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ThibOdaux Female Institute,

= TENNEY, Principal, aided by competent Teach
bs ers in English, French Music, Embroidery, Drawing
and Painting,
The eighteenth session of this Institution win commence
the ist Monday in Ocaber next. No scholar will be
taken for less than session of five months; but
scholars may any time and be charged only from
the time of entrance
Board and tuition payable in advance.
Terms.
Board and Tuition in English per session Of months ss3 90
Washing, furnishing room lights, ETC. per month. 3 90
Music Piano and Guitar, Of instrument per
French Embroidery, Drawing and Painting, etc,
per month ........................ 8 90
Tuition for day scholars per month ....... or 00
Incidental expenses for session of 5 months od
Sent ISI5
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from the
One by One.

One by one the sands are flowing.
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive To grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
let thy whole strength go TO each;
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one bright gifts from Heaven)
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready too tn let them go.
One by one thy grief shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at life's long sorrow,
See how small each moments pain;
God will help thee for tomorrow,
Every day beg again.
Every hour that fleets so slowly,
Has its task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,
II thou set each gem with care.
Do,not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond
Nor, thy daily toll forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.
Hours are golden links, Gods token,
Reaching Heaven; but one by one;
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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Institution of Learning

TOR YOUNG LADIES'
Il The Religious Ladies of Mount Carmel have the
honor of informing their acquainances and the public in
general that they have opened Thbodaux parish Of
Lafourche day and boarding School for Young Ladies'
The of instruction is similar to that pursued
by other boarding schools of the countfyhat is say
Writing, Grammar Geography, Arithmetic, Elements OF
Geometry Natural Philosophy etc. History and Literature
will also be taught.
The scholastic year is divided into two sessions; the first
commencing the lst of October and ending the 14
of March; the second commencing the 18th of March
and ending the Sd Monday of August.
COntlitiOns-BOaraierS.
The price of boarding. comprising general instruction in
French and English per annum, payable in advance
half the of each session. charge of 81
will be made for bed, entering the institution.
Washing and menlfng, per session. S5 0t
Lessons Piano and Of instrument, per month 0t
Day Scholars.
French and English branches, per month"; each 50 0(
Both branches together 5 O(
For further particulars apply the Lady Superior. 81
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HORRIBLE SACRIFICE OF Lrrx on THE Wrsrr,1
WATERS. IN FoRTY-FouR YEARs.-From Uovd;s
forthcoming Steamboat Directory we learn tha.
snce the application of steam on the Western
waters there have been thirty-nine thousand siv
hundred and seventy-two lives lost by steamboat
disasters, three hundred and eighty-one boats and
Afgoes lost, and seventy boats seriously injured,
~ sa1oannng IN the aggregate to the enormous sum
W. as.y-seven millions Of dollars It tis to be hoped
.lss .nls forthcoming work win have the effect Of
;.esung the attention of the Government to the
- '.nce o. Western interests, 50 fr n our
great rivers and lakes are concerned. -
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educational.
Night School.

