The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-12-15
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There are said to be 435 students now at thu
medical college in NewYork city.
About six times the usual winter wheat, It'll
said, has been sown in Western Missouri thi:
year.
COL Cobb, father of the Hon. Howell Cobb
died in Athens, Ga, last week, Staged ~. ,rg
The American party of Boston have nomi
mated DIR. Nathaniel 3. Shurtef for Mayor O
that city. j|N& .fE t&L-liQ :
Some $4,000 have been subscribedsant
pledged in NewYork for the construction Of
colonization steamship to run to Liberia. N
The California, steamers George Law ani
Star Of the West, which arrived at Newly rk
on the 29th ult., brought each $2,0O0,000 il
gold. e.I41 81 re- 7e4 +.
The result Of the election in Nebraska for
delegate to Congress is still in doubt. The
present returns indicate the election Of Bennett
the anti-slavery candidate. ,r 'u
A witty Doctor says that tight lacing is a
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 $500 was paid for a mud stone-a mineral
supposed to have wonderful healing virtues.
DR.. H. P. Bostwick, of BRIDGEPORT, Conn,
hos recently received and accepted an appoint
ment under the Russian Government, as Sur
geon. lie is to be stationed at Odessa.
Gov. Minor, Of Connecticut, kas issued his
proclamation announcing that the amendment
to the Constitution, lately adopted, that voters
must be able to read and write, is low. 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
sentence against Cavannah, the murderer. An
Indignation meeting has been held at Martins
burg, at which Gov. Clark was burned in efigy,
Several Network ladies, of social and liter
airy standing, are said to have signed the fol-
lowing pledge: "We engage to employ in
our dress and furniture American fabrics in
preference, and as far as we Gun, with reasona-
BILE effort, to the exclusion of foreign produc-
TONS" W.
Dudley Selden, Esq, who died at Paris on
the eth inst, was taken i'll on the 5th, while
walking with his servants on the Bouievards.
On the 9th he was to give q grand dinner to
Mr.. Fillmore, Mr.. Mason, Mr.. Thorndike and
other distinguished gentlemen. The day fol-
he died.
The IRISH CR1ER.-"In Cork" said O'Con-
nell, " remember q supernumerary crier, who
had been put in place of an invalid, trying to
the crowd by enchanting, with a
stentorian voice, All you blackguards that
isn't lawyers, lave the presence of the court en-
or I'll make ye, by the powers.'"
Col. j. G. Fremont has taken q house in
New Y ork for the accommodation of himself
and family during the winter, that he may en-
Joy greater facilities in preparing and publish
ing the results of his Pacific Railway explora- |
ton, which will beready for the press before the /
adjournment of Congress.
The Muscantine Iowo) Inquirer says that
the railroad hands working on the bluff OF the
loot OF the city, are rolling out car load after
car load OF iron ore-the genuine article-and
building up the grade, with it. It lies in a
huge mass near the surface of the bluff, and APP
parentlyin inexhaustible quantities.
The Boston Advertiser publishes a letter
from the Greek island of Zante, greatfullv ar
knowledging the receipt of $50 sacks of India
corn, contributed by the inhabitants4of
and other cities in the United States
for the relief Of the sufferers from famine in that
The Norfolk and Portsmouth h~eroines, Miss
Annie NJ. Andrews, who so kindly volunteered
her services to the sufferers of the yellow fever,
is now stopping at the st. Nicolas Hotel, New
York, Miss Andrews also made a donation of
$1,000 to the Howard Association. She has
finished her charitable work, and is on her way
to her home in Syracuse.
The American Institute has purchased the
New ork Crystal Palace on condition that
they con 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
he Palace is $l25,000. The Institute takes
he management and control of the ediice i'm
nediately.
A NAL in Mount Vernon, Maine, has raised
n the open air, for the last three years, the
'offee plant, the seed of which was brought five
ears ago from Cuba. 1t grows about two
Get high, and produces its berries in pods some
hing like peas. The plants, he says, have ma
ured even this season, and the berries ripeped
Without injury froms frosts.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Advocate has been
hown a memorial to the Legislature of Vir-
ma which is being circulated, proposing ma
erlal alterations of the slavery laws, as fol-
ows: Forbidding the separation of parents
young children; recognizing the marriage
t slaves and to allow persons of color to Be
aught to read and write, $50 as to assist their
loral 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
1 'Ile ice in mara, rln 40. 10 ss.:lL