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The Mowing book will be found but a mere summafy.
A lull account of each of the subjects contained in it would
swell to Volumes. Neither can it be expected in every
point to be correct, but this 1 do say, that I have followed
toy information without any deviation on my part. Hence,
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I— Statistics*..*. 6 to 9.

II— Plagues, ...*... 9 to 17.

Ill— Crime ...,.17 to 27.

IV— Famine 27 to 32.

V— Floods 32 to 39.

VI— Hurricanes ...e...... .,..39 to 57.

VII—Earthquakes 67 to 71.

VIII— Fires 71 to 80.

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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 ; .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 <?ases of the cattle disease.
For the previous week the number was 6,256, and in the
last week of December 65, it was 6,ft98 The number in
Yorkshire was 1,456 ; in Scotland 1 ,975. The United
States Consul, waiting to the State Department from
Manchester, under date ol December 9, 65, says : Since
ihe date otmy last despatch on the subject of the cattle
plague, the deaths have rapidly increased. The whole
number of cases reported to the authorities up to the close
^f last week is 39 000 ; of these 19,950 died, and 10,700
were killed while suft'ering with the disease. The num-
ber of cases reported last week was neiirly 4|"DO0. The
exact figures are, for the week endmg November 18, 2,069 ;
for the week ending No\ ember 25, 3,610; lor the week
ending Decei^aber 23, S,828 ; for the w' eek ending January
27, 66, show the number attacked to be nearly 12,000,
against 1 0 ,000 the p i evious week. From the same aut hor-
ity we regret to notice the alarming increase in the
cattle plague. Duriiig last month, the attacks have risen
from 14,000 to upwards of 27,000, and the deaths are
daily increasing."

" Statistical office ol the Veterinary Depot, Privy Council
office, December 20, 1866: — ^The number of aniraaLs attack-

ed since the commencement is 253,791, and 58,496 healthy
eattle haye been slaughtered to prevent the spread of the
disease."

London limes, Nov., 1866: — ** There can be no longer
a doubt about the formidable growth of the cattle plague,
while the deaths from plague and pole-axe together, were
only about 12,000. This gave a mortality of 700 a week
upon an aggregate stock of horned cattle estimated at 7,-
000,000, and it was.asked accordingly whether such a loss
would justify the application of such a remedy as was

Eroposed. Cost of the cattle plague to England : It has
een estimated that the actual loss in money by the cattle
plague has been $17,865,000. Of the cattle attacked by
the pla^e 210,000 are dead, and at $60.00 each— for the
old estimate at $50.00 a head does not adequately repre-
sent the prices realized during the last few years — their
value is $ J 2,600,000. The Government have slaughtered
63,000 head, to prevent the spread of the disease; to these
add a much greater number, say 100,000 animals, butcher-
ed in an unripe state, making about half price at market ;
that is 153,000 altogether, at $15 00 each, losing $4,690,000.
Then 24,000 of the attacked recovered, while 11,000 are
unaccounted for ; say that the decrease in value upon these
was $16.00 a head on 45,000 animals, losing $675,-
000 more." 1 shall now leave the reader a few
moments to reflect upon the sad account we had from the
London TimeSy of the cattle plague in England, and give
a biicf account of the cattle plague in Holland.

Brussels, December 14, 6Q. — The Belgian Moniteur pub-
lishes the following particulars concernmg the cattle plague
in Holland : — " The cattle plague appears to be making
dreadful rtvages among the cattle in Holland. The num-
ber of fatal cases do not cease to increase and if the pro-
gress observed to have been made by the disease since
November last continue, the losses of the Dutch farmers
will soon exceed those of the English cattle owners, at the
time when the plague was most violent. According to the
official reports the number of cases among cattle were for
the weeks ending November 3, 1,443; 10th, 1,561 ; 17th,
1,696; 27th, 3,257 ; and December 4th, 7.162. The last
number is more than double that which was recorded
when the epidemic was at its w^orst in December, and
everything tends to show that it does not indicate th«

greatest height of the disease. The eattle plague was
especially virulent in the provinces of Utrecht and Southern
and Northern Holland, but it has also shown itself in
Friesland and Overyssel, and has latterly attacked many
parishes of Guelderland and North Brabant. Belgium
having such an extended and frequent relations with
Netherlands is especially menaced by these circumstances.
She will only succeed in keeping herself free from con-
tagion by never for a moment relaxing the most rigbrous
vigilance and circumspection. Let the reader only re-
member, and add to the sad tale already told, the hun-
dreds oi thousands died from the same cause in the United
States, and other places not adjacent to us ; the spirit of
inquiry should rap at the door •f reason, and ask : Whit
is all this tor ? When Grod was about delivering the child-
ren of. Israel irom Egyptian bondage, he sent his plagues
in a similiar manner upon'their oppressions. See Exodus
ix, 1, 6. Comment is useless," ^

