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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The comet and the earth in Contact. (search)
The comet and the earth in Contact.
--We read that Professor Hind, the celebrated English astronomer, says that on the 30th of June, the earth, probably passed through the tail of the comet, at a distance of perhaps two thirds of its length from the nucleus.
Two days previously, the head of the comet was in the ecliptic, distant from the earth's orbit only 13,800,000 miles, and the earth, according to his calculations, would encounter the tail on the day named.
A peculiar illumination of the Northern sky on the evening of the 30th June, supposed to proceed from an Aurora glare was observed both in, England and the United States, and goes for, in the absence of scientific calculations to confirm this theory The result will be looked for with interest as betting at rest the vulgar fear of a collision between the earth and a comet, and proving that the latter is composed of gases far more ten ours than our atmosphere.
An advertisement in the Liverpool papers states that on the re-opening of the port of Charleston, three first class steam screw ships will be dispatched for that port taking freight and passengers for all the Southern and Western States.
The Charleston Mercury, of September 12th, says that Senor Moneader, the Spanish Consul in that city, will, in a day or two, clear a vessel from that port as from the Confederate States.
Mr. G. L. Barnard, of Bahalin, Marshall county, Miss., has tendered to the city of Memphis one thousand bushels of meal, provided the city shall furnish sacks and pay-for the hauling.
Some fifteen or twenty negroes have been seduced from the service of their masters, along the Potomac river, in King George, by the Lincoln pirates who now infest those waters.
Samuel C. Reid, for many years a member of the bar and connected, with the press of New Orleans, is a candidate to represent the second Congressional district in the Confederate Congress
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Male horse, (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Retreat of the first Georgia Regiment from Carrick's Ford — a Thrilling Narrative. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brave woman. (search)