The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-05-19

The Buffalo Democracy learns from a o.r
tleman who has been spending a few weeks travedi;,.
through Ohio, that he came across four mills that FL
on hand, and would manufacture before harvest frcs.
wheat they had in store, over 10000 bbls. Of fan.
each.
~vertiser says that the old submarine acqueduct. ~.
ancient A~rethusa) discovered last autumn, betwesno
Syracuse and the Island of Ortygia, has been !.
length entirely reopened, and is found to be IL feet
high by 8 wide, and about an English mile in lenptSSs
The tunnel, quite equal in all respects to that unds..
the Thames, was built during the occupation y
Sicily by the Greeks.
A boatswain of the navy died at sea-, and II.
surgeon Of the ship testified that re was poisoned -
eating fresh dolphin, which is known to be, in certsTis
localities, or when in certain conditions, very poisonss
retary of the Navy held, that if fresh dolphin = q: !.
part of the regular ration of the navy, then, IN H..
event, said iboatswain did die of a disease %contracssss
while in the line Of his duty, but if NOT, his widow n.
no claim. ..-.,- .H. b. -laH-r -tr
The Van Buren, 1ntelligencer Of March N
says that it has -been mechanically proved NM
practically demonstrated that the Arkansas Rivs,
will no more he fit for navigation. The banks has..
fallen in to such an extent as to widen the bed Of H.
river immeasurably, requiringa larger body Of watt,
than usually comes down in ordinary rises to furnish
its thirsty bars and to fill up the bed. The onlv A.
~pendence now is the railroad. .I
At Forts McCree, Barrancas and Picker,
the gunncrs are preparing the engines Of w.
Scaling the guns, trying the range, practicinp al "a.
get with solid shot and shells, and blowing floating
batteries into smithereens, as the Irish wadman a.
presses it, is now the order of the day. We Az
much gratifed with this ready preliminary mors
ment, for it is a sure indication that we shall not ~
caught communicating in the event of a war aoains
us by the naughty Don Jose, High Constable Of IN.
Seas, in the ATTITUDES andlongitudes Of Cuba, IPan'
sacola Gazette, 9Th.
The English papers are crowded with ac,
counts of the ever-memOrable and ever to-be.remem,
bered visit of Napoleon Ill and his wife to the Ones.
of England. Omitting the embellishments, the faca
of the case are that on Monday, the 9th, Napoleon
III and the Empress Eugene arrived at Dover
thence to Windsor, remained the guests of the BrNsb'
sovereign five days, met with a distinguished recep.
ton from the court, and extraordinary enthuriasto
greetings from the crowd, were almost overwhelmM
by congratulatory addresses from corporations anS
Institutions, and returned to France amid q teynpea
of hurlahs. II
We learn from the. Dixon (Ill.) Telegraph.
on the 29th, that six Irishman came to that place from
Paolo station on a hand car, purchased a keQof
whisky, and soon became very drunk. Near v III
day they were running the car back and forth Over
the road, and finally left for Paolo a few minutes be.
fore the down train from Freeport was due. About
three miles from Dixon they met the train in a curve
of the road-the locomotive being nearly upon them
before it was discovered. Three of the men Wers
sober enough to spring from the car and save then.
selves, the others were not. The car was shiveredto
splinters, one of the men killed INSTANTLY, another su,.
viying but q short time land the third was very sei.
ously injured. 49,. ".. Ni