Ponola [sic] weekly register., April 29, 1843, Image 2

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margin cut off in making the alteration;
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town in the distance; genuine has a dro
ver, on ' horscbadk and cattle at a. dis
tance; Tens, letter A; genuine has mar
gins with ten, and a border on one edge
with the figure 10 in, which are not on
the counterfeit: 20s, altered from 5s;
clumsily done; they have heads of dif
ferent individuals; genuine not so.
THE REGISTER.
u.VtWitM addicliujurarc in zeiba tnapslri."
SATURDAY, APRIL 33, 1013.
Masonic, "
7- The ccrer.piiy of laying the
Corner Stone of t lit Court House buil
ding will be performed on Monday next,
by the brethren of the Masonic Craft in
thi place, assisted by members of the
Oxford and Holly Sjvrings Lodges.
, . : Brethren of the Fratomity who may
fin 1 it convenient to attend are cordial
ly invited to partic pate in the perform
ance of the ceremony. ; :
Ginburnt.XVc understand that the
Gin of Col. Edward Davis of this coun
ty was entirely consumed by fire "on
Wednesday of last week with a consid
erable quantity of cotton supposed to
- bo the result of accident.
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Riot at Canton.
. By the arrival of the Delhi at N.York
Information has been received of a great
riot at Canton. We find the particulars
fully detailed in the Cincinnati Gazette
of tho 20th instant.
A growing discontent seems to exist
in the bosoms of the Chinese people rel
ative to the result of the late war with
Great Britian,ahd this is supposed to be
the exciting cause of tho riot. Tho Eir
. glish and American factories were in
discriminately burnt and razed to the
ground, the mob loading 'themselves
with plunder. The British and Ameri
can sailors in the harbor however ral
lied well armed and forced their way
through the mob, rescued the Americn
and British inma'es of the factories who
had not previously escaped, and regain
ed much of their treasure; making a
safe retreat to their ships.
Th government soldiers were cal
led out to suppress the riot, but when or
dered to fire, fired in the air; when the
mob, finding ihc soldiery xvould not at
tack, drove them .ofT and p-te'l -their
- great Mandarin cQHimanderwith stones.
Tho engmes were sent out to stop the
progress-of the flames, but the mob pre-1
ventedj their playing; on the British ori
American factories until tneyweieen ;
ti rely consumed. j
When the Delhi sailed the govern
ment soldiers had possession of the
Square, and two of the rioters had been
executed, but a renewal of the riot was
expected. The people had petitioned
the Governor to be firm and they would
assist him in carrying on the war with
the British. Great anxiety was felt as
to the course Sir Henry Pottinger would
pursue in the present emergency.
Cen. Solomon Van Rensallacr
This veteran soldier aad bosom friend
of Gen. Harrison, who was appointed.
Post Master at Albany by President Har
rison as a means of support in his de
clining years, it will bo recollected by
our readers, has been lately dismissed
. from office by that contemptible acci
dent w hich disgraces the station of Pres
ident of the United States. And what,
judge you, was tho cause? He was re
quired to use his exertions to increase
the circulation of tho "Flag of ihe Un
ion,1 a paper devoted to John Tvlcr,
and to bo an-instrument to force the
other twenty three Post Master sjn his
county to do the same! It was . a work
he scorned with him who had the har
dihood and insolence to propose it. He
treated the letter of requisition, coming
as he was aware, by consent and author
ity of the administration, though from
. the editor, with contempt; and loathing
but with silence. That letter, with
these facts, he has made public. Soon
after its reception he observed a cor
respondence between John C. Spencer
and the present incumbent of the P. Of-
, fice, Mr. Wasson, and was dismissed
without so much as the pretext of any
just cause, without having at any time
interfered with politics or the policy of
the administration without J warning
or ceremony. , -
It was a standing complaint with Gen
Harrison, that many of the aged, woun
ded and infirm officers and soldiers of
the revolutionary and late wars were
in necessitous circumstances and unpro-
. vided tor by. the governrRent- ho pro
mulgated it in various speeches 'arid on
various 1 occasions and, ; still balding
this meed of national justice and human
ity near his - heart, on being elected "to
tho Presidency appointed lire veto ran
JR'insal.hiery a man of mind arid ample
qualifications and one of the first in mer
it wI;o have drawn fhe A merican sword,
to the office of Post Master at Albany,
with n income adequate to the' main
tainance of his family in his old age.
