Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-04-17

spanncd the heavens on Wednesday evening,
nhcr the brilliant display Of tho Northern light,
attracted much attention not only in this city,
bn, in Ral,immre and New York, where il wss
s.o observed, proving that it must have been at
grrnt height ,o have been seen at places so
distant from zach o'hcr, The Baltimore ratri.
q, has the following account Of il
Phil. Ledger.
Those whn wor" not indu'ging last night, be-
tween 10 and II O'clock, in "tired natures
sweet rcs'orcr. balmy sieep," had the pleasure
of behollmg sublime aud beautiful pheuome.
nun in tho heavens. A little after dark, or abou,
s o'cl'k in tho evening, ,horr appeared upon the
Northern horizon brilliant ligh', known as The
Aurora Borenls. At first i, seemed like the
reflected light or distant town or city on FIRE.
1t continued to spread and gradually ascend up
the sky. until The whole Northern horizon was
brilliantly illuminated. At times the light was
nndulatiuy aud seemed not unlike distant waves
upon The ocean; anon it became less brilliant,
and tlen assumed a ruddy huge pillars like CO.
Iumns Of fire. little before 10 o'clock, the
immense and brauiiful bow. spanning the whole
heavens from northwest to southeast The sky
wus wi,hou, a cloud or obstacle To obscure the
stars. save this sublime arch. which, from its
brilliancy, eccued to throw dmness upon
nights ~ inkling scDtinels II presented a
kind If serpcntine appearance, and after rising
to the zenith, nbout IL o'clock, grew dim and
gradually vanished from sight, leaving an unu.
snal number of metcors or shooting stars, track
| ing their courses a,hwart nights ebOn throne.
1t wns certainly most unusual appearance. and
excited wonder and admiration with thousands
nt beholders There were those who believed
| it ominous Of somc dire event. perhaps the
| "wrcck Of matter and the crush Of worlds"
Others supposed it indicative of III success in
the chances of war. Rather waggish kind of
philosopher at last solved the mystery, BY pro-
nOuncinC il the trail Of cannon ball that bad
been fired at old Rough and Ready" and being
sent on an nnholy GRAND. was doomed to pass
forever on IN space, far beyond the confines Of
earth
| To the true astronomer. however, the phe-
nomenon shove noticed possesses no special
mystery !, was such as has been seen before,
though scarcely ever more brill antly presented.
Extracts from Late F"rsiE" Paprrs.
A Dublin paper Of the 10Th of March has the
following extracts:
Hr,LrH OF MR OCoSNELL.-Mr. OCun.
| III b, III ;ol
arrived n, the Marine Iiu,el. Hastings, on Sa.
turday. Mr.. OConnrii is evidently suffering
under great debility and he bears about him
undcniable pronfs of having been seriously ILL.,.
lie is reduced to mere shadow of his formerly
porty figure. Al the same time we have rea
Am To believe that no immediate danger is ap.
prehcndrd. On The contrary, his medical at.
icn,lan, Or Duke) is sangnine that the quie.
,ude aud saIubrily OF Hastings will speedily re-
store the patient to health aud vigor. .-Brigh-
fun Gardian.
TRE CArAsrRoPnE At THE CARLsRUnv The
ArRE We read in the Carlsrnhe Gazette of
the 81 'An account oi the dreadful fire at the
Grand Ducal Theatre The fre occurred from
the gas catching the hanging Of !he Court box.
As soon as the audience part Of the house was
beginning To be- filled with the volumes Of smoke
the alarm became general and frightful. Many
crsons on the third floor Of galleries were sti.
f.d. The numbers ofdcad and missing amounts,
according 10 the pullce returns, to 20. Some
threw themselves out of the windows Of the
fourth story; one, in attempting to do so, was
Withheld 5y a young woman to whom he was
aliancrd. and thus r"ma lied suspended till the
budding gave way, when they both sank into
the flames.
"for three days past, the persons occupied
on the ruins nj the theatre have been engaged
in taking ont the dead bodies, and conveying
Then. to the Cemetery, where they are buried
in one large grave. They were for the grea
ter parts sn mutila,ed that they could no, bt
recognized.
According to the Information which we have
received. It may be regarded as certain tha
most OF the victims were suiiocated, and tina
they had not to undergo death from the flames
it is almost beyond doubt that, overpowered By
the gas. they lost all consciousness before the
fire reached them. A person who saved HIM
self by getting out Of one of the windows 10 th'
roof OF on adjoining house, states that when thu
fire broke out, every body rushed towards th'
doors, but the effect of tho gas ives 20 strong
that they began to lose their sight, and wsr'
r,o,,aO,, toue,bev i'm n senselese state unabl