, 1860-07-26

from the \. y. 1IeEaid, c4t1l,1
As our exchanges and correspondence from
different parts Of the country reach This Office,
*c learn something about The exteat orer which
the bcsu1iful meteor OF Friday night was seen,
We tjGd that it was observed W far west as Huf.
tslo, some four hundred miles from this city !;
as lur east as Boston aud Newport. Il. l.. 10
fur snutu as Norfolk, Va, and up in the Btuc
Ridge Mountains Of Pike county, Pa Our COT
respondent from the latter point relat> i that
half mile ut his place Of observation, it drop.
ped of with terrible explosion; that be had
the curiosity to proceed to the place where he
imagined It fell, aud ectunlly discovered "a
round hole in the ground resembling what
might be made BY the fall Of 9 cannon bali The
hole, he Says, was about foot iu depth and nine
inches IN diameter, land the place about it Was
unusually hot" Our correspondent evidently
believes That this meteor, which was seen as far
west az Buffalo. and as fAr south As Washington,
never rot beyond the range OF his vision in
Pike county, aud had buried itself in that iden-
tical ho e. OF the satne character is the stale
meat made III bridgeport paper, that zone Of
hosse in Eaat !, bridgeport 1t was about Two
iuchea square"
The captain of a vessel, just arrived in port,
reported at this Office yesterday that he had
seen the meteor from his vessel two hundred
miles out 1t ser. His account generally coin.
cides with all the others. except thkt be eastu.
la:es that it remained in sight for twelve
1ninrtes.
There is some 1ittle discrepancy a. to the
precise time Of it's appearauce- In Washing,
t6n, Philadelphia end uuttalo, the time is liked
| ut about half. paat uiae- 1t may hare been cor.
recus fixed at Buffalo. because Sew York tims
| ia twenty minutes fAster than Buffalo time. If
| therefore, the meteor was seen st Buffalo vi
bali past zine o'clock precisely, and IN this city
Ut . quarter before ten precisely, then its rate
Of apeed would be dstermina.e}y ascertsiued Il
have been Al the rate OF eighty uilles per minute
line drawn from Buffalo to New York Vivid
| approximate ahe course taken by the meteor
and it would therefore follow that, allowing 10,
I the difference Ia time between the two citisa
it occupied just Eve miputea in trarersipg Il.
Intervening distance, about four hundred asites
1t IL very remarkable how universal was th'
impression among aal spectators in regard II
the insignificant attitude Of the meteor. 1t La
beea estimated At from one hundred 10 five hun
dtcd ards--aone placing It At higher thsn bal
9 mile At Wilmington, Del, It teemed 10 lov
that II Threatened to brush the tree tops ore
which it sped. But the extent Of territory ore
which i; was sisibse, and It's nearly vertical pc
sit,on - all spectators, prove that these esti
mates we're sbsnrd!y below The mark, md se
| at fault all apecnlatlonB as to its altitude.
1t is deserving of no&ice in connection witt
this phenomenon, md with the recent displa,
OF the aurorx boreals, that the weather for th
past few days hna become comparatively COO
il may be Eecottected that the bri1tiant aurora
exhibitions that took place On the 28th Of AZ
cuA Iast we're followed by low degree Of III
temperature mad By great storms al sea, paralt
| u9afiy on The British coaat, wnere immense d.
mage was done to shipping. II WAS in one {
those gsles th4. the terrible wreck Of the RoJs
Charter took place of the island Of Auglese'
These celestial phenomena, as we'll as tb
Comet which IL now visible in California, as
sure 10 receare the earnest and critical attentio
If sc;entific bodies and indisiduala in the Un
| ted States and Europe, which viii probably II
| .nil in giving to The world Some more ds6ais
tde4 Of The Causes and Effects Of those xondes
Of the heavens. In the meantime they form tt
great stapte OF conversation in I'LL circles.