The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-01-29
CORR SIP ONE EN- CE
The Crescent Uity--by Pieoemeal

Dear Comet After a few days
of warm, windy weather, we are again
shaking and shiyering with cold and
coal has taken another rise in price =
whilst wood is hardly to be got at any
price. There is ono way for poor
people to avoid the difficulties and
suffering caused by the high price Of
fuel in the winter, and that is to buy
during the Summer, sufficient coal to
last through the colder part of the
winter. In the summertime coal can
be bought at comparative low price,
and two or three barrels would suffice
each family, for the extreme cold win
ter, thus rendering them independent
ofthe extortionate disposition Of those
who have the heart to speculate out
of poverty and suffering. But focal
goes up, rum, gin, &c, still 60 aotcn,
and in about the usual quantity, and
at the same old price, viz; dime or
apic., per glass. It is little singular
that Notwithstanding the charges and
constant fluctuations, in almost every
other article of marketable value, the
price of brandy, rum, gin, etcetera
never varies.
Every day adds to the number Of
strangers in town, and if they contin-
ne to come on ut the present rate,
there will soop be as many people here
from other parts of the country, as
there ever were at this time Of year.
And this is gladdening sight, and
prospect for all classes of our citizens,
including hotel-kecpers and boarding
keepers; the latter have until very
lately, been rather sparingly patron.
lied. Miss Dean closed her late en-.
gagement at the St. Charles, with
a benefit on Friday uight, and
with one Of the best houses Of the
season. have heretofore given my
views of her as an actress, which |
can but repeat. and they are that she
has no superior on the American stage,
either in abilities or beauty, and the
day | think is now gone BY, when it
can be said without contradiction,
that America has no finished or great
ess.--Miss Logan and Miss Dean,
are neither of them the manish form
gait, voice nor gesture Of Charlotte
Cushman and / hope they never will
have, but for correctness of conception
and truthfullncss ofportraiturc, as well
as propriety Of tone, gesture, and de-
livery, Of their parts, they have no
superior in Miss Cushman, nor any
other foreign born actres in this coun-
try. Besides this, these two beautiful
ladies' are no less prominent in the
purity Of their lives and characters,
than in their success upon the stage.
They both commenced their profession
and I saw their first efforts
in their future career, aud I have sew
eral anecdotes to tell upon them,
which are too long for this letter, but
which | will give you one Of these
days. As these two, trueley Ameri-
can actresses have taken SO high a
stand, and have successfully won the
Just praise of all virtuous persons, I
DO hope that those of Of cur countrywo-
men who follow after them in their pro.
Eession, will be equally successful, in
she purity Of their conduct. and thus
win back, or bring back if possible, by |
,he force of example, the stage to le-
Ultimate character and purpose. Why
should the drama be permitted to ex-
st only in the hands of those who are
unfit to enter society, or why should
lot society itself, have the benefit Of
hose talents, which developed on the
tage, are too often possessed by those
With whom society will now have moth
ng to do. What an irresistible pow
II for good. does not the stage possess,
ret how often are its representations
lirected to the very opposite fgood, of
'irtue, of justice.
Governor Hebert's Message is spoken
# by all parties here, as an able and
-ery judicious document, and certainly
to him as a scholar and
statesman. But think he is on the
wrong scent though, in relation to the
fairs in Cuba. There is not now and
las not been one particle Of evidence
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