The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1856-01-10
The Presidents Message Again.

advocate, have our thanks for q CON-
plete copy Of the above document. in
advance of the overland mail, ora New
Orleans. So long has the appearance
Of this important document been de-
layed, that expectation has worked it.
self up to the last degree. Now that
it has actually come into existence,
the same sliding scale will move down
to zero, and public interest will look
after some other important State pa
per whereon to satiate its thirst for
something new.
All hands of the Fourth Estate"
as the English call 1.-THE Press"
have had fair chance at the message
this season, and no undue advantages
have either been given on favoriteism,
or sold. When the document was an
nounced in the blouse" it was fresh,
and had not been hawked about as
other merchandise. It was taken down
in short hand and telegraphed all over
the nation, for the consolidated press,
the grand junction union, and all 9TH
er combinations, who would pay SO
much a word for it. The synopsis
first published, was hashed up and
condemned into still briefer synopsis !;
this was again taken up as the mails
travelled into the interior and still fur
Their condemned duntil some ofthe "Her
aids of Truth" and the Journals of
Freedom" have actually had it con-
denced into fifteen long PRIMER lines.
Now it comes fully elaborated and it
will take a full hours time to read it.
The synopsis published in the Pic
ayune and other city papers and re.
published by our neighbor in Church
street on the first inst, and by the
Comet on the second; embraces every
thing contained in the extended docu-
ment.
The Post Office Department Of the
Federal Government, more directly
effects the interest Of all classes of So
ciety than any other. Any mal-ad-
ministration here is Immediately felt
by all classes Of society and the direct
injury in social as we'll as CONNER
cial and pecuniary point Of view, is
not to be estimated in figures. 1t is
known 10 every man and woman in
the nation, North, South, East and
West, that never before at any previ-
GUS period of our history, has there
been so much mal-feasance in officials,
high and low as there has been for
the past three and half years. All
confidence is lost in this channel Of
INSTRUMENTATION, the very heart and
soul of the nation. So common has
the peculation become in this depart.
ment that lover may not transmit
by mail a pinch-back gold ring to the
loved, without having it basely filched
from the letter, by the way. 1t is no
ordinary thing for mails to be months
travelling from point to point in this
State, and all rem99strances on the
part of the press and The people are Of
no earthly avail.
In the face of this, the President s
Message says in reference to the de-
partment. that it will be perceived,
by the report Of the Postmaster Gen
eral, that the gross expenditure of the
department for the last fiscal year was
nine million nine. hundred and sixty
eight thousand three hundred and for
ty-two dollars. and the gross receipts
seven million three hundred and forty
two thousand one hundred and thirty
six dollars, making an excess Of ex-
penditure over the receipts of two
million six hundred and twenty.six