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"a LOVE or BossEr"-A lady gives i'll the
pages Of .Punch" the annexed graphic sketch
Of . new bonnet which she had just got from
Paris. We should think it would make even q
Quaker's mouth water:
II have within the last two days purchased a
new bonnet, which is the prettiest little duck OF
thing that was ever seen. Il was bought at
Nine Clara, Nouveaute de Paris, and cost "a,
l5., if it cost farthing: as the receipt that
have at home in my desk can testify. may IS
well state that it's love of . new bonnet, or,
in other words, . little capote dAirey. The
crown, which is Of the richest plum eolored
satin, is crossed aud crossed (like the bars you
see on the jam tarts, with tiny bandedur Of vel
vet (the very best Genoa) Of q warm damson
color Round the edges run small plumes Of
feathers Of nice jelly naanee and inside are
puffs Of white blonde {French) that look for all
the world like cluster Of suowbalis IN danger
Of being melted by the warmth of the clors
above. The ribands are chocolat an lah. TO sum
up, the bonnet falls of the head, reclining Ian
guishiugiy on the shoulders rs though It were
toe weak, poor thing. to hold itself up, aud Was
going of in kind Of fashionable swoon. In
one word, it is 50 light, so pretty, 90 ratasnnt
and such perfect dear, that Eugeuie herself
could not help being jealous If she were TO see
1t. However, shall wear il next Sunday in
church. 80 that all my friends will hare char
ming opportunity Of judgingof the effect, which
is % delightful as it is dsst,nsus.- z s='
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

IMPORTANCE OF REcREAT1oN.-The following
felicitous passage occurs in the admirable speech OF
the Hon. Edward Everett at the Webster Festival
at the Revere House, in Boston. The crater, in
referring to Mr.. Webster's taste for many sports,
added these words:
The Americans, as a people-at least the profes-
sional and mercantile classes-have too little con-
sidered the Importance fhealthtu generous
ton. They have not learned the lesson contained
in the very word which teaches that the WORKOUT
man is reereated, made over again, by the season.
able relaxation of the strained faculties. The old
world learned this lesson years ago and found out
{ Herod l73 that rs the bow always bent will at
last break, so the man, forever on the strain of
thought and action will at last go mad break
down. Thrown upon new cotnent-eager to
do the work oftwenty centuries in two-the Anglo
American population has over-worked and is daily
over-working itself From morning to night, from
January to December brain and hands, eyes and
fingers, the powers Of the body and the powers OF
the mind in spasmodic merciless activity. There
is lack Of few lsteess and souess designations
which are called amusements, but noble athletic
sports many out door exercises are too little cult
waited i'll town or country.
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HON E.
BY CHARLES S. TODD.

What is that of sweetness
That thrills the wanderers breast,
And brings with magic heetness
The thoughts of peace and rest9
W hat Is that word of gladness
That Ger my heart doth come,
With magic JOY and sweetnesss
It's Home, dear Honset
Oh. touching is the feeling,
When scenes Of days long past
Upon the memory stealing,
Their vivid image cast:
Though cries are gathering DER Us,
As far and wide We roam,
Yet hope is still before US
Ut Home! dear Home.
And why is home thus pleasant?
Why should that magic soune:
Bring future, past, and present
In one bright chain around?
Because in fond connection
With it, an idea comes
Those objects Of affection
At Home. sweet Home.
Because our school-day hours
Were spent beneath its shade
Around its verdant bowers
And by It's streams We played.
Sweet hours Of youthful pleasure,
That ne 'er again will come,
Your memory will treasure,
With Home. bright Home
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

PURSUIT OF PLEASURE UNDEa DIFFICULTIES.
The editor of the New Jersey Standard, gives
the following brief record of his sleigh-riding
experience this winter:
Ride 1st-Got fast in q snow-bank, and had to
walk mile and half in snow from knee-deep
to neck-deep.
Ride 2d.-Got horses down In SNOW bank
had to ungear aad dig them out. Got nowhere,
and came home ditto.
Ride Upset twice-lame shoulder. knock
ed good deal worse than before
Ride 4th.-Upset going one way, and broke
the sleigh to pieces coming the other.
Ride 5th.-Only broke one trace, and gave up
sleigh-r;ding as getting too tame to be interest
ing.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

