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Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

AcaU1TTAL OF PLATT.-The trial Of
VIM. II. Platt, at Augusta, Ga, for the
murder of Capt. Harding, resulted in his
acguital en- the 22d inst. The jury were
out forty-fiye minutes. The verdict was
unexpected, and seems TO have excited the
Indignation of the citizens generally
The "Chronicle and Sentinel" a tempe.
rate and respectable print, thus briefly
comments on the announcement -
Thus it is settled, so far as the verdict
of this jury can settle it, that in Richmond
county, in the city of Augusta, a man
may, at midday, in the principal street oil
the city, shoot down another without pro-
vocation, or without such ]provocation as
the laws of the land recognize, and be
turned loose upon the country, with his
hands imbrued in the blood of his victim,
'unwhipt of Justice" If such a verdict
met any other than the execration of the
great mass of our population, it would in
deed be a deep and damning disgrace.
But we will not nom pursue this subject
farther ; yet, when we see in one of the
oldest counties of the State, n of IFS
principal commercial marts, renowned toe
for its love of order and obedience to the
laws of the land, such an outrage Of the
law-when we see corruption stalking in
to the temple dedicated TO justice, and pol.
luting the jury boxes, wo should be want,
ing in our duty to have said less.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

SINGULAR AFFA1R.-We copy the following
from the New York correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury
"a case of love, marriage, murder and
elopement, has made some sensation in this
city lately. 1t appears that a young girl of
Paisley in Scotland was not long since mar
ried to a gentleman of fortune there, named
Gilmour, who settled a large amount of mo-
ney upon her on the day of the marriage.
About three weeks after the marriage the
husband suddenly died, and the wife made
preparations Immediately to leave that part of
the country. AS she was seen to be a great
deal with a young man, to whom she was for
merly attached, suspicious were excited that
the husband had not come to his death by fair
means. The body was examined and the sus-
picions found to be true in the meantime the
disconsolate widow had disappeared, and as it
was supposed that she sailed for this country,
a police officer was despatched in the Acadia
to arrest her on her arrival, under the stipula-
tions of the Webster treaty.-Sure enough,
the other day, when the brig Excel from Liv-
erpool reached the Quarantine Ground, the
first salutation which the lady and her para
mour received in the new country, was a tap
on the shoulder from a rural policeman. They
had both assumed new names, and had money
with them. The romantic part of the history
is, that the young woman was before marriage
most ardently attached to the young man, and
was married against her consent, through the
persuasions of her fortune-hunting parents.
What a sad reverse to the prospects of
elopers Z"
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

VAR1ETrEs.-The Hon. Clement {. Clay,
has bech appointed one of the judges OF the
Supreme Court OF Alabama. Mr.. Gustave
Cruzat was last Saturday elected a member
of the board Of aldermen, Of the first munich
pality, New Orleans. The influenza is rag
ing in many places at the North; IN New
York its attacks have been general, and Its
effects in many cases fatal A dead body
was picked up near Bayou Sara last Satnr-
day. The late outrages committed in Florida,
were not, it is said the work of the Indians
counting all the Seminole warriors left there,
from Id years of age upwards, the humble
does not exceed Is. The bank of England
has now more than $%50,000,000 Of specie in
her vaults. Mr.. Upshnr has been appointed
Secretary OF State, ad interim. The 4th was
celebrated with unusual splendor IN NC"
| Orleans. The owner Of Co'herstone, the win
ner of the late Derby stakes, won Ss0,09o or
the race Lord Bentick had $6OO,00O bet, o
which he won 1885,, 1000: very respectable
betting. Ayoung wife recently poisoned her
self in New York jealousy of her HUSBAND
was the cause he was handsome and stait
out o'nights.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

life beyond The g~rare-Among all the fine
and beautiful figures and modes of reasoning
that the universe in which we dwell has afforded,
for the illustration of the bright hope that is
within us of life beyond the tomb, there is
none more beautiful or exquisite that know
of, than that which lie derived from the
change of the seasons-from the second life
that bursts forth in spring, in objects az
p~arently dead and from the shadowing
forth, in the renovation of every thing around
us, Of that destiny which Divine Revelation
calls upon our faith to believe shall yet be
ours. The trees that have faded, and re-
main dark and gray through the long, dreary
lapse of winter clothe themselves again with
green in the spring sunshine, and every hue
speaks of life. The buds that were tram
pied down and faded, burst forth once more
in freshness and in beauty; the streams
break from the icy chains that held them, and
the glorious sun himself comes wandering
from his far journey, giving summer and
warmth, and fertility and magnifcence to
every thing around. All that We see breathes
of the same hope, and every thing we see
rekindles into life.-James.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08
AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT .
BOSTON.

