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Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

GA new paper just started in New York,
under the title of "Wide Awake" speaking of
printers, Observes: ut is quite customary for
the members of the tart preservative" to villify
their occupation as one irksome, killing, de.
pressing and Improbable; but such is not the
fact. An intelligent printer-a thick. headed
fellow cannot be one-isa al. the time acquiring
knowledge, for in order to work he must read,
and if he wishes to sustain a position as a good
workman he must understand all the ms and
outs of what is going on in the world, conse>
quently he has chances 70. learning how to i'm.
prove his condition that few other classes Of
men who labor fora living enjoy. As We have
already limited, "knowledge is power" and q
good steady printer is soon qualified to hold
any Office in the gift of the people, or transact
any business he may choose to select. II 10
only the dissolute, thriftless printer who lives
in poverty and dies early. One half our rich
est old style publishers were once journeymen
compositors."
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

Singular Coincidence.--Two men boarding
within a few feet Of each other on Vine street,
Cincinnati, having been drinking freely, were
attacked with the delirium tremens at about
the same hour a few nights since, and at about
the same hour in the night, they concluded to
jump out Of thei. windows. They did jump
out at about the same time, and were both so
badly injured that they are not expected to re-
cover.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

Editorial Conuensicn.--A convention Of the
editorial fraternity Of the State of Maryland,
assembled at Baltimore on the 10th INIT. The
object Of the convention has reference particu-
larry to the condition Of the country press, and
its maane Of doing basiaessL It IL allsasd
that he price Of papsr and almost every thing
else requiring an outlay 10 the newspaper b.
siness has advanced to an enormous extent,
awhils the prise ef advertisements and newspa.
Psss have either ssaaiaed stationary q become
cheaper. Without trasaasting nNeh business
the convention adjourned to msst again soon.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
Electoral
W.
STATES.
Chief Cities.
Total,

The whole number of electoral votes of the
81 States, is 296-making l49 necessary to a
choice. 1t will therefore require but little ad-
ditional force to the balance Of power votes
which the Know Nothings may hold at the
next Presidential election, to enable them to
carry their points,"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
DAGUERREOTYPES

J. CRAFT, Artist, over Kahn Brothers cash
store. The proprietor being posted in all the late
Improvements both in North and South America,
feels assured that he can please the most ias'i-
dious.
Ladies and Gentlemen cali and give him a trial.
Satisfaction or no charge. Likenesses put up in
all styles the art can produce. my27
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

~Lola Montez lives in a pretty cottage AZ
Grass Valley in California, and has plenty of
money. She has fine dogs, a horse, a bear, sew
eral Cinnamon, and handsome furniture She
IS popular with the miners, who think her only
fa'l'ngs are "a high temper, and some obtuse-
ness on moral questions"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

uSir Charles Napier is . great favorte
with the Swedes. Even the students at Upsala,
their celebrated university, chartered a steam-
er to carry them down to the feet, to shake
hands with him. All the choristers of the CAP
ital are practising "Ruie Britannia" But as yet
they have not succeeded in making it 60.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
Iron ana Sugar Duties,

A Geographic despatch to the Picayune, da-
ted Washington, June II, says: aThe Commit.
tee on Ways and Means are understood to have
resolved to report a bill reducing the duties on
iron and those On sugar from 30 per cent ad
valorm 10 40 per cent
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

Primer Mayors-Jown T. Towers, ESQ.,, is
tos lnish printer who has been elected Mayor Of
washington. The following are the names
OF the former and Of the present Mayor: Ro>
ger c. Weightman, Joseph Gales. Peter Force,
VIM. n. Seaton and John +. Towers.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

UEuIer says formerly there was a word in
the Russian language to express what we call
Justice" 1t is very evident that the Russian
vocabulary is still defective in this respect,
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

A Steady Dia-An old lady down Eas,
having kept a hired man on liver nearly for 4
month, said to him ous dsy, sWhy, John,
don't think you like liver" sOh, yea said
John, II like It very well for ~ often o fhty or
sixty meals, but I don't think I'd like Il u .
sassdy dit" The old. lady cooked somsthing
else tho next NEAL
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

UThe first election under the new charter.
at Kingston, N. Y, on the 9Th inst, resulted in
the success Of the Know Nothings by a large
majority.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

Not Wanted Here.-A late paper states that
"there arrived at Antwerp lately, under the con.
duct of a brigade of gendarmes, a transport Of
thirty or forty prisoners, from the depot of
Hoogstracton. These men will embark for N
York, BY the first opportunity"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
@arrtage.

