The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-03-04

takes place. And this is the va,
they live, and this is the way he evi
of gambling is kept up. Can an,
law, put it down No! FAY We; 70
the very reason, that the laws officer
and ministers, are, in absence of EN-
ployment, most deeply interested il
keeping up the gambling fraternity.
Don DuELo, THE SplR1rUAL1sr.-A,
audience" Sozd."--A notorious scamp
who styled himself Don Daefo, tn,
renound Spiritualist,,' has been play.
ing pretty extensive game here fo'
the last few days. He had issued
posters and programmes Of a series Of
lectures which was to be delivered by
him on Spiritual Manifestations" on
Monday and Wednesday evenings, al
Armory Hall, and collected quite a
pile, by the sale Of his season tickets,
from the gullible portion Of the com
munity. A large audience assembled
at the Armory last night, to listen, to
the revelations Of the spiritualist, but
10, and behold Don Duela was among
the missing. The humbugged audi
ence, after patiently waiting until af-
ter 8 o'clock, became uproariously
furious, and proposed to, each take a
chair from the hall, as aqusd pro quo
for the price of their admission ticket.
TO this mode Of balancing accounts,
the proprietors decidedly objected, as
they were themselves not the gamers,
but the victims of Don Duelo, for he
had not paid them a red cent for its
use. The man at the box Office had
taken in. during the evening, some
twenty-five dollars and the funds were
seized upon, ~ ct arnsas, and brought
forward for general distribution among
the audience. As there were some
three hundred people present, the
difficulty Of making fair distribution
became apparent. A good Samaritan
in the crowd, however. soon solved it,
by proposing that the twenty-five dol
lars should be handed owe, to the Or
phan Asylum. The proposition was
unanimously agreed to, and the crowd
dispersed in good humor.-True
Delta.
INCREASING THE BANKING CAPITAL
OF BALrtMoRE-A very important
bill increasing the capital ofthe Balti-
more banks, has passed the Senate of
and will, it is stated, be
adopted by the House. The bill en-
acts that the capital Of the several
banks in the city of Baltimore, may
be enlarged so that those banks whose
capital now exceed one million Of dol
lars may be increased to two millions
If dollars; those whose capital exceed
nine hundred thousand dollars, and
ess than million, may be increased
o one million five hundred thousand
dollars, and the capital Of all the re-
naming banks in said city may be To-
creased to one million of dollars. The
Increase may be effected from time to
ime, as deemed advisable, but not
ess than 100000 at any one time, |
when the assent of a majority Of the
took is obtained.--B 0ltlneore Times. {
JURY TR1ALs.-Blackstone says that
the trials by jury has been used time
tut of mind in Great Britain, and
Gems to have been ceval with the
rst civil government thereof Some
uthors have endeavor to trace the
rigin of juries back to the ancient
sritons; but it is very certain that
hey were in use in the early Saxon
instistitution being as
ribed to Wooden, their great legisla-
or. For this reason traces of juries
1ay be found in the laws of all the
atoms which adopted the feudal sys-
I'm, as Germany, France and Italy.
here is mention of them in England
$ early as the laws Of King Ethelred,
nd then not as an new invention
ascribes the first introduce
on Of the jury to Regner, King Of
weden and Denmark, who was CO.
with the English King Eg-