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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-02-04
NEW FIRM.

TuNIIE undersigned have formed a partnership
II under the style of
HOLLlNGsWORTH & BROTHER.
and have just received large and -si-abc stock Of
Q u l. T. n S w A Il Z,
LOOKING GLASSES,
CHINA, GLASSWARE &C., &c,
al Preston Bros obi stand, opposite Bement viess,
where We will be pleased TO all our friends. The
stock IL entirely new manuacuredto our own order,
xpress the Evansville wholesale and retail trade
We prot, TO sell as low markets and sat sfac
ton given in all cases Personal attention given To-
ders. W. Y. HOLLlNiSWUpTH,
jan 12-lm TT. H0LLlNCSW0RTH.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-02-04

CANAL STORAGE.
n HAVE a large double Warehouse at the Cana
u Basin, able of storing any amount Of produce,
which win be received stored, taken of and held
subject to the owners orders. the most reasonable
terms. PIG. 0'RILEv
mh2656.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-02-04
STORAGE WANTED.

VXTE are prepared to store in Fire Proof Ware
w house any quantity Of Grain, Produce, or Mer-
chandize, on the most liberal terms.
Having large and airy up stairs, particular
will he taken Of Household Furniture, Agricultural
Implements and all kinds Of goods wares liable to
damage from damp rust.
Insurance effected the low fire proof rates. by the
month, or longer, when desired.
Warehouse located on corner Of Locust street and W
and 4. Canal, and most convenient for shipping %,
River or Railroad. Apply to GE0. FOSTER co.
ap2s.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03
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payment exacted.
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news; obituaries. tributes of respect, and funeral
invitations as other advertisements.
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Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03
TRIUMPH OF MIND OVER
MATTER

DR.. Elder, in his interesting Biography
of DR.. Kane, relates that he once asked
him after his return from his last Actic
expedition, for the best proved instaace
that he knew of the souls power over
the body-an instance that might pusA
the hard-baked philosophy of materialism
to the consciousness of it's own idiocy.'
He paused a moment, and then said, with
spring, the soul can lift the body out
Of its boots, sir. When our captain was
DYING say dying Ihave seen scurvy
enough to know-every old scar in his
body was running ulcer. 1fconscience
testers under its wounds correspondingly
hell is not hard to understand. I never
saw case so bad that either lived or
died. Men die oft usually, long before
they are so i'll as he was. There was
trouble aboard there might be mutiny.
So soon as the breath was out of his
body we might be at each others throats.
/ felt that he owed even the repose Of
dying to the service. / went down to
his bunk, and shouted in his ear, Mu-
tiny, captain, mutiny = He shook off
the cadaveric stupor !; Set me up he
said, and order these fellows before
me- He heard the complaint, ordered
punishment, and from that hour con
valesced. Keep that man awake with
danger, and he wouldn't die of anything
until his duty was DONE
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

Ocn GOVERNMENT AND THE AFRICAN
SLAVE TRAnE.-Wc extract the following
from the Washington correspondence
Of the Baltimore Sun:
The Secretary of State has been en-
gagged, it is said, i'll preparing report
upon the subject Of the African slave
trade, az it is now carried on, upon the
coast of Africa. This statement will be
in answer to call Of the Senate for such
information as may have been received
upon the subject from foreign govern
ments or from officers of the 0. S.
African squadron. Whether our govern.
ment will take any steps towards the
suppression of the traffic is to be consid-
cred. 1t is said that the government OF
Great Britain have ordered an increase
of their steam naval force upon the
coast, and it has been recommended to
our government to substitute steam for
sailing vessels for the same service.
1t is also reported that the French
government, upon the rcmonstrance Of
the Liberian government had promised
to abandon the traffic which had been
carried on under contracts for supplying
the French West India colonies with
apprentices. This is not, however, prob
able, especially as the French govern
mcnt had not yielded the policy to the
|rcmonstrances of the government Of
Great Britain, and as they notified the
latter government, in 1852, that if pro-
hibited from obtaining Asiatics as
laborcrs, they would take them from
Africa.
If France persists in this course, it is
probable that other nations will follow
her example, and that the African slave
trade will be practically and generally
revived. 1t cannot be carried on as a
direct trade by this country, while the
law making it piracy exists. Still,
American ship-owners and sh1p-masters
are engaged in it as carriers for other
parties.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

GOLDEN MEXICAN CorroN.-Mr. John
w. Simpson of South Carolina, had pre-
sented to him half bushel of the Golden
Mexican cotton seed last season, which
were planted in about an acre of thin
land. the seeds being dropped from six
to ten inches apart.
The result was 1885 pounds of seed
cotton and $50 pounds Of clean lint.
The lint resembled the long eottons of
the low country. The yield is regarded
as extraordinary, in view of the sparse
stock and the drouth of the season. 1t
lis believed this variety will improve the
product Of our cotton fields, both in it's
quality and tho amount gathered fou
an acre-N. o. Pic.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

