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IX— The Signs oi the Times...... 80 to end <^ .. i ' i'.: ^^;^:t o U. t 'M[ ^ r 14 •> r M u '^^ ■:IrCi-i " V- .ji-ivr /<" •»■ in l-ri. CHAPTER r. ft^\^iL§,^ ve^. F'rom the New York Tribune of 18^6. " The Population of the Globe. — Thore are on th« glebe about 1,888,000,000 souls, oi' which 3GI),000,('00 ar© of the Caucasian race ; oo2,00'l,000 aro ol th(3 Mongol race ; 190,000,000 are ol the Ethiopian race ; 170,00 >,0OU are of the Malay race ; 1,000,000 are of the Indo-Anierican race. There are 3,648 languages, and about the complete iium* ber of sects 608. 'I'he real mark or number of the Beast ** The yearly mortality of the globe is 33,332,3J3 persons. This is at the rate of 91,554 per day ; 3,730 per hour; HO per second. To each pulsation of our heart marks the death of some human being. The average of life is 33 years. One fourth ot the population die at or before the age of seven years, one half at or before 17 years. Among 10,000 persons one arrives at the age of loO years, one in 500 attahis the age of 90, and one in 100 lives to tho age of 60. Married men live longer than single ones. In 1,000 persons 65 marry, and more marriages occur iu June and December than in any other two months in th© year. One-eighth of the whole population is mihtary. trofessions exercise a c>Teat influence on longevity. In 1,000 individuals who arrive at the age of 70 years, 42 are priests, orators, or public speakers, 40 are agriculturists, 83 are workmen, 38 soldiers or military employees, 29 advocates or engineers, 27 professors, and 24 doctors. Those who devote their lives to the prolongation ot that of others die the soonest. There are who profess Christianity 335,000,000 ; there are S,000,000 Israelites. 60,000,000 of the Asiatic rehgion ; there 160,000,000 Mahommedans ; there are 200,000,000 Pagans. Them that profess the CathoUc belief number 170,000,000. The Greek church numbers 75,000,000, and 80,00(),000 profesi the Protestant faith. In forty years in the United States, Great Britain and France, from 1820 to 1860, the popula- tion is shown to have increased as follows ; . .1*1 1820. 1860. tnited States, 9,688,191 31,445,080. France, 80,4«l,R75 36,755,371. Great Britain, 20,892,670 28,887,687. 1 England and Wales,.... 11,999,322 20,001,726. 2 Scotland, 2,091,521 3,061,820. 3 Ireland, 6,8'»1,827 6,764,543. Dividing three millions into city and country population, the same forty years, outside ol the principal cities of Great Britain, viz : London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow and Dublin, and in h ranee, outside of Paris, and in the United States, outside of its fifty principal cities, the result is : 1820. 1860. In Great Britain, 18,641,733 23,736,405. In France, 29,701,875 35,088,030. In United States, 9,068,181 27,354,287. "Whereas the growth of population during the same forty years in the eight above named principal cities of Great Britain, in the capital city of France, and in the fiity duel cities of the United States, is as follows : — 1820. 1860. Great Britain's 8 cities, 2,250,937 6,151,192. France's Capital city, 760,000 1,667,841. United States' fifty cities, 570,010 4,090,798. In Great Britain the increase ratio of the country popul- ation is about 4 to 6^, while, of the city population it is 4 to 9. In France the increase ratio of the country popula- tion is 4 to less than 6, while of the population or Paris it is from 4 to 9. In the United States the increase ratio of the country population for the same period, although rising from 4 to 12, is outstripped by the increase of the popula- tion in cities, w^hich is from 4 to nearly 29. But not only do cities outstiip the country in their growth, but great cities outstrip smaller cities. In Great Britain — Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and Birmingham, have increased in their agfrrei^ate population from 539,060 in 1820, to 1,651,075 in 18^60. London, in 1820, had 1,373,947 in^ habitants ; the same ratio of increase as the five cities above, would give London in 1860 about 2| millions of human beings, but it has gone beyond that mark by half t miliion. ■^■1 just enough to make a city oi the size of Manchester the next largest in the Kingdom, and London in 1860 had a f>opulation of 2,76.0,000. Glasgow, the chief city of Sflot- and, has increased three fold in the same pcrioa, far sur- passing its rivals, while the country has increased ftfty per cent. Dubhn has risen from 185,000 to 260,000 steadily, tiespite the fluctuations of population. In the United States there is uniformly more rapid concentration of population in the gt-eat central cities, than in the cities at large, and is more strikingly manifest, as thus : 1820. -1860 Forty-eight principal cities, 439,129 3,009,878. Seven larger cities 266,304 * 1,452,621. New York,Brooklyn,Wil- ( i on ft-ri i i m am\ liarnsburg, Jersey City. \ ^^^'^^^ 1,110,410. Railroads in France,— The total length of railroadt in operation January 1st 1865, was 8,113 miles, and con- cessions had been granted ibr 3,304 miles, making a total of 11,417 miles completed, in progress and projected. The amount of money actually expended on these enterprises to date, was $1,300,000,000, and there remained to be ex- pended on the roads m progress and projected an addition- al sum of $670,000,000, which makes a total of $1,870,000,- 000, or about $150,000 per mile. The tunnels on all the railroads in the Empire are 366 in number and would, it combined, measure 377 leagues hi length. The largest is that of the North near Marsailles, on the Lyons Kail- roads, which cost $2,100,000 ; and that of Blaisy, on the same line cost $1,600,000 ; and that of Credo, between Lyons Geneva, $1,300,000. The entire cost of the tun- nels, bridges and viaducts on the various French Rail- roads amounts to $86,536,390. "About the year 14 of the Christian era, the annual product ot gold was $5,000,000 ; in 14l>2 it was only $260,- 000 ; in 1863 it was $285,000,000 ; and in 1864 $240,000,000. In the year 1 4 also the gold and silver in existance is esti- mated at $1,327, 000,000, and in 1862 at $10,562,000,000 The whole amount of gold and silver obtained from the earth from the earliest periods to the present time is estimated at $21,272,000,000. t f -I ' Ml •r ^^C^^ \TiO\i^ ^\\1^ l&\^la"F.. :>» The Scriptures have been translated into 148 languages and dialects, of which l'i\ had prior to the formation of the British l^oreign Bible Society ever appeared. And 25 of those kngiiages existed without an alphabet, in an oral form. Upwards of 43,000,000 of these copies of God's word are circulated among not less than 600,000,000 of people. The first division of the Divine word into chap* ters and verses is attributed to Stephen Lang*on, Arch- bishop ot Canterbury, in the rei^n of King John, in the latter part ot* the tAVelClh century or beginning of the thirteenth. Cardinal Hugo, in the middle of the thirteenth century, divided the Old Testament into chapters as they stand in our prf^sont translation. In 1661, Athias, a Jew of Amsterdam, divided the sections of Hugo into verses— a French printer had previously (in 1561) divided the New Testament into verses as they now are. The Old Testa- ment contains 39 books, 929 chapters, 23,214 verses, 592,- 439 words, 2,738,100 letters. The New Testament contain^ 27 books, 260 cnapters, 7,'9o0 verses, 182,253 words, 933,* S80 letters. The entire Bible contains 6Q books, 1,139 chapters, 31,175 verses, 774,692 words, 3,565,489 letters. The name olMehovah, or Lcrd, occurs 6,855 times in the Old Testament. The word " and"occurs in the Old Testa* ment SS,.'^ 43 times. The middle book of the Old Testament is Proverbs. The middle chapfer is the 29 of Job. The middle verse is the 2 of Chronicles, 29th chapter, 17 th verse. Ihe middle book of the New Testament is 3nd Thessaloniann. The middle chapters are Romans 13 and 14. The middle verse is Acts ii, 7. The middje verse in the Bible is Psalms cxviii, 8. The middle line m the Bible is 2nd Chronicles i, 16. The 19th chapter of 2nd Kings, and Isaiah :IQ are the same. lu the 27th v«rse of the 7th Ezra, are all the letters of the alphabet, I and J con- sidered as one. The Apocrypha so called, is as canonical as the rest of the Bible, and is bound between the Old Testament and New, and contains 14 books, 188 chapters, 15,031 A^erses, 153,185 words. The preceding facts were ascertained by a gentleman in 1718, also by an English- man residing at Amsterdam, 1772, and is said to have taken. them each nearly three years in the investigation. The thought that an eternity of bliss depends upon the purity of a Jew years of earthly existence, is an overwhelming thought. Then, how ^'eat is the inducoment to study truth, and cultivate virtue. How happy every child <»( grace, Who knows, his sins forgiven ; This earth he says, is not my hi>nic^ I seek my place in heaven. A country far from mortal sight, Yet oh, by faith I see ; The land of rest, the Saint's deliglit, Th« lii^<»,yen prepar'd for me. •?M-(.;j .' i CHAPTER 11. The definition of the word plague, is pestilence, or that which cuts off any thing that God created. First, then, the cattle plague. From the Lendon Times^ December 65 : — " Official returns ibr the week ending December 30, show a large increase, in liesh ublished a series of authentic official returns, recording some valuable intor- mation relating to this plague of the 19th century, in the cities and towns of Europe. The French returns show that in Paris the epidemic of 1865 reached its maximum* in October, in which month 4,663 deaths were recorded. In th« first six months of 1866, 69 deaths occurred, but in July the last month for which returns have been publish- ed, the deaths suddenly rose to 1,743. The proportional number of deaths by cholera to every 10.000 of the popul- ation of Paris in '65, was 39 ; in the first seven months of 66, it was 11. In London the deaths by Cholera in '66 were in the proportion of 18, in Liverpool, of 36 to 10,000 lining. In Italy the epiaemic began in the 25th of June, 1865, in the province of Tourin, and destroyed 12,901 lives during that year, or to every 10,000 of the popula* tion h^dng in the 35 provinces, and the 349 communes that were attacked by cholera 35 deaths occurred. It appears that in Italy the town population lip j suffered less severe- ly than that of the country, the nmnber of deaths in 10,- 000 li\'ing, being 38 in the former and 50 in the latter case. In Naples, 2,801 deaths are recorded in '65, out of 446,931 inhabitants, being in theproportionof52 deaths by cholfera in every 10,000 living. In Vienna the returns, date from the llth of August to the lOth. of November 1866, the ratia was 61. In seven Belgian towns, comprising Antwerp', Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Mons, Liege and Namur, no l6si» than 11,771 deaths occurred from May 1, to October 15 of 1866, out of a population 'of 553,377, or the deaths by cholera were in the proportion of 186 to 10,000 hving. In Brussels the proportion was 164. In Holland 18,647 deaiihs occurred in 1866. Taking 15 Dutch cities and towns including Axnsterdam, it appears that 8,872 deathi tia of \l 47 nd Ithi 13 by cholera were recorded in the five months irom June to October '66, being in the proportion of 107 deaths to every 10,000 hving. In Amsterdam the ratio was 42, while in Utrecht it was 271. Norway, it appears, has siillored but slightly from the epidemic in 1866, only 48 dcatiis out of 1,000,000. Progress of the Cholera. Fearful cholera panic at Madnd— five hundred deaths per day. The Lon- don Gazette s&ys, the number of deaths are over live hun- dred per day, and the population is under half a milHon ; this is a mortality more than 15 times that ot London at the present time, 1866. The consequence is that the population are leaving the capital in thousands. Indeed, so violent is the stampede that the people rush into the trains without taking their tickets, in fear that they may be lelt behind, and it has been found necessary to place troops at the railway stations in order to preserve order. The cholera has made greater ravages in the convents, and this is not surprising, for the nuns who die are buried be- neath the buildings, after haiang been laid out in the chapels for 36 hours. The Queen has been anxiously desirous of returning to Madrid, in order to restore the con- fidence of her panic-stricken subjects. But her Ministers, having regard to the fact that she is enciente, and the pol- itical complications that would arise should she lall a victim, have dissuaded her, and have thereby given oc- casion to the opposition journals to compare unfavourably to the former the conduct of Queen Isabella with that of Pedro V, of Portugal, who during the plague in Lisbon, visited the hospitals personally. The cholera has also spread to Portugal, having appeared in the town of Elvas, which is just beyond the Spanish frontier, and is about ten miles from Badajos. If, along with the foregoing, we take into account the cholera in this Province, Canada, and also in the United States, with many gther places, that has been visited by the same scourage. I think that por- tion of oiir Eedeemer's language, is having its fulfilment. See Matthew xxiv, 7. " And there shall be lamines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers, or, different places." And those he gave, as tokens of his coming. From the New York Tribune : — "The Drought in Austra- lia. — At the departure of the last mail from Australia rains had fallen, aixd it was thought the drought was breaking up, but it still continued in extensive di&tricts. 2 t '"I #' v 14 The long absence of rain hgd affected even the fish ; they decline the bait, and it was almost impossible to capture- them. Slags and cormorants had come to the vicinity of the salmon ponds of Tasmania, and a few of the fish had been destroyed by them ; but a watch is kept in order that they may be shot as soon as they make their appearance. Commissioners were sent by the South Australian Govern- ment to examine into the Ft ate of the northermost runs in the district known as the Horse-shoe depression of early ex- plorers, described by them as the partly dried-up bed of an inland sea, out ol which neither man nor beast could pick a living, but into which since then squatters have found their way. The Commissioners went as far North as y udanamutana, 250 miles from Port Agusta, and they re- port that nearly all the vegetation fit for pasture is gone. It is nearly two years since there was sufficient rain to saturate the soil. The commissioners are persuaded that the following esiimate is rather below than above the lacts : — 236,152 sheep have perished out ol 827,706 since the 30th of September '64, to the s^me date in '65, and 28,850 head of horned cattle out of 53,355. The horse stock has alsa suffered severely, 903 out of 2,145 being reported lost. Those losses do not include last year,. (1864) increase of lambs and calves, lor, with some trifling exceptions not worthy of notice, all have perished. G-ood seasons can- not be relied on in this district of country, and in dry seasons it is not calculated to carry so much stock as has been placed upon it." . ; This leads me to direct the reader to the declaration of the Prophet Joel, chapter i. verse 18. " How do the beasts groan, the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture ; yea the flocks of sheep are made desolate." "We wiU leave this branch of our subject, and proceed to the account of the Locust Plague. n (KfThe Thessally correspondent of the Levant Heralds writing from Larissa on the 16th December, '66, says: — We have escaped the cholera here, but we have incurred other calamities less terrible in appearance, but quite as disastrous to the population, and which have made a per- fect desert of one of the most fertile districts of the empire. The locusts, whose destestable presence we had to endure last summer and autumn, have d£voured all the wheat 16 as und ^ full half of tne other corn crops, except the maize, which fortunately has been spared. But for this the whole of Thessaly would have perished of famine. Wheat and maize form the greater part of the food of the people, and the failure of the other crops has raised maize to mere; than double its ordinary cost. Then, again, the locusts have destroyed the greater part of the tobacco crop, and what was left was destroyed by the peasants themselves m order to escape the tax, which they would have been utterly un- able to pay." Says the same authority. — " I have just re- ceived from the captain of the Tirailleurs Algercius, not quartered at Budah, a lettei entirely bearing on the plague of locusts, from which I extract the following paragraph : — 'Our poor little village of Budah was thrown yesterday intc> a frightful state of consternation. Our splendid orange groves had hitherto escaped this horrible scourage. Four days since the first column t)f locusts took possession of our lovely gardens. Yesterday (July 20, '66) they arrived in so dense a (rioud that the sun was darkened. In less than an hour the trees were literally covered by them. It is utterly impossible to convey an adequate idea of this plague. You see one day splendid gardens and luxuriant vegetation, the next day not a leaf or low blades of grass is left" From the Battle Creek Herald, of June 1866 : — " The plague of locusTs is causing sad devastation in Syria. In a recently received letter from Mrs. Bowen I'hompson, dated Beyront, June 23, '66, it is staled that the accounts from Hisbaya are lUost distressing. It is worthy of remark that when the plague visited the country last year, the Chris- tians exerted themselves to destroy the locusts and their eggs ; but tlie Mohammedans, who looked upon the locust a'" a great delivery, caught and ate them. The cholera has everywhere m the East followed in the train of the locusts, and the proportion of Mohammedans to Christians who have succumbed to the disease is beyond compare. A letter from a native of Hisbaga says that the locusts cover the whole land, and enter the houses as they have never done before. They have eaten up all the herbs, leaving nothing, and Hisbaya looks like a desert." From the London Free Presa of July, 1866 : — The Holy Land is again visited this year with a plague of locusts. A letter in a Manchester paper says : — ' The valley of Urtas t ^^ I IG was first attacked and has now become a desolate wild?r- nesrs. The olive yards of Bethleham, Beitjalah and Jeru- sal«in were covered until the trees became a dull red color. They are now barked white. But yesterday (June 2,) will be a day long remembered. From early morning till near night the locusts passed over the city in countless hosts, as though all the swarms in the world were let loose, and the whirl of their wings was as the sound of chariots. At times they appeared in the air like some great snow-drift, obscur- ing the sun, and casting*a shadow upon the earth. Men stood in the streets and looked up, and their faces gathered blackness. At intervals those which were tired or hungry descended on the little gardens in the city, and in an in- cred'dbly short