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Succession de R0beJt Tanner
NENTE DE SUCCESSION.-Eta1
de Ia Louisiane-Cour du C:


de TeTrebonne.
Au etpar autorte de la Cour du Cinquieme District
Juidcaire segeant dams pour Ia dite parnsse
oert vente puhque par Mahurin Bourg, Sheriff
caner dunent quaife ct assermee, dams pour pa
rosse de Ionrcle, ala Mason Cour la vile de Thbo-
daus. JEEDI lie de FEvRIER 1855, 10 heures NJ Ia
propriete ci-apres tlecrte, savoir:
LA M0TTIE INDIyISE DUNE CERTAfNE PR0PRTETEE
lie de Saw Mill Plantation etant I'M
de authorizations situe la dite paroisse
de Lafonrche la rive droite du bayou Lafourehe,
environ y miles audessous de la vile de ThbodauX, me-
arpents plus moins de face quarante
arpents de profonder borne haut par les de
Franklin PIERCE bas par les terres de D. Hudson
Field Ia de proprietee appartent conjointmen dit
Tanner ct A. KEGS.
TERaEs CoNDITIoNs-La somme Cina Cent piastres
Complaint ct la balance payable par tiers tier dams
ct chacun des mos de Mars des annees 1885, 1885, 1851
Les fournissant leurs bets bonnie caution
sgne conontment ct sodarenent payable rordre de
Z. s. Goode, Administrator, rofice du Recorder de
paroisse de Laourche chaque billet portant ht u
Fan dnteret apres echeance jusqu'a rart paemen ct
assure par hypotheques La terre vendue.
Decemhre 30, 1854. [2-tdsl NJ. BOURG. Sheriff.
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Succession At Walter B. Young.
SUCCESSION SALE.-State of Lou.

~ isana-Fth District Court-Parish of Lafourche.
Ithe AMI by the authority of the Fifth judicial
District Court, sitting in and for the parish Lafource
there will be offered for sale at public auction by Mathurin
Bourg Sheriff and auconeer duly qualified and sworn n,
and for the parish of Laourche bis late residence situated
in the Of Thhodaux, the Post Office, on SATUR-
DaY, the 18th day of JANUARY 1866, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ
the following described property to-wt:
BEDsFEADs, Mattresses, Ar1lor, Wash Stand,
four Office Chairs one Secretary, Mating, Case Of
Pocket Instruments, Horse and Buggy, ETC. etc.
TERMS Observation-Disclosures furnish their notes
with good and approved security signed jointly and sever
ally with them to the order Of the ADMINISTRATOR s. Goode
with eight per per interest from maturity until
paid and the properly payable the 1st day Of April
1855. F2-Gtl NJ BOURG Sheriff.
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JUDICIAL NOTICES.
Succession of Robert Tanner
SUCCESSION SAI,E.-s,tate af T

A.t) ls
~ sans--Ffftt District Court-Parish Of Terretonne
In the and by authority of the Fifth Judicial District
Court sitting il and for said parish, there will offered for
sale public aHtion by Mahurin Borg, Sheriff s, auc.
toneer duly qualified and III and for the parish of La
fourche, at The Court House in the Of Thihodaux on
THURSDAY, the lst Of FEnKUARY 1854, at 10 O'Clock
4. NJ. the following described property, to-wit
TIE UNDIVIDED HALE OF A CERTAIN PROPERTY
known the saw Mill Plantation" being certain tract
of land and improvements situated In said parish c.
Lafourche, at about 90 miles below the town Of Thibodaux
the right bank of the bayou Lafourche measuring
forty apents front less by forty arpents Depth
bounded above by land of Franklin Pierce and below by
lands of d. Hudson Field said property jointly
by said Tanner with 4. KEGS.
TERMS AND CoNDITfoNS.-Tie of Five Hundred Dol
lars Cash. and the balance payable by thirds one third in
all each of month Of March of the years 1885, 1853 and 1857
The purchasers give their with good and approved
security, signed Jointly and severaly the order of
Goode Administrator payable at the office of the Recorder
of the parish of Lonrche and each bear eight per
cent per annum interest ar maturity until full and final
payment, and secured by aged the land sold
Dec. 30 1851. g-tds Nj. bGuReT, Sheriff.
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GaHBIIHG Saloons or CAI1roRs1A. Madam
Ida Psddsr speaks Of the gambling saloons Of Gull
fornia az foliowa:
OF all the countries Z have ever visifed-says
Madam Of al the vile, immoral places have ever
seen or heard Of, IN savage or civilized land, the
gambling ssloonsof California are the worst Invent
there ID company with friends; the doors were open;
everything invited entrance. Splendor IN every
form, temptation the most subtle and powerful conn
bined 70 ure the soul and body to destruction.
Splendid curtains, carpets exqisitey painted pic
lures, whose subjects were 30 impure that mv0un-
tarily placed my hands over my eyes wines, liquors
of all kinds free, and to be had for the asking all
combined to lure the poor mortal to sia and death.
Yet all was 20 Vouptunusly respectable, 20 perfect
good taste, 50 refined ii Appearance 20 beautiful
TO die eye. that its influence stole nto the soul Ike
the deadly poison of the Upas tree. What wonder
n with awakened passion, and brain maaA insane
by liquor, allured By lovely young women, who pres
side at the tahle and overlook the game with gold
around and on every side Of him the poor victim
rushed to the gaming table for new excitement,
and Z new ph&se az stimulation.
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Holiday Books,

