From the Charleston. Mercury.
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Eclipses of the Sun.-It IS said that we shall have no remarkable eclipses of the sun, although some partial ones, except in 1883, 1886. and l842. In 1847 we shall have the famous annuIar eclipse of St. Dennis. This eclipse, it is said. :" is impatiently looked for ward to by astronomers" As they cannot hasten the motion of the Heavenly bodies, they may as well keep cool for an event that isto take place twenty years hence. How many now looking forward can calculate-nOt the eclipse, but their own extent of life Man is so prone to anticipate--to live. as it were. the creature, not of the present, but ofthe .fu- tare, that philosophers should cease to chide in the multitude what they cannot fail to dis cover in themselves. To calculate the transit of star, or the speed of a horse--to reason on the results of crop orsof a revoluton- are only different modes of expressing the same passion for futurty. These teachings of the soul to spring beyond this '' visible d. urnal srhere"-while they exhibit the god like ori:, of our nature, too frequently make us forget that they who sow" are not al- was $ they who reap'-that the pioughman and the star-gazer may both he under the sod long before the green promise of the year shall salute the eye of the one. or the brilliant orbs above him fulfil the calculations of the Oth- CT, according to V" the ordinances of Hea- yen."