But the lamented Harrison is in his
tomb. He can no longer protect his
country and friends or feel the shafts of
his enemies. His bosom friend has been
turned from the door of his charity and
the meed of merit, and will soon rest in
the grave with him.
May the curses of hell fall on the in
grate who has thus dared to trample on
the ashes of friendship, and, for a scl.
fish and pal? ry political purpose, taken
a.way his bread from a venerable defen
der of his country. Inborn baseness
could not 'make a fetch beneath this, and
we acquit partizanry itself from ever
having stooped so low. We can see noth
ing in.it a shade lighter than heartless
viliiamy and atrocious criminality, wor
thy indeed of the author and hU.land
pirate co-adjutor, the father of a pirate
of the seas and American Navy a
deed w hich would have tinged the cheeks
of Arnold with a blush. It is the damn
ing stamp and seal, which, without and
againsfthe eonsenfof the people, fixes
the"indelib!cstain that "Republics are
ungrateful," broadly on the brow of
tho American 'nation-.; As regards ordi
nary political Tjuestions we stand neu
tral, but when we see a deed of shame
like this, come from what quarter it may,
we should feel that our. press was muz
zled if we did not proclaim it, and say
to him who may ''feel himself scabby let
him scratch."
Politics the times-the Presv, fcc.
It is not the case in this agcor country,
as in the despotims ofolden times, when
some strong feeling, as ambition, anger,
or jealousy in the heart of a single man,
was sufficient to overthrow an establish
ed government. Great -social interests
are tho causes of tho political convul
sions which shake tho civilized world;
and where the people are sovreigii must
lie at the foundation of their frequent
collisions. Regarding their interests in
different' aspects and thus founding a
variety of opinions; these opinions are
arrayed and set. forth in the forms most
useful to accomplish the end proposed
to itself by each political body. Theso
each pronounces to be its principles, and
these principles having apparently or
really-ifor their object the welfare of so.
ciety, it is not surprising that the most
estimable men, should embrace both and
all sides." These principles' are to par
ties, what passions are to an individual
man;. they impel to action and control
its course, .resistance provokes new ef
forts aad victory-encourages to further
advantages; the useful object held forth
to the mind guides to action and com
mands like a chieftain, inflames the pas
sions, and makes all the powers of its
subjocts mental and physical, subject to
its designs. The struggle is therefore
always treated, if not regarded, as vital
to the welfare of the country, and, no
matter which party succeeds you may
hear tho herald loudly proclaiming, the
"glorious reform," ''political regenera
tion "redemption" and "disenthrall
ment!" These principles for which all
so lustily contend are often but forms
into which sectional interests are moul
ded, and designing and talented leaders
sustained by the tremendous engine of
the press, urge and actually produce the
belief that the salvation of the countrv
depends on their maintainance. A fa
vorite measure is carried, and the victo
rious party celebrate the triumph as the
triumph of republican principles; and
then you may hear the songs and shouts
of the. victors, ancT even the great, the
wise and the good of our count rymeni
may be seen tor rejoice as if the whole gi
gantic; power "of Europe had strided to
our shores, clutched the pillars of the
tcrnple of freedom, and was destroyed
in thic attempt' to carry them ofT.
Well, this delusion may Jook harm
icss,':.jbutii!nust bo deprived of one im
portant feature before it will e so. If
the- people do not look as well to the
character of the representatives of their
principles, as to the principles themsel
ves, they are in danger of being depriv
ed.of the real, fruits of their victories.
