Baton Rouge Tri-Weekly Gazette and Comet from Baton Rouge, Louisiana • Page 2

THE GAZETTE ox I I OK A EXPORT OP HE. TOOMBS 0 TEE HOUMAS LAND CLAIM. That- it appears that on ti 5'h 'f October, 1714. one Maurice Conway and AJcx-andcr Latil pnrehaseJ on the Bayou Goluu arid llontna Indians a tract of Land meas-urinp tipwardsol' Haifa league in ficnt. vn the Mississippi, about seventy-fiv i niilos Wiove the city of Huv Orleans.

This purchase, it appears, waa approved by I'ozaffa, the povrnor of Louisiana, to that extent, ind with tin craumm VM nf firrtw arpenU. The front is Winded on the river, tit a common depth of forty arpents in the rear, and the side lines weia described by the ftJioini nst tracts. Afterwards, on the nth of Sflntcmter, tion purpose; anid tht the cypress waa one and a half leagues back of the river, and it seems, asked a concession of a1 1 tht hark l.jruJt to get timber for his farm. Under the term, all tho back lands." the Houmas claimants, aftrr the treaty of cession, and cr before, claimed and surveyed above ISO.O0O acres of land for a timber privilege for le'ss than acres. This timber was scattered over more than S'S square miles, iu a country not naturally well adapte to easy transportation.

This pretension was very naturally considered evhorbitintand unreasonable, and nothing but tho clearest words of grant, unrestrained by the facts and circumstances of thu ea ic. could be deemed sufficient to maintain it. Therefore the officers of the Government and Congress uniformly, with the exception before stated, refused to recognize it. The claimants under the Houmas grant his plantation, aitnaJFd in the district of La Fonche. by rimlvsix in the front in the river, toUbwm Jthe some direction as those, in order tha as hie own property he may or en joy the tme ccn, formally to the ssid owrations, and complying with the conditions prescribed in the ordinance made on the subject ot lands." It does not appear that any of these original pipers referred to are iu existence, or wcr ever recorded, but assuming them to genuine, they constitute the whole of the title of the claimant under the Houmas prsiit the Spanish grant.

Kdocs not appo.ir tliaftha fact of the grant has ever been contested by thia gov-ermiietit. The whole question has been as to its extent. The lirst ajconni we have of this claim tinder this government was an application made by the claimant, about the yearlfc'M, to Coventor Claiborne, of Louisiana, to have same Nirnyed, and in pursuance of in order from him, one bartholomew Lafon was appointed to survey the same. OLD FOGY In the Gazette de. Baton Rouge for March 1824, thirty-sir years ago, we find a notice of the fallowing quaint and obsolete ueagc Interest ins (7or.The Clerk of the Third District Court, is, we endtrstsud arraigned before the Supreme Court of this State of the nature of the charge! preferredi against him, we are but eligatly informed neglect of duty, we believe is amongst the rest.

His trial is fixed for Wednesday, the 24th when a large number of witnesses, summoned both in behalf of the prosecution, and in behalf of the defendant, are to attend from this place." Mexican Mustang Liniment. Its wondorlul effect and consequent popularity perhapt no article in tho history of the H'tttria 3edi-a, ever acoui-ed thi same Patronage, waa subjected to the same Lumber of severe and different tests, and met vith so few failures as the Mus-stang Liniin. it. It has justly been styled a Panacea for ai' external Wounds, Cuts, Sweilirgs, Sprains, Jtrnisos, or Eruption on Man or Beast. It so far medicine of surprising virtue, that T'hyaieians are compelled to presenile it, ana from some remarkable cures oC Chronic on4 Suloritd Mfiimatic it ha naturally a tti.se ted much attention from the first scientie minds of the age.

