The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-05-09
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JACKSON La, MAY 6rn IS
Comet One need not 90 in the
busy streets Of this city. to discover
that to-day is the Sabbath, and thai
the citizens Of our Athens, "remem.
Der the Sabbath and keep it holy,
no, it is alike visable in the counter.
ance Of the landlord his guest ; the
hostess. and all the in dwellers Of this
seat of learning and arts. The very
door-pos proclaim the fact, and the
closed shutters speak Of it F.; whilst the
work horse, and other cattle that live
in dumb felicity. stroll lis'ly about in
semi-conciousness Of the fact "pro-
claimed. There is but one house,
see, with distended jaws, open to take
one in; and tlat an apothecary, on
what your deponent believe,h in his
faith, to be Main Street. This estab-
li>hment is ever open, and like death
himself, hath ali seasons for his own"
The proprietor has with single, pro
priety, placed dead mems heads and
bloody bones in his front window.
What a tale they tell In a hollow
voice like that Of the ghost OF Joseph
McMuggins. they seem to say. "Once
was we'll, q proper and sufficient
man, and now my head is placed in
base comranionship, and no one
knows me.'
But have done with sentiment
sense is what is wanted-plain mat
ter Of fact. Jackson Is a moral place;
and were it not for your boys who are
sent here to take orders, to make
war on mankind at large through the
learned professions. it would be a
ve,y moral place; but they will. in
spite Of threats Of suspension and ex-
pulsion now and then. cross the river
Rine, and 60 into Egypt" Egypt
is not altogether the land of darkness.
but there are people there who keep
lights burning o dark nights and stray.
glers who mig ut otherwise loose their
way. are taken ill.," You mus, know
that "your boys, who are supposed
by your anxious parents to be laced
up in straight jarkets, and walking
be bee line Of rec;itude; not urfre.
quently get into Egypt, where they
cut capers in fantail-calico patterns.
| do not, Comet admire this strained
Methodist morality-,hose who teach
it, mis- axe the nature of the animal
man; and do him an injury.
The crops here are So hot
much different from what they are
elsewhere, and portend what is clearly
written in The countenance of the fu-
tire Famine. You must know
ere this, that our friend Moore" has
given up the I" Feliciana';;" a clever
gentleman Of the name of "Nas.
worthy' has possession now. A friend
Ot mine. who boards at the Feliciana,
haPpend to stay out the other night
after the ninth hour-Qooking perhaps
at the ecIipsed moon) came to the
house and found himself shut out.
there was no light of hope visable.
tic knocked at the door. gently at
irst; then loud. andbeco'ning uneazy-
louder. The host come with lighted
'aper. and before unlocking, cried
.Whoe's there (you must know that
here are thieves in Jackson as else
Shere) the delinquent, tremLled to
door slowly opened, and
'Nosworthy" appeared. in becoming
labiliaments for the midsummer sea.
on. and my friend received thorough
moral lecture. in Patriarchal voice,
m regular habits.
Adieu Comet, I must 60 to church
lid | honestly confess why, it would
e-that all the sweet faces, which
ak in silent cloquence, of light. lif.
ght -hearfedness, and love. (which lat
sr sentiment is unauthorized christi
uity) will be there. your Noe i
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