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

}: How 1T IS WoRKING.-The Comet has
} talented correspondent in New Orleans
The following is an extract from late letter
After saying that late Recorder Winter, {;
resident Of this country for fifteen year.
may be) was about to be appointed Post
master in place of Mr. Kendall, and that al
clerks would be examined previous to being
employed, TO find out if they were Native
American in principle, he continues:
This is funny, isn't it? A fine state o
things to be sure, when an applicant fol
office under the federal department is sub
ject TO the inquisitory in reference to hi:
nativity, and if he answers he is native
and an American, he is told to go about his
business. These officers have adopted the
most efectuaI way of spreading the order
which they, in their blind partizan ZEAL are
vainly endeavouring to destroy, and they
will find that out before long too The tests
they are applying, are calculated to drive
out every native American, and of course
foreigners will be substituted in their places
and when it shall be known that such is the
case, the Democratic party in this State
won't be worth shucks. am not a Know
Nothing, but | know much of them and
their feeling, and which party they are
mostly from in this city, and can safely say
that nothing which the Collector or Pos,
Master, or any other Federal officer can dc
now, will stay the swelling tide that is
silently, but powerfully sweeping along to
the destruction ofalI who oppose it, Wing OF
Democrat 1t might be HUNDRED. turned
aside, and its force be somewhat broken, and
it were wisdom on the part of Federal of.
fcers to do so, but it cannot be stayed nor
put down, and those who attempt will find
that the task is mighty one, and in the
contest, there will be "many pinnon
torn," sand many Knight to earth be
borne" "and many banner rent.'
Demagogues have long enough made a
farce of the ballot box, bought and sold
votes, browbeat and cowed down peacebIe
citizens, and given over to unprincipIed
foreign rabies. the decision of our elections
Cart loads of whiskey, and soaked humanity.
have too often been hauled about from pre-
cinct to precinct, and driven like hogs up to
the polls, and made to vote regardless alike
of law, OF justice, of right and of decency.
SLIPS HIS HALTER Mr.. Van Buren, is
attracting great deal of attention abroad
by his courtIy manners and happy faculty
lof " fitting in" TO all sorts of society The
same qualities that made him so happily
escape from political communication IN this
country, carry him triumphantly through
the mazes of European society. Mr. Clay
was very fond, in his social moods, of talking
of men and things of Washington. Of Mr.
Van Buren, he had many amusing reminis.
cences: the one following was perhaps his
favorite. He said, that when Mr.. Van
Buren, visited at Ashland Gust before the
publication of the fatal Texas letters) he
was his guest for several days. and on one
occasion he with Mr.. Van Buren, visited a
race track in the neighborhood, to witness
the display of choice.bIooded stock. Mr.
Van Buren, was entirely unknown to the
people present, and followed Mr.. Clay about
with smile Of appreciation at every thing
he witnessed. While sauntering around.
Mr. Clay said to one Of the jockeys, "What
horse is that?" "Martin Van Buren," was
the reply. Mr.. Clay "nudged" Matty, and
called his attention 10 the fine proportions Of
his name-sake. While thus occupied. a
plain old farmer came along, and Learning
the stallion's name-much to cold Halls .
amusement-remarked, "l should not like
to have colt by that critter.: "And why
not :" said Mr. Clay, with emphasis. "Why,"
said the farmer, in an oIacular manner
8 You see the colt would slip his halter; he
never could be depended on" Mr.. Van
Buren, was greatly edited, and Mr. Clay had
his own amusement in repeating the story.
HIsToRY OF THE WORD Esau1RE"-The
word is from the French escurier Shield
bearer) and originally signifed nothing
more 1t was applied TO armor-bearers Of
Knights and Barons, who were second in
rank 10 them. The esquire was gentle
man, and had the right of qqartering arms on
his shield, as also of wearing sword which
denoted gentility-though he was not grid
ed with the knightly belt. This was the
esquire of chivalry, of whom we have an
amusing burlesque in the person of Sancho
PanZa, the vaorous attendant of the famous
knight Grant, Don Quixote. Another class,
feudal esquires, consisted of those who had
right to claim knighthood, but had not
been dubbed. The sons of younger sons of
Dukes and MarGuises, the younger sons of
viscounts, earls and barons. and their eldest,
or with the eldest sons of baronets and
knights, in all orders, are regarded in Eng
land as esquires by birth, though their pre-
cedence, which differs widely, is regulated
by the ranks of their respective ancestors.
Officers ofthe Queens court and household
her army and navy, down to captains inclu-
sive, doctors of law, barristers and physi-
clans, are reputed esquires. A justice of the
peace is only an esquire during the term of
his office; but the sheriff of a county holds
the tile for life. In this country it is used
almost Unfortunately as title of respect.
Neso York Sunday Times.
EMpIRIc1sM.-The London News pub
fishes painful story of the treatment of a
young woman for cancer, by an English
empiric, who protested to extermnate the
tumor without the use of the knife. The
patient was married woman, who was un-
willing to submit 10 surgical operation for
the removal of the cancer, which had APP
peared upon her breast, and chose what she
considered less painful process. She
endured the most excruciating agony from
the effects ofthe applications made to eat
out the affected part, and finally died from
the effects Of the long-continued irritation,
which she had been prevailed upon by the
doctor and her husband to endure On Civ
ing his testimony before the coroner, her
afflicted husband suffered intensely from
the reflection that he had even commanded
her to submit to the dreadful treatment,