The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-01-12

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President Pierce will not recognize the Wake
Government in Nicaragua, and consequent,
Col. French will not be received as minister.
Two ladies Of fashion, in st. Louis, hav,
recently died suddenly. Cause-arsenic takel
in small doses, to give brilliancy to their com
plexions.
There are, within ten miles Of the Boston
State house, 100000 volumes in private libra
ries, said libraries being of 1000 volumes ant
upwards.
Gen. Cass is said, by the Detroit Tribune
to be worth 81 1000. A farm purchased a
an early day, adjoining the city Of Detroit, ha
become worth o million of dollars.
Delaware will never yield an,inch to New
jersey" said a patriotic Delawarian when thu
pea patch case was being tried. IF she did,
replied a NewJersey Blue, "she would loss
half her territory"
Robert Bunyan, Esq, the last male descen'
dant in q direct line from John Bunyan, the
author of the celebrated allegory, " Pilgrims
Progress" died on the 18th ult., at bis resi-.
Idence, Grecian. Place, Lincoln, aged 80.
Osgood, the painter, met a rich NewYo rk
widow on board the steamer which took him
abroad in the fall, married her soon after or
irving, and has gone on q wedding tour to
Egypt.
A groggery was broken into the other day
at Danyille, Mississippi, by a party Of ladies,
and all the liquor in it " smashed up utterly
split. This was in revenge for the damage
done to their husbands by said grocery.
They have a joke in California that the
member elect to the Legislature from Yuba
thinks he is elected to the United States Sen
ate, and has gone to Washington to claim his
seat.
The Boston Times says that upwards Of
$4,000 was collected in the various Methodist
Churches in that city and vicinity on Sunday,
the 23d ult., for the cause Of Professionalism in
ireland. ""o"'
Recently, when the cholera broke out at
Dietz, Duchy Of Nassau, the Government Or
dered a temporary haue Of absence to sixty
eight criminals detained in the prison of that
town.
Samuel Gregg, one Of the Oldest inhabitants
of Boston, son Of Major Gregg, Of Petersboro,"
New Hampshire, celebrated for his valor in the
old French War, and the Revolution, died in
on Friday last.
The dead body Of a young woman was found
in the house Of her father, Michael Calvin, in
a few days ago, and it was suspected
that her death was caused by wounds inflicted
BY Calvin, while attempting to violate her per-
son. He was arrested.
The Sidney papers relate an incident of Lola
Montez, who, when the Australian constables
on her with an attachment for debt,
stripped herself and got into bed, telling the
officer if he wanted to take her body
in that condition he was welcome to do it.
Resolutions have been adopted in nearly
every county in Indiana, where conventions
been held, recommending the Hon. Jesse
D. Bright as their first choice for the Presi-
before the next National Convention. |
So says the indianapolis Sentinel.
spindale Cooper, colored, convicted of muir
Ter in the second degree, at Wilmington, Del,
las been sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000, to
whipped with sixty lashes, to stand one hour
n the pillory, and to be sold to the highest and
bidder for life.
The steamer Mediator, while on her way
rom Cincinnati to NewOrleans, on the 18th
when in Diamonds Bend, Is miles below
Vicksburg, took fire, and, together with her
'ntire cargo Xps totally consumed. No lives
we're lost.
Astromers say that if q cannon ball were
ired from the Earth to Saturn, it would be one
hundred and eighty years in getting there. In
hat event, Professor John Phoenix thinks the
,eople of Saturn would have time enough to
lodge the shot.
In the present House of Representatives
are three brothers, from three different
States, viz: Israel Washburne, Jr., of Maine
slihu B. Washburne, of Illinois; and Cad
vallader @. Washburne, of Wisconsin. The
ast two named are new members, and all are
opponents of the present administration.
II will sing for the benefit of the poor here"
aid Mad. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt when in
'evey, q small town in Switzerland. But be-
're the day appointed for the concerts arrived,
he Nightingale became hoarse and could not
ing. "The poor cannot wait a day." said the
niger, and she sent them two thousand francs.
A man named Willis has on exhibition at
'ewHaven, q machine which he claims to be
solution of the perpetual motion problem.