The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1874, Page 10

10 “THE COMET. | Astronomers in Tears and the Public Miserable. UNDER A CLOUD ONCE MORE Private Explanation of the Celestiai Disappointment, PE PEN Reasons Why the Comet Belongs to the | Feminine Gender. SCIENTIFIC VIEWS—THE SPECTROSCOPE. : Among the Stars at tha Ob- servatory The curtain of clouds was drawn down again last evening and the comet remained in happy se- elusion An old friend of her’s, Jupiter Pluvins, Wished to spare her the occasion of seeing the American Republic celebrating Independence Day. She was therefore unconscious of bearing the Dec- laration and of the mountebanks who make the Occasion 8 means of lilting their little heads above the dead level of their fellows. She heard nothing e@f the ferce storm of There were hopes toward evening that the clouds would break and make away in a body to the horizon. As fast as one set scudded off another get was revealed immediately above, and then another above that, so that it would appear the ampilest precautions were taken to screen both the head and tail o/ the comet from observation, Old Probabilities being engage’ celeorating the Fourth no arrangements were made for a more satisfactory condition of things. Astronomers wept in private, but consoled themseives with the reflection that the reign of Jupiter Pluyius would Boon be over. Of course thousands felt keenly mortified at the ACTION OF OLD PLUVIUS, for the programme with many was to pienic at Coney Island and spend the evening upa tree or | on a housetop gazing on this beauteous wonder of the heavens. However, there are some few nights left still, and the great nope is they may prove clear and satisiactory. This comet has en- gagements elsewhere, but she has promised Pro- Jessor Eastinan, of the Washington Observatory, vo unfold her tail and give the multitude, without putting them to the expense of opera glasses and telescopes, a better look at her comely face. THE SEX OF THE COMET. ‘There is no occasion to enter into an argument | to prove that the comet belongs to the 1emimine gender. The dead set she made on the sun, who 48 ap old bachelor, is evidence, not exuctly of her ®ex, but of one of its characteristics, She carries @ tail, and so does every lady's dress, and bold by turns, inconstant, erratic and per- verse, As Virgil says, ‘‘Varium et mmutabile genus.” She knows not her own mind an instant, and when | you think she is madly m love with old Sol, straight- way she flies of to Mars, gets tired of him and Picks up acanaintance with Merenury. Finally she ts found in a flirtation with old Jupiter, and that’s the way her sex was determined. Then observe her jove of admiration—her excessive vanity— showing hersel! of before every star in the uni- verse. THE ASTRONOMERS IN EUROPE have heard of her and sbe has been received with open arms. They Kuow how to prize such phenom- ena. It is the first body of the Kind they have had an opportunity of investigating satisfactorily by meaus of the spectroscope. No comet brijitant enough to give conclusive results when subjected to spectral analysis nas come within telescope Jength o: tbe earth since the invention of that ¢ traordinary instrument. The present comet has been carefully followed, without being persecute ‘With the spectroscope since ber first appearance, With results which tne observers consider nignly satisfactory, Since it was first remarked, down to the present hour, this comet nas presented ‘A CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM, which experience has demonstrated to be indica- uve of bodies in a state of red heat—such as an | fron ball, for instance, just aiter itis withdrawn from a furnace. Three brilliant lines traverse the e@pectrum, apparently giving proof that the nucleus is surrounded by nebulous rings. Bcope the tail Of the comet presents the appear- ances identtied with gaseous bodies in a state of combustion, mixed with a scarcely sensible quan- tty ol solid incandescent matter, it 1s question- able if we bave among us any scientific men who wil give the public such @ clear sketch of the Dature and habits of comets as in this day of as- tronomical research it is only fair to expect. ASTRONOMERS AT LOGGER HEADS. Three well known astronomers have been found eiready at variance. Or willit not? One says he thinks it will, and sweep away all the Boston biuelights, the New York politicians and the Philadelphia igwyerg. It 1s to be hoped this professor's belief in the eiticacy of the tau wiil prove true. Another profesgr gaye the comet is travelling south (probably i rectiHy affairs in South Carolina), and that tts tail wul be at a high elevation. it will send down me- Mentoes as it passes in the shape Of meteors aud shooting stars—all good shots and ready to enter at Creedimocr, PRODIGIOUS TRAVELS, Thia comet has come perhaps fifty billions of Miles to see Us, avd Is wWavelling at tne rate of 700,000 miles ab hour. Acvording to M. G. Ray Proiessor of Asironomy in the Observatory Paris, sue Was wieu seen by him a very faint apparition. and o: 4 circular form, with a ceniral Coudeusation Very marked, lorming a luminous point, the dameter of neDulosity being two muinnies. Tt nt Yeas 80 faint that it was diM- cult to perceive the eMistence of a spectrum. Since then the comet has been continualiy approaching both the sun and (he ew and its prulancy is Feyularty \ucreasing, ‘The original discovery was made at Marsetlies, on the 17th of April. the comet has travelled ine for this planet. How to the period of ner ate- orice 900,000,000 mil: far sue bad tr covery ii say; out if Daniel Pratt, the grew: American traveller, had covered 80 MUCH Ziousid his cicction to tue Presidential ehatr Would be certain. A doubt is, however thrown op the previous feats w log whic! this comet muy have periorine Rayet de- clares that at the rime o ooly Uhree minutes in dia forming & tati, She had uot yet entercu iuliy into the harness, but was, no doubt, doing her best and was stirred by a noble ambrtion to have her head anc tai, troscoped by the Wasiingion Observatory, THE BEAUTIES OF THE COME M. Rayet further remar: the light through the sfctroscope gave a continu trum from the orange to the bine (spect a solid pucieus), traversed by e bright bands (spectrum of A gaseous nebula). This spectrum is well recognized in com ont it differs jroum otners in its dimensions and in the relat brill. fancy of the diferent portions, Thus wile tt contingous spectrain oO: the nucieus isin genera large and difuse, it 1s iu M, Coggia’s comet Barrow. Moreover, the luminous banas, inste Of being sharply deitned vn the side, the Tost Irangible are terminated both toward tne ved and the violet by fine lin t, especially prom|- nent in tne middle longest and most brilliant, Was very strixin As the HERALD reporter observed the comet, and was the first to recognize tue resemblance which the immediate centre of the nucleus bore to an opal, Whose shifting tints include the colors bere named by M, Rayet, orange aid biue, and, jor that macter, all the primacy shades, he can easily recognize the accuracy Of observation iu the Paris astrouomer’s remarks, AN UNCOMMONLY BRIGHT SPECTROM. But he did noi stop there, = M. Rayet gave further attention to the approaching stranger, and, under favorable atmospterc conditions, he observed that the comet id & round very bright paclens (it being equal toast vhout the eighth mag- ery she was tha seen tue nitude), its edie shar; fined by the sarround- tug Lebulosit 1 0. 