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Blanks, Law and Equity, continually on hand tlos rr printed to order. eriti deft CAROLINA SPARTAN. &j X [From tho Grand Rapids Enquirer.] ^ A TALE OF HORROR. *f, We have recoivod the following letter <^1 from Dr. John Moreton, a gentleman of |,ol, veracity and professional standing. We ? think its perusal will convince our readers n .K of the entire truth of all that is said of mo- WH3 fi?rn spiritualism: but Grand Traverse Michigan, four December 28, 185J. unl, Editor Enquirer: I send the following fove account of a most extraordinary event, ?r rent transaction?or what you will?because, in nn<) my opinion, it ought not to be suppressed; wjti, but on the contrary, thoroughly investiga- nolj( ted. In the midst of the excitement here, burj such a thing as a calm, unbiased examination is altogether out of the question, nor \ would it be safe to attempt it, inasmuch as wjf0 the determination of the people is very ,net strong to hush it up. As I myself am one ,ny , of the chief characters concerned in the af t|,"0 , fair, I dare not attempt, if 1 possessed the j.?e, ability, to determine the character of what prHC I am about to relate. |(|ro I left your city to establish myself here, as you will remember, some time in July last, oul , a young and inexperienced physician. Al- nnm most the first patient I was called to see aiKj was a Mrs. Uayden, a woman of thirty-five years of age, a strong constitution and well duty balanced mind, and apparently with little <> or no imagination. She was, however, a wjti, spiritualist, with the reputation of being u furm superior medium. Her usual physician, f Dr. J. N. Williams, was absent, and hence c|tl<), her applieation to me. I found her labor- cj,jjj ing under a severe attack of typhus fever, weie which threatened to prove fatal. Having Cr escribed for her I left, promising to send >s r. W. as soot as he returned. This was { .J on Saturday morning. At niglit, Dr. W. ^ , took the patient off my hands, and 1 did ||)an not see her again until Friday evening of . . the ensuing week. I then found Iter fi'j n dying, and remained with her until her ' decease, which took place precisely at mid- wj j night. She was or appoared to be, rational . during the whole of my visit, though 1 wa< p ||'} informed she had been delirious the greater , part of the week. There was nothing re ujuc markable about her symptoms; I should , say the disease had takea its natural course. ' At the time of decease, there was in tho jj t room, besides myself, her husband, Mrs. Oreen, (her sister,) and Mrs. Miles, (a cxnj, neighbor.) Iler husband, whom I partiqu- lo larly noticed, was verv thin and woaL - ? - ? # I I suffoiing from a quick consumption, already tbeyond reco%*ery. He bore tlio character of mj ' a clear minded, very firm, illiterate, but ;l ^ courteous man, and a most strenuous uube j s liever in spiritualism. t There had been some subdued couversa- ( tion, such as is natural in such scenes?the . ,,j patient taking so part in it, except to signify, in * faint and gradually diminishing worc voice, her wants, until about an honr bufoiu ,>rolt her death, when a sudden and indescriba- | |0 in ble change came over her features, voice f ' And whole appearance?a change which Wur(J her husband noticed by saying, with, as I thought, wholly unwarranted bitterness, ?j "There go thoso cursed spirits again." v The patient hereupon unclosed her eyes HS and fixed a look of uuutterable emotion on j ?rav, her husband?a look so direct, searching j and unwavering, that I was not a little q01j startled by it. Mr. Ilavden met it with |)Cr j something like an unhappy defiance, and ' mjn( he fiuallv asked of his wife what she want- ?q od. She immediately replied in a voice of oejvt perfect health, "You know." I was literally astonished at the words, jiea_ arfd the voice in which they were uttered. ljlt)rt I had often hoard and read of a return of wjp volume and power of voice just preceding p. dissolution; but the voice of ihe patient had j 1 none of the unnatural intonation of such? j . it was, as.l have said, perfectly healthy. In 1 J4 a few moments she continued in the same . voice, and wi*h her eyes still fixed upon her ^ ^ husband: ' ?. "William, in vour secret soul von .1.* l.n. Jifro." ie'? * "Wife," was tlio imploring reply, "that O' [ is the devil which has stood between us \ callo< And Heaven for so many months. Wo are l'ie ' both at tho very verge of the grave, and in presc Ood's name let him be buried first." '0Mh Apparently without hearing or heeding , l|'Ht him she repeated her words: nn? "You dare not disbelieve." lo? "I do," ho replied, excited by her man- ruov' uer, " while you are dying?nay, if you were dead, and speak to me, I dare not believe." wo "Then," she said, "I will speak to you whis when I am dead! I will coino to you at ^u?d your latest moment, and with a voice from I'unit the grave, I will warn you of your time to l',e v follow me." I l?ow? "But I shall uot believe a spirit." j ?ntei "I will come in the body, and speak to | f,K>b?l you. Remember/" 1 P 8be then closed her eyes, and straitway ** sank into her former