Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-03-19

The MECHANICS avn the MtssIss1rpt PRIV
rr~EsrIARY.-We find the following In the 81
FranciHyille Chronicle IF the 18th. The
course adopted by the mcchauirs st jackson
Is essentially the same as retsnrisndeJ BY
Us to the mechanics of Bato nRo,ige last spring
Our friends, however, preferred windy bravo
do to other considerations, and their enthusi
assn soon evaporated.
h. Apropos to this subject docs the appro
priation bill for the penitentiary passed by oul
legislature include the Sums necessary to ch
able that institutiou to make manufactures
instead of the mechanic arts, it's main depend.
ence1 Has the report Of the joint committee
on the penitentiary been followed by the leY
g~;slatire 7
or At n Public Meeting of Mechanics
! ef jackson, in the State of MISS ssippl, con
voned for the purpose of petitioning the
Legislature to do away with all mechanic.
nj operations in the penitentlary, among
other resolutions adopted were thetwo fol.
loving:
Resolved, That we believe, however pro.
ftable and advantageous Il plan it might be
for the convicts to be instructed in atd
practice other professions-such, for In.
stance, as that Of Attorney, Clerk, or Physi.
clan, that the suggestion or attempt would
be resisted by the members Of such profes.
sions or occupations with nil their might,
az IN insult and degradation not to be borne;
and that the mechanical professions arc HI
much or more entitled to respectful consid.
GRAFTON and Difference as any other occupa.
ton extant.
Resolved, That setting aside all other
considerations, we are unwilling tumely to
submit to the practice of instructing the
assassin cut.throat. tho thief and common
felon, in those trades or professions which
have cost vs. all somany years Of study and
practical application to attain, and that VIC
cannot tamely submit tot he practice of thus
introducing n gang of outcasts Of society in.
to our professions and cornpanionship, Civ.
ing them, as it were, n place next to us in
the workshop, and a passport to our socic.
tv.
The committee Of the Legislature, to
whom this subject wasrefcrred, reportedt that
they view the system of employing The con.
victs in the mechanical arts as nnwlse. and
calculated to destroy the moral and eleva-
ted sta nd,ng 10 which tho mechanics Of that
State and the Union are 80 prcGminentIy
entitled; and submitted the following reso.
luton
Resolved by the Legislature, &c, That
the keeper of the Penitentiary i, hereby di.
rccted TO procure such materials as are ne.
cessary to enable him to make cotton bag
cling and rope, and such other coarse cot
ton fabrics rs are wanted in this State, and
employ as many Of the convicts in works
Of this kind as practicable.
Which was agreed TO.
COMMISSION MERcHAsrs.-We are glad
to see that The recent failurcso commission.
merchants in New Orleans. through which
our planters have suffered severe losses,
have been the means of inducing the State
Senate to appoint n committee TO enquire
into the mode of selling cotton and other
produce; and whether it may not be expe.
dent 10 provide by law that the practice
of making advances of money on interest
by commission merchants, except so far as
may 10 necessary to dcfray actual charges,
be discontinued, and to secure more effec-
tually to the planter the proceeds ofhis pro-
duce by a privilege above all others on the
property Of the commission merchant, in
case Of insolvency, and to punish as Il
crime the disposition Of such proceeds, in
such a manner as TO prevent their being in
any event made Immediately available to
the owner and for other purposes. Messrs.
Doans, Sparrow, Walker, Hoa, and Hiriart
compose the committee, to whom all persons
are requested to communicate
information on the subject.-Planters Ban
ner.
OF Col. AUGUSTUS B. SAUNDERS
. venerable and highly esteemed citizen
Of Mississippi, died on the 25th ult. At
the last election, Col Saunders was chosen
Auditor Of Public accounts, which office
be had filed twice before.
"In his youth, he served his country in
he tented fiel& In the battles Of Emuc-
faw, Taliediga, Horse Shoe and New Or
cans, and other places of honor and ofdan-
,er, he barred his bosom to his country's
'oe, and with honors clustering round him,
he returned to the walks of civil life."
G-Dr. Mott, Of Now York, in his new
,ook Of travels, states that while at ball IN
Ireece he was introduced to u beautiful
the daughter of the celebrated Marco
She was studying English, she
aid, that she might read in our own
ongue the spirit-sti'ring lines of HalIeck
addressed TO her father. The doctor asked
Ter to dance, and she replied, that a true
ireek girl never danced except nth her
Un sea-
A Rational REMARK-.The Louisville
.%ournal, in an article addressed to young
nen, says "There is more virtue in one
.nagazine" than in a dozen boxes of the
Spanish cigars, aad more to be gained