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Friday Morning !: ~: Feb II, 1854
TAcig Mortgages, assa other LeEa'
au Ezs.Hns.


suks.5ns.
1t is quite eshleratsng. to listen TO
the eloquent and impassioned speech
es, Of patriotic gentlemen, who dlscant
earnedly on the rights Of widows and
orphans, and uphold the thread
bare tenets of old law. and ancient
usage, for no other reason foresooth,
than because they are old. and because
they can be traced back to the earl'es'
edition of the Code Napolean or the
Pandects Of Justinian. These gen
tleman are generally lawyers, and
live on litigation therefore any limo.
walton to simplify OF, abridge the stat
utes, or open the door, through which
justice may sometimes thrust out hi,
bruised head and venerable eyebrows
is direct attact upon their occupatiot
and must Of cource meet with opposl-
ton. What, may we ask, is the OBJ
iect of law! For what has the twef,
ty seven millions Of books on this sub
iect been written ? as not Justice tile
Object Does any justice accrue to
he minor out Of the Tact Mortgage
system Z? Is there any justice TO come
out of a law, that says the woman may
sue her husband for an amount she
never brought into the concern--ob
tain judgement, and take property
that her honest spouse, has stolen
from innocent third parties ?
Is there any justice in the law that
says, the children shall when they be-
come of age. sue the parents-rob
them of all, and turn them out Of home
in old age, to beg the world $ charity!
Is this not the most disgraceful legal
iuiquity, that tue base minds Of man
could cuniure up! And is not this
thing done under the sanction Of the
law And is there not many cases
Of this sori in this community ? Then
why will gentleman, with expanding
shirt bosoms, get up..and rant about the
rights of minors aud orphans---the
rights Of married women and other
most pious iniqui'ies, that are designed
t. feed the lawyer-make beggars Of
the honest and put all patcrna' power
in the hands of rogues? Is it not Of.
ering reward for vice, breaking up
all the holy relations of society
We cannot in any moderation speak
of these things, which are urged by
their defenders, as the only safe guard
to the widow, and the orphan.--Bah .
Take away the bauble Our nerves
are unstrung, when we look at the vile
rascality practiced under this law, by
pious administrators.
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Office Of the Baton Rouge. and Clinton I
Pink RN,d Company

BATON RoueE, Jan. 22nd 1854.
PROPOSALS will be received. at this
L Office until Saturday the 25th day OF
February next. 1854, to Plank ten miles Of
the Baton Rouge and Clinton Plank Road;
in accordance with the specifications to
be seen at this office By order of the Board
ian. % ALFFRD SHIPPERS.
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For Sale.

4 VALUABLE negro woman aged "a
II years-a good Cook, Washer and
froner. and valuable house servant. War
ranted against all the malidies prescribed
by law. Apply to Larguier / LaNoue
feb-15.9w. -
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ST. AGNES FEMALE ACADEMY,

ST. AEN Es FEMALE ACADEMY,
Memphis, Tenn.
THIS Institution, incorporated ty late Act of The
Legislature. Is aeIigh fully situated at healthy
and retired part of tile city of Memphis. The build
ings ample and tmmodous, stand in the centre Of
extensive and highly improved grounds, in part
shaded by forest trees, and in part tastefully laid
out and ornatnented with rare plants and shrub
berry.
The Academy is under the charge Of ths Sister,
of the Order of st. Dominic, The system Of studies
fs the same as that pursued in similar institutions
In Kentucky.
The annual eorrce is divided into two sessions
of five months each the FIRST commencing on the
first Monday of September, the second on the FIRST
Monday of February.
TERMS PER sTON-PAYABLEHA HALF SESSION
IN ADVANCE. ~ 1882
For Board and Tuition in any or all Of the fol.
lowing branches Reading, Writing, Arithmetic,
English Gramuer, Geography, History, Rhetoric,
losophy, Chemistry and Botany, Mental and Moral
Philosophy, Plain Sewing Marking, &c.-S50, $50,
800, according to the age or class of the pupil
For Day Scholars, Tuition, S15, $50, $25 aecor.
ding to age and class as above.
EXTRA CHARGES.
Latin, French, Italian, 6pansli--each. .4f2
MUSIC son ftaho' ......s........ .........ZV
Music on Harp. -. Observation-Disclosures
Use of Instruments .......................5
Drawing and paintingi. .......s.........1 10
Fancy WORK. -. ...,......... ..........5
Washing and Irbnng ...........?. 10
Bed and bedding. -. .......................t
stationary. .....!! ........... .........3
For Further particulars see Circulars, or sd-
dress the Mother Superior, st. Agnes Academy,
Memphis.
feb 1s-d WIN
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al arrie0