1 of the nucleus could be opserved With 1e same exactness as that ol a fixed star. ‘This poi! was surrounded with @ nebulous envelope of about iour niuntes in diam- eter, 118 brigntness decreasing varly from t centre to une edge. ‘This envelope is protonyed on the side opposite to the sun into a tail to a dia- tance of eight minutes from the n the rightness Of the comet (Which Is about ovr mes greater than When discovered) must be consider bie to furnish so bright @ specirum. ‘The eou tinuous spectrum corresponding to the nuciens is remarkably Narrow, almost as narrow as that of @ star seen-in the same tustrament. It calis the spectram ofastar of the sixth magn tide, but without color towards the extremiucs ‘The spectrum extends on bot sides beyond the three pands, SENSATIONAL ASTRONOMY. ecient while M. Rayet confines himseif toa pure y 0 tulle analysis of the comet, Prolessor Park- upet, while dealing in iogarithins enough to set the comet crazy, says that it was formerly supposed that if the head of 4 co struck We earth iy would destroy iy ‘comet | firecrackers that swept | every street in the city, and she was left in quiet | privacy to enjoy the delightful music of the spheres. | even such fears have itttle foundation, This 3 juestionable. If the people of this brave city of iew York saw @ comet head down and tail up coming straight On for Manhattan Is'and they would tremble until they shook their shoes off. But when the Professor says that less than two years ago the earth was actually SYRUCK BY THE HEAD OF A COMET he should have stated where the head struck. He Baively Observes, “Not one of us knew it.” It must have been @ soft headed comet, and if the Professor has the smallest clew to tue piace where | the head struck he should start off on a voyage of | discovery and find the fragments of the skull. Mr, Bergh 1s in need of such specimens for bis mu- He has several heads there already—calves’ heads, bor: uly go into eestasies over the bead of a comet. THE PROPER USE OF THE SPECTROSCOPR. From Professor Parkharst to Proiessor Rayet is quite a step, the oue residing in Paris and the other in New York; but yet there is an interest ip | the recommendation of M, Rayet im regard to the | use of the speetioscope, woich might be profitably regarded here among our astronomers. He re- marks that if insiead of placing the slit of te spectroscope across the nuciens 80 aa to obtain at once the spectra of the nucieus and the envelope, the slit is placea across the tail, a spectrum of three bright bands 18 seen, as already described, without, however. a trace of continuous spectrum, and each 18 Separated by dark intervais, In the tail there 18, tueretore, no solid mcandescent material in sensible quantities. | | A Visit to the National Observatory— A View of the Interesting Stranger Whrough the Comet Seeker—“A Per- fectly Lovely Comet” — Interesting Statement of Professor Hall. | | | | i es (Third avenue) heads—but he would | JULY 5, 1874—TRIPLE NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, eontinnes that modern discoveries prove that | from other comets teaches us, may travel his ap- | jointed orbit for even thousands of sears. We ave yet to find oy fn ntl substance and their ult mate purpose and destiny.” Prowessor Hall then took us down into the hibrary, and irom a recent paper of the Freuch | Academy, by M. Rayet, submitted by Leverrier, he | read to us Kayet’s report of his application of the | tesvot the spectroscope To this comet, Irom which | itappears to be & light gaseous substance, whose consutuent elements stil remain to be deter- mined, | “sat what distance is the comet from the earth | | at this time, Professor * ant is wittiu 60,000,000 or 57,000,000 of miles from | us to-night, or nearly half way between us and the gun, By the 19tn of July it will be about 30,000,000 | Of miles from the earth, and it would then to us truly maguilicent spectacie if within the | range of ur vision after nightfall. But by that | time it will nave moved, to us, below or 90 near the | horizon at nightiall as to be ouly partially visible | here, if visibie at all im the twitignt. i is moving | rapidly sonthward and wo the horizon. What is its veloctiy at this time ? | Mt is moviag at tne rate of more than 2,000,000 of miles a day, or at the high speed, in round num bers, of 92,000 miles an hour, which jor one hour | is nearly four times the circuit of our globe.” “Ig the recent report trom Pro‘essor Parkhurst | substantially correct ?” | Yes, in his statements of | be a ffacts in reference to | the comet he is substantially correct; unt as to | the play of hts imagination [hay ing to say.” | ‘The Professor then took us into the chronometer | room and opened to us a large box of chronome- ters, arranged in rows. They Were set to Green- wich time (‘or the Greenwich longitudes), aud, as they marked a quarter past three o'clock, we were admonished without gomg farther that it Was about ten P. M., and so, thanking the Projes- sor for the time and the attentions he had shown | us, We Wished tim good night. Admiral Davis pronouuces this a beautiful comet. Professor Eastman says it will be, a few days WASHINGTON, July 4, 1874. Startled by a rumor from Great Salt Lake that | the comet now visible in our northwestern skies | after nightfall would envelop the moon or brush the earth with its tail before its departure into the realms of everiasting night, your correspondent | was puzzled “what todo about 1t,” when, to his | great relief, he received instructions from the | HEXALD office to settle the question in a, call upon Admiral Davis and the Professor at the | National Observatory and, in securing, through | them, an interview with the comet itself. The other morning, accordingly, the narrator called at the Observatory and, waiting upon Admiral | Davis, informed him of the object of the visit, The | gallant Admiral, distinguished for his courtesy no | less than for his bravery, answered, ‘Certainly, | sir; any information respecting this comet which | we can give you we will give you cheerfully.” | Your correspondent was then reterred to Professor Eastman, from whom, alter a pleasant conversa- tion upon the comet, comets generally and the | Observatory, we separated, to ‘come up at eight | o'clock in the evening of Thursday, the 2d inet., if | the skies are favorable; for here, you know, we | | are entirety subject to—” | “Old Probebilities?” “Yes, to Old Probabilities, as they call him.” THE VISIT AND THE INTERVIEW. Thursday evening proved too stormy to make | any observations, On Friday morning—tne heavy | thunder clouds of the previous night having, with | their free discharges of electricity, cleared the sky, | giving promise of a bright firmament alter night- | | | falicthe writer went up the National Observatory, | may be $0. The prophet Miller bases his theory | | hence, a splendid comet. Professor Newcombe, in- volved in larger objects, “does not take much stock in thts comet;” but Professor Hall, whose | special! field of duty is among the comets, with his | “comet seeker,” 18 enthusiastic over it as a most | interesting stranger and a perfect beauty, and | growing more and more heautt{ul and interestiog | trom night vo night, under the Wonderful and | mysterious power, attractive, expansive and re- Pulseve, of the