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

of Newya reoniripg the sellers of patent medicines
60 make known THE ingredients OF which the prepa'
rations ave composed
A bin providing for raising two lew regi-
menrs of infantry and two of cavalry, for the sup
preston OF Indian ho~stilities, has been passed by the
U. S. Senate.
A resolution instructing the Senators from
Illinois to advocate in Congress the restoration OF the
Missouri Compromise, has passed the lower house OIL
the Illinois Legislature by d vote OF Ii to ".
Capt. Simeon Hicks, the last of the Ameri-
cans WHO We're in the battle of Bennington, recently
died at Sunderland, Vt, aged ninetynine years, iiYe
months and two days.
The Louisville Courier denies the statement
that Bishop Reze, Of Detroit, IS imprisoned at Rome,
and adds that he was at last accounts living among
his friends n Germany.
1t is stated that Mr.. Belmont, our Minister
at the Hague, has effected an engagement with the
Dutch Government for the admission of U. 8. Colsuls
at the Dutch Colonial ports open to foreign trade.
Gen. Houston, Or Sam" as he is Familiarity
called. attracts greatattention in the Senate Chamber,
it ia said, by writing with IN enormous quill in full
feather, probably taken from an American eagle.
A petition is being numerously signed in
New York requesting oftlle Legislature to supelsede
the present system of determining the quantity ofpo-
taroes, etc, by measurement, and TO have weights
substituted in lieu OF barrels, bushels pecks, etc.
From the correspondent of the NewYork
Herald at ST. Domingo we learn that the French and
English Governments have issued an injunction to
prevent the Dominican Government from making
any treaty with the United States.
The Judiciary Committee of the House Of
Representatives of Pennsylvania have reported ad-
verseiy upon the bill to authorize parties to contract
for the payment of a greater rate of interest than 6
per cent. per annnm.
1t is stated that Brigham Young is building
two large and beautiful houses adjoining that which
he occupies in Salt Lake City, to accommodate his
increasing family. He now reioices in between fifty
and sixty wives, and from torty-ive to fifty children.
Elder kimbail, one of the Mormon Apostles, has be
tween sixty and seventy c~onsorts.
A resolution has been adopt6HaSASt the New
York Board of Aldermen, calling on ,ief of Po-
lice to report az soon as possible, hbA ghny Ameri-
cans and how many foreigners land ofSyhat nation)
are employed in the Police Department OF that city
how many have been naturalized, and how many have
been III the prisons Of this and other countries.
The question of tobacco-smoking having
come before the Conference of Baptist Churches ut
Hamburg, Germany, it was unanimously, resolved
" that this assembly declare the use Of tobacco to be
one of the things specified by the Apostle (Romans
XIV as belonging to Christian liberty"
The British ship Glencairn, from Greenock,
arrived at Mobile on Friday last with 1913 Scotch emf
grants, whom it is intended to employ in the Dog
River Factory, at least such ofthem us are old enough
and otherwise suited. there being fo1ty-one children
and infants among their nnnbei.
The papers in many parts of the Union no
tice the preparations of parties intending to ~olnigrate
to Kansas ut the opening OF apring. We sec it stated
that about four hundred Gmigrants for that territory
will leave Pittsbarg about the first Of March. 1t il
pretty evident that there will be q very large aces
sion to the population Of both Kansas and Nebraska
in the coming spring and summed.
According to the last annual report of the
Newl0Fk State Engineer, there was on the railroads
OF that Commonwealth, during the year lS5t, one
passenger killed for every 1914 DIG miles travelled,
aud one passenger injured for every Is ,7Gl sos miles
Travelled. Although 5000, geo passengers were car.
RED an aggregate distance Of 500, O00, 900 miles, not
one was killed from causes beyond his own control.
The Washington Star learns that Noah Il.
smith, the mail agent, seized upon about tso hun
ared letters in the possession Of Adams u Co.'S ex-
press agent, while crossing the lsthmna. It is said
mat the express companies are in the habit of carry
ing large numbers OF letters outside the mail, which
they deliver in California, collecting postage for the
sam, to the injury Of the Post-ofice Department,
There Is a heavy penalty attached to the infringe
ment of the law,
The Indians have surrendered to the Cana
dian Government the peninsula lying between the
Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. with some reserya.
lions for their own use. The extent Of land is only
800 600. acres. 1t is well watered, and for the most
part covered with excellent timber. The country in
the nelghborhood of this peninsula has been settled
with extraordinary rapidity. A portion of it, which
was only recently brought into market, was literally
all taken up at once by actual settlers.
Ihe Memphis Eagle and Enquirer says that
the work on the first forty miles of their road Is going
Oh with great energy. About seven hundred hands
are engaged, and more than half Of the first division
(@f thirty miles, is completed, besides a large portion
Of the next ten miles, together with some six miles
next to brownsville. The bridging and trcstle work
over VOL! and Loosa Hatchie rivers are nearly com.
plete. In Il few days an efficient corps of engineers
WI START out to make final location Of the road from
Trenton to Paris and so soon as that is doue. the
work on that division will be let out.
Alta recent meeting of the Ohio and Pennsvl-
yania Railroad Company in Pittsburg, it was shown
tlllt the expenses for the past year have been IL III.
GIG, or S4f3,d2 Inore than last year. Cen. Latimer.
the suspended banker, had the sum of S97, G2S of The
i1nds OF the road but Notwithstanding this heavy loss,
the net earnings of the road in the last six rionths
nave leehso large as to enable the directors to charge
inc Whole OF 1t TO profit and loss, and to pay the in
terest on the debt Of the company, and after urovi.
ding Tor 4 stock dividend Of five per cent, to carry
over 4 surplus Of about $4,000 to the next half year.
Lyman 1rumbullI, the newly elected United
states from Illinois, to succeed Gen. Shields. whose
term expires on tile 4tho March next, resides in Belle
VIC, the same place with Gen. Shields. lie is an
Aht-NebTaska Democrat, aud was chosen to Congress
by q considerable majority in November last, in place
OF Col. VIM. Bissell, who did not vote on the Nebras,
ka question, and whose term will end with the pres.
ent session. A special election will he required to
supply The newly created vacancy. Gen Shields is
4lready announced as a candidate in place of hr.
IruInbull.
The Legislature of Indiana is now engaged
concocting a new Banking law, which proposes to do
something in the following shape: To organize a
new state Bank, and divide the State into moi, less
than fifteen, nor 1nore than twenty hank districts.
EacIt district is to be restricted to one bank, or branch
bank, and the aggregate capital of all banks shall
be organized until 3l00,o 900 arc subscribed and
$4,000 paid IN, the remaining capital being required
70 De pad IN, before the Isl OF January, 1857; There
Is 70 ne a state Board OF Directors, composed of four
members, chosen by the Legislature, and one Nom.
Der b,y each branch bank. The new State Bank is to
purchase Of the State all its interest in the present
$1,000"