Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-12
TEE RA PH1C.
Large Internal Revenue Receipts.
[From the New Orleans Times,l

[From the New orlesns Times.I
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.--The receipts of in
ternal revenue yesterday reached four mil
lions two hundred thousand dollars.
Pardon Seekers.
A perfect avalanche Of pardon-seekers
were at the Presidential mansion to-day
Fully three-fourths Of the Presidents
business hours are taken up with the con-
sideration Of their petitions. !.
Retchum Indicted.
New YORK, Sept. Sc. B. Ketchum
was indicted to-day by the Grand Jury on
twelve charges of larceny and forgery.
g-1 Governor Fenton.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Goy. Fenton
leaves for New York tomorrow, and will
be able to present balance of over mil
lion due New York State ON account of
the war.
Military Com mission.
The military commission to be organized
will soon proceed to st. Louis to try the
business of steamers on Western waters.
New York Markets.
New YORK, Sept. 8, 10 P. M.-Cotton
AL Flour So IS; Whisky So 25; Wheat
advanced &c; Pork $50 rs; Gold Az.
General SIocuna to Resign.--The Negro
IN s Troops I'm Mississippi.
JACKSON, MISS, Sept. ga rumor,
which has been circulated for some days
that Gen. Slocum had rendered his resig-
nation consequent upon the Presidents in-
dorsement of Gov. Sharkey's action in his
recent militia call, is now generally re-
garded in official circles here as true.
The WenS predicts, confdentially, that
the colored troops are about to be marched
out of the State, either for muster out or
transfer to another locality.
CALIFORNIA; Elections.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. s-The principal
counties return Union men to the Legis-
lature The result appears favorable to
McDougal for Senator.
"BR1oK'' PoMERoY STRIKES PETER OLEum.
Petroleum, you are the Pete for me. Else
why! Mr.. Moses smote the rock, and ex-
eeeding much of the oil traced forth. And
| am rich oilso. To find so much grease,
doth well agrease with me. skirmished
from q garnet upon the oil region. Ever
since became born, my poverty has been
hard to be borne. | have suffered-I have
been bored by creditors. My credit was
run into the ground. People thought me
rich meanwhile. and very mean while it
was, too. They thought / had plenty of
money, so they wanted pay down for what
] bought. Not wishing to humor people,
albert something of a humorist, perhaps, |
will not purchase many things. leased,
] bored, / bought it. Veni, vidi, vici.
Oil. Hell. CREASE. Oils we'll that ends
we'll. bored and it came. | drilled a
hole through a rock, and have already
been rewarded with so much Of the fuel
being prepared for the final conflagration,
that fear the last boil will end in US great
fzzle as did the Dutch Gap Canal.
And now am mch--tnore rich than any
man or any other. have lots of money
now, when have no Hse for it. What
queer world. Nothing like oil. Folks
say, "Ilallo, here's Honorable Mr.. Brick,
just struck fortune. Deuced fine fellow,
Mr. Brick" Three months since I was
plain Brick" It's all owing to Peter
Oeum.
Aud now for splurge. Brown stone
house on Fifth Avenue, with brown stone
front, designed by old Brown himself, on
tails, pink eyebrows, blue eyes. chocolate
style. Yellow wagon with black sides,
purple blinds, and brown top, a la clam
shell. Ethiopian driver, white kids, SOL
ferino stockings, magenta hatband, and
false teeth on gutta percha base. And
sixty-four ethiopiano, with broeatelle
drawers, that modesty may not be shocked
by looking at the legs thereof. And a
library devoted to red backs and even
"greenbacks, ""Darn the expenses" quoth
I. And I'll have park in the woodshed,
and bathing tnb full of oil in church,
and buffalo to steak from-and oysters
as large as Lincoln's majority, and boots
with round toes and square heels, and
seat in some fashionable church, and new
hoop-skirts for all my hired girls, and
will employ so many niggers to wait on
me, that oil I'll have to do will be to be
happy. Oh Pete let me kiss you for your
Ma. And I'll lay bed mornings, and
sit up all night, and bore my friends oil
day, till they can't bare' it. Talk about
honest industry, saving wood for the dust,
opening oysters fer the shell, blackening
boots merely to see your face in them, and
being honest forty years waiting for some
rich man to adopt you. Played. Petro-
leum is the boy. And now I'll live high.
Out Of my house, vain pomp. Away from
the cold cuts, crackers, cheese, mush boil
ed No. 5 mackerel, warmed up soup, and
and brilliant appetites. I've struck Pete.
The Sex OF THE On WELLs.-Before
you have been here week, you will dis
cover that wells are very often the object
of great deal of affection, are raised to
the dignity of sex, and as if admitted into
the human race as so many more. A "dry
holen is always talked of as "it,n and q
very contemptuous particle "it'' some
times is. But if the little puncture be-
HAYES nobly; if it turns out great flowing
well, it is sure to be 'sshe.'' What the
swift engine is to the rider, what the proud
ship is to the sailor, what the sweet girl ia
to the lover, such ia your hundred barrel
we'll to its owners; a dear creature and q
she. They watch it By the hour. ne n1,lsa