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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY JOEL H. SANDOZ & ANDREW MIEYNIER. Opelo sas : SATURD)AY. DECEMBER 15th., 1855. OUPR AGENTS. The following gentlemen are authorized to collect rad ~paivei subscriptions and adverticemc.as for the Oeaflsa Courier, in their reI.pective towns: AcGosTE MARAIST, St. Martinsville, (La.) Awrnuc BtULLIJAtn. Breaux's Bridge, (La.) A. MLLarrAcGH, Washington, (La.) [".' We are authorized to announce that Mr. CIARLES. CLOSE has become a candidate for a seat in the Police Jury of this Parish, from the 3rd Ward. comprising Gros Chevreuil. Grand Coteau and Coulpe Croche. at the election which will take place on the second Monday of May next. Opelousas, Nov. 17th, 1835. {.:We are authorized to announce Mr. A ro. M. PEa.AULT as a candidate for Town Constable of the town of Opelousas, at the election which will take place on the first Monday of April next. Opelousas, 24th November 1855. OUR BEEF MARKET. Beef meat is now selling 10 cents per pound at our Market House. Our Parish has the finest and largest stock of cattle, and furnishes beef to the Market Houses of New Orleans, and very often supplies the butchers of Lafayette and St. Martins; and while our butcher imposes upon us 10 cents per pound for the above article, the Lafayette and St. Martins' people buy it at 6 and 6} cents. How can this be explained ? Is this not imposi tion ? An eighteen or twenty dollars' beef produces to the butcher forty dollars, besides the hide, tallow, &c., which covers certainly the expenses. We have a butcher, who has for a long while es tablished a monopoly here, and though people com plain at his high prices, they are unwilling to en courage competition, for, if one is established, it diesoff in a few weeks and up comes again the high prices. This is our way of doing business. The people of our town ought to meet together, asl advise some plans to break down this monopo ly, which threatens to perpetuate itself from father to son, and procure their daily meat on reasonable price. gW"Mr. MARTIN PERRAULT has been elected, on Saturday last, a Member of the Board of Police of the Town of Opelousas, in place of Mr. John Coch ran, resignee. W WWe learn, with great pleasure that the bridge commonly known as the Washington Bridge is now completed and opened to-the public : it having been in use for the last two or three days. Thus, planters who live South of this bridge can now send their cotton and sugar to the landing, and as it happens, just at the time of bad weather season. This bridge is well built, and will probably last a longer time than those that were built heretofore. We know Mr. Lyons, the undertaker, to be a good carpenter and understands building a good, substan tin) bridge. ,For Ite last 12 or 14 years, this bridge has cost the Pars upon an average of one thousand dollars a year. NOMINATIONS IN WEST tELICUIANA. The Dpnocdat of West Feliciana have nominated Col. B. 4Ia#asow as a candidate for State Senator, to supply the plce of ROBERT C. Wicamrlrr, elected Goyene : For, the House, they have also nomina' ted nraxax HAGAMJAN. e publish to-day the prospectus of' that staunSil Southemrn rights paper, the Waeahington 8pctat.r. It is devoted to Sabithriasanarcthree, tre api education. Louisianshl~ have a direct in threst to support'the Speta.r. / 'Amatuin rT Tro s CorsTti s.-The Gvedrnor ot Con eetlcut has issued his procr lation, announ cing the doption of the amendment to the Constitu ti re6t .ring ai electors to raid and write. The whole tote of the people was,9%91-4, of which 17, 4 8 wee in fyave of and 12,l14 against the adoption a of the aiendment. The mujoritIn kor was 4826. W the risein the river,. which has opened n and enabled boats to travel from Alex a Grant Ecore, has' importd new life. and ant to our trade. Our merebants are all re eeii supplies of og aiurstreetswear eqair ness to wh ,7 have long been j mn tamed ellene has been arrested in Chic . hai..with the murder of his wife, who was tw years sinee. The husband was arti at the me of th~em tde,- Aut testimony to him could eat h btaited.i He is in consequene of ,tme revelations of ' - .out fourteen ea.. .age,ind who iw of his wife, resily d. She the murder by lookipg aL crack ppe, nom, where she weas supposed to It appears that' ibb shs believes her aa rg·ary, fwhaving oeeesled the e mde the revelatio with the ex pet by affording rilitf to her nother, Germane aI tsassvng at Siwaste 1 000, surt h movthe rasrpid, bas md .1 4 , f .t-" m. ...i . mF eis a It i_ a f. I iii OPELOUSAS RAIL-ROAD. (Correspondance of the New Orleans Bee) BAYOU Bawer, Dec. 6th, 1855. EDITORS Bu :-As your correspondent, I feel bound to let you hear from me frequently; yet in hunting about for an item of news wherewith to re gale you to-day, I can find nothing worthy of note, and so I will write of a subject that should be brought often to the notice of the Orleanians-I mean the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Rail-! Road. Here we ag up to our armpits in water in the Bcenf swampqrorking away, and rapidly push ing on the road to get the connection with the Bceuf i complete by February, if possible, which will make seventy-two miles of rthroad West from New Or leans, terminating on a water course which is navi gable the year through seventy five miles still far ther yWestwai d. We have here about two miles and a half of work that must be accomplished in some way, by either tressill or piling, the last of the many fbrmidable obstacles that have been overcome in prosecuting this truly great wol k, from the banks of the Missistippi, at Algiers, to the deep tributaries of the Atchatalaya, and opening the entire Attakapas and Opelousas countries, with but a few hours travel to New Orleans. The completion of the track to Ti gerville, sixty-six miles from your city, roused the dormant interest that had flagged in its behalf, and the people of St. Mary's