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Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-14
g HERIFF"S SALE
~ STATE OF LOUISIANA fth Judicial District Court,
parish OF Lafourche.
Holden Murphy,
No. 1880.
Celestin Close.

TAKE NOTICE: That acting under writ Of 6er facias
emanating from the above entitled court in the aboe emit
tied and num cred case have seized and will offer for sale
public auction at the Court House, situated in the town
of Thibodaux SATURDAY, the 4th day of NOVEMBER,
1854 II cello M the nte est of Celesn Close being
undivided half in the partnership existing between said
Close c. Gaureau subject to the charges same, in the
Coffee House business, and in the furniture and stock Of
same, which have been seized, and are as follows:
Thirty Chairs Billiard Table and its appurtenances,
Tables Looking Glass, Water Jar, Ice box, - Ocean
ers boxes Of Havana Cigars cask Brandy Sc bottles of
yermouth 10 gallons of Port Wne 80 gal on Rum, IS gal
Ions Madeira, and general assortment OF Liquors. &C.
TERMS AND CoSpTroNs-The said property will be sold
Twelve Months Credit Purchasers to furnish their
bonds with good and valuable security, bearing five per
cent. interest per annum until final payment.
The said sale will be de satisfy the principal
and costs of suit. 43tds NJ. BOURG, Sheriff
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What I Live For.

| live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true;
For heaven that smiles above lne,
And awaits my spirit too;
For all human ties that bind me;
For the task my God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that can do.
live to learn tier story
Who've suffered for my sake;
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake:
Bards, patriots, ma tyrs, sages,
The noble Of al ages,
Whose deeds crowd History's pages,
And Times great volume make.
l live to hold communion
With all that is divine;
To feel there is a union
'TwiXt natures heart and mine:
To profit by aflliction,
Reap truths from fields Of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction,
And fulfil each grand design.
l live to hail that season
BY gifted minds foretold,
When men shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold:
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whoe world shall be lighted
AS Eden was Of old.
l live for those who love me,
For those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too:
For the cause that lacks assistance;
For the wrong that needsresistance {;
For the future in the distance,
And the good that can do.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-14

The CASE OF DIR. GRAHAM.-The New York
Court Of Oyer and Terminer opened for the Oc-
tober term on the morning Of the I'd inst. The
case Of DR.. Graham, of New Orleans, charged
with the murder of Mr.. Loring, at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, New York, was set for trial next
day; Mr.. j. r. Whiting, who appeared with
Mr. Charles O'Connor, and Mr.. J. Oakley Hall,
as counsel for Dr.. Graham, stating his belief
that they would be readyto proceed that day,
and that the trial would not occupy more than
two days.
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SPEED OF L1GHTNING.-A wheel made to re-
volve with such velocity as to render its spokes
invisible, is seen when illuminated by flash of
Lightning, for moment, with every spoke dis
tinct as if at rest. The reason Of this is, the
flash has come and gone before the wheel has
had time to make a perceptble advance.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-14

FLORIDA ELEcTIoN.-The Mobile Advertiser,
of Sunday, has meagre returns from one or two
counties of the recent election in Florida. For
Congress, Maxwell is, as far as heard from,
ahead of Brown, Wing, in Escambia. In Santa
Rosa the vote is very close. Nicholson and
Rowley, Know Nothings are elected to the Lee
gislature over Wright and Yniestra.
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THE CASE OF DR.. GRAHAM.-We perceive by
the telegraphic dispatches Of the N. O. Pic
ayune, that DR.. Graham has been found guilty
Of manslaughter in the second degree, and that
stay Of proceedings for twenty days has been
granted, the cause for which was not assigned !;
but it appears that an arrest Of judgment had
been moved and granted, on the ground Of the
incompetency of the jury Of eleven, and the
mode in which the verdict was returned.
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gsGs' 4 day or two since, says the Richmond
Dispatch, servant man belonging to Robert
Aiken, Esq, Of IIenrico county, was bitten nn
the foot by copperhead moccasn snake. wbi,a
at work IN the field. As soon as Mr.. 4. haarI
Of the accident, he cut open a live chicken onl
applied it to the wound. and then gave the ,aora
just as much good brandy as he could he n
dnced to drink. After taking several gvossaa
intoxicatlon ensued. the patient fell asleen .,
in the course Of three hours walked up ent;ro,S
free from pain. The like remedy was efectuan,
tried near Charleston few weeks opc Nv
slave of Dr. Poppenheim, who lad been bittnn
by a rattlesnake. The wound was in the heei'
and to prevent the spread of the poison tbo
leg was bound with cord or rope, as tioh,lt
as it could be drawn. 1t required a very I,rn,
quantity of spirits to make the patient drunt
After this, an African snake doctor who b.J
been sent for, lancea the wound, and squeezed
out the poison The portion Of the leg below ,bs
cord had, before this, swollen almost 10 hn,s,
ing. We understand that the patient soon 10,
covered, after getting sober.
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FIAT della LOUISIANE-Parolsse

