Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-12-20
EKashington. Dec. II.


Washington, Dec. Ia.
Capt. Knapp, ofthe sleop Merrimack
in Is days from Matanzas, states that
the United States schooner Porpoise,
Capt James Ramage, arrived there on
the l9sh, and sailed on the ED Novem-
Der, and offered convoy to all American
vessels that were ready to load. She
was the first American vessel OF war
that had ever been in Mstanzas, and
her arrival gave great satisfaction to
all the inhabitants.
A large and respectable meeting was
held at Concert Hall, Boston, on Fri
day evening last, at which it was agreed
to present memorial to Congress
against tho passage of a general bank
rups law. Nathaniel Goddard, Esq.
was in the Chair, and A. w. Fuller,
Secretary. The committee to draw
up the memorial consists of VIM Stur-
gess, Josiah Bradlee, David Ellis,
Charles Howard, and Isaac Stevens.
A letter from Halifax, under date of
December 3, says, "The conduct of your
brig Enterprise, in capturing the sea-
robbers, is highly spoken of here; and
much blame is attached to our Admiral
for keeping SO many ships on the coast
watching the poor American fishermen;
when they should have been protecting
our Own shipping. There is scarcely a
vessel arrives which has not been rob-
bed by some of them" nv: Y. Gaz.
The Boston Palladium says, " Let
ters from Port-au- Prince state the ar
rival of vicar apostolical from the
Pope, at that port, accompanied by
several bishops, whose functions it will
be to maintain the integrity of the Ca
tholic religion on the Island of St Do
mingo. Boyer, the President, inten-
ded to avail himself of this event to
legalise, the more completely, his mar
riage with the widow fhis predecessor
Petion."'
Ii, ssys DR.. Cotton, those alone who,
g sowed the wind did reap the whir-
wild" it would be we'll. But, the mis-
chief is, that the blindness of bigotry,
the madness Of ambition, and the mis-
calculations of diplomacy, seek their
victims principally amongst the inno-
cent aud the unoifending. The cot
tase ia sure to suffer for every error Of
the court, the cabinet or the camp
When error sits in the seat of power
and Of authority, and is generated in
high places, it may be compared to the
torrent, which originates indeed in the
mountain, but commits its devastation
in the vale.
The very severe act Of the Legisla-
ture of Louisiana against Gambling
Houses, passed in the year 1911, was
revived by that body in February last
TO 90 into operation on the LIST of last
month. The Mayor and the Parish
Judges are empowered to enter at any
time, either in the day or night, any
public house under the title of Coffee
House, Boarding House, Ball Room,
Yivoii, &c. to ascertain whether any
game of hazard is suffered to be played
in them; and, on evidence obtained
OF the fact of gambling, either by the
testimony of two witnesses on oath,
OF that of the police agents, the keeper
of the house in which it took place is to
be fined in sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars. and not less than one
hundred, and to be imprisoned in case
Of the non payment of the fine. Every
informer who shall prove that games
of hazard have been played in any such
public house is to he entitled to claim
one half of the fine which the keeper
may be sentenced to pay, and moreover
the whole of the money which may be
found on the gambling table.
The preamble to. the Louisiana act Of
February. 1921, deserves attention in
the other states:
Where's the use of gambling pre-
walls in the city of New Orleans to
degree subversive of morals and iniuri-
Gus TO good order, and the measure of
licensing gaming houses, and placing
them under the inspection of the Mayor,
and Subject to regulations to be made
by the City Council, have not repressed
the evil. but, on the contrary, haze en-
cOuraged this most alarming uice, un-
der the sanction Of lao, therefore," sc.
Nat. Gaz.