time all that was green disappeared. They rail np llie walls, they sought every blade of grass or weed growing between the stones, and after eating to satisfy, they yalhered in their ranks along the ground or on the tops ot the houses. It is no marvel that as Pharaoh looked at them he called them this death. See Exodus the x, 4,5, verses. To-day (June 2) the locusts still continue their work of destruction. One locust has been found near Lethleliem measuring more than five inches in length ; it is covered with a hard shell, and has a tail like a scor- 55 pion I am now done with this chapter of plagues ; and at least, it looks to the writer that they are one ot the sure tokens ol the near approach of Christ to Judgment. The '* Signs of the Times," your attention now call ; Spurn not what is said as unworthy a thought, Perchance you are wrong in some things you've been taught ; If thus, il will do you no good so to be, So come, let us " search," that the truth we may see, For things of great moment, on this may depend, As great and momentous, as tliose they portend ; Then let us be sober, that truth may be known ; Tie that what it may, or by whom it may be shown. The twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew you^re told, Has meaning, no mortal can ever unfold, Which makes you conclude that the Lord will not come, For many a year, to receive his " Bride" home. We nowhere are taught, that the year '11 be concealed, Should tho '"day" and the ''hour," be never revealed ; So do not, my friend, with the ** false prophet" say, "My Lord, .loth his coming, a long time delay. . The "tig tree ' is budding, the " summer" is nigh, " • st malignant passions and faults of our nature ? So it would setm. We repeat it, nine-tenths of the so-called Christian world are in arms, or may, at any moment, be en- gaged in deadly strile. Not two jears have elapsed since the dominating nation of the Western World closed the most terrific and bloody contest known in the annals of mankind, li o w stand her neighbors on this continent now ? Canada feverish and unsettled, after the first onset of a subtle and persistent foe ; few years since we had neither volunteers and but few soldiers. Truly, the question might well be propounded, what is all this drilling and prepera- tion for if not preparing for Armageddon ? Mexico, 'the theatre of a prolonged and implacable struggle ; Chili, Peru, Bolivia and Equador struggling against a monarchical enemy ; Brazil, with the Argentine Kepublic, and Buanos Ayres in an unequel contest against Paraguay ; Jamaica still smelling slaughter; the embers of revolution not yet . I rs- 18 cold in Hayti and San Domingo, hi Europe, Austria, witli all lier dependencies and her sympathizers in the Germanic Confederation, arrayed against Prussia and Italy; France silently arming in view oi" eventualities appar, . ' , ^^, . And ever since the fallen race, , ' ^ '■ i From age to age are void of grace. , From the New York Tribune : — " Crime has enormously increased in Washington since the reduction of the army. The police arrests last quarter numbered 9,122, aa increase of over 3,000 beyond any previous fourth of a year. Plun- der and robbery are the chief oflTences." 19^ From the London Tinus : — ** Out of 53,835 children born in Paris during 1865, 88,967 were legitimate, and 11,808 illegitimate. Talk of converting the far off Heathen.'"* The writer of this book wants you first to commence at home. From the last authority : — " Curious Statistics. — • Some strange statistics of matrimonial life«in Paris have just made their appearance During the p^ist twelve months of 1866, 2,344 wives have fled the conjugal roof without leaving their future address ; of husbands who have done likewise there are 4,427 ; of married couples legally separated (not divorced), there are 7,115 ; of ditto who have agreed to live apart, 5,340 ; of* husbands and wives living at daggers drawn, 31,912 ; of happy couples, 54; of mutually indifferent, 61,430. These facts are ascertained from the spies employed by the police, and the complete- ness of the espionage thus exercised is illustrated by a case stated in a Paris letter. A pastor had some doubts of an Eng- lish family lately settled in his parish, and who had borrow- ed $%CK) irom him I'he pastor being on intimate terms with a che/de devision at the prefecture of police, stated the case. The chef inquired the name and address, rang a bell, desired his clerk to bring him Rdgiater C., and under that letter the proceedings of the family during two years' residence in the country parts of France were accurately recorded. Nought was set down in malice, but every fact connected with them carefully inserted in the register." From the Weekly Globe : — " There are 34 gaols in Up' per Canada and 20 in Lower Canada. Their inmates for '66 are reported as follows: •♦ U. C. L. C. Men, 5,962 3,67L Women, I,d85 2,744. Boys under 16, 311 257. Girls do 103 83. : • • Total, 6,361 6,655. This table shows a different result from that obtained by- classifying the inmates of the Penitentiary in a similar way. Though Upper Canada sends by far the larger proportion of convicts to the Penitentiary, she does not send so many to the common gaols as does the less pupulous Province of to Lower Canada. The gaol of Montreal is crediled with nearly two-thirds of the prisoners committed in all Lower Canada* No less than 1 ,938 men, 1,891 women, 166 boys, and 51 girli — total 4,036— were imprisoned at Montreal during %6. Of the 13,016 prisoners reported from all the ^aols iu both Provinces, only 7,265 were suffering their hrst im- prisonment.'' New York Daily Ilera/dy Jan. 1860, says :—" Although prepared for an unusually extensive budget of criminal Btatigtics, we confess that we are astonished, and startled ht many of the revelations contained in the document. It appears that the number of arrests for offences of all grades, amounted to the enormous number of 68,873, or about 14,000 more than the previous year. Crimes of violence toward the person hare increased in a still greater ratio, the total number being 995, against 620, in 1865. The report shows that there are 1,200 * daughters of perdition' in the concert saloons, and that there exists in this city and Brooklvn the fearful number of 10,000 places where intoxicating drinks are sold, over 8,000 of which are unlicensed. The License law and the Excise law are nearly inoperative. Bad and dangerous as the tenement houses are for habitation, it appears there are others which are worse. In one pre- cinct there are 60 places, or dens, where the wretched poor, the criminals and depraved lesort to lodge, paying I'rom ten to fifteen cents per night for miserable accom- modation. The places are chiefly in cellars, with naked stone or brick walls, damp and decayed floor», without beds or bedding fit for human beings. These dens are filthy beyond description, overflowing with vermin and in- fested by rats. In these hideous places are packed nighlly an average of 600 persons — men, women and children — white and black sleeping promiscuously together, with- out regard to family relation, and exhibiting less of the im- pulses of decency than the brute creation. They consist of drunken wretches, male and female, beggars, rag-pickers* of the poorest sort, sneak thieves, juvenile pimps, ragged and drunken prostitute s, and others of the same vile class. In the course of this revolting record of crime, vice and immortality, we observe the statement, that certain laws and ordinances are not enforced because the justices are dependent for their places upon the very offenders they are called upon to punish." I .81 From tho Buttle Cre«k 77Tadatic>n and eletat«?d to the i dignity of men at*d woiften ? How shiiU th(y humble Hut . Tesjiectable poor, who are? accustomed to- driwb, better their . tjoiidition ? Cati it be done \ry all th« elfbrts ol persuasiion! > and beiieToleiKie whik) dram-shops allure them ori eVeiy - haml? while- the heartless proi^ietors ame permittecl J with impunity to deal otit poisonous mixtures under the false warae of rum, brandy, or vrhiiikcy, and clutclr their - scanty vrajres, thus robWna^ th^fm of food iitid Mmcnt and shelter? No, the temporizing politicalf economist may dissemble on this subject^ the cold moralist maiy query, and the flash theorist may cavil, but neveTthelesB 'truth i» mighty, and will preyail.' You can remote excessive J dram-arinking" only by removing the cause ; to do Ihatyou • must close the dram-shops, where the jwison is sold. And in tho. present state of the law on thi» subjeitft, to» dose those ente-chambers ol prisons, alms-houses, alifd asylums, you must when complaints are properly before you indict the v<3Tiders of those poisonous mixtures that, craije the brain, and burn up the vitals ol the drunkard. Tliis is the only remedy lor the evil that tliie law now . g^ffords, and this remedy does exist. 1 am aware of .the f^'ct. th^t sincer parts of (he Prohibitory Law were decidtj tp, j)e uncoil' titutional by the mere majority vote of the Court of Ap- peals, but which are still held to be otherwise by a !arge number of the very soundest jurist of this State and^tiation, "^^the suggestion that no law exists in this State a^gainst the free sale of intoxicating liquors has obtained advocates ; but it is a clear proposition that no such conseqijence can possibly follow^ Irom that decision. There is a law on tnc subject of such sales, and the ohly seng^ible inquiry is : What is the law^ ? This is not the appropriate place ta submi't an elaborated argument on this question, but I feel no reluctance to assume all the responsibihties of my position for this expression of opinion, that the lUilicenscd sale is now a misdemeanor." , , f, ^, (..i ,,,,.,.> < ,,..,,, J., There wsub hard timoB before, ii> the days of the flood, „ J When nothing was done but the uliedduig of blaod ; '-• • "" When righteous old Noali, went into his boat ; "*' Toil) f^.u Mif! 'Are oaoogh far its ^oe, full enough for its cheer. .v»v*!""» n: ^ COw^fJMPTKiN m Toiuooa in EtTiU^PK.— In the Citv orHaitthtttg, Gerraaiiy, tli^: inanwlactiire of tobacco gi\ A employiaeiiifc to mdiv iihaii 10,000 persons, who turn out 160,000,000 ci^ixr^ in a ye^v, xnlued al $3,000,000. Fi-om Havanab ivnd Manila, Hamburg imports 1 8,000,000 cigars ;j year, niakina' aw agj»reg;a4;e includiiig its own prod, leaving 15.OD0;4)0O for home consumption, alio w- jng 40,000 cigai-H a, day to an adulit male popnktion of 45,000. In I'>glahd, with a pdplilatioii 0^21,000,000, m 1821, t4if> coiiRumpti^n ot topTllalk>n bf 27,452,6flf2, the con- sumption Wai^ aSjOfi^jMl pounds, or 17 ottu'ces bttobacco per heaid, sho\<'ing a steady iii<^r«^se. In France, the cbtt- sumpti<^tt id 18| ounces |»^t head. 4 n Denmark, it is 70 otinces i>er head ; and in Turkey tiie consumption is evert greats*?. ' Endtigh of tobaccd in smbked to keep every poor man in the world well oft", and ^'et, is smobxl in the air. Uhrisdans at least should not do t&s, or give their coub' teftance to such a wicked crim«^. -'^l '''•^' '^^ • .v:i;ui; . //} .b-J):- '■ // . ■ ■■ • ■■• ■ ' '.' t ■ Hcil r.-t'loot JI"W.vaij*tiiedeJusiuu, tluM- «vbiliByi«» 4eiay, ,-,,,7 ._>^jj fjj YbUr Ueaftft may grow bett«r, \>y staying hWAy ; ^ ^^ ; , '^f ; iiame wretched, come starvinj^, come just dijyottw, * '1 I'lFH While^Btreams of galvatiou, areliwwin^sofi-ee. ' /l/''> "From the Weekly fif/oifi, d>»1866 :-*' The unusual stale- meiit of crimes and disasiters during the last six months lias b«en often remarked, and it seems the subject is now about ripe lor conclusions 9!' figures. That the public have noticed so , large an increase in this fatal species of home produeiiou may be sensjbly attiibutwl to the lapse of a great war, and the revolution and recpil. of the passions which it al^sorbeid.'' If"' some h^ve been skeptical as to the extent -of individual outbreaks on society, it hus been .lor ^yaut Qf «tatistic^, and partly because, crjme, ^^vhich ■■i» ■IP 24 has doubled so much in catastrophe of late, has been for- gotten in other mistortunes, of which the last half year has been full Regular murders has almost found obhvion in railway disasters. But every chord of suffering life seems lo liave been stricken, and we have heartl of a host of nondescript assaults upon the * house of life,' beside homicid43, marncide, parricide, matricide, suicide, infan- ticide, familicide, patricide, attempted, hardly paus- ing at cosmieide, which we interpret to be a violent taking of life in honor of the journal which has made the greatest display of murders. Kailwa^' (slaughter renders necessary an addition to the vocabulary, and we have it to hand, namely, viatricide, or murder oi the traveller. Al- together, here is an interesting field of en(jmry for our Kennedys and DeBows. The entire estmiate of the capital crimes committed in the United States in the last six months, it is doubtless impossible to give ; but from April to October, 96 murders are counted from metro* pohtan files, exclusive of 12 manifest homicides amd half a dozen assassinations by indians and guerilies, twenty- five murderous attempts are recorded, 9 cases of wife- murder, and 7 of attempted wife-murder, which seems to have been a terrible speciality with male criminals in New York and New Jersey, in contrast with this there appears to have been but two husband murders. Ei^ht instances of famihcide, or murder of a family, includmg three persons, make the most shocking feature of the category. J^our fratricides, two parricides and matricides, two double and two quadruple murders, eight mfaut mur- ders, half of which were cases of abortion, were recorded. In the West and South-west three Lynch Law trials took place. Singularly, amid all this excess of life taking, we only find 8§ suicides. The great mass of murders and crime generally were perpeypated between June and Sep- tember, viz: 15 in June, 21 m July, 20 in August, and 26 in September. Ihe last month vras by far the most fatal with respect to railroad accidents, although it was suppos- ed that had its climax in the previous summer months. We conjecture that about 150 persons have lost their lives by criminal hands, not remarking those who have perished by the railway juggernaut. Eccentricity and monstrosity seem to have been prodigal in the chapter of the criminal calendar just closed. Of extraordinary cases in America, most all of which seem to have Ibeen brute 25 outrages ol a multiple kind, may be mentiouetl, the Joyce tragedy in Roxbury, Mass. ; the double murder at Surn- merville, Pa. ; the lamilicide in Tennessee ; th«^ wholesale execution of Judge Wright and his four sons in Missouri, and the Stork weather family murder. But the great crimes of Europe have far exceeded all these in general wonder and mystery, and it is seldom that a grouping of such strange elements are tound together in the social history. In systematic wickedness and depth of motive, the5r show a tar older experience than American crime, — inteiJect, science, a sort ot philosophy, and ^ven religion, were sunk in the plot and women in the deed, with the ispirit of a young Lady Macbeth, a Fosco, a Thenardier. — How Constance Kent, a child of 13, came to put a way her brother, is still a study ; Dr. Pritchard, a medical reviewer, daily resumed the patient task ot killing his wife by slow }x>ison ; Mrs. "Winsor kept a hospital f6r infanticide ; {Southey murdered the children ot his mistress with a parade of Malthusian philosophy, for tear that they would atarve, omillih^, of course, to kill himself ; and a Swedish Priest ix)isoned a dozen ot his parishioners with the sacra- ment, out of pity for their wretchedness. Crime of this complex characto»r seems weird, aj^paling, and extrava- gant beyond expression. Of the proportion of crimes in general it is scarcely possible to arrive at conclusions ; but it should be remarked that twenty cases ot nameless outrage — a class ot crime which seldom invites rc^cord— were printed in the last six months. Curious and mon- fitrous among other fiagnmcies were the placing of torjie- does on a railroad, an attempt to throw a tram off the track ; the burning of three houses by a girl fourteen years old ; four highway robberies by a boy of eleven years of age ; highway robbery by a politician ; a mail robbery by a post-master, and tHe malign biting off of noses. Let the reader add to these the publication of ob- scene books and papers, and the defacing of natural scenery, several cases of which came under the law. An ex-Con^ressman was also convicted of subornation of per- jury. Large operations of robbery appear to have been in proportion to other crime. The succession of several robberies of banks witnin a short time, and the apparent ease with which they have been robbed, have already cftlled forth w^ords of caution from the public journals against a state of financial insecuritv. The foUo\^ inir ?l»va 26 gXaftemoni of hmk md Mildred rohhcries alone wiil &Uow that this wai,wiii:t»- was wot without . rcvi^on ot facts ir— iauuary, '^6^ liauk of Crawtord, fe^^^ioO^OOOi ; Marcli, JSatioual Ojiiral, N. Y ,|5p,0OO ; Banking fipu^,JtJlaAd «, LouisriJlt^, ^iiO.OOO ; M^y, Baak Walpol^, K, H.< H^OQQ,- June, Bank Wellington, O, $100,000; August, Banking- Mouse, Poiilaiml, 1^:^5,000 ; September, Bank Concord, {ii300,000 4 September, Treasury, Texas, $30^1)00; Sept., Adams' Ef;pres6, $25,000 ; this comprehend*, only roboerr ies commuted by outside parties, and. we canj^iqt pretea4 to say the [i&i is complete. A few of the robberies ^ei;^^ vary remarkabli>, in the instance ot the Crawford B«nk ^evidently a worked-up ri)bl>ery), il seems tljat wl^iiie.the cashier was at work u. the evening- ijwj thief eiUereid. ^3;-^ tinguishexl the «;us,and iiia4e awa^^ wiifi the bonds befow^ any lij^ht could be obtained. Mr. Bland, of Louisvilh?, was imprisonexl in his own sate, and nearly jwiHoca^ed tu death. Th« Concord Bank rob beyy is recent, aiwl wtdi known. A list of Bank robberies would not be pouQple;trt without a statement of the immense ^defalcations, and swindles of the past six months, which liav'Cjassaiied^ t^^ei salety of banks from within as l^nrglarsiromAyitho^tfrr we append a genuine list ;'-May, iian)>:. New tiayen, Havhigs, $100,000; August, Bank Pht^nix, (Jenkms') 250,000; August, Banks, &;c. New York, (Ketchum's) $4,000,000; August, Krie Kailroad bonds, (Jones?) $5 00,^ 000 ; August, Custom >louse, Memphis reported, $,l,ii50,- 000 ; Augwjt, Quartermaster at Paducuh, by a clej^^ .*i2A,- 000 ; September, Govenunent bonds, Bliss, N, X.,$3(i,- 600 ; September, llevenueCollecior,Ohio, deiauitei*,.%90r 000 ; ^September, Auerbach swindle, lrf)uisviJi ■■ffd iijii Wc 'know' that the 'vision' cannot long delay ; , ^m*^/ ill V) f^oon, Daniel will stand in * his lot' witli the blest, ^' ,^ ' /| , • And yoH, it you're sav'd will he sav'd with the lest, * • a HJ iJ (ff^^Q ^y LoM, thy Wright maintain, ' • f'-V'>- ■'iUllitlll-'jtnd take thy throne, and on it reign ^ "* ; >ii; •.