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THE
POTTER ,TOURNAL
PUR . LISFIED. BY
pl. Itgellarney, Proprietor.
$l.OO PR YEAH, I...9PARIAIiT,Y IN-ADVANCE.
* * *Devoted to the cause of Republicanism.
the interests of Agriculture, the advancement
of Education, and the best good of Potter
county. Owning --no—guide except that of
'Principle. it will endeaver to aid in the work
of more fully Freedomizing our Country.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the following
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* 1 . 4- 311 Ain't:Bleat advertisements must be
paidin advance, and no notice will be taken
of advertisements from a distance, unless they
are, accompanied by the money or satisfactory
reference. •
*,?Blanks, and Job Work of all kinds, at
tended ta'Pinmptly..and faithfully
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' ..gtISiNES , s: cAiti)s
EULALIA LODGE, \u 342. F A M.
STATED Meeting, on.lhe 2nti ❑tpi 4111 We thic.s
days of each mylit!i: -11s,o ~ a th., r -ings
ings on ork
and practie,, C
TIMOTHY IVES W M.
• SAMUEL HAVEN,
,Sec.y.
JOHN S: MAL'N,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several
Courts in Potter and :WE:min Counties. All
business entrusted in his care will receive
- prompt attention. Office corner of West
and .Third streets.
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, •
i.TTORNEY COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudirsport, Pa., will atteuti t :la
et:fruited to care, with Faiaptues r.nd
ity. Uace en Suth-west c.runrr
and. Fourth streets.
ISAAC BENSON:
~ TTORYEI AT LAW. Coudersport. Ps-, will
attend to ll business i•niru . sted to him. with
.Can mid isromptuess. uu .
ear the Ailogiletly
_ _
r•. W. KNOX
LTiOII AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa.; will
regularl2 - attend. the Courts in Potter and
the adjoining Counties.
0. T. ELLISON,
:12AOTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa..
. respectfully informs the citizens of thil vil
lage and vicinity that he will promply re
spond to all calls for professional services.
Office on Main st., in building formerly oc
cupied by- C. W. Ellis, Esq.
C. S. & E. A. JONES,
;BALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS.
Oils,,Fancy Articles,Stationery, Dry Good:
Groceries, Main st., Coudersport : Pa.
D. E. OLMSTED,
)EALEII, IN DRY GOODS,. READY-MADE
Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, Main st.,
Coudersport, Pa,
COLLINS SMITH,
DEALER in Dry Goods,Groceries. Provisions,
Hardware, Queensware, Cutlery. and all
Goods usually found in a country store.—
. Coudersport, Nov. 27, 1861.
M. W. MANN,
DEALER DI BOOKS k STATIONERY, MAG
AZINES and Music, N. W. corner of Main
and Third sts., Coudersport, Pa.
COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
0 F. GLASSMIRE; Proprietor, Corner o-
Main and Second Streets,Soudersport, Pot
ter . ,
• A: Liv/ry Stable is also kept in connect
tion with this Hotel. I
•• -- -..- , -L. • BIRD,
SURVEYOR, CONVEYANCER, Am., BROOK
LANI::V.a., (formerly Cushingville.) Office
in his
MAIM. GILLO.N,
TAlLOR—nearly opposite the court House—
Aill;.;:pakee- all clot:lea intrusted to him in
the lateit and hest 'styles —Prices to suit
the times.—Give him a call. 13.41
ANDREW BANBERG BRO'S.
TANNEtte&ND.ctire.I.ERS.-4ilides tanned
on the shares, in tle ibe'it manner. Tan
ori:the:east- fide of Allegany river.
Coudersport,'Potter county, Pa.--411,'61
IL J. OLjESTEDi
QLMSTED & KELLY,
)EALER IN STOVES, TIN & SHEET IRON
sL,,nearly oppdrite the Court
" , ftronge, Coudersport,'. Pa. Tin and Shut
I [roil Ware, trade to order in,good ou
short . .
- .
" THE tr I.IION '
.A.ltcH ).TREETTABOVE THIRD,
'UPTON 8. NEWCBBIII{, - Piopiletar.
