The true Democrat., 1857-06-02
For tile True Democrat The Expected Comet.

MR. EDITOR-Euough has been sad about the expected comet to put all the Q,aiamcs on the alert, and indeed it has been announced by more heralds than ever proclaimed the coming of king or conlueror; and perhaps not without reason, since he has a more extensive tfaiu than ever earthly maJnate could boast, and !, sus- pectel also to De conQueror whose ovcrthroWu Worlds instead of armies; and since he pos seaseo other attributes that are calculated to recommend him to the consideration of inte'i- -eut people, He is travelled parsonage too; having travelled where Mu 70 Park Tor Lay- arI ever dreamed of wandering; and, what is singular tor traveller he has never been Known to write tu ar,uuut of his pere.riAl,iou~, oii..- nate map of newly discovered regions, tell anecdotes, or even deliver all address before the Geo-fapAiral Society; and when he stands be- fore us, after The lapse of ages, he is, n his de- meauor sjIent, mystetious, awl,,I; never having been known t. move his tall, that organ of cx- prc>sioI in all cauGated aumas, to testify that he felt delight Or pain, joy or sorrow; and per- maps herein he ac:s not unwiscly, since II he should venture upon an expressive vas of lis t,I, such Is is tremendous length, that it would, like cnou.h, strike some world and clrl around it, like thread around the spool, and be broken off as inc comet pulled away, leaving him, like the fox in the fable, to preach t9 the other comets that 1t was getting fashion ahte to have the tail cut off,
 The fist time that we ever heard of this ex- pected vi,itaut was in the year 126t when he astonished all the world and particularly the Chinese, who swore that his tail was curved like sabre. He soon took his departure from the vision of the astCunded Celestials and in l556, he returned to alarm their descendants having however, like all new things his lustre some what diminished by the long years.
 We are now upon the eve of his third com ing, and, it is said, that he will collide with the world and burst 1t to pieces; kindle it to flame; knock 1t out into the black darkness beyond the stars and their sweet influence; crush it to atoms; pr if its tail be preheusiIc like pos sums, it may voluntarily wrap it around the world and like the genii which bore away Aladdm's bride, carry it away on its boundless cXtravagatlons; always provided, however, that the tail do not break as before susgested.- None of these seem very improbable Our world has been wandering on her lone journey a long time, whether you count her age by the Pentateuch or by the rocks, and during all this time the internal fires have been burning her heart; tine rains and the suubeams have pierced her, that her frame may be exhausted and thIs may be d very proper time to celebrate her funeral solemnitieS and erect the mourntul ''In Memoram," over her ashes, or her wreck, or hy her vacant thr ne in the sisterhocd of worlds | Comets have always been held dangerous. some say that the deluge wa, caused by the sea being driven from its red by the stroke of one; and some that one destro, ell Sodom and Gomorrah; and it is generally believed that the asteroids were originally one planet, W H-ch was burst n pieces, and many think that this was done by q comet.
 Our world may thus be severed before long, and If so, we have every reason to think that the pieces having separated several hundreds of thousands of miles, will assume new and regular orbits and go on "quiring to the young eyed cherubimS." If it should strike in such a manner as to divide Europe from America, We shall hear no more news from Europe; stock in the Atlantic telegraph will fall; the price of European goods will rise, and the doc Urine of opposition to the immigration of the Dutch and Irish will have found it's ablest ad- vocate in the comet It may however dissolve the Union, and probably at Mason and Dixons line where 1t hangs together most loosely, aud thus settle the slavery question definitely
 But although Russeau says: "Qltaad Fhomme, commence roissomter I cesse de Sentir," vet 1t is not true with me for 1 also think of those who will suffer by the catastrophe. There is a good deal of choice as to where it shall hit Every man will have his taste about that As for myself should prefer that piece at least might strike Salt Lake City, as it did Sodom of yore The disasters in the nsghborhood of the