♦tOlIv/ .rOh come, come away nfi >.i)i.,iUfi'; lo ^bv/of) if.iil ; ^ And end dss day appearing ; ''>' ,,'y '•"^liVway from home ; no more we roam, O conte, come away f nOil /'i' 'With sweetest notes of sympathy, , f 1 1 ifR.'n J fWe pray and pmise in harmony, - 'j .v 1 ; j ) <.f#f I'f'V nf: 1 ove makes our unity, O come, come away. ^.r,. .., ,r^,..» - n I shall not trouble the induJgeut reader any further with this .chapter, but will turn to the chapter on Famine, which will not contain but a mere sketch of what has taken place the last three years; and you have my word for it, and watch it, lor my serious comiction is, that the next three yaars will tell a sad tale of fiimine, pestilence and war, with crime, &;g« CHAPTER IV. MX, ivl Uii u . . f . ■Hihn4 yiH -"jnuli '' The famine in British India; awful scenes of suffering and death. The London Times has the following from Calcutta, August 3, '6(5 :— " The mortality continues to be 1 ( i I' I I"! 23 iVightrul ; ill lour villages which an Englishman risitecl, there were not ten houses that did not contain one o: more dead Txxlies, in another small place there were between four and five hundred dead, most of them unburied. The truth appears to he that the boasted administrative machinery of the Indian Governmetit has completely broken down ; plenty ot food has been bought, but some- how or other it does not reach the stardng ; ships laden with rice are unable to discharg-e their cargoes for want of boats. Much of the misery is attributed to the &ct that the authorities have given orders that only eight annas' worth of rice shall be sold to ojie person at a time. 'Every day,' writes a correspondent, * there were hun- dreds of people coming and laying do'^u their money, prostrating themselves on their faces and hands, begging to })uy rice ; but the relieving officers cannot sell it, owing to the orders they have received,' In Calcutta alone, 200.- UOO persons arc subsisting on native charity, which has proved far more effective than the organization of the govennnent. The news trom the famine districts in Ben- gal continues to be very distressing, and was beginning to make itself felt in the streets of Calcutta, It is stated that crowds of sufferers from the Nudda division, where the failure of the crops has deprived them of food, are finding their way into the metropolis in the hope of ob- taining assistance and sustenance, and the streets now present very distre^-sing pictures of suffering hurianity. Fathers and mothers in a dreadful state of debility are sell- ing their emaciated offspring to passers by for 8 to 4 shil- lings each, and, are seen searching for a few grains of food among the ofial cast out at our doors. fhe rind and stones ot mangoes are eagerly caught up and sucked, in the vain hope of sustaining life a little longer thereby, and such refuse as a dog would reject is eagerly devoured. Crime has ot course increased in consequence of this in- flux of men driven to desperation by hunger, and there is A melancholy crop of thefts and burglaries. The famine is very sorfe in Orrissa ; in the fifteen districts affected, but chiefly in the three districts of Orrissa, and the adjoining country of Midnapore, 75,000 are daily fed by public charity; if you double that for the numbers fed privately, and chiefly by Hindoos, you wall be still within the truth. Out of Or- rissa and Midnapore half of the destitute are professional beggars; in these provinces nearly all are the laboring 29 ■» food and I, in and ns in- ire is Imine but lining laritv; liefiy )fOr- )nng poor, and tho lower class of agriculturists. The larm}st number ot deaths from starvation in Orrissa and Midna- pore reported in one week, is 3,500, and in the Southal counirv some less. The average number of deaths report- ed to the authorities durin<^ the past six weeks in those districts, is not less than 2,500 a week ; add to these the deaths witnessed by no human eye in the far interior, where aid is never penetrated, and you will have by no means an exaggerated idea oi the state of Orrissa and Mid* napore. Says the writer, I will not harrow the feelings of your readers by the details of cases which appear in the dally papers here, reported by eye witnesses of the jackals eating the corj)se of one wretch while they Wait for his companion who is dying, or of the child taken from the breast of its mother, wno has been dead two days. We know still less of the state of Ganggam, the Madras district immediately to the South of Orrissa The Famine began in October last, it became so ^rievious by December, that gold, silver and b^rass-work sold at twenty per cent below the usual rates, and the magistrate of rooree iirged the establishment of a relief fund and public works as well as the revival of the salt manufacture. The December crop was saved by the rain, but it was so scanty, and the peas- antry had to give so much of it to the landlords and money-lenders in repayment of advances, that by the middle of B''ebruary prices again fell to the level of starva- tion, rice got to one sliillin^ lor five pounds. The people managed to struggle on, till by the beginning of Aprii they had exhausted their stores, and from the first week of that month, when the missionaries and the ma^strates appealed for public assistance, the famine in Orrissa and Gangam daces. The public began to subscribe, when it was remembered that there was an unspent balance of 0312,500 ot the North-west Famine Fjind. Government at once gave up that sum to the Board of Revenue, which was guilty of the incredible foliy of informing the public that no more subscriptions would be necessary. The Chamber of Commerce informed the Bengal Government that they wished to form a great central committee, but tiiey were politely snubbed. The necessity ior importing rice into Orrissa was urged ; for a month the board refused to *e© the necessity of interfering with private trade. Where, all this time was the local authority, the Lieuten- ant Governor? In the hills of Dargeerling, with all the 30 jieadsof deparlments, except the board I'rom which hard says no subscriptions are wanted, when 2,500 are dyiug every week. On a surf-beaten coast in the height of the monsoon it is difficult to unload rice, and much has been lost ; but no supply of labor has been sent to carry the rice into the interior for the dying, and to-day's telegram reports the price at Cuttack, on the 3l8t of July, '66, as still under five pounds for a shilling, while the showers are so partial as to be insufficient fur the crops. What must be the state of thin^ outside the country town, and away from the lew relief stations ? Not only so, but althbu^n it IS evident to all, that there are no traders' stores of ncc in Orrissa ; much of Ihe government rice is sold at the market rate quoted above, ana one of the relief coinmittee WHS ordered last week to sell the unpopular Burma rice at the high price of 8 pound for a shilling. Set against the calcmation of 2,500 reported deaths per week, the facts that up to the end of J uly, after faur months of se- vere famine, the board of Revenue has spent in the fifteen afflicted districts of Bengal only, $77,550 in grants of cash to relief committees, and $337,605 in the shipment of grain, while it is liable for $200,000 more in orders not yet exe- cuted, and you will be able to judge if there is not ground for at least the suspicion tj^at, from want of forethought or foresight, bad management from inability to organize a system of relief equal to the vast area of suiienng, the lower classes of Orrissa and Midnapore are perishmg. — The misery will certainly not lessen in Eastern India till the end of October, and not then if more ram does not fall, so OS to secure the great autumn crop, the failure of which last year is the cause of all the su^erin^. To the brief history I have given of the sufferings m India, let the %a l"-^r 81 ^et the reader reflect ; the suffering a few years since in ScotIanecting the distress being ex- aggerated ; on the coptrary, it now threatens to be severer jtihao. 1 suppose, any apprehended. The poor people of this country have been so accustomed to shift for. them- selves in times of difficulty, that few £.t all realized the state of things. Kut the total failure of the buffalo hunt, par- tial fall, and the scarcity of rabbits, combined to produce the danger of most serious distress, and ' though a great deal has been contributed, we find that the expense of tfeight will swallow up a very lar^e portion of the gifti*. There will also be, I fear, a very serious deficiency of seed grain for the coming season. There cannot be such fear of exaggeration of distress, when in an isolated region like this, the whole of the crops of every kind is absolutely swept away." Famnie, therefore, I say is one of the sure tokens ot the near approach of Christ ; mark what I say, if I am on the right track, the next three years will doable the affliction of the last three years, but none of the wick- ed shall understand, but just Uke the days oi Noah and Lot, none caring or desiring to be looking or loving the appearing ot Christ, hence, on such he will come iSke a thief: h^&^. m I. 'Ti "^r^Trt 1 Light tB beaming, day ia coming, Let us s«»and aloud the cry ; We- behold the day-8t;tr rising ' ' ' Pare and bright in yonder sky^ Saints rejoice now — , >i Tour redemption draweth nigh. ,,<■; We hare found the chart and compaiis, And are sure the land is near ; Onward, onward we are hasting, ' Soon the Saviour will appear, ,. O, be cheerful- Let the word your spirit! cheer. •>.a J ii t-i.1 ) I »■ : ,>>^:^ vj;<« Haik, hark, hear the blest tidings^ 82 ('■ '■•'if. Soon, Boon JesuB will come, • '., •> Uohcd, robed in honor and glory, To gather his ranaomed ones home, Yes, yes, O yes — To gather his ransomed ones home. I shall now pass this chapter and leave with the reader to say what is truth. Our next chapter will be on floods. »»• I' ( CHAVTERV. ^^ILOOl^^. '" ■ *r From the weekly G/o6c.Sept., '66 : — " Cincinnati, Sept, 2nd. • Heavy storms visited this region yesterday and last ni^ht, causing floods that have resulted in seriously dam- iagmg provisions to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Dear Creek, a stream running through the east- ern part of the city, was a scene of turbulent and destruc- tive inundation. This morning belbrc daylight, about 30 tenement houses were swept away. Longworth's cele- brated wine cellars, containmg 150,000 gallons, were over- flowed, raising the temperature and causing the cham- pagne bottles to explode in a deafenmg fusilade, and hun- dreds of casks of wine wei e afloat lor a while. Three extensive tanneries were completely gutted by the flood, inflicting immense loss. The total damage will reach $400,000. Several persons were drowned, and a number ot railroad bridges are reported swept away on the Day- ton and Michigan and Maridta Road." Great Flood in the North West. — (Special to the New York Herald.)—" Chicago, August 14th, 1866. Complete returns have been received here of the condition of the wheat crop in the North West, since the storm ot Saturday and Sunday, which was the severest oi the season. The wheat in the north- ern tier of counties in this State has been materially injured. In the southern part of the State the crop has been pretty generally secured ; but in the north much of the wheat was in the shock, and has commenced growing badly. Along the Galena branch of the Northwestern Road, reports about the wheat are very unfavorable. The crop in Wisconsin is almost entirely ruined. The harvest there is two weeks later than in Illinois, and the floods of rain caught the fanners in the field. From one end ol 33 » i tr. estem The arvest ods of nd ol the State to the other come tidini);^ ot floods, inundations, bridfl^os swept off', and the whole country for miles under water. The crops, both cut and uncut, arc completely submerged, and are heating and sprouting to an extent that must ruin them. The loss ot this crop must and will be severely felt ail through the West. The crops in Minnesota are better off*, although seriously damagi'i'.— Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and parts of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri have secured their crops, and the quality is re- ported very good. In Minnesota the storm \tas very severe. At Kochester several rods of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad bridges were washed away. Four or live houses were swept away by the rise in the Zumbro river, which rose lourteen feet during the night ; so sud- den was the rise in the river that the occupants of houses on the low lands, had scarcely time to escape in their cloihes and save their lives, and on Tuesday morning eleven persons, men, women and children were rescued from trees, where they had taken retuge during the night. All the bridges between Rochester and Owatonna are swept away, and the railroad bridge near Casson is also gone. Near Houston, about twenty miles west of La Crosse, thirty persons wer(^ drowned by a. sudden rise in the.Koot liiver, Minnesota ; twelve bodies have been re- covered and buried. The Southern Minnesota or Root River Railro&d is in some portions seven or eight ieet under water. The town of Houstan is almost entirely submerged, as is also a considerable portion of the village of Rushlbrd. Entire tarms have been swept over by the raging current, the water even reaching above the top of the growing corn crops. The destruction of property is ^rcat, reachinir, piobably, to $100,000, or more. Such a flood was not Icnown in this region before, although it is remarkable for the numbvir &nd extent of its freshets. Tlie heavy rains in Northern and Southern Iowa has caused, very high w^ater in the Cedar Kiver ; bridges have been swepi away, and much damage done. The bridg-a at Cedar Falls ha^ gone down stream." From the New York Tribune, Oct., *66.— " Baltimore, Oct. II th. The rain has continued to-day almost without intermission, and is still falling. A heavy easterly wind prevails. All accounts a^ree that the quantity of water which fell in this region last night and this morning, was most extraordinarj'. A dumber of dams and bridges on i ,*■■ 34 tho Uotapsco woro dostroyed. The extensive dam at Klapsville wntt swept oi\\ and coining against (he tuni' I)ikt; bridge at Rlliott« destroyed it« The wrecks Ihially acciiinuluted at a heavy stone bridge at Illchister, on the iialtimore and Ohio Road, 13 miles trom this city, which gave way to the tremendous pressure. This bridge was considered the strongest on the road, and stood out against ail lonner floods. A lamily of six persons and anotlier ot three were drowned ; several bodies were iound to-day." Krom th<» Weekly Globe, '^>7.— " The inundations in V ranee were subsidnig. Great damage has l)een done by the Hoods The Lm^^eror had headed a subscription with 100,000 irancs." ''• ••<'■?-' ..^vtv .',,* Krom the New York Herald^ Octt)ber, '68.—" San Francisco, Oct. 2nd. One of the most destructive rain storms ever known hi Auc Arizona, commenced on the 7th of September, and lasted lor three days, completely Hooding the country. Many of the villages of the Rimo and Mancoi)a Indianson Gala Uiver were entirely destroy- ed, large crops were swept away and Hupper ik Co s, steam Houring mills at Kuno village were destroyed, and a numUir of cattle belonging to Texas emigrants were drownt'd in the Wood. Gov. McCormick and party, en route Iroin Prescott, were (jaught in the storm and com- ))elled to swim their animals to reach a place of safety. Telegrams from the interior reix)rt great damage done to the croi>s by the rains of two days past. The ship brought on from Glasgow reports having exx)erienced a heavv shock of earthquake at sea on the llth and 18th of The Overflow of the Nile and its Consequences. — The ap}>rehensions created by the rapid rise ot tho waters of the Nile are, unhappily, being justified by events. \Ye have anived at that period when a falling of the water should be noted, but, on the contrary, uiere has beeu lately a conihiued and considerable rise. The houses on the banks of the river in the suburbs of Boulak and Old Cairo, have been invaded by the waters and some portions of the quays have been destroyed. The Egyp- titai government is displaying most praise-worthy activity in meethig the threatened danger. It has employed all tite means in its power to strengthen the dykes and to re- pair the banks. A careful system of supervision has beeif ao en ivit % 1 :o re- CKtuhli^hcd. and vossels laden with sionos and nuitiTials are stutioned at short distances, ready lor heini^ towed to any menanced jwint by the tur steamers on th»^ river. — DinaNters are mentioned as havinu^ occured in Upper Kgypt, where the waters have swept away the corn crop heaps in the fields bordering on the river.'' Oari<», Sept, 26. — Corre»i>ondence ol' tht^ Paris Mmitetfi'. **The catastrophe at Bezandun. A meetiii!; was held ni the upper room of Queen Street Hall yesterday at*teriux)ii, for the purpose ot hearing a statement frt>m ur. Mnston, respectmg the catastrophe by which the villa|je of Bezan- dun, ttituated in the French part of Vandois, has been de- stroyed, I. Bonar presided. Dr. Muston, who addressed the audience in hVench, stated that Farel, the companion of Calvin, had laboredin the country in which Bezandun 18 situated, and that it has been the scene ot trials and martyrdoms for the truth's sake, both before and after the Reformation. Bezandun was built on the steep slope of a hill, consisting ot a great rock covered with earth, so that the village was supported on a stratum ol soil lying on the smooth surface of a slanting rock ; the houses were built across the face ot the hill, above these were the gardens and vineyards ot the villagers, and further up, th6 church ; down the hill streams used to flow from spring at the summit of the hill, and this year, in the month of May, when the rains were falling so heavily throughout the south oi France, these streams, instead of increasing, as might have been expected, diminished, and it was found that the fountains were nearly drv. These symptoms of an approaching catastrophe caused no great surprise at the time, but they were remembered after- wards; On the 31st of May, as a colporteur was passing by, his attention was attracted by some strange sounds at the church, and a few minutes afterwards the i)opulation were greatly surprised by hearing three or lour strokes oi' the church bell. Immediately afterwards, in the houses of the village, the windows commenced to break, and by a subterranean movement the walls were displaced, so that doors which were shut could not be opened, and doors which were open co^d not be shut ; the people rushed out ol their houses, mothers dragging their children after them, while tiles, chimneys, and the lighter parts of the houses tell. They were no sooner out of their houses than the roof of the church fell in, destroying the interior. It 41 I « 1 .ft 3G appeared that the springs of water which used to flow over the surFace from the summit of the lull had, at the same time, flowed underground, reachinj^*- at last the sub- stratum ot rock, whicli, benig impenetrable, the water collected till at last there was such a quantity that the whole soil beneath the village became detached from the rock and beflfan to slip, carrying