Ko family can afford to be without a bottle of the Mustang Liniment in the house. etrarnf Imitation. The genuine is so'd by respectable dealers in all part of the wor' d. BABNES PARK, Proprietors. marl3-lmw Kew York.

have been iu possession of the river front from 1777 to this time, and the extent of this possession to the rear does not appear ti the Committer but, in 177 the King of pain imported from the Canary Islands a company of poor immigrants, and settled them on the Iberville and Amite rivers, tweaty or thirty miles from ihe river Mississippi granted them lands, and established the town of Galveston, all within thu limits of said grant as now claimed. borne grants upon the Mississippi river were made before this, and with which this Houmas gtant conflicts, and others were made after this grant, within the limits as now claimed, without objection or complaint from these grantees, as far as your Committee have been able to ascertain. Other persons, squatters, without legal rights, have also, from time to time, set-tied on tlese back lands, relying upon the uniform policy of the Government to grantthem pre-emption, if the land should prove to belong to tho Government and not to tlie claimants. All these settlers, in the aggregate, according to tbi memo- i rial before your Committee, amount, to about five hundred luuiilics. Soma of these occupants Lave located on their premiscsin pnrsi.auce of Spanish or French grants older 'ban th Hot.

mas grant, oth crs under grams younger than that grant. and others s'll! relying solely upon the goodness of the title of this Government and it is a strong laet iu this ease that, from lso.5tothi? hour, as fur as your Com- 1 mittec have been aide to learn, no etTort has been made to eject any of these per- I sotis by the Houmas grantees. We have alrea ly shown that the title of the grantees was perfect to every extent that they had tie at all just as perfect without as with Congressional action, if it "fte iiftl UUe yet they seem never to have ventured to assert it iu the courts, even against a squatter Your Committee do not deem it nece- ry to give atiy optuiou as to the validity of the Houmas grant, or its extent, fur- i ther than to say, that it is not, hi their i judgment, nch a title as Congress ought to aflirm, to the reindice of the other par ties interest, a judicial alurm anee ot it The ret of the 2d of June, 1S.V.. gives a i great and unjust advantago to the claim- ants, for which your Committee see no i our men out of pltCB when they do sound reason, either in justice or sound policy. Ic gives thalloumas grantees par-! not contribute hoemlly of their funds amount title to tile lands in dispute, and to keer) UP party organization when requires all at'vorse claimants to make g-od thei titles by suits at law and if! they do not pull off their coats roll they fail, for uuv reason whatever, to! .1 1 show a Perfect tie in themselves, their I UP thelr 6'eees ni1 for the flat" lands all fall to the Houmas grantees.) headed nominee of the party.

"Du-This i manifestly unjust to such adverse i claimants, and may ltillict the most cruel I ty Why, It 13 ti duty ot the offi-wrongs upon them. Bat this bill is also tb CTeatMCiks of the triurn-unjnst to the public. If the Houmas graut-j cc have no good title to thia vast body of phant Democracy to shut his office lands, it is atfeinst sound principle and sound pjhey to give it to them. Bv tho door and bull-rag at the polling 4, ISoO. 'DismxirisHFu Visitor.

A day or two agn, wliero the eU urner Pacific touched at our landing to put off some freight, Georjre D. of the Louisville Journal came ashore and walked through the city. Some etie of our 'citizens, who knew him, met him in his stroll else-we should not have known that Lit was here. We regard Mr. Prentice, as one of the truley great men of the age and we are proud of Lira as an America!) citizen, not because lie is the Ajaxof the political press, but because he has given expression to some of the sweetest prettiest things in modern poetry.

In bis ra-nble through town we regret that lie did not stumble into. our front office. The IJKror.T or Skxitor Toomps. We rve the entire report of Senator Toombs, as chairman of tba committee on th llouma land claim. It is an interesting historical document, one that should be read and preserved, to show low it was necessary in this age of exalted patriotism and purity of purpose, for senators from sister states to step between otr ami (lie gentlemen elected to represent their interest on the floors of Congress.

Fasct Wohk. Tho l.n.ies will lcnsc notice the card of Mis lieostede, in this mornings ppcr. Miss IlensteJe isfcnown to mary of Mir fair read -re. To others we can say that no one has ever visited this city, more competent to teach the v- eral brunches of fancy work which hho professes. 3TYe should make it a principle to extend the band of fellowship to every man who discharges faithfully his duties, and maintains good order; who manifests a deep interest in the warfare of ireneral society, whose deportment is upright and whose mind is intelligent, without stopping to ascertain whether he swings a hammer or draws a thread.

