Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-03-17
Summary Of News.

Summary of News.
More than 10000 persons returned fron
America to England during the year 1854.
Silk goods to the amount of 1856, 900, hav
been entered at, the Boston Custonhouse sine
the LIST day Of January last.
Prescott has completed, after a ten year
labor, his History Of the Reign of Philip til
Second. 1t will be published in three volumes
The Z. Ms of Kentucky, at their recen
Contention nominated Voltaire Loving, o
Warren county, for Governor, and -Edwa ards
Of Logan, for Lieutenant Governor. The frs
has been Whig and the second Democrat.
According to professor Mapes, che quantity
of peaches brought into New York city in ons
week, exceeded that of all the fruits, of ever,
kind, imported into Great Britain in one year
| The well known cotton cloth, calico, is named
from Calcutta, city in India, which was dis
| covered by the Portuguese, in 1893. Calico
was first brought to England by the East India
Company, in 1851.
The American missionaries in China have
sent block of granite as their contribution te
| the Washington National Monument. 1t is five
feet long, two and q half broad, and ten inches
| thick, and bears in inscription in Chinese char
acters
"A letter from Washington mentions rumol
that the profered offer of mediation has been
rendered the United States by Great Britain in
the settlement Of American difficulties with
Spain. As this offer purports to have come by
the Baltic, it has probably the sanction Of the
new cabinet.
Letters which have reached Washington from
Vienna, Austria, state that the Russians have
lost some lo7, 900 men since the beginning Of
the war. in killed, wounded and prisoners. So,
after all, they not better off than the allies.
But despotism is taciturn and liberty is loqua-
cious.
c.. Edwards Lester is said to be the Helen
Dhu who wrote Sanhope Burleigh, the Know
Nothing novel. He is getting up the new life
of Sam Houston
The annual distribution of the Cosmopolitan
Art and Literary Association took place at San
dusky on the 1st instant. The Greek Slave was
drawn by Mrs. Kate Gillespie Brady, of South
Bend, Pa. Other prizes, 261 in number were
drawn by persons in all parts of the Union.
The Wing State Convention of Connecticut
met on the 2Sth ultimo, and nominated the
present State officers for reelection, by accla-
nation. The Convention also adopted resolu-
tons endorsing the American principle, includ-
ing protection to American industry; declaring
that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise has
put an end to all compromises on the slavery
question, and expressing a determination to
resist by all constitutional means the admission
Of any more slave States into the Union.
remonstrance has been presented in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives against
the removal Of Judge Loring from the Office of
Judge of Probate. 1t was signed by $40 gentle
men, including Edward Everett, the Lawrences
and many other distinguished citizens of that
State.
A bill to secure to women equal rights with
the sterner, sex, making marriage a species of
limited partnership, with private and joint pro-
perty, and securing to widows the guardianship
of their children, has been ordered to third
reading in the House of the New Jersey Legis-
lature.
VIM Lloyd Garrison, at recent anti-slavery
lecture in New York, displayed eleven yards o.
newspaper paragraphs of crimes at the South in
a few months. The same Length of infamy"
might be cut from the New York papers in any
one week.
In view of the severity of the weather, a
card has been issued by the Rev. P. Bede,
Secretary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Buffalo, allowing those laboring on the public
works the use of meat without restriction during
Lent, except on Fridays
The Know Nothings who have taken charge
Of the National Washington Monument, purpose
to raise the means for its completion by con-
of ST. from each member of the