The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1866, Page 10

me ———: METEORIC SHOWERS. Watching for the Display Last Night. THEIR APPEARANCE IN 1883. SCIENTIFIC VIEWS AND OBSERVATIONS. GRAND DISPLAY OF CELESTIAL PYROTECHNICS ke. ke. &e. iThe Watchers in This City. ‘Terspay MoxxinG—3 0’ Clock. The good folk of Gotham have been sadly disap- pointed. Spite of the predictions of the astronomers and tho apparent correctness of their calculations, the moteoric shower did not fall, and the grand display was Postponed, no doubt, until to-night. Between six o'clock in the ovening and three o'clock A. M. the only indication of the probable @courrence of a fall of aerolites was given by the appearance of several shooting stars of greater or lesser magnitude, which the expectant Durghers were fain to welcome, in liou of the promised spectacle, The New Yorkers, however, kept good ‘watch, while many a head rested uneasily on Its pillow, Jest the too close proximity of the ear to the down should deaden the sound of the fire bells which, in ac- cordance with the subjoined instructions, were to pro- claim with brazen tongues, the earliest signs of scintil- lation in the heavens. New Yorx, Nov. 12, 1860. At a meeting of the Metropolitan Fire Commissioners, held this morning, it was ordered that notice of the com- mencement of the meteoric shower, expected to take are on the morning of the 13th or 14th inst., be given ten strokes repeated threo times in quick succession on each of the fire bells throughont the city. CHAS. E. GILDERSLEEVE, Secretary. But neither the good intentions of the Fire Commis- stoners, nor the careful computations published by the Hars_p had safficient influence with the motors of the heavenly bodies to effect a displacement of their particles with any regard to punctuality, and the star-gazers were compelled to seek their couches unsatisfied, and to await the developments of which this night will probably be productive, Watching tor the Meteoric Phenomenon at Washinaton. ‘Wasumetox, Nov. 12, 1866. Alerge number of our citizens have already begun ‘their vigils, in order to witness the coming grand display of celestial pyrotechny. Upto the present time (mid- night) very little of the meteoric phenomena has occurred to reward the patience of observers, and it is thought ‘that the sublime exhibition will not take place before ‘the morning of the 14th inst, Shooting stars are to be @eon to-night in greater numbers than usual, which ‘would seem to indicate that the orbit of the carth is mearing the point where it will cross the me- teoric region. The most of the shooting stare @beerved to-night have passed from the constellation Orion towards Sirius, in Canis Major, varying in dura- tion from one to six seconds. Itis pogsible that the more brilliant part of the starry shower may occur @uring to-morrow, but from the closest reckoning that ‘ean be made astronomors fix the period for its yeep on or immediately succeeding midnight of the 13th inst, the National Observatory observations commenced at past ten this evening, Admiral Davis superintend- Sng, assisted by Professors Ferguson, Eastman and several other scientific gentiomen. it is the intention of those gentlemen to continae these observations until the shower occurs. the ‘tho anticipated ‘aieplay but it has found necessary to rigidly exclade every Aion except those engaged in the observations. Notwithstanding the Observatory is docated a considerabie distance from the bailt portion of ‘the city, and the road to it is dare and lonely, a @encourse of people have assembled there aa: ly lene | whatever intelligence may bo given from the dome of the building. Wasurxcton, Nov, 13—2 A. M. No unusual astronomical signe. The sky 1s vory clear and the stare are shining brightly. The profeesors say they anticipate no meteoric display to-night. The Trojans on the Watch. i Troy, N. Nov. 18-2 A. M. Immense crowds appeared on the leading streets this evening to watch the astronomical phenom- @mon of the day. Constellation Leo, together with the Sickle, was visible at the horizon @t 11:60. This was the point indicated by the gatronomers, from which it was expected the bulk of the Eres aerolites would appear. Up to this hour some ® dozen bave, been visible from the Rensselaer —— Institute, but none of them of unusual mag- At this moment a magnificent blaze of ligtt illumined = sky for an instant, and 1 am told that it oe mm a very large meteor that emanated from a point Mear the Dog Star, Siriug, and pursued a westerly direc- Men until out of eight. The New Orleans People on the Lookout. New Onteans, Nov. 12, 1866 The grand meteoric dispiay between midnight and @awn promises to be suachagd by many. No the phencpengR 3 pee a THE $HENOMENON OF 1833. ‘We extract the following observations and letters from Journals published at the time the meteoric showers of 1833 occurred :— Bautimore, Nov. 13, 1838, ‘To tae Epitor or tae Bartiwonr Patnior; ‘Boing up this morning, at five o'clock 1 witaessed one gf.the moat grand and arming. spectacles which ever d upow the eye of man. The light in my room was 80 great that I could see the hour of morning by my ‘watch, which hung over my maotlo, and supposing that ‘there was fre near at hand, Layewyl my own premi~ eee, 1 sprung to the window and beheld the stars, or fome other bodies presenting a fiery appearance, descend. in Lorrents as rapid and numerous as I ever saw es of snow or drops of rain in the midst of @ storm, Ovceasionally a large body of apparent fire would be hurled through the atmosphere, which, without noise, exploded, when millions of fery particles would be cast through the air. To the eye {t preseuted the appearance of what may be called a ralning of fire, for I can compare It to no- ‘thing Ite continuance, ac ording to my time, was, from tbe moment when I first ‘alecovered. it, twenty Winutes; but a friend, whose lady was up, says tt com- Menced at half-past four, that she was watching the sick ‘bed of a relative, and therefore can speak positively as to the bout its commencement. If her Ome wae cor- Peot, then it rained dre filty minutes. The shed in the adjoining »\ard to my own was covered with stars, aI suppose , during the whole time. friend at my elbow, who also witneseed it, in whose ‘veracity I can place the most implicit reliance, confirms my own observation of the phenomenon, and adds that the fery particies which fell south descended in a south- @rp direction, and those nortt) took a northern direction. tbinks it commenced earlier than the period at which Gret wi it and that it lasted longer—that when a chimed siz there wero tii! oocasional descents otars. T bave st the facts as they | hepa themselves to my mind, and leave it to the philosophers to account for the phenomenon. {From the Baltimore Gazette, date } ‘While most of our fellow citizens were comfortably im the arms of Somnus we beheld one of the nd awful spectacles which nature can pre- clock this morning the ay was porfectiy cloud was to be seen. On a sudden the Numigated with thousands of shooting Stare going in the direction of the northwest. The phe- Bhomenon lasted without iptermiason for nearly thirty minutes. The meteors wore of various sizes, some larger, some smaller, some — long trains, which Femained for several seconds in