FOR THE NEW YEAR.
Leaflets Of Memory,
Wild Scenes and Song Birds,
The Passion Flower,
The Benson,
The Moss Rose,
The Pearl GIFT,
Gift of Sentiment,
Git Of Affection,
Gf. Of Flowers
Memory's Gift, 49,.
Gift Of Love,
Affections Gill;
friendships Token,
friendships offering,
The Snow Flake,
Albums fine assortment,
Juvenile Works. great variety.
Picture Pleasure Books,
Games, amusing and instructive.
JFWELRY, etc.
Fine Gold Lockets,
Breast Pins,
Porte Monnaies,
Gold Pencils,
Gold ThimbIes, etc, ETC., for sale by
Dec. Seth 1854. BENNETT & GALABERT
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sneeesssom ae Nitrous p. Ziz,s
ETAT De LA LOUISIANF.-Cour

IL in Cinqneme District parosse lie Lafourche.
ATTESDH. Que MessYs. MEAD h BELEHER, de In dites
parssse Exectears de Ia e Succession ce Jour d6p0s
compile provisional ct tableau de er Administration
Grefer de Ia dite Gour demandant qu'n soit ap
proaye.
En- consequence, seues personnes gu poent aror des
objections dit compile sent par es presentes noees do
les euire Grefer de la dite Gonr bureau dams Ia
vile de Thodaux dams les trente ours qu suEront Ia
premiere publication de Get avis simon lie dit compile
aecords ct confirme scion Ia io
Temoin ma main ct lie sceau de "a dite Cour, CO
30 Decembre, cent mi-init cinauante -aaasre.
E2-5tI L. 8, ALLAN, Greffer.
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~ Bayard Taylor, the traveller says that
he preferes Mexico for the beauty Of It's scenery
Germany for it's society, California for it's
climate, and the United States for it's govern
ment.
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Succession de Wa7er B. Young.
NENTE DE SUCCESSION-Eta de

IA Lonisiane-Cour du Cinquieme Distriet-Paroisse
de Iaaiourche.
Au par autore de IN Cour du Cinquieme District
JHciaire segeant dams pour la paroisse de Lorche
sera oert vente pubGue par NJ Borv, Sheriff ct Ell
eaneur dnment auaiie assermentS, "a dernere re-
sidenee, site dams la vile ThiboHux a1essus de la
Poste sAMEDI lie 10 de JANvIER. 1866, 10 heures, A.
NJ, In propriete suivante, savoir
B0IS D z LIFTS ct MATTHIAS, Armoir, I'm Wash Stand,
qlare Chaises Secretaire Taps Bottle dInsru
ments Chevai I'm Buggy, etc., etc.
TERaE EFT CosnrT1oNsLes aequereurs fourrront Eeurs
hets bonnie Caution snes coniontnent solitaire
nent. payable Forlra de PAdnnistratetr r. s. Goode.
avee hu pour Fan dnteret apres ecilearee isqua
parft Placement Ia proprisee payable e premier dAvr
1855. f2-tdsI NJ B0JEG Sheriff
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= HERTFF'.S SALE
~ STATE OF LOuISIANA-Ffnh Judicial District Court
sitting in and for the Parish of Lafourche. @Mg
Jean Baptiste Letory.
G1iilaiInp Alfred Cninf1ek-

