Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-12
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GENERAL NEWS.

lector of Customs at Vieksburg, Miss,
on the recommendation of Governor
Sharkey. ayr .. s.ii I8 tl
They have bull-frog show in
progress at Dodworth Hall, N. Y.
Over 200 bull-frogs are on exhibition.
A German statistician, Kolb, COM
putes that there are in all Germany
465, 900 Jews; but If Austria and Prus-
sla be included inrtbe computation, the
number of Jewsis ], ,505,000. =
Five Catholic priests have been ar.
rested in Missouri for preaching with
out having taken the oath of loyalty,
and several ministers of other denom-
nations are under bonds to answer for
the same oifense. ~ aa9giA 'ao '..5.a
The following is the number of
slaves held by the Indian tribes of
the Southwest at the breaking ont of
the war: Greeks, 2, 600; Choctaws,
5000; Chickasaws, $500 Chero-
KEGS, q, 600. t1iess aW oda rsaI, 4
Gen. FipnegaD, the rebel, has re-
turned to his home in Florida. He
is said to express regret that he enter
ed into the rebellion.
A letter from member of the LIST
Iowa cavalry, now in Texas, charges
Gen Custer with gross inhumauity TO
the men under his command. 4 He
says a system Of tyranny and oppres.
sion exists unparalleled in the history
of the war. gt ss. smafag
A man in Carlisle, Scotland, was
killed a short time since by bees.
lie wasat work near hive, when the
insects came out and settled on his
head, completely covering it, and in
a few minutes afterwards the unfor-
tunate man was found lying on his
face, quite dead. '''@
Passing through the New York
post Office last week was letter from
San Francisco for Dresden, Prussia,
the postage upon which was $172,40.
Bennett G. Burley, confined in the
Ottawa County Jail, at Port Clinton,
Ohio, for some months past, on the
charge Of robbing Walter 0. Ashley,
clerk of the steamer Philo Parsons,
during the rebel raid on SanduBky
about a year ago, escaped from bis
cell some days ago. aai
The New York Dai1y Neaos, Of the
10th ult., says the report going the
rounds of the press that Gen. Mans
field Lowell is connected with the
editorial department of this journal, is
erroneous"
The war debt Of Alabama, which
the Convention sitting at Montgom-
cry has refused to repudiate, amounts to
two millions Of dollars. It is held by
citizens Of that State, and forms on
part.of the Confederate debt proper.
A singular incident occurred in
England a few days before the sail
ing of the last steamer. The cata-
comb vaults on the west side of Ken.
sal Green cemetery were found on
fire Five collins were destroyed and
a great many seriously burnt. The
origin Of the fire is unknown. It is
at Kensal Green cemetery that Hood,
Leech, Thackeray, and other eminent
men are inferred. 7-
A Republican paper in Ohio states
that Senator John Sherman, in his
speech at Marietta, declared he would
have said more about negro suffrage
had not the State Central Committee
Rep. at Columbus instructed him
not to discuss the subject.
Major General Palmer and Briga-
lier General Brisden have indicated
BY Grand Jury in Kentucky for q
lbducting slaves, and for otherwise
the local laws of that State.
Parties in Baltimore are said to
'ave been engaged in kidnapping ne
yroes in Washington and vicinity,
,sacing them on board a vessel, and
aking them to the newly discovered
,uano islands off the Russian coast.
Mr., D. NJ. Bell of Lexington, Ken
ucky, has gone to Scotland and ad-
erised for one hundred farm hand
0 go to that State. Negro labor cans
OF be procured, since the policy of the
Military rule there, for some unknown
eason, has been to remove the negroes
, Northern States. a.z
Prussian cruisers have been ordered
} apply part of their leisure hours to
10 scientific exploration of foreign
'untries, and more particularly to the
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