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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The comet. (search)
d it to be at least ninety degrees in length, perhaps a hundred, or nearly so. An old gentleman who saw the comet after midnight, when the head was down near the horizon, says that the tail extended up to the zenith, and beyond it. It was a magnificent sight, such as I never expected to see. "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty!" On Wednesday night the tail was vasily diminished in length, and on Thursday night the celestial visitor had vanished from view. Will Lieut. Maury, or some of your savants, inform us what comet this was? Was it, as many suppose, the comet of Charles V.? T. A Charlottesville correspondent takes a political view of the comet, and deems its visit at this time portentous. Thus the readers of the Dispatch are informed that-- In the reign of Manfrichi, of Italy, the appearance of a comet was regarded as a certain sign of the death of the King, and a change of Empire. The prediction was verified; Manfrichi was assassinated, an
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The comet. (search)
is now in a very flourishing condition, about one hundred young gentlemen having already entered, and the applications daily received for admission being numerous. The school bids fair to equal that of any military academy in the South. The chief instructor of the corps is Major George Ross, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, a thorough military man, who is aided by Capt. Thos. U. Dudley, Jr., of this city, as assistant instructor. Four lectures per week are to be delivered to the students by Prof. M. Schele de Vere and Dr. D. K. Tuttle, on military science, &c. The Cadets have already gone into camp, and the strictest discipline prevails. The University seems to be most excellently adapted for the above purpose. The following Cadet officers have been appointed, viz: Robt. E. Lee, Jr., (son of Gen. Lee,) Captain of Company A; John W. Maury, (son of Lieut. M. F. Maury,) 1st Lieut.; C. W. Trueheart, of Texas, Captain of Company B; Summerfield Smith, of Va., 1st Lieut.