On Thursday the 18th nst., by the Rev
". H. Crensbaw Mr.. RlcHARp r. TuoMAs,
to Miss MELISSA f. BALsieNEAR, all of
this parish. 3E
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CONSOLATION TO HUsBANDs.-A
French publication informs US that
during the first ten months after the
Emp'e ss Josephine went on the throne
that her Manteau Makers bill, only
amounted to $36, 900.
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Miro.

At his residence on Lafayette street in
this city, on Saturday evening the 18th inst,
JOHN p. MfTC jEL-en old and respec-
ted citizen, of Baton Rouge
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MAzzlpr--The London coraespon-
dent of the Charleston Mercury, in
his letter of January 10th, writes as
follows
The name Of Mazzini, the Italian
patriot, is, without doubt, very familiar
to you. Since his last unsuccessful at
tempt at instruction, he has lived
in close retirement in the suburbs OF
London. During the last few days he
has been drawn from his privacy by an
outrage perpetrated upon him by his
exiled countrymen. He has been 10
the habit of receiving subscriptions in
the Italian cause, and rumors have
been circulated that the sum Of ESQ,
forwarded from Ireland, had been APP
propria'ed by him to his own use.
The ItaIiars beseiged his dwelling and
With execrations, drew him forth, and
upon his indignant denial Of the base
charges preferred against him, heaped
upon him the names of thief and liar.
What a return for the constant devo-
ton ofthirty years to the cause of The
liberty of his country, or a self-depy-
ing aud a lifelong martyrdom, such
as no other living man has had the
sublimi5y to endure. This charge
against him is more than suspected to
have been propagated by Austrian
pies. Those who know Mazzini best,
are we'll aware that lie never lived NJ
to his private fortune as a Sardlnlan
gentleman, but that be constantly has;
devoted the greater part OF it to the
cause of liberty.
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~The Pennsylvania Legislature
has reporteda bill recommending the
sale of all the public works of the
State. They are estimated at $40
10000.
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STATE OF LOUIS1ANA-Parish
of East Baton Rouge-sixth Judicial
District Court.

- L "A II VIZ LOblSl Il N A--farlS0
of East Baton Rouge-Sixth Judicial
District Court.
MARIA RoMERo. wife,
JoHN B,rTrsTE BooNE, hus'd
DY VIRTUE of an order of Court issued
ID in the above entitled and numbered
cause. and to me directed from the Hon
Sixth Judicial District Court. in and for
the Parish OF East Baton Rouge and State
of Louisiana, will expose at Public Sale
at the residence of the Defendant in the
City OF Baton Rouge on Monday. the goth
day of Murch, A. D. 1854, 1T IL o'clock, A NJ,
the property hereinafter set forth and des-
cribed: held ia common between the par
ties, Plaintiff and Defendant, in the above
entitled and numbered suit to effect Par
tition between said Parties to wit:
One Lot of ground situated in that part
of the City of Baton Rouge laid out BY the
late Ellie Beauregard and known on the
supplemental Plan thereof. as measuring
forty-Gv feet front on Nathcez street by
One hundred feet in depth, French meas
ure, (being the same acquired by J. B.
Boone from Joseph Hernandez on the 9Th
day of February, 1917 with all tine build
ings and Improvements, thereon--also the
following personal property to wit:
One Bedstead and beding; Round Ta-
BILE; small table; chars pair brass
Apdirons. Armoir wash stand, cook
ing stove, &c. Terms of sale--cAsH.
feb II ids. H. " BABIN, Sheriff.
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DISAPPOINTMENT OF FILLrBUsTERs
The New York Times states as a
fact. that the cartridge factory at Ra-
venswood at the time of the late terri
Bile explosion there. was engaged in
filling an order for a million of car
tridges, which had been contracted
for to be delivered by given day
And as that given day" happened TO
be day or two before the day of sail
ing of the Northern Light for Nicara-
qua, the Times intimaies THAI the or
der aforesaid was given by the Nicara-
qua Land Company, with a view to
facilitate certain tillibuster schemes
they have in view in Mosquito and
thereabout.
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NOTICE.
Siath Judicial Dist, Court-Pay
ash Of East Baton Rouge.