A BLOODY DUEL.-The Rome (Ga) Courier
has an account Of duel lately fought near Dali
las, Paulding county. The parties were Wiley
Jones and VIM. Bane, relatives. Tdey fought
with rifles aud fred three times. Jones was
slightly wounded by the FIRST two shots after
which he rushed upon his antagonist and tried
to knock him down with his rife. In this he
failed, and had his brains knocked out by Bane
Jones died Immediately, and baae escaped.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

COOKING WITHOUT F1KE.-The Scientific
American publishes an article upon the discov-
cry Of q method for cooking without fire. tits
a combination of tin cooking dishes, placed one
above another, the bottom Of one vessel fitting
on the top part of the dish below. In the low
er dish of all, . small quantity Of quick lime is
placed, and then, by means of tub, cold water
is introduced upon the lime. Chemical action
generates intense heat, whereby the articles On
the dishes are quickly cooked.
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- sweet heartrgush is this from the pen o
Miss Alice Carey:
Motherhood.

Bring me willows for my hair
Wild and dewy from the wood
God has answered me my prayer
Oh! my baby, he is good!
Bring me willows wild and good,
Bind them oil about my head,
! am mother Of q child,
Joy is love and joy is dead.
IT'S as if the rosebud hours
Budding all my morning 50,
Were blown out to perfect flowers,
Perfect, yet Of paler glow.
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"a A modern literary hack, who has been
tumbing over the mnsty pages Of past centuries
astonishes the world by declaring that Thomas
Tasser, who Published work in 1851, called
@Tasser's Hundreth good Projects III 'Husbands;e,
= the author Of an the proverba philosophy pub
hshed BY Dr.. Fraaklin in Poor Richards Almanac.
We suppose the gentleman IS very indignant that
his literary research does NOT entirely erase from
history the name and fame Of the great American
"Gghtning tanner"
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The FRENCH IMPERIAL CRADLE.-A Paris
letter in the Independence, of Brussels, states
that the municipal authorities Of Paris have al
ready given orders for magnificent cradle to
be got ready for the expected infant of the En-
peror and Empress. 1t will surpass, it is said,
in taste and exquisite workmanship, the famous
one presented to the King of Rome. The fol-
lowing is brief description of the work in
question:
1t will be in the form of a boat-the prin-
cipal emblem is the arms of the city of Paris
At the PROV will be a silver eagle with outspread
wings, and the curtains at the head will be sup
ported by an imperial crown, also in silver,
held up by two children, one wearing helmet
and the other bearing round its head an olive
branch, emblematical of peace The body of
the cradle stands on two columns, one ut the
head and the other at the foot, and united by a
rail beneath. The columns will be in rosewood
beautifully carved and ornamented with foliage
in silver. The upper edge Of the cradle will
have border of silver flagree work. having on
either side, about the middle, small escutcheons
in silver bearing the initials of their ma esties
From these medallions garlands of flowers in
silver will lead to the foot and head of the era
die. The curtains will be of point d Alencon
lace and blue silk, embroidered in gold.''
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

TA lately published account Of the new works
that have appeared in Germany during the FIRST
half Of the past year, gives the numbers at three
thousand eight hundred and seventy Or Al
the rate Of over ten day. During the whole year,
therefore. should the average have continued the
same, there viii have been total Of seven thou
sand seven hundred and iftyeight issued, and this
in one country alone. In the Germanic Coufeder-
alton, Prussia seems 10 take the lead in book pro-
ducing, and for the time before mentioned claims
one thousand two hundred and forty-two works.
Next follows Saxony, Austria, Bavaria, Wurtem-
berg and Hanovers Leipsic IS the German Athens
and the chief place Of publication, next to which
comes Berlin and Stuttgart. ~
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FABHIQlE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


I L sera ofert en- vente publique par lie Constable
de vile, Luud, lie Ayr 1885, 10 heures \. NJ, sur
les eux les fermes du Ferry u Marche, pour Pespace
dun la possession devant etre livree lie premier Lundi
quart mos partir de la mise possession ct
acqaereu devr fournr des securities approuvees ct
couformer Il Ia lo
Thibodaux, ce % Mars, 1856.
/ r TERRET Secretaire.
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NOTICE.

