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EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A
WEDDING.--The Llangollen (Wales)
Advertiser, of June 21st, recording
wedding, says:
The marriage service went on I'M
interruptedly until the placing of the
ring. Clergyman: "With this ring
I thee we'd" Bridegroom: with
this ring thee we'd" Clergyman
with my body I thee worship.
Bridegroom: mo, indeed, I can't
say that; I will worship no one but
God" Upon this the clergyman
closed the book and walked off to-
ward the door; but on the entreaties
Of the bride and bridegroom, and on
his promise that he would repeat the
words, the reverend gentleman kindly
returned to the altar, and proceeded
with the lesson; but, to the surprise
Of all present, when he read "With
my body | thee worship" the bride
groom said, as before, II protest
against it." The Bride: "Oh, do
say the words" Bridegroom: mo,
| cannot say such words. I protest
against it," The clergyman for the
second time closed the book and left
the church, and the couple were
obliged to return home in exactly
the same relationship as they had
left it, viz, unmarried. The follow
ing day, however, another effort was
made to effect union at the same
altar, and, we are glad to say, with
better success, the bridegroom re-
peating every word after the clergy
man, without making any objection.
The church was more crammed on
this occasion than the first; and in
the gladness of his heart and the
heat of his first love, the bridegroom
threw handful of silver among the
crowd in Church street, and at last
threw his purse. We need not say
that there was an awful scrambling.
The affair has occasioned considera-
BILE gossip in the town, as such an
occurrence never happened here be-
fore within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant. The family of the bride
are much respected in Llangollen,
and We hope that a marriage accom-
plished under such very singular
circumstances will not cast any gloom
over them.
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Truly, yours, &C.,
BATON RooeE, Sept. 18th, 1866.

BoAT's CREW EATEN BIZ CANNIBALs.-
The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail
steamship Norseman, which arrived at
Plymouth, England, on Wednesday, Au-
gust 10Th, with the Cape mail, brings news
Of q frig htful tragedy recently perpetrated
in New Caledonia, in the Pacific, employed
as French convict establishment. His
Imperial Majesty's war steamer Fulton,
from New Caledonia, via Bourbon, for
Brest, that put into Algoa Bay, on June
25th and left on July 9Th, for Brest, re-
ported that while she had been cruising
round New Caledonia, boat was dis
patched in one of the rivers out of sight
of the ship for some purpose, and not re-
turning, much anxiety was felt respecting
it.. The steamer then went up the river
in search, and upon q small island discov-
cred remains, which left no possibility of
doubt that the unfortunate seamen had
been captured, and then killed and eaten
by the natives.
The Fulton then proceeded further in
land, and some natives who were taken
admitted that the conjectures Of the ships
crew were correct; that they had come sud
denly upon the boats crew, taken them to
an island, killed them there by splitting
their skulls with axes, and had then cooked
and eaten them. The officers and crew of
the ship, highly exasperated at these hor-
rible details, proceeded to take summary
vengeance OF the savages, and killed every
one they came in contact with, and set fire
to their villages. In addition to those
burned, no less than one hundred and fifty
were either shot or bayoneted.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN BURGLARS In

IMPROVEMENTS IN BURGLARS IN
sTRUMENTs.-A new instrument for
breaking open safes was captured
with some burglars in Philadelphia
a few days ago. 1t consists of a
frame work that is designed to be
fastened to the floor, and to be bound
together by cords. A heavy iron
bar, weighing seventy pounds, is
used for a lever, and this has hole
in the centre in which bit is in
serted, and with the bar adjusted to
the frame work, it is used for bor-
ing in iron safes and vault doors.
A hole is cut with a thread in it, and
a screw is forced into this which
draws the door out when the bar is
turned, and SO great power can be
applied to it that a dool of almost
any thickness can be forced out of
place. With this instrument, it is
said almost any safe in the country
could be opened in three hours.
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DTEn To-

