The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-12-11

Leap forth as day dawns on the night;
! First flash with speed the radiant though,
As from the spirit Of an angel caught.
, Next, within the latent spirits rise,
As though on mission to the skies,
And decked in the beauty of a brilliant
pearl,
They seem the beings ef happier world.
And thus thoI art of soft emotions made,
To give dull hopethy sweet and gentle aid,
Thou art robe Of light, bright as the day,
At whose command all sorrow flies away.
When by the muse your voice is strung,
Like insense on the alter flung,
New strength is to sweetemusic given
And earth is turned into heaven,
Clinton, Nov. 10th 1853.
MoRE R1oTous PRocEEDrNGs Ar
THE UNIVERSITY or VIRGiN1A--A
letter to the Richmond Dispatch, dated
Charlottesville, Nov %, says:
Last night some sixty sons Of Tenn
perance, including Professor Minor,
Rev. Messrs. August and Broaddus,
Mr. Powell Of Loudoun, and quite
number Of The University Division, as
invited guests, assembled at the Della.
van House, midway between the town
and the University, to partake Of
social supper when the building was
surrounded by number Of students
from the University, variously esti-
mated at from fifty to seventy five who
demanded that one Of the number in
house should be given up to their re-
venge.
| The person so demanded was an
officer in the Town Hall on Friday
night, when those Students who occay
stoned the disturbance at Wyman's
were arrested The demand was not
complied with.
Professor Minor addressed the
crowd, beseeching them to dispense,
saying that they could not get at the
officer unless over the dead bodies Of
forty peaceable citizens, himself among
the number. Other persons spoke
and several of the crowd left; but
others remained c!amorous for the
officer In the meantime, inforn,a-
ton had been sent to the town, tie
bells we're rung, and in short time
some seventy armed men repaired to
the Delavan House but ere they
reached it, the clamefous crowd with
out had dispersed A result which,.
under the circumstances, was moro
quiet and bloobless than what was at
one time anticipated.
The SANDWICH IsLANDs.-During
the late administration a proposition
was made. through the American
Consal, for the annexation Of The
Sandwich Islands to the United States.
Mr.. Webster declined to entertain the
proposition, and it was Withdrawn.
The project is now revived again and
as we learn from the Washington cor
respondence of the the New Orleans
Picayune, with some appearance Of
scucess
Mr.. Gregg, the United States Com
missioner to the Sandwich Islands, has
been made perfectly aware that the
OF Gen Pierce is quite
ready to entertain any suitable plan Of
and if he reaches his post
ere Mr.. Severance makes "all fast"
will only pursue the scheme to it's con-
A FAT CASE ron LAWYERS. john
Walker, Cincinnati brewer, recently
deceased, left an estate estimated al
$3.50, 900, Of which $40, 900 is in reaf
estate. BY will he devised to bis
wife. in cash $4,000, her dowry Of
in all real estate, for her
natural life, etc. This, it is alleged,
would give her in interest about $4,000
a year. She claims, as they were
she being second wife, /
that she, as next Of Kin, is entitled to- 4
The whole Of the personal estate, be-
sides her dowry in reality. The I
nineteenth heirs Of Walker claim that
if Mr.. Walker elects to take by the
will, she relinquishes the $4,000 le- ]
yacy, and all the personal property,
and can only take her dover in the
reality. The case is I'M court. Fl