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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01
WHAT LATITUDE

~
Wemust be excused for asking in what
latitude ouisianais situatedt this Winteri
| Of course, with maps staring us in the
face, and old time rhymes of "Sunny
South" "Balmy South ringing in oul
ears, we are expected to repeat curl les
son glibly. But we must acknowledge
we are puzzled.
December staid with us in successive
days of cold snaps, freezes, etc. But we
| said, and thought no better conduct
could b. expected of that dreariest, most
uncomfortable month of all the year
| But January was always mild and pleas,
| anti Louisiana. TOJanuary we looked
! for bright days, and many Of them.
But 10! on the morning of the Goth ult.:
we looked out on a Siberian landscape
No gIittering snow in white feeces lying
lightly and prOteetingly IN the earth:
but a hard, dark, rigid scene. We will
not venture to say how deep the ground
was frozen, or how long before we could
get water from our ice-bound cisteTn.
for no one would believe us. We shiv-
! cred and froze, and wilted, and asked
the question we have just propOunded-
Fin what latitude are we now?" We
would also like to know what comfort
there is in being put down on the map
in semi-tropicalla titudes when in reality
! we touch at the Arctic Zone?
Geology has long made us familiar
with wonderful climatic changes, and
shown us fossil forests of Palms and
Draconias, and all kinds of tropical
/ growths, in lands which half the year
now are covered with snow and ice. But
we always believed that all these things
occurred in q transition era Ofthe worlds
life. Neutrality-suspicious. these changes.
When the astronomers in Europe and
America went wild last Summer over
the calcium discovered in the sun, and
! predicted atmospheric changes from the
disturbances in the solar system, we,
who are not astronomers, thought it a
good joke.
But we recant Sin toto" We believe
in the burning out of our source of light
and heat, or are we thrown from our
base and don't know where we will find
a footing. We are becoming doubtful
whether there is a South at all where
roses bloom all the year, and the orange
hangs untouched by the cold.
We lost a great many things during
the last war, but then we gloriied our
selves on our soil and our climate. They
couldn't be beat; they couldn't be taken
away. But we are losing the last, and
drifting into very cold spaces, if the
weather of the Goth is significant of any
thing,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01
what credit mobilier'' Means.
[Chieage Tribune

A correspondent asks the meaning of
the words Credit MObilier.D Several
congressman have asked the same ques-
tion.) We presume he wishes to be in
formed concerning the original deriva-
ton and use of the term. We win en-
deaVor to explain it. The "Credit
Foncier' has long been the general title
in France for associations that advance
money on landed OF 6nlm0VGble securi-
ties. The Credit Mobiliern was the
name given to a powerful corporation,
organized in France in 1862, for advanc-
ing money on mOgdble property. The
name was adopted evidently with the
purpose of affording a ready definition
of the object of the association. The
"Societe Generate de Credit Mobilier1
became a great and profitable enter
prise. It had special privileges I'M
der its charter. 1t assisted materially
in the construction of railways and the
promotion of mining schemes. Among
other enterprises In which 1t was nOta-
bly, interested were the Government
loan on account of the Russian war, the
Grand Central Railway Company. and
the Central Omnibus Company Of Paris.
At one time, it advanced 350,000, 900
francs, and at another time 375, 100000
francs, to the French Government. It's
business was SO great in 1866 that 1t de-
clared a dividend of 40 per cent. on
its capital While it was m~anifestly
the means Of doing much good in
France, it eventually failed.
The introduction of the terms {" Credit
| FonciePn and Credit Mohiliern into
America are due to Mr.. George Francis
Train. He established a Credit Fon-
ciero with Omaha lands, which he
haWked about the country some years
ago. He gave the name of Credit Mo.
bilier of America to a corporation with
universal privileges, which was organ.
lied in Pennsylvania. 1t was appro.
priated by Messrs. Cakes Ames, Du.
rant & CO., to serve as the party of The
third part in the famous 'striplicatt
agreement by which the managers Of
the Union Pacific railroad let out thu
Icontract of building the road to them
selves, i'm payment for which they
m0destly took the road itself, all TIL
United States bonds. all the first mort
gage bonds, all the United States lands
etc, at a profit of over 1000 per cent.
on an entirelD fictitious capital. Thi
is what Credit Mobilier'' means, in th,
modern American and C0ngressiona
use of the word. The title is not inap
p%roprIate. Tho transaction was literal
IN Il Credit on M0vaBles-the Umitet
States Government furnishing th
credit and the money, and MessrS
Cakes Ames s. Co. taking the mova
hles-that Ia, the securities and th
profits
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Low sp1R1Ts.-The grand constita-
ents If health and happiness, the cardi-
nal points upon which everything turns,
are, exercise for the body, and occupa4
tio2' for the mind, Motion seems to be
a great preserving principle of nature,
to which ever inanimate thingsa are sub
iect. for the wind, waves, the earth it.
self are restless, and the waving of
Trees. shrubs and flowers. are known to
he an essential part Of their economy.
A fixed rule OF taking several hours
exercise every day, if possible, in the
open al, Il not under cover, will be al
1iost certain to secure one exemption
from disease, as well as from attacks OF
low shirts, or ennH-that monster who
Is ever waylaying the rich and indolent.
Low spirits cannot exist in the atmos-
phere of bodily and mental activity.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

