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The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-02-14
Minister 10 spain.--I, !. stated tLat

Minister 10 spain.--I, i stated that
TIC Hon. 1T. breckenridge has declined the
post Of Minister d spain, in consequence Of
the continued illness 81 Mr.. breckenridge.
a report states. that the President, en- FIJI
dry, nominated the Hon. Augustus X. Dodge,
Of Iowa, 70 gu the vacancy. and that this no.
mina,ion was confirmed By the Senate.
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-02-14

coSyrs.ioSs Is I'M IISIfisa Aany.-
An extract Of iellet ron au OiIiecI N
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-02-14

Union. the Constitution, and the Laws
the Guardiars Of our Liberty.
EIlLLEs2 12@UGEo So O.
Wednesday, February IA.

az The members Of the Orange County Ag-
ricultural Society win remember, that Saturday
of February Court is the time appointed for the
next regular meeting. Il is expected that the
committee appointed to provide for permanent
Fair Ground, viii then make a rcport.
Some Of The members Of the Society have
suggested the propriety Of holding special
meeting, on Tuesday night cf our County
Courts, for conversation on agricultural sub
iects and we throw out the suggestion for tho
consideration Of those interested. Tho propo-
sition strikes US favorably,as more time would
be allowed fss the interchange Of We've, and
there would 10 less interruption.
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-02-14

Tae Observation-Disclosures has
passed both Houses Of the Legislature 20 adj
journ on Thursday (to-monow,1 though i u
doubted whether they can finish the business
before them SO as to enable themssto do 50.
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-02-14

Mr.. w. III. Goodman RECEIVERS 100;
Messrs. Robert LuMpkin and Edwin
Lockett recover 100000; and Mr.. Jno,
Hagan, who isnow in Savannah, recov-
ers $4,000.
This claim has been standing four
teen years and had been considered
hoepelcss. One Of the claimants, Mr..
G.. ii. Lumpkin. uPon-- hearing Of the
loss of the vessel, became deransed,
and is now an inmate of the Eastern
I.unatic Asylum, at Williamsburg.
Richmond Penny Post.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
Salmon p. a

The Vicksburg Wing thus answers its own
interrogatory--"Who is Salmon P. Chase?!"
The reply is truthful, and is just as applicable
to Louisiana as it is to Mississippi:
Now, who is Salmon P. Chase! A Democrat
Of the 6rst water, who never, we presume, cast
other than a Democratic vote in his life--was
for a long time a Democratic U. S. Senator
from Oio-has done long and faithful service
for the Democratic party-is yet a Democrat,
and is, perhaps, as bitterly opposed to the Anne.
all he could to crush the American party
has denounced it al the proslaueyy party, a sim
with him greater than all others-yet, notwith-
standing all this, we find Democratic papers ip
MISSISSIPPI trying to make their credulous and
unsuspecting readers believe that Salmon p.
Chase was the candidate OF the Amerieans in
the late Ohio election.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
A CARD
TO the Public.

The undersigned, citizens Of the city Of Baton
Rouge and members of the AM ERICAN PAR
T4, beg leave TO make a staten ent to the pub
lice, IN refere nee to a matter, in which all par
ties should feel interested.
On Monday last, we were sent for by one of
the wardens of the Louisiana Penitentiarv. Hav-
ing served there as guards, we presumed that our
service were wanted again IN that capacity. We
were told by one of the wardens that there were
no vacant Places, but he presumed, if We would
Withdrew from the American Patty and publish
a card % that effect, in the Democratic .Adcocate, as
others nave done, it would be all right with US.
He thea referred US TO head quarters, where we
were told, that no man could get employment that
would VOTE THE AMERICAN TICKET, and
we Indignantly came away. The question pre-
selts itself, is a State institution, like the La.
Penitentiary to be used to bride citizens in the
disposition Of its petty favors.
S. J. BLACK,
S.. RIGGS.
Baton Rouge, Oct. 81, IS.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
Baton Rouge, Oct. 81, IS.
The American Party in Madison.