state. onter As soon as we had somewhat recovered I f from the shock of this most extraordinary sinkil scene, her two children were brought into night the room, to roceive her dying blessings, to so< She partially roused herself, and placing a ing U hand on the head of each, she put up a with prayer to the throne of grace?faint in to be voice, indeed, but a prayer in which nil the a ghc strength of her unpolished soul, heart and if pos mind, was exerted to its utmost,dying lira such a prayer as a seraph might atter , none but a dying wife and niol ild accomplish. From that moment athing grew rapidly weaker and 11 icalt, and at twelve o'clock she expi mrently without a struggle, f closed her eyes, straightened aiid c ed her limbs, and was about to k house, when Mrs. Green requested send over two yonng ladies from irding house to watch with tho d< this occupied some teu minutes. Suddenly Mrs. Miles screamed out, : ; llayden started up from tho beds ero ho had been sitting. The suppc pse was silling erect in tho bed, 1 iggling to speak! Her eyes were 1 ed; and, save her open mouth and qi ig tongue, thero wcro all the look (h in her face. With a great heav the chest, at last tho singlo word at h: "Remember/" Ier jaw fell back in its place, and in lay down, as before. I now exan' ier minutely. That alio was dead tli Id bo uo possible doubt, and so I left Be. hi the following day, l.)r. Williams rm >st mortorn examination of tho body, prevented, by business, from atlendi was informed by the Doctor that id her brain but slightly affected 1 sua! fact in persons dying with typl r,) but that her lungs wero torn r extensively, as if by a sudden, sin powerful effort, and partially suffu: 1 coa^'dated blood. These wero all 1 ceable fonJpres of tho case. She 1 ed on the afternoon of tho same day ****** bout two weeks after the death of , I was called to visit Mr. llayden. Dr. Williams on the way, told h errand, and expressed some surprise preference of tho family for myself, n v liiin to be a safe and oxperienc tiliouer. lie replied that nothing coi him to enter that house again, i I seen things that?well, 1 would fi when I got there." I was consideral sed at the Doctor's manner and warm beguiled my way by fancying wl alarmed him?a physician?from I n tny arrival, I found no person presi the patient except Mrs. Green, w ho ed iuo that the spirits had been ph uud 1 pranks that not a soul, Dr. W. ?d, could be induced to remain. T Iron had boon gone soino time?tli at her hou*e. >und the patient very low, and with pect of surviving tho attack. He w jver, quite Jree from pain, though vi t. White I whs in the house, L notic y man i festal ions of that power call lualisni. Tables and chairs were tu< ud removed, billets of wood thrown i the lire, and doois opened and sh out apparent agency. I heard utri and unaccountable noises, too; a in unusual sensation, caused, no don the mysteries which surrounded a ked me. Noticing my manner, t ml observed: t is nothing. You must get used to or." should not be content unless I cm lilt them, as well as become inditfuu lein," 1 replied. Iiis opened the way to a long convcr during which I probed my patiei J to the bottom, but without delecli adow of belief. Speaking of his wi aid: fou heard Kllcn promise to warn me tiiuo to die!" did?hut do you believe her?" Jo. If it is possible sho will keep I I in (pile of Heaven and hell. S lised to came in the body and spe r -?i - - - . - ?. i Biiiiu accept no outer warm her &avo the literal meauing of 1 1#." Vnil what liicn?" low much of her body id tlicro li now, Doctor? and t>he has not coi el. She promised to come from I e. Can sho ilo it? No, no?it's al bug?n delusion?poor Klleti! Tha Doctor, the devil, which so haunt ife, and stood between her soul a i, cannot reach her now. ful if she should cotne you may be i id." cannot. Others may see her, tco, a her. I shall believe no spectre, ) are such things. Her body as it is be, let that speak if it can!" oin that day up to the hour of his den s wiiii linn almost constantly; and \\ ' introduced to some new and slarlli ouieiion. The neighbors hud learn tin the house, and strange stories pa 0111 gossip to gossip, acquiring inuio narvellous at every repetition. Nevi ss my practice increased, i the morning of November 80(1 J a little earlier than usual. Duii iait, the manifestations of superuatui nco were inoro frequent, wild and v than ever before. 