The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-04-08

INDwlDusrarY There ere %
many Little Aliings that go ~ make
up the sum 1t individual character. !,
is not to y wondered y. thas in !
world containing 1 hundred nilliq1l
ofpcople. tbst each unit should ~.
tain its separate character, 1apart from
tho ~hols.'l People may 'look aliks
and .cs alike. AT times they may b
:aksn for one another !; but study
the little traits Of individuality, and
you win find the widest difference.
No two will think or act. alike under
similar circumstances-- mo two will
write alike, no two spalI alike. We
come to consider this last physiolog-
ical fact. Before our window during
the day number ofpeople pass, and
the music Of their heels on the pave
ment not only tells us s0lo they are.
but achat they are. See the manner
in which the man carries himself
the way he holds his head and makes
use Of his body. and you may tell with
a little study scho the pilot is. that
sets at the helm and directs him.
There is gent, just gone by, whose
heels say plainly in a we'll measured
music don't care, don't care, don't
care a-don't care. There is no
man alive who does not unmask his
secret thoughts, in walking and
when it comes to the ladics--eyery
wiggling step, betrays the transparent
materials they are made Of.
~Anything like puff to our
selves we always rcpublish. This is
our apology for the following lengthy
extract from the Shreveport Demo-
crat: ~
The BAToN ROUGE CoMET.-This
paper Ike its namesake, is eccentric
in its orbit sometimes it approaches
near to the truth, and then again re-
ceding far from it, As an illustration
of the latter assertion, in late num-
Der the editor says:
"The Shreveport Democrat asks to
know, how a person can legally
swindle the State 2"
After sapiently explaining the term
legally swindle" the editor further re-
marks:
The last part Of the (Democrat's)
article upon us is two edge sword.
He says: Whenever the Comet, in its
movements and brilliant evo-
lutions, comes across anything which
demonstrates that the executive OF
Louisiana posses industry and capacity
we hope the editor will make it pub
lie, when we will publish it,
The editor Of the Comet, knew very
well when be inserted the above arti-
Gle that the Democrat was not the au-
thor, and further more, he knew it Or
iginated in that hot bed Of Whiggery,
the S. Western, for less than month
before, he Indignantly refuted the
same charge, made in the columns Of
the s. Western. We may have copied
The article for the purpose Of answer
ing it; but we don't see how any man
with All idea above dung hill fowl
could construe it into charge made
by the Democrat, nor do we think the
.ditor Of the Comet, did so construe
it; but we do think, that he knowing
y and willfully inserted that charge
is coming from the Democrat, when
at the same time he knew the S.
Western was the author. go ~ ;
=. We have upheld and supported the
executive in all his transactions to the
best of our abilities and shall contin-
ae to do so as long as he atteuds to
bis duty with assiduity /; and then to
have such charge as the above to
ather is'lnore thapIaesh aud blood can
stand. What the object Of the editor
3 in endeavoring to make us the au
bor of the South Westerns scandal
Jus charges. is more that we can con
'eive. Possibly he may say it was