The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-08-21

bCludf CYCLING otlC 4 . VIZ tAtSt'f ttS let
dies had collected over $500, to send
to the Howard Association, to aid in
relief Of the INDECENT and distressed
population Of New Orleans.
At our suggestion in an article on
the subject Of Relief the other day, the
following gentlemen have come toward
and placed their names on our table
as committee of relief-ready and
willing to embark at any hour, to aid in
miniatering with their own hands such
assistance and relief as they can under
the direction Of the Howard Associa-
ton. We give their names. G.
CHENETT, RoBT. NJ. TESTER, ASHER
J PHILLtPs, CHARLES MULIoR, w
B. GILBERT and P. A. FETHERsroN.
In this body Of young and able men,
we see two or three who were volun-
teers in the late war, and are aecus-
toned to danger In the Hospital at
Vera Cruz when the same epidemic
was SO fatal they were there to see
the disease in all its phases. Acting
in consert now at New Orleans, under
the direction of the aIIoward Associ-
alton, = they can be more useful than
any amount of Dollars that could be
transmitted. 1t will speak more for
the substantial philanthropy Of this
place, to send them, than anything else
could
We would suggest to the ladies' that
the services Of this band be secured,
and their communications fer the
Howard Association be entrusted
to them. Ii they will have a meeting
at once, and pass resolution to the
effect, we will call on the young
gentlemen above mentioned to hold
themselves in readiness.
EFThe Aztec children, who at
tracted so much notice in this country
are creating quite a sensation in Lon
don. Both Dr. Latham and Professor
Owen have critically examined them,
and both have arrived, in the main,
to similar conclusions. Professor
Owen thinks the boy about twelve
years old and the girl from seven to
nine. He repudiates the idea that
they are either new species or gen
uine type Of any existing race of Amer
lean Indians, but regards them as
merely Of impeded developments in
individuals, belonging, possibly TO
mixed and degraded Lndo-Spanish
race. Or. Latham comedies in these
opinions, but goes even further in his
specifications. He considers that they
are the children of parents Of ordinary
size, and not the otfsprings Of dwarfs,
like themselves. He thinks it proba-
BILE, however, that in consequence of
the degradation Of the race from which
they sprung, other individuals more or
less similar to them, exist in the same
region. They are not Aztees, he holds
but deeendents of an older race. The
popular account Of their discovery in
an ancient city, untrodden heretofore
by Europeans, gains no credence from
either him or Professor Owen. It is
the unanimous opinion Of all the
scientific men in London. who have
examined the children, that no nation
Of people so low i'll intelligence can
exist Delta.
1.-THE New York Day Booh,
which, during the last election, Was
daily in the habit of abusing Gen.
Scott, speaks as follows of the present
"If Pierce had spent
Ill the time between his election and
inauguration in oontriving how he
could mostly outrage the public senti-
ment of the country which elected
him. to the elevated Office he now fills, |
be could not have succeeded more
than he has. He has ia
Ken to his bosom as bis chosen coun-
,ellors, the very men whom the public
sentiment was most strongly express
sed."
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