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A Go AHEAD, BoY.-A remarkable circum-
stance occurred recently in West stephentown,
Rensselaer, county, NewYork. A little daugh-
ter of George w. johnson, while playing, sud
denly fell backwards into o well about twenty
two feet deep, the side Of the curb being partly
broken away. An older sister saw her fall,
and gave the alarm, which attracted the terri
fed mother and another sister to the spot.
These, with o brother about thirteen years old,
were oil that were present, and it was probable
that the child, if not yet dead, must die before
assistance could be obtained. But the brother,
with perfect selfpossession, Immediately went
down into the well, where he found the little
creature had crawled out of the water, which
was considerably above her head, and was
clinging to q couple of stones. He took her
in his arms, and before other assistance could
be procured, he mounted to the top, bearing
the child alive, and but slightly injured.
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Congress.
ten-o,clDck,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-In the Hopse of
Representatives to-day, q resolution I'd decide
IL s'question of e%lecting a Speaks wye plu-
raIey vote was adopted by a ny of9-
las lib, nays lO4.
At the time of the pass Ak resolution
opinions were equally di as to whether
the result would be the lection of Aiken or Of
Banks.
On the fourth ballot under the resolution
Banks obtained 103 votes, Aiken 100 Fuller,
having previously withdrawn, received only
half a dozen.
The tellers then declared Banks elected, and
the announcement was received with great
cheering,
The Hon. A. K. Marshall, of Kentucky,
However, raised the question that Banks was
not elected under the plurality resolution, and
could not take the chair unless declared by
another resolution to be so.
The Hon. Albert Rust, of Arkansas, sus-
tanned this view.
: Great excitement ensued in consequence Of
this position being assumed.
flnaly, however, tne lion. mos. L.. Cllng
man, of North Carolina, offered a resolution
declaring Banks elected.
Messrs. Cobb, C%lingman, and other South
ern men supported this resolution, and earnestly
urged that it was the clear duty Of the House
to adopt it.
This was eventually done, and Mr.. Aiken
then amidst great applause asked permission Of
the House to escort Banks to the chair.
The new incumbent was then indicted by
Messrs. Aiken, Fuller, and L. D. Campbell, Of
Ohio. He addressed the House in Il brief
speech, thanking them for the honor conferred
upon him after which the Hon. j. r.. Giddings,
of Ohio, administered to him the oath to sup
port the Constitution, and he took his seat.
The House then passed q resolution Of thanks
to Mr.. Forney, and Immediately afterwards adj
journed. Photographed to the Picayune.
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The Mexican government has presented a
formal demand upon the United States for in
demnity for the destruction of Piedras Negras
by the Texan rangers last autumn, and asks
protection against similar invasions and depre-
dations by armed bands from Texas.
The biographical sketch of the poet RooERs,
in the London Tines, was written some five
years since, in anticipation of his death, then
expected. His biographer has been three years
in The grave!
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The MA11s.-Owing to the impassable state
Of the roads, we have received no papers from
below since Sunday night. The letters come
through, but that's all. The dignity Of the
Post-ofice Department, in this locality, ap-
pears to have dwindled down to a single horse
man and o dark, stormy night, with numerous
accidents "by food and feld,' and unmen-
tionable @hair-breadth 'scapes." But we are
80 strong in philosophy that we can reconcile
ourselves to the present state of things-if our
readers can. "Thcre's q good time coming"
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!. samuel Rogers, the Nestor Of PostsI

On The night Of the 18th ult., Samuel Ro-
gers, the successful poet and banker, died IN
iii house, ST. James PLAY London, ct the age
q ninety.six years. He was q native Of Shat
city, thoroughly educated, Ind had enjoyed q
81 career Of upinte1 apted prosperity, both
iniiterata ) ande~ During long period
Of the latter art of his life be dispensed the
h~ospiAalitiesF q his house with. great liberaaity,
and many Americans have been bis guests;
From an article in the London Illustrated
News we extract the following:
Two very. different men appeared as poets IN
print for the first time in the same year-the
Ayrshire Ploughman and the Lombard street
Banker. In the year 1856 appeared at MI
maarnock that volume of :" Poems, chiefly in the
Scottish dialect" which will live as long as the
English. language; and in the same year ap.-
peared in London, /" An Ode to Superstition"
since properly included in the numerou
prints Of the poems Of its author. Burns pub
Iished his octave volume by subscription among
the weavers of Kilmar- ock, while Rogers took
(as we have heard him relate) his poems to
Cadet in the Strand, and left q check to pay
for the cost of publication. 4Nl
Very different, indeed, were the lives in the
flesh of the two men who thus commenced to
getl,er their lives in poetry. Burns has beer
dead sixty years. Rogers has consequently
outlived the poet he commenced the race O
fame withiby that number Of years.
