The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-06-02
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Twenty-seven deaths by cholera occurred !,
Memphis during the week ending May Is.
The dwelling and adjacent buildings Of M.
Dunn, at Clinton, La, were destroyed by fra mn II.
18th ult.
The Know-Nothings Of Louisville Ky, h.,.
nominated Humphrey Marshall, late Comm;ss.;o."
to China, as their candidate for Congress.
A new National Armory is about IN i.
erected at Washington.
Kansas Territory, which will undouhted,,
be a Slave State, contains 50s8 males, 1918 femalss
2s77 voters, 716l natives, 4Os foreigners, 1872 SLAVE
total population, $500.
The Grand Jury Of Buncombe county. No,.,
Carolina, have presented KNOWN nottingham "a !
nuisance. We presume this is intended for "hus
cOmbe."
The ceremony Of laying the cornerstone Of.
Church, took place at Baltimore on the 18th inst. 81
the presence of five thousand people.
The submarine cable, from Cane Kalerca !,
Bulgaria, to the Monastery of St. George, in thee ~.
mea, lies a length of 30l miles across the bottom ~
the Black Sea. 1t was laid down on the 10th. Ilfh
and 18th inst. "
A dispatch received from Washington inti.
mates that the State Department has information ~
a flibustering expedition organizing in NewYort
city, to proceed against Peru, under Echehioua
Arrests are looked for.
A letter from Lake Superior gives an ".
count of a great whirlwind that passed over tho
Saulte on the 18th ultima. Three teAmboats VIEW
greatly damaged and driven ashore, and about Il
dwellings, warehouses and barns either DESTROYED n
sfea'y in9uieu' iAFs
The u. S. Surveying schooner Varina, Cant.
bergman, is now in Tampa Bay, engaged in maxim
a survey OF its capacity and depth of water as q CON.
mercial harbor. This will be the first thorough AMI
satisfactory examination of the waters of Tampa, mads
by one adequate to the performance of the duty,
A man named McAdams was lately founa
drunk in the streets of Philadelphia, and an enos.
nous dog stood guardian over him, and so faitbfulIy
and coilrngeously did the sentinel do his duty. TIM
the Waterman was compel ed to shoot him dead b.,
fore he could remove the man to the watch house.
AT Memphis recently, n yonrg man in
spirit of levity said to Mrs. Green Wornly, a respect
able lady i'll delicate health, that her husband ina
geen seriously injured by a dray running over him.
The announcement gave her such a shock that aha
Immediately tainted, and in a short time was a CORPSE.
The two buildings erected for the Worlds
Exhibition in Paris cover a surface 962, 900 feet. Or
more than twenty-five acres. This is 81, 900 sunars
feet larger than the London Crystal Palace. Tbs
great Hal! ii Mree-quarters of a mile long, 1884
feet,) and is the longest in the world,
George Washington 2. Gusts, the nearest
AN
surviving connection of Gen. Washington, and per.
haps the only man living who was on terms n
familiar intimacy with him., has been invited to de-.
liver the address at the celebration of the anniversar,
Of the settlement of Jamestown. Virginia. on III
18th. ~ ~
a correspondent Of the Hillsda!e (MichiganI
STANDARD, writing from Honolulu, speaks Of the
character of the inhabitants of the Island in the fi.
lowing brief paragraph: "Fourthiy, of the peopie.
They are something like the American Indians In
color, with all their vices and not a virtue Of thei,
own or any hody's else. Firstly, they will lie ser.
ondly, they will steal thirdly, they will not work.
and %fourthly, they are the most licentious race thai
ever polluted the earth"
The bark Gfupcs1ct, with. Lew is Baker on
board arrived at NcwYork on the 18TH, As aeon "a
the news of the arrival was known, numbers collected
about the landing. Baker, however. was taken into
an omnibus, which drove directly to the FIFTH Ward
without attracting much attention. 4
crowd soon collected, however, rounl the Station.
house. and the prisoner for greater safety was re-.
moved to the Tombs and locked IN. A. he was
passing to his cell he met Jim Turner. his old friend
and accomplish, and during a briefintNrview between
them, was observed to shed tears,