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The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24

u We are authorized to announce that PIERRE
MoUILLE (aias Celestin Mouie) is candidate
for the Office of Assessor he occupied last year
Election to take place IN november next and that
he recommends himself to his friends and the
public. l0pelousas, Feb. 17th., 1856.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
DRUG STORE.

TaVHE undersigned have the honor to in
4 form the public that they have Just re.
ceived at their Drug Store, Garner Of Main
and Bellevue streets, in Opelousas, Fresh
Assortment Of Drugs Medicines, Perfume
ries, Paints, &c, which they offer for sale at
the most reasonable prices.
They always have on hand Patent Medici.
mes of all kinds-and all articles appertaining
to their line of business.
NTbey have secured the services of an
experienced and careful druggist, who will
attend night md day on the calls of fami-
lies and of The profession.
7. LEONCE HEBRARD & Co.
Opelousas, Nov. 25th. 1854-6m.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
a'Eaatst tion for Sale,
CANDE

10 We are authorized to announce % the vo.
tiers of the Town of Opelousas, that Mr. JAMES D.
ISRAEL has become candidate for the Office of
Town Constable, at the election which will take
place in April next.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24

By the u'adersi gned, a public auctsoneer,
IN and for The Parish Of st. Landry. ).
- LII be sold, at public sale, to the last
W and highest bidder, by the undersign-
ed, public auctioneer, in and for the Parish
Of st. Landry. at the last residence of Ezekiel
Ewes, deceased, in the town Of Washington,
in this Parish, on
Wednesday, | lth day Of April, 1855,
the following property, belonging to the Es-
tate ofthe late Ezekiel Ewes, deceased, to-wit:
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
NOTICED.

NoT1ICE.
A IL persons who have bought at the sale
- of the property of Mrs Widow Va
lansart, are informed that the payments are
due since the 14th February last if they
wish to save COSTS they will do well to come
and settle Immediately with Mcssrs. Morrogh
Il Mouton, at Washington, La.
l.. CHAUDET, Agent.
Washington, La, March 18th, 1856.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
FOR SALE.

FO. SAFE,
7HVWO ALEMBICs nearly new, with
- their accessories, one containing rs
gallons, and the other about 80.
For the conditions apply to the undersigned
or at the Office of the Courier.
E. [. SALES.
Washington Jan. Goth 1866 If.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
HALT LOT or GEsOUND,

HALF LOT OF GROUND,
situated in the town of Washington, Parish
#of ST. Landry, being the North West half Of
Lot NO. ( onthe plan of said town. bound
ed North By Dupre Street, East by other
half Of said lot, belonging to Auguste Fellain,
South by Carriere Street, aid West by Lot
No. 77, belonging To said Follain, containing
about one half Of . superficial arpent, more
or less, together with allthe Buildings and
Improvements thereon erected.
A grind stone, one lot cooper's tools,
one table, one arlnoir, one safe,
two bedsteads, six chairs, one
rifle.
Terms and Conditions The moveable
property payable cash. the lot and baildings
payable on . credit Of one and two years,
from the day of sale purchasers giving ap-
proved personal security to the satisfaction Of
whom the right and said lot remaining spe-
eialIy mortgaged to said Estate, until full
and entire payment of capital and interests.
UI.YSSE GABEREL,
ANctio,aecy.
opelousas, March 10th. 1855
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
Judicial Sales. &C.:
o-~~~~o~oo-o~~.ooo-
Positive Sale
Oh LAND And SLAVES.

A T the request Of the Hon. j. III Over
IA ton, | will sell at public auction, to
the highest and last bidder, on the 18th of
April next, 1855, at the door of the Court
House, in the Town of Opelousas, the follow
ing described property, to wit:
I'll PLsAes'TsA T'XOeVe
measuring 80 arpents front on Bayou Beuf
containing 2OOO' superficial arpents, with all
the buildings and improvements thereon, con-
sisting of good dwelling house, sugar house,
mill and steam engine, negro-cabbins and
other out houses.
500 arpents Of land are under cultivation.
250 of which are now in cane.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24
PUBLIC, SALE.