par ih, and still farther West, look with anxious eyes to behold the iron horse tossing his hot breadth to the breezes of the bay. Gradually and perseveringly has it crept along over the sloughs of St. Charles through the dense forests of Jefferson, and across the deep bayous and trembling prairies of Lafourche, and cleaving the swamps of Terrebotne, until now it is seen, felt and admitted to be a grand triumph and a complete suc cess. Country croakers are silenced, the lukewarm and indifferent are ashamed, the timid and feas fuli are assured, while the friends of this great entei prise may well shout for its triumnphs. There are but few employees, even on the road, who do not feel and speak of it as if they weine all deeply interested in its prosperity and welfare. Nor ought praise to be stinted where so much is due to personal energy and perseverance. That ve teran in the service of the road, Capt. A. B. Seger, Vice-President of the Company, is deserving of spe cial merit for his constant and unflagging zeal in the work. Seconded by the energy and skill of Mr. Bai ley and his young and talented aids in the engineer ing department, it would be impossibilities only that could stop them. The business of the road is now heavy, requiring the constant use of all the rolling stock upon it, and the people of St. Mary's parish are so anxious that the road should be completed to the Bay, that they say they had rather finish the seven miles intervenuhig between the Breuf and the Bay, than to see it left for another year-the Com pany desiring to finish the line between Newtown and Washington first. This policy of the Company is debatable, but the present Directory is composed of men of too high sentiment to admit of a supposi tion that, in adopting it, they are influenced by oth er than the best of motives. The great commercial interests of New Orleans would doubtless be better served by the immediate completion of the line to the Bay, the more especially as more than half the grading on that short section is already completed, but St. Martins and St. Landry need some outlet besides the upper Teche for their products at once, and they are large subscribers to the stock, so that in adopting either line of policy now, the Directory can but serve one of these great interests. Almost the entire saccharine crops of Lafourche, Terrebon ne, St.' Mary's and St. Martins, amounting to an ag gregate of one hundred and twenty thousand hogs heads and two hundred thousand barrels, will pay tribute to this road this year, from which you can judge of the revenue the Company will derive from that source alone, to which we must add a large back freight and the passenger travel, which, of it self, is large and daily increasing. The road now has the U. S. Mail contract, besides a daily express train extending to Franklin. Who can longer doubt the complete success of this germ of the Great Pacific Railroad ? Who will now say that Louisiana has no, great public work worthy of her singularly fot tunate commercial position ? Where is the Louisianian who will not wish it a God speed ? New York has touch ed with her magic-wand the great Northwest, and made even Texas and Florida tributary to her. Will not New Orleans now rouse up and push forward this great work, which is destined to stay her totte ring steps in the race to commercial greatness and permanent prosperity ? The swamps, forests, trem bliug plains and bayous are conquered and over come; the remaining distance is over beautiful prai ries, having but slight obstacles to prevent its rapid progress. I venture to predict that the forthcoming annual of the Directory will exhibit a cond. tion of as flattering as any road jp the Union, and a future as promising as could be ~Fbed by the most sanguine of its friends. President Hewes and his co-laborers in the services of the Company de serve the highest praise that can be awarded to men -4 be mead of "Well done good and faithful ser vaota" Yors, INDEX. THE KAA8F bDIFFICULTY. ' The first despatches received from Kansas were so obsure as to be nearly inintefligible, and even later advies scarcely enable us to understand anything more than that a colliaien has taken place between ' the pro-slavery and freesoil parties in that Territory. . The following despathe, which we AGd in the Mern phis papers, though not as lateas our own, has at least the merit of perspicuity, and readers clear enough the origin of the dificulties: Or. Louis, Nov. 80.-The news from Kansas is d highly important. Three Abolitipgiists, with rifles, went to Coleman's Claim, at Hickory' Poit and or d dered him to leave in ten minutes, or be shot. Cole man left, and returned, armed to the teeth. One of i the Abolitionists attempted to shoot him with a rifle, bet missed fire. Coleman shot him dead, and after wards Jave himself up for triaL A mob of Abolitionists drove off his wife and ehil. dren, and burnt the houses of Coleman, and of other Spro.elavery' men. The leader and another of the mob were arrested. The citizens assembled at Leeompton and deman. ded the surrender of Coleman and release of his com rades. The militia was odee at to sstain the o Marshal, and great ez itemeut continues on the e border. k A large nutnber fpersons from Missouri are going o toKansas. ixtet houses have been burned at r Hickory point, and several citizens shot. e Wasar.e , (Mo.) Nov. 80.-The outlaws in Dou - glass county have burnt a number of houses, and SI ven the women and children to Missourifor refge. TheoI w4n-o pople ofthe Territory ar rallying Isasxtisulmeg , Nov% .0-A rumser hat aetved i froiia Shawnee, (e) to the effect that Marshal Jones [ had fifty men with him at Lec toon. Lawrence is * up in arms and drilling oosesy; they have five piece of One anleft this morning, in may be . ;gily ex o,. ý a o sas a hove been of I . e u-, r u tedy, preceedeto frame a cou a tito .r.sbi era asrsa, s createoa State debt, ismse p, appoint a time tshe adep tlis ofq the tue , andfr the election; of Gov ern, lal *, a Representativeb i etc. A this Vlabeandone j 'sike sams an ncr as was the eleitis of Ranas ftera t regulr eleiasteaf Wesrtspam, Tha thia elsu r e ftact Ssheuld av a e eta. m is lasq someans bh os dsedsat. We are only asn priss hat the etlol otfaitke jpheseariesr. The Abeotiedata, thm all emcounats er now ti a position et open hoe. ` s theasdt Wfthe sltarnmslatheir beans. Wedet 4 t sad hopethat the Admlalsta tion will have safles frmness to show these Swretoi ba they owill ot te wita h impunity Ssasza a ag , 'ý ' No-' veanber 5.