The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1852-09-10
~Our advise to newspapers, editors has

any subject,-fall short Of the half dozen if
can, and you will be read and appreciated
An article of a columns length is only fit to
sleep over. If YOUR paper has five columns
of reading in it never publish communica-
ton that will take more than seven Of
them. As an illustration of the force Of
brivity we give the following examples
If we say "Jones is foor' it is copied into
newspapers and magazines and pamphlets
and bound books and people toss it about
and say 1.-THE Comet says Jones is a
fool" and we get noted for it, whereas if
we say ut is our deliberate conviction after
due deliberation which we fearlessly ex-
press without any hesitation that David
Jones is DID fool, why no one notices it.
We are willing to let every body be 'hsarsd
though the Comet, but they must be brief
if they have anthing to say, and if they
hav'nt they can be briefer. Our paper is a
brief paper, it comes into existence every
twelve hours-fashes across the horison
like shooting star-perhaps more like a
Comet and then is seen no more. Therefore
we expect our correspondents to be brief
pithy an to the point-fire and fall back but
not overload the blunderbuss so that it will
"kiek back" The Comet expects to 60
just SO tar out into the field of time, and no
further and we don't want to get prosey by
the wayside and fall asleep and run over
Com m u n C ted.
Mr.. EDITOR :-Will you be so good as to
allow sufficient space for the correction of
an error in the last number of the Capitoiian
Tis-a- Wis. In reference to the meeting on
Saturday, at Manchanc, it is there stated,
that the democratic orators are requested to
be present and participate in the discussion.
This is an unintentional mistake. The
meeting atsManchac on Saturday, is erclu-
siuelya Wing meeting. Arrangements have
been made to fill up the allotted time with
Wing speeches.
However happy we may be to meet our
Democratic friends onesome other occasion,
we cannot extend to them the invitation
now-as circumstances will not permit
AS the error of the Vis-a- Wis may create
some confusion, We beg that you will correct
the matter through the Comet.
BY AUTHORITY.
The sum of one hundred dollars.
which was deposited with the Ameri-
can Missionary Society, to be paid to
the best essay on The Evils of Tobac-
co. has been awarded to the authors
Of three essays, the merits being so
equal that the judges were unable to
select any one as superior to the other.
DR.. A. Grimshaw, Of Wilmington,
Del, is the writer of one of the prize
essays.
FROM HAvANA-The U. S. mail
steamship Crescent City Lieut.. D. D.
Porter commander arrived yesterday
having made the trip from Havana to
the Bar in 50 hours. She brought
seventy-six passengers with a large
amount Of freight.
The troubles at Havana still continue
and it is said arrests were being made
daily. The secret press that has given
the Spanish authorities so much troub-
lie has been stopped and the proprie-
tors to the number of thirteen taken
and imprisoned.
GREAT FIRE AT CoNsTANr1NopLE.-
A dispatch say that the steamer Amer
ica brings news Of the burning of one
thouand houses in Constantinople, in
the latter part Of July.
1--we are indebted to the Hon.
Pierre Soule for his speech on the