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2. Meteorite Explosion near Charleston, S. C.—The inhabitants 7 
Charleston were much surprised by an ainusual phenomenon, that oce 
red at about half past eight last evening. The air at the time was ail 
and a slight shower was falling. Suddenly a vivid flash of light, consid- 
erably different in character ‘from ordinary lightning, everywhere pre- 
vailed ; and after an interval of about one minute came a very heavy 
an earthquake. Various conjectures of the cause were expressed ; some 
ne it to be lightning, others this agency; followed by the explosion 
f a powder magazine in one of the forts in the harbor, as the sound 
sensed to proceed from the southeast. On inquiry this morning, I Jeara 
from an intelligent gentleman, who, at the time, was standing upon one 
of the wharves, that the light was so dazzling that he involuntarily cov- 
ered his eyes with his hands, and was thereby prevented from observing 
whence it proceeded; but that the et — an interval of rather 
more than a minute, came from the so uoticed also that pe ex- 
plosion was followed for some eave ma cavalier rumbling so 
more monotonous than is usual in the reverberations = thunder. yon 
ored sentinel before the Roper’s Hospital deseribed it as a falling star, 
and pointed to the southern heavens as the region aus whence he saw 
it descend. Cc. U. 
— College, Queen street, — ee 10, 10ee 
NEA Rees SU ERE ence a QE Aaa Segre peex op Wie = Oana es 
ing the fall of the body to take place over the water. As affordi : 
some evidence ¢ eae tha nant of the light, Capt. B. mention 
e circumstan at the sentinel on deck, hearing something like 
the 
movement of a staal boat under the bow if the steamer, was led to 
the same moment, he discovered two men in a boat just making © of 
that direction, whereupon he leveled his piece, as if with the intention 
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“he pie in ti city has stated to me that the sky was much over 
cast at Bs time, so as to have concealed the path of the meteor. 2 
meteor at a ies r sath north, or init as west, of the city; from 
which it wou!d seem that its course was from NW. to SE 0. 0-& 
