Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-01-03

any force or effect in resolutions. ---
They will claim in the next Presiden
lial campaign to be the Union savers
after the late approved fashion, and
when they elect the President aud
get into comfortable places, will then
say they were merely joking about it
Then in what light will our Northern
friends arpear' We think with
Dvfohmdn and endorse his views.
Fuss GoyERSMENr-Bayard Tay-
Tor, the great traveller, in summing
up the relative advantages of our
own and other countries OF the
world, says
II the beat government IN that
which governs least. then ours IL
certainly the best in the world --
However dishoneHt our prolesscd
politicians may be, however grew
Qua the errors which have crept in
to our administration of the laws,
we nevertheless enjoy, IA indlvidu-
al citizens. n degree Of iudcpend-
oncc which makes all other systems
uncomfortable To- ~. We do not feel
the hard hand of Government press
ing upon our heads, controlling our
movements, REFRESHING our free de
vclopmcnt. We buy aud sell build
and pull down, learn trades. study
professions, engage IN business,
without the permission or license
Of any one.
The law intcrlrrcs M little a.
possible with our pursuits, our bust
ness transaction, aud our habits Of
lie. We may live for years, with
out being aware, through our own
habits Of HE We may live for
years, without being aware, through
our own personal experience, that
there is any Government at all.
Most uf our readers never thought
of any of these things as benefits /;
but more than half the world is still
without them, although blood en-.
ough has been split in the pursuit
to float oil the navios of the world
OrERArfc EuQrErrS point of
operate etiquette is agitaung Phil
adclphia, which ia chow many bon
qucts thrown to n prima donna Is
the tenor to pick up One night
last week Adrlnc Patti was entire.
" showcrcd with bouquets; Brig
uoli, the pcttcd but lazy tenor, pick
cd mp one aud afterwards two, pre-.
scutlng them to the cantatricc, aud
leaving the others 90 be stopped for
by the lady herself, or a servant
The audience thought this dlscour-
tcous. and Missed. How the cmcute
will cud we know not, but we re-
commend that a large basket, with
tiger in livery, bc placed at each
proscCnlnm entrance &c receive the
buds and blossoms hereafter thrown
at the wonderful young creature,
who, at the early age of sixteen, is
driving staid Philadelphia crazy
She has inspiration, pretty mouth
aud an electric eye, and therefore
we sympathize with the Quaker
City bloods, whose hearts are all
dancing pity patty.
An INLAND SEA.--Thc San Fran
cisco Alta California newspaper
says, on the authority Of various
wholiug captains in San Francisco
at the date, that an inland sea cx-
lists in Lower California, and has
been known for the last three years
to a few whalers and others trad
ing for guano. In length it reach
es from latitude 26 deg. 40 min. to
90 deg. 40 min, nearly 100 miles
long, and from twenty to fifty miles
wide. 1t abounds in whales, of
which a number of cargoes have
been obtained. The entrance is
narrow and difficult. Five valua-
BILE guano islands have been found
in Il. The largest is three miles
long by one mile wide, estimated
n contain 400 400 TONS az onano