-4.sei istvery and I a i there is no arty ' of l her o cestinue to, pasasisrn a f imaeis i a sucosit e , TO THE SUGAR PLANTERS OF LOUISIANA. At a meeting of sugar planters, held in New Orleans on tore 26th instant, called for the purpose of@ devising some means of increasing the facilities for disposing of the sugar crop," (which meeting was adjourned to meet again in New Orleans on Tuesday, the 22d January), the undersigned were appointed a committee to correspond with you and call your attention to this adjourned meetiing, and 'the importance of the subject expected to be acted on. There is probably no interest in the United States of the same importance so much neglected by those engaged in its culture, or so much preyed upon from the causes hereafter set forth, as the sugar irterest of Louisiana, and there is probably none su hich so much requires combined energy and care in the promotion of its interests. Whilst all other branches of industry are cared for by the asaeciated efforts of those engaged in them, we are content to let the sugar interest float along in the current of daily events, and let it take its chance for good or ill, giving ourselves co:lec tively very little concern about it. Perhaps it may not be generally thought of. that whilst the sugar crop of the State has great!y in creased, the space allotted by the city of New Orleans for the sale of it has been great! y diminished. Six or seven years ago the sugar market extended from Canal to Toulouse streets, with a plalforrm on which sugar might be exposed for sale for an ind.li nite period, by paying a moderate storage. Bat now, when the average crop of the State is nearly double what it then was, the platform is removed, and the space which it occupied betsween Canal and Customhouse streets, has been sold and built upon confining the sugar market to the space between Customhouse and Toulouse streets, little more than half the former area, to beshared in common with cotton and other products. As a consequence of this limited space, the city found it necessary to pa-s an ordinance requiring that sugar should be removed from the Levee wit hin thirty-six hours after being landed. If it remairns longer, it is liable to be seized by the city authori ties and put in store, at the owner's expense. The consequence is. that planters are compelled to sell their sugars within thirty-six hours after being landed on the Levee. so matter what may be the state of the weather, or the condition of the market. or put them in store, in some dark, damp, and unsuitable warehouse in the city, from which they are seldom sold, unless at a greater sacrifice than would have been incurred on the Levee in the first instance. Those who have tried the latter alternative once, rarely try ita second time. Now, what other article of commerce is suffered to be sold in this manner ! How is it possible un der this state of things, to prevent the sugar market from being frequently under the corntrol of indivi duals who watch their opportunity and take ad van tages of circumstances, bad weather, a crowded Levee anrid a partial dullness in the market, often produced or increased by their own management. What would be the condition of the cotton plan ters if all the cotton landed on the Levee in New Orleans was forced to be sold there within thirty six hours after being landed ? Ruin, you would say; and yet, we are suffering the same thing with out thinking much about it- certainly not doing anything to prevent it-because the grievance has become familiar to us. But it is time to be up and doing. We ought to have more space and more time for the sale of our product. We should not be compelled to sell on a dull market. It is but a few days since the sugar market in New-Orleans declined nearly a cent per pound, from no other cause than that the Levee became crowded with sugar, and the demaud fell off. The Levee was cleared at the decline ; the thirty-six hours' sale did its work, and then the market re covered. Our market is at all times liable to be influenced by combinations gotten up in other cities as well as in New-Orleans. Mr. Champomier has informed us in his circular of the 16th instant., that in New York on the 3rd inst., refiners were scarcely is the market at all, some of them having lately sold re fined sugars at the cost price of raw, and in some instances less. Refiners do not make such sales without an ob ject. Being made at that particular juncture, it is not unfair to suppose they were made fbr the pur pose of influencing the market,to depress the price of raw sugar, of which they now have to purchase so largely. Had the crop been a large one, they would. nodoubt, have succeeded. But no system of misrepresentation can blind people to the dimi nution of the present crop. Speculators were prompt in taking all the sugars offered by those refiners, and prises went up again. How long are we to tolerate this state of things ? In the discharge of the duty confided to us, we invite you to attend the meeting to be held in New-Orleans on Tuesday. the 22d January next. and give your aasistance in perfecting some plan cc for increasing the facilities for disposing of the nugar crop," by enlarging the space, and adopting some mode by which it may be withheld from sale, when there is no demand for it. Whatever is done, must be done by the planters themselves. They must put their own shoulders to the wheel, or continue to suffer grievances, from which they can free'themselves by a prompt and judicious concert of &ctien. Respectfully, JAMES J. HANNA, of Terrebonne. 