the heavens. They ‘Were observed, not in one part of the sky only, but the Rorth, the south, the east and the west were equally Spangied. Attwenty minutes five a meteor, ould euppose, about six inches in diameter, exploded ‘With considerable noise, almost perpendicularly over the Morth west part of the city. The blaze was splendid, so a# io give the sky the appearance of sunrise, It shot in direction of the northwest, leaving a stroam of light which aseomed a corpentine form, apparently of thirty feet in length, sud lasted more than one minute. We wore amused at the different | produced upon the fow beholders—some. jn dreadful ht, predicted the end of the world, others, of more stern | were prognosticated some dreadful war; er, emiling at their Py rg calm. >menon, wonderful as it was. @ philosopt fy viewed the phen [From the Baltimore American of Nov. 14. BastiMoxr, 1 mo. Taunt To THE EDITORS. —My attention was arrosted at eet fear o’ciook this morning by an unueval number of me- ppoted to be fying horieontally tp all from one centre, which appeared to be directly where I then stood; but op moving to a of about one and a haif miles I fongd the gen- and those m which shorter than Fed 10 Any direction around from fed that their course wae. porpendiguler b ast five from four to rain fre, and whil at it ee aren ceo vere te it iy cree Charles etrost, At is then curling to neat Dgure of three, fe ning towards (he east tijl re vn wet TY whtoh Peetr pumber inc: NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. then spread into the appearance of a light cloud and dis- | speak) above the surface of the earth? If this cloud isible at least ten minutes, appeared, after remaining vis! ae ae om amnaroun, Md wor. J 3000, ; Wedne: morning, the 13th fpst., - past Bony cele rumored” oe certain, from XS, yeeros h front as whether ber window whic! Stiga mene og . The mae hed the morning star unwont ri innoy od beauty, the whole rmament was absolutely cloudless, and all the starry host twinkled with a dazzling lustre. But the atmosphere near the earth presented a remarkable and at a first view @ startling appearance. 1 was illuminated with what are usually called mating stars, each line of falling Hght obeying the same law motion, describing the arc of a circle, and resembling the track of @ descending rocket, none of them directly gravitating, many very near to the carth, and all of them tending westward. These meteors had two dis- tinct appearances—one was a dull red colored line, simi- lar to {ron visibly heated; the other that of the splendid radianco of a star, or of a rocket just explosed. ‘The whole atmosphere was filled with these flery lines, many of them having visibly accelerated m the usual precursor to their becoming brilliant. | There was no in- termission to them until the reddening sky prociaimed the rising sun, This unusual display of gas Nght created no alarm, be- cause unaccompanied by the universal attondants upoi terror to intelligent nature, ‘the strife of element “the rocking of the battlements.” The first anxious lance meta full assurance that no apprehension could entertained for life or property. That they were gaseous fluid in distinct spaces, and in a state of ignition, could not be questioned, because they were too light to be subject to direct gravitation. Their curvatures resulted from that impuision which proceeds from rarified bodies upheld by dense media, and their uniformity of direction was maintained by the near ap- proach of the sun expanding tue eastern hemisphere, aud the density of the air near the earth preventing sud- den depression. ‘Tho elements of bodies are few, and to their transpo- sitions and varied proportions we ‘owe the infinite com- Dinations of matter with which we are surrounded, Chemical philosophy, although yet 1 its Infancy, -in- forms us that we have perfect synthesis as well as analy- sis in the formation of two common substances. Water decomposed gives oxygen and hydrogen; these collected and reunited again form water; #0, too, azote and hydro. gen compose ammonia, and ammonia subject to analysis gives azote and hydrogen. If we cannot in all instances reproduce the bodies changed by chemical action, ex- plain their modes, or successfully imitate nature in their formation, it is because of the present feeble state of science and the imperfection of our senses. Phosphorus, sulphur, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon end the electric fluid enable us to solve satisfactorily all the variety of light familiar to our senses ; but which of these were concerned in the beautiful phenomenon of which Ihave been speaking 1 cannot say with absolute cer- tainty; and how, in this temperate latitude, such an unusual quantity of inflammable wriform fluids could be collected I cannot even hazard a conjecture, Your re- spectful, obedient servant, SAMUEL B. SMITH, M. D., United States Army. Views of Professor Olmsted. The following paper on the remarkable meteoric phe- nomenon which was exhibited over all parts of the United States on the morning of the 13th of November, 1833, bas beon furnished by Professor Olmsted, of Yale College, New Haven:— On comparing the accounts that were given of the “falling stare” In various pla it 1s found that the ap- pearances were everywhere nearly the same, being, with slight variations, as follows:—The meteors began to at- tract notice by their frequency as early as nine o'clock ‘on the preceding evening; the exhibition became strik- ingly brilliant about eleven, but most splendid of all ‘about four o'clock, and continued with but little diminu- tion until merged in the hght of day. A few large fire balls were seen even after the sun had arisen. The entire extent of the exhibition is not yet ascertained with pre- cision, but it covered no inconsiderable portion of the earth’s surface, It has been traced from the longitude of sixty-one dogrees in the Atlantic ocean, to longitude one hundred degrees in central Mexico, and from the North American lakes to the southern side of the Island of Jamaica, It was not seen, however, anywhere in ay ay nor in South America, nor in any part of the Pacific Ocean yet heard from, Everywhere within the above named limits the first appearance was that of fire- works of the most imposing grandeur, covering the ontire vault of heaven with myriads of fire balls resembling eky rockets. Un more attentive inspection it was scen geanine meteors ee one —— Novice Ino rst, consisting of pbosphoric lines, apparently de- scribed by a point; the second, of large fire Dalle, that at intervals darted along the sky, Jeavi trains which occasionally re- mained in view fora number of Cries) and, in some casos, for half an hour or more; the third, of undefined Juminous bodies, which remained nearly stationary in the heavens for along time. Those of the first variety were ‘he most numerous, and resembled a shower of fiery snow driven with inconceivable velocity to the north of west. The second kind appeared more hke falling stars, giving to frag O tosigg the impression that the stars were actually from the sky—a spectacle which was contemplated the more unenlighted beholders t amazement aud terror. These fire balls were nally of enormous sise, Dr. Smith, of North Car- Olina, doscribes one which appeared larger