Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-05-09
The Comet.


stranger, announced by Astronomers to
take place on the 18th June next, is begin
ming 10 excite some considerable interest,
and we should not be surprised if il bad the
effect to make a few honest men in Califor-
MIA, for the month preceding its advent. \
friend, who has given the subject some at
tention. is derirous Of selling out his inter-
est in Orovile, 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 of June viii not
find a man in California, who is willing to
own that he ever sympathized with the Wig
ilance Committee, or was ever member of
n Know w-Nothing wigwam, or ever voted the
Black Republican or Peoples ticket.
This comet came near the earth on for
mcr visit, and caused Charles V, of Germany,
to abdcatc the throne in favor OF Ferdinand
!, two hundred and nincty-nine years ago
Notwithstanding the effect it then had upon
the gouty old monarch of Germany, we will
lay a wager, even at the risk Of being ac-
cused of leyity in connection with what may
prove serious subject, that its mere ap-
pearance, will not be sufficient to compel n
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 abdicating monarch
From an article in the San Francisco Bui
ietn of the 9th, we learn that the comet
was first observed at Leipsc on the 22nd of
February last. On March 9th, it was OBJ
served at the National Observatory at Wash
ington. A German astronomer has profess.
ed to demonstrate, when "it will strike full
smack on this globe, and send it, perhaps,
to eternal smash"
The San Francisco Echo, a 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 a door nail"
and that the German astronomer who pre-
dicted it, and who has become so famous for
his sagacity, never existed. In proof of
which it publishes the following extract
from lie Seiele, Partisan journal:
The announcement on the other side of
the Rhine, of the approaching end of the
world, so besotted the brains of people, that
nobody dreamed of procuring the name OF
the Teutonic astronomer who predicted 1t
When the first moments OF consternation
We're over, some inquisitive individuals de
manded of the journalists Of Germany,
whether they had the honor Of knowing the
sage in.question. The journalists thereupon
searched about in all the corners Of their
country, in Vienna, Berlin, Munich. and
wherever there was an academy or observn-
tory but they could only find, as the result
of their search, u notice Of the comet III an
old be ok, printed Mt Lege, 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-
tion, if the veritable comet had not been
seen from the observatory at Washington ap-
preaching the earth. Under all the evidence
we have seen bearing upon this subject, we
have considered it an appropriate one
for Sabbath meditation, and have dish
ed up chapter for our readers.