u
Sigth Judicial Dist, Court-Pay-
ash Of East Baton Rouge.
WHEREAS WILLIAM s. PIKE. admin
w istrator of the succession of Robert
Penny, late OF said Pa -ish deceased, and tu-
tor to the minors and forced heirs o. said
deceased. has filed in the Office OF tie under
signed Clerk oil SAID Court. an account Of
his admins tration, in said capacity upon
said succession.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
interested to show cause within ten days
from the first publication of this notice why
the said amount should not be approved,
ho,nologated, and made the judgment of
said Court M. MORENO, Clerk.
February 10th ls54td,
TIME Usage ORANGE--The sub
i scribers have just received direct
from Texas, a supply of the seed Of this in
valuable plant. a..,4.7
In speaking of this plant, the Sonthera
Cultivator published in Augusta Georgia.
very Justly remarks: I'VE have the fullest
confidence in the Usage Orange as hedye
rlant, and consideritin all respects superb
or to any other that has been introduced.
For sale by
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office ofHie Baton Ro,tde and CZintcn

office efthe Baton Rouge and Clinton
Punk Road Company.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Stockholders Of
~ the Company that an Instalment Of Ten per
cent on the amount of stock subscribed {$2 50 per
stdre) will be due and payable on the first day Of
April dS54) By order of the Board.
Jan. ~ ALFRED SHEPpERS.
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A French lady at Athens, establish
ed in ls49, a prize of five thousand
francs, for the Jewisl, damsel, who,
after close examination, should be de
clared the most proficient in the He
brew language. 1t had been divided
between young lady Of the city OF
Nancy, and another of Strashurg.
300 to one, 1900 to the other. The
Grand Rabbis of the Central Consis-
tory of France and several eminent
Hebrew scholars. were the Judges.
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Ice, on the ponds, in the vicinity of
Boston, is now eighteen inches thick
and Of fine quality. Already about
two million tons have been cut and
housed. within radius OF fifteen miles
Of Boston.
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ARREST FOR CouNTERFErT1NG.-

ARREST FOR CONTRIBUTING
Ephraim t. Brown. jr., was arrested
III Marblehead, Mass. on the 9th inst,
aiken to Boston and lodged in Jail,
on charge of counterfeiting gold
dollars It is stated that Brown has
figured in the counterfeiting business
in New York, from which city he
recently decamped. He is supposed
to be connected with one of the most
extensive gangs of counterfeiters in
the country. Protectos Of the band
have been arrested in Troy and
Brooklyn. N. Y.
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Sometime ago a despatch from Hal
flax reporting The loss Of the brig Mary
Jane from Dublin to New York. and
stating that out Of $50 persons on
board, only SIX we're saved. was receiv-
I'd here. The report wanted confirm
alton, and, as we haze heard nothing
of the alleged disaster since; we are
happy in h. belief that it was unfoun.
ded. Times.
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DRYDEN's PovERTY-It vas after
preparing a second edition Of Virgil,
that the great Dryden. who had lived
and was to die, in harness, found him
self still obliged to seek for daily
bread. Scarcely relieved from one
heavy task, he was compelled to hasten
10 another; and his efforts were now
stimulated by domestic feeling-the
expected return of his son in i'll health
from Rome. In letter to his book,
seller he pathetically writes, "If it
please God that l must die Of oyer-
study | cannot spend my life better
han in preserving his" 1t was on
his occasion, on the verge of his sew
eutieth year, as he describes himself
in the dedication Of his Virgil, that,
worn out with study, and oppressed
With fortune" he contracted to supply
the bookseller With ten thousand verses
at sixpence line.
The great new steamship at New
York, (which is expected to cross the
ocean in six days. will be ready to
launch in about week. It is cal
led the William Norvis. Much is ex-
pected from this vessel in being able
to accomplish the ocean passage in 50
short time. We anxiously look for
The first fruits d this enterprise.
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New York FAsuloNABLEs. -Th'
York correspondent Of the Phlladel
phia Ledger says:
Some curious stories are in circula-
ion among the gossips about thu
dresses Of certain ladies who figured
prominetly as leaders of the ton at the
ball that was given the other evening
to all up town. at the Metropolitan
! do not know how much truth there
is in the report, but they do say that
dresses were never before seen SO low
in the neck nor so short in the skirt
Nothing in Paris like it! Nothing
like it off the stage.
1t would be an impertinence to GO
into detail, of course, but as the "new
fashions now Introducing here, on
such occasions, are so much the re-
verse of what have hitherto been
American notions of propriety, as &
faithful chronicler of events, | cannot
escape this allusion, especially as the
subject is one which engrosses all the
small talk and scandal at evening par
ties, soirees, &c.
II Al L l.
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TIE .N.EBR.qSK.a BILL.

