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The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1858-03-20

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

TTAVING been appointed Administrator of the Es-
I'll tate of Matthias G. Mills, deceased, all persons
having claims requested to present them. duly
authenticated ; and all those indebted. will be rcqu-
red 10 settle and pay up without delay. Either may
be done to Inc at my Office No. 40 Canal street. New
Orleans or to +. Iiardesty, Esqr. Clinton. La.
Clinton June 22. 1857. q. $. HAWKINS.
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IN advance. FoUR. If not paid within six months.
and FIVE. ifnot paid before the close of the year
ADvERTISING.--Advcr inserted at One
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Professional and business Cards, not exceeding six
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PArENT MEDIcINEs.-Thirty dollars per half column,
per year, and none Of greater length inserted.
ANNOUNCING CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE TEN DOLLARS,
payable in advance.
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FISK'S METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
WE HAVE PROCURED THE SPECIAL AND
w exclusive right of sale for
FlSK'S PATENT METALLIC COFFlNS.
for the Parish of East Feliciana. and have reduced
the prices down to those Of wooden collins
Wooden collins made to order, and every attention
given on Funeral occasions.
An excellent lIliARSE always ready.
Any Infringement of our rights in the sale OF the
above cases. will subject the violator to damages.
IAN 1858 BUTLER d KOCH.
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AGENTS..

The following named persons are our authorized
agents to collect monies due to, and receive subscrip
tions to. the DEMOCRAT"
ARTHUR McKENNA, Jackson, La.
r. CHICK. Port Hudson.
JOHN A. McHUGH. Plains Store.
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NOTICE.

DY virtue Of resolution of the Board Of Trustees
ID of the Silliman Female Collegiate Institute, in
Clinton. Louisiana hereby give notice to the stock
holders thereof who have not paid up their full sub
scription for stock that five dollars per share is
qucsted to he paid to the Treasurer Of said Board,
within sixty days from this notice. and five dollars a
share, every thirty days thereafter until the whole
amount is paid In.
BYTIlELL HAYNES, Secretary.
Clinton La. July A. 1857.
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objections to this liberal measure BY 1t the
people are clothed with sovereign rights, and
can, at once make constitution to suit them
selves Who can carp at this but for factious
purposes
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IMPROVED POTASH IN CANS.
II r. DURKEl g. Co.'S Improved Potash, in cans
IL. of and pounds each.
For making the very best soft or hard soap,
For softening hard water for washing,
For removing paint, varnish tar and grease spots,
from wood work
For cleaning Printers type nc.
Pulverized and prepared for convenient use, and
warranted equal in strength to the best common Pot
ash For sale at the drug store of
NAV 80 NOR WOOD TILDON.
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CARRIAGE & BUGGY HARNESS.

CARRIAGE & BUGGY HARNESS.
TIME subscriber in addition to his Carriage Manu-
L factory, intends to manufacture and keep con-
santy on hand, CARRLAGE & BUGGY HAR-
to any Harness brought from the north.
Also Harness of every description repaired at the
shortest notice and on reasonable terms. DESTROYS
and confident of giving satisfaction, share of the
public patronage is srespectfully solicited.
Prompt attention paid to all jobs from distance.
may 80 r. BAUMAN.
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COTTON AND SUGAR LANDS.

Wv i O.N .AIs - ~ b-N ~ lLA&Nh.1.
A FINE BODY OF LAND ABOUT 800 acres
"A cleared the balance well tmbercd with Cypress.
Gum &c. together with Improvements, consisting OF
Dwelling aud Clubhouse, negro quarters, excellent
fences are offered for
SALE OR REST.
lying on the Bayou Lattcnachc, Parish of Ponc
Coupce about one and half miles from Hopkins Land
ing. and five miles from WliamSPurt.
There are about 1900 bushels Of corn, 30 head OF
Hogs stock Nc. that can be purchased. For
terms. apply TO- or address r. =. White New Orleans
~ B.-Thc plantation adjoins that of i. Coylc
hrlow Hopkins II Sons. dee. s. 1857.
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R. BAU M A N N,
COACH AND & CARRIAGE