There is nothing eo distant from all natural claim as the reluctant, the backward sympathy, the forced snii'ic, the checked conversation, the hesitating compliance the welioif are too ant to manifest to those a little down, with whom, in comparison of intellect and principles of virtue, they frequently sink into insignificance. LTich Praise. "A Northern gen tleman, wintering in Louisiana," writes as follows to the New York Jou rnal of Commerer. I never met a more agreeable or a more moral community than this. I know of no prejudice existing against a man merely because he comes from the north.

To me there has been as much courtesy and kindness extended as though I had been reared among tliem. I think a much larger majority of th-j people here are I'niou loving and truly patriotic than at the north, or at least inome sections of the north. Now and then 1 meet with a man cherishing extreme opinions, ltnt generally such persons have but little infliierice'in moulding the opinions of thers. The people here think more of themselves are much less influenced by demagogues than with us. Southern people, as a class, ten times as mucli about the north as northern people do about 'he south.

is ignorance alone on the part of n.any northerners, or ii formation derived from false 6ouices, that misleads them and gives them such prejudiced and erroneous views. The remedy fur disunion sentiments lies iu a bi tter acquaintance between the two sections. At Vicksburg a society was formed for the rebel of tho sufferers in the Lawrence calamity, and it was a severe rcb ike to those manufacturers and operatives who are so uncharitable the south ud its institutions. JtW Those inevetslilo hangers-on at all gatherings, the thieves, Lave already domiciled ip Charleston, S. and coram -need operations.

On Tuesday night two of the chevaliers robbed five tiavellers at the Mills House of 8500 an 1 two gold watches. Thoy-were arrested. The same night a traveller at the Charleston Hotel lost his watch and a sum of money. Growth or Mfmihis. At the county eKction, in' 1858, says the Memphis the whole number of votes was 2 ICC.

Saturday last, at a local election, the vote of the city is 8072; knowing the largo increase in two years of 1506. The growth of population is really worthy of remark. Simple-minded, l.oQest-hearted old fogies You lived too soon and died too toon. How wo may laugh now at the rustic simplicity of these early inhabitants. Try an office-holder ou the mere charge of neglect of duty! This is the deepest emerald hue of greenness yet brought to light.

"Neglect of luty Why, the public officer who does any duty at all, falls short of the modern standard of competency. It is not eipected it is not asked, by the great party that gave him the place; he must have clerks to do all. If he has seen enough of th! school-master to be able to set bin name down in tolerably legible' pothooks, this is enough. What should we of the advanced guard of civilization think of trying an office-holder before a Justice of the Peace much less a Supreme Court, for neglect of duty Why, it would be trumpeted from one to the other extremity of the Union, and set down by Mr. Miller, in his book, as another evidence of the winding up of things.

The price i i. uolluu wuu" UV vicinity as skeptical as they are would certainly make prepara tions- for their latter ends. Now itn.i mrt. turn booths to drink pcor whisky and go down into the gutter ith Mr. O' Flanagan, to show the great party that he is net only a good Democrat, but is not proud.

Democrat as we are in an ancient sense hov we hate that word, for the protniso it gives of breaking up the fabric of the Union "Duty Why, what is Duty It is the duty of him who has the handling of public fund-i to put as much as he can conveniently in his pocket, and then walk off to employ the best legal talent to convince the wcrld that he is not only an honest, but a much wronged man. Verdant old pcopbs of the early time, could you get up out of the greeu grass in which you have been packed away to rest until the geaeral resurrection, and look on the advanced and improved condition of society, you would weep t0 think that died soon. Fire and Great Loss of Life in New York. A New York Disjxitrh of the 28th says A dwelling burnt in Forty-fifth street this morriino; ten persons perished iu the flames, viz: Tlie wife and four children of Andrew Wheeler, and tho wife and four children of Mr. Dennett.

