Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-10
TaE ECLIPSE.

The eclipse Of the sun this morning
was the observed Of all observers. There
were no darkening clouds to spoil the
exhibition; the sky was bright and beau
tital; the pieces Of smoked glass were
consequently in great reqaisition. And
the effect was splendid in the ex-
treme. 1t is hardly necessary to ob-
serve, that an eclipse Of the sun is caus-
ed by the passage OF the moon between
the earth and the sun. The motions OF
the heavenly bodies governed by fixed
mathematical laws, each eclipse can be
predicted with certainty. The first ap
pearance of the eclipse Of to-day since
the creation OF the world (aecording to
sacred chronology was in 957, Decem-
der s, old style, at 10 o'clock 80 minutes
forenoon, when the moons penunbra
Just came in contact with the earth al
the south pole; it has appeared every
nineteenth year since, and at each return
the moons shadow passed across the
earth from West to East a little farther
to the North at each return, until the
year 1864, March 8, old style when the
centre of the moons shadow passes a
little to the north Of the earth's center
1.-THE moon being l minutes 46 seconds
from her descending node, which was its
SSH periodical resarn.) 1t has eontin-
ued to appear every 18th year since
1864, until this eclipse, which is lis sixty
first periodical return. Its next ap-
pearance viii be 1873, July %, at
% minutes in the morning, invisible in
the United States. It viii also appear
; 1896, August 9. 1t will continue TO APP
pear every 18th year until the year 2274
/ April 25, when the moons shadow viii
! Just touch the earth at the North pole
f which will be its seventy-sixth periodi,
! cal and last appearance, until the expira.
: ton Of 12,492 years, when It viii come
on again at the South pole, and & {
: through similar course. The velocity
Of the moons shadow across the eartl
E during the eclipse viii be about 1885,
a miles an hour, or four times the velocil,
, of canon ball.
I; These are astronomical facts whieI
T have been long ascertained, and past ex
perience has proved how reliable the.
: are. At the appointed times whieI
!, science has discovered and named, th
:. temporary observations of the sun Occur
a Just as regularly as the Sacred work in
q forms US the seasons Of summer an
q winter, seed time and harvest shall Revs
fail. And generations after Us, viii
1, recording the recurrence of this sam
e. eclipse repeated periodically, it may b
lie till sun and moon shall be no more
Lh Processing to no astronomical sciens
le ourselves, we can only wait for the scier
$ tifc details praeiiced observers will e
I'd long publish to the world. That q
v event was anxioniy looked for. and b
RS lieyed to be an important one. is shov
ISL by the anxiety Of scientific bodies DO
'at on this side of the Atlantic and the OF
. er, TO obtain the minuiest oberyatiol
81 and to note every detail Hence the E
no pedition from this continent to Vance
IA ver's Island where there viii be a 20
he eclipse Of the sun shortly alter sunri
Here the eclipse was but partial. a
ol- visible about two hours, beginning
me few minutes past nine. In Montreal {
be magnitude Of the eclipse Has 1923 a
ost the obscuraiion was Of the SUMS nor
.ue ern limb. But according to astronom
ice - the penombra, or partial shadow Of
ing moon. ia which the sun viii apps
to- either more or less eclipssd will exts
der from the Gulf of Mexico to twenty
ked grees on the opposite side Of the No
J TO Pole, distance Of more than six tbl
hor sand. The umbra. which the sun will
the pear totally eciipsed, will frst touch
ev- earth At point 10 the P@cihc Oeess
uh- hundred miles west Of the coast Of G
seir gon. It viii strike the coast Is N
dis north Of she month Of the Colam
ave River (Ist. &c 25 min. NJ soon q
'ng- sunrise, and will there have bFeadii
mr. 50 miles. II will tend 10 norfh eas
eeA ly direction, passing near Olympia
sys Washington Territory, and crossing
" Rocky Mountains at Eiaihead l.
iof Tending stiIl 10 north easssriy d'rec
ruth Il viii traverse The Hudson's Bay
.hsy tilory passing rortb Of Lake MianeI