It hSscome to that, that it is hard to find
a'Viiah of character so black, as to.be
thrown aside by a party that can make
iny thing of him.
And are hot 'sentiments propagated,
and doctrines winked at, a well as indi
viduaTs encouraged to entertain which
would, blast "t he' character of any man?
Do we come out unscathed from these
conflicts? Is not character traduced &
the pu rest integrity slandered ; riud are
hot the ich and the oor; the' median
ic and, the; professional man, the mer
chant and the laboring man, riotonlv at
tempted to be arrayed against each oth
cr but actually' so arrayed? The fact
1 hi any Ingenuity of the demagogue can
producq such a result is strong, evidence
that there is "Something rotten in Den
mark." ' .v .
Every political convulsion, produces
a mora? revolution, it more or less, per
ceptibly or imperceptibly, changes the
whole moral condition of the country,
its effects outlive tho subsidence of the
turmoil, and do and will, continue to af.
feet society in all its ramifications. Is
it not the part of good sense, if we can-
not suppress thflsc evil influences upon
the country, as individuals, at least to
withdraw ourselves as. much as possible
from their control?
Democracy instead of being always a
regulating power sometimes comes as a
whirlwind, and its degenerating into an
archy is to be dreaded v If that should
ever be the case the man who most es
caped the corrupting influences which
tear down the Republican fabric, will at
loast stand prouder amid the ruins, if he
must share the fate consequent upon the
nationa1 transgressions.
Our largo territory and the conse
quent difficulty of procuring immediate
and aecura'e information of public af
fairs from authentic sources, gives the
widest range and the utmost impiinitv
to misrepresentations of facts.' If a
falsehood is put forth by a leading or
gan at Washington it is copied into eve
ry village organ of the sams party from
Maine to Louisiana; it goes into the
mouths and sinks into the hearts of the
people, so that before tho corrective of
truth can bo applied, an impression is
made which can rarely bo wholly Erad
icated. The country-editors are hrrdly
to blame, ignorant, as for the most art,
they must be, of what is going o at
Washington; for relying as they are
compelled to d or ive nothing, for Jheir
statements of far' upovi tho I-a'J?nt 'or
gan of their party. The mischiefs
which result they cmnot even correct,
for false fabrications are too numorou
to leave a possibility of arriving, inmost
instances, at the means of their correc
tion, without running great risk fad
missions which truth does not warrant.
And so it is rare that you see any at
tempts at correction whatever, even
by men of the most integrity-among the
conductors of the public journals. Thus
mischief once done is done forever.
ISvcry man who recollects any thing of
political history can attest instances in
which the most glaring and the" barest
falsehoods have remained on the minds of
the people of thiscountry for years; ibe
lieved rtnd admitted, acted upon in'&ll'
s incerity of heart and perhaps neves to
ibis day corrected. And misropresita
tions are still being madu in the same
way and with tho same results. !
These things vYA never be remedied
by denouncing the press and its conduc
tors en masse. Some of the best as
well as the worst men, are at the head
of the public journals. You may and
should frown down a press at home
which lends itself to the demoralization
of society, but you cannot bring a bat
tery to bear where you do not know
and perhaps the editor himself is uncon
cious of his error. Vour reason is in
deed 'left free to combat -jt.hu errors, but
you never will wield the sword of truth
against them, while you are in the dark
as to the facts on which reason is to op
perate. To such as delight in slander
and denunciation and. party tricks it
would be useless to offer any antidote to
these evils which mainly derive their
force from the relish they afford and
the greedy good will with which, by
no inconsiderable portion of society they
are received. But to such as arc desi
rous of applying a corrective we may
propound the query whether a remedy
against the unceasing stream of misrep
resentation can be devised in the shape
of a neutral publication at Washington,
devoted to a complete exhibit of facts
without comment, and conducted by inen
of high talents aad character. Such a
publication would at least do something;
but whether the object can be obtained
in this or any other form is indeed alto
gether problematical. It is certainly a
desideratum of no inconsiderable im
portance, without which. whatever horn
of our party dilemmas we may grapple
we shall as a people always run the im
minent hazard of being under the wil
dest delusions.
