Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-11-16

- ZEN Err L NEWS.

MI Mass, sss,,Jogna the 24th ultimo, aged 81
years. ta e,;.oU u,
The leaders of the Jamaica insur.
rection, George W. Gordon and Paul
Boyle, have been caught, and are un.
der trial by martial law. Thsir cap
ture has dispirited the insurgents,
manytofw whom are feisarrendering them.
selves. aii 10 sYrgda>;b .adi eogy
M I.amartine isI publishing D." Life Of
Byron" %, asteuizletoa, in the Con.
stitutionnel. Two chapters, have al.
ready appeared, Remarking on By.
ron's early years, Lamartine tells that
the poet fell 10 love when child Of
eight, and ,adds that Dante conceived
bis immortal passion for Beatrice at
eleven, and that he himself, Alphonse
lde LLfallppaanHtine, Lamar was similarly, affected
at; ten years old. .rt-,
A national express company in to
be organized 10 Richmond with cap.
ital Of ten million dollars. l7a"a Ahr
Among the latest wonders in the
animal kingdom isa talking dog which
baass been fbroueht GUT in Springfield.
He can say Good morning. = !" How
do yeu do'?'" and many other things,
as plainly asa human being. The I'D.
final has been purchased by Billy
Morris, of Boston, of Morris Brothers,
Pell and Trowbridge's Opera House.
The population Of London now
reaches 3y0l5,594; Liverpool, 49,.
1868; Manchester, 154, ,93l. fssg bins
The Catholics of Lawrence, Mass,
have determined to build splendid
cathedral which win EXCEED ia size
any church in the State, and be an
.edifeel Of great magni6cencs. This
church is TO be built BY the Augustin.
mas who have only this church Of their
E6rder ID the country. +.
1T Is not true, says the Philadelphis
Aga, DIS stated IN some papers, that
Edwin Booth has been married TO a
daughter, of Mr.. Jules Hauel, Of Phil
. aaddelphiar No such marriage has t.
ken place.
/" The San Antonio Herald, of the
I29th ult.,, publishes its first news dis.
patch received over the wires from
Houston. The line is working through
from Galveston and Houston to San
Antonio via Austin q 3lI.'a1 H9%3
sd Hon. John L. Manning has been
elected United States Senator from
1 South Carolin3 by the Legislature Of
that State, now 10 session.
The drainage filth of London is e.
timated to be worth thirteen million
and half gold dollars.
go About s5,O0O,OOO, were required
last year to pay pensions. The esti.
mates for the next year will bs con.
siderably above s10,00O,00O. =
1 4 Berne letter states that On inter
national congress will shortly assemble
at Paris, for the purpose Of fixing .
uniform standard for copper coin. The
countries represented will be France,
| Italy, Belgium and Switzerland.
i Preparations are making for quarap.
| tine hospitals, in view of the approach
Of the cholera. 'l!.i@9aS7paF s01 'f
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is residing at
the house ofMr. Schuyler, near Au-
I ,gusta, Georgia. She enjoys her usual
robust health, is under no surveillance
and is permitted to correspond OF will
with her husband aud friends. ~
Mr., George F. Root, the popular
composer, appears to have followed A
Wards advice, to "let the old man
have. d chance" Hislatest published
ballad is entitled, Sing me to Sleep
Father
General Banks commenced life as Q
dancing master. y.
+" II ID said that Chief Justice Tsney
left three daughters who are very poor
The Russian army will be reduced
to the extent Of so, 900 and will then
be 800, ,0O0fstrong. .a. =.I
The New Albany (Lnd.) Ledger
state that a glass manufaetory is soon
to be started in that place.
A school teacher who has been Of
Columbus, Georgia, for the past tive
weeks, teaching negroes, decamped,
carrying with him all the money which
had been received from scholars, all the
school books for which he had been
paid, and leaving bis boarding house.
washing and other little bills to be COL
lected 10 the future.
Alexander Fl. Stephens refuses to
be o candidate for Governor as well 10