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"The moon," said a total abstainer, the
other clay, "is not quite u tcetotaler, but she
lets her moderation be known to all men, for
she only fills her horn once a month";" "Tben
she fills it with something very strong" OBJ
served q bystander, " for l have seen her half
gone"
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the business Of this Office should be invariably direct
edto the " Publishers of the Opelousas Patriot"
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IL. Z. Nimmo has removed to the new store
opposite Fontenot & Lyons's warehouse,
Washington, where he is selling goods at small
profits. See his card. %
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The Pittsfeld Eagle says great regard for
the comfort of his fellow passengers, but not
much for his dog, was manifested by a French.
man who took the cars at Pittsfeld, last week
for New York. The animal was a valuable
one, and he did not like to leave him, nor did
he lke to take him into the cars to the dis
comfort OF the passengers; so, procuring a
stout cord, he attached one end to the dogs
collar, and the other end to the back Of the
rear car. The train went into BRIDGEPORT with
a brass collar and u dogs car attached. Con.
siderable dog was strewn along the track.
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A N ORDINANCE levying q Tax on ~
- Parish of st. Landry for the services Of
Article l. The Police Jury of the Parish Of sa1s
Landry, twelve members thereof concurring unar
mously therein, ordain:
Article 2. That for the service of the year os
thousand eight hundred and tiftyIfve q Parish ~ q.
OF twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the aame ]
hereby, imposed on such objects of taxation. nv
established by law, by the State, and within e.
Parish, (the towns Of Opelousas and Washine@
excepted.)
Article 3. First: for the ordinary Parish pups.
OF expenditures, there shall be added to Assessor
Roll of the State for this Parish for the year i "
in a proportionate addition, not exceeding onesnasS
to the Taxes of each person assessed, so as 70 49,
the sum of four thousand six hundred and thlasss
dollars and ninety-one cents. -.
Second: for the payment of existing debs, H.
payment OF Jurors and the construction Of puI 4.
works Exclusive of public buildings) there snsl Y
further added to the said Assessment Roll apiopI1
tionate addition to the tax of each person asses1,
so as to make the sum of twenty Thousand, 'o ~
hundred and eighty-six dollars and nine GEMS II
said two sums making in all the sum Of twentya'
thousand dollars.
Ordained January ID, 1856. -. Y
Attest: Ebert CAN'T, PresidenS
Guy Fl. BELL. Clerk.
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ARE You INSURED ?-See E. L. Nimmoi
card, in another column, and answer this ques
ton yourselves.
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a; Tho French department Of this paper will
hereafter be under the editorial charge Of oxEzlME
AGuiDRy. Esq. ~ ~ a'fs
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The Cherokee nation have authorized their
chief to open correspondence with different
missionary boards for the purpose of remonstra-
ting against sending abolitionists among them
under the pretext Of being missionaries.
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A James Thompson has been convicted in
Brooklyn, NewYor and sent to the peniton-
tiary for three years and four months, Tor lay-
ing two viyes-a white and black ore.
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The English Government has signiled to
Denmark q determination not to pay Sound
Dues unless the United States do.
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v5s 3ssAg sigOPELOUSAS: 41
SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10, 1856

tfsAT' We. are requested, to announce that A.. NJ.
,PERRAULT is a candidate for the office Of Town
Constable. Election in April next.
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Do You Eat Pork:

Physicians have just discovered that The tape
worm only troubles those who cat pork. The
Gazette Mcdicale says that the Hebrews are
never troubled with it, that pork butchers arc
particularly liable to it, and that dogs fed on
pork are universally so afflicted in fact, il
turns out that a small parasite worm, called
crysticercus, from lwo words signifying a
small sack and q tail,) which much affects
pork, no sooner reaches the stomach than from
the change OF diet and position it is metamor-
phosed into the well known tape worm, and the
experiments OF MIR. kuchenmeister, of Zittoria,
upon a condemned criminal, have established
the fact beyond all contradiction.
