Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-01-29


Ieaps. exchange would be from 2 to 5 per
cent. in favor of st. Louis. So snys the
Picayune.
QuAsnEp.-Thc proceedings against
N. Biddh ct ais. The court decided hat
the indictment Of the grand jury was irreg-
uIarand illegal.
MAnYL>Np.-The legislature Of this
state has rejected, by a majority Of So
against IL, a proposition to repudlate a
pa / Of it, debt.
$4,000 REwARD.-The Ocean lnsur-
ance Company offer this reward for the
discovery of the person or persons who fir
ed the store of Manual Vidal, lis Old lie.
wee, the night Of the 18th nlt.
HEAvyLoss.--The fine ship Morrison
from Canton, We learn from tho New York
American Of the 18th is ashore on Old
Orchard shoals. The Morrison had o full
cargo of tens, and belongs to Talbot, Oily
plant a. Go. There is insurance in New
York on ship, freight and cargo, Of 5000,
900, and in London of $50, 600.
OF The Florida wal has commenced
again. A party Of Indians recently attack
ed and plundered a Wagon train, about
twelve miles fom Tallahassee, near the
natural bridge.
MORE IxpivN MUapERs.--A mostwanton
and unprovoked murder was committed on
the 3lst ultimo, by a Cherokee Indian, ma
med Moses Alberty, Jun, on the body of
Mr.. George Long, a very respectable and
pcaccab!e citizen of Madison contry , Ar
kansas.
Tie Brokerage business is decidedly the
best nowadays; but then, to do it success
fully, one must be like the Yankee, who, a
Chinese declared, had three eyes. The
Washington brokers, however, are inproy-
ing. Having found that members Of Con-
gress are now paid in Treasury Notes, they
have contriyed to depreciate the govern
ment paper l 1-2 or 2 per cent.
FRAuD.-Three drafts for $4,000 each,
drawn in Havana, on different persons here,
without their authority or knowledge of the
draws at all, came on here from a Mobile
Bank, yesterday, for acceptance There
were some good names on the drafts.-N.
Y. Journal Of Com.
LEGrsLATURE.-ln the Senate yester-
day, the Bank resumption Bill from the
House, was taken up, read the first time,
and ordered to be printed. The House
passed the Senate bill reducing the rates
Of pilotage from So SO to 30 per foot
Bulletin. Goth.
o. The French corvette La Sabine
Commodore Dumanoir, arrived at Pensa-
cola: on Thursday the goth INST.
FATAL DUEL.-A duel was fought at
Joansonburg, KY, a few days sincs,-be-
tween a DR.. Notes and Mr.. Bradwick, a
lawyer. A woman was the cause. They
fought at IL PAGES, with rifles, and both
shots were fatal.
The Auditor General of Pennsylvania re-
ports Slab paid to Gertrude Rapp, of
Beaver county, for premiums on silk.
Or An Alabama paper brings a rumor
that the Tennessee penitentiary has been
turned to the ground.
HEAVY ROBBERY AT Lou1svILLE.-The
Louisville Gazette states that on the night
of the 18th, about seven o'clock, while his
clerk was gone to supper, the jewelry store
Of Richard E Smith was entered, and thirty
four splendid watches, twenty-six silver
ditto, and a variety of the most costly dia-
mond and other expensive fnger-rings, ear
rings, breast-pins, and other ornaments,
were stolen-amounting in all to near$10,
900. A reward of $500 is ofernd for the,
discovery of the robbers.
IowA.-The Territorial Council conven-
ted on the 9th ult. and Gov. Chambers
communicated a brief Message, warmly
urging an early application for admission
into the Union as a State. 4 share ia the
Land Distribution is one inducement.
Iowa is only in debt about $4,000, which
he thinks can be paid if the Legislature
should practice economy. He declines
the proposition of the Governor Of Missouri
to submit the boundary question between
that State and Iowa to the u. s. Supreme
Court, and refers it to the Legislature.
The r%uinous practice of dealing out intoxi-
eating liquors to the Indians is severely re-
bukcd, and a law to make it a penal offence
is recommended.
SILK IN THE STATE Prison "A report
On the manufacture of Silk in the State
Prison at Auburn was submitted by Gov.
Seward at the opening of the Legislature.
The whole number of skeins manufactu-
red from May LIST to the last of November,
during 1929 days of convict labor, was 81,
o23; and its value, including the cost of
cocoons. of convict labor and of coloring
and dressing, is S775,56. The total a
mou At of convict earnings was 3Ie,23, OF
an average of 30,0363 cents per day.
The Clerk of the Prison feels confident that
a very low grade of men may be made to
earn from rs 10 so cents per day at that