New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-13
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1860.


and stammerGd out the following reply:
On the 26th OF March about 4 o'clock, turned
my telescope 10 the sun, when to my surprise
saw at small distance from its margin, a black
spot, well defined and perfectly round, advancing
upon the disc of the sun. y customer called me
away, and hurrying him of as fast as could, came
back to my glass, when found the round spot had
continued its transit, and saw it disappear from
the opposite margin of The sun, after projection
Hpori it Of an hour and half. did not seize tie
precise moment Of contact. The spot was on the
disc when ! first saw it, ] measured its distance
from The margin and counted the time it took TO
make the sa1ne distance, and 50 approXimated the
instant Of its cntry.3
/" 10 count time is easy to say,m said Levcrrier,
" Int where is your chron0netef?"
My ctigUnometer Is this watch, that beats only
minutes, the faithful companion Of my professional
iabgrs.H
what. with that cid watch: row dare You
talk of counting seconds! My suspicious are too
Wcil feuHded.ti
"Padou me, sir, but have pendulum that
nearly bsats seconds, and | sill bring it down to
show yoa
lie goes above stains and brings down slken
thread, the upper end of which he fastens 10
nail and brings 70 rost the ivory ball at the lower
end he then starts it from the vertical, and its
OSCILLATIONS beat seconds very nearly.
" This i moi enough, =ir; how do you count
these seecnds while in the act Of observing y"
My profession is 70 feel pulses and count their
puisatioHs, and my pendulum puts 10y seconds
into my ears, and have no difficulty in counting
them"
But where is your teleseope!1 The Doctor
showed i-evefFicr his glass which was one Of
Cauche'S best 1t was tonr inches in diameter,
and mounted on rude stand. He took the Won
dering astronomer imperial TO his roof, where he
was building rude revolving platform and roof.
9 This is all very well. but where is your original
memorandum? The Doctor ran and got his al
rnanac, OF ton1tnjsdttce DIS Temps, and in it he
finds square piece Of paper. ,nscd as a marker
and on it, all covered over with grease and laudam
NUN, is tie original memorandum! - But you have
falsied the time Of emergence. Ii is four minutes
too late by this memorandum IL is, bat the
four minutes are the error OF my watch, which !
corrected by sidera time, by the aid of this little
telFsoope.&
But h0w did you determine the two angular
cbOrdinatpS Of the point of contact, Of the entrance
| and emeTgence Of the planet, and how did you
measure the chord Of the arc between them n
Having explained his simple method which ne pur-
/ sued in the premises to the satisfaction Of the
astronomer, the latter next inquired after his rough
| dFaughta Of calculation for determining the dis.
tance Of the planet from The sun. My rough
/ draughts! Paper is scarce With us. am Joiner
4 as well as an astronomer. ] write on my boards.
| and when am done, plane them of and begin
/ again: but Think have preserved them" On
visiting the shop, they found the board, with al its
4 lines and numbers still unpbliteratcd
i The Partisan sayan was now convinced that Les
| carbault had really seen the planet whose exist
! ence he had himself foret0ld farming to the doc
i tor lie revealed his personality, and congratulated
| his humber brother on the magnificent discovery
| thus confirmed. Ii was the event in the Orgeres
| physicians life. Honors poured in upon him. Tie
cross Of the Legion Of Honor was sent to him from
| Paris. His name was at once enrolled in the lists
1 Of the leading scientific academies of Europe. Bnt
| with becoming madesty, lie declined the proftrs
made to him Of public dinners at the Hotel de
| louvre at Paris, and at Ghartres ana Blois
The new orb has been fclicitously named yul-
can, by its twin discoverers. If any object to the
| designation Of the planets by the names Of % ali
Olympus dread hierarchy they must at least
| allow a peculiar appropriateness in the distribu-
ton of the titles. For we have Saturn, huge, Blind
plter, yastcr and more royal than oil the rest
| Mars, red and ominous as war itself Venus, beau
tfnl in silyefy light, and like the love Of whicl
she is the type the first and last leave the sigh
! of men, Aud to these is now added Vulcan. re
volving in the seYenfold heat and splendor OF III,
great sun himself, and within the larger pathway
Of the herald Argicide, Mercury, the swiftwhirin;
messenger star.