the village away with it in its downward progress. It slipped, not all at once, but at irreiyular intervals during twelve days, which enabled the villagers to escajie with their lives, although they lost all their property. The villa^ had entirely disappeared, and the inhabitants were entirely destitute ; and it was in these circumstances that he had been sent to friends and fellow- Protestants at a distance, to request thoir aid to enable the villagers to re-build their church and sckoolfi^ The whole pecuniary loss estimated at 65,000 francs or $13,000. Mr. liobertson ot the Gray friars and Mr* Montgomery, of Innerleithen, commended the cause to the liberality of Christians in this country, and the latter stated that Dr Muston had been banished from Piedmont twenty years ago, for ha\'ing published a historical work which had given oflence to the Bomish priesiss at (v ixssk$ when their will was supreme in Sardinia." #,.,., Edinburgh Witnest. — A correspondent of the i>mdoi| Times gives a detailed account of the recent disastrous floods in Northern Italy. Sept., 1868. He says : — ** Over the greater part of Nortnern Italy rain had fallen almost without intermission, for twenty or thirty dajrs, though not in the Alpine district so as to cause any serious catas^ trophe ; but on the night of Sunday, the first <}ay of the week, the 27th of September, a terrible storm broke upon the southern slopes ot the Alps, producing, in a few hours, vast torrents and avalanches, under which roads, houses, and vUlagcs were swept aw^ay, and large tracts ot fertile country were sunk in mud and water. The storm of the 27th, however, proved to be only the signal of disaster to crime. For a week since, night and day, there has been but one continuous storm and cataract of ram, the results of which are not yet known, but which has already covered the whole valley of the Po with a series of inun- dations. On the morning of the 29th we left Lucerene to cross the St. Gothard road in splendid weather and in total ignorance of the catastrophe of the 27th. Imi^aodiately 37 ipon louis, )uses, 5rtile 11 the ler to )ceii buits leady Inun- le to Itotal tely after letiviui^ Faido. the si^ns of destruction began, the road had been torn up at intervals by totrents descend- ing ifom. the precipices above, and swept by avalanches of earth, storie and timber. As we passed on, the destruc- tion became worse, orchards, woods, vineyards, and chalets were seen to have been hurled in a mass across the valley, which they covered with ruins, and for Ibnjj tracts, not only had ever3r trace of road disappeared but every trace of cultivation itself, also. So that what used to be once a rich country, teemin-^ with produce, and traversed by massive causeway, had returned to its primi- tive state of torrent bed, and primitive rock. At ^odio the disaster has been greatest. The whole village was swept, by a torrent of mud and stone, which scarcely left t house standing, and buried about twenty persons in the ruin. The destruction was almost instantaneous. The torrent, which descends from the mountain above, had burst its channel and partially flooded the housei^, when about midnight on the 27th, a crash high up th6 precipices was heard, and soon a stream pf mud and ro^ swept over the village and almost bulled it out of sight. ic8 we reached Biaska, wrhere the Breno joins the TiciUo, farther disasters appeared. The LreUo was rising m.6t6 violently even than the Ticino, threatened to cut the Copi* munication up the main valley, which a few hours after we forded, did actually occur. The villages of this lateral valley had been swept by avalanches, and in all of thetti propeity and cattle, and m some, many lives had been loeit. In a word, the whole valley of the Ticino, which eY6ry tourist will remember as a scene of continual beauty and richness, has been desolated ; for twenty or thirty mile*, its entire sources of industry have beenJdestroyed, mi great tracts of it have been changed froiw the most fertile sdl into a mere desert of sand and ro(!k. But what was happening in the vailey of the Ticino was only aspedmen of what was befalling many a valley of the Alp$. At Bellin- aena ritmors more or less distinct were rife of sin^lar dis- asters in all parts oi the range. The St. Southard road, as a gfeat bi^way, is totally OTOkenup on the southern side, and will not be completely restored for months. The Tiernardina and the bpii^ea are alto broken, and great I'i Idges destroyed. The Sunplon road is for many leagues fathoms deep in water. Before reaching Magadino, the plains were seen for miles under water, and at length the I' road itsell wa.s jsubmerged. Here, with no- small difficulty^ and at some mk, boats were prociired, and in, the midst of a fariou» storm of wind and rain and lightening) the Tillage of Magadino was reached, hail sunk in the flood. The pier and all the offices at the whari were scarcely visible, and the lake appeped to stretch right across the valley almost up to Belinzona. Towards evening the steamboat proceeded on her voyage. down the Lago Alag- giore. As each town on the lake was passed, it was seen that it was half sunk in the water. Locai no, Cannobio^ and Luma showed only the upper stories above the waves ; the road was itself submerged, villas, churcl^es and towns in the sfiidst of the lake. At Jutra and, Paiian:^ the greatest injury occuiTed. There the streets and houses were covered by twenty leet of \Yater, and as they were exposed to the gale from the South, and the bay wa» choked with fragments of wood, several hojises had been beaten down altogether, and many hves lost. On reach- ing the bay where the Tosa fails into the lake, it was seen that the whole Simpjlon road from Aroim ^ > Ornavaseo was completely under water, and indeed, the lower valley ol the Tota, like that of the Ticino, was a simple arm of the lake. The gTcat hotels and the villas wit]i which this patt of the lake was bordered, were submerged to their nrst and even second stories, the postal and telegraphic cbmmnnicatibn w^as cut off) the railway station at Arona "was ahmost covered, and the granite posts for the electric wires just showed their tops above tho water. Every tQwn was more or less covered, and the Inhabitants were hasting in boats to places of safety, and removing parts ot the furniture and goods by ladders from the upper win- dows. The Tidnowas unable to carry off tb^^ p^ossure ol waters^ and haAflooded its whole valley lor k; ; 'es down the Lombard plain. The Laggo Maggiore, vvu' .-.h. had risen about twenty feet, was sSU rising; at the rate of four or five feet in few hours,, and there waseyeiy prospect of, a still greater rise. , Nothing of the kind has been known in the memory of man, and the only tradition of such a flood appeal's to date from one hundred and sixty years .f}fff\i.f -i,,\ fv^fiits"«f r[<»iftl.'rjjion wl lofl Ui'-V biJi- O hail, happy day, that speaks lur trials endied, "'*-n*''U Our Lord will come to take us home ; V'/iie^i^M ftfi'^lihd ago. , »t»'^^ 1. ^•U .Ol! O hail, happy day — ^0 more by doubts oi; t'eurs di'^iressed, Hi .A Xiii^ 3f) 4'." i.i'.i;i Wo soon shall roat'h our promised resi, /'■ '* ''"l »*iy,-? i$u And thwrt; bo fwrover blest ; hail, happy dayf *• ■*'»•'*'♦ 2. Swell lond the glad note, our bondage soon is over, •f»'J .' The jubilee proclaims us free'; ' ^r >>(!»• Ohail, happy day-'" W' '' >" • or- '.ru^.n yri^bttf^y The day that brings a sweet release, ,lu ■^r.»n.'n »: <.*';op jj^.M ..,., That CXI) WHS our Jesus priuce of peace, ♦>?■<« 'Hi.;;! , ' And bids our sorrojvs pease ; hail, happy day.» , ; , .„..., 3. O hail, happy day, that ends our tears and sorrow? ; * ^' ,^i. „;,,,, T^t brings us joy without alloy i , , i, ;a' i '■ ■ , O hail, happy day — .- i «, ,^ #'^'^ '^^.*s >. There peace shall wave her sceptre higli, ti; 'ifitrtr And Iftve's fair banner j?tee*. the eye, '^ ^''- '^**'"»*- ihtji Proclaimiag victory ; Q liail, kappy day. ^' .fii'mi^ib^l vfcVv' T' ' ' ^ ' •■ 1 '.••■"'-• »'^ 4. We hail thy brigUt beams, morn of Zion's glory, j. ;<>« ■ fSiVT Thy blessed light breaks on our sight ; • ' , b«>j*'>^^^ O hail, happy day— " ''^ ^"»'" *^'^"l'"'i' • Of? v/ III Fair Beulah's fields before us rise, ' rr^^^»'"'f>* ' ^'!- 'irA\ '^■'i^iSf'* »A^"d '*weetly buret upon our eyes, \ ri'^i no fT<)V.' K- «- The joys of paradise ; hail, liappy day. -tj^<;- • ■ -r h'*-^ :'U\ % Thrice hail, happy day, when earth shall smile in gladneM,' ,^^r\i{,' An4 fidea bloom o'ernatare's tomj) ; *',*, WheVe life s pellucid waters glide, <» „ "^ fi-,M.-< ,« .oil aji Safe by wr dear Redeefmer's side. ^ " ' ' '^ ' '^ ^^ '^^^ ' "^ ^ ' ^u 9*1- u Forever we'll abide; O liail, happy iday.*^'/^' t'''^ r'->3ti Reader, I aAi donewilh the foregoing' chapter, and ask of you, £^11 earliest perusal of the siitji chapter, which »ou ,>i>.o. ui^.^;.i. CHAPTER vL:;t;«^^ .u'^t:"';;'^ ' 'Disasters on the Lakes. — The Detroit Frte Press publishes a long list of lake disasters during- 1868. The number is 341 — more than any previous year. Two hun- dred and fiity-five vessels have been ashore, as follows : — •* On Lake Michigan, 107: Lake Huron, 50; Lake Erie, 65 ; Lak6^ Ontario, 27 ; and Lake Superior 6. 89 total losses have taken place, viz: — Lake Erie, 24 ; Lake Huron, IS; Lake Michigan 34 ; Lake Ontario, 11 ; and Lake Superior, 2. The disasters which have occurred in the straits, far sur- Ilk. 1,; 41 •I 40 pa88 those of any former year, and have been credited to either Lake Huron or Luke Michigan, or to which ever locality they happened in closest proximity." > ; > From the Weekly (?/.»6«, Oct., 1868.-— " A gale of un- nsual violence swept ovei ?rince Edward Inland and the north shores of the neighboring Provinces on Monday night last. A number of vessels were blown ashore, and some lives lost. Several buildings were also blown down. Loss about $10,000." From the Weekly Olohe of 1866.-~« A fearful tornado. Galveston, Texas, July Hth. The steamer Harlan brings accounts of a tornado lasting three days, beginning at Indianola, on the 13th, and ending on the 15th. Four vessels were totally wrecked ; of two of them there was not a vestige left. The steamer Pattnos, which was an- chored outside the bar, has disappeared ; it is supposed that she foundered at her anchorage, and that all who were on boaTrd in charge of her, were lost ; her passengers had previously been landed. .No such storm has occured on this coast within the memory of the oldest inhabitants." From the New York Tribune, July, 1867.-^" A torna- do. A terrible tornado passed over the village of New- bem, Georgia, on the 24th ult., levelling houses, fences, trees, &c., sweeping in an instant, everything betore it, and killing as well as injuring a number of persons." From the New Tork TiWaoflJec, '66.— »" Shipwreck ana loss of one hundred lives. We deeply regret to an- nounce the loss of the Dutch barque Mercurius, Captain Smith, of 439 tons, bound from Amoy to Singapore, which melancholy disaster took place on the north coast of Bintang, and 100 Chinese passengers perished, as also the third mate. The Captain, in a letter dated Ehio, 16th instant, notices that the weather was very thick, and the vessel was driven on shore, having parted from two anchors." From the Oruno Sun^ 1866.—** On Monday afternoon this neighborhood was visited by a terriiic thunderstom. The lig.htening was very vivid, vvhile tl^ peals of thunder were such as are rarely heard even in this climate. Tor- rents of rain poured down, which in some places did much damage to the now nearly ripe grain. At Port Newcastle a boy was instantly killed by the fluid. Ue 41 was sitting by the »tove in .coinpaay with his mother, when he was struck dead. The bereaved parent escaped unhurt.* At £nniflkiUent rumor says tWvi persons were also killed. At Buwmanviiie a woman was struck by the fluid, though not then killed. And with the wind and rain together much damage was done to the crops.'* From the Weekly Ohbe of June, 1866 — ** On Sunday a terrible hurricane visited Niedet. Barns were blown down and roofs of houses carried three or four acres, trees were uprooted, and places were burned by lighten- ing Great damage by lightening. A heavy thunder storm, accompanied by torrents of rain, occured on Wed- oeaday afternoon. Several places were struck by lighten* i)ig iu the vicinity of a blt)ck of twelve unfinished build- ings on Warren street, Brooklyn. The block was nearly demolished by the lightening and the gale. One or two vessels were also struck by lightening St. John's Chapel was set on fire in this city, and the steeple in St. Teresa Church was struck." ' From the Hamilton Spectator, October, 1866. — " Marine disasters. During the month of September, there were lost by lire, wreck, collision and other disasters, twenty-two vessels belonging to the United States, valued ai $1,618,- OUO. There were three ships, one steamer, nine barques, three brigs and six schooners destroyed during the month. Thus far in 1866, theie have been three hundred and eighty-nine vessels, valued at $19,682,800, lost by disasters at se**.'* •.-■*.,; - From the Battle Creek Herald o{ 1866.—" Every day some new calamity is reported of a most heart-rending oharaoter. We have bad of late the great fire at Wiseassct, Me^ ; the destruction of ^,500 dwellings, beside many pub- lic buildings in Quebec, leaving 18,000 persons houseless ; the loss of the Evening Star, on its way from New York to New Orleans, in which nearly 300 perished ; terrible hur- ricane at the Bahamas; loss of a vast number of vessels at se« by the late gales, with hundreds of lives lost ; tlie great floods at the West and South, causing the loss of millions of dollars in property ; the devastation of the cholera in nearly all our cities ; the great famine in India, wijtn wan and rumors of wars, all over the world. Re vo- lution idUdws oa the heel of revolution, and all are work- ing for the struggle," * ^ I£ From \\\e Hriflflitow F/ati, iHdO. — r^to'm m Princr Kihvard. On Tnesdny evettin^ last, lOili iiast., a very ctestructive hail Riorin |)a*!w^ over the 1\)wnfihip of ilillier and vidifed the village o\ Wellington, efti'ctingf much damage to pro- u-^rly Tlie crops alon^^ the lake shoi'e, from Com 'con 'o WoIlinjftoD, were almost destroyed; and such wa« tht^ injury to the windows in Wellington,, that some of the cilizeoR oi that place visited Brighton yesterday, pccv: curing a supply of glass to repair the damage." o»» 'From the Banff Journal c^ July, I8C6.— The Parish of Insh, in Badenof;h, was visited with a thunderstorm, ac- companied by hail and rain. The road Irom the bridge of Fe«hie, along the south of t^pey, i« rendered tMally im- passable, four bridg(?8 and several culverts having beefi carried away. On the estate* of lmeerveshi<^ and Nude much damage has been done to ti!6 growing' crop; l4ie soit in scene places being wholly carried aWay, and in others buried several feet below the gravel carried^ down by the torrent. From Isude about forty sheep were carried away by the flood . and lost in the ISpey. The Man«ion ihpQse and offices at (jordonhall narrowly escaped being <}arri^. off by the burn which passes there. The hailstoiies were generally the sjze of a musket ball, and they w«re seen lying in the sbcUered places upiraelted for pAe W^jpl^ af>v /:> i .. -;;•?(' m-^;'] From the Weekly Leader, June, 1866. — Destructive hail atona. The township of CarViden, East Sheffield tttd Richmond were visited on the 20ih June, with a storm of wind, rain and hail that utxroofed houses, bjew dpwn fences, tore up trees, and destroyed and battered down fruit, crops aud everything in its course, pease, Iwifley, wheat, and other crops were beaten as with a 4ail. Ha^ measured from one and a half to two inches in diameter, and when the storm abated a ere about nine iiichefi dec^ op the ground. The storm left drills of thj^ sbo.wer of ifSie in sbmeplaces from two tp three feetdecp.'*a fmi !» tmn^^n From the New York Tiwtes, '66. — Disasters at Sea. Within ihe last week northern latitudes have been viisited by a terrific gale, which have caused many shipwrecks and much loss of life. The cyclone seems to have been of wide area, and lasted for some time. On tlie let, w« read that the ^hip Scbastopol was struck by it in latitude 20 deg., 39 m., longitude 79 deg , 38 m., and be-cama dis- 45 ac- •fi riiarttcd arid water-lc^gecJ, ilie crrw Imving to tnke to th«?ir ^icatSf and were rescued by a pussing vessel. On the 4lh, the Britiish steamer Queen Victoria enoonnlered the hurricane m latitude 33 deg., 8 m , longitude 70 deg., 30 m., and foundered at sea, the crew and passena^ers tak- ing to their boats and being ultitnalely picked up by an in- ward bound vessel, and brought to New Voi'k. There are many other caftualtieh reported, but the loss of the Kvoning Star i» sickening. The late gale ought to act as a warn- ing t'» owners of vessels, to provide everytliing which will tend to the safety of them." ^. . ' . . "^ From the Detroit NewSy July, 1866.— *'The hail storm ia Northern Illinois last week was very destructive, and the hailstones in size were beyond predecent. One was pick- ed up in Lanark three and, a half iii6hcs in circumference and over one inch thick. A pect wa» gathered up of nearly that size in Lanark. Over four thousand lights of glass were broken out at Blackberry Station. Hardly a whole light of glass wa^ left in town. In Elgin several thunsand lights of glass were. smashed the hailstones being seven inches in circumference. In the track of the storm, which was about a mile wide, corn and oats were completely cut down, and garden vegetables destroyed.'* , From the New Haven Palladium, J u\j,*iS6%. — "Dread- ful Morm in Connecticut, and inflicted great damage. — Oat in the country the damage was immense, especially to the crops. In Orange, the coru^ oats, grass, &c., are almost wholly prostrated* One of. the stacks of hay on the meadow was struck by lightening during the storm and kx^.'iire and, notwithstand the'Violent rain, was burnt to the ground. The storm was more violent in the towns to northward than here. In North Haven the electric dis- chax^s were fearfully frequent. Near the residence ot Mr. I. H . Thorp, the lightening struck ten times on ten different trees within a quarter of a mile ; the trees were of different kinds. We do not remember that we have ever heatd of a more remarkable frequency of electrical discharges within so short a distance. All along the line of the Canal Railroad we hear of barns and houses pros- trated by the wind, and of buildings strucK, while the crops sufftsred terribly, and the country looked like deso- lation indeed. At West Cheshire we hear that several buildings were unroofed, In Meridcn the liuil storm was 44 €'x(5e'-Mliiigly violnii, and the ilicrmomricr middenly fcll from 0()0 lo 710. Randolph Lindsay's i^rapery was entirr- Jy destroyed by tho storm. The steeple of the HanoTer C'ongregational Church wao broken off by the violenoe of the wind, about thirty feet from the top. The broken part tumbled over and fell striking on the poin» and stick- ing deep into the ground. The drying shed of the Amer' ican Comb Company, at their bleach works in Hanover, wa« completely wrecked by the storm. The glass roofi 20U leet long, was entirely destroyed." 