than the full moon rising. “I ”” he saya, ‘‘etartled by the splen- did light in which the surrounding scene was exhibited, rendering even small objects quite visible.” One of the most remarkable circumstances attending this display was that the meteors al} seemed to apeeoed from one and the same point—that ia, if their lines of di- reotion had been continued backward they would have met ip the same it, southeast a little from the zenith. They set out at diferont distances from this point, and following the arch of the sky, ran along the vault with immense velocity, describing in some instances an arc of thirty degrees or forty degrees in lose than four eeconda The trains which they left were commonly white, bat were sometimes tii with various prismatic col One ball (seon at Now Haven, and supposed to have been identical with one described lig obgervere) that shot off in the northwest direction, and exploded Hille northward of the star Capella, left putt eblnd the of explosion & phosphorescent in of peculiar ine ly straight, oe ity. The Ii Spey ea ut {f soon Regan tin ru apatg breadtn’ aad Pokabuie Be itaare ofa serbahe id pro up, until it ere ke @ small luminous cloud ‘fapor. This cloud was borne eastward (by the wind, as was supposed, which was blowing gently in that di- Ficsrwen By 21 ocho Pony hp Sind the meteor had remaining in aight ser minutes. Of the third variety of meteors the following are re- markable ree em At Poland, Obio, a lumiuoue body ‘Was distinctly visible in the northeast for more than ap hour. It was very brilliant, in the form of a proning hook, and apparently twenty feet long and eighteen inches broad. It ually settled towards the horizon until it disap| At mo tleis ‘a large luminous boay, ehaped like a equare table, was seen nearly in the zenith, rethaining for some time almost stationary, emit- streams of light. At Charleston, 8. a me. xtraordi size wag seen to course the heavens ant GF the point from which the as observed by those who fixed ite position among the stars to be in the copstella- tion Leo. At New Haven it appeared in the bend of the sickle (a collection of stars in the breast of Leo) a little he westward ofthe star Gamma Leonia. By observ- other places remote {rom each other, it was seen @ sane constellation, although in different parts of it, a change of position supposed wo be owing to the effect of parallax. An important observation, first published by the writer of this article and since confirmed by the concurrent testimony of ail the observers who remarked the position of the foregoing radiant point among the fixed stars is, that this point was stationary among the stars during the whole period of observation—that 1 that it did not move along with the earth to its diurnal revolution eastward, but accompanied the stars in their Apparent progress westward. According to the testimony of by far the greater nam- ber of obser the meteors were unaccompanied by aby peculiar sound, but on the other band such a sound supposed to proceed from the meteors was said to be dis- tinctly heard by a few observers in various places. It is well known, however, that persons unaccustomed to making observations in the suilness of night are apt, when listening at such times, to hear sounds which they associate with apy remarkable phenomenon that happens to be present, although wholly unconnected with it, The question, therefore, whether any sound from the meteors must rest for ite decision on the circum- stances of the case, such as the peculiarity of the sounds and their uniformity as deecribed by different observers, In the present case the sounds to b heard by @ few observers are biesing noise, like the rushing of a sky rocket, or as ight explosions, 11! he bursting of the same bodies, These comparisons are thought to occur too uniformly and ip too many instances to permit the supposition ‘hat they were either imaginary or were derived trom ex- traneous sources. It is pot held as a fact well established that any sub- stance reached the ground which can be considered as a residuum or deposit from the meteors, although indica- tions of such a substance were supposed to be discovered by different observers, A remarkable change of weather from warm to cold accompanied the meteoric shower, or immediately fol- lowed it, In all parts of the United States this change was remarkable for ite suddenness and intensity. fs May places the day preceding had been unusually Wart for the season, but before morning a severe frost eneved, unperalieied for the time of year, Indeed Seasons and atmospheric changes exhibited remari anoma! jong after that period, a fact which it may be well to place on record to compare with future observa- Gone, although it may be im ‘ible to decide at present whether or not these irregularities had any connection With the phenomenon in question, Thus, at Michili- aan bmn god oar was the season through- out the latter par jovember and the whole of = Der that the Indians made m ring: tht month, and the contiguous lak late as the 3d of January, At the ani riod the season in the southwestern States, aa far as New Orieans, resented either as a fogar during this ned unfrozen as unneually cold, In most parte of New Engiand an un- commonly mild winter was succeeded by a rem: ‘kably cold and backward spring, requiring domestic fr kindled throughout the month of May and frequently in the month of June. A succession of gales commenced about the time of the meteoric shower, first in the At- Jantic Ocean and yarde in various parte of the United States, almost unequalled in this country for their frequency and nce. 7 In entering on the of these my ue phenomena, it is © firet pince, that the meteors: origin beyond the limits of our atmos =p that they, of course, did not belong to this ut to the regions Of space exterior to it. All bodies near the earth, lncleding § ie itwelf, have a com. mon motion with the earth round its azis from weet to enst; but the radiant point that indicated the source emanated from which the meteors Lo gd the course it of the stars from east to woat; inde. pendent of the earth’s rotation, and oon wy ata aad beyond the |imile of the at. = distance from it joaphere, Raving established thie poin what is the hi the pext inquiry in, it of the piace w! Coedgg~iat ia hbo Dela oh the nee the meteors pro- been ry iteelf, le ry with pparen' to be pothesis, bas Pater hi carth, wore not too distant from the earth to have a parallax, rs remote from each other would refer it to dif. ferent points in the heavens. If, for example, an ob- server at Boston marked the position of the cloud by « certain star,one in South Carolina would refer itto a Point farther north, and gne in Ohio would see it farther east, The former change of place is cailed lax in declination, and the Boer pnsies, in right nsion 5 and a parallax either way affords the means of estimating the helght of the object above the surface of the earth, in the same manner as we estimate the height of a com- mon cloud, Now it has been ascertained that observations made in different latitudes indicated a cometponticarpenaien® in declination, gnd these observations, being collected and carefully compared with each other, tance from the surface of the earth miles, as the height of the meteoric cloud. The anomalies, however, in