Besides the loss often Several persors were badly injured. A sister of Mr. Bennett jumped from a story ino yard break.iio- a thicli. She is also badn burned, and it is feared will (lie. 8i.

children were rescued fron the per stories by firemen. Nine bodies have been taken from the ruins. It was a tenement house with but one pair of stairs, under which the tire was kindled by an incendi.ity, as is supposed. Loss V5- M. (iuizot will prtbably publish in a short time tic promise continuation of his English Histo- ri to tne enu ot tne rogn ot 1775, Maurice Conway petitioned Governor I'nzatra for an additional trrnni in the rear.

OmiUiiiir thu formal psirtt, that petition sets forth as follows "Tliat yonr petitioner, intending to go and establish liimse.f in the upjrur psrt of the country, on tne lnnd winch ho jointly with Aiexundcr mid, with yonr permission, from tho Houmas Indians, wuicn land is extremely aeneietit offence, and iecleaiej upwards ol a league in depth, so that the cj swamp bcinff ut a distance of about a and a hulf from the river, yonr pctiti'icr has no riclit thereto, in -o ol yeur not having (minted to him but the common depth of lor'y aronts, which is so short that he cannot reach the cypres trees necessary lor making fences, and other work absolute! nci-cssary on a plantation. 1 herelore.your petitioner prays you will prtnt him nil the depth which may 3 vacant iTiiincdiittc'y af'cr the snid depth of forty arpeuts." The said Conway further avers that he was the sole proprietor; having purcha--cd the inoiely wii.cn Inlonpcd to Lntii, snd prays that I nzajra direct Louis An-dry to put your in of the said front and depth, sctlinsr the boundaries and iviti2 to your petitioner a ccr-tiiicjite of the lor his information and la pnrMiHiice of this i 'ion Unzajt, on tbc tlt'u of s.jp'cnibcr. made his or that "CapUvi Lou the land mentioned in A ndrsh.ill ro on tho ircjniiitf icti- tion, srd shall put petitioner in the hk-ws- sion of the land whit may there be acatit on the back of the torty arpents of depth which ho possesses, and ntnuiiiff in tlie same direction, provided tho came- be vacant and do not injure the noiorhbors. to the effect of which nlmU ttl and tmrl: the ldttrit, a iH A'-ft'i artr tuU d'A f. a VKKKAl.

f' his rat i'Htlt, whi'-h, sipned by hira and the said neighbor, shall be forwarded to nic, thai 1 niny causo tli complete title to iscie." It further appears that, ou the 1'th day of October, 177i', Captain Andry maie a survey, and certifies that he wt nt on the land alluded to, accompanied by Lonway and the commandant of the district. Louis Judice, and alter having called on the ln-ilian chiel to the boundaries of bin sale, his ftrfxx -tn1al then proceeds as follows: "And immediate ly efter I hnvo measured the space between those boundaries, drawing to that effect in the woods tlio 1 nes nocessary to ascertain its extent, which lines are marked on the plan, a sketch of my operations which I have delivered to said petitioner, and found that it contains ninety-six arpeuts in front ou the river, (Trowing wider one hundred and twenty derres depth, on account of its bcin? situated the bend of the upper line com on with Irancis Diihitn, running tiortn fifty dcjrrees to the "west, and the lower one common with Michel Chiaseon, running north seventy degrees to t' east. i'lio measurement of said front beiatr thus made, 1 proceeded to put the petitioner in the poHsension of the depth granted to Liin by ihe forejroinsr decree, to the effect of which I went back to the upier line common with Frsncis Duhan, iu vthone presence I found out the boundaries set me on the 22d of December, 1773, urd which still exist in the same xituation, ui-ilaiicc, and direction, both of mulberry wood the first at the distance of thirty-seven toises, and two feet from the actual bank of the river, and the second at the dUtante of ty seven toinca, and two feet from the nctual bauk of the river, and the second at one arpent or thirty toises mure in the back. Afterwards I continued in the line, and in the aforesaid direc'hjii, of north fifty degrees we-t to tin ucth of forty arpents, oiKjniugr to thatetfect a small road through the i-oods, at which place I caused to lie driven two Ictt did a half in the earth a boundary, of cypress wood at the further distance of two arpents that is. at forty-two arpenl from the river another bouudary similar in all its cireumstauces to the one jUFt spoken f.

