Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-01-08


Some embarrassmcnts have occurred TO
the free transmit of the mail upon that
part Of the Cumberland road which lies in
Virginia, in consequence of the authorities
OF that State imposing n tax upon tho
coaches transporting the mail, contrary to
the act of Congress ceding that road to
the states through which it passes, 10 which
the attention of the National Legislature
is called.
The report refers to a number Of docu-
ments for more particular information,
which have not yet been published.
The following parody IN Orator Phillips,
hyperbolical outline of the character Of
Bonaparte," is from the Baltimore Morn
ing Chronicle, and was published in 1882.
CHARACTER OF BoRAcHro BtBLER,
down to the period of his death in ii ditch.
lie is fMddeldi~-We nav now pause be-.
fore that drunken prodigy which staggered
amongst us like some scottish landlord whose
nose parb,iled the liquor his mouth swal-
lowed.
Dirty, squintiug and peculiar, he fell from
his seat, an overdone lubber, %hiccupping IN
the harmony of his own originality.
A hat CREASED, rimless, and scalIopped-
a coat, destitute of its skirts ~- a ncckcloth
that distanced description pair Of bree-
ches grinning defiance to totality, marked
the outline Of this extraordinary drinkcr--
the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the
annals Of this world, ever drank, or rccled
or fell.
Flung into the tavern in the midst of a
combat that employed every fist of a crowd
who acknowledged NJ superior, he onmen
ccd his blowout, d cobler by trade, and a
drnnkard by inclination.
With no friend but his cup, and no for.
tune but his wages, he rushed to the bar
room where rum, and gin, and brandy had
arrayed themselves, and sobriety fled from
him as from the glance ofdestinv, He knew
no motive but drunkenness - he acknow-
lodged no check but an empty pocket-hs
worshIppcd no God but the bottle, and with
an eastern devotion he knelta at the shrine of
his holatrv. - Antecedcnt TO this, there
was no spirit that he did not love, there
was nc cordial that he did not venerate, in
the hope ofa tankard, he Aattercd the land.
lord; for the sake ola dram he bowed to the
barkeeper.
A prcfessed chIstian, he guzzled in Lent,
u pretended saint, he h~orse-whipped his
wife; and in the name of a borrower, he
stole without retnorse, and wore without
shame, the shirt of his neishbor.
The bar contained no liquors that he did
not approve: there was no b, tile he could
not empty: whether amid brother drunkards
lna ditch, or n dunghiIl, he seemed never
to be sober and everlastingIy drunk. The
whole army oftiplers~ wondered at heholding
the immensely of his ~draughts, and the We
locity with which he drank them. Scepti-
cism bowed down to the prodigies Of his per-
Torrance; a quart Of raw ruin assumed tho
ait of moderation; nor was there aught too
incredible for bellefor too fanciful for expec-
~tation, when the world, saw a member of
old shoes drink three quarts without a stag.
ger. All the blow-outs Of antiquity be.
came feabites in his contemplation;-
y
and he opposed of gallons and querts, ard
pints, and gills, and Mugs, as if they we've
invisible measures of the LilIiputians.
Sach is the faint ard feeble picture IF
Borachio Bibiler, the first, land it is TO be
hoped, the last emperor of drunkards.
BA1L.-"Judging from the history of
various parts of1he country, for some years
past, it is our opinion that with such. a
sum (S2O,000) a man might commit any
half dozen crimes that can be named, short
eff murder, and even that if he happen 10
have pretty influential friends, and ia be
within reach of pretty conreaseas Judges
Judges whose conscienccs are convenient
enough TO hear to the SUGGESTIONS OF rcla-
lives, aad be willing to let u eu!prit out Of
Jail upon alledging ill health.
For all offences bailable hr law, tbsre il
no kind Of difficulty. With that same
$4,000 the culPrit might conanit an afro
cious man-slaughter, and be bet out JUROR
giving about $4,000 bail, a rape for az
much more, and arson Tor the same sum
and still bure enough lett to pay in the
same way fos robbing a bank, to say no.
thing of the grand and petit larcenses, as.
saults and batteries, and other etsence.
which he might luxuriate in upon the
balance-"-N. D, Coar. &, Enc.
The DAGrERkEorYPK AK IysrRysES1
OF Police. - 1t never entesed the head
probably, of Mr.. Dagaerre, when perfec
ting the process Of causing the san-heam
to play the Inner, that lns beautiful appEi
cation OF science would become a resourc,
for the repression of crime. Such, however
is the sacts and now the French police
when any suspicious person or known Grim
NAL Is the arrested, cause HIM to be aaguer
~reotyped, and his likeness is appended I,
the register, SO that if, after be IS set at /,
berry, he shall again be implicated IN an,
offence, his likeness being exhibited to tb
various police agents, the detection become
more easy. The rogues, however, hay
fonnd this out, and now, when subjected t
the process OF dagaerreotyping, make s..c.
hid'ous grtnaces as entirely 10 alter r.
usual expression Of their counten1pccs