regard to the corresponding differences of it ascen- sion are such that Mr. A. C. Twining 1s of the opiuion that the change of apparent position in the héavens in advancing from north to south was Fad} to some other cause than parallax. We also consider this estimate of tho distance of the meteoric cloud as only an approxima- tion, the best that can be derived from data that are im- perfect and sometimes discordant, and regard it as prob- aple that the real source of the meteors was considerably more distant than the limit hore assigned. Material substances comparatively so near the earth as two or three thousand miles would be seongiy affected by the earth’s gravity, and bodies constituted of exceed- ingly light materials (as the meteors will presently bo shown to have been) would be readily attracted down to the earth from such a height. Gravity, therefore, being Doth a known and an adequate cause, is assigned as the force by which the meteors were drawn or impelled to- wards the earth, and hence it is inferred that they fel! in parallel lines directed to the centre of the earth, Although it is doubtful, trom the want of the requisite data, whether the source of the meteors or the height of the meteoric cloud has been accurately ascertained, yet the limit above estimated is confidently believed not to exceed the actual distance. According to the estab- lished laws of falling bodies, the inquiry is next insti- tuted, what velocity the meteors would acquire jn falling from 4 point 2,238 miles above. the carth to within fifty miles of its surface, this being considered as nearly the height of the atmosphere. ‘The calculation gives nearly avelocity of four miles per second as that with which the meteors entered the earth’s atmosphere, a velocity more than ten times the maximum velocity of a cannon ball, and about nineteen times that of soun It must be recollected that the atmosphere diminishes in density very rapidly as we ascend the earth until at the height of fifty miles it is so rare as hardly to oppose Jeast resistance to a ape 3 moving init. Itis well known that when air is suddenly compressed a great quantity of heat is extricated from it. A litle instrument is con- structed on this principle for lghting tinder, by forcing down a solid piston upon a con- fined column of air in a@ small barrel. A rk is elicited which ignites tinder at the bottom of the barrel. In the same manner the meteors, on enter- ing the atmosphere, produced a sudden and powerful compression of the air before them, thus extricating heat suflicient to produce in them an intense ignition, and if they were combustible to set them on fire. The meteors were constituted of very light, combnati- dle materials, Their combustibility was rendered evident by their exhibiting the actual phenomena of combustion, being consumed or converted into emoke with intense light and heat, and the extreme tenuity of the substance composing them is inferred from the fact that they were stopped by the air. Had their quantity of matter been considerable, with so prodigious a velocity, they would have had sufficient momentum to le them to reach the earth, and the most disastrou: aces might have followed. Upon submitting th subject to accurate calculation on established principles, it is ascertained that tho quantity of heat extricated from the air by the fall- ing meteors exceeded that of the hottest furnaces, and can be compared only to those immeasurable degrees of heat produced in the Inporatory of the chemist, before which the most refractory substances are melted, and even dissipated in vapor, and of course it was abundantly adequate to account forall the effects of ition and combustion which were actually observed. . Twining indeed supposes the meteors to have had a relative velo- city arising from the earth’s motion towards them, inde- pendent of the motion here supposed to arise from grav- ity, and that they fell towards the earth with a velocity of fourteen instead of four miles per second, Should this estimate prove the more correct, it will not set aside the conelusions based upon the idea of the meteor’s fall- ing into the atmosphere with very great velocity ; but the intensity of the cause and its Sees, to juce the effects ascribed to it will be proportionally augmented. Some of the larger meteors must have been bodies of large size. If we know the actual distance of a lu- minous body and its apparent diameter, compared with that of the moon, it is easy to compute its real dimen- sions. In the present case we have no means of ascor- taining the exact distance of any meteor from the ob- server, ond can only make probable suppositions. Dr. Smith, of North Carolina, and other persons in various places, saw a meteor which appeared as large as the full moon. If this body were at the distance of 110 miles from the observer it must have had a diameter of one mile, if at the distance of eleven miles its diameter was feet, and if only one mile off it must havo been for- Dare feet in diameter. These considerations leave no bt that many of the meteors were bodies of large proves that they terials; still the quantity of amoke or residuum which re- sulted from their indicates that their quan- tity of matter wan considerable, The momentum of even Ne it bodies of such size and in such numbers traversin, 0 with such astonishing velocity mi have produced extensi ts in the Ppheric Theso ve jaitibrium. bodies were stopped in the atmosphere their motion t columns of air, h would be Leong wd and a q jons wou! ine’ poe of alr jncum- equilibrium eae the opinion early suggested, pt of the meteoric shower, and sequence from which the most formidable dangers at- tending ppenomena of iy kind are A be Sees. wi Metecrs jn there is feason’ fo believe . A credil though de reached tha eros yet there is Alt case that sometimes descended very a 1ccB 80 peculiar that it was a fit object upon whi to boild the Inquiry, whether the same meteor was seen by ote from each other. If this were the fact, then the Hiterent points in the heavens to which difterent ob- servers would refer it would furnish data for estimating its height. Mr. Twining has rendered it probable that the fact was 80, and undead upon it the estimate that the place where the meteor ex- ploded was twenty-nine and a half miles above the surface of the tarth. Some circumstances, how- ever, mentioned by the writer of the article in the American Journal of Science still render it somewhat doubtful whether any single meteor could be identified as seen by different and distant observers; and other facts strongly indicate that the place of explosion was uch nearer to the earth than the Imit assigned by Mr. winin, With regard to the nature of the sapiens, se estab- Nshing the fact that, they were combustible, jt and transparent bodies, it is inferred that the cloud which produced the fiery shower consisted of nebulous matter analogous to that which composes the tails of comets, We do not know, indeed, precisely what is the constitu- tion of the material of which the latter are Composed; but wo kmow that it is very light, since It meets no ap- preciable force of attraction on Janets, moving even among the satellites of Jupiter without disturbing their motions, although {ts own motions, in such cases are greatly