Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-01-05

Monthly State journal of Education to be devoted
to the educational interests Of the State.
The following persons were appointed said com,
mittee:
Prof Louis Dufau, Col I. Seymour, G. Stith
New Orleans
ResoIyed, That a committee be appointed to
report upon the propriety Of introducing Phonetic
Science into our Common Schools as a means oil
education.
The following persons were elected as said COM
mittee
N Byington, Baton Rouge; NJ. McGinnis,
D. c. jenkins, n. Dufour, - Halsey, New Or
leans.
leave to report the following list OF Topics, to be
considered at the next annual Meeting of the As
ISOLATION l. Territorial, civil subdivisions Of
the State-invoking the extent to which the Dis
trict system should be carried, and the modification
of which the same is susceptible. 9. School Ar
Misunderstanding the location size, modes, OF
ventilation, warming and seating &c, of buildings
intended for Educational purposes. 3. School at
Misunderstanding the school, age OF children,
and the best modes of securing the regular and
punctual attendance Of children and school. A.
Grades of school-the No. and character OF each
grade. 5. Supervision the propriety OF Parish
Superintendent. 6. School government.
An abstract of the speech of DR.. Bard will ap-
pear next week.
A WILD WoMAS-Capt Little, during his late
excursion to the plains with two companies of the
Seventh infantry, found wild weman at some point
on the prairies. She was a pitiable object, being
almost starved to death, emaciated, and disfgured
by the barbarOus custom of some of the tribes OF
cutting off noses and ears. apparently about
thirty years of age. At the time our informant left
Fort Gibson, where the woman now is, she had
given no evidences of changing her wild, british
disposition and manners, but continued to eat her
food (beef raw, and conducted herself according
to the habits of wild beast.
She uses kind of gibberish, which none of the
Indians about the Fort understand She is thought
however to be Kioway, and measures will be taken
to ascertain the truth of the conjecture. If she
should prove to be Kioway, she will be returned
to that tribe for it would be impossible ever to
make her of any benefit to liking or country "
in these parts.
"She is not merely a wild Indian. as the Co.
manches, and other tribes are denominated, but a
wild Indian-as different from Comanche or
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whites
Capt Little, for his course toward the extraor-
binary creature, has given testimony of uncommon
philanthropy, and deserves as much honor as if he
had won a victory on the battle field. At his own
expense he has had her fed and clothed and at
tended to in sickness by the best physicians at the
post. Many man in his case would have left the
poor creature to perish, or, at most might have
bestowed small supply of food to arrest starva-
ton for the moment. She can be of no service to
Capt. L., and must remain an expense and trouble
upon his hands, unless reclaimed by the tribe to
which she is supposed to belong
[Arkansas Independent.
DEATH OF M1sER-S5O,O0 Aching for Cir
charlottesville Saturday (Ohio) Vindicator says,
the well known miser, John Herryman citizen of
that place, died very suddenly on Friday night
week. The deceased was German, who by some
means had amassed handsome fortune, which has
been variously estimated at from twenty-five to fifty
thousand dollars, but unfortunately for the public
as well as himself, he belonged to the lowest grade
of misers In fact, the most avaricious and loath-
some character of that class ever painted by the
master hand of Dickens to use cant phrase "was
not patching to him."
Of his history, place Of nativity, Or friends, no.
thing is known, and any alusion to these matters,
even by his most intimate friends, always exas-
perated him.
He leaves, so far as at present is known, no one
to inherit his estate, which will in all probability
escheat to the State. No will has yet been discov
cred, and it is not likely he left any The manner
of life and parsimonous habits of the deceased are
almost incredible.
For the last sixteen years he has constantly worn
the same blue, linsey woolsey wamus and panta-
looms carefully run, darned all over with strong
thread, to prevent the possibility of wearing
out, except on some important occasions, such as
land sales Or something of that nature, when they
gave place to suit of black velvet that he often
boosted had served him faithfully for forty years.
He contracted the disease of which he died by
walking over bad roads during the most incement
weather of the season. all the way to Putnam and
Henry counties to pay his taxes on the land he
owned there, without sufficient clothing to protect
him from the cold. In fact we are informed he
scarcely ever wore shirt, or undergarment, and
that the one he had on when he died had not been
not been changed for over three months
1t is related of him that, but short time since,
the pile of gold and silver he had
boarded away, he actually carried an old horse
shoe he had picked up at some place about the
shops, and he succeeded in selling it for half a
dime
DEATH OF ROBERT ScHuYLER.-The following
lines from private letter from Paris are cal
culated to produce a sensation in New York;
"Robert Schuyler died about the middle of
last month, at his residence in the environs of
Genoa, where he had been living for some time
in the strictest incognita with his family.
"The place of his residence would have been
known a long time ago if certain persons, occu-
plying important positions in the management
Of several railroads, and especially of the New
Haven Railroad, had not been deeply interested
in securing his silence and absence from the
country.
.ssince his departure from America his health
has been on the decline, and he finally died of
grief and modification.
"Several eminent tinancers Of New York will
not be sorry to learn the news Of his death. He
has left, as l am informed, great number of
important papers, which will be published.
They will form a curious chapter in the history
If specializing enterprises in the New World"