En- veruo DIES pouvcirs qui sont dennes par 10 ,%
HOMER BERNARD, Inspecteur dee Chemans e' ~. Ls na
dams pour lie PREMIER DISTRICT DlssPEDTioS nc IA
roisse off ra publigue rabals "a "s s,or.
Cour dams la Vile de Thbodaux MERCREDl lie 70 r
BRE, 1854, II heures NJ, les traVaux ct
etre fats lie chemlns ct evee suivant sayon =. an
Les reparations faire la Levee ... I.
Chemin sur certain de terre STU. w. en-.
dte parosse, sur II rive droe dn bayou LaouI r.nts
viron II miles audessous de Ia vile de ThooaauA, 4
arpents de face, borne haut par les erre ue
Fore bas par cees de Chreustin Martini e sout
CONNIE suit ,eparer ia evee lie chemin les fosse es
points, La levee lorsquee sera ni, deyra avon
plus haus peds de base crete de a nir
TERMEs CONTROVERSIES acquereurs de'o., sse du
un bon en- favour du Jury de Police de cene bouns
double du montant du prix de adudcation assv an
Caution ecrite de quill nront les e; no Oh
dile levee ct sur lie dit chemin conforment Ia ioh
avant lie premier de Novemtre, 1854.
Temoin ma main ce u Octobbre, 1854. ,-...sw
HOMER BERNARD, Inspector.
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IA The Detroit, Miscellany, says we are
again publishing advertisements Of Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. This medicine is taking very strong
hold upon the good opinion of the people. 1t
is regarded generally as most excellent re-
medy for Pulmonary Complaints, Coughs and
Colds. Having found it an excellent medicine
we cheerfuly endorse it.
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nag Hartman Blennerhassett, the second son
of Hartman Blennerhassett, of the Island in the
Ohio river, which bears that name, died in New
York on the 18th ult, after protracted illness
He was an artist of very considerable eminence
The only surviving member OF the family, JOS
L. Blennerhassett, now lives in Troy, Missouri
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Whig Victory!

By telegraphic dispatch dated Philadelphia,
October II, we learn that Judge Pollock, the
wing candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania,
has been elected by a large majority. His
friends, from the returns already received and
counted, claim that it will be fully $4,000.
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THE WIGwAM-The editor Of the Picayune
has been taking breakfast with our friend Wal
gamot, at Bayou des Allcmands. He says:
"We found fine hotel kept by gentlemanly host
to which we would call the special attention Of city friends
The fine taste those Creole eggs still fingers pleasantly
upon palate the birds and fish to be despised
For mprompu breakfast, commend US to the mlgwam
JInfe
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THE PHYSICIANS OF SAvANNAH-We have 70
ceivcd, over the alleged signature of William
Howe, President of the Young Mems Benevolent
Association of Savannah, list of the med;ra
men of that city, who ahsconded from the W..
low fever. As We do not know that the siapo
ture is genuine, and if 50 assured, do no, tes
inclined to press too hardly upon t;mid doctors
for some of them are just as scary as othsi
folks, we decline to publish the list
rLlr4I
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER IA, 1854.

