Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-12-23

VIII Iuu " HduEa'tf 81 tt1NtANug ~ ~
Mattihsvillv OF Lafayette, with the add
ton Of freight.
CoTToN CRop IN MTssIss1rpf.--Tht
mississippi Creole Of tho 9th INST. says
s1he damage done to the cotton crops In
this country Madison are il,mense--al|
sha cotton unpicked is totally ruined, ei.
Their rottened or so damaged that il will
not pny for the labor Of picking It out.
Tho crop, already n half crop IN this
country, will be tb idged at least one fifth
from what il would have been, had not this
calamity fallen upon us. We fear the
whole State has suffered nike"
* Eatensire System of Robbcry.-For
many years past the strongest suspicion
"a has existed, that an enormous amount OF
depredations have been committed on the
transfer Of goods from the shipping to the
shorc. Abort The middle OF July u man
called ut tho office OF a naive newspaper,
and offered to give u full account Of the
} whole matter. He was referred TO the
: police magistrates, and the result was 'ha,
means was taken for selling the leaders
of the gang, with their books and PAPERS,
which was on the evening of the 2lst
January carried into effect. !.
The copartnery number about 90 indi-
yiduals, aud the profits of trade, after pay
; ing all expenses, and reimbursing their
: servants on the most liberal scale, amount
cd 10 from 100000 to fsU,oo0 n year.
The sums paid for stolen, property. the
kind Of goods purchased, with the parties
to whom the payments were made, were
all exactly and infinitely entered, as were
the circumstances ofthe sales, and names
Of the individuals with whom these were
n effected.
i The salaries and gratuitics to all those
4 employod,x were equally set down. and
names WIRE disclosed by this list, of per-
sons who had in so far made themselves
accessories, who had heretofore been a.
bove all suspicion. A regular sale of sto.
len property took place weekly. in the ex.
tensive warehouses of the confederacy;
the inflated only were of course admitted
as purchasers.
No disguise was made-seperate heads
D raccount were opened for goods merely
~smuggied duty free, and for. those acqurr.
ed BY plumber. nribes of course, were
distributed every whsre. When unlncki-
4 ly a boat load Of plumber CHANGED to APP.
proache the shore at al announcement
! time, on A~preconceried signal being given.
: the police coutrived to get ont Of the way,
Asia G~sacinnati Banks-Frun the Louisville
journal We learn that there are now in
9 Cincinnati only two banks, OF a million
capital each, and the Trust Company,
with a banking capital of upwards Of
5000 ,a0o-making the total Ranking
capitals or the city only Ssa,60o,0 900. Tn.
der a Inv enacted at the last session Of
5 of The Legislature of Ohio. the two banks
. now in operation will be compelled 10
wind upafter the first day Of March next.
! Cincinnati will then have q banking CAPT
talof only 5000. o0o, without power to IS
I sue one dollar for circulation.
! PRorEcTroS.--The doctrine of free
Trade ID, that it is best for every man TO
obtain what he wants with the least POSI-
BILE amount of labor and expense. and that
3 each man Is The proper judge in his own
case. Protection says in substance, i
you want 4 coat, you ought to make it
Free Trade says, if you: can getit sieT
by making something else. and exchange
for a coat, do so, if you please. Here is
really the whole matter in controversy,
though the Protectionists never like these
short statenents.-Joarnal Of Commerce. ,
a Yes we do like them. But ssthese short
statements should ssiates the matter in
X dispute fairlys Onasthird af the commu-
a. nity have the products of other mems labor
q to sell 10 the other two.thirds who have on.
-Iy labor to sell. Those that have property
are comparatively independent while
those that have only labor and no property
are comparatively dependant. New, il
!. The journal of Commerce can make it APP,
pear that those that have every advantage
: of their neighbors in point ~ofproperty,
aLore them as themselves. as God has
commanded men, thsn we admit that Free
Trade would work no wreDg to the weak
and dependant party. 1.-THE conductor
Of the Journal OF Commerce can buy .
II &COdk mace III IsuAu0u " LHSttSu oioad
cloth, cheaper than it is worth, by reason
of the facts, that the fai..ar who made it
"a and the operative who fabricated the cloth
81 have been robbed ofa fair compensation
for their honest toll. that is no good reasol
why nl lahoring men in the United State
should also be robbed Of what is justly du'
to productive industry. A foreign i'm
porting house in New York may be a
;. Bile fp sell goods stolen from the emacia
teo muscle of British subjects cheape
than they can be made where labor Is lnsl
rewarded. But what Of that Dos
= fellow that beesuae q man can sell a stole
: horse cheaper ahan any man can posslbl
q raise one by his own industry, that horst
: there's only should be patrenized in tn
is Repubiicf
Ii is not because wool or cotton can b
cheaper ID Great Britain than !