THERE will be offered for sale by the town
Coast bile Monday, the eth of April 1856, at 10 o.
clock the premises, the farms of the Ferry and
Market Hous for the space of year. possession to be
given the first Monday in May. The price of aju,ca
payable by fourths fourth every three months
from the delivery of possession and the purchasers to give
good and approved security ANA comply with the law.
Thibodaux, March Goth 1856
J. r VERRET. Secretary
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NEBBcHADNEzzAR DUO UP.-It is stated that
Col Rawlinson who is at present engaged in
prosecuting the discoveries commenced by Lay
ard and Botta, and in exhuming from the mounds
of the long lost rival cities of Nineveh and Ba
bylon, the instructive remains of this once gi-
gantic power, has lately discovered in state Of
perfect preservation, what is believed to be the
mummy of Nebuchadnezzar. The face of the
rebellious monarch Of Babylon, covered by one
of those gold masks usually found in Assyrian
tombs, is described al very handsome-the fore
head high and commanding, the features mark
ed and regular. This interesting relic of re-
mote antiquity is for the present preserved in
the Museum of the East India Company Of all
the mighty empires which have left lasting
impression on the memory, none has so COM
p!etely persisted as that of Assyra.
More than two great cities, renowned for
their strength, their luxury. and their magnifi-
cence. have crumbled into dust, leaving no yisi
BILE trace of their existence, their very sites for
gotten. A chance traveller, Layard, riding
through the Mesopotamian valley, discovered
the buried city, aud with a success that will
immortalize his name, has commenced to unrol
the book of Assyrian history and civilization,
which, of all the histories of the first periods of
the world, is most clearly connected with the
subsequent destinies Of the human race. The
discoveries already made. furnish ample testi
mony to refute the sceptic and unbeliever of
scripture truth.
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NEW BOOKS.

lust received
- WOMAN'S FAITII-A tale of Southern Life.
HoAE-By Anna Leland.
HENRI DE La T0UR-By Frederick Smith.
THE OCEAN QUEEN-By author Of Pale lilly.
ALLEN SINCLAIR-A romance.
ZAlDEE--A
LESLIE'S GAZETTE OF FASHtONS-For March.
ILSO-.i supply of
ALONE-By Marion fIarIand
HIDDEN PATh-By Marion iiarland.
PHENIXANIA-By John PGnfH.
WIDOW BED0TT PAPERS.
THE ATTACHE IN MADRID.
SONGS and BALLADS Of AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
ASPlRAfIONS-By Mrs Manners.
MACAULAY's HISTORY OF ENGLAND vols.
p. f. LOHlO.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

"a 1t has been reported that the Louisiana
State Teachers Association was originated with the
view Of advancing the special interests Of northern
publishers and book vendors. This is not true.
No book publishers or vendors, either North or
South, had anything to do with getting it up, OF
with any department Of business connected with
the Society. 1t was instigated by Louisiana
teacher, with these few leading objects in view:
First to awaken the whole community to lively
sense Of the importance of education to free
people, and of common schools as the means by
which the great mass Of our youth must be educa-
ted Second, to arouse school officers to sense Of
the responsibility of their stations and to assist
them in performing their duty to the schools, the
community, and the State Third, to aid teachers
in the important work Of seifcuture, in improving
themselves for the duties of the schoolroom, and
in becoming efficient aborers in promoting genuine
education.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

q Henry Giles says evidences and licences
wherefores and therefores, have no more bushes.
IN Christian conversation than Aristotle has in the
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29
ANTIQUITY OF THE l. o. O. Eve find tn

of Greenock, Scotland Mr.. Cooper says:
The origin of the Order of Odd Fellows is of
very great antiquity. 1t was established by the
Roman soldiers in the camp during the reign of
Nero, in the year 55. At that time they were
Felow-Citizens" The present name was given
them by Titus Caesar in the year 70, and from the
singuarty of their meeting and from their knowing
each other by mig hit day. and by their fidelity to
him and their country. And he not only gave
them the name of Odd Fellows, but at the same
time, pledge of his friendship, presented them
with dispensaton, engraved on plate Of gold,
bearing different emblems such as the sun, moon,
and stars the lamb, lion and dove, and other EN-
bcrns of morality. The first account of the Order
being spread in other countries is in the fifteenth
century, when it was established in the Spanish
dominions, and in the sixth century By King Henry
in Portugal, and in the eleventh it was established
in France, and afterwards by John D. Neville in
England, attended by FIVE knights from France,
who formed Loyal Grand Lodge Of Honor in
London, which order remained until the twelfth
century, when part of them began to form them
selves into a union, and portion of them reE,ain
up TO this day-the lodges which are now very
numerous throughout the world, and call themselves
the Loyal Ancient Odd Fellows, being portion of
the original body. The Manchester Unity is of
more recent date, although there is no doubt of
its emanating from the same source. Its first in
PRODUCTION into Manchester was about the year 1900,
by few individuals from the Union in London,
who formed themselves into lodge and continued
in connection with them for some time, when some
difference caused them to declare themselves indie
pendent, and thus have kept their work ndepen-
dent
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

