The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-01-14
CoRREsP oNDENCE.
NEW Yoss, Dec. ssth. 1864.

SUI w WIS.," you anu Joui iC'uCls
happy new year. 1864 will be regis
tered in eternity before this reaches
you, and it will be known in all future
times as year Of disaster. When the
statistics are made up, it will be found,
that for the twelve months just past,
there has been more epidemics, more
monetary troubles, more absolute suf-
fering, more shipwrecks, more losses
by fires, more failures of crops, than
were ever recorded in the same space
of time. | cannot rejoice at the pas
sage of time, but | breathe more freely
that the cycle is completed. The an
nouncement Of the election Of DIR. Per-
kins by the immense majority Of 200
votes is victory that has a moral
significance truly favorable for the fu-
ture interests of Louisiana. No State
George, has been more unfortunately
governed, no State contains a nobler
people. But the politics Of the com
monwealth has been for years con-
troled by no other motive THAI party,
all other considerations have been for
gotten. If the mysterious order Of
Know Nothings have taken things in
hand, surely there will be reform. 1t
will no longer be a crime to be an
American, as candidates will not have
to falsely announce themselves natives
of a foreign land to be sure Of political
success. This triumph accomplish you
have what ? Why a chance for the
best men, for the election will be in
the hands Of the responsible and in
telligent voters, and not under the
influence Of cliques and groceries,
John Mitchell has retired from the
citizen, he announces that his year as
an editor was one of sorrow, and yet |
cannot see why he should complain
John came here fresh from Australia,
was received with honors scarcely ever
accorded to our most distinguished
public men, be was feasted and flat
tered, and before he knew the geogra-
ply of the street his office was in,
commenced an american Newspaper
From the day he put pens to paper,
he has been pitching into some person
Or principle. lie had hundred tails to
his coat, and went through society,
begging people to step on them, that
he might use his editorial shellelah on
a hundred heads at once. He has lee
turcd our Senate, our house Of Repre-
sentatives, and our public men; he
has denounced our literature, and our
Institutions he has hattered the alb
olitionists, and INDUCED desire to be
a large slave holder He has appeal
ed to the Irish as Irish, and then abus-
ed them for not being essentially
Americans as they propose to be he
has stuck up for the Catholic church,
and denounced its Priests /: in short it
would be very difficult to tell in what
John had not 'put in his foot" and
he suddenl y wakes out of his dreams,
and finds, that Inconsistency, and ego
tism, however ably displayed, will kill
man off in these United States. Find
ing this out, John says he will go into
obscurity for four years, when he will
no doubt like the feebled Phoenix,
come out Of his ashes, better, and
older, and wiser bird. John says he
lost ten thousand subscribers for wish
ing he owned a plantation in Ala
bama stocked with fat negroes. Was
there ever man who paid more dear
ly for a most commendable wish ? He
lost money enough to have purchased
a respectable plantation, just because
he wished he had one. John says he
lost some thousand more subscribers,
because he exposed the ambition of
Bishop Hughes. Unfortunate man, he
ran his head against two interests at
once, that are SO proscriptive, they
never forgive slight-let us learn a
lesson and take heed. The principal
business just now of our public men,
Office seekers, and the charitab]y dis
posed, is to provide for the wants of
the poor. It is fact George, that
American men and women, some of
the men who fought for our liberties
before we were born, are starving to
death in this great Babylon of city
The poor foreigners do better, they
understand relief committees and APP