The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-03-18
BATON ROUGE La, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH Is, 1855.

SWAMP, LANDS.--N nave bsfoft
us, very neatly printed yellow cover
ed book, of sixty odd pages, entitlet
"Report Of the Joint Committee .ap
pointed to examine the accounts o
the Swamp Land Commissioners, t.
the Legislature We glance hastil,
at the work, which has been but few
days in existence, aud comes now past
the eleventh hour for Legislatures con
sideration. We see here and there
.through the book fair sprihkling oI
"Swahp Land Funds" jenkins, =
aboard Of Commissioners, Act to
provide Secretary and give him a
salary, '4"Cat Island" "Sss.677 35,'
miller" "Grand Levee' "Mr. Grant.
ETC. al Of which signify much in con
nection with the large figures plen'i-
fully iuterspersed through the book.
One gratifying fact which the yellow
covered book reveals, Is, that the
Swamp Lands" are very rapidly
coming into market, and the proceeds
of the sales tHhereof, as well as the
lands "thenselres' are being property
and therefore justly distributed among
the commissioners, engineers, con
tractors, Printers, boards, eenamittees,
etc. Hs4s}z4
Tuesday mornings Advocate has a
leader on the yellow covered pamphlet,
which Is headed the "Spcret Inquisi-
tion," we find therein, the following
pointed paragraph
'By every quibble, by every sophis-
try, by every distorted inference aud
lnisconstruction. and BY every deliber-
ate classification which malevolence
could suggest or ingenuity devise, the
dishonesty Of members Of the Board
is insinuated, in mode only worthy
of coward and an assassin. and with
a petty hippauey entirely unbecoming
to a Legislative committee
How do you like that, gentlemen
of the joint Committed Do you
not feel thst you have put yourselves
to great deal of unnecessary trouble
to get up book con evidence to no
purpose :! Do you not feel that Loves
labor has been lost with you ? Ia this
day when moral honesty is no whit
better off. than political honesty, it is
impossible for us to say what is true.
Imposition is exposed by imposition,
aud pecuniary reward follows. Hum
bug meets humbug On dead level Of
equality, and it matters little, which
of the two leave the field victorious,
since the result is the same dust is
kicked up to blind the eyes of the in
differently honest people; they are
tripped UP and have their pockets
picked by political tricksters of the
party in power. All love for the State,
centers in the public Exchcquer, and
patriotism GIBBS aud flows, with the
balance of funds on hands. Truly is
this sad condition--an ugly picture
to look on. The honest industry of
the land, is taxed to pay interest on
bonds TO Banks aud Railroads, and
the very money thus wrung from hon
est industry, is used to purchase the
only protection the people have which
is doubly paid for in our Legislative
assemblies, Truly is; |
"Honcsty word a cloak for pe1f
4 Aud all the worlds hun,bug and cheat, |
a A 'porkey" game Of profit to ones self,
And scisdon, plays hand to beat"
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RIVER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
March 10.-The river here is still
rising, and there il now 6 feet 6 inches
water il the canal. Weather cool
and cloudy. The steamers Henry
Lewis and Sultan have arrived from
New Orleans, and the Mediator, Ben
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