'i>;i//" ^iui P>om the London Free Press^ August, 18f)(?. — " The then* der storm of last week has done great injury to the cereal crops by laying them down as far as the crops extended. A great many corn , fields have been cut and partially housed On Wednesday last the thunder w^s accompap- ied by a hail storm in several places of a character more severe than was ever remembered. The town of Wind- sor suffered the most, scarcely a window in • any of (he building in one aspect escaped destruction ; several large trees were shivered to piecej in various parts, and several persons were killed by the lightening.'* From the Moiitreal Gazette, July, 1866. — " Hail-storro.-~ A hail storm passed over the parish of Reputi^uy on the 11th inst., which entirely destroyed a ;;yortion of the cropa and killed many cattle. The bail-ttones were extraordi- narily large, and so completely covered the eart^ that a sleigh could have been fitly run over them." '''Ky-* From the Brighton Flag, 1866.—" Tornado. We vnre visited on Monday last with a severe thuuder storm, ao companied by a terrific gale of wind. Is tbe vilUge it did considerable damage by breaking dewn trees and des- troy ing gardens by the hail. Amo!>g other disasters a sew building belonging to Mr. H. 0. Betters, was biown down with a terrilic crash, its timbers are literally broken to pieces. The ioin«ers were working in the butldisg when they saw the gala coming, they fled, and bad sot left it more than three minutes before the building was lifted from its foundation and dashed to the ground a ]»ap oi* ruins. We also learn that the stonn passed throaffii the centre of this towothip, doing great damage to me crops^ fences, &c." ,, , w j 45 lordi- wete w> ige it de** tersa kken Usg kd not Irongn Ito^e From the New York Herald ol' October, 1866. — '' Ter- rible storm at Nassiau. Havana, Oct. J 0th. A terrible hurricane commtmced in the Bahamas on the 30th ultimo, and lasted two days. Almost half of the town of Nassau was destroyed by the storm. Houses were blown down, roofs carried away and trees uprooted. Trinity church was demolished, the government house lost part ol its roof, and the roof cf the Marine Hospital was entirely blown otf. Vessels were driven ashore and knocked to pieces, and wharves were demolished. The neighboring islands suliered in the same degree, and a large number ot vessels have been lost gr darnaged. This hurricane is the severest in the rememberance ot man. A correspond- ent writing from Newbern, Georgia, 1867, gives the par- ticulars of a tornado of unparalleled fury. One woman was blown a distance of 400 yards ; her house was tound 100 yards distant irom its foundation, fragments of which fell six miles distant. The writer says : — The whole com- pass of its visible ravages is comprised within an area not exceeding 200 yards in width, the track ot its chiet vio- lence is even narrower. Scarcely a tree is left standing where it passed, of the fallen ones some lie at every point of the compass. Every out-building through the entire course of the tornado from the point of first attack, be- ginning with the barn and stables of Mr. Smith, was swept away, some of them to their very loundations. — , The same is true of fencings. In one case where there was a lane the rails w^ere heaped promiscuously between the two. 01 tb e four dwellings occupied by white families, only cue, that of Mr. Joseph Kinney, was left standing, root broken in and shattered. Outside of the main chan- nel the houses of Mr. Beeland was damaged by flying- timbers. The buildings' occupied by Mrs. Moss was carried away to the floor, f^"hich was literally covered with the debris of chimneys and the tops of fallen trees ; yet of the seven in the house at the time, all escaped with life save one. The kitchen was occupied by Biirrel Bin- lord (colored) and his wife and another woman. Of these, Burrel was blown to a distance of fifty yards, and kiUed, his wife was severely injured ; she was carried twice in the air, and says, she saw fragments of timber flying as thick as leaves in an autumnal gale. The dwelling' of Dr. James H. Montgomery was lifted from its foundation, turned over and dashed to pieces ; but the residence of v.] I ^ 46 Mr. J. 0. Baily snttorod most, both as toitsell and inmates, Mr. Baily beinc* found dead at the distance of one hun- dred yards, and his wile at the distance of three or four hundred yards. This building encountered the fiercest assault of the tornado, and was bettor calculated to tost its strength than either of the other mentioned, being new, larg^, and built of heavy material, but was as a feather be- fore it. Its lighter material, such as rooiinijv planking, sash and window blmds, were carried far away, showois of their fragments i'alliiig six miles distant, even of its heaviest timbers, few were loft near its Ibrmer site, many of them being thrown to a distance of hundreds of yards, one in particuhtr, a ioundation sill, fifty feet long, and some twelve inches square, passed above some buildings two hundred yards distant and fell in a street in a broken, shivered condition. A reasonable supposition is, that this building, containing its doomed occupants, was lifted up from iis foundations entire, and torn to fragments as hurried on by the whirling storm." ., .■ . , >wois at* its many yards, r, and [dings foken, at this ted up mts as ." Tor- arnado ist, the If from fences. Led the road ■ from Jdisses g were iplings, of the lOved a se w ere stroyed Such ot the home, ame np, lorced Te trees directly debris, as situa- h 1 1 tloii as soon as possible, probably having been lying thoro for half an hour, and taken to -i friend's house in Pember- ton, when it was ascertained that her log was broken in two places, b(»si(les being dreadluUy mangled, and her head severely cut and bruised." The Gulf Hurricane of October, 1867. — From the New York 7V/6Mne. The storm m the gu! ' Along the Rio Grande the hurricane was the most terrific within the memory oi man. Twenty-six persons were killed in Matamoras, and 10 killed and one wounded at Browns- A'ille. At Brazos, so lar as known, 12 persons peri shea. Two schooners were blown ashore. Only two houses iiro left standing at Clarksv^ille, and none at Bagdad. — The loss of life at the latter place is not known. Ninety of the inhabitants escaped by goiii"- on board vessels, which rode out the storm ; the rest have perished. The negro soldiers and their officers at Brazos are said to have refused all assistance to struggling and suffering families, and to have retired to a sheltered part of ttie island, whence the soldiers returned next day to rob. One of them was killed by a citizen who detected him in robbing. Their officers, it is said, did nothing to check their bri- gandism- At Brownsville the county court house and Jul was completely destroyed, and the prisoners are all at lar;»e. The entire square, surrounded by Bown, Fort Brown, 14th Levee and Elizabeth streets, were destroyed, including the Ranchero office and Masonic Hall. The Courier office had the roof blown off ; the Custom-house wall was blown down ; the Presbyterian Church was de- stroyed ; the roof was blown off from the Post Office build- ing, [between Tenth and First Streets seven brick and four frame houses were rendered useless. These are only specimens. In Matamoras 1,500 houses and huts were blown dow^n. The gieatest distress prevails at all points. Out of seven steamers only two can be repaired.'' From the Whitby Chronicle. — A violent storm at Ux bridge, which swept in a north westerly direction, for a breadth of half a mile along^ the Town Line, between Uxbridge and Pickering*. The storm was the most vio- lent that ever visited the neighborhood. Considerable damage was done to cattle and property. The houses and« barns of the tbilowing suffered more or less, some having the roof totally blown off them : Messrs. J^obert Spears, : 48 Pews, Bar, nnd Rasnnil, near tho Town Lino, and Mr. Lamy, who had a inaro and colt killed. {Some idea can be formod of the violence ol the storm, while it lasted, when it is stntod thni a harrow was blown half an acre out of a field and landed on ilie road. Sinj^uhirly enou|2^h it is exactly twelve months auo since a similar stOrm. a<;- companiod with hail, visited this locality, and completely destroyed the growhig crops at the lime." 'A Feauful Storm. — From the Weekly Glohe, May, 18()8. The telegraph despatches j^ave but a meairor re- I)ort ol thf> remarkable and violent iitmos])heric commotion which (li. turhed the inhabitants of Chioaiio on Tuesday afternoon oi h^st week. The city, suddenly, was at 5 p m. plun^^ed in utter darkness, and the citizens had to lipl(>, tind)ers, scantlinir and all came down with a sutlden crash upon the devoted heads of the coniurt^g'ation, men, womtMi and childr(»n. Some had skulls broken, others arms, others re- ceived internal injuries Irom which they can never re- cover. kServic(?s were to have been held at the same time in the Methodist (JhureJi, but owing to the non-arrival ol the minister the services were po.stponed. This church was also entirely demolished. 80 awe struck were the people of (vhicago at the sudden apparition ot darkness that in an editorial the Republican observes : — ' Probably no one of the many persons enveloped by the darknes»s which fell upon this city with such mysterious swiftness on Tuesday afternoon but felt an indescribable awe at the sudden visitation. In one moment of time, without warning, as it the sun had suddenly expended its illumi- nating power, the light of day began to fade out oi the sky, and night to descend upon the eartn as if it were a mist,while a startling chiUness permeated the air, as if the extinguishment of our central orb had instantly deprived our system ol worlds of its boon of warmth. We may shudder when we contemplate what might have been the consequ(»nces. In the absence oi' any explanation Jrom scientific sources, wc presume the manifestation to have been those of a tornado whirling over Chicago." The Great Storm of '67, on the English Coast. — From the Edinburgh Daily R^vie^a. " The board of trade have received the annexed list of ships lost during the late succession ot gales. The details are received or furnished by the receiver of wrecks, who adds the ap- proximate value of each vessel and cargo. The ship Guy iVlannering, 1160 tons burthen, Captain Brown, command- er, from i^ew York to Liverpool, totally lost on the rock at l©ua (Scotland) seventeen of her crew were drowned, cargo very vaiuanle : 1,600 bale's of cotton, 5,360 barrels of liour, 38,986 bushels of corn and 40 cases of merchan- 50 ilise ; estimated loss ol ship and carj^e «|^20O,O00. The ship Severen, 85 J tons burthen, owned by Messrs. Lid- g-elt tion in general. The hrst stream ot lava broke out Irom the crater of Manna Loa, some 2 miles above the residence of Captain Kobert Brown, and llowed directly towards it. It came down the mountainside in a broad stream, several feet hi depth, and travelled with such a raxndity that the of wal eart tbm was ofh the piaij ofti of \i eou{ stie the .M iirt- iou Mid Loa the >uth but jveat hock i, no m ii itoim »rc ill herio level- nuoth L rout prcci- couii- 3 who tiiHUlOt were is but cultl- as ioi- 13 ; at ti»tal time, lexceed t their being eutthe smoke, active iawaii, J erup- at irom sidence mrds it. several that the d family in tlio houpo had hnvdy timo tor'f2capf\t,ikinc';:iw.iy with thfm nothiiu'- hut th«*ir ('loih(\s ; tli«» path thny took wtis pf»rlW.'tly Irec horn lavn. hut ton minutos a If or they Irl't it, and reachod a |,oint ot sat< ty, the «'ntire road was lava pnsh«Hl onwards to the sea, and (hove the water hack with suoh a violehce that it became agitated and convulsed, and huij»'e waves rxJled towards the ocean as it h\shed to tury hy a storm. The ground thus occupied is now a mass ot lava, lormini*- ft point I'or at least one milc^ in length,. and as the stream eontinucs to descend the probability is that it will remain iKtationery, and torm a portion ol* the island. The most terrible shock of earthquake, which took place on April 2nd, burst open the earth at the villaii(i **[ Walschina, and a tidal wave lushed inwards with learlul eth'ct;it was over fifty feet iu height, and swept over the tops of the t»coauut trees, carryini,'- di^ath aiid destruction to persons and property. Throughout the island this shock was felt with fearful effect ; buildmgs of all kinds were torn from their foundations and hurled great distances, and many persons and animals lost their liv<\s. The scene at the eratera was appaling ; huge rocks W(^re hurled trom their mouths, accompanied by streams of lava hot and red, which attained an altitude of 1,000 feet. When it liellit laished dowii the mountain towards the sea at the rate <.f ten miles per Iviur. The new taater whi(*h was foimed ou the 27th of Maich, is over two miles in circuml'erence, It vomited roc^ •' and broad streams of .iqnid fire which illuminated the night lor an area of over fifty miles. In addition to the one mile ol' land Ibrrned by tne lava, driv- in<^ back the sea, another stream extending lor a distance of three miles poured down the mountain shiking' the water with a tremendous shock. At this time another earthquake shock occured, and immediately alter an island four hundred feet m height, yohh above the water, and was soon after joined to the island of Hawaii by the stream of lava. The erui>tion of moist red clay took place during the great earthquake shock, and went rushing across the plain below for a distance of three miles. Fiom th(3 midst of the crater, from whence this came, an immense stream of water is now pouring down. The entire section of country arouiid Manna J^oa has been desolated. A sti'eam of lava is flowing under the ground, six miles from the sea, and hiis broken out in four places, each throwing ^a I Ml I* ;i" <56 Vip brilliant jets ot lire* The haso of the volcano w about thirty miles in circumference and now presents a mc»Nt barren and desolate aspect, the g&ses rising from the renjt earth having completely destroyed all veffelation. The earthquake shocks iirere felt in all the Sandwich Islands, but only around Manna Loa was the eftect diBa8trous.-hroud«4; |liy happiness perfect, my mind sky unclouded ; AH rage in the ocean of pleasures unbounded, And range with delight throu]|sh the l&dsn of love. ^ w bout mof^ renit Th« inds, , and evi5r huge view iintry reiuns Hum" lame9 e of » •lay ot' earth* e low in and sbeeii huge places ader I . wiita Isaiah, h thio upside Tht ecause laws," d the enant,'* laiaspdr f THongh pruon'd on etrth, yet hf aotusipiitioii, , r Already my soul feels a sweet prelibation Of joys that awaits lue wheQ freed from probatiop, My heart now's in heaven, the Eden of love. Then soni^ to the Iamb shall re-echo thcongh heaven, My soul shall respond to Emmanuel be given All glory, all honor, all might and dominion, l^ho brought us through love to the Eden ef bliss. I. Pon't you see my Jesus comingt v Don't you see him in vender cloud, s , With ten thousand angels round him« See how they my Jesus crowd. fi. Don't yen see the saints ascending. Hear them shouting through the air ; { « ,'■ Jesus amiliug, trumpet sounding, Now his glory they shall shave. ■ •n"*;* tH- •J » -i 9, Po«t yen see the heavens open'd, And the saints in glory there ; ' , . , Shouts of triumph bursting roynd you, . Glory, glory, glory here. 4» Come back-slider though you ha^e pieycefl hiip^ And have eaus'd his chyrdh to m»iinii, ,, You may yet regain free pardon, I If yon will to ni» return. ^ Jflfew behold each lovin|;fpirii. Shout the praise of his dear name ; v View t^') smiles of their dear Jesus, . ' "' While his presence feeds the flame. ;■ --. •» 6. There we'll range the field* of pleasure, . By our dear Bedemer's side, Shouting glory, glory, glory, ■' • ' • " • ^ - While eternal ages glide. ' ' / . ' X.:j_i.\:'i The reader, I hope, will pardon my little bits of poetry. ?'e shall now give a brief account of earth<^uakes. CHAPTEEVIl. . From the Three Rivers Inquirer^ J,annary, 1866. — ** A curious convulsion of nature ocoujwd lately at Bon Dteixt county ot Tadonoac, C. £., by which on immense m^i hill, A dwelling house^ bain, and a aumher gi ^her 58 ■f builtlirg wovo nnr.ovod to ». t UO^OtO inhabitants by such calamities. In 1 783 a young and beautiful girl was buried under some ruh:s Caused by a great (Earthquake, and was dug out alive alter eleven days, during which 8he had counted the days by a iiingie Jay ut light which reached her through a crevice. She lived Ibr nine years after, but was always sad and gloomy." ^ -- <<* From the London TimeSj 18C7. — Terrific earthquake in Egypt. At Alexandria, and throughout Egypt, earth- quakes have been lelt. At (Jairo 200 houses have been overthrown, 3(»0,U0o inhabitjnits have taken to the fields and encamped. Smyrna and the Grreek Archipelago were shaken by simultaneous shocks The Isle of Kodes has been devasted, and one of its largest lorts rent open, and thrown down. There was a violent shock of ' an earthquake on the 12th at Malta, which hiis seriously damaged the fortifications. At Corea, the capital of the Isle of Candia, the destruction has been enormous. The city and mole are i)artially destroyetl. An earthquake has occured at Maples. It was horizontal and came along the coast, and was so violent that it rang bells, opened doors, •0 uake iarth- open, au ously }i' the The juake and sh(K>k rhe beds »o tioh'iitly tnat the soundi'st .*.leejvjr» were awakened ; inoiiy people spent the nij^lit in the streets, and amongst others, the Count ot Syracuse, who sat in his carriage. At Sorento tie people were all Equally alarmed, and many of them spent the night in the streefe. The Madcnia waf* carried in procesj«iion all around the Magellina, and propitiation thus oll'ered to.heaveJi." From the «SVif7ia/, 18(58 — The earthquake in Saaih America. Although over a montL has elapsed since the ftrst and lata! shock, yet in Arica, Arequipa, and many vare of what had occured« It appears that it was also felt in the depart' moat* chiefly, so far as is yet known, in the west, centre and4K>iith west of France. The shocks are estimated to have taken eight or ten seconds. At Limoges it seems to have been severe and accompai*-ad by a noise compared to that of trains passing through a tunnel, and in the Houses, accordmg to letters received, the beds moved, the crockery and glass clattered, the bells rang, and the in* iiabitauts were all on foot. In the neighborhood of I'aris 1 know ot persons who got out of bed in alarm, thorough' ly roused by the first shock. At Bourdon the church belk rang spontaneously at five in the morning. There th^ cure, not suspecting an earthquake* unhesitatingly at- tributed t! ^ phenomenon to evil spirits and proceeded forthwith to the belfry vvith bcJI, book and candle lo exor- cise them. The oscillatory motion of the earthquake, ag >lace^ aa jpfttt- intre ted io to >aTed the the kem<' iTarie beiki le th^ Pyat- eded exor- 80 61 already tnchtioned, was from northeast to soulnwosf» it iollowed very closely the AVestom Central and South- t\*c8tern Rairvray lines. News of it comes from Blois, Samiiar, Augers, and Nantes, from Bouigcs and Limoges, and irom Poitiers, Mart and Artgouleme. There is no instance on record of a previous earthquake in any of these districts. A great many people thought the end of the world was come.