The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-03-10
sCRApINGs AND GATHERINGS.


ST. Louis a few days since.
Three men recently lost their lives by break
ing through the ice in the Ohio River, near Louisville.
A line of sailing vessels has been established
to run direct between Chicago Gll) and England.
( valuable lead mine, said to contain % per
cent. of silver, has been discovered near Rieeyille,
Tennessee.
The Charter Election in Pomfret, n. T., was
carried by the American party, on the 2Gtll, by four
hundred majority.
The New Bedford Mercury states that an
enterprise has been projected by several ship owners iii
that city for a whaling cruise in the Spitzbergen Sea.
The Rhode Island Legislature has passed a
bill furnishing rs a felony the fraudulent issue ofstock
BY any agent Of al incorporated company.
The last dodge Of New York sharpers is to
paint or dye the pllnlage Of common pigeons and sch
them as " rare specimens Of Soath American birds.H
The Mexican Minister at Paris has been en-
deayoring to obtain Swiss e~nligrants for the settle
meilt Of the frontiers.
A part of the mountain of sorrow which an
inebri4te had heaped upon his own head lately slid
OH and broke down the bridge of his nose.
MIR. McLane, U. s. Minister to China, was
in Paris Oh the 5h ult. lie is returning to the United
States.
Archbishop Hughes characterizes the present
Native American movement ~ * Young America let
loose on Il spree ~ He will find this g spree" to be
no joke before he sees the end Of it.
The Maine Liquor Law has been adopted BIZ
nine States-Maine. Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Yer
mont, Michigan, Wisconsin Connecticut, Indiana and
Illinois.
A few days ago the sword Of General Jack
son, used at NeworleAus, passed through Chattanoo-
ga, Tent, en- route for the national archives at Wash
ington. 1t was broken in two pieces.
1t is the intention of the Emperor of the
French tn invite most the crowned heads of Europe
to the exhibition. The Emperor Of Austria il said to
have already accepted.
Information has been received at the State
Denaltment. Washington, from tile o.. S, Consul al
Odessa, d the 6I0Ckide OF TTu IJ0Trs in tile Black Sea
and the Sea If Acct.
The st. Louis Republican learns " from a re-
liable source that Gen. Harvey has been selected to
command the military expedition against tile Sioux
Indians during the ensuing season.
1t was old Jedcdiah Morse, d. d., who de.
scribed Albany as u "rity with l.50O houses, and
G,000 inhabitants, all with their gable ends to the
street,
The total COZ sumption of foreign molasses in
the United States III l6s4, was 2t,434,0lS gallons ;
total consumption oil foreign and domestic, 54 ,+J2 ,0lU
gallons.
The incense burning in the Chinese idol tenn
pies is said to cost $50. 900, coo annually. or more than
a dollar toresery nan, woman and child in the whole
empire.
Never pull out a gray hair said q gentle
man to his daughter, as two generally come to its
funeral" :" | don't care how many come to the fu.
neral, il they only come dressed in black
A bill is before the New jersey Legislature.
providing that married women may convey property
by will, in the same manner rs single women are now
allowed 10 do,
a large meeting for the purpose of securing
the location of the new Methodist College, which is
to be erected in Alabama, was held a few days agoin
Greensborougl, and about SIS 900 was subscribed,
The New ork Journal of Commerce pub
fishes u list of contributions made by a large number
OF MISSISSIPPI nesro slaves to the suffering free negroes
Of that tityr-
The English are bent on mischief. Smart
ing under the i'll success of their operations in the
Crinca, they have made Maule Minister of War, with
the Nvowed purpose of giving the Russians u terrible
mauling,
The asl1Dgton papers announce that q suf
iicient sum has been subscribed for the erection of n
suitable monument To the memory of young Stewart
Holland, who molly persisted in the ilI-fated Arctic,
While IN the faithful and heroic discharge Of duty.
The Boston Post says, "There arc thirteen
thousand manageable girls now in the factories at
Lowell" II is pleasant to know in this world ofmise.
ry that there are thirteen Thousand men vet to be
made happy.
The yearly return Of customs and indirect
taxes in France show that las, 337 SLOT. were received
IN France III 1884, against ltl ,GG7 ,532E. in 1853, and
i3,sSG5 SCOT IN lS52, being an increase Of 1929, 99S
IN 1859, and of 9,l73. s55 upon 1852.
At the late election in Elmira, n. Y, for
town officers. the Know Nothings polled two-thirds
OF the whole number of votes cast, electing their en-.
tire ticket by m~ajorities of from 800 To 400 over the
united vote OF the Wing and Democratic parties.
The Catholic Bishop of Toronto, Canada, has
issued a pastoral letter to the faithful Of his diocese
Announcing ard explaining the new dogma of the I'm.
macaiate Conception, which issued from the head of
The Church at Rome on the sth of December last.
The Grcat-great- grandfathers Of the present
Emperor Nicholas, as long ago az the 18th century,
used to hold the stirrups Of the Khans of the Knit
cshak iartaFS, While they mounted, and used also to
iced the khan's horses with oats from their fur caps,
The Dublin correspondent of the New York
lines mentions a r,Imor that John Mitchell had or.
canned o new conspiracy, with a view To an Irish in.
suIfectlon, aud that agents have been sent from the
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