Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-03-19
THE LAW OF THE LIPS

SNAIL wAnE.-The Hon. James Buchanan
Senator in Congress from Pennsylvania, is
one of the democratic candidates for the presi.
dcncy; his prospects are good. John G.. Boyd,
cashier Of the Towanda bank, (Pa.) killed
himself on the 10th ult. by discharging a pis.
toi INTO his mouth. Massachusetts is about to
pay dammages on the~c6nvent burned by the
mob at Charleston "a few years ago. Henry
Johnson is on an electioncering tour through
the Attakapas6 and Opelousas. A bill has
passed the state legislature incorporating a fire
company at Franklin, parish of St. Mary. A
Mrs. Kelly, Of Haverhill, Mass, fell in the fire
and Wis roasted 10 a cinder, on the 18th Janu-
afy; she was drunk. A ship arrived at New
Orleans last week from New York in nine
days. The srog money of the citizens of New
Orleans, amounts to near 50 1000, 900 per an
mum. The Massachusetts legislature adjourn
ed the 18th ult. The New Orleans Fire Com
panies celebrated the 4th instant: it was their
fifth anniversary. The bark VIM. Fales of
Bristol, r. l., was wrecked the 10th February,
and 8 men, among them the captain and sec
ond mate, lost. During the past 18th months,
the BRITISH schooner Fantome, has captured
80 slavers, and liberated 3,A27 negroes. The
Massachusetts abolitionists have nominated
he Rev. John Pierpont as their candidate for
governor, S3l, eco in speciearrived at New
Orleans from Tampico last Friday. Mr.. Mou-
ton declined the dinner offered him by his de-
mocratic friends in New Orleans. Spurious
ten cent pieces have found their way from the
CITY into the country; the Gazette of St Mar
~tlnsville mentions their presence there. Amos
Kendall has bought a farm near Washington,
and retired from politics. The penitentiary at
Sing Sing, New York, contains Sl7-74l men
and rs women. The fire from the ruins of the
ST. Charles theatre, broke OUT fresh in one of
the adjacent buildings on Tuesday morning.
The fames were soon mastered. Two COM
missioners from Texas, Messrs. Jones & Meg.
ginson have arrived in New Orleans; their
business is to procure supplies for their friends
and countrynen during the war. The New
Orleans mattress have Intercepted Denis Prieur
relative to his faith in their peculiar tenets.
Denis Prieur tells them frankly that he is not
a professor of Native American doctrines:
Prieur is a man of sense. A terrible fight oc-
Cured recently at Little Rock, between Doctr
Menefee and Mr.. Phillips. The former sur
vived but a few hours, being literally cut to
pieces; the latter was mortally wounded by a
pistol shot through the kidneys. A young man
Hutchinson in Augusta, Ga, about two weeks
since, McMillen collared Hutchison in the
street, and struck him twice, when the latter
plunged a bowie knife to his adversary's heart.
A dictionary Of arts, manufactures and mines,
illustrated by l24l engravings, is in course of
publication in New York. Jack Downing sent
a letter to the Boz dinner in which he said two
tolerably good things, viz: that tour folks un-
derstand Copyright to mean right to coDy," and
that ga man like Boz can put his rake on a
stubble that others have cut before him, and
carry off more clear corn than the first reap
ers." \ post Office for the delivery of city let
tiers, has been established in New York. The
annual commencement Of the medical college
at Augusta Ga, was held on the 4th instant.
An extra session Of the Georgia legislatures
in contemplation. Jas. II. Caldwell has been
appointed superintendent of the mint at New
Orleans. The steamer Gen. Gaines sold in
Mobile last week for s3,575; she was worth
$4,000, being in good repair. A pitched bat
tie was fought between two regiments, (the I'd
light infantry and 59th Of the line), the second
Sunday in January, at the barriere de fEcole.
The loss of the U. S. schooner Grampus is ru-
uored at Boston. The Niger expedition has
been cut off by sickness. The Hon. Lewis
Williams, the oldest member of the House of
Representatives died recently in Washington
city. The Legislature Of Ohio adjourned On
the It'll inst, have passed a general banking
law, and a law to borrow half a million ofdol-
lars, and to issue Sl,300,000 State scrip in
500 sums, at 6 per cent? to complete a few
of the public works. A theatrical company
is forming out of the St: Charles corps, TO Wis
it the conntrys they so up the river to Nash
vile. James Edwards was waylayed and
murdered atReaufort, S. c. OF the 9Th inst.
The bluff in front of to city Hotel, Nashville,
went down into the river with a rush" a few
days ago: the loss Of some stables and two
horses includes damages. Large numbers OF
families are preparing to migrate from differ
emf parts Of Europe to Texas; a contract mas
been made by an English gentleman to settle
1900 families on the upper Colorado