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Year: 1860

Coon ADvuCE.-Those who wish to
do good, but hesitate to do it, would do
we'll to read the following. The reason
may be suggested to them by the peru
sal:


Do not dclude yourself with the idea
that you can please everybody. Who
ever knew anybody that was worth any
thing that had nobody to find any fault
| with him? You would have to do evil
Il in many cases to please the evil; hatter
some to crafty their pride; indulge the
selfish, submit to the tyrannical, be a
tool for the ambitious, aud be careful.
not to have anything as good as those
who desire to have everything superior tC
their neighbors. If you are publ,
man YOU should be diligent. You mus
|expect to have many secretly dislike
YOU because Of your success; and d
YOU accomplish little, though many
Show themselves friendly, it often Leaks
out that some who appear friendly t
YOU can do thus because they do no
fear your rivalry-thev may smile upor
YOU outwardly and yet entertain con
TEMPT for your ineficiency Always dr
that which is right, be diligent, do tn,
most you can, pay no regard to fault
finders. and you will fnd as man.
friends as any sensible man need de
sire.
Year: 1860

LIKELY Negro Woman with eight children, the eldest
20 likely boy fifteen years old second likely girl over th


Said negroes sold for fault but the that the
hem and will sell any person who
will them from the county. Good lots in Edgeheld
West Nashville will be taken in part payment Address Box
2Os Nashville P. o. noy22dsv
Year: 1860

sources They must suffer until relief
come from some quarter, or ifi does
not come they perish. Many instances
of suffering from this source are felt all
over their country every year. They
are less frequent now than thirty years
ago. because there are more white peo-
pie, mi<sionaiic; ard others, in their
country, than there were thcn, from
whom they can gel something in times
of extremity never witnessed a case
Of actual starvation. but there were
such cases in some parts Of their coun-
try nearly every winter. They suffer
much more from want Of food in winter
than ia summer. In tie winter the
streams ard lakes are closed, the ground
is covered deeply with snow, the wild
fowl have fed to ''the sunny South, >
and the severity oftheir northern winter
renders il much more laborious and dif
fcult to hunt and fish.


When they have an abundant supply
Of food they surfeit and feast THEN
friends till it is all consumed or wasted
before they enquire how they are to OBJ
tain any more Present qualification i.
the sum Of all their aspirations It is al
the happiness they know To obtain !
bare supply for their natural wants with
the least possible cff5rt on their part
and to crafty their animal appetites,
constitutes the principal object for whicl
they seem to live
Year: 1860

Another article of food much used at
one season of the year, and highly
priced by the Ojibwas, is maple sugar.
The sugar maple is found extensively
through all parts of their country
From this they manufacture large guam
titles of sugar during the early spring.
Their mode Of manufacturing it may not
be unworthy of notice. They first re-
move their families into the forest where
they are TO operate, and build a large
wigwam near the centre Of their sugar
bush. For vessels in which to catch
the sap as it truns from the trees, they
use pieces of white birch bark, twenty
inches or two feet square, which are so
gathered and folded at the ends and
fastened with bark string, that they
form kind of dish which will hold
from two to four quarts. An incision is
then made in the tree foot or two from
the ground, with an axe Below this
incision cut is made by single. blow
of an axe, in an upward direction -
Into this the end of chip is inserted
which serves as a aspoutlto convey the
sap from the treein the bark dish. II


is then9gathered,i in bark pals, and con
yeyed to the wigwam, where it is boilet
ia brass aand tin kettles The fire j.
kindled lin the centre of the dwigwan


which is usually soblong in form, by frs
| laying on the ground two logs. between
Year: 1860

From Special Travelling Correspondent


ST. CHARLES CouRr- HOUSE, April &C. 1860


Tear crescent thus begin serving up to you
the first slice of Louisiana, intending to keep on
doing SO, If horse-fesh and your correspondent
hold out, until have cooked up in style, which |
nope VIII suit the taste Of your readers, the whole
OF the State Since Wednesday morning when |
left the city and the Crescent office behind me,
crossed the river at the Stock Landing and started
with all the State before me, have been buggying
along the levee "up the coast amid the charming
and peculiar scenery of that region.


