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Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
How 10 Make Sugar.

A correspondent of the National IntelIigen-
Ger describes a sugar mill exhibited in the ms
stitute Fair, which consists of three vertical
cast~iron rollers, supported between strong
cast plates, resting upon o triangular wood
frame about eight feet on its sides, Under
each corner is g large truck wheel, so adjusted
when working as to revolve in a circle, the
shaft of one of the rollers occupying the centre
of the frame. had clutched fast 10 a timber bes
low. preventing its turning, while the other
two, being geared into at the top, are made to
revolve around it as the whole frame is turned
bv the horse. On one corner is q feed table,
from which a man feeds the cane, which, having
been acted upon by the two rollers. passes ont
upon n table on the other corner, which is re-
moved as often as a So ficient quantity accumu
lates. The Juice passes down through the bed
plate, and is received in q vessel made for that
purpose. In a few minutes the truck wheels
can be changed and the clutch removed, and
the whole is ready to travel. There being no
heavy beams to raise, posts to set, or over
head sweeps to provide, and at the sans time
so easily transported from place to place, il will
prove to be just the thing needed by our far
mers at this particular time, and from the
cheapness of the article it must meet with a
ready sale. In every part Of the country atten'
ton is being directed to The Chinese sugar
cane.
At the first meeting Of the Massachusetts
Agricultural Society, last week, Henry s. o.
cut. OF the Westminster Farm School, New
York, delivered q lecture on this new plan. He
gave a history of the cane, and said it was as
easy 10 cultivate az Indian corn, throughout the
United States. 1t should be sown on dry.
warm soil but can be raised on any soil. The
ground should be pIowed deep, and the seed
soaked in weak solution of saltpeter. The
planting should be in drills four feet apart
The yield of seed, which is excellent food for
animals, is at the rate Of sixty bushels TO The
acre. As a source of alcoholic production, the
plant is destined to be of immense value. Il
contains fifteen per cent. Of pure alcoholic nat
ter. It's juice can be made into excellent cider,
wine and brandy. For d~istilling purposes, ii
can be grown at the South with great profit
In France fifteen hundred gallons of wine bad
been got from an acre. For sugar, syrup, &c,
it is destined to be an immense producer. Ex-
periments show that the cane contains twenty
three per cent. Of saccharine matter. Col
Peters, OF Georgia, is the greatest cultivation in
this country. and his cane last year produced
four hundred gallons Of syrup per acre. Mr.
O.cutt does not believe that it can be raised
above latitude forty, rs the further north it goes
the smaller amount of cryStalized matter il cons
tsins. The general impression given by the
lecturer was, that a new plant Of almost meal
culabIe value, has been added 10 the agricut-
tural resources of the country-one more va
ried in its uses than any we nov possess.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

Changed His Miad-We congratulate our
friend HYANs for he change that has taken
place in his mind, as evidenced by toe am
nouncemept in his last paper-as he will re-
collect his telling US "once On a time that
such o thing on bis part, as taking TO himself
one to glove, cherish, and support" was an
act which he could never think of, under cir-
eumstances, not necessary to repeat, but
which, we presume, have vanished. May fu.
tnre bliss and prosperity be the reward Of
oar friend for (what we conceive to be) the
wisest resolution he could have taken.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
A California wife.

