The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-11-26

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tial aspirations
Messrs. Bloch So Dupre do more
mercantile business, we suppose,
ana do more advertising, than any
other merchant or mercantile firm
in the parish. $50,
The Courier seems to be- opposed
to scratching tickets, convention ion
tickets. especially. Suppose an
anti-eonvention ticket to be scratch
I'd and convention candidate sub.
stitated, hew thenf st1a8
~~o~~-SA-~0~Is " Aa
.BUsINEss.-Not long since, in
this parish, at the instance of the
husband, q suit was brought for a
divorce. On the day the decree
of divoree was signed the husband
obtained knowledge. of the. fact,
and the day following the ex-Wife
wasimarried to another party, and
on the second day her former hus-
band followed suit. In another
divorce case, both parties managed
to get married e spending the suit.
Our information comes from one
who has the means of knowing.
IMMIGRATION.
OF about nine hundred immi-
grants who recently arrived at New
Orleans, on the steamship Frank
fort, the New Orleans Republican
says " about five hundred of them
are going to Texas to engage in
farming, and nearly all the rest go
up Westp The Republican asks,
"sWhy ID it Louisiana can not hold
out sufficient inducements for those
who arrive here to remain and settle
down.
About two years ago we had an
Immigration Society id ST. Ian
dry. 1T died a short time after its
organization from neglect. Itshould
have been q permanent thing, and
with proper and Persistent efforts
eonthe part of its members, immi-
grafton could have been induced
to, our parish in the course of time.
The Society during its short .exis-
tence did some good, but it was on
~ the germ of what might have
been accomplished by this time.
1t seems our people prefer paying
taxes ON lands they are unable to
cultivate, to giving part of them, or
selling them to immigrants at low
rates. 1T is difficult for some peo-
pie to see their own prosperity in
that of the public. They do not
understand that land not only use.
less but expensive to them, il given
or sold eheaply to immigrants
would be like bread cast upon the
waters to be found after many days.
This plan would not only increase
tho ghneral prosperity ofAthe coun
try, bus world greatly enhance the
value Of the remaining lands. And
We believe this, the only plan, ex
cept the binding Of railroad
through otrr midst, that viii bring
US Immigration in reasonable
tiiness Arailraad might induce i'm,
migrants 10 pay higher prices for
bands, on account of the early profit
they could derive from them but as
things now stand immigrants will
go where lands are cheap.
gaB AlyEsragEsTERe REvIEHs FOR. October
bas Just been republssshed By he Leonard
Scott Publishing Gompany,IA sFuItons
Street, New York. Iii lis ii number of
more than average excellence, and also,
on account ofg subjects of some of its
papers, Of more than usual interest To- the
readers III this country Occasion has
often been laknn to Contnaent nu the yarie-
ty of topics treated iii this publication : but
the number now issued is remarkably ex-
c~arsiaA md few wiIlsopen 1T Without find
ipg something 70 enagross their attention,
An8ng the papers which will BIZ univer
sally read are the following = AMERICAN
EiferaEase,n atIaIfn Wesley's u~osmocony,
aTha LaWsaAaf War, y Gunpawder,n and
stThns NewsYask Gold Eoaspiracg.n mol
ether English Review harmonizes SOL
ho.oughlY With t-heeprogressive spirit Of
that this public viii faiie DIP this number
and read The kindly critical md apFrecia
fctnarts on our writer's, dead ana liv-
ing. ins the FIRST named articles and the
equally cfisaealbat rstsa kindlY comments
on the heroes oflhe late Gold Conspiracy
wfsrll lol1ns the sahiieeEpf the last article,
and which as q striking chapter. in the
history 81 fnanee, has been thought wor-
Thy 81 9 place n tile pages Of i Quarterly
A4-saa ss
9 d. Mcguire and Dr. Dnpesier, If ST
Mary parish, hare already contracted Cor
oue hzsndred familiss o. French Comedians
as piansation alaborers, and NJ. Melnt fof
Quebec who represents these isnanigrants
thinks that five Thousand families can IL
induced To come To Louisiara.-W. III IA