8. O. NELSON, of New-Orleans. JOHN C. POTTS, of Terrehonne. J. S. WILLIAMS. of Lafourche. New-Orleans, Nov. 30, 1855. t PERSONALITIES LITERATI. LAMARTINE. r- Lamartine is-yes, young ladies, positively-a prim looking man, with a long face, short, grey hair, - a slender figure, and a suit of black. Put a pen r behind his ear and he would look like a "confiden e tial clerk." Give his face more character and he would remind you of Henry Clay. He has a fine t* head, phrenologically speaking-large and round i. at the top, with a spacious forehead, and a scant e allotment of cheek. 'Prim is the word, though. e There is nothing in his appearance which is ever so remotely suggestive of the romantic. He is not g even pale, and as for a rolling shirt collar, or a t Byronic tie, he is notthe man to think of such things. Romance, in fact, is the article- he lives by, and, . like other men, he chooses to "sink the shop," at d least when he sits for his portrait. DUMAS. g On the contrary, is a burley fellow. His large red, round cheeks stand out, till they seem to : stretch the very skin that covers them, and it looks a a smooth as a polished apple. His black crisped a. hair is piled high over his forehead, and stands di Sawided into two unequal masses, one inclining to the right and the other to the left. His eyes are dark and his mouth sensuous, but not to the degree of vulgarity. His person is large and his flowing mantle red. He is a gentleman to lay bare his throat and look romantic, not Bironically so, but piratic f ally. Yet he looks good humored, and like a man whose capacity for p ysical enjoyment is boundless, negro blood is evident enough to one who he has it. It appears in the peculiar rotun - man and all his parts; it crisped and epe ir; it made him dress up in a flowing r red, t . ittaken. But hiscomplexion is only a or than the average. The por trait remH oment of the late Thomas iamblin, the Is neither prim nor buy. a a man of large frame, ver which a lose b t is carelessly buttoned. Complexio light, e , hair, once blak, now pepper and salt, whia eminous, eyebrows blackand thick, good the lower face ample. This convey.s n baisat a of the man's appearacethant a French ut the truth is, Sue's countenance and fgure none of those peculiarities which iuake e possible. Ielooks,inhieportrait, likes ble, careless elderly gentleman taking bis ease ip e easy chair and easy coat. liedoes not look like an aho-authors seldom do. His air is rather thait of a prosperous citizen. Sue itaoly forty-e Yers ol u bthe has lived fast~iadlbaolike fty e . eartine is sixty-three, sand would pmas easily for ifty-three. Dues is fifty, and could get credat for tharty-eight- hTe DIe. * ueni, the alsdcnudserat CoUstan re j was foremely a merhlant # yd " liI wealth my be formed b d the door of is oentry hours pared with r ci. When the revoluton l 1821 broke eat he arant asla sIxteen ships and placed them at the disposal of the governmensat. [A s Tgo mns sasse.-Thi Senepa Palls a leletwerfalI sell. cb owing me pp dt beak to his hotel! I B * te6 (Telegraphed to the Daily Delta.) ONE \VEEK LATER FOM EUROPE. Sweden to join this Allies.- Doubtful rumor of peace. New York, December 5.- The royal mail steamship Asia, arrived at Halifax, en route for Boston last night. We have nothing from the seat of war of importance. Sweden and Denmark.-It is rumored that Can robert has concluded a treaty with Sweden. In it is proved that Finland is to be restored to Sweden, and that Sweden is to join the Western Powers by sea and land next spring. It is also rumored that Denmark will follow the example of Sweden. PeaVe R·nors.--T'here are numerous rumors con cerning peace negotiations butt all are looked upon as doubtfll. Among others, there is a report that the Russian Envoy had met the Czar at Nicoleff, arid extracted fron him authority for Prussia to in form the Western Powers that he was willingto treat for peace. T'.e ('rira.--We have nothing from the Crimes of importance, except a report that the Allies in tend to conmmence soon a grand bombardment of the North side of Sebastopol. * (Gree.-T.e diitcilt between Greece and the Unitel Stales is entirely settled. Ci,,nres.zwrrl.--Washinigton, December 4.-The Senate met this mioriiig. elected a Chaplain and swore in several hemhers. Senator Broadhead gave notice that he would sooun introduce a bill providing a right of way for the Pacific Railroad. in the House there were nine ballots for Speaker, the result nearly the same as yesterday. It is thought that Fuller, (Whig.) will be the most pro minent candidate to-morrow. (By the Southern and National Line.) ADDITIONAL FROM KANSAS ! TuIE EXCITEMENT CoxrTINULES ! Louisville, December 4.- The excitement in Kansas continues without abatement. At the city of Lawrence, there is an organized force under Gen. Lane of about one thousand men. armed with rides, who are throwing up earthworks and burn ing beacons. Gen. Lane bids defiance to the Gov ernor, and harangues the populace, urging them to figit. Governor Shannon, who is at Franklin with two or three hundred men, has, by authority from the President, called to his aid troops from Forts Lea venworth and Riley. The most intense excite merit prevails in the upper part of Missouri. and overwhelming numbers are pouring into the Ter ritory from every direction. A later dispatch says that an attack by the Free State men on the city of Atchison is anticipated, mud that the inhabitants have sent to Weston for armed men. C'ongressional -SENATE.- Senator Adams gave notice to-day that he would offer a bill proposing al amendment of the naturalization laws. Ilonse.-The House ballotted six times to-day for Speaker without success. The last ballot stood as follows: Campbell. 