Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-11-20

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ITEHs.-Business is brigh.ning up IN
cities, towns, and country. The week
ending on the 18th inst. was very lively
in Ope!ollsas-races and balls were the
cause. A man named Farmer was con
demned to death last week in St. Martins
vile fer the murder Ola Mr.. Taw. 4
military reVlssE-a small atlair--.ook place
at ST. Francisville the 10th. Kelly is
urging the .dcn;zcns OF the latter place to
apply for the Incorporation Of their town,
whea the legislature next assemblies. Pub
lie dinners have been given to Mcleod in
Montreal. Joha Forsyth Orr has resign
ed the control Of the Mobile Patriot; that
paper goes back into the hands It's ancient
proprietor, L. Sanfordy Esq. Two RATS
on whict. were Is men in all, were regent
t. picked up at sea; the survivors were in
Il wrctoaod condition, and give account Of
fearful wrecks and the loss OF 20 lives.
Ssating-iloors, for the amusement of young
gentlemen alI ladies, have been Invented
in LoD,!oH. There was q great democratic
RleetIDg,--|lth num"Fons speeches, etc,
in New Orleans on Saturday last; Tie OBJ
I3ct was to make arrangements Tor the
democratic mass convention On the 9th
January ncXt, and to compliment Presi-
dent Tyler. Comfy, who drew so heavily
On the Canal Bunk last summer, is to have
a hearing before the Criminal Court of
Nov Orleans. Theatricals arc focking
to the latter city and to Mobile. A man
IN Philadelphia has sent the city treasurer
500 for a debt due about 30 years ago.
The body Of a drowned man was taken
out Of tie river below Alexandria a few
days ago. Reports from Florida are as
surlng-they assure US that the Seminole
war will De finished when it is brought TO
an end. A man was found dead under
one Of the benches in the st. Charles thea
tire last week: it is supposed he expired in
a tit during the representation the evening
previous, The British naval force In
Halifax is 7 armed vessels frigates
and 2 briggs. The Natchez Free Trader
proposes the establishment Of a marine
hospital at some point between New Or
leans and Louisville; the idea is good, as
far as it goes; yet it is only the fag end
Of 4 complete idea, inasnluch as said hes,
pital is but a portion Of the naval estab-
lishmcnts actually required on the river.
The police ofNew Orleans are scEaping
up Migrants by scores daily. "McLeod,
or the burning of the Caroline" is the
nane ola piece brought out on the Phila,
delphia boards; a farce, we suppose. Thos.
Dlbden, the famous writer of English IA.
val songs, is dead. The Reverend Jas.
per Adams, late President of peadlcton
College has also gone TO the land of spirits.
\ large depot Of stolen goods, Watches
money, &c. has been discovered in Phila.
delphla. 4 negro man and negro thief
was arrested in Richmond, Va.iately; nc
protested to be in the employ Of northern
aboiitionists, who supplied lin with funds.
The weather was SO cold in Norfolk or
the Sd inst. as TO freeze oysters in their
shells. A Mr.. Louis assembled in a large
balloon from the Carrollton gardens, last
, Sunday. Convenient Morris, of Win.
schester, n. York, has built a church Out
of his personal funds, and presented it te
the Parish in which he resides. Foul
young men in Baltimore, convicted Of
murder in the second degree. have been
sentenced to The penitentiary for Is years
each. The English government appro.
priated last year 10000 for the royaI
stables, and 100000 for national educa.
ton! The Americans have a free schoo
in the mountains of Syria. DR.. Webb Of
pinchneyville, Miss, committed suicide 4
few days since. Gen. Santa Cruz has
been proclaimed president Of Bolivia. 4
plan is on fo9ttoeteet an episcopal churcf
In TdaIia: The Methodistsin Mississippi
are laboring with saint-like zeal for the
cause Of humanity and education; they
have opened a new College at Brandon
entitled the Centenary College" A Mr..
Collingsvorth, of Cotcordia parish, was
attacked on Monday the 8th inst. by three
runaway negroes. He had a terrible scuf.
fe with one, by whom he was nearly over
powered, but eventually succeeded in mas.
tering, after stabbing him severely with q
penknife.