We have been told that when John Heler,
late Governor Of the State of California, was a
member of the State Legislature, Mrs. B., his
wife, absolutely washed the clothes Of some Of
the honorable gentlemen for so much q doGsn,
AT the time of his election Bigler was very
poor, and his per diem was hardly enough for
himself and wife to live on in those prodlaal
times. To make both ends meet, and to save
something against q rainy day, Madam BiRlee
put her shoulder to the wheel, az above ee~
lated. :.
Now, won't this be rather startling 20 the
pale-faced, attenuated damsels Of the East,
who scream and faint at the sight of a wash
tub or a cobweb? Think oft! The wife Of
an Ex-Governor, with her sleeves and COVE
tucked up, bending over the wash-tub, while
her husband, with his dickey standing upright.
chating his ears, rose to q question Of privilege
"Mr. Speaker Mr. S-P-e-a-k-e-r! And then
think of the exAwasherwoman being feted.
three years after, as the wife of the Governor
Of the State Of California, worth n hundred and
fifty thousand dollars Enough of money to
make the heads of universal snobdom duck and
dive like an affrighted Waterfowl in q thunder.
storm
Good for the Pennsylvania Dutch cirl!-
Five hundred years hence, when the historian
lifts the veil from the catacombs of the past,
and writes the history of the unforgotten dead,
he may, perhaps, append this little episode to
the history of one of CALIFORNIA; Governors.
and the little ragged girls that then go down
to dip water from the Rio Sacramento may
think better of their mothers who have to la
Dor, because a long time ago Mrs. John Bigler.
the Governors wife, filed her wash.tub from
the same noble river. These are the pioneer
women of California. There are many such.
as strong-willed and as true, who quail not at
their own footsteps in the woods, whose
hearts swell with hope at
The banginso Of the hammer,
And the creaking of the crane.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

From the Picayune of Wednesday,
SOUTHWEST Pass, May 81, 8 O'Clock
A. NJ. The Empire City, from New York,
via Havana, crossed the bar at 6 O'Clock,
this morning,
Gen. Walker and sixteen of his officers
are on board this steamer. They capt.
tulated, it seems, on the LIST inst, to Capt.
Davis, of the U. S. sIoop-of-war St. Ma
rvs, with go men, after having been
compelled to live for three days on mule
meat.
Capt. Davis seized the schooner Grana-
da, with its deposits of ammunition and
supplies intended for Walker. Gen.
Walker and Capt. Davis signed the arti-
cles of capituIation, the enemy not being
represented.
1t was reported hat the New Grana-
dian Government had coded the islands
in the bay of Panama to the English sets
Element, on the claim of Mcintosh.
The Illinois left AspinwaIl on the 18th,
with treasure to the amount of 81, 600, 900
on board, and 700 passengers, for New
York.
Gen. WALKER was received with great ecIat
in New Orleans. The Picayune says:
A deputstion from our citizen-soIdiery re.
ceiyed the general rs he left the steamer, where
the cannon doomed out a loud mouthed well
come. He was then taken in a carriage to the
St. Charles Hotel, where, after loud calls, he
made his appearance on the portico, where he
was received with a perfect storm of Cheers
He then spoke as follow:
"Fsli0no.c o1satrymen-I have ALWAYS felt sure
Of the sympathies of the American people in
the cause of which | am the humble advocate.
Although now defeated in Nicaragua, the same
sympathy which has cheered US on 50 far will
yet result in the emancipation of that beautiful
country. Though defeated, we are not dis
heartened. | thank you, fellow-countrymen,
for your kind reception on my return again to
my native land, and must at the same time ex-
press my gratitude for your kindness and
generosity during my absence"
The general then retired, to meet the gra.ula.
tons Of the hundreds of his admirers who
crowded around him outstretched hands Of
welcome and brotherhood.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

Night Spectacles.--Night spectncIes to ses
pondeDt in the Scientific American: "They
would be very desirable" he thinks, In some
situations, to see clearly when quit. dark, when
acting as a pilot for example, on river steam
boats. The idea is practicable. That which
avails an owlto see in the dark, will also ena-
hle a man to see in the night. Hefs4heIl could
see with the aid Of an optical instrument which
he constructed, the dial on q steepls clock. u
mile distant, when it was so dark thaths could
see but q fsw feet with the naked eye
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
NEW AND FAsHIoNABLE GOODS
For Goats, Pants and Vests.

