The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-08-29
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THE MODEL NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT

THE MODEL NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT.
The Homo Multavisxns Iitey0run.
embraces very large variety Of spe.
cies none however more common. than
the newspaper Correspondent. He il
here aud there ard every where-there
is kind Of omniprcsence about him.
lie is generally. gentleman, Of lei
sure-he sees every thing--hcars ev-
cry thing-knows every thing. The
most valuable information in q pecu-
mary point Of view to the newspaper
correspondent. is the knowledge-or
rather the great secret Of life, "thc art
Of getting along without any legiti-
mate business" enjoying the best and
the choicest without ever paying out n
dime (which he never had unless he
either begged or found it in the mud)
for any thing. He writes with great
facility scattering his own impression
Of things, and his logical criticisms
hither and thither, with q reckless
prodigality. lie is at no trouble
about the overflow of his landed es-
tate, or the moving off Of bis movable
property, by fire, famine, or pcsti-
lence. The OILY serious accident
that could bcfall him. would be the
loss Of his breeches by the midnight
thief or the exchange Of his carefully
brushed beaver. in a crowd Of stran-
gers. His writing is of the }acile
style; in bis communications you may
discover where his board cost him no
thing-where the tattersals gave him
tho best buggy and. the fastest horse
upon ditto terms and where the
steamboat Captain, had the foresight
to discover at q glance, that at least
one Of his passengers was a literary
gentleman. a man Of parts-a genius
who fully understood the value Of the
centripital forces of mind. When the
Captain discovers the fact, he governs
himself ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the gentle
man the best state room with the soft
est bed, introduces him to the ladies
cabib-has scat labeled for him at
the "hcad," and when the notice for
gentlemen ito come up to the Office"
is out, he goes in obedience to the call
pulls out his porte monnaic with the
chastc device foremost, but soon re-
places it, when the clerk waves his
hand and says "nevcr mind Mr.. Wig
gins, we never charge distinguished
Travellers, Editors, newspaper CORES
pondents, ministers and other sponges.
The model newspaper correspon-
dent, always sits on the front seat Of
the dcad-head omnibus-he goes to
the most fashionable watering places,
at the proper season, and is the first
man there. Ifhe is broken windcd
politician he writes for tie Organ Of
the party-ifa great moral philanthro-
pist he writes for the "Daily Times
and if he is minister of the Gospel
he writes for the Christian Advocate.
Being vastly superior to the common
heard" measured from tho osjromtis,
to the os-ezterioris, he does not agree
with the multitude. Nothing is no.
ticed by him that cannot be seen for
nothing, and his structures upon places
and things, are such as convince the
general reader of his vast superiority.
In public and private buildings be sees
nothing that COMFORTS with his own
notions of architectural symmetry and
beauty-areets are badly laid out and
miserably bridged-the bedding in the
tovr "a had there are a villianons