4 the solicitation of a number of persons
a who otherwise occupied during the day-the un-
dergned has consented open NIGHT SCHOOL, at his
Academy the Canal Persons wishing to avail them
selves of this opportunity for Improvement in either the
French English language, may do so by making mme-
date application The of instruction will commence
Monday the 18th inst and be continued every evening
except Saturdays and Sundays Hours of instruction. from
TO half past O'Clock, P. NJ.
oct6-tf CHARLES SCHIFFERsTEIN.
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PATRIOTIC SESrIMEsrs.-Rev DR.. Bethune,
at late meeting in New York, said: Sir.
love NeF York well; it is my birthplace, and
am thankful that was born no where else
but / hold him to be no true man who does not
love every part of our country. and our whole
country. 1t is not that love New York less,
but that lore my country more. Yes, sir:
there is better name than New Yorker or New
Englander, Northerner or Southerner; it is the
name by which our nation is known, the name
AMERICAN. This is the name we love to heal
and own when abroad; the name which is sym.
oo!ized by the flag which protects US. In oul
union is our safety and our strength; and the
consultation that binds our States together,
should unite our hearts in communion never
70 oe broken By sectional jealousies. Nor do |
hesitate 70 say, that should (which God forbid y
: aay come when our Union shall be disrupted,
l snaH, II alive, 60 with that section. he ii
North or South, which stands by the cnnst;tu.
ton. The company answered this With lonc
and loud applause. ''e
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LIABILITY OF BANKs-The liability of banks in
paying forged checks upon them has been establish
ed by the courts of both England and the United
States. The rule established is to this effect: If
bank pay check with forged signature, it can
not afterwards recover the amount from the en-
dorser or from the party to whom it may have beer
paid although the latter may be able to sustain the
loss. The bank is bound to knosc the signatures o,
its orn customers, and cannot recover the amoun
paid on forged check unless the bank obtain, (as
it should,) whenever there is any doubt as to the
genuineness Of the signatures, a guarantee from
the payee.
A disputed case (the New York Courier says,
arose in that city last month check on the sub
treasurer drawn by disbursing officer in the West,
was presented with signature so different from
that of the drawer on file that payment was re-
fused, unless the banker here who received it
from his correspondent would guaranty the sig
nature to be genuine. This the latter refused to
do, although the demand was perfectly reasonable,
and the check was protested for non-payment In
this case. the check turned out to be genuine; but
the sub.treasury officers pursued the right course
under the circumstances, knowing that, if fraudu-
lent and paid by them, the loss would fall upon
them Individually
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INCREASE OF THE METALs-There can be no
doubt but any increase in the use Of the work
able metals-such as iron, copper, tin, lead,
zinc, silver, gold, and platinum-tends to ad-
vance the useful arts The cheaper these me-
tails become, in the same proportion will man
be benefited Were iron to be obtained at one
half its present price, the building Of machinery,
houses, railroads, &C., would be greatly stimu-
lated, and all classes would be gamers by the
improvements. Inits own place copper is just
as valuable, and were it as cheap as iron, it
would be used for many purposes for which the
latter is now employed. We never expect to
see it become as cheap, still, we hope it will be
much cheaper and plentiful than it now is.
The great copper deposits of the Lake Superior
regions should, in the course Of time, influence
the price Of copper, and render it more abun-
dant. It is estimated that the yield of pure
copper from these regions this year, will not be
less than 5000 tuns. In few years these
mines will be yielding more annually than is
now produced by all the other mines in exis-
tense. When sheet copper becomes as cheap as
timed sheet iron, it will be exclusively en-
ployed for the roofs and conductors of build
ings.-Sesentifc american.
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w NJ. MERCER, Ahormey cnd Counselior at
w Lnto Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, Ia, practises
the parishes of Assumption Latourche and Ferrebonne
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PROPHECY AND FULrILxENr.- e. Benton
said many good things when he was Democrat
in high standing with the party. For instance
the following passage from one Of his speeches in
the Senate, delivered nearly thirty years ago, is
both handsome and truthful
The valley Of the Mississippi win be filed up
the barrier of the Rocky Mountains will be passed
the boundaries Of the Pacific ocean will be reached
the decentralization Of the globe will be com.
pleted; the oldest and youngest nation will be
brought together, and the emigration of the human
race viii stop where it began, on the borders and
confines Of the Celestial Empire"
What was Col Benton's prophecy in 1926 is re
corded history now. When he made the predic-
uon, ne was told that his fulflment was FIVE cen
sures distant. He said he could calculate the time
wfn astronomical certainty; 'yes, sir, with astro.
hotncai certainty, SIR in this generation-in this
generation, sir"
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NUMBER 45.
Drofes sioual CARDS.

4, BELCHER, attorney and Counsellor ct lar,
" the practice of his profession in the Fifth
Judicial District Office in Thboiaux. jeff
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T. S. GOODE, -1ttorney end Counsellor at Lar,
will practice in the rarisheso Assumption, Latourche,
and Terrebonne ie11
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~ The Alexandra Democrat of the Sd says
that Red River Is in boatable order to that place
three and a half feet at Shaggy Point. FreightE
have declined fully half
RETURN OF FCGITTvE SLAvEs-A few DAYS ago
three runaway slaves were arrested near Morgan
town, Va Two Of them belonged to John P.
Porter, and the other to George Mcdaniel Of Bath
county, Va. They say they have been to Indiana,
found they could get no work, found the colored
population in the vicinity which they visited in
state OF nudity and starvation, and they were
Struggling back in search of something to main-
tan themselves-got back to. Pennsylvania-wan-
derng about almost in despar-and finally re-
turned to Virginia after an absence Of about two
months.
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ThibOdauX Home Academy.

