Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-04-23

Car eIuss.-Ths wings Of New Orleans
have formed themselves into a Clay Club, snd
recommend their friends throughout the State
to do the same. We sustain Or oppose the
motion, according to the intentions Of ths
scheme. IF these Clay Clubs are to be d so.
eond edition OF the log cabin clubs Of ls40-if
their work shall lie TO write letters. sing sG3gs
and make speeches about a man whose name
il already familiar TO every child in the nation
If their work shall be to swindle people out
Of their money and their votes, and what is
worth both. out Of their valuable hours for ID
bor.--if the object is to excite fermentation
in socisty, to kindie false hopes to violate law,
d1eeney and good order, then shall our hum
bic efforts be used 10 discourage and oppose
them by every proper means. But il, on the
contrary, the intention of the Clay Clubs Is,
to communicate 10 the citizens generally Of
Louisiana and other states The great agficul.
tural improvements Of which Mr.. Clay has
been the parent in Kentucky, to explain The
process nHd urge The e4pedicpcy Of following
the example, we become a member at once.
Such clubs would benefit the country the d-
rect tendency of the former was, to make ia a
nation Of bcggafs and ~r1scals. We have OBJ
served that at least two-thirds Of the great de-
~faultsrs within the past year, have been per-
sons who took n very active part 10 the log
cabin spsculations Of 1880. They held the
bag, and, anticipating q harvest Of geld, they
.,~,zd H.. .s.l.. ~ tit. a.... ...t. .l.... -
dishonor with a prodigal hand. The nation
was at least $4,000. 900 poorer that is $780,
600. 900 more indebted-at Tie close Of the
election in 1910, than nj The commencement Of
that celebrated CANVASS. Such is the legacy
Of that great Log Cabin humbugI
VAHttr1Es.--Fan Buren, and johnson make
the presidential ticket Of Michigan. The stu
dents at Tuscaloosa, Ala, have been cutting
some high shiadys Of late; several have been
dismissed. Bishop England died recently at
Charleston. The New York canals are open.
A boy aged nine years, recently committed
suicide in New York. The West Iadia Mail
line does NOT work well passengers are often
detained several days waiting for boats. In
Mobile on Saturday, Mr.. Van Buren, joined
the fremen's procession, and attended the
theatre with them at night. Gen. Gaines has
lcft Washington for the western frontier. The
Columbia. in consequence of damages re-
ccivea from bad weather coming ont, Is obliged
to GO back to England uRder sail. The Iowa
legislature has refused 90 exemp, the Quakers
from military duty, tiat's right. There Ia
sonis talk Of a cabinet change nj Washington;
Mr.. Tyler and MFR. Spencer, 1t IL said, disagree.
Mr.. Andrew HendricRson, of Lower Canada,
lately lost his whole family, five sons and n
daughter, in the space Of one week they died
of influenza. CASTOR Brusle has been ap.
pointed director Of the Citizens Bank in place
of Gen. DeBnys. resigned. Arrangements
were making in Washington 10 give Mr.. Clay
a dinner on the 18th inst,-his birthday.
The Sioux Indians recently murdered two
white uen IN the vicinity of Burlington, Iowa.
MIR. John ChIlsty was knocked down by the
horse car in New Orleans, on the 9th inst,
and killed. A queen bee will lay 200 eggs dai-
~ for s or 0 days, which hatch in three days.
Two military companies have been recently
organized in the parish of st. Mary. The le-
~gislaturs of Tennessee has authorized a boun-
tv Of SO cents per pound for reeled silk grown
in that state, aud ten cents per POUND on CO.
looms.
Fanny Elss.er. will leave Havana about the
last IF this moath for New Orleans John
Ross, the Indian Chief, is on his way TO Wash
lugtcn. A man Of apparent wealth, md
a good character, in Macon, Ga, has
been exposed as the forgcr Of a large amount
Of drafts on one Of the banks in that place. J.
Williams, aroused Of passing counterfeit
notes on the Citizens Bank, is now in Jail, in
Franklin, La. The corner stone Of a new me-
lhodist church was laid in Mobile last Monday.
Van Buren, very politely declined n public
dinner offered him in Mobile i've thought he
could see his friends 10 more advantage with
out such ceremony. Very sensible.
Songc of the officers Of abe Warspizc were
assaulted and beaten the evening of their ar
in Baltimore, by a gang Of rowdies. Mr.
Buren, visited 'ttpe battle grouad,o while
at New Orleans, and partook of some refresh
ments at Grctna. The Red River Wing is
.eyiyed under the charge Of Wm. 6. Jones,
Esq. Six hundred volunteers for Texas left
recently. Hagan who had been
a second time at Rochester, has been
lga in discharged