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Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-01-01


NEW SYSTEM OF SEAMANsHIp. - The
story goes, says the Mobile Mercury,
that after "our Susan got away from
Mobile, her guest expressed to Captain
Maury his admiration of the men he had
lon board, as fine, rcsolutc, daring fel-
lows, but was doubtful of their skill as
sailors. Maury replied that they were
just as capable of scamanship as of any
thing else, but were little awkward at
present, from not knowing the names Of
the ropes; in fact, they couldn't tell a
jib sheet from bowllne. He had plan,
however, for remedying this difficulty,
which he was about to make trial of, and
did not doubt Of its success. This was
to take deck of cards and attach one
to each of the ropes, and then he'd be
bound when the word was given to "haul
away on the queen Of clubs" or to tease
off the ace Of spades, every one of them
would know exactly what to do.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-01-01

AJuRoR CORRECTING AJuDGE. Judge
in Cincinnati last week had justcharged
the jury in a very important case, when,
to the great astonishment Of all present,
a professional juror, who happened to be
on, arose from his seat and begged to
call the attention of his honor to slight
mistake he had made in his charge, and
actually quoted authorities to sustain
his opinion. Upon referring to his cita-
tions, it was found, to the no small
amusement of the spectators, that the
juryman was right and his honor was
wrong; whereupon, with all due gravity
he informed the bench that he knew he
was correct, as he had been charged at
least forty times on the same point in
the last four months, and couldn't be
mistaken.
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FOR S.HLE

A SUGAR PLANTATION situated in this par
ls' fronting the Bay of False River together
with abont fifty negroes. the horses. mules stock.
ana farming utensils attached to the place.
for terms and conditions address Mr.. 4. l..
MAHOtDEAU, on the premises. =
folnte Conpee. December II, is5s-lm
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Willie nc was speaking, 1t always seemed
directly to the point When he ha,
spoken in opposition to my opinion
had produced great effect, and / my
self, been delighted and moved, | hav,
asked myself, when he ceased, "Wha
has he said?" | could never answer tho
inquiry. His person was of full size
and his manner and voice free and man
ly. His utterance was neither very fast
nor very slow. His speeches generally
short-from quarter to half an hour.
His pronunciation vulgar and vicious,
but it was forgotten while speaking.
lie was man of very little knowledge
of any sort; he read nothing, and had 10
books. Returning one November from
Afbemarcc Court, he borrowed of me
Hume's Essays, in two volumes, saying
he should have leisure in the winter for
reading. In the spring he returned them.
and declared that he had not been able
to so further than twenty or thirty pages
in the first volume. lie wrote almost
nothing could not write. The rcso-
lutions OF rs, which have been ascribed
to him, have by many been supposed to
have been written by Mr. Johnson, who
acted as his second on that OCCASION:
but if they were written by Henry linn
self, they were not such as to prove any
power of composition. Neither in poll
tics nor his profession was he man of
business; he was man for debate only.
His biograpller says that he read Plu-
tarch every year. | doubt whether he
ever read a volume of it in his life. His
temper was excellent, and he generally
observed decorum in debate. On one
or two occasions | have seen him angry.
and his anger was terrible; those who
witnessed it were not disposed to rouse
it again. In his opinions he was yield
ing and practicable, and not disposed to
differ from his friends.
In private conversation he was agree
able and facctious, and, while in gentccl
society, appeared to understand all. the
decencies and proprieties of it; but, in
his heart, he preferred low society and
sought it as often as possible. He
would hunt in tile pine woods of FluvaE-
ma, with ovcrseers, and people of that
description, living in q camp for fort
night at a time without change Of RAJ
mcnt.
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PoYDRAS COLLEGE.
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trr,,1r EXERCISES of this Institution will
commence on the first Monday in February.
m. c,,,rs. of studies will embrace all those
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,inn will he prepared 10 enter upon the duties OF
business life with practical as well as scell-
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,;yen both in the advancement Of the students
and the proper attention to their necessary wants
and comfort. ~,
None Int the most comRctent Professors will be
employed as assistants
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Patrick Henry.