For the information of our friends in other
parishes, we can annou nee TO them with cer-
tainty that Madison parish is all right; she will
give a majority for the American State ticket
Of from eighty to one hundred votes. This
will be doing remarkably well in a parish where
six months ago some of our opponents boldly
asserted that we could not elect a constable
In 1853, when the parties we're Wing and Dem,
ocrat, the average majority for the Democratic
State candidates was about forty votes, while
the majority for Perkins over Pond was eiph,
ty four. Now Ponds majority over Davidson
will not be less than eighty. Judging from
the present signs of the times, we think MI. Da.
Wilson's chance for getting to congress is rath-
err a bad one. We are informed by a gentle
man from Carroll, who is:!himself an Anti, that
the American ticket will run ahead in that par.
ish, where Perkins also received a majority
over Pond in 1853. In the parishes of Ten.
sas, Concordia and Catalonia, the change in
favor of POND, as compared with his vote of
1853 against Perkins, will be much greater
than it will be in Madison; in Tensas alone
where Perkins received a majority, he will beat
Davidson from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred votes.-Richmond Journal, l2h inst.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
Nr. ~Chapman's Reply.

Read the we'll written reply of Mr.. CHAP
MAN to the article ola critic upon his former
address to the people Of lbervil!e. Mr.. CHAP
MAN speaks sensibly and to the point, and his
opponents may we'll be afraid of him. If they
had not considered that the people were obi
ged to vote for them, according to the com.
mands of the Plaquemine Oligarchy, they would
perhaps, condescended to address the people
on the stump or through the papers; one of them
in our opinion, will not 60 to the Legislature.
Let CHAPMAN's friends unite and battle man.
fully for him on the day Of election, and he will
triumph. His cause is gaining every day.
Friends of the honest, enlightened, indepeu-
dent Mechanic, do your duty!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
Deatt.

Died, on the 21st ult, of Yellow Fever, a, the
Louisiana College, parish of St. James, LAFAY-
ETTE ERWIN, aged about 10, son of Isaac
ERWIN, Of Bayou.Grosse Tete, in this parish.
The deceased was a young man Of great pro-
mise. By unceasing diligence and study he had
gained an intellectual standard far in advaLce of
the majority of those Of his age, and had he lived,
would doubtless have proved himself no ordinary
man. We deeply sympathise with his suffering
parents, relatives and friends.
Nh. Duran. of the Louisina College. in a COM
munication to the ~Picayune, says, in references
to this young man-"The scourge last week car
ried off one of the most distinguished of cur stu.
dents: who had remained at the College to con-
tinue his studies without Interruption"
May he meet a happier world in the eternity to
which his spirit has fed!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
A Great and Solemn Duty

Rests upon those commissioners or judges Of
election who are appointed to preside at the
Polls next Monday. Can it be possible that
anything like party fealty will make them so
far forget their high duty to their brother Amer
leans, to their country and their GOD, as not to
be rigid in their sacred obligations to prevent
FRAUD by any and every means which the CHI
canery of INSCRIPTIONS %demagogues may ats
tempt to practice ? In the name of our common
country and the Supreme Ruler of all Nations,
we trust not! We believe that here in our par
ish, the commissioners WILL do their duty, and
do it in defiance of qaibblcrs!
1t will be recollected that the law provides
that each voter shall be a "resident Of the State
/ a year previous to the election, and six months
u resident of the parish" Will they allow a
simple oath, from perhaps a man who does not
know the nature of the oath, to be sufficient
testimony or right to vote, in the face of the
knowledge to the commissioners that such mnn
HAS NOTRESIDED IN THE PARISH SIX
MONTHS? If so, fraud WILL be perpetra-
ted; for it is well known that fraudulent voters
have been scattered all over the State by that
great Oligarchy in New Orleans. which styles
itself tho democratic Central Comamlhee Of
LouisianG"
Americans preserve peacc-preserve oreer-
but swear upon the Altar Of American Liberty
and American Rights, that your Ballot-Boxes
SHALL BE KEPT PUREi
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
G. M..ElaY.

