Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-03-26

'''o'h3 >"Af .HS VI ~ y ~ A-HSSN'
about six years ago. Since the latter period,
the heirs, who are not numerous, and som Of
whom are wealthy, have been preparing for
the struggle, and they have now commenced
suit, under auspices so favorable, that two
capitalists of Philadelphia voluntarily proposed
to risk all the expenses of the law, provided
they should be admitted equally in the division
of the property if the case succeeded. This
proposal was decliacd by the heirs, one Of
whom is our esteemed fellow town5lnan, Cap
tain REEDEK.
HARD r1mEs.-peoplt; demonstrate bitterly
against the times. At every new CONFUSION,
they cry out in anguish. And yet the fellows
look as lazy and as happy as ever! The ID
of it is, they DO nothing but rail against the
times. Were they to work hard, at some pro-
fitable lahor-raising pptatoes, onions, corn,
chickens, etc. etc.-from morning till night,
they would not find SO lbuch time to reproach
the times, nor would they find the times SO
hard.
But we have a word Of consolation for these
mourners, viz The times are nothing like as
hard at present as they were ga spell ago."
This is a fact, deny it who will. You have
all heard of the chap who lost himself in the
woods, and was obliged to spread himself out
on the rocks at night I'd sleep, and crack but
ternuts with his teeth all day, or go without
breakfast? Web; those were hard times.
So, too, were the timis hard, when the west
ern fat-boatmen were obliged to rc-Ship their
produce at New Orleant, take it back again 10
their homes and there dispose of it as best as
they could; when pork was offered for 81 so
per hundred, and buyers refused to take it at
that, unless fifty pounds of ham were thrown
in for Ia niapet Theses were hard times, sure.
Why, on the occasion blinded to, q stout-heart-
ed Kentuckian informs US, that he rolled out,
every night for two weeks, fifty barrels oflour
on the .levee at New Orleans, under the folorn
hope that some enterrrssing rascal would steal
a few or all Of them. 10 such thing occurred.
He persisted in his attempts to thus force the
market, until, on going out one morning, he
found fifty more added to the lot! A brother
fa,-boatman had increased the stock, hoping
he would claim the whole. Our friend says
he never went to examine into the fellows
mental condition-did'4t even stop 70 call him
a fool or a fat-boa.man: he took steam and
arrived in Old Kentucksthe soonest possible.
Those were hard tfnes-harder than our
tip,er ,ra or,e, all ,J,,5,. b,+, bo.o - -.o.1
lcct the years 1922, recollect something
about hard times -
Go 10 work, friends, 70 to work! Be indus
trious and prudent, and the times will heal
straightwaf.
The SOUTHERN PLAN4ER ; A MONTHLY mAGA-
ZINE OF H%UsBANDRt: Natchez, Miss, Jan.
lsi2.-Foster & Bailey.
Here is a publication which merits some
attention; and we mu@t accuse ourselves of
more than ordinary resnisness, in suffering a
periodical from whose pages the agFiculturists
OF Louisiana and the South, have a right TO
SO much Invaluable reading, TO slum-
Der so long on our desh unnoticed. A South
agricultural work~-a periodical conducted
by men practically colsversant with the pecu-
l~iarities OF The climate soil, and PRODUCTIONS
or at least, managed, by persons capable OF
commanding from practical men, all necessary
on these points-has been long
aud seriously needed in this section OF the
Union. While colnmhrce, politics, and light
. tor,t ,-a bo,-o i>-,I A. ~ .. a. -.
Ind villages, their assiduous and able advo-
,ates, agriculture, tic most important, the
source Of our prosperity, wealth, and
rational elevation, has been neglected, for
sotten, sighted, by hat great naoteur of all
deyelopsments-the Pass. Thank
ortune! it is no longer so. The Press, uni
'ersal in her prerogo,iyes-the friend of all
foe of evil only--is daily spreading
'e1self over new grounds, and occupying 20
itions which no other force can properly or
.fectually occupy. The most momentous of
er advances, in this region, is beyond ques-
ion, her espousal of our peculiar agricultural
We hail the publication of Messrs. Foster
/ bailey, with unusual zest and although
compIexity of circumstances, in which III
cath has acted its part, has prevented us
on extending to this periodical that eyarai- ,
alton and courtesy which our feelings prompt !
readers will assuredIy hear from us in fu- {
respecting the saccess and character of +
. Southern Planter.
In the mean time let those TO whom it is c
aidressed-the Planters of Missis- I
ppi, Louisiana, and Alabama, literally en- :
.arage the enterprising publishers. The +
ork must not only be subscribed for, and :
id for in advance, but those who are. quail !.
d ADD can command leisure, must sontri- n
te to lis columns. The editor has assumed C
arauous task we must hold up his right Il
nd, that the work may never flag. e
The subscription to the Planter is 5000 q
aareacs-for one COPY. This is CHEAP. It is q
ned monthly, in quarto form, each number =,
p large, welLprintsd pages. Sue h.
$ to the Southern Planter !: alNstura catt- AZ
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