There are many in New Orleans who have lived
there many more years than your correspondent.
who bave very poor idea as to what the coast ),
is. They fancy they have seen it from the deck of
steamers plying on the river but they are mistaken
They have only had glimpses of the country and
dssolying views of the tops of the houses behind
the high levee as they dashed past. To see and
appreciate this Acadian land they should be behind
good horse and rattle along the Ieyee road which
is now as smooth as the New Canal shell road. A
constant succession Of wealthy estates keep the in
terestaye for there few of them which will not
repay pansing to admire. Splendid old homesteads
dot the road at the distance of a quarter of mile
apart, the out-buildngs, negro quarters etc. form.
ing at each considerable village so that the road
up the coast is almost like street of vast thinty
built city. The plantations having narrow front
on the river and running far back, the houses are
thus brought close together, and render the levee
ad rusurban avenue unequaled in the world,
bordered on one side as it is, by the unequaled
river of the world, the clustering steamers and
other crafts on which give animated variety to
the changeful scenery.


1t is no sort of use for me to attempt to describe
any of the splendid residences of the princely
planters, for during yesterdays journey passed
dozens, each worthy more than passing notice.
All that tasteful architecture, ornamental shrub.
berry and magnificent moss-hung trees can do to.
wards the identifying of the sugar planters resi-
dences in Jefferson and St. Charles parishes as far
| as have been, is effected. The farther 20 from
| the city the mere costly, elaborate and extensive
| the planters houses seem to be. Seven or eight
miles above the city the estates begin to show the
most striking evidences of wealthy and refined oc,
cnpaneE, though there are few fine places in the
lower part of Jefferson parish?
Year: 1860

T., }


St John the Baptist Parish April q, is6o


Deof G'eScent-Since my date yesterday at the
Courthouse of ST. Charles parish, have taken it
easy aud urayeed about fifteen miles more of tile
winding route of the Mississippi. The road is still
pleasant, but not as delightfully."- as in ST. Charles
parish. The planters hereabout do not seem to
take quite as much pains in beautifying their home.
steads and they are rather very fine, commodious
farmhouses than splenddly ornamented villas, as
SO many Of them are in St. Charles. There are,
however, some very beautiful places in this parish,
and many extensive and largely productive estates.
There is a much greater proportion of people of
small means in this parish than in St. Charles, and
more free colored and, indeed, it is nearly twice
as populous. There are a good many people
along the levee who appear to rely principally on
the catfi+hery and woodchopping for the steam
boats far livelihood, and consequently do MT
thrive very prosperously.


The only thing see to object to in this parish
is the dogs, their quantity and quality but hardly
dare to say what think Of them, for SO fashion
able is it to find fault with what the papers say
nowadays, that even the dogs of St. John the Bap-
tist might get after me for libellous publication
But will remark that if Cassus had had an idea
of what the vagrom dogs of st. John are, he would
never have remarked that he had rather be a
dog y g than such a Roman,e for he would rather
have been any sort of Roman than such dog.
The meanest of loafng, houseless, homey, sausage
fearing city ours, would hold up his head in their
company and put on city airs, justly esteeming
himself better article of dog, more elevated
type of the canine species. Perhaps, though, my
feelings are embittered toward the dogs of this
region, by the fact that having bought one OF
them for small consideration, intending to pre-
serve him as rare specimen of canine worthless
ness the creature gnawed off a halter worth more
than himself with which / tied him behind my
buggy, and left your correspondent in the lurch.
Hence conclude that he was of the variety known
as :" lurcher.f


l notice, too, peculiarity in fence making, not
alone in this parish, but all along the river which
strikes me very forcibly. This is a way the fence
builders have of driving the nail through the string
piece first and into the picket afterward. Why
this should be done don't know, unless the negro
carpenters of the plantations are afraid that
body will steal the nails if they leave the heads on
the outside of the fence. But the way they make
the fences ia none of my business. They don't be
long to me.


