Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-25

| says tnaJ the AFRICAN WNnddteS
| him. The African is very i'll
hammered fellow, we must say. Thu
| is the last Of the many outrages W.
have heard of his committing.
A soldier who has served three
years in the army fell from a cherry
tres at New Britain, and broke his
neck.-Erchange.
We wonder if any one could sup
pose that three years service in the
army would make a mans neck any
stronger than it was before he en-
tered the service.
A Cincinnati paper is abusing Gen
Sherman. Should we not send tc
the great chiettain a committee Of
coincidence?
1t is said that Louis Napoleon and
Macmillan do not cherish a proper
admiration for the memory of Mr.
Monroe.
A small boy in Philadelphia broke
his arm by stumbling over a girl
Let big boys be warned lest in at
attempting the same feat they break
their hearts.
A New York paper says that many
seem to be Of opinion, that, unless we
go on hanging now that we have
stopped shooting, the dignity Of the
country will suffer.
The Radicals demand of the Presi-
Diet to impose unrestricted negro suf-
frage upon the Southern States.
Why not upon the Northern States
as well? What power has the Presi-
dent over negro suffrage in the South
that he has not anywhere else2
If the President has the power, as
the Radicals allege, to settle the ques-
ton Of negro suffrage in the South,
has he not the power so say that the
negroes shall not vote2
Mr.. Tilton, the radical of the New
York Independent, invokes the inter-
position OF Providence to defeat Presi-
dent Johnson's opposition to negro
suffrage. Well Tilton, tilt on.
Since VIM. L. sharkey is Provis-
ional Governor of Mississippi, let the
ravening sharks of that State be-
ware. Sharkey is death on sharks.
We knew him to catch three before
breakfast at Biloxi in 1916.
III some Of our Generals have rem
dered as much service to the country
as they pretend, it must have been
'secret service"--so secret as to be
proof against discovery.
Let the Government pursue Just
and liberal course toward the South,
and the aurora aaStrealas will soon
glow and flash beautifully in the
Southern sky.
The words Of the poet Halleck,
None know thee but to love thee,
None name thee but to praise,
can't we'll be applied to the poets
namesake.
The Utica Herald pointedly says
that the "pacifc" department is just
the right place for Halleck.
An Indiana editor says that he
+" acquits" US of any unpatriotic de-
signs. 1t is not in his power to
"acquit" or convict us. We are not
on trial before any such tribunal as be.
A dog in Danbury, Conn, was
struck by lightning few days ago,
one-half of him paralyzed, and the
whole left as darkless as a peeled log
The friends of Kirby Smith boast
that be was the last rebel General to
That's only because he
was furthest of, and 50 the hardest
to get at.
We would thank some of the Off
GERS and soldiers who have become
citizens to tell us which they found
the more agreeable-being mustered
Tor battle, or mustered out of service.
Good feeling is a thing worth cul-
tivating at this time, but it will, if
we only attend to our own proper
affairs, grow up and flourish and
blossom and bear fruit without cult
waiting.
Among those who have died of
sun.stroke are several soldiers. They
could stand the fire of the rebels, but
not the blaze Of the sun.
be progressive. Let your soul,
IKE old John Browns, march on
but not IN the same direction.
The IiGER.-Last week General
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