]. BRYsoN BURROWS, A. B., Principal.
THIS INSTITUTION will open on Monday, the
L 18th September, and continue ten months 1t is desi
rabe that Students be present the first day of the
Pupils however, win be received any time, and charged
accordingly This school is designed to prepare students,
by LIBERAL thorough and practical education for College,
any other business of life the plan comprising complete
preparatory course-Englsh, Classical, and Mathematical
Patrons may assured that and perseverng
effort will be made to cultivate the head, heart and hand
to train boys for becoming intelligent, good and useful
to give the elements Of perfect education.
TERMS
For the regular English course, per mouth, 5000
For each additional language s. . ....-.... l.5O
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Avis DETECTION.
GONFORMEMENT q Ia loi ct une proclaim


TONFORMEMENT a la loi ct une procIama-
~ ton de j. G Ragan, President da Jury de Police de
la parosse de Lafourche dse du q Septenbre 1862
election dams la paroisse de Laourche,
LUNDI, lie de NOVEMBRE, 1856,
depuis heures usqua heures P. NJ. ain d6re
ebe de Jury de Police dams chaaue District respective
du Jury de Police qui sont diyises suit:
Premier District, conlmeneant Ia ane den halt de la
paroe rive gauche du bayou Laourche termne
Is fgue den haut de Ihabtation de feu J. W. Tucker
comrrs lie Shoupc Bayou Sec, Chacbay Bayou Heron.
Deaxieme District, eommencan la ligne den haut de
phabtaton de feu j. W. Tucker terine Canal Bara-
taria, comprs Ia Vachere,
Treisieme District, commeneant Ia gne den haut de Ia
passe Ia rive doe du bayou Lafourche termine
Ia igne den has de rhabation de Col P g. Key COM
pris ae Brrile Grand Chene.
Q1arieme District commencant la lisne den bas de
Phabitaton de eu Col P B. Key, ct termine la igne
den haut de Fhabitation de 4. Kees
Cinquieme District, commencans an Canal Baratara
Ia rive gauche du bayou Lafourche Ia rive droe du
dit bayou Ia gne den haut de habitation de A. Kee
fni d la igne den bas de Ia paroisse.
Les eux ct cornmsssres delections present
par oi les eomsses eront leurs retour forme gas
soussigne Sheriff sep29-ted NJ. BoURG, Sheriff
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TDMUND P. DWIGHT, attorney and Counsel"
T. tor at Lar Napoeonv,e parish of Assumption. La
will practice in the parishes of Assumption Lafourche
Terrebonne and St. Mary. [my19-tfl
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Day School for B0yS.

THE subscriber takes pleasure in announcing to
and guardians that he has purchased of Mr. j.
J. Gardner the unexpred lease of the Parish School House
situated East Canal Thbodaux where he will
For the regular English course, per mont 81 90
For each additional language, per month so
For apply at the office of the Minerva
to CHARLES SOUTHEASTERN, Principal.
June Esd lS55-f
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UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
COLLEGIATE DeDartsment.

Collegiate Department.,
NTESTERN MILITARY INSTITUTE.-The
w next session Of this College, which consists of two
terms commencing respectively the 10th of September
and 18th January continues without interruption from the
beginning the close the 18th June 1856 At present
there professors in the Coegeone other will be
added The Course of Studies in every department. is
thorough in text books and teaching that of any College
in country The discipline is strict yet parental, and
maintained by day and night Mental, Moral and Physical
Culture Economy and Discipline the especial objects Of
the system.
Charges for Tuition, Boarding Washing, Fuel Servants
attendance of Arms Reom Furniture, Towels Bedding
leach Cadet supply the necessary Bankes SIOO per
of 90 weeks Surgeons fee and medicines 50 per
Engineering Modern Languages Book Keeping and Fenc
ing each $40 per term. For particulars address
J. BERRIEN LINDSLEY,
Chancellor Of the University, or
B. r. JOHNSON, Superintendent of the Institute
Nashville, Tenn, August. 1855. aug2i.
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Election Notice.
DURSUANT to law and proclamation of J.
c. RAGAN President of the Police Jury of the parish
of Laoerche dated 9th of September 1855, Elections will
be held in the parish of Lafourche, on
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1856,
from o'clock, A. NJ, O'Clock, P NJ, for the purpose
of eectng Member of the Police Jury in each respective
Police Jury Ward of the parish Of Lurche, which
follows to-wit:
1st Ward commencing at the upper line of the parish
the left bank of bayou Laourche, and terminating the
upper line of Estate of j. W Tucker, including Shoupc
bayou See, Chacbay and bayou Heron.
I'd Ward commencing at the upper line of the Estate of
j. W. Tucker and terminate at the Baratara Canal in
cluding the vacherie.
Sd Ward commencing at the upper line Of the parish
the right bank of bayou Lafourche and the
lower line of Col. P. b. Keys plantation including Brule
Grand Chene.
4th Ward commencing at the lower line of Col P B. Keys
plantation and terminate at the upper line Of A. Kees
plantation.
9Th Ward commencing the Barataria Canal on the left
bank of Bayou Lafourehe and ia Kees' upper line the
right bank of Bayou Lafourche, and terminate the lower
line of the parish.
The commissioners will make their returns in due r tohe
undersigned Sheriff. NJ. BOURG Sheriff.
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Great southern Remedy.