SUGAR MAKING.-A number of our planters
have commenced rolling. We have not yet been
able to learn, either the yield Of the cane, or
the quality Of the sugar.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-14

R@~ The Coast Journal, at Donaldsonville,
hoists the name Of THos. J. RusK, Of Texas,
and the Bayou Sara Ledger that of DANL. s.
DICKINSON, of New York, for President in 1856
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THIBoDAUx FEMALE INsTITUTE.-We are re-
quested by Mr.. Tenney to state that this IN
stitution will be re-opened for the reception OF
pupils on Monday next, the 10th inst.
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pa Capt. Adams, of the Japan Squadron
went out in the steamship Pacific, which left
New York on the 3Oth ult., for Liverpool. He
is the bearer of the ratified Japan treaty.
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Mellbies "a l'E;alcain.
VENTE VOLONTAIRE par NJ

NENTE NOLONTAIRE par Nine. s,
Heas II sera odert en- vente publique par lie sous.
sisn&, sur les ieux stues dams la vile de Thbodaux,
SANEDI, lie 2leme jour du mos d'OCTOBRE 1854, a 10
heures A. NJ, In proprietee suivante, savoir
BOTS DE Its ct LIFTS, Armoirs, Chaises Tables TN
Sofa, Poele Tipis, Tapis Paie ct assor.
ment generate de fournure de maison
PROFESSIONALISM NJ BOURG Sheriff.
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WASHINGTON Affairs.

From the special correspondent Of the N. O..
Picayune in Washington, we CLEAN the follwing
items:
That there is no reasonable foundation in the
report heretofore set afoat that naval force
was to 20 down to San Juan to make a demon
stration against the British Mosquito protec-
torate. That the story is probably owing to the
dence was going to the Pacific and might look in
at San Juan on the way.
That Mr.. Wheeler of n c. the new Charge to
Nicaragua, may 60 to San Juan either by the
the LIST November next.
That MIR. Fabins, late o. S. commercial agent
at Greytown is going out by the same convey
ance to take testimony in relation to damages
sustained in the bombardment &C., of Greytown.
Atty. Gen. Drummond of Canada is in Wash
ington, for the purpose of inducing the President
to agree to an application of the reciprocity
treaty to the Canadas, their parliament having
accepted its conditions. 1t has received the
consideration of Messrs. Marcy, Gushing and
Guthrie, who say it cannot be DONE The treaty
has been ratified by England and the United
States, therefore, it was proper to proclaim it.
Yet it is not to 60 into operation until certain
conditions are all fulfilled.
The State Department has no confirmation of
the rumored cession of the Haytien port SANTANA.
Mr.. Buchanan is DESTROYS of resigning in
June next, and is actively endeavoring to settle
the Central American question with that in view !;
and, after continental tour, will return to the
U. States.
PorAroEs.-The Hartford Conn., Courant of
Friday week says:
eve have never known so general 'caving
in on any subject as there is upon the opinion
expressed a few weeks since in reference to the
potato crop. Then every one was apprehensive
of short supply, but now all seem to think it
will be the best crop that has been raised for
years."
We have similar information from other quar-
tiers. One farmer in East Windsor, Conn, has
gathered fifty bushels of potatoes of superior
quality from forty rods of ground, being yield
of two hundred bushels per acre. The Bridge
port Comm Farmer says that Alonzo Taylor,
Esq, informs them that his potatoes will yield
three times better than last year. Fine Irish
potatoes. by vessel, were sold on the wharf at
Alexandria last week at retail for ST. so per
bushel. This is but little more than half the
price that good potatoes have been selling for
in the Washington market in New York.
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Hon. JOHN NJ. CLAYToN.-In consequence of
want of room, We give only brief synopsis Of
Mr. Clayton's admirable letter, in answer to one
from D. Rodney King, of Philad., requesting a
pledge as well as to ascertain his views upon
the subject of excluding foreigners from all civil
offices, except in foreign diplomatic or CONNER
cial agencies wherein the public interest might
be injured.
Mr.. Clayton says in substance that he is not
nor ever intends to be a candidate for the Pres
idency. That inasmuch as the Naturalization
Law and Nebraska Bill place the alien upon an
equality with native, yet that the American
people must OF should decide, ceteris paribus,
whether the native citizen is or is not fairly en-
titled to preference in the distribution of honors
and Offices in the country that gave them birth.
That the Naturalization Laws are defective or
our statistics would not show SO many foreign
paupers and criminals, rendering the United
States Botany Bay for Europe. That he would
inculcate liberation to those fully aaturazized,
and would recommend the practice of Religious
liberation. That notwithstanding he would de-
fend the rights Of. all men, of all religions to
the full extent guaranteed by the Constitution,
yetho man who acknowledges allegiance or holds
himself under obligations to any foreign prince
or power, can fill any post or Office by his vote,
voice or influence And notwithstanding he
would recommend the defence ofotherss religious
rights at the peril Of our lives, yet We should
defend our own at the same risk.
And finally that, in his opinion, "a native
American citizen, under equal circumstances Of
qualifications and merit, is better entitled to the
honors and Offices Of the country than foreigner
swhoAhor rod ~
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RETURNEp.-Mr. D. T. Ricardo. the energetic
Secretary of our Howard Association, returned
to the city this morning, from his late trip to
Savannah and Augusta, Ga, with deputation
Of physicians, nurses, &C., to afford aid to the
sufferers from yellow fever. We have already
recorded the course they pursued since they
left the city, and we have nothing more to add
than the major part of the deputation still re-
manned at Augusta, where unfortunately their
services were much needed We have good
reason to hope, however, that that city would
now soon be freed from the presence of the
scourge, for Mr.. Ricardo reports that on the
night Of Wednesday last, the 4th inst, a keen
black frost was experienced at Atlanta, Ga.
Jack Frost is always peculiarly welcome, as the
great enemy of his jaundice-colored namesake,
and as he has already been so near Yellow
Jacks worst stronghold, and in such force, the
latter is doubtless rapidly vacating by this time
] ". o. Picayuns Of Tuesday.
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New Books.

