The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-04-28

in the world, isstronger than it was at the commence
ment of the siege. q
OF ali the officers and privates who served
during tie revolutionary waf, only about one thou-
sand now remain who draw pensions from the govern
lment. The lumber Of widows of revolutionary Off
GERS and soldiers who draw pensions is about six thou
We are again in the enjoyment of warm
weather, and the crops are beginning to shadow forth
more premise than heretofore. A l creation has put
on spring clothes, and we begin to realize that the
charming month of April is present in all its glory.
[Thibodaux Minerva.
The Port Gibson (Miss.) Herald is in
mourning for the death of its editor, Z. Bruner, Esq,
who died on the 9th inst. His death was sudden, he
having been engaged in business Up to o late hour OF
the night of his death. He'was q native OF Massa-
chusetts. S4 ~ "
A dispatch from Washington says: /" The
Navy Department are chagrined that the destination
Of the sloop-ofwar jamestown, from the coast OF AT.
RIGA to the Gulf, should have leaked out. The secret
| was disclosed by the bungling manner of sending the
mail bags destined for the African squadron ashore.
We see from St. Louis and Louisville papers
that the redoubtable I" Samuel :" il still adding to his
catalogue of triumphs. The whole country seems to
he singing the praises of this mysterious individual
all unite in the national psalm. The above a6omlna-
lie pun was perpetrated by the Thibodaux Minerva.
In Mobile. last Saturday night, q house Of
| III lnllG on Lne corner Ol ~. Mllcluel hLu
streets, known as the wood Pile" and the Column
bia Exchange, on the corner Of ommer and st.
Anthony streets, were torn down by unknown per
sons-supposedi in consequence of a previous difficulty
between the Irish and Know-Nothings. ID
Fish are said to be a very healthy food.
With the exception Of such as have oil interfused in
their muscular tissues, fish are easy Of digestion, and
it is remarkable that fishermen and their families,
aid these who consume a large quantity of fish.
ire healthy to more than an ordinary degree, and
almost wholly exempt from scrofula and pulmonary
consumption.
The baby that gained the prize at the show
in Ohio last fall was born in Canterbury, England,
whence its father e~migrated when it was only eleven
months old. "The most glorious and unparalleled
baby in the world " turns out to be a little Britisher,
after all! Beef and beer laid the foundation of his
infant constitution. Jonathan was !" darn'dly taken
in'fy that " native young one"
The " Vegetarians of New ork are solicit
ing signatures for a petition to the Legislature, to
a suppress the brutalizing practice of eating animal
food The cause of moral reform, they think, would
he greatIy subserved, by" prohibiting the cattle mar
kat. They are prepared to show that eating the
fash ri beasts has o tendency to assimilate mans
nature 10 the beast.
Nlhe New1 ork Journal of Commerce says
that seventy-fve tons of coin have been engaecd as
part OF the cargo of a vessel now loading at New York,
tor Constantinople and that the shippers are anxious
To engage forty tons more. Lest this amount should
sul4St uIdlul AWNING viz wall sLietb luuuCiSTS. IL IL
added that it is all copper, heing chiefly made up of
German k%reutzers, probably obtained from money
brought out by emigrants.
The Hon. Thomas H. Bayly, of Virginia,
who has represented the Accomac district in Con.
gress for a number of years past, and whose orthodox
democracy has never before been doubted, made a
speech at Williamsburg on the I'd inst, in which he
said that he would not support Mr.. Wise for Cover
aor. He stated that he was not a member of the
order OF know-Nothings, but entertained their views
to a considerable extent.
Prof. Fairchild, of Oberlin, Ohio, states that
on the 18th of February they had in that region a fall
of dark colnred snow. The crystals were in the form
in diameter. 1t fell to the depth of nearly an inch,
and melted it yielded about a half inch of water. The
snaw had a distinct smoky taste, and on fltering it
through paper. a dark, sooty substance was obtained.
a young gentleman paid his addresses to q
ynung lady, by whose mother he was unfavorably re-
ctived. " How hard" said he to the young lady" to
separate those whom love has %united.'' Every hard
iuieed,' replied she with great innocence, at the same
time throwing her arms around his neck, " and SO
mother will find it."
The Chinese are said to have labored for
centuries under great embarrassment, from not know.
ing now to make a barrel. They could without any
difficulty make the slaves, set them up, and hoop
them in, and, indeed with the help of a man inside,
they could put the second head on but how to get
the man out after the barrel was headed, that was the
qie, ton.
IN Noblesville, l., Mrs. Julia Freyberger
brought a suit against Martin Mountioy for damages
caused by liquor sold by the to the plaintiffs
husband, John Freyberger. She charged that the de-
%fendant's liquor had made her husband q drunkard,
had caused him to lose his time, and waste his money,
and claimed one thousand dollars damages. The iury
gave her e verdict for $500.
MIR. Bangs, the managing contractor of the
railroad across the Peninsula of Florida, from Amelia
Island to Cedar Keys, has commenced operations.
Contracts have already been made for Palmetto tim
her for the wharves at Fernandina, also for timber to
build bridges and piling for the adjacent marsh. A
number of hands have already been employed, andit
is the intention to push forward the work with energy
and activity.
The President has ratified and confirmed a
treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation be.
tween the United States and the Argentine Confeder.
atian, concluded to San Jose on the 9th of J:ly.
1873 and n treaty for the free navigation of tile
rivers Parana and Uruguay, between the same
powers, concluded ut SAY Jose de Flores on the 10th
Of July, 1853.
a post-modern examination, made On the
body of Connt Eiegenhorn, who committed suicide in
Albany, N. Y, recently on account of unreuuitted
love, disclosed the fact that the ball which he dis.
entirely through the brain, and struck against the
skull on the left side, when, its force being spent, il
sank down two or three inches. Still, life was moi
extinct for eighteen hours afterwards.
DIR. Mandt, the homeopathic physician to
the late Emperor, is said to have left Russia in great
haste and secretly. He is reproached with having
too long concealed from the august deceased thatbis
lung was attacked also with having himself prepared
the medicines destined for the Emperor, instead of
having them prepared by a druggist. Great irrita.
ton was manifested against him at st. Petersburg,
and the Emperor Alexander himself advised him e.
leave Russia.
An inventor is before the people of New
York with a new fashioned paddle for steamers, and
i*~ experimenting upon a small vessel in the bay. His
paddle is in the shape of the letter V, and is 50 con
structed as to enter the water with the sharp point
downward, and leave the water in the same manner
thus avoiding the loss of power in the ordinary dead
stroke OF the present plan, and accomplishing, as the
Inventor claims. an increase of about Qne-third in the