Thibodaux minerva., 1855-04-28
PERFECT W1rE.-Edmund Burke, the dis

A PERFECT W1FE-Edmund Burke, the dis
tincrshed orator, presented to his wife on the an
niversarv of their marriage, his idea of perfect
wife" which is supposed to be true portrait of
Mrs. Burke. lis certainly lovely picture, worthy
of the pen of the author of "The Essays on the
Sublime and Beautiful" The following are ex-
tracts:
"She is handsome, but it is beauty not arising
from the features, from complexion, or from shape.
She has all three in high degree but it is not BY
ness of temper, benevolence, innocence, and SEN
sibillty, which face can express, that forms her
beauty. She has face that just arouses your at
tention at first sight; it grows on you every mo-
ment and you wonder it did not more than raise
your attention at first sight"
" Her eyes have mild light, but they awe when
she pleases; they command like good man
out OF office, not by authority but by virtue"
Z" Her stature is not tall, she is not made to be
the admiration Of every one, but the happiness of
one"
delcacy."
''She has all the softness that does not imply
weakness.
"Her voice is soft, low music, not formed to rule
| in public assemblies but to charm those who can
distinguish company from crowd; it has its ad-
vantages, you must come close to her to hear it.
| "To describe her body, describe her mind one
is the transcript Of the other; her understanding is
not shown in the variety Of matter texerts itself on,
but the goodness of the choice she makes.
She does not display it so much in saying or
doing striking things, as in avoiding such as she
ought not to say or do.
mo person of few years can know the world
better; no person was ever so little corrupted by
the knowledge.
{" Her polteness flows rather from natural dis
position to oblge, than any rules on that subject,
and, therefore, never fails to strike those who un-
derstand good breeding, and those who do not.
"She has steady and firm mind, which takes
no more from the soidity of the female character
than the soditv of marble does from its polish and
lustre. She has such virtues as make us value the
truly great of our own sex. She has all the win
ming graces that make US love even the faults we
see in the weak and beautiful in her.
EXTRA AoRDrNARY SPIRITUAL DEMONSTRATIONS
TALKING SPIRITs--It appears, says the New York
Express, from communication in the "Spiritual
Universe" that famlily in the interior of Ohio
| have been haunted by spirits or ghosts, and very
troublesome and destructive ones too, particularly
in the matter of crockery The statement is made
in the form of an affidavit sworn to before JUS
tice of the Peace, and verified by large number
of persons, who have listened to the conversation
of these ghostly visitors, and witnessed some OF
their tricks. They first commenced it seems, by
whistlng, and then screaming, and at length talk
ing in an ordinary tone of voice, stating they were
the spirits Of two brothers who had been murdered
eleven years agoand giving the details Of the ira
gedy. After this they began their playful tricks
mysteriously removing ham from the table to the
door-upsetting pals Of water, and playing the
very dickens with the crockery, and smashing
nearly every dish and plate in the house.
At one time, says the deponent, the voice,
speaking to my wife, said it (the spiriD could bake
cakes for George boy eating at the table, Mrs Rich
ardson stepped away from the stove, when the batter
(aready prepared for baking cakes) was by some un-
seen agency taken from crock sitting near the
stove, and placed upon the griddle, and turned at
the proper time, and when done taken from the
griddle, and placed upon the boys plate at the
table. A voice then proposed to bake cake for
| Jane nv daughter, who was then at work about
the house. The cake was accordingly baked in
the same manner as before stated, and carried
acrossthe room and placed in the girls hand
The reason given for destroying the crockery is,
that it is done for the purpose Of convincing the
world of spirit presence!
| A somewhat similar story was related few DAYS
since by Judge Edmonds, of this city. A female
called upon him and stated that she was greatly
troubled by noises, the tipping of tables breaking
of crockery, &C., and asked his advise as to the
best means Of Laying the ghost" He discovered
that the lady considered "spiritualism I" humbug
and at once accounted for the visitations they
were intended, he said, to convince her Of her
error. Scepticism, therefore, in such matters be-
comes expensive.
! WIN. PENN, THE QUAKER ON THE SURRENDER
OF FUGITIVE SLAvEs.-A curious document has
been recently brought to light by c. L. Ward, ESQ.,,
of Towanda, Pa, by which it is shown that VIM.
Penn, the Quaker, did not believe in harboring
and keeping runaway slaves, when their masters
demanded them. 4..esaf .%
| Mr. Ward thus prefaces the letter.
| Before proceed to read it-(he was replying
to toast given in Oswego N. Y, to the county of
Bradford, Penn. eit is right perhaps, that should
account for its possession. In the course Of pro-
fessional examination in one of our public offices,
among our early archives-I met, accidentally,
with paper marked on the outside, " Wm. Penn
to the Susguehanma Indians" Either of those
names was enough to excite interest in one ever
alive to the incidents of earlier history, and
upon reading it, was so struck with its tone and
tenor, that made careful and literal copy, which
here offer you. Ithas not, as yet, found it's way
into the published " Archives" Of our State; but
having recently called the attention of indeagable
collaboration, Mr.. Hazard to the subject it is pos
sible it may appear in some future volume"
Ny GooD FRIENDs-The people of New York
having again wrote earnestly about those prisoners
taken by you especially and boy saying that
they bought them fairly Of the Governor Of Carolina who
sod them for slaves And they beng good Friends
and Neighbors and all under the King must there
fore desire you deliver the said Woman and Boy the
bearer hereof Sylvester who will carefully carry them New
G stie, and there put them board Of vessel bound
directly for New York-and by docng you will greatly
oblige j Your very Good Friend and Brother,
| A7 WV. PENN"
This was in the true spirit Of Paul, the Apostle,
to Philemon, his dearly beloved and fellow labor
er,"-beseeching him to forgive his fugitive SER
| want Onesimus