We have been politely furnished by D. d.
Steel, of New Orleans, with several WORKS OF
fiction and travels, viz: Katharine Ashton, Chest-
nut Wood the Iron Cousin, and Capt. Canofs
Career and Adyentures as an African SlaOer
They are oil exceedingly interesting works
KATHARINE Ashton is a domestic and finely
deyeloped romance, written in an admirable and
sincere style, in which the affections OF the
female heart are portrayed as they are wrought
upon by the trials and vicissitudes OF Life.
CHESTNUT Woop is charming story gracefully
told. with far deeper design than merely to
amuse, with a great deal of the subtlety OF
human life, full Of just sentiments intoxicating
moral lessons.
THE IRON COUSIN abounds with touching
sentences of tenderness and pathos, an exempll-
fcation that good comes to some by nature, and
to others only through trials, temptation and
tribulation; there is tone of morality pervading
throughout that renders it worthy to be placed
in the hands of our daughters and sisters.
Though these works may be termed light read
ing, vet they improve the heart and eniighten
the Judgment while they supply amusement to
the passing hour
THE NARRATIVE OF CAPT. CANoT is a very
interesting volume Astounding in variety of in
cident and adventure on board of q SLAYER, and
giving an account of the manners, customs and
characters of the African race. The very
novelty of the subjects treated on will give it a
wide circulation.
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SIcKNEss.-H just returned home from
the City, time has not permitted us to speak
from personal knowledge in this to our country
readers important matter, though we learn that
things remain in the same condition they were
week ago. The four cases of fever of which
we spoke in our last, have entirely recovered
Dr. W. B. Young, one of our best physicians
died of yellow fever on Wednesday last At
this time there are some half dozen cases of
sickness, but whether yellow fever or not we are
not able to say. at any rate, if yellow fever,
they are extremely light cases, and are con-
sidered by the attending physicians as not at all
dangerous.
In connection with this matter, our citizens
have heard, with regret, that there is much
sickness in the country, and, from this cause,
large majority of them, will not leave town, for
fear of contracting the prevailing malady
Badinage apart, we consider the many flying
reports of yellow fever &c, &C., decidedly
ridiculous, having their origin in the magma
ton of that class of individuals who delight in
creating unnecessary alarm merely for the
purpose of making themselves conspicuous
That we have had several cases Of yellow fever
here, We do not at all deny; but as southerners,
as residents of Louisiana, as those who from
adoption, as well as from birth, intend to pass
our days in the South, we should discard all
fears of disease which is indigenous to the
country, and meet it bravely, and without fear
If we survive it we shall have crossed the
Rubicon, and repose safely in the future.
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Woman's Rights.
BY FANNY FERN

