The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-03-31
oPELoUsAs, SATURDAY MoRNNG MARCH 81
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i VARIETIES.

4 The way to make a tall man short is to
ak him to lend you a hundred dollars
| Arrangements are making for the removal Of
tp seat Of government Of Canada from Quebec
1 to Toronto. sia
/ Congress has appropriated during the pres
ert session not less than 81, 1000 900 for the Dis
ltAct Of Columbia, i8I n T S}s B: i
| Ut Is stated that two of the oldest colleges,
4 Yale and dartmouth, are in straitened circun-
stances, and require $l00, 900 each to meet spe
cal wants.
The Rev. Whiteford Smith, an eloquent NOM
her Of the Methodist church at Greenyille, ST.
g. is named as q fitting successor to the late
/ Bishop Capers Of South Carolina.
Commodore Perry received from Congress
An extra $50 900, something more. substantial
Il han the New 7 ork, Boston and Rhode Island
|isrvice Of plate. lsi
Great Britain has sixty colonies, containing
Feither direct colonists from Great Britain, OF
I British extraction. "a s
A son Of Erin gave the following toast at d
dinner party: :. Here s wishing ye may never
die, nor nobody kill ye, till ye knock yer brains
out against the silver knocker ov yer own
door!"
The new dome Of the Capitolat Washington,
for which $l00,OO0,was appropriated, will ill.,
crease the present altitude Of that edifice to 26O
sfeet-or only fifteen feet less that OF the spire
tof Trinity Church, NewYork. l5SS
In answer to numerous INQUIRIES, the Wash
ington Sentinel states; that, by the late act Of
Congress, the salary Of the Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court Of the United States has been
raised to $1,000 per annum, and thesalaries Of
the Associate Justices to $4,000 per annum. NJ
An interesting inscription was recently dis
covered in the excavations round the Pantheon,
referring to the corporation Of tavern keepers
instituted in Rome during the reign Of Area
dius and Honorins, when Lampadius was pre-
feet Of the city, "a. D.. 366.
A Washington dispatch says that Colonel
Kinney has resigned his commission as Captain
General Of the Central American Colonization
Company. w. Cost johnson, temporary Pres
ident, has also resigned, and Senator Cooper
has been appointed with full powers.
Capt. Lavender, of the schooner Elizabeth
Ann, Of Province town, while fishing last sum
mer on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, took
finger ring, perfectly bright and smooth, and
which whicc lt had not apparently been there long.
The mines of Australia continue highly pros
porous and afford full employment to the emil
grants. 1t Is reported that near Bathurst one
miner took out ninety ounces Of gold lin two
days, and that the general yield is from ten to
| fifteen and even twenty ounces day. New
mines are being discovered daily. ,i
DIR. A. Hull, Of NewYork, advances the
theory of electrical medicine, asserting that
agent electricity has proved, in his hands, a
means Of forming All unerring diagnosis Of dis
| ease, and afterwards afforded curative power
which could be used on a certain fixed basis by
physicians, if they understood its action.
The prospects for the future wheat crop seem
to be everywhere favorable. The Detroit Free
Press says that in all parts Of Michigan the
winter wheat is looking exceedingly we'll The
quantity upon the ground is greater thanin
any former year, and, with no intervening ca
lamity, the crop will be unprecedented.
Judge Mason, American Minister in Paris,
| is said to have almost entirely recovered his
health. During his illness, the Emperor and
all the Imperial family manifested much inter-
est in his welfare and at the last diplomatic
gathering at the Tuileries, the family of Mr..
Mason were present, and were warmly congrat-
ulated on the Minister'S recovery.
l. Upon striking balance on our homicide
calender for 1854, we come to the conclusion
that one person of 600 in California will be
killed by his neighbors in 1855. In one-half the
cases, the weapons will berevolvers one-fonrth,
knives and in the other fourth guns or other
weapons. The prospect is o comfortable one
4 San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the acts passed during ther recent ses-
sion of the Rhode Island Legislature was one
to prohibit the State Courts from exercising
1.-THE power Of naturalization. Resolutions were
also adopted in favor Of a law Of Congress con-
filming naturalization to the federal courts, and
extending the required term OF residence to
twenty-one years.
The Legislature Of Michigan, in accordance
with the recommendation of the Governor, have
1 passed law authorizing the Treasurer to re-
deem the public debt out Of any surplus funds
on hand at a premium not exceeding ten per
cent over the par. The State Of Michigan owes
/ about s., 100000, and had surplus in the
treasury at the close of the last fiscal year Of
about $500,000. l,
Messrs. Hene and Brown, artists of the Ja-
pan expedition, are getting ready for pubica-
tion by the authority of the Secretary of the
Navy and Commodore Perry, q series Of pic
lures with scenery, costumes etc,strom draw
ings and daguerreotypes) in the best style ol
TYPOGRAPHY, in colors. The pictures will prob
ably be ready for delivery about the middle o.
April next. .+s3 ~ 81
Two young girls, Christiana and Martha Pc
pert, were arrested in Washington on the 5th
for begging in t. . streets contrary to law
They were taken before police magistrate
who ordered them to pay the costs and give Sc
curity that they would not be found begging ii
the streets again. 1t has since been ascertainet