Ii you would avoid tape worms, therefore,
avoid pork. Look a pig in the face with a
calm consciousness that you are one of those
who never thirst after his blood. Esehew
sausages, unless you are confident that when
you take them you take them as you do slip.
perry elm for a couch-with the bark. Let
Cincinnati rejoice in her name of Porkopolis.
We have 10 envy for a title Of such tape worm
distinction. Her population evidently ante
date their dissolution, ard become y food for
worms even while yet in the flesh. Theirs is
a living death, and the pig that they devour
to-day revenges himself and in turn devours
them with an instability beyond nil parallel.
Indeed, we begin to feel q horror for a city
that has a reputation for slaughter far srrpass-
ing that OF Sodom and Gomorrah. AS the
quaint author Of " the Spoon " once observed,
her merchandise is flesh. Her bulletins are oc-
cupied with its sales. and as the market price
rises and falls, SO does the value of her real
estate. Her merchants are butchers. Her
staple is %stearine. Her palaces Are built with
the price Of blood, and illuminated at night
with the fat Of her slain. Like Babylon.
9 seated on many waters, and drunken with
blood,' so ~reclines Cincinnati on q larger
stream than the Euphrates, clothed in scarlet,
and proudly calling herself queen of the west.
Yes, let her beware. Vengeance will not
sleep forever. And when pigs get their rights,
she will meat her deserts. IN. Y. Sunday
Times. a
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Thanks to the steamer "A. W. Glaze for late
city papers.
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A RE YOU INSURED ?--E. l.. NMNo,
n Washington, La, Agent for the Equitable In.
s,rance Company of London, capital $500, 900;
Merchants, OF Philadelphia, Pa; State Mutual Of
Atlantic, Of Providence, R. l.; also of the Knicker,,
York. N'' u Ne"
As agent of the above, I am prepared to take risks
on every species OF property at low rates and great
Ply 10 q, L. NIMMO.A
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Jup1c1A1. ADvERrIsEAENrs.-The attention
Of Administrators Of Estates. as well as de
asndants in Judicial processes, is invited to the
following section Of q law passed at the last
session of the Legislature:
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An ACT relative to Judicial Advertisements
gSec. q. Bet further enacted, That when there
are two or more newspapers published in the Parish
where such proceedings are had, or such sale is to be
made, the Defendant in the Judicial process shall
said advertisement Is to be made; Provided said
selection be made within three days after the notice
Of such proceedings, or the seizure made under said
process and if the Defendant neglect to select, then
The plaintiff shall have the right to do so.
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T ANDRETH'S SEEDS
- A full assortment of FRESH GARDEN
SEEDS, direct from the establishment of David
Landreth, Philadelphia, for sale by
S. D. ALLIS, Washington.
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NHANGE OF RESIDENCE.-DE H.
~ LATE has removed his residence and of6rh
the dwelling on Landry street, near Judge 0yertoat
and opposite i. Birott's store. Besides the Ordinary
attend on all diseases Of the Mouth and Teesh, NJ
practice in all the branches of Dentistry. Els xMl
IN all that line is warranted, and performed aftsfOs
latest and most approved process.
Artificial Teeth are not only an ornament: thsyMS
establish the voice to its natural tone, and, aboyeau'
permit mastication, so indispensable to the health
Or: PLATE will visit Washington weekly.
Prices moderate.
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nEBAlLLON & CARRIERE. RECEIVING.
ington, La. '""-
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NoTlCE.--Ihe undersigned having offered
~ a reward Of Three Thousand Dollars for the an
Landry, charged with the murder Of Don Diea,,o AL
eXander Larose lFontenot, now notifies the public
mat he has withdrawn that offer. Having failed to
procure any reliable information relative to the ac.
FUSED, and having given the greatest publicity to his
justice. ALIEN. IARnSSE o1uESo,MNsT t y l mm
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" BBLs. Thomaston LIME, in fine
IOV order, for sale by
DEBATLLON & CIPRTEPE Uoshi,a
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IN SACKS WHEAT BRAN, for sale
w by DEBAlLLON & CARRiERE,
Washington, La.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-05

PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD.
PHIApHPMA, Oct 4, 1855.
