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The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-09-06
OPELOUsAs, SATURDAY u
EpJJ'!|'s'A'TIoN..
DTsAS BEMAIE ACADEMY

r. DUsAS FEMALE ACADEMY.
" HOY, assisted BY an able corps of teachSs
crs,ssll commence hef academical year on the Q2d
OF September, and she will be prepared to give iu-
ION in all the Useful and Ornamental branches
!, in Girls Schools. To insure facility in the
Nsesf the French Language, it will be made so far
as possible, the Language Of the family.
Y fhe School Year ssdivided into two sessions Of
.stnty-one weeks each. Terms per session are,
Tuition in Primary Department ......... $40 90
/" Advanced g 25 90
instruction on the Piano o........... ). 80 90
Singing and Solfage 90
Drawing. .15 90
Embroidery in silk, Chenille, Worsted, etc. !. 10 90
Boarding, Washing, Fuel, ETC.. :. ~. so 90
Payment is required 9narterly, and in advance.
The English Department will be entirely under
the OF Miss Augusta Wheeler; the other depart
nents will receive the united services of Mrs. Hoy
Miss Hoy, Mime de st. Ange and Mrs. Walkley.
Singing and Solfege will be taught exclusively by
Mrs. Walkley, whois much better teacher of vocal
music than can generally be found either North or
South she hes studied under the best masters both
in Europe and America She has been a pupil OF
the celebrated Theodore Eisfeld of NewYo
N. B.-No extra charges for French and no inci-
dental expenses for sickness unless in cases where
hired nurse would be required. No such has occurred
since the opening of the School, March 1856.
Considering the Fare in most Boarding Schools
too poor for health and the highest moral improve
ment especial attention is given to it.
Opelousas, August 30, 1856.
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.4-.CDoNALD, Civil Engineer and
surveyor, offers his services to the public. Will
promptly attend to any orders left at Chas N Ealers
corner of Main and Landry streets, Opelousas.
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THEODOSE S. ROBIN, Attorney at Law,
L will punctually attend to all business entrusted
to his care in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Judicial
Districts. Office at Opelousas.
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DIERRE GOSELIN, Cabinet Maker and
= = Wheelwright, offers his services to the public
at moderate prices for cash. f'ee'S
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T ,OUIs sTAGG, Public Auctioneer in
~ =, and for the Parish of St. Landry Office Vile
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II OUIS A. .PA'TIN, Public Auctioneer in
= - and for the Parish of st. Landry. Office at
Grand Coteau. Any orders left at the Union Hotel,
Opelonsas, will be promptly attended to.
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nEBAILLON & CARRIERE, Receiving,
- Forwarding and Commission Merchants, Wash.
ngton, La. y ''-''
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ROGERS & DEJEAN, Public Auction
- eers in and for the Parish of St. Landry. Office
at Opelousas. 4a
GEORGE N. ROGERS. EvARIsTE DEJEAN.
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g D. ALLIs, Public Auctioneer for the
~ Parish Of ST. Landry. Office at his store in
Washington.
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0NEZINlE A. GUIDRY, Public Auction.
- =; esr in and for the Parish of st. Landry Office
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FOR SALE.

T1OR sALE-By Fontenot G Lyons, a,fine
ouantity of the finest feet Pickets in market,
,sh,ch may be used in place Of feet Boards, for
ooyerinr out Houses. The above may be had cheap
tor Cash. Washington, La, July 49, 1856.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
". =. s. HAW.-Olfice on Landry street,
= betwss n Main aud Court, Opelcusas.