This .Hotel .is central, eonyeniept by
Passenierlelrs to all parts of the city, .ittd in
every particular adapted to the ivants of .he
basiness public.
. Terms 50 per day.
1 •!• . UNION:4IOM, • -
CiStrpoilTyPoTTF,B.sciollNce;
A. S. ARMSTRONG
'HALVING refitted sad newly fornishod the
JUL: house on Main:street,-recently occupied
by .11,iilliciOstlirepared to a.cOotoP2Pdate the
trairelfostpnblin in as good style as-ran ike. had
la tchist:lNothing that cerw.weqk t wny:hit,
crease the comforts of the guests will be in
fected,. •- Dec ' 11 3 1841
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THE LOYAL DEMOCRAT.
I
Mouth nut to me your Union rant,
Nor gloze wine ears with loyal Cant!
Who stands this day in Freedoth'S van,
He only is niv Union Man ! I
Who tramples Slavery's Gesler hat, .
Lle - is my Lnyal Democrat!
With whips, engirt by chains, too long
We strove to make our fasces strong;
When Rebel hands those fasces tend,
Must we with whips and chains still mend?
If "Democrats" can. stoop to that,:
Gn help me I I'm no Democrat !
Thank Retivenl lines arc drawn; this hour,
'Trixt manly Right and despot Power;
Who scowls in Freedom's path Way now,
Bears "Tyrant" stamped upon his brotv;
Who skulks aloof, or shirks hislprt,
Bath "Slare" imprinted in his heart.
I
In vain of :-Equal Eights' Ye pratc, •
WhO fawn! like dogs at Slavery's . gate ;
Beyond the stave each slave-whip 'smites, . .
And nodes for Blacks are laws for Whites,
The chainS tuat negro limbs encoil,
Bean)] and easlitve each child of Toil!
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0, Northern Men I Whet will, ye learn -
'Tis latbr.7e. that,theSe tyrants spurn? .
' 'Tis not the blood or skin they breind„
But every ;Poor Men's toil-worn . ,h i nd ;
And ye who serve them—knowm this—
Deserye the slave-lash-that ye kill
. 1 • 1
While Northern blood remembrance craves
Froldtwitie ten thousand SouthOn graves,
Shallifreeborn hearts—beneath the turf—
Lie alwa;.s crashed by tramp ofh• - ••Elrf?.
And ;•ilgrilus, at those graves, sense day,
hi- Slavery's hounds be driven sway?
The green grass iu the church-t!a l d waves,
/
The good c•rfn grows o'er battid- raves, " .
Bad, 0 ! from crimson seeds now s ya - n.
Whst crops, what harvest, sliallb • grown?
On Shiloh's plainon Roanoke t; od—
What fruits shall spring from bluon, 0 God!
• .
Spring-time is here I The past now, sleeps
The-Present sow 5-,-t.lit,• Future re4ps I
Willi plants good seed in Freedbta's span,
He only is my Union Man ! '
,Who treads the weeds of Slavery dat, '
lie is my Leval Democrat! 'E
New lick, May, 23, 1,•::62. A J.U. DCGANNE.
The folhJwing iteuts the New Or
-10.; give some idea of the change
-entinaint iu that city Since
it.ti,et; advent tie nas been constantly at
wore.rcio!ving the conditi.in of the "poor,
-;Dr% tog tr..tce trush,"--..fwitiCh there is
ite stuall nutuher in the city. 'And whtie
wit woe nand he has been deaEug out
%Vail the uttiti igiven jus
tice. full s.vay, ;:nd this hanginfr: of 311.1111
ford is pure N'yhose
wlubitiuu 'at the CUUllile!let - liellt of our
struggles wight have saved touch of the
blood and, treasure already expended :
WHAT IT COST TO HAUL DOWN TUE
,AMERICAN FLAG• ;
illumford, the ill-starred youth whose
name and fate will be a terror' to all who
are inclined to trifle with the Govern
ment or its sacred emblems in time to
come, justly received the reward of his
treason and madness, in the Eit'esence of
thousands of spectators. as announced iu
The Delta of last evethog. So far as our
knowledge extends in the matter, it is the
first instance upon record of a wan being
tried, found guilty, and executed for lay
ing violen.t hands upon our National flag,
and the lesson it conveys is a solemn, and,
we trust, will prove a salutary one. Mum
ford, though standing only as a represen
tative of - parties equally guilty at heart as
himself, had the misfortune to ,mingle a
little more rashness with his treasonable
intents than some• of his trator associates,
and paid - the penalty. with worthless
life.