^ It surely Will come, and that 80f Ui U v. San Francisco, Oct. 23 — From the exterior we learn Almeda county suffered most by the earthquake. Ifissures in the earth were made, from which issued clouds of dust and volumes of water. Creeks dry for several months suddenly became larse streams ; hot water and steam also ^vTished from the earth. The villages ot San Leandro find Hayneard are almost in ruins, rfie brick buildings were all thrown down, and hundreds ot tenements reoidered unhabitable. The towns of Almeda, Brooklyn, and Oak- land suffered severely, as did San .lose and Redwood city. The brick buildin*k thatde- y that a toinake • the kws iX killed 07e learn Fissures g of dust months keam also tidro ^nd igs were rendered and Oak- rood city, ose aie a mass of mills. 1 ho dnmn|To in }*»Muhmn, iTonJd>ihur^*, Mantu Rosa, Valjo, atjd Murtnicz, was consid«»ral)l«." From the Loiidoi. Times AMI. —*'From staiiwdcs obtain- ed by reliable persons, it seems to be pix>ved that the4»e upheavals of the crust of the earth, whatever their origin, are greatly increasing in numlx^r and violence. Among the earliest cpakes recorded is that by which Heixsulaneum and Pompeu were destroyed in the year '(jS. In 520, Autioch, in Syria, was almost antirely destroyed, a hum- ber oi persons perishing in the rnins, being (>t>timaied at one. quarter uf a miiiion. The most memorable earth- quakes in history are as follows : In 1692, Port Koyal, the ca|4tal of Jamaiqa, was entirely submerged by the Ibrce of an earthquake, which swallowed up over a thousand acres, and drove ships so far inland that tJiey iloated above the buiiad city. In 1773, an entire volcano sank into the earth in the Island of Java, carrying with it tbrty villages; the mountam itself, which was liJleen miles long and six broad, accompanying the hamlets and their 2,957 in- habitauts. On the IM of November, 1755, occurred the meinorkble earthquake of Lisbon, by which l60,U00 perish^ ed in the twinkling of an eye. Here also was the great <;««ded from swaying walls and broadly rent buildings on the eve of crumbling into perlect ruin. Some were struck dead by the lalling materials, and others, w ere maimed, w hik? all w ore msulo to staggar from side to i^ide like j^eople in a s had ongt>r hence iny ot* ioe of i con- lalling down, in tho vith it mged, re, the ler, or ^s. and water J wave d it all ling of ains of itroyed which ne the (»f the every t away id over it re- water e time belore litei« pwmrd. dread- oldiag. nce8 of ; short uarter Near odand imbers mer 81) 1 8tBte» V were d were the captain, surgeon, stud a paymastof, who were on shoro when the earthquake occur reii, and sotight . refVisfe on the hills. A British vessd called the Chanarellic lost maily of her tarcw, who were tumbled overboard. A United States bng, name not known, was ibnndered with all on board. The resfjel, it is reported, Was laden with guano. Tho rest of the shipping destroyed were South America coas^ ters. The fatal casioalties in the city were about 60, and the other casualties about 100, The total loe» on smp. bonrd was about 500, principally fatal. The rdugees rs^ mained on the hills lor two days, during which time they sujibred greatly for food ; at the same time the quakes con- tinned as beiore, at intervals. In time their buffering be- came so intense that the xnales had to ^o in search of lood, a limited quantity of which they found in a damaged con- dition, ana with this they succored their families. 'I'ho second morning after the earthquake, a light draught coasting vessel entered the harbor, but did not remain long at anchor. As soon as the captain became aware of what had happened, he took on board a number of people, and left with them for Oal.ao ; thence one of the parlies got to Panama. It was impossible for any one to stand, men fell as though they were intoxicated. "Die shock was so serere as to cause the earth to roll from side to side, that the bells of the churched were set in motion so and chimed lorth doldul peals r the houses rocked iVom side to side, the earth rose and fell, and all the motions of a steamer in rough weather were experienced. After this frequent shocks were felt, and the sea began to leave the land about the same time and in the same manner as at other points, until 10 o'clock, when a complete inunda- tion took place. The port of Cerro-Azal was destroyed by i» inundation. The loss is over $50,000. The beau- tiful city of Arequipa is completely destroyed, not a church has been left standing nor a house habitable. The houses being very solidly built and only one story high, resisted lor a lew minutes, afibrding time for many of the inhabi- tants to get into the streets, so that the mortality, although great, is not so coasiderabie as it might have been. But at least 2,0tX) pereons perished. The convicts in the pub- lic prisons and th^^ sick in the hospitals were all crushed ro death. The shrieks of the men, women and children, irantic with fright, the crash ot falling masonry the up- heaving ol the earth, and the clouds of burning and siif- m locating dust, altogether constituted a «ccrte Xvhich bafAos duscription. The earth continued in motion for eighteen hours, and slight shocks are still felt. Chala is a heap of The inhabitants sfli'cd themseltes by running to Tuins. ihc mountain. The town of Tarn bo is also washed away^ and it is reported that 600 persons perished. The towns of Trobaja, Vitar, MoUendo^ and Megla, itnd over 150 miles around were completely destroyed. In the twa latter places the material buildings of the Areqttipa Raii' road were deposited on the grtrand» all cff which were swept away. In fact the whole coast south of Callaoi, as far as Iquique^ is one mass of ruins. The mtmber of Hvec^ lost cannot yet be rightly asceiiaitted, but must be rery heavy. The loss to Peru by this terrible visitation 4s be- yond all calculation, and the misery and desolation which must follow in the Wake of this catastrophe is beyond all description." - i t.>-n Chincha Istands.— On the morning of the 13th^ the sun shone brighter than it Was ever known to do in tiue season ot the year, calhnar forth rematks from all peraons as a strange and unusual sight A strong but pleasant brefze was blowing at the tiffle, argumc fane weather. — I^evertheless. on the north part of the Island, at a long distance off, a reddish vapor was seen arising out of the sea, and at 12:20 p. m., a strong wind sprunc up from the couth almost approaching a hurricane^ which lasted luitii 4:38 p. m., alter which a prolonged and distant noise wast ieard resembling thunder. A complete calm ensued im« mediately, after which the first shock of earthquake took place. This lasted for four minutes 18 seconds ; to great was the motion that people w^cre thrown down» After this a mighty crash was heard, as though a powerful wave liad broken on the rocks i but the sea was calm. At 5:5ft p. m., the earth again beffan to tremble, and continued to do so for two and a half hours. The sea now became en- tirely calm, bnt the birds w^ere seen abandoning the sea and rocks and soaring to the element above, screeching most hornblj' , as though they were aware of what was about to take place. The night became pitch dark, noih- ing could he seen over sea or land, the breeze felt during the d»y began to blow, adding further terror bD the people who were momently expecting the island to be swallow- ed up. At 9:46 p. m., persons living in the vicinity of the 09 mole noticed that the water was leaving the land, and the alarm was immediateljr given, se sale el mar. Nothing can describe the terror which prevailed on the north island.—^ 1 he papulation, consisting of from 500 to 600 souls, all fcnssook their houses, and took reiuge on the highest part of the island, some liaked, others sick and infirm, women and children, all thronged in one spot, dumb with terror. At 10 p.m., the breeze lulled and the heavens cleared so that a: -view could be obtained of the sea, which had retir* ed from ike land about 70 yards. This circumstance is the more rtoiarkable irom the fact that the depth of the wiater m the bay at low tide is from 15 to 20 fathoms, but soon after the water was seen to rise iQ the shape of a colossal wave, and in less time than it takes to describe it it had almost covered the island, washing away the houses and everything it came in contact with. The losses are heavy. Both moles are destroyed, many launches brok- en to pieces, and the houses in the vicinity washed away. In one of these was a iamily of three, husband, wife and child. My iniormant says that after the sea became quiet he procured a boat and proceeded to the other two islands to ascertain the damage done to the shipping. He said : ' .When we arrived at the foot of the channel, we heard a noise heartrending and doleful. Tne sea rose and fell at the rate of ten feet in every three or four minutes, and I saw the vessels in awful contusion. Some had parted their chains and were drifting on the rocks, and others endeavored to get und^r way. I could not force my men to procf led further, and we were compelled to return. I am unable to ^ve your readers an entire and correct list of the vessels injured and lost, but the following are among those whic^ have sufiered the most : — English ship Reso- lute, partly destroyed; English ship Eastern Empire, greatly damaged ; English snip Royal Oak, in a very bad state ; Prussian barque Leopold Hod, an entire wreck ; English ship Oceanica, nearly an entire wreck ; Englisfi ship Southern Ocean, greatly damaged, and also, Ameri- can, ship Shatemuc. All the ships have sufiered more or less, as 'mil compel them to go into repairs.'' GuAOAQUi, August 26. — "We are in the midst of horrors. The mail from the capital arrived here yesterday after- noon, and has brought frightful news. A terrific earth- quake took place at Quito, at 1:20 a. m., on the 16th inst., r » which extended in m greater or leis degpree over the whofcr of tiie northern part of the Kepabtic The loss of life is: irightfdl ; it is eatpaated that nearly 80,000 persona perish- ed. The towns of Ibarra^ 01av«k>; San Antonio and Rini' 00, and nnmbevless £urm8,are ynpedoS thefinxrof the earth. The sttffering of these poor people^ who aire wand' erin^ o>vrer iAm covatry^ without meoeyr withoat food and clothings eannot be describedr Bnsinefls of all kiaiil is to* taliy swpendied. The panic is so great that the people think oMy tosare themselTes £ram impendmg abstraction, hence a terrible picture will soon be presontM-'HMstiial £unine and starvatian most ensue. The details thus far to hand are hari^wing enough, but worse muat e^ne.-*- The following is a tra?»alation of a oonfeUunieation irom the GU>veTnor ot the Fro\Fiiice of Imbabora^ reeedted here yesterday. It is dated Ibaxba, August 17, im^.—** In the niidst of the most groibuhd consternation, which has filled the few who aye escaped the complete destruction asld rtdn of this town, 1 haTe to intorm y*U that on ISundlay,. the IMi inst.,at 1 o'dock m the morain^, the entire town of Ibar^ rawas buried in its own rums. Induced by a tenible earthquake, originating^ it is beMeved, in the tokano Ocampoof this town. There remains nothing but shape* less rmns, and but one sixth of the population surviY^.**^ Of those who remain alive the greater portion are maini''^ ed and injured for life. All the towUs in this ridnity hare likewise been destroyed. The shocks oontiuue to this writing, beina repeated every hour.'' Reader, the sad picture presented to our riew in this calamity is be* yona any dissoription, 1, therefore, shall let the curtain drop, and leave the conrideration of this thrilling subject to someone else. I am at least satisfied that wc ar^ now having the true fulfilment of the Divine prediction ci oor Saviour in Matthew xxiv, t ; St. Mark xni^ 8 ; Sti Luke xxi, 2S» And their shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distreas of nations, with perplexity ; the sea and the waven toar^ ing ; men's hearts tailing them for fear> and lor ioMng alter those things which arc ooming on the earth." iibr**-- «o i\n ,.ivUi iiiat- cm- Cv ..;;, .& t.'...i H .Qiijy aK^.j«dq iws*i uA' lifeisi teriflh- >f the wand' id and lis to* people Hction, •Actoal Ills far omibe d hexor lem^t «r wh© of this le l§tb bflbax^ ^okatio k shape* i inanii<^ ricuiity Hutieto ler, th^ yiibc- curtain sabjeet f^ now ition ci 8 ; Sti m, and distress lett roar- locking • of • >l' 71 •^Kt^l i 1. T!Miclcnuii at length ar«bMi(kmg, , fi%t ) 1 The dftvn wiU eoon aji^pear, vilr/ i,//ni; AndUigiii,ihereiBiioimiit»kein, Froaaim, Meesiah s new. I A 1 ^i"l^ Willi JJ J. ^, IMf XUm. B JAVCBA^ ' *A t (-**(' 2. Awake, awake, from eleepijiK, 'TVl'f *I3t< f( ''^A And let your work* abouad ; /j„, ^^jy./; , ,^^^^, A nraT^tnvm/v w&«**vrm/v a<^i:i;k'.^.A Boston, Nov. 1, 1867 — Two lar^e shoe manufacturics in Sondibore, belonging to Messrs/John Hart & Co , shoe dealers, at 114 Pean St., in this ciiy^, were dfstioyed by hre on Tuesday morning. Loss, $100/)00. t ;c«»r »il ,it Steamboat Explosion.— Cincinnati, Jan. 80, 1867. The steamer Miami, which exploded on the Arkansas Biver, had about 250 passengers on board, among whom 72 fr wero 91 men of Company 13, of the 13th United States Cavalrr. The exploedon was of such force as to rend the cabin floor asunder and let every person down who was in the front part 6f the cabin. 150 persons perishea. Another Explosion. — Cincinnati, Jan. 31, 1867, The steamer Missouri, which exploded in the Ohio River had 120 persons on board. The latest information from Erans- welle places the loss of lite at 100. The Missouri w^as valued at $100,000 and went all down. FiPE AT Buffalo, Jan. 20, 18C8 — About hall-past 10 o'clock, laisl iiight, a tire broke out in the rear ot Altmau & Co.'s five story brick clothijig store, destroying property to the amount of $300,000. From the New York Hei'ald, 18th Dec, 1807.-" In six months twenty steamboats, ten bargea and three wharf boals have been destroyed by fire on the rivers of the west and south west. Total loss 81 ,197,000." New York Tribu/ie^ March, 1867. — "The losses by fire in the United States, for several weeks, have averaged half a million dollars daily. The steamer Xerxes, from Cincinnati to New Orleans, with a fall cargo, struck the sunken wreck of the Black Hawk below Mound City, took fire and w-as entirely consumed. The boat was valued at $60,000." ^v ,-. McGregor, Iowa, Dec. 8th, 1867. — A fire this morn- ing consumed the Post Office, McGregor House, Mozart K[all, and some wooden buildings on the opposite side of tlie street. Loss estimated at $70,000. Cincinnati, April dth, 1868. — A fire at Edinjury, Ind., on Friday, destroyed the Johnson House, Dembert & Co.'s woolen lactory, and ^ickett & Co.'s distillery. Loss $60,- 000. Ashland, Pa., April 9th, 18S6. — There was a tremen- dous fire in this town last night. One whole square was destroyed. Loss $70,000. From the Boston TVow/ier, March, 1867. — ''The exten- sive Ibundrv and locomotive works, Ibrmerly known as the Boston Locomotive Works, was nearly destroyed by lire on Saturday night. Loss, ^75,000. On Saturday nij^ht a fire broke out at the furniture ^•tore of VV.W. Servingj Chicago. Loss, 1; 100,000.— i/crfl/ti. rs states » rend 1 who rishea. ; The er had Eraiis- iri was lafit 10 Utinaii ioi)erty " In six ! wharf 5 of the by fire reraged IS, from ack the iidCity, oat was s mom- , Mozart side of ry, Ind., & Co/s OSS $60,- tremen- lare was lc exten- uawn as oyed by urniture UJItrald. •New York, Jan. 21st, ^807. — "The storas^t* ware- house of Miller &; Coupler, wasdestroyod by tire last m;ht. Loss, $500,000. A destructive lire occnrecl iu Louisville, Kentucky, on l^Mday uii^ht, destroying the establishment ot Newcombe, tiuchannon 6c Co. Loi», $^00,000." .-- Waterloo. Ind., Feb., 1867.—The Union Flour Mills were destroyed by lire this morning. Loss, $20,000. Chicairo, Feb., 1867.— The St. Charles Paper Mill, at St. Charles, 111., was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Loss $110,000.— rn6w/ putation, x^l^r- New York Tributie, 186T.— The recent fire at St. Louis. The loss by the steamboat fire at St Louis, Feb. 26th| in- cluding the cargoes ot the Dictator and Luna, and freight burned on the leyeo, is estimated at $750,000. The liu.; "- sion school house was burned at 2 o'clock this morning. Loss $40,000. Terrific Explosion. — A terrific explosion occured on I'uesday evening at the furnace of J. & H. J. Weilljr, in ^iddleten, resulting in the complete destruction of the furnace, the death of five men, and the wounding of six others. Eight boilers were in the furnace, one was rais- ed throug'h the building, carried 500 yards and lodged in the Pennsylvania canal. The other boilers were scatter- ed in every direction, some of them passing through houses ana other buildings. A portion of one boiler was 75 t do- d on Uanal 0,000. t here arfao- Mstroy- 3, and rersSc stores, st two serious 1 over lerable nsly as e town ildin^ bes, its ces, its he loss losses y cm^ . Louis. ;6th^ in- freight le IW.;;"- orning. ared on illy, in ot the I of six as rais- dgedin scatter- through iler was harled through a room in which two women were lying sick, but missed thorn. The bridffe over the Union ca- nal was carried away. Many ot the buildings in the vicin- ity were nnoro or less shattered by the fragments, and the w^olo town was shaken. The loss exceeds 1500,000. Sc. LottW, Feb., 1866. — The steamers Luna, Leviathan, and Peytona, were burned at the levee, together with a large amount of freight. The loss cannot be ascertained as yet, but it wih at least reach $500,000. The New York Time* says that it has been estimated upon good autnority, that the losses by fire, during 1866, in the States, including the Portland lire, exceeds $15,000,- 000. Philadelphia, Jan., 1866. *A very destructive fire broke out here this morning, the 2nd, in Chestnut street The buildings, 607 Chestnut stx^eet, occupied by Harnden's Express Co., Nos. 603 and 605, by KockUU & Wilson, wholesale clothiers, and 609 by Perry & Co., clothiers, were almost entirely destroyed. The walls fell into the street and aosne of the firemen were injured. Loss, |100y 000. From the Weekly Globe. — Great fire inOaebec. It lasted 18 hours. ^^500 houses destroyed 18,000 ^raons rendered houseless. Several lives lost. The estimated loss nearly |S,000/)00. St. Louis, April, 1867. — The steamers Major Effie Deans, l^erada, Fatmie Og[den, and Frank Bates were burned at the levee this morning. The boats belonged to the North American Fur Company, and were heavily laden with supplies for their trading posts. The loss on the boats ana cargoes, $525,000. New York Tribune, July 19, 1866.