Thi line beiue ti us drawn, 1 wen! the lower one common with Michel ChiitMii, whom 1 also called, and alter measuring the seven arpents which, by the dei rcc of the 27th of September last, the governor aforesaid granted to him, I caused two bonndariesof mnlberry wood to bo driven in the said line, the first at the distance of twenty tcise more in the depth. Alter tliat 1 continued tne siu.i l.ue i throneh the wood in the same direction north seventy detf rees east to the depth ot' forty ariits, at which point I caused to be driven two ami a half feet in the earth a boundary of cypress an the further distance of two other that in, at the distance of forty-two from tho river, 1 caused ai. other boundary of tfc same size, and similar iu all it circumstances to the foregoing, to be driven into the earth iu order that the direction mar not deviate. And in order that ail the above mt-v ap rar, I give the present certificate, which have signed, with the said petition ol Maurice Conway, and the sud commandant und interpreter of this transaction. Louis Judice.

tho said Indian chief named aiaoc, ana 'lie two adjoining neiglit.ors, Francis lluhan and Michel Chiasson Imv- mg ucciareti not co anow now sign. ju which 1 do attest at the afotesnid const or district the dny Mid year above written." The i-rixvm-ecrhtil is accordingly sigued by Andry, Conway, and Judice. On the tilst .1 uno, 1777, Gal vex, the then governor of Louisiana, made the grant, which is in the following Hernardo do Gaivez. colonel of the battalion of infantry of Louisiana, governor, intendent, and insmictor general thereof, having seen tho foregoining proceedings of the second adjutant of this place, the Captain Lewis Andry, concerning the possession which lie has given to Maurii-o Conway bytvirtue of the foregoing decree, issued by my predecessor, of all the vacant land, behind or in the rear of the forty first arpents. which he posset-sea, by ninety-six arpents in front, on the river, running in the same direction as these and whereas the same is conformable to the rules made totic'uing surveying of land ajid adjoining neighbors, so that no injury is to said Leighbors, who, so far from having mado any opposition, have wnsentod to said opcratious.of which I do hereby approve, the faculty that the king has given me, I grant, in his roval name, to the said Maurice Conway the said land behind or in the rear of the forty arpents which are contained in Laton urey ran out Mia northwest line to Bayou liiiu liiicaiid the northeastern line to Lalto Miiurepas, including hll the lands included in theste boundaries t.nt to the Manchae and Amite rivers, which was there the bo miliary f'fi the cast of the possessions of the fctaoh-h crown.

This survey, with the perfect Spanish grant, npoti which it was reputed to bo founded, wuslaij before tho board of com -mit'ioners, organized under the act of the 2 I Msrch, for the purpose of ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to lands wit hiu tlie Territory of Orleans and the district of Lonisianu. It had then been parceled into three distinct tracts, one by IloiikluSou and and the otftVr by lLiiiiei Clarke, and the by William Conway, all claiming title by purchase or si on from Maurice Conway. 11:0 two commissioner who composed tho board at the time the claims and the evidence to support them were presented, decided th.it tee claimants had fully established lh'-ir right, that tneir title was a genuine and complete Spanish grant, and that included ail the Und claimed by tln'ia included in Luton a survey. Thee Jei-isious under tho number and in tho transenpt of their ilocinious laid before Congress, ly the Secretary of the Trasury, ou tlie rth day of January, lrlJ. Thomas l.

llo'sirtson, who became a member of the board subsequently to its action on tl.ee claims, entered a formal disscnL froi.i decisions. According to the laws establishing this commission, these decisions of the commissioners were to be reported to Congress its final action and decision thereon. That the claimants under the Houmas grant were cuti.led to nimtry-aix arpents front on the Mississippi Kiver, and the depth of torty arpents rear, seems to have been conceded by ull of tho agents and otliceis of tiie tiovcriiiuent, auj that they were entitled to a bock concession to lowi extent, seei is also to have been generally admit ted. Tho whole controversy rest upon the extent of the back concession. Xoot'j -eror agent of the Government, except tno ot tho commissioners, appointed under the act of ever acknowledged the grant to the extent claimed.

