Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-10-29

burg, October 1st, touching the 9Th
instant at southampton. Her agents
in this city are Messrs. Williams,
Rnperti Il Go. Most Of the passen-
gers left for st. Louis.
A planter residing some sixty
miles above New Orleans. writes to
the Bureau of immigration in the
true spirit Of public benefactor
lie proposes dividing his whole
tract Of land, about 5000 acres, into
lots Of from 40 to 80 acres, and sell
ing the same to reliable German i'm
migrants, on credit Of one and two
years without interest, they paying
him one hundred pounds of lint cot
ton, or four hundred pounds OF seed
cotton, per acre; further time to be
given them, if desired, by their pay
ing ten per cent, interest. The land
is in a dry healthy region, with a
public road running through its en-
tire length 1900 acres are cleared,
the remainder is in timber. 1t is
well supplied with the best water,
and there is good township school
in operation at a convenient distance
The land will produce from 500 to
1000 pounds of seed cotton to the
acre, and from ten to thirty bushels
of corn to the acre. 1t will also pro
duce fine tobacco, Irish and sweet
potatoes, and vegetables and fruit in
great variety. This planter, who
has been regularly cultivating cotton
for thirty five years, agrees, more
over, to furnish the immigrants with
information at any time, rs to the
best system Of planting, cultivating
and gathering cotton crops, and he
has Just closed contract with n me.
chanic to put up houses right away,
for the immigrants to live in.
Surprising the example set by
this planter, to become Il general
rule with land owners ia our State,
and all Of them should agree upon
some organized basis for all active
and persistent scheme OF immigra.
ton, as suggested by Mr.. Kaufman,
can it be doubted that our State
would not be long without that need
full accession to her population which
would tend to the development of
her great resources, an hundred, nay,
n thousand or many thousand fold
lmmi grafton, once fairly inaugu-
rated, would create immigration.
The industry, labor aud wealth com
ing in with it would beget those inn
Portant requisites, to a degree I'M
dreamed of by those whose policy it
is to remain inactive or Indifferent to !
the progress Of the age or the wants
and demands of civilization. Really,
gentlemen, this subject is worthily
entitled to your most serious con-
sideration.
INTERNAL REVENUE DECISIONS
Hnportnnt 10 Printers and Llquor
Dealers.-The United States Com
missioner of Internal Revenue has
recently rendered the following de.
cisions:
A printer is liable to the special
tax as manufacturer if the articles
he prints exceeds in value when
printed $1,000 per annum. A printer
is understood to be any person or
firm whose business it ia to take inn
preston from type or engraved sur
faces upon paper or other materials.
In determining the liability of print
ers to the special tax as manufac-
.urers, the value Of the articles of mer-
;handisr produced by them should
alone b. taken into consideration.
Amounts received for inserting adj
refreshments in newspapers are not,
therefore,, to be so included.
When the contents of packages of
AK paid spirits are changed in char
lcter by mixing or reduction in proof,
hey must be again inspected and
branded in the usual manner. Brand
mr. Tho xuorl straot,Eo1D 10 opt,n,,1