~*~k-A- - AR : r
In this city, on Tuesday evening. the
18th inst, at the residence j Ohm HENRY
WoLFF-son Of John and Mary A. Wolf
aged 10 years, II months and % days.
A double load Of family affection has
been visited upon the bereaved parents OF
this lamented youth, within the brief space
Of week. An elder son, Charles Devor
was taken from them by Death, on the
18th inst, and now comes again the fell
destroyer to snatch from them another
around whom their heart-strings had
fondiy twinsd.
/ @Insatiate archer, would not one suffce?n
Whatever of consolation there is In the
conjoined sympathies of numerous friends,
that consolation is freely poured forth as q
balm of healing into the lacerated hearts
of the bereaved and grief-stricken family.
But it is to Heaven alone we can look for
that tempering salve of mercy, which can
efectually take from Death his most
poignant sting. r.
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aa> The DOUGLAS monument vii

s@ The Douglas monument will
consist of a circular platform face.
ffty-two feet in diameter, and two
and a half feet high, Upon this
another platform, surmounted by a
sepulchre twenty feet square and
eleven feet high, with walls FIVE feet
thick. In this chamber will be
placed the sarcophagus, visible
through bronze door. Surrounding
the srpulchre pedestal twenty-one
feet high; on this will be erected a
column forty three feet in length, six
feet square at the base, and three
and a half at the top. This column
will be terminated by cap six feet
high, which viii form the base for the
colossal statue of the great Douglas.
Four life-sized symbolic figures will
surround the sepulchre. One repre-
senting Illinois holding in her hand
a metallic lkenenessr of Douglas.
The remaining figures will represent
America with a shield, History re-
Ginning on tablet, and Fame with
the symbolic wreath and trumpet
Over the entrance of the sepulchre
will stand an eagle,9 also bas.reliefs
representing stages of pioneer life,
commerce and science. The first
section of the. monument is about
half completed, and the tomb nearly
finished. .~sf
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W. II. Tunnard's Forthcoming History,

Editor of. the Gazette and Comet Some
months ago you kindly published my ap-
peal 10 Louisianians, in behalf Of my con-
templated History Of the Third Regiment
Louisiana Infantry. The work is now in
press and will be ready for delivery the
first week in November. It will be a
12mo. volume Of 415 pages neatly printed
and substan TALLY bound in cloth, making
beautiful and durable library book. The
first edition will contain but limited
number of copies already largely sub
scribed for. / desire to urge upon my
friends here the necessity of subscribing
for this book Immediately, The price of
subscription win be required only on de-
lSUery of the UorE. -gEg
Truly, yours, &C.,
w n TTTNNARn
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10 Ireland claims the invention
of the needle gun. Captain James
Whitley is named as the inventor.
having had breech- loading needle
gun made in 1923 in Dublin. Dis
couraged by the Indifference shown
at Woolwich to Captain Norton's
elongated shot, Captain Whitley did
not carry out the design of patenting
his invention. 5@
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TEXAS BEEvEs TRANSPORTED
WEsT.-It has got to be no uncom
mon thing to transport cattle from
Texas to kentucky and other West
ern States, for the purpose of fatten-
ing them on the rich pasturage
afforded by the blue grass regions.
We have seen numbers Of boats pass
ing up the Mississippi, from time to
time, laden with bovine stock, on
their way to the grazing lands of
the West. This looks like "carry-
ing coal to Newcastle" but, we I'M
derstand that it pays well, neverthe-
less. It is considered a profitable
business, even after counting the
trouble and expense of transporta-
ton, to take cattle and other stock
to those remote places, where they
thrive and fatten so readily and so
cheapIy, and then to return them IN
their improved and more saleable
condition to our Southern markets.
Sometimes this stock is sold to
advantage in the Western markets
We see by the St. Louis Republican,
that large drove Of Texas cattle
and horses crossed the river at Han
nibal, No, few days since, to seek
"a market among the suckers"
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- Sir John Pakington, the First
Lord in the Admiralty, in answer to
an inquiry lately stated substan-
TALLY, in the House of Commons
.
that Great Britain has not ships to
send to sea.
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nag The celebrated ''Blind Tom .
from Columbus, Georgia, has arrived
in London and given a concert at
Hanover Square. The Era pro,
nounces his feat of playing three
different tunes at the same time
playing Yankee Doodle with the left
hand, Fishers Hornpipe with the
right, while singing Early in the
Morning, ga task beyond civilization,
sane people generally, and the entire
white family" -5~
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nag Herr Won Dreyse, the in.