An English statistical writer estimates
the population of England at IS per 100
acres. Of this number n per cent are
engaged in agriculture, a34 per cent fed
on surplus home products; 81 per cent
imported corn. The number of horses
to each hundred acresi is 2, each eonsum-
ing eight times as much as is necessary
tosupport ahuman being, and the whole
consuming about what is necessary to
support 56 human beings. Each humid
red acres, then, is charged with the sup
port of III human beings. From all this
he concludes thattrue economy demands
that animal power should, as far as pos
sible, be superseded by machinery, in
order that a larger portion of the fruits
Of the earth should be secured to man.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

JEWISH LoNGEvITY.-There are very
many curious facts related with regard
to the Jewish race; many, no doubt, are
true, and some certainly have no other
foundation shan fancy. Professor
Stowe, in his remarkable interesting
course of lectures on the subject, de-
livered some years ago in this city, gave
as careful a summary of the truth with
regard to this peculiar people as has
ever been made, and a statistician in
London has recently published some
quite remarkable statements about
their physical condition, based upon
carefully collected records. From these
little or no s~crofnla. The average life
years, while of the Christian it is only
thirty-seven years. Of a given number
of Christians, only one quarter will, as
a general rule, live to be sixty years,
while among Jews one-quarteT lived to
be at least seVenty-one. Among chill
dren, fourteen per cent. Of the Chris
tan population die between one year
and five years Of age, while only -
per cent. of the Jewish children. FL
nally, in Prussia it requires fifty-one
years for the Christian population to
double itself, and only forty-One years
for the Jews. IF we are not mistaken,
Professor Stowe declared that the Jews
had remained of about the same total
number ever since. they became historic.
This proof of their greater average
longevity and greater relative increase
would seem to furnish material for q
Observation-Disclosures Courant.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

THE MAN WITH A SET OF TEETH IN
HIS BOWELs.-Two weeks ago, a man
uamed Charles Piekel, employed in
Newark, swallowed his upper set of
false teeth. He was attended by DR..
Cutter, whose efforts to get the teeth
out were unsuccessful, and he could do
nothing more than direct his patient to
confne his diet to milk, and take each
day about a pint of sweet oil, The
Doctor called upon Pickel frequently,
expecting to be called upon when the
teeth should lodge at some impossible
point in the bowels, to perform one of
the most dangerous and painful opera
tions known to the profession. It was
generally supposed among physicians
that the voidance of the teeth, attached
as they were to a plate weighing 100
grains, was an impossible event, hence
The astonishment of DR.. Cutter yester-
day, when he learned that his patient
no longer needed his seryices.-The
gold plate was considerably furnished,
owing to the action of the acids of the
stomach, but otherwise it seemed none
the worse for its progress through forty
feet of intestines.-[New Jersey
Mechanic.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Nav KIND or GUEPoWDER.-An0yel
description DE grnpoWder, possessingex-
traOndinary protective power, is said to
have been recently adoptedby the Prus-
sIan aEtiliery. IS composed Ofacertain
proportion ef nitro and saWdust, and in
hisstateea be eptinstore withoutfeaT
Of explosion. 10 render this cnmp0sition
e~xpl0siyeitis necessary toaddasaficien
quantity of sulnhurie acid to make
it eohere, and when dried it is
ready for use. This composition
certainly hasthe advantage of cheap
ness, combined with extreme sim
piieityin it's manufacture, and is said to
leave but little residue after being fired,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

