New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-10-20
DIANA DiMs HIS DISK.
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SCENES in THE CITY YESTERDAY.
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Juvenile Copernicuses and Embryo
Gallileos.
BURNED GLASS AT a PREMIUM.
MORAL OF THE ECLIPSE.

As had been long predicted by the almanacs,
the disc OF the yesterday obsonred by the moon
whose path siyery bright ut night was utterly ao
sorbed by the powerful spendor OF tho God oil Day
sbo sailed between Us and hs burning gaze and whose
very luminous oonntenance itself WINS also lost TO view
In the mightier user of the monarch OF our So'ar S
ten.
The ec,ip7e was advertised 20 commence at 1855 o.
M and as all the advertisements Of starry science are
truthful, the sun and moon were polh promptly vi
time. .... .. .,o,1ino
ON a line running from Washington Territory 10
Georgia the eclipse was very lSrgc' Tue - rino
the shining outer surface OF the sun all around heT
bright and unobscured This fact caused NUMBER Oh
scientific gentlemen to go down to the hue OF INC an
nuar eclipse order 70 view 1t at the best adFantage
or course all persons living north OF toe above men
toned line the moon appeared 10 pass over the SOUTH
ern portion Of the sum appearing In the reverse 10 al
persons living south Of that lne
PREPARATIONS TO VIEW TIE ECLIPSE.
Not long after O'Clock IN the morning, stranger.
ainied with tue nature Of the phenomenon ABOUT
to be witnessed would, tor some moments na' gge eH
al loss 90 understand the novel preparations Whicn
were making by hundreds Of our citizens, indoors,
at doors and windows aud out oil doors OF al ohsscs
ard ages Telescopes were erected at various Poi
of the city whence the sun could be viewed men ana
women haunted the streets and stood at steetGooIs
mysteriousy with lorgnettes and fragments oil coote9
glass m their hands, and nsws'boys. boot-ps anu
other urchins u all sizes and competitions also urked
on the Rulings Of the parks and squares with pieces OF
window glass smoked TO red or white or yellow hnes
watching the partially clouded heavens WIN inc WIS.,
fu gaze OF Juvenile astronomers eager Tor Eno"euBe
| aud fame. ,,.. .,
A handsome telescope was fastened by tho editor OF
The Aerieulinri 20 the buetinbohrd o. liE libl
which was consequently the nucleus OF eohsIeraOe
popdescrirt crowd each Of them anxious 20 obtalu
gaucc At the brilliant face II the orb al whose gaze an
the stars hide their diminished htafs put VINO vas soon
10 be thrown In the shade By Lovely Luna Iady OF tho
Heayens.'
n
was not Of the brightest The tempest OF the proceed,
inc NIGHT had spent It's fury Eat the western horizon
was still heaped with threatening clouds vita here and
there a snow.paH In the easti the bright sun sAllng
occasionally through ahss 81 pine . ets DG'
liz word. Il was the fear Of many tha NeN'lofH Hu'
10 b. cheated out Of her view Of the astronomical phe
; noTncnea BY nnProp.uena skiesi aad mSny were
o eyed seirnoe' ha', thou Wandered there
| To Nal, 10 bsck this mrsssre Of despairF
Tbi. doubt va, particularly incompreheusitle 20 a
large clsss 81 NewYorkers, who seemed TO consider
that the eclipse Ike everything else OF Importance
wr gotten MP Tor their special benefit That the pne
roneu should BE- lost or Impaired In Philadelphia,
Boston Cincinnati OF any other of the Provinces,
as tney aieotedy oveTy place outside OF hanha
los 10 the efropolis-,he battlefield Of Baraum, the
home of John Morrissy. the grave OF Bill Poole aud
Harry Lazarus-it was simply obserd-pEeposterousI
Wen tho ecipso did sof dsappoBt rs nor orsake the
metropolis Whether not " VS. owing TO the tran
Sc ndent importance of the Emplre City reporter
was unable TO determine though armed with two pieces
OF carefully stained giass, spy ges prepared Tor The
ocra,lon and one lagC Tless tnmter; but the mo-
meut approached The 0l orb Of tie sun sailed into
Baltic sea OF pnre uZuTe with coasts Of silver and poar
and precisely - minutes past o'clock Tie sable,
Jagged border Of tbc SID into bis southern limb
n fIom the east slowly enaTging there, like an efl
thought upon an angels brow.
