The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-18

tHt C6ftdiH rum, lWM0AldCo Vt 1e.
mote, to the State, to every bill, mo-
ton or resolution that he happened %
be opposed to. The redsabtsble Buck
ner, fired a paper bullet at the Com
pany as he retired, (probably from dis
gust charged it wish all sort Of lax
loose, and prodigal expenditures, but
the thing hurt no one very much; it
certainly did not stop operations" on
the road, and as for the charges them
selves, the greatest likelihood Of their
being untrue, consists in the fact that
the Secretary Of the Company is a
practical printer, and has never been
known to pay the press one red cent
over or above the exact prices fixed
for advertisements Of every character.
A sale of lots in the beautiful vii
liage ION paper) that is to be, at the
New Orleans and Jackson road, and
the branch, is advertised to take place
tomorrow, at Banks Arcade, J. A.
Beard and May, Auctioneers. How
the lots will sell just now, when SO
many monied men are away, is mat
ter Of conjecture, but that villiagee will
spring up Slike magic, all along that
road, and qudrupling the value Of
property as well as the population,
there is but little doubt.
The Mobile road has a hard time
Matching, the opposition to it being
still'kept up by the City Councils The
simple proposition Of a road to Mobile
was popular with every one Of our
citizens, but many doubted the policy
Of making the city a joint stakeholder
in a road only six miles long, oweing
one hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars, which, when the Mobile track
is finished to the Rigolets, will be
worthless property. However, since
the jackson road has got into the
city for three or four hundred thous-
and dollars as a kind of subvention
the Mobile road folks, can be excused
for wishing to eventually sell the city
six miles of valueless railroad, for five
thousand dollars, though l confess,
the bargin is smart one.
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WARS THE MATTER ?-For the
past year-perhaps two or more years
our clever contemporaries at Plaque
mine, have been iireing off all manner
Of bombs, shells, shot, grape and can
lister at one other, and we have made a
vain effort from time to time to find out
what is the subject matter-the real
cause of quarrel. The last Gazette"
nas The following prologue to a lengthy |
personal article
More than once before, we have |
our repugnance to any thing |
ike personal alteration with an in
lividual whose insigniGcence is a com.
olete protection, and enables him to
indulge in the most vulgar falschools
md scurrilous pot-house trash. But
circumstances have and may again
compel US to a collision, which for the
AXE Of our readers, we would gladly
vert"
If you a00u1d gladly do it, friend
Jennings, why don't you? Bradburn
8 clever fellow, and as we think is
Of any manner. Of intention
/ wrong or injustice. We conclude
t this distance that both of you have
ct 60 the kirb of reason, to your own
injury and the sore inaiction upon
our readers Of such personalities, as
Or the dignity of the press" should
ever be INDUCED in. Meet half way
nd make the matter up-shake hands
nd renew fellowship, for there is no
God reason why editors Of adverse
olitics, and consequently adverse
ecuniary interests, should be continu- {
lily at daggers points about nothing. I
DISTINGUISHED aARR1vAL.-The
cunt of Gullsnobs has just arrived,
"a 1ooro from a Anu,. fhro,,o, Tho nm