The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-10-24
From Our Regular Correspondent.

Ugh! What cold rain and cold snap We
have had here since my last; one begins to
feel winter coming on apace; over coats
and red noses are as plenty as bees in June.
What with baby shows" and the cleo
ton, the town has been in quite commo-
ton during last week. Everybody thought
that the Know Nothings would be tri-
umphant, Democracy is, to use common
phrase fright side up;" but think not
that am democrat, dear Comet, because
Ispeak thus. The Democrats carried near
ly all their men into office. They would
not let " Sam," with all his fuss, have any,
| thing of consequence.
AS usual, the prince of humbugs" has
been successful beyond all anticipation
The Baby Show drew crowded houses all
the week, day and night. Everybody was
there, and of course your humble servant
was, too. What did he see there? One
hundred specimens of suffering humanity
There they were SOLDERING, Il believe the
ladies term iD mewling, crying and laugh
ing; such din never heard before, in all
my born days. Master Scott and Miss
Thomson, the prize babies of New York
and Philadelphia; were put upon stand
and amused the ladies' by kissing each
other. We left the disgusting scene, pom
dering in our mind which was the most at
fault, Phineas T. Barnum or the people If
this city.
We visited Perham & Co.'s "Colored ba-
by Show" The surplus receipts of which,
we have since learned, fall very gracefully,
but privi'y into the pockets of P. T. Bar
mum. This was something of curiosity:
though not so attractive as the white ''Iive
Stock" we maaascd (by holding our nose)
to stay IN the loom for ABBOTT five minutes.
They are gone now, and success go with
them, we say. as long as people of some
minds will p9tronize them by putting their
children in theif hands
We paid visit to the Empire City last
week to see NJ lie Rachel perform in Poly
eucte, end sing the Ma se;laise. She has
We y express We thorsh not a pretty couo-
tenance. a good voice and pretty form,
and is uadoubtedlya g,cst actress. Yet It's
not Rachel that speaks she is but the 10
stfument of e,eat man; | mean to say
that she has not brains enough to act thus, if
some one did not tea4 her. She is s.eat
but she is not original. "Why is it, said |,
to a withered F. enbhm2n in the Pit of the
Met opolitan, that Madame Riston is bet
te, liked in Pe,is THAI Mile Rachel -
Fl ST. replied be, ;-bccap the latter and
her ,fam;iy are low Jews; secondly. be-
cause Mile Rachel has two or three ,h1-
drc., and is not mari led yet. and Madame
Piston ,is.' We do not mention this. OF
give publicity to it. f ON any wish to hut
he. character as on actress For ate, all
it is but the fr.';ng of Der oeE. The house
was quite foil though she is filling 10 at
t.action every day.
D.. Eaue; the e.eat Arctic nav CATO has
lived hone in New Yo!k, having lost
only tn ee men DUNG the whole espedi-
ton he has made maoy cuiious discov-
e.ies Of which there will no doubt. be suffi-
cient mention made by the panevs. He
discovered a new land, which he ci' stem
ed Washington.
A "ree-love Unionn has been stat led
in Gotham. where it is said The men or
women, married or not e justified in
abandoning al sense Of decency. A nd tals
was established by women! O. for shame F!
daughters !of liberty, how long shall this
last, have shot beyond my mark, but ex-
cuse Yours, &c. "OBsERvEE."
An interesting libel suit has been
decided in Cincinnati. The Commercial
ofthat city published report that the
commercial firm of NJ. D. Potter
& Co. had failed. 1t was an error and
was contradicted by the same paper.
The firm, however, did fail nine
months after, and the members consid-
cred that the erroneous publication in
the Commercial caused their failure,
and they brought suit, for damages
against the proprietor. The defense
was that the publication was not mali
cious and was promptly contradicted,
and that it only embodied common
rumor. This view Of the subject was
sustained by the court and jury, and a
verdict for the defendant was nromnilu |