MANUFACTURER.
HAvING REMOVED to my new shop, on the street
IL running east Of the Union Hotel, am prepared
to build all kind of
BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, COACHES, &c
on the most approved plans, and, ina superior work
manlikc manner.
have now on hand and nearly finished, number
of new bugges, TO which would call the attention
of my customers, and the public in general. They
are warranted to be equal if not superior TO any
brought from the North, or other places.
Thankful for the patronage and public confidence
extended, desire to retain and Increase the same.
by industry, promptness, fair prices and good work.
Attached to my establishment is blacksmith
shop where all work in that line will be done with
promptness and fully guaranteed
VANHORN'S IRON IMPROVED Cl'LTiVATOR.
Having the exclusive right TO manufacture this
improved Cultiyator, will furnish them to planters
on the most reasonable terms Call and examine
them.
Also Plantation Work Of every description.
have every facility for the furnishing Of Coffins,
&c. and personal attention given ut funerals when
required sept. 26, 1857.
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NEW BOOKS-JUST RECEIVED.
ATcCAULEYs HISTORY OF ENGLAND-Hum
Nl do do. Foxes History of the Martys--lrvns Life
of Washing ngtonPoetical Works of Shakespeare, Byron
Moore, Tuppcr, Kirk White, &C., &c. for sale by
fch 20 Z. WALKER.
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JERRoLDs W.T." Douglas Jerrolds Wit -
Just published in a neat volume by Ticknor 4
fleidS, improves upon every fresh reading,
though there is considerable in it which is not
wiser or wittler than other people have written.
Some OF his illustrations are excellent Take
THIS, Tor instance, and we need not 60 to a cabi-
net minister to find specimens of the bear:
1t occasionally happens that the bear aioat
on an iceberg drifts into a warmer latitude than
the latitude of eternal frost, and as the iceberg
melts and melts under the increasing heat. the
bear shifts and shifts, finding his footing passing
from beneath him, and at lenght bowls piteous
~, to know the dissolution of the iceberg must
In time occur. We would not compare a minis.
ter OF State to polar bear, nevertheless, even
chancellor ofthe exchequer, as he finds Paris a
ment melting and a dissolution inevitable, will
sometimes change his music"
Here Is story which is exceedingly funny,
too humorous some think, to be Jerrold's own
Invention
- We have heard of man, reasonable in all
other matters, who declared that he had been
ruined, all his vast property swallowed, by an
earthquake. But when asked by strangers,
What earthquake-and where?' the ruined
man, with deeper look of injury upon him
would reply confdentially, That's it, that
just it. That earthquake, sir was most shame.
fully hushed up"
This is good, about the Jacobite and the whig
who quarrelled, and when one of them cried
out, " spit upon your king Villain and the
0ther, - spit upon your James the Second -
Jerrold rung the bell and shouted. " Waiter
splttOons for two ~ So is his reason for the
" fall: Eve" Jerrold said, "ate the apple
that she might dress What is better than
this
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STRANGE Accounts FROM LIBERIA.-Tbe
farmville (Na.) Journal notices the return
from Liberia of two slaves who were emanci-
pated by the late John Watson, of Prince Ed
ward county. The sum of 81 900 was left by
Mr.. Watson to carry sixty of his slaves to that
Republic. They give very discouraging ac-
count OF the trip out and their treatment after
they arrived. The Journal says:
Before leaving the ship, the agent of the Col
onIzatlOn Society induced the emigrants to pur.
chase quantities of cheap calico brass jewelry,
&c, assuring them that they would need such
articles In their new home, but on their arrival
they found that they had been deceived and
defrauded out of their money The provisions
carried out for their support for the first six
months were sold daily before their eyes, and
they were compelled to buy provisions every
day, often OF very inferior quality and insult
hcient In quantity. The agent employed by
the Society would sell to the bakers, and the
bakers to the EN- grants-their own provisions
At exoroitant prices, the agent receiving part
OF the profits.
On their arrival they only received a half
acre OF land, instead Of the FIVE acres promised
They found provisions at exOrbitant prices and
good deal of bad treatment besides from the
authorities. They allege that the President OF
the colony, if not engaged in the slave trade
cOnnives at it.
They have returned to slavery, believing
that freedom to the negro in Africa is the
greatest curse that could possibly befall him
and that had the Liberians the means of get
| ting away seven-eighths of them would gladly
| return to the United States and serve the hard.
est masters to be found in the South, feeling
| that the condition of the slave here is faI
| preferable to that Of the most favored of the
| inhabitants of Liberia.
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USE OF PAIS.-Sir Humphrey Davy, when a
boy, with the defiant constlncy of youth, which
had as yet suffered nothing held the opinion
that pain was no evil. He was refuted by
a crab who bit his toe when he was bathing,
and made him roar loud enough to be heard
half mile off. If he had maintained instead
that pain was good, his doctrine would have
been unimpeachable. Unless the whole con-
sttution of the world were altered, our very
existence depends upon our sensibilty to SUIT
fering. An anecdOte, which is quoted by DR..
Carpenter in his " Principles Of Human Physi-
OlOgy," from the Journal of Naturalist -
shows the fatal effects of temporary suspcn-
sion of this law Of our nature A drOver went
