Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-10-29

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The Party of Permanently.
AS a matter of general political interest
and a consideration that should not be suffer-
ed to pass out of mind with the present cam
paign. we call attention of our readess. be-
fore they lay aside their political discussions
to the following answer of the Louisville
Journal to the boast of the En- uirer, that
the Democratic party SO c~ulled--without,
however, either truth or iusti6cation-is the
"permanent" party of the country: that it is
ssthe only one that, has stood the test of tai
ents and time, and maintained the conf
dence of the peoples" This boast finds no
foundation OF palliation in the facts derel-
oped by the precarious and vacifiating his
tory OF the party of whom it is made. The
Journal says:
The Democratic party has been the least
permanent of political parties ofthe country;
it has been disbanded three times and recon-
structed upon new basis and built up with
more of that cohesive power'' which was
necessary to It's termination. The Repub-
licanism OF Jefferson as { lie first Democracy
though it never assumed. the name--the e
20 CHI o its dec8dence was the quarrel be-
tween its leaders for the succession to James
Monroe. The Albany Regency and the
Richmond Junto built5up the second De-
moeray w hieh was the Jacksonians. This
existed twelve years and then shivered into
s~piinters by cutting up against the Buffalo
platform. The next reconstruction was un-
der the G. sell. of John G.. Calhoun, though
Cave Johnson, o~fTennessee, and Robert J.
Walker, then of Mississippi, where the os-
tensi6le manag, fs attlle Baltimore ConveR-
+tion Of 1874, and placed James K. Polk in
nofninati0H for the Presidency. a bones
This vas the third or Calhoun UemoeSa-
cy. It Survived the severe crippling it re-
ceived by the election of Taylor and Fill
more, but exhibited tokens of weakness
from the contagious ifsbesiIity OF Pierce, it
patched up its broken constitution suffi-
ciently to travel to CinciH natl, but the eff
gy OF a President nogaiDated there soon fell
to pieces Ike tho made-up gen.letaan of
Poe's story, md now 1t is hard TO say where
the Democracy is, or who is a Deraocyat.4
For the third time, the party of periodical
dissolution is shattered and broken into
PIECES" The broken fragments will be
collected together, as far as practicable, and
carried to Charleston, in about eighteen
months, and then we shall see tire lead ers
emulating the dexterity of the Ravels when
they put together the different pieces Of
Harlequin, after he had been blown limb
from limb by the Pantaloon! And utter
that, we shall have other boasts that the
fourth reconstruction of ''the party of per-
nancy has the confidence of the people
The Expected Great Comet.
The celestial visitor lately attracting so
much attention, and appealing in its meri-
dian glory ike an immense sky rocket, was
first identified with the long expected comet
of 1864 and 1856; but the elements Of its
motion, SO far as they have been computed
prove il to be a periodic comet, whose time
of revolution is of short daratidn, being less
than one-tenth the length Of time taken bv
the comet of 1856. The comet now visible
although ofimnnense size, is not the ssExpec-
ted Great Comet which astronomers have
predicted eversince the year 1917 and which
was looked for and expected visible during
the month of August this year. 1t is digui-
lieu ny tdc lillG Ol dESdL OOIleI OH account
of its extraordinary size. The celebrated
comet is mentioned by nearly ali the Euro
pean historians OF the time, and was observ-
ed by the astronomers Of the dynasties then
~rejgning in the north and south of China
1t is described as presenting a most imposing
appearance, with a tail1OO degrees in length
stretching from the east part ofthe 'mid~Iea-
yen.' The size of the comet exceeded
any remembered by those who beheld it.
1t was not of the same splendor in 1856 as
in 1864. u 90 z N4ts#f sa4
With the clements OF 1864, taking into
| account the attraction of Jupiter. Saturn,
| Uranus and Neptune, between 1864 and the
present time, and of Venus and the earth in
1856, it is found that the length Of the COM
cts revolution at the time of perihelion pas
sage to 1854, or its nearest pointto the sun,
was llo,644 days, or 3Ol .922 years. and in
1855 it was I12 ,943. days, or 39S l69 years;
that the effect of perturbation BY The above
named planets, during its revolution FROM
1856 to the present time, will diminish the
above period about j 500 days; and, there
fore, its present revolution will occupy about
liI,l43 days, or 304b years. Mr.. Hind, of
Bishops observatory, london, by a hasty
glance at the elements of motion, predicted
its return in 1913; but the prediction not be-
ing verified, he thought it desirable to make
a complete computation ofthe Orbit and at
ter estimating the pertubations which before
time had been desigaedly left Out, he again
predicted its return TO pefihelion on the Cd
Of August, 1855, when it would be moving
in au orbit of lI2,7SS days. period. But
this prediction was regarded as doubtful even
by himself. With Halley's elements Mr..
Hind competed the time ofrevolation in 1856
to be Il2,943 days, and the pertubations to
diminish the ensuing period about 1897
daysyaecordinn TO the most reliable data, so
that the next return to its nearest point TO
the sun will occur on August, 12, IS6o.-N.
Y. Post, 12tb. pes s1 81 e+ ~- ~
ANOTHER CHANGE.--It will be seen by
the following that the Republicans have
gained a member OF the Legislature: t-s
William l.. Edmiston, Esq, of Nipton
county, has been elected to ill the vacancy
oecnsioned by the resignation of R,R. Ste,
venson, as Representative in the Ohio Leg
.islature, from the counties Of Jackson and
Vinton. Mr.. Edmiston is a Republican, and
elected by a majority of only fife n
votes. Last year, Mr.. Stevenson, Democrat,
elected by several hundred majority
Macarthur Journal. .s aFa.b s- a~-rss
The Petersburg (ya,) Press announces
that the Hon. 8, Clemens, NJ, c., lately
wounded in a duel with Mr.. Wise, is lying
in a very critical condition. |,