Jno. R. McEvers & Co." Mr.. Nc
Evers has considerably enlarged the old sales
room, and has now in store large and varied
assortment of choice family groceries, western
produce, ETC., ETC., which he is selling at small
advance on their original cost. johnny should
be encouraged. Don't forget to give him call,
ye who are in want of articles in his line of
business.
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NAv1GATIoN-Steamer Frank Keeling.-Much
to the surprise of our citizens, the steamer
Frank Keeling, notwithstanding the extreme
low stage of the water in our bayou, made her
appearance at our wharf on Thursday night
last. To accomplish this herculian task she had
to make her way over stumps, logs, sunken
fatboats, mud bars, polk stalks, ETC., etc. The
feat, though not profitable one to the owners,
has not been without its good effects, and Capt
U. D. Terrebonne deserves the everlasting
thanks of the low water navigators for having
afforded for the future clear channel, by the
removal of many Of the most serious distractions,
which greatly impeded navigation.
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Ma May the lady who sent US that deli
cious Cake from "Tammany Hail." never be
obliged to offer anything less agreeable to her
large family. She must know of the defcien-
cies of our market and pocket, and could not
have hit us in a more needy moment. Please
accept the thanks of all the 'munchers' in
mr. office
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

|. Ear Putnam's Monthly for August contain,
striking article upon the subject of "su;rm,,
Materialism," attributed to Mr.. Harvey Jana,
of New York. The scope of the article is thus
stated by himself:
We intend to prove if we can, first that il !,
impossible that spirit should manifest itself
physically; secondly, that the power which il
is pretended does reveal certain mysteries Of
an unknown life, by means of these outward
demonstrationsiand living media, is, by its own
confession, not a spiritual power, and vet. that
it is none the less (by its own showing again
incapable of physical manifestations; and, third
ly, that this supposed revealing power, what.
ever it may be is an evil power; for the system
of religion advanced by its agents is opposed to
divine revelation, contradictory, irrational and
pernicious.
We must refer those who wish to know whether
he makes out his case, to the article itself
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

EXTRAORDINARY CAsE.-The Detroit Free
Press states that family of Germans, who re-
sided on the Chicago road within fifteen minutes
walk from the City Hall, and had been sup
ported at the public expense for the last eight
weeks, has been swept away by the cholera.
First, the father was taken, then the two
children, and lastly the mother, in whose under
skirt was found $4,000 in gold. They had
lived amid reeking filth, foul stenches and
Notwithstanding vapors for weeks and had i'm
posed upon the public charity; but the county
is sole heir to their concealed wealth.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

New Rockers. According to Toulon paper,
says G. W. Kendall, in a recent letter from
Paris to the Picayune, a trial of some new
rockets has recently been made in that city,
and with complete success. They were thrown
to the astonishing distance of 4, 800 metres, or
upward of a French league, which is nearly a
third farther than any range previously achieved.
Should Unpublished result of these experiments
prove true, and the rockets brought into full
play atConstadt or Sebastopol, even the skulking
game will not save the Russian squadrons.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

STRANGE CONFERENCE.-THE understand, says
the Troy Times, that a man died in West Troy
last Thursday evening, with disease strongly
resembling cholera, and his body was deposited
in coffin and fully prepared for burial. The
remains were kept until Saturday evening, and
then, while the friends of the deceased were en-
gagged in holding wake over him, the supposed
dead man slowly recovered from the state in
which he had SO long lain and actually arose
from the coffin, walked across the floor and re-
quested drink Of water, saying he was very
thirsty This comes to us from one of the par
ties present, and we see no reason to doubt her
statement We further understand that the
man is convalescent and will recover
The Chicago Journal says the Rochester De-
mocrat, few weeks since, mentioned a case
like this, which happened in that city since the
appearance of the cholera.
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B5r Mayor Conrad, of Philadelphia, is in
the habit Of initiating the famous Sultan Haroun
Alrasehid, in going around the city at late hours
of the night to ascertain personally what the
police are about. He frequently creates great
CONSERVATION among the sleepers, and an in
yitation to visit the Mayors office next morning
has been found by the delinquent CHARLES z
to be equiyalentsto good bye john" as far
as their terms Of office are concerned
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FINE CARR1AGE.-Insour peregrinations
about town during the present week, we took
occasion to step into the establishment of Messrs.
sFulford Brothers, Carriage Makers, Jackson
street. These gentlemen have quite an extern
sive Establishment and the very best of work
men, who thoroughly understand the various
branchesof the carriage manufacturing business.
Mr.. Rose, who has charge of the trimming de-
partment, bears the reputation of being one
among the first trimmers in the. United States,
and well does his work give evidence of his just
title to the reputation he bears. That new car
riage Gust completed, built from the stump
in this establishment, is really beautiful
specimen of carriage, and goes far to show
that there's no atmospheric hindrance which
prevents as good and substantial carriages
being manufactured in Thibodaux as in Troy,
or Newark.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