— The rope fiactory of Henry Lawrence & Sons, "Williamsburgh, was struck by lightning yesterday, four boilers exploded, two of which were driven tnrouQfh a brick wall to a distance of 600 feet, destroying several large trees in thei^ course; The other two pass^ through a brick stable, which was completely destroyed ; one man was killed. The damag'^ '3 over 120,- 000. The Presbyterian church, on bran.' n Avenue, Brooklyn, was damaged by lightning. Two persons were killed in the streets of Brooklyn. The cotton seed oil fac- tory of the N. y. Oil Co., 19th street, and the Primary m It ISchool Hoube acljuinino', wore de.stvoyal by lireliist ni*jht. The macaroui tactory oi* Air. Billings was damaged. Jjcws ol" those, $/iO,000. Wjuf ' Ht it - rwl^ vi /'* Vv . :«»> rhv iiiji Great ('onklaouation at Detroit.— The moRt des- tructive couflaffratior. that has ever aiilicted crar city, oo ci^Ted.lajst evening at an early hour, causing a loas, the enorinous amount oi which will reach, without ezag^ei' ation, the sum ol li^l,00O,OO0. The I'reiffht depot and shed oi the Central KaUroad, stored with valuable commodities representing capital of all portions of the country, were totally destroyed, crippling the powers of one oi' the most importaiit and enterprising corporations of the "West, and inniotin^ blows upoh our business interests, which, if not amountnig to total paralysis, will seriously retard their developmeiit. The disaster is a momentous one, and wo chf onicle its detail* with a regret that we hare nevcfr be- fore beeii compelled to feel at any merely local calamity. Ofewego, Dec, 1866. — The steam saw mfll owned by Chandler Sc Co., Wihnot, si'nated in the cove on the Kast side of the rivet m this city, was consumed by foe last ni^ht The schooner J. L. Crocker had her masts and bowsprit destroyed. The total loss is over $30,000. Philadelphia, Ont., 1866.— The large new Hy^ stOry grist mill 01 Jacob Kelne, nfear I'hickemin, Somerset coun- ty, N. J., was destroyed by itre this morning ; a quantity of grain was destroyed also. The loss is over $25,000. ' N. y , Feb., 1867.— Yesterday afternoon, Hillyer & toons' drug mills, Jersy City,,weii6 destroyed try fire, toss $20,000. ' ;';' ' New Haven, Ct, Feb. 9th, 1866 — Lastnig-ht a large tobacco warehouse in New London, Conn., containing some $20,000 worth ot tobacco, was destroyed by fire, ana 11 If ,.\ J. - I :^al io\\a in. 10 I,;'r 7« Cariboo, the dt-pot in lact, lor tbatciitirnrc^on, sonic idoii may be lormecl a« to the extent ol* the (lisa8f<}r The loss is variously estimated Irom $1,000,0(0 to 32,000,000. And if the cost, or, indeed, the market valuo ol' th(; buildini^ be taken into the accounl, we i'enr that the hiirher lii^urc "wonld not be ibniid out oi the way. With winter so near, and no time io replace much that has been burned, it is to be leared that ilic niininj*' interests must sutler, and that many who would otherwise haveremain(.»din Cariboo, will now have to leave the mines. Unquestionably there must be a very large quantity ol' pjoods in transit between the seaboard and Cariboo, lor shipments were never so heavy iis they have been during- the past six or ei^ht weektv But, view the matter in the most lavorable light, one cannot avoid the conclusion, thai to havii some tyvo mil- lion dollars worth ot'property swept away m a moment, and so large a population lelt not only i)enniless l)ut house- less at this late season, is a blow sulliciently heavy to make itscli* ielt throughout every district and in evorv interest. Aly kind reader I shall make one quotation more belbre I bring this (;alaraatous subject to a close. From the Philadelphia Ijcdf^er, oF Nov., 1866, who says : — From May 15th to October 15th, (five months) there were 68 railway accidents, and iu the whole year io date not less than 100. * Thirty millions would be a modeiit reckoning,' says the writer ([uoted above : ''For the loss in- volved in demoUshcd lives and property. Probably 300 have been killed, and more than 600 injured in every shape, during the year. 65 disasters by steamboat ex- plosions and shii)\vreck are also noted. Several of thesti catastrophes which crimsoned river and ocean, far and wide, and r<»memf)ered in all their awful poetry, and helpless agony and terror. From the Sultana, some 1,- 200 Ibuiui a muddy grave in the Mississippi, 400 went ai s(m, cnnsod by ilip rc^ooni storm in tho OuU'of !V!<^xico ami cm iho coasts ol' vJaroliiia and Florida. At irast lOO vesKels Jia\'(' bot^Ji wrecked and many lives lost. (yonllaGfrations must be added to the catalogue of items in the area of ruin. 155 iire.s J^etween A[)ril and October l5th aTe minuted. A l)riet ta1)l»» of losses is subjoined. — The loss by unenumerated iires $30,000,000 Jhirnini]^ of the Uovernmeiit Works in Tenn... 10,000,000 Warehouse eonllagration in New York 3,000,000 Other iires, also ],500,(»00 Jn the same period, fires in Canada .,, I,ri00,000 Grand total in six months $45,000,000 My intelligent rejul<'r will, I think, admit that the Iires of late is unusual in the extreme. The Prophet Amos, iv, 9, IS, says . — " 1 have smitten you with blastini^ and mil- dew ; when your gardens and your vineyards and your Jii^ trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerwonn devoured them ; yet have ye jiot returned unto me saith the l^ord. I hav<» s(Mit amonu' you the pestilence after the manner of Kprypt." Se<^ Kxodus, 7th, sth, 0th, lOth and nth chapters, and I thiidc tke n«»xt three years will fulfil this verse in Amos." Verse ii, " I have overthrown some of them as Ood overthrew vSodom and Gomorrah." Hee Uenesis, xix, 23, 24, and 25. RiMider, the reason I refer you to this hust passaged is, that I expect according to Amos' prediction, some of our ungodly cities before three years will bo burned, as Sodom and Gomorra were in the time of Lot. ♦ giro mo tlio Bible— tho »t.atiites of hoaroti, Its j^reat coiiatitution I kiu»w to bo pure ; All ten «)f itJ5 procopts in ju.stice aro jfivcn, And all ia divinuand \aialttnal)ly Huro. 1 knoH' wlicn I road thoin in lovo tliey woro blondcd, Nor one dimnnllod since the tinuj they were framed, No ionl lugiwlation has ever amended, One jot or one tittle that therein is named. The old-fashioned Hihlo, the dear blessed Jiiblo, The family liilde that lies on the stand. Tho' thousands have written a substitute f'^r them, To sway over others tho sceptre and .swoni, Yot even una.'t(;red these laws lie bi'fon; them, linchaiJj.;od u,nd inuuutHble — word of tho Lord. mm f 'tit i I. « Then u'lve me my Bible and let m© obey it, ^ . / Inatead of the statutes and doctrinen of men Aside for a moment, forbid I should Iny it, To listen and argue for doginan again. The old fashioned Bible, the dear blessed Bible, The family Bible, that lies on the stand. , The next and last chaptf^r of this book I shall introduce by way of a dialogue between the reader and writer. CHAnER IX. I hold that the usual fires. Hoods, hurricanes, pestilence, famine, earthquakes and crimes, a sure sign of the com- ing of tlie day of judgment. See Matthew xxiv ; Mark xiii and St. Luke xxi, chapters, Jfead also Amas iv, 9, H>, II ; Haggai ii, 16,17. In those chapters are mention made of what was to be the tokens of the coming of Christ. The Header — But how can it bo known defmite about the coming of ('hrist ? Writer — First,! argue that God has not altered, but is the same yesterday, to-day and for ever. God informed Noah of the flood, and the Ajwstle l*eter, in his second (»pi.stie, chapter ii and verse 6, calls Noah a preacher o*" righteousness. Now, I would ask the reader candidly what did Noah preach? Noah was in- formed by Jehovah that he was to bring a flood upon that ungodly generation in which Noah was among. And to my mind, reader, Noah, as every godly man would do, went to i>reach the truth of the flood lo those that were around him ; otherwise, Ciod could not be justihed in bringing thr flood without due warning. Jieader — This truly is admitted, hut what gain is the admission to you V Wiiter — Kvery gain. Kor surely the antedeluvian age "was not more interested in their salvation than we are, and if it is as we say, C? ole that is living immediately belore the coming ot Christ wdl know, as Noah and Lot did. See Genesis vii, 4 "For yet seven days," (here is definite time i»*iven, " seven days,') never forget this reader, in your arj^ruments about the day and hour. Read also, Genesis xviii chapter, on the df- struction of the cities of the plain. Remember also, what kind ot people w»js to be on the earth at the last days. Peter says, " there shall come in the last days scollern, and sayinpf where is the promise oi his ci»min ver- ses. " Cast not away then»lbre your conlidence, which hath great recnmpence of ri'vvard. Kor yi* have need ot patience, that, aitor ye have done tne will of God," (that was the time) " ye might r«^ceive the ]>romise ; for yet a little while, and he that shall come" (Christ) " will come, and will not tarry " The Uoader — We should not meddle with time, those periods that some of Inte y(>ars have l)eeii preaching about, are the secrets oi Ciod. Writer — Moses says. Deuteronomy xxix, 2!», " 'J'he secret things belong 82 unto Iho Lord oni Oml : but ilion(^ things whinh are ro- voalod boloiig unto lis niid to our children for ever." Thendbre, my kind reader, whatever we lind in the scrip- ture of truth, is our inheritance by promise, and Paul says, in second 'J'iniothy, 8rd and ICtfi, that, " All scripture is I)rolitabi(»." I say nothing can be of any profit unto us, except we comprehend it. Peter, also, givt»s his testimony in regard unto th«^ writings ot the prophets, and nays, ** That we do well to take heed, asuntoali::d, first and second vt-rso^. *' I wil( stand uj)on my watch, and set me upon the tower, and I will watch to see what he will say unto m.^ ; and what I shall answer when 1 am ai^iUHl willi. And the lord an-* swered me, and said write the vision, nnd niuke it j)laii« wiyon tables, that he may run that r(»adeth it, lor the vision is yet I'or an appointed time, l)ur, tht? end itsliall six'ak, and jiot he, thougli it tarry," (here is the time a[)point(Hl in 1843 and 1844, and the tarrying ever since) •• wait for it^ becaus(j it will surely come, it will not tarry." The Header — The time was preached and tailed before, and is it not likely to do so ever so many tiri>es again. My answer to the foregoing is, that the very generation that have had the time preached unto them, shall not pass away, until Ohrist will come. Let us see again w^hat the prophet Ezekie! says on this point, Chapter xii, 21, 28, " The word ot the Lord came unto me, saying, son of man, what is that proverb, or by-word, that ye have in the land of Israel, sayiiigi The days are prolonged, and eyery vision iaileth." liere my kind reader, is a perfect notice taken of the argTiments of the scoffers, they say that every vision faileth, which proves tp a demonstration that time was preached, and failed at times, which I cannot deny, nor do desire to do so ; but here again, in the quotation above, " Tell them therefore, thus saith the Lord God : I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel ;" (or among the sects) but say unto them, the days are at hand, and the etfect of every vision." This then my kind reader, is the very thing I want to in- form my fellow travellers to the judgment seat of Christ, that the '* days," are at hand, and the " effect of every vision." The Reader — Well, but you were to show us, that it should come in the generation that heard the time preach- ed. I shall endeavor so to do, hear the same prophet, in verse 28, •' Ther«?fore say imto them," (hear it reader) "Thus saith the Lord God ; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more," (or delayed if you will,) ** but th(\ word which I have spoken shall be done, saitn the Lord God." Do you believe this reader, see igain verse 25th, " For I am the Lord : I will speak, and the word that I shall spi'ak shall corae to pass ; it shall be no more pro- longed;'' (or delayi'd) *'tor in your days," (here is the seal- ing) " in your days, rebellious house, will I say the word, aii(l will pori'oi-r. it ijuilh the Lord God, The veto, isnii 64 f^f i; '<< it my kind reader, thiit in the days ol' those that have heard the time preached, Clirist will make his appearing, and but lew looking ibr him, or loving his ap][)earing. 1. O, come, collie away, f ■ time's career is cloriug ; lit worldly caro henct -rtli forbear ; O, come, come away, Come, come, our holy J., yn renew, where love and heavenly friendship grvw ; The spirit welci^me you ', O, come, come, away. 2. Awake ye, awake, no time for reposing ; The Lord is near, breaks on the ear ; (), c 4. Come where sacred songs the pilgrim's heart is cheering, Come there, and learn the power of prayer ; O come, come away ; In sweetest notes of sympathy We praise and pray in harmony ; Love makes our unity ; come, come away. ■# J • 5. Night soon will be over, and, endleas day appearing ; < ' r Away from homo no more we roam ; O come, come away ', And when the triumph of Cod shall sound, * The saints no more by fears are bound ; We own our Jesus crowned ; O come, come away. 6. O come, come away, my Saviour, in thy glory ; Thy kingdcn come, thy will be done ; O come, come away, O come, my Lord, thy right maintain, And take thy throne and on it reign, Then earth shall bloom again ; O come, come away. ^ ' My very indulgent reader, that I may not be too tedious unto you, I shall return to our former conversation, about time. The reader — There are several periods in God's word, whi3h it* we knew their commencement, there could be no mistake in their ending ; but that is the ques- tion. 1 want my reader, to bear in mind one thing ; there weie several eminent scholars endeavored to. give us the dates ot events which we call chronology. Bishop Usher's chronoloury is the one we have in our Bibles, that which we call Kuig .lamea' translation ; and his chrcnology is 25 years ahjud of Cliiit-ju, Ruv. K. Shimcall, Rev. E. Elliott i have euriiig, iig. my, leavenly way, away ; ne away ; way ; way. tedious , about God's , there e ques- ; thero us the Usher's which y is 25 EiUott 86 and Haines ; it is proved itselt to be incorrect, for if it had been correct, we would now be in the great scenes, be- yond the bounds of probation. Hence, with your kind permisision reader, I will give the two chroholomes, Bishop Usher's, and those other emhient scholars. First of all, then, is Moses seven times in Leviticus, xxvi, 24, 28 verses; where the reader can see the time that Jehovah was to punish his people, it* they would not keep his command- ments, which ihey did not, v Those seven times are equal to seven years, prophetic, or, seven times t ^elve is eighty- ibur, multiplied by thirty, the number of days in each month, will give us the whole length of time that was to be occupied in the persecution of God's people, from a certain given point of time, until they should be delivered at the end ot thfs dispensation. In all two thousand tiye hundred and twenty days, or, so many years. This punish- ment commenced* as you can see by lelierring io second Chronicles xxxiii, 1, 2. According to Ijisnop Usher's chronology in the year B. C. 077, which if you will deduct I'rcm the great period of 2620, will briuj^usto Mr. Miller's time, 1848. But according to those eminent scholars men- tioned above, would bring us to the year 1868, A. D. But the reader will say 1868 is also past ; hence, the whole chronologers have failed, and what then ? We must not m our anxiety, to conlute the time and its advocates, lorget, that one ol the Popes altered the Christian Era, 4 years ahead. The sum stands thus .....' 2320 ' Moses seven times, or 2620 years, by Usher's commenced B. C, 677 *• And as a simple rule ended in A. D., 1843 To which add the 25 years difference in chronologers 1868 a. I). And again to this we must add the four years 4 that the Christian Era htis be^n ' * ?. teriods, I do not know that the event will then come ; but 1 believe it fll fl6 c ■ from my heart. •• Faith is th« assurance of things fjfopotf for," the e,videncc of thincfs not seen, for example, the com- ing of Christ in 187o, but I behevc it, and I will proclaim it nnto all the wotH. The Reader — is this all the evidence ot the coming of (3hrist, or, is there more proof ? and if there is, does it clash with that given above ? I shall briefly touch uiwn the 2300 days, or years, given in Daniel chapter viii. 18, 14 verses, which reads as follows : " Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said iinta that certain saint which spake, How long shall bo the Tision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and thenost to be trodden underfoot ? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then sh^ll the sanctuary he cleaneed." The Reader — are tlioae days to be under- stood at? literal time, the 2,300 days, so as lo make only six r years, and a little over four months, at which end the sanctuary was to be cleansed ? In answer to the above, I would say, that God has lelt on record a rule, by which we can know the end thereof. First, we must apply the literal rule, that one day means the revolution of the sun in twenty-four hours. Second, the figurative rule, that one day m certain instances, means a year ; w^hero that constnicticn of the word is justified. I suppose no one will ask me to prove my first rule ; but the second I shall have to substantiate, by thus saitJi the Lord. Please to refer to I>^ umbers xiv, 34. Ezekiel iv, 5 and 6 verses. In tlAOse passages God says by the prophet tliat he has given " each day lor a year." Therefore, this is the rule we shall apply to the 2,300 days that they mean just iso many years. Because we find thfe dat«^. this vision was given to the be- loved Daniel, to be according to Usher's cnronology 65iJ years before Christ, and of course, would only extend a little more than six years beyond that time, and as the sanctuary was not then cleansed, according to promise, nor i» yet cleansed, we look for the latter rule. When Daniel had the above vision, his mind was troubled to know its moaning, and God sent his Angel to inform him how, and where to commence the 2,300 years. Daniel ii, 25, *'know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusa- lem unto the Messiah the Prince." ^'or Christ,) &c. JHere is the starting point from which to commence the 2,300 years, but as there was tlnce such commandments given, 3 fjfOpOlcf ho com- troclaim vrdencc ? and ii I shall n Daniel " Then id unto bo the cression nost to [ito two inctaary 5 under- only SIX end the above, f which pply the * the sun lie, thai ero that no one d I shall lease to ses. In as given we shall ny years. 