The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-08-09

country uncurrent notes, still we must
recognize in him the greatest living
satirist. This is saying much; but
not more, than can be we'll and truely
said. Thomas Makepeace Thackery,
is the only writer who approaches him;
and Thackery has evidently modelled
his mind to think after the fashion of
Dickens, and produce copies, only
bis great master.
Light literature was surfeited, with
msudlin sentiment; sickly and repin-
ing nobility, and vulgar Aunkeyism,
when Dickens as an author came upon
the stage. to lead us back into the
path Of nature; into true lie as it is
and may DO found, in the different
shades and grades Of society. Who
is not acquainted with Mr.. Pickwick;
that sedatc and sober old gentlemen,
who stood at the head of tho Immortal
Club, model to pattern aftera Who
does not know tho pathetic "Sam, !"
the poetic Snodgrass. the too suscep-
tible Tupman, of the antiquarian
Societya Where in any latter day
Institution, do you find so much liber-
atty of sentiment as is embodied in
the early record, Of their transactions
which reads thus: RESOLVED, THAT
this Association cordially recognises
the principle Of every member Of the
Corresponding Society, defraying his
own travelling expences and that it
sees no objection whatever to the
members Of the said society pursuing
their inquiries for any length Of time
they please, upon the same terms. "
The thruthfulnoss of the following
picture, may be recognized:
at appears, then, that the Eatans-
will people. like the people Of many
other small towns, considered them
selves of the utmost and most mighty
importance, and that every man in
Eatanswill, conscious Of the weight
that attached to his example, felt
himself bound to unite, heart and
soul, with one of the two great parties
that divided the town-the Blues and
the Bluffs. Now the Blues lost no op-
portunity Of opposing the Bluffs, and
tho Bluffs lost no opportunity Of op-
posing the Blues and the conse-
quence was. that whenever the Bluffs
and Blues met together at public
meeting, Town-Hall, fair, or market,
disputes and high words arose between
them. With these discussions it is
almost superfuous to say that every
thing in Eatanswill was made party
question. If the Bluffs proposed to
new skylight the market-placc, the
Blues got up public meetings, and de-
nounced the proceeding; if THE
Blues proposed the erection of an adj
ditional pump in the High Street, the
Bluffs rose as one man and aghast at
the enormity. There were Blue
shops and Buff shops, Blue inns and
Buff inns there was a Blue aisle
and Buff aisle, in the very church
itself.
Of course it was essentially and in
dispensibly necessary that each of
these powerful parties should have
its chosen organ and representative !;
and accordingly, there were two
newspapers in the town-the Eatans-
will Gazette and the Eatanswill INDIE
pendent. The former advocating Blue
principles, and the latter conducted on
grounds decidedly Buff. Fine news
papers they we're! Such leading ar
ticles, and such spirited attacts -
"Our worthless contemporary, the
Gazette -" That disgraceful and
disardly journal the Independent. -
"That false and scurrilous print, the
Independent - That vile and SLAM
derous caluminator, the Gazette -
these, and other spirit-stiring dcnun'
Citations, we're strewn plentifully over
the columns of each, in every num-
Der, and excited feelings of the most
;rtonso dalioht and INDIGNATION in the