Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-07
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The number Of persons in regular and
temporary Government employ at wash
ington is stated to be five thousand.
The New York Times City of Mexico cor
respondence says the imperial fsasts have
been of the most gorgeous description, and
the display of diamonds of fabulous price
was redundant.
The Bishops OF the Methodist Church
South assembled at Columbus, Ca, dAcid
cd TO continue organization and have stated
their reasons therefor in q pastoral ad-
dress.
Father Taylor, the sailor preacher, long
one Of the notnbilities OF Boston, died in
Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, Gath
ult., aged GA years. He WINS q schoolmats
OF VIM. Writ, and the oldest chaplain in
the navy,
Parson Brownlow concludes letter
dated Nashville, Aug 12, to his paper &C
Knoxville, with the following statement !:
| am now overhauling tho petitions Of
rebels to the President for pardon. Their
names are legions, and on each have TO
make report. Many of the cases ore such
as ought really to hang.
Major Gen. Custar has issued so order
at Alexandria, La, ordering under arrest
four Captains, twelve lieutenantB and Rev-
enty- five sergeants and corporals of the I'd
Wisconsin cavalry, for having endeavored
to force the resignation of Lieut.. Col. Dale
Of that regiment, by declaring their I'M
Willingness to serve under him, after he
had been restored to his command by q
court martial.
The statue ofJefferSon, executed in mar
BILE by the late Virginia artist, Alexander
Gait, of Noffork, now lies In the Universi-
ty of Virginia, boxed up, just as it came
from Europe.
A committee has been formed in Cincin-
natl to erect a monument to Major Gen.
Mcpherson, who fell during the siege Of
Atlanta. H
The President has pardoned the follow
ing rebels T. G. Bethel, of Louisiana !;
Jonathan Worth, w. D.. Mason, B. T.
Moore and r. T. Caldwell, of North Caroli-
ma John l.. Sehon and L. W. Sehon, of
Tennessee T. j. .Soulle, ofNew York City /;
Vim. Fl Bird, Wm. Gilmer, G. w. Lee,
Frank W. Sedden, OF Alabama G.. ii.
Short, of Louisiana; d. A. Gorden, of
Virginia; Wm. Bronson, of Charlotte,
North Carolina: and Benjamin Fitzpat-
rick, formerly rebel Senator from Ala
bama.
Dates from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 7th
Aug :, are received. The Governor was the
subject Of much abuse by tho newspapers
on the island, for various offences which he
had given. Among other things, he was
severely blamed for having allowed the
ex Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands,
to pass though Kingston, on her way to
England, without any official recognition.
They claim that new city has been dis
covered in Mexico, all buried up and sunk
in o tangle Of swampy forest, from which
no ono who went in ever came out again.
New York city crowds its population of
about million into $4,000 houses. Phil
adelphia with less than 100000 people has
100000 houses.
1t is estimated by old policemen of Rich
mond, Va, that not less than 1000 colored
prostitutes have taken to street-walking
since the occupation of that city by the
Union forces These poor wretohes were
once respectable house servants, but with
freedom came licentiousness, and they now
fill the streets at night, polluting the air
with the vilest language.
The Emperor Macmillan has purchased
and shipped from New York, for the I'm
perial printing Office in the city of Mexico,
" SeG ol HOG ceieDraUed pruning presses /,
has ordered two steam fire. engines from
the same place, and is about to contract
with New York ship builders for several
steam ship, plans for which are now on
the way to him.
One lady on the grand stand ut the Sar-
atoga races, told newspaper correspond
ent that she had $29 900 worth of diamonds
in her hair, that she felt perfectly "safe,"
as no pickpockets were within the gates,
and her husband had put policemen be-
hind her with nothing else to do then to
see that her diamond head suffered no vio-
lation,
An iron-clad gunboat called the Tam
and are has been built at Rio Janeiro for The
Brazilian Government. The Emperor was
present when she was LAUGHED.
A Saratoga letter, speaking of the ma
chinery for making up a fashionable wo-
man, says:
Pads for every part Of the body aro in
use. A device for putting ont TO a smooth
moss tho wrinkles of the checks, called
"plumpers," has Been introduced.