Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-05-19
FANCY AND FAcr-A writer in the New York

| FANCY AND FAcr.-A writer in the New York
Mirror is showing the difference between taking
Havana on paper, and taking it u ct arnis. The
memoties of the fllibusters are refreshed with
an account of the attack upon the place oy the
English in 1852, and its disastrous results:
| ''The English feet consisted of 10 ships Of
the line and IL frigates, with various smaller
vessels of war, and some 200 transports, under
command of Pocock, and 5000 soldiers, under
Gen. Monckton.
"The cannonade 1--WE are told) continued
seven days; the siege had lasted twenty days,
with little hope of taking the Moro. At this
time the English received q reinforcement OF
1000 fresh troops. Now, inspired with new
hopes, the attack was renewed; their exertions
redoubled, and at last with success. One the
22d day of this memorable siege the fort was
captured. The city held out few days and
then surrendered, to prevent unnecessary sacri-
fee of life.
ssThe loss sustained by the English army and
navy was horrible. The English historian,
aware how dearly this victory was obtained,
prudently omitted to record the number killed
and wounded. Contemporary writer's (not Eng
lish) say this fort cost England over one hun
bred thousand men,"
After reading this account, an American may
make some estimate how many ships and how
many soldiers, (fllibusters) undisciplined men,
it would require to capture the Moro Castle
B5- The Cronica, the Spanish organ in New
York, abounds in gross and insulting attacks
stitution its RIGHTEOUSNESS is tolerated. In a
late number of that paper the following infa-
nous indignity is offered to the memory of
Andrew jackson:
"Were jackson to arise from the grave, and
try his luck again in the Spanish Territory, we
have not the least doubt that his heroic enter
prise would be crowned with an iron cravat."
the garote.)
1t is not to be wondered at that Spaniards
should indulge in insulting invectives when
they see the outrages, perpetrated by Spanish
officials on American rights and American citi-
Gems so promptly and SO zealously excused and
defended by American editors. We can have
meme but feelings of contempt for such journal
| as the Cronica 1t lacks either the decency OF
the intellect to command respect or to infict in
jury it is in all respect just such an organs as
such an official as Concha would be pleased to
have. Its calumnies and its vituperations are
harmless in such country as ours. 1t can
show its valor with impunity by connecting the
infamous garrote with the name of the illustrious
dead. If the editor of the Cronica will cherish
his malignity towards the name of Jackson he
ought not to be so 6endish as to invade bis
grave. But the Cronica is the organ of des-
potism where they know to degrade themselves
by insulting the dead bodies of their garroted
victims. He ought to remember, however, that
he is not now in Cuba Washington Union.
NEW MATERIAL FOR BUILDIsG.-The Cinci1-
natl Gazette has been specimen brick, "
made of lime and sand, whichit says appears as
though it would take the place of the common
clay brick altogether. 1t is very smooth and
hard. tits larger than the common brick, with
q vacant space in the centre. The Gazette
further adds:
"We are informed that the materials used in
the manufacture of these bricks are simply lime
| and sand, the proportion being about eleven
parts sand to one part lime, and they can be
manufactured at less cost than our common
clay brick The bricks can, of course, be made
of any form or shape, according to taste. 1t is
fully equal to sandstone. The advantages are
the facility with which they are manufactured
lathing and plastering become unnecessary, and
the outside and inside of the wall are made at
the same time. The chemical change which
takes place in the manufacture of the bricks
hardens them SO that they are not more affected
by the action of the atmosphere than stone. 1t
is not affected by frost, and experiments which
have been tried to test its strength and other
qualities have resulted satisfactorily"
Coon ADvIcE.-In lecture upon the Irish
Emigrant" recently delivered in New York, by
Robert G. Barry, Esq, before the Irish Social and
Benevolent Society, we find the following passage
1t contains much of sound advice appropriately and
pertinently expressed:
GAS an American, welcome to the coil of my
country each and every emigrant who brings with
him reputation for honesty, industry and sobriety,
poor though he may be. Thanks to God, however,
poverty is not yet decreed a crime. And to the
newly arrived Irish emigrant in all candor, would
say neither stop nor oiter the seaboard; rather
seek homestead in the heathfu air of the country,
or go out to the fertile and magnificent regions of
the West clear away the forests erect habitations
and diligently cultivate the earth. If you have
mechanical genius, seek without delay employment;
if a laborer, look at once for work; you can OBJ
tain IL IL you Try. w HatsoeFei YOUR caluuS, ne uOt
idle; for it is a truthful apothegm that dleness is
the parent of all vice
g Trust no future, howeer pleasant,
Let the dead Past bury its dead
Act act in the living Present;
Heart within, and God DER head"
Be frugal and temperate, with spendthrft hand
scatter not to the winds the wages of your daily
tolls, and thereby become dependentson the public
charity; educate, educate literally your children,
for the broad road of preferment in this land is