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Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
Bangor House,

T,HE UNDERSIGNED takes pleasure in an
nouncng to the travelling public and the citizens Of
the that lately added largely to the acconmo-
Of her house. and is prepared to entertain
Boarers equal any other house in Thbodaux Her "a
Bile all supplied with every decacy that the town.
surrounding country, and New Orleans market AFFORD er
prices for transient boarding. as reasonable
as the times will admit Of LIBERAL patronage solicited
Jniv i9-1v MRS ELvINA TENNEy,
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

CHEAP AND INVALUABLE DENTIFRIcE-Dissolve
two ounces Of borax in three pints of water; be-
fore quite cold, add thereto one tea spoon full of
tincture of myrrh and one table spoon full Of
spirits Of camphor; bottle the mixture for use.
One wine glass Of the solution added to half pint
Of cold water, is sufficient for each application.
This solution applied daily preserves and beauties
the teeth, extirpates all tartarous adhesion, pro-
duces pearllike whiteness, arrests decay, and in
duces healthy action in the gums
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

D@ Sam- You'll get it for hooking dat tur.
key last nigAt. Massa Knows it. Pompey-l
didn't hook it, Warnt the turkey massa's
Well, amt the turkey part of me! Massa AIM
got 90 much turkey, but he got more Niger
tell you de- turkey only change place.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

when may two people Be said to b half.
WAen thay hAve - understanding -
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
NUMBER 36.
6otels, 81.
FRANKLIN HOUSE.-IN CONS

TRANKLIN HOUSE.-lN CONSEQUENCE
Il of the advanced price Of provisions table -
wines, and servants hire, the proprietor felt COM @
PEELED the first of January last makesome slight n
advance in the prices for boarding. and instead ofA
Fifty cents for dinner, has charged Seventy i've cents;
bu, has concluded upon charging only the old price
Wines, however, Of various kinds and grades always
hand ready order Of guests when required, viz:
Caret Native or Catawba Wine, Haut sauerne, (Whte
Wine Sherry Charles Hiedseck Champagne uscat
Cordia etc. Akso-London Porter and Ale, Scotch Ale.
good deal Of money time, and pains have been recently
spent in reftng, to make this Hotel pleasant and COM
Portable to the traveller and regular boarde and now con-
fdeny trust will receive liberal share Of their pa'ro &C.
June2-,f. B.F. HOLDEN, Proprietor.
PRINCES HOTEL,
THE undersigned having leased the AA
i large brick building recently occupied by :.3
Wakeman & Smith, corner Of Maronge and Levee Mi!H
Streets opposite the Ferry Landing, and having. x&G
made alterations and improvements, and gone
to heavy expense in fitting and furnishing the house
has opened it as a FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
The proprietor atters himself that from long experiences
in managing and conducting of different Hotesn the Nort
that hes capable of keeping the above House in manner
any in the United States. Persons stopping at the
my Hotel will find all the comforts of home, as the
will be conducted on principles never before UNDER
taken in Thbodaux. :,
The Proprietor wishes his friends and the pube to DIS
ncy understand that his House is open at all hours OF
the night as well day. for their reception. There will be
servant the Landing at the arrival Of each and every
Steamboat, to convey the baggage to the House:
[feb17l ]. W. PRINCE Proprietor.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

SOUND DocrR1NE.-In sermon, delivered by
Rev. DR.. Bellows, of New York, before the West
ern Unitarian Conference, is the following par
agraph:
"For my part, say it in all solemnity, have
lived to become sincerely suspicious Of the piety of
those who do not love pleasure in any form.
cannot trust the man that never laughs; that is
always sedate; that has no apparent outlets for
those natural springs Of sportiveness and gayety
that are perennial in the human soul. / know that
nature takes her revenge on such violence. l ex-
pect to find secret vices, malignant sins, or horrid
crimes spring;ng up in this hot-bed of confined air
and imprisoned space; and, therefore, it gives me
a sincere moral qualification anywhere, and in any
community, to see innocent pleasures and popular
amusements resisting the religious bigotry that
frowns so unwisely upon them. Anything is better
than that dark, dead, unhappy social life-prey to
ennui and morbid excitement, which results from
unmitigated purtanism, whose second crop is usual
ly unbridled license and infamous folly"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
from the Dublin Transcript
Twill be all the Same in Hundred Years!