We win be under obligations to some friend
O education for : copy Of the Normal Schoo
Bill ~ :
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Notice,

HAVING purchased the stock of goods OF
1 l. MESSES. CAMPBELL Co, We will hereafter con-
nue the mercantile business the stand, under the
name and style of MCBRIDE CROSS, where Ne viii! be
gla to all friends and the patrons OF our predecessors
We will sell low any other house IN own
All orders Tiled and dispatched in the shortest possible time
K. r. MCBRIDE,
EDWARD CROSS.
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TUST received large lot Of Garrett l. cottman's
= Steel Mould d Iionshs, disefzlt 5t-es
.a.7u Y. RICHARD Co
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SEARCHING AMERICAN VEssELs.-Lastructions

SEARCHING AMERICAN VEssELs.-Lastructioa
to Com. NcCauIey.
Washington, March 10.-According to docu-
meuts sent to the Senate to-day the instructions
to Com. McCauley, commander of the home
Squadron, issued in April last, after the Span
ish frigate Terrolina had fired into the United
States steamer Ell Dorado, were to the effect
that when similar outrage shall be committed
on any vessel rightfully bearing our flag, he
must promptly interpose and resist the exercise
of the assumed right of visitation, land repel the
interference by force; the Executive taking the
ground that the conduct of the authorities of
Cuba in mailing and searching our vessels can
not rest on any territorial jurisdiction on the
high seas and in the vicinity of the Island Of
Cuba, this Government denying the existence of
any state Of the facts TO warrant the exercise of
belligrent rights. This matter was promptly
brought to the attention of the Spanish autho-
rites by the State Department.
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THE TRADE WISDs.-The origin Of the trade
wnls at the surface of the earth is thus explained
A number of natural agencies are at work to dis
turb the equilibrium of the atmosphere and to give
rise to aerial currents among them the most i'm
portant is the difference of temperature in different
parts Of the earth. The air within the tropics,
constantly heated by the rays Of our almost per-
pendcular sum- is rendered lighter, and is pushed
upward by the heavier air north and south of this
region A current in this direction from each pole
is thus produced at the surface of the earth, while
an opposite current toward each pole is generated
by the raritfed air which rises above the heated
belt, and flows backward Ike water seeking its
equilibrium. These currents, on account of the
rotation of the earth, not along the meridian,
but those at the surface take westerly direction,
while those above flow in All easteriy course.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-03-29