Bors AND crnLs-speaking of the plan
of separating the sexes, in school, Mr..
Stowe, the celebrated Glasgow teacher,
says
The separation has been found injuri.
Gus. 1t is impossible to raise the girls
as high, Intellectually, without the boys
as with them and it is impossible to
raise boys morally as high without
girls. Tho girls morally elevate the
boys, and the boys intellectually elevate
the girls. But more than this, girls
themselves are morally elevated by the
p,esence of boys, and the boys are in
telactually elevated by the presence Of
girls. Boys brought up with girls are
made positively intellectual by the sof.
tening Influence of female character.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03
THE PRESS ON THE APPRENTICE
BILL.

We think the friends Of this measure
have mistaken public opinion, Already
the press have opened upon it in this
State. Up to this time, we believe the
New Orleans Delta is it's only advocate
in Louisiana. The sugar Planter, Of
Saturday, says:
This infamous bill, for we can call it
by no milder name, received it's quietus
i'll the Senate on Monday last, by the
following vote. The motion was to post
Ipone indefinitely: :.
Yeas. .--Messrs. Chew, Defreese,
Gardere, Locoul, Malhiot, SHINES,
Tucker, Talbot, Pearcc, Moore, Witllers,
Taylor, Stirling, Smart-l5.
Nays-Messrs. Adams, Burlington,
Cattrell Ducros, St. Paul, Heard,
Laidlaw, Shadburnc, Delony, Pellcrin,
Griffin, Oliver, and Kidd-l3.
1t was hard and we'll fought contest,
and it would have certainly become a
law, had not the opponents of the
measure broken quorum again and again
to prevent its passage. Such a method
of defeating a bill is much to be depre.
Gated, as often leading to serious results
and should never be indulged in, unless
for good and sufficient reason.-The
opponents of the bill will receive, VIC
feel confident, the thanks of at least
two-thirds of the people of the State
for their bold stand against bill which
would only entain disgrace upon the
State"
The law of Congress does not only
prohibit the introduction of "slaves,n j
but of any negro" y" mulatto" or '"other
person." held to serrice or Abors."
The Vicksburg Wing remarks of the
apprentice system
"A recent article in the N. O. Delta,
stating as fact that the slave trade
had been re-opened, and cargo of
negroes from Africa landed in Missis.
sippi. has very naturally attracted con-
siderable attention. That such traffic
is plainly in violation of the laws of the
United States, no one, we presume, will
deny.-The Act of March I'd, 1907,
Isorbids the importation of slaves into
this country, under a heavy penalty
Ihs Act prohibits the bringing of any
negrs, mulatto; or person of color from
any kagdom, place or country to be
dlsposet Of as 9 slave, or to be held to
serrsce or ty5or.
The advocates of the revival of the
slave trade argue that the apprentice
system would be no violation of law,
forgetting THAI the Act prohibits the
brining ofnegroes into the United States
to be held for any service whatever.
lfit be true that negroes have been
landed from Africa IN this State. the
parties engaged have violated the laws
of the land, and expose themselves to
heavy penalties.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

On VERY HIGH FENcE.-Petitions
have been addressed to the Pennsylvania
Legislature for a law prohibiting free
negroes from coming into that State.
Some of the free States have already
passed laws to the effect and in others
the subject is now pending. At the
same time, several of the slaves States
are making endeavors to secure. ty
legal enactments, the expulsion Of all
free negroes from their limits. Now.
if all the slave States expel their free
blacks, and all the free States refuse to
receive them, the New York Journal OF
Commerce inquiries what is to be done
with them? Where are they to go!
That is the question.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

A NIcE QuEsrIoN-The delicate and interest
ino oneration of transferring blood from one pa
t;ent to another has again been successfully per-
formed by DR.. Wheatcroft, an Engliah surgeon,
in the case Of q female patient. When apparently
expiring from the loss of blood. about two pounds
Of blood was transferred from the veins Of her
husband into her veins, with the most favorable
result. In q few minutes after, the current Of
blood began to flow, and the ebbing Of life was
checked, the circulation being re-established and
deliverance from apparently certain and ap
proaching dissolution secured. DR.. Wheatcrofs
suggests the trial Of this operation In the last
stare Of low typhna and the collapee Of AEatic
choIeys, when slI other ueane kave failed.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03
THE CHILD'S PRAYER.

