The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-12-23
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FoH THE MoRSINa COMET.

When, from the cradle to mature age,
we have toiled under a perpetual burden,
! from which we have never for single
| moment beer relieved, we often seem to
be unconscious OF it, and all the issues Of
our lie, our Joys and our sorrows, are en-
tered upon, enjoyed or endured with rel.
ference to this burden so purely mechani-
cal, so entirely habitual; that the burden
itself, is not only, often lost sight of, but
not thought of for years; and IT. some in
stances we are even ignorant of its exis-
tence.
One of the most striking illustrations of
this, is the total ignorance that everywhere
prevails in relation to the absnrdities Of
English Orthography, They pervade the
entire language to such an extent that
will not risk my credbility by stating
the ultimate facts They quadruple the
labor Of every one. child or adult, native
or foreign born, who learns to read English,
and hence, an adult who failed "to learn to
read" in childhood, rarely accomplishes
this feat in after life
For this reason thousands upon thou
sands in every State in the Union, cannot
read and write = and late writer says:
England md Wales, eith their si1ieem
millions of inhabitants, contains near'y eight
millions unable 10 mrue Meir manres, and not
less than ,fve millions nnable to rrad their
mother tongner And this, after all that
England and especially the states Of this
Union, have done for popular education
These monstrous absurdtles sit like an
incubus on all popular Improvements; like
the dark cloud of despotism on all enlsht-
ment, paleseying all true philanthropy, par
aizing the strongest arm of christianity, i
and booming millions in these most enligh-
tened lands to ignorance and consequent
moral, as well as mental degradation, shame,
crime and misery. BYfNGToN.
~ The Paris correspondent of
Southern paper, writes The scienti-
fc world, which blythe by, has been
perfectly undisturbed amid the com
motion Of the Royal visit, has been
greatly delighted by the discoveries
made by the American traveller Mr..
Squire, who after travelling all through
Centeral America, and visiting, with
the greatest care, its ruined temples
and buried cities, in search Of some
clue to the ancient language of its de-
parted people on coming to Paris for
has found amongst the ne
elected rubbish Of the Bibliutheque,
complete grammar of the Aztec tongue
which has laid there unheeded and IN
known for centuries. This assistance
renders the decyphering of the inscrip-
lions on monuments found by Stephens
and others, a comparatively easy task
The scientific Travellers working brave
y at dictionary of the language, and
,as already established great certainty
With regard to the origin of the first
inhabitants Of Mexico, whence they
'ame, and how they assumed the SOW
,reignty over the country. The works
IN ancient Mexican lore, of which the
grammar forms part, are written by
priest who accompanied the first
Spanish expedition, and who received
he traditions he records fresh from
he lips of the Mexicians themselves.
complete history of the people is
bus preserved, whereby it is proved
hat they descended from totally diff
erent stock from the inhabitants of
'hat we are pleased to call the ancient
emisphere, having records of an
Adam and Eve Of their own, of far
arlier date than ours, besides the story
battles and conquests. and Of civil
alton in full vigor long before our
Adam and Eve had appeared in the
arden Of Eden, or had eaten of the
ne fruit which drove them forth to
coplo the world with their miserable
escendants, condemned for the sake
rs is supposed) to fill the earth and
arm their bread by the sweat of their
row.
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