The two Legislatures are in statu quo,
The body at Odd Fellows Hall meet
every day in joint session and ballot for
a United States Senator, without any
result. Warmoth isstiIl ahead, but will
hardly succeed, except probably to an
emutv honor,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Writs of election have been issued by
Gov. Kellogg, to fill vacancies caused
by the expulsion of Senators Campbell,
Mcmillan, Todd, holland and Hunsaker.
jerks, Swords and Worrell. The cleo
ton will be held under the old election
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

The Senate impeachment court, for
the trial of the case of the State of Lou
isiana against I'll. G. Warmoth, met on
the 27th ult. The Chief Justice submit
ted his opinion, both as to the law and
the policy of continuing theprosecution.
The court decided to discontinue it by a
vote of is to 4, and adjourned sine die.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01
7T7TTF sTRRENDER OF GEN. LEE,

At A~PPoMArrox, C. H., VA, APRIL 9TH, 1865.
A magnificent IA X IL inch Engraving OF me
surrender of Gen. Lee, beautifully colorc9' Ell
Gro vol in fine highest style of the art and prin..
Ted on heavy plate paper. It is truly q gem OF
art. one which should hang in the parlor on eN-
cry Southern home. Sent by mlil, m % Oh
a roller and postpaid, on receipt OF ~ CENTS OF
3 for 80 cents. Agents wanted: Address
'" n C&W W. M. BURR0W, bristol. Tenn
CotsIngIes of Pictures, Books, &c, sent TFee.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

An Annapolis letter to the Baltimore
American says: One of the French pa
pers was received lately atthe library of
the Naval Academy with the name Of
Andrew Jacksonas oneof the Presidents
of the United States, and the portrait Of
stonewaH jackson affixed.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

REVUE DE La MoDE.-We have re-
ceived the February number of this Ia
dy's magazine of fashions, published by
S. T. Taylor at 816 Broadway, New
York. Each number contains patterns,
which greatly enhances its value. Sub
scriptiOn. So so,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01
auccession d,Arshcmfse Nezat-No. a6Qa.

NOUR DE PAROISsE, ST. LANDRY.-AT-
tendue que Arminte c. Deyilliers ct son
6pOux. Motley G. DevillieTs, de la Par0tsse st,
Landry, ayant present6 une petition h Peffet
d'8tre nomm6 Administrations de In succession
d'Arth6mise N6zat, dGced6e, reinforcement de Ia
dite parOisse;
En- consequence, avis est par lie present dOnne
aux int6ress6s dams cettc succession d'avOir Ii
d6duiTe par 6crit q mon bureau, dams les dix
iours Gui ~suivront In date du present avis, les
raisons, 81 auGune lis ont, pour fesqueHes II ne
serait pas faft drOit q la demande dc La dite petit
ton. W. A. ROBERISON, dfeEnef.
l fGv.-b&e.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

The Princess Louise has been made
president of the English National Union
for the improvement Of the education
of women. The object of this union is
to deliver women from the piano, the
globes, the black board and bad French:
and make them fit for the exigencies OF
modern life.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

A medical correspondent explains that
"embolism,n ofwhich the Emperordied,
is a coagulation Of the solid parts of the
blood into clots, which block up the
heart and arteries. These plugs are
called emboli, and by blocking up the
arteriM courses give rise to fatal conse-
quences. They are dependent upon pre-
vious disease of the system.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

"A man advertises for competent per.
son to undertake the sale of a new medi-
cine, and adds that "it willprove highly
lucrative to the undertaken"
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suggestive and Sensible.

