The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-12-15
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medical college in NewYor city.
About,six times the usual winter wheat, it's
said, has been sown in Western Missouri this
year. M
Col. Cobb, father Of the Hon. Howell Cobb,
died in Athens, Ga, last weekaaged ~. ySli
The American party of Boston have nomi.
mated DR.. Nathaniel B. Shurtef for Mayor OF
that city. &G }341dQ
Some $4,000 have been su~bscribedsand
pledged in NewY.ork for the construction OF Q
colonization steamship to run to Liberia.
The California, steamers George Law and
Star of the West, which arrived at NewY ork
on the 18th ult., brought each $2,0O0,O0O in
gold. a 24 q FIR 5iit
The result Of the election in Nebraska for o
delegate to Congress is still in doubt. The
present returns indicate theelection Of Bennett,
the anti-slavery candidate. 5.,a aoi e. 4
"A witty Doctor says that tight lacing is q
public benefit, as it kills off the foolish girls
and leaves the wise ones to grow tobe women.
At q sale of the estate Of the late Samuel
Pointer, in! Halifax county, Virginia, the sum
of 5000 was paid for a mud stone--a mineral
supposed to have wonderful healing virtues.
DR.. IT. P. Bostwick, of BRIDGEPORT, Conn,
hos recently received and accepted an appoint
ment, under the Russian Government, as Sur
igeon. lie is to. be stationed ut Odessa.
Gov. Minor, Of Connecticut, has issued his
proclamation announcing that the amendment
to the Constitution, lately adopted, that voters
must be able to read and write, is now.part of
the organic law of the State.
A dispatch faom Chicago says that the miss
ing mail bag supposed to be stolen from the
Philadelphia Office had reached here. 1t con-
tanned the valuable registered letters supposed
to have been stolen.
Much dissatisfaction exists in Lewis county,
N. Y, on account of the Communication of the
against Cavannah, the murderer. An
burg, at which Gov. Clark was burnedin eligy.
Several Network ladies, of social and liter
airy standing, are said to have signed the fol-
pledge: "We engage to employ in
our dress and furniture American fabrics in
preference, aud as far as we can, with reasona-
BILE effort, to the exclusion of foreign produc-
f4r .e-H
Dudley Selden, Esq. who died at Paris on
the 7th inst, was taken i'll on the 9Th, while
walking with his servants on the Boulevards.
On the 9Th he was to give a grand dinner to
Fillmore, Mr.. Mason, Mr.. Thorndike and
other distinguished gentlemen. The day fol-
he died.
The IRISH CR1ER.-"In Cork said O'Cou-
nell, " remember a supernumerary crier, who
had been put in place Of On invalid, trying to
iisperse the crowd by exclaiming, with a
stentorian voice, "All you blackguards that
ISN'T lawyers, lave the presence of the court en-
or Ill make ye, by the powers"
Col. ]. G. Fremont has taken q house in
New ork for the accommodation of himself
md family during the winter, that he may en-
Joy greater facilities in preparing and publish
ing the results Of his Pacific Railway explora-
lion, which will beready for the press before the
adjournment of Congress.
The Muscantine Qowo) Inquirer says that
The railroad hands working on the bluff ct the
of the city, are rolling out car load after
ear load of iron ore-the genuine article-and
building up the grade, with it. 1t lies in a
huge mass near the surface Of the bluff, and ap-
in inexhaustible quantities.
The Boston Advertiser publishes a letter
rom the Greek island of Zante, grcatfully &C.
knoWledging the receipt of $50 sacks of India
IA corn, contributed by the inhabitants4of
Boston and other cities in the United States
sor the relief of the sufferers from famine in that
ISLAND.
The Norfolk and Portsmouth h%eroines, Miss
Annie M. Andrews, who so kindly volunteered
her services to the sufferers of the yellow fever,
$ now stopping at the st. Nicolas Hotel, New
lork. Miss Andrews also made q donation of
$1,000 to the Howard Association. She has
inished her charitable work, and is on her way
her home in Syracuse. .T
The American Institute has purchased the
New ork Crystal Palace on condition that
hey can procure from the Legislature the pas
age of an act authorizing the Common Conn
I'll to lease them the ground for the term of
twenty-five years. The amount to be paid for
Palace is $l25,000. The Institute takes
he management and control of the ediice i'm
nediately.
A mai in Mount Vernon, Maine, has raised
n the open air, for the last three years, the
Office plant, the seed of which was brought five
ago from Cuba. 1t grows about two
high, and produces its berries in pods some
hing like peas. The plants, he says, have ma
ured even this season, and the berries ripened
Without injury irons frosts.
The Charlottesville (va.) Advocate has been
hown q memorial to the Legislature of Viz
which is being circulated, proposing ma
erial alterations of the slavery laws, as fol
ows: Forbidding the separation of parents
nd young children recognizing the marriage
slaves and to allow persons of color to be
aught to read and write, $50 as to assist their
moral and mental elevation"
Winter seems to have set in Unexpectedly in
laine. At Bangor on Saturday the river was
losed with ice, and some thirty vessels frozen
n. The ice in many places is said to be quite