to sleep on a winters evening upon the plat
form of a lime kiln, with one leg resting upon
the stones which had been piled up to burn
through the night. That which was gentle
warmth when he lay down, became a consuming
fire befJre he rose up. His foot was burnt of
above the ankle and when reused in the morn
ing by the man who superintended the lime.
kiln, he put his stump, unconscious of lis mis-
fortune, to the ground, the extremity crumbed
into fragments. Whether he b: d been luled
into tcrpDr by the carbonio acid driven off from
the limestone, or whatever else may have been
the cause Of bis insensibility, he felt no pain,
and through his very exemption from this lot ot
humanity, expired a fortnight afterwards
Bristol Hospital. Without the warning voice Of
pain, life would be series of similar disas-
ters.-LORdOn Quarterly.
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SrERSE REBUKED.-Sterneb being in company
with three or four clergymen, was relating a
circumstance which happened to him at York.
After preaching at the cathedral, an old wo-
man, whom he observed sitting on the pulpit
stairs, stepped him as he came down, and beg
ged to know where she should have the honor
Of hearing him preach the next Sunday: Mr..
Sterne having mentioned the place where he was
to exhibit, found her situated in the same man
ner on that day when she put the same ques-
tion to him as before.
The following Sunday he was to preach four
miles out of York, which he told her and to his
great surprise, found her there too and, that
the same question was put to him as he des-
cendei from the pulpit On which, adds he,
took for my text these words, expecting to
find my old wo nan as before. ''I Will grant
the request of this poor widow, lest By Der often
coming, she weary me-" One OF the company
immediately replied. Why, Sterne, you omit
ted the most applicable part of the passage
which is, Though neither fear God nor regard
>" This unexpected retort sileneed the
wit for the whole evening.
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A CANTON PRIEsr's HIDDEN TREASURE
Some days since poor priest presented him.
self at headquarters in abject garb and souaI.
I'D plight, and told piteous tale TO the ben,
ersl how his little personal propertv. and his
only change of raiment, lay in the Monastery
OF Celestial Bliss, now occupied bv CoIonel
HGrker and his battalion. The General n,
once gave blm an order to remove all his prop
cry from the place, and the priest prudentiy
waited till the Colonel and the major part Of
ms otheers and men were absent on a recon
nolssance. He then presented his order, and
was led about by the officers of the day TO
recognize his property. The poor priest was
accompanied by some servtors of his order.
with their assistance he opened the pedestal
OF an untouched idol, and 10 bar of solid
gold and several bars of silver were exposed 10
the view of the astonished soldiery Proceed
Ing to another image, he distracted some stones
OF great magnitude and price Then he Dor.
rowcd ladder, and mounting to the roof. re-
moved sheathing, and behold a magazine of
richly embroidered silks, and costly furs, all of
which were duly piled upon the shoulders of
the. poor brethren. The guard were almost
frantic, but the order was imperative The
poor priest was n true ChInaman.
Having succeeded so far, ho pushed his ri shts
to the utmost. Lying about were some trophies
and small matters which the absent soldiers had
gathered together in other places and brought
to these quarters. They also were put together
All was carried off, and when the reconnoiter-
ing party returned to their quarters they found
them swept but not garnished Nothing was
left but the whole in the roof and tho disem
bowelcd joss.
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SPIRIrCALIsM RESOUSCED.-Quite a com
motion was recently excited among the spirit
uallsts Of Plymouth, Massachusetts,, by the
announcement of Miss Lizzie Doten, the princi.
pal medium of that place, that she ceuld not
conscientlcusly speak to them again as u me-
dunn She said that she feared that she had
been iaboring under delusioH, and as she
considered herself responsible to God for what
her lips uttered and for the influence which her
words exerted upon those who heard her, she
was unwilling to be made the medium Of any
other spirit than her own. IT, - said she, "tbe
angel Gabriel should stand by my side and ask
me to deliver message to you from him,
after l shall address you in my own natural
and conscious state" This change in her views
was brought about through the influence of a
Professor who had been delivering a course Of
lectures in the town on the phenomena OF
nerves" and against modern spirItualism.
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A MONSTER OMSIBUs.-The largest omnibus
In France is to be found in the small town OF
CavaillOn, and the origin of it is somewhat
singular The proprietor of an extensive silk
spinning mill III that place employs about 80
women or young girls, most of whom belong to
t5e surrounding Villages. and are in the habit
OF spending the Sunday with their families
For that purpose, they were accustomed to
start on the Saturday evening and walk dis
tances varying from to IL miles, and return
on the sunday evening more fatigued than by
a long day work. In order to remedy that
Inconvenience, their employer had this omni-
bus constructed, which has two rows of seats.
one over the other. and can contain about 90
passengers. When the mill is closed on Satur-
day evening. four strong horses are attached to
1t, and it conveys the females to their respec-
tive villages, and on Sunday evening proceeds
to collect and bring them back.
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HATS OF THE SEASON.
SUPERIOR MUSICAL INSTRUCTION.

