The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-11-20
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Friday ndofnins /. II. nov. 10, 1858.
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standing subject Of the Morning
Journals 2 Ia on our table. We do
not attribute this oversight to the fact
that Morning Journals have betoine
dull and devoid Of spirit but because
we have had other matters more inter.
estipg, fhot more important ID serib.
BILE about However, we have no
apology To offer for what Is done or
what has been left undone Yester-
day morning that extrasagantly inter-
esting sheet with nameless editor
I've must say for fashion sake "as its
head y published IN Lafayette street
4-the broadway Of this great city !;
starts off in--.decidedly the most in
teresting article he has had In his pa.
per since the earthquake Of its exist
ence-thus "7ne Reteuse of Cott-
nor." Under the above caption we
find in yesterdays Comet, an article
full Of plumbers. The sapient editor
must have collected his facts from the
same source, that he lately Learned that
T" Napoieoa, ssus b Bourbon Since
we are not understood in reference to
Jean Claude Napoleon geheology we
must needs beg a moment to turn
aside from The super-sapieht editor Of
the Gazette, TO offer All explanation.
Jean Claude Is dead, there is no doubt
about this faet---he died an honest
man at the lower sawmill in this city,
and his hie taces may be found IN the
Catholic cemetery on The. Jackson foad
to Clinton, We presume the editor
does not deny the DEATH" now the
question IL, Who was Jean Claude
Napoleon This we will endeavcuf to
show, and prove in a manner compre-
hensible to the Gazette writer (if pos
eible). We must 20 back to Will
liam I the Conguerer, the self.willed
Normandy. even fartler---as far
down as Charlemange. Here we can
trace the direct pedigree Of the Twelfth
Louis to Charles the Y surnamed "the
wise" (because he was half.witted)
from thence we come to Louis XIV
tdoes the Gazette writer deny this y
Louis married one ofth G,,ises, ofthe
house Of Valois and they had male
issue. From thence we come on
down to Charles the X. who was grand
son to Louis. Now for the matter in
hand. When Charles was dethroned|
he went precipitately to Ats to save
his head; whilst there there Is no telling
what he did Now Jean Claude Ma
poleon came from AK. and he is---or
rather was, a Bourbon.
Does the editor of the Gasette dc.
sire more 7 lfso, we refer him TO-
Grimshaw's History of the United
States, whilst we take up and despatch
briefly the case Of Conner.
lie says, we know nothing Of the |
case, and yet he knows that every
thing, relative to the matter, has an.
peared in this immaculate newspaper.
Aud here by the way Of parenthasis,
we may say that il the proprietor of
the Gazette will look to his paper Of the
9th Of Aug, last, he will find our cpiu.
ion in reference to Conner, in an ed.
'torisl article written by ''the editor at
that time ]" who, does not seem to be
acquainted with the present editor of
The Gazette and we do not see that
the office has changed hands. The
present editor would do well to refer
to some back numbers Of the Gazette,
and see what others of the same poll.
:ice have said about Conner. We saw
he wasdischerged from the us. SER
vice, by j. ]. Burke, Judge Of this