aun, The Great Comet of 1843 and the Meteor. ological Shower of 1833—The Prophecy by Miller of the End of the World. WASHINGTON, July 3, 1874. To the writer of the following recollections of | the great comet of 1843 the little comet of 187413 indeed an insignificant interloper. On St. Pat- | Tick’s Day, 1843, this witness left Washington, as a young journalist, on @ venture to New York. Stopping with a friend for the night in Baltimore, | he was introduced in the eventng at her house to an intelligent and interesting lady, who, as the first topic of conversation, imtroduced the great comet, which was then famivgin the western sky, with a tail which to the naked eye seemed to sweep across nearly one-fifth of the firmament, | and, in the absence of the moon, completely eclips- ing everything in the heavens. The lady intro- duced the celestial stranger with the inquiry— “Let me ask you, sir, What is your opinion of | this wonderful apd, to me, this alarming comet? Do you think, as the Second Advent people con- tend, that it can be sent as a warning of the com- ing of the day of judgmentr” ‘The writer, without pausing to think of the pos- sible consequences, answered, In substance ;—“It and, finding Professor Hail on duty, asked him tor | o¢ tue secona Advent upon the prophecies of the favor im behalf of the HERALD Of another | Daniel, which, you know, cuiminate in the day of chance this evening fora telescopic inSpection | judgment. These prophecies have been taken up She is coy | ~ | small even in comparison with the “great equato- | p | wonderful snow storm in the middie of March, If the spectro- | Wii the tail strike the earth | in| abupeant | of the comet and of his services in | by the prophet Miller, and in applying a fixed | vhe observation for two of the HERALD | time to the {ulfliment of each he finds that they | corps, The Professor answered, ‘i shall be have all been fuifilled except the coming of the day | glad to serve you, suould the skies be favorable | and I think they will be; and I'shall expect you at | | about eight o’cioc! Thanking the Professor, the | harrator came away, and, making the necessary | | arrangements for the evening, awaited the ap- | potuted hour. A few minutes after etght, with his colleague, he was at the Observatory and jound | | Professor Hail at his post of duty. “You are in | lime, gentlemen,” said he, “sor the twilight has not yet gone down; and, as you see, that heavy | bank of clouds may spoil our expectations of 2 | pleasant interview with the comet. J think, | however, that in a short time those | clouds will, disappear, and = that-—-you | will have @ satisiactory interview with our celestial stranger. Meanwhile, I think you | willbe gratified with an observation of Jupiterand | Veuus, which ate not obscured by the clouds.”” \ We were in the Mdome of what they call the | ‘small equatorial," a splendid telescope, hardly | Mal,” in another dome of the building, but distin guished from the other as the “smail equatorial.” | | This instrument is in a movable dome on tue nigh- | | @St part of the Observatory, while outside, around | the base of the dome, at a commanding | elevation and within a strong railing, there is & { spacious fut for observations With the naked eye | | ana the “comet-seeker.” JUPITER. Our first observations through the equatorial were o! that king of the planets of our system, the | great Jupiter. And a king be appeared in his | Majesty, as large as the moon, Ina soft, mellow, | silvery light, with his kingly beits around him and turee of his four mvons in mull relief attending him, | | Tne fourth was out of view behind him, ‘They are very small compared with the vulk of the | great placet; bul they stood out in the deep, dark | | Sky round and bright and in beautiful relies | And how fearfully deep and dark the sky appeared | behmd them: Our next observation was of THE GODDESS VENUS, | Bearer the western horizon, and ste appeared as @ gibvous moon, or as the moon inher third i 2 cl But Vet baba was brighter than | that of Jupiter; because she is so many Millions of | ieonaubar the sunt idm he. i there are, or if | | there were, inhabitants like ourseives upon Venus, | | our planet would appear to them something larger | | and brighter than she appears to as, and with this | | equatorial, even gur moon, around little silvery | | spot, would to thein be visible. THE COMBT THROUGH THE COMET-SEEKER. | “Now,” said Protessor Hall, “the clouds are clearing away bveauti/ully and our imteresting | stranger, the comet, 18 coming out in fine reiiet. Let us go out on the platiorm and take a peep at him through our comet seeker.” We went oat, but our first impressions were from the general Sights and sounds around. Immediately below us | on the south was the malarious Potomac in shadow, aud a concert was going on In its semi- stagnant flats and shallows of muilions of | frogs. Beyond were the darkened hilis or: Arlington, and westward the lights of Georgetown. On the northward the boundary hilis | or Washington stood out darkly defined, while to | the eastward the lights of streets and avenues and various tall buildings, throagh a stretch of two | nities to the Capitol and Capitol Hill, gave to the | city an imperial aspect. But we had come to see | the comet, and there he was, a fascinating little ynterloper in the heaven-, even to the Baked eye. “Genwemen,” said the Professor, “this is our comet seeker,” putting his hand ' affectionately upon a telescope fixed upon the parapet, and look. ing tor all the world like @ mountain howitzer, _ “You see we can turn him and twist jim abour in | any direction, and uo comet coming within long or | short range of the observatory, Ligh up or low down though he may be, can escape him. Now | he has this comet jairly within his grasp, and you | will see that it ts a handsome comet, and a dashing fellow Withal, bound to go where he has made up | nismmind to travel.” We took a good look at the comet and repeated | over and over again, through the “comet and the sigit was positively charming. | first a round, well defined nucieus of | ght, and irom it there was next, wining out from the sides or from che end | pwards the sat broad, beautifel naio in the | ovn of aa fan, or like the spray irom a fountaim. ‘fo the naked eye the comet anu its tail appeared hardly over a yard or two in jengt Through the comet seeker tne Nucleus Was a solr white glove, and the streaming tall from it ¥ eused bo an apparent length of half a mile corresponding width, the upper portions o: tail curving ont and dowi from the sides most beautifully, And there was no Maw mit, nO mequatity; bat the comet wna its fan-like tail were barinoniousty lighted and pro- portioned, and aii in ciear reuer, only the general outline of the tall so gradu jaded away t it Was difficult to mark Xact line where it meited in the dark sky. Admiral Davis brought up bis wife fora look at , the comet througt te “co seeker,” and she | expressed the general opinion of the company in pronouncing it “periectiy jovely.” several officers of the army aud navy were p. and one en- | thustastic erippied soldier, Who had hobpled up to | the top of the Observatory on his crutches, said labor was nothing when compensated tor it by jooK at the comet through th “come. seeke! Compared with the brilliant, silvery shining iebt of Venus, or with the clear white light of Jupt that o1 omet is soit and pale, asort