9 the be- ogy 553 extend a 1 as the promise, When i:^bled to brm him )aniel ix, h.e going I Jerusa- . JHere is he 2,300 ts given, 67 vro «T0 lorcod to take tho \\\h{ ono, (i o) that given in NiUie- xniah by Artaxerxes, Nt'lieniiah 1, 4, in the year B.C. i^H. hy taking t'ithor ol the two iiist oommaudmenta lor re. storing Jerusalem, namely, the one by Cyrus, in the first year ol' his reign, (Ezra i, 1,) li. C. 536, <»r that by Darius 111 his s(^cond year, (Ezra iv, 24,) B. C. 520, as the cora- meiicemeiit of the seventy weeks, the ending in one case would l>e forty-six, and in the other 30 years Inilore Mes- siah was born. The seventit^th we(»k was devoted in con- lirming the covenant with none but Jews, and in tlie middle of it Messiah was cut oHl lie conlirined the coven- ant with Jews only during the three and a half years of his personal ministry, and lor the ri'inainiug hall of tho week, or three and a halt years, his disciples did Uie samn, until Pe4cr opened the church to the Gentiles by the bap> < ism of Cornelius and his house. The Header — we can- not be sure that the great pei iod ot the 2,300 years begins with the lesser period of seventy weeks, or the going fo^th of the last comnuaxdment for restoring .Jerusalem, because it is not tixprossiy said it sliruld then begin, i answer, we have seen that it could iioti)ossil)ly have begun either when Daniel saw the vision, or at giving of either ol tho two iirst comma ndintnits, for then all the ev<;nts mention- ed to tran.spire witliin the 2,300 years, and this too is ap- plying our last Jiile muat have bet'ii completed more than tifty years since. I'or the diite of Danii'ls vision, 1>. C. 553, being deducted Irom the 2,300 years, leaves A. D. 1747 as the end ; the date ol the iirst commarfdraent, 53o, be- ing deducted, leaves A. D. I7G4, and that of th(; second command, 520, being deducted, leaven, A. D. 1730. The third 4md last decree for liiiishing tUe city, given B. C, 432 therefore lurnishing the only \\^[\i that I can see in Ciod'» blessed word, for the commenccjinent ro I stand. Furthermore, it is evidently as necessary lor the church to know the commencement of the 2,300 years as it was to know that ot the seventy weeks, which were a part of them, or that of the 430 years of oppression in Egypt, oiherwise then* would be no limit ot time present- ed to us within which to brinj]^ the events ol lime, and the arreat end ot prophecy would be defeated, which is to warn the church ot comins;- events, and the neighborhood of their appeals, and to have a tru(» ground of judgment on which to convict her of apostasy and unhelief in turning aside from the proplietic word, after her own wisdom. The Reader — but I thought prophecy was left a mystery, that we cannot understand. Well, my kind reader, pro- phecy is given to keep alive expectation, that wh'Mi the church sees the premonitary " signs coming to i>ass, she may lift up her head and know that her redemption is drawing: nigh." St. Luke xxi, 28. Dates are giv(»n to the prophetic periods, and signs whereby some of them may bo ascertained during the progress of fullilment, to inform the wise when they begin and when they end, II such is not the design of dates and periods as well as signs, it is hard to conceive what is their object in being gi\ en. It the prophetic announcements were thrown out mto the limitless void of time indeiinite, as they are in all the prophets except paniel and St. John, the things predicted could never appear as things to fall within the experience of any particular generation of men, asr tangible realities, and we should float down the stream of time, without chart or compass or waymark ; and hence, that prophecy would be to tis a light shining in a dark place, God was graciously pleased to furnish us with the clironologv of prophecy by Daniel and John. The giving of periods were little else than a mockery if the means of ascertaining their beginning and ending were not also given ; hence, the giving of dates and way-marks is just as necessary as the giving of periods. God was carelul tD luniish these dates and way-marks so early in the course of events fore- told, as that his people should have ample time ol prepar- ation for the approach of the more important ones, it was so of the seventy weeks, or 400 years, and the thing itsell shows that it is as needlul to know what period the J^t)id's .se<.*ond coming to judgment is apprehended, as with- 80 • to Ihn , h^Yd ior the lOars UN A' ere i\ iiou in ►rospiit- md the to warn lood of lent on Lurnin*'; I'isdom. lystery, T, pro- L"in tlio iss, she »tion is L to the 'in may » inform II such ns, it is en. It nto the all the edicted Derience ealities, without •ophecy od was )logv of periods I'taining; hence, ssary as h these its fore- prepar- les. It e thing riod the as with- in what period his first comhi^ and suffer! njr were Com- prehended, inasmuch as u great and fearful judgment is the announced attendant upon each event. Each period is a deiinite period, having a b<»Dinning and an ending, and containing a given number ol years. The Jews knew when the lesser period hegan and wnen it ended, for a considerable time before it did end ; therefore, I contend there is no reason why we of this day should not in like manner have the means of knovviim- the time of tie open- ing and close of the 2,300 years, wUch evidently bnngs us all to the end of the Gospel dispensation, liut the Jews as a church and nation, rejected the evidence of prophecy which went belore the Messiah, and there are causes urging us totreject the • vidence of dates, and disbelieve and deny the prophecy according to the example of the Jews, these are therefore reasons Lo call upon us, to have faith in the prophecies, lor without faith we cannot please God. 'i'here were migli'y events connec^ted with the first advent of Christ, ol \. hich God was pleasea to warn the Jews before hand : there are events still more stupend- ous connected with his second advent, events of great in- terest, both to Jews and Gentdes, of which both are dis- tinctly warned in all the prophets ; and I repeat it, there is the same reason why all parties concerned should have the im»aiis of knowing the very year of the completion of the 2,800 days, (years) in order to be prepared for these mighty events, that there was lor the Jews to have the meaii^ of knowing the year of the endiii"* of the 490 days, (years.) God judged the Jews, destroyed their city, and sent them into a long and painful captivity until the "times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled," because, refusing to un- derstand the prophecies, they knew not the time of their visitation by their Saviour, nence, rejected him. And so also the mighty destructieii about to fall upon this world, will come because of the same evil heart of unbelief, in re- fusing to believe the prophetic word declaring these things. Thus God hath measured off 2,300 years that he min;ht know the truth. He gave us the death of Christ to seju and make sure the vision, just 486^ years from the commencement of the 2,300 years. The sum stands thus : as 486^ years reached exactly to the cross of Christ, so 18- 131 years more from the cross, will reach to the end of the vision, 2,300 years. We are passed the cross, and are closing up the Inst years of ihe 1813^, ought we not to IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. :/ lo 1.0 I.I ^Ki Ui£ «... I 2.2 L8 IL25 i 1.4 1.6 ^ V] X <«*>. ;\ -o" .-. "<{^J* '9. lo ^ 90 '-xti* \ ' walk cnrelul ? We stand upon the verge of time, and the ending ol a period of solemn importance. Every year, yea, every week or day we are to look tor the crash of nations ; war, lamine, pestilence, tremendous hres as aiso very irequent awful floods, earthquakes, heavy and often ; crime wul be greatly on the increase, dry summers, failure herealter of the crops. Soon and Daniel will stand in his " lot" or have his ** inheritance," with the rest of God's i)eo- ple. Soon and the wicked shall be cut off from the earth. Soon the day of judgment will begin, solemn indeed. Are we ready for the solemn event ? Have we repented of and forsaken our sins ? Have we fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us in the gospel ? Have we made our judge oar friend ? Not a moment is to be lost. Soon the stone m the second of Daniel will smite the Roman image. •Soon, as in Revelalion,itwiil be said that*' the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Soon and tlie door of m^rcy will be shut against an ungodly hypocritical church, ^oon and the foolish virgins will say, " Lord, Lord, open unto us," but the answer is, " I know ye not, depart ye cursed." The fieader — is there nothing in the numbers that brings the periods more definite, and more intelligent to our understanding ? We shall proceed to answer the above, by introducing the la^t periods that 1 shall speak from in this book ; they are re- corded in the xii chapter of the book of Daniel, beginning with the 7th verse, " And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was ux>on the waters of the river," (or stream of time,) ** when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware oy him that liveth forever that it shall be for a time, times, and tui half, and when h« shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished." The periods here spoken of, I understand to be and mear three and a half prophetic years, or in all 1,260 years. Those 1260 years, I also understand was the period that (.-Jod's people was to be in the hands of Rome — which hands were cruel in the extreme— in this connection it does not say so ; but, we shall refer you reader, to where the matter is made plainer. See Daniel vii, 23,28, speaking of the power of Rome, in the 25 verse, he says, " And he shall speak great words against the most high, and shall wear out the samt? of the most High, and think to change times and laws ; and they" (the saints) " shall be given into his" (Popery's) "hand until a time and limes and tire dividing q[ time." In all 12G0 years. See agiin Revelation xii. 14. "And to tiie woman" (the christian church) " were i^iv ^n two wings ot a great eagle, that she mi^ht fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished lor a time, and times and haifatime, from the face of the serpent'" (Rome ) You see reader, that those periods was to be the. persecuted time oi Rome» against the people of Grod. Again in revelation xiii, 5 verse, the same periods arc brought to view again ; * And there was given unto him" (Rome) " a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies ; and power was given un- to him (Rome to ccoitinue forty and two months.'* Revel- ations xi, 3 verse, *• And I will" says God " give power unto my two witnefeses," (the old and new Testament ») " and they shall prophecy a thousand two hundred and three scote days, clothed in sackcloth." Here tlien reader it makes no matter how you take it, it ends the same way. That is, time, timos, and half a time, which is three years and a half multiplied by 12, the number of months in the year ffives us 42 months, that multiplied by 30, the num- ber 01 days in each month, will give 1260 years, as sure as that one and one makes two. The Reader — how can it be comprehended, admitting all the above to be correct, when those periods commenced ? I shall briefly^ answer the question above, and say, the 1260 years commenced in A, D. 538, when Justinian the Greek Emperor of Constan- tmople, constituted the Pope of Rome supreme head, over all the churches in the East, by giving him three king- doms the Ostrogoths, Vandels and Heruli, the civil and ecclesiastical power, was at this time conferred on the Pope of Rome, by Justinian. I shall presently prove my posi- tion to be correct ; because, beginning with the 1360 years in 538 A. D., you can see by adding the two num- bers together, they will bring us down the stream of time through the dark ages, to the noted year 1798. There, you wall find by the order of Bonaparte, Popery dethron- ed. And notwithstanding Popery is still Popery, yet, they have not the power Siey use to wield and enjoy, nor will not thank God, until within fifteen hteral days of th* end ol this age. Bear m mind my intelligent reader, that in the same connection where we found our time, times, and half a time, exists two more periods, the last one bringing us to the Resurrection of Daniel, and if Daniel will rise at the end of the last period, so will all God's '^ •■) sniiits, at identically the same time. See Daniel xii, 10, 13, " Many shall be purifit'cl, and made white, and tried ; [>ut the wicked shall do wickedly : and none oi' the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall understand. And Iroin the time the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination" (Popery) " that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that w^aiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and fire and thirty days." But Oaniel is told to go away till the end would be, being assured that he would stand in his " lot at the end of the days." The Reader — where did those two last named periods begin, that is, the 1293, and the 1335 days, years V You recol- lect my kind reader, wnere we startetl with the 1260 years, those tw^o last periods of course is in the same connection, and must have their beginning at the same place, namely, In A. D 538 The sum stands thus, 1 260 begin in A. D 538 We will have them aside one another 1 260 ; ' The time, times and half ended in A. B 1798 We will follow our starting point 588 a. D. With our next number 1290 years 1290 This last period ended in A. D 1828 \, We will still keep to our starting point 538 1, o. With our third and last number 1335 yrs. Where will the resurrection take place but in 1873 A.D. This, therefore, is the end and substance of the whole „«.- , — - There is nothing but the most glorious harmony in all those bless- ed periods. Moses seven times, or, 2,620 years will bring us down to the spring of 1873. The 2,300 years bring us to the spring ot 1873. And the 1335 years, from A.. D. 538, will bring us to the Spring of 1873 Has the pass- ing of set times demonstrated that the time will not be eventually known ? Were I to waste time, ink and l^aper in answering this question, I should place myself in the same position as those who have recourse to this 93 argument. Now, all prophecy contains in its substance* both promise and threatening, addressed to the reason, conscience, and understanding of all intellij^ent men, con- cerning things present and future, a scheme of things go- ing forward m course of fulfilment, some part of which concenieth every age of the world, yea, every year and hoar until the consummation of the whole. JBoth promise and threatening are ol the nature ot prophecy, because they concern the fiiture touching both persons and things. But in all earnestness, how shall the church act in regard to God ; promises and threatenings as yet unfilled with- out some definite and clear knowledge of things yet future ? I don't mean to say a perfect knowledge ot all things, times and circumstances, alone, will brighten the path, ibr it might be pernicious to have a full knowledge, but of some leading features, such as are to be seen in the following example from 2nd Samuel, vii, where (elod said to David, " Moreover I will appomt a place for my people, Israel, and will plant them that they may dwell in a place oi their own, and move no more ; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as be- fore time, and as since the time that I commanded Judges to be over my people, Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house. And v/hen thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy father, 1 will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish his kingdom for ever." Fully to interpret this passage, would be to interpret a very lar^e portion of Holy Writ. It is promise, and threatenmg, and prophecy all woven inseparably into the same web, and rightly to understand one requires the un- derstanding of both the others. The very sight of the words unavoidably carries for\s^ard the mind to the con- templation of things yet future, and elicits an act of inter- pretation, and points to certain definite things, and a cer- tain definite spot of the earth for the theatre ol the fulfil- ment of the promise to Israel, and to David, Israel's king. But God says, *' The stork in the heaven knoweth her aj)- I)ointedtime, and the turtle, and the crane,and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people" (chris- tian professers) " know not the judgment of the Lord." " For, as in the days that were before the flood, they were 12 ,<■■ •■*■ /mating and drinkiNi?, maTrying and giving in marri^g^, until the day that Soah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood eame and took them" (the wicked) "all away — even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man (ChristJ is revealed." And now my kind reader, I shall leave tne subject witlj you in its present iorm, just »s 1 see ;and believe, and have given you the evidence^ — as presented belore us in the scripture of truth, that ] 873, in the spring oi that year, is the farthest point to whjch ^e ^,520, 2,300 and the 1335 years Irom 538 will allow us to extend them. My kmd reader, I shall bid you fare^ well, hoping that you will give this thrilling chapter a serious perusal, and if you have a better light on this sub^ ject, than the one 1 have just given you, let us come and reason together, for it is the truth alone that shall make us free and wise imto salvation, and Grod shall have aU the praise.— Amen, .,., . > ' . "r * 1 >4^ '.>■.,!<. t , f ' /•I" , f , > ' • ; . 1 I i ' , ;■: ,:i.' ■; ''->■.■■ * • r •; I, •^ -'.vv ■ \ itV. t-j I ''-■in '4*' '» , ' 'I 1 r :>', i; ■1 r> % ■■,' \'- <:. '■•; '>.'r.<" .!>. .' .. '.11' Hi .■' ••TO-. • .■J ' , », V '^f^vi 'I,;* ».f r»''( ■*• ZSiwata. P^^ge 5, 8 lines h-orolop, for 33,332,333, read 31,554,059. 5, 9 lines from top, for 91,554, read 86,400. 5, 91meslromtop,ibr 3,730, read 3,600. ,f» SPnes irom bottom, for 19, read 18. 11, 17 Jjnes irow top fof oppression, read oppressors. 1 5^ 11 lines Irom top, for not read now i6, thB bottom line, for be read he's. 25, 12 lines from top, for women read woyeij, 2T, n lines from top, for x, 30, read xxiv, 1^. 36, 7 Unes from the bottom, for crime, read come. ««* 1? r""^' i'*"^ *^ J'^*^'"' ^^^ "^*«^«^^» intents. ««' A!. K !f ^""T ^^/""P' for appeals, read approach, he deT apprehended, read compre- 89, 8 lines from the bottom, jiox he, read we. i( .(( c< 4< .(( (I .(( (i (i .>t .{( ,%-w ■rtBH' ' Bf% fi-H M M;#^>f:op»!; ^:IMJ? 1. How prone are professors to rest on their leea, To study their pleasure, their profit and ease ; Though Godsavs arise, and escape for thy life. And look not behind vou ; remember Lot's wife. 2. Awake from thy shiiubers, the warning believe, 'Tia Jesus that calls yon the message receive ; While dangers are pending, 08ca])e for thy life, And look not behind yon ; remember Lot's wife. 3. The first bold apostate w ill tempt you to stay, And tell you that lions are found in the way ; He means to deceive you, escape for thy life, And look not behind you ; remember Lot's wife. How many poor souls has the tempter beguiled. With specious tentptations hovi' many defiled ; O, be not deluded, escape for thy life, And look not behind vou ; remember Lot's wif(». The ways of religion true pleasure afford, No pleasures can equal the joys of the Lord ; Forsake then the world and escape for thy life, And look not behind you ; remember Lot's wife. 6. But if you're determine the call to refuse, And venture the way of destruction to choose ; For hell, you will part with the blessings of litai, And then, if not now, you'll remember Lot's wife. .TAME8 CALEB AlolNTOSH, Bayfield, County of Huron, Ontario. i itario. !