Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-11-24

KEEP inc oIateS Logetler, we must leave TO
every State this power of deciding for itself.
l think l never wrote you work before on
politics. shall not do it again. I only say,
love your country, and your whole country
and when men attempt to persuade you to get
into quarrel with the laws of other States,
tell them that you mean to mind your own
business and advise them to mind theirs.
John Taylor, you are freeman; you possess
good principles; you have large family to
rear and provide for by your labor Be thank
full to the government which does not Cypress
you, which does not bear you down by excess
siye taxation, but which holds out to you and
yours the hope of all the blessings which liber-
ty, industry, and security may give. John
Taylor, thank God, morning and evening, that
you were born in such country, John Taylor,
never write me another word on politics. Give
my kinkest remembrance to your wife and
children; and when you look from your eastern
windows upon the graves of my family, remem-
Der that he who is the author of this letter must
soon follow them to another world
CAMEL CoAL.-We learn from the Pittsburg
papers that the Darlington Camel Coal Railroad
Company, Of Beaver county, are now in successful
operation, sending out about one hundred and fifty
tons per day, but cannot half supply the demand
large amount of it is carried to Aueghanny city.
and sold for domestic purposes for the large baker
les and for tempering glass. For this last purpose
bituminous Goals do not answer, and glass manu-
facturers have heretofore been compelled to use
wood. The camel coal is now used in two of the
Pittsburg glass houses and at one in Brdgewater
Beaver county, and it is said to be better and
cheaper for tempering than wood. A Party of
Pittsburgers, Messrs Chenv, Watson {; Co., have
purchased site at the junction of the Darlington
Road with the Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA Road, and
have commenced the erection of large manufac-
tory for the purpose of dstiling oil from the camel
coal, and entered into arrangements with that COM
pany for the supply of coal By actual experiments
it has been ascertaned that it contains forty gallons
of oil to the ton, and the expense Of making it is
not more than fourteen cents per gallon
The oil is of a superior quality for light; when
burning emits neither smoke nor smell, and is not
explosive 1t is now manufactured successfully in
New York, and sold at one dollar per gallon. 1t is
also valuable for machinery, asst it neither gums
does it CONCEAL until the mercury sinksa 15o below
zero. From the cheapness with which it can be
made it is evident that it will soon be produced in
quantities, tending greatly to reduce the price-a
very desirable matter. The Da -lington Company
owns five hundrep and fifty acres of camel coal
have at great expense completed their road, and
are in full connection with the lakes and Ohio
rivera central position that must secure them
great advantages This vein of camel coal aver
ages from fourteen to fifteen feet in thickness and
is overlaid with vein of camel coal shale of ten
feet in thickness which, although not good for fuel
contains as much oil as the coal. The shale being
composed mainly of oil and earthly matter and the
coal Of carbon and oil. It is computed that at
low estimate there is in every forty thousand
tons OF oil leading substance; a mine richer in
wialth than the gold yielding quartz Of California.
THE VINTAGE OF FRANcE.-The accountsW
the vintage from different parts of France are
more favorable than was at first anticipated.
The Journal de Lot ct Garonne states that in
than expected, and that the quality of wine is
extraordinarily good. The young vines are
quite healthy but the old ones have suffered
from the odium; and the journalist recommends
that the latter should be rooted up and replaced
by new plants. With respect to the South,
LOpinion du Midi says: We are able to an
nounce that notwithstanding the apprehensions
all the various accounts that reach
US agree in stating that the vintage of this year
will be superior to that of last. Our grapes
ripened under the influence of an almost tropi-
cal sun, will produce more than could have
been expected. Lunel, st. Giles, and the best
enclosures of the Vannage, have scarcely suffer-
ed from the influence of the odium.' Although
these accounts are not quite applicable to the
Champagne country, yet some districts, if not
for the quantity of their produce,
have been so for the high price they have OBJ
tanned, such as those of LIE Mesni, Avize and
Vertus, where the quality of the wine is ex-
pected to be very superior, and the price offered
in these places by some of the commercial
houses of Rheims and Epernay, for grapes to
make wine, is not less than one franc and a |
half the kilo. Such price was never heard of |
before; yet some of the principal growers Of
[Paris Cor. Of London Chronicle.
RAILROAD SAFETY TELEaRAPH.-A trial was |
made yesterday morning, at a switch on the |
Reading Railroad, of McReas Patent Safety |
Telegraph, designed for the prevention of acct
tents at switches, draw bridges, or by colli-
,ions. The continuance is such as to ring |
bell on the locomotive when it approaches |
point Of danger upon road, Indicating thereby |
20 the engineer of the train the condition Of the |
switch or bridge, as the case may be. This |
signal of safety is given to the engineer by the |
7ery act of opening bridge or switch When |
,ither is wrong, the passage Of the locomotive
'ver platform or plank In the centre of the |
'oad makes connection with the wire attaced |
% the battery, and thus rings the bell on the
locomotive. When the switch is right, the bell
S rung.-Phiza. Ledger.
The VEIL4D MURDEREss.-It is stated that Mrs.
Robinson, the yelled murderess, does not conduct
herself in violent manner in Sing Sing, nor is it
# such character as to compel the prison au-
horties to resort to any of the seventies Of prison
discipline to keep her under control She is still
Employed in working upon straw hats. Often,
While engaged at her labor, she will burst out into
IN uncomfortable fit of laughter; at other times
he is sad and responding; and on one Or two oc-
asions she sang mournful impromptu song,
vidently rehearsal Of her early experience.
- An Irish knight was once disputing with
french courter as to the age and standing of their
antilles, when the latter as a fnsher to the arg1-
nent, said that his ancestors were in the ark of
'oah THAT'S nothing" says the Hibernian with
rich brosae, for at the deuge my forsfathers
in koa+ nS L