disturbed, thus Proving its materiality; and we know that in ahi een S ee ce stars are visil roug! lence, gather any knowledge of the material of the nebulous matter of comets, and of the matter composing the me- teors of November 13, they appear to be analogous to each other. Various hypotheses have been to account for thie wonderful phenomenon. agent readily suggests aon = most other Ratural appearances is electricity. of electricity are juate to account pM nction of the meteors, for the motions which they ex- hibited, or for the trains which they in many instances lett behind them. And if this agent to have some connection with the light and heat which they ex- hibited, it may be replied that the compression of the ar which must result from the progress of large bodies throngh it ie a sufficient cause of these. In electri. city itself, according to the most rational view, owes its light and heat Wo she oo eee nae been assigned as the princi; agen! jeern 4 ducing the meteoric shower. The Aurora Borealis and the remarkable Auroral Arches which occasionally appear in the sky, have been found to have peculiar relations to the magnetism of the earth, arranging themectves in obedience to the laws of magnetic attraction. Some. thing of this Kind was supposed by some to appear dur- ing the meteoric phenomenon, eapecially in the position of the apparent sean which was, as noticed La r-4 observers, very nearyy in the place towards La ping needie ie directed. From other Observations, how. ever, it is proved that the radiant port was not station- ary With respect to the meridian, but accompanied the stare in their westerly progress, anid of course that such cy t coincidence with the pole of the dipping needle was purely accidental, Moreover, were magnet. lem competent vo expiain the direction of the meveors it would still leave their production unaccounted for. Hydrogen gas, or phosphoretted hydrogen, has been alleged as another cause of the meteoric shower. Collec. Hone, of this meostanee, it hee bese a oll IC haled jato the higher regions 4 esis of the formation of ignes 1, aod snes veuetimee ‘eon called Voto ad ieity bas sou . It ie sufficient to say of this hy- a cause pot known to exist, ip not sufficient to to the view that before mentioned as having exploded near the star Capella, left a train which ‘exhibited persone ng to th becomit H the entire 5 that it je assign long stati with respect to time of a satellite revolving in 8 cirole at ite mean motion at the ale og 3,026 (or nearly four) m! per jn an eccentric ellipse at it ive and @ balf) miles nly Incompatible with in question was a satellite te Mahonary With resuecy 10 hours; a period sufficient to bave carried it nearly round the earth eS Ceasar OF, and through many degrees of @ parabolic orbit Nor can we suppose that the earth in its annnal pro- gress came into the vicinity of Secey which was either stationary or wandering lawless through space. Such a collection of matter could not remain station: within the solar system in an insulated state; and had been in motion in any other direction than that in which the earth was moving it would soon have been separated from the earth, since, during the eight hours while tne meteoric shower fasted (and perhaps it lasted much longer) the earth moved in its orbit through the space of hte hy uh i in projecting a to represent the respective places of the earth in its orbit and the place of the body which afforded the meteoric shower on the morning of the 13th of November, there is exhibited the remarkable fact that the earth, in its annual revolution, was moving almost directly towards the point from which the meteors roceeded, varying from it bat two and a quarter degrees. Now, the meteoric cloud remained apparently at rest, and of course nearly in the earth’s path for at least two hours, Thisit could not have done unloss it had been moving nearly in the same direction as the earth, and with nearly the same angular velocity around the sun, For, had it been at rest, the earth, moving at the rate of nineteen miles per second, would have overtaken it in Jess than two minutes; or had \t been moving in the op- ame direction, the meeting would have occurred in still 88 ime; or, had not the angular velocities of the two bodies been nearly equal, they could not have romainod go long stationary with respect to each other, Hence it ts inferred, first, that the body which afforded the mesons was pursuing its way along with the earth round the sua, The Mimits of the present article do not permit us to ex- hibit int full the reasoning by which the other conclu- sions mentioned in the Jowrnal of Science are sustained. These are, second, that the body revolvea around ‘the sun in an elliptical orbit, but little inclined to the plane of the ecliptic, and having its aphelion near the orbit of the earth. Third, that the body has a period of nearly six months, and its perihelion a little below the orbit of Mercury, The articie from which most of the foregoing particu- lars have been taken concludes with some account of a remarkable light seen in the east at the time of the me- teoric phenomenon, and subsequently in tho west after twilight at different times until the month of May, which light assumed different aspects, corresponding apparently to those which the body revolving around the sun in tho manner contemplated by the theory would occupy. Hence it was conjectured that this luminous appearance proceeded from the body itself which afforded the me- teoric shower, Should future observation establish the truth of this conjecture, the tact would afford a striking confirmation of the theory, but the theory is founded on evidence independent of this last consideration. It is also suggested that this light may resu't from the same cause as the Zodiacal light, and that the latter unex- plained phenomenon perhaps results from a nebulous iy cern Oe around the sun interior to the orbit of the earth, We cannot conclude this sketch withont adverting for & moment to the provident care which the Creator has displayed in shiclding the earth from the direful effects which the “ery shower”? might, without such care, bave unquestionably produced, the meteors been constituted of materials a little more dense their mo- mentum would have enabled them to reach tho earth; and had they otopen their course three seconds longer it is impossible to Penceive of the calamities which would have ensued by tWe descent to the earth of bodies of such magnitude, glowing with the most intense heat, Half the continent must have been involved in one com- mon destruction. OCCURRENCES OF SIMILAR PHENOMENA, 1769.—On tH 12th of November, at Cumana, in South America, thousands of metcors or falling stara were seon to succeed each other Kt, Sar hours. Of this exhibi- tion an account is given by Humboldt and Bonpland. 1803.