1 was inform tliey hud been exceedingly violent tl liiu preceding night; their charncl had greatly changed. Besides t ng of movablo articles, the tinkling es and tho rattling of tiu ware, lh< frequent and startling sounds, as pored conversation, singing and su laughter?all perfect imitations of t *n voice, but too low for mo to dcU rords used, if words tliero were. Sti ivor, none of the unusual sounds h ed tbo sick room. They followed t !epa of Mrs. Green like a demon eel mused upon tbo threshold of that roo debarred by u superior power fro ing there. ound Mr. llayden much worse, hi "g very passed a b . Doubtful whether bo could survi l another morning, I left him prom > call at evening, and spond the nig him, resolving in my secret tliougl "in *t the death." If there was to >stly warning I meant to bear it, an sible, to solve the strange enigma. ****** opt, The tiny had been exceedingly cold and < iber stormy, and tbe night had already set in < her dark and dismal, with a tierce gale and lore driving storm of rain and hail, wheu 1 again 5 red, stood by my patieut. The moment 1 looked at him, I perceived the unmistakcablo in oiu- dications of death upon his features, lie iavo was free from pain, hh; uiind |>erfectly clear; me but his life was ebbing away with every i my breath, liko the alow burning of an exhausted. ed lamp. | i Meanwhile the stonu aroso to a tempest, . < and and llio gloom grew black as death to the ' ido, wild night without. The wind swept with ) ised tremendous gusts through the adjoiniug ' t and forests, startling the icy branches of the . c still trees, and came wailing aud shrieking | c jiv- through every crack and cranny ol tlio 1 f s of building. | t ing Within there was yet wilder commotion.' t line ! AH that had been said or sung, written or ! c | dreamed, of ghostly visitations was then and | she J tliero enacted. There was ringing of hells, ; l tin- j moving of furniture, crash of dishes, wliis- ) s iere pers, howls, crying, laughter, whistling, v the 1 groaning, heavy aud light footsteps, and , t: wild music, as if in mockery of the infernal s ado 1 regions. All these things grew wilder with o , I the rising gale, until towards midnight they 1 t ng, 1 were almost insufferable. I g he ; As for us three?the patient, Mrs. Green c (an : and myself?not a word passed our lips af- n Itus ter nine o'clock. As for the stato of our h md minds, God only knows. Mine, in the wild N gle whirl of thought and events which follow- s sod ! ed. furerot all the anvn ttlmt ' ' - I ?: * ?<"? ??- " iho called and penned, bit by bit, above. 1 re I vns member looking only for tbe final caslastro- a plie, which grew rapidly nearer, with a conslant endeavor to concentrate all my faculhis ties of mind and sense upon the phenome- u I nun which I, at least, had begun to believe o ini ! would herald the loss of my patient. At As it grew closer upon twelve o'clock, s 1 (for upon the striking of that hour had my thoughts fixed themselves for the expected ^ dd demonstration) my agitation becanio so Ho gteat that it was with extreme difficulty I nd could control myself. Nearer and nearer grow tho fatal ino ' merit?for fatal I perceived it would be, to tho patient at least; and, at last, tho seconds trembled on the brink of midnight; the clock began to strike. One?two?three! t>( :n I counted tho strokes of the hammer which seemed as though they never would have ,, S * done?ton?eleven?twelve! I drew my V' breath again! The last lingering echo of n 10 the last stroke hail died fairly away, and as w ' yet thero was no token of any presence ? save our own. c| no All was silent. The wind had lulled for (| lls? a moment, and not a sound stirred the air c, within the house. '1'ho ghosts had tied! r, ?'l I arose and approached the bedside. The b e patient was alive?drawing his breath very si ,v slowly?dving. The interval between bis jp- : - ... j-wtfi gi?w longer; men lie ceased to i rj 1 ' breathe?lie was dead. Mir. Green was I J ^ hitting in Iter place, Iter elbow* resting on ; h j , lier knees, her face buried iu the palms of |j I her hands. I closed the open mouth and j ? pressed down the eyelid* of the dead?tlien o ,K I touched her on the shoulder. w . ' It is over," I whispered." m ' "Thank God," was the feivent reply. |j * e e * * * 1 fcl Then wo both started. Thero was a S ' rustling of the bedclothes! Mr. llayden ' .v was Hitting erect, his chest heaving with a v. mighty effort for one more inspiration of s| the blessed air. Before I could roach him 1 o he spoke? | si L' ".Ify (rodJ she is coming!" I t? j. At the same instant the wind came back tl with a sudden appalling gust, as it swept A through the crevices of the building. Then b there was an opening of the outer door! b then a staggering and uncertain step in the h ' Vj ! outer room! tlio latch lifted! the door was o swung home! nnd then, my God! what a a "? ! ?roci?elc! ! .1 1 wonder, even now, that I ilare describe li it ? think of it?remember it. I would I w ^ Jieved it then, or do now, that I did not ci " ' go inad, or drop down dead. ! ti I ^ Through the open door there stepped a p j'? figure?a figuie not of Mrs. Hayden, nor '1 of death, but a thousand times more liorii il I Ida, a thing of corruption and decay, worms g j and rottenness! ti The fealuies were neaily all gone, and G j the skull, in places, gleamed through, white tl ? and terrible. Her breast, abdomen and fn j neck had been eaten away, her limbs were d j(. putrid, green and inexpressibly loathsome, p ! the cavities of lier shoulders, client, abdo , b " | men, neck and thighs, wero a living mass of great and ugly grAvc-wotms, which, a* tl ll'' she stepped, dropped away to the floor, to n :is gelher with gouts and clots of putrid llesh! c; Her trail, over llio threshold and into tire g outer darkness, was marked by theso loath- j y. ss" some tokens, a luminous lino of corruption ir and crawling worms, tho