The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-03-26

HARVEY HOUSE. DATUN hOUGE.-
We are glad to learn that this excel
lent Hotel, kept by our old friend
Markham, has been doing a fair bust.
ness the past season. We are quite
sure it has merited all the success il
has met with. There are few clever
er gentlemen or more obliging land
lords that Capt. M. He does MI in
his power to make his guests comfor-
table, and to supply them with all the
Injuries aud convenience OF first
class hotel and he generally succeeds,
Outside Of this city there are few no.
tells in tile Mississippi Valley that are
equal to the Harvey House and no
where in or out Of the city, can be found
a nobIer or more whole-souled land
lord.---Louis iand F'ourth District
Republican.
We consider the foregoing compli-
ment to the proprietor Of the Harvey
House richly merited. We have been
informed by one who has had expert
ence in the premises, and who is capa-
bic Of Judging, that the hotel is an
excellent one, and its proprietor, and
subordinates, anxious to, and capa-
bic Of, serving the public. Were the
location Of the Capitol considered
permanent, there would soon be no
complaint about the lack of hotel ac-
Communications in Baton Rouge. Her
citizens would speedily remedy all de-
tieencies in that respect. Butletin.
As the foregoing complimentary.
notices appear together in the columns
Of the Bulletin, we republish them, as
well melited evidences OF the fact, that
some ofo city contemporaries are
willing to give credit anywhere it may
be found justly due. The Legislature
is not now setting, and we therefore
have the largest liberty to make few
finland remarks ON this matter, 1--WE
would say independent" but the word
has fallen into disuse, il not positive
disrepute.)
The Harvey House, was built in
anticipation of the removal Of the
Capitol OF the State to this place in
1874. The Convention that framed
the Constitution of 1915, drew a line
about the commercial emporium, and
said in that obsolete document, that
the seat Of government should never
be agitltin the limit Of 60 miles Of
New Orleans. This "black line" as
it was called, was the cause Of another
Convention to make another Consti-
tuition, principally ON account Of this
odious Introduction, of the chief city
of the State. Messrs. Pike IL Hart,
then commission merchants, having
only common interest in the pros
perity of the place, stepped aside from
their regular business, and Withdrew
therefrom, the principal part Of their
capital, to erect this Ito Baton Rouge
at least, } magnificent structure. They
prosecuted the work under such cir
us would have unnerved
many bold and determined heads,
with stronger hands.
They had the ruins Of the State House
at Donaldsonville TO stare them in the
face as warning to the venturous
spirit Of interprise-the prediction
on all hands from our own citizens
that the work would involve them to
such an extent as to overwhelm them
that the hotel, would be monu-
ment of their commercial death, and
fall into the hands of others under the
hammer; and yet.the work progressed
to its present fair proportions. The
House was scarcely finished and placed
III the hands of that popular landlord,
Mr.. L. A. Pratt, (now Of the Gait
House Louisville) before malignity and
envy combined, to wrest the ground on
,rh;oL 4l,a h,,,Id;n,, stands fyrr, tLoir