The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-08-12
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Sunday Mornings ssis August ~. 1855.
WEEKLY GossIF.-The very gist Of
things, the point aud pith Of that
etheriel essence of the invisible spirit
Of the daily press; evidently gets into
our neighbor's paper on Church
street, under the head Of Things. "
Here we have the immaterial parts,
bodied forth, and il is not unfrequent-
", we find ourself done up there, in
such q pickled fashion, as to insure
our safe travel, down to unmentioned
posterity-satirised, criticized and i'm.
mortalised, not only in prose, but po-
etry also.---Becauss we get sick Of
politics now and then and choose to
branch ont in leader on "trancen-
dental theology, or something Of that
@
sort; the author Of Things, wants to
know--and know quickly, why lis
so," and threatens to explode, If not
quickly answered. For the country's
sake, more than for his own, we hope
he will not do 60, until this paper il
out to assure him that We indulge in
speculation oapon distractions, " be-
cause Peters Vegetable Pills. nor the
great Wo.a Ho remedy, have any Of.
feet as q specific, to counteract the in
Notwithstanding influence, Of his
leaders on Know Nothing, and other
;sps.
ODE 70 THINGS.
on Things, Things, 7Aingsli
e 90 10 rest and dream Of Thee
'Atmgs " oar eyes ard ears
And hingsundre'.pt Of make ~ blush to ,cahe,
And 1ooe on, q. TIE san tight tom BA,t.p.
Let us be serious II we may.
without offence to P. NJ. Hatch 4 Co.,
Since sympathy y the rider Of the day,
Wen pay you j., In this. before you 60.
bosom Of compassion have We now,
For you and al your honest friends,
Whe know not much, but yet enough to know,
The danger that the future doth portend.
dAv - - has,d
When drowning rats must leave the ship of state,
And ifyou have no time to pray, why cry,
=" Je hcsiphati IT'S time to Wake up Jake.
where's Nesselrode, that valiant man Of parts.
The Jack Of dimonds, and the Club of hearts.
with him, and several more Of" such like men, !
The X. N. party might be made to bend.
Now -, We have but one request to make,
In oil your calls, to "wake up jake"
Fray tell the naked truth sir for the partys sake,
And thss ccnfbund the Devil.
Well! To-day is Sunday again.
How many have you, and you--all of
you, had to contemplate your latter
end, and yet make no preparation for
il. by living better and doing better !!
How many Of you are actually calcu-
lating to live on a thousand years
when you know for certain that you
cannot see the tenth part thereof !
Had we one cent for each hypocrite
who goes to church this day, we should
have money enough to buy the whole
Southern section Of the Union, from
Dickson's line down. 49, Should
like to know who does the Crescent's
Capitolian correspondence. He lies
without groundwork, in saying that
the Hon. William Fitzwilliam. has !
withdrawn from the K. N. Wigwam
here. There is no such man in the
Parish. In other things, he equally
misses the mark, if he is firing at
truth.---Lucius G. Duncan, an old
esteemed citizen Of New Orleans, died
on Thursday last, Of apoplexy.-|
The rumor in town on Friday, in ref
ereuce to a row at Camp Cobb. grew
cut Of the slender fact, that the Coro.
ner 'was sent for, to hold an inquest
over the body Of soldier, found