As things are we know the object of!
deceptions w hich are practiced, aad if j ried off by officers of ' New Brunswick,
we wilhact wiih deliberative caution & j on process issued by the British author
look mainly to the integrity of our pub-' ity in a civil suit. He was rescued with
lie agents, we shall do much to arrest
the evils of a prostituted press, with the
other evilsof the times. Itis mourhf'l how
6ver to be compelled to say that wheth
er individual ambition may or may not
find its account in pur Hiliiical strifes,
heiher guided by integ nty 'f. or'dema
gogue principles, the end ,of the contest,
valuable or valueless, being once attain
ed, the mass of citizens Vest satisfied.
The moral evil is -forgotten aud-drownl:
oi' in the acclamations of victory, .and
the relish 'of tho people is made mani
fest in tho progress of the tide of de
moralization. And thsre are even ma-
ny men tn our, midst into whose bosoms
such a reflection will bring a thrill of
gratification, and in whose countenan
ces you may read the smile of delight.
There are many other reflections
which might be made here and would
tznd, to show the causes as well as re-
s"!13 of demoralization in the country
4 the mobocratic and revolutionary i
inovemerits, in various quarters, the sta
tistics of crime, tho influence of leading
men and that of our national councils,
the movements of fanatics, threats of
disunion, the ready rewards of dema
goguery in office seekers, abuso of pat
ronago,in office holders &c. &c; but we
shall weary patience if we enter into
them.
Do you pronounce these evils reme-
dl,ess ad and ask why they arc de-
nounced? Wo answer that if thev are
ultimately remediless to the whole coun
try a palliative may be applied and their
force diminished. Even granting that
the destruction of our government, and
far worse, that of public virtue, was
settled; grant thecertainty, that in Janua
ry 1850, the people of the United States
would proceed to extremities, dissolve
the Union and drive the car of anarchy
like the "iliree davs' in Paris, still a
bare presentation of the causes at work
would bo eminently useful. For it is
admitted that if we are in danger it all
proceeds from ourselves, a3 a nation
wo are safe if we stand uncorrupted,
and as individuals we shall be fortunate
if wc stand so, either in the time when
evils are averted, or in the wreck & ruin
of the national prosperity. If a ma
jority of 1 he citizens would be on the
ai;rt to avoid and expose the corrupt
ing influences of the age, this land would
U; hotter protected than without that
vigilance by cannon enough to line the
the whole frontier, all the navies of Eu
rope, battlements soiid enough to laugh
at an enemy's cannon and defy the artil
ery of leaven and an army strong as
Milton's legions, storming the throne of
the Almighty.
Undermining causes are now at work
and always will be, and we had rather
see a man run, like a scared hind, from
a call of his country, than delude others!
with himself- into security against his
and their own vices. Deluded with sha
dows of seeming success and apparent
prosperity, and proud of the strength
of our (dot, Lithcrty, we may yet tc-ttrti
that its feet like those of Nebuchadnez
zar's image arc part of iron and part
of clay, and that the pedestal virtue, up
on which they stand is crumbling away.
Standing indivdually and collectively as
good sentinels firmly at our posts on the
right foot of virtue and the left of in
telligence; our government may en
dure the shocks of time, and our chil
dren's children enjoy the blessing of
ruling themselves well for many centu
ries. On the Cth of this month, snow was
three feet deep in the north part of the
State of Indiana. Cattle, which in Ordi
nary seasons would at that time be fat
tening on the green grass, were starv
ing by thousands.
The river is now full.
