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

Tnr mArL.-We perceive by the official
Gazettes that the contracts for carrying the
majlr, from 1912 to 1548, are now advertised.
Mick cows.-It 10 a general custom IN
Louisiana, we believe, to permit mich COWS
to- run at large at this season Of the year, that
they may pick up a little food. This is bad
policy. Your mich cow--ifs she is worth milk
ing at all-will pay you well for a little extra
expense and attention in stabling and feeding
her. A COW can be thus kept in excellent or
der at $5 per month; and we have seen a cow
stabbed at this rate, increase her milking three
quarts per day, Wink is with mich at 70
cents tho quart)$ll.25 per month.
vAs,rr.--An inordinato degree Of vanity
makes a man heartless, unleeling and cruel:
it il one Of the most repulsive vices Of which
he can be guilty. Though possessing talents
Of a high order, with natural and acquired ac-
complishments equally remarkable, the unfor-
tunatc wretch who exerts himself only to rem
der ego the most prominent object in exist
epce, becomes at once obnoxious TO his friends
and compeers, and a nuisance to society at
large. Yet when ind;- iduals Of this unhappy
caste, unite the BLACKBOARD with the coxcomb,
they become absolutely intolerable. You
may laugh at the ridiculous ~pomposity Of the
eeo,ist, but the wanton, self-elccted black
guard, can be received only with radical con-
tempt and loathing.
To the credit of human nature be It said,
monsters Of this species are rare. Bennett, OF
the New York Herald, has been ranked as
one; but he, perhaps, affects more than he
feels at least his superior abilities and love Of
humor, turn even these failings into frequent
sources Of amusement to his readers. lie has,
however, imitators, or would be-imitators, in
the country, that hoast none OF these redeem
ing qualities. Vain, without discretion; coarse,
without wit: and impudent without intelli-
gence or talent, they disgust all and edlfy
none. One of the most offensive OF this class,
ia the Herald at Natchitoches.
IMputgscE.-We find the following in a
late number Of the New Orleans Bee, over the
of " Investigator"
"Nothing is more common than the cry,
that as the banks make other people pay
their debts to them, they should be made
likewise to pay their own debts--and do
they not do so? Do they no: pay their own
debts whenever called upon, in the same
that they ask payment from 9th.
ers' Has any bank, on any occasion, even
asked or expected specie from any one IN
debted to them, and are they not all very
willing, land thankful too) to receive bank
potes in payment of their dues? Seeing
that tho banks have tcn-fold as much due
them, as they owe to the community, it is
very evident that they would be greatly
the gamers If thay were to exact specie
admitting such a thing to be possible from
all their debtors, and they could very rea.
dily pay the comparatively small amount
they owe in like manner. But those rea.
persons who make this cutlery,
suppose mean. that the banks ought to pay
their own debts in specie and receive paper
for the debts due to them-are any of these
gentlemen willing to adopt the same ex.
ample in their individual transactlons3
Some of tho banks however, 1.-THE Mer.
Citizens Louisiana and Gas)
have even adopted this plan, and the Mer-
have always paid their debts in
.ra. ~-i ~~~e-af thana -auar refisad to
paper in payment"
Well bet a triiie that this is from the pen
Of some fly-biown bankite; for no honest, sim
cere, disinterested gentleman, however warm
attached to the banks he might be, could
use an argument SO deceitful, sophistical and
True; the people owe the banks;
but for what? For specie borrowed, No, In
deed! but for the promises--the written pledg-
those banks to give these debtors spe-
Gle for their mortgaged property, whenever
the latter shall call for it. The banks by the
of their notes are under the most solemn
engagements to do this. The fulfllment OF
these engagements have been postponed from
time to time-these promises to pay specie
again and again-until the patience
Of the people lie exhausted and broken; and
when an end to all this trifing is demand
ed, the m~yrnidons of these faithless institu-
have the insolence to cry out-"Oh. you
never pay us specie; pay US specie and we
will do the same by you."
The property pledged to the banks for their
miserable promises to pay, is more valuable
han specie; specie is but the representative
and the only proper representati,e too-of
property. Did the banks loan specie to
heir debtors! or did they loan them only their
positive promises to pay specie when required!
They loaned the rromises-and the state.
he pe~ople-debtors and creditors, now call
or a redemption Of these promises-in specie.
(For thu Gazette)
Lusr of persons to whom the appropriation
made by the state of $4,000. was applied by
he subscribers, a committee appointed by an
of the Legislature approved the 3lst of
Deer. 1s41 viz:
Mrs. Conyere 1915:
=" Kenyon 275:
c. C. Moore 200:
John Dunbar 200:
Pierre Barron 900:
Jos. Hernandez 300:
Francis Vincent 200: