The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-08-25
The Surface Of Things.

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"Have we Telegraph Company a,
mong us?" The question is easily
answered. There are two, "the Grape
vine line and the consolidated city
press line" Neither of them will do
to tie to, for securely established facts,
because if they have no news items to
send over, they must make "some, "
else "Othelo's occupation is gone. II
ne must tie to either for security and
fact, we take the grape vine, to hang
to. "From the Danube, the latest ad-
vices state that the Russians have
evacuated Wallachia since their defeat
at Giurgevo, and the Turkish army
are advancing upon Bucharest, one
hundred thousand strong.
Advices from Madrid report con-
tinued tranquility throughout Spain
since the arrival of Espartero at Ma
drid.
COMMITTED. This is the word
used to distinguish entrapped thieves,
from thieves at large. The barrel Or
gan of what is properly denominated
the "unterrified democracy Of louisa
no," has been regularly entrapped by
the Bulletin, and stands COMMITTED"
by confession. The Courier has run
itself into shallow water on the SUBJ
iect of the River and Harbor Bill
Of course it had to have leader )au-
datory of the President, for his able
veto message; and this was written in
apparent obliviousness to the fact that
Messrs. Slidell and Dunbar voted for
the bill. Here's ga most uncom-
Portable situation to be in. The bar
rel Organ, must approve and disap-
prove in the same breath. How could
this be done with any show of consis-
tency to principles, to say nothing at
all of interest. Ye self sufficient d.
plomats, listen and learn, and when
the lesson is thoroughly COINED make
a note of it." The gentleman who
turns the crank of this most powerful
+" Organ" the Courier, says:
"Of course, gentlemen may vote d.
rectly opposite, and be perfectly hon
est and manly in so doirg. Relative
to this vote of the Pres dent, we desire
to know how any honest man can be
expected to approve a bill which con-
tains one constitutional and wise ap-
preparation, and half a dozen which
are neither constitutional nor proper.
Suppose bill appropriated 100000
to improving the navigation Of Mel
pomene Canal, and like sum to the
removal of the bar of the Mississippi
could any honest citizen of New Or
leans vote for such bill -
On the 21st inst, Mr.. J. S. Thrash
er was to have delivered lecture on
Cuba, to the citizens of Natchez.-
The telegraph from New York Of the
18th inst, informs us, that cotton is
down, and still declining; in the same
paragraph however, we are grati6ed to
learn that the money market is better,
''looking up" On London the rate Of
interest has been reduced five pr cent.
Mr.. Benton feeling somewhat
at his defeat in Missouri;
has resolved that he will not retire, but
take another thirty years view,' He
has taken the stump, to thump the
common enemy to all parties, the
'-Know-Nothings." This is the secret
foe-the knight in black-mail who
will for the "nonce put an end to
caucus jniquities, and the secret Jug
giles of the jackawls, who now abound
native as we'll as foreign drought
our whole political system. True, it is
a secret organization, and therefore
may we'll be feared by the over sensa-
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