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To all whom 1t may Concern

YOU will please take notice that un.
less you call ut my Store, before the
first of May, and settle up either BY note, drsft
due bill or even cash, your account, which has
been running from ~ to 30, shall be cornnele6
to bring suit on the same lam so,rv 10 h.
obliged to have recourse to the law, but you will
please remember u at when you or four family
were sick of yellow fever, or otherwise, in 1853
and 1s54 the Medicine was furnished unhesita-
dngly, night and dny. ask you to come and
settle some way or other Just to please vonr.
self. VIM. BOGEf
Aprit l9th-tid. Druggist.
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NOTICE..

THE Omnibus will leave R. REALis Sta
l. BILE on Third st. Sunday Morning at 6
O'Clock for Greenwich Springs and return
in the evening. Persons desiring to 20
out, will register their names before hand.
fare each way 81 fone omnibus is not SUI
fcient a second will be on hand to leave
at the same time. ZAP. 3-tdl R. BEAL.
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New Orleans and Bayou Sara

TWICE A WEEK-For
L Bsvoa Sara. Post Hudson k
.obdelPs Store, Baton Rouge, -
Plaquemine, and all intermediate landings.
the fine passenger steamer CAPITOL.
Jas. H. URE, MAsTER, leaves New or.
leans every SUNDAY at 9 O'Clock. a. M.
and every WEDNESDAY, at s o'clock
Pm: Returning leaves Bayou Sara every
MONDAY at ~, NJ, and THURSDAYat
8 P. M. and Baton Rouge every MONDAY
at 6 P. NJ, and THURSDAY at 10 ,. N.
% For freight or passage apply On
board. -,s' yaA. -, 1855.
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/ FIRE AT BAYOU GoULA.- From a
passenger who came up on the steamer
Capitol, yesterday morning, We learn,
that fire broke out in the store Of
Mr.. Trexler, at Bayou Goula, at about
8 o'clock. The Capitol, then at the
landing. Capt. Ure, generously sent his
crew ashore to aid in quenching the
flames. By tearing down frame
house near the "Buena VISTA house,
the fire was checked.
Mr.. Trexler with his lady was on the
Capitol at the time the fire originated.
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FOR Bayou Sara three .~
j TIMES A w1nk-1he y. a ll
Mail steamer Laurel Hll, J. A. r
CoTTeS, master, will leave New Orleans every
SUNDAY MoRsNo.at O'Clock, and every wEDxss-
DAY and FRIDAY MoRxMG At 10 o'clock. Returning,
leaves Bayou Sara on MONDAY, THURSDAY and SAT-
Agents-M Gordon, Jr., J. A. Braud. 4 Landry,
John Burbridge Co., HAN 1 Kemp 4 Co., Joss.
Pagaud, advertising agent.
n n. B.--A clerk will be ON the Leyee in n. D.
to receive freight 1T oil times, from Tuesday morn.
ing to Saturday .ight, ard shippers can deliver
goods to him, and hsve bilb ladinr signed in the
beats absence tgoI3 viiel> may Az
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]
of the Crescent City. and was to hav
departed thence on his mission Of love
!. light and logic, to other benighte(
precincts, to give other regions thu
benefit of his novel theological philos
ophy. Whether he has succeeded il
convincing the people Of New Orlean
that Catholicity and repubiicanism arr
bosom friends. and like Damon ant
Pythias cannot live separated; We
know not. The fact is, it is a matter
of very little consequence, and people
| ought not to fret themselves about it
If he has con vinced them, doubtless il
has been done through what is con
ventionally called reason and if the
reason of the age stands committed
then the thing it understands, is fact
of to-day; though it be demonstrated
a transparent imposition tomorrow
That all things according to Pytha-
goras came originally from a goose
egg, was as much fact in the day Of
Thales; as the Immaculate concep-
ton " dogma is, at this. The learned
Doctor B. when he speaks of the re-
publican tendency of the Catholic re-
ligion, and tells his people that the re
public cannot exist without it; furn-
ishes the world with a thought from
the profound depths of bis own pro-
found mind, which mankind can never
repay with mere empty thanks
What did the learned gentleman think
a few years ago, when be was a Me-
thodist, Presbyterian, and Chris
tan Church man, at the same time
d" Look not my friends upon this pic
ture, and on that. >" Do not uncover
the past over which the sage Doctor
has thrown a four ply blanket; or if
you do, you discover the shallowness
Of bis sophistry, in the history of
which has lived and grown
fat on the ignorance of mankind. Let
the gentleman tell US; in the same
breath that he puts forth his new doc.
trine, that it is seventh sin-more
hideous in the eye Of the Creator,
Than the other six; to make use of
The divine principles Of common
sense; to say nothing of reason.
But we loose ourself. The design
If this notice is to defend the gener-
JUS Pantheist, from the attacts of his
enemies, and the assaults of the re.
press. Doctor Orestes, is
'bused; in so much, that the press
will not allow him the full length of
rope" he desires to hang himself
Too much solicitude is manifested for
lin, and it is this, and not any in
rinsic merit in the man, which makes
