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The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-06-01
FANCY DRY GOODS.

EANCY ARTICLES. y
l. 2 Cases Guignolet
l do Kirsh Wasser very fine
l do Curvaso
l do Gold Water extra fine
40 Gal. demischus Choice old whiskcy
40 do do old Cognac Brandy
100 Bottles Madeira & Port Wtne
10 Baskets Bouche & Sons Cabinet
Champagne, for sale by a-ro
Jan. 12 1855. JOSHUA BEAL.
The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-06-01
Sand SarsaDari'

PREPARATIONS FOR THE HAIR
L Bears oil, Pomatum, Tricopherous.
Balm Columbia, Jaynes Hair Tonic, Lou
dens Hair Tonic Phalons Hair Invigorator.
Lyons Katharion and Hair dye-for sale bv
oct rs H. T. WADDILL.
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Heavy Cotton Soaking"
|nF Penitentiary manufacture mot being
~ kept in any other store in Baton
Rouge) is hereafter offered for sale in such
quantities as may be required by
Oct13 JOSHUA BEAL.
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TOWNSEND'S, Sands and Bulls Sarsa.
Il parilla, warranted genuine, and for sal.
by VIM. BOGEL.
The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-06-01

COrns Cured and no Humbug.
NHE original Three Minute salve will
= effectually remove and cure Whorts,
!M.Ioles, Corns, letter, Salt Rhenm, Ring
Worm and Toothache in from to 10 min
utes. Fnll directions accompany each vial
call Immediately before it is all sold.
oct14. VIM EOGEL, Druggist.
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EOR THE SKIN-Bay Rum, Aromatic
l. Vinegar, Chalk Balls, and squares
Tor sale by HIT. WADDILL.
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WIN. BOGEL.

Druggist and Ap0thecary
II EEPS constantly on hand large and
n well selected stock Of fresh Drugs and
Medicines. All his preparations are pre-
pared BY Northern manufactures, and put
up in the very bestmanner to preserve their
medicinal virtues. In . climate like this
persons should not overlook this important
consideration.
% Prescriptions filed with care at any
time of night or day. oct1O-y
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NOTICE.
|H T. WADDILL having purchased
LIZ the interest OF R. H. Day in the Drug
Store Of WADDILL & DAY. the CO.
partnership heretofore existing between
them is dissolved by mutual consent.
The Drug and Apothecary business will
be carried on as before, by H. T. Waddill
who will collect and pay all the debts OF
the firm. H. T.. WADDlLL.
MARCEL r. H. DAY.
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To Consumers
DEAL, ever intent to supply his GUS
ID toners at the lowest prices, is for
the present offering at retail.
Hay, at ST 80 per hundred.
Corn, 6 70 cents bushel.
Oats, IS cents do.
Bran, 81 40 per hundred.
Quantities of either, sold for less than
the above quoted prices. Terms cash.
may-19. JOSHUA BEAL.
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SUNDRIES, &c
E. G.. KIBLINGER.

Daguerrean Artist, jackson La.,
WILL attend to every branch of bus.
w mess in this line, and insure entire satisfac.
ton. Great care will be given to sin III pictures
for breast pins, rings, and bracelets. Stock and
materials always on hand to supply artists, and
instnructios given in the art on reasonable
terms.
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PADWAYS Renovating Resolvent, re-
IL solves disease, perlfes the blood, and
renovates the system, for sale by
feb 20. !. L. WALLET, Apothecary
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BLANKETS 4 NEGRO uoODs.-1Ae
ID subscriber has just received large
supply Of French GIanier Blankets, and
winter goods for negroes, to which he in
vites the attention of planters. 9.4. IS
oct1S-y. w. D. PHILLIPS
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CLOAKS.-A few Gentleman's
" Cloaks, of Superior Cleth for sale by
oct 20, WADDILI & PHILLIPS.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
For the True Democrat. Letter from Yell COnntv

MIR. EDIToR-I shall not ask pardon for writ
 ing for your esteemed public journal, for the reason that its columns are and have been, ever since its publication, open for the dissemination of republican principles for the common good, The object of this is to give the truth how know nottingham, "alas' the whig party and their new platform originated here. The Tro- jan horse in the whig ranks, Gin his own estma- tlon,) whose talent is only appreciated by the inferior portion of the ulig party and a few de- ceived democrats, was the founder here This same pretender to Godliness, denied the truth and evaded every query as regards this mid night order, until the meeting of the national council in Philadelphia, in June last; after which he then, in several attempts to speech making
 called upon the faithful to hearken he was going to tell the truth-leaving the impression he'had lied long enough. "Open confession is good for the soul'-and immediate relief was perceptible. In several of his efforts he was quite happy-n giving an account of the throw ing overheard the tea at Boston, and the inhu- ence of the stump act, and many little incidents of the revolution. After which, to the great astonishment of many present, he dated the birth of Sam" back to the year 1849, and for his domicil he gave the brain pan of Daniel Webster, the embodiment of the whig party while hving and the fore-runner of the dark lantern order. Great bunder for an aspiring demagogue He proclaims that the old issues are now obsolete; he means that the whig party has Ngin out" and that the old platform has decayed since the two great props, Clay and Webster, have died; and now nothing but the know nothing guard Ca corporals,) headed
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
$. J. CHENNAULT, J. T. HAW KINS.
For the True Democrat. The Election in the First Judiciai Circuit SaDt

For the True Democrat. The Election in the First Judicial Circuit.
 HELENA, Sept. 20, 1855.
 R. II. JOHNSON, EsQ.-Dear Sir:-I see in the Gazette and Democrat of the Eth inst, an article upon know nothing triumphs, in which the late election in this judicial circuit is spoken of. It is a pity that the aid and comfo,t" drawn flom this election should be taken from them; but the truth of history requires that should state that both Austel and Badham ran as democrats. Notwithstanding the efforts of a portion of the democracy of Phillips to ex- pose them, they got democratic votes in every county in the circuit, Badham never made a public announcement of his being know noth- ing in Phillips county Beazley got few or no know nothing votes. know many good de- mocrats who voted for Badham upon his posi- tive assurance that he was a democrat who would not now touch him with a ten foot pole The same may be said of Austell in other coun- ties.
 The Gazette and Democrat says that Mack beat both of his opponents. I thought the Doctor was better at figures. The official re- turns give Hornor and Childress majority over Mack. They are both democrats Mack is mserably deformed, has neither perfect hand nor foot. l know democrats who voted for him through sympathy. It is currently said that Mack had only to hobble into crowd, stick out his hands and feet and carry the votes
 You may rely oil it that there is from 1000 to 1,5OO democratic majority in this circut.- The democratic party of Phillips is stronger and better organized to-day than ever before We have from 100 to POO majority; and our our cause is onward. The association has strick- en a death blow to know nothingism, from which it can never recover We are now hold ing weekly meetings in the various townships, and will wind up with a mass meeting of two or three days at Helena on the 21st ct seq Nov.
 DEMOCRACY.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
To Correspondents.

We have many-very many communlcahons upon our table-enough to fill our paper for several weeks. While we feel thankful to our friends, and gladly acknowledge the receipt of their communications, we trust they will not feel angered with us, if we delay their publica- ton, or even sometimes suppress them alto gether From the mass of matter we are daily in receipt of, it is our duty to select the best, and the rest to pass over. This We do feel ing assured that our correspondents will appre- ciate our motives.
 To insure an insertion, our correspondents should bear in mind that their communications should be Jrlef and pointed. When so written they will be published, because they add to the interest of the paper.
 We hope our friends will continue to send in their lists of subscribers and also to keep us posted up in their county politics. In the last six weeks, over six hundred subscribers have been added to our list. For this increase we are indebted to our friends. Their efforts we trust will be rewarded, next summer in glo- rious democratic victory. With all of the lights before us, we have no doubt of a tremendous democratic triumph at the August electon- Know nottingham is already going rapidly to decay. The democrats in every section of the State, who have joined it, are withdrawing, while many honest whigs refuse to go into it..
 We do not think the know nothing party in this State, will be so large as the old whig par ty. We may be deceived, but such is our ho- nest conviction
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

by Captain Sam," was left to save the ship of State. Grand idea for a man of his calibre to be graspng with great national questions, and pre- stunning to dictate for intelects more exalted than his own. No whig in the State, with the same amount of rings round his tail, is more obnoxious to the democratic party than this same coon, who goes the rounds initiating and swearing the honest, unsuspecting citizen to support the midnight traitors This is but an imperfect specimen of those who are to im- tate the purer days of our republic" Think of this democrats-ponder it in your minds.-- We have not democrat in our midst who ini- tiates into this Shanghai" gang! Why are not democrats found first in council? First, be- cause it is fully demonstrated to be a whig trick. 2d. No true democrat desires to be connected with it, from the fact 1t operates in the dark and it is unfit to be seen in its naked deformity This same leader of the acobin tribe has been before an association of his brother Baptists, to give an account of his stewardship since his departure from their faith and order, Ca peo- pie who are much appreciated by the writer oi this.) At which time and place he made des perate effort to sustain the know nothing order and exhonerate himself by one of his long winded hifalutin discourses on religious te. nets-in which he utterly failed. At the same time he melted into tears, left the room disgust. ed at himself and at the will and pleasure o the association.
 True democracy is on rising ground, while many true and good whigs are standing aoo from the dangerous order. By the ides of Au gust next, the strutting and growing of Sam will be heard tother side of Jordan. Many withdrawals in Yell county.
 SENEX.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
THE SHAME OF THE U. s. SENATE.-We clip the following pithy pa agraph from the Mobile