Little hands are clasped in prayer,
Holy incense on the air
Waited to the fount of love-
Pleasing to the One above,
Listen-for my child doth pray!
They have taught her how to say
"Our Father give to me
Thought and heart to worship thee;
Thou, from whence all blessings come
Parents, pleasures, friends and home
All my warmest love and praise
To my maker would l raise!
In this world of trial and sin,
Father, keep me pure within;
Make me gentle, true and kind,
Onward, upward, thee in mind
Till at last through Him rise,
Jesus opens Paradise!
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03
5tate OF Lo11isiana.
Ninth District Court-Parish of Pointe Coupee
W. B. Wood, and wife

W. B. Wood, and wife
DY virtue of, and to satisfy writ of e fa, is
ID sued in the above entitled suit and TO me di-
rected by the Hon. the 9th District Court in and
for the parish and State aforesaid, to satisfy
plaintiffs demand and costs of suit, have seized
and will offer at public sale, at the Court House
on
Saturday, the Sd day Of April, 1858.
at IL o'clock, m, all the right, title and inter-
est that the defendant has in and to the following
described property to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land established as
sugar plantation situate, lying and beingin the
parish of Pointe Coupee, in this State, having
front on the Mississippi River twelve and one-half
arpents by a depth Of fifty nine arpents, con-
tanning seven hundred and thirty seven and one
half superficial arpents; bounded on the upper
side by Ponce Colomb and below by the land of
the defendant. together with all the buildngsand
improvements thereon, rights, ways privileges
and advantages thereunto belonging, and the fol-
lowing slaves:
Dick aged 50, Rachel his wife 35, George Rey-
nolds Is, Judy his wife 20. Lefty %, Lewis her
son TO- HANSON 80, Maria his wife 1S George An
derson %, Susan his wife Is, and their four chill
dren aged from nine years downWards, Nathan
As. Courtsey his wife 40, Wexford 20, Milton s,
their sons, Allen, mechanic As, Lucretia 33, Wat
son SO, Peter 28, Andy 26, Simon 81, Wansait 81,
Henry Hern 26, Jane his wife %, Mary II, Beck
ett s, Mahamia and Coranda twins 4. Also l6
mules, 15 horned cattle, and sheep.
Terms of Sale-Casd acith Appraisement
SEVERN PORCHE, Sh'f.
Pointe Coupee feb. q, 1858. 7tds
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

Tue BLAcKwooD MURDER.-In the case of the
State VS.. G. G. Blackwood, for the murder of G..
W. A. Wright, in the LIST District Court, New Or
leans, the jury brought in verdict of guilty,
without capital punishment" The Picayune
says: aHis appearance, as he entered the bar
of the court, was changed from that coolness
which he had, almost without exception, exhibited
through the exciting scenes of the trial He
looked anxious and uneasy, and seemed to seek
announcement from the friends that had sur
rounded him during the contest for life. He con-
versed, first with one, then another; pallor and
sudden fushes passed over his countenance, indi-
eating the fearful throbbing Of his heart, while
sitting in terrible expectation Of the word which
was TO consign him to death or imprisonment or
give him liberty. When the verdict was read in
court. no demonstration followed, but each, citi-
zen seemed to feel the majesty Of the invisible
presence of the law. The prisoner standing at
the bar. received the verdict with comparative
composure; the die, with him was cast, and all
that was firm in his nature seemed called into
reouisition to maintain his self possession. Not
SO with his friends. His relatives in Court-stern
men though they were-were effected with emo
tons which could only be supported by the re-
lief afforded by tears. This cause, and the pen
aIty which has followed the yielding to the i'm
pulse of sudden passion. should be warning to
be needed by those who have been too ready to
take the law of personal vindieation into theiI
own hands,
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03
THE BELLE OF THE BALL.
BY WALTER H. PETERS,

/ saw her--and upon her brow
The blush of beauty proudly glared-
Before whose shrine, with many vow.
Passionate souls had knelt despaired;
The look of triumph in her eyes
The words of joy upon her tongue
And needless Of the burning sighs
OF all who round her pathway hung.
l saw her, as l stood aloof
From those who followed, and who sued
The hum resounding to the roof
Of all their voices unsut dued.
1uraed not my thought, for still I gazed-
Sought out and followed where her smile
AS brilliant as the lights that blazcd,
Shed life around her all the while.
She felt her charms without peer
The conscious beauty of the hour:
And near her still. hey drew more near,
Like birds around seme fragrant flower;
heard her hollow laugh and turned
Away, as memory knew her we'll
For in my breast there onee"had burned
A passion-that may not tell.
l saw her and boyish gush
OF feeling stung me-less of pain
The purple current seemed to rush
As though 'twere mounting to my brain;
For one who loved--would have died.
So full of phrenzy was his dream
Deeeived-betrayed- broken pride,
In anguish sank meath Lethe's stream!
We met again in after years
The naughty beauty now no more
The child of many bitter tears
A wreck Of follies DER and o'er:
Upon her palhd brow the trace
Of Time was furrowed- her eye
That flashed and lit her queenly face,
Seemed lustreless, and cold and dry.
Her very tones were altered-still
saw the beauty of the Ball
gazed upon her-gazed until
The past came back al my recall;
Again saw her move along
The praised and envied d each tongue
hear her voice like some sweet song
Float up like fairy music sung.
But where, where was the fawning crowd,
Who followed her in beauty's pride?
Not one Of all the great and proud
Smiled now at her deserted side,
/ unused upon her-as she shone-
The Belle of that remembered night
And now-forsaken and alone
A summer flower-withered quite.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