aar Herr Won Dreyse, the in
ventor of the Prussian needle gun,
has constructed new rife in every
resnect a fac simile of the old, but
three pounds lighter, and wholly Of
iron. A new and most effective can
non has also been completed by the
restless octogenarlan.
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8@ Madame Ristori, the great
tragic actress, with her children and
a troupe Of forty performers, arrived
in New York on the 18th.
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- The Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad is progressing rapidly; the
contractors are offering two dollars
and fifty cents per day, and will put
the work through with the utmost
vigor.
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20 At the late New York Demo
cratic State Convention, Hon. John
T. Hoffman was nominated for the
office of Governor, and Robert I'll.
Pruyn for Lieutenant Governor.
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s~ A Waterbury firm makes
$4,000 tons of copper annually into
pins, hooks and eyes and such trifles.
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q The Presidents Delmonico's
banquet speech was telegraphed to
at an expense Of 5000.
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sg The rascal who counterfeited
the United States los was mod.
est man. Peterson's Detector says
"the toes of the female on the right
end can scarcely be SEEM It is
difficult to count her toes on this
counterfeit. .----i-rt
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by the Atlantic Gable.

BERLIN, Sept. 14.-Prussia has emphat-
ically notified Austria she will not suffer
Italy, her ally, to DO insulted and de-
frauded, and if Austria persists in her
present course war must follow.
PRAGUE, Sept. 14.-The homeward
march of the Prussian troops has been
peremptorily arrested, and the demoraliza-
ton Of the army stopped.
DRESDEN. Sept. 14.-Everything looks
like war. There is no reply to the Motif
cation of Prussia. 1t is now but question
of hours whether the troops will not again
be put in motion. tm
ST.. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15.-The Ameri-
can squadron left the Russian waters to-
day. The Moscow Gazette extols the ALI
ance between Russia and the United States
BERLIN, Sept. l5.-Count Bismarck has
sent letter to the United States Minister,
in which he acknowledges the kindness of
the American citizens who furnished fifty
tons of ice to the wounded hospitals.
PARIS, Sept. l5.-1t is expected the cir
cular which Napoleon is about to issue to
the powers of Europe will be Of an emf
nently pacific tone.
The Porte refused to conclude matters
with the Cretans. The troubles on the east
ern coast Of the Mediterranean are on the
increase.
BERLIN, Sept. let is announced Prus-
STA will not allow the King of Saxony to
take part in the formation of the North
German Confederation.
FLORENCE, Sept. l6 .--Advices from Prus-
STA say difficulty in the say (day way y
of signature of the treaty of peace between
Austria and Italy has been raised by Aus
tria, in relation to the debt Of Venetia.
The position taken by Austria places the
execution of the treaty of peace signed at
Prague in great doubt. The Vienna con-
ference has been adjourned for q few weeks.
HAMBURG, Sept. 1.-THE Schleswigers
have resolved to incorporate their duchy
with Prussia.
SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 1.-THE mail
steamer from Rio Janeiro brings the i'm
portant intelligence that the allies have
been badly defeated by the Paraguayans.
LIVERPOOL, Monday-Sept 17-The cot
ton market is active and prices have ad-
vanced I'd. The sales to- day were 90
000 Middling Upland are quoted at 1314d.
Breadstpffs are fiat and have declining
tendency.
VIENNA, Sept. Tive are on the verge
of another war, which threatens to equal
in extent that just ended. Austria shows
bad faith with Italy, and makes unrea-
sonable demands to which Italy will not
submit. ~r .#r.
Austria has overcharged the debt of
Venetia and withholds Venetian property
which she was to have transferred.
- The Austrian rifed guns
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ga Ninety New York distiilers
have suspended business on account
of the new Internal Revenue law.
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w A man in Pennsylvania fell into q
reservoir of petroleum, and, before he
could be taken out, was pretty much done
for. Like many pictures we have seen, he
was done in oil.-Loags0slEe Journal.
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ARROW TIE.