DR.. Jackson said Chemistry must tell
us what our crops take from the soil and
what from the atmosphere. The crops Them
selves must be analysed. Science must tell
us what change takes place in a barren soil
when it becomes fertile /; it must tell what
kind of manure is best suited to each partlcu-
lar crop. 1t will ask if there is any one gen.
eral compost, suited equally and we'll to all
crops it asks, too, if mineral manures are OF
any value.
He would say something upon mineral md
nures. Some of these, the soluble ones gen.
orally, are indispensable to vegetable growth
and health. The coating of cane, cornstalk,
straw, &c, always contains silica, or the mat
ter of fine sand and of flint. This silica
alone is insoluble and will not act, but it is
dissolved by potash and combines with it, and
enters into the plant in the form OF silicate OF
potash. 1t is this which gives strength and
firmness to the paint and its vessels. 1t is
this which holds up the wheat and keeps it
from lodging. Where this is abundant the
wheat viii generally stand but where there
is a large quantity OF vegetable and animal
manure, the stalks are soft and the grain
lodges or falls. To get a good crop and have
it stand, You must have much silicate OF po-
fash to strengthen the fibre.
The quantity OF this silicate of potash re-
quired by the different plants, is very varia-
bic !; plants of the same kind do, according
to the soil on which they grow, take 1t up
in very different proportions. Mr.. Levi
Bartlett, of Warner, n. f., has learned and
shown that grasses, even, may have too much
of this so as to become hard and why. Where
slick and potash come together in equal
weights the slick is soluble in water.
A soil that has been titled a long time Is
liable to be deprived, in a great measure of It's
soluble sick. Here ashes is the best restora-
tive.
Alumina, which makesa part Of clay, enters
very sparingly into plants; but The clay re-
tains water and gives tenacityt to the soil. Burnt
or baked clay is a very valuable manure the
benefit of burning is in consequence OF the
s~iIicates in the clay being rendered soluble
by the action of the fire.
Magaesia.-This has been abused IN a
pure state it may be injurious to vegetation F;
but when oxidised, it is good, and i enters IN
some form into most plants: phosphate Of
magnesia IS IN ali the grains, but magnesi4
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON.

The death of Mr.. Legare made two va
c~aDciss in the Cabinet. The Nationa
IpteIIigencer Of the Goth says:
1t is officially announced that the Hon.
Abel P. Upsher (the present Secretary ot
the Navy has been appointed to act as Sc.
cretary of State dd interim.
The Office of Attorney General, vaca.
ted by the death of Mr.. Legare, is yet va
cant, so far as The pub ic is Informed. The
duties of this Office cannot be discharged
vigorously, there being no provision by
law authorizing ar acting or I'D interim
appointment 10 that office in case of va.
cancy or absence.
The New York Tribune ~speculates as
follows:
Mr.. Upshur will pretty certainly be ap.
pointed Secretary Of State. He and Mr..
Spencer are the only members of the Ca.
binet who accompanied Mr.. Tyler TO
Washington. Mr.. W,ckliffo stopped al
Philadelphia. and Mr.. Porter went to visit
his relatives at Easten. The report tina,
Mr. Spencer wants The state department
is absurd. He always preferred the trea.
sury whether at Albany or Washington,
it was the goal of his ambition.
There are now two vacancies TO fill in
the cabinet, one from the south, The other
from the noYlh. Mr.. David Henshaw, OF
Boston, expects the Treasury, and proba.
bly, a C%arolinian will have the Navy. Mr..
Wise would be selected for the latter post,
if il were not that President and the bulk
Of the cabinet from Virginia, would seem
too much of a good thing,
The New Ye.k Express, looking to the
re organization which is thus rendered ne
eessary, remarks:
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08
DISASTROUS CONFEDERATION.