SR.3 E--M
This notorious Abblitionist Of Kentucky,
who, in the late exciting political contest in
that State, voted an qen Democratic ticket,
is out in a long lettr in opposition to the
American party. Hesays his object sis to a.
bolish slavery and to throttle the hydra. headed
monster, Know-N ohingism-a move better
calculated to rivet tie chains Of slavery than
any other ever befo9 adopted" Thus the A.
BOLTON monster tails, yet we find men in Mis-.
sissippi endeavorini to make the people be-
lieve the AmericanParty is an Abolition trick;
that the Abolitioniksstated il, and therefore it
is bound to be a Rove. to benefit Abolfionists.
Let each man lool atyAfrat Cassius NJ. CLAY, of
Kentucky, and in fact all the Abolition hordes,
North and South say about it. They oil de-
nouce the partYbecauee they say it il calcu.
lated to advaceslave labor, BY discouraginp
foreign immigr3ion-a labor the North must
have. They kjow, too, that these foreign i'm.
migrants are N Sc Abolitionits; that nine
tenths Of thet settIs in the Northern and
Western State; that they add from five to six
representative 10 Congress annually to the
Abolition sttngth, and will in a very short
time secure \ them . political preponderance
in the HaQsbf Congress and the Executive
Council. Tyese Abolitioni6ts take the correct
vieg Of tho 1sestion, and we are not surprised
at their opHsition to the American party
Port Gibson (Miss.) Herald.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
COLONIXING e

We have good reason to believe, says the Cyes-
cent, that an extensive scheme Of colonization is in
contemplaiion-not an African colonization, or an
American colonization, or 4 patriotic colonization,
or any other sort Of colonization which has noble
and upright ends in view. The colonization we
speak of is Of political character, and relates excIu-
sively to frauds upon the elective franchise.
We have seen letters from the country expressing
astonishment at the large number Of foreigners
who &c, of from steamboats, at the various river
landings, and then disappear iuto The country in
squads of ten. five, three and two, and are lost SIGH,
of. So numerous are these occurrences .hat sns-
picions have been excited in the minds of our co..
workers in the interior. The other day we read a
letter from Baton Rouge. written by a very intsIIi-
gent gentleman, in which he declared his fears tina,
colonization, on a most extensively criminal scale,
was likely to be attempted in the lower Florida par
ishes. Hhe is right, all we have to say 10 our
readers in Livingston and st. Tammany is TO
keep a good look out. If the right of suffrage is as
valuable as we were taught to believe il to be, il is
worth such a struggle as feemen only knox how 10
make.
We have been also informed that large numbers Of
Irshmen continually arrive from s.. Louis. Louis
vile, Cincinnati, s'c,-unnsuaIIy large, the cir
cumstances considered. Can it be possible that
the anti-American party leaders have resorted to
the very means which led to the fearful scenes at
Louisville9 1t looks so. If they have, upon their
own heads rests the responsibility!
We can assure our friends at home, abroad, and
everywhere, that frauds will not be permitted in
St. Bernard, Plaquemines or Orleans. That is a
matter fixed and unalterable. Therefore, let them
look at home. Frauds arc contemplated by the
Somewhere. OF this We are fully convinced,
and have been for a long time. Let the Ameri-
rans be prepared, and maintain the pnrity Of the
to the EXTREMIST hazard known to NOR.
al man!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03

~The following will show how the Demo-
Gratis in the city wish the Commissioners to con-
duct the election-but they faint a-going to do
it'll
The sum and substance of their argument,
literally translated, means simply this: Every
COMMISSIONS of Election is bound to receive
the vote of every levee rat as often as he
pleases to perjure himself by taking the specifi-
ed oath! This would make the Commissioners
particeps criminis in fraud and villainy-and
all is grayely put forward just as though false
swearing would make an illegal vote legal.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03

When urging our objections to Foreigners"
and generally when speaking of Foreigners"
we wish distinctly to be understood as abiding
to that overshadowing proportion of emigra-
ton to this country which is entirely made up
of paupers, vagabonds, criminals and other re-
fuse, who are wholly disqualified by character
and antecedents from intelligentIy exercising
the privileges of American citizenship. We
have no objections to urge against those OF an
opposite Observation-Disclosures, intelligent, res
publican minded men, who come here in good
faith, and not like driftwood, aimless and OBJ
~iectless, or else as mere tools in the hands of a
scheming political hierarchy. Good men, in
teIligent men, who throw off all allegiance
whatever to every foreign power, prince or
potentate, when they come here, we should al
ways be glad to welcome to our shores. Nor
does the American party propose to interfere
with the rights or privileges of any foreign.
born citizen now living in this country. Any
sensible man who asserts to the contrary. will
fully misrepresnts and crimina!ly ISLANDERS that
party.-American Exchange.
The New Orleans Crescent endorses these
sentiments and so do we--and believe they are
now beginning to be generally appreciated by
alFintelligent and worthy foreigners. We war
not against them--we would not impair or take
away a privilege or right they now possess
we cordially welcome them TO the enjoyment
of every legal prerogative known to our
government; but, when a great general princi-
pie is at stake, the principle, not individuals,
must be preferred. The poet, in a single line
embodied a whole volume of craftsmanship: +,
"All partial evil is universal good.o
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03