The Delta, of two days since, in referring
with approval to our vehement complaint of the
perfdious purposes and practices of those pub
lie tricksters, who are eternally Harvesting up
the country in the Slavery Agitation, in order
that they may clap it to the Presidential car OF
some scurvy candidate or other, says that it was
itself, in 1850, held not very orthodox, for say
ing less than the Crescent now says We have
not the pleasure Of knowing what the Delta then
said, on this question, unhappy and dangerous
Tor every body, except the grooms and jockies Of
political horse-raoing We trust, however, that
the Delta spoke out manfully, and did jour
mails rather than politicians or q partsan's
duty, on the occasion; and will be equally ready
to do it again.
AS for ourselves, we are accustomed to know.
ON such questions no orthodoxy but one the
orthodoxy of public duty and of common sense.
To that we will bow humbly; that, follow de-
voutly. We have no other creed and neither
party nor section, nor aspiring nor creeping
politician, nor Agitation North nor infatuation
South, nor the general madness of all the parties
OF the Union, shall prescribe to US faith or
make us utter one word, in Louisiana, which We
should not equally speak out, if we lived in
Maine. We trust that our brethren of the Press
VIII every where do the same and raise the thun
der OF their strong voiced engine to silence this
yelling pack Of political hounds, that never Set
up their howl, except in the hope Of making
their venison Of us ALL
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THE DAILY CRESCENT.
FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 10. 1854.
HUMAN ENDURANCE.

After all, there is no fixing the limits OF lndl-
yidual fortitude. Sir Thomas More died with a
lest; Mary of Scotland with gracious sugges-
ton to the headsman that her neck was slender
enough to cost his axe no great blow. ARIA,
killing herself to show her husband how, drew
the dagger from her bosom and gently said,
Petusi it is not painful" Cranmer, at the
stake, thrust into the fire the hand that had
signed a recantation, and held it there until it
was consumed while San Lorenzo, when they
we're roasting him on gridiron, coolly sugges-
ted to his cooks that he was done, to a turn, on
that side, and that they had better turn him
over, But all this fades, to our mind, before
the eight-fold martyrdom of such q fact as the
following, which we find in a New York city
paper:
ANrI-sLAvERy LECTURE. eighth in the Course Of
Anti-Sarery Lectures delivered before large audi
the Broadway Tabernacle last evening by Horace
Greeley Esq Subject Slavery it Is. with the Inu-
eness Gonspirng for its Overthrow Mr. Greeleys re-
marks We're listened to with much attention, and he was
frequently and warmly applauded
Now, how any strength of resolution could
not only lie stretched, eight times over, upon
the rack Of Horace Greeley's lectures, but even
rally courage enough, in the midst Of all that
agony, to applaud him, we cannot conceive
For the Gods (heedful Of the mischief in him9
have happily made Horace, as an orator, the
dismalest, the dreariest, the droWsiest, that
ever drove exhausted nature from suffering into
sleep Had man hundred eyes, like Argus
of old, Horace could close them all in slumber,
in an immensely short disquisition; had a man
q century of ears, he would, with but hands in
proportion, stop them all, at the first five min
utes of Horace's rhetoric, and take to a hundred
heels if he possessed them!
oh men of the North we confess to you freely,
That should endure you, while you endure Greelsy
For though God for SINS sends much of affection
At least he doth spare that speech malediction
Let Horace lay on, then, his Bullets and bangs:
He harms not so much those he hits as harangues
Let him fling the South eer much of his dirt
lis only the people who hear that are hurt
II the Lord hath dealt the slaves for curse,
For tho North he reserves Horace Greeley, worse
We say to you, then, without Dragging or bravery
That you shall have Horace and will keep Slavery.
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PROFESSOR DlMITRY's LECTURE OF To- N1dHr
We trust to witness, this evening, at this high
scholar and orators discourse on a subject of
all possible ones the most congenial to him,
such an attendance as will reward at once the
auditory and the lecturer; that is to say, be as
munificent, on the former part, Of money, as on
the latter it will certainly be Of noble and
elegant information
In spite Of the incessant elucidation which
has 50 long poured itself upon the matters Of
which Professor D will treat, they must bs
confessed to stand most unexhaustea, even 10
the learned, and tull of endless novelties IN all
others. For the study of the history, the no.
Iitios, the Letters and the Art of that admirable
people is still almost like one of those mines
which only grow richer, the deeper they are
worked the Ell Dorado, the California of the
fancy and the understanding, whose very earth
is gold ~
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N'esx, Books,