The Grasshopper Scourge. — From the Marysville
Enterprise^ 1867 : — "The Kansas farmers in Brown Cfounty
and adjacent territory, appear to have been lately subject-
ed to a plague similiar to those inflicted on Pharaoh. See
Exodus X, 6, 6." ,

The Enterprise says : — "The obstinate grasshoppers ap-
peared in countless numbers, covering a tract twelve miles
m width, consuming almost all vegetation. They alight-
ed upon fields, gardens, fruit trees, and everything green
or eatable ; and like a marcii of two hundred and fifty army
corps, devoured everything they touched. This whole
country has been taken by them, and the rear guard is still
with us, guarding what vegetables and green leaves the
army has left. Farmers are seriously alarmed lest the
corn will be totally destroyed."

Reader, remember also, the sufiering at Red River in
1868, through the plague of grasshoppers, and how they
swept everything green in their path, in countless num-
bers ; and how different is our situation, in the County
of Huron in December 1868, when I am writing this book.
Flour with us, is only worth four dollars and fifty cents
per barrel, when at the same time at Fort Garry, flour is
$S8.00. Reader, take my opinion for it, our time for suf-
fering and affliction is at hand, and we shall not escape.

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From the Weekly G/ofte?, of 66 :— *'Tbc barque "Faiz,"
has arrived from llong Kong. Fl'ty-two per cent, of thd
British garrison at Hong Kong had died in nine months,
from some new and strange disease." . •

From the New York Tribmie, ol 66 :— *' The total num-
ber of deaths from cholera in Paris, from its first appear-
ance to the 80th of November, was six thousand and
seventy-seven." . "^

From the London Times — Progress of cholera in Europe
in 1865-6 : — *' The Registrar-General of England, in a sup-
plement to his last weekly rejiort, has i>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

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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.

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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

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

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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,
0 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-

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, " •

<j()d's Iierald'a arc sounding, the measage be ** nigh,"

And noon, he will " tarry" no longer for us ;
Though "tarried" he has, and the ocripturos say thus :
But soon, when our faith tried enough shall have been,
The ivicked, have filled up their " measure of sin,"
And when the "five virgins," that helped swell the " cry,"
With zeal very ardent, and voice very high.
Have been " scoffed" from the field, and repose from the toil,
Till the "Bride-groom" shall tarry too long for their " oil" ;
Then, most surely he'll come, and the "Bride" will receivt,
And the scoffer, and sleeper, on earth he will "leave ;"
It is then, that they'll " call," but the " harvest" is past,"
The "summer is ended," and tkeir souls lost at last.

CHAPTER III.

0^ C^\^*^.

Is this the ninteenth century ? Is this the eighteen hundred
and sixty-sixth anniversary of the inauguration of the Christ-
ian era, and of Him who was to bring *' peace on earth and
good will toward men ?'' This saith the Battle Creek
Herald^ oi 1866 : — " Has our boasted civilization an^ our
religion, after all, resulted in what we see around us ? Five-
tenths of the professed Christian world in open war, or,
breathlessly awaiting the dread moment when * Red
Battle' shall stamp his foot ? Have all our improvements
in locomotion, iu transmission of intelligence, production
and exchange of commodities, only resulted iu giving con-
centration, strength, and deadly effect to the worst and
mv>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

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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<int to every
mind ; Russia and Turkey confronting each other in the
principalities and ihreateni ng a conflict that must drag Eng-
land into another war, which may re-light the fires of in-
surrection in India ; Ireland under military rule, and heav-
ing with revolution ; Spain also in arms, and no one can
say as yet, what the end will be. Are all these omens,
thv se throes, these prospective and actual conflicts, portents
of " Armageddon ?" Can Christian, philosopher, or States-
man reconcile all these conditions and fearful actualities
with the theory or principles of religion and civilization ?
Are these teims only empty and cant phrases for bad men
and charlatans to play and juggle with ? Can this really
be the nineteenth century ? Is this the fruition of the gos-
pel preach'd on the Mount ? Or are we, in spite of its in-
structions and injunctions, savages as before, with only im-
provAi facilities for murder."

