The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-10-15

great curse. 1t has become faslliona
BILE for them, to keep a column stand
ing, to note the progress of "terribl
things" A column wherein the pro
gress of some Wandering jew" i,
the way of pestilence or famine, is no
ted in horrid detail. Such account
are not unfrequently painted up il
such ghastly eolors as to terrify PEG
pie out Of their wits, and the public il
kept in perpetual fever heat, Al
midsummer, the very time they should
use sweetened Ice water, and refresh
ing and pleasure inspiring amuse
ments. How has it been the past sea.
son, and the season that went before
this ? Why the newspaper, has beei'
kind of daily death warrant to the
million, and we doubt not, that many
a poor fellow, who is now feeding the
worms II the EARTH" might have been
living, moving soul at this hour, il
these terrible things had not been kept
standing before him in his daily pa
per. He night say to himself II will
not read these things" but they have
always been the first to attract his at
tention, and we have known inen, to
take iit of "tremblings'' over their
morning coffee or "bitters," and
shake themselves into the prevailing
epidemic. Give hundred week
in Gotham is a gooliy number to be
called, and have to go, with uppacked
napsack to the land of Nod, and ye
if the births were put along side for
the same week, people would see that
there is nothing to apprehend in the
seed running out. And why publish
death tables at one seasop, and not
another? Why establish quarentines
at one season and not another =? Why
should every little, four by six--one
horse town, fill their papers with well
gotten up ordinances prohibiting the
people of other three by Eve towns
from visiting them All these things
conspire to produce epidemics, if they
are not the immediate cause of them
and they show a plentiful lack of that
philanthropy, which is the boast Of
every christian community.
BuRN1NG OF Tue Princess. As
stated in our article, The day after this
calamity; the loss Of Life by the burn-
ing of the steamer Princess at Fort
Adams, amounted to about twenty-five
souls. -Four lives were all reported
lost, in the city papers until the 18th
inst, when it has been ascertained that
twenty-five will barely cover the num-
Der. The True Delta of Friday
gives the following list of
persons lost
Mrs. Jacob Weise and child of Nat
chez, Miss Wilson of New Orleans
Geo. Brantz, LIST engineer; Andrew
Thomas, Jr., pilot !; Thomas Vision,
a lad ID years Of age, Of st. Louis
Tim, negro boy Of Capt. Holmes
Bill, negro boy of Mr.. Izod negro
woman and child of S. NJ. Ruth; ne
gro boy of l.. 7. Blackburn, and sew
eral negro firemen, the names of whose
owners we have been unable to learn.
1t is thought by the officers Of the
boat that the total number of lives lost
by this unhappy accident will amount
TO about twenty-five.
Myued-Col. W. W. W. Wood,
slightly; John Williams, seriously, !
but it is thought not fatally.
Cabin Passengers Saved.--Ja-
cob Weise and children, the younger
Miss Wilson, C. w. Allen, w. w. |
w. Wood, George Roselias and II.
Derby of New Orleans, and J. Minor
Of Natcllez. The officers of the boat
all escaped except those mentioned as