Opelousas, March 10TH, 1855.
The Opelousas courier., 1855-03-24

opelousas March 10th. 1856.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

tEy- A London letter writer thinks that
the time has come for English harps to hang
upon the willows. John Bull is beginning to
waste away; his stomach has scarcely tone
enough for roast beef, and there is every in
dication of "deep decline" if not gallop-
ing consumption. We suppose the author of
the following is prepared to furnish the Gar,
or any other diSinterested person the proof
necessary to establish the above diagnostics:
"Englnnd possesses no great men. In fact,
there is not man for the occasion in Parlia-
ment or in England Many will smile Mt the
suggestion that the greatness of England
has passed, and that the time Of her deca
dence has come. But whenever has State
seen its own decay till the hour for remedy
had gone! And in all history, what always
SO clearly indicated that the vignr and life of
State has passed, but its bigo,ed attach
mrnt to forms and rules and etiquette, so
that these become fetters upon its activity
and independence. Absolute France has this
day more real Liberty than constitutional
England"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

Coon ApvIcE.-llere is something good
from the Iowa 3ugle, it says: "Dear reader,
when you go shopping, be sure you purchase
of those who advertise. You cannot only
bay much cheaper, but you will get good,
fresh, fashionable goods. Those who advcr-
tise will sell at least three times rs much ns
those who cant afford it, and as matter of
course he who advertses, can afford to sell
for the profit of the other, and never has
goods out of fashion, or half worn out hand
ling them. BY making your purchases of
those whose wares are advertised you will
get the worth of your money and change
hnckn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

A New VERSION OF THE BBLE.-Kossuth
has written letter to the Society Of Friends,
in reply to their "Chrstian appeal for Peace
ut any price," in which he maintains the ne
cessiy of war in some cases upon scriptural
grounds. He says the version of the Bible
quoted by the memoriallsts, which reads
'Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace
aud GOOD will toward man. should read
"Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace
to rood.wishing men," Here is question
for the New Versionists to discuss. Having
set the American people right about the
meaning of Wnshington's Farewell Address,
the distinguished Magyar has now undertaken
to set the Christian world right about tho
meaning of the Bible.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02
REALITY.

Let any one look around at the numerous
fond couples of his acquaintance who are
peacefully smiling in each Others faces, in
defiance Of realities, ald the common verdict
of mankind, ana he mus: acknowledge that
beauty is but q name, and ugliness but CHI
mera. In effect there are no such things
Poetry, and novels and roIlanees have made
n certain combination OF nubura hair, blue
eyes, Greek noses, aud pearl teeth, to be an in-
dispensable part of the motsr'el of true love;
but in commerce of the living world this is
all sheer nonsense. Depend upon it, that in
spite of arbitrary standards, there is no one
so ugly who has MOTHS oglings, his armorous
looks, and languishing smles--and that
somebody or other has the heart to relish
and return them. Nay, beauty itself chooses
ugliness for its mate, without thinking it ug-
iy. Look at Mr.. and Mrs. p. How
balsamic is such union TO us that are ugly.
We mean not to utter word in dsparage-
ment Of beauty, but we see no harm in ex-
tending its empire by multiplying IFS attri-
butes. A man may have n just sense of all
that Is essentially, and by universal assent,
most lovely-ahd yet, under some inexplca-
Bile illusion, fix his own final choice upon
features that no one thinks agreeable but
himself He may make his quotations from
twenty established belles-drink TO the ty-
ranny of all the reigning toasts-and then go
and surrender up his soul forever to mouth
charmingly awry, and teeth divinely not in
rows. This is rs it should be. BY such by
laws as these, nature elicts harmony from
the jarrng elements of the world; thus,
amidst all her seeming inequalities and in-
consistencies, by series of kindly compen-
sations, she assimilates all conditions, and
provides means for making every one con-
tented and happy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

s1Y" II is estimated that since the yeal
1917, the cholera has swept off fifty millions
Of the world : inhabitants. 1t has done its
direful work everywhere; on the borders oi
the White Sea, on the slopes of limmalahr
aud on the sands of Arabia. In 1916, il pass.
ed in silence aud safety by n city which stood
upon the plain where its ravages were ex.
pected, but clambcred up a rugged rock, to
invade the citadel Of Jaragnrth, in Irdia
which is built upon mn isolated rock at Il
height Of 1000 feet aboye the plain. il
burst through the troops of 10000 men by
which Prussia thought to resist its progress
nor did il heed the triple cordons of Austria
but descended into the streets of Vienna
and destroyed more of the nobility and peo,
pie belonging to the upper classes of society
than il had at any other place.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02
ADVICE TO CoNsUMPTIyES.


