Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-03-07

we find the following in the col.
umns of that excellent newspaper,
the New York Dutchman
In this great city there arc many
thousands of persons who contipue
to live in what they consider lux
ury, without any legitimate means
of support They wear dashing
clothes, sport fancy hats, are hung
with chains and starred with gems
true or false as the case may be
cat aud drink as taste or the
want of it may dictate, and reside
possibly the police know where
Now how do these people liver
The answer is very simple. Their
food is fools Fools supply them
with all the neCessarieH and luxur.
lev of life. Once upon time,
many of these ilashy individuals
were as green as their present vic
Tins are; they have been taught
craft by experience and arc profit
ing by lesson learned perhaps at
the cost of all they possessed.
Are the "greerborns' victimizod
by this worshipful brotherhood Of
swindlers, deserving Of much pityY
We think not. He who pays ten
dollars for pocket book full of
bad bills surprising them TO be
good, OF looscs his cash Mt the pa
tent sale game, or buys a bargain"
ut a mock auction, is, in purpose
cheat lie intends to orer-reah the
pocket.book droppcr and the ptent
safe mamie buys the watch, in
icrring from the price that IL has
been stolen.
We might ask the press to pass
the item round for the benefit of
their readers but this would be
unfair to the large and respecta-
bic class of knaves, here, there and
everywhere. The Dutchman fur.
nishes u valuable. receipt which
should not be passed about for
nothing Let those who have OK.
perionce, pay for IL, and then il
will be appreciated. There is
wonderful amount of sympathy for
the young man who goes for the
first time to sec the elephant, and
sits ut tho table to play with him,
in the hope of teaching the animal
come new trick. Such deserve no
sympathy they set down TO win,
flattcring themselves, that they
thoroughly understand the books"
There is only one class of poor fools
for whom the Dutchman has any
sympathy, and they certainly de-
serve it. They are the political
fools they who are allowed by the
political knave to hold primary
meeting; fill unimportant places,
and go into caucus TO be used by
their superiors. Poor fools, we
doubt not your honesty. nor the
sincerity with which you believe
that you settle the affairs of the
nation, when you have no power
10 move, or dance 10 the music, I'M
I'll commanded. Such are foolsabso-
Lutte.
HARD ON JUDAS lsCAmoT. -Arte-
mas Ward, the "grate American
Snowman" relates, in his peculiar
style, the following:
iasidant an UtIg-In the Faul Of
1855 | showed my show in Uliky, n
trooly CRATE sitty in the State of New
York.
The people gave me a cordyal re-
cepshun. The press was loud in her
prases.
l day as was given descripshun
Of my Beests and Snakes in my usual
ilowry stile, what was my skorn Il
disgust to see u big burly Teller walk
up to the cage containin my wax fig
gers of the Lords Last Supper, and
cease Judas lscarott by the feet and
drag him out on the ground. lie
then commenced fur to pound him az
hard rs he Good.
"What under the son are you
abowtP cride |.
SEE he, "Wbat did you bring this