| When Rogers made his appearance as a poet
Lord Byron was unborn-and Byron has beer
dead, t~hirty-one years. When Percy Byssht
Shelley was born, Rogers was in III. >hirtietll
year--and Shelley has been dead nearly thirty
four years! When Keats was born, "Ths
Measures of Memory " was looked upon as 3
pdard poem-and Keats has been deat
tY-ive years! When this century com
mo the man who died but yesterday, ant
in tier half too of the century, had alread.
numi as many years as Burns and Byron
had nd9 gedgwhen they died. ..
( MIR. Us was born before the following
EngliS Scott, southey, Wordsworth
Colefl ION, Moore, Campbell, Bloom
field, 1 ham, Hogg, James Montgomery
Shelley 4ats, Wilson, Tom. Hood, kirl
White, LAM Joanna Baillie, Felicia Hemans
L. E. L., . kputliyedth then all. Our oldes
living poed4 Walter savage Lander, borl
HIS; Leigh. lunt, born 1854 and Barr.
Cornwall, bop 700. a.,
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No. NoTIoE TO SHIPPERS AND C]oNsIGNEEs
OF FRE1GnT-The steamer ALICE W. GLAZE, G..
E. Lonaillier, master, is now making trips via Pla-
quemine, and has reduced the rates of Freight and
Passage to the regular high water rates, viz: Sugar,
81; Cotton, Is cents; Upper Freight, so cents.
The Glaze leaves Washington on SUNDAY, 18th
inst, and will continue to leave on her regular days
duIing the season.
Washington, January 10, 1856.
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SALES NEXT WEEK,-During the coming
week the following sales will take place:
On5Monday, at Grand Coteau, L. A. Patin
will sell Q Sugar-mill and Kettles. ~.
On Tuesday, ut Bayou Chicot, will be Sid
900 acres of land belonging to the estate of W.
w. Bowen, deceased. ..,. -
On Wednesday, Louis stagg will sell Land
and Slaves belonging to the estate Of Louis
Sicily, deceased. ~! al.
For particulars see advertisements. :
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sSss~ RELIGIOUS NoT1cE.-The first guar
terly meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for the Opelousas circuit will be held in the Methodist
Church in this place, on Saturday and Sunday, the
10th and 18th inst. Services beginning each day at
II O'clock A. M.
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The letter 81 our v%ooaltdnatary, Z Madison,
artiyedstooiate for this issue. We thank him
for his items 4 about the BALI and shall pub
lsh.next week. A
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+ This morning a young man was seen skating
on st. Michael street. He had on a regular
pair of skates, and was making 2:4o time. "
this is not a pretty good sign of cold VOC
we give it up. Ice strong enough to hold a
persons weight. here in Mobile, one Of the most
southern cities in the Unionl As we are wri-
ting this the thought of so much ice almost
benumbs our hands. mobile Evening News,
Thursday. a y, ~
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Ns~ RELIGIOUS NoT1cR-The Rev. DAVID
KERR, Rector of the Church of the Epiphany, having
returned from the North, Divine Service was cele-
brated on Sunday lust at IL O'Clock A. NJ, and may
he expected hereafter at the same hour on every
Sunday until further notice.
