Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-19

GEN ERAL NJ EWS.

part of the State are declining in pop
ulation. fs8 .s
The claim of Maine against the Gen.
eral Government for raising and equip.
ping troops from the outbreak Of the
rebellion amounts to 81, ,l45 10000.
An English woman in Dundalk
gave birth to four children--two boys
and two girls. A contribution Is SOL
icited for the bereayed husband,
The heat in India during the past
summer has teen 80 intense that even
the natives, by scores, have been fore
ed to succumb. @s...5., a.e.s
VIM. A. McCoy,a . prominent ag-
riculturist Of Sangamon country, Illi-
nois, has just returned from Michigan
with drove of ten thousand sheep
purchased in that State. 5.0
There are 121 steamships belonging
to the several lines that ply to and
from New York. Their total tonnage
is l13 ,526.
Not less than 5000 people are cut
ting wood for steamers ON the Mississ-
ippi river, and more people are engag.
ed in this business than ever before.
The rebel General Joseph e. Johns
ton has been offered the position Of
President of the Richmond and Dam
vile Railroad. 1t ID believed he will
accept the offer.
Henry S. Foote, recently > mem
Der of the rebel congress, passed
through Cincinnati recently, on his
old home. lie has been pardoned it
is understood, by the President.
All sentences of death, in cases of
soldiers convicted Of desertion, have
been commuted by the President to
Imprisonment for term Of years. gua
The gamblers ofSaratoga oomplain
that the place is this summer fire.
quented by middle-elas people, who
come to drink the water and not to
spend money--evidently taking sad
Ely mistaken view of their duty.
They are emigrating from Cork to
this country at the rate of about l 900
per week. .
The present population of London
is 3, ,615, ,494, of the borough of Liv-
erpool 476,368, city of Manchester
1885, $50.
A youth of S5 married . maiden of
IS in Xenia, Ohio, last week.
1t is singular fact that Cuba mo-
lasseg is being imported into New
Orleans, via Boston, to supply the To-
cal demand. Before the war, the mo-
lasses product of Louisians reached
nearly million of barrels-enough
for the whole consumption of the
United States.
Three years ago young lady in
Nashua knitted pair of drawers for
u soldiers fair, and in them inclosed
her address. The soldier who drew
the drawers correspondsd with her,
afterwards visited her, and now the
loving hearts are one.
Another instance of the evils of car
rying revolyers occurred in Buffalo re.
Gently. An intoxicated man who was
put off q street car attempted to draw
q revolver to shoot the conductor,
when the weapon exploded in his
pocket, causing his death in = few
| hours.
The rebel General Mansfield Lowell
has found employment as the working
editor of the New York Neaos.
The cotton crop will be almost en-
tirely failure throughout West Ten
nessee, rust destroying it before it ma
lures. It is said the best cotton
country in the western part Of the
State will not yield swo hundred
pounds to the acre.
General Hatch, who commands
the cavalry disposed throughout Ala
bama, has assured the Demopolis Mes
seager that squad will be placed at
every precinct to "aid the civil au-
thorities in the coming election"
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, dating ut Buenos Ayers,
speaks Of the arrival Of Welsh colo
ny for settlementin Patagonia. Three
thousand are coming. They bring
along their own industrial machinery,
and contemplate establishing line Of
steam vessels to carry on their own
trade. ~.
Gen. Rufus Saxon, commanding
at Hilton Head, has married one of
the School superintendents who went
down there from the North, and set.
tied down comfortably on q tWotheu-
sand-aore plantation.