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Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-05

NO SABBATH.-In "prize essay on the
Sabbath" written by journeyman printer.
IN Scotland, there occurs the following pas
sage. We commend it to the attention of
those who profess TO regard the observance
OF the Sabbath as subsection to priestcraft:
Yoke-fellow! think now how the alb
straction of the Sabbath would hopelessly
enslave the working classes with whom We
are identified. Think of labor going on in
one monotonons and continuous and eternal
cycle-limbs forever on the rack the fingers
forever playing. the eye-balIs forever strain
ing, the brow forever sweating, the feet for
ever piodding. the brain forever throbbing.
the shoulders forever dropping, the oins for
ever aching. and restless mind forever
scheming, Think of the beauty it would
efface, Of the giant strength that it would
tame; OF the resources of nature that it
would exhaust; Of the aspirations that it
would crush; of the sickness it would breed:
Of the projects it would wreck; of the groans
IT would extort; of the lives it would i'm.
molate; and of the cherries graves that it
would premsturely dig! See them. toiline
and hewing, weaving and spinning sowing
and gathering. moving and reaping. raging
and building, digging and planting, unload
ing and storing, striving and struggling
in the garden and in the field in the granarv
and in the mill, in the warehouse and in
the shop, on the mountain and in the ditch.
on the roadside and in the wood. ia the city
and in the country, OH the sea and on the
shore. on the earth, in the days of brightness
and gloom. What sad picture the world
would present if we had no Sabbath
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-05

<HoLLowAY's OINTMEsT.-A Miraculous
Cure Of Ulcerous Sores.-Angustus Cook. a
composiior in the office of QUE Of the papers,
published in philadelphia, was afflicted for
and legs, his case in the end became SO des-
pesate. that it appeared evident he must for
sake his employment. A friend, persuaded
him to use Holioway's Ointment, and to take
the Pills according 10 the printed directions,
which he did. After short time, he found
himself considerably better, and by perseve-
ring with these remedies, in few weeks he
was completely cured, and is now able to
work with renewed rigor.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-05

LIFE IN THE OCEAN Not she'll or a
stone is brought up but is thronged with
living beings. Every bunch of weed gives
shelter to multitudes of creatures-sonle
Temporary lodgers, some permanent re-
sidents. Life is parasitic upon life. The
snrpuid builds its stony case on the abode of
the shelI-fi>h. and the delicate iacework of
the moss coral overspreads the surpua.
Over the steem of the sea-weed creeps the
6hres from which the graceful plumes of
the zoophyte spring. These, again, are
thickly invested by the pretty cells OF many
smaller species; and they in turn minute
as they are, often bear in profusion the
enrions forms of microscopic animalcules
Let us take stone from the heap that is
lying in our boat 1t is perfect museum
in itself |. is richly colored in parts By the
nnllipore-one Of the lowest forms of veget-
able life. which does for the scenery Of the
ocean what the moss and lichen do for the
scenery of the upper world. Here is cir
cniar cluster of cells Shocking like beauti-
ful lace-work carved in ivory;;" here little
sa"cer Of the pnrest whiteness, containing
within il number of stony tubes, the hab-
Itatlons Of whole company Of tiny poly
podes A sponge o,ergrows one portion of
the stone, itself the home of many living
thing: sea-anemone has possession Of
another. The little encrinite is present, and
near it a small star-fish, representatives of
the ancient and the modern era. There are
worms too, in plenty, and more Of life and
beauty besides than we have space TO de-
scribe. tits pleasant TO think of the amount
of happy existence which single stone
may support The forms TO which We have
chiefly referred are visible to the unassisted
eye; but as Humboldt remarks, I. the APP
plication Of the microscope increases in the
most striking manner our impression Of the
rich luxuriance Of animal life in the ocean.
and reveals to the astonished senses con-
sci0usness of the universaliiy Of being.n
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-05