We may except also Judge llibb, who, whui Sxerc'kry of tho Treasury, hold, that trader the net of ISM, Congress had cor firmed it to the whole extent, claimed. This decision of Governor Jlibb was sub sequently reversed by the Circuit Court of the United and from which deeisr ion the claimants under tile Houmas grant have iot appealed. With these exceptions, the whole action of tho Government, from the day of tho treaty of lsoj up to the act of the tid June, lSjs. now order consideration, has been agaiu.1t the claim to the extent urged by the persons dunning uuder this )rant. The grant nf the June, 1777, from Governor to Main ice Conway, contains the whole claim to the premises in dispute.

It jjcvt I was petitioned for, surveyed or prat. ted than hjrein before slated, it was a complete grant to all it eonveyeJ, atid the sole question in controversy, admitting the grant to be genuine, is, how much it embraced. To that extent, toe Government of th3 United States is boui-d, both by the law ot nations and the treaty of by which we acquired the title of France to Louisiana. It requ.red no further acknowledgment, no aet of Congress, no confirmation of commissioners to the perfection of the ri''ht of those who claimed under it. The Government of the United Mates cove-uauted, so far as concerns this controversy, to do nothing except to preserve the rights of of those persons who owned in Louisiana.

The Government of tho United Mates perfo; mod all of its treaty stipulations with rance with fidelity and lion jr. It not ouly respected perfect lights of property, but, with a wise liberality, it undertook to carry out ilh reference to tne people of the ceded province, ail of tho undertakings, perfect or imperfect, of both the Governments of France and Spain, the former proprietors of Louisiana. The act o-' 105 r-yt-7 all persons cln miii'r under titles, and r-tnttfrJ ail per-oli having f'tni'lt ie titles, to present then; within a limited time to appointed under that act, who- duty it was to examine them, and report their t.ecisions thereon to Congress. Their decisions ero not linal. They were subject to the determination of Congress thereon.

Tho ret of l-OO htill further aided honest cbiiuuiits under the French and Spanish Government. Tho a ol 15 '7 veHedln the commissi. ners tho jower finally to determine upon nl! which involved no more than the quantity of land contained in one league iuHP.ro and the act of lsH authorized t'tu issuance of patents to all 1 persons conn ig within the act ot Tll(J e.air:i:nt5 uti.Tr tho Houmas grant come within none of these acts of Congress. It his been before remarked that tiiey sorght to themselves under tliis net of 1:11. This pretension, after Having been allowed by Governor Bibb, was condemned by the Circuit Court of the United Mates.

L'lForis weie made at ditl'crent times to get a recognition of this grunt to the extent claimed by its owners, both from Congress and the di'lerent departments of tlie Government, from ljyj to W.s but all theso eti'orls failed. A very full and accurate history of these efforts, and of this claim generally, is be found iu an opinion of Mr. Justice Ci'f-ford, now of the Supreme Court, then Attorney-General of tlie United States, given to the President, in pursuance of a resolution of Congress, passed the tMt'i of June, to which your Committee beg leave to refer the Senate, in order to avoid its repetition The dillicn.ty, as before observed, in this grant, is this: the back line of the snrvry never was closed. The s-irveyer ran but two aqciits back of the first forty arpents "to keep the course." How far the two line from the rivjr were to run was not specit ed. The petitioner wanted a timber priviteg.j for less than 4.l".xj acres of land "represented that he had no t.m-jber for fences, and other necessary plapta- IM PROVED GAS LIGHT APPARATT73.