—In the month of April, in somo parts of tho United States, a similar phenomenon presented itself. According to the Richmond G@azetle (Va), “From one until three in the morning starry meteors seemed to fall from every point in the heavens in such numbers as to resemble a shower of sky rockets,” 1832,—On the 13th of November remarkable exhibi- tions of meteors or shooting stars were seen at Mocha in Arabia, and on the 29th of the same month in various parts of England. For further information ting these phenomena seo the article in the Journal of Science above referred to, volume 10, pages 132 to 137. ‘From Niles Register, November, 1833.) A gentleman was at the office of the ister on the 18th inst., just arrived from tho West, said that he had seen not only the phenomenon above described, but a similar one. except Jess briliiant, when crossing the Al- Jeghanies, two or three nights before. The phenomencn above described was seen at many north and south. At New York and at Alexan- Gria, it was observed as. carly as twelve o'clock, but most bniliant betweon four and five o’clook. It is’by all described as having been very magnificent and rally sky was bart the time, without a Lrncusura, Va, Nov. 13, 1833, To rar Eprroxs or Tux Lrvcupora Virarxian:— On this morning (November 13), between two o’clock ted with a most beautifal ic phenomenon of November, 1! At ten o'clock last night I was struck with the un- common of the and brilliance of the stara, having my attention thus called to the peculiar state of the air I felt a t repetition of the tremulous motion of the earth which has wi edly been observed in this vicinity of late. don ths morn'ng, made thelr Rest uppearen . asp our hemisphere betwoen two and three o'clock, bat 1 not notice them until about five o'clock. number and brightness of the meteors that time indescribably beautiful. from the southeast to tho From the § Hi 4 ij i itt was over an arc of about fifty decrees. ‘was most brilliant to the south and wost of Lynchburg, at an elevation of from thirty to sixty degrees, The meteors vanished from sight without a visibie or audible explosion, and for the most part without scientillations. No appearance of the aurora borealis was observed, nor the slightest vapor of any kind. The air continued, as on the evening before, entirety pellucida. At balf-past six o'clock the thermometer stood at fifty- be Y Fahrenheit, Oe een at twenty-nine Inobes and fonr-tentha, and grometer at about twenty-eight degrees. No change was noticeable in the Magnetic dip, variation or intensity. Gold leaf elec- trometers were excited by a touch ; ynett's, placed on the prime conductor, with the oushion osu! |, Towe on & slight motion of the machine. The pendulum of DeLue’s dro pile waa accelerated, Your most obedient servant, F. G. SMITH. In @ book recently published, called “The Geography of the Heavens,” with a celestial atlas, by E. H. Bur- ritt, A. M., 104, 19634, an account isgiven of a scene similar to the above, ‘Mr. Andrew Ellicott, who was sent out as our eommis- sioner to fix the boundary between the Spanish posses- sions in North pmore one Be Cates States, Minigame a very extraordinary flight of s! stare, wi the whole atmosphere trons Cape Pineda to the West India island: rand phenomenon took piace tne 12th of November, 1790, and is thus described:—‘I was | called up,’ says Mr. Ellicott, ‘about three o’ciock in the moruing, to see the shooting stars, as it is called. The whole heavens as iituminaved with sky rockets, light of the sun after at one instant of time flew in all possible 2, which di daybreak. = peared as Humerous as the stars, deeene, except from the earth, towards which they all inclined more or leas, and some of them descended rpendicularly over the vi wo were in, so that I was fr constant x ‘tation of their bemog He us’ ?? The notion that this phenomenon ‘ens high winds is of great antiquity. id in the first book of Geor- gics, expresses the same idea: — “and oft, before wind arise ine atten tars fall boadtong from the ktos, And shooting through the darkness, gild the night With sleeping glories, and Tong arti of light." The sul of astronomy is a peculiarly delightful study, mo ppt 9 Taed to serious contemplation of thore stupendous works of the Almighty, above ali other departments of human knowledge. “An undevout astronomer is mad."” only by the rs, which The Richmond Whig copies the following article from the Richmond (Virginia) Gasette, of April 8, 1803, which Goscribes a similar phenomenon — seemed to fall from every in such brag ae to re- The starry meteors point in the heavens < semble @ sbower of sk about one o'clock, and contineed until teeta the morning, and wi fire that had brok: ofa reports resembling the di pistol. Several of the largest of these shooting mete. ore were observed to descend almost to the ground be- . = ey, ont bey ‘i saw ay wa within « iw 1e house saps ved then suadenty to vaniab. ogre told, were go alarmed that armory was occastoned and in place of repa! to inguish the flames they busted themselves in ppg A protect the roofs of their bouses from the The Newburyport Heraid of December, 1709, has an account of s similar pb which happened on the 12th of November preceding. It was seen oy Cap- tan Woodman and the crow of the brig Nympb, in iat. » fy.’ ‘11, returning from 8t. mn jy two Me he atmosphere stare—I may say thousands of shooting and blazing in Sar in ® most @xiraordimary and alarming manner, , Barritt's Astronomy speaks of the phenomenon of 1 ply t th ‘Woodman, which was pity! pry ae ge | dw and by M. Bonpiand, at jp South America, pointe (from Baltimore) at which this |, 60 far as our information hereafter—the various accounts for that Re It seems probable that a space of not fess than eight bun- dred to one thousand miles square was illuminated by H ings the editor @f the Nileg Register mentions that more than thirty years when from New Castle to Wilmington, Del. be. tween eleven o'clock inthe evening, ina nw a friend since deceased, one of those meteors w! are called “fire balls” so near, and in a descending direction, as hardly to escape the top of the It seemed to be about eight inches in diameter, and shed a sudden and broad light—passing on swiftly and with a rushing sound, but did not appear to emit either heat or smell, The horse in the aig was so much alarmed and trembled so violently that we feared he would fall down, ‘The editor had previously seen one or two of these balls, 4n4, Rent rather surprised than alarmed, was ag near to this one as he wished to be, and yet, perhaps, it had ‘Ro substantiality in it. The Salem Register of the 18th of November, 1833, has the following paragraphs, detailing certain wonderful Coincidences connected with the phenomenon of shooting j It appears that Captain Hammond, of the ship Restt- tution, and bis crew, who arrived at this port from Palermo, have had the extraordinary good fortune of witnessing this wonderful phenomenon twice within a year, 'y saw the meteors as early as twelve o'clock, and viewed them till daylight. The appearance ot the heavens was Very similar to that of an occurrence which happoned exactly on the same day of the month apd year at Mocha, in tho Red Sea, mere then went for pepper, Captain Hammond thus describes sight fea locha, in an extract from his Journal, written at the time: — Nov. 13, 1833.