Married, in this parish, on the o2d instant. Mr..
JACOB SCHLATRE to Miss SARAH LAWES.
all of this parish.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

pThe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a ser.
mon delivered q few weeks ago, on the Nebras.
ka bill, speaking Of the ballot box, said: "Put
it at the gates of perdition, and l would 90
through Regions of imps to deposit my vote
in it"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

0A woman in Wisconsin, who was lately
attacked BY a bear in the woods, 90 abused the
poor animal with her tongue that it died at her
feet
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
The Know NOthingS and the next Pre-.
sidential Election.

The New York Herald, specializing on the
influence of the Know Nothings at the next
election, says:
The following are the principal States hav-
ing popuious cities, where native American or
CARNATIONS may be expected to take place, and
thus influence electoral votes at the next elec.
ton:
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

rThe Crsseen. says that branches Of the
order OF Know Nothings have been recently
established at T~hibodeaux, Houma and Don
,Aldsonville.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
What Does it Mean

The little Freesoil, Softsheil Administration
| organ Of New York, yclept the True National
! Democrat, is in a transition. Hear what it res
commends as the true policy of the Democratic
party:
Honestly speaking, we believe that the d.
mocratic party will never become worthy of
its noble principles, until it thoroughly Ameri-
canlzes all its views, and wholly a~lienatcs il.
self from all foreign influences. There are, of
course, exceptions to all general rules, and we
are here and there acquainted with Irishmen
whose hearts are sound, and whose judgments
honorable. But as a body the Irish are always
ins'ncere, always corrupt, always ungrateful,
ignorant, bigo,ed and despotic. they are un-
mt for freedom, and cannot properly appreciate
1t. Their sense of equality is nothing but an
intense selhshness, and their sense of Justice,
that which pays most for the most perfdy.-
From such elements of mischief, we say, with
the Ritual, Good Lord, deliver US! as we'll as the
Democratic party.
This is a naked proposition, says the N. Y.
Herald of the 18th, to swap off the Irish vote
for the Know Ncthings. The paper advancing
this proposition is an organ of The Administra.
ton. 1t is in the confidence of Gen. Pierce and
his Cabinet. Now, then, we desire on answer
"by authority" to this question: Is the True
National democrat authorized by the President,
or Cabinet, or any of them, to throw out this
proposition for casting off the Irish and adopt
ing the Know Nothings as the basis of the re-
organization of the Administration Democratic
party! Can the Washington Union answer!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
Dratt.

Died, on the 10th inst, ELIZA, daughter of F..
D. and ELIZA WOODS, aged 2 years and 6 months.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
PUBLIC BALL,

"a The public generally are invited to attend
"a a IA l. TO be given at GONSoULlN'S
Ill HALL on MONDAY EVENING, the
26th instant.
T.. BOISSAC.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
GILL.
Land Surveyor,

PL.4QUEMINE.
Orders promptly attended 10.
Office on Short street, between Pipkin and Gre
aud streets. my6
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24
seNTMERM sEATANEA.
Saturday, June a, 1864.

aJI will be seen by advertisement that Mr..
T. Bo1,sAc gives a public ball At GoasouLlS's
on Monday evening next.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-06-24

DPlaquemine is waging q war Of extermi.
nation against the dogs.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
The Two Sexes.

There is much truth in the following
which We clip from the Syracuse Stan
dar6
"Wbcn-a raking youth goes astray.
friends gather round him IN order 10 re-
store him to the paths Of virtue Gentle
ness and kindness are lavished upon him
10 win him back to innocence and peace.
10 one would suspect that be had ever
sinncd. But when poor confding girl
Is betrayed, she receives the brand of So
cicty and is henceforth driven from the
ways Of virtue. The betrayer is bonored,
respected, and esteemed; but the ruined
heart broken victim knows there is no
peace for her this side of the gave
Society has no helping hand for her, no
smile Of comfort, no voice of forgiveness.
These are earthly moralities unknown to
heaven. There is deep wrong in them,
end fearful are the consequences.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
Hon. David WiImOt.

