154 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
These details have been taken from a Report by the Commission of 
Jurors of the Exposition, of which Chevalier Quintius Sella is President, 
and Messrs. Cocchi and Fienzi are the reporters. 
science of wii and of mineral and Siofalincsts iadedes. It belongs 
the government to encourage b cr page — - e examination of 
Paris, Noy. 15, 1861. 
2. Cannonading at Bull Run.—The cannonading at the battle of Bull 
Run was heard in Preston county, mre 125 miles distant. Ata place 
called The Glades, a few miles south of Kin dppee Preston county, Vay 
on Sunday, July 21, 1861, Rev. EO. pies nning (our inform and many 
eat ae the low booming of cannon for sbvera! hours, say from il 
: e sounds heard were faint, yet distinct, and so 0 vie 
ously due to artillery as to attract the attention ‘of people and produce | the 
conviction that a battle was going on, though it was supposed at the time 
to be ang no great distance—somewhere in the mountains, pee or at 
Harper's Ferry, at farthest. Two persons in particular, spoken of by Mr. 
D. gave attention to the reports during most of the time mentioned. 
Two young ladies, also, of the family of Mr. Freeland, where Mr. D. was 
staying, went after dinner to the top of a hill near by, where they heard 
reports more distinctly, and remained there listening an hour or more, 
Aight night ao came in from the neighborhood to learn where the battle 
A "kin ngwood, the county seat, the cannonading was ben more dis: 
tinctly than at The Glades, the place being on higher grou 
rmy officers at Oakland, some 15 miles west of Ricgwcad: on the Bal- 
timore and Ohio railroad, heard the same, and said a battle was sage. 7 
The subject was matter of common remark that day, and the nex 
before news of any battle had been received. Mr. D. knows Pere 
Thee ents were communicated to me in reconvene by byte 
Mr. Daming. himeetf who graduated at Yale College in 1832, and 
oe Vi ee as Agent of the Am. Bible Society. 
a Tew ven, Oct. Sth, 186 . Leese 
[Note isa seni received opinion that sound travels a 
and more loudly on the earth’s surface than through the air—thw! 
ing at Jena he geht very feebly heard in the open 
miles—but very distinct in the 
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