The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-12-09
FROH puR REGNLAR ORRE,sIONDE,E7



Dear Comet THE advent Of Rachel
: on Monday last, has created no little stir,
among the theatre going" portion Of the
upper tendon Of PhiiIamaclink. The lady
matte her FIRST appearance in the character
Of romiu IN fornailla's Tragedy, ~ " Les
IIcrares.0 to q house about three fourths
fell If the most fashionable portion Of our
citizens The French people rsesent on
this occasion, were highly delighted with
the IaIy's deIineation Of The Roman maid
on, though many Americans present seem
ed b. think that ihe prices were entirely
too Is high y for the tunes. Rachel is a
great actress and plays up to nature.D but
al her present egorbitant prices we fear
she will pinrn failure. That she has
favored the press here, somewhat more
thanlru New Yrrk OF Boston, is beyond
doubt and We hope she will take the adj
vice Of the press aud lower her prices of
admission In consequence Of Mile Ea-
chefs severe iu1sposition, she did not ap-
pear for The rena'nde@of the week her
three sisters NJ lies Sara, STA and Dinah,
together with the French and English
companies then attached to the theatre,
made shift with presenting some come
dies in both languages; but TO make dhe
matter worse, on Friday, severe accident
occurred to N lie. Sara Felix, thus putting
q finishing stroke TO something that looks
through American spectacles, very much
like little huubug Rachel is announced
to appear as 7isbe in " Angels,p this even
ing Had we time and space we would
enter into a more extended description of
the acting Of this truly great artistic It
is rumo,ed that she has taken the bridal
chamber Of the Girard House. during her
sojourn in this city
Thursday last was noticed pretty gener-
ally as day Of Thanksgiving astivity-
The atmosphere was btingly cool, end
added considerable degree Of ioviality
and liveliness 10 thYSse who had holiday.r
The places Of amusement were thronged
in the afternoon aud evening, with old aud
Young, mostly the latter, who kept up such
n noise That it was almost impossible for
the performers to proceed with their oper-
atoms Every little gill had something to
communicate to some other youthful Ven
ns or Heba, and the boys each had some
hing to makeoa noise with, reminding us
IF the uulIltudous Jocks OF black birds we
mad often met with in the South.
Gov. Pollock has released DR.. BeaIe, Of
newspaper noto'iety. portion Of the
press, We're quite shocked at the act But
he subject is not handled very frequently,
or it is rather q mysterious aHaia
Mr. Bennett Of the " y Ue,nld, pro-
luced his fso-caled) play oil " Love and Re-
tenge,' some time ago at the Academy Of
Music, he sustaining the sole OF the hero,
'ach actor being all literary men, added
they thought proper to their
'arts, thus deviatlng vastly from the origin
i. II has since been ascertained that the
'iece was traslated from the German, and
hat there had previously been s. much
more acceptibls translation made Of the
anne play, What will James Gordon Ben
ett, try next7 o
It is a pretty general impression here
hat there will be "bread riots in the
,rge cities this winter Can the people I
e blamed God has given us pleuteous
arrest and yet we have to pay more fo3
read than we have done for 60 long a seae9
on, since the Revolution. Unless some
hsnge takes place, and that shortly, we
onsider it quite probable that the specuIa-
ors in the lives Of the poor and needy will
g robbed of their instrument of tyranny.
More anon from
Yours, &c, OBsERvERn {