The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-03-31
'eTHRiC1 q Hr ARnnD.1The day
was, when Tiers was truth in the
words Of to Poet: IS |

i -
''Thriss = b. armed Who has his quarrel just,
And he bat naked though locked up II steel,
Whose conscience with injustice Il corrupted"
The moral Of these well turned line
may have been applicable to some by
gone age, but they have no virtue il
them, for the day in which we live
The man who starts life with no bet
ter helmsman, than his own inmate
conscience, and his intuitive knowl.
edge Of what is right" will travel to
the end of it, without either fame 0,
fortune, and will find that he has lived
to no purpose. There is something
wrong, at the very base itself, Of So
ciety, and the race Of man, with all
the knowledge Of accumulated ages, is
fast fallen into a condition from which
it can only emerge by great moral
revolution that like a convulsion will
through of all the accumulated can
kers on the social system.
The great moral text Of the Divine
law, do unto others, as you would
they should do unto you," has been
lost sight Of in itsprimitive simplicity,
and the originally designed to
create "peace and good will' has be-
come the very body guard Of thieves.
How often is it that suit is instituted
for justice sake? And how often is it
that justice is dispensed by the law
ministers9 Rarely indeed, and when
it is, it is more the result of accident
than design. We are told that as
society becomes enlightened, the rela-
tons of man to man become more
complicated, and difficult to under
stand-but this is blasphemy to hui
man reason, if not something worse
Why teach the holy principles of re-
ligion, when NO man is found to de-
monstrate the virtue thereof? tits at
least folly.
Look me out the honest, unassum-
ing, modest man! Why the ancient |
Greek, with a modern drummond |
light, could not find him in the crowd
I'd city. All, all, seem to be crowding |
md jostling one another, to take the
cad in thr road to damnation. "'Tis
wen so, my hearers" and we preach
10 sermon. What kind of men fill
high places nowadays Are they
lot such as can only be measured by
he lack of principle9 Are they not
with a very precious few exceptions)
he bribed and Birding! Even so,
nd the people from whose body they
ONE, elevate them for this reason.-
lis the reward of virtue. Indeed a
ark day is before us, and terrible will
g reckoning thereof:
The ARTISAN WELL IN NEW Or
Picayune says, that
IT. Reed, the contractor for boring
re Artesian well in Canal street, is
ding a fine business with his work. I
lie has now sunk the large iron pipes
ne hundred and thirty-four feet below
,e surface. For the last fourteen
'et, the anger has passed through a J
yer Of thick, tough, blue clay or mud, {
liked with a little sand and lime.
he work is watched, with much in :
rest, by large numbers oflearned and :
'ientifc citizens. It already clearly {
roves, what was never before known.
at New Orleans rests on as firm a !
isis, after passing through the sur ..
&c deposit of alluvial matter, as anv :
her city in the world. The knowl. d
Ice of that fact alone is worth more
an all the expense, even if water
ould not be found, as expected. !