Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-06-03

at 5udg1 h~ucnannns and orders thai The
mortgage be ofRsed in The manner directed
BY Judge MoCaleb, OF The United States
District Court. Judges Morpby and Simon
agreed with The opinion Of Judge Garland.
Judge Martin offered no opinion. he he
said he was pecuninfily interested in the
question !; and Judge Billiard read his
npinibn, in which he disscnted from the
Judgment Of the majority Of the court.
.. Tho decision haetned 10 excite much In.
terest among tho lawyers, xs II lins n di.
rect hearing on a largo amount Of mort.
gagged property, tho mortRasers of which
are now suing for a certificate Of bank.
ruptcy.-Pteuyunt. IF
m H N
ArRoCtous HIGHWAY ROBBERY. %~
Whenever crimes Of The following descrip.
tion shall become frequent, this otherwise
orderly city will not have much 10 honst
Of. Officer Fonari Of The fret Municipal.
lily Police. happening 10 be down in the
swamp, near the Cafonielet canal. yes.
tarday, In search Of some thieves, he az.
pied two men In the act Of fobbing n third.
whercupon be advanced and arrested one
OF them, named James Keen. but the
other ran off and escaped. Tho victim Of
tho rafians was named Jonathan Darling.
mn up.enintryman. They had him down,
had taken all his money and a new pair
of boots from his feet, and were attempt.
~ ing 10 eus hiH throat when tho officer M.
r paaredt The mnflts Of n dull knife were
G. plainly visible on his neck. Keen was
safely lodged III jaiI, aad 1t 10 n pity TINT
the other sconndrel. with The booty. could
not have been taken slso.~-N. o. LcBsr.
%soniaa, 9Th May,
A coNTRAsr.--Among the many re.
tnhtkahlo circumstances occurring in this
place, we know of none more unexpected
than that tho T.tnl Abstinence Society met
night before last, in II house Immediately
opposite our Printing Office, whore one
year ago, billiards. keno, euchre. poker,
and many other gambling gaines, were as
familiar 10 our people, M mn old aequaint.
anco in INNER time.--La. Chronicle,
Tnr RIeiir OF Vtstr.~-Mr. WtBsrER's
despatch 10 Mr.. EvfREq r, Of the 2sth March,
,was published in the London papefe of April
"a. So far as VIC have eeen, the comments
~ tHs baluDH GNItDTH arc iilGHCFHtG anu fa~
iional enough, considering that they insist
upon ita being no conclusive reply 10 Lord
AHERpgEN's despatch of ls4l.
For example, the Londoa Herald closes its
remarks an follows:
"With this document We prealime the dis.
cusaien between the two Governments will
substantially end. Lord Aberdeen will OF
course give tho Washington treaty a fair trial
before ha roinStructs British cruisers to ever
else the right of visit and tho President,
Congress, and Mr.. Webster, to do them jus
tice. seem all inclined TO make every ~exertion
10 deprive England of the opportunity OF eXor-
cising that right, which they now know she
will never surrender, by the efficiency of the
American squadron about TO be stationed on
tho west coast of Africa"
We copy the above from the New York
Commercial Advertiser of Friday last.
Whatever some Of the London Editers may
think or say, We gather enough from the
newspapers and from private advices, to be
fully satisfied that the British Government
will not attempt TO remove the question of
Visit and Search from the ground on which i,
IN placed by Mr.. Weheter's despatch 10 Mr..
Everett. That Government apparently pre-
fcrs to leave the usage on its present footing,
W tthout SVlttSitNtbk " tHe atIlfENhl0H Nv tHte
Government of a corresponding right which
this Government has declared It's determine.
ton not 10 recognise. a1
The idea advanced by Mr.. Wood in the
British House of Commons, and adopted by
Sir Robert Peel, of a known distinction be-
tween Tisi and Search, although plausible
and in our opinion (heretofnre expressed)
both rational and rractical-has, We have
reason 10 suppose, been found TO be unsus.
tainabls, or at least incompatible with princi-
pies h~ercto!o Q maintained by the British
Government itself. 1t will probably not be
again advanced. Contrary, we confess, TO
our expectations. but very much 10 our salts
faction, appearances indicate that the despatch
of the Secretary OF State to Mr.. Everett, re-
ferred to above, viii be regarded, even in
England, as maintaining doctrines which that
Government IL not disposed 10 dispute.
Under the present good understanding be-
tween the two Governments, therefore should
vessels Of the United States on the one hand,
or those OF Great Britain on the other, hap
pen, as they may, to be visited under circum-
stances warranting strong suspicion that they
are Portuguese or Spanish, sailing under the
flag Of the Union or of Britain, detention &C.
casioned by such visits will be treated as de-
~ientions by mistake. and not as acts done by
virtue of any pre.existiag known right Of
In short, they will be regarded as
wrongs, but uniuteutional wrongs, committed
only on the strength of weighty presumptive
evidence, and from q sincere desire to abolish
q traffic denounced as piracy by both Govern
ments.-Nat l~ateligsncer. asts l.
a GoLD I'M rHE WEsT.--It was foretold n
few years since that grent quantities of
gold would flow up The Mississippi" and
thai The farmers would carry. ''long silk
purses" through. the "interstices" of
which doubloons and half ioes would gilt
ter in profnsion. But the prediction has SO
failed, and gold is such a rare
commodity in the West, that its posses
sion is deemed Presumptive evidence of
If a man is detected with any in
his possession he is arrested and compelled
10 give an account of himself. This was I
the case with SRIfMAH. the a~bsconding
from Philadelphia. against
whom Suspicion was first excited because /
be offered god coin in payment for a
horse which he purchased at Terre Haute,
in Indiana. So, in. the case Of tho persons
Iatsly arrested in this city charged with
sarloining the Treasury n5tesat New Or
cans, il is stated that the Louisiana police
,G1cers who werS in pursuit of them