The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-04-07

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ers BY NY ! slsasine q. snd psri
tying ~ atl pierre.
Thsssv tsra orus s,ssias Che
Morgan. basGbeen put il liz, nd I
now making regular trip to srs. {
4 The persons arreaea ~ ofher dsy
charged, With he kiIline o. Mochler,
1 have hlA tbeir e1euIihation md !.een
honorably discharged. II. viii b. !
long while before al the facts known
respecting this affair win IS made
public. There are those Who know
Of one movement by the iuspectots II
the election Of the Seventh Ward,
that is any thing but creditab1e To
them. It's boldly charged that lists
Of names had been made up from the
dead list Of last summer, and put
among the registry papers Of the polls.
aud after it was announced that but
nine hundred and thirty-two names
had been taken. the additional votes
to the amount of, FIVE, or six hundred,
were put in BY the commissioners, who
run off with the. box.
People who die with the Yellow
fever. suffer enough in all conscience,
and ought not to have their names
brought up to figure as voters in cleo
ton returns for years after. l for
one object to this election trick, for
how do | know that / might be put
upon the wrong side, as a Wing voter,
when am dead, or as democrat, to,
my surprise and sorrow.
We have had several days Of quite
cool weather, but the sun begins to
warm up the atmosphere again, aud |
suppose we shall soon have it hot
enough to pay for all this chiIlness in
the air.
see the Crosse Tete people are
moving in the matter Of railroad,
instead Of a plank road. That is just
as it should be, though late in the day,
always better than never.
TThe Concordia Intelligencer
ofthe 31st ulto says /: that on Mon
day morning last, the steamer Mon
roe bound upward struck drift log
about five miles above that place and !
sunk Immediately. The cabin parted !
from the hull, and was tow y shore
by the Southern Belle. nats
and fifteen other perso1 hsnl
and 6remen are LOST. She & al
liable cargo Of dry goods. soa hssd /
for the Yazoo merchants and planters. !
SALE OF PUrNAM's WoRks.--Put.
nam 8 sale Of stereotype plates Of valu.
able works took place in New York
90 the 23d. Addison's Works, in 5,
volumes, cost $42O4 46, sold for
$3.50; Sir Richard Steele's Works,
in 2 volumes, 500; Beranger's Lyr.
ical Poems, Sl05; Miss Bremer's
Home, 'and The Ncighbors, 2 $3.50:
Bryant's Letters of u Traveller, S16O;
Foes Drawing Cards, (cost s2OOO)
$500; Chaucer's Poems, s6O; Mrs.
Cowden Clark's Tales Of the Child
hood Of Sbakspeare's Heroines, 500;
Miss Coopcr's Rural Hours, s160:
Dickens Household Words, 3 vol
ames, $120 . volume; Downing's
Landscape Gardening Subject to so
cents per copyright), $2O5O; Down
ing's Rural Essays, (subject to 16 per-
cent, ecpyrGhs), 5000; Eothen, $1OO;
Clothes Autobiography, $500; Mrs.
Gilmaus Sybil, $3.50; Goldsmith s
Complete Works, 4 volumes, $1,000;
The Vicar of Wakefield, by Clarke,
$40; Halls Legends Of the West,
800; Hawks Monuments Of Egypt,
With copyright, $500; Hawtborne's
Noses from an Old Manseby Tickaor
y Co., of Boston, $3.50; Heads Fag-
got Of french Sticks, by Riker, New
York, $40; Homes Of American Au-
hor's by Appleton, $1,000; Homes Of .
American Statesmen, $500. II
The Philadelphia Ledger has an
lverage daily circulation of $4,000 :