The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-08-12

country uncurrnG notes, still We must
recoqniae in hnishe greatest living
satirist. This ~ saying much but
not more, thar can be well add truely
said Thomas Makepeace T!aekcrJ,
is the only writer wbEspproacheH him,
and T'hackcry has evidently modelled
his mind to think after the fashion OF
Dickens, and produce copies, only o
his great master. ...
Light literature was surfelted, with
maudln sentiment sickly and repin-
ing nobility, and vulgar aunkcyism,
when Dickens as an author came upon
the stage, to lead us back into the
path of nature into true life, as it is
and may be found, in the different
shades and grades of society Who
is not acquainted with Mr.. Pickwick;
that scdatc and sober old gentlemen,
who stood at the head of the Immortal
Club, model to pattern after2 Who
does not know the pathetic Sam, ;"
the poetic Snodgrass, the too suscep-
tible Tupman, Of the Antiquarian
Society Where in any latter day
institution, do you find SO much lber-
atty of sentiment as is embodied i'll
the early record, Of their transactions
which reads thus: ResolDed, "Ihat
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 thruthfulness Of the following
picture, may be recognized
"It 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-
portunitv of opposing the Bluffs, and
the Bluffs lost no opportunity Of OPP
posing the Blues; and the conse-
quenco 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 dissensions it is
almost superfluous 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 incorporating /; if the
Blues proposes the erection Of an ad.
ditional pump in the High Street, the
Bluffs rose as one man and aghast at
the enorlnity. There were Blue
shops and Buff shops, Blue inns and
Bur inns there was a Blue aisle
and q Buff aisle, in the very church
itself.
There are fifty-four hour mills now
in operation in California, capable Of
making an average of seventy five
barrels of flour daiIy-equal to 1000
barrels per day; 10000 barrels per
month 1,2G3,690 per annum-three
times the estimated consumption of the
State proper.
OF course it was essentially and in
dispenslbly necessary that each of
these powerful parties should have
its chosen organ and representative
and accordingly, there were two
newspapers O. the town--tho 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 were. Such leading ar
ticles, and such spirited attacts -
" Our worthless contemporary, the