New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-30
THE AURORA BOREALIS.

Many of our exchanges contain illusions to the
magnificent display of the Aurora Boreais night
before last which, in the opinion of all the wnt,rs
was superior to anything of the kind that has been
seen 10 this latitude for many years.
lBy Telegraph
Bosros, Monday, Aug. - 1859.
Dispatches from various and distant localltIes de-
scribe the appearance Of the Aurora BorealiS during
lat nigh. as more brilliant, and of longer duration,
than has occurred for twerty years.
MONTREAL, Monday, Aug. -, 1859.
The Superintendent of the Canadian Telegraph
Company s lines telegraphs as follows:
81 never in my experience of fifteen years IN the
work ing Of telegraph lines, witnessed anything Ike
the extraordinary effect Of the Aurora Borealis be-
tween Quebec and Father Point last night The line
was in most perfect order and we-sktlst operators
worked iuoessantly from O'Clock last evening till
clock this morning. to get over, in even toleraby
Ineligible form, about four hundred words OF the
steamer Indians report for the Associated Press aud
at the latter hour so completely were the wires under
the il uepce of the Aurora Boreas that 1t was found
utterly impossible TO communicate between the tele-
praph stations and the line closed for the night
The Philosopher of Brooklyn Heights has Issued the
following:
"The temperature this morning at 10 clook was at
forty-nne 40 degrees The biz hest temperature yes
tercay IVES from to P. m. bS 70 30 degrees ior
Pine consecutive hours with the exception OF sTfar-
baton at II ~ when il fell two and rose three degrees
Aurora BoreaIis Northern Lights, kindled shortly
after sunset and shone througOut the entire night and
were greatly dfused The temperature feu ooasta nty
during the continuance of the Aurora.
"At D. IN. it wac at % degrees; at IL r. m D de-
yreeg and in FIVE hours after fell down TO ~ degrees
At 4 clock this morning the air was as clear and
bright as that during iull moon and coudless sky.
The elee raph wires surcharged 20 greater De-
gree than during the Aurora OF 18th and O.h February
1852 when the Aurora also shone throughout the night,
both here and iDEpgaDd. o
81 have Bible printed in London, in the year loy9,
in which the I'D Of the 3th chapter OF job ads
thus The brightness commeth 0nt OF mo Norm me
Dr1ise 10 G0d Which IS terrible"
"The Bible written in the ninth century on parch-
ment and presented to the Rev. Nj. Dufied OF Detroit
by Mr. Case our minister at Rome, who procured 1t
from monk at the foot Of Mount Sinai, corresponds
substantially with this and does the Bible in Har-
ward College written parchment In the sixth GEN.
tury. r..
q The Aurora Boreaiis is sometimes seen az far
south az thirty six degrees north latitude.
The Aurora Boreais seen from the summit OF
Mount Washington the night OF the 18th OF August
1853 was next morning followed by an atmosphere 80
clear that the spires of the churches at Portland, 70
miles distant were snctly seen from the summit %
the mountain, and at tbe same time most orlLians
ueteoric shower was seen from the ocean near the
| Equator.
IL have had an Interesting coIrespondepee WITH
Prof Sophocles Greek Professor in Hlrvard College
aud with Rev Mr.. Dufiied, ia reference TO the "a
verse Of the h chapter fJob treating oftoe bright
ness which c2neth out OF the Moth, when may
| publish. cr-,., A..
Persons who breathe the air filed with the anro-
raj lgbt " =. ind Il very inyisorating. r.. AstiAh.
Brookl,A Hghts n. Y, Aug %. lsSi7