A letter is published from the Hon
David Wilmot on the position which al
who oppose slavery and the Nebraska
swindle, should occupy in the coming el-
ection. AS Mr.. Wilmot is known extern
sively as democrat and a supporter OF
Gen. Pierce in 1852, we copy an extract
showing his views now. He says:
"The power and design of slavery must
be checked, and the original policy of
Government on this subject restored
To this end we must lay aside-postpone
for time, the strifes of party over minor
points of controverted policy, and unite
in the great work of preserving our free
Institutions from impending destruction.
The first blow must be aimed for the over
throw OF our present National Admins
tration-the mere tool and puppet of the
Slave Power. Through the corrupting
influence of its patronage upon the Peo-
ple's Representatives, Freedom has been
betrayed. 1t must be overwhelmed at
every point with ignominious defeat. We
cannot shorten its Constitutional term of
office, but we must strike down its allies
in every State, District and County. 1t
must have no prop in the States, upon
which to lean for support Of it's iniquitous
policy. No man should be elected to re-
sponsible office-Governor, member of
Congress, Representative, whose relations
of friendship and alliance with the Nation
administration are open to suspicion.
We must accept Of nothing, in the candi
dates presented for our sufragcs, short of
undisguised hostility to the ultra pro-slay-
cry power at Washington. Anything
short of this is folly, idle triding, shilly-
shally nonsence; and designed in the end,
to lead the people step by step into ac-
quiescence in the policy and plans of
slavery. Let no candidate pretend to
condemn the recent legislation of Con
grass, and yet hold himself in party ALI
ance with the present administration. He
cannot be trusted; and so sure will the
people: and their rights be again betray-
ed. The man who will not face in open,
manly resistance the aggressions of the
slave power today, cannot be relied upon
to do so on the occasion of future prov
ocation. He is hopelessly rotten-un-
sound to the core, and will sacrifice his
Country's highest interests and glory, for
mere paltry partizan considerations
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
Fashionable Piety.

Many painter has achieved fame for
worse pictures than the following, from
the Paindealer.'
SCENE-Fashionab street. Plenty
of four story blocks, big plate windows,
with Ophirs of goods behind. Time
Winter morning. Shaver and Pinchem
discovered walking together towards their
places of business.
S. Qoq.) How's your new church?
P. Flourishing finely. The steeple,
when finished will be two hundred feet
high Think of that! How's your new
church
S. All right You beat US on steeples;
ours is already built, and measures only
a hundred and ninety. We give that up
But we shall knock you on organs. Ours
cost $4,000.
?. You do floor US on organs, that's a
fact. But per contra, we shall throw
your chandeliers into the shade. Ours is
ordered from the best firm in Paris, with
a carte blanche as to cost. I may men
ton incidentally, that l paid hundred
dollars towards it.
S. Well as to chandeliers, l yield the
palm, but our pulpit and fixings will leave
you nowhere. The pulpit is to be ma
hogany and so are the sofas and chairs.
The Bible alone comes to two hundred
dollars. The covers of the sacred volume
are edged and elapsed with gold; actual
weight nine ounces. l may add, that
donated all but fifty dollars of it.
(Aside.-beat him that time)
P. You have US there again. Such
generous rivalry in the great cause of re-
ligion is cheering. Though We may diff
fer on some small points, [they belong to
different denominations, we yet work to-
gether for the coming triumph of true
S. Beautiful Ny sentiments exactly.
CA child with skeleton face, and her
little leg, red with cold, solicits charity.
S. and ?. by common impulse look very
hard into vacancy ahead. The child
importunes. At last S. almost stumbles
over her, and is forced to notice the tiny
wretch.)
S. (Majestically,) Can't help you.--
Never give cent to beggars. Invaria-
Bile rule.
P, putting on an extra touch of fri
gidity.) Just my principles. Thank you
for expressing them SO we'll If folks will
be lazy, let 'em starve.
Is. and ?. move at faster gait, while
the morsel of mendicant sits down on a
chilly stone, sticks her dirty knuckles in
to her eyes, and has good cry.)
P. Here's my place. Good morning.
As5de-Shrewd humbug p, but I'll get
the start of him yet.
P. Good morning. Aside-Sharp fell
low, but I'll knock him on the next trade
Is. writes notice to family of poor
tenants, while P. goes down to the store
md bullies the clerks.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
Sow in a Garret.