In some good advice TO consumptiyes, DR.
Hall says: Eat all you can digest, and exer
else great deal in the open air, to conver
what you eat into pure healthful blood. d.
not be afraid of out door air, day or night
Do not be afraid of sudden changes of wealth
er: let no change, hot or cold, keep you ia
doors. If it is rainy weather, the more need
for your going out, because you eat as much
on n rainy day MS upon clear day, and If you
exercise less, that much more remains in the
system of what ought to be thrown off by
exercise, and some i'll feeling is the certain
ISSUE
Ii it is cold out of doors, do not muffle
your eyes, mouth and nose in furs, wells
wooden comfOrters, and the like; nature has
supplied you with the best muffler, with
the best inhaling, regulator, that is, two lips
shut them before you step out of warm
room into the cold air, and keep them shut
until you have walked briskly few rods and
quickened the circulation little; walk fast
enough to keep off q feeling of chiliness and
taking cold will be impossible. What are
the facts of the case: look at railroad conduc-
tors, going out of a hot air into the piercing
cold of winter and in again every five or ten
minutes, and yet they do not take cold often
er than others; you will scarcely find con-
sumptive man in thousand of them.
It's wonderful how afraid consumptive
people are of fresh air, the very thing that
would cure them, the only obstacle to cure
being that they do not get enough oft and
yet what infinite pains they take to avoid
breathing it, especially if it is cold; when it is
known that the colder the air the purer it
must be; yet if people cannot get to hot eli.
mate, they will make an artificial one, and
mprson themselves for whole winter in n
warm room with temperature not varying
ten degrees in six months; all such people
die, and yet we follow in their footsteps. II
INwere seriously i'll Of consumption, / would
live out of doors day and night, except it was
raining or mid-winter, then would sleep in
nm upholstered log house.
My consumptive friends, you want air, not
physic you want pure air, not medicated air
you want nutrition, such as plenty of meat
and bread will give, and they alone; physic
has no nutrment, gaspings, for air cannot
cure you; monkey capers in n gymnasium
cannot cure you, and stimulants cannot cure
you. you want to get well, 60 in for beef
and out door mir, and not be deuded into the
grave by newspaper advertisements, and un-
(indable ceftifers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

DEAD HoRsEs.-The Turks in the Crimea
have curious way Of accounting for dead
horses. 1t is Oriental, but satisfactory. One
of the men left in charge Of horses at Varna
came down to Scuturi to render up his ac-
counts to the Commissarat officer of the de-
partment The first thing he did was to pro-
duce large sack, which was borne into the
apartment of the functonarv by two men,
"Two hundred of your horses have died, !"
said the Turk. "Behold what h1ve said,"
is the truth;" and, at the wave Of his hand,
the men tumbled out the contents of the sack
on the floor, and 10 ! 400 horse ears, long and
short, and of all sizes and shapes were piled
in u heap before the eyes Of the astouished
officer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

The GREAT AMERICAN PARTY.-We con-
fess, saws the New York Pick, that we feel
extremely cheap at this moment. An Aboli.
ton Senator has just been elected at Albany,
and only few days ago one was elected by
the Know Nothing Legislature in Massachu,
setts. We don't like it. 1t don't read well
in history, and if our Southern exchanges
and subscribers ask us what it means, we can
only reply, wait little longer. We believe
tie Know Nothing order is right. The
masses are right, and eventually they will
make the chiefs right. The South in the
order can never be betrayed, for they are Or
ganized in fifteen States, and hold the power
in the American Party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

FRENCH AND ENGLISH WOMEN AT THE
SEAT OF WAR.-The French and English
women did not seem to associate at all. The
wives of our soldiers wondered at the manly
costume of the useful cantinieres, who have
their horse and tent, and are treated with
equal courtesy by officers and men; and they
no doubt were astonished by the want of
galantry in apeopIe who bring women to the
wars in foreign land, suffer them to stand
unsheltered, to wash the clothes of the men
in burning sun with thermometer Of 10
deg. of Fahrenheit, leave them unprOvidcd
with carriage when the regiment moves, and
obiige each woman to sleep with nine other
persons of both sexes in circular tent some
twelve feet in diameter.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

