The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-09-09

| Tut was oHested on Ichullpltoulas
street, on Monday, as dangerous and
suspicious character. lie is said to
have recently escaped from the Baton
Rouge Penitentiary, leaving COM
rade sticking naked in the hole through
which he escapsJ-the said comrade
beingsJliscoversd by his noise and
pulled BECK into bondage True DEL
to 9th mss,
Not frofsthe Penitenitary, but
from the Parisles Jail OHut did not
go without eeremoiay lie put him
self to the ssuble of S~itine com
Elementary note Of thS,ks to Col.
Odom for his attention to hlSsin Pris-
on, in which he gave as his pTTissipal
reason for leaving--the appearance Of
fever in town. IF Ot1ut, has resolved
to make Louisiana his place of resi-
denee, he should become accimated
and we do not know a better aeclim-
ating institution than the penitentiary.
The New York correspondent of
the Baltimore American says that
Mayor Wood is about to forbid any
Captain Of Police from attaching
himself to any political organization
whatever. This is good move, and
ought to extend to the entire body
Of Police there and everywhere else.
The entire separation Of the Police
from politics is imperatively called for.
Capability and integrity should be the
only considerations in the appoint
ment of policemen.
The tolls on all the canals in the
State of N. Y, during the third week
in August amounted to $D1, 422 %,
an increase 1889 D6 on the amount
received during the same period last
year.
A SAD SToHy About three months
ago, a party Of fifty three young Gus
cons, embarked for this country, on
board vessel at bordeaux. They
left in the fear Of being pressed into
The Army, and sent to the Crimea a
gainst their will. The party landed
in New Orleans, aboy5 three weeks
ago; and on Tuesday of this week. the
last Of them was consigned to the
earth.
The MORTALITY OF THE Cry
From tho returns Of mortality in the
city during the fouroseeks ended on
the 25tb ult., published in the Medi-
cal News and Hospital Gazette for
September, wIpereeive that the num-
Der Of deaths was 1899, of which only
40 were native Americans, 1850
foreigners, and $40 whose places Of
birth were not stated OF the whole
number TAG died from yellow fever.
OF the foreigners 424 we're Irish,
$3.50 Germans, $40 as already stated
Of unknown nativity, 151 French, and
II English. -Pieoyune 5M inst.
Does not this show, that there is
locomotiveness, about epidemics rs
well as other ills Of society ? Is it not
another argument, in support of the
position, that man should become al
lied in his social feelings to the coun.
try, that gives him, birth. and strive
to better bis condition in it, instead Of
restlessly moving from point to point,
and budding together in large cities,
where all the vices Of society arc gen
Grated 7 So it would seem. The light
of liberty-is, we hope, too well kind
led to 20 out, unless choked by the
migration Of darkness upon it. Our
eitizens-such as come from the for.
gery-are sucked with the milk of
the nation, and grow into manhood,
with republicanism stamped upon eve
ny feature should--and do, 60 a.
broad, to carry the light of our insti.
tutions. They receive, and ask no fa-
vors, at the hands Of desnotim-do