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quent orator of our revolutionary history
I-one who derived all his power from
original genius and the study of nature
and men, and had no acquaintance will
books. The following sketch of his
character and habits Mr.. Webster re
ceived from Mr.. Jefferson, and is foune
in the recently published volumes ol
Mr.. Webster's correspondence:
| Patrick Henry was originally bar.
keeper. He was married very young
and going into some business was q
bankrupt before the year was out
When I was about the age of fifteen,
left the school here to go to college at
Williamsburg. | stopped a few days
at friends in the county of Louisa
There | first saw and became acquainted
with Patrick Henry. Having spent the
Christmas holidays there, ! proceeded to
Williamsburg. Some questions arose
about my admission, as my preparatory
studies had not been pursued at the
school connected with that institution.
This delayed my admission about fort
night, at which time Henry appeared in
Williamsburg, and applied for license
to practice law, having commenced the
study Of it subsequently to the time of
my meeting him'in Louisa. There were
four examiners-W Wythe, Pendleton, Pey-
ton Randolph and John Randolph. Wythe
and Pendleton at once rejected his appli-
cation. The two Randolphs, by his inn
portnnity, were prevailed upon to sign
the license; and having obtained their
signatures, he applied again to Pendle-
ton, and after much cntreaty and many
promises of future study, succeeded in
obtaining his.
He then turned out for practicing
lawyer. The case that brought him.into
notice was contested election, in which
he appeared as counsel before the com
mittee of the House of Burgesses. His
second was the Parsons case, already
well known. These and similar efforts
soon obtained for him SO much repu-
tation that he was elected member
of the Legislature. He was as we'll
suited to the times as any man ever was,
and it is not easy to say what we should
have done without Patrick Henry. He
was far before all in maintaining the
spirit of the Revolution His influence
was most extensive with the members
from the upper counties, and his bold
ness and their votes overawed and con-
trolled the more cool or the more timid
aristocratic gentlemen of the lower part
Of the State. His eloquence was pecu-
liar, if indeed it could be called clo-
luence, for it was impressive and sub
lime beyond what can be imagined. Al
though it was difficult when he had
spoken to tell what he had said, yet
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pe"The Administration has thrown
me overheard" said disappointed pol
itician, abut have strength enough to
swim to the other side
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ITAo woman is SO insignificant as to
be- sure her example will do no harm.
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-27

A NuNNERY.-Dr. Buist, during his north
ern trip, communicates his notes of travel,
short and pithy, to that excellent paper, the
Laurensville Herald. While at Montreal he
visited the establishment of the Gray Nuns, j,
and says:
Anunnery is somewhat different from what
l had supposed. Indeed, l have never met
book which gave me the least hint of its
true character. had supposed it simply
religious house for unmarried females; but
they are not so at all; they are chiefly hospitals
for the infrm, old, blind and sick, and
orphan asylums, where hundreds of children
arc educated and taken care of. And the
nuns are engaged in managing, superintend-
ing, teaching, sewing, and in every respect
controlling these large and charitable foun1da-
tions. This feature in the nunnery is most
commendable, and makes them very popu-
lar in Montreal. The nunneries, too, are
very wealthy, and have great influence.
About seven hundred persons live in the es-
establishment of Gray Nuns, and but one
hundred and twenty are nuns, so you may
Judge how largely it is a charitable institu-
tion.
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PRICE ONE CENT.
Great Trial Between English and
American Locomotives.

There has been great trial of power be-
tween the English and American locomotives,
owned by the Government of Chilli. The con-
test lasted four days. Below we furnish the
result of the third and fourth days:
The third day, July 2l, the English passen-
ger engine, the Moutt, (named after the Pres-
dent,) was trotted out, and hooked on train
OF fifteen platform cars loaded with bar iron
total weight two hundred and lightweight
tuns. At the signal away she went, took her
train to the summit-twelve miIes-in thirty
nine minutes, and to the seventh mile post in
forty nine minutes; returning, came in contact
with gradients Of fifty-six feet per mile, and
reached the twelfth mile post in twenty -four
minutes, thence running down grade to her
home. Her performance was looked upon as
something my Lueno, mot to be beat, "hextra-
ordinary" &c., &C., her hackers were conf
dent, spirits rose, not from the Vastly deep, but
in the hearts of venerable J John's children, and
from the counters of various saloons and grog-
shops that night but how often is man
doomed to disappointment.
The morning of the fourth day dawned like
all the preceeding-cle bright and beautiful.
The god Of the winds had lulled them to sleep.
Inc American passenger engine, Santiago, was
walked on the course with all her splendid ft-
tlngs and bright work, as neat and in as good
order as tho first day she ran two years since.
She was hooked to the train of the day before,
and at the signal walked off at a speed which
soon showed no hope for her rival of the day
before. In twenty-seven minutes she gained
the summit, and left the twelfth mile post
behind her, and in thirty-four and half min
utes she pulled up at the seventeenth mile,
running part of the distance beyond the sum-
NIT at the rate Of sixty miles an hour. Re-
turning, she gained the summit in twenty-one
and half minutes, and then quietly slid
down the grade to her own home--yinding up
the four days races without hurting any one,
and without doing any discredit to hor coun-
try or countrymen.
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-27