Stocks steady. Pennsylvania SIS, s3,; Reading Rail.
road, an; Long Island Railroad, l2x; Morris Canal
1872; Pennsylvania Railroad, 4sh.
New ORLEANS. Oct 3, 1866.
The Afca's news promptly received this morning,
and published in the evening edition OF the associated
press The sales of TODAY 5000 baes, as
sitter prices but without any actual advance Kidding,
1lxc The sales OF the week loot up 600 bales, and
the receipts during the PERIOD have been 30. 600.
The receipts thus far 40 600 bales below those Of the
same period last season stock hand II 900 bales.
Flour tends upward advance Of f0c having bean g.
tsosned today White corn. ESQ Lard in kegs 1916
Coffee, l0zc 1kc.; sales OF the week. 5000 bags:
STOCK 500 bags. Cotton taken for New York at sd
per bale, Sterling exchange per cent premium. Cot
ton freghts to Liverpool, 30
BUFFALO, Oct. al N.
Flour and wheat quiet and dull. Corn unchanged;
saies, 1900 bushels, at Ole Canal freghts to New
York dull, a lSc. for corn and ~ nc. for wheat.
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mon sense of Bolts in Virginia-the calm, solid
reasoning of Banks with the empty defamation Of
Floyd in Wall street. and the home thrusts of Gen.
Wilson upon the main question with the labored
twaddle of Seward upon fictitious side issue;
and the difference between practical men and
foolish politicians and agtators will be seen at
glance. Martin Van Buren,, although an old par
ty fossil of the Saurian epoch, has yet while en-
dorsing Buchanan and the niger policy Of the
democratic party, had sense enough to keep in the
shade. Seward should follow his example, for he
isequally befogged as 10 the real drift, merits
and issues of this great movement for Fremont
and new administration.
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THE DETROIT SPEECH or w. ii. SEwARD.-
Mr.. Seward has been making, at Detroit, one Of
bis Characteristic speeches against the slave
holders of the South as the governing class of
the country. He gives us q heavy poetical effti-
ion on this theme, better fitted for the columns
q some dull politico-literary magazine than for
the practical exgencies Of this crisis on the
stump. He is one Of those old fogy politicians,
who, like the Bourbons never forget anything,
and never learn anything lie breaches the
merits Of this campaign upon false issues. lie is
fighting the shareholders as class, while the
great Fremont party are devoted to the practical
common cause Of putting down this infamous
democratic dynasty at Washington and Of
putting up a constitutional administration in
its place. We have nothing more to do with
Shareholders, a class, than with any other class
OF our fellow-citizens. We are dealing with a
debased administration, and the corrupt party
and the corrupt spoilsmen and disunion politi.
clans and fire-eaters that control the Buchanan
democracy.
The political evils Of the day we're brought
upon us by this Pierce administration and the
party cOnuOlllnR IL Nnen MI. Fierce was
inaugurated there was peace on the niger cues
tion-it had been settled-al sides had acquiesced.
andpeace was expected to continue. But thi. peace
was broken, not necessarily, in the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise and the substitution of the
principle Of popular sovereignty; but It was
broken by that desperate expedient for Southern
votes at Cincinnati--tbat base expedient OF
making Kansas slave State by ballot sturiinp
and by force Of arms. II Is Pierce. JEFF. Davis
Atchisos d Co., and the democratic party that are
responsible for this, aud not the shareholders. as
class Fire-eating Southern democratic dcma-
Togues and disorganizers, however. have mis-
represented the slaveholding class as much as
Seward The mass Of The Southern shareholders
are a conservative class and seek 10 avoid aQita-
ton and unconstitutional issues and aRpressions
Not 80 with such Southern demagogues and dis
turbers as Wise, Brooks, Keitt, Floyd. Cobb.
Benjamin, johnson and Sldcll-not so with
such traficing politicians as Pierce. Fillmore
and Bucbsnan-not 50 with such old party foesils
as W. III. Seward.
The difference between the speeches proclama-
tone silly bombast and idle threats Of such adj
tators end disorganizers and the true men Of tho
day i very broad Compare, for example,. N,
raying modne,s n Wise with thc practical com.
