Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-11-18

and maritime trade, is officially published in the
Washington Uuion of the Sd inst There are
four articles in the Convention. Three of them
are as follows:
ARTICLE /. The two high contracting parties
recognize as permanent and inmutable the fol-
lowing principles, to-wit:
l. That free ships make free goods-that is
to say, that the effects or goods belonging to
subjects or citizens of q power or State at wal
are free from capture and confscation when
found on board of neutral vessels, with the ex-
ception of articles contraband of war.
2. That the property of neutrals on board an
enemy's vessel is not subject to confscaton, I'M
less the same be contraband of war. They en-
gage to apply these principles to commerce and
navigation of all such powers and States as
shall consent to adopt them on their part as per-
manent and immutable.
ART. H. The two high contracting parties
reserve themselves to come to an Interior I'M
Outstanding, as circumstances may require, with
regard to the application and extension to be
given, if there be any cause for it, to the prin-
ciples laid down in the first article. But they
declare from this time that they will take the
rule, whenever it shall become question, to
judge of the rights Of neutrality.
ART. Ill. 1t is agreed by the high contract
ing parties that all nations which shall or may
consent to accede to the rules of the first article
of this Convention, by a formal declaration,
STIMULATING to observe them, shall enjoy the
rights resulting from such accession as they shall
be enjoyed and observed by the two powers
signing this Convention. They shall mutually
communicate to each other the result of the
steps which may be taken on the subject
The fourth article provides for the ratification
of the Convention by both parties and the ex-
change of the notifications within 10 months
from the date of the conclusion of the conven-
ton.
The Convention was concluded on the 22d of
July last, the exchange of ratifeations took
place on the 31st of October, and the Pres
ident's proclamation of the Convention is dated
the LIST of November. 74
DISCOVERY IN BAK1NG.-A correspondent of
the 80 Scotsman" writing from Munich, says
HEI have visited Professor Leibig, and seen his
admirable lecture room and laboratory, models
for imitation in other countries He told me
that in England the bakers use great quantity
of alum in making bread 1t is employed to
make the bread white, moist, and soft. 1t acts
by coagulating the gluten of the wheat aud it
is deleterious in its effects. He has discovered
that water saturated with lime produces the
same whiteness in bread, the same softness,
and the same capacity to retain moisture, while
the lime removes all acidity from the dough, and
supplies an element needed in the structure of
the bones, which is deficient in wheat, and still
more SO in rye. / ate bread made of it in his
house it was excellent. He uses five pounds
of water, imprignated with lime, to nineteen
pounds of -four. No other change is necessary in
the process of baking. The lime coagulates the
gluten as effectually as alum does. The bread
weighs well, and the bakers consequently APP
prove of it. He allowed me to report the dis
covery at discretion. ~
PROGRESS OF KNOW NorHING1sM-The fol-
lowing paragraph from the Cleveland Morning
Leader, of Saturday, if true, is well calculated
to carry CONSERVATION to the souls of corrupt
and designing men who live by politics
The Know Nothings are spreading over Ohio
and the United States with rapidly that is
truly astonishing 1t is said that the order
numbers now over one Million of voters-eighty
thousand of whom are in Ohio. The increase
in this State is fully two thousand day. In
this county it embraces perhaps two thousand
members. In Hamilton county there are not
less than ten thousand regularly initiated. New
York has thirty-fye Thousand, and Philadelphia
twenty EIGHT thousand voting members. In a
number of counties in this State, the Know
Nothings have o majority of all the votes. In
many townships four out of every five citizens
belong to the mystic brotherhood. In some
counties they have made independent nomina-
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the Republicans or Hunkers. Butin a majority
of cases they permit every member to make his
own choice.
SOME NORTHERN WHIGs.-The following re-
solution was adopted at recent Convention of
the Wings of Macomb county, in the State Of
Michigan: g.
:, "Resolved, That we, as Whigs-admonishe
by the disastrous experience Of the past, Of the
utter fallacy of attempting to gain strength,
either in the State or county, by abandoning,
even for time, our party organization, and
going over to a faction whose past acts have
tended more than any other cause to create dis
cord and disafection in our ranks-do most
heartily deprecate this so-called Fusion move
ment, preferring, if must needs be, and honor.
able defeat under the time-honored banner of
our party, 10 uOuDtlul VICTORY uHuer the leau
of those who have sought bring it into dis
grace"
We learn from the Detroit Free Press there
are thousands Of Wings in the State who enter
tain sentiments like these, and will not cast their
votes for the Fusion ticket Wash. Sentinel.
Who WILL MAKE A COOP WIFE.-When you
see young woman who rises early, sets the
table and prepares her fathers breakfast cheer
fully-depend upon it she will make good
wife. You may rely upon it that she possesses
a good disposition and kind heart.
When you see young woman just cut Of bed
at 9 o'clock, leaning her elbow on the table
gasping and signing, Oh how dreadfully l feel,
rely upon it she will not make good wife. She
must be lazy and mopish.
When you see girl with broom in her
hand sweeping the floor, with a rubbing board
or a1clothes-llne in her hand, you may put it
down that she is industrious and will make
good wife for somebody. S@
When you seq girl with novel in her left
hand, and q fan in the right, shedding tears,
You may be sure that she is unfit for wife,
Happiness and misery are before you, which
will you choose? saS
GvApHALIc PAPER.-t is said that the ex-
pertinent to make paper out of an American
plant called "White-top" or !" Immortelle,"
has been successful. The botanical name. is
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