Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-06

I of others on board does something to relieve I the horrors of the dreadful event
 On the 25th of September will oo- cur the periheton of Jupiter. That gi-
 point to the sun, and is also with 1 in few days of his opposition or nearest point to the earth. Jupiter comes at that epoch 46, ,0OO, 900 miles nearer the great cen tral orb. He is then, however, more than 45O, ,000 miles from the sun, fortunately far enough away to counteract and mollify the increased force of attraction between two such mighty masses. Those who have been expecting the end of the world at this time | maining before the 25th count as nothing in revolution requiring twelve of our years Nearly twelve years must pass before the conditions will again be as favorable for ob- servation. Jupiter comes beaming above the eastern horizon about 8 o'clock, bright enough to cast shadow and afford glimpse of his moons through good opera glass. Nothing can be more interesting than to study the phases of the four diamond points of light that bear witness to the presence of Jupiter's moons. Jupiter turns on it's axis in about ten hours, so that an observer on his equator would be carried round at the rate of nearly 500 miles Q minute instead of the seventeen miles that mark the comparatively moderate progress made by an inhabitant at the earths equator. Jupiter rises now about 8; at the end of the month the rising will be about 6. The September moon fulls on the 18th. It is the harvest moon.
 The chairman of political committee in
 Mississippi has in public statement made
 the very sensible assertion that accession
 was revolution and folly" True and obvious
 as this is, it could hardly be expected to find
 general acceptance in Mississippi. And it
 does not The Meridian Mercury, for in
 stance, says ''The chairman of our com
 mittee has committed the canvass to the pro.
 position that secession was revolution and
 folly To admit that is to half condone all
 the wrongs the Republican party has inflicted
 upon the people of the South, and still fur
 ther contemplate, a remembrance of which
 makes the South solid and binds us together
 to oppose it. To admit it is to admit that
 Jefferson Davis deserved to have been hanged
 upon that 'sour apple tree,' and only was
 saved by the magnanimity and forgivingness
 of the conquerors. To admit it is to confess
 that every willing Confederate neck might
 rightfully have been claimed by the halter.
 To admit it is to admit that Andy Johnson
 uttered patriotic sentiment when he said,
 traitors must be punished and treason made
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 that has been inflicted upon us-reconstruc-
 tion, arpet-baggery, negro supremacy, plum
 der, spoliation and all-has been deserved,
 and that we got off well in saving our necks. "
 Whether the Mercury and those who think
 with it ever change their opinion or not the fact will remain that secession was revolu- ton and folly, and that those who led in it did get off well in saving their necks.
 Olive Logan, who claims to have personal knowledge, thus writes of Adelaide Neilson's proposed career, which was cut short by death: Socially she preferred England, natu- rally enough. Outside of New York there is no society in America of that peculiar kind generally chased under the broad name of
 Upper Bohemian-a society as elegant, re- fined, lavish in it's material surroundings as that of the highest nobility, far more intel lectual and spiritual than that, gay, bright, entertaining and yet thoroughly unconven- tional-asking no questions, telling no lies. Persons penetrating it are requested, so to speak, to like it or lump it. think almost everybody in the world likes it, but great many are forced to lump it on account of the conventionalism in force in their own local district. Yet Bohemian or not Bohemian, Adelaide Nelson was about to fix the final gem in the circle of brilliants her beauty and her genius had won her The necessity for keeping her secret no longer exists and now publish it. She herself told me last summer that she was engaged to be married to Rear Admiral Glynn, the naval officer who took the Prince of Wales out to India, and whose standing at court is of t he very highest. As his wife her life would have been a delightful one Certain circumstances would have barred her presentation to the Queen, bus there are many ladies of fashion and standing who do not enjoy this honor, and yet who go freely into brilliant and aristocratic society and hold their own there. This would have been Neilson's position. She would have had a gentleman of birth and distinction and one who adored her for husband and her house would have been rendezvous for the bright est gayest and most entertainingi in all classes of London's multip1ex life.