Speaking of the holiday pageants of
the carnival season in New Orleans, the
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter says:
But in connection with these grand
and costly displays, there are a few
questions to be considered a. to time,
place and propriety. We have been
told over and over again that the pros
perity of New Orleans is rapidly de-
clining-that her business is passing
away to other and more favored com
mercial centres, and that nothing short
of a miracle can restore her former
prestige. Even now a committee OF her
citizens are at the North detailing the
grievances of the people at the unex-
pected turn the late elections took in
their city, and bewailing the loss of
trade already incurred by Radical mis-
rule, and predicting utter prOstration IN
every department OF business, unless
relief be given by restoring the State
to the control Of her tax paying citizens.
Such arguments it is not oUr purpose
to refute OF sustain.
But must it not appear strange to the
Northern people who have SO long heard
the cry Of "decaying New Orleans
that those costly displays should be
INDUCED in year after year, and even
increasing in numbers or organization ?
Immense sums of money are 1avished
upon them, and for no purpose what
ever beyond the silent fun of the mem
bers and the admiration of the crowds
qpon the streets. None but men of
means can engage i'll those gorgeous
~pageants, and, if our information be
correct, they are the ones who wall most
over the decadence of their city. A
QUESTIONABLE people in the habit of
squandering money when their business
is declining from day to day, with no
prospect of relief in the future? It
strikes us in the negative.
How can Northern people believe
such statements, OF what reliance can
they place in them when they see mo-
ney frittered away in that manner
1t would be more in keeping with the
true condition of affairs in that city
were such displays dispensed with I'm
til better days shall come. If we argue
in this manner-we who live in the
South and are familiar with the situa-
ton, what must be the impression of
Northern people, whose only means of
information is through the public press
or the dicta of migratory committees
They must consider the Orleanians
strange characters-men who are con-
tinua1ly bewailing their misfortunes,
and yet laVishing thousands of dollars
upon shows which have neither sense,
point or meaning.
A suggestion: stop these costly dis
plays, n stop your lamentations over
real or imaginary misfortunes.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

A meddlesome man, who was watch
ing his wife bake pies, stepped with his
bare foot on a warm stove lid, and then
stepped up in the air u few PAGES, and
has zone West,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Party (who wants a letter)-"M name
isMikeH How" Postofice clerk reformed
civil sorvice)-"Well, if your name is
your COW, what is your cows name9"
TSt. Louis Globe.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

The female students of a Western col
Iege are said to be "holding their own
Which means, probably, that none have
married and changed their names.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01
Estate Of Francois GouIOn DcyilIierS.-

DARTsH COURT, ST. LANDRY.-WHERFAS
L Arminte c. Deyillfers and her husband Not
lev C. DeviIliers, of the Parish OF st. Landry,
administrators of the estate OF Francois CoulHn
Deviiliers, deceased, late of the Parish OF ST.
Landry;
nosition TO said appointment, will file the same
in writing in my office, in the town of Opel0u-
sas. within ten days from the present n0tlce.
w. A. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
RnIn 14fhRn
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

In Cincinnati, o girl recovered $15
worth of damage from a barberwlO cut
her hair too short.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

NSTRAX.-A DUN COLORID HORSE,
M half creole, taken up by the undersigned, Mt
Mallet Woods, near Pot Cove. Facsimile Of
brand with ]. O.. Chachere, OpelOnsas. The
owner win cent forward, prove property, pay
or he will be disposed of according to law.
JOSEPH SULLICE.
feb. l-5t,
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Estate Of Arrhemise Nezat.-Na. 1923.
DARIsH COURT, ST. LANDRY.-WHEREAS,
Il Arminte c. Devilliers and her husband, Not
ley c. Devilliers, of the Parish of st. Landry,
have applied by their petition to be appointed
administrators of the estate of ArthemiseN 6Zat,
deceased, late of the Parish of st. Landry;
Therefore, any person intending to make. OPP
position to said appointment, will file the same
in writing in my office, i'll the town Of Opelousas,
within ten days from the present notice.
W. A. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
FnI, I Il Co
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

liers.-NO. 1862.
NOTTR DE PAROIssE. ST. LANDRT.-AT-
" tendu que ArminteC c. DevillieFsctson ep0uX,
Motley c. DeviIliers, de Ia ParOisse St; Landry
ayant pr6sent6 une petition o Pefiet d'etre
nOmm6 administrators de ~ succession nc
Francois COnlon Devflliers, deeede, dcrhiere-
ment de Ia dite parOisse
En- consequence, avis est par lie present dOnne
aux int4ressGs dams cette succession daVolT a
GGduire mar cert q mon bureau, dams les dix
yoIIra ami s1tfyront In date du present avis, les
raisons, 81 alcune lis ont. p0ur. lesquelles II ne
serait pas fait droit q Ia demande dc Ia dite peti-
'''"' W. A. ROBERTSON, Grefier.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