lin a lion. We agree with Doctor
}sownson. We believe that every
epublican should turn Catholic, for
be sake of liberty. We believe fur
her; that the world will never get
long swimmingly until it is all en-
raced within the capacious arms and
aws of the Catholic Church. We
elieve. that the thousand and one
ects of Professionalism are any thing
Ise than christian in their practices
ne very antagonism of the religion of
esus. And the only remedy visible
} US; for this lamentable religious
ondition of the world, is for all sects 1
unite. turn Catholic; adopt the ab- {
1rdities and play hypocrite to COM
ION sense and reason, in order to |
'volutionize and republicanize, this {
lie only dangerous enemy that liberty I
yer had. We cannot but think that {
Ill Al Al r n e
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paper editors are ever hunting, uT
scraps Of morality to lay before their
readers in daily feast of reason. >
The following strikes us; and as il
calls to mind an incident in the life
of Mr.. Titus Trumps, the man Of
many hopes; who Mr.. Douglas Jer-
rold, has just introduced to the world
we give it. Here's the gem Of moral
ity: Never anticipate wealth from
any other source than labor. HE
who waits for dead mems shoes may
have to 60 for long time in unmend-
ed hose" .
Titus Trumps, the man Of many hop
es, though MOI so else the following
conversation between himself and his
maiden aunt, over dish of tea /; had
never occurred:
"Now dare say aunt Titus aunt
was Miss Jerutha Trumps. y
"Now, l dare say, aunt, you-you
have, somewhere, another teapot be-
sides that ?"
"To be sure, Titus" said Miss
Trumps; why, what put that in your
head ?"
:" mean, aunt-ha! ha perhaps,
rich, curious teapot, eh?" and
Trumps rubbed his hands, and looked
laughingly at the spinster
Well, declare was there ever
such boy !.''-and the old maid laugh.
ed in concert.
II was sure you had, aunt-ha,,
ha certain Of ia rich teapot,
eh? too rich for every day, eh !"-|
and Titus twinkled his eyes, and rub.
bed his hands with glee.
ITO be sure: everyday, indeed ?
your uncle Robert, that was car
ried up the country by the black prin-
cess, and never heard Of again y
who knows " interrupted Trumps,
touched by his deceiver. Hope" who
knows ? Perhaps, I've cousin king
somewbere-eh, who knows!
didn't he bring me a teapot from
Canton - said Miss Trumps unmind-
full of the possible honor accruing to
her from regal nephew.
"And you have boarded it up
you wouldn't take any money for it?"
cried Titus.
"Not its weight in gold," exclaim-
ed Miss Trumps, with considerable
emphasis; and the heart Of Titus leapt
at the avowal.
The reader may, with the maiden
aunt, feel some surprise at the interest
taken by Titus in tea-pots. Let US
explain. Titus had only that morn
ing read an account of the death of
IN old solitary woman, who, though
passing as very poor among her neigh
oors, had left, with other boarded
wealth, large teapot filled with
,uineas. Miss Trumps was about the
'ge ofthe deceased woman-like her,
he lived alone-was very saving I
eldom stirred out, and was, indeed,
n the opinion Of Titus,-an opinion t
onfirmed after a scrutinizing view of c
is beloved aunt-the very woman {
0 hoard guineas in teapot. The c
lgnificant manner with which his =
unit declared the utensil to be worth
IS weight in gold, convinced Titus.
eyond all chilling doubt, that it was Z
rim-full Of that precious metal. In o
'ct, the thing spoke for itself-ir- il
eed, she had owned it; the teapot f,
'as worth I" its weightin gold" Long fl fl
ef6rc Titus had taken his hopes and =
)niured nm the 1arrest toa.not ovor
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The Pd,cnbrokers and the Erhib.
tion.-Beforc the departure Of an ex-
cursion train to London, one pawn.
broker in Leeds had received on de-
post no less than a bushel and half
Of watches; and this sudden and ex-
traordiuary accession Of business he
attributes entirely to the desire which
those who are little able to afford the
treat, had to visit the Crystal Palace.
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PEDLERs.-Are our merchants and
trades-people awere of the fact, that
at no former period, has there been a
larger number of itinerant vagabods,
travelling about the country than
there is now9 When we fly out in
the eastern regions, we hear of them
by scores; imposing upon the people
with all manner of bogus jewelry, and
other trumpery. They evade the
town-most of them land below, and
foot it, through the highlands for
tho very reason that not one out Of a
douzen of them, have either State or
Parish license. Taken in aggregate,
this coutrabani trade seriously effects
the interest Of our town traders; and
few examples should be made. to get
rid Of the priests. They generally best,
eye the country house with their war
es, at an hour of the day, when tEey
are certain that the male members
are absent and never leave until they
are satisfied that not another dime of
change, is to be had about the house.
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JOHN R. DUFROCo.