n OSEPH CHENIER, Collector and Crier,
IA Parish of St Landry. Office in Opelousas.
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WM II. sPEN GER, Attorney and Coun-
w selor at Law, by diligence and fidelity in the
discharge Of his profession hopes merit and receive
patronage. Office in Opelousas. ;
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\ I,BERT DEJEAN, Counsellor and At
~ sorney at Law, Opelousas, will attend to any
y .ess in his line in st. Landry and the adjoining
eae
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A LPHONsE DEBAILLON, Public Auc-
~ tioneer in and for the Parish of st. Landry.
Orders left at the office of 7. S. Robin will receive
prompt attention.
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7ooR SALE HE House formerly occu-
MED BY Miss Marguerite Chretien, in go
ths Gown Of OpelousaA, will be- sold very fIse@
shySS s,. to any one wishing to purchase ssa
s Apply to the Editors Of the Patriot or to -
Aff'' I. H. THOMPSON,
nne,ousas. June 81, 1866 i75.4,77'
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

while lockers on, numbering hundreds of thous-
ands, were puzzled 80 understand what you did
mean. Alter all the talk about "localizing" and
restricting" slavery while letting it alone in the
States, the mass Of every day business men have
no clear conceptions nor deep convictions oc the
practicability of such thing. Your disclaimers
of abotionism have not only been cold blanket
upon the rising enthusiasm of the country, but a
puzzlng riddle to men Of cool calculating common
sense, who never want TO be bored about some un-
Ineligible round about way Of doing thing
without doing it-of stopping conhagration with
out putting any water upon it-of preventing the
depredations of herd of wolves by permitting
them to run at large, intcrdiced only by chalk
lines No! gentlemen "Republicans." You must
dismiss your half way policy and temporzing
measures Rally, next time for the liberties Of
your whole county-your undivided country
and for the overthrow Of the slave power at the
South, as at the North. You will then have the
cooperAtioseJf all the friends Of liberty, Northern
and Southern. The antslavery sentiment in your
appeals has been the element of their strength.
Your disclaimers and concessions have only intro
duced weakness.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

innl) to do with his newspaper necessities? God
wlled that should De brought into the world as !
am; lie wills should live in itGs do; I'm sat
isled with God why is not Mr.. Fuller? But
waving my rights to decent notice, If Hny-such
rights us true Christianity always willingly con
cedcs to the poor and unfortunate-I might have
exI ected gratitude, il not breeding from Mr..
Fuller. Aye, sir, black as / am, if he did for mt
what did for him, I would be grateful! Docs
he forget | stood between him and the law p
thas when Sheriff was at his door, was there
also but for Setter purpose ?--that, by saying Z
word or remaining indifferent even to his interests
might have seen him without the type upUr
which he since belied me? Do you, Mr.. Fuller
or is your memory as treachorous rs your ycrac
ity is scanty?
Mr.. Fuller pties my condition, in his article
Benevolent man that he is, he thinks 1 receive
little money for my work and would willingly go
South 10 recruit my finances. Ave! indeed SO
says Mr.. Fuller. Strange that this philanthropst
should himself be of those who undervaluc
and underpay free labour! | do work for him
which would earn for me six shillngs a week from
any other of my employers, and how much do you
think he gives me for it? How much, Mr.
Fuller? fir0 shhlings, is it not? Yes, this man
who mourns over me so much, he gives me two
shillings, for six shilngs worth according to the
low value of Northern lahour If he were rs eco
nomical of fasehoods he is of money, woulC
not be called upon to confess how poor / am or t,
tell how great liar hei
Yours, very respectfulv
MOSES LEECU (Coloured).
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
To lie Editor of the I [S,mdayl Courier.