80; Richardson, 74; Fuller, 19; Banks, S. The House adjourned after the sixth ballot. 1.l MR. SEWARD IN CONGREsS.-It is apparent that Mr. Seward's friends in the Honse of Representa tives are resolved to secure the organization of that body at all hazards, and to this end every ef fbrt will be energetically directed. If Mr. Seward can elect the Speaker of the House, he will feel strengthened for the campaign of lS6,'mnd for the great sectional movement upon which that cam paign is to be conducted by the abolitionists. In deed, the election ofa Seward abolitionist as Spea kerof the House, would be one great step towards his plan of running a Northern President against the Democratic candidate, who will be the candi date of the Democratic party of every State of the Union. It would secure to Mr. Seward the impor tant committees of the House, and enable him so to shape certain issues as to suit his own purposes. Whether Mr. Seward will be able to accomplish this result by compelling the Know Nothings to vote for his candidate for Speaker, or whether he will be able to do so by offering certain advantages to such Southern Whigs as care more for them selves than for the principles of the Constitution. the filture will show.-The fact that Mr. Seward looks to the organization of the next House of Rep resentatives with such intense interest, should ad monish every patriot in the country of the danger that lies beyond, and the importance of crushing this bold intrigue in the bud.-Wuashington Union. -- . ,,h4 .- i MoaRtosN SraTisrlcs.-An official statement has pt been published at Salt Lake City, in the Deseret s, News, by George A Smith, the church historian, showing the latest facts of interest connected with f the progress of Mormonism. According to it the church has about ninety-live missionaries in Europe e and an equal number in Asia, Africa and the Pac'fit isles, besides large ntrritiers of native elders in the various fields of lalor, and a considerable number n scattered throughout the United States and British America. Of newspapers and periodicals the church has-of the former, one in Salt Lake City, issuing 4,000 copies weekly; one in Liverpool, issuing 22,000 weekly; one in Swansea, South rs Wales; one in Copenhagen, in the Danish language; rs one in Australia; and one in India. id 3' The Charleston Evening News, a paper with Know-Nothing proclivities, says: "It will be ob served from the action of the American Council here that the present organization of the American Order at Clhrleston is virtually abandoned. It is the end of what has been called Know-Nothingism in our city. The name, and all which has peculiarly distinguished it, apart from the principle that 'Americans shall rule America,' have been repudiated and consigned to oblivion." Q An old fellow, who became weary of his life, thought he might as well commit suicide, but he didn't wish to go without for giving all his enemies. So at the last mo ment he removed the noose from his neck, saying to himself-"I never will or can for e give old Noah for letting the copper head d snakes get into the ark. They have killed ,t two thousand dollars worth of my cattle, and when he and I meet there'll be a general fuss. t l An editor down East said that he hop e ed to be able to present a marriage and death as original matter in his colums, but unfortu t nately a thaw broke up the wedding, and the doctor got sick and the patient recovered. BADLY BROKEN.-A well known Provi dence sporting character tried his nluk in that city the other day, and found it bad. The band refused to discount for him, and his de posits were exhausted. On turning his back upon the scene of operations, a sympathizing friend said to him, "Tom, are you broke?" "Yes said Tom with a sith, "and so dead broke that if steamboats were selling at a cent apiece, I could not buy a gangway plank. SUGAR HOUsE BURNT.-On Monday night last the sugar house of A. Doherty, West Feliciana, was consumed by fire. There were 160 or 70 hhds, of sugar destroyed. We are told that there was an insurance of thirty thousand dollars on the property. The friends of Mr. Buchanan are begin ning to declare themselves in his fvor. It is stated that no less than fifty-seven delegates have already been elected to the Demoeratic State Convention of Pennsylvania, and of these, a large majority is composed of Buch- 1 anan men. A backwoodsman who had never seen a of sugar-tongs, being invited to a tea par ty, a person who unhappily sat near him; some information respecting its use, very ingenious instrument," said the ag,"which has been lately in vented for tit urpose of blowing the nose. It is now in genteel society, and it is expected that disgusting custom of using thefin swll gather abolished." The sng .sh was around; the unfortu nate "lion" sewised tons, and the4lite part of the are ere scandalisedat the outre appli.aties e instrument and the tremendous e hich followed. 115asineean brisk. L transacions are tk g suar is a better feeling in. the Istfew days. Western prodaee in eor moust.- ant~ies and pr . n very }iig·.T-Tn Delta. a an caa u sZe "E t uele rth A S.NGULAR AccIDENT--We clip the fol lowing from the Jefferson city (Mo) Inquirer. On Wednesday evening, Col B. M. Stewart met with a very painful accident. He had been changing his socks and after pulling on his boot, felt something prick his foot. Think ing that his sock might have become wrinkled, he stamped his heel upon the floor, driving a pin, that was in the sock, up to its head in the hollow of his foot. The pin struck a nerve, and paralyzed one side of his body for a time. Hie suffered a geat deal, and it was feared for a time, that it would terminate in death, by lock jaw. Medical aid was obtained, and he is now improving. (a Know-Nothing papers in the South have been congratulating their brethren on the success of the party in Massachusetts, aii' Mr. Prescott, who addressed the Convention in this city on Tuesday, stated that the Know Nothings in