The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-04-05
TnE CoMEr.-lt was Lord Boiling
brook, speaking through the immortal
Bard of Avon who said =:

Had still kept loyal to possession:
by being seldom seen. could not stir,
Bat like Comet, was wondered at Il
Children would cry, where, which Is he,
&c.D
The truth Of this well set speech Of
Bolingbrook, we have no inclination
to call in question. No doubt it was
particularly applicable to people, in
the days OF the Fifth Hcnry-no
doubt, they dia wonder at the appear
ance Of the unhearalded messenger
from the Eternal rome, as he streak.
cd, it through the Heavens in defiance
of all the laws Of the attraction of
gravitation determined and fixed by
Newton. and LaPace. We say it is
not to wondered at, that the people of
that day wondered Gfnot at Boiling
brook) why, such nngoycrned messen-
gers "as Comets are should be sent
into our system to disturb the cquan-
unity thereof and brighten people out
Of their wits Whyit is, that nothing
written in the Heavens above, or the
Earth beneath" has any effect upon
the people 81 this day, is very obvious.
An earthquake may come-an inlcc-
lious malady, to sweep out the high
ways and byways; aye, out Of the un-
fathomed depths Of eternity--a Comet
itself may come-tail foremost, and
yet there is no expression Of amaze
ment on the part Of this people, who
60 on to make, money-making ma
chimes, and money, as though nothing
had happened. It Is very sad re-
Election, to think that so many Of the
good old sayings of our forcfathers
have fallen into disusc, because they
are in no wise applicable to the times
There's that excellent moral lesson, in
briefhand Honesty is the best policy
who ever thinks Of making reference
to it, for the moral it contains? No
one and as to its kindred saying,
Virtue is its own reward" the fallacy
Of it, is hourly proven, by the admis-
sion of sleek fat knaves, into high
places, where nothing but roguery ever
takes them. Then the question is,
what is virtue! And after this is de-
termined, what is the reward Of vir-
tue ! Is there any virtue in being
poor and out Of placel Decidedly
not. The standard Of morality and
virtue acknowledgements on the lati-
tude and longitude, and is not more
steady than the barometer itself To |
return to Cornerstone Of these special
messengers was plainly visable the
other night. When first seen, i,s
necleus was Of the size Of a star Of the
second magnitude, and it made il:
appearance in the tail Of the Constell-
alton Draco, the Dragon. In the spiri
Of opposition we are called on ito
pitch into it," first, for the reason thai
it is published, without sending ou
the ususl prospectus" -and secondly,
because we can find no reasonable de-
nand for it, aud we cannot see Wight
!, achcre it is, or qchcnce it is. Let
he matter be canvassed. Il it at all
that they should como into
our system since all the ter
or of the olden time for them, has
'anished T? Do they serve to intimi-
late any portion of the great Gin uum-
,er) family ofman and to drive them
nto the performance of better things
t is very obvious they do not. Yet
II their eccentric motion and vast div
rsity Of appearance, they teach at
east one wholesome lesson; they
erve to inform the rejecting mind,
hat there are some things in Heaven