How SHE GOT THERE.-A Captain of the
New York Police relates an incident tha at
occurred during the recent inspection of
the premises in Canal Street, where SO
many deaths have occurred. In addition
to general neglect of cleanliness, hogs
we're found penned up in the cellars, in
order that they might escape the vgilence
of the police. A whole litter of small
pigs was found in an attic. Of course
these naturally excited the surprise of the
visitants, but when they came to the SOW
in tho garret, their wonder knew no
bounds. The rickety stairs leading to
the attic, shook under the party ascend
ing, the passage ways were so narrow
there was scarcely room for one to pass
The question naturally presenting it
self was:
GLOW was this sow got there?"
The poor woman who had conducted
the party up, looked with much anxiety
upon their wondering countenances, and
at length broke out with a relation of the
trouble she had to shield her pigs from
the vigilance of the Police.
"But, my dear woman" said the cap
tain, chow in the world did you ever get
that SOW up here ?"
"Sure, yer honor, she niver was down;
she was got in this room from another we
had long ago."
"Ah, | see," said the captain, "she
growled here"
"Yis, yis, she growed, and growed
finely too She's but year and half
old, and see what fine crather she is, to
be sure"
Orders were left for the removal Of the
sow that had grown there, and the officers
proceeded on their way.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
& Judicial Decision.

Judge, you say if punch man in
fun, he can take me up for assault and
battery?'
yes, sir, I said that; and what 1 said
1 repeat If you punch man, you are
guilty of breach of the peace and can
be arrested for it,
tAin't there no exceptions?'
NO, sir-no exceptions whatever
Judge, / think you are mistaken.--
Suppose, for instance, should brandy
punch him-then what?
NO levity in court, sir. Sheriff, ex-
pose this man to the atmosphere. Call
the next case.'
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
A Burning Well

The Bloomington (Illinois) Paragraph
gives the following description of vein
of gas struck while digging well in that
vicinity short time since:
"Mr. Robinson, of this place, in dig
ging a we'll week or two since, on his
lot not far from the depot of the Central
Illinois Railroad, struck a current of gas
at the depth of some twenty feet, which
rushed up with such force as to shake
the ground around the well, and cause a
noise like the boiling of an immense caul-
dron. To test the character of the gas,
a match was applied to the mouth of the
well, when it Immediately took fire and
burned very briskly, until, in order to
extinguish it, the mouth of the we'll was
covered Mr.. Robinson went to work
Immediately to wall up the well, and, with
much difficulty, in consequence of the i'm
possibility Of breathing the vapor for any
length of time, has at length succeeded
in securing the sides of the shaft from
caving in. Last night we were invited to
see it in combustion. Mr.. Robinson had
closed the mouth of the well with plank,
inserting in the centre a sheet-tube of
about twelve inches in diameter and six
or eight feet high, around which he had
embarked three or four feet of earth, thus
precluding the escape of any gas from the
well, except through the pipe.
When we arrived on the ground We
found the well surrounded by large COM
pany of ladies and gentlemen who had
been attracted to the spot to witness the
curious spectacle. The fame was already
mounting up some ten feet from the mouth
of the tube, and Illuminating the counte-
nances of the admiring multitude for
several rods around. 1t burned with a
beautiful blue tint just where it leaped
from the pipe, but as it assembled and ex-
panded it became bright and clear. How
long the supply of gas may continue is of
course to be ascertained by experiment.
Should it hold out as we saw it last night,
it will be something more than curiosity.
Mr.. Robinson, we understand, intends to
conduct it to the steam grist in the
vicinity, and test its capacity as an agent
for generating steam. Should the supply
not diminish, it may in few months be
put to more brilliant uses.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28