effluvia of which ir er" j was most horrible! is And yet to those putrescent jaws lher? 1 w i I was born a voice?smothered indeed, and rt ug | strange, but distinct? tl ral "t 'omo, William, they wait for you ? I i c< io- ! wail!" ' g ?d > I dared not turn my oyes from tho intru- 1 a< lu- | der. 1 could not, if I dared?though I c< lor ; heard a groan behind me and a fall. I' ho Then it?tho thing boforo mo?sank of down in a heap, a dark and loathsome heap it :re ; of putrescence and fragments. ' er of ; I remember I did not faint, that I did ! T ib- not cry out. How long I stood transfixed a bo I know not; but at last, with an effort and I) ret a prayer, I turner! to tho bed. Mr. Hay- tji ill, den had fallen upon tin- floor, face down- in ad ward, stone dead. I raised and replaced it he h im; I composed bis limb*; I closed his ct io; eyes; 1 hound up his chin; I crossed his ol in, hands upon his breast and tied them thorc. gi in Then 1 bore out the body of his sister in- tl scusiblo, but not dead, into tho puro air? j or M(| out of that horror ami stench into the er ?() storm and darkness?out of death into life er vo again! in. County of Grand Traverse, Michigan, ss.: lit Mrs. Joscpha II. (ireeu, hoiug duly hi its sworn, deposes and says that the letter of H be l>r. .lohn Moreton, hereto appended, which id, alio has read, is strictly true, so far as it goes, though much of tho history of what ** occurred at hei brother's (the late Mr. Hay- " Jen) house is omitted, and this she deposes of her own knowledge. joski'ila II. olucbn. sworn and subscribed before me, n notary public in and for the county of Grand ,'UI t raverse, and State of Michigan, on the ro* 20lh day of Decembor, A. I). 1850, f?I Jamks Taylor, M. I*. County of Grund Traverse, Michigan, ?$: trt^ Jainos Hudson being duly sworn, deposes ?nd says, that he, in company with George "" jireeu, Albert J. llaily and Henry H. HCl 5Ulead, on the tirst day of December, last me >u.it, iu the afternoon in said day, did go ',0 o tho house of William U. Hayden, do- Bo! :eased, for tho purpose of burying tho body >f llaydcn, tho deceased, and that they *10. bund ujkiii the floor of the room in which ev> ho body of tho said deceased lav, and near 'V0 ho door of said room, the putrid remains !'rt1 >f a human corpse, a female, as the de- ,u >Olient verily believes and avers, and that ouf hey carried away and buried tho bodv of u'r< aid deceased, and found the grave of the to.' vifo of said Hayden, deceased, in tho 1 noiilh of August Inst, open at the head of aid grave, and that said grave was empty ?ov if the said wife of said Hayden, deceased, he body of said wife of raid Hayden being s,?' [one from said grave, and that they return i d to said house, wherein raid Hayden died, ; c'al ind after removing the furniture from said j 1 iouse the deponent did, at the ropiest of Ira. Green, sister of said Ilayden, deceased, ,n 1 et firo to said house, and that said hou?e , ras thereby entirely consumed, with all , lint remained in said house, and burned to alios. This 1 aver of my own knowledgo. | ,u" James Hudson. ! 1 We aver and solemnly swear that the wai hove aflidavil is strictly and entirely true, VHI f our own knowledge. j 'n& George GHKKN, ' . Alueht J. Daily, J"u IIkniiy k. smead, ,u* worn and subscribed before me. a luiblic 1,0 1 notary, in and for the county of Grand Traverse, ami Slate of Michigan, on this 20lh day of December, A. D. 1850. J.vubs Taylou, Notary Public. l,cl _ ? stai Final Revision Committee. , , . 9P;. It will bo recollected that it was resolv- J it, at the annual meeting of the Bible ra' Iniott, to proceed at once to the appoint- heh lent of this most impoilant of atl commit- tral :e* and of all agencies counected with the con ?vi?ion enterprise. Since that time, the wat ork has been constantly in hand, and pro to I ress has lioen made, though the final con- trar lusion is not yet reached. It is a measure the lat requires groat deliberation, much dis is d riinination, ami extensive inquiry and cor an *spoiiJence. None but scholars of the very iow igheat order can safely assume the re*pon- nrei ibilities of such a committee. tan> We understood, however, that definite ar- wlii mgemcnts have been made with Prof. T. whi . Oonant, 1). D., of the Rochester Theo- 1 wit, >gical Seminary, who is ex|iecto<l, after Ju- | mat r next, to give his whole lime to the work; alto nd also with l'rof. II. 13. Uackett, L>. D., 1 cd i f the New toil Theological Seminary, who cd i ill give all his time to the work, except a and mall portion reserved for his professorship. I the loth these gentlemen are heartily interest- 1 plai J in the enterprise of revising the Rnglish ! The cripturea. Prof. Ilackett expressed him- the ilf to this effect some years ago. Prof, ily 'on.Hit's position has long been well under- it > Lood. There are, perhaps, no men in the | gat uunlry who are by nature, by habit, by ! fug diolarship, and in every jroint of view, bet- j f??rc ?r qualified to do this work than these gen- | attr cm on. Dr. fl.ickelt's elaborate work on attr L.cls has giveu him as high a position in ma: ihlical literature as Dr. Conant has won zcrt