DiTORCE IN Massachusetts. — From the New York
Herald: — -'About 1,600 divorces have been decreed in
Massachusetts in six years, of which 584 were for desertion,
553 for criminality, 132 for cruelty, and 42 from other
causes. It is known that 1,316 were decreed in the five
yea.-s that ended in May 18()6. And at the same rate dur-
ing the last eleven months, it may be assumed that the
grand total is not far from 1,600."

From the Weekly Globe. — ^' Lives lost by the American
Rebellion : — The War Department computes the number
of deaths in the Union Armies, since the commencement
of the war at 250,000, and of the Southern soldiers, at least
225j000, making in all 525,000 lives that have been lost to
save a few Niggers."

;•.,; V '.; Six thousand years are nearly past,

• i^ ir.i :• ■ Since Adam from thy sight was cast ; * >,

. ' , ^^, . 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."

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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

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."

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From tho Buttle Cre«k 77<Trt/d ol'lSJie:— "In Brooklyn,
the 'city ofchurcheu/ there are over two thousand drink-
ini^' shooH, or about ten tiines as many as there are houses
of worsnip. The cities contain 10,000 open haunts, in
^vhich rich men are ma4e poor, sober mt*n made
drunkerds, happy families made wretched, and ruined.
Two-thirds ot all the rioting, harlotrjr, theft and pauperism
ot these twin cities issue directly irom these dram-shops.
During the war, many of them were nests of disloyalty.
In each of these places — where death is dealt out by
measure— there is an average daily expenditure often dol-
lars lor strong drink. This gives a total expenditure of
^100,000 a dqy, of 700,000 a week, and of 35,000,000 of dol-
lars a year This statement is so frightful that it seems in-
credible, yet it is rather under than above the actual facts.
One of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners informs mo
that ten dollars a day. is a moderate estimate of the average
sales of each dram-shop in the ix)lice district. Here, then,
i8'moi;e money expended in the purchase of liquid poison
than is employed in sustaining all the churches, all the
public schools, and all the charitable institutions of both
♦he cities."

.Tudge Capron, of New York, in a recent charge to the
Grand Jury, thus speaks of crime and drunkenness
in that city : — '* 1 would urgently solicit the particular at-
tention of the Grand Jury' to the law relating to the sale
of intoxicating liquors. The retail of this article without
license in this city, is a crime punishable by fine and im-
prisonment. Ten thousand dram-shoi)s are at this moment
occupied for that illegal traffic in this metropolis. The
deluded A'ictims of the illicit trade are reeling around us
like spectres, to haunt the mercenary authors of their
ruin, invoking from the cells of iheir gloomy prisons, im-
precations loud and just against that i)artial administration
of the law which consigned them to degradation and sor-
row, but permit their destroyers to revel in luxurious
pleasure, and even rewards them with official honors.
During this year 342 convicts have been recorded in the
Court of General Sessions ot this city, and 4,215 in tne
Court of Special Sessions. In the aetme time there have
been 138 acquittals in the former Court, and 694 in the lat-
ter. Of all these persons it is satisfactorily ascertained
that only 94 were sober when the subject matter of the

,1 accitsatiotis otcurrffl, and all biit 151 Ware: bitbitnalfy iit-
temperate. Mow ihtin one-half ol' this laultitttilc were the
•^ victiitts of w^lid poverty, and thtnr crimt\s t\crre induced
I! by re^ I want 'GentIeri*0n, ift riew erf' thc«e statistics let
•me iiimiirt; How shall the Wretchod^ irtet)ii4tes amon<(u»
.' be reclaimed from their def>Tadatic>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 pro<luc-
tion of ]e0,<?)06,000 ciffars, 153,000,000 of which are ex-
portr>d, 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 t<lbacco wa« 15,598,152 p<)Tind:;
nn ar<*ragf» of 1'2 ounces por head for the entir(»poj*ulation ;
in 1881, \Vith a population of ^4,410,439, the consump-
tioii roActied 1S;,583,84 1 pounds, or 13 ounces per head ;
and irt C841^' with a ])opulation of 87,019,073, the consump-
tion wafe 22,309,860 pounds, or 4HJ oumies per head ; and
in 1851, with a i>opTllalk>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'<h