A BIT OF RoMANcE.--That "truth is stranger
Ihan felton," is fully illustrated in the follow
ing romantic story related by the Diaro of
Madrid, the government organ of Spain, if the
incidents be true:
A few years ago, an English nobleman, a
grandee of the first water, and an eccentrician
of the widest school, honored New York with
his presence and money. He lived strictly in
cognito, and his sole amusement consisted in
wandering in the streets after nightfall, and in
relieving those of his fellow creatures who had
experienced the pains of poverty or the penal
ties of dissipation. Whileupon one ofhis hui
name excursions, he encountered a female who
tenderly solicited aims. Tnquiring, he found
her to be an orphan Of surprising beauty, and
an intelligent mind, and of an excellent educa-
tion, reduced to abject destitution by the death
Of her father, shot in the Mexican War. The
titled Howard, wearied at his bachelors exist
ence, and won by the romance of the beggar's
history, rendered to her his heart, his coronet,
and his hand. The sequel is, that at recent
ball given by the Russian Emperor, duchess,
radiant with beauty, and sparkling with dia-
monds, won the hearts of all observers.
The distinguished lady was the cidevant
mendicant Of the New York streets.
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-27
All Men are Chemists,

There is no man in the community who has
not considerable portion of that knowledge
which constitutes the science of chemistry
Chemistry ascertains the properties of simple
substances. Of the sixty-two simple sub
stances at present known, forty-se are
metals. Every man who knows that iron is
harder than lead, or that gold is heavier than
copper, knows so much chemistry. Lavoisier,
who was guillotined in the French Revolution
in 1924, was the first who supplied weights
systematically to chemistry-the, first who be-
gan to find out how much heavier one sub-
stance is than another.
The metals are most common-the ones with
which the chemist has most to deal are, of
course, the very ones the properties of which
are most widely known. If man with the
knowledge he already has of the common
metals, iron, copper, silver, gold, lead, tin,
zinc, mercury, antimony and arsenic, will learn
the properties of four other substances, he will
knew more than half Of all that is embraced
in the science Of chemistry. These four ele-
mentary substances make up almost the whole
Of our bodies, and of the bodies of all ami
mails as Of all trees and plants; they compose
the air and the water. We burn them for fuel
and light, We eat them, and drink them, an
wear them. They are the most common sub
stances in nature. Their names are oxygen.
hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon.-Scieatifc
American.
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DuEILISG.-When Judge Thatcher was,
many years ago, member of Congress from
Massachusetts, he was challenged to duel
by Mr.. Blount, member from North Carolina,
for words spoken in debate. The Judge, on
reading the message from Blount, after ad-
lusting his wig and revolutionary hat, said to
the bearer: "6ive my respectful compliments
to Mr. Blount, and tell him he can not have
o definite answer to his note to-day. Let
him be patient short time, till can write
to Portland and receive an answer. / al
weys consult my wife on matters of import
ance, well knowing that she is q better Judge
of family affairs than myself. If she con-
sents to take the choice of becoming widow,
or having her husband hanged for murder.
certainly will fight Mr.. Blount. Tell him
not to be in hurry; it will take more than
three weeks to receive her election" ,Epa
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-27

TERRIBLE FIaHT-Two MEN KILLED.-A
correspondent of the Abdingon Democrat, wri-
ting from Walnut Hill, Lee County, Virginia,
says:
On last Friday, an ARRAY took place between
Hiram Wicrman and Job Crabtree, concerning
the grinding of two bushels of wheat. Itap.
pears that the grain was not ground when
Crabtreo called for it, agreeable to promise
the reason given for its not being done was
scarcity Of water. Hard words passed; a fight
ensued; they were parted; when Crabtree went
piece off and called to his brother, Richard
D. Crabtree, to como to him quickly. R. d.
Crabtrec, John Ball and William Britton were
waiting at the mouth of tho lane Ito the mill)
for Job. However, they all went down to the
mill and renewed tho combat, when John Ball
and r. D. Crabtree were both stabbed by viii.
liam Provence, causing almost immediat to
death. Wierman was badly used up, and for
several days doubts were entertained as to his
recovery; but he is now fast approximating
convalescenco. Job was not much Injured.
Ball was cut through, just below the stornum, :,
cutting the spine half in two. The knife
would measure eleven inches in length--ma do
by some Of our country smiths. r. d. Crab
tree was cut to the heart, and died first, al
though last stabbed. Provence mado his es
cape, and has not been heard of since.