The AMERICANS AS L1NGuIsTs.-In an inter-
esting article in the Eclectic Review, on Amer
lean travellers in Europe, writer speaks in
the following complimentary terms of the par
ticular facvlty of our countrymcn for acquiring
languages:
The Americans have peculiar aptitude for
foreign travel. They are excellent linguists. It
is even said that they learn French more easily,
and speak it better, than any foreigners in
France. Their knowledge of Spanish and Ger
man surpasses ours; and numerous distinguish
ed foreigners, not British, have long been natu-
rallied among them-the Benezets, the Gala
tins, the Agassiz, the Aububons, the Girards,
and the Sillimans, the family of our author.
The check-work of which all nations consist,
more or less land of which ours is famous
example, as Defoe shows in his s.True Britain y
is more visibly and more audibly social check
work in the United States than elsewhere.
While the great substratum is our g Brito-
Romo-Saxo- Dano-Norman- English" there will
be found superaded whole districts of pure Ger
man, French, and Spanish, with strong Dutch
and Swedish traditions American translations
Of eminent foreign books of jurisprudence and
philosophy ought to be better known in England
and if all their ambassadors cannot like Mr..
Everett, at Windsor, fuently converse with
each member of the diplomatic corps in his own
vernacular tongue" those ambassadors, and
their consuls, too, are extensively acquainted
with foreign languages. So, although Mrs.
Putnam has, perhaps equal in any country
in the world for critical knowledge of languages,
for e" she converses readily in French, Italian,
German, Polish, Swedish and Hungarian, and
is familiar with twenty more dialects, besides
Greek, Latin Hebrew, Persian and Arabic )"
although this extent of the linguistic acquire
ments is paralleled only by Cardinal Merchants
and some half dozen great names of both worlds
and sexes, STILL the fact of one American woman
being thus accomplished, marks the studious
tendency of her people.
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MARRYING OVER AdAIN.-The Buffalo Repub-
lie says, a brace Of Canadians who had lived
together fourteen years, recently became dis
gusted with each other and the man gave the
woman $l00Oto leave him forever and to come
to the States, which she did, However, the
poor fellow got lonesome, and sought his dis
carded companion, found her in Cleveland, and
married her on Fourth Of July, and the Z happy
pair sloped for Canada.
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Holden 4 Murphy,

a<.. CeIestin Close.
SACHEZ QUEEN verue dun orlre de saisie ct de ven
lance par Ia snsdte Cour dams la cdessus nue
Maison de Cour stuee dams la vile de Thbodaux SAED
lie de sEPTEMBRE 1854 at 10 heures, M, aropretee
suivante SAVIOR:
TRENTE CHAISES Billiard ct qui lui appariens,
cnq Tables. I'm Miroir, Jar eau, Bote Glaze
qunze Caraes, vngt-sx Bottles de Cigars de la Havana
I'm Cask de Brandy, trentesix bouteles de Vermou'h
douze gallons de Port Wine trente gal de Rhum rens
cnq gallons de Madare ct assortment general ae
sLiqueurs, ETC., etc.
TERMEs LA VENTE-COMPTANT.
La dte vente fate pour satisfare principal nerS
ct frais de &C process. [35. tdsl NJ BOUkG, sheil
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eGHERIFF'S SALE-
~ STATE OF LOUIsIANA-Fifth Judicial District
Court. ting III and for the Parish of Lafourche.
Holden Murphy,
CeIestin Close.

