Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-10-01

the st, Charles. He is rebuilding and will
open the American soen.
" A Mr., pegg, Of Clinton township, who
has been . leading wing in tie county IN
which be resided, has renounred whlggery,
and new goes for demoefaoy.-Mobile JottrndA
That's ~nething-only a Pegg loose, and we
wings are charitable enough certainly to give
ene peg to a party which has SO many II screws
loose."--N. o. Bulletin
Look out. Ainsworth dent give loo much.
You know what the Cockney said: "Give a
hinch and they'll take a hell"
vAHtEriFs-'rbe National Intelligeneer
SAYS the circulation Of that paper was never
larger than at present, though it can't collect
enough to pay expenses. The why's Of Mas.
| sa,hnsetts have nominated Henry Clay for
President and John Davis for vice President
the latter gentleman is also nominated FER
governor and George Hull for lieut.. governor.
Maine has gone fer the democrats by q hand
so ne majority Fairfield is reelected govern
or. The wings Of New Jersey have accorded
in the nomination made by Massachusetts for
the Presidency. There are 9n0 taxable per-
g ms in Warren Co. Miss. unable TO pay their
| state taxes. DR. Stillman is studying law.
ne steamer NlCKsBuFE MAS psFb fhissu anu
is now repairing al New Orleans.
The equanoxial gales on the Gulf were
heavy and did much damage. The port of
Havana at last dates, was filled with ships,
barks, briggs and schoonere, some dismastad
others shattered and all more or less injured.
Four brokers' Of New Orleans took q game at
fisty-cuffs in Camp street on the Odd the
scene afforded much amusementto spectators,
and a pair of Irish speetacles to one or tive OF
| the parties. An attempt was made by a fel-
low named Ice ker,nan. to assassinate John
G.. Lrgrand, secretary Of state in Maryland. on
the 1dth ult. Mr.. Legrand was severely but
not dangerously stabbed The assassin fled.
The city of Mobile is very healthy this year
but eight or ten deaths irvm yellow fever
have occurred there. The Eavnn aara Chrpp-
icle mentions some two or three cases of the
fever at Waterloo, this state.
The 10Th September all the ships in the
pert Of Buffalo were decorated withniags, in
honor Of perry's victory on Lake Erie. A
duel was TO take place between two officers Of
the N. Orleans custom house on Thursday
morning. Massachusetts, has adopted a bill
for districtiar the state in conformity with the
late law of congress we believe New York
has done the same. Mr.. J. Jude. a respectable
merchant of Mobile accidentally shot himself
while on a hunting excursion. last week a
yeung wife and numerous friends mourn his
loss. A physician of Miss. contends that an
" excess of carbon in the circulation" is the
cause of bilious and yellow fevefs. There is
a lad in Virginia. II years old. only 2 feet d
inches high. The Spirit of the Times saws
Boston and Fashion will probably meet this
fall at Baltimore both are in good condition.
A vessel, name unknown, was burned last
Saturday onfLake Ponchartrain.
New Orleans is fast filing with goods and
strangers, Gotten and established citizens who
have absented themselves during summer
| A thief entered the apartment Of Mr.. Shall,
in the City hotel, N. Orleans, 10 rob him MIR.
q. was awake and caught the rascal. Aaron
Whiteney, Of st. Clair TO. No, was recently
found dead / in his bed it was thought he had
committed suicide, but his wife, since fed,
is now suspected of having murdered him.
VIM. Cowley. an lrishman, was shot dead by
Louis Alheim, at Little Rock. Ark, the 18th
ult.
EuRopE.--By the steamer Great Western
arrived at New York, intelligence TO the I'd
September has been received. We collect
from our exchanges the following items.
Order is almost wholly restored in the man
ufaeturing districts. The operatives, with the
exception of those of few factories, have re-
sumed their labor,
The demand for manufactured goods have
increased, and prices slightly advaneedI
The wheat harvest had been secured. In
quality 1t is good--in quantity, no more than
an average one.
Money was abundant. The Bank of Eng
land was disrounting freely at 81 per cent.
per anfut1.
Some of the West India steamers are to be
Withdrawn from the line. In future they are
not 10 touch at the Balise.
An o~verlaad mail from India reached London
oil, the lst OF September. The new is said
to be very distressing for John Bull. General
pollock's army was suffering from sickness
and starvation.
The Queen Of England had arrived at
Edinburgh. and proposed to continue her Jour
ney. and pay several visits TO the seats of the
nobility in The highlands of Scotland.
The quotations for cotton in the Liverpool
market were New Orleans, ordinary to
middling, Al a 81 c fair to good. 81 a 81
good to fine, 7 a Sd-Mobile. ordinary 10 mid
ding, d a 8 lair to good, 81 81 good to fine,
81 a 6ad. There was a decline in prices of
ID ner ID.
Our Minister, Edward Everett, had gone to
Paris.
There have been large frauds at the London
Customhouse.
There have bee. failures among the
corn factors. American ant. Canadian flour
is six. pence lower. Grain is down.
The steamer B. Queen arrived at Caves
in fifteen days the Great Western at Liver
pool in thirteen days and the Columbia at
the same port in nine days and a half, from
Halifax. The Great Western is to be sold,
Lord Charles Wellesl second son of the
Duke Of Wellington, has been elected men,
Der for South Hampshire, without opposition,
The lad Bean has been sentenced 10 eight
cen months Imprisonment in Newgate for
attempting to shoot the Queen with q pipe
stem.
1t is stated that The Emperor of China has
fed into Tartary The English had slaugh-
tered many more celestials.
The British have met with more reverses
in India. and with a disastrous defeat at the
Cape of Good Hope.
Several cargees Of American -four have re-
Gently entered the ports OF Limerick and the
adjacent counties of Ireland.
Fanay Elssler had arrived at Vienna.
Lord John Russell, the whig leader Of the
opposition in the British House of Commons,
has declared his intention of no longer leading.
He cannot "go," as we say here, the radical
to their full extent.
The arrival # a special messenger in the
Great Western from this country with the
treaties for the settlement OF the many pend
ing questions between England and America,