THE SHAME OF THE U. s. SENATE.-We clip the following pthy pa agraph from the Mobile Democrat
 "Foote of Mississippi, Borza,,d of Arkansas, and Clemens of Alabama, were all in the Senate in 1850, and did more to disgrace that body than all the individuals who were even in it. from the formation of the government in 1789 down to the present time. They are noD aA haow not1sings and rank among the leaders, in the southern and western States, of that infa- nous faction"
 True every word of it. At the opening of the Congress of 1850, Foote, Clemens and Borland were the most clamorous defenders of southern rights upon the floor of the Senate. No body else could talk, speak, or denounce the aboli- tonsts. They seemed to act as though they thought the weight of the whole country rested upon their shoulders.
 But the sequel. When the issue came up when the real struggle came on, and the assis- tance of these much-talking, boisterous gentry was needed, they were not at their posts.-- Foote and Clemens deserted the friends of the south and joined the compromise party, and Borla,d e1t his seat n the Senate and returned tc Ais home in Arkansas, aobere he remained until ht contest sUds 0Uer.
 Truly did this worthy trio, Foote, Clemens and Borzand do much-very much to disgrace the character of an American Senator! They are know nothings. Bankrupt as democrats they have rushed into the open arms of know nottingham, where they hope to retrieve theil reputation and once more get into ofice They are all three without office now, and they are office-seeking
 Their names are universally associated to.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
"ConceIved in Falsehood and Nourished
 i'll Deceit.,,


 Let every body read the following extract rom the address of know nothing high priest to his brethren in Georgia It shows plainly their game. Here it is:
 "Ihe order was established in this State on the 2th of May, l854 in the city of Savannah, and now boasts 27O councils.
 " In regard to the spirit and object of the order, need say nothing on the present occa- sion, nor would l be paying proper degree of respect to your intelligence or sincerity did vlndlcate the order from the foul aspersions with winch the demagogue and foreigner assail us One thing, however, l would recommend: Let the most profound and invio1ate secrecy stroM in utter ddrhness our moveaents, our plans our num- bers. It IS to our alliance with mystery and ma- certainty that we owe our great victories in the past, and on which we must rest our hopes for the future. Unmask our batteries, tear away the veil which sh.ouds our proceedings, and you introduce the first great element of weak ness and Reorganization; you thereby shear the locks of the mighty Sampson, and lay him powerless at the feet of their enemies: uou Meye. by destroy the ability cf your co. zJorers to ente, into tue councils cf tue enemy anu Maoart hs most sha!fully-prepared measures"
 And thus they will win by "entering into Ht councils cf he enenay'' in the garb of friendship but as spies. What deceit! What hypocricy. What infamy!!!
 Who can be know nothing? Any honora- ble, honest man? We leave it to the world tc say-we leave it to the political preachers tc decide
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
Sickness of Robt. w. Johnson.

We regret to announce that this gentleman has been and is now seriously indisposed Im- mediately after his return from Desha county, where he went to make speech at democrat ic barbecue, he was taken sick with the bilious fever. He was confined to his bed for about two weeks until about ten days ago, when he thought himself sufficiently restored to venture out. On Saturday night the 21st inst, he was again attacked with the bilious cholic, and for two days, his life was, by his family, despaircd of But the skill, attention and kind nursing of his physician, Dr. Brunson brought him out. Now, though still very low, he is improving.
 It will hardly be possible for Senator John- son to leave his bed for two weeks or more, and this must be his apology for not answering the many letters that he has received during the last month. He had prepared list of ap- pointments to speak in the southern counties, but having been again prostrated on bed of sickness, he was prevented from sending them to the press.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

Cor. J. II. HoBBs.-We call attention to this gentleman's letter. Col. Hobbs is one of the swamp land commissioners and has been claim ed by the midnight party as one of its mem- bers. His letter does not read like that of a know nothing.
 Col. Patterson's letter gave the Gazette a great deal ofuneasiness; doubtless, Col. Hobbs's will add to it. Col James Smiths letter too, was hard for its digestion. It took whole column in the last Gazette, to reply to it. Dr. Borland will find his hands full, if he intends attacking and abusing every democrat who spurns the embraces of know nottingham.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
More ComeouterS.
SaAne Co.,, Ark, Sept. 25, 1855.