Ceestin Close
TAKE NOTICE That by virtue ola order ofseizure and
SALE emanating from the above entitled Court in the above
entitled numbered case have seized and will offer for
sale at public auction at the Court House in the town Of
Thibodaux, on SATURDAY, the End day Of SEPTEMBER,
1854 at II o'clock, NJ the following described property
to- witt
THIRTY CHAIRS, Billiard Table and its apperenances
five Tables, Looking Glass, Water JAR one Ice
Box, fifteen Decanters, twenty boxes of Havana
Cigars, Cask Of Brandy, thirty six bottles of yermouh
twelve gallons Of Port Wne thirty ga Ions of Rhum thirty
Liqueurs, ETC., etc.
TERMS OF SALE.-CASH.
The said sale will be made to satisfy the principal inte
and costs of suit. (35- tds] NJ. BOURG, Sheriff
NENTE DE SHERIF-
ErAT DE LA LOUISIANE-Cour du Cinquieme Dis
tric Judicaire segeant dams ct pour la Paroisse de a.
fourche.
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OHIO DIsGRAcED.-As if bent on finding the
lowest depths of -abasement to which abol-
ton banaticism is capable of degrading its de-
luded victims, the negro Fred Douglass was re-
Gently invited to deliver an address (no doubt
prepared for him and committed to memory for
the occasion before the literary societies of the
Western Reserve College, in Ohio. An abolition
sheet thus describes the disgraceful and humi-
liating spectacle:
Yesterday afternoon, July 24,) Frederick
Douglass addressed the literary societies of the
Western Reserve College, on the occasion of the
annual commencement. 1t was an exercise
with popularity about it, which will distin-
guish it from all of the kind of the present age
1t is an anomaly in the history of American
literature. A black man is invited to instruct
the already well-instructed Anglo-American
student in his own University Halls. We say,
we have seen the turning of new page in our
literature. Douglass position was not won for
him without struggle on the part Of his friends
In his introduction he thanked the societies
which had so kindly and so perseveringly given
him the invitation. His ascending that plat
FORM count triumph of humanity.
His theme was: "THE CLAIMS OF THE NEGRO
RACE, riewed in a Psychological and physiolo-
gacot light"
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INCOMES IN ENGLAND.-From q Lotto
mentary return, it appears that 1856, eS9 ne 90
sons paid an income tax during the year endn,
April 9th, 1853: OF these, SO persons posses,sS
more than 100000 per annum; 37 ga fraa1
glO,O to $1,000; 6G4 from 5000 to 10 o .v,l
$50 from 1000 to 5000; $50 from l nm >,
1000; 1855 from 1000 to 5000; 4s3l f., 10
1000 to 1000; 815 above 900; l, 7O9 sh hvn'
800; 2,O54 above 700; 3,O2l above 900. D Seo
above 5OO 7,ls7 above 400; 1850 above so0.
30, l42 above 20O 40,473 above $50; and %
l58 below that amount. Under another schsdu,.
81 paid on incomes above 500, and q 2ss an
incomes under $50. VII
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FEMALE REvESGE.-An exciting scene at
Washington lately occurred in room in the
Census Bureau, in consequence of E young lady
attempting to shoot one of the clerks, Mr.
Keyse. He escaped unhurt from the room, but
thelady expressed her determination to consum-
mate the redress of her grievance, and waited
near the building until oil the clerks had left
She alleges that matter connected with her
honor caused the attack
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-19

ARRAY AT NEW YoRK.-Dr. r. M. Graham,
of New Orleans had difficulty with Hon.
Chas. Loring, of California, at the Metropolitan
Hotel, New York, which resulted in the death
of the latter. DR.. G. was Immediately arrested,
and is now confined in the Tombs to await his
trial on tie charge of murder. The Hon. J.
P. Benjamin, our Senator in Congress, and the
Hon. 7. G. Hunt, Representative from this Dis
trict, have been employed to defend him.
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THE Subscribers have two hne nss
BUGGIEs l. HARNESS, for sale at Teasonss1MI TH
July %, 81. "Ahhi''
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E A. QUEER CUsToM.-A gentleman of the typo
graphical art, now employed in our office, says
the Mobilians have some very singular ways of
doing things in that city. One in particular he
says was very prominent during the prevalence
of the yellow fever last summer. The authorities
still retain that worn out custom of crying the
hour of night Immediately after the town-clock
has tolled it, from the tower near the Mayors
Office. AS soon as the bell is done tolling, the
watchman, in sing-so tone, cries these words,
q Nine O'Clock and ais uell.'' or whatever hour
it may be- Many smiled at the absurdity of
the practice, even while people were dying faster
than they could be buried. But on one oc-
casion in particular, the seberest and most de-
jected were compelled to laugh outright as the
Waterman yelled the words above quoted, after
he had paused, but few minutes previous,
from ringing the bell for fire. "Nine o'clock,
and ALPS we'll y Yet at that very moment
dozens were dying from yellow fever, and fire
raging furiously, with prospect of deyouring
a large amount Of property. "Alrs well that
ends WE'LL"
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p1@ Nitrate of silver, they say, is coming to
be quite an article of commerce for purposes
not generally recognized. 1t used to be prin-
cipally employed for marking linen. Then
bronchitis came into repute, and nitrate of
silver was found to cure it. It is found still
later that nothingis so serviceable for dying the
hair, and so making old men seem young, and
ladies' ages uncertain, as preparations of the
nitrate, and that gives it new start. ss9ss