y his Hebrew Grammar and Thesaurus, bill is translation of Job, and the other fruits is ti f his scholarship. Among their friends on 1 nd to the U-artied woild at large, their thrt antes are a tower of strengih which is not trot kely to be much injured by the angry grei raves of sectarian prejudice or carping criti atti ism. Thoso periodical scribblers who w ish hi 11 > write tln-lii ilnivn l.u > ..I..... ?. !.? - *" ""fc? rojudieo, arc at full liberty to do their be-t. in t ho only effect will be, like winds agitating upo io iiioiintain oaks, to imbed their invo^ti tioii alioiiH more deeply in the solid founda- be oris of literature, an I the realities of what mei rod has spoken in human language. If e?, ley cannot stand by theac the sooner they i I ill the better. If tlieir work can be pulled fron own by superficial scribbles, it ought to j ow i erinli. Let such critics, therefore, do their tim est. the Wo also learn that the Board have au le?s lorized a Committee to make arrange- alte lents with two otlier scholars, whose bibli tor tl attainments and published works have tho iven them a world-wide reputation for tho ears past. They have already rendered a tr npoi tsiit service to tho cause of the Union ( to i its pteliminary revisions, and have prom- it t ed essential aid in tho completion of the nan ork by the Committee. But as the ar- tint ingements between these gentlemen and tho iu Union have not yet been finally vau included, wo would not feel justified in villi iving publicity to their names. We will cod Id, however, that iu their ecclesiastical cire inflections they stand associated with tho vied edobaptists. 1 plai By the plan of the Union, approved at auo s anniversary, the Final Commiite? will in t insist of, at least, fi?c or seven members. i coir lie work of completing the number is still , lien matter of correspondence and almost dai tion ' deliberation; and notwithstanding the Aim iligenco of tlio Committee of the Hoard, com nd tbeir devotion to the business, wo think biot highly probable that it will not bo fullv unh included buforo the next annual meeting I r the Bible Union, a* it i* one requiring soin real deliberation and much caution; and lorn le Board, we feel satisfied, will appoint no of u 10 to the work whoso scholarship is not lorn jnal to that of the persons already approv- furu I by them.? New York Chronicle. cal Must a man be mealy mouthed before case a can make flowery speeches! And should | 'bo joke in a speech be nccomp.ubied by any ' ??rl lion to mako the jest sure ofitit effect, ni visil lould a piece of fun he j?*st enough of it has If to movo to laughter without' jsa liable I thai i"ti ..it 'he put ot the [leaber? brig Comets. VKOM TilK NATIONAL INTKLLIUBMOER. In view of the threatened embrace, tie next, of our chaste and staid old n i earth, by that saucy tlirt of a con 1 posed to be skulking about somewb her neighborhood, it may be not unpi de to inquire somewhat into the pre character and belongings of the fond is he any weight of character? Does upon principle? What seems to bo atis of support' Is be substantial 1 been trained up in the way be sliu ! Does be come now indicating that I any stability of purjxnie? In short one whom we have no misgiving in ving into communion with our comii tber? I, for one, protest against the ? ice, for the reason that the fellow is my private opinion, a bit better than jht to be. Full juries of Havana h sudy decided iiiin to be essentially ga: be a vagabond and a particular sit i last especially, while under favor of *ioti into the immediate presence of ereigu?the sun. I charge him with , besides, a cheat, with making pret is to accomplishments which lie lie I the least ability to accomplish, ins?rather his vouchers claim fur I hat lie has travelled quite extensively . ign parts, but I am established fin he faith that he has never so much ked at a jtart outside of the point ich he was born. Neither the force i germ of a force was given him at hi icient to tutu his face, much less ole body, putty as this was and is, t d from that point. The act wh 'ted iiiin into being was an act of di him inward; and lie must continue inward until he has breathed out if existence, or until ho is caught in I of the sun. So, instead of huggi II get hugged, very likely! I ou have gnllieied, of course, front ] iter, that 1 do not subscribe to the red doctrine as to the nature and i is of comets. Such doctrine can id the test of its own working, ves itself false, as I will show in sin CO. The doctrine fixes for its basis the ge proposition that all revolving bodies i iu their oibits by the balancing of c and tangential lorces. In tho cases lets, the force which draws them da their centre of revolution is asser IU llirt ultrurtli.." " 1 ...V m%invnwii \Jl Uiu ClII111 III] UVIIIg :ted bv tliem nl the same time; wl force which semis them off in a ta?g< eclared to bo the impetus acquired effect of their descent. 