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GEN. LANE OF KANSAS AID HIS TERRIBLE
CHAIIESGE--Our readers viii find elsewhere in
these columns very remarkable manifesto from
Gen. Lane the free State military champion in
Kansas It very interesting document, as far
as it confirms the atrocities Of border rufiianism
as contrasted with the humane, defensive policy
of the free State settlers and it is very encour-
aging to be thus assured that the administrative
policy Of making Kansas slave State by force
of arms has thus far been a signal failure. But
the most remarkable feature in this letter is the
novel proposition of Gen. Lane for the settlement
Of the question Of slavery or no slavery in Kan
sas.
He proposes, instead Of another Dor
der ruffian invasion, that they adopt the old
plan Of the days of chivalry-that is, decisive
fight between limited number Of champions on
either side. He thinks that hundred men of
either party would do, and that they fight the de-
cisive fight in the presence Of twelve members of
each House Of Congress, one half Of whom shall
be selected by each party, with the mutual agree
ment that the blood Of the parties shall settle this
question, and save Kansas from further outrage
The Horatii and the Curatii-Lane himself vo-
unit eering to be the first Horatius.
And why should not this plan be adopted by
the border ruffans? 1t is exactly In their line.
1t proposes their own policy Of fighting it out,
and TO make short work Of it by picked COM
pany Of combatants and single decisive battle.
The North, we doubt not could furnish the re-
quired hundred martyrs to save their country,
and the administration democracy, with such men
as Brooks, Wise, Keitt, Herbert, JEFF. Davis,
Atchison, Pierce, Stringfellow, Buford, Titus,
Forney, John Van Buren,, Slidell, Floyd, Captain
Scott, Toombs, Quattlebum and others, could
easily make up their hundred. And suppose not
. man on either side should survive the fight?
Would not their loss be the country's gain? The
fact is, il Pierce, Atchison and Stringfellow who
have already had their feathers clipped by Lane,
should refuse this proposition Of picked COM
pany for decisive fight they had better retire
at once from the field. Let US hear from them.
win nobody take up the glove?
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THE MEXICAN BONDs-The last news in re-
ference to these bonds is that the British govern
ment has forwarded strong remonstrance to the
government Of Mexico insisting that the customs
duties appropriated as collateral security for the
payment of the interest shall not be applied to
other uses, but shall be collected under the
authority of Mr.. Whitehead as the agent Of the
bondholders
So far as this goes there is no harm DONE
England has a right to say what she Likes and
no doubt her government will feel inclined to
speak plainly to nation which has shown such
very bad faith as Mexico As to the appoint
ment of Mr.. Whitehead as co-treasurer Of Mexico,
we doubt it very much. President Comonf0rt
could hardly CONSENT such an arrangement with
out serious sacrifice of real power and apparent
dignity and the chances are that this win occur
to him directly. We should not be surprised to
hear that he has answered that he will have
nothing to do with Mr.. Whitehead otherwise than
to pay him his interest; that he will do what in
him lies to make these payments regularly-as
the confscation of the church property will
enable him to do; but that, for the rest, If Eng
land be not satisfied, he cannot help it. An
answer Of this kind would place the British in a
dilemma they would either have to back down.
or to threaten. The latter course would rouse
this country, which, Of course, will never allow
an European Power to interfere with the indie
pendence of Mexico; and in the end, John Bull
would probably find the former plan the most
sensible.
1t is pity, Of course, that people who borrow
money should not always repay it at the right
time: but public sympathy should not always be
on the side Of the injured creditor. The English
men who lent their money to Mexico were not
compelled to do so by law, or by force, or by any
other reason than the uncommonly fine chance they
thought they saw Of making money; they pur-
chased the risk with the bonds. Why should
they howl SO much about it now? They made
their bed let them sleep on it.
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There were also 5 deaths Of bronchitis, OF con-
ges,ion Of the BRAIN 10 Of Group, IA Of dropsy in the
head. s Of hopping cough, Of Inflammation Of the
Train, Of smallpox, Of teething. premature
births. 20 stillborn, and 10 deaths from violent
causes OF the whole number. 257 were Of ten years
"a age and under, and "a were inmates OF the va.
rious pubic institutions.