Guiiaume Alfred Coignet
TAKE NOTICE: That acting under order of seizure
and sale ernanating from the above entitled Court in
above entitled and numbered case, have seized and will
offer for sale public auction the Court House in the
town OF Thibodaux. SATURDAY the Sd day If FEBRU@
RY 1855, at II O'Clock the property below described,
fe-wit
TRACT OF LAND situated in the parish Of Lafourche on
the left bank of the Bayou Lafourche about four miles
above the town Of Thbodaux, having front Of three arr
penis sad bayou of which the upper arpept has depth
the whole Tract bounded above by ands Louis Oncae
Hd below by those of Joseph Robihand with its improve
ments and appearances also the slaves
LUCY mnlao aged about 4 years. and her children
ERNESTINE. Is years, JOSEPHINE, 70 years, ELOI III
years, and JEAN BAPTIsTE7 years.
TERMS OF SALE-CASH ON THE SPOT.
Said Sale will be made satisfy the principal interest and
cost of suit. f2-tsf NJ BOTRff Sh eYif
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~ The wife Of the negro Joe Spencer, who
lately defed the laWsat Cairo, left for ST. Louis
the day after his death, carrying with her soma
FIVE or sir thousand dollars.
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What Causes the Gulf Stream.

Mr.. Stanton Shaales, an experienced navigator,
gives it as his opinion that the waters of the Gulf
Stream nothing more or less than the waters of
the river Amazon. This great father of waters is
bedded more than loco miles Immediately under
the equator, and all its tributary streams for many
thousand miles are constantly pouring their hot
water into this mighty reservoir Of nature. As
these waters gathered IN under the burning SUI
of the equator, it is extremely warm; fa- more
than the Atlantic Ocean waters under the equator
The great body of heated water shoots out into the
Atlantic more than hundred miles, in the face of
the eternal trade winds.
The Amazon is sixty miles wide After being
belted in its irresistible course it turns off to the
left and scuds off before the strange trade winds
till out Of their reach. Driven along with great
force, it takes Its course round the greater bay
formed between the two continents of North Amer
lea. Dashing along the northern coast of South
America, and passing to the leeward of the West
india Islands, it leaves the shores of Florida the
capes OF Virginia and the south coast of North
America, AMI passing the shores Of Newfoundland
ends its mission among the iceberss (which float
out Of the Northern ocean. Cut oftthe gulf stream
and it would not be many years before the North
Atlantic would be filed with icebergs that would
be very destructive to navigation. But wise
providence has provided an eternal reservoir of
hot water constantly rushing around over the back
OF the cold Atlantic to its destination, where after
spending its vital warmth among the icebergs, it is
IS hurried away by new supply of native warm
water from the great Amazon. Seamen can al
ways tell when III or out of the Gulf Stream by dip
ping the had III the water along side.
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aE PIuribus Unum."

