Democratic banner., 1849-03-12

Johnson, OF MaryIanos u certainty stue
most consistent appointment in the Cabi-
net.
TIE CIrE OF LouIsIAEA.-We see by
the proceedings of the Legislature, that a
bill has passed both Houses, converting the
Town of Louisiana into a City. The city
Of Louisiana-for such we must in future
style her-is, indeed, q considerable city.
She has a handsome wharf, affording per-
haps the best landing on the Upper Missis.
Isippi, which is not unfrequently covered
with merchants, strangers, ~loafers, drays
and produce. She has Towering mills and
a pork house, capable Of grinding all the
grain and picking oil the pork in the sur
rounding country. She has a system Of lin
~ternal improvements in progress that prom
Uses to add muetl'to the appearance and
convenience of the. pity. She numbers
now about a thousand inhabitants, and
will soon double that number, if we
may Judge from the number of stran-
gers that daily crowd the streets, and the
demand for private residences. Let the
houses go up; they can't be built too fast,
and money can't be more proitably in
vested.
All this impetus has been given to Louis
lana while she was only a town, and who
can calculate the stride she will now take,
since she is a City, and is to have a Mayor,
Board of Aldermen and a Board Of Health?
The greatest danger to be apprehended Of
a drawback upon her prosperity is, that
when purchasers thicken in the market,
property holders will the calamit-
GUS fact that city lots have ri-.
MATRIMONIAL EMANCIPArloN.-Bachel.
ordom must be exceedingly amused at the
rage thatnow seems to Pervade the married
world for divorces. Whilst they, being
without the pales Of "connubial felicity"
and ignorant Of its mysteries, like the can
die flies, in the dark, with commend ,bls ef-
forts are butling their heads at the windows
to enter the light, those within who have
tasted Of the sUeets are butting ct the glass
tdoors Of matrimony to return to darkness
or celebscy.
The present is by general consent admit
ted to be the age of progress. but not so
generally the era Of correct legislation
The course pursued during the past win
ter by the Legislatures Of several States Of
the Union, has proven one Of the following
alternatives trne: either that the ties of re.
lationship between man and wife are natur-
ally weaker than they have been esteemed
by the world, or that they have been ,oeak-
ened by their tho free legislation in the
premises. Legislation has, for several
years, had a tendency to seperate more and
more the interest and consequently the
feelings Of husband and wife, but it has re.
NAMED to the assembled wisdom of the
States during the last winter to consum-
mate this course, BY throwing open wide the
SSOHS S""o"S'potion W OH WIN ucSiIeu an
gress or faucied themselves oppressed By
the bonds Of matrimony.
The influence exerted upon community,
consequent upon the facility with which d.
~yorces are obtained through legislative
bodies Of late, is we'll calculated to cause
the rejecting mind to pause, and scrutinize
the policy if not the legality Of this species
of legislation. We doubt both the legality
and the PrOPriety of legislative interference
in matters that belong, in our Judgment, to
the judiciary. 1t is there alone that the
merits and dement's Of cases can be fully
understood, and justice rendered to parties
not Petitioning.. The folly of this kind of
hasty Legislation is shown ia the statements
Of the reporters at Jeferson, that during the
present session of our Legislature persons
have been divorced who never asked it.
A. The favor of sVALERIa' was intend.