JOHN DUFRoCQ.
General Agent Il AuctiOneer.
WILL ATTEND IT, POSTING BOOKS. dravior
w and collecting accounts, writing leases
deeds, DC. Also, any business to be transacted
with the State Government, redeeming lands
forfeited for taxes, &c
Orders left at +. B. SANS, J. p, will be prompt
ly attended to.
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STRAY OR STOLEN.

[ IN the night Of the Both inst, bav
" horse about IA hands high, both hind
legs up to the ankle, white, also eoIsr
mark S on the neck. A liberal reward
will be paid for his delivery at H. r.
WApDILI;s DuTg Store. Nav. 3.
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4 Cold Fire.-One very cold night
a jolly old fellow who had partaken.
rather freely Of flip at the tavern, star
ted for home i'll his sleigh, and on bis
way was upset and left by the side of
the road. Some persons passing the
same way short time after, discovered
the old fellow in sitting posture hold
ing bis feet up towards the moon, and
calculating to some invisible person, 1"
John. pile on the wood, it's thunder
ing cold night ?''
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-15

drinking places by no means the only Law which
our existing police authorities allow to remain .
dead letter. The laws sgsinst brotbels the laws
against gambling houses, the laws against lotteries
every law, in fact which looks rather to the pre-
vention than to the punishment of crime would
appear from the testimony given before that com
mittee to have fallen into equal sbeyancs
20 exceedingly imperfect, so utterly inadequate
ia our present system Of criminal justice, sud SO
little trustworthy the persons to whom its admin
istratOn is committed that the only ofenseS which
at present run any considerable risk Ct punish,
meDt are those which, BY making some sudden ara
notable attack upon person AID property, sur up
for TIER enforcement in ad iitiOn Ia all the machn
cry Of the police, the anger ard spirit of r9til4'
ton Of some perseyering pirate prosecutor
Where this aid is wanting all the efforts OF All
the police from the Mayor and judges downward
are of the most feeble and Intellectual sort so
Il at even those whose daily bustess is the viola
lation Of the most wholesO ne laws-snd who gain
a dishoneft livelihood and ev, wealth By sucking
Cay after day, the hearts-blOod, as it we're, from
victims whom appetite and habit make insensible
Of their darger-are only punished, if punished at
all, by blackuai levied upon them for the private
benefit Of the officers.
1t will be quite time enough to make up our
minds that drinking shops cannot be suppressed by
law, after we have constructed some sort of police
machinery at all adequate to the enforcement OF
the laws in general. In small places, where there
is 10 paid police, the entire body Of the citizens
act in that character and aid personally in the en-
forcement of the laws. In such places the mind
does not become hmiiarized, as in great city
like this, to babtual breaches of the law, and such
breaches when they do occur give shock to the
beholder and remind him Of his duty as a good
citizen Here, where we pay so much money to
saIsried police, we naturally enough expect that
they will make the enforcement of the laws duty
and business leaving the rest Of the citizens free
20 attend to their own affairs. Should we succeed
in organizing a system of police adequate to this
necessary end we may then expect that, in com
mon with other wholesome lave, the law against
the sale of intoxicating drinks will also be en-
forced
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leaving actually asked him for letter Of intrsdss
ton to the captain of the steamboat which Ia
proposed to honor with his patronage or the 70
turn voyage, in order that, on the basis Of such
introduction, he (UbderSOod) might solicit from
the captain the peculiar advantages Of dead head
OF course Mr.. L. did not then regard the Qeptls
nan from whom be thus sought letter of iatrs-
6uciiOn as very unWo rthy person ~ he has
discovered him to be since THE TRIBUNE held
Up TIE Modern Pilgrims to merited ridicu,e and
contempt.
We make no apology for thus splitting so small
ard uuclean sn insect SIS this Underwood; for when
he sets up as protested calumniatOr Of THE
TRIBUNE, and above all when be sho VS. that he
has influence enough in respectable quarters to
procure admission for his calumnies into such
Journal as The Boston Atlas, it becomes proper to
devote moment to depriyng him of the power Of
mischief hereafter. And while our hand is engaged
in this disagreeabe business we will also hang nm
another betterknown person Of the same class who
as we are aware from ample evidence has ds>s
what he could to circulate and in,iauase into tina
public mind these sane imputations which Mr.
Mason, Mr. Under wood and others have mora
boldly put into print We refer to no less chan