THE undersigned respectfully informs
/ his friends and the public generally, Ia
that he has just returned from New Orleans -M
with one of the largest and
Most Beautiful Stock Of Goods
for Coats, Pants and Vests that has ever been
brought to this contemplating all descriptions
of articles for summer wear-and which he Is
prepared to make up at short notice.
While returning his thanksf for the very ,loeLsI
citizens of Iberville, the undersigned would reso
~pectfulIy solicit a continuance of the same-eV-
er promising
"Punctuality and a Fauhless FIJI"
Call and see his Goods at his shop on Main street,
nearly opposite the Sentinel Office, and next door
mv3o JACOB BERNSTEIN.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

We are pretty much under the impression
that every man, as q matter of security against
future reverses and against vicious Influences,
should acquire q knowledge in his youth of
some description or other Of the mechanic arts.
Fortunes Of the largest class, give no surety
that the son Of the possessor Of it, brought
up in af1uence, and ideness, may not be una
bic 10 purchase q dinner before he gets to be
thirty years OF age. With a large amount of
money at his command when he arrives at his
majority, and having always been used to it
without stint through the gradations Of his
b~oyhood, the world is then at twenty.one,
bright with pleasures in his reach, and brighter
yet, alas! deceitful, anticipations in the future.
Should a father still live to direct his steps, to
force him into business, the wild days of the
sanguine yet needless youth, the favorite of
fortune, may be lived through with compara~
tive saftey, to his purse, his mind and his body.
But should it happen otherwise, that the sam
guine, over. generous and impetuous youth,
gets the possession Of his property, with no
po8SukS w SOhlI5S Ilu1 VI CucCh IiIU III Ills tx
travagance, knowing nothing Of any descrip.
ton of business, by which he could make a
living independent of means, and with hordes
Of false-hearted and iattering friends, who
surround him like moths, so long as the metal
of his purse gIistens upon their sight, he is inv
deed in a forlorn and pitiable condition--he il
FaniHiv opnFo0nhInn a faasfyl ~.no;r:n0. $780,.
day makes it more difficult to turn his steps
from its brink, even if he had a desire to do
so q cord is fastened to his waist, it is attach
ed to a windlass on the edge of the abyss :.
Time is turning tho crank, and SO sure as the
SUD, Times great dial, goes down in the West,
so sure will he be drawn to the fatal brink
and topple over into the gulf below. How
distressing must it be to the parent, could it
be f~oreseen that the son who is being reared
with all the Injuries of life and with large
means when he is of age, should eventually
die in the gutter! And yet, a great many Of
the fondest Of parents, in our republican land
are rearing their sons in a manner as best to
insure SO deplorable an end.
To avert then an evil which idleness. posses.
sion of money and ignorence of work or busis
ness, entail upon humanity, learn a trade
Should il never be resorted TO for the purpose
of making a living, yet it serves as a kind Of
rear guard for all future, which one can sum.
men to bis aid with the utmost confidence,
should defeats threaten or reverses come.
Learn a trade! 1t cannot detract from your
honor and your usefuIness--on the contrary
it enhances the one and is the soul Of The 9TH
er. 1t is, too, acompetency, a description Of
bullion, which the creditor and the sheriff can
not touch. But This is not all. It gives to the
features a cast of manIiness and independence,
to the body a VigOr, and TO the gait an elasti.
q, which belong to no other r~ocation. Again
We say--leaYn trade.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

Small HorSes.-The arguments may all be
in favor of great size, but the facts are all the
other way. Large horses are more liable TO
stumble, and be lame, than those of the middle
size. They are clumsy, and eannot ill them
selves so quick. The largest Of any class Is az
unnatural growth. They lave risen above the
usual mark, and it costs more 10 keep them in
position than it would were they ona level with
their species. "Follow nature IS rule never
TO be forgotten by farmers. Large men are
not the best for business; large hogs are no!
the hogs TO fatten best; and large hens are not
the best for laying eggs. Extremes are to be
avoided. We want weIl-formed animals ra.
Their than such as have large bones. Odd as it
may be to the %theorist, short~Iegged soldiers
are better on the march, and officers say they
endure hardships longer than those of longer
limbs. On choosing a horse, take care, by all
means, that his legs are short. If they are
long and split apart like a pair Of diyiders, never
inquire the price, or the dealer; make no Offer
Sag Har6or Correcfor.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
Young Wien for OFFICE.