= THE ECLIPSE.
: Here II rs" do you see it, and thousand
other calculations burst forth from the owners OF the
many partlyshrouded eyes that gayed upon the pow
erfni king Il day" tho dark edge OF the moon was
first to invade bis cleaning die slowly inereas
H. rgptx lilg a
telescope was directed to The phenomehon and humid
reds waited impatenty for his or her glimpse through
G the revealing tube Of science.
Thousands Of faces iantasiically disfgurod by i'm.
promptu goggles Of mnny.colored glass, were eagerly
upturrel. One nan stood near the City Han steps,
with number Of pieces Of bottles and mnbers. smoked
TO tdwny shade which no rctaed NJ ten cents apiece
finding ready sale. One Old Begrcss fosook her ap-
pie stand and franiically eyed black behod western
thunder cloud through green mineral. alter bot.
tle and bewildered tppler who had evidently been
Inspecting the heavens through the bottom of glass OF
whisky staggered about the Park gazing every point
OF the compass with watery poPeyes aud plaintyey
, exolaiming where. whorer
:, The eclipse Itself was very beautiful one. When
viewed with strong telescope, tho edge OF the moon
discovered TO be slightly ragged aud Us progress
the suns disc was very slow but still pereept.
bic 20 one who would gaze stoadfasty for few mo.
4 menis Viewed through the democratic medium of
smoked glass; however. the edge Of the satellite up.
peacd perfectly smooth and her advance was not per-
ceptble unless watched steadasy for many minutes.
:, MORE CLOUDS.
When the eclipse had advanced TO about third Of
It's maximum about "a O'clock, tie sky again OBJ
scnred by driving clouds and though now and then
misty glimpses of the phenomenon could be obtained
through the thinner clouds, much cbaBrn was felt by
many gazers that they should lose even portion OF the
eclipse, and the heavens became rapidly piled with
thunder and rain clouds almost every one despared Of
seeing thing further Of interests tho streetoorners
grew less populated burned glasses were pooketed aud
The crowds dispersed
But at about lO:2j a. m. the cloudy rack overhead
was again splntered with silver aud gold, cloud by
olond it parted and disappeared, and presentythis
time In whole Pacific Ocean of crystal buo-tbe sun.
with tho black shadow deeply indentng the lower
portion Of his disc again strobe maesiCay into giog
revealing
THE dBEATEsT oBscURAuoS;
and once telescopes were unimbered and smoked
glass brought into requisitioD.
AZ this time Q0:3O persons the lookout from the
line We nave mentioned (running through Lawrence,
Kansas and Savannah Ga beheld tho eclipse In all It's
Significance They saw the glorious sirn-he source of
light and heat the Of color and the father OF all
the flowers Of the fed-the OF glory moroly as
dazzling rim OF silver bis bosom covered BY an ebon
shield.
From this standpoint however his shining disc ap.
pcnred 10 be about half obscufed the upper portion
lis surface appearing mighty crescent olaspng In
its downourying horns the dnsky oval OF the satellite
u PASSING AWAY.
| With few brief Intervals of passing clouds the phe
nOmenon remained Ia view Of tho metropolis until It's
oorsation and many visions watched 1t ~ the close
which occurred AT 1910.
The appulse, or inception Of the eclipse was perhaps
the most inieresting but tho gradual fading away OF
the shadow from the beautiful benu.
m inasmuch tho restoration 10 original ir!
N nObor and lOser far than the approach Of the obe,
| that wOuld dnrken aud impair.
The eciipee war earnestly WATCHED "a Il apsed "a a
Close. Perhaps among the thousands who gaaed upon
II rum this youthful lnhd u freedom and expanding IN
iclleci were numerous embryo Gnlros, Iyohol and
CopePinases-youths, who booked earnestly as did
tne Gladden. safgnlers "a! Old and who yet adoFn
their eorntry and enlighten the NCrd with fresh rsl
searches into the Infinite, VI Is yet imGg nube syops