The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-07-30

ashore, the Lieut.. not forgetting to
drop a quarter into the hands of the
old Sentinel as Ae passed along. Not
a word had passed between him and
the party and Of course tho joke was
unexplained until they got back to the
hote,l but the news getting abroad that
Lieut.. Porter of the Charleston Navy
yard was in town and at the Phoenix
Hotel, the real Porfcr of that house
was obliged to inform numerous visi-
tors during the day, that the Lleut.
had left for Buffalo" The passage
of the River and Harbor bill, by which
about nine hundred thousand dollars
are appropriated to works in which N.
Orleans is directly interested is made
the subject of congratulation here,
though the Bulletin scores away at
Perkins and Jones for voting against
and opposing it. They are not the on
ly ones who have made 'juelies" Of
themselves during this session of Con
gress. There is another Judy (Judah
P ;. and a greater one than all of the
rest from this State. Judah T. has
invested very largely in the Nebraska
Kansas stock, an outlay of political
capital that in the end will prove to
him rather Improbable. The only
man from Louisiana who had sense
enough not to speculate in that article
and thereby kept both his fame and
fortune, was L. G. Hunt of this Dis
trict I. G. Hunts course in reference
to that measure, represents nearly the
unanimous sentiment of the entire
people of his district. There are a
goodly number cf his intelligent con-
stituents who believe that the North
have some rights under the constitu-
ton as well as the south, and that
both were very well arranged by the
compromise of 1920 And this opin-
ion is daily gaining strength at the
south. I'll bet two to one that j. p
Jr. will never be reelected to the
House nor Judah P. to the Senate no
matter what the party complexion Of
the Legislature of this State may be
four years hence. Notwithstanding
the very warm weather, the meetings
of the X. N. are very numerously and
regularly attended. To see them pour
ing out of the building where they
hold their confabs is enough to sur
prise one as to their number, charac-
ter and standing. What is their OBJ
ject? Why do they meet no7c? What
is in the wind =! Are questions that
came to my mind as passed along by
the NJ Hall the other night
just as the meeting bneke up. These
men cannot be conspiritors. There is
the amiablc and ever smiling R,
and the kindhcarted W and Col.
p and my friend S. who ncv
er killed fly in his life and therefore
| don't think he will ever be rcry de-
structive to the Dutch or Irish. not
even to the Catholics, yet there he is
among the crowd smiling fand talking
in manner that indicates any thing
but blood and carnage" had been
the subject Of their powow Tonight
Great good nature, radicnt smile sits
upon the face of every one, Wing and
Dem, as far as | know them, and |
was glad to be able to record one ex
ternal evidence a least, that "death
and destruction" fire and faggot," had
not been the tropics of their debate.
In sooth these X. n. fellows, are the
jolliest, good naturedest set Of folks, |
have seen, not "lean,' envious, con-
spirator looking Casca among them:
If looks are criticism to 60 by, should
say the motto of most of them was
laugh and grow fat put to a parctl-
cal test, and constantly applied in
each individual case. In fact if these
are the men who are accused of trying
to put down the foreigners, and strip
away their legal rights, | assure you
the country is safe. You may breathe
free again. Jamie, and Mickey, and
Dennis, and Hams, need not be alarm
ed for their heads or necks, their lives
or liberties, these men wont destroy
either of them. A mutton chop or
fried stake, good smash or julip,
would stand in greater danger of being
instantly annihilated by them, than