The New York herald., 1867-11-15
THE RS.
A Splendid Display Yesterday
Morning.
Reports from All Parts Of
the Union.
THE MErEORS NOT SEEN m ENGLAND.

The laieness or the hour when the meteors COM
menced 10 fail yesterday morning prevented US from
doing tnan merely chrollcng the fact OF their ap'
pearance. After waiting and watching patiently
throughout the night Without observing anything more
than occasional carng across The SKY, sucn
be any clear pish during this period OF
the year the impression prevailed that the anxiousiy
expected spectacle would not come on Al about one
O'Clock heavy snow clouds commenced gathering on the
cast, west and SOUTH and gradually spread until they
cover,d the greater part OF the sky forming crescent
over the north but leaving that point very clear and
blue and covered with myriads OF stars. Such was
the situalion OF affairs o'clock. Watchers
became ired or watching and went to bed disgusted
and disappointed, aud the reporters OF the news
papers wendsd their way homowsrd after graveiy
writing for their respective journals tal or yeser-
day mornings papers except the HERALn) tha,
ieors had again failed to TO time, and were, IN
fact. prodigious humbugs.
Excepting as before remarked an occasional and ftfu
fash of light the horizon, tho metoorc display
did really before haf-past three o'clock
IN The morning. Al precisely that hour meteor Of a
ereensn blue color and about the size OF star Of the
1rst msgaitude, sho. from tho direction OF
the constellation Leo lighting up the sky with
long train or crm-on IRE, and travelling
In northwestery direction. II had scarcely
faded from the sight when another and equally
Mhnant, tnouRn not gulte 20 iafBe came speeuiDg
its track, and followed by fourteen OF
smaller magnitude, one by one in quick succession.
Al this moment heavy cloud drifled wards The
north, and for some minutes The spectacle par
tialiy lost to view. That the rneteors falling
rapidly, however was plainly evident From all points
where the clouds thin occasional ones flashed out
and the frequent lighting up OF the clouds they
passed over made 1t apparent that they were falling
rapidly. At before four O'Clock the north
sky again became clear: a thick and almost i'm
penetrabe cloud passed the moon part ally OBJ
securing its Icht and thus enabling the watchers 10 view
With greater distncness the and brilancy OF tho
me.sors. Tho display vas DOW most magnificent one
Tho meoors shot from Leo IN all directions
and with remarkable swiftness travelled the
horizon. Sxty-,hree counted in mute and
ton seconds, OF which three were OF extraordinary size
and beauty. One or these, OF greenish hue and fol-
bowed BY long the color sellsd in the
direction of Ursa Major and II disappearing in
abe northern horizon apparently burst lighting up the
sky for great distance all sides II utterly
Impossible 10 keep correct account or the number
falling Eight, ten and twelve sped onwards on their
erratic course at the moment scarcely disappear
ing before others OF eqial spendor took
their places For fully twenty inmates they continued
70 fall with the same rapdity, during which time,
exclusive OF those already mentioned, three hundred
and thirteen counted. This numbsr however,
NOT ntn OF that which really fen Not less perhaps
than hreen hundred thousand raiiaed from Leo
during this space Of time tha, h utterly mpossl
BILE for person keep anything ike
count AT ten minutes -four o'clock they appeared
In smaller numbers, and gradually decreased they
averaged than three four each minute. AT
twenty-five minutes past four o'clock the largest and
undoubtedly ths most brilliant meteor that has been
seen for many years came rushing the sky. Il
Tadatsd from Leo and took direct northerly
toward Ursa Major. followed by long train OF vel
owish red hue, which spsnned the horizon from its
of appearance that OF its disappearance This
N ssteor or the greenish buc color as the
n hers which prec sdsd u, aud passed aboat
half OF the cours, travcraed IL seemed
burst and then tho spectacle was really
utful Apparently hundreds OF fragments OF
,most blood red color broke from it and scattered
very direction, while Il continued ITS course to-
s the north, no longer wearng its greenish blue
but Of one uniform and beautiful blue. The psno
II presented vas exceedingly grand, and must have
at least three minutes before the varied coors
'eared and the FIRE liz skies resumed their wontcd
y. Meteor after meteor followed rapid
Ion until sbous twenty minutes before nve
when they ceased to appear, except a, intervals
or twelve seconds each. Even this number grad
,crsased until Hye O'Clock, when two large and
onos, with long trains, shot out together. aud
almost al the moment in the northern
Numerousl small meteors came afterwards;
al frandeur Of thu spectacle had passed away.
q ny mis's Of morning and the November fog
Eers nov covering the and Getty. II there.
fore slmo s impossible 10 do than occasi nay per-
eeive the nashes Of light which evidently camo from
those OF brlapcy; and as the morning advanced
even ahes became less and less distinct until they
G5a loss TO view. aud the meteors 10 all OF ber
grandeur re NAMED oEly IA tho memories Of those who
had witness Cd them
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