Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-05-28
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Foreign and Domestic.


WASHINGTON, May 24.-The President
leaves on the LIST and will be in Raleigh on
the 4th of June.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-Hon. A. r. Rid
die, of Ohio, ID to assist in prosecuting
Surratt. The trial commences on Monday
Congressman Bingham refused to assist in
the prosecution.
The Internal Revenue receipts to-day
were $4,53, 900.
sNEw YORK, May 24.-At special meet
ing of the Union League Club, for the pur-
posi- of considering Horace Greeley's bail
ing Mr.. Davis, resolutions of censure were
presented and rejected. but finally passed
Resolutions condemning bailing, but not
deeming it proper to stigmatize member
for such an act. The meeting was violent
and stormy.
MOBILE, May 24.-sales of COTTON for the
week $500 bales; receipts 1864; exports
1890. Stock on hand $4,000. Sales to- lay
300. Market quiet and steady. Middling
Uplands % to 2314c. Receipts 232 bales.
John M. Parkman, the defauting Presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Selm a,
who was confined in Cahaba jail, escaped
yesterday, plunged into the river and
drowned himself.
The Mayor of Mobile was petitioned to
appoint half the policemen negroes.
NEW YORK, May 25.-Cotton quiet; Mid
ding Uplands 27c. Gold 1871.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-Idaho City was
destroyed by fire. Tho main street burned
from Bear River to Moore's Creek, in
Guiding the office of Wells, Fargo d Go.
The yellow fever has broken out at
Guayaquil and Buenoventura, causing
great alarm. Many Of the residents are
going inland.
FORTRESS MONROE, May 25.-The schooner
Martha Maria, from Wilmington for the
West Indies, was struck by lightning on
the southern edge of the Gulf stream. The
shock Frustrated all the crew, and the cap
tain, =. fl. Carrie, went crazy and died.
TORONTO, c. W, May 24.-George AL
bert Mason, an alleged Southern spy, and
suspected of being connected with the as
sassination, left in charge of detective to
testify in the Surratt case.
PARIS, May 24.-The frigate Jean Bart,
Of the French West India squadron, has
been ordered to New York to take the
monitor Dunderberg to France.
LIVERPOOL, May 24-Evening. -Advices
from Hong Kong reports that the United
States gunboat Ashultal had bombarded
town on the Island of Formosia, the ma y
tives of which had murdered the ship
WloShOu SioW Va oHo ameIlcHu DaTk mover.
LIVERPOOL, May 24-Noon. = Cotton
quiet and steady. Middling Uplands II I'd;
Middling Orleans 111sd Sales 10 900 bales.
Sales for the week 5000; sales for export
10000; sales to spectators 2Sl0. Stock on
hand 774,000 bales, of which 430, 900 are
American.
vienna, May 28-Evening The Aus
trian Minister at Washington has been in
structed by his Government to enter into
negotiations with President Juarez, of
Mexico, with view of securing the safety
of Macmillan in case he should fall into
the hands of the Liberals.
LONDON, May 23-Evening.-The Eng
fish Government has made represent ations
to the leading powers of Europe, urging a
general disarmament.
LONDON, May 23.-Her Majesty, the
Queen, has issued her royal proclaim alton,
declaring the union of Upper and Lower
Canada, Nova Scotia and Now Brunswick
under one Government, to be called the
Dominion OF Canada. Appended to the
proclamation is a list Of the Senators APP
pointed by the Queen to the Upper House
of the new Canadian Legislature, in &C
cordance with the provisions of the bill
of Confederation recently passed by the
British Parliament.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 23.-Ice in the
Neva has broken up and is fast disappear
ing, and the river is now open to navi-
CATION.
LONDON, May 24-Evening. Sir Archie
Allison, the historian, is dead.
LIVERPOOL, May 25-Noon.-Cotton
firmer; Middling Uplands Id; Middling
Orleans 1lA estimated sales 10, 900 bales.