The steamers Belmont and 10 area
bove. The Little Stewart passed down
Monday. -The Shakespeare arrived on
Thursday, with a freight of sawed stone
for the Lasement of the Court House,- A:
a flat boat containing 250 bbls.of lime in
tow.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 20th
inst brings us tho decision of the Court
martial on the charges against Commo
dore McKcnzic. Tho result is an un
qualified acquittal on every specifica
tion. Any ihing else would have been
the demolition of all discipline in the
Navy. It is well, not only that a brave
and meritorious officer has been honor
ably acquitted, but that the important is
sue involved in this adjudication has
been thus settled. ' The decision has re
ceived the President's apnoval.
New boundary trouble.
Daniel Savage, a citizen of the U.
States, living within the jurisdiction of
the State of Maine as defined by the
late treaty, has been captured and car-
the aid of the U. States troops, and it
was feared some further trouble would
grow put ofit. '
-The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette of the
13th states on 1 n formation belie v ed to
be correct, thai AirUWebster has re
signed bis seat in the Cabinet, , to take
efTecton tho ist of next month. Messrs
Tazewell, Stevenson ano Coshin are
spoken ol as probab!! successors. :
T ta VhnnlAt . ln T., I 'Sf-..! 1
,T- , r.maiww..
" - ,u,rtlcu -r5l,.e 01 lemperance,- is an infallible remedy." You will ob
wili Visit th Witr-d Statei the ensuing: ligo me then by giving the weather a
summer.
A St. Louis paper gives warning "that
if the Missouri slaves continue to be car
ried off by the Illinois abolitionists, the
citizens of Missouri will revenge them
selves by burning the houses of their
Illinois neighbors."
A Washington correspondent states
ttmt rf proff,t
jsler lo Bra2Ji.
has been appointed Min-
The completion of the Bunker's Hill
Monument will be celebrated in Charles
town Massachusetts on the 17ihofJune
next.
The Drunkard's blood!
It has often been doubted that the
drunkard's blood was inflammable. Dr
E B. Yost, of Massilon, Ohio in order
totest this principle, made the following
experiment, which is published under
his own signature in the Washington!
an and Genius. An acquaintance of
the Doctor, who was a drunkard of long
standing, called at his office while under
intoxication, and on entering cried out
"Docor, for God's sake bleed me or 1
shall die!" The Doctor 'complied with j
his request, and while ' the blood was
running, he' discovered by the mell
that it w as highly impregnated with aU
cohol. In order to test the matter
more fully, ke applied a lighted taper,
when the blood in the basin presented
the peculiar appearance of burning al
cohol. Yazoo Banner. -
These cases are now attested by the
highest authority.
Communicated.
Mr. Tyler: In the Register of the
22d, one "Mealy Mouth"' 'replies to my
friend -Jack in the crib " and not lieing
a newspaper writer I should not troub
le you, but that my friend Jack has gone
a journey and will not "probably have
the honor of again appearing "in his own
defence. Jack's epistle, was evidently
intended for no particular person, but
for those only who were guilty, and I
am authorised to say from him to such
persons, if the shoe fits let it pinch.
Mealy Mouth does not seem to be aware
that these gentry do not regard private
admonition, and hence the necessity of
exposure. That there arc some such
individuals in all communities I have no
doubt Mr. Mealy Mouth himself will
admit, although if he is the man I tako
him for he is not one of that kind of cat-
tie. His 3d Lamentations is good m its to bring them where thev are? Con
place," and so of "my uu nt G ood vrTwo , lempiaio-iTiG'niost strnj4e"actton of two
Shoes; but the place
did not ..happen to
bo in Mealy Mouth's
vise bim before ho writes again to real
Handy Andy's liar on Manehausen.
Watch 'km.
Coinm3:iieat?d.
Extract.
(f Martha's lips do vend their kisses,
i ii give nerMccrc- oi mme
For one of those little blisses !
That on her pouting hps doth shine, j
And if she says the twelve's unfair, j
I'll ease her scruples and her pain
For every one I took away J
I vow Til pay her twenty backaTainTi
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21 Sfraflc.