A BEAUTIFUL ISc1DENr.-A naval officer being
at sea in dreadful storm his wife was sitting in
the cabin near him. and filed with alarm for the
safety of the vessel, so surprised his serenity
and composure, that she cried out:
Ny dear, are you not aftaid' How is it posi-
bic you can be so calm i'll such dreadful storm -
He arose from his chair, dashed it to the deck,
drew his sword, and pointing it at the breast of
his wife, exclaimed:
Are you afraid ?"
She Immediately answered "No."
"Whys" said the officer.
Because" rejoined the wife, F" 1 know this
sword is in the hands of my husband, and be loves
me too well to hurt me-
Then" said he, 81 know in whom believe,
and that he who holds the winds in his fist and the
waters in the hollow Of his hands, is my Father.
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AN UNPRECEDENTED ACT.-4 JHstge FtaiRg
Himself. Under this heading, the Baton Rouge
Comet, of Wednesday last, has the following:
Judge W. B. Robertson, of the Sixth Dis
trict Court, on dischargng the grand jury Tues
day last, reprimanded himself for having for
gotten the day fixed by law for the present term
of court in this parish, and for this oversight
informed the jury that he should find himself
twenty-five dollars. He Immediately drew a
check for the amount, and hading it to the Sher-
if, instructed him to collect the same and give
it to the Female Orphant Association, of Baton
Rouge.
Such an act calls to mind the records of an
cient Rome, when judges and legislators were so
heroicaly allied to justice and the laws, as to
deal penalties on their own sons and brothers
when they Transcribed the laws. with such
frmness and decision, as justly entitled them to
claim kindred with the gods.
HIr THEM AGA1N-When the resolution appro-
priating $500 for the distribution of fuel among
the suffering poor in Washington was before the
Senate, Toombs and Hamblin, two coalition, anti
American Senator's opposed the expenditure, when
Senator Pearce reminded them that the Senate had
two or three years since appropriated and without
an opposition the part of those Senator'S of
scentious or constitutional scruples between four
and five thousand dollars Of the peoples money for
board, brandy, wine, cigars, and carriages, FUR
nshed otfat travelling foreign mendcant, Kossuth,
and his suite, during their ten days stay at hotel
in Washington.
The reason assigned for this distinction and Diff
ference in Democratic Se1ate-these proverbial
lovers of the people and the peoples naoney-is,
that the poor of Washington City and Georgetown
had no vote. The Germans, scattered all over the
country, had The distinction is a very broad and
palpable one. Huzza for the Democracy! the
party which styles ITSELF par excellence, ''the poor
mans friend"
An American spirit rules. America, does it,
~ o. Creole.
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A SCENE AT THE GATE OF PARADIsE.-A poor
tailor, being released from a troublesome world
and scolding wife, appeared at the gate of
paradise. Peter asked him if he had ever been
to Purgatory.
"No,'' replied the tailor, "but have been
married"
"Oh, ah!" said Peter, ga scolding wife, too
its all the same-I understand you. Walk
in, poor man; your troubles are ended now"
Peter had scarcely shut the door, when fat
turtle eating Alderman, came along putting and
blowing.
'Hallo! you fellow" he cried, "open the
door"
"Not so fast" said Peter, looking through a
wicket, have you been to Purgatory %
no." said the Alderman, :" but what of that?
You have just let in that poor, haif-starved car
encrow Of tailor, and he has been no more to
Purgatory than myself
"But he has been married. said Peter.
.sMarried!" exclaimed the Alderman, g why,
have been married twice."
'.The devil you have" said Peter, @then be
of with you-Paradise is no place for fools -
FROM KANsAs.-The St. Louis Democrat of
the 18th publishes the proceedings of the free
soil Legislature of Kansas on the sth inst, from
which we extract the following:
The House adjourned until four o'clock, A.
NJ, at which time the joint convention was call
ed to order by the President of the Senate.
The roll was called and ffty-six members res
ponded as their mans were called. On the first
ballot, A. II. Reeder received So votes-a ma
jority of all the votes cast-was declared elect
ed to the q. s. Senate, from the State Of Kan
sas. The other eighteen votes were divided be-
tween Lane, PARROT, Schuyler and others. On
motion of Mr.. Adams, Andrew H. Reeder was
declared elected by the unanimous consent Of
the convention. On the second ballot James
H. Lane, received thirty-eight votes, and was
declared elected to the U. s. Senate.
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Marie de Thibo'lauS. ce % Mars, 1850
4 Wis Aux BUtLANGERS-Le prix ne la
I n Fariue frache 81 90 lie MaFche de la
Nouvtle Orleans les B0uangers requis de bonner -
de pain pour dix cents 1urant la semaine procha'ne
JONA c. WHITE Marie
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A Coon ANswER.-Itis reported that when au
abolition goose Kissed some staten1entin Mr. Toombs'
recent lecture in Boston, the Senator paused mo-
nlent, and then said. Hiss on, it is your ancestor
and the Constitution you are kissing, and not me-
At the close of the lecture, somebody shouted,
"When can Mr. Summer be heard in Tallahassee 81
The abolitionsts should remember that they incur
no danger either in person or property, in listening
to defense of slavery in Northern lecture room
whereas the PRONUNCIATION of abolition sentiments
in the midst of slave population is direct ncite
ment to insurectien resulting in loss Of property,
If not Of life. Mr.. Toombs may defend the ''pecu-
liar institution in Boston, and no harm follow
while Mr.. Summer in denounceingit in Tallahassee,
may nstigate servile rebellion. The only logical
advice that an abotonist can give the slave, is to
assume his liberty, kill his owner, and run away.
This Is the ultimate import Of all their preaching
Does any body wonder that the South resents and
resists the dissemination Of these abominable doc
trines IN Y. Mirror.