, 1861-07-11

Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune
~; T. :. :WAga1KaroN, July 8, 1851.
: Keur local has, I; zee, been trying his hand
on the new comet; but you cannot Eoealizs it
SO as to make 1t a Chicago institution. We,
loo, have comet, and brave, dashing fel-
low he Is too-coming unannouneed, like
picket dregoon; and going, leaving its tail,
like dragoon's horst, streaming far behind II.
So We NIL thought at first; hut some Of uB
are changing our minds, and after saying,
sthereby hangs tall" have now concluded
that Charles VT that is the fellows name
-.s decidedly curtailed.: will tell you why.
When first discovered, 1T WIS apparentlyrushing
away towards the North, and seeking the hor-
izon--touards Captain Symmes's Hole. It
seemed as II, by another night, It would have
waved its peacock tail In goodnight and
goodbye for full five hundred years, or forey-
er. But what was our surprise and joy to find
next night, that 1t wus farther up the sky, and
its tail, or what seems such, was nearer the
zenith This WEB strange, and stranger still
has grown the fact every night. The conclu-
sion Il, without vouching for Prof Henry, that
this comet has Its head where Its tail ought to
be and that what We call Its caudal append
age, is only the light Of the sun reflected IRON
the body Of the comet, just as one Of your
Chicago locomotives throws it's headlight far
adown one Of your roads In the night. It can
not be that 1t Is going at the rate Of billions
Of miles a minute, with it's tail feathers all
spread, and against the wind it would gather.
Even Chanticleer, or the bird Of Juno, has to
tack about when breeze fills their tails, and
we may be sure that, erratic as comets are
said to be, this one never could crawf1sh at
such an awful rate, Because other visitors
Of this kind, as the one in 1858, had tail, It
Ia no sure sign thst this must have, Fashions
change on this mortal sphere, and why not
among the eelestials. I do not mean the Chi.
nese-they have pig-talls-but among the
such trsias - t6ey p1ease, or to tzsvel mat.
tended. Even If this is Charles T., and he bad
tail when last eeep, that does not prove he
has one now. Have tad,poles tails forever
and do We not read, ;....s-
"soon as the eyeninng shades prevail,
The moon sticks up her wondrous tail"
But the moon has no tail now, and why this
comet? Besides, Charles Y. was Dutch
man, and had Some funny habits, t. a., he re-.
signed his throne once, and why not resign
such an unsnbstanttaf thing as comets tails
are made Of
The portent Of this strange visitant may
be more unqQestioned, having shown that It
is going so,nh,Dard. II is the on,oard and sud
dtR dash Of The great Northern army on Rica-
naond and Charleston. The times have changed
since Bishop Berkley wrote; and now south.
todrd " the star Of empire takes its way" Our
soldiers may follow this, as the slaves have
followed the north star, and it will be the
cynosure Of all eyes, as they go on from con-
Tn T.. Ann Af... - ILL
stalt thou conquer" may be read In It, as
Constantine read it In the fiery cross. Full
thirty thousand have crossed over the line
within week, and are HOW tramping south,
with this prodigy In their eye Of assured VIC
tory. While write, the bng gles are sounding
for the crusade to rescue freedom at the South,
and the crusaders have all the zeal Of those
that followed Peter the Hermit.
1t is all in keeping with this that Congress
comes together at such time, and starts off
with such zea1 and unanimity, doing, in one
short half day, as much, In the election Of its
officers as two year, since it did In two months.
AT the same time the President comes into
Congress with such magnificent project, and
30 puts it forth in his characteristic message,
that be leads the Congress and the country !;
and the cry every Rhere is ts4Q0,0 600 men and
400,000, COO Of money!'' The hour and the
man have found each other; and this comet
appears and points the way to the glorious re-
this prophecy, it may be mentioned that the
President lately said to old Ber. Wade, when
he asked what Fremont would do, that he
would have him take 4, 900 men and make his
first report from New Orleans! Already has
true man, one OF my fellow boarders, Mr..
Gal ashel, been a2pot: Collector Of Gus.
tomR In the Crescent City; and will 20 there,
he says, In the Wake Of onr army.
The speeches OF MJ. Grow, in the chair of
the House and again at the National, together
with that Of the new Clerk Mr.. Etheridge,are
fully up to The echo Of the message Of Mr.
one too it was, made BY Mr. Foster, Of North
| Carolina, has the Eame ring Of the true metal
| In it, where he says he will raise brigade
himself and 20 back to his old North State
| and conquer ncr to freedom.
Ihe5e "a one de- t 1g y fo n Ether
! fully endorsed BY the thoueands who heard
him utter it" TIE t1cH toas tic .frst secession
| Isl, }" said he, and he was oVerthrown. Your
own TRIBUNE has written the same Idea, at just
about the same time, where you say this re.
bellion has its counter part In that war where
:. Michael fought and his angels with the
Dragon and bis angels-and the great Dragon
was cast out.'
Imay mention az an item Of news which the
papers hare not got, that there is IN eminent
Doctor here from Boston, By the name OF
Kennedy Of the Census Bureau, to help a.
range the vital statistics Of the country. /
have had the pleasure of one or two conver,
sations with him, and find that he Is deeply
interested in the subject to which he has de.
voted himself, viz how to reduce the proper.
ton Of sickness aud deaths among people,
He says in England they speak IS Confidently
about reducing the mortality in such and such
district, as they do about reducing the tariff.
It will be an alarming increase this year, ]
fear, IN the number Of deaths, when war real
| ly mounts its pale horse. J. W.R.