WoRk.-Work is of n religious nature;
work is Of brave nature; which it is the
aim of all religion to be. "AII work Of man
is rs the swimmers" waste ocean that
threatens to devou- him; if he front it not
bravely, It will keep its word. BY incessant
wise defiance of it, Justly rebuke and buffet
of it, behold how it Loyalty supports him,
bears him MS its conqueror along. at is so, )"
says Goethe, "with all things that man un-
dertakes in this world"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

RAILWAY LAWN New York Court il
has been decided in the case of Butler us the
Hudson River Railway Company, that pack
nge delivered by traveller carried on rail
way to his place of destination, is not neces-
sarily to be considered baggage if not so
represented, or if so put up as 10 deceive the
person to whom it is delivered. The carrier
may charge freight on such package, and it
lost should be liable, if not intended by the
traveller TO be treated MS baggage
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

tW- When n man comes home and tries
TO bolt the door with sweet potato, pokes
the fire with the spout of the coffee pot, at
tqmpts TO wind up the clock with his boot.
iack, tries to cut kinding for his mornings
fire with an ivory paperkniie, takes cold
boiled potato in hand to light him to bed, and
prefers to sleep in his boots and hat, you
may reasonably infer that he has been max
ing the acquaintance of some very friendly
people.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

0T The Legislature of Missouri, in joint
convention of the two Houses, having ballot
ted more than forty times for United States
Senator, adjourned the convention on the Sd
instant, by vote of s8 to SO, "until called
together by concurrent resolution" 1t is
doubtful If any further proceedings will be
had on the subject at the present session.
The result of the latest ballottings was about
as follows, viz: Mr.. Atchison SO; MIR. Doni-
phon, whig, 81; Mr.. Benton, 81. Both
branches of the Legislature have voted to
hold m adjourned session, commencing on
the frs. Monday Of November next.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1895.

SrocKs AND BoNDs.-Central Railroad
stock, says the Savannah Republican, we are
GID to say, is again at par, and is not easily
TO he had at that. The bonds of the city
falling due in 1857 and issued on account Of
the Central Road, are also selling at par
The South Western Railroad stock, we
understand, is bringing S93.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02
WAsu1EGToN, Feb. 90.


The Senate, yesterday, passed the substi-
tute for the Pacific Railroad Bill.
To-day, Mr.. Cass spoke, defining his posi-
tion in regard to Lord Clarendon, referring
to the position of France and England on
Cuban affairs, and their interference at San
Juan and the Sandwich Islands, and warned
his countrymeu of the Importance Of the
subject. lie was followed by Mr.. Mason and
Mr.. Clayton on the same topic. ...
In Executive session, the President sent to
the Senate two treaties, one with the Meth
erands and the other with the Kingdom of
the Two Sicies, declaring that free ships
make free goods. They were referred.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

W There is n positive declaration in the
Brussels papers that the restoration of Po-
land is seriously determined on by the allies
that the Archduke Louis, brother of the
Emperor of Austria, will be elected king
and that the Czartoryski family, who have
some pretensons to the crown, have intimat-
ed their willingness to accede to the Arch
dukes elevation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

A LOST STAR.-Prof. Alexander stated in
his recent lecture before the New York Mer-
camille Library Association that about the
year 1862 star came into sight and shone
very brightly. The light underwent variety
of very remarkable changes, changes which
were closely analogous to an intense combus.
ton. 1t seemed as it the substance Of the
star, in one sense, were burning up, and 1t is
hardly possible to resist the conclusion that
here was world, with regard to which it
may be asserted that its destiny for the time
being had been fulfilled.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

~ Hal, where was your minister's text
yesterday afternoon
oh, don't recolIect the place, but the
words Were, sleep on now and take your rest
what did he make out of that, HalP
Don't know, fnith-but he was continually
telling us that the truth is always practical;
so thinks to myself ri take you at your
word once, and may | be shot if walked up
till the Amen
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

icy Mother, mother here's Zeke frettin'
the baby. Make him cry again, Zeke, and
then YOU know mother will give him s1me
sugar to make him quiet and III take it away
from him AID then he'll squall worse than ever,
and mother will give him some more sugar,
ord YOU can take that and then we both will
have some"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

