Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-08-26


tributed, so that all who read German couI
Join in the choruses Every half hour or SC
the whole company would form ring, AM
with the flute and violin, and score of fin
voices, they would give their national songs
and some in praise of Bonn, rather as tn.
home OF fair women than a seat of learning
till the hills Of the Rhine sent back tn,
| echoes of the music and the applause of thu
listening travellers and then the horn wen
round agaln.-Reu. Teneus Primes Letters
ST. PETERsBURGH-Very few Americans
are now in St. Petersburgh; a single room
would hold them all. Those who are here
| are treated with marked courtesy by al
| classes of society AT the commencement O
| the present hostiities, strange rumors were
| IN circulation in regard to the sympathies o.
the American Government. Il was cur
rently stated that feet was to leave the
United States for the Baltic, with the inten
| ton of furnishing material aid to the Rus
slams, against the allied forces of England
and France: and even now, some of the less
| informed believe some such decided demon.
stfatlon OF the Union of Autocracy and
Democracy will very soon be made. The
arrival OF the American Minister has, un-
the truth that the United States, are DESTROYS
OF maintaining the friendly relations which
has never been interrupted; between Russia
and themselves, while at the same time
they have at present no cause to depart
from that neutrality in European political
discussions which has heretofore been the
the invariable policy of the American
Government.
Great talk has been occasioned in this
city by the announcement that an American
condemnation one of the Southern States
had offered his services to the Russian
government as surgeon for the army.
His avowed motive in so doing was merely
love Of humanity For time he was
received with marked attention even by the
highest in authority; and at length it was
announced in the Journal de ST. Petersburyh
that he had been appointed TO the post rank
OF Surgeon Major in the Russian army, with
the rank of a Counsellor of Court He is
now stationed at Cronstadt
EN z. Journal of Commerce..
SPECULATIVE PHILosopHY.-Ifallm mankind
could wink at the same moment, the mus
cular effort exerted would be sufficient to
Jostle the earth out of its orbit.
# all the oatns uttered in the United
States were required to be printed, it would
employ all the presses in the country, day
and night, to perform the labor; and If tax
was levied on them of one cent each, one
years revenue would be sufficient to trans
port all the mails, lay double track rail-
road to the Pacific, and pay the public debt
OF every State ia the Union.
The cigars consumed throughout the
fry IN
fence six feet high around the District of
Columbia: and the air expelled in smoking
them would drive the japan squadron round
the world, with enough over to do the wind
work OF all the patent medicines
Ii all the elected tobacco guilds were from
his time to be dropped on the dome of the
Capitol at Washington, the hail of Egypt
would be no comparison to the pelting storm
ind the edifce would be buried deeper than
Nineveh, before the next meeting of |
Congress-
If all the lies told during the last Presi- /
lentlal campaign, could be boiled together,
hey would make soap enough to wash the I
ace of Nature.
WOULDN'T CoNTEaD.-A cross grained, |
urely man, too crooked by nature to keep
It'll, went over TO his neIghbor, MIR. F.; I
cool, calm non-resistant, and
ddressed him thus
That piece Of fence over there is mine,
nd you shan't have it.D
Why replied Mr.. F, you must
e mistaken, I think
No, no, it's mine. and shall keep itn
Well,7 said Mr.. F., suppose we
cave it to any lawyer you shall choose
. ! won't leave it TO any lawyer said
he other.
1WeIl,o continued Mr.F-, g shall we
ave it TO any four men in the village that
on shall selectan
g No, shall have the fencen
Not at all discomposed, .Mr. F. said:
Well, neighbor, then shall leave it to
oursef to say to whom il does belong
neither to you or to me.'
Struck dumb by the appeal, the wrathy
ian turned away, saying,
9 | won't have anything to do with man
lat aeon't contend for his ou,s rights.u