THE PARISH SEAT. -
Edgard Postoffiee forty.two miles above New
| Orleans one of the two post-ofiees of the parst
of St. Johu--Bonnet Carr6, on the left hank fy,
Year: 1860

CHINAMAN MURDERED dead body of
n Chinaman was found by the road between
Freeman'a Crossing and Moonshine creek,
in Yaba county, this week. He passed the
Crossing with countryman who is supposed
to have been his murderer. He had been
shot. Robbery could not have been the mo-
tive for killing him, as he had no money
Year: 1860

exact measure, where good is often accomplished
which does not Immediately appear, and where
the seed may lie long In the ground before it ger
inmates, and perhaps may not fully deveope its
fruits until after he shall have received his dis
charge from the labors Of the vineyard. But let
him rice early let him Ia or late ; let him cas-,
the precious seed into the ground, never doubling
that there will eventually be a harvest, The laws
of Nature, in the constitution of the moral as
we'll as the physical world, ore fixed, and nothing
stays or impedes their oneratiou Labor will al
ways find it's reward, and no effort Of virtue and no
work OF benofcence will fail of It's effect. Ami
mated by these considerations, the reformer may
pursue a steady course Of duty through good re-
port and evil report; perplexed, but not in des
pair cast down, but not destroyed; and sustain
ed in the anima;ing and important duties of his
useful vocation, by the consciousness of hones
purpose and earnest fidelity.
Year: 1860

There is no middle ground upon which one can
logically morally stand. Be either hot or cold
for slavery or against it. Chas. OConnor in his
speech in the Lennon case presents the following
views of the opinions and action of the fathers in
relation to the system.


submit, most respectfully, that the only desire
| have manifested, here or elsewhere, in reference
to this question, has been to draw the mind of
the Court, and the intelligent mind Of the Ameri
can people, to the true question which underlies
this whole conflict, and that is the question to
which ny friend has addressed the best and in my
Judgment the finest part of his very able argu-
ment Il is the point to which l mainly address
myself in the opening, and on it will now say a
very few words more. My friend deuounces this
institution of Slavery as monstrous injustice, as
a sin, as violation of the law of God and of the
law Of man, of natural law or natural justice
and in the course of his argument at a different
place, he called your attention to the enOrmity oil
the result claimed in this case, that these eight
persOns--aud not only they, but their posterity to
the remotest time-were, by your honor's judg-
ment to be consigned to this shocking condition OF
abiect bondage and slavery. Why, how very
small and minute was that presentation of the sub
eot! My friend must certainly have used the micro
scope, or reversed the telescope, when in seeking
to present this question in striking manner t'
your Honors' minds, he called attention to thes
few persons and their postcrity. Why, if you
hcnors pleas,, our territory embraces at loast eS
Innate three millions of these human beings, VIII
by our laws and institutions as now existing i
these States. and as every one admits. protecte
in those States by the Federal Constitution, nj
not only consigned to hopeless bondage throughor
their whole lives, but to a like condition is thei
numerous posterity Consigned to the remote
time. They have, since the Union was formed
multiplied three or four fold. and are CONSTANT
increasing and multiplying, It 10 not eight pc
Year: 1860

for the interests of free labor. We leave it for
the Democratic party to perpetually embroil them
selves with the gentleman from Ethiopia! The
Republican party has higher nObler mission.
1t labors for free soil the Republic over. We have
had to meet the African issue in every campaign
from the beginning and it has never broken our
line, and it never can. We trust the Republican
legislators will maintain the position they have as
sumed, and let the miserable swindle, known Of
the Bill for the exclusion of free negroes seeI
the sleep of death. 1t is dirty business at bos
only fit for Democrats and disunionists,"
Year: 1860

The heart of the honest refOrmer will be often
wrung with anguish at percsiving how far his eff
ors, attainments, and successes fall short of his
anxious desires, He may live long, and yet per-
ceye but little fruit of his toll His is field of
moral culture where success can be tested by no
Year: 1860