The village Of Boucheryille, which stands
on the South side Of the river st. Lawrence,
and about ten miles below Montreal, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire on the Goth
ult. The fire broke out about 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon, and wasted its fury about 10 o'clock
at night, after having spread over a space of
ground nearly a mile in length. A list of the
sufferers, it is stated, would embrace almost
population approximating a thousand souls,
many of whom have lost all their worldly
effects.
The Montreal Courier says:
DESTRUCTION OF BoycHERvILLE.-We are
sorry to say that the fears we expressed in
our last respecting the extent of the fire al
Boucherville have been too nearly realized
At half rast nine O'Clock yesterday morning
the Colborne proceeded TO Boucherville, tax.
ing a quantity of provisions for the use Of the
unfortunate sufferers. On reaching the vii.
lage, the inhabitants were found endeavoring
to collect the scattered wreck Of their proper.
ties and the scene which presented itself was
really %piteous. On every side were blacken.
cd walls still giving forth smoke and fame,
whilst what had been beautiful gardens were
reduced to waste by the %trampling the villa.
gers as they rushed from the scene of destruc,
ton. Before this c%onaagration, Boucherville
was one Of the ~prettiest villages on the banks
of the st. Lawrence, furnished with a numbe,
of good stone houses, which gave an air o.
substantially to the place. Now it can hard
lily be said to have a place on the map, Fifty.
two houses have beer destroyed, besides othel
buildings. The Church, Convent, and School
house are gone all the principal stores, will
the houses Of many Of the principal residents
are reduced TO ashes. Just enough is left t,
show the terrible destruction which has takel
place.
The cause of the fire is attributed, and there
is every reason to believe correctly attributed
10 the steamboat st. Louis, the sparks fros
the chimney of which ignited a stable belong
ing TO a person named Wilbrener, and fror
thence the flames quickly spread to the ad
joining buildings.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

The controlling genius now left there Is
John G.. Spencer, who awes and oveFawes
such men as the Secretary OF War, and
the more iimid and prudent mind Of the
ADLER Post Master General. With such
men around him, they, in this state who
know Mr.. Spencer, well know he will have
his own way, succumbing TO Mr.. Tyler
only as far as is necessary TO save his OF.
flee, 10 rule or TO ruin with all others
about him. Mr.. Spencer has firmness Ut
character, doggedness Of purpose, the IN
tellcct to conceive, and the pluck to exc
cute, and now in the absence OF Mr..
Webster and Ct Mr.. Legare, there is no
man to check him, for, granting that Mr..
Wicklife has the mind, he has net the
courage to contend with him outright
and as to Mr.. Upshnr, he has not seer
enough Of the wear and tear Of practlca
life to be any match at all for the enter
prising spirit of Mr.. Spencer. Mr.. lyle
himself is just now bllndtolded by Mr.
Spencer. He s%urrenders himself to hi
guidance, acts under his impulses, and !
may be added, with but few exceptions, l.
under his control.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

CUAseg.-Constant change is the first law
of society. The world is like a magic lam
tern, or the shifting scenes of a %pantomime.
Ten years convert the population Of schools
into men and women, the young into fathers
and matrons, make and MARI fortunes, and
bury The last generation but one. Twenty
wears convert infants into lovers and fathers
and mothers, render youth the operative gen.
GRAFTON, decide mems fortunes and distinctions,
convert active men into crawling jewellers,
and bury all the preceding generation. ThIr-
ty years raise an active generation from no.
nenity, change fascinating beauties into mere
" bearabIe old women, convert lovers INTO
erandfathers and grandmothers, and bury the
active generation, or reduce them to decrepl-
tude and imbecility. Forty years, alas! change
the face of all society; infants are growing
old, the bloom of youth and beauty has passed
away, w active generations have been swept
from the stage of life, names so cherished are
forgotten, and unsupported candidates for fame
have started from the exhaustless womb OF
nature. Fifty years! Why should any de-
sire TO retain their affections from maturity
for fifty yearsf 1t is to behold a world which
thew dc not know, and to which they are un-
known it is to live to weep for the genera
ton passed away, for lovers, for parent, for
| children, for friends in the grave it is TO see
every thing turned upside down in the tickle
hand Of fortune, and the absolute despotism of
time it is, in a word, TO behold the vanity OF
human life in all its varieties OF display
fNeWsDaper paragraph.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