()a ths breast of the now
Th silver moon lar,
I'nn fried tlie mirror, ;
Unbroken tae nr :
'Till the zephyr's light pinioa
8vept over thi stream.
And broke the rcpo?a
Vt the w ave ami the beam.
Like the beam on the billow,
Lore's epirit will raft,
Tare, peaceful and holy
In fond woman's breast;
-'Till passion's wild breathings
Have tanned into Ham,
To illumine h r pathway,
Or perish in shams.
r . i i .
Bankrupt.- A yound man applied for
the benefit of the bankrupt act, and be
ing asked how much he owed, said he
reckoned .ntKJut Sf)h rinn . t .",
'.I , v, , ' ',. I .
they charged lglO for k.ssmg a marr-
ed woman in Ohio, and if the price was
as high for kissing girlsV he must be in
debt at least half a million'.- Bos. Post.
We hope as the time is short, that
our brethren in the far west will cry a
loud and spare them not. Let the alarm
go out. Wake up virgins P-r-Midnight
Cry.- ' ... ;.. :j '
Oh, hard-headed Millerites would
you have our wives 'and widows left
sleeping? Wc say, wake up all the
women and then we shall be prepared
for the worst, surrounded by ready
made an gels. Forum. ;.
Queer Capture. A small party of
gentlemen made; an. attempt to give a
serenade last Monday evening. -A thief,
an old 'offender, was in the house before
which the party had stationed itself and
hearing h flight noise in, front dashed
out in. alarm and was captured by the
serertadex3.i ilejwns examined before
fore Recorder Baldwin yesterday, and
sent to the Criminal Courtr-'N. O. Tro
pic. : '. .''v.iT''')3- , . i -;: .
Caring a Col&: -
'.Tiriaf'SI .". lull! vm ft lerrrt ' f llr-i-
houndcarea coldr Certainly, sir; it
! do
use.- ''Ljetoutyou impertinent nuppy
: A farmer in Eneland wWvZTr
ed his attention to Rabbit raisin ' V
sent 7,000 to market the last year,
Magnetism.
by richard adams l0ci.
Richard Adams Looce. RsQ 'i
known among our scientifTc men .fo
his high abilltty and dTstinPuished-nV
tainments, delivered a very inwft'
Iruro, a. .ho Sccio,y
itiiwiimi "idgucuarn, on thfri
Past, i
r wiiuinun 01 tjjj. t
worldembracing the thesis of the a!
tcrnate creation and dissolution of ail
natural bodies.' He would first call .
tention tr thn Snfltmnon of Hf. .
wn uiv, uun.M Minus 01 creation, apjj
then speak of its influence on their pro
ditction. The view of Magnetism which
wns confined to its influence on the nee.
dip, was by far too nurrow for more
substances than ono are affected by it
Whn ft exists in a free state, as in
iron, possessing regular organization
and nolariiv. it exhibits only a narrow
rn 1 1. r" rifitiionl 1. . . .
iiidgncusra i
range of comparatively "well defined S
phenomena. B;:f all bodies really pop.
sess organized magnetism, and tht'ir
phenomena vary according to the differ-!
ent characters of iheir organization.-
Thehctway to reach the whoJe.ufc.
ject is to consider what are fhe natural
forces of the earth. Of one fact
are certain: thataZ motion must result
f'om two forces; we know no motirn
inai is not the result oFtwo forces--.
All mot ion is cither backward or fo
ward, upward or downward or bf.
tween the two, which is the samethirr.
If there be a force to repel, there ni'in
also be a force to attract,-else there will
be motion forever in one direction, and
no motion can exist without a cause.
