The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-12-01
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Brigham Young, the Mormon, is reputed 20
be worth nearly 100000. 81
The American party Of New Hampshire has
pasceJ the following resolation
In Belgiuly there sz4ynow nearly for pro-
~testants congregations, where twenty-five years
ago not one could be found.
The Norfolk and Portsmouth papers contra
dict the rumor Of the temperance OF the yell
low fever there.
Three sellers of spoiled meat in Memphis
were recently sent to the workhouse for sixty
four days. Served 'em right.
Mr.. Thackeray has consented to repeat his
lectures on the Georges, in New ork, at the
request Of several prominent literary men.
1t is said that Rachel is studying English,
and-that it is her intention toappear as Lady
Macbeth before she leaves America.
An effort is being made in Philadelphia 70
retrench the public expenditures and a rednc-i
ton of $4,000 per annum in eatravagant sal
aries, the police, etc, has been proposed.
The sloop-oewar Cyane sailed from New
York on the 10th instant, destination not
known. She is probably gone to the West
IIbdies.
The Boston Courier in summing r ve-
suits of the recent election in -
l.o,, IL. E,.,,rn, oyl;lxs&1a r,o;orifv Of s,yfv- four
Thousand six hundred against notification.
A bill has been introduced in the Tennessee
Legislature to compel all free persons of color
in the State to- emigrate to Liberia or else
where beyond the limits Of the State.
A NewYork correspondent of the Boston
Transcript says, that within five years the
gross receipts at the Broadway Theatre, du-
ring Mr.. Forret's engagements, have amounted
to nearly a quarter Of a million Of dollars.
Consequence OF CARRYING a KNIrE.-Mr.
Melvin, one Of the killed by the Pacific Rail
road calamity, was found with a bowie knife,
which he had on, thrust up to the hilt in his
body. He was terribly mangled. M
TRAo1cAL ArFA1R.-In Edgefeld District,
S. G.. last week, Basil M. Boone shot his father,
Daniel Boone, with q rife, and then shot him
self. He died Immediately, and his fathers
wound is also fatal. The cause Of their quar-
rel is not stated.
The shippers of gold from California to
New ork have paid between three and four
millions of dollars to the NewYork Insurance
Companies in the last five years; while the
aggregate losses Of the insurers have not ex-
ceeded two hundred thousand dollars.
Tt is predicted by those who pay attention
to this subject that within rs years the United
States will not only supply the American peo-
|ple with the pure juice of grape, but will be-
come the largest wine exporting nation in the
world.
The total amount of gold shipped from Cali
.Ttornia, in five years, is $229, 900. 742 49, The
amount shipped in 1881 was $34,492, 900 in
1852, $40, 10000; in 1853, So, 900, $3.50 !; in
1854, $51, 5O6,132 in 1855, (estimated) $43,-
219,564 40.
Resolved, That in the judgment Of the State
Council, all ceremonies Of initiation into the
American party, and all obligations, except
such regulations as the councils or clubs in
their own government, be discontinued and re-
moved.
A wag, standing at the corner of Oliver and
Cherry streets, opposite to one of the " Catski'l
Ice" carts, drew a piece of chalk from his
pocket and marked the letter NJ. before the
word "ice," which of course made it read,
Es Cats kill mice"
Thomas F. Meagher, Esq, was on the 18th
instant married by Archbishop Hughes, in
NewYork, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of
Peter Townsend, Esq, Of Orange county, N.
Y. Miss. Townsend has been one of the reign
ing bellies Of the Fifth Avenue in NeWYork
city.
"The land of steady habits" seems not to
be so steady, after all. j. FL. Green, the re-
formed gambler" writes to the NewYork
Times that in Connecticut every little village
has its gambling club, while Hartford and New
Haven have long been cursed with public and
private gaming houses"
According to the Chicago Journal there has
been shipped since the opening of navigation
to the present time, 13,000,162 bushels of
grain. This does not include shipments by
railroad. Over seven and a half millions of
the above amount consisted of Corn, and up
wards of four aud a half millions of Wheat.
A farmer speaking of the qualities and good
education of his son-relating how many books
he had read t%hrough-how many school he had
attended, and great heaps o. them kinder
things Yes said his neighbor, he is like