The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-29

| be imposed upon by great names and
high sounding titles. an imposition that
could easily be avoided without ex-
hibiting either boorishness, want Of
respect or common civility to all. As
an illustration Of our gullability With
: high names, l will relate a little cir
cumstance that ] witnessed few year,
ago at Erie, Penn. The U. s. Gov
crnment had recently raised from the
bottom ofthc harbor at Erie three Of
;hc British vessels that were taken by
Perry in the battle of Lake Erie in
1913. The whole feet alter the bat
tie, was taken into the Erie harbor
and most all of The vessels were scus-
tied. The Queen Charlotte one Of
these just raised, had been got up to
the dock and the work Of repairing
her was going on. Her riddled hull,
broken bulwarks and splintered decks
were objects Of curiosity and every.
body wanted to go on hoard and in
spcct them all. The great annoyance
these visitors gave the workmen, at
last induced the commandant Of the
port to PIT guard on The vessel aud
refuse every one from coming on
board. The order was rigidly en-
forced without respect to person. One
day couple Of blools from Cleveland
arrived at the hotel where | was stop
ping, and the subject of the Queer
Charlotte was bro't up, when they
were informed that visitors were pro-
hibitcd from going board 6 her,
one of the young men instantly offered
to bet "ten to five" that he and his
companion and all the ladies of the
hotel could 90 on board the vessel anil
within an hour. The bet was taken
and the parties at once set ont for the
Queen Charlotte. before going how
ever the young fellow was seen to pull
out ve'y handsome blink card ana
taking up his pen wro'c upon it, al
then taking with them the ladies' Who
desired to 20, they proceeded to the
dock, our hero in advance. Arriving
at the gangway he halted and pomp-
ously pulling The card he had written
upon from his card-pockct handed it
to the grim old guardemau. The oil
fellow looked at the card, then at the
party and then stepping politely aside
made tue proper signal Of obeisancc
and gave way for the party to pass on
board which they did.
Thus by simply showing the old
sentinel a silver edged card with the
inscription Of "LieM. Porter and
Lieut.. u. S. " Of Chayleston, s.
Che walked in where common
folks could not gain admitt,ncc. The
party satisfied their curiosity and went
ashore, the Lieut.. not forgetting to
drop quarter into the hands of the
old Sentinel as he pa cl along. Not
a word had passed between him and
the party and Of course the joke was !
unexplained until they got back to the
hotc,I but the news getting abroad that
Lieut.. Porter Of the Charleston Navy ,
yard was in town and at the Phoenix
Hotel, the real Porter of that house
was obliged to inform numerous visi-
tors during the day, that Tho Lieut.
had left for Buffalo" The passage .
Of the River and Harbor bill, by which .
about nine hundred thousand dollars ,,
arc appropriated to works in which N.
Orleans is directly interested is made t
the subject of congraiulation here,
though the Bulletin scores away at :
Perkins and Jones for voting against t
and opposing it. They are not The on
y ones who have made "Judies" of 6
during this session of Con- 1
5ress. There is another Judy (Judah
p and greater one than all of the 7
rest from this State. Judah p. has !
invested very largely in the Nebraska 9
Kansas stock, an outlay of political !,
capital that in the end will prove to j.
aim rather Improbable. The only .
nau from Louisiana who had sense v
enough net TO speculate in that article
md thereby kept both bis fame and
nrtunc, was T. G. Hunt of this Dis
riot. L. G. Hunts course in reference I
o that measure, represents nearly the v
unanimous sentiment of the entire l
people of bis district. There are a y