Massachusetts "were all right." When Gov. Gardner was nominated in Octo ber last for re-election, he entered the Conven tion and, in accepting the nomination, said: "I confess I am an anti-slavery man. I will oppose, in public or private life, the aggression I of slavery, so help me God ! so long as I live." In the same speech he spoke of Judge Kane as "An infamous slave-catching Cemmis sioner at Philadelphia, who, I hope, will be impeached for his conduct before the next Congress; and were I there I would cheerful ly give my vote in favor of such impeachment. And on the night of election, when the Boston Know-Nothings went in a body to congratulate his Excellency, the Marshal of the procession, Col. Brewster, significantly concluded his address by telling Mr. Gardner that he had been re-elected because the people were convinced that on the great question of freedom he was as true and sound as any man that walked the soil of Massachusetts. Louis ville Dem. POLITICAL COMPOSITION OF TIlE NEXT IIocsE OF REPRESENTA1TIVES.--rlh INew York Herald figures up the following as the political composition of the next House of Representatives: Democrats. ...................... 81 Southern W higs. .......... ........ 9 Union Know Nothings.............. 00 Abolition Know-Nothings. ........... 15 Fusion or Abolition Republicans....... 68 Vacancies ................... .... 1 I By official vote, we learn that Cov. Barstow, Democrat, has been re-elected in Wisconsin by 2878 over Bashford, who com bined the Whig, K. N. and Free Soil opposi tion. Mr. 1ceArthur's majority for Lieuten ant Governor is 3202; Jones' majority for Secretary of State 3122; Kuehn's majority for State Treasurer 3258; Smith's for Attor ney General 3098; Barry's for Superinten dent 3101; Dennis's for Bank Comptroller 8289; McGarry's for State Prison Commis sioner 2916. Thus the whole Democratic ticket has succeeded, and sham Republicanism finds no favor with the In'telligent freemen for Wisconsin. INTERMARRIAGES AND THEIR FRUITS. Block Island is so isolated from the rest of the world, that the intermarriages of those more or less nearly related by blood are more common than elsewhere. The consequence have been very unfavorable in the physical condition of the inhabitants. The providence journal mentions the death, at that place, of Mrs. Nancy Dodge, wife of John F. Dodge, leaving three' deaf and dumb sons. A great proportion of the inmates of the asylums for the deaf and dumb, the blind and the idiotic, are found to be the product of the intermar riage of cousins. IMPORTANT DIscovEny.-Jean Blanc, of New Orleans, represented to be an agricul turist of considerable scientific attainments, has secured letters patent from the United States, for the discovery of a process of con verting thirty different varieties of plants, which grow wild in enormous quantities in various sections of the Union, into flax (of great strength and beautiful texture. Speci mens are now in New York, and among them are said to be the flax made from the stalks of the cotton plant, large quantities of w are burned on the Southern plantations to get them out of the way ; the centaury tree, or wild Manilla, which grows in abundance in Florida; the wild holly-hock, with a fibre ten or fifteen inches long; the gold nankeen, of a natural nankcen color; the vegetable silk, and the vegetable wool. We, here, do not recol lect to have heard of this discovery till we met-the foregoing paragraph in the Baltimore Sun. THE NEXT POPE.-There seems to be a struggle between France and Austria as to which of the two countries shall furnish a suc cessor to Pius thx Ninth. Austria has shown a readiness to sacrifice her own independence in deference to the demands of the Papal Pow er, while France rules Rome with French bayonets. Both governments are ambitious of securing the Papal Tiara, and France de sires, it is said, to make Lucien Bonaparte a Cardinal preparatory to his being made Pope. Long before the time comes for the elevation of a successor to the present Pope, we hope to see the Church and state separated in Italy. Nothing but foreign soldiery now keeps the States of the Church in political subjection tQ the Pope.-Newo York Express. ii The loans negotiated by the Reths childs since the begining of the European war are enormous. They reach the enormous amount of five hundred and fifteen millions, to England, $80,000,000; to Turkey, $40, 000,000; to Austria $120,000,000 ; a first loan to Russia, $130,000,000; to Sardinia $10,000,000; to England, in exchequer bills, $35,000,000; and a second loan, just being perfected, $100,000,000. WoMAN's CUlosjTr.--There was a first hearing, before the United States Commr sioner in Philadelphia, on the 1st, of a slngu lar case, the leading facts of which are as follows: A married man wrote to the wife of another, but by chance the letter passed through the hands of his helpmate, who recog nized her husband's hand-writing, and was unable to resist the temptation to open it ; she read the letter and thought fit not to deliver it to the woman for whom it was intended, and who now prosecutes. The curious woman was held to bail in $250 to answer the charge of opening the letter. - Aecording to the Treasurer's Report the receipts of Vsrgian4 for the year ending Sept. 80, 1855, were $5,622,429 29, and the expenditures $6,622,457 46. To the receipts must be added $821,846 02, balance on hand on let Ocober, 1854, which would leave a balane on hand of $21,823 85 on the 1st of October, 18: . . The Richmond Enquirer has the name of Win. B. Lewis as one of the Lonisi -as delegatibon to Congress; a slight error. In the ~ourth Congreeuional District of this State; Lewis, K. N., received 5859 votes; Sandidge, Demomrsn, 8$4tvotes-a majority of-3088. Plese- 'Jmlsa mote" and eorrect ·,-r ~ ·~'-·~ ARISTOCRACY. Perhaps the best hit at republican ari.tocrar., of which the present times are so prolific, is the fsllow ing from the pen of John G. Saxe. It