—From one A. M. until after daylight this morning there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens. It appeared like meteors bur-ting in every direction, The sky at the time clear, the stars and moon bright, with streaks of light, and thin white clouds in- terspersed in the sky, On going on shore in’ the morn- ing I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above; they said they had been observing it most of the night. Tasked them if the like had ever appeared bes fore. The oldest of thom replied that it iad not, 1 asked them to wliat cause they attributed it. The an- swor was, ‘they supposed the devil wag at work,” and they considered it an ill omen, which of course was natural, as they were daily pressgrnys | an army to bestege the city. For the last six days it has been blowing a pre 3 gale from the south, hazy weather and sand in e air. FORMER METRORIO SHOWERS. The only three great meteoric showers on record all took place on the morning of November 13, viz:—In South America, November 13, 1779; at Mocha, Novem- ber 13, 1882, and in the United slates, November 13, THE SOUTHERN PRESS ON THE ELECTIONS. The Elections Carried by Violent Charges Against the South. [From the Memphis Commercial and Argns, Nov. 8 } @ canvass has been characterized by an energy and excitement heretofore unparalieled in our poiltical history. On the part of the radicals no effort has been spared to socure an overwhelming trinmph. Every ap- peal calculated to excita and inflame the prejrdices and passions of the Northern mind has been made to in- finence the result. It is said that the issues to be decided were the same as discussed at Shiloh, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Appomattox, and on the, other battle fields of the Jate war; that the oppressed and persecuted Union men of the South looked to the result of the elections with an anxiety that could only be appreciated by those who understood their terrible situation, and that it would declare a pur- pose either to sustain them or abandon them to their merciless persecutora; that the democracy had com- mitted hundreds of murders in New Orleans and Mem- phis, and everywhere used the power of the government tocrush the Joyal and elevate the disloyal, and that it sought to plange the country into another civil war by imducing the President to assemble a lawless body of Southern traitors and Northern copperheads, and ‘ize it as the legal Congress of the United States. Such is a sample of the charges that have been made through the columns of every radical paper in the North, and upon which the changes have been rung until the powers of imagination and falsehood haue been exhausted. And violent and unfoonded ag were these charges, they have been excelled in malignancy and fero- city by radical orators, among the vilest of whom wero the renegades from the South, who traversed the greater portion of -the North, exciting and inflaming tho minds of the people with their false- houndmg them in their maduess, and even proposing to march with torch and turpentine to the destruction and desolation of the South. With those appeals to the ignorant and fanatical was tho still stronger element of wealth in the immense capital invested in manufactures, whose jer to extort hundreds of millions of dollars annual! the of the United States through the iniqui- tous jons of a ctive tariff depends upon the perpetuation of radical ascendancy. With these poten- tia} Influences operating in favor of their enemies. it is not a matter of that Be pee the South, whose interests and welfare depend so materially upon the termination of the issue, should feel a profound solicitude in the result. The North Determined to Oppress the Sou [From the Charleston (8. 0.) News, Nov. 8. The returns from all these States have re ceived, nor may those which we bave received be entire- b Dee bus it te reasonably certain, repubhcans have gained. It is not to be expected ‘that these results will have any practical effect upon the course of political events, It was not tw have been ex- pected that they could have been The Of the Ni to mon feeling z The Result Unfortunate But Expected. [From the Louisville (Ky.) Courier, Nov. 9.} About as mueh wan accom; in the recent eleo- tions as wasexpected. The radicals have held their own, or how nearl; while the conservative vote is in- The’ phi y of these results is that the of the North ve not yet recovered from the nay of the war, and are not yet prepared to take a caim and intelligent view of the situation. They are still consulting their ices rather than their inter- ests. They are looking to the gratification of their malice rather to the ity of the nation, They are not considering whether either section wiil be damaged by persintence im the ution of the down-trodden and desolate South, bat they seem willing to put the con- trol of our pational affairs in the bands of men of extreme views, and leave the result to fate. The consequences of this abandonment of the public Iinteresis for the tification of embittered feelings are not considered. yond this all is forgotten. The necessity of réstorin, prosperity to the South, of stimulating its productive powers and increasing its wealth, that it may be en- abled to pay ite proportionate sbare of taxation neces- jefray the expenses of the government and sus- tain the national apy to be maiters of utter indifference, hot at ail involved im the question of the ponisbment of the South for her rebellion. The idea that the Southern Stat.s were guilty of rebellion has been so successfully mdoctrinated into the public mind that it will take years to establish the conviction that the uprising of twelve millions of people is not treason, bat a simple assertion of an inberent bed to throw off &@ government which is odious and one which ok principle, and both private e ivi interests and the general weal are lost sight of in ite rsuit. The party now in power is supposed to be im- Buea with the proper sentiments and views for the ap- propriate and factory adjustment of the questions at issue, and they are therefore retained in power. It is not considered Tastrial that a minority is now govern- ing the nation, and that by peculiar circumstances the oi of the majority is stifled. The prejudices of those who are su) ing those who are now ruling tbe coun- SZ.Ss ts rearrange aoe Copter against the | y of such a ay: o> gag can restore the equilibriam of the public min The Election of Negroes to the Massachusetts Leatslature. ) Constitutionalist, Nov. 9. {From the Augusta Drag & = iat, °] Whatever may be {t cannot be denied : a be Nay di ne- groes or quadroons to the State Logistature is good proof of the pudding, and if the Uid Bay Commonwealth will make these of general application the world | will give her credit for an earnest fanaticism which goes schoolboy bas read and . Every the of the French Revolution. The moral of that as of other frenzied upheavals indicates Uhat all agitations run their course and cure themselves by excess and The madness of the present hour must have the seme impétus, and, if cured at all, by violence and Cm a. When Anna Dickinson, for whom a God! ing is asked in the North by delicate females—when Anna Dickinson hob- rash far! to discover any virtue im Caucasian blood; ft be- hooves the entire North to be on guard against the en- croachments of ‘Moral Idea Men” and untrocked wo- men. The signs of the times are ominous, but if the Joke is to go fora joke at we trust the Massachu- de! be made to foel the force of their Representative brothers.”’ Such an exchange would not be wholly de- jorable. Wo si trust it may come to this pass, Bomething of the kind will have to come before conser- vatiem can take a stride that leads to conquest. Can’t Do Justice to the Subject. [From the Nov. The Sections of Peewsay for the radicals. New York goes radical of from five to fifteen thousand. 1 iy sand for the radicals, and not only gives % to the Leginlat J in net the President, ith the South TWE BALTIMORE POLICE COMMISSIONERS’ TROUBLES. Bauttwons, Nov. 12, 1886. Jodge Bartol will give hie decision to-morrow at noon iq the bab ces corpus cage of the Polige Commissioners, Mr. WF. Mitchell, Su THE NEW CAPTAIN GENERAL OF cUB&a, 4 His Reception and Installation into Omce as Havana—He A\ inces His Determination te Suppress the’Slave Trade. Tho steamer Cuba, Captain Bain, from Havana on the 6th inst., arrived at Baltimore on the 12th, and by her we have received news of interest, OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE. Havana, Nov. 6, 1866. THE CEREMONIES ON GENERAL MANZANO'S ARRIVA!, * After the sailing hour of the Columbia, which pre. vented my giving you any details of the reception of the new Captain General, the Admiral of the station, the Deputy General, the Chief of sta‘f, a committee of the municipality, the Regent or President of the High Court: of Justice and other functionaries went on board the ‘Gerona to welcome and receive the orders of his Excel- Jency General Manzano. His Excellency left the ship at: three o'clock, under the customary salute, at the same: time as when the City Council (preceded by the mace bearers and porters), General Lersundi and other athori- ties left the Town Hall and proceeded to the landing Stairs, eo that there was no delay on either side. On landing Genera! Manzano and Generat Lersundi embraced one another, ass customary on such occasions, The new Captain General, with General Lersundi on his right, and followed by all the dignitaries before named, then forméd the cortége and proceeded to the Town Hall, t the troops drawn MB on both sides, the new cavalry body guard, on foot, closing the procession, These latter are a fine body of men, all evidently picked out, wearing the new uniform selected by Leraundi—scarlet red coats, white trousers, three cornered hats, and bich top boots, and armed with short muskets. Lersundi wore a manly and cordial appearance, vet did not look ‘so fresh and hearty as when he landed and took the command of Dulee, General Manzano looked extremely self-eatisfed, y, ag if he had gained some great victory, or was vain of his new appointment The former wore the band or sash of San Fernando, and thé latter that of Carlos III. After haying been duly sworn in, the new Captain General received the “baton of command” from the hands of his predecessor. Both then went through the hall tothe throne room in the Palace, where the new Captain General received the congratulations of the Cit; Council aud all the functionaries of the Church and State, after whick General Manzano appeared on the bal- cony, whiic the troops defiled before him and the bands ton martial airs, At six o’clock commenced the nquet given’ by Lersundi to his successor and a select party; and at a jater hour at night there was a serenade on the Plaza by all the military bands in town, General Lersundi has issued a farewell address to the inhabitants and given an order of the day addressed to the troops, militia and volunteers. His Excellency has taken up his residence at the country mansion of Don Julian Zuluete in Marianao, although the papers say that bo has a eae yen of Don vatinto Larrinago in the ‘erro. @ General has engaged his o in the - ish mail steamer to sail on the 15th thet. for Cadiz. Gee A subscription is now said to have been made to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, invested in shares of the Banco Espanol, in favor of Lersundi’s daughters, and it is added that the Cubans have not par- ticipated in the donation. GENERAL MANZANO'S DETERMINATION TO STRIKE A DEATH BLOW TO TUE SLAVE TRADE. On Saturday afternoon General Manzano Issued his proclamation to the inhabitants of Cuba and tho order of the day to theytroopa, militia and volunteers, It is simply the custom todo so on such occasions, but its tenor is by no means simple. It shows that anew era has get in, and if such sort of documents can in any way enlighten us upon any topics they refer to we think the present ones are decidedly and remark- abiy clear. IT have to call particularly your attention to a circular issued at the same tame, and directed to the different Lieutenant Governora in the island, in regard to the absolute determination to suppress the slave trade altogether, aud completely root it out of the land by strictly and unreservedly carrying out the law to the very letter. It is not frrelevant to add that as tno publication of said document could not be g0t ready for yest y's Gazell-, an order was yiveu in the most peremptory terms that it must be published. in a supplement to appear the same day, although the Gasette nover issues any supplements excepting on some very extraordinary occasion, ut 1 am enabled to give you a sti batter proof of the new iin General’s fixed determination strictly to ad- here to the positive instructions his Excellency has received from his government, from the following fact: Th ited States Acting Consul had an audience with the Genera! to congratulate his Excellency on'the occa- sion of his having been selected by the govern- ment as the Governor of thts island, and {n the course of a conversation which followed, In the presence of tho Frouch Consul General, the final suppression of the slave trade was not only alluded to, but both Consuls were most sgreeahis, surprised by the animated manner in which the new Captain General treated the matter. His Excellency was quite vehement in his protestations, and went 80 far as to assure both functionaries that he would devote all his energies to so plausible and necessary roger ro the early aug total extinction of the sbonvin= je trai DISASTERS ON THE LAKES. and the following disasters are rey Schooner John Stevenson beached high and dry railway station, schooner a total schooner Iris sunk along sido the cribs, schooner Helen sunk in New » schooners Union, North Star and Atlantic CusvaLaxp, Nov. 13, 1866. land, mgutaahore, hore ‘on, ‘Savany sight, Ta resto ja ry on Sun the crew three men from a isfeboat. wee Growsed. The vessel is not badly damaged and the crew are safe. ves ITE ch P Rortonetl sapere. ostienete tho population of that city The people of Stevenson, Ala, a few days held o meeting and passed resolutions he act of burning a freedmen's school Ane wom and inviting perintendent of the Friends’ Mis. sion, to visit Stevenson immediately and make prepe- rations for rebuilding it, and prom: to do all in their furtherance of that The crop of Sea Isiand cotton this season is estimated, by the Georgia and South Carolina papers, a not more than fifteen or twenty thousand bales, even with the benefit of favorable weather and the absence of frost. This crop is, however, much greater than was expected for the estimate two months ago was for only one-sixth fs crop. The largest crop ever raised was about 60,000 om, Mary Knights, of , Me., thirteen of died lately of a pecullar disease.” ‘She woWld dria large pail of water dui the night. 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