It is perhaps of very little importance
Whether this indivicual, so depraved, in
his nature, so lost to all sense of patriot
ism and love of country, be dead or'aliv4
and the recompense. of forfeiture which
he wade in the sacrifice of personal ex
isteaceis in no degree a compenption for
the insalt which he offered a great and
magnanimous people by basely, tramplifig
'their noble ensign under foot. ; And the
thousands who witnessed the exit of this
miserable person from a life he had dis
graced. must have learned, if they. bad
need of such a lesson, that it is mast dan
gerous to set at defiance 'a. Govern
went that trout its Very nature is self
protecting, and will at all hazards, and
under all Cireumstati*,.Vindicate itself
and avenge the insult 4 offered its flag.
Deluded men may have flattered•them
selves that, because la rabble or a mob
sometimes! rules within the narrow limits
of some important Own or corporation,
that there'is no power under the Govern
ment, sufficiently potent- to arrest their
mad career, when •their high-handed wick
edness extends to a violation 'of symbols
sacred to great, and powerful nation, but
the example of yesterday must disabuse
them of any such fallacy.
The handing down of the .flag cin the
Mint was a Much mere cowardly act than
entering the ranks, in open-and armed
rehelrinajor .tbe - perpetratorl,might:well
I flatter himself that, in the absence of those
vrbo had either the will or the power to
S. D. KELLY
'e,batO to the
. Tkißeipies of iba pis etilirOoq of Mcii.Ag,i tOittliv . aqb (fans.
NEW ORLEANS:
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, 191.i WEDNESDAY, aui t 25,,1862.
redress . the insult at the instant, his
escape'ib the melee of a mob-leaved - city
might he relied upon. - But in this he
misjudged, and never did justice overtake
a criminal more abandoned, or punish a
crime More revolting to the sense of every
honorable, high-minded person.
There could be' no reprieve from the
execution of a sentence so just; and for
ever after, so long as time shall Continue,
and tlie good old national flag floats over
the Union, as float it will, long after the
present 'pee Cf traitors are dead and buried,
let him', who would violently lay hands
upon Ulu) haul it down, count well the
cost by remembering the fate of Mumford.
And, le4t by your neglect, citizens of New
Orleans, some of your children may come
to the . same bad end, teach them that
haulimr down the American flag is an act
of treason, and is synonymous with death.
FIRST UNION FLAG RAISED IN NEW
OULEANS
THE RAISING OS 0171 t, FLAG ON THE
CITY HALL.—The Union Assosciation,
of whom Mr. Anthony Fernandez, a na
tive of this city, is the President, passed
resolutions, and appointed Saturday, the
7th inst., at 1.2 o'clock in., as the proper
moment: to restore our glorious flag, and
trusting it to the breeze. A Committee
of Thirty-four—one for every State in
the Union—ascended the roof, and, form
ing around the flageaff, hoisted our
national ensign. As the colors reached
the summit a salute of 34 guns was fired,
while the vast crowd cheered and appeared
mad with excitement. The shouts of the
multitude, the booming of cannon, and
bursts of triumphal music, loudly pro
' claimed that the
Flag of our country did wave
Oyer the land of the free and the hose of the
brave
The enthusiasm lasted more than a
quarter of an hour, and after the firing of
the salute,the President and the Secretary
(Mr. Dufau) repaired to Gen. Shepley's
quarters where the President addressed
him with much feeling and warmth; to
which Gen. Shepley answered in a most
appropriate manner, touchidg upon. the
gratification they must experience in
beholding once more the national emblem
floating over their municipal hall. .
Mr reminder: is also the Pre,sident of
the Louisiana Association of the Veterans
of 1814 and 1315, and a warm friend and
admirer of Gen. Scott. .
