Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-10-23

example of Frarsce, let the South aud West
learn a 10 sson, and resolve to PRESS the Sub
iect, shoulder to shoulder ; nor 10 give over,
until the naval establishment Mt Pensacola be
made the 1',ulor of their Mediterranean
"pensaccIa has many advantages. its M
tural position is important. II 10 10 the midst
Of our liye~o,k forests, AZ it were / and u ~
convenient to excellent timber and naval
stores, and has MI the resources required 10
make 1t nm imp, rtant naval station. And 1t
should be abumlantly furnished with all tile
materials, means and facilities, which arc 10
be found at the North, for building, equipplngt
and repairing our inen-of-war. Suitable De-
pots, aud places OF rendezvo1r, ought, also. to
be- supplied along tho coast Of Georgia, North
and South Carolina.
"T'his subject has been often treated Of be-
fore, and with an ability to which | dare not
aspire. | have no higher aim than merely to
call your attention, or that of solne of your
coinpatrIota, to it. UNION JACK.
~ Notwithstanding the air of surprise and
extravaganza pervading the following notice,
there ID something in the leading fact stated,
highly interesting to our planters. The use
OF the worl Invention, instead Of dtscorerH
throughout the notice, 10 disagreeable as well
AZ improper. The manufacture OF wax from
sugar cane, though among the most interesting
discoveries Of the age, il no invention
But if the discovery should receive a practi-
cal yerification, and individuals prove back
ward about engaging in the manufacture,
the State might purchase the right and set
our HGnitentiary folks to making wax candies,
instead OF carts, shoes, tables and pantaloons.
W WAX FROM SUGAR CASG.--At last the
planters of Louisiana and all other sugar
growing countries, are about to be benefited
materially BY a most extraordinary invention.
This Is nothing less than d chemical process,
by which a species of wax, very pure and
clear, and eminently capable Of making ex-
celIent candles, can be made from the refuse
of the slrar cane, after the saccharine matter
has been evolved. Some months since, the
capability of the sugar cane to produce this
wax was mentioned in our paper, but at that
period no quantity had been made sufficient to
! compose a candle. On Saturday last, we
1 were shown W candles made Of this sub
stance. They were lighted, and burned be-
t fore us with a pure, bright fiame-giving ont
4 no smell, nd fully An brilliant as the best
D bees wax candies: Nothing more remains to
, be done, save finding a process by which It
! t,ay be bleached, the wax being at present Of a
light green or sugar cane hue. The candles
!, burn slower than s%permaceti, and can be AL
i forded at one third less cost. The patent for
this new manufacture is already secured TO
: Mr.. ]. b. Ayequin, the inventor, a French
d chemist, resident down town. Mr.. IT,. Spears
is associated with him in the enterprise, and
the two will conduct it together, 80 soon as
sufficient funds may be raised. 1t is supposed
o that an outlay of $1,000 will be all-sufficient
to erect works upon the scale required. Tie
II attention Of capitalists, and in fact every mar
who has the good Of the South at heart, Ii
= called to it. To Louisiana it will prove al
II additional resource of over half a million o
g dollars per annum, and will enable lis entirely
to do away with the use Of wax Or ~sperfnacet
o candles. 1t is to be recollected particularly
that no loss accrues to the sugar cane-ths
W wax being made from the remains OF Till
s. GROUND stalks, that would otherwise be burned
8. M. OF suffered to rot in the fields. We looi
uisa, this invention Az one Of the most stu.
pendols of the present age. 1t will make ami
n man rich who goes into the manufacture O
the sIrar cane wax candles. mr. Spear vii
show the candles to any one vino may wish Il
J. see them, and we believe it il bis intention a
e some specific time; to expose them, burning
to the public, at the Arcade, or some tthe
g place Of general resort-Crcseem City:
"a LAucmAbLE AsEcpoTRs.=-The follow
ing anecdotes we're related ut the meeting
d in Liverpool not long sinee, of the churcl
re Missionary Society. They are both capl
" tai of their kind, and show how lmpdrtan
1t is that an orator should possess a tho
rough knowledge of the language in whie'
he addresses an assembly.
N "a meeting in connexIon with the Blbl
IN Society was recently held in Paris, at whicI
rs a gentleman appeared, who had been sen
he over from England by tho COMMITTEE G
ur the Bible Society of London. This tepre
e sentative had been chosen, we understood
- for his superior knowledge Of the freic
r.. language. In his turn, he addressed tn
ne Parlsian Assembly, with great fire and en-
In ergy; but when he expected to see theI
beaming with enthusiasm or melting int
lis tears, he observed a smile on every fact
no and heard from every quarter the sound {
suppressed laughter. This occurred SO o.
to ten that thcfe was no installing If for an
It !. casual effect, and the gentleman was, n
y. doubt, nightly astonished at such d dIspia
y. from people so well bred Is the French az
he generally allowed TO be.-When he fia
id finished his grafton, he asked a friend wha
oil could possibly have oceasioned so muc
rn laughter while he was speaking. He fotin'
Ia; to has uttef dismay, that, in his eagernes
ha to impress upon the assembly the neeesslt
r. - of taking The udter Of life 1.-THE scripture:
X to the poor heathens, he had unconscious
IN been expatiating with all has might on til
ey virtues of brandy, lean dc tie,) exhortin
AM the multitude to enable them to send braI
DIV to those who were a.thirst and teliin
ne them that thousands of their fellow cre'
,,a lures were perishing for the lack
brandy"
,er "Another reverend gentleman wisihF
cal to parallel the above anecdote, told ct
oHs French divine, wis, preaching in tn
Ter country, fell into a mistake almost as ann
cir sing us the above. As the English clers
.ne are accustomed to call those OF their cor
y" mumon, their flock, the French designa
.be all who assembled under their ministf
their sheep: The French divine allud'
tes to, haranguiaa his hearers IN English, b
ny, forgetting that VIC have IN our langua'
by tuo ttansIatsons for mattons one signifyil
the dead and the other the living anim'
he he continually addressed his congregatio
10 tauck to their surprise, as ais dear nsutoas
Ugh P.IcE Oh SLAVES. IN THIS Cry
IAN curious scene was witnessed to-day at
,ar. St. Louis Exchange. The city marsh
'st at the usual hour. proceeded to the sale Of
It's. female slave, seized in the suit of