Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-05-07

! ~ DuEsleu tLB VoousiiiC iscPuoAieau i'i'
the Gaze SO aggravated, that it might not i'm
properly be referred to Judge Lynch's court
The Natchez fencibles, a gallant volunteer
corps, celebrated their 18Th anniversary on
the 2Ist nit. Those editors Of Natchez and
Vicksburg are a jolly set of fellows-always
drinking and fighting. they had a great
meeting at Natehez fer Irish Repeal on the
| 9th ut, i, was continued on the 28th Mr..
! Mooney was the principal speaker. Music Is
now printed in Paris with ommon tyPea.
Many of the Texans have quit planting and
CONS to mining. J. II. Peoples, editor of the
Caddo Gazette has gone to Texas he says
| his object is, sall for to fight the Mexicans."
The Christian Advocate and Journal, of New
| York, chief organ Of the Methodist Episcopal
denomination in the u. States,i is stigmatised
as an arrant abolitionlst publication if this
be true, every honest, patriotic, god}y Method-
ist in the South, viii cut i:s acquaintance i'm
mediately. IN act passed oar legislature at
its late session, authorizing ministers oftb > gos-
pei, whether residents or not, to perform the
marriage cercraoay. Mr. LIZARD, the last Of
the house of L'zardi Co, New Orleans, died
in Paris about The first of March. Jas. Nj.
| Wolfe the lawyer arrested some months ago
in New Orleans, for frauds on his clients, has
been discharged as innocent. At a fire in
Louisville on the 18th nit, one man was
| burned to death, another had a leg broken,
anda third Mr.. Patton was stabbed by a man
named Mclaughlin Patton died in q few
seconds. Rents have fallen in all the north
ern cities. Miss Iiamblin, who killed MIR.
Ewing in the Mobile theatre, is said to he in
New York. JeanJacques Aversing is French
Consul for the port Of Mobile. Dir. Thos.
Chestnut, late postmaster at Plaquemine,
died IN New Orleans last week. A PROPOSE
ton has been made in congress to extend the
laws Of the q. States over Oregon Territory.
Joseph Lawrence, representative in Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, died at Washington
on the 18th ult. The fine packet Louis Phi
lippe, in the New York and Havre trade,
went ashore On Long Island the 18th and was
lost. 4 band of robbers, composed Of young
men, chiefly members of the church, have
been discovered and arrested on the Alleghe-
MES. Cooper, the novelist, has recently OBJ
tanned three Judgments against editors,
amounting scverally to $40, $55 and $s7;
poor business, this law-literature. The peo-
pie of Morgantown, Va, have held a meeting
and resolved to resist all attempts to collect
debts on them according to law this is quite
equal to Mississippi. The State bank of
North Carolina, and the bank of Cape Fear
resumed specie payments last Monday. The
supreme court of Ohio recently divorced A
couples in one day there still remained
about fifty cases Of the same kind on the dock
ct. They held a meeting in Bayou Sara last
Friday for the purpose Of inviting chas. Dick
ems to visit that place; the thing was intend
ed as a good-natured farce, TO cast rldicule on
the excessive attentions paid to that gentle
man in other places a jolly set, those Bayou
Sara boys. The drying cylinders of a paper
mill at Nashville, Tenn, recently exploited,
doing great damage to property and injuring
one or two persons. George Bancroftis about
to write a memoir of General Jackson, and
also to edit the old mans manuscript cores
pondence. DR.. FalconeF, one of the famous
Santa Fe expedition, has prepared an account
of that affair, which the Picayuue is now
publishing.
James Fennimore Cooper has brought out
a new novel, entitled The Two Admirals. A
devil fish weighing 2OG0 lbs. was caught at
Charleston a few days since. Recently,
300 Seminoles left Florida for the West;
now we see accounts of lG0 more having
been shipped. Why are professors Of phre-
noiogy remarkable for their humanity? Be-
cause they are men of fseling. May day was
celebrated by the pupils of the Fe-
male Orphan Asylum in New Orleans. Louis
was shot at and wounded in the shoul-
der last Sunday, while sitting on his house at
Inc Meyairie Coursa. Last Sunday Governor
formally presented 70 the battalion Of
formed in New Orleans, six hands
some brass field pieces, purchased by the
state. A furious tornado was experienced at
Mo, the 9Th ut. The Prince de
J~oinvilie is about espousing a Dutch princess
Several hundred laborers eare now without
work in the city of New YORK they can find
lands to cultivate in the West. A whale %
Get long was tstan in the New York harbor
IN the 2lst ult. MILO yvS..ssops were mqrdert--
near Ocilla, Florida, by a party of Indians,
;ome three weeks since.-Adjutant Halle. of
he Plaquemine Gazette, is candidate for
Major of 9Th regiment. l.. NJ. Cammeyer af-
er legal ejectmcnt from New Orleans, has
lad the ~ilnpudence to return to that city. A
meteor several miles longs was recently seen
It the north. The Baltimore banks have re-
specie payments. That excellent
Cincinnati paper, the Elevator, is d iscontin-
led for the present; the pteprietors promise
o revive it's publication soon hope they'll
10 SO. A violent ail.etozaa recently swept
Fgtchitoches. Mrs. MadRon.is now in
Philadelphia. The officers Of the National
Agricultural Society, were 10 be chosen in
Washington city the 9TH inst. That ~rascaiiy
.boGtionist, Giddings, is again elected to con
,ress in Ohio.
u A contemporary asks, @'How many are
here who know the right, and yet wrong
1
Our friend is respectfully informed that
here is a cheap on 'eui." i
New ORLEass Observation-Disclosures still
ontinues extremely iull, though sales of cot
On, Of middling qualities, have improved