has a univer sal application, and is warranted good for all locali ties: 'Tis a curious fact as ever was known In human nature, but often shown Alike in castle and cottage, That pride, like pigs of a certain breed, Will manage to live and thrive on "feed" As poor as a pauper's pottage ! Of all the notable things on eat th, The queere. t one is pride of birth, Among our "fiet cc Democla(y! A bridge across a hundrcd years, Without a lpop to save from stierr- Not even a couple of iotten Peer., A thing for laughter, sneers and jeers, Is American aristostacy! Depend upon it, my snobbish fiietd, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reasons to aplpeheltd, You may find it waxed at the further end, By some plebeian vocation! Or worse than that, your boasted litle May end in a loop of stronger twine That plagued some worthy relation! Because you flourish in worldly affairs, Don't he haughty and put on ai:s, With insolent pride of station! Don't be proud and turn up your nose, At poorer people in plainer clothes, But learn for the sake of your tmitd's repose, That wealth's a bubble that conmec---ad goes! And that all prond flesh, wherever it grows, Is subject to irritation. y Prince Napoleon is the son of Frede rica, Princess of Wurtemburg, who was the daughter of the Princess of Bruunwick, who was the daughter of Augusta, D)uchess of Brunswick, who was the daughter of Fredc rick, the Prince of Wales, the paternal great grandfather of Queen Victoria. Prince Na: poleon is therefore, the Queen's cousin, and her relative in the ninth degree ofcunsan gumnity. MI.NNESOTA Le.SL..ATUrE.- -Th St. Paul (Minuest-ota) Democrat says that te thfllow ing is the complexion otfthe Territorial I egis lature: In the Council, nite l).etocrats to live Lepublicans; in the 1h,u.-e, twenty-two lemocrats, eleven 1Republicans, and two Know-Nothings. NEW YoRa.--Official returns from 51 out of 5S counties in the State exhibit the illohw ing vote: lleadly (A.) 141,369 ; King (i.) 128,773; Ward (ll.) 53,0~4; hlatch (s.) S21, 301. The remaining counties will add about 25,000 to the vote, and from three to live thousand to Ileadly's plurality. The total vote of the votes were unpolled. Oa RELATION:S W ITII ENGLAND.-- Tiash inLgton, Nov. 21.--Mr. Buchanan in his dig patches to the Government states that the professions of friendship toward the United States were never more strongly expressed by the British Cabinet than at present. ( Last month, before Sebastopol, while the leg of a Colonel was being amputated, his servant was lamenting the misfortune bit terly. Why weep, you fool, said the Colonel, you will have only one boot to black hereafter. The Missouri Legislature met on the 12th, but refused to go into an election for U. S. Senator. Two Democratic caucusses were held, and the prospects of an election were considered doubtful. NERAsKA.-- The electiot in ithe Territory of Nebraska, for a delegate to Congres:, has' resulted in the success of Bird B. Chap man, Esq., the democratic candidate. There were three other candidates. Hon. Alex. Boteler, of Virginia, is named as a candidate for the Clerkship uo the next, House of Representatives. The Grand Jury at Pittsburg has present ed fenale equestrianism at Agricultural Fairs as a nuisance. In France all the Imperial Colleges and Schools have had a week's extension of holi days for the taking of Sebastopol. PUBLIC SALE, By the undersigned, a Puldic Auctioneer for the Parish of St. Laindry. T liE publio are hereby informed that there will be offered for sale at public sale, to the last and highest bidder, by the un dersigned Auctioneer, at the last residence of the late Mrs. Fdlonise Thibodeau, deceased Widow of Maximilien Prejeau, also deceased, situated at the point of Carancro island, in said Parish of St. Landry, On Friday, 28th December next, the hereinafter described property belonging to the succession of said late Felonise Thibo deau, to-wit: B11 SLAVES, of both sexes and different ages. A lot of 20 or 25 head of horned cat tie, 2 horses, 2 mares, 1 horse cart, Plantation implements, household furniture, &c., &c. Terms and conditions.-One, two and three years credit. Purchasers furnishing their notes with good and sufficient security in solido, to the satisfaction of whom the right, and said notes bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from maturity.-And moreover, the slaves remaining specially mortgaged until full and entire payment of capital and interest. U[tiActs of sale at the cost of purchasers. P. GUILBEAU, Jr. Auctioneer. Opelousas December 15th, 1855. NEW ORLEANS, OPELOUSAS, WASH INGTON AND BAYOU B(EUP PACKET. THE elegant and fast running stea mer SYDONIA. GrsTrAvE LoVAIL LIER, Master. Having been thor oughly repaired, will, as soon as the water will permit it, ply as a regular packet between Opelou sas, Washington, Bayou Beuf and New Orleans. This boat is safe, comfortable and fast runner, ad mirably built and is of light draft. The officers will use all their exertions to satisfy those who will encourage them. For further information ap ply on board. 07" Freight taken as low as any boat in the trade. December 15th, 1855. A UGUSTIN JACQUOT FONTENOT of the Parish of St. Landry, having applied by his petition, for the appointment of Administrator of the Estate of Hiraine Chapman, his deceased wife, late of the Pa rish of St. Landry. Therefore, any person intending to make opposition 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. Ave. DEJEAN, Dep. Clerk. Opelouas, -Jpoember 15th, 1855. PROSPECTUS: Thef (Great Southern Weekly! TilESPECTATOB, WIVASIIsI&G TONO , D. C. Aro. F. IA1 vEv, DI'rTOiL AND PI'ROF IEtOR. rPHE SECOND VOLUME OF THE SPEC TATOR will be cormnenlced on the sth of December, 1Sj5. with an enlarged coi ps It o giial contributors, embracing sonim of the best and tni,.t popular talCuit in America. The general character aind objects of the Ipp, r will remain the same as heretotiie, t Ix .: tihe furnishing a weekly dish of ,elles let! r ,i " ienti tic and miscellaneous inteclil.,n, e :0um1lari.e of financial, Congressional and Governmient Depalt mental news., rnotices of lnew bIilioks, iiv entios and discoveries in art and science. mora 111 tI,i-ful essays, articles on agricultuire, bu,.ieess ai di dhrm,> tic economy, &c., &c., making the paper a wel come visitor o every family circle. nr.tl -aticular ly acceptable to Soulthernl riadel.