The assemblage was immense. At
lea'st 15,00 persons attended to see the
great., glorious ceremony of the raising
azain, and no doubt forever, the flag of
this our great country—the asylum of all
the oppressed of the world.
Truly, there were no Secessionists
there. They would not approach such a
place, where only the purest motives
and patriotism had congregated such : a
vast assemblage of persons, respetable,
and identified with the prosperity of this
great city.
It.:.;:m.i.riKAßLE OprER PROM DEN
31.ABK.—A dispatal, from Washington
states that the contraband Ipication has
suddenly ta:ieu a new phase—no less than
a practical scheme of colonization upon
Danish territory. The Judiciary Com
mittee of the House on Tuesday morning
received from the State Department
copies of an interesting correspondence
which has just passed between Secretary
Seward and the Danish Minister in rela
tion to the contrabands. The Danish'
government has made a formal proposition,
through its Minister at Washington, to
take all the negroes who have escaped
from their masters and.- remove them to
St. Croix free of charge. It then pro
poses to put them under an apprenticeship
of three years, permitting them to receive
regular wages. At the expiration of their
apprenticeship it is proposed to free them
unconditionally. The Governor of the
Danish West Indies has also appointed a
special agzat, who- has arrived in this
country to make the neceessarrarrange
ments. Free transnolgation is offered to
all who will engage to labor on the sugai
plantations for three years, at the same
compensation as given native population.
OF HON. ' ROBERT .M. PALMER:
--The Hon. Robert M. Palmer, U. S.
blinieter to the Argentine Confederation,
died at sea on the 26th of April, and-his
body was buried' in the ocean the next
day, - He had been a Icing time in ill
health, which had increased so seriously'
that he left Buenos Ayres to return to
his home in Pottsville. But his disease
had made such iirogress that the suffer
ings of the seal voyage broUght on the
final struggle. He had been a Senator
from Schuylkill eounty, in the Pennsyl:
vania Legislature and during , the session
of 1861 was Speaker ' of the Senate. He
was • appointed: Minister by President
Lincoln, and sailed fronalhis country . in
May, 1861. He was forty-one years of
age, and leaves a wife and six children,
the iildeitof whom, a young man; accom
panied him to,Senth America.
•
tfen. Polk baS captured since the cern
theueement of thie war '25,000 prisonera.
MY FIRST LOVE.
It has beeneasserted iby a celebraited
writer that : every person horn intoi n this
World, is subject more or less to the
Face of love; that; some tithe or Other', in
the course of life, they wain so Isitrieted
as to feel its, powerful influence, andl that
those who are attacked young the sooner
get phrough With it ; whereas; if they are
attacked later in life, it goes' wiry hard
with them, and subjects the iodiidnalto
all kinds of , queer , out-of-the•wcy, I odd
doings, quite unlike themselvei before
Cupid hurled his flaming da,rt, and 'Made
the wohnd. Thus speaks the lanthei
- for th , in point.
now for the pase.. pt. I
.;mot her
When I. =Els very little boy I (sti 'py
told , nn.,) ;I used to heati a great
deal of talk, among the nursery; maids,
about marriage- out ; not havin* a Very
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definite idea of what it meant, I imagtned,
from scraps Of Information picked pp from
;said nurse-tnaids,•that it consisted Of a
ivionian dressed 'in fine cloihes anti a man
!with top boote, going to church, and Ithe
minister readidg to them • and fur :her
morn,' nurse told me that - i used dai_y to
; say that when 'I should be a man,' Iwith
[top' biota up to, -My knees, I would Walk
the streets till 1 saw a • lady with [ red
cheeks, then! would get a [coach 1 and
,InCite the oWn r of the red cheeks td ride
with 'me, and I would take her to ,Some
[placec with trees outside the city, ang live
there, letting no one see her but' myself.
.Thus used to have a haven of happiness
in a small way. . • I 1 1
A few years rolled on and I bad to
leave the nursery and all its pl+ant
1—
reminiscences, landattack the beginning
of my world in aljnvertile school, Where
I pursued the alphabet study ini coneert.
with some dozen others, under the super
intendence of a. stately elderly' dame, ;with
la rod in one hand and a book in the other.