The truth has been known forage
but was first reduced .to a grand fos'a.
late by Sir Isaac Newton. It is
third law of his Principia that 'to every
action (or motion) there is always aa
opposite equal re-action or contrarj
motion; or the natural action of two for
ces upon each other, or upon a passive bo
dy situated equi-dislantl , between tlitrr,
is always equal. Thus we shall hart
an eternity of motion, unless there
should be some miracle to stop it. Sup
pose, crcatic;i to go on to a certain pe
riod and then to be destroyed and
then to be renewed again; through i
perpetual series of alternations, the an
cient symbol that eternity was a cir:!?,
without beginning or end, would U
strictly philosophical according to New
ton's Principia.
All the forms and modifications of
matter are tho results of motion. How
should bodies be as they are as we stt
them in the forms of plants, A:c., if then
j J,ad not been a motion of the paniciei
T'ccs -lTon milter ,n a "J
of tho twu wires of the batitervt
j forcu repels, the other ;Utra"i
drives from the other-pulls to.
acts; o
, w 4 - t v ill m. viui l u i( j i.J. 13 Uu
ri 1 a ff . 1 4
the necessary effect the product n oil
circle? Look at the natural forms ol
i the universe; you are ali aware tint
1 thev :ire nreuliir. and i miVhf nlt i:t '
j one of you to find a third motion ropr
duce thi form. Evidently even uf l
mathematical demonstration it n:wu . I
be a ci rclc and nothing. But provide! ' I
one of the forces prevail but a little o i
vc" l,,e other let the auraciion pre-
vail but a little over the repulsion, ar.J
what do we then have? The lides oi ' . v
l. . a ...ti. ....1.1 l.Ai. .nraiAMlllftt i.l.
to themselves the other matter in space
iand become a sphere. The narrow
1 ribin would become wider, would con-jn
tract at the edges, and thus we shodc tt 'i
have a hollow sphere open at both end , : i
until it was completed. A little al!tt-i v
tion to the celestial bodies, is suflicicniu .
j to show that this has lccn the proems 4
of the Divine hand in creation. Some. '
j years ago, a European astronomer mi? ';
nounccd that he had seen a comet with '
two other comets wijhin it a congloine '
ration of three comets; this was cousii;
1 ered verv marvellous, and I am not t ; v
5 ware that any explanation has yet bin
j given in the journals of science.
i if this theory be true, tho explanat:
is obvious. If wc take this phenoi
! non in connexion with the well kuot
i lion in vwuin.;w.i ...... ---
! , .i... thcrc aTe limes when sW
j0f ihe third magnitude are distinctly
! seen thtoagh the nucleus of , the con .
j and that tbeVc are other times whel
t even a star of thcfirsrtnafftiituifI
"beteen, we mav see how these fa.'
lo acc0umed for. If wc u?
I ncsethe vole rtd of the comet to bo prtf
! sented to tho eye, and si
upposo the com
et alo to be an unfinished sphere op
at the pole, as 1 have described-'
ribtn expanded but not completed-
will not bo surprising that we should
see a star through t. Hut iuPPoi t
comet to be presented equatorialljr b
the-cye having both its sides bbtwefl
the eye and the star; of course wc lb
not see it. Now, suppose it to be mv
wav between theso two positions, wDv
sha'll wc see?:' Evidently the twt d ,
fir-wili intersect each other, and tnu
will present the appearance of two com
ets within tue other. . ... r .
With regard to the nebulous onj
of worlds'; in reference to ourown, '
will 'only say that, it; seems to rest .
the -deductions-of reason and observe ,
tion. Look at ! he' Nebula! which f ;
strongest telescopes Cannot maguijJ-" - .
We may perceive in space' siarS ,L ' k
ling beyorid star3. which , the
wing ot imagination may.net "S " I ,.
can know:nothing; ofthese ncfttlf;J, -
yond what wc see with ho . .
Let mc : remind . you ,thcn of the w
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tuai ineru is no suuai - , .
ay ex si ng in ireu , i e
. ? . . i.' I this tt
man a spnencai iorw -.- - ,
produces. It t3 extraordinary
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