- geolral. The Spectator is printed on a double iroyal sheet of good paper, with new type aind in the quarto torm, making it colt ecrent for [inding and preer vation. It is publi ied evei batrly, amn futar nished to subscriibrs by mai at tihe luio'. iig rates -payable in ar ante. One copy one year. $ '1() Ten copies one year, 1.i00 Bank notes of the denomination of 55 ior upward and current in alny part ,f thil' United Stat sreces - el ini payment. Small :t11n muit be lcmitted in gold dollars, or postage t.iiiaps. D.,eember 15. 1653 - 20 IReiewadrd. Ranariway from the undersigned, in Pine I'raitie, in this Parish, in the niiht of the *IUth of Nov ember last, a mulatto man nafmed CIIA.R i.es, aged about fI) vilara, about 5 ii:et 9 or 10 inches high, haviug the finrt phailanx of f the thumb ont the ri.ght hand cut off. Charlc. speaks french and Ie;glish, and is the same that thrigd has prcht the ulnrsi cd Iihs pitchased at ie sale ctf the estate of the late Jaci.ues Lastral,es. A reward of $2t) will be given to whliever shall bring back said t,oy tI, tthe undcr-igfcd, or fifteen dollhirs tbr his delivery to Mr. (a zeaux, in Ville Plate, or ten dol!ars if he is lodgcd in jail. E.. iARI)DEAI'. Pine Prairie, St. Landry, ltee. 1., lsi5. .JYean A aleawici s, BRICK-LAYER 4- PL'.STLEhlR, H AVING c-talishetd hi.>elf pelrrn nently in Ol:! usas, rctpectfullc oft tfers his services to the inhablitants of Opc lousns anid the I'arish gervnliyl lis plrices will be nmderate. Apply at the store of 1rs. W idnw C. d dicis, il Opcloul-s. DI)ceimbr 13th, I>535. gy. For sale at private sale. T lIE under-igned ofiers for sale, at pri -rate sale and upon reasonable condi tions, the tollowing property, to-wit : ",, ONE LOT OF ROUN\D, situatcd on MIain -t:cet. in the 'own of Opelou as, togteth,,r with tle Builuhngsl , Iniprovemnicts, cn istieng of a D(we litg Hlouse, Store, ain, otler builblingt Another lot of groun(l ut(on which there is a small dwelling hou-e, su-it'uted at the corner of Court adt Kiig atr.ets. W--Any hody wishing to purchase can ap ply to the ,ffii'c f the C(oui'/ri, (or for Inoti infor-natitons, cil on the iundti rsigned, at the junction of Bv,.us T'c ,h-('e tid Fuselih r. ED)OUAI'l) FA YOLI. St. Landry, Decetber 8th, 1853. 11TO"I"I":'orE . R1OM and aftier the ltith oif the present -Wjmonth, my bokl-s will be cloe-cd to the credit of all and every pltr.-n. No olend i-ridit will be cnt inuted iin fatvtor of any one until all lie actounts are csttled. r-'1'lT:e colle:tion will coumlence on' the 17th December. N. QUATIIEVAIX. Opelousas, Lecember 8th 185;5. A NEGRO) BOY ab:nlt 20 years old, with f'ull guaranteelc for .sale at private: sale, or to be xc.hangled lfor a family of ne groes, and the diflireonee paid cash by thi owner of the boy. For parliculars, apply at this Office. Opelousas Sept 8. [tf. 1856! 1856! SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, A MONTIILY JOURNAL, Devoted e.rrlsively to the improm'elrCnt of So:i lt n .gricultre, lnli,/lurc. &.cr" lirceding. Pofdl try, Bees, Gsenal ;I.; i t mny, "c., y"c. Illustrated wilhi Ninmerous Elegant Engravings. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVAN;E. D.NIEL LEE, MI. D., and D. IEIDJIOND, Editors. T'H FovUILnI E:i ' VOl.l ME WI ILL COMI!ENCE i1 J,.lA'R. ISt ,(i. lTHE CcLTIrvAroi. iS a large octavo of ltirt) -two pages, forming a volume of :II pages in the year. It colntains a liuch greater airiount of reading nat ter than any Agricultural journial in the Saith embracing. in addition to all the current agricnitu ral topics of the day. VALUABLE OIuG:INAL. CO)NsI' .ICEC'nIS from many of the most a.aelig'nl anld i,ratira.l Plan ters, Farmers and Hforticultnrists in every section of the South and South-west. TERM 5: ONE COPY, one year, $ 1 SIX COPIEs, C " : JWENTY-FIVE COPIES, one year, LO OYE HUNDRED " " THE CASH SYSTEM will be rigidly adhered to, and in no instance will the paper be sent unlehss the money accompanies the order. The bills of all specie-paying banks received at par. All money remitted by mail, postage paid, will be at the risk of the Publisher. A DVERrTISEMENTS Inserted at ONCE DOLLAR per square of twelve lines, each insertion: One square per annum TEN DUL LAaS. Address WILLIAM S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. 07' Persons who-will act as Agents. arid obtain Subscribers, Will be furnished with the paper at club prices'. Brick..Layiiig .& Kettile..Seting. T HE undersigned respectfiully informs those planters who may wish their kettles set or repaired, that he is engaged in the above business, and solicits a share of public patronage. He be lieves that his work will compare advantageously with that of any other workman in the State. Many references to that effect can be given, if desired. He is familiar with the detail of the Ramos plan and will introduce that improvement, if desired, without extra charge for work. It is claimed by the proprietor of the patent that, by that mode of skimming the grandc the gum as well as the scum is entirely removed from the juice, which is not the case by theordinary method, and that the sugar will outsell that made in the ordinary way, from one to two cents per pound. Any communieation will receive prompt atten tion -Address, Evergreen P. O. Avoyelles, La. GEORGE FITCH. Evergreen, Avoyelles, Dec. 1st 1855.--3m. For Sale. A choice house servant, aged 28 years, a good cook and very good washer. For particulars, apply to E. Berier, in Opelousas, or to J. B. Pollingue, in Grand Coteau. Opeloumsu, Sept. 22d., 1855.