Twill be all the same in hundred years!
Whit a spell word to conjure up smiles and tears!
O, how oft do muse, mid the thoughtless and gay,
On the marvellous truth that these words convey!
And can 1t lie 50? Must the valiant and free,
Have their tenures Of life on this ffa decreef
Are trophies they've reared and the gores they've
Only castles Of FROST work, confronting the sun.
And must all that 10 joyous and brilliant to view
As a midsummer dream, be as perishing toof
Then have pity, ye proud ones-be gentle ye great,
remember how mercy beseemeth your state;
For the rust that consumeth the sword Of the brave
And the conqueror's frowns and his victims tears
Will be all the same in a hundred yearsi
Twill be all the same ia hundred years!
What spell word TO conure up smiles and tears!
How dark your fortunes, ye sons Of the soil,
Whose heirloom is sorrow whose birthright is TOLL
Yet envy not these who have glory and gold,
By the sweat Of the poor and the blood of the bold
For It's coming howeer they may aunt in tkeir prde
The day when they'll moulder to dust by your side.
Death uniteth the children Of toll and sloth,
And the democrat reptiles carouse upon both;
For time, as he speeds on his viewless wings,
Disenamels and wthers all earthly things;
And the knights white plume and the shepherds crook
And the minstrels pipe, and the scholars book,
Will be just alike in . hundred years!
Twill be all the same in a hundred years,
most magical fountain Of smiles and tears!
To think that our hopes, like the flowers Of June,
Which We love much, should be lost soon!
Then what meaneth the chase after phantom joys!
Or the breaking Of human hearts for toys?
Or the vetran's pride in his crafty schemes?
Or "the passions Of his youth for its darling dreams
Or the aiming at ends that we never can spanf
Ort deadly aversion Of man for man?
What avaIeth it all? o, ye sages say
Or the miser's joy in his brilliant clay?
Or the lovers zeal for his matchess prize
The enchanting maid with the starry eyes!
Or the feversh conflict Of hopes and fears,
II It's all the same in q hundred years!
Al! It's not the same in a hundred years.
How clear soever the case appears;
For know We not that beyond the grave,
Far, far beyond. where the cedars wave
On the Syrian mountsins, where the stars
Come gittering forth In their golden cars
There boometh land Of perennial bliss,
Where we smile to think Of the tears in this?
And the pilgrim reaching that radent shore,
Has the thought of death in his heart no more;
But layeth his staff and his sandals down,
For the victors palm, and the monarch's crown.
And the mother meets, in that tranquil sphere.
The departed child she has wept for here;
And the warriors sword that protects the right
Il bejewelled with stars Of undying light;
And We quaf Of the same immortal cup,
While the orphan smies, and the slave looks up!
30 be glad, my heart, and forget thy tears, --
For It's not the same in q hundred years!
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
Professional CARDS.

~ BELCHER, attorney and Counsellor at Laac,
VI continues the practice Of his profession in the Fifth
Judicial District. Office in Thbodaux. je11
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

II S. GOODE, attorney and Counsellor at Law,
IL will practice in the parishes Of Assumptions Laourche
and Terrehonne je1l
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
WASHINGTON HOTEL,

Gallon Island Hotel.
THE undersigned has the honor of informing his
lends and acquaintances. well as the publ c. that
he will open Hotel Calou Island or about The lOh
inst Nothing will be spared his pa to render his er
tabishment ample in particular as the facilities
viii permit. His table will, at all times be provided wn
every variety of fish, oysters, etc, etc.
Hours of meal-Breakast at O'Clock; Dinner faom to
o'clock. l.,
With the view of serving planters he has provided ample
the reception and treatment OF conva
escen negroes the moderate rate Of per month"; TO-
whom the strce attention will be paid In case OF death
charge IS will be made to defray the expenses OF burial
Juy7 JOAChlh fOhonE.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

wv NJ. MERCER, Attorney and Counsellor at
w LasO Houma Parish Of Terrebonne, L., practises
in the parishes Of Assumption Laourche and Terrebonne
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
WANrED.-Under the head Wanted" the
Philadelphia North American has the following:

