The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-07-15
NUMBER 6.
CORRE SP ONDENCE.
CoELK ?. Q. June 9Th, 1856,

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other business does not cause me TO
forget that | am still one Of your reg
ular paid correspondents Yes
thus il is, we send tour owni' out III
all directions. to let this intelligent
community know what is going on !.
1--WE go to immense expense, actual
outlays Of cash for travelling CORES,
ponden's; thus, with laudalle enter
prise aetyi'sg competition AID rivalry
in the newspaper business and after
all, the trouble and expense incurred j.
onr schemes are still born. owing to
the inefficiency and impotehcy Of Post
Office employees, and that abon,inelle
nuisance ''the nails" Was ever any
institution so justly deserving tho
unqualified censuro Of this much
abused and always wronged people ?
Here is a communication from our
correspondent at Coelk, in the Free
State.a- a distance of not more than
forty miles in an "air line, and it is b
few days oyer a month coming. Yer
lily the times are out Of joipt---sadly
so But II Is useless to talk on this
subject there is no hope Of redress
until the country fall into the hands
Of some other party Of thieves; who
may be expected to do well for the
people. until they, themselves get fat.
But this is breaking our eotrespon4
dent in twain-the only apology is.
that we are midas mad as 49, can
be Ed. Comet, ala .asns L.aax, 3s.t
The weather has been fuctuating-
April showers in June; aud rain
enough (nearly) to nuke the Coelk
nav'gable. The crops are SO so-on
a stand. The great excitement here
is the same as elsewhere. Know No
tl,ngism is rampant, aud the classic
shores Of the Ccelk have been made
to reverbrate with the war song: 72a'q
THE devils liar and cunjster too. Hut
Few days-Few days;
He's cunjured ire, and he'll cnnjufe yoh--
" eotus huHe.
The Wigvam IL said to contain
about Ave hundred and fifty three vot.
ing heads; and they llave--nntil the
past week worked in the utmost bar-,
mopy. They have met to give one
other the hug Of fellowship for The
past season; but alas, for frail human
nature, honest mon, as well as thieves.
will fall out; when it comes to great
crisis like that of dividing the spoils.
In the history. Of all political parties,
such periods have come; aud then,' of
course the household is divided against.
itself. Such, is the present condition
Of the Coelk institution, and the
shanghae cocks Of the walk q GROW
loud and long at it, Offices Of Par
ish, were to be disposed Of, last, week,
and by no process Of Odo-b biology
could they be made to go round. The
contest for them was very properly
regulated by the amount Of honor to
accrue from each, and the warmest
q
strife was for the most comfortable Do
sition A score 1--WE cannot say how
many withdrew because they made
the discovery just then, that secret
political society is abti-republican, an
ti.constt tutional, and revolutional.-4
They have gone into the ample fold Of
the venerable old "iron side,' mud
have been each huggcd by their former
political friends, on the scripture prin-
siple, ofthe '1ost sheep" They were
led over by that staunch Democrat
ind unmavering citizen, j. BLACK
MuGGs, who, in conclave, made a
pstrio'ic speech causing many Of
he more sensible to shed tears and
grasp their hats. ,elasaa.f te3 4stn
[ saouId like to give you the speech,
out of course it is SUB ROSA. Have
'lready transcended your limit. and
'llow me now to subscribe myself
,our much Obliged, yery odealent, hum
ne servant, JOB.
PoL1rIcAL-Tbe American party
'eld ratification meeting at Mobile
m the evening Of the 9Th instant.
The Tribune says aai taa If
Ii was perhaps one of the largest
meetings that have ever been held in
his city The platfSm was broad
nd strong. Inthe rear--fhe word
'niom was displayed in characters