SIR-ln the Evening Mirror of this city, three
days since, the editor in commenting on article
Of yours takes occasion to refer to me in most
uniustifiable manner, for the purposes of his argu-
ment. lie represents me as one willing to 90
back to slavery as man thoroughly dissatisfied
with freedom, and, by inference as traitor to my
race, and deliberate falsGer. lie also alludes
to NY appearance, my age and my misfortunes, in
language wholly unfit for any person who respects
age honestly worn, or mpertections sent by the
hand of the Almighty. TO reply to this attack |
appeal for hearing to you. To repel his caum-
MES | ask space in the same journal which evoked
them.
In the first place, Mr.. Fuller asserts that l
would willingly 90 back to slavery. This, sir,
say it without the least regret, is LIE. | have
never so expressed myself; have mover believed
secretly that was better at the South than at the
North, Ii the feelings of father were allowed to
have their way,l migh naturally wish fol South,
ern home. There two children of mine doomed
from their birth, and re-doomed before they were
born, to slavery grow up to miserable mimicry
of manhood. There they feel that they are not
what they ought to be and that they never will be
what they might. There they learn by bitter ex-
perience that their free father committed crime
before God and man when he lent himself to
beget them. There, TOO, | should be to console
them, to palitate my great crime by little
tenderness, if my feelings were allowed by my
better judgement to run into action. But, no,
SIR must live free and to live, must work
where | am for if had the wish to go from this
spot three miles, could not find means to do it,
without fasting for days to raise the passage
money M. Fuller, thcn has told a lie of me
he heard from myself often the contrary Of what
he stated and in spite of all lie mean.y volun-
teered to turn my little stock of character into
literary merchandise for his own benefit, even at
the risk of having its crippled owner shout after
him, as he now does, "Stop, thief" So much for
his lying now for his minor offence of want of
breeding.
Stare as was never felt at liberty to raise Il
laugh at the expense of the poor or the manned.
Freeman as Mr.. Fuller is, he has done so. What
have my MANNED limbs TO do with his argument? +?
What has my poverty (which, thank Heaven, has
not yet forced me to appear in any court as Grim
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

yet prescribed by statute military clause, and
their names withheld from the jury roll. But
these obstacles to their complete realization of cit.
izenship will soon melt away under liberal legsla.
ton as will also those Of greater magnitude in
the States designated, if the friends Of humanity
of whatever stripe or party will but unite and
manifest that sincerity of purpose, like the ancient
Romans, with whom to proclaim was 70 insure a
triumph, to invade was to C, nquer.
The colored American confidently relies upon
the aid of his friends but will be over jealous and
progressive himself. His appeal to the communi.
ty is not in the language of favor seeking, but
"Give our rights-we ask nothing more"
Boston, Nov, 1856. VIC. n.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

But VIC feel that we can'lcavc this important mat
ter in no better hands than those of the Rev DR..
Nehemiah Adams. the Rev. Dr. Joel Parker and
the other eminent diyines and pious laymen who
have undertaken the holy cause Of pcrpetuating
the blessings of Slavery by hallowns them with
the sanctions Of reg gion.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

Moses Leech the poor but honest old man thus
selected by the Mirror to illustrate the unftness
Of the coloured race for freedom, was naturally
indignant at this use of his name and his mis-.
fortunes He assured the editor that, in spite Of
his poverty and lameness, he loved his freedom as
he did his life and that he would not exchange
his situation for that of the happ;est slave that
ever wore chain. He respectfully asked the
editor contradict the statement (Which he deemed
Il direct impeachment Of his common sense and an
insult to his manhood that he"would gladly com
promise for still shorter term of existence il he
could return to the plantation home and care OF
his young massa." Mr. Fuller having contempt
uously refused to perform this act Of simple
justice, the old man sent letter to the Sunday
Courier which we are allowed to copy in advance
of its appearance in that Journal as follows:
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
WHOLE NO. 5S3.
LOND0E TIMES on BUCHANAN.

The London Times of Nov. Ist says Of james
Buchanan:
Mr. Buchanan has been the most duc,ile and
leXible OF politicians. lie has been Federalist
md is now Democrat, ProFree Trade and Anti
Free Trade, and pro and anti almost every thing
else about which parties in America have warmly
disputed. lie is not man of great resolution or
violent counsels but he possesses n peculiar facl-
ty Of effacing himself ana yielding implicitly to
the influence Of those who surround him, often
persons Of inferior judgement TO his own He is
thorough paced demlgogue and INSCRIPTIONS
partzan, and though unexceplionable in private
life, has grown gray among all manners of in
trigues and mnn0uvrcs. Ia this country we have
not forgotten how adrotly he kept alive the quar-
rel with England which Lord Clarendon strove 30
earnestly to terminate. not from any wish to in
vOlye the two countries in war but because he saw
or fancied he saw, from the continuance of the
dispute, an electioneeIng advantage tohimself
We may anticipate, also, that his accession to
power as the representative Of the South. will
raise such domestic commOtion as will fully oc-
cupy his time and attention, without leaving him
time to disturb the peace Of his neghbors. This
ght well be il Mr.. Buchanan could rule alone
Bat he will lie as much and probably more than
ordinary Presidents, Il creature of his Cabinet aud
he will he surrounded by men who have the head
to conceive and the hand to execute any schems
that they believe to be beneficial to the party in
terests Of the South. To such persons as are
the advisers of NJ Pierce and will be the ad-
yisers Of Mr.. Buchanan, foreign war is mmeasur-
ably preferable to domestic defeat and the acoui-
sition OF a new slave State to oppose to the next
free territory from the Northwest tn at may de-
mand admission into the Union, is cheap at any
expenditure of blood and treasure.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

