From the Nashville Banne
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From the Nashville Banner ShoiUT of Flesh and Blood.-On Tuesday we heard from various persons that shower apparenty of Flesh and Blood had fallen in Wilson county, near Lebanon in this State, and that the fields covered siderable extent The account staggered our belief; but strange as it may appear, it has been confirmed by the statement of several gentlemen of high char acer who have personally examined the scene of this phenomenon. They state that the space covered by this extraordinary shower, is hal mile in length and about seventy-fve yards in wdth In addition to the information thus received, have been favored by Dr. Troost, Professor of Chemistry in the Uni versity of Nashville, with the following letter from highly respectable physician of Lebanon; we have also seen the specimens sent to him for examination. To us they appear to be animal natter and the odor is that of putrd flesh. We do pretend offer any theory account for this phenomenon, we leave that to abler and more scientific heads. When the spec mens have passed through the crucibes of Dr. Troost we will furnish our readers with the result:

 LEBANON, August IS, lS4l. Dr. G. Troost:-I have sent you some matter, which appears from authentic source to have fal- len from the clouds.

 With me there can be no doubt of its being animal matter, blood, muscular fibre, adpose matter Please account to us, if you can, philosophical principles for the cause of this phenomenon The particles send you. gathered with my own hands, from the extent of surface which has spread and the re- gular it exhibited on some green Tobacco eaves leaves very little doubt for its having fa- len like shower of rain, and it is stated on the a- thory of some negroes only, to have fallen from a small red cloud other clouds visible in the heavens at the time, It took place Friday last between II and IF o'clock, about five miles N. E. of Lebanon have sent what l think to be drop of blood, the other particles composed of muscle and fat although the proportions of the shower appeared to be much larger quantity of blood than of other properties.

 am, in haste, your most obedient,

 w. P. SAYLE.

 In reference to this extraordinary freak of nature the Murfieesborough Telegraph, says 6 lite red cloud spread itself over portion of the land, some 200 yards wide and near mile in length, and poured down thick, hazy shower of something, more resembling blood and meat in putrid state, than anything else It scared the negroes at work in tobacco field dreadfully. The stench of the shower, which was very offensive, set them to vomiting, and its unnatural appearance to scamperng at the top of their speed"