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ses~ 10 NERVOUS SuFFERERs.-A retired
Clergyman, restored to health in a few days, after
many years of great nervous suffering, is anxious to
make known the means of cure. Will send (free)
the prescription used. Direct the Rev. JOHN NJ.
DAGNALL, SO Fulton street, Brooklyn, NY.
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il is not subject TO- rapid change and
they have come to the extraordinary conclusion
hat tie inner border &, sering has since the
time of Huygens beg ally approaching
~ The Il " 81 saturA we may expect
sooner or later. perf some dozen years,
to zee the rings III h the body Of the
~planet.'
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NOTICE.-CHARLEs H. B~EAUcuAMp, of the
~ Parish of St. Landry, has applied by his peti-
Matthew +. Hollaway, late of said Parish;
therefore, any person intending to make opposi.
ton to said appointment will file the same in writing
in my Office. in the town of Opelousas, within ten
days from the date of this notice.
CLERKS office, Opelousas. February Q, 1856.
!. LAsTRArES, Clerk.
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DELuGE IN II PLANET SAruRN.-In a re-
cent work, entitled The New Theory of the
Creation and Deluge," among other startling
predictions it is stated that it is probable the
rings which surround Saturn are composed of
water, snow or ice, which at some future time
may descend and deluge that planet, as ours
was deluged in the days of the patriarch Noah"
1t now appears that this event is likely to take
place a little sooner than was anticipated, for
Sir David Brewster says: "Mr. Otto struye
and MIR. Bond have lately studied with the
great Munich telescope at the Observatory of
Pulkoway the third ring of Saturn, which Mr..
Lassels and Mr.. Bond discovered to be fluid.
"These astronomers are of opinion that this
fluid ring is not Of very recent formation, and
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50 Those garden seeds that we diln't receive
we haven't planted; but We thank the generous
donor all the same. Blessed an dey who
don'texpect nufdn-for dey amt gwine to be
disappointed,n 9ttl e = 3
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ExToRrIoN.-Bo atmen are all over the world
extortioners, but in no place more so than in
this city of Havana. Two young men, who
were rather bclated, we're DESTROYS of proceeding
to NewYork by the Black Warrior on her
last trip to that city, and going to the wharf
with an interpreter, (they not being able to
speak spanish,l engaged a boat with two boat
men to put them on board the steamer for half
a dollar each ; when they arrived alongside the
Black Warrior her paddle wheels were just in
motion, and the boatmcn then demanded dos
pesos two dollars) for their fare. One of the
young men had thrown his carpet bag on the
steamer, but the boatmen refused to permit the
remainder of the baggage to be put out of the
boat unless the young men submitted to their
extortion, which the young men refused to do.
The captain of the Black Warrior, perceiving
there was an alteration in the boat alongside,
and having paused one or two minutes, refused
to larry any longer, and the steamer proceeded
on her passage without taking the young men,
but taking the carpet bag of one of them, which
it will probably cost him some trouble to
obtain. Correspondence of the Picayune.
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STEAMER MARY BEss.--Considerable unea-
siness having been felt by our citizens within
the past twoo or three days concerning the nons
arrival ofsthis steamer at Washington at her
regular time, we take pleasure in informing the
public that she will leave NewOrleans this
evening at, 3 o'clock, and will hereafter depart
from Washington every Wednesday morning.
She had, been detained on the Old River sand
bank. = 80 l1
We are indebted to Fontenot & Lyons for
the above, information.
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TIE WEArHER.-During the past week,
nearly enough rain has fallen to wash out the
sins Of the people," Our devil-a devil of "a
fellow, in his humble way-says, Zone day it
rains, and the next it clears up cloudy" And
We have our share Of cold weather, too.
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The clerk of the steamer opelousas hasla laid Is
under obligations for late city papers.
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r AND FOR SALE. - The unders;pn1

AND FOR SALE. = The undersigned
~ offers for sale two valuable and desirable tracts
GLAND, both in this ~parish-one situated upon the
Atchafalaya River, Immediately below Capt. Burton,
containing 3l5 acres, with about Is acres cleared
and fenced, and upon which there is a large and
commodious framed dwelling house and Kitchen,
The other, situated upon Bayou Rouge, adjoining
Lands of Gordy, adjacent to those of Josiah Scott,
and known as the Barker tract containing 1870
acres, 20 to 30 acres of which is cleared and fenced.
