Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-05-09
The Comet.

The expected visit of this distinguished
stranger, announced by Astronomers to
take place on the 18th June next, is begin
ming to excite some considerable interest,
and We should not be surprised if it had the
effect to make a few honest men ia Califor
MIA. for the month preceding its advent. A
| friend, who has given the subject some at
sention. is derirous of selling out his inter
est in Oroville, and securing passage on
the ocean, under the belief that the concus-
sion will turn the earth from its orbit, and
submerge the continent. Its expected visit
has induced the disappointed candidates for
Office in Oroville, to abandon the idea of
contesting the recent election, and it is high
ly probable that the 18th # June will not
find man in California, who is willing to
own that he ever sympathized with the Wig
lance Committee, or was ever member of
Know Nothing wigwam, or ever voted the
Black Republican or Peoples ticket.
This comet came near the earth on for
mer visit, and caused Charles Y, Of Germany,
to abdicate the throne in favor Il Ferdinand
|, two hundred and ninety nine years ago
Notwithstanding the effect it then had upon
the equity old monarch of Germany, we will
lay wager, even at the risk of being ac-
cused of levity in connection with what may
prove serious subject, that its mere ap-
pearance, will not be sufficient to compel
California politician to lose his grip after
office-more especially if he had as dead a
thing as did the weak minded old fogy mon
arch of Germany The comet received the
name of the ablicating monarch
From an article in the San Francisco Bul-
let.n of the 9th, we learn that the comet
was first observed at Eepsc, on the 22nd of
February last; On March 9th, it was OBJ
served at the National Observatory at Wash
ington. 4 German astronomer has profess
ed to demonstrate, when sit will strike full
smack on this globe, and send it, perhaps,
to eternal smash"
The San Francisco Echo, French paper,
is disposed to regard all that ha, been said
or written in regard to the comet and the
end Of the world, as pure fiction, and says
that the comet is as dead as door nail"
and that the German astronomer who pre-
dicted it, and who has become so famous for
his sagaciy, never existed. In proof of
which it publishes the following extract
from LIE Seiele, Partisan journal;
The announcement on the OTTER side of
the khine., 81 the Rbbroachins end of the
world so besotted the brains Of people, that
nobody dreamed of procuring the name Of
the Teutonie sstronGriier WHO predicted it.
When the first moments of consternation
were over, s1me inquisitive individuals de-
manded of the journalists of Germany,
whether they had the honor of kno ing the
sage in .question. The journalists thereupon
searched about in all the corners of their
in Vienna, Berlin, Munich. and
wherever there was an academy or ohserva-
tory but they could only find, as the result
of their search, notice of the comet in an
old b. Ok printed at Leige, in the fifteenth
century, by one Matthew Laensberg, a can
on Of the church and an astrologer The
German philosopher is an invention of
some wag"
All this might definitely settle the ques
ton, if the vertable comet had not been
seen from the observatory at Washington ap-
the earth Under all the evidence
we have seen bearing upon this subject, we
have considered it an appropriate one
ed up chapter for our readers.