Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-12-11

quence taxed to the uttertnost, to defeat tn
measure, and in which, aided by othe
circumstances, they succeeded. I'VE nigh
add, happily, Tor the honor Of our country
as we fully agree with Gen. SHIELDS, thu
the transaction, had it been consummated
would have left n stain, from which the M
ton would never recover.
We have thus far, fortunately, escape,
the actual disgrace, and it will be 70
Congress at once to take such measures
rs to prevent the possibility Of "a repe.
'ition of the attempt.
ALARMING FREsHEr IN JAmEs' RIVER
we have to record to day, says the Rich
mond Republican oflhe u ult. the creates
trcshcti in James River that has occurred
since 1901.
AZ an early hour yesterday morning,
adds the Republican, the bridge which
connected VauxhalPs Island with Mayo's
long bridge was carried oil, leaving several
inhabitants of the island entirely without
the means ofgeiting from their perilous ST.
%tuation. Nor did the main bridge itself
escape, tor we nave also to record the fact
that Mayo,s bridge has been entirely car
FIed away" A portion ofthe bridge on The
South sidelofthetolI house was swept off
about ~ o'clock, aud, in an hour after
wards, the entire span reaching from the
Richmond side TO the island, on whicbthe
toll house stands, was also taken downthe
rushing tide, carrying on it seven persons
none Of whom, however, We are rcioiced
to state, were harmed. But n few minutes
before, more than a hundred citizens were
exposed TO the same danger of being chr
ried down the stream; FIR It seemed that
the city Ind congregatcd on he point of
land on which one end ofthe bridge rested.
Hany of whom had also yenlnrad to lea 70
Grmo, to test 20 qu1liticy oftbe bridge
to g"ta better view Of what was going
on. .'. -
No one cau possibly form an idea Of the |
vast amount o damag" done to property by
this unexpected overhow1ng. and we have
he strongest apprehensions that the fcshct
has not occurred without he loss Of life. |
Up 70 lhla time, however, we have heard
ofuo one who hns persisted. ....s
LInEL SUIT ~FLooRED.-In the case Of
VIM. Lyons Us. WIN. Townsend, editor Of
he New York Express, at New York, on
he 24th nit. the jury returned a ycrdict-
find no cause for action" II appear-
d in evidence that the plaintiff, being a
ilot, boarded Il packet ship an obtained
of the letter-bag and packages
'r the newspapers. The package fer one 3,
ewsPaPer was delivered promptly, while 7
he others, as web as the letter-baa, failed {
, reach theirdestipation until the nextday. s
Commenting ontbis occurrence, the defen-
ant said-"The overland express was a
Hain Of a pilot. on foot-no better than
'e ~orst kind Of thief" The action for
was based upon these expressions, tro ,
images being laid at $4,000. >t'..'t :
l.
HE AMERICAN HoRsE.-The American |
'rse "Sir illiam," lately trotted, at Man. |,
lester, England, eighteen and a halfmiIes .
thin the hour, without once breaking, for
wager of 100 sovereigns. The horse is a
c property Of a company in New York. e
The best trotting horses which ever an. tcC
AIRED in Europe have been from this -
untry. This is partly the effect oftrain- d,
and partly ofjudicious breeding. The c
1glish racerand hunter have been brought =,
their present perfection in the same d
amer. "
IRISH BANfsHED TO CANADA BY TO
Err CRUEL LANDLoRDs.-On this sub. 81
t the London Times expresses the fol. .
wing opinion "The population of British =
nth America in 1874 wal l,e5I,241.
fore the close of tbis present year nearly
1000 persons, amounting to a twentieth !"
The existing population, will have arrived ~
the st. Lawrence, almost entirely from
land. Instead of that enormous immi. DO
'tlon representing in any degree what Sc
'r the wealth, the education, the rank, the
bits, the loyalty, and the whole character -
ne mother country, they are to a man
m the lower orders of Ireland. They re-
sent they carry with them misery and no
radiation, a visionary temperament and reC
'ctious religion, a deep sense of injury, he
a burning hatred ofthe British name.
will not efface from their vindic-
memories and their inventive imagi-
ions the dark circumstances Of their mi
Iishment, their passage, their landing, no
r dispersion over the inhospitab Bile wild. he,
b is British colonization. What elsets
e expected than a demoralized and dis. =
cted population, a lost colony, and an
randIzed rival And whom have we ne,
tank for these inevitable results r. for.
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