We same some time since in an Alabama paper, an account, we believe entirely without foundation, of a wonderful volcano, seen by some negro in this vicinity. We should have contradicted this statement at the time we first saw it, had we thought it would gain circulation and credit abroad. We find, however, contrary to our expectation, that it is traveling the circuit of the eastern papers, and we now feel it to be our duty to undeceive the public on the subject. Has a stream of fire rushed from the earth as high as a tree in a county adjoining that in which we live, we think we should certainly heard of it, before the story could reach Courtland, Alabama; and had we heard of so wonderful an occurrence, we should instantly have communicated the facts, properly authenticated to our readers.

We feel convinced that there is no truth whatever in the narrative of this “discovery” made by a philosophical negro, as a mode of accounting for the fall of meteoric stones in Sumner county, on the 9th of May last. We leg leave, also to correct the Alabama Editor and his informant in another particular. They were not rocks which fell upon that occasion, but simply small pieces of stone, which may indeed have adhered to some lunar rocks, in their native beds in the moon, if perchance they came from that “outlandish planet,” but which did not deserve that appellation when they came within the reach of human notice and examination. – Nashville Banner.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), September 26 1827, transcribed by, Nancy Piper