TIME Painted Bands and Arrow Ties, are com.
i plete substitute for Rope in Baling Cotton
they are much cheaper than Rope, and can be had
in quantities to suit purchasers at
septls @sa A. JACKSON
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pg A great National American
bank is to be established in London.
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JEWISH AToNEMENT.-Y esterday
being the anniversary of the Jewish
Atonement, the brethren of the He
brew faith in our city closed their
places of business and paid due re-
ligious observance to the day, by
divine worship and rigid fasting,
which, commencing at sunset on
Tuesday, lasted until sunset on the
day following. The occasion is con-
sidered the most holy and important
of all others in the religious Hebraic
calender. Its observance is alluded
to and enjoined in the ninth chapter
of Leviticus. "And Moses said to
Aaron, Go to the altar, and offer thy
sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering,
aud make an dt0nement for thyself
and for the people"
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naz~ The Department of Agricul-

.DI~ The Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington is now engaged
in forwarding seeds of various de.
scriptions to its correspondents
throughout the South with view OF
having those seeds properly dstribu-
ted and tested in the different soils
and latitudes of the country. The
Department asks for all the agricul
turaI information which it may be
within the scope of its friends and
correspondents to furnish it. ANY
one having Information of such a
character to impart or who would
like to obtain sample seeds sent by
the Department for trial upon their
lands, are requested to call at, or
send word to this office.
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SUNDRIES /! SUNDRIES!!
~ 100 barrels New Wheat Flour. df3Ilgl5A
25 barrels Plants Best do.
s. 49, Iowa Onions. li3T aa&aD9
Is :. Neshanoc Potatoes.
tubs Choice Butter. a0gGss
1000 pounds Choice 8. @. @. Hams.
1000 - CLEAR Sides and Shoulder, III
200 bags White and Yellow Corn. TT Y,
80 =. Fresh Bran. fae3 HEH NFAS
100 .. q Choice Oats.
IL barrels heavy Mess Pork 70 = +
Is kegs Lard . gssBfks8EKss
barrels Refined Coal OIL. = e ~
10 boxes Star Candles.
.9 90 ;. Assorted soapa.b 2{9glGiiA
300 pounds Washing Soda.
2 dozen Hog skin Horse, Collars. 19
:. Brooms.
b4l000 yards Cotton Bagging. ,gIe3 sg9sy3 B8sS
10 coils Baling Rope.
1000 pounds "Arrown Iron Ties
20. 100 Baling, Twine, &c, &C. ,,fvg.
Just received and for sale at current rates by
sePto 4S ll sSeHga JOSHUA BEAL. M
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STATE OF LOUISIANA, 4
PARSE or EAST BAToN Rouar. /