We make the following eloquent extract from
the Address of Bishop Doane, delivered at
Burlington College, on the 4th Of July, It is
not inappropriate to the times:
b Plur1bas Eaum.-MarL for one moment
how amazingly this pre- t.n of plural unit is
wac .Ieally worked IN our immortal Consti-
tuition. To every alton in the world-Japan
and China. now not xceptions-there must
be the foreign and domestic side. The side
which it turns to its own people for the protec-
ton, for encouragement, for consolation; and
the side which it turns to the whole world
beside, for sovereignty and independence: "ene-
mics in warm peace friends In our mimi
table Union this is supplied by the state gov
ernments on the one hand, and on the other by
the General Government. As Jersevmen, as
Georgians as men of Massachusetts,, all that is
private, individual domestic, social, in it's more
immediate and endearing forms, is clustered
about New Jersey, Georgia and Massachusetts,,
and sheltered in their shadow. We live at
home among our own people. We know each
other, all. We grasp each others hands, We
feel each others hearts. But when the world
is to be met in commerce, i'll diplomacy or
arms-when the nation is to rise and rally at
the angel summons of benevolence, or at the
people. We are all Americans. There is one
country for us all, with one all comprehending
Constitution. One glorious baldrie, blazoned
with the stars and stri pes. One monarch eagle,
that from his eyrie in the Alleghanies. mounts
to heaven with all g the terrors of his beak and
lightning Of his eye" One broad and blessed
and perpetual union; the union of our homes
and of our hearts; indomitable, impregnable,
imperishable: independence now, aud In
dependence forever"
And are there those upon whose homes and
hearts this glorious Union sheds the blessings of
its bow of peace and love and hope, that have
the heart to stop and calculate its value? VIII
they count the stars? Will they register the
pulses Of the ocean as it lashes the bold shore
of freedom? viii such an one measure his
heart with q carpenters rule? Will he map
for US the heartdelds of his home? Is there a
value in arithmetic for his wife? Or an alge-
brick formula for his children? There is no
such American. There is no such man. Ii
there were, l would fear to stand with him
benaath the archss of the Constitution, lest q
rock from them should fall for his destruction,
and involve me in his just ruin. We're he my
son, ne shond take his feet from off my hearth.
And could he be an alumnus of this College,
his Alma Mater would freeze him with one
fierce frown into perpetual stone. But, not
cannot be. The Invaluable can no more be
calculated than the infinite be measured. And
second only to the blessings which flow imme-
diately from the Cross, are the benefits which
by the Union of these states have been secured
to us; and with Gods blessing on our faith
fulness, shall be our heritage forever.
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2 SPIRIT RAPPIsG IN OLDEN TIMEs.-The follow
ing is an extract from the Chronicles of Florence
and Worcester, new book recently published in
England. 1t affords another proof that ''there is
nothing new under the sum-"
"a. D. 1878. An evil spirit caused great alarm
at village called Trouville in the district of Rs,uen
by audIbiv rapptng with hammers on the walls and
doors. He spoke with human voice, although
he never was visible, and his name he said was
William Ardent. He frequented the house of
certain worthy man, to whom he did much mis-
Chief, as well as to his wife and family; and the
sign OF the cross and the sprinklng of the holy wa
ter failed to drive him away Moreover, when the
priests conjured him, in the name of the Lord, to
quit the place, he answered: L shall not depart:
nay, more, if please, | shall kill YOU all. The
cross know well enough, and as for your holy
water, have no fear Of that This spirit haunted
the manor and the mansion of the persons just
mentioned, from the feh asst of All Saints list No
venbe} until after the Publication, ed February,
uttenng many iasciTibus and scotiing speeches
AT last he went away at Septuagesimi, saying he
would return after Easter, which he never did"
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fOurche.
Jean Baptiste Letory,
e No fff1.-
GuiIlanne Alfred Ceignet
SACHEZ QUEEN vertu dun writ de Fl. fiji, lance mar Ii
suste Cau dams la cesss intulee ct nnmerotse
jai sase ofrai puhIiaue la Maisan de Cour
dams Ia vile de Thbadauy, SAMEDI lie FEyRIER, 1856
II henres A. ", les proprietees savante saveir:
On M0RCEAU DE TERRE, situe dams la paroisse de La
fourche environ quatre miles audessus de Thibodaux
ayant facade de ros arpents dit bayou arpenb
snpereure profondeur de quarevngt arpents les
deux autres proonenr de auarante arpens borne en-
ha les erres de Louis Oncaa ct has par les erre
de Joseph Robchaux lite terre authorizations Cd
dependencies, ct les esciayes suvant.
LUCY. une mulatresse agee de 49, ans; ct ensats
ERSESTINE agee de Is ans; JOSEPHINE agee de fa ans
ELGfE, age de II ans; JEAN BAPTISTE, age de ans
TzIMEs DE Ia FssrE-CoMPTANT.
La dts fate pour sasaire principal interet
ct frais de ce process 2 tbs Dr. BOTRG Sheriff
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A REN1NIscENcE.-The Ohio State Journal, in
review Of the past policy Of lhat State the sub
ject Of the currency introduces the following facts
IN reference to the Union at large:
From 1870 to 1880 Tn which latter year the
war on the currency of the country commenced)
the number Of banks created IN the whole United
States was twenty with an increase Of capital dc
81, 49,, ST..
From 1880 to 1887, IN which the latter year the
bubble burst, the increase Of banks was three hun
bred and fortyeght with an increase Of capital Of
$26a, LII, 900l