1 lie IcmJci aid of each cornet is reckoned to vsured, taking now no account of t ce, by the excess of attractive pot icli the sun lias above that of its ich excess is calculated to correspc It the surplus of the sun's quantity Iter above its own quantity. Now, il iwed that the amount of matter corila in any one of tin* comets that have pi in the vicinity of the smallest plan satellites has not been sufficient to cai slightest perceivable deflection of st nets and satellites from their coun m, the attractive power of the sun ii| comet is to that of it up on him as iuti is to zero, making the force which dm it ward infinitely stiong. How is it Iter its balancing infinitely strong con at force! Its means for gathering si e aro just according to iis capacity acting the sun. This capacity is to l active capacity of the sun as the eoim is is to the mass of the sun; that is, i is to infinity. Then, the comet's ca ty to press itself outward to its nphcli 0 the power which holds it to its poriln us zero is to infinity, making the distai .nigh which il is possible for it to reti n its cetitrewaid tour not a single i< ater than the distance through which acts tlio miii towards itself in passi 1 at perihelion, nor than that lliroti ch il would jar the sun from his pli lie event that il should fall and sir n his disc. It follows that no icvo is of the comets, such as are claimed theirs?in fact, that no orhilal mo lt_?4 Mill' Llf??l ? ? *? .... nniM iuV| llIU jUCil possible. have not at command data sufiici< n which to elaborate anv theory uf i t respecting comets. However, 1 v< i to throw out a simple suggestion effect that they are nothing more i than sorts of nuclei, composed of I minted matter which serves as a retl to produce the phenomenon known Zodiacal Light. At the moment wli precipitation of the matter comtituti Helens commences, this nucleus hog fall towards the source from wh anio, in vaporous form, originally rely, from the burning sun?and c< les its fall till it is absorbed again sun; this unless it is reconvened ii or before it readies its destination, er case its life as a comet is short; rfce ie always inward; its track is no1 ular, llnoigh a little curved. The i Is nrnr take its stait from certain of l lets coming in conjunction one w ther; these, in totaling, cause a whirli he suspended matter at the |?oint 11111c11 11, so 111ai liiu j> r11<>ii ol it win at micIi |?oinl is pressed to conden ami falls nmlor the solar million l?, the supposed periodical retuin ol let may tic a now precipitation, men light about through a regnlaily recurri ill of planet*. conclude with cxpre**ing the hoj>e t! e one ?>f your rentiers, who is better led in the history of comets than oth s can claim to be, will impart ol bis nation through your columns. Let It iish an account of a few of the pcrio ones, micIi n? have had the be?t ohser s niatle upon them, staling, in en i, among other items, the situation heavens; tlio direction, whether with t h or retrograde; the length of tii Me; whether the distance from the s ever been proved to he gi eater af i at the time of or before the gieat ;htne*s; whetlici theie has ever be presented evidence of revolution nt all othc than that afforded hy the different degret of brightness. Yours, cordially, 1,1 U. W. EVELETII. ml ll?'? Daniel Webster and the Morning. ,0jj. Wo givo place to the beautiful thought of Daniel Webster on beholding sunrise h ler the beautiful capitoline city of iho "Old Doin |ia inion," seated on Shockoe and Churcl j11R | Hills, which look down on the romanti 'Ian J valley of the Jtunes ri\er, i i "Hiciimoxd, October 16, 18o0. ,ie 5 o'clock A. M. t "Mv dkaiiSik: Whether it be a favor 0 ' an annoyance, you owe this letter to in ton enr,y r'9'nK- From the hour marked at th Jal- tor ?' Pn8? you will naturally conclud that my companions are not now engaginj my attention, as we have not calculated 01 ave ^'"P ?rlX travellers to-day. ' 'This city has a 'pleasant seat.' It is high rjl : the James river runs below it, and when at]! I w??t out ?? hour ago nothing was heart |(js but the roaring of the falls. The air is ve ^ I ry tranquil and its temperature mild. Ili eQ 1 morning, and a morning sweet and refresh ver ' '"P " delightful. jjc | "livery l?ody knows why the morning j( in its melaphorichl sense, is applied to st , jn many occasions. The health and strengtl nj and beauty of early years lead us to cal ( ns 1 that period the 'morniug of life;' of a love al ; ly young woman we say, 'she is bright a nor i the morning.' rlj( I "l?ut the morning itself, few people, in |(j8 habitants of cities, know any thing about lUj. Among all our good people not one out u jcj, a thousand sees the sun rise otico in a year rjy Tho know nothing of the morning; thei lr, | idea of it i> that narf .if iln? 