The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-03-22
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WA arm ii louisville advertises . preparation
which ii is sa;d will seBsetually destroy q taste
for spiritnous 6aiquCrs.
II i sail that there nre ut present in the
Ohio Rsnilentiary la6 c%onvicts under the age
Of q yeark
Al the municipal easetion in Alexandria,
VII, on Tie 18th inst, the merican ticket was
elected BY On average ma rity Of five hundred.
Jenny Lind, as she is still generally called
continues to increase in hersattfactlons pom "
London and the. Provinces. Her price for
singing at q private concert Is $500 az
A wstitsin enc Of the Northern papers, on
shool disci g, says : Without q liberal
use ofths t0Ss. is impossible TO make bow
smart" v
A country caifcs thinks that Richelieu, VINO
declared that the pen was mightier than .ne
sword" ought to have spoken a good wora lor.
the Z scissors" @
IA serions riot occurred among the students
Of Yale College on the 9th inst. They attacked
and beat a tutor named Brewer, whom they
supposed was o spy,
A man in NewOrleans, a few weeks since,
drew three prizes in the Havana Lottery. One
of 100000, one Of $500 anS one Of 5000 na'e
money was paid to Enson thu 22d ult-
Hon. Thomas H. Bayly, mem er Of CONGRESS
from Virginia, continues dan erously i'll at
Havana, whittier he went in The beginning Of
winter for the benefit of his health.
Immense frauds. arc said to have been per
petrated in NewYork, on US4sdspecting persons
purchasing brandies purporting to be taken
from bonded cellars.
The American party held d large and enthu-
~siastic meeting in Richmond, Virginia, an the
5th inst, at which resolutions, endorsing and
r~atifying the Is nation Of Fillmore and Dol:
J elson, were passets
The New Park IN NewYork will be the
largest in the world. The amounts awarded
to the owners Of lands and for expenses, Is
sum Of s5,les 559o. payable by the o 1s q
adjacent lands, Who's ~
Some Turkish ladid I scutari lett Y !
homes on account Of telegraphic
having been carried o. the roofs %
houses. They imagined IT the VIZ dle
| tell all their secrets
An arrangement has, 1t Is $aid, been enteret
! into between thirty-two brokers and capitalist!
: of Paris and London, to participate in commor
in great industrial and commercial under
! Ine ue@sp@pv- r'ar !
soon to marry u yc
!, Ohio, and is to spend a year III Norway an
: Sweden. The Boston Post says that we mus
all try to keep the Union together until h
gets back.
Hon. Thomas Hart Clay, eldest con @
q /" Harry of the West" was member and tool
IN active part in the proceedings of the lat
National American Convention ut Philadel
], phia, which resulted SO gloriously in the non
: ~ipation of " Fillmore and Donelson."
= The Emperor of Austria, as a mark Of res
h pect for his illustrious ally, and in respect I
S Queen Victoria. has pardoned Colonel Tur
c who was, we believe, arrested g charge i
o connection with enlistments ior the BIRTHS
= army on the Austrian territory.
The mania for building immensely Ion
steamships has communicated itself to the rive
boats. The Isaac Newton, running :
Hudson river, between Newly York and Alban
d is to be altered and heightened, until 81
measures something over four hundred feet
thus surprising in length the Persia, Magyar
y Adriatic, or any thing aaoat, until the gre,
Eastern is launched.