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

worked five, ten, twenty, thirty years &c.
With the view Of arriving at the durability Of
the soil on the Mississippi, and, by ascertaing
It's component parts at different epochs, and
in different places, to specify the objects of cul-
ture for which it is the most appropriate un-
der its various phases. The undertaking is a
great one, but We do not doubt that through
! the industry and science Of Mr.. Afleck, a work
WILDE completed which will prove of immense
value to the planters, and farmers of the val
ley Of the Mississippi.
! PEDIGREE OF THE THOROUGHBRED
YOUNG DURHAM BULL,
LANCE,
Is a fine, rich roam calvcd Dist September
1910; got by the imported bull Olcu dam
Anna Fisk by Oliver; &. d. Beauty by Mo-
hawk; e. cd Pink, by a bull bred by James
Munday !; 6. q. &. d. tho imported Tcesewa-
ter COW.
Oliver mo. 1887, of the English Herd
Book bred by Col. Powell, of Powetto, Pa;
got by Marnnon, (s223) dam Garcia, by NAL
colin (119O G. d. Delight, &c.
Mohawk, by Sam Martin, imported; dam
the Tccumseh Heifer, alias Lady Kate, by
imported Tecumseh e. d. the imported COW
Mrs. Motto.
The bull bred by Jas. Munday, the sire Of
Pink, was by the old imported bull Rising
Sun; dam the imported COW Georgian.
Otley, the sire of Lance, was imported by
the late Messrs. Smith e. Dunn, of Tayette
Co. Kentucky is a superb dark roam got
by Mr.. Fawkes' noted bull Norfolk (2377)
dam Mary Anne, Imported and sold to Ben.
p. Gray, of Woodlord Go. Ky~ with a calf at
her foot, for &s2, $50. See 3D. vol. English Herd
Book, page 434,) by Middlesborough 1234)
| z. d. Prudence by Edward (IOO2) 2. 9. d.
Modesty, by President (5iO z. e. e.. d. by
George (274) g.g.g e. G. by a son Of Patriot.
The owners OF Otlcy. state that "O'ley has
at different times been exhibited by US, at
different fairs, against some Of the best bulls
of Kentucky, and against the crack bull Of
the Ohio Importing Company "Comet Hal
ley,' who stood in Kentucky at 800 and
sold for $1,000, and he, Otley, has never fail
cd to bear of the prize over all competitors.
(Sjgned) JOS. WASSEN,
B. N. SHROPSHIRE.
Proprietors of Lance.
Otley's portrait appears in the November
No. OF the Western Farmer e. Gardener.
n. &. Lance is now in our stable, and is,
we think, one of the finest animals we ever
saw, either in this country or England. The
portrait Of Otley is found in the November
No. of the Farmer and Gardener and if his
form be there correctly and to the life deli
heated, we would pit Lance against his ia
nous sire, allowing for difference Of age, and
fearlessly abide the issue. Lance has a finer
neck and head, and his limbs are perfection
itself. lie is as gentle as a lamb with two
| yards of sewing silk about his horns, a child
can lead him any where.--Ep. GAz.
GENL. Scorr.--The letter of this officer in
reply to some president makers (for this is az
| much a trade now as oe-making) inquiring
whether he would become a candidate if nom
| mated, has been before Us several weeks. The
question, in the first place, was ridiculous !;
for no man acquainted even with General
SCOTS public character, setting private sent!-
ment and ambition aside, could doubt for an
instant, that he would g~reedily accept the
nomination, come whence it might. Such su-
prerne vanity and standardization as he is
possessed of, would he tickled even by the
| Gc1at of a remarkable defeat and if interro-
gated by wings or democrats, his answer,
| with the exception of a little difference in the
choice of words, would have been the same.
| His letter we glanced over the other day in a
leisure hour, for we have usually something
ta+tor 20 ,4t.,J Tn {han thu porIsol nf c1ch
empty paraaes concerning unimportant seDs,
or such trite dissertations on topics long since
exhausted by every village debating society in
the Union.
We are a little too fast. GenI. Scott does
touch one or two matters in his letter, which,
though amply investigated at the time o. the
formation Of the Constitution, are now, on
their recent revival, again almost new to the
country. One of these is a curtailment of the
constitutional prerogatives of the executive,
which, like the odious doctrine of repeal and
remuneration with the democrats, has become
a ~favorite hobby with the wings. We do not
intend to run over the good old arguments OF
the trainers of the constitution in favor of the
veto power in the President, for every reader
is supposed to5s.e acquainted with the grounds
on which this power rested but We mean to
urge that the grounds on which curtailment
of those powers is called for, are of themselves
an all sufficient argument why 1t should not
be granted. A party, and not the country, asks
for a reduction oftle veto power a party that
has been offended, foiled, thwarted i'll some
of its measures by he exercise OF that power,
and hence feels piqued and eHTenomed a.
gan1st it. If the same checks had been re-
ceived by any other party or faction, the same
result would have been demanded +; and the
more ignorant the faction, and the more pre-.
posterous its position, the more strenuously
would the measure have been advocated
When men have reason and justice on theil
side, they usually act with calm, aigniied de.
liberation, honestly confiding in the virtue ant
power Of these; when opposing both these
they usually attempt TO elevate an efigy 0
both, and by violence in favor Of the shadow
overthrow, if possible the substance.
Never yet, can any of Us positively affirm
has the veto power been exercised in a man
ner injurious to the country. That it has ma
nv times rendered the country substantial
service, our written history proves. VIII,
then diminish Or restrain it! Because it hal
checked the sway of a party that would rult
supreme! Admit it and the next momen
that party may find the entire constitution il
its way, and swear that it is nnconstitutnna
! too. Can you set any bounds to the ravage
of parties, if laws must be repealed, %constisu
tions remodled and annulIed to suit the within
or expedients which th y may have in view
You cannot, and until complaints shall com
from the peopie-as a p~eoPle-and not iron
a party as a party, shall we ever believe i
aither wise. or prudent to unsettie tie archie
on which our national fabric rests.
For the Gazette.
Mr.. EDITOR Some persons when the
wish TO express their confidence in the lmpos
sibillty or improbability of future occurrence
Frequently use such expressions as the fol