Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-02-12

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G. w. Wattcrston, parish of Livingston.
TKcuBLE BETWEEN TWO MENHERs.-A
street aHray took. place at Washington, in
front Of Gadsby's Hotel. The conbatahts
were Mr.. VIM. ). Campbell, OF Tennessee,
and Mr.. Boardman, Of Connecticut. Blows
were interchapged, but the parties were
soon separated and without any material
damage, expect that Of character, to either
party.
SENATOR mouTov ofthis state was mar
riod on the 25th January to Miss Emma
hitchell, eldest daughter of Col. c. K.
Gardner Of Washington city.
STEAMBOAT Losr.--The Natchitoches
Herald of the goth ult., says that the steam
boat EcHo, laden deeply with cotton, from
above, struck a snag at that town, andsunk
in about seven feet water.
REPuDIaTIoH.-The Bee ofTucsday re-
marks:
The House of Representatives, ofLoul-
siana, have crushed this pernicious heresy,
III a most signal and gratifying manner.
MIR. Hunt, Of the Orleans delegation intro
duced, yesterday, a resolution denounclng
Reputation and asserting The determination
of Louisiana to observe her plighted faith.
1t was sustained ably and eloquent by sew
eraI members, and passedth the Housed by near
~ unanimous consent-there being But ono
roie--that of Mr.. CREIGHTON, Of At;akapas
RECORDED against it.
o. Mr.. d. Minor, of Vick>burg, drown
ed himself a few nights since, by jumping
in the Mississippi river, from a wharf boat.
lie was lahoring under mania-n-pot~.
OF A petition for Universal Education,
signed by fourteen thousand persons, has
been presented to the New York Legisla-
turc.
LEGISLATIVE PnENoMENoN.-The bill
to reduce the pay of the members ofthe Vir-
GINA Legislature to 81 per day, after they
shall lave been ninety days in session, has
actually passed both houses, an & is Row a
law.
" Nathan T Dixon, a senator in Con-
gress from Rhode Island, died at Washing
ton on the 29th ult.
0TA recent philosopher dIscloses ii
method to avoid being dunned! Howl
"h~owl"--''how?' we hear every body ask
ing. Meier ran in det4
WoRDs FIFTY sPoKEN.-" Nothing could
effectualfy redeem the nation, nothing could
ever restore the palmy daps Of her past pros
pertty, but patient labor, genera! habits of
economy, and the rctrenchment of individ-
ual expenditure."--Kr. Mangum's Speech
on the Eachequer.
This admirable passage We recommend
to the serious contemplation of our readers,
for i. contains in q nutshell whole volumes,
nay Libraries. of true, practical, socia. and
political wisdom.--Alez. Gazette.
LUHsER.--A Maine paper estimates the
employed in that state in the lum-
business, at 5000 GEO.
RAT TAIL scap.-An exchange paper
says: "One can put up with an occasional
in his food, but when he pulls arat's tail
his soup, there is no use of taIkiag,'
QUasNr PREAcHISs.--A preacher Sc
lected for his teAt--"the world, the flesh
and the devil" and then observed-'As
our time is short, shall pass over the worzd,
touch lightly on the flesh, and hasten as
soon as possible to thesdeuiH!'
PRETTY GooD.-Even quacks say a
good thing onc in a while. One of DR..
.s'randfeth's agents thus concludes his adj
sertlsement-"Any person mutiladng these
pills will be guilty ofpmgsry."
GT Some wagg once furnished the Oxford
England Journal with the following syIIo-
exercise, for the students to whct their
upon:
No cat has two talss--a cat has one tail
than no cat: ergo--a cat has three
ais!
All afectation is the vain and ridiculous |