Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-05-21
TIE COMET or iOSa

ting the Comet which Is expected to make
its appearance about the year 1856, are
given by NJ. Rablnet, an eminent French
astronomer, and member OF the academy
OF Sciences, In an article recently published.
The Boston Traveller translates from the
Courier des Etates Unis:
This Comet Is one Of the grandest
of which historians make mention. It's
period OF revolutions Is about three hum
drcd years. II was seen In the years l04,
800, GS3, 075, 1864, aud last time in 1856
Astronomers agreed in predicting It's return
in ISIS, but it failed To appear m7qae AK
rCHde:.cyuS, aocc riding to the expression OF
NJ. Rabinrt--ond continues to shine still,
unseen BY Va. Already the ob,ervHtories
begin to be alarmed for tho fate Of their
beautiful wandering star. Sir John Her
schcl himself had put grippe upon his tele.
scope, when learned calculator OF Mid.
dlebuurg, VI. BONNIE, treasured the Sstrono.
miCal world Of the continued existence Of
the venerable aud magnificent Comet,
DiSquictCd, rs all other astronomers
were, by the non.arriral Of the Comet
at the expected time, NJ. BONNIE, aided by
the preparatory labors Of Mr.. Hind, with
patience truly Dutch, has revised all the
calculations, aud estimated all the actions
Of all the planets upon the comet for three
hundred years of revolution. Tho result
Of This patient labor gives tho arrival Of
the comet in August, 1853, with nm uncer.
tamty, OF two years, moro or less; so that
from 1856 TO 1850, we may expect the
great comet which was tho cau.e OF the
abdicotion Of tho Emperor Charles V, IN
1856.
Ii is known that, partaking OF the gene.
raj superstition, which interpreted the ap.
pearanco of . comet as the iOrerunner of
fatal event, Charles V. believed that the
comet directed its meRaces particularly 10
him, as holding the FIRST rink among scv.
crciSnS. TheyreUt aud once wise, but now
weak AMI Shattered monarch, had been for
some time the victim of cruel reverscs.
There were threatening indications in the
political horizon Of n still greater tempest
10 come, lie was left to cry in despair,
"EOrlune abandonS old men," The ap.
pearancc OF the blazing star seemed To him
and admonillon from Heaven. that he mus,
cease to be- a sovereign, il he would avoid
2 fatality from which one without authority
might be SCARED. II Is known the Erupc.
ror survived hi, abdication but little more
than two years,
Two IN IIrAvrN.---"Yo GU have two children"
said l.
II have four" was the reply; 1.-TWO on earth,
two in heaven"
There spoke tho mother Still here only
gone before. Still remembered, loved, and
cherished by the hearth and at the board; their
places not yet filed; AMI even though their
successors draw life from the Same faith.
full breast where their dying heads were pill
lowed.
1.-Two in heavon ~
Safely housed from storm and tempsst; nc
sickness there; no dropping head nor fading
eyes, nor weary feet. By the green pastures,
tended by the Good Shepherd, lngcr the little
lambs OF the heavenly fold,
1.-TWO in heaven!"
E,rth less attractive! Eternity nsarerl In.
visible cords, drawing the maternal soul upward
"Still, small voices" ever whispering, "comev
to the world-woary spirits,
1.-Two in heaven"
Mother Of angels walk softly! holy eyes
watch thy footSlepsl oherub forms bend to lis.
ten Keep thy spirit free from earth faint; Sc
shalt thou "gO TO them," though "they may mol
returR TO thee"
FANSY FERS.
MISSOURI LAND orFIcEs.-.shcrtly to b Opened
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