Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-08-12

i received lately from SOM patt of The AL
I tbu# country, in regafd 10 tho Article
/ food. IT Is stated that n number Of eli
5 zens, (whesher new settlers or mol, | M
unable to say) arc entirely without brea
or grain, and have been sibsisting f,
sotne time on the palmetto cabbage. / nj
unable 10 say how such is The case, but g
it 10, having mn informant 10 be relied on.
In the vicinity Of Hack Creek, thor
hte three thousand cattle grazing in
sfaeo Of three miles. At the Gowfor
here, we have almost duly n drove goin
over. for SUMMER pastufhge and ase 4
Southern settlers.
Tin rotR AGES or MA1Ds.@AA Ger
man writer, M. q. saphir, sats maid
have four ages, VIZ. the golden from 1e Il
81, tie silver neotron II TO 90, tho pfdteo
from 80 o35, and tle iron age from 35 Il
The end. In the golden dye every thing i
goldeh-golden locks, golden dreams, goI
den hopes, golden thoughts, &c, tn,
voice sounds like virgin gold. the hear
il pure gold, md The affections are gold
The fact is they have five bars Of spIendit
gold, No, 10, II, 10, 10. and 30; but alas
but few Of them carry them TO The mint O
reason 10 hive them eeipeds
When n girl ia once three times sever
years, The glltterlpg gold 10 gone. Her faf,
Iy youth, the dejnener la JoreheHe Of M,
ture, is past; girls Of that hge, arc no long
or kept as golden medals in morocco boz.
es. but like silver, to circulate
among the people. The seyBn yours from
II to 81, hre employed in All ltIcessant
war Upon tho bfutes, who but too frequent.
y initiate the example Of Ffedrlck The
Great, and await Ire assault behind the
eutrenchments+dirls are most interesting
ut that Hes. Instead of initiating the lafks.
in soaring so high that but few may hear
Them, they taltetbeir fight nearer the earth
like swallows IN fainy weather. In that
ags they ars the most amlabie, and have
the best opinions Of men; Of conrse they
are on that account Most asily Gagged.
The plated age 10 from gs TO IS. Gold
and silver are gone, and they resort 10 the
various processes Of gliding, slleeripg and
plating. They afe less pt4aant and more
piiqued. They look upon taen with a con.
siderable mixture Of contempt md hatred.
They become agaln reserved IND prude.
If they have alt etlons, they are nj best
plated; they may endure, if Of good work
manship; but they have n t tlre vaIoe of
either gold OF silver.
The IRON age is the universal death Of
sentiment. The thirty. fifth year 10 the
equator of human life, which divides il into
the Southern and Northern hemisphere.
On the Northern there IL no Paradise for
girls. They now write their farewell letters
to ull hopes and wishes. They conform to
iron necessity, and resign themselves TO the
iron tooth Of time awaiting thc day when,
gold, silver and iron, will have no sound.
and nought but the sonl-eyer young and
fresh-and staIl afi 50 from its iron case.
ment.
LAND IN sIcuT.-We helieye that there
has not been a time, since The general
tumble town Of prices, and tho consequent
agricultural distress, when the prospect Of
relief was SO fair as al p~rescat. Farmers
have been gradually, but Certainly, sur
mounting their difficulties, and already
they begin to breathe more freely. Driven
to r~etrenchmcnt and economy What at
first seemed an evil, IL found TO have been
a positive good 10 all classeso Of socle'y E;
and if the severe lessons the community
have been taught have their proper effect,
we shall find many days Of prosperity are
yet before US. Debts heedIessIy contract
ed, and without any ~ratronal expectations
of meeting them, were the great cause Of
our personal OF individual difficulties. The
farmer has been slowly working his way
out of these {; and now better prices for
bis produce is coming to his aid, to ON.
piete the work. We would not intimate
that the prices of 1887 are to be expected.
They ought not to BIZ desired, as they are
inconsistent with a healthy and safe con-
dition of things; but etery thing indicates
a gradual restoration Of confidence, and
prices that will be remunerating. We
now as a nation sell more than We buy =;
our manufactures are getting into sue.
| cessful operation new markets are OPEN
ing for our agricultural products !; specie
instead Of gewgaws is flowing in upon US
money is becoming plenty for those who
have any thing TO purchase it with !: and
there is a general feeling that The 'dark
day" is at last passed. We have only to
avoid the efrors Of the past !; to see gu.
way clear before us j; and as a nation OF
| as individuals to- purchase nothing we do
not need, and pay down for what We do
purchase, and we may reasonably hope,
that if we do, not become rich, we shall not
be obliged to incur the disgrace of repudla.
| tion.-CuLirator.
A destructive fire broke out a few days
ago, in the woods at Marsi,feld, Mass,
the residence Of Mr. Webster, which burned
over fifty acres of woodland before it was
extinguished. 1t was ksndIed by a little
boy who was playing with a mimic Goa
pit.
A NEW FORT OF ENTRY IN CUBa.--A
letter from the Matanzas states that Car
depas, a sea port near Matanzas, was re.
Gently made a port Of entry for foreign
vessels, by the establishment of a custom.
house. A rail road, 80 Or 20 miles ieng
from Cardenas to tho interior, will BE-
| completed in a few months.