The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-04-28
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Milwaukee, in Winconsin. is only twenty
years old, ard yet it has now a population of 1000.
A letter has been received in Newly rk from
the fugitive Baker, i'll which he admits that he shot
Poole, but says it was in selt-defelse.
VIM. b. Denton, q well known lawyer of
Boston, shot himself dead, in the city, on the 18th
inst.
A bill abolishing all licenses for the sale Of
liquor has passed both branches Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
u. l.. w. Reed, of Norristown, Pa, has
sailed for Europe, for the purpose Of entering the
Russian service as a surgeon &
Seventeen Peers died in England, during the
year 1854, and the changes in the House OF ComInons
amounted to Al. . U.7.r
The man who Except his word" gave serious
offense to Noah Webster VIM wanted it for his die
%tionary!
England imported 3~O,543,5a3 pounds of
tobacco iii 1854, for which she received L reyeIs e Of
IA, G43,47s. ..~
The news Of the death Of the Emperor Paul.
in 1HUl, was t,teniy-Gne Gags i'll getting to london.
That of the late Emperor Nicholas, jcas' do,s's md
a quarter. "" ' 'a'H "0M"'
A geological survey Of Canada, now in nro-
gress, is said to show that the Provinces are ri,fier
in most minerals, except coal, than cvea the United
States. 2.
The St. Louis Intelligencer, noticing the ar
rival in tlat'city Of the Hon. Juilu J. CrittcndeE, of
Kentucky. says that "Ae is one Of the warmest
friends and supporters of the American party
Governor Clark, Of NewYork, has signed the
Church Property Bill, which ~deprives Roman CAtho-
lie Bishops Of that State Of the control OF the real
estate belonging to taeir respective dioeeses.
A telegraphic dispatch from Washington
says the Government makes hut poor beadway in get
ting suitable vessels to reinforce the Gull Ssuudront
and poorer yet in getting men to man the vessels.
The House Of Representatives of Wisconsin.
by vote Of A tn %, have restored the death penalty
iii that State. The Senate have yet to act upon the
matter.
The King of Prussia has ordered the erea.
medal for science aud the golden cosmos to be pre-
sented to Lieut.. Mau1y for Ills wind and current
charts.
The customhopsc reccirts at New York. POS
ton and Philadelphia, for the first quarter of the
present year, show a falling oil Of 81 ,062 80, as COM
paired with the corresponding period of last year.
1t is said that the wires Of the National
Telegraph line have been cut away in North Ala.
hama, on suspicion that they are the occasion Of the
existing droutil.
A man named Seebers has obtained a ipas-
ment of s25 900 against the city Of Mempi,i-. as
damages for being committed as a ~Yagrunt. 1t ap-
pears that Memphis never had a vagralt law.
On the 9Th inst, the brig Duncan, Capt.
Porter. from Philadelphia, for Bath. Me-, went down
with all on board, fifty miles northwest Of Galo May.
during a violent gale.
The citizens of Independence, Mo., have
gotten up il petition praying The city coallci. II enact
IN ordinance to the pnrpoit that every ma. shall %
TO church Cd Sunday Or pay a fine ol one dallar.
A light mulatto married weman is giving pri-
vate rehearsals in Philadelphia, previous to lrf ,.r,-
pearfuiee in public a. II reader of ifle pprts. y In Fa,nv
keinole Butler. Miss Kimberly aatl otao.s. rle ~
Ieis say she evidently POSSESSES some aEiiity.
At the municipal election IN Hartford, Conn.
on the 9th inst, a flsioa Of Wings ard Democrats
succeeded in defeating the Know Nothing Ii, ket.
to,r OF the six Aldermen and thirteen Of the
twenIy-four Counciimen.
The (" Preliminary Course :" having been nut
in fine order BY the man who made t.acks, the
long anticipated contest between the" Clothes Boy.et'
and the Night Mare u will come off soon, under the
management OF the man who " took precedence"
" Your house is on fire, SIR" said a stranger,
rushing into the parlor of u sober citizen. "WcIl.
sir" was the answer of the latter, % to what cause
am l indebted for the extraordinary interest which
you take i'll tine affairs of my house Z"
Selim Pacha, the commander Of the Fcyp-
tians at the combat Of Eupatoria, OIL which Occasion
he was killed, was the MaiGeluke who escayed from
the massacre at Cairo, by jumping his horse over til,
parafet.
AT northampton, New Jersey, they have a
. tobacco fuid"-that is, some benevolent individual
has lett $50, the interest of which is for ever to be
applied to the purchase of tobacco for the poor. So
says the New Jersey Mirror.
1t is reported by telegraph that Messrs. Cor
roran and Riggs, of Washing Ton, lIaye paid over to
the Government about 300. 900, attached in their
hands az being part of the money iiaudulently ob.
tanned under the Gardiner claim.
The brig Hope, from Gonaivcs, with dates
to the 9th of March, reports much sickness among
Several OF the crew of the United States
sloGp Of war Falmouth were sick with the yeljnw
fever.
The Legislature of Wisconsin has inst en-
acted 4 law providing for placing a copy of Wcbster's
Unabridged Dictionary, at the expense of the State.
III " each school and each department ~tleleofW Of
the public schools OF the STATE.
Horace Greeley, chief editor of the NewYork
has embarked for Europe, where he intends
spending the summer. His brethren of the Tribune
gave him y parting dinner, at which thilty-seyen of
the editors, prroprietors and reporters OF that paper
were present.
The Grand Jury in Boston have found an
against Capt. Wentworth, of the schooner
Hooper, and the crew, fer ieloriolsly attempting
d destroy the vessel by boring holes i'll her with M
nteht to defrald the Columbian Incurance Company
S. c., where the vessel was insured.
Capt. Gerry, of the missing sloop-oEwar AL
'any, supposed to have foundered in a hurricane.
vas, it is said, a son OF the late Eluridge Gerry, If
one of tie singers OF the Declaration OF
Independence, a Governor of Massachusetts,, and Vice
President of the United States.
Count Microlawski, a noted revolutionist
eader of Germany, prominent in the Instructions of
Is4s in Berlin and Baden, has again turned up in
Halifax, where lie is recruiting men for the English
in the Crimea. He will lead the company lie
$ e~nlisting.
The deiences of sebastopol have attracted the
Of military engineers, the world over, ard
nay perhaps be observed with profit by cur own OK.
client engineers. The President has done well in
letailing three officers of our engineer corps for the
'urpose of visiting a city which, after 1--WE months
by the best appointed teeta and armies