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Chapter 28 A New Star That very night, the startling news so impatiently awaited, burst like a thunderbolt over the United States of the Union, and thence, darting across the ocean, ran through all the tele-graphic wires of the globe. The projectile had been detected, thanks to the gigantic reflector of Long's Peak! Here is the note received by the director of the Observatory of Cambridge. It contains the scientific conclusion regarding this great exper-iment of the Gun Club. LONG'S PEAK, December 12. To the Officers of the Obser-vatory of Cambridge. The projectile discharged by the Columbiad at Stones Hill