The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-03-25
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The event Of this week is the
double homicide murder would be a
better term for the crime) at the ST..
Charles In which \ man by The name
Of Duffy and your fellow citizen DR..
II. Parsons, an innocent third party,
lost bis life. The Misunderstanding
details you have already had, aud the
sooner the criminal docket Is cleared,
Of the case, by sending the survivor Of
this bloody affair TO l" Hades. the
better. Unfortunately here, as else
where in the habitable globe Of civil
lied society, you may measure the
standing Of parties engaged in vio-
lstirg the law, by the length Of court
sessions on their eases and the
amount Of space allotted to detail in
the public prints. Thus it is; if man,
Of what is vulgarly denominated
standing" Is guilty of an outrage /;
Ills case is dragged on. through the
courts from day to day. and the press
gives hourly still more facts, until the
public ear grows sick of surfeit. and
then the criminal is SET at large, and
no more is ever heard of the case. Is
not murder the same offence in one
man. that il is in another ! Yea, sir
the Great Judge above us, measures
the extent Of the crime, by capacity of
the mind to resist temptation there
fore should the man of wealth, and
education suffer the more for bis Of
ences.-If there were no other indica-
ton Of the true state of feeling in Gu
ba, in reference to republicanism, than
what may be found here, in The Gre
oles Of that Island. who have come to
eyade the terror Of the gorrotfe and
bssk in the sunshine Of liberty. the
most casual observer would conclude
that the hour is very close at hand,
when a new order Of things may be
Looked for. Is the commerce Of this
nation, ever to be harassed by The ire
sponsibie minions Of Spain, who have
despotic power over life and death
and authority to perpetrate wrong up
on wrong, but no right to grant re-
dress :! Shall we have to 90 again
and again over the waste Of waters
to beg-reparation for wrong upon
wrong? No. This government may
stand aloof, but the peopls-superior
to the government, must and will have
redress. What about Cat Island
the swamp ard overfowed lands 7 Has
there been any thing like crevass at
the Capital ? The yellow covered
pamphlet Of which you speak, has
caused great many hard things to
be said. The Bulletin starts off this
morning in leader headed the
=" Swamp Land Fund, and it is a
spicy article all the way through, as
you may judge from this commence.
ment 1.-The management, OF rather
the mismanagemcnt Of this fund, has
been made the subject Of Legislative
investigation, DC" See the original
for / do not feel safe in quoting too
extensively from the document; Pug
nacity IL the order Of the day, as you
may see any time at Taver's Pistol
Gallery on st. Charles street. As to
my part, never have any thing to do
with any manner Of difficulty that
cannot be settled by figures or words.
. Although the municipal election
time approaches, yet there is but lit
tie excitement, which we may well
attribute to new conservative elements,
in politics. J. B.
The Chicago Press states that an
agent Of the Netherlands Trading
more Familiarity known as
the Dutch Eas. India Company. has
visited Chicago on tour Of observa-
ton, with view to opening direct
trade through the St. Lawrence, and
also through New York, with the
for its productions of beef,
pork, -four, ETC., and with the South
west, also for its cotton, sugar and to-
bacco. The headquarters Of this rich
association are at Amsterdam, and the
charters annually some 800
large ships in their trade with the In.
dies. whose supplies and part # whose
out cnrgoes, the Press says, may as