acter than the Rev. Rufus Wilmot Griswold, ID d.
a person so notorious in this community that r.
trace caumny to him, sufflces effectualy I,
dispose Of it. 1t is well for the public also
to understand that the reverend divine in ques
ton has also found the evidence of our We
nality in the fact that our literary reviews have
not always been such as he desired In thus
bringing him along With Underwood (they go very
we'll together) to the pIlory, shall probably be
thought personal, and We admit the charge in
fact personality is Just what we are aiming at.
and what We regard as proper aud necessary in
the case.
We desire to have no difficulty with the mem-
bers of the Publishers Association, or with any
body 1t is much more to our taste to live at
peace with ali the world. Still, there are some
difficulties in life which We have never tried 10
conquer ard one of them is that of pleasing every
body. 1t ia one Of the habits OF The TRIBUNE to
express decided opinions in rather lucid aud peg
ceptble manner. Another of its habits is not to
tolerate much foreign interference in its manage.
derwoOd, the Rev DR. Griswold, and the rest Of
mankind, that any attempt to dictate whom we
shall or shall not employ in any department of our
staff or in what occupations our writer's shall or
shall not spend such part Of their time as /, not
required for our service, will probably not DO 50
successful as the same labor bestowed in some
other department of human effort.
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We have already brought to light the motive
which, so far as THE TRIBUNE is concerned, ami
mated the author Of the wholesale attack upon the
honesty of the press which the Publishers Assoc
citation ipdorsed and issued in the last impression
of their official Circular. We now have to
deal with another sanderer, who, more reckless
and less cunning than Mr.. Mason, not only
puts the attack in form that leaves no doubt
of it's being aimed particularly at US, but has
taken care to inform US of it privately and
at the same time to give US his name and to
let us know in general terms what is bis special
drudge That grudge, as we also learo, he means
to feed fat by continuing to circulate the same
falsehOods respecting this journal and its literary
criticisms.
A day or two since there appeared in TIE Bos
ton Aaas letter taking up the charge Of venality
and bribery brought by The Publishers Circular
and applying it in a manner which would have
been but little more distinct had THE TRIBUNE
been specified by name. The author Of this letter
was Mr. +. II. UNDERWOOD, q prominent man
sger if not a partner 10 the publishing house Of
Phillips Sampson & Co. of Boston; and Mr.. Tn.
derwood has caused to be communicated to us the
threat that he will not only give the calumuy such
Anonymous currency as he can through the press,
but also will repeat and circulate it otherwise so
that people shall fully understand, as he says, why
THE TRIBUNE does not treat the book. Of Phil
lips, Sampson 4 Co. in different manner OF
course, if We could precisely meet Mr.. Under
wooo ele ated ideas in the matter Of praise and
prominence for the works published by his house,
we should be spared the punishment which he
now proposes to inhict upon Us
To the imputations in question, when they come
from the house of Phillips, Sampson Il Co, as when
they come from Mason Brothers, we do not deem is
necessary to make any defense. But it may, per-
haps, aid the public in forming their opinion. to
know that Mr.. Underwood has repeatedly sought
the use of our columns for the purposes OF bis
house, and has failed TO obtain 1t; and also taat'
on the 25th ult., we discharged the duty OF cash-
Qati1g with moderation, but with ustice, very
stupid book, in two volumes, published ~ 1nat
house, and called Modern Pilgrims. Hence the
anger of Underwood, and hence his belief in the
venality and corruption of THE TRIBUNE. Indeed,
iust before that review of Modern Pilgrims. we
learn that Mr.. Underwood, being in New York,
NOT only visited the principal literary critic Of
TIE TRIBUNE in the post friendly way, bat on
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the Personal Liberty blu, are servie aud slave
driving, or to speak the TRUTH very weak and
contemplate faction, which will soon be wholly
slouebed off; nor is it e1pediens for South
Carolina to repeat, at this time, the in'olence
in which, in her conduct to yard the State of
Massachusetts,, she has for toe last ten or twelve
years babltually indulged Il is great proof Of
the strong common sense which, ia spite of all IA
rstici.ms and e1tr,vsgsncies underlies the Amer
lean character, aud with uny ielding force holds
our political system together, that the members OF
the south Carolina Legislature are beginning to
be aware OF this fact
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T,,nsAsn CosrIc1IoNs IL QrrENs CorS1r =