It is estimated by the London Specta-
tor that there are 10000 comfortable
families in Great Britain, and 100000
which may be called respectable. The
line of comfort is drawn to include all
whose houses are assesseda at $5O0ayear,
and that Of responsibility those whose
houses are assessed at 800 a year and
upwards. Below this 1astIne are seven
seighths of the population.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Tom Thumb has bought yacht, hired
a goose pond, and is going to try a pi-
rates life for a time.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

y Why il a demolished muff like Italy?
ReraTise it's fur in parts. (forelgn
parts.) a ..,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Tn +be Green Mountain State they call
an eIopement suicide. He sued and sue
sighed.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

A Terre Haut maid of thirteen is six
feet and one inch tall and still onthe rise.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

New LAws.-No. Is, an act to amend
an act making an aspiration to pay the
expenses OF the extra session Of the
General Assembly b appropriating and
providing for the sale of $4,000 Of leg
islatiye warrants. No. ~, ajoint reso-
luton requestingo our &. s. Senators and
Gongressmentourge thepassage through
Congress Of q civil rights bill, insuring
the civil rights Of all American citizens.
No. IS, al act to amend the police jury
law, SO far only as the parisho of jefferson
is concerned. No. Is, ajoint resolution
requesting the Senators md Represent.
adyes in Congress to obtain q United
States judicial district id North Louis.
awa
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

A capital letter-One containing a
remittance.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

An Irish inmigran Tivedinthe
States read tile following in his paper:
THE lanneI-mouthed poll-parrot of the
Paoli Scayenger has too long roasted in
theshadow of our goodnature. Lethim
beware. Forbearance is no longer a Vir-
tue. We shall set his dainty plumage
scurrying on the four winds Of heaven,
and give his Moated carcass TO the vul-
tures.n soonafter perusing this he went
to look over the printing-ohice of a pa
per by invitation. Contemplating the
machine full speed for atime, he ex-
planned to his companion, aHolymother
Of Mosesi as the Americans abuse each
other by machinery, it's no wonder they
pitch it 80 strongin
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

The Louisiana Conferenceof the Meth
0dist r.. Church South, closed In New
Orleans, Oh the 18Th nit. TAenext Con-
ference viii be held at Baton Rouge.
The following appointments were made
for the OpeIousas District:
B. u. White, presiding elder.
PattersonYilleand BHashear-B. Clegg
Franklin-A. I'M. Williams.
New Iheria-T b. White.
AbbeNileR. q. Tsbell.s
Vernilli0nViileJ M. Brown.
0peaaasaa-R y. Baldwin.
Washington d. Harper.
81 Landry-Wm. Hart and one 10 be
supuaiedbv AZ. MeFather.
Teche-J. II. Webb.
Lake GhaTles-R. Al Davis. German
mission 10 b0 supplied.
Grand CheAiere-To be supplied b.
81 diff HOLSTER.
Caleaaien and SngartoWn-To be sup
piled byJ.J.W iiliamsa ndJ. w. Monroe
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Texas gets 800 a ton for her broom
corn.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

In a paper we recently received we
find o new anatomy, to this effect: A
gentleman had lately the misfortune by
misstep to sitdown rather suddenly on
the curbstone; he is now we'll, but quot
inghis doctors explanation of the injury,
informs his numerous inquiring friends
that he narrowly escaped q fractured
SOS coccyx, with injury to the perineum,
which might have resulted in epididy-
mitis, or prostatitis, and possibly trau,
matte feveri'' All oh n said alearned
listener, HIM! Damaged in the Latin
PARTS. Iseeiin
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-01

Cooking Is even more profitable than
painting in Paris. The chief cook at the
Cafe Anglais lately bought Of Forburi d
picture valued at seventy thousand
francs, atthe same time ordering another
for one hundred thousand francs. In
the story above the cafe he has d collee-
ton of paintings, including some Of the
finest pictures in Paris. He also had a
collection OF crgiosIties from China and
Japan, next to that OF the king DC Holr
land, the finest IN Europe. His finest
pictures are kept at his villa i'll the
country.