The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-05-31
CORRESPONDENCE.


DHA8 ConE7:
Since my last epistle from tbi'
modern Athens, I have had to wall
about invisible, under the cover o
darkness, and the disguise Of night
The Feliciana House is doscm on me
and could the i" Boys" over at tire In
Sitution, ferret me out, should be
painted parti.colored like Malvolio.--
Thank the lord for it, / have no in.
cumberances, no horse, no dog, nc
wife, no friend-notbing but my ma.
ked self, to keep out Of harms way
and in the fear Of the - DEVIL
Perhaps it is TO this misfortune, that |
am indebted for my whole estate OF
happiness. Had l horse, should
live in nightly terror. Of having him
shaved down and painted up, into the
likeness Of an hypopotamus, by the
school boys, who have sworn terrible
vengeance against the man who has
dared to raise the vail off Egypt. .
1t matters not; your jackson Cores
pendent is perfectly incog., as he is
paid to walk about town and hunt W.
items, you have nothing to fear
However, what | said about " deaths
Heads" makes me look with mis-
trustful eye to Main street; against
which ] find security, in first obServ-
ing my landlady taste the tea herself.
! have no notion just now, Of coming
to an end by poisonous rats bane.
This is great place for proclama.
tons. In SO you may remember.
there was a new one nearly every
week. In the first place, there was
one Of thanks that the epidemic
had not visited Athens: then there
was one of thanks, that it was not anv
worse than it was; when it did come
then there was another of thanks.
where it had gone. and health and
confidence was restored" On Fri
day last, another Proclamation was
made, with the usual flourish of
" Whereas de-" recomme ndpg Wed
n-sday next. as day Of fasting and
Prayer for rain Doubtless you Rid
Suckers would like to be incluAd.
PRAYERS here, are very much like
prayers elsew here for some particu-
lar potato patch of creation, for which
a general blessing would BE- no blessing
at al. l find. land il is to be hoped
NOT too late to make amend lon
'roble) that nv story about the new
most Of the " Felicians is colored
picture. A man may get in there at
'ny hour Of night by giving know
alarm"
/ am yours, as long as it il pleasant
o be B. G. JONES. l.
DESERVED HoSoRs.-The Comet
a Ball on the Mancl.ae. q
NV nights since and was made King
" some bright eyed fair one. Ger.
aiu,y our ncighbor must have been
'"rn under a very lucky star. For a
ong time, bis friends, and they are ,
sgion. have been trying to thrus: up |
n him, much against his own inclin- ,
titn, gubernatorial honors. and now
'e learn, with infinite satisfaction,
lat he has been rendered and has az :
epted, regal honors. The corona r
on ceremonies were performed, "ac- .
ording to the Statute in such case
'ade and provided A wreath of d
overs from fair hand "a "nec. G
'rinc kiss from fairly lips-and who D
"uld not say with the Comet. "what
beautiful custom is thi,!" How
6nitely more satisfactory than all 81
e empty honors of place and pow ii
'!-Gazette. e,
Ay sir! We'd give = Dukedom Il
ID we the place, to spend an hour
ke that, in honest and in "n,er,1e "
% Had sooner be a king b
IT'D limited authority such as we then IL
king for the nonce, if
we're but single hour; than sit in u
9 cushioned chair Of State, and have =,
wing knaves grin at our state jok- b;
, life time. But, four thousand bi
ar flor doing nothing) with perquiS- !,
s of office is sOmefhinu that should ~