TRIALS AND CONVICTIONS IL QrEESs County FOR
m.,u.rcH1rR AND HIGHWAY RoBsrRY.-DeriDs the pr,,
.e,t week the Queen, County Court Of Oyer an Temas
yuss, Rockwell presidrgs G,rm,n nam cd Wm Green
sd convicted of highway bbery and TO e'
st,te P,r f fifteen Years The circumstances we're az FOL.
oss, On ID ev ming Of the loh Of Ausa LAST. three deaI
Of the Five Pc Induced Swiss named Joseph yo vac
hss lust In this country ard had several watches TO
pos 90 with them and they would 6nds purchaser Tas
ree succeeded deco Taylor 70 Hnnefs po At
WHERE they .t pted TO murder and rob him Taylor too
much Tor hem aud succeeded kss Of the s.ng psnsd
fhsybs Dvy-r AMI woundns smother who escsp.d reeo
VI. on the night aud sentenced TO fifteen
ysaa Ia the State Prison
Msnsas2hy-ln spsubeT szt drunken ffscs took place
Of pssc bouse sho d shove Asora bet Ger
nsDed Jseos Com and Butcher Joe, .i sepn
hs contestants separated the German sar,od or
home bat followed by Butehst Joe, who beat him
dresop manner thst be died dunns ths night Ksek was
In s second deres and sentenced the State
prsoa . 4 Ok months
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. DECEMBER l5 1855

quite fallscy to regsrd Golden s'a represents:
tive Of the middle, or Palnerstou of the hisoer
classes of Enslsnd. Golden simply sm'odies the
melceDsry tendency Of the one, Palmerst,n the
arrogant tendency Of the other; Cobden's motto
is interest at any sacrifice of glory; Palmerstons,
glory az any sacrifice of interest Golden appeals
to common sense, PslmerstOn 70 ambition Tho
one appeals to prudence, the other to fame the
one TO duty. the other to passion the one to the
lowest consideration of change" the other to
the highest aspirations of feddslism; the one
represents "a little the heightened British mer
chant as The other represents the heightened Brit
ish noble Of the nineteenth century; the one
brides by matter fact truisms the lower instincts
of the British trader, the other acts by bonbastic
swsgger on the vanity of the English gentry. Cob.
den is provincial, PalmerstOn is parliamentary.
The one represents set Of manufacturers aud
traffckers, the other clique of wire pullers and
politicians Cobden's pleadipgs for peace cannot
reach the ears of the British people, from the
mean, narrow motive for which they are urged
PslmerstOns fiery appeals for war willnot stir the
heart Of the British nation, from the known du-
plicity of the statesman who makes them.
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,os-ExFoscRMENr OF THE LAWS.

OF all the Numerous objections SO pertinaciousy
urged against laws prohibiting the sale of iutoxi-
eating drinks the one which has the most weight
we might almost say, the one which alone has
any weight-with persons really friendly to the
object of such laws, is the Oftrepeated assertion
that they cannot be enforced. 1t is not uncommon
to meet with those who profess to be, and who
really are, friendly to the total disuse of intoxlca
ting drinks, who yet refuse to aid In the efforts
now making for supPressiDg, BY penal legislation,
the sale Of intoxicating liquors, on the single
ground that, however just and right such laws may
be In the abstract they labor under the fatal defect
of impossibility of enforcement. Indeed we must
mainly ascribe the partial failure hitherto of
such laws, especially in our great cities TO por
ton greater OF less Of the same fatal doubt Turk
ing in the minds of the very temperance men
whose business it was, or should have been, to see
to their enforcement.
That the law for prohibiting the sale of ntOxi
eating drinks ia not enforced in this city nobody
can walk dozen rods through any Of our principal
thoroughiares without plainly perceiving; and If
anybody wishes to know, without entering them, by
what sort OF company even the most fashionable Of
these saloons are frequented let him read the evil
dence in Bakers trial. But the testimony n ow
being taken before the Legislative Police Commit
tee serves abundsntly to show that this law agains