WANrED.-Under the head "Wanted," the
Philadelphia North American has the following:
"a new agony, in the shape Of negro ballad,
for everybody to sing, whistle and dance-for all
hands to play-all midnight carousers to chorus.
We notice that this is the first period since the i'm
mortal Jim Crow Rice turned and wheeled about to
so much profit that we have lacked such refrain.
We have successfully consigned to the earth after
lingering and varied torture, those stars Of their
SEX Lucy Neal, Coal Black Rose, Lucy Long, The
Rose OF Alabama, and Lily Dale; and the Nell
who sleeps in the "Haze Dell is still fresh in the
memory. If "Old Dog Tray" had not expired
amid the terrible tortures Of last New Years Eve
the "dog law would have given the faithful animal
his quietus We respectfully state in advertising
the Want, that the following are indispensable to
the new song The subject must be a "luby cul-
led gall" She must have resided, in the course
Of her sublunary existence, in "Old Virgnny,"
Tennessee, Alabama or Mississippi, as unbroken
custom prescribes. She must have done consider
able sparkling in time by the light of the moon,
and have met with an untimely end before the con-
summation Of her hopes. Occasionally an al
lusion to plantation productions generally will be
considered Indispensable and, above all things let
the fair Ethiopian be inferred somewhere where
the wild flowers may perform the wonderful feat of
blosoming" on her little green grave"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

EDMUND P. DWIGHT, Attorney and Counsel
~ Tor at Ld,o Napoleonvle parish of Assumption. La
will practice In the parishes Of Assumption Lafourche
Terrebonne, and st. Mary. lmylS-nl
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

offers for sale his Private Residence stu ted in
Of the delightful parts Of the town. Besides god
dwelling ri chen, outhouses, 6ne parerre, cement
cisterns under ground, etc. ETC. Terms, $S00095O0 in
due in March, ST. s So with eight per interest
from maturity till final payment For further information
appiyto Ijulyl4-30 J. R. VAN LEW.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

DOCTOR H. H. HARRIS.-Ofice short dis
IL below the Railroad Bridge at the former resi-
dence of Dr. Louit jell-1y.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
Business Qaros.

A UGIER, J., COnfeetioner and Dealer in Fruits
q Corner Of Market and St Louis Streets.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25

4 LIAM, L. s, Clerk of Court, North East Corner
q the Court House SQUARE Market street.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07

BEAUTIFUL INcIDENT.-A correspondent of
the Preston (England) Chronicle gives the
following anecdote: A good while ago a
boy named Charlie had a large dog which
was very fond Of water, and in hot weather
he used to swim across the river near which
the boy lived. One day the thought struck
him that it would be fine fun to make the
dog carry him across the river, SO he tied a
string to the dogs collar, and ran down with
him to the waters edge, where he took off
all his clothes and then, holding hard by
the dogs neck and the bit of string, he went
into the water, and the dog pulled him across.
After playing about on the other side for
some time, they returned in the way they
had come but when Charlie looked for his
clothes, he could find nothing but his shoes F.!
The wind had blown all the rest into the
water. The dog saw what had happened,
and making his little master let 60 the string,
by making believe tt bite him, he dashed
into the river, and brought out first his coat,
and all the rest in succession. Charlie dres-
sed and went home in his wet clothes, and
told his mother what fun he and the dog had
had. His mother told him that he did very
wrong in going across the river as he had
done, and that he should thank God for max
ing the dog take him over and back again
safely; for if the dog had made him let GO
in the river he would most likely have sunk,
and been drowned. Little Charlie said
Shall l thank God now, mammal and he
knecled down at his mothers knee and
thanked God; then, getting up again, he
threw his arms around his dogs neck, say
ing; / thank you too, dear doggie, for no
letting co. Little Charlie is now Admira
Sir Charles Napier.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07

A CHILD PotsoNED.-A child was pois-
oned to death a few days since, by a dose of
brandy given it by one of a company of men
who had been drinking. The man was held
to bail in $1,000 to answer the charge.
A thousand dollars! The mother of that
child doubtless weeps over its little green
grave day unto day. Would a thousand dol
lars in gold redeem her child from the greedy
feast of the worms in the grave Her home
is made desolate by the destroyer, and a soft
headed jury will doubtless find the murderer
guiltless. But if the "bail' is forfeited p
Will the jingle of the golden eagles be like
the sweet singing prattle of her dead child ?
What do mothers ask for their children in
good gold?
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07
Our Premiums.

