The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-11-04
NE The Jefferson lTexas) Heruld

| We iea'n aSdiu, t'db iftHdStutui nhs
been taken. and 10000 killed the
entire city, in ruins, and General Bonn
hastes Housquett, positively killed
This is seven hundred and nnty seven
times, the place has been taken; and
yet it is the subject Of a thousand
telegraph dispatches, and daily news
paper articles The place is yet where
it was, aa formidable as before, the
assault was commenced upon it, by the
| London Times. Column after column
has been paraded against the parties
it has been bonharded by words, and
demolished with logic and yet there
it stands looking into the sea, as it has
done, any time these past thirty years.
The whole affair reminds a,e, of the
glorious victory Of one Of the ancient
Kings Of France, immoraIzeai by the
Poet.
tn" King ofFrancc with frIl Eve thousan men,
Marched ur hill, and then-marched down
Iagain.
AL SAINTS NAY--As usual the
observance Of this day was properly
solemniaed in Red Stick. The even
ing before. the day, flowers and floral
wreafhs We're plentiful in the streets
and store windows. and the ladies'
(Gol bless them alD who are assoois-
ted with such things. were busily en-
gagged hitting to and fro, visiting the
shops and making preparations for the
fete. When the day came, carriages,
huggies. cabs, omnihuses, etc, etc,
were early set in motion, and a con
slant thrcng kept up Church street,
where there could not have been less
at any one time than 1900 Or 1000
persons. A small tete-o fete at our
"aStere's' witl5-oe full. and two have
pay coIonse's, heE4t us--or rather our
"'eports'' from be,yng on hand at the
Cemetery, which was a solid two acres
ofoandles, flowers and pretty faces =
What strange thoughts came over the
reflective, at such time and place
But never mind.
Our reporter was not present, when
two or three persons caught fire, there
fore we have no correct account Of
the amount Of damage done The
light and inflamable materials Of Ia
dies under garments, are much en-
dangered at such time and place
N;epece, the co-lahored of Daugerre
has after years Of study and experience
succeeded in almost perfecting the art
which his associate discovered. "I
have begun says he, with repro
1uclng in the camera obscura. colored
then artificial and natural
flowers, aud lastly, dead nature, a doll
Creased in stuGs Of different colors,
and always trimmed with gold and {
silver lace. have obtained all the
rolors, and giat is more extraordinary !
md curious, the gold and silver are
depicted with their metallic luster, and
rock crystal, procelaiu and alabaster,
are depicted with the luster natural
them. E1change. !
Des Cartes' the great French Phi s
osopher, of the day of Louis XIII, was
''diculed by contemporary .Sa~ans, for $
that he had 40 evidence of his c
,wn exjstehce; but modern discovery,
{ it does not offer o reason for scuh !
gives an excuse for it. The t.
gonderful properties Of llght-an i'm +
Material agent, reproducing tangible
'eality, with life-like exactpess, catch h
ng as t were the smile of lovely wo- b
nan, as it gushos up from pure heart, d
md spotless soul and fixing it, as
n ever living and tangible reality. is f