Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-12-15

"These slaves are five of the eighteen wh'
recently stampeded from Norfolk and Ports
MOUTH
The Dispatch adds The people engaged il
this nefarious traffic are more degraded tina,
the negroes; more dishonest, false and brutal
1t is to be hoped that the whole party will NEE
with the most summary punishment. The Law
ought to impose new and severe punisement
upon negro stealers and especial attention SHOULD
be given to the Northern coasting vessels, many
of whom, it is to be feared, are the instruments
of constant depredations Of the kind upon
Southern property.
THE POLICY OF THE ALLIEs.--Lord PALMERsroN
the Bristish Premier in the course of speech re
| Gently made in Loudon, held this emphatic Ian
guage:
"Never did nation present nobler spectacle
to the world than the British nation at this moment
Or hastily, nor with levity, but upon full and mature
deberation. Hear, hear. We have entered into
that contest because felt that the was neces
sary as well as Just cheers and this nation evinces
from end of the country to the other, steady,
calm and deliberate determination to submit to every
sacrifice which the war may entail, to show itscl
equal to every exertion or emergency which the wal
may require, and to exhibit constancy in the car
rying out of the war, to submit to every sacrifice
and to continue every exertion, until peace is OBJ
tanned on conditions mhich pe are entitled to de-
mand Enthusiastic checrs] We have present
upon this occasion of those three
allies with whom we are bound in the enterprise We
we have undertaken.
ave have at this board the ambassador of the
Emperor of the French loud cheers THAT great
ally, who | must do him the justice and honor to
say, by the aaagnauianity Of has mind, by the far.
seeing policy meich 1t directs, by tie HONESTY
and single mindedness of has policy( ~ [cheers]
has cemcnted union between two nations which
too long have been divided by eaouses and mstrusts
but who, hope, will, from this period, in the words
of my noble friend, the ambassador of the French,
forever continue to be intimate and confdng friends,
great cheering. We have, at this board the repre-
sentative, of the Sultan in whose cause we have
thrown ourselves into this and whose subjects have
nobly shown they were worthy of the assistance we
haven given them. We lave also misrepresentation
of his majesty the King of Sardinia whose character
as a sovereign, and the character of whose people
exctes our warmest SYMPATHY, secures our adni-
ration, and whose good faith inspires our most i'm
plicit confidence.
swell, gentlemen, trust these representatives
of our allies let them go where they will, through
the length and bredth of the land will see nothing,
and will hear nothing that will not entitle them to
report to their respective sovereigns that while we
place most implicit confidence and reliance in the
constancy with which they will support us, that they
may rely Nth equat implicit confidence upon the
full determination Of the people Of his great
country to prosecute the scar [htar, hear] And no
man can doubt # those four po'cers are earnest
in the caurse and haze dram tile sword aeith a
. :
accomplished the purpose for which the war cas
Jeguu-I say no man can doubt that no human Eff
forts opposed to theirs can be successful IN marring
their erertions hear.
SUCCESSION OF DANIEL CLARK.-As the apple
cation of Mrs. Gaines, for the proof of the last
will of Daniel Clark, occupies, at this time
prominent feature in the public mind, we copy
the following remarks upon the case by the Or
leanais, of therd inst. disclosing new phases,
which may be interesting to the owners of prop
erty holding adversely to Mrs. Gaines:
"Since the case of Mrs. Gaines has been
pending in our courts for the probate of the last
will of Daniel Clark, much has been said by the
city press about the great amount involved in
the question, now finally submitted to the Su-
preme Court. We think the statement is calcu-
lated to excite unnecessary prejudice against
this lady. Should she succeed to the utmost of
her expectations, it will not change the fortunes
of one of our citizens single dollar, unless in
deed, it may be to their advantage.
ssIt is matter Of public history, that no 500
ner had the Supreme Courtof the United States
decided against her claims, as heir at law in
February, 1852, than the heirs Of Mary Clark
instituted suit, by bills in chancery, in the U.
S. Circuit court claiming all the property that
had not been legally disposed of in due course
of administration, by the executors of the first
will. These bills were predicated upon the OPP
inion of the United States Supreme court, that
there were sales made by those executors, which
would not be binding on any one claiming
through Clark. They were utilities from the
beginning, and the property attempted to De
conveyed by them remains in his succession
This was not the case with all the property sold.
Some valid alterations were made, and those
will be maintained against the right of every
one claiming through the ancestor. So that,
after all, those holding under the illegal sales
are the same shareholders for the two opposing
forces claiming severally under the will of 1911
and 1918. Mrs. Gaines claims no more than
now remains in the succession; the heirs of
Mary Clark are entitled to no les.
"Any one doubling the correctness of this
statement can ascertain the truth of it by refer
ing to suits Nos. PLY, 2l18, 2119 and 212O on
the docket of the United States Circuit Court,
in which appears as compliments, A. 7. Barness
and some ten others among whom is the Right
Rev. Francis B. Kendrick, Roman Catholic
Bishop of Philadelphia, as he styled in the bill,
and James Hopkins and many others, defen-
dants.'
The same paper then intimates that, with one
ex ception, bishop Kendrick.) the parties now
claiming succession adversely to Mrs. Gaines,
are Wall street operators-heartlcss as gentle
men of their profession are commonly supposed
to be, and as they are represented in novels and
plays with moral attached If this be so, the
holders of the disputed property are placed
somewhat between scyla and Charybdis; or.
to drop the figurative, between the suit of Mrs
Gains, whose heroic perseverance seems as much
due to determination to establish her status
rs to recover an estate, and the tender mercies
of the shrewd men Of Gotham, who represent
heirs Of Mrs. Clark.