THE WING PARTY.-The New York Ex.
press (Whig) thinks it rather ominous of the
fate of the Wing party that in the two old
Wing States, which were the homes Of Clay
and Webster, it has been virtually abandon.
ed, the Wing delegation in Congress from
Massachusetts having deserted the protec.
tive system, and in Kentucky refusal hav-
ing been made to call Wing State Conven-
fion
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

.y- The New York Mirror speaking of
the relief of 26O poor widows by n benevolent
association in that city, calls it "the religion
of Christ" So it is; aud the man who gives
of his substance to relieve distress, and OF his
time to secure the application of the relief in
the most judcious manner, is an apostle pro-
claiming the truth OF the religion which he
processes, and the sincerity with which he
Processes it.-Proridence Journal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

.4s" A great many happy hits are made at
editors on account of their professional jea-
ousy. 1t is reported that the following ap.
peared in the Foxtown Fusller; "Postscript!
We stop the press with pleasure, to announce
tn dccease Of our contemporary, Mr.. Snaggs,
editor of the FoStown Flash. He has now
gone to another and better word. Success
to him. Persons who have taken the Flash
will find the FusiIIer good paper"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

t3g- Brigham Young is building two large
and beautiful houses adjoining that which he
occupies now in Salt Lake City, to accommo.
date his increasing family. llc now r.joices
in between fifty and sixty wives, and from
rorty.tive to fifty children. Elder Kimball one
of the Mormon Apostles, has between sixty
and seventy consorts,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
New York, Feb. q

NEW ORk, TeO 20.
The U. S. Mail steam ship Baltic, Capt.
Comstock, has arrived at her wharf in this
city from Liverpool, which port she left on
the 10th inst.
Lord PalmerstOn had been entrusted with
the duty of forming Cabinet, which consists
OF his lordship as Premier Lord Panmure,
Secretary at War, Lord Clarendon, Secretary
of Foreign Affairs, and Earl Grey, Colonial
Secretary. The other officers have undergone
no change.
The aspect Of the war was unchanged
The conferences at Vienna had not open
ed.
The Turks have defeated the Russians on
the Danube.
The Zouaves in the Crimea had mutined,
and 400 had been sent us prisoners TO Con-
stantinople.
The Russians continued 10 make sorties
from Sebastopol.
The French batteries had received orders
to prepare for general bombardment.
1t is said that the arrangements for the as
sault had compelled Omar Pasha to withdraw
his resignation.
The Russian forces on the frontier of Aus.
tria had been ordered TO retreat.
Louis Napoleon was about TO take COM
mand of the army on the Rhine.
The feeling at Constantinople was strongly
in favor pence
Holland and Denmark were seeking TO join
the Western Alliance.
Eight Austrian merchant ships had been
fired into by the Russians at Galatz, and Aus
tria had demanded explanations for the out
rage.
Sir Charles Napier had made savage
speech against the Government in the British
House of Commons.
Later advices say that the victory of the
Turks on the Danube has been confirmed.
The sortie of the Russians from Sebasto-
pol on the 23d ut caused an immense French
loss.
The Russian army is scarce Of supplies.
Queen Victoria has issued proclamation,
forbidding her subjects at home or abroad
from supplying the enemy with nmmuni-
tions
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

PRETTY GooD.-The Lehigh Valley Times
tells a story Of n Postmaster, who ascertained
that ore of his clerks was secretary OF a
Know Nothing Council, and accordingly dis
charged him, but had the singular i'll fortune
to seec, the President Of the same council
for his successor
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

sW- A medical student wishes to know
in what portion Of the animal economy the
trombone is to be found. He says that he has
frequently heard of it, but cannot find II in
the medical books.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

PRoplGlous GROWTH OF KASsAs-The
Kansas (Fort Leavenworth) Herald of the
10Th ult, notices five new cities which have
been already wholly or in part surveyed; two
brick makers have arrived there, and a livery
stable is contemplated. Should enough emf
grants arrive there, spectators may yetmake
n fine thing of il.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-02

A BAYKRUPr CiTY.-The Belfast (Ireland)
Mercury makes the strange announcement
that the corporation of that city is bankrupt
that it has in fact failed with debt of $780,
600 pounds, Isl 100000.