The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-12-01
Jefferson City. :

Our daily circuit expands in proportion to
The beauty of the weather, and so, yesterday,
before we knew it, we found ourself away up
amidst the horse-hotels and cow-boardng
houses of Jefferson City. We found nothing
stirring of special import. however, and at
Frenchs corner, where items geherally come to
roost, the roosts were bare, and whiting and
horsetalk reigned supreme.
The demeanor of horses and cattle from up
the country, on first touching and becoming
familiar with Louisiana soil, is never-ending
source of excitement and amusement in the
vicinity of the Stock Landing. W'tnic we were
present, a noble steea, newly arrived, whose
glossy hide threw back the rays of the SUN,
wasled out from Freilchs for inspection. Quiet
and dcmure as a Quaker inside, be had no
sooner got outside than he g woke up "--broke
loose from the hostler, and started off on
regular frolic. After setting all the people in
the vicinity at defiance, and churnng up the
mud in Louisiana Avenue to his hearts con-
tent, he picked out the softest mud-spot he
could find, tumbled down upon it, and rolled
with an JUNCTION that was delicious to behold.
Then, rising in complete mask chd domino of
mud, he resumed his Quaker-like sobriety and
walked back to the stable in a manner which
'''ea w Say - IHeie--tHdt WAS dil Wallteu.
was only dying for a little mud" French
has lot of splendid animals on hand, we may
remark by the way--among them a pair of
spanking Kentucky blacks, which would excite
the horse.feyer iii anybody, and considered
cheap at $780,
We have noticed that cattle, on landing at
Jefferson City. seem to become inspired with
the idea that they are on the brink Of doom
that they were petted, and feasted, and brought
on a pleasure excursion down the river for no
other purpose than inglorious slaughter and
consumption by the treacherous humans in
whom they had reposed such abiding confidence.
IL may be that this inspiration proceeds from
the smell Of the ncghboring slaughter-houses
--tor' cattle can scent blood keenly, and of all
animals they dread it the most Driven in
iocks from the steamboats, to the stables, they
DO not cut up much but when they are singled
out, lassoed and led off to the saughter-houses,
the excitement begins. With very few eXcep-
1lons, they get home -sick-pitch, rear, gallop,
ana perpetrate every eceentricity of fear and
resistance; consequently, the business Of taking
llem to slaughter is q regular science, and no
very mean one either. Those who would like
10 see the lasso used as they read of its being
used In Mexico and South America, can treat
themselves to The spectacle at Jefferson, on al
most any day--the cattle not unfrequently
ibreaking loose, and calling the lassoing science
INTO full play. The men who follow this bust
ness are, with all their science, accustomed to
ugly falls and duckiugs in mnd-holes, and
sometimes SOM get badly hurt-last spring one was
On Thursday, an unusually rampant steer
was entrusted to the conveyance Of little
nlgger boy, who, mounted on a large horse, was
particularly ambitious of fame. But the steer
was too much for him-jerked his horns out
OF the lasso in twinkling, and started off ur