| "HCNe SouAASHh AhS"cuys
J A COB's po, GrOR Il D IAL:
| BOWEL DISEASES, Cholera, Dysentery, Di
| - arrhea, Cholera Morbus, Bilious Cholic, Cholera
! nfanturn, and also admiralty ADAPTED TO MANY DIS
EASES of FEMALES. most especially Painful Meustrlaton
The virtues of Jacobs Cordial well known te
require encomiums.
| 1. IT CURES THE WORST CASES or DI,RRHtEA.
| 9. IT CURES THE WORST FORMS OF DTsENrERY
| 3. Ir CURES CALIFORNIA OR MEXICAN DtARRHGA.
| 4. IT RELIEVES THE sEvEREsr CHoLIc.
| 5. IT CURES CHOLERA MoRBrs.
6. IT CHOLERA IyFASTUM.
| I. Ir CURES PAiyFuL MENsTRUAInn
s. IT RELIEVES P.IS IN THE BACK ASD LOWS.
10. Ir RESTORES IRREGULARITIES
IL. IT DsPELs GLOOMY AND HYsrERIoiL FEELINGS
12. IT IS ADMIRABLE Tonic
FEW SHORT EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONIALS
| LETTERS, &C.
ssI have used Jaeots Cordial in my family, and have
found most efficient, and in my judgment, valuable
remedy" Hon. HIRAM WARNER,
| Judge of Supreme Court, Georgia
m gives pleasure in being able recommend Jacobs
Coray personal experience, and the experience
of nv neighbors and friends around me- sufficient
anee fr to believe it to be all that rurpors be-
u soeereign renaedy." WM. Fl. uNDERwooD,
Formerly Judge Of Superior Court, Cherokee Circuit
"I take great pleasure in recommending this Invaluable
medicine to all afflicted with bowel Diseases for which
believe it to be sovereign remedyecdedy superior to
anything else ever tried by me' A. A. GAuLpIsG
Deputy G.. NJ. of the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
81 have used Jacobs Cordial in my family, and this with
all hear about it remedy by those who have tried it,
induces befev. that stands the head of every
preparation Of the kind and would recommend its
the diseases for which it is Compounded
MrLKs G. DoBBrNs
Cashier of the Bank Of the State Of Georgia, Griffin.
W there is any credibility in human testimony Jacobs
Cordial stand preemnent above all other preparations
for the cure of bowel diseases From the OF testimony
in its favor coming in from all quarters must be very far
in advance curative agent, OF most not all osher
patent preparations" IL FLEMING,
Cashier Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, 6rifiD.
This efficient remedy travelling into celebrity fast
SO Bonaparte pushed his columns into Russia and gaining
cou,rueuation wherever used."-Geo. Jefsrs0'lidR.
rr For sale by FRZELL & GAINES, Thbodaux La
and by the principal Merchants sd Druggists throughout
the State. hh. BLieS ",
seps srn PropFietors, Savannah Georgia.
1IGARSl CIGAKSt!
10000 Havana Cigars Of the Choicest Brands viz:
WASHINGTON, Ell SOL, FILLMORE,
BUSTAMENTE, CoSCHA, CONGRESS
sEYAST0PoL, ANTIGUEDOE, sem ROMAN,
AMERICAN UNION La PERFECTION, &C.,
All carefully selected and just received and for sale by
sepf B. r. HOLDEN.
]. 8. aousrAy. D. n. acE7ERs.
ROUSTAN s. MeEvERS,
{tSuccessors to 0. Osborn d CO..
Commercial Row-under the Franklin House Fhbodaux
nEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
- DRY GOODS Hosiery, Straw Goods, Hats, Boots and
shcsa, Hardware. etc, escs
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IMPROVED CANE KNIVES.-Panters in want
Of good Cane Knives invited call at the Store Of
the undersigned and some Of improved pattern
gotten up BY themselves. ls22 ~ CAMPBELL CO
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The SLAVE TRADE.-If the secret history
of the African slave trade could be brought
to light, says the Richmond Dispatch, some
facts would be disclosed which would place
in their true colors, many of the most rabid
New England abolitionists. That the vessels
engaged in this traffic, and their officers and
men, are, almost without single exception
from New England, is fact now univers-
ally admitted. 1t may not, however, be so
generally known that the persons chiefly
interested in the profits of the African
slave trade, are steady-going, long g-faced pur-
itanical New England .abolitionists, who make
anawful out cry about slavery, and as quietly
pocket the proceeds Of a successful voyage for
black cattle, as for sperm oil On one oc-
casion, an officer of the United States Navy,
who had captured an African SLAYER, took her
into the Massachusetts, port from which she
had sailed, but was utterly unable to secure
the conviction Of the accused, from the sim
pie fact that nearly all the people of the
place, including lawyers and judges, were re-
latives of the crew, and interested in the
traffic. These same people were among the
most furious abolitionists in the country
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The New Metal-Aluminium.

