Cheraw Gazette And Pee Dee Farmer

An Old-Fashioned Eclipse.--The editor of the Cincinnati Post, (whose memory is a complete store house of old time occurrences,) gives the following interesting account of Eclipse which occurred in 1805. The editor should indulge his readers with more of the past.
"It was our happiness to be at Providence R. Island, when the total Eclipse of June, 1806, took place;--the day was perfectly bright--the phenomenon commenced between 11 and 12 o'clock, and after the sun became totally obscured, it remained so for more than half an hour. Its operation upon animated nature was truly and awfully sublime. The birds flew about in every direction, in evident distress and terror; the domestic fowls ran about in all directions cackling as in a fright, Horses galloped round their pastures neighing; while the horned cattle, which seemed more affrighted than the rest, tore up the earth with their horns and feet in madness--all this uproar was followed by the silence of midnight: when the eclipse was complete: the birds retired to their resting places; the fowls to their roosts, the horses to their stables, and the cattle to their mangers, while the stars shone forth in their beauty, and all was still.
When the sun began to reappear, a large number of musicians, students of Brown University, assembled upon the terrace of the College, and struck up Md. Mason's Hymn to Light. The effect was altogether sublime and beautiful.--Nothing that ever met our eye or ear, before or since was equal to it."