DErENcEs OF RussIA-Punch's Russian
correspondent draws upon his fertile i'm
agination for the description of new species
ofinfernal machines, which, he says, is con
structed by order of Nicholas for the de
struction of the allied fleets. He says the
Car has built an enormous galvanc bat
terry, consisting Of several thousand pairs o.
plates, each forty feet square, the whole con
tanned in huge porcelain trough The
coils OF the trough are filed with nitric
acid from an immense reservoir holding
hundreds of hogsheads of that corrosive
fluid. With one end of the battery wire
about the thickness of a mans leg. is con-
necled, on the end Of which. at the edge Of
the bank of the river Neva, is fixed long
tapering mass of charcoal, several tons in
weight The other end of the battery is
connected with another wire of similar size,
which is carried across the river, and being
brought opposite the end Of the first, il in
like manner pointed with charcoal. The
moment these wires are brought in connec-
ton with the battery, circuit of the fluid
is formed, and an arc of light. of surprising
brilliancy. and glowing with an almos, in
conceivable intensity Of heat. plays between
the two points Of the charcoal When il is
considered that III the electric fire thus pro-
dnced by means Of an ordinary battery,
platinum melts like " x in the flame of a
candle, il Is easy to conceive what would be
the fate Of any vessel on getting between
the charcoal points, the instant the gaIvanic
huil was turned up. A man-of- war, having
powder magazine, would Of course de-
tomato and disappear Punch further says,
that plan has been submitted to the EN-.
poror for destroying the public by poisoning
the east wind. II was urged, however, as
an objection, that Denmark and Sweden
would be damaged: but if these states form
IN alliance with the western powers, this
diligently would vanish; and the objection.
that Is the wind, shauld change. the injury
might fall on the autocraf himself falls 10
the ground before the indubitable fact tina,
MS Majesty would take good care to keep
out OF harms way
A HUSBAND OR a HUNDRED DoLLARs.-A
few days ago, a bnxom Irish woman. fat and
forty. arrived in this city by one of the
Kostnn trains, in hot pnrsnii Of a truant lover
Having ascertained his whereabouts. war
rant was procured for his arrest for breach
o. marriage promise. alleging damages in
the sum Of 500 Duly armed with this
missive. officer Walker male his aconaint-
anee. giving him choice of alternatives
marriage Or damage, The former was as
sented 70. and under prefence If arranging
a's 'aasf for the nuptial ceremony, be was
pefmitied 10 retire to his room, but. was
'oioWed almost Immediately hy the officer
wne was Just in time TO see the promised
o.1ues1ooms through an open window, span
a y an opposite field at a 24O gait.
n 0uf@ffY aEinsv - r. II
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.. ahMIIAUE, PreS't.
EMILE E. LEBLANC, Grefier.
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U A1s'III hUT, FreS .. pro tent. '
EMILE E. Leblanc, Clerk.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
Total. Observation-Disclosures.


Supposing the forces that have been employ
ed in the construction of Railroads that are
now unfinished and almost worthless, with those
who have been engaged in other unfortunate
enterprises had been distributed through the
country, and had devoted their labor, enterprise
and money, to the cultivation of lands, the
State of Ohio would to day be millions of dol
lars richer than she is. Now, food is scarce
and DEAR while labor is plenty and depreciating.
This is condition of things that must operate
with terrible severity upon large class of our
people.
1t great evil, however, that does not pro-
duce some good. Though our present difficult
ties are of fearful magnitude, changes that will
prove permanently beneficial are likely to grow
out of them. The movements that are going
on in all the leading cities Of the United States
at this time, promise to lead to a more equal
distribution of labor. Thousands will remove
from this city next spring to engage in agricul-
tural pursuits, and tens of thousands who have
been crowding every avenue to employment in
other cities will do likewise. Thus, forces will
be trar sfered from places where their is large
surplus to fields where they are in demand
Men of some means will also remove. Tired
Of the uncertainties and harrasments of busi
ness life, they will give their attention to ag
ricultural pursuits Thus this great interest
will receive an impetus. that will very soon
add hundreds of millions to the real wealth of
the country.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

