The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-10-30
Spirit of the Morning Journals.

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"wall9 about town. which promise to
he ~ eat local interest. The au-
tIipr HIslts from the Gazette office.
altgrths l,Hr for ''bitters" and pro
ea lawn The street. He would not
Ea an against us il he had not star
ted with this presumption "1'hat all
The civilized world at least" know
where the great town Of Red Stick is
and that it is The Capital Of the
great State Of Louisiana--washad on
the left hand side by the great Mis-
sissippi river This is great mistake.
Our senii-oceasional correspondent,
Dir. Guy Mannering went over into
the intelligent State Of Georgia, and
found great many great men "Mar"
who had never 'herd tell Of any sich
place
Well to proceed. The Gazette's
anthof begins to speculate, and comes
Ct length to the "peeuliarities - of
Baton Kouge. First and foremost in
the catalogue of ''peculiarities' he
makes mention Of the State House.
and says in one corner of il Gov.
Hehort, reigns supreme. This is In
telligence-the Governor has mt ''reign-
cd in the corner Office" three whole
weeks since his election From this
the writer goes into other Executive
offices, and compliments the heads
thereof This is all very correct, but
if the compliments had been bestowed
on the clerks thereof. it might have
been q reward of merit" We should
like To know, when the writer for the
Gazette ever found all the State func-
tionaries at their post? That time is
well worthy Of record.
The writer Of the Gazette passes
out Of the State House without saving
word in reference to Our sable one
eyed friend, the guardian genious of
the establishment. If punctual attpn-
ton TO business and the private vir-
tues of temperance in all things ii any
value, certainly our one eyed friend
should be first mentioned. But as this
is not the idea Of the writer for the
Gazette we pass OH 10 the very truth
ful remarks below which are, in his
own language.
"Ihere are some other notable per-
sonages and things about the State
House, but for short article, written
cu,YcHtc rala1to, we have devoted
enough attention to one subject. We
can't say anything about the assem-
bled wisdom, because they are not
now assembled.
We pass to another important
branch Of State Government--the
Penitentiary--whieh contains large
representation from almost every por-
tion Of the State, but an overwhelm-
ing one from New Orleans. OF that
it is sufficient to say, that though IT
contains great many rogues, it does
not by any means contain all Of them"
10 The Plaqumine Seminal Of the
22nd inst, contains a long address to
the People of Iberville on the subject
of the veSed question about the "Sher-
ifality" of that Parish. 1t is from
Mr. Erwin.
The papers at Plaquemine have
been filed with nothing else for the
past few weeks, and the matter is get.
ting beautifully complicated. II the
election were month or 80 farther ;
OFT, we presume that the cembatants
would willing wipe out all that has
been said, and commence the contro-
yersy again It all resolves itself into
The simple fact that Mr.. Erwin with {
but the authority ofany party has seen {
fit, to exercise the right, Of offering t
himself to the people as an Independ- !
ant candidate for Sheriff. And the :
question simply is, what has the office {