oi puos. pnoresc light, and yet itis very distinct and broad aud beanttiui under the “comer seeker.” | We next took an observation of the handsome | stranger through the long tabe of the equatorial But here the nuciens was so widely enlarged as to become comparatively dim, and to extend our ob- servations to all the tail we had to take it by tions, two or three handred miles apparently at atime, the reai jength of the comet and tts ‘tail being now over six degrees, and rapidly lengthen- | ing under the miraculous power of the glorions sou, 48 this wandering satellite approacnes him in acknowledgment of his sovereignty; but only to Wheel of again, after paying its respects into its UnKuoWwn orbit In the boundless abyss of space. “When will this comet return, Protessor?” “We cannot tell,’ he answered, ‘for ail that we now know of him he may return to us in five, ten or fifty years, and he may not return for a thou- sand years to come, bat delicate as his substance Js WRG Whatever iv imay be this Gomet ExosrIEDGE vad | Bew Jersey. | brethren and sisters, if not all in the camp, had | Writer, then a boy, had the good fortune to be an | searching for comets, | vefore its discovery in Europe bad been an- | of judgment, which, m tne order of these great events, he finds must be in this very year, 1843, And this comet is heid by these believers in the propuet Miller, or Second Advent people, a8 & Warning in the sky of ,the impending judgment. They say that ‘the wisest astronomers have failed to give any notice of the approach of this comet; that it comes as | much a surprise to them as to the most iguorant | people, and that, thereiore, it is something en- | urely out of the regular order of things in_ the heavens. Such is the reasoning of these Second Ad- vent people, and there may be something in it. | Who Gan tell?” THE SIGN IN THE HEAVENS. The narrator was next detained at Philadelphia on the night of the 18th of March in a heavy snow | Way train in working through the snowdrifts of | At night, on the steamboat from | Am oy, the comet shone out in splendid relief, the sky being exceedingly clear under a roaring March | nor’wesier. Down below there was a gathering of Millerites, some thirty, more or less, | singing, praying and exhorting in prepara- | tion for the fast approaching day of | judgment. One of their preachers” said that among the signs on the earth was this late while the awiul sign in the heaveus becaming more glorious from night to night was this great comet, threatening to set the world on fire. “They could now see it for themseives in all its sublime Inajesty, and by twos and threes they all came on deck to see it, some of them praying andiply and thanking God for this glorious inanifesvation of Hiz cowing, and all of them returning to their hymns and prayers tu the forward cabiu velow, THE ASCENSION ROBE! To the best of the writer’s recollection, It was ip April that ne met the Millerites again at a camp meeting of the Society on Long Island, some tnree he weeks alter their prayer meeting on the steam- At this camp meeting the comet was con- boat. Stantly referred to as the infallible sign of “tue second coming of the Son of Man,” anu or the rise sing or tte samts in their ascension robes (of ten cent muslin) to welcome Him. Most of the their ascension robes in readiness. So that’ they Were white, they said, the quality or the nature of the fabric made no differen Cheap cotton, low- ever, was the prevailing article. By referring to a file of the New York Hera.p of April, 1845, this writer's account of that Millerite camp mecting will be found, A week or two later the writer was dened by the information that the interesting and intelligent tady who had asked tor hs opinion on tue comet at Baltimore bad been reading up the propuecies of Danie! and the interpretations of Miller, and, becoming fully convinced that the judgiment day | Was near at hand, had prepared her ascen-ion robe and was awaiting the trumpet of Gabricl to rise With the saints to the Kingdom of heaven, IDLE FEARS, But the great comet of 1843 quietly passed away, and was not followed by guy steater terrestrial disturbance, even In 1544, than the election of James K. Polk over the great Henry Clay lor Presi- dent of the United States, But stich a comet as that at this day would be the universal sensation of the civilized world, ‘to the naked eye the nucleus of that comet in March was larger than Jupiter, though not so bright, and his tall, like the Stationary trail of a great meteor, scemed to stretch across a fifth or a sixth of the firmament, and, with a graceful curve and with a gently in- creasing width to the extremity, which made it exceedingly beautiful. THE GREAT METEOROLOGICAL SHOWFR. But even this great comet of 1443 was a meteor- Ologicai trifle compared with the sublime storm cf meteors of November 15, 1823. of which the | observer. He was roused from his sleep by the cries of a frightened negro at tne door. “Wuke up, Wake up, ai! of yo failin’ irom heaven. De judgmentis come. Wake up, and de Lord have mercy on us ail.’ ell, Sam, what are you doing there?” cried the master of the house, “Have you been out Stealing, and do you come to confess?” De stars 1s “Yes, master, here’s de bunch of chickens, got out de coop. No use now. De judgment is come. De stars 18 fallin’. for de Lord’s sake, I call you ail to git in mw pray for de Lord to save us."? ‘fms was at two o’clock in the moruing, and from that hoar till daylight the writer, on the roof or an outbuilding, sat watcuing the ‘“salling stars.” They did not iail at tue rate o/ five or six thousand in an Hour, nor five or six hundred in @ minute, but by the thousands of millions witlun range of the eye every second, over all the sky during the time of our watching. Imagine a heavy, steady, northeast rainstorm changed into a storin of fire and you bave it, except @ occasional erratic and meteors playfully shooting through o mass. The meteors a mile or 80 away apped to descend to the ground or near it before they were extinguisued, while overhead they went out, apparently, hundreds of feet from ‘the earta, Towards daylight the alarm among the citizens became generai, the church belis called the people to prayer, and the streets in the breaking dawn were thronged with people obeying the awful summons, To him who vividiy remempers that storm of | meteors of 1833, or even the greas comet of 1548, this lirtie stranger of 1874 ts, thdeed, but a passing trifle among the wonders Of the skies, What Professor Swift Reports—There is No ‘Danger of the Earth Being De. stroyed—=The Heavenly Pedestrian’s Travels. , [From the Rochester Union and Advertiser, duly &) Professor Swift, who resides at the corner of Ambrose street and Saratoga avenue, was inter+ viewed by our reporter last evening and much valuable information was obtained from him—a peep of the comet obtained through his flac telescope, also of Jupiter and his moons, with other heavenly wonders. Professor Switt has for the past fifteen years been engaged in @nd discovered tnis one nounced in this country by Coggia, He laughs at the sensational articles that have been published in the New York.and other papers over the signa- tions last evening showed that the tail had in- creased im length from the previous evening | Some three or four degrees, and Liat it was a tenth | brighter. It is approaching us direct, at the rate of 1,800 miles