TIE following table gives the classification Of die
eases and the total number Of deaths caused BY each
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CHICAGO, Oct. \, 1855.
The receipts Of the Rock Island Railroad Company for
September were s2ss6s; for the month last year
they were s147oo. The receipts Of the Galens Union
Railroad Company for September sa9e. 23e for the
same month last year they s2el $40 The receipts
Of the Illinois Central Railroad Company for September
were $3.50 PAL for the month last year they we're
$50 $50 The sales Of lands FOR September amounted 10
ee osA Use
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:" ioe& on rent on opefA house. .......s.. SV,VVo
Grand total $4,000
That is doing pretty well for the first decade
and as salaries, rents, &c, are going up
we may increase il to half million during
the next ten years. The practical man
asks, what have we got for all this
money! Nothing in particular, except the
souvenirs Of the splendid artists and the recollec
ton Of good deal OF amusement for the outside
public from managerial sIuabbles and artists
quarrels. Nevertheless, expensive as II may be,
New York will have the Opera We are an
Opera going and Opera loving people, as the sum
nearly twenty thousand dollars-taken for the
last thirteen representations at the Academy fully
proves. There Is bad state of feeling in the in
side circles. The executive committee are fu-
rious against Maretzek, whom they charge with
ingraitude, according 10 the copy book the black
est Of crimes. They say that he shall never have
the Academy again, and that they will mako
some arrangement to place the Opera on per.
manent basis. We think we have heard that re-
mark, in substance, before We are afraid that
there will be no more Opera at the Academy for
some time TO come
But while all Is 30 dark in our musical sky,
light breaks out in new quarter Of the horizon
The last European steamer brought ne
precious freight in the person Of Sigis-
mund Thslberg, the greatest Of living pianists
Thalberg Is among the few European artists who
have an extended American reputation Hardly
lady in the land is without Thalbcrg's exquisite
piano music. His social position Is the highest:
he IL the son Of Grand Duke, and connected
with the highest circles in Germany. both in
lineage, literature and art. His arrival Is a nm
cal event, and 80 will be that Of Madame Anpri
the contraso, who is daily expected. Now, why
should not Thalberg take the Academy for his
concerts9 He has often given concerts In the
largest European opera houscs-La Scala and
the San Carlos, for example. The Academy Is
certainly as we'll fitted for bis concerts as the
opera houses Of Milan or Naples We woull
suggcs to " Tbalbe,g thai he should come be-
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fore the New York public in their theatre erect
ed specially for the advancement of the art of
music. This win be giving . new turn to the
crisis, and will satisfy everybody.
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Malls for the Pacific.

NEW YORK HERALD-cALIF0RSIA EDITION.
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The Nr~ YoRE WEEKLY EKAD-Cslfcrnia edition
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T III Il l. A T e 8 T N Il w 8
BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TEleGRAPHs.


News from Kansas.
THE rREE STATE PRISONERS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
81. Lorrs, Oct 3, 1855.
Governor Geary has issued . proclamation for the
erns Of the different counties 10 Kansas 10 open the
polls Monday, Oct O. for the election Of delegate 10
Congress and members Of the legislature
81. LOTS, Oct. 4, 1856.
letter 10 the RYJliean from Gov. Ceary dated the
26th u says that rried states troops win be stationed
OF points where troubles anticipated during the coming
election, and tina, any interference with the legitimate
Of suffrage viii be punished with the utmos, &C.
verify. Mr.. Whitfield the pro-smvery candidate Tor
Congress.
letter 70 the Democrat, dated the Gath says that the
free state prisoners had been examined before Judge
Cato, and committed for trial at the April term Of the
Court
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Connsetisut State Fair.

NEW HAVE, Oct :, 1865.
The arrangements are nearly completed for The STATE
Fair grounds and entries Of horses blood stock ara
already very numeroua the best exhibition the STATE
has Afforded Ia looked for.