'lf we didn't get enough out Of the blook
; hand to please her ladysqp,l she would
Ihelp.us witha stroke from the red -and.
So things went on till I was; considered
too large and too impudent (I'mlsorry, to
say,) to receive any more favors fr , ' ona l that
venerable rod) so was honorably orl dis
honorably dismissed; (I forget which,but
it was either one 'or the' othei.) 1 I
After a few days another ! school; was
selected, and ia,y future develeraneuti was
j confided to the hands of a master.; A Very
I few days with this gentleinen, sufficed to
I convince me pf the superiority of 1 his'
whipping over the antiquated Nand that
I had wielded the birch in the list estab-1
lishment. The contents of , the school
I was mined—half boys and half ; 1 _4161 1
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When nearing my tenth birth-day a
girl came to school: about my own size,
age, .and weight, wearing the reddest
cheeks that could be, (my beau idcid, of
i
I beauty.) The consequence wad, 111 felt
bound to ingratiate myself into the favor
I of those red cheeks,: blue eyes and flaxen
curls; at all risks and all hazards,. ,1,
I I used to arsist, her in !examples; help
her to spell bigiverds, and sometimes,
when she was standing up in dais, would
write answers on my slate to questions
I put to her and hold the slate up foP ;her
to' reed, tiil. I got,,caught at it, add bad to.
lexperience. something from hi.4 master
`hand. • Once I heard her say titer ;she
I was very fond of oranges ; so he next
! cdppers I had; I took to the fail' 1.-dealers,
and purchased the largestrhe had foti the;
(money, and stowed it away in my popket,l
(which, by the way, was.rather diffiinil '
t '
J ' I
ilas: the pocket !was small and, the orange
large.) - I took my seat in school, waiting
I]
for "cheeks'', to stand up' and recite I her
;.lesson. She always stood with her hands
[ behind her. 'Occasionally I used tc
,put
!scraps of paper in her hand (we should,
I have called them billet deux' , if wel had
been in a French school, but as it was,
;they were scraps of paper) with something'on them. , This - time I had soneet ingl
more weighty. After' extricating the
',orange from its hiding-place, I put it into
I her hand. She, not knawing,what itwas ,
let it fall. DOwn it wet, dub, dub,l:ub,!
lib, üb, h-b-b b, to the lend •of t_' e rtom. I
Never did the loaded clap of thuner have!
1.
such an effect; upon me ,is the b mp and I
roll of that unfortunate orange. Fruit of
every description was sp strictly prohib-
ited that I fancied at the timemy mil
ins certain. 1 . i
'l.
The master, in his spage, stentorian
voice, demanded '?'who is that who dares
to violate one of my jaw?" Nol one
spoke. The whole sohool,Tas Silent as
i eath; but I was the s'nsßpcted oneJ, so
I
was politely requested tr! stl aft r sctool
houra, and he would 4 ivOzie a priVate
audience. And I didp4o4 tat after school
hours, and he did give prvate-au
i
, dience, andsoniething e seltith it, which
I made it exceedinly inc vPiienti for .'.me
,
to ait, uown for two or tlI
11.4 ree@ays.
I
' After the school lawe been satis
fied fied I was dismissed for notrt4, 11 had (not
gone far before I Madan:wise . lleed
It
Cheeks loitering about, ociEng in at the
windows, dc. I Hied p' ray tears .and
tried to look as if I was not the boy who
I
had bepn whipped. S e ;c4me I to Meet
me as soon as she sa Me;, (what she
never did before,) and ai iihe! did "not
=I
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know that it iwas I who put the fruit in
her hand or she would not have throft
it dOWn. Her cheeks so red, land her
fOyes so "pine, land she spoke so sweetly
that thy private audience with the scheol•
master and the cane was already deprived
d f half the smait, and my little heart grew
fonder; of those red cheeks the more I
Suffered. for them; and it seemed as if
theysy redder and redder the more I
rooked; (have thought since that it was
Very likely.)