The SafNicht editor Of tho Rockport Qnd)
Democrstbays that two or three weeks ago,
on his VI TO Chicago, ha apasssd through /
Babylonih baTlot." We suppose the harlot
ssceNpsps him. II she Was Z tall woman, he
had afp{aFss : long trip. We don't think how.
ever thai he was At al improved BY his passage.
His casl was like that oethe dies, which, 10 the
hands 4 an impatient gsmblsr, kept coming
deuce q. tll q lsnsth 10 his wrath he swallow.
% thek. When at last they reappearsd, hs
giancf ct them and exclaimed, sds,,cs ace sill,
b A45er!-LOx. Jar.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03

Consistency Of the Antics.
Il is amusing to read the Iabored attempts OF
the anti-American press TO prove the consis-
tency of their cause. Let US briefly see what
there is in it.
When a calm rejecting foreigner declares
himself in f~avof,of the American party, the An
ties pounce upon him as a renegade who has
deserted and opposes his own countrymen! If
this be 20, is it not equally true that when q
natiue born American is found OF the aide OF
foreigners, he is a renegade who has deserted
and oppose has oaon countrypnen!! 1t strikes
Us that the rule ought to work both ways
The traitorous d~emagogues Of tie country
assail with great vehemence our motto, sAmer-
leans should rule America" and to further their
nefarious designs, appeal to the Irish popula-
ton to overthrow this sentiment aud place in
its stead that other detestaLle doctrine, Ameri.
cans shall not rule America!
Yet it is for this very principle, that the Irish
refugees, Mitchell. Meagher and O'Brien, can
never return to their native country. These
men contending that Ireland should BE- govern
ed by Eiskmen!
For half a century this doctrine has been it.
Grated and reiterated by their orators, writer's
and statesmen, and continues yet to be rung
in the ears of the inmates of Buckingham Pal.
ace. And yet the Antics call upon their peo~
pie to oppose a principle cherished by them as
a household god-and in doing SO to sacrifice
their national existence and bring yet a heavier
load of bondage upo. the shoulders of the in
habitants Of that unhappy country
Verify, this Is consistency! How long will
the naturalization citizen be the willing dupe
Of politicial tricksters! mobile Evening News.
aHow longr Not very long, we are quite
sure. for scarcely a day passes in which we do
not hear Of the determination Of intelligent and
patriotic adopted citizens to 4 te- for the Amer
lean tieket. There is no reason for wonder in
this. On the contrary. the heling isa natural
one. The natives Of all countries, except the
United States, assert the exclusive right to the
government Of the land of their birth, aud no
body disputes The correctness Of the assertion.
That is all the America party claims. Let
Ireland be for the Irish, Germany for the Ger
mans, ETC., aud 10 Gods lame, America for the
Americans!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
More Fraud!

1t becomes orr duty, says the Bee Of Thursday,
as it is that Of every honest man, to signalize to
the community a gross and fragrant fraud the per-
p~etration Of which is contemplated in the parish Of
Plaqaemines at the approaching election. A gen.
tleman from that parish, whose name has been
communicated to us, and whose statements are en-.
titled to the highest respect, came up to town on
Tuesday. and gave positive information that two
or more bands Of aliens had landed in Plaquemines
that they numbered about two hundred and
fifty, and that their leaders openly acknowledged
they had been sent there to vote. The substance
Of this information is TINS given in " oparagraphs
from an article in yesterdays Cyescea:
Gangs Of foreigners, principally Irish, are con.
tinualIy finding their way into the parish of PA.
qneEnines. Adjoining, or not far off from the plan-
tation of one I. the American candidates, is a
crowd of sabou, one hundred! They arrived there
within the past few days. The head man, the
leader-having, in former years, been placed nn-
der obligations to the aforesaid Amencn candidate
in a conversation with him, plainly said that they
cSne tAHs to vete, and p~rofered his influence to in
dnce his crowd to vote for the American
We understand. also, that mp TO the latest infcr.
nation, there were about one hundred and 6fty
more foreigners scattered about the neighborhood
Of the various precincts! This would make SOME
hundred and fifty votes in all, snpposing these
people only yoied osce, but Is they have a p~rociivi.
y 70 vote an Indefinite number Of times whenever !
The opportunity presents itself, there is no telling
70 how high a fgnEe tho vote would swell wen.
they permitted "a vote at all. In such an event !
here j. LILLE aHeyfica but 1914 would be cast en-
'lFsiy IN he shade,
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
Independent Voters,

