From the Baton Rouge fLa.l Gasette.
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Strange Circxmstance.-A few days since a stranger accosted negro man in the woods about seven miles above this town, and in- quired the distance from St. Augustine. The negro replied that he knew no place of that name, but that Baton Rouge was at short distance. He was then asked the distance 10 the nearest physician and farm. The ne- gro pointed ont the road to Mir. Neilsons, where the stranger subsequently, arrived.- His denuded appearance and gentlefnanly manners attracted the notice of Mir. Nelson, who with kindness and humanity bestowed upon him every attention that his situation required. From his conversation it was as- Certained that he was an officer in the U. s. .Army-Lieut. C. B. Chalmers, of the lst Re- giment Artillery, lately stationed at St. Au- gustine, Florida. He states that the last re- collection he has is, Of taking q ride (which he was in the habit of doing every morning,) in tho neighborhood of St. Augustine. It is surmised that he was thrown from his horse, which caused concussion of the brain, pro- ducing insanity, and that in this state he crossed the peninsula of Florida, and wan- dered thus far.

 He states that when he found himself in the woods, and met the negro, it appeared to him that he was waking from a disagreeable dream. He has some faint recollection of being on rail road, (this is supposed to be the Pontchartrain rail road,) but cannot ac- count for his finding himself here. It is re- ally wonderful that he should have escaped the tribes of hostile Indians in Florida and sustained the privations of every kind which he must have encountered during his cratic wanderings until he reached this place. It will be gratifying to his friends and relatives to know that the officers at this post, the mo- ment they learned the circumstances, had attendance and every possible care has been extended to hins.