The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-04-08
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..cent number If the Shreveport Demo.
'rrut, the editor points ont the defects
/ in the present law prohibiting the sale
.cf .pifituous liquors In qnantity'less
Ilhahsohe gallon, rs follcws:
:. Since The law was enacted, how
man; times has it been infringed =
Count the hairs Of your head How
many Of these iDfringers have been
dealt with as the law Directs Echo.
cnswers--bow nlany9 Here then we
have a law brought into existence BY
the combined action Of three district
todies--the legislature. corporate au.
tlori'ies and the people themselves
Yet it is a dead lettpr--nut worth the
paper upon which II is printed. This,
M me can deny. 1t is arplorable
fact but nevertheless true. Now why
Il 1t the case Have we no officers
to execute il law hHralded into exist
ence Under surh auspices As mat
tiers that every law abiding citizen is
morally bound to see The laws execu-
tel. and more partirulatlv law like
this in whlcL his vote has SO direct an
influence, If their agents will not
perform their duty others should he
selected that will. But We have off
GERS, and efficient ones too in matters
where public sentiment uphold them.
Here lies the evil public opinion. AT
The first sight it looks inconsistent, that
the voice Of the people should sane
ton d law and then throw it's influ.
ence against its proper enforcement.
But Inconsistent as II may appear, does
any one deny the fact (. Have we
not the law, the law.breakers and the
officers Suppose public opinion was
strongly in favor Of putting this law
in force, does any one suppose fifteen
months would elaspe with but two or
three prnsecntionsl We answer em.
pha'ically, no.
While m this subject we cannot
forbebr calling attention TO the re-
marks Of our respected contemporary Of
the CaddJ Gazette. They are con.
else, rithy and to the point, and We
trust will meet With thai attention to
Which thew are entitled. We certain
~ sgree with him that the Law us il
is, lis mockrry,' and that il is ''far
better to have no law than to have
that which is infringed with the ut
most IMMUNITY"
ANOTHER SLAVE Row Ar prrrs.
Rc4--On Saturday last, says an es.
change, the Hon. Lynn Boyd, Speak
cr OF the House Of Representatives
accompanied by his family. ard col
ored female servant. stopped at the
st. Charles, in Pittsburg, and while
they were at breakfast they were SUR
rounded by a large number of negroes
who enleavored to take the servant
woman oti' by force. but were prevented
by the interference Of a number of
gentlemen. Soon after Mr.. Oovd and
his family started TO go down to the
steamboat for Louisville, and were
followed by an excited crowd. AT the
boat the mob was me, by the Captain
with u revolver. who threatened to
shoot down the first one that came on
board. This had COOL effect, aud
Mr.. Boyd and family, and their ser.
want, effected their escape. Pittsburg
is becoming famous for these disgrace.
full exhibitions.
KEMEDv FOR ScALps AND BURNS.
The American Medical Gazette. for
March, calls attention TO an unfailing
remedy for scalds and burns. II says
a few pounds OF wheat -four should
BE- promptly applied TO the wounds
made W fire, and repeated until the
iinlhmlnatory stag has passed. We
have never known fatal ease cfscnld-
ing or burning in which this practice
has beea pursued during more than
thirty years experience, and having
treated hundreds both public and pri-
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