a minute, or 1,296,000 miles every a and to reach the earth’s orbit It has yet wo travel 26,000,000, Tuat it will extend that distance during its visibility, Professor Swift does not veleve. Ii it does the cometic matter ts 30 rare that the earth and all that Is therein will be insensible to it, And another conungency—that tie earth may not be at the right point in its orbit to become immersed. but the way that tail in- creases in length is something jeariul to contem- plate—half a million miles per day—and the won- der Wil be nearest the suo on the loth oi this month, The dise of the comet is more planetary than stellar, and has a nucleus whica is very bright, and from the tact that its orbit 13 parapolic it 1s visiting us jor the first and last tme, Protessor Swilt 1s of the Opmion that the tail is spliiting—that the prospecis are thatit will bave more than one tail to its kite, Last evening there couid be observed on tae right of the comet, near- est the sun, a bunchy nebulous mass, which is the “rooting” of a new tall undoubtedly, The tau is wide in proportion to its length, but the ratio of width to length 18 now rapidly changing. The perihelion distance of the comet is about 63,000,000 miles, or a little within the orbit of Venus, Should the tail Increase in wiath, of whien there is no danger, and not ve curved too mucn, then we might get a little whisk of it—but only astrouomers would know it, Business would go aloug 48 usual and a possible electrical dispiay might be noticed, But, as before remarked, the suvSsialce of the tail is too thin to burt anybody, and then the tatiis hollow, I¢is similar vo at- taching a length of stove pipe to a fair sized pump- kin—ilinminatiug both, The pumpkin might burt | the moon or the earth oy striking It, but the stove- ips would not kill & flea, and be iiself smashed the bargain, So thin 18 the tail that, looking through Projessor Swilt’s telescope, a tine one by the way, last evening, the stars could be seen, But this comet 18 a very important and large one, and in the next two weeks more will be dis- covered in regard to the physical nature of comets than has been learned in 4,000 years be- tore, The spectroscope will be brought into ser- Vice Irom every observatory in this counwy and Europe. On the 10th of July it will reach the nearest ap- roach to the sun at 4 distance of 63,000,000 mules. ingitude of perihetion, 27 of node about 120 degrees; inclination of orbit to the earth’s orbit, some 68 degrees. The apparent motion 1s so slow that only a small portion of its visible orbit has been seen. Professor Tyndall’s predictions that sometime during its jquruey we shall be “en- wenpged in the hazy glories of its tail’ will not be verified. The separation of material par- ucles from the head forms the tail, and in this the heat of the sun doubtless has some tuiuence. NEW YORK CITY. ees Owen Kearney, aged forty, residence unknown, | fell down yesterday at Fourteenth street and | Third avenue and received a bad cut on the head. He is supposed to be mortally wounded, Milton McKenna, aged forty-iour, of No. 665 | Court street, Brooklyn, fell down the steps at the basement of No. 1¢4 Chatham street yesterday, fracturing his right leg. He was removed to tle Park Hospital. A young man, name unknown, while bathing at the foot of Seventh street, East River, early yes- J, Dunn,.son of Detecuve Dunn, who bappened to be passing in a boat at that time. Hugh Cannon, aged fity-five, of 161 East Forty- sixth street, was struck bya New Haven train yesterday, at Filty-second street and Fourth avenue, while trying to rescue two children from being run over. He was dangerously injured and Was removed to Believue Hospital by the police, LONG ISLAND. Bishop Littlejohn will to-day administer the rite of confirmation toa number of candidates at St. Mark’s church, in Islip, The old Peconic House, at Greenport, has been Opened for the season by Mr. J. C. Smith, who had a grand reception on Wednesday evening. The Rey. Charles S, Brown, of Cold Spring, Put- nam county, whoa? son was drowned jn a pond at | Northville last week, has given directions for the burial and the erection of a suitable monument over the remains of young James Allen, who lost his life in tryiag to rescue Mr. Brown’s son. Both bodies have been taken to Cold Spring tor inter- | storm, aud Was most of the next day on the rail- | Ment. Elljah Rideford, aged seventy, living two miles from Greenport, who has a wile living at Orient, but from whom be has been for some time parted, left the house yesterday with a razor, and, going to the Sound Shore, drew the weapon across his arm above the elbow, cutting a frightial gash and nearly severing the large tendons, but missing the artery. He then cut several gashes, one very deep, across the lower side of ms wrist, and find- ing that he had not yet opened the artery, be cut gushes on the upper side and around the wrist, lairly girdiing 1t with wounds, but still failing to | reach the artery. He then returned to the house and crawled into bed, where his groans attracted | attention, and a surgeon was called, who sewed up the wounds. The man wili probably recover, but will lose the use of his arm. An unknown woman, apparently between fifty and sixty years old, was found drowned in tie Sound at Inlet Point, about two miles west of Greenport, on Friday afternoon, by a fisherman named Conklin, aad Coroner. Skinner, of Cutcn- | Ogue, held an inquest; after whitch the body was | decently buried in the old cemete: ny at Greenport. in good circum. She had on a black alpaca dress with She was evidently an Irish woman stances, | narrow lace rufties at the neck and wrists; new Congress gaiters of cloth, tippea with patent leather, white stockings of Irish make, white cot- ton overskirt and drawers, Irish flannel under- skirt and white cotion chemise. She had long hair, dark brown mixed with gray, light com- plexion and blue eyes, A simail sum of money and anumber of artic.es were found on the person. Among the latter—which may serve to identity her—a Catholic rosary, a paper tolded around a lock of hair, and a billbead receipt of William H, Norcross, 01 Hallowell, Me., for $17, from Charles Sweeney, tor a tombstone. Around ber neck was cee @ tape string supporting a charm and a trunk ey. STATEN ISLAND. Sixty lots, plots and houses were sold at the recent Edgewater tax sales, on leases ranging irom one to one thousand years. Last evening, as a young man named William Brown was standing outside of a window sill at a house in Stapieton, trying to uzhang @ shutter, the sill gave way and he jell from the third story, breaking his leit arm in three places and severely | injuring him otherwise. Fault is found with the Aldermen of Edgewater for not seeking to enlorce the law regarding the tax on dogs. There are a great many howling and useless curs about the village and itis likely tit the people will take measures for their extermina- tion should the Aldermen not soon do so, ‘he large property known as Renfrew Farm, near Four Corners, comprising fifty-one acres, has been. purchased bya Mr. Hill, of New York, for $8,000, and a Mr. Markham, of New York, has pur- Chased the Freeman estate, on the itichmend road, opposite tue Finger Bourd road, elght acres and residence, for $16,000, ‘The new race course at New Dorp is now nearly compieted. A close wooden fence, six feet high, inclosing the entire grounds, is