Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-25
TON ROUGE, LA. TUESDAY MORNING, July 25 1865
TIle Oazette &Golllet
GENERAL NEWS.

The United States Treasury comes
into the new fiscal year, with sur.
plus in gold and silver of about
$35, 100000, including the appro,
priations made to pay the present
July interest on the public debt,
and not yet called for.
In New York, one man who had
no income in 1868, now returns
ninsty-four thousand dollars An,
other, under the same circumstances
returns eighty-eight thousand.
Don Pedro Candamo has just died
at Lima, leaving q fortune of gle,-
100000 sterling. He was surname
ed the Prince Of Bankers. a
President Johnson's brother says
be has not seen Andy since he be-
came great man. He is plain,
ard-working, sensible old man,
perfectly plain in his manners and
demeanor. l3t
The Nashville Dispatch-Presi.
dent .Johnson's home organ--says
that if the radicals think they can
make the President, come to their
terms, they don't know the man.
A large number of farms in diff
ferent parts of Virginia have been
offered as presents to General LEE,
but he has, in every case, declined
to accept them. ),
1t is remarkable fact that Chill
and Guiana are the only two coun-
tries of South America now at
peace. All the rest of this great
continent is under martial law.
A dispatch from jackson, Miss,
says the work ON the Southern Rail-
road is being pushed forward vig-
crously, and will be completed very
soon. 3@''''-
The city gates Of Quebec, have
never been without guardssince its
capture from the French by Gen.
Ieral Wolfe, until last Thursday
week, when they were permanently
withdrawn.
A new fy.hy-night paper, called
the Bat, has been started in Lon
nnn, sbnmewhat in imitation Of the
Owl. 1t has a lord for editor, a
member Of Parliament for sub-editor
and the reporters and printers
devil are all embryo statesmen OF
aristocratic connections. # s N
Mr.. John FL. Sillick, Of No. 119
East Eighty-fourth street, New
York, real estate agent, and former
Iy clergyman Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, committed sui.
eide recently, by hanging in his
dwelling. aa5 g
| It is proposed to run atelegraph
wire from San Francisco south
ward through Mexico and the 18th
mus, to all the principal South Am.
erican cities.
The owner of the house where
President Lincoln died says, he has
presented no bill. nor charged any
thing for admission to his house,
as alleged ; though a large number
of persons have called at the premis.
es, and walked off with knives,
spoons and tumblers to be kept as
mementoes.
Gen. Sherman, will make Cincin.
natl bis permanent place Of resi-
dence. The General proposes to
make an effort to have his head
quarters at st. Louis removed to
that city.
A selfplaying organ has been
completed in New York, for the
musical saloon of a wealthy gentle
man, by which a child can perform
difficult works with wonderful pre-
cision. 1t has five cylinders, which
as they revol7e, press down upon
the keys. 1t plays thirty i've
tunes. 4, gga a.8
A heavy submarine telegraph
cable, with three connecting wires,
has just been successfully laid be-
tween Tralleberg, Sweden, and the
German island of Rugen, a distance
of fifty-fve miles 01
Newbern, North Carolina, now
contains a large Northern element
in it's population, and has become
the business centre of the State
Cotton and other products from all
parts of the State are daily arriv.
ing.
S. e. Birge, A. G.. Hills and q. G.
Burr. of Boston, have associated
+barnealves with e. M. Perry. a