The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-25

pirates. Those cars had been furnished by the
funeral agencies and were ornamsnted according
to the circumstances Of the tragedy.
Theiustce OF man IL complete God has par
doned the young culprits, who have lost their
lives by having trusted their faith to tho infam-
GUS falsehoods of the New Orleans papers"
A letter TO the latest moment from Havana,
says, it is feared the tr ops sent against Lopez,
have gone over to him, as his forces were every
hour increasing. 1t was feared by the authori-
ties at Havana, that the country was all turned
in his favor III reinforced, Lopez will have an
uninterrupted march TO Havana
The Total Eclipse, as seen on the Coast Of
Norway.
The Scotsman has very interesting commu-
nication from the Astronomer Royal of Scot
land, who obtained steamer from the commis-
sioners of the Northern light-h ouses, and per-
mission from the Swedish authorities to land on
any part of the coast Of Norway. He was ac-
companied by Rev. DIR. Robinson, of the Ar
magh Observatory. A station WAS selected on
one of the outlying Blue Islands, in lat. 81 deg.
20 min This was in the centre Of the line OF
shadow, and clear horizon in the direction OF
the sun at the time Of the eclipse was obtained.
The weather was very inauspicious, the morning
being cloudy, and immedia ely after the total
observation, deluge of rain fell We copy
the main portion of this account
"The Instruments were landed at an early
hour, and there were sufficient gIimpses of the
sun through the clouds TO obtain the necessary
observation for time and for latitude and before
the commencement of the eclipse each observer
was told off with his instruments prepared. and
with code of instructions. These, too, were
SO arranged, that by division of labor Il was
hoped that, although the important part of the
eclipse was Of SO short DURATION and the number
Of phenomena to be noted so many and various,
that yet none of them, whether referring to the
purely astronomical bearings Of the case, or to
cosmical or to terrestrial physics, could be we'll
lost sight 0f--that is, weather only permitting
but this was by no means so favorable as could
have been wished. Still, however, the com
mencement Of the eclipse was fairly observed,
and sufficient was seen during its progress to
enable the observers to take accurate notes of
some spots on the sun, and of mountains on the
edge of the moon, so rs to be prepared to state
their degree of connection, as regards place, to
those wondrous tongues of light and the va
riations Of the corona, the most inexplcable and
the most important of all the phenomena pre-
scented during total eclipse. Further, the in
accurately, and some interesting features were
remarked, tending to explain anomalies per-
ceived in former total ecpses and indicating
rapid fuctualion in the degree of brigh ness of
the suns surface.
became SO very thick, that the EMERSON of the
sun was not seen at all, and heavy rain begin
ming soon after, continued through the rest of
the evening But the terrestrial phenomena, TO
which more attention could be turned, on the
loss of the celestial ones, were of nature
abundantly sufficient to satisfy any soul capable
of entering into and approaching the awful and
the sublime
AS the totally approached, the air felt sem
sibly colder at every moment, and the darkness
plainly increased the clouds seemed to lower,
and under the sun was seen an appearar ce of
rushing, descending streams Of them, while the
sea-birds appeared by their noise to be gathering
around the rocks for their nightly rest or for
shelter. The difference Of illumination had also
become very marked on the mountains at diff
ferent distances, those far from us being
brought out with vvidness and di.tinctness
which made our own increasing gloom the
more observable Suddenly, at the moment of
totally, the very extremity Of darkness seemed
TO fall upon us. Not so, however, absolutely,
for the rain-couds which closed in the greater
part of the horizon, left open a strip of sky ex-
tending from NJ W. to f. N. f., and two or
three degrees high, and which at this moment.
became of dark lurid orange color, verging
from red on one side to greenish on the other
and enabled us barely to see each other by
faint unearthly sort of light small hand lamps,
fifty or sixty yards of, in hollow, were as Wis.
ibIe as in dark night, and, with their red
color, contrasted strangely with the general
geen hue of everything immediately around
But the appearance of the country, seen
through that lurid opening under the clouds
was the most appalling Though standing in
the centre Of the shadow, we could yet, by rea
son of their great height see the distant peaks
of the lofty Jostedals and DovreGeid mountains
still Illuminated by the rays of the sun descend
ing upon them from on high but we were shut
out into utter darkness. Some approximation
to the appearance might be obtained by watch I
ing the opportunity ola similar confguraton of
clouds in the north from the Cation hill during
a midsummer's midnight but still it would be |
only an approximation, for never have we OBJ |
served all the light of heaven and earth 80
entirely confined to one narrow strip along the
horizon, never that peculiar greenish hue, and
never that appearance or outer darkness in the |
paw VI VpotiF"AioHs Va cALcDSiNe Instance |
in the verge of the horizon, (cansed in this case
by the hills there being more highly illuminated
rs they receded, by less and less ecpsed sun;
while in morning or evening sky, they are, on
the contrary, most in the shade, and therefore
ire dark and unnaturally thrown forwad)
Though none of US werc unmoved with graft
Jude at having been allowed to witness such
spectacle, though we should have been glad to
have enjoyed its teachings for a longer space Of
lime, and should have been alarmed, indeed, lift
lad not happened ns it did, and with such won
ierful accuracy to the computed time, yet GER
ain feelings of relief were experienced when
he lurid streak in the sky suddenly changed to
Fellow when the clouds frightened up, and the
darkness seemed to be waited visibly away to
he southeast.
The sea- birds that had stopped their screaming
Turing the darkness now reappeared; but the
Wild Norsemen of those rocky isles, who had
ongregated so curiously around us during the
commencement of the eclipse, when the light
eturued, where were they? Gone to hide
themselves in their huts, thinking that they were
n the jaws of destruction, among the stones Of