VICIssITUDEs OF FORTUNE.-A writer in the
London Economist sums up an article on Ma
poeon III as follows:
"The same man who landed at Boulogne in
1910, with single steamer and few friends
on desperate abortive expedition, revisits it
in 1854, to review vast army ana receive the
homage of countless spectators. The same
man who six years ago lived in obscurity in
London, scarcely able to pay his tailor's, and
quite unable TO pay his horse dealers bill
whom many looked upon as stupid, and whom
none looked upon as wise, of whom few aug
ured well, and whom few would trust much, we
have Just seen receiving the visits and cOmpli-
ments of the consort of our Queen, entertain
ing three royal guests at his table, one of them
the son in law of the very monarch whom he
had succeeded, and admitted beyond all denial
into the social circle of royal personages.-
Nor is this change in his singular fortunes
the only one, nor perhaps the greatest. We
can imagine him smiling with even more
grim satisfaction as he contrasts the language
of the English press regarding him in 1852
and now; sitting with the Times or the Examln-
er, of December, 1851, or Of August, 1854,
before him, and marveling at the metamor-
phosis, the unmeasured abuse which was show
cred upon him at the former date, and the
decorus respect and cordial praise with which
he is spoken of now. The swell and the San
gui mary and audacious rufhan' is now the
polite and sagacious Emperor, and tete-a-tete
with Prince Albert and King Leopold.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

THE RUBBER TRADB.-A correspondent Of
the Boston Post, writing from Para Brazil, un-
der date of September 18th, says:
The American commerce of Para will this
year reach about five millions of dollars, or one
third of the whole commerce of Para, and of
this great valley. This commerce consists too
in one article, whose demand is every day rap
idly increasing; so much so that instead of Gve
millions it must very soon be twenty millions.
Nor is it less interesting fact that four Gfths
of all the rubber produced here is manufactured
in the United States and that the whole in
crease of its trade, if properly conducted, will
weld vast wealth to hundreds in the manu-
facture and sale of these rubber goods in the
United States.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
By Telegraph to the New York Daily Times.
IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON.


+ '" aa WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. "a.
! Since my return from the West have takel
/ some pains to ascertain whether or not there i
the slightest foundation for the recently revived
rumors Of contemplated change in the Cabi
net of President Pierce. fully supposed the
stories to that effect to be merely the baseles
specuations of parties who could think Of NJ
plan more creditable to themselves, by means
Of which to get up an excitement and that sup
position is fully confirmed by the result of ny
! inquiries. real $3.50 fa
change is or has been recently contemplated
by the President. believe all the efforts o
outsiders to force him to make such change
have only resulted in Strengthening his deter
mination not to do SO. 1t is his earnest desire
and full expectation, to carry his administration
throu gh with the Cabinet of his earliest selec-
ton, unless death shall order otherwise. Such
too, is the wish am satisfied, of each Of the
members of the Cabinet Itwas out of regard
to this policy that the President urged Mr.
Dobbin, and that gentleman decided to remain
in charge of Of the Navy Department instead
of becoming candidate for the United States
Senate from North Carolina. Jefferson Davis
also decided not to run for the Senate, a year
ago, for the same reason.
Depend upon it that all the revived stories Of
Cabinet jealousies, intrigues are pure fabrica-
tions. They certainly are, if the parties most
interested are to be believed; and the reading
public have the choice of believing either the
gentlemen of the Cabinet themselves, or the
Herald, which has so often palmed these base
less fabrications upon them. 1t certainly can
not be difficult to decide whose statements to
credit under such circumstances.
Mr.. Buchannan-as informed your readers
a month ago maintains the determination he
announced when appointed, of returning at the
end of two years service At first he was ex-
pected TO return next June, but it is not i'm
probable, now, that he will return in April or
May,-not, however, to 60 into the Cabinet
The Herald's story is absurd in several particu-
lars,-in none more so than in attributing Mr..
Buchannan's contemplated return from London
to his condemnation of policy of the Admins
tration in settling the Fishery dispute in treaty
to its SELF Mr.. Buchanan complains that the
settlement of the Fishery question makes it
lifficut TO successfully negotiate other issues
But that will not make him Cabinet officer
Is it to be supposed that the President would
take into his Cabinet. forthwith, the Foreign
Minister who come home in pet, condeDning
the policy of the Presidents Administration?
Nobody will believe it who thinks of the subject
a single moment. Let me assure gentlemen
whose hopes, fears, speculations or honest bust
ness transactions are to be affected by the per-
manence or early disruption of the Cabinet,
that they will be perfectly safe in shaping their
action ppon the expectation that it will contin-
ue unbroken. At all events, no present cause
of such disruption now exists.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
Humble Life.

