Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-07-03


An old Dutcn lady at a religious moft.
ing became very much concerned s,r her
soul, and went about signing and sobbipg
and would not be comfortcd. Upon being
asked By the minister what was the mat.
ter, she replied, that she couldn'f pray in
English, and she was afraid t!tn Lord
couldn't understand Dutch.
Could VIC hut look 1xro many doiaes.ic
circles, With all their oUTWAfD SHOW III
tlnery, what Genes Of misery would pra.
sent themselves to orr view, all ~orieins.
ting III the sensciess rage for gcutiFay, the
silly ambition OF figuring in Il higher sta
ton than that 10 which they belong.
4 fire occurred in this village on Tues
day last, and so great war TIE ~cficney Of
the village fire engine, that it lad hardly
proceeded twcnty rods from i:s STATEN be-
fore the fire vas extinguishcd-actuaI!y
scared oU~'-KalGmazoo Goze9e.
TaE FRrpeErK CorvrY Bavr which
was 50 nysterioasly robbed lately, refuses
now TO pay IFS notes in circulation, and
will not lake them except in payment Ct
debts due in the Bank, or On special do>gs.
tic.
Cfs-Thc consumption Of gas in Lon
don Is now reekoned at nearIy nine mil
lions Of cubic fee. in every ~ hours, giving
a light equal to TINT Of four hundred thon.
sand pounds weight Of taIIow candles.
4 northern paper has this handsome com
pllment on a deceased topper -" Nature
at last gaze way, and his spirit fed, as If
asnamed to keep company any longer with
so loaihsome a body"
The Red River Wing s2ys that Monroe.
in Ouachita Parish is one Of the rpfst
beautiful villages IN the interior of Louisi-
ana-ycry furnishing, and surrounded by
a delightful country.
CoNNEcTIcUT may well be held up al
a model state. With population Of over
100000, but one mar could be found dp-
ring the late census, who could neither
write nor read.
MaDl-The editor Of the Butler InteiIi.
gencer PA says he thinks he asks moth.
ing unreasonable when he asks folks to
pay what they owe him. The feflew il
out Of his head-sure.
UfFEREyCE OF CHARAcTcE.-T0u
may depend upon ii, that a slight contrast
Of character is very material to happiness
in marriage.
THOMAS ALRIGHT, a clerk in the u.s.
Bank OF Pennsylvania. was found dead mi
his bed on the 18th, having taken NOR.
phine the night before.
The Court of Sessions in TIE CITY Of
Ney-iork IS composed of three iudgrs,
one a Protestant, the second a Catholic,
and the third an BraeIite !"
1t is stated that the Government is in
treaty with DIR. Truman siiFman, VI. D..
for a large supply OF his S~arsaearilla emil
Pills to cIeor out the Red river raft.-Pr.
4 translation of Thiers's history of the
French Revolution is in course oc oubIica-
ton in New York. 1t comes out in Nos.
at a bit each.
A nursing Canary bird cats its own
in a day, and a caterpillar eats 500
its own weight before it hes down to
rise a butterfly.
Some n in New York, proposes 10
a sheet large enough for an awning
for the whole Union, to be called the
sheet and San EclipseE.
The people Of Maine arc talking of al
teriug their Constitution SO as to make the
elections take place once in two
years, and the Legislature meet biennialiY.
The man VINO, after twenty-five wears
marriage, gives his wife a ST. bass ii a
must be a very gallant fellow.
Nineteen steamers have been btiIt for
the trade otSt, Louis sle@. November Isl