u. s, DISTRICT CoURT.-BosroN.-W ri-
Ting on Newspapers sent by MasL--OnI'ed
States Us s. G. GreftoD, for writing his name
on a copy of the Boston Atlas, directed by
him TO a gentleman in Louisville, Ky, aud
deposited in the Boston Post Office. This
was selected, out of a hundred similar in
stances, as a test case, there being nothing
but the bare name written on the paper, to
indicate by whom it was sent, and thus inten-
ded to "convey an idea" BY agreement OF
counsel, for the purpose of carrying the ques-
ton up to the Circuit Court, Judge Sprague
decided that the mere writing a name on a
paper was not a violation Of the law that it
was not within the meaning and spirit OF the
prohibition. According to arrangement, Mr..
Dexter for the United States, took exception
to this opinion, and in this way the whole
subject will be brought before the Circuit
| Court. A ID. Parker for the defendant.
In the course of ovcrhauling papers to de-
tect smuggling correspondence, the post ofilce
clerks make queer discoveries sometimes.
In one instance, they suspected that a copy
of the Boston Notion contained something
more than was set down in the table of con-
tents, and upon opening it, they found that a
piece of ivory had been neatly set into a
square cut out of the body OF the paper and
the vehicle of the tender thoughts of lovers
one residing in Concord and the other IN
Boston. The messenger of love had passed
so often scot free that at length the lovers
became careless in the manner of doing it mp
and thus suspicion fell upon it. The clerks
allowed 1t to make two or three trips aftel
they discovered the trick.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

T MIR. Wentworth, Locofoco candidate
for Congress in the Chicago district, is seven
feet two inches high. If elected, he will stand
higher bodily and lower mentally than any
other any other member of the National
Legislature.-B.
O. Mr.. O'Connell says that, in every emer-
gency, his motto is "stand fast" We sus-
pect that, if a British army shall land upon
tue Irish coast one of these days, motto will
be 50 run fast."-B.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

MONEY MATrERs.-The N. Y. Express says
there can be no truth in the rumor that the
new loan is taken, but that the short time the
Secretary has allowed for offers indicates that
he has a bidder in view. The bidder, it is
said, is the agent in the house OF Hope e. Co..
at lob for 5 per cent stock.
The same paper of the 22d ult. says -
In relation to the Government Loan, there
are many rumors aioat one is that an offer
for two millions has been made at % for 4 per
cent stock. At this rate 5 per cent stock
should command l04, and the D per cent lis.
The latter now sells at 1I3l to Ia.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

~ The notorious Major Davezac made a
speech at a repeal meeting in New York,
lately, in which he said he "rejoiced that no
Anglo Saxon blood flowed in his veins" He
is not alone in his rejoiclngs, as every man
who has the blood in his veins, will rejoice
heartily with him-Prentiee.
An honest country-The country OF Mont
gomery. in Pennsylvania. contains $4,000 in
habitants. and yet but four persons have been
in it's Jail since the first of February. II is
surprising that Whigism should flourish in
such a country Ia,
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

To DESTROY Sues UPON WHEAT.-Col.
lect a number flean ducks; keep them all
day without food, and turn them into the
fields towards evening; each duck would
devour the slugs much faster than a man
could collect them, and then get fat for
market.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

Iron Mountain in Missori.-The Iron
Moustain, in Washington county, is about
a mile broad at the base, 400 feet high and
3 miles long, and has the appearance Of
being composed of masses Of iron ore. 1t
is literally a mountain Of magnetic iron
ore, so pure that it yields from 10 to so
per cent of metal under the ordinary pre-
cess for converting GRE into malIeable iron.
At the base, the GRE lies in pieces ffom a
pound weight upward, but increase in size
as you ascend, until they assume the aP-
pearance of huge rscks, which would re.
mind the behoIder of those fragments OF
an earlier world" of which the Titans made
use. Six miles south, in Madison county,
is another mountain called the Pilot Knob,
composed Of a micaceous oxide of Tsn.
lying in huge masses. This ore will yield
about 80 per cent of metal.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