TITS womans right to take the field in virtues holy cause
Her right claim such ground societys applause
Her right love her native land and for its safety pray,
But her right to mnge in the battles deadly fray
She has the will and power to fill
Mans heart with pure delight;
She rules his soul " tn sweet control,
And this is woman's right
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a.: Marie de Thibodaux, ce "A Oct io0' J..
4 Wis AU BOULANGERS. LIE pr. Man, an
Ia Farne frache etan IS 90 lie Marche de 1
yees Orleans les Boulangers sont requs de pro
once do pain pour dix cents durant "a ai,ir,
chaine. '. ~
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Furniture at Auction.

" VIZ ,. TTFdS.
viii be offered for sale at public auction l-Try77
by the undersigned on the premises situated in.z=9
the town of ThibodauX, Jackson street, on
SATURDAY, the 2ls day of OCTOBER, 1854 at=As@skss
10 O'Clock, NJ the following described property owit
BEDS and BEDDING, an Armor, Chairs, Tables, Safe,
Cooking Stove Carpets and Mating and general
ment of Household Furniture.
sHy" TERMS-CASH. NJ. BOURG, Sheriff
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Mayoralty of Tlibodaux, October H. If
NOTICE TO BAKERS. The Pf'ee PRE-. u
Fresh Flour being So co. in the New Orleans sn cents
Bakers are required to give rs of bread o ao
during next week v. ID. iEhaE-DoA'-,AN
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~ Our devil thinks this is . great world.
He says thatat the printing ofice they charge
him with all the pi they find, while at home they
charge him with Ill they do notfnd. He seems
to doubt the propriety Of the proceedings.
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THE SINKING OF THE MALTA.-The Bulletin,
of Monday morning, has the following account
of this catastrophe:

THE SINKING OF THE MALTA.-The Bulletin,
of Monday morning, has the following account
of this catastrophe:
The steamboat Malta, Capt. Frazer, from
Louisville to Memphis, with about $50 passengers
on board, struck snag at the head Of Hurri-
cane Island, about fifty miles above Paducah,
on the morning of the 29th ult, when she
Immediately sunk in about IL feet water.
Most of the cabin passengers rushed on the
hurricane deck, while the deck passengers COM
menced jumping fatboat swinging at the
time, and threatening to capsize. From in
formation derived from one of the passengers,
the number drowned must have been between
thirty and fifty, all except two being deck pas
sengers, among which were several women and
children. An old gentleman, called Baronet,
from Indianapolis, who was on his way to White
River was drowned in attempting to jump on
the iatboat. The name of the other cabin pas
sengers was not known.
About fifty of the passengers saved came
down to Paducah on the Raven. the balance
remaining on the William Thomas, which
happened to be lying at the time near the scene
of disaster, and rendered some service in land
ing those on the fatboat, by sending out a yawl.
None of the cabin passengers baggage was lost,
and all lives might have been saved had they
stuck to the boat. Some twenty of the passen-
gers came to Cairo Oh the Emma Brown, when
they got on board the Aleck Scott.
The Louisville Courier, noticing the tele-
graphic report of the sinking of the Malta, says
The boat was on her way to Cairo and Mem
phis, from this port and Cincinnati, with cargo
of dry goods. She received considerable freight
here, which was, we understand, covered by
$4,000 insurance in the various local Offices.
A portion of this cargo was for Memphis, Hick-
man, and Osceola, Ark.
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IT'S woan right counsel in sorrows crushing hour
Her right raise his sinking heart by loves transcendan
power;
Her right upon M troubled the darkest waves to brave
But her right guide ships upon the
She has the will, &c.
IT'S womans right to call on to cherish and protect
Her right to ella m every his homage and respect
Her right to lecture and be heard within dome tic walls.
But not her right peak aloud in legislative halls
She has the will, &C.
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ounce any distance in the United States under
three thousand miles, and at two cents an ounce
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that their character may be determined without
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and a half, and over three thousand miles in the
United States three cents an ounce.