The Arkansas advocate., 1834-11-28

Department, IS about to hold a sitting in l that city to begin Tuesday, 4th November. 1Ir. Ewing, of Ohio, had already arrived al New York, to meet the committee.
 EcLIpsE.-A great Eclipse of the Sun will take place on Sunday next. The fol- lowing article on the subject, is from the American Almanac, for l834:
 The most remarkable of the Phenomena that this veal, (1s34) will happen, Is the
 scI ! cH se Of tic tic S S, CT she 39s! ef N Neve- Der. This is the third of the very uncom- mon series of five large eclipses, visible to Us in the short term of years the 4th of this series will take place 18th May, 1886, and the last, September IS, 1888.
 The eclipse of the present year will doubtless receive great attention through out our country, in those places where i it's magnitude will not exceed II dlgits, much diminuton of the light is not to be expected, even at the time of the greatest Iobsenration perhaps, however, it may be sufficient 10 render visible the planet ' enus, then above 30 degs. E. s. E. of the Sun. and much nearer the earth than usual; nor will the obstruction be very great where the eclipse IS almost total; since it had been observed on former occasions, that the uneclipsed part even when reduced to a mere point, sheds sufficient light to render small objects visible, and invisible the brightness of tfe stars. Indeed, on ac- count of the refracton of the Suns rays by the atmosphere of the Earth, the dark ness can hardly with strictness be consid- cred total, even when the Sun is complete
 y shut out from the sight.--In the great and remarkable eclipse of June 18th, 1900, when the Sun was totally obscured at Bos- ton, for five minutes, as much light re- mained as is given by the Moon when full, and greater darkness will not probably be experienced, in any place, on the present occasion.
 Throughout the United States, however, greater depression of the thermometer, if placed in the Sun, will probably be mo- tlced and for some minutes before and after the moment of greatest obscuration the power of lens to produce combustion, by condensing the solar rays, will be nearly If not entirely, destroyed. At the time of the Annular eclipse of Feb. 12th, 1881, it was observed by the Editor, that the ther- moineter in the Sun, fell from 73 to 29, and that during the continuance of the ring, no sensible effect was produced by placing its blackened bulb in the focus of power ful burning glass.
 This eclipse, as will be seen on tracing the path of the centre, will be total in small part of the Territory of Arkansas, and of the State of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The princi- pal places, in which the obseurity will pro- bahly be complete, are Charleston, Beau fort, $. Carolina, Savannah, Milledgeville, Tuscaloosa, and Little Rock. The great est duration of total darkness in any place will be at Tuscaloosa and Beaufort--these places lying very near the central path. At Charleston and Savannah, the duration will he considerably less. the former being situate about 40 miles north of this path, the latter about 50 south. Ihe width ofi the line of total darkness varies in its pas- sage across the earth, but in the United States will be about one hundred miles, Those of the Atlantic States, who desire to behold this rare spectacle; the most mag Hnihcent and suhlimeo of the phenomena of na- lure, compared with even Niagara slnks into mediocrity--will find Beaufort the