O01He CO, 14rK oept 70, Iooo. EDITOR OF TRUE DEMOCRAT:
 Dear Sir-We desire you to publish in your paper that we joined the know nothings and that we have ordered our names to be rub bed off of their books. We ever have been democrats and ever expect to be, and we wish the world to know it. Know nottingham does not suit us.
 It is useless to multiply words on the subject; enough has been said already to satisfy us and all others. We know one thing, and that is, we are stronger democrats than we were before we joined the order.
 We expected to have more names signed to this with ours, but we could not see the men who have quit the council in time to send by this mail.
 Count us as standing up democrats, and we are yours truly,
 s. J. CHENNAULT,
 J. I. HAWKINS.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
PROSCRIPTION.-Lile the know nothings WI

PRoscRIPTIoN.-Liket the knownothings who assal every one who had been deceived into the order, and have the independence to come out, Maj Borland attacks. all his old friends who have not followed him in his desertion of the democratic party His last paper contains an assault upon one of his old friends, Col James Smith of Arkansas county.
 Col. Smith is competent to his own defence and we do not feel it necessary for us, at the present, to say any thing in the controversy.
 Col. Smith has not betrayed the party in which he was "Jo'm and brougM up," and we think it will be found that he is noao as good man as when he was the friend of Borland
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

Already are the know nothngs in that sec tion of the State calling loudly for "help.'- Their cause needs it.
 If they are calling on Borland for WIND he can respond to their call If they are calling on him for SUBSTANTIAL help, he is unable tc aid them.
 The next place from which the cry of "help'' may be expected to proceed, will be from the county of Prairie. With all of the WIND, which Borland has at his command, he finds it impos- sible to blow Arkansians into the platform of know nottingham, in such manner as to make them stick.
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
A TEXT FROM LEVITICUS.

A TEXT FROM LEVTTICUS.
 elf stranger soourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
 "But the stranger that dweleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as myself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. am the Lord your God."-Leviticus xix. 33-34."
 "Yes, but see here, Leviticus neither you or heaven ever knew anything about the demo- cratic party in the United States and its efforts to put the foreign stranger into the best bed in the house before he has been ceansed of the dirt of his birth and voyage, and before his gar ments have been quarentined in the wash tub We are willing to admit the stranger, but. we cannot "love him." or permit him to first favor until he Is cean."
 Before the origin of Buntlinism, had such an article appeared in an American journal it alone would have been sufficient to have con- signed it to infamy. But mockery and der- sion of the Bible is the order of the day, and this blasphemous sheet is the ireside compan- ion and instructor of the know nothings.
 'See here Leviticus," is the reverentaz man ner in which this leading know nothing journal approaches the book of God "Nether you or heaven ever knew anything about the de- mo;ratic party in the United Statcs," etc., and over this let know nothing preachers of the gospel of Christ chuckle in their Jealous op- position to the cause of religious liberty?
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02
A Few Questions for the Consideration of
 Know NOthings.

Know NGthlngS.
 When democratic presses condemn the se- crecy of the know nothing order, the know nothing journals retort, by saying that the old democratic and whig parties have also held sc cret meetings. This excuse may be satisfactory to the brotherhood" but it is very far from being 50 to the outsiders" The "initiated" tell us that their object is to do away with all the corrupt practices of the two old parties.- Still hey hold secret meetings and excuse them selves, by saying that the same thing is done by the DEMOCRATS! Will they tell us whether or not they consider this an objectionable fea- ture in the old organizations?
 They tell us too, that they are "disgusted with the wild hunt after office which character. izes the age" If such is really the case, how comes it that in recent elections taoo know noth- ings were candidates for the same office?
 They declare that one of their chief objects is the preservation of the Union. With party NOT NATIONAL, will they inform us how they expect to accomplish this desirable end?
 It is we'll known fact that the order has accommodated itself to every locality in which it may be desirable to establish a lodge. Will some of their editors tell us their object in pur- suing this course?
 If the know nothing journals find the above questions answerable, we may have "few more'' for them, at future day.
 HELP ME CAssIIrs OR I SINKi-Tn tho Ga zette, a correspondent of that paper, writing from Batesville, says:
 "The American party is in fine spirits, and are making bountiful arrangements for the rat- fication barbecue to come off on Saturday, the 22d. Send us aN the help you con-"
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

gether It is impossible to think of one, with out calling to mind the whole three-"Tray, Borland-three traitors whose misdeeds will never be forgiven them by the southern peo- pie.
 They are now know nothings They have found their level, atlast, and the uses for which they are most ftted-whippers-n for the old whig party! By their apostacy, the democrat icparty is relieved of a load of sin and shame It is "good riddance to bad rubbishn
The true Democrat., 1855-10-02

or St. Louis should and can command the principal part of the trade of Arkansas, if the proper means are used to secure it. An ad- vertisement will be found in our paper this week from the firm of s. Cupples & Co. This is step in the right direction, and we hope to see other business men of St. Louis pursuing similar course