Prof DE C(ENIEL, (formery Principal of the
Music Department at Pstapsco Institutr, Md ESs
having been induced to come and locate per. irAA$
manently in this city, begs TO inform the Musl
cal public of Washington, GEORGETOWN, and their
vcinites, that he will give, limited number of
SPECIAL pupils advanced in Music. thorough prac-
tica course Of instruction on the Harp, Pa' Oforte,
already known composer viii, he hopes, be suf-
hcient guarantee for his proficiency and ability
Professor. ..--rs. .s.s....
Prof. De Ceniel will also give regular course Of
instruction tconfdentai in the Art of Teaching.
tn those who do not yet find themselves competent
Ia teach, or 10 those " no may wish To make Muslc
a profession showing the only true and practical
method to pursue for imparting sfnc ~ thorough
Musical Education, elias cally formed and condensed
INTO eight sections parts. and when duly qualified
will receive a printed Certificate of Merit and Com
potency Professed Teacher. b.
III Orders received for the selection OF the best
Instruments without charge.
Add ress to the care of Mr.. Davis, Piano Store, or
to the Washington House, Pa,avenue.
ma Is eOlms
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IMPROVEYOUR EYES,

IMPROVE YOUR EYES.
STRENGTHEN and assist them. By the Paris
has arrived from Europe with his ~
own, as well al tho manufacture of good many
others of the latest improved SPECTACLES and
EYE;GLASSES; among which are the
PERiSCOPIC CONCAVE and CONVEX, The
DOUBLE FOCUS and DOUBLE POLISHED
BRAZILIAN PEBBLES. CRYSTALS. Etc.
with weakaess: cataract or tending to it; also
SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS
Persons who are compelled to use glasses, or those
now using them, will be suited at first sight. Those
wondeffnl o,,sur, ,yrnr,,,.r,.n
CRYSTAL ROCK -fr..
have received the highest recommendations at the
Worlds Fair, at Paris, through their producing Q
clearness and easness of vision heretofore unknown
In any other improvements.
FYING GLASSES, COmpasses, and Microscopes
are for az store corner of Eghth street and
Pepnsylvania avenue, Eighth street No. <9l be-
tween street aud Pa. avenue. d
Tioss very y' ressonsbs the same as at his e:tsb.
Iishment in Europe, GS-H
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EOR RENT OR LEASE FOR TERN OF
SEARS-That very handsome and elIgibly SIT
ufted HOUSE on Penn. ylvania avenue between
l7ih and 18th streets, lately occupied by MI Diver
nos, hotel. The main house well pied for
either private residence or public house, having
a number of large rooms and many cnnve7icnces at
tached to it, and the additional house whcl lately
served the purpose of bar with three four
up stars, can readily be converted into Of
hce below with sleep ng rooms In the upper story.
The establishment is very desirable for q
foreign minister the house lately occupied bar
room c., &c. eas be converted into an office
Offices below, with sleeping rooms above for the
secretaries and attaches of the legation.
For terms, &c, apply to n. La SON at Wind
er's Building. ma 2a-3tdG 2awtf
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For Rent and Sale,

