The New York herald., 1869-08-25
Arrival OF Governor Scnter at
tke Capital.
Colonel Stokes Plan for 0verthrOwlng the
Late Election in Tennessee.
The Rivals Seeking Interviews
With the President.
A NEW STYLE OF METEOR.
WASHINGTON, August "a. 1869.

WASHINGTON, August "a. 1869.
| Failure Of Stokes Mission.
The mission OF Colonel Stokes here IN try To get
INC ffesldeht 10 Interfere In Tennessee election
IL Sregarueo as hopeless, sven by the most intense
radlcais as the President, even II disposed to act
as".. ..@. DO anything without Congress 1t is pre-
| sumed that he will get rid Of Stokes by informing
him 6f ttsst fact and then console him with the
removal Of the federal nS,aers who assisted in
the election Of senter. stokes proposition 10 have
Conorass convened In extra session next month to
look after u regarded as absurd ana 1t is
not believed the Presidenl : 'u Ns.en 70
Governor senter ut the saapltel.
Governor Senter, Colonel D. M. Nelson, GessAral J.
A. Mobry and Colonel John B. BrOwnow, OF Tennes.
see. are here, en- route for New York. Governor
Senter Will return In few days for the purpose of
! calling on President Grant.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
| The records or the State Department show the
| following regarding State action on the fifteenth
amendment TO the national constitution
| Complete Rdtifcaho,a--North Carolina West vir.
gnia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, louisiana
Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas
Connecticut FlOrda-12
DEFECTIVE RdtifCdttOn-Kansas and Missourt-2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Kentucky-2
Payment Of the September Int crest.
On the ist OF september about e4,se4.125 In coin
VIII be taken from the Treasury to pay the semi.
annual instaments OF the interest on the en-forty
bonds which falls due on the 1st OF Septem.
Der, and the 1st Of March respectively. The
amount of the bonds outstanding is s1o4, 5e7. 800.
o further payments OF gold interest viii fall due
after this until the 1st Of November next, when
about s2o,ooO00O Will be required to pay the semi
annual L. stament OF the interest on the five twenties
Appoih> >tment OF Custom House Officers.
Acting secra tary Richardson to-day confirmed the
following nom6a. ions Tor customs offlcers:-Davd
K Cartier as Deput- Collector and Inspector or Gus
toms, Rochester, N. 81, and Homer Halstead as
clerk: stephen Rich and alvin Smith, to be Inspec-
tors at Gloucester, Mass; RoSert F. Wocott to be
clerk in the Coston Bustom House; Anson F. Adams
to be temporary Inspector in the New York Custom
House; Edwin A. Evans Night Inspector In Philadel-
phia; Frederick Williams ana @. X. Cook Night In
spectors, G.. NJ. Cole, Inspector, and O. o. yarney
clerk in the New York custom House. Under the
new regulations for paying the abOrers employed by
weighers and gaugers In New York, MIR. Frank G.
wentworth has been appointed clerk for that pur
pcse with the power OF q Deputy Collector to ad-
minister 0aths.
Assnycr Of the Carson City Mint.
d. W. Balch, Assayer OF the Branch Mint at Car
son City, Nevada, has resigned.
About seven minutes after seven O'Clock this even-
ing very unusual celestial display was observed
here by people VINO happened at the time to be
gazing skyward. large meteor shot from the
northwest towards the north. taking course slight
ly downward and then upward in sort OF serpent
FORM Starting like bali of brilliant light 1t gradu-
ally increased it sped along, leaving bright ius-
trous tail after II, very much like that of comet land
dnally bursting like rocket scattering Jets OF light
Of rtp
the pyrotechnists call pinwheel. What was some.
what remarkable about this phenomenon was the
fact that long after what appeared to be the body
OF the meteor itself had disappeard the |
lustrOus tail remained now increasing and |
now diminishing In brilliance for at least ten |
minutes, when 1t commenced to gradually fade |
away. The time occupied between the commence.
ment OF the display and the bursting as 1t seemed
of the meteor must have been least twelve or If
teen seconds and the whole time up to the disap-
pearance OF the tall covered some ten minutes.
The phenomenon gave rise to quite lively ex-
citement In this city. The people who witnessed 1t
gave various opinions as to its oause some holding
that 1t was really the expected comet which as.
tronomers had declared would DO invisible 10 |
the naked eye, and others contending that
1t was merely one OF those occasional
luminous nebulous displays which are known 10
occur at this season of the year, and which have
little importance In the estimation of scientific folks
With view to obtaining some reliable information
on the subject your correspondent visited the Naval
Observatory, but found that no one there had no.
tced the occurrence, for the very good reason that
no astronomer was on the lookout in the dome of
the observatory at the time of the display. Nearly
all the astronomers are out Of town. not having yet
returned from their expeditions to observe the solar
eclipse.