One morning early, in my eleventh
summer, I- walked by' her - house for the
purl:Fess qf getting the first look] at those
cheeks at they presented themselves to
the salute of the rimming air; bhp I found
She had .IreadY started, as I saw her in' .
the dista4cc. Upon my nearing her there
was a btitcher-boy and chimney.sweeP
making clumsy remarks upon the thick
ankles, as they maliciously called them,
belonging to thy darling red cheeks; my
inn" brood felt volcanic at finch rude
remarks; andl instantly challenged either
of there to fight, both of them being big
ger than 'myself. They only ilaughed at
me.; but,iseeing that I.was determined to
avenge , the insult, they agreedl between
themselves that the sweep should accom
modate the, he being nearermy size than
the ,butcher ; and a comic fig,ht it must
have been while my strength lasted, for
he was blackirig my clean. face I with his
sooty hands. IA crowd soon assembled.;
they took my part (being the least) and
Cheered me on; hat
he
snioke was
too rainia for me; he struck the down,
and my forehead struck againsthe curb
' •
stone and I was carried off inseUsible.
Whenfl came to I was in thends of
two elderly women; they bad w ashed my
face, and; placed a Strip of brown paper
Steeped in vinegar over the gaih on my
forehead. In this state I started for
school; was of course late, so had to go
to the desk and give the'reason. I said
a big boY ran against me, knocked me
down in the dirt, and it cut my head;
the people took me into a house where
they washed , my face and put.a plaster
on the exit.
I was fortunately let off on that.
knew., if I told the truth, it might inter
fere withlmy sittine 6 down swain' as fight
a
I,ng was tine of the peccadiPos be punish
ed severely. I told a similar story to
'Miss Red - Cheeks. She pitied me, and I
i felt al glory in being pitied. She never
!knew; how much I suffered for.lier. Her
father toe': her from the schciol at the
close of the qnarter, and sent her some
distance 'to a Ladies Boarding Ahool.
never sago her again, but her red cheeks
lived fin my imagination for softie time ;
having no other red cheeks to &ast npon,
my love for her gradually subsided into
a taste (excuse me for saying bo, but it
did) intola decided taste for red cheeked
apple's. pranges, I wouldn't look at for
a considerable , time, owing to the disa
greeable dilemina one of that family bro't
luponitneJ Thus ended the first attach
mentli
We sever what God has join.
'destroy beautY, and lose boa o.
Crimes sometimes shock us t.
Ivices,almost always too little.
Be what yon are. This is th
toward becoming better than y.
Sense must be very good, in•
as nod as good nonsense.
.
The craving for sympathy is
l lmon boundary /ine between joys
Never :coMMunicate your
Who seems aniious to learn the;
There is a man in Virginia'
cratic that he has cut -his own
mace.
We are commanded to let our light
shine. before men ; the man with a red
nose keel* his light shining before himself
Almost every young lady is public
spirited enough to be willing tki have her
father's *use used as a court-house..
At
•
At sixteen a woman .prefers the hest
'dancer ini the room; at two-and-twenty,
the best talker ; at thirty, the richest man
I
Mrs. Partington wants to know what;
sort of drams canon-drums are. She
thinks there are some hard to heat.
The progress of. knowledge
,Like the sun, we cannot see it)
but after a while we perceive thl
moved, nt7, that it has moved n
I
Alast n work for the preset
for the fu ure. , The wise workl
;for the fu are in the, present, ani
•
,presentn in the future.
1 1
There e great men enough to incite
uA to him rat true, greatness,but not enough
to make ufancy that God could not ex
lecute'his purposes without than.- • '
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club cf henpecked husbands met
'once a week—that meeting being their
'only day Of enjoyment and resi When
pliey:adjoarned they called it the rising
of the , tied. ! ;
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in Covingion, ,Ohio. I
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Comets have in all ages"been a source
of terror to the ignorant and superstitiotis.
They have been regarded as signs of war,
famine, pestilence, and the Judgment
Day. Even at th e . present day, many
intelligent but unscientific people gaze
with fear and dread , upon the beautiful
sky-wanderer lately blazing ;in-our-eve
ning and morning heavens ; ; while ,still
others are to be found who 'opsnly i confess
the belief that this is inincendiary torch
dispatched to &stray the world. But
science robs this strange phenomenon of
all its terrors. A few years. ago some
French savans wer . commissioned by the
government to compute mathematically
the chances of a collission between the
earth and any
"Wild colt of a comet; which tool:09a
Breaks out of bounds o'er the etheiialblue."
