Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-02
Gazette 4 Gpllaet
GENERAL EW y.

The Pennsylvania Union State Conven-
ton, at Harrisburg on tho 18th, nomina-
ted John +. Hnrtrauft, of Montgomery
county, for Auditor Con. and Col. Jacob
NJ. Campbell, Of Cambria.coufty, for Sur
veyor General.
Forbes, Of the Humboldt Register, San
Francisco, has no faith In the cffert 10 raise
the Aquilla by means Of colior dam. Ho
Gays IL reminds him Of q COW In Ilfinois
which he saw swallow thistle and Golfer
dam head off.
Victor Hugo, just now In Brussels, has
ready for press q work to be entitled "Las
Travmlleurs do 10 Mer," or "Les Damss do
la Mer." 10 Ii believed to DO proponents
ti0n Of tho perilous life Of tho sea- faring
population Of Guernsey and Jersey, and
not exactly, o novel.
Ginglini the famous Italian tenor, Is
slowly dying OF softening ofthe brain, in q
private asyldm near London. Though
his mind il gone, his voice still remains and
occasiohally, between insane paroxysn, he
will pour fourth snatches Of his old power
of expression.
A Nashville contemporary thus speaks
ofthat town Nashville has four hundred
whisky shops, ripe apples at two dollars
bushel, all kinds Of malarious feyers, and
talk ofstarting fifth daily.
The Taunton (Maas.) GaSetts snys o
| grandson Of Ebene2er, Elliott, tho Corn
| Law Rhymer, Ii at present employed in
one Of tho machine shops in Taunton. He
follows his grandfather'R trade Of brahs aud
iron working, and bears striking rseem-
blance TO the portrait of his distinguished
ancestor.
Tho Now York 1amee attributes the
slight interest Of the American people In
the success Of the lato Atlantic cable, 40
compared with that telt in the first ono, to
the unfriendly attitade Of England during
our civil war.
The President has appointed John X.
aodloe United States Attorney for the
| District Of Louisiana, and John L. Will
hanson Attorney for tho Western District
OF Tennessee,
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
rules that where receipts given to partles
who deposit valuable with banks for safe
keeping contain guarantees for value of
same, subject them to stamp duty as agree
ments or contracts.
Henry j. jenkins, Paying Teller in tho
| Phoenix Bank In New York, was arrested
recently. HeIhad abstracted upwards Of
100000 from the bank.
The captain Of vessel now unloading
| in New London has hive of bees which
eame on the vessel at City Point in May
| last. When in port, the bees go ashore
| for food when ut sea he feeds thom with
molasses.
| An apothecary at Nantes hasjust diseov-
/ cred by the merest accident that ammonia
| will put out fires.
| L. 49, aSxFx 1ar fraA -,
be sent Immediately to California, to sub
due the Indians.
! The London Times is advocating editori-
ally the necessity Of free trade policy
with the United States.
It is esti mated at the Freedmen's Bur
eau, that st least forty thousand freedmen
have learned to read and write since tho
rebellion broke out.
Rumors are prevalent that Napoleon
contemplates the annexation Of Belgium
TO France, after Leopold's doath, giving
the Duke Of Brabant, Mexico instead Of
Belgium; also giving Venetia to Italy;
the Dnnubian Principalities 10 Austria, and
territories IN Germany to Russia.
| Ex-senator Preston King has been ap
pointed Collector of Customs at New York.
| 1t is an office not much for honor, but said
TO be rather heavy in profit.
Ofthe proceedings of the Maine Demo-
cratic Convention the N. Y. Post says tho
resolutions are such as almost every man
in the country can support.
| Ex-Major General Dabney ii. Manry,
late of the Confederate army, advertises
that he will open classical and mathe-
| natical school in Fredericksburg, Va.
A Matamoras paper reyives the story
| that ex senator Gwin is at the head Of the
Imperial Government o. the Mexican State
Of Sonora, at an annual salary of 5000,
but without auy ducal or other noble title.
Mrs. Lincoln Is living quietly near Chi
cago, in which her son Robert 10 studying
| law. The ladies of New York and New
England have increased the sum loft by
her husband 10 800 900, which place her
beyond want.
Tho collision between the civil and mil
| ilary authorities in South Carolina Is pro-
nounced a fabrication by one Of the dole
CATION from that State in Washington.