- Mr.. Jones have you got : match !"-
"Yes, sir; match for the devil; there she ID,
mixing up dough" Jones pointed to his wife
and then "slid'' fsr the front door. The last We
saw of Jones he was .kiting" 1t down the read,
hotly pursued BY rcd headed lady and cistern
pole.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

ARarvALor DAcorAHs At WASHINGTON
Twentyzsix fne stalwart Indians Of the
Santee band Of the great Dacotah or
Sioux Nation. who inhabit about the.
headuaters OF the Minnesota river, ar
rived at Washington on the 18th inst.
They are cons to treat fos cession
cs!a.5s.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

~ A tipsy Irishman, leaning against
. lamppost, as a funeral procession was
passing by, was asked wIo was dead.
/" / can't exactly say, sur said he but
1 presume it is the jntlenan IN the
coffin.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

FAILED TO Par IsrEREsr.-The Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad has failed to
pay it's interest on it's bonds. The float
ing debt Of this company exceeds 81 900,
900. The inte,est whi:A!. accrnes at the
end Of the year is not shor! Of $700, 900.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

b0r In treating diseases Of the mind,
music is not sufficiently valued. In
raising the heart above despair an old
violin is worth four doctors and two
apothecary shops.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

State Of Louisiana.
Ninth District Court-Parish of Pointe COupee.
In the matter of Succession OF Honore Fabre,
% deceased.
III VIRTUE of a commission to me directed
BY the Honorable the Ninth District Court,
n and for the parish and State aforesaid; the
anaersigned viii offer at public sale on
IAarsday, SUI dag Of April, 1858,
90 ne premises lately inhabited By Honore Fabre
= u o'clock q M, the following described prop
!, nlne Sheep and Five Lambs, One Anvil, House
tuTntcfe Kitchen Utensils, I'D
TERNa or sALE-cAsH.
SEVERN PoRCHE Sheriff
pclsas ceapss, kkrrhla 1853 s.ds
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-04-03

C.F. W. McRae
DY virtue of and to satisfy writ of q ia, issu-
% ed in the above entitled suit and to me direc-
ted by the Hon. the 4th District Court in and for
the parish and State aforesaid to satisfy PLAINTIFF
demand and costs of suit, have seized, and will
offer at public sale at the Court House on
Saturday, the LIST day Of May, 1858,
at II o'clock, a. M, all the right and interest
that the defendant has in and to the following de-
scribed property to-wit:
All and singular that certain tract or portion of
land situated on the Bayou Fordoche, in the par
|ish of Ponte Coupee in this State, bounded above
by lands of Martin Carmouehe and below by
lands belonging to the estate of H. Clark, con-
tanning fourteen hundred arpents more or less,
and the following named slaves, to-wit:
Bob. aged As years; John 80, Dennis AZ, Dam
lief 40. Henry 30, Peter 80, William %, Squire o.
Scott 33. Dave Is, Levi 40, John 10, Dick 49,
lSeaton So, Manuel 25, Jerry ~. Hern 10, Bob 49,
Cooper 22, Eliza 40 and her child Polly, Emily
20, Leaty Is, Henrietta Is, Phillip 48, Nelly
40 wears and her child Jane, Alexander or Aleck
20. Cyrus 81. Suzan o. CLANCY Is, Ann 80 and
her children, Mingo13 and York 6, Becky and
her child. Cadence ~ and her child I, Suzan rs
and her child, Lucinda 40, Maria ~ and her
child, Lucinda 20 and her child Alexander OF
AIeck g. Julia so and her child, Lucinda Wash
Iington and her child, Patsy 80 and her child
rem. Hetty 7, Will Is, Charlott 45, Harriet 25
Arthur 10, Jack so.
Terms of Sale-Cah ao;th Apprassement
SEVERN PORCHE, Shit.
po;nfo G.,,,nao March 81 125S 7tds