The GREAT METR0POLIs.-London now
covers l2l square miles, having increased
three fold since the year 1905 and bricks and
mortar still invade and capture the green
fields. The population, according to the re-
port of the Registrar General, augments at
the rate of about one Thousand per week, half
by birth and half by immigration. Notwith-
standing the enormous wealth of the metro
polls, it is recorded i'll the report of the Re-
giStrar General, as remarkable fact, that
zone in six of those who leave the world die in
one of the public institutions-a work house,
hospital, asylum or prison. Nearly one in
eleven of the deaths is in a work house."
heels of wealth, and fast on the multitude
with relentless grasp. Every sixth person
dies pauper or a criminal! Can this be said
of any other city on the globe : And how great
a numb ber there must be who barely manage
to escape this tate. The severe competition
for su bsistence and wealth which characterizes
London life is a terrible ordeal for any human
being to pass through, and thousands fail in
the attempt, crushed beneath the golden jug.
gernaut. 1t is now notorious, says London
paper that in the large establishments where
some hundreds OF assistants are employed, the
great majority of them are broken down
tradesmen, crushed by the competition ofcapi.
tai. Even these occupations are obtained with
difficulty, and the less fortunate gradually sink
10 wer and lower in the SCALE till they driven
in to the public institutions, where they meet
an untimely death. The list is further swelied
by the numerous class who, born in a respect
able sphere and well ed uca ted, sink into degra-
dation from the sheer love of display and the
vanity of living beyond their means. 1t is on
record that out OF 5000 convicts who have
passed their probation in Pentonville, 1000
fell through this wretched vice, and ii is added
that most OF this number were 'originally re-
spectacle in more than an ordinary degree"
Year: 1860

SoFTRNING OF THE BRAIN.-Professiona
but more frequently business men, are it's
Gus living. After morning fully occupied
with business matters, man comes regularly
to a dinner of various and highly seasoned
dishes of fish and fowl and flesh, with every
adjunct to excite and crafty the appetite He
partakes freely of food and wine, in excess to
be sure though perhaps never TO the extent of
gluttony or lnebriety. The papers are read,
cigars are smoked, few hours are passed So
cialIy, and the evening closes with hot sup.
per and abundant punch. II man living thus
continues successful in his plans and his busi-
ness, he may go through life with no other
physical or mental infirmity than the pain
and iraseibility of gout or the distress and
gloom of dyspepsia. BUTT be otherwise, il be
meet with a reverse of fortune, or if some
grief or chagrin come upon him, then he is ex-
ceedingly liable to this fatal disease, which is
the Joint product of luxurious living and some
torturing anxiety or disappointment.-Rspor
Of DR.. John f. Tyler, Superintendent Of the Nc
Lean AsgEuDl.
Year: 1860

Maehinry.-Of all the labor.savers gener-
ally in use by mechanics, none seem to be as
dangerous as circular saws. Scarcely day
occurs that some accident is not recorded, the
result of the careless use of these great opera
tors, and il seems a little strange that those
who know their power are not more guarded
when near them Carpenters and cabinet
makers, at this day, could not get along with
out the circular saw, dangerous as it is know n
to be and for that reason they warn their
workmen and their visitors to give it vida
berth, but to little effect.
Year: 1860

Theatre.-The improvements now being m ade
in the Theatre building will add very much 10
the comfort of the visitors as well as the
beauty of the interior, and when completed
will be greatly admired. The managers are
Fastening the work as much as possible, and
expect to be ready to open with a new and
popular company at an early day in Septem.
ber. During the summer months our people
have had so few amusements, that they are
now anxious for the opening of the temple OF
the drama
Year: 1860

STRUCK BY Observation-Disclosures Escape
During the thunder storm in Philadelphia on
Tuesday night, The Western Hose house, in
Twentieth street, was struck by lightning and
considerably injured. The Inquirer says:
The bolt first struck the trap door, under the
bell in the cupalo, passing down and upright
into the garret, leaving traces of its passage
along its route. The upright was shattered,
the trap torn to pieces, the flooring of the Gu
pola completely demolished, a hole left in the
cen tire of the garret floor, passing through the
ceiling of the third story. Here the traces OF
the bolt are lost. ! Is effects are seen next in
the entry of the second story, where the ceiling
and side wall appear to have been fired at with


q ten pound shot. Passing down the corner


of the wall into the truck-room i: tore away


some eight feet of the ceiling, narrowly missing


the new hose-carriage of the company. AT the


time of the stroke, a division of the Daughters


of Temperance was in session in the third


| story. One of the members, a Mrs. Hendricks,


was severely stunned. She remained In a


state of insensibility for the space of an hour


and half when termination commenced


She is still, however, lying very low. Three


other females out of only seven present, were


stunned. When the bolt passed through the


meeting-room it was distinctly seen by The la
dies present, who describe it as perfect sphere
of fire. 1t filled their room with a light SO
brilliant that those who escaped the shock AT
once screamed "flre." The cry attracted the
attention of some of the Western Hose men,
berS, who rushed up stairs, and found the third
story filled with sulphurous smoke, almost
overpowering.