We again call attention to the handsome
Premiums we award to all who take the
trouble to get up clubs of subscribers to the
Spirit of the Age, viz: For q club OF 5 new
subscribers, we give 50 so worth of hand
some, entertaining and useful temperance
stories, tracts and addresses. For clubs Of
10, SIS worth-for clubs of Is, ST so worth,
clubs Of 20, $40 worth Of these excellent
publications and SO on in the same proper
ton. We have thus distributed thousands,
and have more on hand for distribution in
the same way. If we have omitted sending
premiums to any one sending clubs, it was un'
intentional on our part, and we have only tC
be notified of the fact, to cause them to b.
promptly forwarded.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07
Immoral Literature.

Since the commencement of our career, as
an Fllumb leE Caterer for the literary appetite
of the public, it has always been a cardinal
principle with us, to avoid the utterance OF
a single immoral idea, or placing before our
readers any article in the slightest degree OBJ
jectionable in point of morals. 1t has been
our desire to i~nculcate lessons of virtue and
morality in every paragraph we have laid
before the public. We haveEdRRTs fl0Aas%
we sustained peculiar relatf6nseowafBtke :
public that we occupied a position of honor
and Of trust; that we were introduced into
the sanctity of the social circle, and that it
would be a hagrant breach of etiquette for
us to violate the confidence reposed in US,
were we at any time to lay before our read
ers any sentiment save such as would tend
to elevate the moral character of society.
We regret that many publishers, in order
to make money, lose sight of all moral per-
c%eptions, get up a flash paper with a name
calculated to catch the million, and send forth
articles of immoral tendency, to be read at
the domestic freside, when they are scarcely
proper. to be read in the grogshop. What
must be the feelings of the wife, the sister,
the daughter, when she takes up a paper
bearing a proud name and boasting of an
immense circulation, and finds herself read.
ing an article fraught with the most I'M
blushing vulgarities and immoralities? What
father, husband or brother would be willing
to introduce such a journal within the sane
tity Of the home circle?
; We have read certain stories calculated to
render crime attractive in which the purl-
ty of female character and virtue is made to
appear as a barterable article of only arbitra-
nv value where unnatural love is made an
attractive trait in the heroine's character {;
! and the blackened schemes of the hardened
r libertine is painted in the glowing colors Of
chivalry. What can be expected as the re-
(; suits of such immoral lessons? Morbid feel
ings are aroused, and incorrect impression
~ Of human nature are conveyed. There is ne
moral instructions inculcated, but streams o
poison arc turned loose to corrupt all within
their influence.
We really believe that many a happ.
ne home has been blasted by this influence
ne The accomplished villain who trades in vii
ne tue, takes advantage of this species of litel
w AZURE to consumate his ends it .paves til
ID way for him to commence conversations ca
culated to lure his victims to ruin. They r
OF sort to the pictured indiscretions of an ima'
mary girl as truisms her shame and ruin
9nt gilded by q baneful sentiment and her dow
or fall is concealed by the ingenious tact of
ds' CORFU pit and villainous author in bringing |
IN story to a brilliant finale. We trust the da
ing ger Of such productions are becoming app
un- rent and that the demand for them will So
to be co~untermanded by enlightened public Sc
be timent. \
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07