CARRYING SLAVES THRouGH OHIo,--Tbe Ohio
Statesman is quite indignant becaCse, while the
Hon. Wm. A. Lake, NJ C., Of Mississippi on his
way to Washington, spent last Sunday there, with
three of Lis slaves. several of the eolored people
of Columbus caused II writ Of haJeas corpus to be
taken out with the view of testing the question
whether stakeholder while passing through Ohio,
can take his slaves with him, and stop MS long in
without forfeiting his claim to them. The STATES
man is quite cheerful however, in view of the fact
that the movement was unsuccessful, and the prac.
tical vudcation Of the doctrine that the day has
come when the planter can "call the roll Of his
slaves" from the steps--not Of Bunker Hill Monu-
ment--but Of the Capital Of Ohio, o,--Lsadsr.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

OLDEST NEGRO YET.-We have at last got hold
of particularly old negro There have been
countless cases OF tolerably advanced blacks but
the case below, which we copy from an exchange,
is said TO be perfectly authentic, and finishes the
list She ought to be shown around;
Some time ago sent you an account of an old
negro man who died in charleston at the advan-
ced age Of lis years. Since then | have seen
Il statement OF negro woman; who died in Eau.
quier County, Va aged no. A friend, who was
formerly an officer in the United States Army, re-
latcs that when he was stationed at Pas Christian
in louisiana he was in the habit, with his brother
officers Of visiting an aged negress who sold but
termilk On one occasion the following converse
ticn took place:
"Oll woman, how old are you ?"
81 duunD, Massa."
GLOW long have you lived about here ?"
30, long time, long, time, massa." She ther
went on to relate circumstances in connection with
the history Of the country which proved that she
muit have arrived at very advanced age.
"Well, can't you refer to any circumstances by
which you may come at your age 2"
"Well, massa, I'se had nineteen children. and
that gal (pointing TO an old woman) is the young
est and knolo she's ninety"
The old woman was quite active when our in.
formant saw her last, and attended to the sale of
her buttermilk herself in preference to calling up.
on her gal" whom she represented to be too
good for nothing"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

ANOTHER IY,URREcrIoN OF SLAVES IN TENNESSEE
we learned yesterday from a gentleman Just
up from Clarksyiile. that considerable excitement
exists in that place and throughout the country
adjacent on account Of the discovery Of the pre-
lininaTy preparations Of nn insurrecion among
the slave population, to come off on the 24th of
December Quite a number Of negroes had been
arrested and confined, aud several had made con-
tesSion in the neighborhood of Louisa Fnrnace.
n p'an to blow up church was discovered and
thwnrted. keg of powder had been placed un-
der the building ready for the match. large
collection of arms and ammunition had also been
discovered and relied. One white man. we learn,
who was caught in the act of couns,lhng the in
surrection, mad been arrested and Imprisoned
Among the negroes arrested and confined are the
supposed ringleade1s--the generals and captains
as they called, of the movement. The general
opinion prevails in Montgomery county, as We
learn from informant, that the plot is deep laid
and embraces the slaves throughout a wide extent
Of territory ranging from Kentucky South and
West.
AZ Cloraovilo a otronS IRA patrol are duty
every night, and well assured are the citizens
that there is ground for precaution, that nearly
every housekeeper is prepared with arms for any
mergency.-NashriHe Baaner Not. 20.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