After tearing up the pavement it passed
down Twentieth street to Lombard, being
plainly seen by many persons in the neighbor
hood, who unite in saying it bore the appear
ance of large ball of fire. Down Lombard il
flew to Twenty-first street, where it burst into
thousands of fragments and entirely disap-
peared. When it exploded, young lady
sea ted on the front steqss~sf Lrs. Stewards
residence. near the corner, fell in a swoon and
was Immediately taken into the house. She
was not injured, but merely frightened at the
strange spectacle which she witnessed on the
street.
Year: 1860

The Excursion to the Capes to-day, will b
enc of the most delightful trips of the season
for ladies well as men. The train viii
leave The depot of the Richmond and Yorh
River Railroad at O'Clock this morning. and
return again this evening, after the passen
gers nave visited West Point, Yorktown and
the Capes. Smiths First Regiment Band has
been engaged to furnish music on the occa
sion.
Year: 1860

THE CHooTAws SHORT OF PROVISIONS
The Fort Worth (Texas) Chief states that
''the Choctaws are about 10 call on the Gene
raj Government for assistance to procure
provisions for the people of the Nation, as
their crops have almost entirely been de-
stroyed by the drought. We learn from good
authority that theie will not be corn enough
raised in the whole Nation to last them until
Christmas, and as the appropriation of the
money due the Nation failed in Congress last
session, they are going TO appeal 70 the Gov
ernment for assistance in some shape to keep
them from starving"
Year: 1860

Watermelons continue to be abundant in the
markets. but most of them are too ripe 10 be
good, and many of them are stale and un-
healthy. Stale vegetables and fruits are dan.
gerous at this season OF The year, and IL used
freely are almost sure to produce sickness of
an alarming nature.
Year: 1860

A SHIP.oY-WAR FULL OF WOMEN AND
CHILpREN.-A letter from one Of the officers
of the English war steamer sent to Deir-el.
Kama, in Syria to rescue the women and
children, gives an interesting account Of the
same. 1t says


We only had about eight boats, but these we
began to load with all dispatch, every poor
woman and child having 10 be carried through
a tremendous surf to the boats. However, our
blue Jackets worked well and cheerfully, only
must say that they very unfairly gave pre-.
ference to the pretty girls, and when any old
mother want ted to be carried on was Obliged
TO order some man personally to do IL. Some
of the women and children were badly
wounded. They had been wounded while
clinging to their husbsnds and fathers when
they were killed As soon as boat was loaded
she was sent off to the ship, and the poor
wretches slowed as close as they would lie on
board, and then the boat was sent back. After
two hours hard work our decks were packed
as close as possible and we had room for no
more. The gun-boat, l must tell you was
full of fugitives from Sidon, so that she could
not hold any. The sun had set; the surf was
increasing fas., and two or three of our boats
had been pitched bottom up on the beach, and
there were still 700 unfortunate women and
children on the beach with hardly stitch Of
canvas on, and they We're all footsore having
travelled 80 miles the previous day. and some
of them had not touched any food for two or
three days. l sent for the Druse chief and
made him promise me 10 take care of them un-
til the morrow, when / said we would come
again and bring off the rest of them, as, the
Gannet was firing guns for my recall.


l went off. leaving them all horribly disap-
pointed on the beach, poor things! When /
went on board found asraost every inch OF
deck covered. We had 700 women and chill
dren on board, and only about a score of men
who had escaped 1t was the most distressing
sight ever saw or hope to see again, for now
that the immediate fear of death was re-
moved, they began to feel conscious of the
full extent OF their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
burned down and all their male relations
massacred, and they began to scream, tear
their hair off in handfulls, and beat their
breasts in a most horrible manner We did
all we could to soothe them. Officers and men
are all vieing with each other in feeding them
with biscuit and giving them clothes, &c. =
l could tell you hundreds of anecdotes about
them, but must reserve them for another
time, as we are off directly. Suffice it to say
we took them to Beyrout, and after misera-
bic night for them, poor things, wet through
as they were, landed them next morning. and
the gunboat was sent up, and brought down
the remaining 7U0 that night.