Terms liberal. CYRUS THOMPSON-
Washington, Feb. 9, 1856
NOTICE TO TAN PAYERS.-The I'M
~ d~ersigned administrators Of the succession Of
Baptiste David, deceased, and s~ureties on his official
bond, have been appointed agents for the collection
Of the State Taxes of 1851, 1852 and 1853 due to
Baptiste David deceased, late Sheriff of the Parish of
st. Landry.
All persons owing State taxes for the above wears
are requested to pay the same to the undersigned. or
to JoHN .. KING Esq, their Attorney. at Opelousas.
who is authorized to receipt for the same.
Ii payment is not made within a reasonable dclay.
the undersigned will proceed to the collection Of the
above taxes, by legal process.
opelousas, February ., 1856.
ALEXIS o. GUIDRY.
ALIENS C. GUIDRY,
Administrators md Cp,,a+;ae
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q The Frsasaha d&stalkhlnt lof .tais paper will
hereafter b. under the editorial charge Of 0xEzrnE
y. duiDaf, Esd. H#51 lAa#
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NEW BAKERY. - The undersigned NJ
~ spectfully informs his friends and the puticd
Opelousas and vicinity that he will, in q few daEHt
open in this town a new Bakery Shop. He will hsys
the services of one of the finest bakers Of NeN00rFy n
August is. Fla. REER ~
P.s. Having "pitched in" my customer -
now depend upon being regularly served. !, Is
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DrAru OF CoMMopoRE. MoRR1s.-It is with
profound regret that we have to AanfE~Ace the
death Of Commodore Charles Norris, senior
retained officer Of the United States Navy.
He expired at half past four o'clock yesterday.
afternoon, at his residence in Washington, OF
inflammation IF the lungs, in the I'D year OF
his age. Cor modore Morris entelcu she Navy
in the year ff799, and " 1 in the year 1918,
for gallant ard disting' I'd services, promo,
ted to the her :; aei tn the In ts% h;s =,
his death. -',cno services ana nls a'gn Z
history Of his country, and are known
all. It may be added to his honor, on the I'M,
varying testimony his brother officers, and
without ~disparagei tto the gallant men who
adorn the ranks yavy, that Commodore
Morris. at the til is death, was, in all the
varied qualities \ d constitute excellence in
his profession, til ablest commander
world. Nothing lever turned him
line Of duty, andpvhen, att I years,
he reached h @highest POINT Oh 1fessional
honor, he MI It truly have said, have
gained tne( m, but not without labor"
National r .lligencer.
EuRopGa. ORANGE OF A~MERIcA.S--GGS.
Anthony, Of Rhode Island, writes home
from europe as follows: I have seen a man,
who had held a high place in tie government
of q country that maintains q large ommerc
with the United States, estimate the population
of NewYork a 10000. And when he was
told that NewYork and Brooklyn and the
other adjoining municipalities numbered about
the population of Paris, he evideT did moi
believe it, thu g was too poliF say 50
II have Scent lose positid DIX
them quite I'd II with statistics ,hake theil
heads in incredulous amazernent. IN told that
there were more miles Of raj, he United
States than in Europe, and that steamboat
tonnage Of the Mississippi and its Tributaries
was greater than that Of all the inland waters
Eof the Eastern hemisphere. m
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DIANOEs. PIANOESM Il IL
u CHI. MULLER is now enabled, by the W
shipment from NewY9rk, to undertake the mot
difficult mechanical work, and guarantees It tclsk
leans. Calls from H the County, ntps, left at Il ofies al
Posey's Drug store, promptly attended to. gS,
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~ We aye requested to announce that A.. M.
pERB4ULT&& candidate for the Office Of Town
Constable. Election in April next.