- Just Received at ~
J. O. M 0 r g A MS,
Exchange Place,
Adjoining the Postofce.
SKETCHES OF THE IRISH By Richard sb NJ. P.
vols. Reddeld,
POEMS Descriptive, Dramatic Legendary and Conemplav BY
VIM Gilmore Simms. vols Redfsid.
THE NATIVES OF INDIAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS London.
DE QUINCEYs PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS, yolmes.
Ticknor.
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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY.
BLACKWooDS MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY.
LONDON ART JOURNAL FOR JANUARY.
NEW Wells.
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DASHES OF AMERICAN HUMOR.
VENETIA, BY Disrasl New edition. Peterson.
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ANNIE VINCENT Domestic Story.
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A PROBLEM.

Repeatedly, during the last three months, ii
has happened to US to meet, in what we had
conceived to be Newspapers of inland towns,
notices of Marine Arrivals and FOREIGN news
which utterly puzzled us. Now steamer from
Havana, now one from Vera Cruz or Aspinwall
or Galveston, arrives at one of these dry-land
harbors, after what they tell us is, and what
seems to be, very short passage. To make
these mysterious voyages still stranger to us,
we always find the names of the vessels CORES
pondlng precisely with those Of ships that come
70 our port. All this we might still explain out
Of the fact or the superstition that We or the
map-makers are bad geographers, and that
places really on the Gulf are ignorantly set
down, by us or the gazetteers, far in the terra
ancogntta of the interior: but the phenomenon
Is constantly accompanied by another which
defies all rational njecture-namely, the pre-
else coincidence, on these occasions, of tho text
OF the news with our translations out of Mex
lean or Cuban papers! This, of course, totally
oonfounds u.s.
We hereby petition, therefore, Prof. Bache of
the Coast Survey, Lieut.. Maury of the National
observatory, and other members of Learned
Societies, to take this geographical problem into
consideration, along with the famous one of the
revolving pendulum. We also invoke to the
matter the attention Of all such of our brethren
Of the country press as are deep in astronomical
questions and study the stars through optic
glasses Of liquor
N. B. and P. S. Possibly it would assist to
clear up this matter, if those papers which do
copy news from us would only make it a rule to
add, at head or foot, Cts no matter which,
g From the .Ne,o Orleans Crescent,
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EafFies' .aMckifan.

k s. PHILLIPS would again sal the of the
city vicinity that DAY opened at II Charea
street. LADIES' AUCTION and will
FRENCH FANCY GOODS which he will soil invariably to the
highest bidder
The stock part of RICH BRoCApE SILK MUsLTNs
FLoUNCED BAREGEs and FLoUNCED JACoNETs variety Of
other styles Of Dress Goods with large
BRoIDERIEs
Also FINE FANS, SILK PARAsoIls PORTE MoNNAlEs Extra
SHE'LL COMBS large variety, too TO mention
a Lso
s large imported FANCY GOODS saved
LATE FIRE IN CHARITIES STREET
tx The sale will o'clock will continue Till
every article is sold
NJ BImpoeS desiring to cosa Inyosss of Fancy
we'll to avail themselves Of thin opportunity
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MELANCHOLY AccIDENT-We learn from the Indianopo-
lis Journal that Marshall W. Parker, son of the Hon
s. Parker M G. from Indiana, accidentally shot him
self Connersve in that State on the night OF the
3lst u while returning with friends from pigeon shoot
ing excursion. His gun went of while he was taking 1t
from wagon, the load passing into his breast through
his heart and out at his back the sugs which
part of 1t striking watch seal and forcing it along with
his chain and watch partly into his body He was in
stantly killed Young Parker about twenty-one
years of age and had just left from college