The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-10-14

1913 WV A'ssssSbeSyTO"AsWsH ""H7. s~su
sealed package beford Is, marked
valuable in haste,' important
Scare of the CAPTAIN Of the Belle Don
na." We looked at the Col. as we
took up tho document to break the
seal, expecting him to say, "T'nrnEr
or something to that effect. The Col
onel's countenance was picture OF
terror and establishment. As he bitthe
the stump of an cxtinguished Havana
in twain--his lip quivered, and the
luxlriaDt moustache thereof, stood out
not like quilts, but bristles. Not a
word said be, nor we, as our hand
trcmblingly opened and disclosed the
following official information from the
lizard Favored Fraternity" the ugly
Club"
BuMBER HorrL,
PorT HupsoN, ABOVE THE HILL,
TO the knight Of The Uofui Coun-
teuancc, G n. Pike Greeting =,
1t affords me much pleasure TO give you
Official information Of the fact. that the
"UGLY CLUB lin full meeting, assem-
bicd) have elected you a member of the
HARD FAVORED FRATERNITY," and as
merit is ever modest, you may prehaps
marvel ut the high honor conferred upon
your Deformed HigbHess, but il you will
consult your mirror, or some candid friend.
you will be convinced that your 'UoLfNEss'
is of such an unequivocal and exalted char
ac'er as to perclude all possibility of your
election being contested, and Justly entities
you TO Diploma from the Club for with
out playing the Courtier or the Arstarchl's
we unhesitatingly pronounce you the riva!
oil Hudibras and 4Hsop in pol't oi-uGLi-
MSS.
Prince Harry was lean falstaf was
fat; Thirsites was hbnchbacked and.
Slaukenbemis was renound for the mlnent
characterization which nature made of hi
nose--but il remained for you TO unite all
species of deiormity and stand fourth the
Prince Of UGLY FELLOWS IN truth
you belong to that class of individuals who
seem to have come into the world "ln
masquerade and were Congress to enact
a Law>graGting pension to the uglest
man in the nation. YOU could justly claim
the benefit Of the Statute, IN as much, as
Nature seems to have intended you as
BuRLEsoUE upon the species. We hope
you will pardon our enthusiasm, when
speaking OF your personal endowments, for
our honorable body can but revert with
pleasure to that period when the splrit OF
deiormty came rushing upon the wings OF
the roaming tempest, muniiicently shower
ing Hail-stones OF ugliness upon your An
estors,-wrlnglng the nose oi one to the
left--the other to the right, and twisting
INTO thousand shapes the human face
devine.p
But why multiply words, for your uyli-
ness is of 50 ncontestible nature, that an
attempt to prove its existence would be as
useless as it would be to point at Wonder
Sun, and then say, "HE SHINES
We therefore bid you adieu, with the re-
quest that you will favor US with your ric-
UkE, III DIS iIiutl ttS tHG VI tphl
would serve as browning
ornament to our splendid Hall with much
respect we remain,
In the bond of Ugliress,
1. u. THoEP, Socrony.
BY order OF
JAMES C. JACKSON, President.
We highly appreciate the honor,
inasmucb as it is a spontaneous offer
ing to 'merit, and virtue" We shall
endeavour so to "demean' ourselves,
so to continue true to the bonds; at
the same time we assure the ancient
and honorable Fraternity, that the
first Daguerreotype man that cores
along this way and puts up sign,
"Pictures.taken in cloudy weather.
shall take us on the back side of the
largest plate he has; and to make the
picture more valuable as an ornament
to the Hall" we shall have frame
made of the heads ofpeople (commen-
cling with some of our best looking
and not forgetting "Col
Pete who is the very Pistol" Of pol
itics.)
ESy-The Caljforuians. seem to he