Vows.-A country parson preaching
from the text, "Vow and pay unto the
Lord your VOWS, in course of his remarks
proved pretty conclusively that after a
person had made vow it was his duty
to perform it. Directly after service, a
sort of Indian, not at all campanionable
to say the least came up to the reverned
divine saying:
81 VOW | 60 home with you"
"Then you must 60 was the unhesit-
ating reply.
81 VOW l stay to supper" said he on
arriving at the gate.
There was no alternative, and the min
lister invited him in
81 vow I stay all night was the cool
assertion, as he drew away from the table
The good man saw that submission had
to be virtue, and, without disomfture
said
"You arc welcome to night, but | vow
you shall leave in the morning
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28

Meanwhile Orellana glidcd down the
stream, which then was nameless and
unknown, but which has since been cal
led by his name, though it is more gen.
orally known by name derived from a
story which Orellana told, in his account
of his voyage, of a nation of Amazons in
habiting its banks. But an account Of
Orellana's adventures must be reserved
for our next number.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
Constant changes in the Features of
Society.

constant changes IN the features OF
Society.
The world is like magic lantern. or
the shifting scenes of a pantomime. Ten
years convert the population of schools
into men and women, the young into faith
ers and mothers, make and mar fortunes,
and bury the last generation but one
Twenty years convert infants into fathers
and mothers, render youth the operative
generation, decide mems fortunes and dis
tlnctlons convert active men into draw
ling drivellers, and bury all the preceding
generation. Thirty years raise an active
generation from nOnentity, change fascin-
ating beauties into merely bearable old
women, convert lovers into grandfathers
and grandmothers, and bury the active
generation, or reduce them to dccrepitudc
and imbecihty. Forty years, alas! change
the face of all society, infants are grow
ing old, the bloom of youth and beauty
has passed away two active generations
have been swept away from the stage OF
life; names so cherished have been for
gotten, and unsuspected candidates for
fame have started from the exhaustlsss
womb of nature. Fifty years; why should
any desire to retain their affections from
maturity for fifty years! 1t is to behold
a world which they do not know, and to
which they are unknown; it is to live to
weep for the generations passed away, for
lovers, for parents, for children, for friends
in the grave; it is to see everything turn
ed upside down, by the fcklo hand Of
fortune, and the absolute despotism Of
time; it is, in a word, to behold the van
ity of life, in all its varieties of display.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-09-28
JOE rim TIN
.H. H.AMGY PRIMpIMG,
TssE JEFFERsONzAN.
THE TIDE OF DEATH.
BY HON. R. NJ. CARLTON.

BY HON. R. NJ. CARLTON.
The tide rolls on, the tide rolls on
The never ceasing tide,
That sweeps thepleasures from our heart:
The loved ones from our side
That brings Affections to our lot,
And anguish and despair,
And bears from youths unruflled brow
The charms that fingered there.
The tide rolls on; wave after wave,
It's swelling waters flow:
Before it all is bright and fair;
Behind it ali is woe;
The infant from its mothers broats,
The gay and blooming bride,
Are swept away and borne along
BY that rcsistlc5s tide.
The tide rolls on; the soldiers eye
Grows dim beneath It's swell;
The scholar shuns the mystic love
That he hath loved so well;
The monarch puts the crown aside,
And labor's weary slave.
Rejoices that limbs will know
The quiet of the grave.
The tide rolls on; like summer brook,
1t glidcth to the sad,
But, ike dark winters angry tide,
1t rusheth to the glad.
From kingly hall and lowly cot,
From battle-f field and hearth,
1t sweeps into oblivion's sea
The dwcllcrs oD the earth.
Roll OF, then dark and turbid wave
Thou canst not bear away
The record of the good and brave,
That knoweth not decay;
Tho fierce may rush thy billows' strife,
Though deep thy current be,
Still faith shall lift thy beacon high,
And guide US through thy sea.