finished, anda neat raii is being eracted around the track for the whole distance, half a mue, The erection of the stands Is to be commenced immediately, and the association expect to have their grand opening at an early date, é The competition between the two ferry lines working serious inconventence to the public. The trust to uch Jor passengers, ‘The only really rejla- Richmond or Brighton is by’ railroad and ferry across the Kill vou Kull, Correct time is every- thing to 4 business man. MURDEROUS AFFRAY IN NEWARK. iii New York RafMfians on the Rampage= Three Men Seriously Stabbed. Between five and six o’clock last evening wild excitement was occasioned in Newark by the re- port that several men had been murdered in the course of a small riot which occurred on South Orange avenue, near South Tenth street. Invest gation proved that the alfuir, though serious | enough, was not quite so bad as reported, It appears a gang of six young men, hailing from New York and in appearance as “hard” a looking get as could well be found anywhere, visited New- atk yesterday. They calied in @ saloon og od by one Perc, on South Tenth street, and after betng supped with drinks refused to pay for them. ‘Tpis led to considerable wrangling, and finally the rougns seized giasses aud chaire and commenced sinashing them promiscuousiy over the heads and persons of those in the piace pesides themseives. To the sidewalk the fight was aed, and then the strange rufiaus drew knives and commenced hacking mght and leit, Moan- while an immense crowd collected, and after a while the police putin an appearance. The sight Of the blue coats drove the rowdies of, and they | turgs of well kaOWR avtronomers, The obserya- ‘Beene Wore taken to the station oomrade, terday morning, caught cramps and would have | been drowned but ior she timely rescue of Thomas | now running to the north shore of Staten Island is | boats come and go without regard to schedule and | ble way to reach Staten Island, Bergen Poiit, Port | SHEET. where mt wave their names as Michael and Jonn Welsh and James McQuillien, The two first say they came from Hovoken. It was fcund that John Gordon, @ saloon keeper, had received a fearful ent tn the arm, eight inches long; Phillip Hof man, @ butcher, a dangerous stab ia the side, and an old man named John Heaney a feartal gash across the head, The Weishs and McQuillien are Youths not more than out o: their teens. OOLORED JUBILEE IN JERSEY. The colored people of New Jersey, to the number of about 1,000, fully one-half being females, had a celebration Of their own yesterday on the Waver- ley Fair Grounds, under the auspices oF the Pres- byterlan and Baptist churches of Kizabeth, of which Rey. Messrs, Lynch and Wallac re pas- tors respectively, In the afternoon addresses were made by Rey, W. F. Rev. H. He Garnett, both of New York. oops ovina SHIPPING NEWS. —_—__+— OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. DATES OF DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK FOR THE jing Green ing Green ca Broad wav. 61 Broadway. 15 Broadway isroad way. Broadway 45 Broadway. | City ot M Britannic Liverpool. Liverpool. Havre. Bremen. | ‘ Bowling Green 6) Broad way. Tuly 18. i Bowling Green Ce! ; J {July 18, 2/19 Broadway. City of Brussels ..!suly 18. 15 Broadway. Grvece........... [July 18. 69 Broadway. Wisconsin. July 2h. ly Broudway. Cuva uly 22.| Liverpool. | Bowling Green Aariatic. July 25.| Liverpool. |/9 Broadway. City of Ghester:: [July 28:|Liverpool.. [ib Broadway The Queen uly 25.|Liverpool..{69 Broudway. Ville ve Pari July 25.|Havre .....|55 Broadway. ‘daly a Hamburg. .!115 Broadway. lduly Almanac for New York—This Day. . Livervool..\4 Bowling Green HIGH WATER. Gov. Isiand....eve 12 49 Sandy Hook..,.eve 12 04 Hell Gate......eve 2 34 SUN AND MOOX, 434 - 733 .eve 11 29 PORT OF REW YORK, JULY 4, 1874. ARRIVALS, REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS AND HERALD WHITESTONE T2LEGRAPH LINE Steamship Britannic (Br), ‘Thompson, Liverpool June 25 and Queenstown 25th, with mdse and passengers to J Cortis. June 29, lat '4914, lon 37 07, passed @ Gulon steamship bound east steamship City ot New York (Br), Lochead, Liverpool Tune 23 via Queenstown 24th, with indse aud passengers tod G bale. Steamship New Orleans, Clapp, New Orleans June 28, with indse and passengers to Clark & Sean Steamship Mississippi, Crowell, Sew Orleans June 27, with mdse and passengers to'Frederic Baker. |“ Bteamsmip Leo, Dearborn, Savaunah Juiy 1, with mdse and passengers to Murray, Ferris & Co, Steamship soucn Carolina, Beckett, Charleston July 1, with mdse and passeng Ww & Co. Bark Kestrel. Faulkner, Buenos Ayre 1, via Bar- bados June 21, in ballast to H J De Wolt & Co. Burk Agil cof Bermuda), Frith, Bermata I) days with 0. | produce to Middleton & Co. June 29, lat 49 15, lon 67 OL, spoke bark Qvos (Nor), hence tor Queenstown | “Brig Lucy (oi Prince Edward Island). | Pitre Guad) 17 days, with suzar to Morris & Alshman. Brig Renshaw, er, Sagua 9 duys with sugar to RA Robertson & Jat 37 25, ton 74), spoke brig @ § Berry. trom nd. Schr HF Baker, Kaymond, Montego Bay, Ja, 14 days, with logwood to J H Winchester & Co. Schr s A Paine, Brown. Cat Island 8 days, with trait to Montell & Son ; vessel to BJ Wenders. 1 Shr Win Rice, Pressey, Eleuthera 6 days, with fruit to taples. Schr Hattie E King (of Oalals), Crowley, St John, NB, Gdays, with lumber to Gorham Boardman, Sehr A M Dickinson, Dickinson, Corpus Ohristi 32days, with wool and hides to Evans, Ball & Co. Schr Mary Lowisa, Gaskill) Washington, NC, 4days, with naval stores to Zophar Mills. Schr Lizzie Florence, Lippincott, Richmond. Schr 8 W Townsend, Townsen mond. Sehr Isle of Pines, Steelman, Virginia. Fehr Mary Miller, Dayton, Georgetown, DC, for Hud- son. ‘The steamship Rhein (Ger), from Bremen and South- ampton, which urrived 3 Inst, reports had westerly Winds the entire passage; Juae 40, lat 4235, ton 48 44, passed fourlurge icebergs, the sinallest of whieh was be: tween 200 and 400 Jeet high and 3 miles in cireumter- euce: July 3,0 miles Hof Sandy Hook, passed steamship Denmark (Be), hence for London, Passed Through Hell Gate, BOUND SOUTH. Steamship City of Dallas, Hines, Fall River for New York. Is consigned to 0 H Mallory & Co. Brig Florence May, Cochrane, Windsor, NS, for New York, 10 days, with plaster to © W Bortanx, Bri Open Sea, Hatch, Bath for New Yor! Schr Ked Beach, Hines, Windsor, Ns, for New York, 9 days, with plaster'to C W Beriaux. Selir Minuesota, Smith, Providence for New York. Schr AJ Dyer, Lathrop, Calais tor Sew York, with Inmber to order, ‘Schr Ida Herbert, Alien, New Bedford for New York, ‘hr Sarah R Thowas, Arnold, Connecticut River for Philadelphia. ‘hr Belle, Holmes, Plymouth for Baltimore. yigitt Addie Jordau, Davis, Keunebee River for New ork. bght, Dreadnaught, Saunders, New Haven for South mboy. Schr Geo P Trigg, Linnekin, Gloucester for New York, with fish to Woodruff & Simonson. Schr Matanzas, Bragdon. Boston for Port Johnson. Sehr kM Wells, Kelsey, Cromwell for New York, with stone to Merriman & Madden. sehr Kntire, Kinnear, Providence for New York. Sehr Minerva, . ones, Provide: : New York. Sehr North star, Wentworin, | York, with fish to'Haley & Co. schr Like Ernestine, Wells, York. ‘Schr Brandywine, Edgar, New Haven for Jersey City. Schr A & E Baker, Murray, New Haven tor New York. Schr Allandale, Phinney Haven tor Ne Schr JU Burnett, Martin, New Bedtord tor Sehr 0 