The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-08-03

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Il per, La Pyesse, for $1,000. At
this ate La Presse, is worth one
nisIiob Il dollars Wouldn't give
haN If :het for La Pyessc, LIE Moni.
teuy, Constitutional, Charivayi,
and half.a-dozen others. Louis Ma
poleon has but to stamp bis foot, and
tie papers 60 to jericho, and their
editors to Jail .--They have built
steamer at Nashville which draws
only nine inches light, and can carry
forty tons on eighteen inches Of water
---Charles j. Mitchell, formerly
one of the editors Of the Caddo Ga.
zette, was drowned in Lavacca bay, on
the 9th ult.--The Emperor Of
Russia is reported to be insane.-
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned
on The 10th inst. They refused to al
low Mr.. Ryan over 81 600 for rervi-
ccs as attorney in the Impeachment
trial Of Judge Hdbbell. There was,
it is said general rejoicing at the re.
suit of the triai.--The Lantern,
after amusing the world for q time
With lis jokes and caricatures, has
been extinguished. 1t probably laugh.
ed itself to death Like Yorick, we
can only say "alas,' and ponder upon
the jibes and jeers which for time
gave us such infinite merriment.
-The Worlds Temperance Con-
vention assemblies in New York on
the LIST and I'd Of September.---
The Harrisburg PENN Journal
names Gen. George CsdwaIlader, as
candidate for Governor Of Pennsyl-
vaDia, at the next election. Two
distinct shocks of an earthquake we're
felt in Portland on Sunday morning
between 5 and 6 o'clock. Many citi-
zens were aroused from their beds by
the shaking and rumbling develop
ments. The bark Maid of Orleans,
arrived at Salem, reports having ex.
perienced the shock of earthquake at
sea on the 29th nlt.--At the
last Horticultural exhibition in Wash
ington, d. c., Mr.. Breckenridge ex.
hibited forty kinds Of roses, and Mr..
Jardip thirty kinds of perpetual roses,
and dozen different sorts Of cherries
Pears, apricots, apples, plums, white
currants and white raspberries, and
cultivated blackberries, Of great size,
mingled their perfume with that Of
the flowers. ----Rachel, the cele-
brated French actress, is said to be
very homely, small and delicate lock-
ing. Her talent, however, is match
less.--Fr rom giving Ny of a
ring-bolt on board the Lobd6n, be-
longing to the British navy, the cable
flew round with such force as to kill
Lieut.. Chapman and SIX men, who
were sitting down to dinner, and
wounded nine others We should
ike to know where this. terminating
point is situate, as a correspondent Of
a Northern journal, speaking Of the
ladies at Saratoga Springs says they
wear their shoulders bare to the
lower edge Of decorum Where the
lower edge of decorum, on lady's
person is, we have never seen men,
toned. Perhaps, now that the mat
ter is mooted, some one may define
the point laid down. --A bill has
passed both branches of the Legisla-
ture Of New York, incorporating q
company to build ship canal around
the Falls of Niagara, to unite Lakes
Erie and Ontario. The capital stock
is S5,O00000 1t is to be conssruc-
ted so as to allow vessels Of at least
| 500 tons burthen to pass from Lake
Erie to Lake Ontario. 1t is to COM
mence on some point on the Niagara
River above the Falls, and terminate
at some convenient point on the same
stream. The company is allowed to
demand tolls on vessels and floats
Passengers are to be charged ten
cents each. The Western New York
members opposed it, as a heavy blow
at the Erie Canal.--The win
dows of the room occupied by Mrs.
Robinson, in confinement in Troy Jail
for double murder are decorated
with damask and lace curtains. The
appearance from the outside contrasts
strangely with the heavy bars that in