The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-31
General Summary.

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vii & Mead, Chartres street, and Mr..
John Forshee, tho ex-Coroner, were
robbed on board the steamer Flying
Cloud at an early hour yesterday
morning. The two gentlemen had
taken passage the evening previous,
and as we learn, slept out ons the
guards for comfort, leaving their state
rooms accessible. Mr.. Scovils room
was entered by some one who stole
$50 in gold, a check on an Ohio bank
for $4,000, a note for $4,000, and some
other notes and draft, all payable to
II. Scovil Mr.. Forshee had bis gold
watch taken from his person while
sleeping; his keys were also taken
from his pants which he had on, his
trunk opened, and some shirts, coat.
and several other articles carried off.
Mr.. Scovil's loss would be a very
heavy one were he not able to render
the stolen papers valueless. The po-
lice are sharply on the scent of the
thiof.---That blessed baby Of Mrs.
EUGENE NAPOLEON of Paris, created
rather more noise than usual, and now
we hear another cry--this time all the
way from Africa--for the papers duly
announce that the lady of President
Benson Of Liberia has given birth to
son. The programme, however, on
this interesting occasion, has, strange
ly enough, not been published. We
do not see why her Excellency has not
as good a right to have the programme
published AS the other one. We 60
in for strict impartiality in such cases,
and place ourselves square upon the
programme platform.--The New
York Erpress announces that a meet
ing of the American Council, on Mon
day evening last, in the 21st Ward of
that city, George Law was unanimous
ly expelled, and with him Mr.. Mott,
of that Ward-who recently attend
ed the Fremont Convention.-A
large Fillmore and Donelson Club was
formed few days since in Chattanoo-
ga. Clubs have also been formed in
Knoxville and many other interior
towns within the past week.--The
Louisville Courier says the heavy
rains that fell along the Ohio river on
Friday last were worth thousands of
dollars to the farmers. All descrip.
tons Of vegetation was greatly bene-
fitted, and the crops are now more
promising than ever.--New wheat
is selling at Nashville and other por-
tions of the middle part of the State,
at seventy to seventy-fve cents per
bushel.--The rice crop is said to
be promising in Georgia, and will be
fair average one.
OCCUPATIONS OF THE AMERICANS.
The census returns of the occupa-
tons of the people of the United
States are curious and instructive
The number of BARRIERS and brokers is
about the same, and between the two
the people get well shaved There are
about eighty professional doctors to
one professional undertaken Only
eighty-two people informed the GEN.
sus-takers they were authors" while
no less than two thousand individuals
assumed to be ARTISTS" There are
one hundred thousand blacksmiths,
and the same lumber of merchants"
The lawyers out number the bakers
by ten thousand, there being twenty
four thousand of the former, and four
teen thousand of the latter. The hat
ters and the tobaconists are about
equal in number. The carpenters
number two hundred thousand; the
masons sixty-four thousand; the tai
lors fifty thousand; the wheelwrights