The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-11-20

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Bttys NsNar, and Of the Baton Rouge ana
CLIFTON Fiank Road Conpuntes. s.~6u
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,rRurH rs NOT AZ afRAraE AS Flo.
rtev. .--It u not very ofeen thAa any.
thing escapes IA HI The New t,rleans
papers, and yet we seldom ever read
''any article that contains more thar
ten or dozen lines All we want, Il
to see, what The name III Tie paper II
---get its date, and then glance up aud
dpwn its columns vitha kind Ut loco.
motive speed 4get the heads If art.
cles, and then we have the hears II
not the very soul itself oftheni For
instance, an article headed athe last
ern Question in the Ptcagtals must
per HBrce be grave and dignifetlA-full
Of sound, logical esntlusions, based
upon the most profound diplomatic
knowledge. A leader with d similar
head in the True Delta Or the Cses4
cent, would be quite adiIIereut thing
and still more different would the
same haif penny's worth Vi truth be
found, after passing through The mill
The Bastef3a or the Buitoon
The science Of writing newspaper
articles, il 4 profound mathematical
science and II Is really astonishing
how many decimal fractions can be
tleduced from few very simple num-
hers many times representing no
larger amount than three 000
bet lis illustrate this. The edit
itor uf u news paper gets three hall
grains ef truth In his head, and he
throws Il overheard into q whole oeesn
If fiction. aud then grapples III five col.
umns uf solid brayier matter, to get It
back again aAes this he locks his
mind up ''tsr the present, like an
empty rattrap.'
As already said, Il is not often that
anything In our New Orleans cotem.
poraries escapes us; but We are forced
10 ''osea sp Ito the following truthful
article, Ii the Delta of the sth inst.
It IL headed Baron RouuE, aud goes
cIf AZ smoothly as d newly creased OK.
cart. Thus
"1'he mortality Of baton Rouge az
al most Of the small towns on the
Mississippi, far exceed that Of New
Orleans The Board Of Health has
juat ieporteda tull statement Of deaths,
which II thus summed up
Although tie number cf deaths
amount to about 2s6, from the COM
mencement up to this time, il Is a
source Of congratulation for It's to an
nounce, that in proportion to The mum.
Der Of those who have been attacked,
the deaths have been fur less than ans
other town in Louisiana, and BY Ear
less mortality among our resident and
acelimated population,
The population Of Baton Rouge does
not exceed, II Il reaches, two thousand;
hence the deaths exceed ten per cent
This IL a greater ratio ofmortallty than
New Orleans. tfNew Orleans is In.
cludcd in the towns Of Louisiana. the
above statement that the deaths in
Baton Rouge have been less In pro.
portion to the cases than any where
else. is erroneous--tor the proportion
Of deaths to the eases was less here
than any other place visited By the
epidemic :"
There is no disposition on our part
10 quarrel with the living, aud as 10
making any fuss about The pro rata
disposition Of tho dead, this is alto.
gcther cut Of the question. We have
paid cur proportion Of the cancelled
debt, Of twenty thousand" and
have no disposition 70 open the account
to see what facts the figures show---let
il all be signed, sealed aud delivered
to the clerk Of probate. until FINAL
T,.As~ncsnot