F Hawley, Stiles, Brookhaven tor New York. Schr Adeline iamb 13, Bangor tor New York, with lumber to Maxwell £ Co. cs Schr Inavella, Jones, Nantucket for New York, with fish to order. Schr Jonathan Cone, Latham, Boston for New York. Sehr Eim City, Kinney, Wicktora for New York, Schr Fanny Fern, Katou, New Loudon for Euzabeth- ort. PMteamer Rlectra, Young, rrovidence tor New York, with mdse and passengers. BOUND EAST. Hunter, New York (or Santander New Brig Fairfield, (Spain) New Haven. Sehr Idaho, Jameson, New York for Boston, Schr Wreath, Foss, Klizabethport for Salem. Sehr S11 Poole, Colby, New York tor Wiscasset. Sehr Geo Gilluin, Gardger, New York for Boston. Schr Willie Martin, Willetts, Barncgat tor Portlan Sehr Decatur Oaks, Baker, Amboy tor Providence b Sehr John Manlove, Watson, Port Joaunson tor Ware- am, ‘Schr Veranda, Pond, New York for Proviaence. Sehr © W Locke, Bunce, New Yors for Fall River. posght biazle Raymond,’ Lora, Rondout tor New Bed. jord. 3 ‘Schr I, O Foster, Eldridge, New York tor Providence, Schr Madagascar, Benson, Weehawsen ter Salem. Schr D Ellis, Murray, New York for Newouryport. Ecbr Torpedo, Hutehing New Yorw tor Westport. Schr Hastings, Chase, New York for New Bediord, Rehr Doretta Kahn, Mack, Troy for Providen a ieht Bverareen (sb, Laker, New York for Hanteport, § Schr 8S Smith, Snow, Elizabethport for Wareham. Sehr Chancellor, Chase, New York for Pr = H aGtht 1G Folk’ Niekeison, Port Johnson tor Provi- lence. sehr Vermillion, Green, Newburg for Fall River. Behr RE Nash, Nash, Amboy tor t ton. Schr Grace Cushing, Hamilton, Port Johnson for Port- | land, i hr Thos B Smith, Bowman, Elizabethport for Provi- dence. BELOW. Ship Strathearn (0r), Jarman, from Liverpool June 6 vark I ¥ Chapman, from ——-. SAILED. Steamshins China (Br); Svain (Br); Oceanic City of Paris (Sr), tor Liverpool; Atmerica (Ger),’ Bre- men; burepa (Br), Glasgow; Dorian (Br), do; state ot Texas, Galveston; Western Metropolis, au’ Cortes New Orleans; San salvador, Savannah; npion, Charles: to eiactor, Wiimington; Old Lor siehmond. de; EC Knight, Georgetown, oC; Vin phia. (Bri, and Maritime Miscellany. an Teavw WIND, at Rockland July 2, with a cargo of e wud hay for New Y ot on fire, "She was hauled le the dock, aud ber hatches were to be opened how badly the cargo was damuzed, Stoor Raxox, of Edgartown, bevore reported dism ed, has beon repaired at Fairhaven, and is again ready Jor business. Stkamen CAnBringr, reported in collision day, on the Penodscoi, arrived at Bostun day morning. uring a thunder storm last week the and consumed the sche Catuarine, Capt futer, while moored at Capen’s dock, Ainityville, LIL No one was on board at the tine. befsre discovery the ames had full possession of the vessel. Lods extmated by ber Owners Ab $22,000—no iusiraace Smrrsci.pinc—The new three-maated schr Lante Co ding in Oukes & yard in Brewer, is nearly finished, and ed on ine Fourth of July n Thurs: rigat Pri- struck htni don are the builders, Capiain James Cobb, ‘of Brewer, will command her, Mesers Lemuel Bradtord, ‘Thomas A Taylor, Samuel Larrabee, Bowen & Hraley and David Bugvee, of Bau- wud It W Loud & Co, of York, ‘At Belfast, the keel of a large ship for Captain Baker McNear {3 being put into position at the yard of Carter & Co, with more contacts on hand. Mevilvery has a ship. bark and schooner which will be launched hetore the ist day of October, aud contracts tor others. George Cottrell bas a large schooner nearly compicted. Carter & Co have contracted to build a throe-masted w tons for Belfast parties, and to be com pun Edward McDonald ot tae Prescott ‘At Thomaston, Stetson, Gerry & Co will build a bark- entine this (all for Captain Ambrose Vesper. Lavxcuxn—At Bath, Me, July 1, by Brown & Hodgkins, a brig of flue mode! and’ build, na Revocea J Page, to de commuiided by Uapt Josiah Hill, of Cheisea, Mang She is. 427 tons burthen, and is intended tor general freighting business, The owners are samuel Sayward & Co.and oshers and the builjlors. ‘At Richmond, Me, July % from the ways of Harward & ‘Theobold, & ship of 1,281 "tons, named the storm King. Her owners are the builders, Lincoin Paiton, FP Dor- sey and Oapt AP Boyd, of Bath, an oid and Ssuccessiul ator, Who will command her. tried to evcape. Three of them succeeded and | A Naot iri ult, vy GR Campbell & Co, a three more were caught by OMecer Keenin; nd @ | double-deck barkentine of 475 tons, named the Alex use, } ander Campbell, invnded for ioreign and domestic s Banks for New | Haven for New | chr Reading RR No 90, Williams, Port Johnson tor | | | | | rote, for New York. j and AG ‘Lawson, a trade. She is owned the builders and others Hite geld, Caytaeonre ® bunker (who fs to coumna ir), ley, Russell & Co, Bunker Bros aud others Pordand, She jas been ‘Chartered for Fictou, to load coal for Portland. At Yarmouth, se, July 2, a brig of about 420 tons, named Jennie Pinney, owied by J 8 Winslow & Go #8 others of Yortiand, to be coumanded by Captain: Town, " From the yard of Sopmaia, John Brown at Tenant's: Harbor on Jane 28, th masted sehr Daisy E Parkbarst, 4H tons, old measurement Rate *Al tor I years io American Lioyus. Notice to Mariners. cum avOrs. The Chilian government has vlaced iv three fathoms of water a red cylindyieal buoy atthe northeast end of the Nunez Frank, with the following magnetic bear- Blt en Ancud Vier, WE. In line of ‘west partof D Sebastian Island with Port Punta Asui, wo, re prudently for it, bat im no ease to pass to the yeato : Also a red cyiindrical buoy with campannie, in two fathoms of water and sandy bottom, at the extreme N oe S Antonio Bank, with magnetic bearings as fol- 5 Punta de Awgui, N 4130 W. Punta Palcacura, 8 60 degs W. Aneud Pier, 5 45 0B, In line of the extremity of Punta Agut with the bigh part of Punta Coroha. No vessel should come within 200 metres N or E. BLACK SRA~-RUSSIAW COAST—RE-RSTADLISUMUNT OF LIGHT AT : TeaRIGRAD. In place of the eastern beacon, which was destroyed by a'bvorm, a movable beacon has beeu erveted wt Teari- rad. “"Ieconsists of a mast 45 fect In height, with sour sup- ports, and sarmounted by # bail 7 feet in diameter, The beacott Will be lighted, at. the request of Veasels bby aed the pass, by a red lantern hoisted at the mast- tn pher. June Vessels wishing the leading lights to be shown will make the following slgnals:—Sailing vessels, will_-holst two lanterns at the tore, and steumers, besides. boisting the lanterns, will sonnd the whistle, To enter the channel the red light on the eastern be con inust be brought in line with the. red fight which hoisted at the masthead of the western benvow: th Tater has also two White lanterns hoisted at the yard~ arm. By order of the Bureau ot Navigation. KH WYMAN, Commodore, USN, Hyd U 4! Hypwoguarine "Ovricx,’ Wastincton, Dl 13, 1374. Whalemen. Arrived at New Bedford July 2, ship Adsline, Marvis, South Vacitic Ocean, Bay of Islands Nov €, Pernambuco Muy 15, with 790 bbls sp 20 bbls taken since leaving Bay of falands), and 700.do. wh and pbk oil. sent home on the voyage 400. bbls sp oll, 30) do wh and S20 Ibs whale- Pepoken—Hark stafford. King, NB, 29) bbl il, ale — Bar| ford, ims a is ap oil, told,‘on River ia Plata Ground, March 10, f Spoken. Ship Bristolian (Br), Morgan, from Pensacola tor New- port b. Fune 25 iat ad stv Tom 728," ark Presto Br), Rogers, trom for 20, nies SW or Hateran ee oy 1s mage tae chr Loitic Wells, trom Wilmington, NC. bound N, June 