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COMPREHENSIVE - The underagnee
~ having formed a copartnership for the puIpo11
of transacting a general mercantile business, respeea
fully solicit q share Of the public patronage, I'll
r. r. BUTLER,
LANDRY HOLLMk
Moundrilln nnn 1 1osk Il .Z4aEf ~
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NEW WAREHOUSE 81
IN The Undersigned, having formed a partnership
town of Washington, formerly known as the. War:
house of Anderson & Thompson, for the purpoes x
receiving and forwarding freight and merchants,
will faithfully attend to all business which may =
to them by their friends and the pullisn
general. J. B. A. FONTENOI,aS.
JOHN LYONS
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of the newest styles and patterns, 4 great yusctySf.
Plantation Goods, Negro Blankets. kerscys, ill.,
seys, etc. etc, Il general stock of plantation Ned
cities of the best quality; also, a large stock Of Co
%cerics, Coffee, Flour, Bacon, Salt, Brandy, Wine,
Whisky. etc. etc.
p. G. is agent for Jacobs Cordial. @as5sss LII
p. Collins Will make cash advances on Cotton, ST.
gar and Molasses consigned to MILLER Il FoREssin,
NcwOrlMns.
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NHAMPAGNE.--A few baskets Of ~
" fine Wine left. which we will sell at feous~'
prices, to close the invoice.
DEBAILLON a. CARRIERE, Washlng.on.
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400 BBLs. Thomaston LIME, in -
DEB Gtflf, 1S1S Z cI ~ washins.e
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E0 SACKS WHEAT BRAN, for 81
wv by DEBAlLLON & CARRlEkE,,
Washington, z
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DIEUX-2O,OOO 8 feet pieux at $8 o. !.
Il hundred and $4,000 shingles at So 30 per sa0s
sand, for sale by J.B IA M. VA
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n SACKS SALT, for sale By.
Washington, z.
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DICKETS.-6 and 9 foot Pickets, tor -
'n F6N 'Hf ssea' y = LYONS, washington, !.
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II 0. o. F.-PRA1R1E LODGE No. 81 neetsss
- Washington every Saturday night at 7oclocs
John S. Haw, N G; NJ. Kenison, V G.; J. z GufnGs
Secretary; james Moore, Treasurer; A. Milspaagns
PS. The Order is respectfully invited to atteno.
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NORN-2O0O barrels, deliverable at eitss
~ Opelousas Or Washington, for sale by. n
DEBAILLON Il CARRIERE, Washingso1-
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49, ProvisIOnsetcesAsi
would do to call and examine for themslyu
before pure, ling elsewhere.
Country merchants and Planters IN want IT 10
baccos would do well to Call and see his large stSScA
of the came. E. l.. NlMM0, Washington.
Also, gent for the best Washing Machines now
in use. Washington, January is.
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TIE rreoepts Of those agents were followed ard th.
MOS, vvluabls results had been gsincd. Norway sni-
fered ke Sweden in the want If HANDS. For eNsupr'
-i,h master Of priya.eerS beng unable TO find prOpe.
workn.n to repair his vessels had been Obliged to
stnd to Antwerp :or them.
Norway could well provide f,r al her wants without
the rs. or rather the abuse .: FeGv d. RE- which, h.
was sorry to say, wls general. That was the only
reason which obliged the country - seek tor supplies
Of corn at foreign por'. That importation was now
raised 10 more than 5000 eco which were completely
absorbed by the works If dstilAiion.
NJ payii .p,umsrk sad that the chief commerce
NJ Denmark consisted IN artic Of food The crises Of
1870 and lS+7 had been surmountad without much diff
cnty notwithstanding ;he inevitable rise in the price
Of provisions. This gentleman entered into long de-
tails on the suhCc; OF the construction Of towas for
wnrkuen in his country, measures for which had been
TAX II. =,
distribution of prizes TIE exhibitors al the Economic
F1l,bition in the botanical Gardens would take place
at | o'clock on Saturday next in the Gothic Hall OF
the Hotel de Vile.
Tie meeting soon after broke F