Why the opinion, says the Jefferson Journal,
that none but old men were fit to ill places in
State, ever gained ground We cannot tell. Our
opinion as regards that is expressed in the book
of Job, in which EIihu, who had patiently lisa
tened to the remarks of the ancient fogies until
he was dissatisfied, and, he answered and said II
am young and ye are very old, wheref fore | was
afraid and burst not show mine opinion, | said
days should speak, and multitude of years
should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in
man and the inspiration of the Almighty giyeth
them understanding. Great men are not all
ways wise, neither do the aged understand
judgment"
Such is the opinion which We wish was uni
versaIly adopted in our country, and the legis>
latiVe and executive action would manifest the
progress Of the age. Our old men have done
their duty in their time and advanced as far as
their knowledge and light extended, and like
The carriage, the grease of whose wheels is
dried-they stopped. But new carriages are
built, more grease is applied and the progress
is forward and onward. Our age is one of
progress, and he who interposes so as to stop
that onward march must be considered behind
the age, and younger and more active men
must take their place. The man Of thirty
years ago, when railroad progress was con-
sidered a dream, must give way to the speed of
a mile a minute, and he who scoffed at the
Rocky mountains being the western barrier of
our Union, must stand aside to the one who
may be the means of admitting the Sandwich
Island into the confederacy.
The American motto is progress, and that
progress can only be carried forward BY men
who are in the vigOr of life and youth.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

Frighyu1 Leap--The Niagara Falls Gaz-
cite, states that one evening, week before last,
a Mrs. Flynn whose husband is a laborer ut that
place. jumped over the bank Of the Niagara
river, a short distance below the outlet Of the
canals. To every appearance she struck in the
top of a Tree after a sail Of about 100 feet, and
fell from there TO the bottom. When she left
home she kissed her children, bid them good
bye and told them TO inform Mr.. Flynn that he
would see her no more. She was observed to
go towards the bank Of the riyeF, and was seen
soon after taking the fearful leap. She was
considerably bruised and scratched but not
seriously hart.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

After A Printer.-A young woman ap-
peared to the editor of the London, Canada,
Free Press, a few days since, clothed in a boys
apparel, and asked to be employed to learn
type setting. The editor saw through her
disguise, told her so, and she disappeared, GO
ing, however, to other offices in the city for
the same purpose, and finally bringing up in a
barber shop, where the real object Of her visits
was learned. She was in search of a young
printer who had deceived her, and whom she
wished to be revenged upon. A bowie knife
and pistol were found on her person. She
finally left town.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
aLet them Alone.r

There is force and sound sense, and fact in
the following extract from q speech Of Mr,
Brown Of Tennessee:
"To use bis own eloquent language, speak
ing of the negroes over whom the philanihro~
pic despots of the North were shedding !ren
tears, as hard AZ those (which rolled DOVE
grim Pluto's cheek" he says: "Let them a.
lone. They are ours BY purchase. You Of the
North [some Of you) first kidnapped them, and
then brought and sold them to Us. Were We
TO libeFate them TO. morrow, you would not re-.
ceiye them. You would treat them with a
thoussnd-fod more barbarity than aver they
were treated by Us. Then let them alone.
Your beneyoIence, false and often ~hyporfi.
teal as it is, would but kill and destroy them.
Then let them alone. GHd 10 his love, and re-
ligfon in her holiness will do more and better
than you ever can or viii 10. But I forged
that ! speak 10 bigotFY that has no hear; ard
TO fanatician that has no ears. | torn, ihrtr
fore, from them to the men and patriots who
belong to these ha|ls-the successors Of those
illustFious men who reared the tempe and
consscrated it forever to the Union aud the
Constitution. II the people shal3 lift M their
eyes to this temple and pray for what il ~
lawful to grant them under TINT Conslitutiou,
hear them and answer them. But if they ask
for what will rend that Consultation, snd sundef
forever that bright and glorious Union, be ss
deaf and insensible as the marble pillars ws.yfa
surround you"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