29, 40 miles south of Cape Lookout. OUR CABLE SHIPPING NEWS. ee Beir a Arrivals and Departures of Vessel» Bound to or trom the United States. Lowvon, J uly 4, 1874, ARRIVALS, Arrived at Liverpool July % steamship Australian, (Bn), Peters, Baltimore. Arrived at London July 1, steamship Beigic (Br), Met- calf, New York. Arrived atgylmouth yaly 3, bark Ormus, Bailey, New: York; 4th, ship Nuova Rattler (tal), Lacommare, do for Antwerp. Arrived at Gloucester July 4, bark Fedele (Ital), Lod~ do, New York, Arrived at Mull Jaly 4 snip Forenengen (Swe), Pabl- man, Pensacola. arrived at Hartlepool July 4, bars Amphion (Nor), Baivorsen, Pensacola. Arrived at Grangemouth July 3, bark Selma (pr), Wallis, Darien. Arrived at Queenstown July 8, barks Delphin (Ras), Lovelins, Baltimore; Prospero Padre (Ital), Simonetti, do; Fri (Nor), Ostermann, New York; 4th, The Cedar (Br), Henderson, Pensacola; Marie (Ger), Permier, New" York ; brig Pathfinder (Br), Cousins, do, Arrived at Elsinore July 2, barks Uman (Swe), Sven- | son, New Orleans tor Cronstadt; Catharina (Swe), An- derson, do for do; Luna (Nor), Andersen, Philadelphia; Juno (Ger), Lindt, New York. Arrived at Gottenburg July 1, brig Diana (Nor), Han- sen, New York. SAILINGS. Sailed from Liverpoo! July 2, steamship Kenilworth (Br), Prowse, Philadelphia; 4th, barks success (Br) Be~ rendt, do; Edwin (Nor), Christofferson, United States. Sailed from Leith yuly 4, bark Alida (Nor), Berner, New York. Sailed trem Cronstadt July 3, brig Daisy, McCarthy, New York. Sailed from Rouen July 8, bark Maggie McNeil, Heron, United States. Foreign Ports. Gexoa, June 14—Sailed, barks Augusto (Ita, Strmger, Baltimore; 1th, Foriunato (tab, Razeto, New’ York. Tn port June Is, barks Laigi Ruggiero Stal), trom Phil- adelphia, arrived 16th; Giuseppe Dabondo (tal, Cama- dg; Paoline David (Ger), Otte, tor Philadelphia, do; f A Borland, Baker, unc, Ginwautan, June 12—arrived, park’ | Stagn ‘azie (Ital), a for New York (and saiiea 16th). e 16, brig Primo (Ital), Cacace, New York. In port June’ 17. bark Teresina (ital). Coppola, Orleans, arrived 10th, une; brig sir Robert Me (sr), Edwards, trom New York, arrived lth, une. Kixgstox, J, June 10 Arrived, selir spring Plower (Br), New York’; 19th, brigs Montrose (Br), Flinn, do ‘and sailed 25th on her return via Inagua); 2Isi, Vorest Prince (Br), Carroli, do. Br Jonx. NB. July 2—Arrived (Port), Santos, New York; 3d, werp; bark Bremen (Ger), 1 American Ports. BOSTON, July 3—Arived, schrs City 0 man, Jacksonville; : urprisé, Karine Itimore, BEAUFOR?, NC, June l6—Arrived, sour Matic Baker, Crowell, Boston (and sailed 25th from Rull Kiver for Wood's Hole). Cleared 20th, bark Harriet Campbell, Taytor. London. At Bull River June 20, schrs Chas Plart, Sharp; Chae Morford, Parsons, and Mary J Bryan, Thow)ison \BANGOR, July 2—Cleared, schrs Charics 1 Hellier, Coombs, Brunswick, Ga; H Atwood, Haskell, Balti? amore. ships Marianna VE Chelsea, Good> CALAIS, June 2—Cleared, rchrs Tangent, Abbott, New York; 3th, !lorence # Hail, Rogers: Jolin Bo ton, Hil in, Wooster, ant Mary. ardvon, d July 1, Ligure, Stanley, and Francis Colin, Batsun, New une, 27—Cleared, barks Saga (Br). Garvin, Margaretia (Ger), Wilson, Liverpool: sehr Ste- hen Bennett, Boston; doth, brig Der Pommer (Ger), on) swansea; schr W G Moceley, Abbott, Newbury~ port In port July 1, ships Wm- Wilson (Br), Riorde: Rio Janerry, arrive! June 3); Millcete (Br), Dnnn; vari Concordia, Ger), Katelhodt, trom Savaunan, arrive June 27; Tixner (Sor), Sverdrap—all for United King- dom: schr Helen A Bowen, Alexander, for Boston. EAST MACHIAS, July |—Salled, sdhr Elvira, suneroft, New York. NEW ORL“ANS, Jnly 4—Arrived, steamsbip Knicker- bocker, Gager, New York, " Sailed—Steamship Gen Meade, and Geo Washington, tor New York. _NORFOUK, July 2—Arrived, schr B M Tilton, Tiiten, New York. 3d—Cieared, bark Dinhora (Nor), Berentsen, Liver- pool. NEWBURYPORT, July 2—Arrived, schrs Jason, Saw~ ye BT et! i GO Sawver, Hall, do: Yankee Blade. ‘oombs, do; U L Vandervoort, kelley, New York: Win @ R Morey, Eaton, Weehawken; Yreka, Tabbert, Hoboken for South Amesbury. NEW BEDFORD, July 3—Arrivod, schrs WD Marvel, Keith, Georgetown, bC; Lama: ‘Allen, Philadelphiat Herbert Marton, Crowell, New York; Golden Bagie, Ker ey, do. Xallea—Schrs Ocean Wave, Fisher, Philadeiphia: Wm McCovb. Horton, New York Oharter Ouk, Fuller, dos. Com Howard, Tucker, do; Golden Ray, do. NEWPORT, July 2-—Arrived, schrs #air Wind, Bow- man, New York for Wareham; Henry Kemsen,’ Alie! Providence tor New York; BH Williams, Rnsseil, Phila- delphia for New Bedford;'S & Crocker, Thrasher, Sour Amboy for Tannton; Mediator, Davis, New York tor Fall River; Belie B Hull, Brush, Fall Kiver tor sew: York. Sailed—schrs Met Natt, Barker, New Bedford tor New Vurk, Kim Olty, Kelly, Wickford for wo; Iris, Lent Witapattick, Providence for Haver? July 3—Arriyed, schrs R Leach, Ron- Stecess, Hoboken for Providence 5 straw dout for Bango Mary Anna, Amboy tor Norwich; AJ Chapman, New York tor George's Banks ‘NEW HAVEN, July $—Atrived, brig Thomas Turnel,, Thompson, Ponce, #'R;schrs Apuie Beil, Likins. do; \ Andersons Lyon, Baltimore; @ 0 Burdeti, Rogers, Port Johnsons Bwahisiit, Kovertson, Alexandra, ‘Satied—Brig Thos Turnell, Thompson, New York ; schra Annie Bell, Likins, do; Dreadnaught, Alling. do. VOR? LUDLOW, June 2—Arrived, snp J B Rell, Trask, San Francisco. : PORT DISCOVERY, June 26—Arrived, ship War Hawk, 26—Arrived, Sorman, San Vraucisco. PORT GAMBLE, Jane Sprague, Kellar, San Francisco, PEXSAOULA, June 2—Cleared, brig Sarjola (Mus), Hillstrom, Hull, PORTLAND, July 2—Arrived, bark Harriet 5 Jackson, Bacon, Georgetown: brigs Ligale H Kimball, Luni, N boryport, to finish dg tor Porto Rico: Jen quew, of Portland, 4% tons), Brown, Yar for Buenos Ayres; schrs B J) Willar't, Wo more; Thos Boaz, Carman, Philadelphia. Cledred—Seur TS McLellan, Farr, New 8d—Arrived, bark Andrew’ O bean, Che gers Sovhia, South Amboy; Bowdoln, Phi jenry. do. PORTSMOUTH, Jaty 2—Arrived, sehrs Magnet, Handy, Weehawken; Pavilion, Linscott, South Amboy. dd— arrived, sehr Clira G Loud, Welt, baltimore. Sauied—Brig Eliza Stevens, Kelsey, Georgetown ; selirs BO terry, Birdsall, and Cores, Coleman. Philadelphia. RICHMOND, Va, July 2—Arrived, steamship Wyanoke, Couch, New York. Sailed—Schr Mohawk, Tannell, Newark, Nj, KOCKLAND, July 2—Arrived, sehrs Hattie Lewis. Col man, Dover; Mary A upper, Gilman, Bellast for Pliia Lmpress, Kenuedy, New York, ir Mary A Hupper, Gilman, Philade!pbia. RANUISCO, Jung 26-—Arrived, ship Commodore, Gilmore, Pore Ludlow; bark Nic Biddle, Nickels, Port Lake |. eee sca—snip Patterdale (BH), | Gunton, Laverpouts barke Limo Walliams, Mall, Hooolmlu and’ Biker's ts land: Milan, Snow, Port Townsend; Atalauta, Avery, Aiea ships Gentoo, Linnell, New York; Coquinibo, ship Roswell ‘wy, Port Madison. AY EM July 2-Arrived, scbrs KA Hooper. Bnoka- lew, and’ f° Wing, Boicd, Fhuadelphin: Anvor Law ronse, Griffin, and Porto Rico, Wentworth, Port John fons Union, sawyer, Elizabetuport. Gieared—sehr Golden City, Saunders, Cayenne. WARUEN, July $—Sailed, schr Henry Lemuv Hizabethport. a CE LLANEOUS, SOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FhoM DIP. B A icrent states, legal everywheres desertion, Re,, rut fletent cause ; no publicity required; no charye’ updll di- yorce granted. Advice iree, 1 Broadwa: Pneumonia, from an eminent retired phy M. 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