>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

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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

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

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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<e, $^0,-
000 ; September, Jvailroad bond forgeries, ({jia^wjq) $^04,-
000; September, by a New York book-l^eeper, $10,OQO ;
October, Uovernment bonds by General Bristow:, Lyiich'
burg, $80,000 ; this iisl does not include the alleged pay-
master frauds, navy-yard frauds, and olliciqi corruptions ol
which the papers have been full It must not be omitted,
however, that a State Treasurer of Ohio, was removed
I'roin office on charge of heavy embezzlements. 01 im«
l)ortant operations in the proiesswnalline m^y be mention-
ed the robbery of Mr. Veazie, at Albany, .of $11,000 ; that
ot $35,000 from an Indiana iarmer ; $48,000 at Cbatta:
nooga ; the $20,000 burglary at Detroit, and the $50,0^
at Philadelphia. Forgeries have also been very^ numer:

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mis and extonsive, h(\i it is, of couigo, impossible to givn-
statistics; aiid, kind reader, it I was to enlarge on this
chapter oh ciimes, as I might go from village to village,
from town. to town, city to city, country to country, lilt
up the screen that hides the enoaimous wickedness, and
.show at a glance the crimes of the earth, I should fain
hope th^t you, would not pervert yoair understanding, and
say as anitmber of our professors do : — " That the world
is getting' better, and nearei conversion ; whereas, the
truth is, that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and
worse.'*" See 1st Timothy, iv, 1 ; 3ud Timothy, iii, \o ;

7 '?; K J n r Behoid, on flying clouds h» comes, ,.,-.:,. :. . \., '4y,-,i^

',»;*.',. I Hiu 8aiut3 shall blesa the day : ,i -,

-^Hc' '\. While they that nierc'cl him sidly Moiirn/.'* ' -""^' ' * ^'^
vfn7/0,lii„anguf8lxartd dismay. '■' ' '^ -^ ""' *'<

.out ,'ii[Thcn hftste tfee», O haste thee, whilst yet 'tis 'to-dayV <>
■■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<Si si i? ?«-r
l)''4ni< ; Then earth aliall' bloom again ; fl :) "U'tv.n 'i^ifiwi r>;

•.♦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.

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'' 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

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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

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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

jieadsof deparlments, except the board I'rom which h<i
was seimrated by ^ three days' post. Sir Cecil Beadon
had himself been m Orrissa a few mouths before, when
he told the people the laud tax would be raised at the new
assessment ; and of course he had not seen any iamino then.
Why should he be disturbi^d in his cool retrrat ? The
Governor General ordered him down to the post c ' duty,
and with the first showers of rain he entered Calcutta. —
He has since presided weekly at the uieeting of the board,
with which our native Zemindar and one English mer-
chant have been associated. Kice has been sent down in
large quantities, the government of India having ad-
vanced $1000,000 for the purpose ; but still the tK>ard
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

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reader reflect ; the suffering a few years since in ScotIan<l
and Ireland, as also, in South America, in London, Ca-
nada, and last year in Nova Scotia, with the Hed River
atHiction just now goinp^ on. Listen to what the Bishop
of Rupert's Land says on the want in that region : — ^* The
Couimittee here are very thankful tor the great kindness
which has been shown towards the poor sufferers in this
country by many citizens of St. Paul and Milwaukee. —
It is very much to be regretted that such a report received
currency, as you refer to, resi>ecting 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:

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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.

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,>>^:^ vj;<« Haik, hark, hear the blest tidings^

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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."

