The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-12-18
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Friday Morning i..,. pso 1o, 1853.

luT SONIC III our remarks Oh Ills fenlaFhs
about the opening Of the Opelausas
and Great Western Railroad says
we are captious and that New Or
leans il already 70 prosperous for The
interests of its near neighbor, Baton
Rouge AMI the completion Of any
great enterprise tending to increase
that prosperity would by no means
affect adyantagioaaly the Interests Of
Baton Rouge" Thero does anybody
aher this possess sufficient temerity
TO assert that the capital lis not q
great and growing pluce.''
A place possessing sufficient enterprise
% run every thing into the ground "a
place having every thing, in propor.
ton TO its daily press which Ia point
Of interest, and ability, and influence
ON the destiny ofthe State, and man
kind al large, Il without rivalry =
4 Grand, gloomy, and peculiarly alone ,
" r. there nuy body outside the walls Of
# the jackson Insane asylum, 50 phys
III ieally and mentally blind as not TO see
d that Red stick, Il rival TO New Or
n leans. instead of New Orleans being d
h rival o Red stick a. heretofore believ-
led We think and hopa mol 9a
Is y IN reference to the grcsts Western
Pacific railroad, running out from Or
ID leans towards Orelousas-yixteen miles
n We never said anything On our ne
81 counts we NEARLY quoted the words
" Of the Crescen,'s reporter who went
N over the road, !" after the opening It
D il he who speaks of "the fields ofenlt-
4 ure"--and the waving cane fields,
Il Stretching off towards the horizon.
And now (it Is our usual fortune) the
4 Crescent says the Comet displays
the entire misinformation Of ta editor
az to the character Uf the country
through which the 0peloasas road
passes, The Comet tells us that the
"carsrun through scenes Of culture. "
If the editor had ever been on The
Opecusas road he would have been
far from asserting that the extensive
cypress swamps through which the cars
pass, ate 'sccnes of eultur y of from
penning several othqr things which
appear in The article we refer to-
By Jupiter We never said We
were on the rond. We ,nust eandidly
confess, though that we shall nd, fore
60 plcasure.--.when the road gesa well
started on the way TO the Pacific. All
We objected to III The Crescent's ae.
count of the opening was the poet
~ part, we did this out Of the very
best motives ior the cnterprise--we
did il because We believe the citizeus
Of New Orleans and 0pelousas. are
sensible people. and do not like to
have poetry aud .pecuniary benefit
mixed in. with such "a matter. of.fact
matter" asthc Pacific railway.
FEThe public documents placed
before the present Congress are all so
weightv, that the press cannot make
use Of them. The Post Master Gen
erals Report takes modest nine col
umns ofthe Union newspaper. Secre-
tary Guthrie's report (the Secretary
is the great executioner Of the admin
istration) takes twenty-onc pages of
an octave book, and the War Depart
ment; reviews everything military from
the days Of Cambyses down, The
Nays reports as thick volu,nn as
the Dead Sea, and as the newspapers
cannot crowd down their columns to
get them in; they will all go down to
oblivion together,
4-4-~--agH .