TH 8 undvrslf asd respeetfV.lly calls the attention of Planter and the pafclie eoellr, to his CiAS LIGHT APPARATUS and Us established economy aad advantages ever any other kind nf Light, tr PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PKIYATKKKSIDE3CK3, SI OAR HOUSES, ic. He has abundant, conclusive and satinfae-10 ry testimonials, whre hi ttAS LIU1IT AP-PARATLS is in operaLon; tht Ure is a saving ol 7a per cent in KotMr.beaideeal' the labor that neerfKarily has to ho Itestowcd on OU Lamps or any uthr kind of lipoid now la nne. The Capitol at Baton 8ouge, iilltapby one of my ImproTed Gaa Light Apparatua, of which I have the tertimoBiala of Oovjrnor C. MeMra. Childress, Ser-feant-t-Armof the HenaU and J.

IL Peralta, Sargeant-at-Armi of Ihe say Yonr "Improved Uae Light Apparatae" as ap-fl'-l to the Etato Home, is idmirabl in all Its and at It hat eonld he desired. 1 bare also the Testimonials of Ds. Jean Pea-arts, of Eaut Eaton Kcne, and W. W. Pvgb, of Assumption, who have my apparatus attached to their fengar Houses, which I shjald like agar Planters to examine P.

H. TIQHK. uAddrew letters UD. B. Tighe, Baton Kongo Hi meet pron pt attention.

Jf lines 7eIiTjf, BUILDER. Bi-OS leavt respectfully to inform his friends, and the citizens of Baton Roage and its vicinity generally, that he Li prepared (at rt notice) to exerute any or ters in connexion w.th the erection of, er repair of Buildings vith which hemay be eutrnsted. He will also furnish to Contractors, Bctlder. Planters and ethers, Ssih (ready primed and OSssedif desired,) VEXITI A3i SIIL'TTKRS vitK stationary or Tut Ut, Inside Rolling Blinds, Pannei Doors, of asy repaired sise, at as lo rates as they can be obtained elsewhere in the South, and of the best style of workmanship. He has also established In connection wltn the above, a JOBBING DEPARTMENT, wherein all orders will be executed promptly.

CISTKKN3 of any required made to order. He would also respectfully suggest to those who may contemplate building, thnt he is prepared to get op lesigDS and Plsnsrif Kara! Cottattua and Residences, with detailed specifications. Bills of quantities of mterials, estimates of Cost, on reasonable terms. Orders for any of the shove namsd workmanship, or services, left iu rare of MvetT. PAN L.

ICBiT, West Baton Eono, JUKDAX HOLT, Xosedale. La. ALVRLD Msn-hac, E. B. Hooge, H.

SAI.t, Sprii.i;t-ld.Ls trthrouKh the Post Ol' cc, will meet with with pronpt attention. tT" Shop on North Bntilevurd street, opposite he Mat Hon, Baton Bonrn. La. Angnst Slli, lshi. BARBEE BENJAMIN IIAVE in Store, the following goods, which they offer to dealers and Families, either at T-bolesnle or mail, on tarorable terms and at reasonable TOBACCO In eTery variety o.V Hoes 101b Boxes, 10 1 boxes, or by tie single fonnd or ptng.

SEUAR9. 'Casadores. Ca'ndad, tToarha, Conrhas, Picoiimini, Ternras, Cna Mini, Diamantes, 1a Lunas, Londra, Pr-ttwlas, etc. BRA.NDi'. Old DmnewT-lTttft Old Martit Old Ssierac: cM lndon Doe: Otard, Dnpny A Co Loagwor.

hs' Catawba; Eighth'a Imititinn. WHISKY Old Scoff Old Irish do. Bourbon. Rye; Old Ro.inson County, Tasmiwe: 0mmon Reclined. CLARET.

AUvd Morton's )targ aux; iia do losille; EsJutJulian Medo In boxes or Vy the Cask. BOX GOODS. Old Brandy RrandyCberriesChsmpasneCider, qqnrts snd pints; Assorieil Hraody Kruits. Assorted Cordiais. Lenton Syrjp, r'vorlng Kx tracts.

PICKLES AND KETCHUPS, In gallon jars, half fsllon, quarts and pints, Wal-cac Ketchnpc Ttmato Ketchup, Mushroon Kth-up: WorcM.ierphire Jo.in Bull, Jo. I'aoli nance, Pepper Sauce. ETC. Baltimore Cove Oyst-rs; Sardines In quarter, half and wnole boxes; Salmon, Mackeral In Kits and Barrels. AI.E AND PORTER, In pints and qasrts, PKKSEKVE8, PBC1T, TfC.