Tellm not that he's poor man, s.
That his dress is coarse and bare,
Tell me not tllat his daily pittance
is worllman's scanty fare; '"4-
Tell me not his birth is humbled, 7t
That his parentage is low; a .,lo
Is he honest in his notions? 7L 15
That is all want to know.
Is this world to be relied on?
Has his character no blamef d ''
Then care not if he's low born
Then / care not whence his name:
Wonld he from an unjust action
Turn away with seOrnful eye?
Would he, than defraud another, = ~
Sooner on q scaffold die. p
Would he spend his hard gained earning
On a brother in distress; "0,i
Would he succor the afflicted, u. 81;
And the weak ones wrongs redress? Il
Then he is man deserving
OF my love s-rr; my eetoala
And care not what his birth place
In the eye of man may seem.
Let it be aslow thatched howell
. Let it be a clay built cot ( Of
Letit bo parish work house
In it my eye matters not:
And # Others will disown him,
As inferior to their caste, ~
Let them do it-l befriend him,
As a brother, to the last.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
NO. so
THE PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT-

/ LIE IOOI OEEJOE LEX m 4 uE1NIr
| In the Departments of the interior and of
the Postofice, the energy and the activity of
those who control them challenge criticism and
comparison.- Washington Union, Ssh. .ac'
The foregoing is extracted from }Slng ari-
Gle in the Union eulogist of President Piece,
! and his Cabinet The Union has unquestiona-
! by hit the nailon the head in its reference to
the Postofiee Department. The "energY and
activity of Postmaster General Campbell do
not only challenge criticism but they dety
Comparison" The Department has proved it.
self invulnerable to ''eriteism.H and has moth
ing-to fear from challenges on that score. Le-
gitimate criticism can never hope to penetrate
to the depths of unmitigated imbecility and
wbrthlessness-the Department reached twelve
months ago. Mr.. Campbell is certainly safe,
so far as criticism is concerned. In that re-
gard his position is as impregnable as the rock
of Gibraltar. --' :.
But, strong as he is in this particular, he is
still stronger, when, Comparison is brought to
bear upon him. Here he is more impregnable
than Gibraltar, Constadt and Sevastopol all
put together. He can't be compared to any
thing except hims elf None of his predeces-
sors were at all like him. The history of the
postal service in the old world furnishes no par
allel. Postmaster General Campbell must be
compared with Postmaster General Campbell.
There is no alternative. Hence his friend of
the Union may safely challenge comparison"
on his accountl-F Nash. Banner.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

When people talk about the heavy expences
Of the British and French governments in the
war against Russia, it may be well for them to
inquire who foots the bills. Thus far Ameri-
can gold has evidently done it. The balance
of trade in favor Of France and England, in
their commercial intercourse with the United
States has drawn nearly all the gold product
of California, and this is now paying for the
war; It therefore becomes serious question
how many such wars we can afford to carry on
without minding the expense.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

INFORMATION WANTED.-OfO. Hancock,
Journeyman Printer, who left Warrenton,N. C.,
in July, 1853. He is abont five feetsix inches
high, medium size, has scar an his face, and
has but one eye He was last heard Off Will
mington, N. G. Any information concerning
him will be thankfully received at this office.
Papers throughout the South will confer
favor on distressed mother by copying the
above notice.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
WHO Is DoEsTICKs PIN answer to severa'

Who Is DoEsTICKs PIN answer to several
enquiries of this kind the N. Y. EWING Post
says:
Doesticks is modest young clerk in this city
whose life thus far has only spanned some
twenty three years and he is disinclined, at
present. to part with his anonymous obscurity.
He has nothing to offer the publishers at pres
ent, and when he has, if ever he thinks It will
be time enough to reveal his whereabouts and
whatabouts. He is not looking to literature as
aprofession, sees no literary merit in what he has
done, writes to the Detroit Advertiser to oblige
younger brother who is connected with that
journal, and for no other object. He was one
of the students of Michigan University who
were expelled some years ago under the decree
issued against secret societies in that institution.
His father is a lawyer of some rank, of Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
"DoestckS on a Bender" was the first of the
series that was published. 1t was written in a
private letter to friend, who gave it to the edi
tor Of the Peninsular Quarterly and University
MagAzine-a periodical published at Ann Ar
Dor. which had a briefbut creditable existence.
The attention which it attracted led to the pub
lication of Others until now, fourteen have ap-
peared. They all contained passages of wit and
humor which linger in the memory and display
powers of observation from which much m4y
yet be expected.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
For "LOudon Free Press"
Gods Eternal Love.
BY GLADIUS.