A few nights since the Tailoring Establish
ment Of Messrs. BEEHLER Brothers were enter-
ed, and goods to the amount of SOM two hum
dred dollars or more stoIen. 1t is supposed
to have been committed by negroes. Since,
our Town Council have instituted q night
watch, and we hope they will be able to pick
up som Of those struggling ~rascals who break
in and steal.'
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

nIf our readers will excuse us for the in
eertion Of the outrageousIy extsavagant piece
Of romance that appears on our first page
and got there by accident--we promise mot to
do so again. notwithstanding, it will be inter,
esting to many readers.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

The Sugar P!antsr.--A paragraph which
appeared in The last number of this paper in
forms Us that we may expect to see the edi-
tors comments upon our remarks on Union of
Southern parties. as soon as-the honey moon
is over, we presume. 10 anticipation of what
we anticipate, we ask him, in advance, TO read
tas following, and to keep the sentiments in
view which it embraces, while inditjng the arti-
Gle he has promised
The moment a man parts with moral hides
pendence-the moment he judges of duty. not
from the inward voice, but from the interest
and will Of a party, the moment he commits
himself 10 a leader or a body, and winks at
evil because divisions would hurt the cause;
the moment he shakes off his particular re-
sponsibiiity, because he is but one Of r. thou
sand, or million, by whom the evil is done,-
that moment he parts with his moral power.
He is shorn of the energy, of single hearted
faith in the right and the true. He hopes
from mans policy what nothing but loyalty
to God can accomplish. He substitutes coarse
weapons, forged by mans wisdom, fer celes,
tial power.--C Claiming.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

ITThe use Of strychnine in the munofac-
tuFe of whisky is heurrforth TO be punished
as a felony in Ohio. By means Of thI- deas.
used in connection with tobacco, sharp diItil-
iers were making Eve gnIious of whiskey fom
a bushel Of grain; whereas the quantity obtaiR
ed by the process was but half 80 much.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

UAR letters, communications or notices seat
10 This paper, and intended to promote the in
terests or CRAFTY The wishes Of an indipiduab q
Party or q corporation, ~iH be charged as Gd-
vertisc7ieRts.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
ID.

On Wednesday evening the goth inst. at Baton
Rouge, by Rev. H. NJ. sLossoS, Mr.. HENRY J..
HYAMs, of this parish to Miss MARY CECE-
LA TRUDEAU, of East Baton Rouge, eldes,
DAUGHTER ofG. V. Trudeau, Esq,-Sngar Rlantr.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
For Sheriff.

Mr.. Editor: Please announce me in your pape
as an Independent Candidate for Sheriff.
ian31 J. NJ. RILS
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
GOssELEN,

INFORMS the public that he has located him
4 self in this place for carrying on the above 6u'
s~iness-Paper Hanging, repairing Billiard Ia
bles, Sofas, &c. Give him a call-residence on
Main street, in the old store Of SOlaris. He VIII
work at the lowest rates. myS4
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For Assessor.

~ We are authorized to announce Z. s.
HAASE as a candidate fol INSTRUMENTATION
next November. feb7
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30

~ we wisAR to DO distinctly understood that
no Gnnagacenaent q q Candidate for Office wall
b inserted in this paper, unless accompanied
aai6 tie cash, $40.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
For Coroner.

We are requested to announce J. A VOISIN
as an Independent Candidate for Concner at the
ensuing November election. my26
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-05-30
For Recorder.

Mr.. EDITOR: Please announce my name as
Candidate for the Office Of Recorder at the ersu
ing election. ADONIS PETIT.
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Nem A-OOert(gementa,
Piano Tuner,

DESPECTFULLY informs his patrons and
II the public generally that he will remain
here but a few days longer, to wait upon those
who may still require his services-after which
he will be absent till about October. Orders
left at Carson & Kearny's about that time, will
be promptly attended to. my3o