The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-01-19

The ExPERoR OF THE lne1ca.-
A Paris letter writer speaks thuA Of
N. :%.aS ps ,'S suppose th.s.As sm-
peror wears his Imperial robe q ali
occasions. These belong. Of coursA to
the rising generation. who Do not re-
member 20 far back as the other En-
pire. They would be undeceived. did
they go, ON a fine afternoon, to the
Champs Elysees or the Bots de Bou.
logne. For there the Emperor may
often be seen driving himself two
horse pheton. He is dressed in q
heavy, shaggy, blue pilot cloth coat.
with the ribbon Of the Legion Of Hon.
or peeping from his button hole.
When he rides upon horseback, there
is nothing in his dress to distinguish
him from citizen or subject. He
bows to all who bow to him and l
never have seen any one 20 apparently
anxious to salute and be saluted- He
catches at every thing that can be con.
strued into recognition but with all
his zeal be does not touch his hat
oftener than once in ten mods. Gen.
tlemen on horseback pass him without
looking at him ; and, as this is an act
of downright impoliteness, you must
suppose that the riders have serious
reasons for the commission of such
rudeness.
The ILLNESS Of VICE PRESIDENT
K1NG.-A letter from Washington.
dated the 9th inst, says:
"Hon. W. r. King has made his
will. He was born in 1856 owns
5000 acres Of land in one body in
Dallas county, Alabama, and upwards
Of one hundred slaves. His entire es-
tate is worth about $15O,O00. He is
a humane master. He told me some
years since that he never sold but one
slave in his life, ard he was compelled
to sell him because he was terror to
the neighborhood. Col. King cannot
possibly recover. His physician has
sounded his lungs with the stethoscope,
and declared that one of his lungs is
entirely gone. and the other partly SO,
Col. Kings niece, Mrs Ellis, is with
him."
ANOTHER SPIRITUAL MEDIUM
Col. Joel G, Sever formerly a Repre-
sentative to the Louisiana Legislature
from New Orleans, ex-minister, ex-
temperance lecturer, &C., has become
a medium for the spirits of the other
world to communicate with the deni-
zens Of this. At IA meeting of the New
York Conference for the investigation
of spiritual phenomena, held on the
evening of the Sd ult., and the pro
ceedings of which are published IN the
Spiritual Telegraph, the worthy Col
onel gives an account Of his conversion
to the new doctrine.-Bnlt. San.
This of itseE-Joels adhesion to
spiritualism is enough to stamp it in
delibly as a hrmbug. Will he ask the
spirits down below, Or up above, or
whatever he their local habitation,
what they think Of us here in New
Orleans, whom Joel pronounced the
worst population out Of III? By the
way, we notice that at the Convention
Of Spiritual Rappers, recently assem-
bled in Boston, quite discussion oc-
Cured as to whether the spirit should
be consulted respecting the organiza-
ton of the Convention, which was de-
cided in the negative, and considerable
excitement grew out Of the assertion,
by one of the believers, that the
g knockings were nothing Explana-
ton was made that the brother "wan-
ted light" The Boston Courier says
" the speeches we're, without exception,
vapid and wild. The experiences rela-
ted were repulsive, in many instances.
These people actually profess to hold
the keys of glory in their hands.