A fine bar of aluminium is now on view
at the Polytechnic Institution, where Mr. Pep
per explains its history and properties. This
metal was discovered by Sir H. Davy in 1908.
Oersted endeavored to exhibit the metal in
detached form by the employment of chor-
ide of aluminium, and about 80 years ago
Wohler succeeded in obtaining few grains
| of it. 1t has been reserved, however, for Mr..
st. Clair Deville to produce Gin private labora-
tory of the Emperor of France) whole bar
of aluminium, which has been presented to
Mr. Pepper by the Emperor. After giving a
brief history of the metal, the non-success of
experiments for obtaining it, and the sodium
and s'voltaic battery processes, Mr. Pepper
describes its nature and properties. ''Alum-
inium" is classed by NJ. Devile as an .'unal-
terable' metal, intermediate between the pre-
cious and the more common metals. Mr. .Fow-
nes includes it in the same category as glue
mum, yttrium, cerum, lanthanium, ddymium
chromium, aud thorinum-all Of them 'metals
Of the earth proper" The specific gravity of
aluminium is 2.56 Tor 2.60 according to Mr..
Fownes, water being taken as unity) This
is about one-eighth of the gravity of platinum,
and one-third that of iron, platinum being 20
50; gold, 1925; mercury, 1857; silver, 10.47
iron, 7.79; zinc, 6.5 and titanium, next above
aluminium, $50. The equivalent is 1859. The
metal is beautifully white, with slight blush
tinge and reflects light, clearly. 1t is malleable
and ductile almost without limit; when passed
through the fingers it exhases slight odor Of
iron. 1t is a conductor of electricity-the best
known among the metals-and is negative to
zinc. 1t melts at rather higher temperature
than zinc, and is excessively fusible. The chemi-
cal properties of aluminium are invaluable. 1t
resists oxygen-water has no action upon it at
any temperature-and even sulph'd hydrogen
that great defacer of metals in large towns
exercises no destructive influence upouit 1t is
now, moreover, ascertained that the metal does
not decompose water. Thus aluminium bids
fair to become one of the most useful and service
able Of the metals, and from it have aredy been
manufactured some medals and watch wheels Of
exquisite workmanship. Under Mr.. Peppers
active management, the Polytechnic is perpet-
ually adding to its attractions. Some Of his ex-
periments with Thames water are particularly
interesting just now.-London Athenaum.
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DURSUANT to law and proclamation of his
l. excelency P 0. Hebert, Governor of the State of
Louisiana, dated 26th day of July, 1865, elections will be
held in the parish Of Lafourche,
MONDAY NQIEMRER 1S5i
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CHAMPAGNE.-Afe few baskets Chas. Heniseck,
" whole and half bottles, for sale by
sep R. r. HOLDEN.
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A.
hrs. SCUDDAY EWING, having associated
- themselves for the practice Of their profession, tender
sevces the citizens of fhbodaux Lfeurche and the
neghborng parishes Office Jackson opposite ST. Bridget
street where they may at all times be found unless profess
onaHy engaged. mh3i-ly
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StAMUEL WOLF, General COLLECTOR and
~ AGENT Houma, parish Of fTerrebonne La, will attend
promptly the collection of all claims entrusted to him. or
to the transaction Of any business required oct2e-ly