A PRoJEcrrD RIVAL TO the "TIMEs."-A meet
ingfor the purpose of establishing newspaper to
rival the London Times, has been held in England
and a movement starred to raise paid up capital
OF two aud half millions of dollars for the pur.
pose. The project wns inaugnra,ed by several
clergymen, who take exception to the theological
character of the Times, and it is said that fifty
thousand dollars Of the stock has already been
subscribed. Newspapers established TO compete
with or break down existing journals seldom suo-
coed, even in living long TO say nothing Of az
complshing their object.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
From the AntLlavery standard.
A BLACK MANS APPRECIATION OF
LIBERTY.

''Bettcr TO sit in freedoms hail,
With a cold, damp floor and mouldering wall,
Than to bow the neck, or bend the knee,
In the proudest palace Of slavery"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

MORE NORTHERN AGGRESSION outrage
which the North persists in praetcing apon the
South vas overlooked by SIR. Barnwell Rhett when
he issued his sweettempered catalogue of injuries.
We alude to its monopoly of the Patent OHces.--
Perhaps he could not do that subject justice, and
therefore omitted it altogether. During the year
1855 there were issued from the Patent Office To
Arkansas, l. to gallant little Rhode Island, 81; to
South Carolina, G; to Massachusetts,, 800; to Mis-
souri,, I; to Connecticut, l04; to Virginia, &c; to
Now York, 53j. Total to slave States, 1885, Total
to Free States, l626. OF the 40 patents awarded
during the week ending Nov. 4, 1856, 80 were for
valuable improvements in the Free States; for on
improvement in the cotton gin in Mississippi
Was ever such unblushng monopoly tolerated
before ?-BostOR Chronicle
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

The Evening Mirror, in its issue Of Nov. 17th,
replying to an nterrogatory of the Sunday Courier
uttered itself us follows:
ave repeat for the thousandth time, our sin.
cere belief, that, under humane master, the
negroes of the South in n better condition,
body and SOUL than their free Ito starve) brethren
in the North. The African is an inferior race ::
ten thousand years, perhaps, behind the Saxon in
moral and intellectual development. Here and
there an exception only proves the gen
eral rule; ; and for ages to come, The white and
black race cannot live together in the same house,
or in the same community on terms of equality.
The inferior race must be treated as as minor
and servant of the superior. This is history, it
is fact and it may also be regarded as prophecy.
And hence the Mirror goes against abolition as it
goes against everything else so utterly imprac-
ticabe as the social and political equality of
white folks and niggers.'
I'VE have an illustration Of Free niggerism'
before us, in the presence Of venerable colcured
gentleman, who has the general charge Of the
most dsagreeable offices about the Mirror build
ing. Old Moses, as the boys call him Tor Moses
in Egypt on account of his intense darkness,
indicating the purity of his Africcu blood) is
now about seventy years of age, and so lame that
he can scarcely hobble about. lie was formerly
a slave in Virginia and, as he now regrets,
purchased his liberty in order to taste the sweets
of coloured Freedom in the cold paradise Of the
North He has worked hard for'some thirty years
at all sorts Of menial employment; and yet half a
week's sickness throws him upon the charities of
the tenants or the building, whose fires he makes
and whose sinks he cleans We never see the
poor old fellow, with his one leg and half, climb
ing up six pair of stairs VITA basket of coal on
his back and pail of water in his hand, without
thinking tha; the proper music for such tragic
opera Moses is performing, would be the sad
refrain
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13

ANOTHER DRrD.-Thc Wilmington IN. C.) Jour.
nal says "On Friday last n runaway negro camp
was discovered on an Island in Big Swamp, situa-
ted between Baden aud Robeson counties On
Saturday morning a company of twelve or four
teen started out to hunt them and after starting
the negroes from their camp, one Of them fred at
Mr.. David G. Lewis, wounded him, from the effects
Of which he died on Sunday morning. On Friday
a man named Taylor was shot at twice from the
same place and missed. The negroes had cleared
place for garden, had COWS. &C., out in the
swamp; none arrested. The swamp is about four
miles wide, and almost impehetrable