Or1Er MvRDER.-The New Mirror
gives a receipt for killing a woman quiet
". Take a young lady, and tell her that
she has a very pretty foot. She will then
wear small, thin shoes-go out in the wei
catch a cold-the cold will become a
she will die in a month.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

ar We take the following from the Plea
yune of Tuesday.
TaR ELEcrIoxs.-The elections went oil
yesterday with their wonted quletness, al
Though the results rather disappointed the
sanguine spectators. In the evening there
was some rejoicing and some fault-flndlns
among the partisans assembled to discuss the
fate Of the day, but no very serious dlstur-
Dances grew cut of them. Until night, a
stranger in town would not have dreamed
that an election was going on the numerous
parties collected in the evening, to hear the
late returns, would alone have indicated that
an election had taken place. Below we give
the returns, so far as received
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

BALLOON A~scENsfoN,-Mr. Musselrnan will
send up his balloon this evening at 8 o'clock,
from Mr.. Bcalc's corner, on the lcvee.-
Every body is invited to witness the ascen-
sion,
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

TIE R1vER.-The river is falling at Match
ez, although no visible change has taken place
here. The Missouri, by late accounts, is fall
ling, and the Ohio is in nothing more than
good boating order. The smaller tributaries
to the Mississippi, the Arkansas, Red River,
&c, are all falling, and the prospect is now
fair that the high-water now prevailing will
soon decline.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

p Il often WONDER" says a modern au
thor (which | the more love-rny wife OF
my cigar: sometimes | want my wife and
then again | want my cigar"
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08
BATON UG K.
SATURDAY, July g, 1913.

EpIrog's CoNvENrIoN.-Mcssrs. Editors
don't forget that Convention on the Af'h 'hs'''
in this nlace. Come every body.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

LARAuvE AND H~IRIART.--The official re-
turns from West Baton Rouge and lbervilie
we have not yet seen /; but we have good au-
,hority for stating that the majority for Mr.
Labauve in the Senatorial district, is fifty eigh'
So il seems, the people ratified this year the dec'-
sion they gave last, in reference tothese gentle.
men, and have given an emphatic sanction tothe
opinion entertained by many, that contestlng
elections is not " what it's cracked up to be-
Ii is better always to abide the issue OF the
ballot box.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

Majority for elidell, DEM, ia.
The parishes Of st. Bernard and Plaque
mines to hear from. Shdell is no doub
elected.
Second DrsrRIcr.-Whtte. LcbrGnche
Second Municipality, 4t6 s.
Majority for e. ID. White, wing, Ill.
LAFAYETTE poiled 7sI yoteS-notc counted.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

&TuEc4rn AT THE PLAtSs.-We expected
from n friend a full sketch Of the proceedings
on the 4th at the Plains in thissparish, but as
this has not been furnished, a brief notice,
from oral information, is all we are apie 10
give. The affair is spoken of as remarkably
brilliant, being gotten up in rich taste' ana
nassine off in the most perfect harmony. Inc
barbacue was all sorts of a ba~rbacue-some-
thing more than a dinner, for II was boil, a
dinner and barbecue, and the board was
graced by the presence of about two hundred
beautiful ladies. The cavalry companies
from Baton Rouge and Clinton, and that com
manded by Captain Sowell OF the Plans mel
On the ground, besides o large number oil citi-
Gems unequirped in military garb' invitations
had been extended 10 numerous persons at a
| distance, and to the officers Of the garrison al
| Ration Rouge. The latter, however, IN conse'
| ouence of a patriotic custom among them, o.
| celebrating the day at home, could not attend
The Declaration of Independence was read
an Grafton delivered, and patriotic sentiments
,,.,e drank in the midst of harmonious ant
! happy feelings that were undis'urbcd by any
event of the day.
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

u We deferred the publication Of our
paper to-day to a later hour than usual, for
the purpose Of giving our reader all the IN
formation we could possibly gather relative
to the elections.
u The Rev. Mr.. Stewart breaches to-
morrow in the Methodist Church.