The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-01-08
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efed III WIN every appearance OF Il
prosperous and busy season. Health
is still good, in fact better just now
than ] ever knew New Orleans at this
time Of year. Yesterday was beau
tiful day aud the whole city seemed to
enjoy The greeting Of bright sun clear
sky and New Years day. There is
a good deal Of talk on change about
the Eastern Question" and the effects
which general European war will
have upon the prosperity Of this co,n-
try: but as cotton has lately advanced
in London and Liverpool with very
large sales, there is bat very l'ttle if
any uneasiness felt ~ to The future IN
that respect. Talking Of cotton, puts
me in mind Of All article called "Cot-
ton Law a new production, the origin
ator or descoverer Of which was no less
parsonage than "Tha handsomiat
man in the Convention whom you
will remember, was so most lnlnerci-
fully cut up and rosped to pieces by
Randall Hunt, during the sitting of the
Convention i'll 80. The Crescent Of
Goth ult., contains Judgment render
ed by This same handsomest man,
in y case Of the City rs. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cradle. in which the plaintiff sued to
recover the amouft assessed Of the
defendants for the Railroad FAX
Graihle rcsisfs, and Judge Cotton doei-
ded that the Tax was UucoRstifHtioit-
III, and if yon wish TO become a lawyer.
ise. learned and profound ; not only
iii the law, but III the sciences Of Or
biography, Etylnology, Punctuation
and Gralnmer generally, just read and
aHTcrSfua0 (f you cam This last
great effort Of The handsome3t mem
Der Of the Convention.
The election to-day has resulted in
The choice of Robertson (dentl for
judge in the place Of Larue, and Of
MeC ornliek for the seat in the lower
house, in the place Of Col. Slater
There has been very little excitement
and one would not have known that
ao election bad been held unless told
az by some one else. | have not vet
heard all the particulars Of the run
ming d VI Of the Pearl, bv the Nat
chez though from al can learn the
Pearl sill be total wreck and loss
The New Orleans and Vera Cruz
Steamer Line will have an addition of
two new steamers IN about two weeks,
when it is very confidently expected
that tic mail will be regularly trans
mitted from here to San Francisco in
about / 6 days. This will be great re-
duction Of time and it seems a little
strange that we cannot as well have n /
regular daily or weekly or senli-weekiy
mail from here to the Ohio and Mis-
souri, river towns, as between New Or
leans and san Francisco. The great
Glover g. Mather contract has fell
through grammar again aud since
he z NJ. General has seen fit to an
mil that arrangement, the scheme for
supplying the great West with mail
facilities has disappeared. Il appears
from all can learn of the matter that
the T. w. General thought Uncle Sam
was paying too aatA (a3G5, 900 per
anuutn) for the service to be done BY
Nes@rs. Glover & Mather; but if Mr..
Campbell had ever run q steamboat
on the Mississippi, he would alter his
views very quick. II costs on an aver
ago "a 500 per trip to run all ordinary
sized steamboat from Cincinnati to n
Orleans and back, and it she run reg
ularly the year round she would not
make an average more that one per
month, so that enc ste0H1er alone
would not cost less than $4,000 per
annum to run her, and it would require
at least 20 boats at the same cost each,
and ten others ut about the same, to
perform the service well and rs it
should be done. Now, how does Mr..
Campbell Or any other sane man ex-
pect that $350,000, or even 100000
per annum will be enough to give the
great and growing West those facill-
ties by mail, which her interests and
her business requires Congress can
vote 100000 to one man to aid him
in his Ocean Steamer enterprise, and
to pay him for carrying part Of the
mails between the United States and
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