The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-09-30
EDITORIAL LIFE IN CALIFORNIA;

| al of the following from the Alta Cal
ifornian
First, he gets up III the morning
at ten o'clock dresses himself, put
on his hat, in which are six or sever
bullet-holes, and goes to restaurau
for breakfast. After breakfast, start
for the Office to look over the papers
and discovers that he is called scoun
drel in one of them, liar in another
and puppy in another; he smiles al
| the pleasing prospect of having some
thing to do; fills out and dispatches
three blank challenges, ream or two
Of which he always keeps on hand
ready printed, TO save time; com
mences writing a leader, when as the
clock strikes eleven, large man with
a COW hide in one hand, pistol in
the other, and howie-knife in his
belt, walks in and asks him if his name
is So; he answers by knocking the
intruder down two pair of stairs with
chair. At twelve o'clock finds that
bis challenges have been accepted,
and suddenly remembers that he has
little affair Of that nature to settle at
the beach that day at three o'clock !;
goes out kills his man, then comes in
and dimes on stewed grizzly. Starts
for the office, and while going there
gets mixed up in street row, and
has the heel of his boot shot of 10y
accident; laughs to think how beauti-
fully it was done, arrives at bis sane
tum, and finds an Internal machine
upon the table; knows what it is, and
merely pitches it out of the window /;
writes an article on moral reform,
and then starts for the theatre; is at
tackled on the corner Of an dark alley,
by three men, kills two of them, and
takes the other to the station-house.
Returning to the office at II o'clock
at night, knocks a men who attempts
to rob him, kills dog with a piece
of paveing-stone, gets run over by a
cab, and has the tail of bis coat slit
with a thrust from a knife, and two
bullet-holes put tho bis beaver as he
steps within his own door; smiles at
bis escape !; writes until two o'clock
and then turns in with the happy
consciousness of having two duels to
fight the next day
RoBBING THE MAIL-Ira Smoot,
Postmaster at Lions Beard Sewer
county, Ark, was arrested last week,
by COL Hays, agent Of the Postofice
Department on the charge Of having at
different periods distracted money from
letters passing through his office. lie
was examined before magistrate, and
he charge being fully sustained. was
ordered to give bonds to appear before
he U. s. District Court. Failing to
furnish the required security. he was
placed in the charge of the Deputy U.
). Marshal, to be conducted to the
all at Van Buren,, but made his escape
rom that officer the first night after
he started. He has not, at last &C.
been retaken.
Wushington 1rk. 7elegroph 10Th
I'VE Think says the Frankford
Yeoman, it is perfectly ridiculous
Ind unmanly in certain editors to keep
neering at and carping at low -necked
lresses. The fact is, the ladies were
driven to the present fashion in self.
lefence and vindication, and by the
course of these meddIing
'ditors. When editors were continu-
lily insinuating that the ladies-dear
reatures in fortifying their tlinty little
learts against the assaults of Cupid.
dopted the mode Of defence used by
General Jackson at the battle of New
orleans. We always believe the in
lnuation was a vile Islander, and now
1e know it was.''
The Havana correspondent of the
National Intelligencer writes that
'anta Anna has, besides his posses
ions in Venezuela and the United
tates. for his sacrifices, personal and
2,000.0o0ssith Linn in
he Bank Of England and other places
deposit, an equal or larger sum ; and
! the United states several hundred
lousand doiiars-making an estimate