Afters careful examination of the
question,it was decided that there exists
but one hance in two hundred and eighty
one millions, that the earth' should ever
be struck by one of these eccentrio *an-.
derers. Still the over-timid may believe
that this one chance - will be ours, and
that it is the earth's destiny to be demol
ished by yonder fiery, strange,—
"Split by his playful tale,
As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale."
Four hundred years ago, when the vie
ih
torions Turks threatered to vernal' all
Christendom, a cornet made is appear
ance which filled all classes 1 emboli°
Europe with Such' terror that the pope,
who seemed to share the universal panic,
ordered an extra Ave Maria to be said
each day, by every devout man, womani
and. child, with the addition of the, prayer,
"Oh, Lord, safe us' from the devil, the
Turk, and the comet I" The church-bells
were rung
at midday, (a practice since
kept up in Catholic countries,) but wheth.
er to frighten the comet away, or to'en
treat the intercession of the saints and
:he Virgin, we are not informed. We
suspect that the design was less to frighten
the comet than the people, who came
pourin< , their earthly treasures into the
lap of the mother church, greatly to, her
worldly advantage. We smile at this
incredulity; bnthow many are there in
our day, in our enlightened land, whom
a little contagious excitement on the sub
ject would terrify out of all their self
possession !. i
Philosophers are.' not agreed upon the
nature of the substance of which (*meta
are composed. SoMe have thought it to
he vapor; and Dr.•'Whiston, a friend of
Newton, supposed that the biblical delugis
was caused by a comet driven alongside
the earth for that purpose. But it IS
clear that no vaporous body could exist,
journeying alternately, as some comets
do, to the very furnace-door of the sun,
then away into regions of unimaginable
space. It seems clear to ns that the sub
stance is the primitive, uncondensed, vol
atile and gaseous diffusion of which worlds
are formed. The fact that stars are vis
ible through the taii, and sometimes even
through the nucleus, or head of comets,
proves the extreme rarity of this etherial
matter. -The comet of 1770," says
' Herschel, "actually got entangled among
the satellites of Jupiter, and thrown out
of its orbit by their attraction." But as
' neither the planet nor the satellites ex-
I hibitdd the least deviation of their course,
' in consequence, the exceeding unsubstan
tiality of the comet seems well established.
i
.d, and an
truth..
o much i ;
first step
are.
ed, to be
, The most curious' portion of the comet
is its tail. This is not properly a tail,
however; for it sometimes goes before the
comet, more' like a beard, and sometimes
moves at right angles ' with its orbit. It
appears most frequently on the side of this
, comet opposite the sun; a fact which has
given rise to the theory that it is the
; comet's atmosphere driven off by the sun's
rays. But the appendage does not always
observe this rule. Some supposdit to be
composed of electrical currents, like our
Aurora Borealis, streaming off into space.
' Cometshave sometimes more than a sin
gle tail, - `and we read of a very famons
one, in 1741, which had six tails, each of
which was six millions of Miles long I
The word comet is from the Greek
onza, which signifies hair. The verf
brilliant "hairy star" which lately, attract
ed our admirinr , gaze was called the
"groat comet of Charles V.," who bnlieved
its appearance, in 1556, to be 'a forerun
ner of his death. This was its last ap
pearance on our stane , it having 'been
absent a period of about three hundred
years. When it came in 1264, we are
told that "it approached the sun with a.
tail one hundred degrees in lengths. Its
tail came streaming up . in the morning
several hours before. its head, and when
its nucleus was in the zenith the train
stretched below the western horizon.—Ex.
the
d sorrow
rs to one
so aristo
acquain-
I is slow.
moving;
at it has
award.
nt, a few
Ifor both,
A for the
TEE 1" OF
ing one's.owit.counset -
4 eobiieb is soon arkm,'and still sooner
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When is an or not,an Oa ?--7Wheni it
is turned,intp a meadow ,
Vass is lying
seriously ill at his home in Detroit.
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