1t dwells in every Christians breast,
And gives the weary mOurner rest;
It fills the dying heart with love
And watts the spirit home above.
The following verse is the language OF an
old bachelor that had been duly smitten by the
charms of beautiful girl; who he had long
been trying to cease to love but all in vain:
o. how hard it is to sever
The cord that woman's love has tied;
could live and love forever,
If You sweet girl will be my bride. z
HOPE.
Sweet hope can calm the troubled mind,
And give the weary rest
1t is the richest boon we find,
That ever filed the breast.
Bradley co., Tenn, Nov. 28th, 1854.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
ANIMAL CONFERENCE.

The Atlanta Intelligencer says, the Georgia
annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
city, commencing on the 18th of December
We are requested to state that Ministers, itin-
Grant and local, will be met in the saloon of
the Passenger Depot, or at their hotels if they
arrive at the night, and directed to their places
Of sojourn during the Conference. The body
will meet at the City Hall.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

The BRIGHT SCENE IN HIsTORY.-When
the rich and the poor were esteemed equal. RI.
When virtue was honorei and vice reproved'
When modesty was ranked among the virtues.
When honesty was regarded as an ingredient
to trade.
When common sense was a part of female
education.
When benevolence was not looked upon as
an extravaganza.
When worth needed not riches to be respec-
ted ....
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

Mr. TEUNIT VAN PELL, has now in his pos
session much worn document containing the
weight of some of the Revolutionary worthless.
Ii is dated West Point, August the 10, 1888.
Gen. Washington weighed 2O9 Tbs.
Gen. Lincoln weighed $50 tbs.
Gen. Knox weighed 280 lbs.
Col Henry Jackson weighed 228 Tbs.
Lieut.. Colonel Huntington weighd 232.
Lieut.. Colonel Cobb weighed lS2 lbs.
Lieut.. Colonel Humphreys weighed 22l TBS.
Lieut. Colonel Huntingtonf? weighed 1872 lbs.
Lieut. Colonel Creation weighed l66 Tbs.
Colonel Swift weighed 2l9 TBS
Colonel Michael Jackson weighed 252 TBS.
Average weight 2l4 Tbs.
It will be seen by the above list that the old
patriots 'held their own," notwithstanding the
hard times they were seven years getting
through.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

New York, Nov. l3.-The emigrant ship
New Era, from Bremen, with three hundred and
eighty passengers on board, ran ashore last sun
day night, during heavy fog, on the Jersey
Coast. The captain and twenty passengers
succeeded in reaching the shore in safety, but
the remainder are still aboard the vessel, which
is fast going to pieces. Nearly half of those left
on board, it is thought, have been drowned be-
tween the decks or been washed overheard.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

A Coon REToRT.-A clergyman who had
considerably of farm, as was generally the case
in our fathers days, went out to see one of his
laborers, who was ploughing in the field, and
found him sitting on the plough resting his team.
"John," said he, 'would it not be a good
plan for you to have stub scythe here, and be
hubbing few bushes, while the oxen are res
ting?"
"Would it not do well, for you to have a
swinging board in the bulpit and when they
are singing to swingle little fax ?"
The reverend gentleman turned on his heel,
laughing heartily, and said no more about hub
bing bushes"
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

WORTH PICKING UP.-During a rehearsal
Braham, the celebrated tenor, said to Tom Cook
who was the conductor-'Now Tom, keep quite
piano here, because, just at this part, intend,
dropping my voice" "Do You, by the powersl"
said Tom, whereabouts? for lis just the sort
of voice l should like to pick up"
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06

AND STILL THE CAUTION is, BEwAREl-
While at the banks on yesterday, we saw the
following notice, dated Nov. 9th, to wit:
After this week, the notes of the following
Banks only, will be received at this Office: Bank
of Tennessee, Planters Bank, Ocoee Bank, Far
mers' Bank, Exchange Bank, Lawrenceburg
Bank, Citizens Bank Bank of East Tennessee,
Bank of Nashville, Bank of Knoxville, Bank of
Chattanooga, and all good Southern Banks.
Chattanooga Advertiser.