Independent Voters,
Who have too much respect to be ruled and
commanded by the emissaries Of the Plaque
mine Oligarchy,' look well at your ticket on
Monday, and see that you are not deceived
Recollect, this Oligarchy 10 debating - to
whom you SHALL vote, fora parish Office, bow.
ever insignificant Are you not ffeemen!-are
yon not free to vote aa your consciences and
yo6rtNterests shah dictate? Or are you to be
controlled by the interests Of selfish clique.
In Gods name, no!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
Sending "Werkmen, int the Country.
GLARLNG FRAUD!

IN another place We publish some remarks from
the Crescent, headed "Colsaixing voters,'' stating
that large numbers al men were being scattered
along up the coast, for the purpose no doubt Of
fraudulently voting on Monday.
Agentleman in our office on Thursday. related
to rs an incident which fully veri6es the antici.
pations Of the Crescent:
He was at Bayou Sara a few days since, when
he was told by Mr.. Henshaw of that place that
seventees scorknen had been landed in Point Cou-
pee, consigned to Judge Carrigan. As it happen
ed, on his returning to Baton Rouge, Carrigap
was on the same boat, when our informant ap-
preached him, and inquired
"Judge, what work are you employed on, that
You should have seventeen workmen CONSIGNED
to you from New Orleans ~
eAh! never mind" answered the Judpessaa-
ing that our informant was in the secret, awE,LL
have ive thousand such workmen on Mond,v
the 9Th, scattered all over the State, and You mr.
no other person viii know where they come
from p
Now, here is a FACT-a fact for which we
have authority that dare not be questioned. And
We will simply inquire if it is not enough to make
the blood of every honest American boil in his
veins!
A gentleman who heard the remark, a resident
near Morganza, and who sympathized with the
Democratic party, said that sach q glazing admis.
SION from 20 high . source was rather more Than
ns could stand; be replied to it in terms Of the
deepest indignation.
Ameficans' are you prepared to assist such
.wofkmen" n Destroying the purity Of your Co
sernraent The same kind Of aworkmenu h,v.
no doubt been sent 70 lberyilIe a. well !. to ,hs
plll.n q Point coppee, and every other Demo.
er.le PARISH where the inmaculate Central Com
n'.,se q new Orleans thinks there are De.oe,u-
nc Cs"sssio.vs ef Essoss.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
PLAQUEMINE

Saturday, November =, 1855.
GOur readers will excuse US for filling our
paper entirely with politics. It is the "last
week of the season." and we must do all we
can for the cause of patriotic Sam. Hurrah,
boys! do your best!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
House Of Representatives.

AouSa Of representatives
Me-. EDITOR. In compliance with the sohcita-
tons Of my friends, l have consented to become
a candidate to represent this Parish in the House
of Representatives of the next Legislature.
"A. J.. CHAPMAN.
Bayou Goula, Sept. IA, 1858.
SHERIFF.
Mr.. Editor Please announce my name as a
candidate for reelection to the office Of Sheriff Of
this Parish. a,f&
JOS. II. ERWIN.
Plaquemine, June LIST, 1855.
ASSESSOR.
Mr.. Error: Please announce the name Of J.
V. BRAUD as a Candidate for Assessor Of thu
Parish. " MANY FRIENDS.
At the request of his many friends, Mr.. 10
SEPH M. TOFFIER, has consented to become
a candidate for Assessor Of the Parish Of Iberville
As MI. Tory1ER designs taking an agricultural
census Of th1ssP arish, it is desirable that he should
BE- e1ectedAsssssor. By announcing him as a can
didate, youwould oblige MANY VOTERS.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-03

uSee the advertisement Of that magnificent
boat the P. r. KimJaA. We will more length-
lily allude to her in our next.