- ia 4 Ia
10 Joseph NerhSer, Clerk of the District Court of
said Par'S&h, Greeting.
A SPECIAL TERM of the District Court in
II and for the above-named Parish of East.
Baton Rouge, for the trial of Civil and Criminal
Gases, is hereby ordered to be begun and held at
Court House thereof on the
First Monday of November next,
to continue, If business shall require, until the
FIRST MosDAyoE DEoEMBER following. 4
You will cause Jufies to be drawn according
to law, 70 attend said term, and will also give dus
and legal notice OF this order. sas
BATON RoUaE, August 30th, 1866. A. .,sa
,GAgA Gsisnedl & s r. n. POsEy.
Judge Fifth Judicial District.
A true copy: ,s,,.
.a.l ,5lot1 I. ALLAN, osaR
september 18th, 1866. Deputy Clerk.
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STATE OF LOUIsIANA-FIFTHD DIST COURT
Parish Of East Baton Rouge-Successions of
George w. and Mary Harper, deceased-No.
906-Prohate
WHEREAS, Michael Granary has this day
w petitioned the Court for letters of admins.
tration IN the above SUGGESTIONS na z,
All parties interested are hereby notified that
any opposition to the same must be filed within
ten days from the first publication hereof.
Witness my hand and the seal Of said Court, this
18th day Of September. A. D., 1866.
augZ0 r. A. GABLAUGBER, Dep'y Clerk.
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REMOVAL.

TNHE UNDERSIGNED begs leave to announce
= to his friends and customers, that he has
removed his Family and Plantation Supply Store
to Matta's old stand, on Main street, adjoining
the Advocate Office, where he will be pleased 10
fill orders for anything in his line at such "a ties
that will give entire satisfaction. .-rr
septl8 JULIUS BOGEL.
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- A good anecdote is related of
the French Emperor's departure from
Vichy. His first uazet de cham6re,
Leon, has been in his service since
the Emperor was quite young man,
having been placed about his person
by Queen Hortense. His devoted
attachment to his master is we'll
known. As the Emperor was leav-
ing Vichy he called for Leon, and
handed sealed packet to him, told
him the parcel contained the deeds
of the chalet and grounds he had
just quilted, and which the Emperor
has inhabited during his successive
visits. "You are landlord now,"
said his master to Leon, "and I hope
that you will accept me next year as
your tenant, at the rate of 100000
rent. I shall pay you regularly"
s@~ The Bishop of Wurtsburg
once asked asprightly shepherd boy;
"What are you doing here, my
lad 7"
Tending swine" -,s.s..1.
GLOW much do you get 2"
"One form week." assn 4g
81 also am shepherd" continued
the Bishop, "but I have much better
salary" ael AEgE8Slf5,
THAT may all be, but then I sup
pose you have more swine under
your care" innocently replied the
boy.
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- The Austrian rihed guns
which have been taken by the Prus-
SLAMS are made Of brass, on the same
system as the French ones. The
Prussian rihed guns are all breech-
leaders and made of steel.
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Complimentary benefit to Miss Kate Woods.
Grand Overture by the Orchestra. Lucre.
tia Borgia, II TroYatore, etc......La Mazurka,
Grand Pas, by Miss Kate Woods. The very
Laughable Vaudeville-The Loan Of a Lover
Miss Woods as Gertrude, Songs, Scenic eff:
fects, Brilliant Costumes......Nan The Good
; for Nothing, "a Comic Drama), Miss Kate
Woods as Man,. Admission, Toe Children,
Soc. Doors open at Z O'Clock. Performance
to begin IT'S. sept20
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NEW MUSIC.
Gin Stand and Wood for Sale,

Gin Stand and Wood for Sale.
ECOND-HAND Gin Stand for saIe-Carver's
~ make; also, 1000 cords of Wood, standing
within three miles ofa good landing for steam
boats. Apply to
sept18 N. B. BIRMINGHAM
DIR. CannOn'S Cholera Mixture.
A FEW BOTTLES of this celebrated medicine
IA can be had at
BEAL's BOOK AND VARIETY STORE.
sept18 lot,
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Fresh Arriyals--Sept. 18th, 1866.

D0RK PORK !-25 barrels heavy Mess Pork,
l for sale low for cash at
sept15 z.-#- A. JACKSON'S
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THEEsEi CHEESE !i-Just received per str
" Forsyth, choice lot OF Western Cheese.
septic A. JACKSON'S
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LNL0UR.-150 barrels assorted brands new crop
L. Flour. Just received and for sale by
sept6 JULIUS g. B0GEL.