Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-19

support, Tor winch their proprletors
have our best wishes. -
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a0- Santa Anna comes out in a
proclamations from his rancho at ST.
Thomas, against the French in Mexico.
When he thought the French were
going to have it all their own way
over there, he declared in their favor,
saying that his declaration was made
in order to. get chance to see bis
sick wife in Mexico. Now that be
considers Maximilian's tenure some
what "shaky,' he adopts his facile
patriotism to suit, as he doubtless con-
oeives, those coming events which may
reinstate' him in power and selfag-
grandizement.
"a His late proclamation closes asrfol-
lows
Compatriots! on this memorable
I'd Of December, 1862, / adopted as
my motto these words; "Down qoith
tie Empire I Lire The Republic I
AbaloreI Ell lmperio, = Vsua ia Re
Ya61sca ~ And now, from the for
eign soil upon which I am exiled, |
repeat that motto with the same en-
thusiasm. f
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- INTERESTING ADVENTURES OF JUDAH
p, BENJAMIN.-The Worlds cores
pondent gives an account Of Judah z.
Bepjamins escape from the ruins of
the ConfderacyI: he says Benjamin
separated from Davis early in May,
near Washington, Georgia, for the
purpose Of making his way to Nassau
and Havana, from some point on the
Florida coast. He was to attend to
some public business at these ports,
and then join the President in trans
mission, via Matamoras and Texas.
la He traYeled directly south through
Georgia and Florida, on horseback,
disguised as a farmer in search of
lands, without exciting any attention,
until he reached the lower side of the
Peninsula Of Florida. He was in
formed that no boats could be found
on the eastern coast, and went to the
gulf shore, where after months delay,
hesucceeded III getting d ships yaw4-
boat and two men, who were willing
to risk their lives upon the sea in it.
The boat was about fifteen feet long
in which they coasted the peninsula
till they reached one of the keys of
Florida Reef, where they succeeded in
procuring boat somewhat larger, in
which they put to sea to cross the
Gulf Stream, and fortunately arrived
upon the banks, after a passage Of
sixty houIs. ts aS Az EtAEs
On the 10th of July, after an I'M
successful attempt to reach Nassau, in
which he was baff1ed by headwinds
and heavy weather, he put back to
Bereniese, and on Friday, the l4th,
the sloop foundered thirty miles to the
nearest land. The vessel went down
SO rapidly that he, with the crew had
barely time to jump into skiff in tow
of the sloop before she sunk. In this
boat, with light mast sail, and COM
pass, and only provision Of boiled
rice, which the negroes had boiled for
breakfast-in this leaky and over
loaded boat, and having but one oar,
they made for land, and as the wealth
er was calm and the vessel in sight,
by dint of energetic skulking they
reached the lighthouse, and in . YES
sci from that point Benjamin reached
Nassau and Havana. = gsys ~
His whole trip has occupied the
best part of three months, out of which
thirty days have been passed at sea, in
miserable open boats.
,B| A Virginian writes the follow
ing as the reason why Gen. Lee made