DARE CHANCE FOR WOOD AND COAL
~ DEALERS For rent, for ten years. vacant
LOT upon near Dth street, 81 by 129 feet, nearly
opposite the new Presby terian Church. For terms
apply to Or. CHAS. II. CRAGlN. Georgetown.
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Anew FANCY STORE.

NEW FANCY STORE.
The subscriber has Removed from her old stand
street. opposite the Post Office To 7th street,
east side, No. 5241s, just above the of ST.,
ard will have constantly on hand every variety of
Fancy Artices; aiso Chenille Silks, Beads, Wors
teds. shetland Wool; superior quality and assort-
nent Embroldering of every GetcnPtion execIt-d
and Drawings of Patterns OF all kinds attended 20.
Instructions in all EmbrOiderilg. knitting, Crotch
ct, Tapestry and Netting given Ivy
ma ll-lm' MRS. EEONORE RUPERT.
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w. PLANT, UNDERTiKER, No. 4l8 7th
~. street, between 6 and n, keeps IT
guired in his lIne-a fno Eearse,
Patent Corpse Preservers, &C., &c. His charges are
moderate. and his attention instant call any hour
of the day night. Hacks furnished for funerals
lowest possible rates. np8-ly
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CHEorLAsTfC PROCESS
~ AN IMP PRDYEMENT IN

4 (NHEUPLASTIC PROCESS
~ - IN IMP pROVEMENT IN
MECHANICAL DENTISTRY.
Dr. II. q. HILLS respectfully informs sase public
that he is now prepared 20 hsert partial and~@
'uli setts oil III 81 at reasonable rates St$~
ou Lhis improved plaI. the sreat sdvan- -I-S
taEe tnls PROCESS mas ovt all Others ls perfect
adaptation 4 ne meth I'd of itself insures most
perIeci nj. ne mets As entirely free from all me-
talo taste and none of the seeretons OF the mouth
can nave any effect NJ on it Testimonials from the
most prominent cltlz ems er Baltimore, conf trmIug
Its great superiority. can be All those per-
spIs WHO are sunerl ng WITH ladapted plates will
Piese give me ca 1. aoi will take great pleasure
IA m aplahng ans; khilssrng TO them specimens of
t1eWofk. All inquirer. should lie made at Of
tee, as am the nly arthorlzed agent for this pro
cess. ~
ofhce, No. 20 ,Pen'I. avenue, between 18th and
18TH streets, next hor sc above Geutier's.
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ma p 2-eO1w

nRUG STORE FOR SALE An eligible stand,
- doing an excellent retail and prsscriptio bust
ness. Satisfactory reasons given for selling Terms
moderate Address Chemist" City Post Office.
ma 2S- S-2awlm-
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Dentistry, 20.
CARD.

n CARD. II.
DR; LOOMS, DENTIST, will be absent from thus
city during the summer months, but vIil<~
return the st of September resume hIsSv~
professional duties, He will also change -lI-o
has offlce for larger and more commodous rooms IN
another oca ty, OF which due notice will lie gwen.
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NEW BOOKS JUST RECEIVED AT SHEP
~ HERDS, corner 7th and ID streets.
~ "A complete asso,tment OF me pnhLlcations OF
wards, Hy INNS, Tracts, &C.; Wesley Family. tales
and Takngs, Lost Chapters, Chief of Pilgrams, The
True w oman Peter Cartwright. Biblical Diction-
AIRY, lounge of Fire. What Must do to be Saved,
Sting of the oder, LivngstOn's Travels in Africa,
Drake's II lstOry of Indians, Six Steps to Honor,
Wild Western Scenes, New Lutte Uf Zion, and
other Music.
Frend,o mas