'l?? ?1-: I >I>V unjf n ii Ift" CUIIie |,j9 ) afltr h cup of cutfee or a pieco of toabt. tho uWilli them morning is not a new issu ng. I 14 nevv bursting forth of tin 01 sun, a new waking up of all thai ha |uv j life from a sort of temporary death to bo rg. : hold the works of (iod, the heaven and tin n0. earth. It is only n part of the donieslit not belonging to reading the newspapers answering notes, sending the children U ,;ij| school, and giving orders for dinner. Tin first streak of light, the earliest purpling o UQ. the oast which the lark springs up to greet %re and the deeper and deeper coloring intr cn. orange and red, till at length the gloriou , 0f sun is seen, 'regent of day;' this they neve to- enjoy, for they never see it. led " Beautiful descriptions of morninj Ht. abound in all the languages; but they an jj|w stroi gest perhaps in the East, where tin enl sun is frequently the object of worship as King David speaks of taking to himself tin lCy wings of the morning. This is highly po ' etical and heautifui. The w ings of tin jjs. morning are the beams of the rising sun. I ^er is said that the 'Sun of Kighleousuesft shal ejriso with healing in his wings'?a inorninj uid ; that shall scatter life, health, and joi uf throughout tliu universe. Milton lias tiiu t js descriptions of the morning, but not s< many as Shaks|>enre, from whose writing iss- l>i4Ke* 'be most delightful imagery, al founded on the glory of the morning, migli use ^>e filial* lcj, "I never thought Adam had much th< 1CH advantago of us for having seen the work ion xvkcn it was new. The manifestations o the power of (iod, like his mercies, ar< 'new every rnoruiiig and fresh every mo lu i merit.' Wo see as line ridings of the sur 1 as ever Adam saw, and its risings are a: lc|, much of a miracle now as they wore in liii fur day, and I think a gieat deal more so; be k]iu ! cause it is now a part of the miracle tha jj'j, ' for thousands and thousands of years In ! lilts o.nn.i l.? ! 1 i(N ! ?? n|i|iuimeij UlllO WHIIOU pJt. 1 the variation of tiie inillionelli pait of i joll second. Adam could not tell how this uli- was. !1CU "I know the morning; I an) acquainted ,ru } with it, and I love it. I lose it fresh ant. jta sweet as it is?a daily new creation break jl : ing forth and calling all that have life ant breath and being to new adoration, new gh enjoyment, and new gratitude. ,L.e As ever, your friend, ihc ' 1?AXIKL WEBSTER. ll( Loiid Xauikk.?The Washington cor vc- respondent of the Baltimore American sayi ithat Lord Napiet, hy his unostentatious po 1 litencss and freetloin from those foreign as sumptions obnoxious to republicans, is win mv n'"S golden opinions from all who have busi e?\ : ne>s wiih him. Yesterday llio following (u ! rather amusing incident transpired: Tw< lor gentlemen from Texas (one of whom v. [|lu well known in political circles, and tin oc other more familiar with the music of na aH ture than the etiquette of diplomacy) callev iC? at the embassy to get some patent, docti M,r ments authenticated. Our iu*tic fiienil ins aI"' companion were introduced to 1113 ich '?rt' instead of his secretary, as was expect' ed; and, after the hu?iness was duly trans acted, Lord Napier instituted a series of in |,y lerrogatories as to the commercial, socia llo and agricultuial a Hairs of Texas. The*< |? wore duly responded to by the worthy bill its uupoii?it?nl applicant, in his usual off hand vt>r manner, interspersed with some characteristie jokes by way of a more perfect illns |,0 tration. The interview lasle.) upwards of i ill, half hour, notw illmtaiiding several attempt! ,,^r by tlie visiters to depart; hut his lorddii) Gf at eaeli successive attempt would propound ;c|, some new question which caused anothei SJ, detention. After having finally made then ce exit, the gentleman w ho introduced them [ inquired how they liked Ix?rJ Napier ,jy ' "Didn't see him," replied M., "but his soc retary was a?clever feller." "Thai wai Lord Napier himself," responded the other, tat "1 bat laud Napier! Hy .lupiter sir, if he'll jn, come to Toxas we'il elect him to Congress.* in- ' Napoleon, seeing a short man among hit im grenadiers, said, " I'hou art very small for i di grenadier." The soldier instantly replied ra- j "If they took generals for their size rot ch would not be one." lie Lucy Stone, in a lecture in llangor, re ne cently said, 'We bear of hen pecked hus un band*, but nothing about rooster pocked, ter wives.' est If we don't, ti u because female ihukeni en can't crow to advantage. t x-r M. Wf 0 ??????^T????I?i r The National Metropolis. S Never, peihnp*, lias tlieie been such a display of industry about tlie publie buildings an at the present lime. So extensive were the appropriations of the late Con' gress, out of a full treasury, that employ* * inent in given to hundreds upon liuudrcd* 1 I of men, inmiy of whoin are happy thus to >' be able to support their families. '' | At the Department of the Interior?geu* c erally called the Patent Office, because j there the first deposit was of patents?we ! find nearly completed n marble building of | perfect Cirecian beaty. It is of magnificent r ' propot tion<, covering a whole square. Ou * three sides are beautiful porticoes with Do* e ric columns, the effect of which is indeed e most impressive. If a man could pais with ' telegrnphic s|>eed, on sotne lovely moruing, " I from the ruins of Athens or Koine to the | squares and triangles of \Va.