Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-07-30

FAarErfgs.-Thc council Of THE FIRST NUM-
c~ipality, New Orleans, has passed a resolution
enforcing a heavy fine on gambling shops.
Mitchell, the honorable forger, has been SEN
fenced to three years confinement IN the Pc
nitentiary. A ship was struck by lightning
al New Orleans, on Tuesday. A great tretting
match, between Ripton and Confidence, came
of on Long Island the 18th inst. Two mlie
heats time 5 III. 145 sec.-5:27-5:37. Hip.
ION won the first heat. Confidence the o'hef
two; each nag harnessed 10 a drag.
A gentleman stopping at one OF the hotels IN
New York was robbed, the other day, oil sSa
soyereigns. Robberics are very frequent IN
the north; travellers must keep a good look
out for them. A melon, weighing 493 lbs.,
has been presented TO one ofihe savannah
editors. The Rhode Island prisoners have
been all examined, and nearly all discharged.
Three young lnlies we're drowned I'D the East
river, near New York, on the 18th they were
on a bathing excursion. A young woman,
named Margaret Dunden. is imprisoned in
Erie, N. Y, for poisoning her husband; and
another, OF a diifs rent name, has been arrested
in Ohio, for biting of her husbands nosr and
ears, and gouging his eyes ont. A cotton fac
tory was burned at Hillsborough, N. H., the
9th. Madame Jerome Bonaparte Is residing
at Roekaway, III. Colt is not yet sen fenced /:
the Supreme Court have afirmcd9ihc verdict
of the Oyer and Terminer against him. ga
raloga is doing "A crack business this year +;
about 2, ZOO strangers are there; people too
poor TO remain at home, travel. Some sailors
have been arrested in Mobile, on suspicion oil
numbering their captains; the sailors say ne
was lost overheard from a yawl. =. B. Ghur-
chill has been appointed postmaster i'll ~.
LOUIS. There Is a society III view lofh iol
the protection OF snperanpuated or unfortunate
actors and actresses; Fanny Elssler has made
it a handsome contribution. a tremendous
ireShet occurred at Richmond, Va, the l4th !
the James river rose from i've to SIX ieet IN
one hour, and continued rising with great ra-
pidity for Two or three days. Great damage
was done to dwellings and other properly on
the river. a prolracted meetlhg WAS hsia III
the Methodist Episcopal church, at Covlngton,
last week. Many additions were mace 10 INC
church. Governor kltiinels, oil mississippi,
who went TO Texas last spring, has returned
70 his W state, and is there exertlng MN
self to raise a company TO settle on the no
Grande. II IS supposed That about 3oo men,
VIII accompany HIM. The states OF 'eorgia
Missouri, Maine, New Hampshire, and SCUM
Carolina, have declared against the district
ing feature OF the apportionment bill or more
IfFT1'tf 5'
clared against It. People IN New Orleans
think the city Will not suffer from ycHow ie-
ycr THIS SUMNER. Inc steamer shahifncS,
plying on the 81 Lawrence, burst her noiisfs
on the 9TH inst, killing "a persons. a hshs
In which three men were Killed. occurred on
the 4th, IN one OF the iewns on the northeast.
crn frontier, between some Canadians ana
freshmen, because The latter presumed 10 &C.
lebrale the anniversary Of American ihdepeh'
dence' the Canadians were routed. a iady
out west thinks the man who mas soiicitea me
company Of a female for the evening", and been
refused should be satisfied, without repeating
me same request some hali-dozeh utnes, we
think so too. A young man, named hurst
hnng himself on the 4th instant IN salem
ONO: supposed TO nave become uefah8ea from