The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-02-18


: will not cavil with us. and say that
I'VE ought to know th1p eternity y
!, This is sot denied. When We say
that there is nothing more important
than ''time, = We mean, nothing tangi-
ble,Ysa thst hsnds can b laid on.
Scientific men are pleased to say
"there are two kinds Of time--real
and appsrant," and we desire to know
, BY which, the inhabitants Of this city
are governed. Is there any body in
town who has the true time We
are referred to the jewellers and watch
makers for II; but there. a thousand
faces belle the time and which is
correct I The jeweller will say IT, US
''This, sir, is my regulator-the true
time;'' but surely the clock, lies, or the
bell at the Church tells not the truth.
The market bell is 80 vide from tlfe
mark, that it is no longer referred to,
save by belated iarkies, who know it to
be the signal for them, to retire; but as
to the hour, they are in as much ig
norance as we. Is Tunnard right ?
II so. then the Church is wrong, and
St. Joseph is out Of it. Will some
body oblige rs to go to the expense to
import the time from Greenwich, or
somewhere else where the people know
how to 60 to work to get II We know
Of nothing more desirable than this,
upon which there is such a diversity
fopinion as never was known be-
fore. Shall we be governed by the
reui or the apparent times If it is
the real, why then we may look to
the almanac to see when the sun
rises, but allnanacs are made Cor no.
thing nowadays and they lie about
truths necessarily. That the COM
munity should be in the possession Of
the true time, is an important matter
and it should be enquired into. Our
citizens have been in darkness on this
subject for the past ten years. Will
not some Of our scientific neighbors
figure out this matter, and set the
clock at the Capitol right that we
in common with others, may know
when eleven o'clock comes.
DYesterday evening we had the
pleasure to listen to Messrs. Wilson Il
Hutchin's scholars go through with
Ora,orical exercises. The young
gentlemen Of the school, display much
talent in this essential branch Of edu-
cation, than which there is nothing
more important in the Republic
Messrs. Wilson 4 Hutchings have a
very excellent primary school, and :
Their pupils make rapid progress.
DkYDEN's Poverty 1t was after
second edition Of Virgil,
that the great Dryden, who had lived.
aud was to die, in harness, found him.
self still obliged to seek for daily !,
bread. Scarcely relieved from one
heavy task, he was compelled to hasten t
To another and his efforts we're nov c
by domestic feeing-the
expected return OF his son in i'll health
FROM Rome. In a letter to his book.
seller he pathctically writes, IF it Il
please God that 1 must die Of ovcr- :,
study cannot spend my lite better
han in preserving his" 1t was on
his occasion, on the verge Of his sew Z
,ntieth year, as he describes himself /.
n the dedication Of bis Virgil, that. !,
worn out with study, and oppressed Il
nth fortune" he contracted to supply o
he bookseller With ten thousand verses
It sixpence line. !,
The EXTENT OF THE Cry OF LON
'oN.-A correspondent says that ac- Il
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