Red Current Jelly and Jam; Ranberry Jelly and Jain; Strawherrv, Preserved Peaches, liinger, Onn Gaes, t4uini-e, Ac. FRESH FRUITS. Peaches, Strawberries. Rasberries, Blackberries Ac. VEGETABLES.

Green Lorn, Green Pots, Asparagus. TEAS. A large and nrU-d asortinent In chests, lalf ch-ts, poaudis half poiud aid quarter pound parkagfs. Vc also hsre In store onr nsnal assortment of Western Kood. wnniting of BACoS, PO'iK, LARD, CrtEEAE, BUT- TTKIt, PI'iS FEET, AO.

Cruxhwl, Powdiird and Brown Sugars, Rio Coffee, Old GoTernroent Jars, Soap, C'sndles, Oils, etc, For sale by BARBER A BENJAMIN. HAVE RECEIVED FHOM THE -a- West the articles 2m HsfthIs M. se pork; 1UX) Kegs Prime Liir.fc JO Tierces Sui-nr Cured Hams from N. W. Tncraas rf 250 Sacks hit- torn; l.VI lists, US) Bbls doisbleestra Flonr.Cape Jessamin Also a full supply of tlie tet qu.litls of irL- of wliv I will sell low tercashoron accommodatiug terms.

frbJ A. MATTA. II AY, OATS, FULL SUPPLY always on hand. BARBEE A BENJAMIN. FA.MIL.

HXII IliO Barrels of assorted iioalitiea, all fresh stock, on hand and lor sale by J08UIA BAL. nurd section ot saul act, it any ot these grantees wi.hin the lines of thcHoumas grant should be able to maintain their titles, this section allows the Houmas grant- ees to lloal 011 the lands for such deficiency. Therefore, if any rtion Of their grant shall be defes.ted, even by a better and superi title, though it may be derived from Spain or 1 ranee, this act' makes up the loss to tho claimants under the Houmas grant from tho public do- main. This legislation, also, we. -think unsound and uuUiuable.

Your Commit- 1 tee therefore recommend that the second 1 section of tho act of 2J Juue, lsOS, and also so much of the third section as refers to the second, be repealed, and that the title of the claimants under the Houmas Crant be judicially settled and for which purposes they herewith report a bill. The Geneual ArrTtorniATioN Bill. The General Appropriation till makes the following provisions lor Tensions, Military Academy, SlSO.OOil; Indians, i Consular and Diplomatic expenses, FortiScations, SG05.000; Army, Lcg- islativc, Executive and Judiciary ex. penses, Bunury Civil expenses, Navy, Louciency in tU 1W- I l.murtnionf iiotifio S(. (Mill IXlfl VlllVV v.

a iiiuv. V- a -j Vj' 'Vt'. Total, 45,140,000, or a net reduc-! tion by the Committee of Ways and ot from the Secretary of the Treasury's estimate. The appropriations estimated for the 1 services of tire fiscal year ending with Juno, 101, made by former acts of Congress, of a ppecitic and definite character, amount to upwards of' 3, 171,000, making, with the abovo. total, nearly 53,44,000, for the! service of the rest fiscal vear.

The largest reduction by the Com- mittee was 804 for the navy cs- tiiimtj-s Tim mimhor ltnnt-i sml bn.ni-hp. tho 1t. nf throughout the United elates, accord to the Treasury Department, was the capital paid in, and the amount of specie on l.and,f?3,9!i4,000. The resources of these banks, including notes, loans, securities and real estate, is stated at nearly one billion dollars; other lia-! bilities, $531,000,000. Santtarv Condition' ok New York.

i In a lecture on sanitary science, de- Charles II, with from the livered recently in New York, Mr. E. desi.atclies of the French Ambassa- Y. Bobbins stated that nearly fifteen this reign. They fill about two hundred thick thousand death, occurred annually folio romnc9 that city from clearly preventable and have hitherto only been exam-causes, ined ia the most cursory manner..