Alexandria Gazette

The Meteors.—The Meteors did come, according to the prediction of several scientific gentlemen; among them Professor Olmsted of Yale College. Professor Olmsted and a large number of the College Faculty and Students sat up during the night of the 13th, anxiously waiting to see whether the prophecy founded on the history of the meteors would be accomplished. At about 3 o'clock they were gratified with the beginning of the shower, and it continued for an hour. The meteors were not so numerous as last year, but in all other respects the appearance was the same.

Professor Olmsted has made a brief communication on the subject, to the New Haven Herald. He states that the presence of the moon permitted only the larger and more splendid meteors to be seen. The number of them, though smaller than that of last year, was much above the common average. They began to be frequent as early as four minutes past 1 o'clock, when a fire ball of unusual splendor blazed forth as a signal. From this period they continued to fall at a pretty uniform rate, until daylight was far advanced. It was estimated that a thousand fell during the night. Their directions were more remarkable than their number, and afforded more unequivocal evidence of the identity of the phenomenon with that of last year. They appeared as before, to radiate from a common centre, and that centre was again in the Constellation of Leo.