-hiugto??, where ' 1 the anciont forms of architecture are repro! duced with such a freshness and beauty, be would obtain a vivid idea of the rising gloriesof our Western Republic, not to be ob* i scored, we liust, by the dark spirit of disun* ; ion. Indeed, the materials going into the construction of these buildings, spread about ' over acres of ground, being ot the most du* 0 rahlu quality, suggest, like so many syni' bols, the perpetuity of the Union. Who ' has made any proposal to stop the progress '* of these erections, as if they would not be s wanteJ here for an indefinite future? Nm one. I am more and more convinced thai all this clamor about dissolving the Union ' is for political effect. While Congress wu ' appropriating millions for improving this ' Federal city and ila vicinity, why did no r one rise and object? llecause there it agen9 ! eral expectation lhat this is to continue "forever" to be the metropolis of a united ' country. One long gallery in the above8 mentioned building is appropriated as a 8 repository for curiosities collected from all quarters of tire world; among (Item the fruits u of the exploring expeditions ordered bv the c Government. Some few relics of Wasting ton and Franklin arc hero preserved. The 9 "sword of Washington and the cane of 9 Franklin," the veritable, visible realities, ' grasped by those stupendous right hands, ' are gazed ou by thousands with an enthu9 siasm of veneration almost idolatrous. Well, 9 there's Franklin's press, too, a very different r thing, I assure you, from "Hoe's last fast,** but a uiighty engine, for nil that. These J sights do awaken a world of thought, for 9 those men, under God, changed the Caco of 9 the world. ' A thousand men are at work on the Cnpi 9 tol alone. That will be a wonder when ' completed. It is unsightly now, for the old 9 dome is broken off, and they nre just now 1 laying the foundations of the new and more ' splendid dome. Seventy two iron brackets, > weighing between two and three tons each, f have been lifted to the summit of the bnild9 ing by the aid of steam power, and are to 9 constitute the framework of the base. The 9 tluted columns, large and long, now lying ' on the ground, will soon be raised to their 1 places, and the proportions of the magnificent superstructure will begin to appear by 9 the lime the travellers go by for the While ' Sulphur Springs of Virginia. Walter, the ' architect, is ambitious to erect for himself a 9 monument at the same time, on the principle of Sir Christopher Wren's Circumspice. 1 Lntrobe's old dome had its day of adtnira9 lion and vituperation, as has (ireenough'a 9 silting statue of Washington in the eastern paik of the Capitol; but it has disappeared. 1 Randolph's sarcasms will endure as long as 9 the statues and paintings at which they are 1 | levelled, and the memory of the originals 1 | longer than either. Nothing can exceed ' the beauty of Crawford's work*, most of which are in shops adjacent to the Capitol, ' sorno in an unfinished state, the Italians be' ing at work upon them from the plaster " models. Among them are the Genius of ' America, robed in a starry mantle, the Ge' | niu* of War, of Peace, of Industry, of Knowledge, Arc. All these works aro destined to adorn some portion of the Capitol Extension, while the inieiior rooms are growing beautiful under the skill of the pic' torial artist*. Indeed this building will, of 4 itself, be a vast museum open to the gratuitous inspection of the people of the United States and of the world, without money and without price. The rustic Representative from the far interior, where arts and cities ' are unknown, will open his eyes and mouth > in wonder as lie looks upon the gorgeous 4 works of art destined to decorato the Capi tol. In truth, such is the profusion of ayiu, bolical ornament the Italian painters are ' putting on the w alls of the committee rooms, that most persons will require an intcrpre ' I or to bring them within the understanding. ' All this seems hardly compatible with the simplicity of our iiiatitHtiotis; but what shall the Government do with its superabundant money) ' Not far from the Patent Office building 5 is soon to be erected a Unman Catholic ' church, of the Gothic order, in the place of ' an old structuie that lias stood fifty year*. A meeting of the leaders of the congrega' lion was held this week, a layman called to 1 the chair, the priest being present and ad! vising. It was resolved "to erect a church ' becoming the porpetual historic grandeur ' of our holy faith, its steady dignified pror \ gross in this free country, and while at the r same lime it will be in keeping with the 1 well sustained efforts of the whole country to adorn our Federal Metropolis.*' The intention is to build a spacious church, cap* 1 bio of seating 0.000 people; length of the nave to l>? 211 feet, width 88 transept 174 | feet, and 88 wide; extreme altitude of the front elevation 812 feet. The space of ground covered by the edifice will be 88, 880 square feet Put little more than i 7.000 was subscribed to commence this , great enterprise. They purpose, however, i to employ five ears in the work, and there will be most assiduous and protracted sot licitation of moneys from our citizens until I the wroik ahall be completed. Foreign aid ( will no doubt V?e obtained, for the CathoI lie* are peraeveriog, and allow u<> dtatreee of debt to foice a tale of anv of ibeif t clnirfhe*. Corrtfpop<fft>ft of .Journal of Comment,