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LOOK OUT FOR A SMASH.

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LOOK OUT FOR A SMASH.
The writer in the st. Louis Republican
who predicted that the comet would hit
Carondolct, (and old French village, six
miles below ST. Louis,) having been called
on to publish the elements of his astronomi
cal calcultions, says. with a gravity becom-
ing the occasion, that those "clements" ex
tend over four hundred folio pages, and be-
ing made up Of equations composed Of al
gebraic signs and Greek characters, their
publication would be attended with an
amount of expense which he is not disposed
to incur. lie deems it best to economize
all his resources for the grand smash of the
10th Of June, on which occasion the comet
is to clear Carondolet and the rest Of the
earth Of everything animate and inanimate.
Since the first comet has caused SO much
sensation, a rival orb has made its appear
ance: which is visible through telescope,
in the western sky, and is nearly as bright
as the Carondolet comet. Possibly there
may be Il contest between the two as to
which: shall pick up this planet first. A
Northern journal aggravatss the horrors of
the prospect, by declaring that the world is
getting so bad, it is time that something
should happen to it. But the world has
always been bad enough; we think it is
trying to reform little, and if the comet
will give it little more time, wo have no
doubt it viii be a very excellent world uy
the next time the comet comes round. At
all events, why should it strike Carondolet,
and obscure village, Inhabited by a half
dozen miserable old Frenchmen, who will
probably all scampcr away, like rats from a
sinking ship, when, by variation Of only
six miles, it might destroy St. Louis, the
finest city in the Western States we in.
woke the Republican correspondent to over
haul his "equations," and see if he cant
demonstrate a grander denouement than tho
collision Of the comet and Carondolet.-
Ricamond Dispatch.
Beautiful Christian Sentiment-Grego
ry of Nyssa. one of the, Creek Christian
Fathers, and Brother of Brazil the Great
gives expression, as follows, to the softer
and more profound emotions of one who
knew and felt the mysteries Of Christian
: ity:
"Whsn ISsce every rocky ledge, every
valley and plain, covered with new, fTesl
verdure, the variegated foliage Of the trees
and the. lilies on the gronnd, gifted by he
, pefcent Nature with the combined attrac
:. tions of odor and of color, when I see tn
blue ocean at distance, towards whicl
!, the clouds seem to be floating on their wa.
through Heaven, my soul is possessed b.
melancholy which is not entirely withou
sense of: enjoyment When the fruit
have withered away in autumn, and .th
. leaves fallen to the eartb,fan the bough
, Of trees, deprived of their green garnitur'
!, wave, dry and shriveled, we are led instint
y lively, in the midst Of the everlasting an
regular changes of Nature, to feel the ha
= mony of those woudrous powers which il
form an things. lie who contemplate
" " them with the eye Of the spirit recognize
" the littleness of men surrounded by tt
wondrous magnifcence Of the universal"
'e Collegiate Education at the North an
IS at the tsouth.-From table in DeBow
he Review for May, we find that the numb
G. Of students in Colleges or Universities,
the different sections of'the Union, in pr
g portion, TO their white population, is as fc
to logs; In the New England States, one
q, nine hundred and sixteen; in the Midd
- States, one to eight bupdred and tyent
ue six; in. the Northwestern States, one
re six hundred and ninety and in Il
en- Southern States, one to fys hundred al
ID, fortyrfvs; South Carolina and Geore
lst have a larger proportion of College studer
I thaa any other States in tue Union, t
he. rsehasiug oRe TO three hundred and eia
st. ty-oone and -iisssiast one to Hstee lundr
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