Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-20

newspapers of Philadelphia for ad.
vertising last year were as follows:
Ledger, 1851 900 ; Inquirer, 1871 900;
Press, $3l, 900; Bulletin, $26,7O
German Democrat, $lO,000saaoa
| The summer travel to all places
of popular resort is immense. One
of the Hudson river boats left New
York the other day with 1900 pas
sengers.
A Fortress Monroe correspondent
states that yellow fever prevails at
| Washington, N O., and that strict
quarantine is forced III Hampton
Roads on all vessels arriving from
there. ..f.. ain zA.r.sl saaaj a#l
The gross receipts for the princi-
pal places Of amusement in New
Orleans, for the past season, were
as follow: Academy of Music, Spal-
ding, Rogers 10 Bidwell, managers,
$103,3 ,306 65; Varieties Theatre $79,-
535 rs, and tho ST Charles, Ben De-
Bar, and e. Eddy, managers, $685.
973 rs. 1t will thus be seen that
the Academy was tho most success
fnl, and took nearly $25, ,0OO over
the Varieties, and over $4,000
more than the ST. Charles.
! Charles Schweiger, n New York
butcher, died on the Goth ult., from
the effects OF fly bite. An autop-
sly of the body made il evident that
the death was occasioned by the
absorption Of morbific AM nal mat
ter deposited by the insect.
Chalk James Webster, of Grant
county, KY, is the father of forty
five children, eighty grandchildren
and twenty-seYen great greats.---
He is now in his seventy fourth
year, living with his fourth wife.
Henry Southcy, M. d., D. G. r., +.
r. s., brother of the poet and physi.
clan of eminence, did recently in
London, aged 50. He was consider
ed the highest medical authority ON
all matters connected with lunacy.
Mad. Anna Bishop, the celebrated
singer, has returned from Mexico
and prosposes d professional tour
of the Northern watering places.
Miss Lizzie Lock, convert to
Judaism from Christianity, was ad-
mitted to the congregation of Israel,
with appropriate ceremonies, at
Memphis, few days ago. gus
Thomas NJ. Wells, late of tho u.
S. Navy, son Of Gov. Wells, Of I.oui-
siana, was married on tho 10th ulto.,
in the city of Jefferson, to Miss
Naomi Livaudais.
Hon. William Wilkins, Of Penn,
Secretary Of War under President
Jackson, died recently at the nd.
vanced age OF eighty-six. I
NAPoLEoN's RETURN TO PARIS
Says the New York Heralds Paris
correspondent of the 18th ulto.:
The Emperor returned to Paris
on Saturday evening, after an alb
sence Of forty days in Algeria He
WAS received with great enthusiasm
and loud cries of Vioe Z pEmperemr'
greeted him on his way from the
railway station to the Tuilleries.--
The Empress and Prince Imperial.
vino bad met him at Fontainebleau.
rode in the same carriage with him
from the station. His Majesty looks
well and is considerably Drowned
by the African sun. In the evening
the public buildings and many pri-
vate houses were illuminated and
hung with flags. The Emperor may
we'll be proud of the reception he
received, and at the fact Of finding
Paris all safe and in good order az
when he left it. Since that time
great and stirring events have oc-
Cured. Your President has been
assassinated and the republican Gle
ments Of France have made his
death the excuse for extended de-
monstrations. His Majesty's own
"cher cousin" has come out in open
to the known principles
Of the Emperor in the Corps Legis-
latif. Sharp and determined at
tacks have been made upon bic poll
cy by a well organized and able op.
position, and what in former times
would have been the most formid-
able danger of ala hundred
thousand workmen out Of employ
have been clamoring for bread and
work, and yet with all these dam
gerous elements at work there have
been no barricades thrown up, no
signs of revolution, and the Empe-