This enor1nous increase Of banking capital was
made Is follows: By Wing Legislatures, ia banks,
with 4 capital Of 36a, All, 2ss; by Democratic Le-
gaatures IA banks with acapit2I Of 495, 500 SOL
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I SUCH LITTLE 0NEl'-aS Specs, In the New
York Herald, thus aptly takes off the President
apology for the Greytown Affair:
The President deyotes nearly half of the mes
sage to an explanation and apology for that affair
winding up with the unanswerabIe argument, thai
if was an outrage, other nations need say nothing
about il, for they have, at some time Or other in
their history, committed worse violations of right
This is an able and convincing argument i'll justf
cation of the outrage, but it has not the merit 81
originality Of conception. Captain Marryatt, IN bis
novel Of Mdshipman Easy" relates how mortified
Mrs. Easy. was when the young woman who prof
fered her services as wet nurse blushingly informed
her she was neither wife nor widow. "What.' .
said Mrs. Easy; /" and yet you had baby?" aOh
but please, maanl," replied the girl, it was such
little one and besides, Sally Scroggs, who is not
married either, had twins last week." IF we had
an international copywrighta the President could
not thus have appropriated a chapter from an
English novel, anda fitting excuse for the Greytown
outrage would have been wanting.
What THEY ARE.-Rev. Charles Wadsworth,
pastor Of the Arch Street Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, in recent sermon, remarked
Governments have moral character a. patent
and paraded as the device on their banner folds
The elder Rome was an INSCRIPTIONS robber. The
elder Greece was an exquisite voluptuary. Russia
to-day Is a sturdy and selfish churi France is an
ambitious and unprincipied man of fashion, Spain
is wasted and wrinkIed and scorned courtesan, ia
the decay and decreptitude Of dissolute living.
England Is q crossbreed between the Pharisee and
the p1ize-fghter. And america is a well-trainesi
yet most passionate youth, of whom it is altogether
a problem whether the manhood be q fine Christian
- ya
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PLUMBERS EDIToRIAL.-A great many ludicrous
hlunders have been produced by transpositions and
leaving out points A New York paper, announc-
ing the wreck of vessel near the Narrows, says:
The only passengers were T. B. Nathan, who
owned three-fourths Of the cargo and the Captains
soite.
A New Orleans editor, recording the career of a
mad dog, says:
We are grievedI to say, the rabid animal, be-
fore 1t could be killed, severely bit Dr. Hart and
several other dogs"
In another paper we find the following advertise
ment:
+" For sale, an excellent young horse-wouId suit
any timid lady or gentleman with long silver tail
Wesheard a good Methodist preacher once ego
on in this way:
AS I was riding along once on one Of these
beautiful Western prairies with my dear old wife,
who has since gone to Heaven in a buggy"
TpreuHiee
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THE RoNAPARTEs.-F Footprints of the Bona
partes-as of the Kedses-are found every where
in Tuscany. King Joseph resided here, after quit
ting his elegant retirement at Bordentown, New
Jersey, until his death, and was buried with his
wife and daughter Charlotte, in their family chapel
at the Santa Croce church. Jerome, father of the
young prince Napoleon, and of the princess MatiIde
also occupied for years palace in the uid Larga
and here married his daughter to the plebeian
prince Demdef, after having squandered five mil
Gans of dollars amassed while he was king of West
phalia. The son by his first wife, Miss Patterson of
Baltimore from whom the Emperor Napoleon
obliged him to be discoyered-has recently become
naturaiized citizen Of France and may in time
fulfill the ambitious desires Of his mother now also
said to be in Paris, by succeeding his uncle to the
hrone since his step-brother, as yet the only heir
apparent, has joined the army become victim OF
the present war.
Should america give France her next emperor,
it would not be more strange thange than that
Louis Napoleon the once exile in the United States,
and twice inmate of the Tombs at New York should
now be reigning II, however, his hitherto unac-
kEowledged nephew has inherited the Napoleon
will and tact, why should he not achieve bis own
way to the Napoleon throne? His uncle's adoption
OF the title pargeau conquered its opprobium, and
has given it'd certain heroism which secures its po-
pularity as the acceptation of Old Hickory and
Hdrd Characterization by the several partsans of
OF Generals jackson and Harrison, turned reproach
into fame, and helped elect them to the Presiden-
ey.-Lor. of the NeandrE 4dyertiser
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DEsPIsED HOUSEHOLD DurIEs-From a variety
Of causes, nothing is more common than to find
American women who have not the sghtest idea
Of household duties. 4 writer thus aludes to this
subject:
In this neglect of household cares, American
females stand alone. A German lady, no matter
how high her rank, never forgets that domestic
labors conduce to the health of body and mind alike
An English lady, whether she be only gentleman's
wife or dukes, does not despise the household ;
and, even though she has a housekeeper, deyotes
portion OF her time to this, her happest sphere.
It is reserved for republican fine ladies to be
choice than even their monarchical and arsto-
cratic sisters. The result is lassitude of mind
often fatal to the health as neglect of bodily ex-
ercise. The wife who leaves her household cares
to the servants, pays the penalty which has been
affixed to deness since the foundation of the world
and either wits away from ennu, or is driven to all
sorts Of fashionable follies to find employment for
the mind