Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-10-07

VINO naQ carried MIN forward into the presi
dency after twenty years of hard, unremit-
ting and chivalric toll
Photograph Of Mr. B,chaaion IN an An
pealing -lhiAole
visited Washington early in Deeemher of
1897, and had an anterciea0 Of some three hours
ncM Mr.. BamkRnan on the first day of tbs
meeting Of C5glyress at ats late M session s " "''
What the object of that interview was, NAV
be imagined from the fact that no other sab.
Ject could have been discussed between the
parties, for, as have said in these remarks.
and as the columns of the Press will show.
had no cause of public difference with Mr..
Buchanan beyond that of Kansas. We had
long since ceased to talk about private matters.
Not only did the conversation as detailed
take place, but, as the many friends to whom
related it after | left the Presidents man
sion will remember, many other things were
omitted In the statement which | gave Mt
Iarrytown. Among Others the President
SAID to me, If you and Walker and Douglas
Will unite in support of my Kansas policy,
the people of Kansas will vote at the election
WEIGH is TO come off on the Dist December"
THAT election, it will be remembered having
been called under the auspices of the minority
Legislature, for the purpose of putting through
the LecOmpton Constitution, and was held
under circumstances of fraud and infamy,
which will not soon be forgotten.) He said
further, 81 know that you have the strong
side of this question. | know that YOU can
carry off the people, but l appeal to YOU to
stand with me, because if | do not adhere to
my new policy, Alabama, Georgia and Mis-
slssippi will probably secede from the Union"
1t Is probable that the memory of Mr. Bu-
chanan will be stimulated when he reads
these sentences. As for the Washington
Union, whether it speaks for him or not, in
the above extract, | am unable to say If it
does, the nemsry of the President is most
defective.
As to my Offering advice to Mr. Buchanan,
L have only to remark: while Mr.. Wendell of
the Washington Union, was unknown in the
political world, and while editors of that same
paper were csining calumnies against the
President, my advice and counsel to him were
not only gladly and kindly received, but ear
nestly solicited. | spoke as freely to him at
all times when he was not President, as did
after his election and installation.
Another fact in connection with this inter
view with the President | may mention, and
1t Is this: that one or two days after it trans
Pired, | returned to Philadelphia and whilst
sitting in my office in Chestnut street was
visited by an old friend from Southern New
York, whom | had met in Washington, and
who called on me to say that he had been de
sired by the President to stop over and see
me, and to assure me that he (the President)
intended to make his Kansas policy test
upon the Democratic party, and that no man
would be tolerated by his Administration
who did not approve and support his policy.
Tie Comct.-O. W. Mitchell, of the Gin
cinnati Observatory, communicates to the
Daily Gazette very interesting paper re-
garding the Comet which now makes so
fine display. in our western heavens at
night. Itwas discovered by Professor Donati
of Florence, Italy, nearly four months ago,
and for a iarge portion of the time since it
was detcet4d, has been steadily approaching
the eartl,, and in direction so nearly coin
edent with the visual ray, that but for the
computations of astronomers, might excite
anticipatio.s 2f collision with our planet.
Indeed, throughout the present month it
seems to have been plunging downward 50
exactly toward the earth that it scarcely
changed its apparent place among the fixed
11'I' - " u fs4Iitj ldI SSl 1i4i Chp vi tIllt
times the diameter of the moon
1t will reach its nearest approach TO the
sun in few days. Its brlliancy will in
crease rapidly up to the first week in Octo-
Der, when it viii pat On It's most splendid
appearance, aud will then rival in grandeur
the famous Comet Of HALEY, at its last re-
turn in 1886
This comet, Professor Mitchell says, "will
soon commence to change direction, at first /
slowly, afterward more rapidly, as seen from
the earth, when sweeping swiftly round the
sun it will regain those distant regions of
space wherein vast proportion of its orbit
lies far beyond the REACH Of telescope Wis
ion"
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