Bas~ We find the following extract floating
in the great sea Of newspaperdom without
credit. We believe the paternity belongs to
Chester, of the Buffalo Express. The beauti-
ful fancy which it embodies, is certainly
worthy of his chaste and polished pen:
And SO another Spring and another Sum-
mer have passed away. Spring, with her
embryo beauties-her buds, her shoots, her
hints at grass, and foliage and fowers-and
Summer, whose dainty touch finished and
glorifed the sweet work so fairly begun by
her spice breathed sister. And now it is
Autumn-and in the solemn temples of ma
ture, high mass is celebrated for the univer-
sal bereavement that the earth is called upon
to endure.
The departed hours-like dried blossoms
saved in books, but little used-except by
one-are hid away amidthe ponderous records
of Eternity. Some will retain their enchantr
ing perfume, others will mildrew and rot
losing their scents in unsavory corruption
And yet they will all be preserved-they
will all testify
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07

El% The Rum traffic is either a blessing
or a curse. No code of moral ethics recog-
nizes the principle of mixing a great deal of
right with a little wrong, or a great deal Of
wrong with a little right, in order to produce
a %virtuous compound. As regards the liquor
traffic there can be no half way house estab-
lished for it; for it is either morally right or
it is damnably wrong if it be right let it be
sold without restriction everywhere if it be
rrOag let it be prohibited without reserva-
ton everywhere.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07

BB~"I have the right to make money in
any way that best suits my interests" So
argues-arumscller. Suppose the proposition
was to obtain that he had? Then the pirate
of the Isle of Pines is engaged in a lawful
business the robber on the highway; and
the counterfeiter in his Iabratory-in fact all
men are engaged in lawful vocations, accord
ing to the logic under notice, provided he is
growing rich. The rights of the public are
broader than individual rights, and any bust
ness, however lucrative, should not be recog-
nized as just, if it be a public nuisance or a
general scourge.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-07
The Temperance Feeling.


Since the assem- bling of our State Legisla-
ture, the agitation Of the great Temperance
has, in a great measure, lain quiet
and nassira-in napanAsiSen-EighALsiAtaaae-
to wait and see what measures Of
relief and protection their Representatives
will profer them against the oppressive bur-
dens and destructive evils of the liquor traffic.
The question entered largely into the cam
paign for members of the Legislature-for
months and years previous, it had been the
theme Of discussion and conversation at all
public gatherings, around the freside, and
social comminglings of the People-memo-
rials from thousands and tens of thousands
OF our citizens have been signed and sent up,
and the conviction and admission become
almost general, that some reform is needed
and loudly called for by the stern demands
of Justice and equity, to say nothing of the
peace, happiness and good order of society.
These things being SO, the people have quietly
rested the case in the hands of their public
servants, and are calmly awaiting the result
of their action.
BY some, the present calm in the general
commotion, has been construed into a relax
alton of interest on the subject-that the
People have become wearied and uncon-
cerned about it, and that agitation is there
fore at an end. All who have come to any
such conclusion are but poor judges of the
signs of the times, and poorer observers Of
the rise, progress and results Of all great
reformatory measures that have engaged the
attention of the American people. A great
Statesman has laid it Town as a truism, that
Reforms never go newfoundland it will
be found to be emphatically true of this
The People have spoken on this subject, and
they are now quietly and loyalty waiting the
response. The present stiffness is but a
suspension, not an end Of the agitation-it is
but the calm that preceIes the storm, if their
rights and wishes are disregarded by the
public servants.
After all that has been said and done on
this subject, the People have a right to expect
and they do expect, their legislative repre-
sentatives to meet this question, openly and
boldly, without lodging or finching. Some
arc pledged TO bring it before the Legislature,
and many others have promised to vote for a
wholesome and judicious reform on the liquor
traffic. And if the Legislature shall adjourn
without at least making some effort to effect
a reform, the People will have just grounds
to complain of insinccrity and perfdy on the
part of some, and of timidity and craven in
difference on the part of others-and of the
great majority, if not the whole, of totally
disregarding the wishes Of the people on the
subject.
We regret to say that, we fear no bill for
Reform, in whole OF part, will be submitted
at this session and should our fears in this
respect be realized, we believe that the agi-
tation and feeling of the public mind will be
more thoroughly aroused than it has ever
been. And to accomplish which our most
strenuous and constant efforts and energies
shall be directed.