Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-03-29
Wonderful sights in the Air.

he venerable american LeXicO- |
graphcr has thought it worth while to
notice, in the New Haven Herald, the |
use which appears TO have been made
in recent publications, Of certain atmos-
pheric phenomena, in reference TO the
great change which, 1t is said, is 10 |
come over the world this year. He !
says:
$40 persons not accustomed to see
any unusual phenomenon in the heavens, |
such fiery appearance in the clouds |
mus, be terrific. Ignorance, IN such ca
ses is u calamity. | had seen most
wonderful appearances in the clouds or
heavens, and was not in the least dis
turbed
sin the dark day, May 10, 1880, The
heavens were covered with dense cloud
for three or four hours; the Lcgisla-
ture was IN session at Hartford, and
such was the darkness that business
could not he transacted without candles
| During the time. the clouds were tinged
with a yellow or FAINT red for hours, for
which no cause has been assigned |
stood and viewed this phenomenon with
establishment, bat had no fear that the
world was coming TO an end.
"'In the evening Of 2Oth March, 1852,
an extraordinary light spread over the
whole hemisphere from horizon to hor-
lion, north and south, east and west
The light was of a yellow cast, and wa
w. The waving Of the light was visi-
bic, and some persons heard, or i'm
imagined they heard, slight rustIng
sound. | then resided in Goshen, Or
angc county, New York, and stood half
an hour on u bridge over the Wall XII,
TO witness this extraordinary phenome-
non, but saw no person that was frigh-
tened at the sight.
SIN the year 1853, a great part OF
Europe was for weeks overspread with
a hazlness Of atmosphere which caused
great CONSERVATION; the churches were
crowded with suppIicants. The astron-
oner I4alande attempted TO aIlay the
7 fright by endeaVoring 10 account for
the appearance, which he ascribed TO an
uncommon exhaiation Of watery parti-
cles from the great rain of the proceed
ing year. But at last the cause was
ascertained TO be smoke from the grea;
eruption Of the volcano Hecia, in Ice,
land, which covered more than three
thousand square miles with burning la,
va, in some places to the depth of forty
} feet. | had this account from DR.. Frank
lin, who was in Europe at that time.
On late paper, published by the
= MiIlerites, saw an article stating 'ha
the northern lights loreteIl something
n terrible. The writer seems not tc
: know that in the high northern lati
! tudes, in the sixteenth degree and north
ward, northern lights are of daily &c
currencc, and so have been from tim,
immemorial. So illuminated are thC
heavens, that persons may often see t.
read in the night.
"These lights occasionally come 81
far south as to illuminate the sky in oul
latitude. Sometimes they do not appear
for many years. At the close Of the
: seventeenth and beginning Of the eigh
teenth century, those lights were no
seen for long period, and when they
re-appeared about The year 1917, our
: ancestors, who had not seen or heard
of them, were all alarmed, and actually
supposed the day of judgment was come
During my life, have been SO &C
customed to see northern lights, falling
stars so called, and fire balls. that they
have long since ceased to excite my Gu.
riosity.
E'Ncarly thirty years ago ] read an
article in Vermont paper, stating thai
the northern light, on certain evening
was SO low as to be visible between tho
spectator and a distant mountain.
N. WEBSTER"
Highly Important to Dandies.
: The New Y ork correspondent of the
National Intelligencer-one N. P. Viii