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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

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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

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

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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. ,

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^0 more by doubts oi; t'eurs di'^iressed,

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»*iy,-? i$u And thwrt; bo fwrover blest ; 0 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 ; 0 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

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4. We hail thy brigUt beams, 0 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 ; 0 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-

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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

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,"

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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><y
they lell." - .;n}/ - r t'- ^r .;.,, .-"«<'>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-

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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

€'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
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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

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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." ., .■ . ,

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From the New York Herald, September, 1866.—" Tor-
nado in New Jersey. A terrible and destructive tornado
occured near Mount Holly, on Friday evening last, the
14th inst. It commenced about a mile and a half from
Buddtown, uprooting trees, prostrating corn and fences,
doing comparatively no other damage until it reached the
residence of Hamiah Alcott and sister, on the north road
from Mount Holly to Pemberton, a mile and a half from
the latter place. As it neared the residence of the Misses
Alcott, it prostrated everything before it, forest trees were
torn up or twisted oft as though they were saphngs,
fences laid low, and of 16 apple trees in the rear of the
premises, 1 4 were uprooted, qnd some of them moved a
distance of ten feet. The house, barn, wagon-house were
directly in its track, and they w^ere all entirely destroyed
and thrown together, a perfect mass of debris. Such
titter destruction we never before witnessed. One of the
sisters was absent at the time, Hanna only being at home.
She had retired lor the night, before the storm came up,
and when found was on her bed, which had been forced
against and among the br?inches of one of the large trees
prostrated near the fence. A heavy limb w^as directly
over her, serving as a protection from the broken debris,
fm-niture, &c. She w^as lescued from her perilous situa-

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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,

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 li<rht
the gas in all the streets. The darkness was unusually
dense and chilly, giving a sensation as though a tremen-
dous hail storm had passed very near. Three times did
the phenomenon appear and then pass away, leaving at
la?t the sun shining as brightly as ever. 'I he telegraph
wires ceased to work at the time. In other parts ol the
State this connection developed in^-^ an awlul tornado. —
At Galesburg and Shangal a fearli wastation happened,
w^ith loss of file in the latter place, «*id the destruction of
fifty dwellings, school houses, and two churches. Service
commenced in the Advent Church, a new building com-
pleted last fall, at 4 p. m ,' as the people were w^endinj
their way from their farms and cottages to church, the
sun was brightly shming, although clouds were seen in
the heavens. It was a day not now common in this
State, at this time of the year. The pastor of the Church,
G. W. Hurd, ascended the pulpit and commenced his dis-
course, which was not interrupted until it was nearly
through, when the evidence of the coming disaster began
to be apparent. First it was perfectly . still, and then a
noise w^as heard in the distance as of the roaring of a
mighty cataract. The windows began to shake, and some
one called out from his seat, ' Mr. Hurd a bad storm is
coming up.' The minister answered, ' never mind the
storm, there is a day coming when there will be a storm
compared with which this will be nothing ; I will be
through soon.' Just then the hail and wind commenced
t)rcaking in the window lights, and in almost an instant
the windows of the church, sash and all, were torn out.

The only two peTsoTis who succeeded in pvttinir wit wor«
Geori^e Vorn and Harrison WiiiT, who wore instantly
killed. Tho building roelod like a ^Irunken man, bat
none could a;oi out. Wives cluucr to th^ir husbands,
cliildren to their parents, brothers and sisters to eaeh other,
and flespiiir wa« depicted upon i^very countenance. —
Suddenly the crash came, and witli a deiirenin«»" s<jund
miuLrled with the shrieks of the pent u[) |)(v>pl(>, 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-

ilise ; estimated loss ol ship and carj^e «|^20O,O00. The
ship Severen, 85 J tons burthen, owned by Messrs. Lid-
g-elt <k Co., oi'Billiter St , Jjondon, from Calcutta lor Lon-
don, abandoned a total .loss, her cargo was as follows? —
149,813 Ihs ol' Assam teas, 226 tons of saltpeter, 760 bales
of jute, 270 bales ot hemp, 350 bales ol saftlowcr, 24 barrels
ol dye, 275 cwt. of turmeric, 13,572 hides, 400 tons of rape-
seed, and 18 tons ol linseed — crew saved ; estimated loss,
ship and cargo, $340,000. The ship tSimla, from Calcutta
lor London, burnt at sea, cargo: 30O tons of rice, 2,282
bales ot jute, 1 5(]^bales of hemp, 7,800 hides, 36 tons of
linseed, 350 tons of rapet^eed, 58 barrels of dye w^ood ;
estimated loss ol ship and cargc, .$250,000. The ship
Albion, 1,245 tons burthen, owned by Messrs. "W. Tapsott
& Co., Liverpool, Irom JNew York to Liverpool, with
general cargo, totally wrecked near Stromness harbor,
eleven lives lost ; estimated value of ship and cargo, $200,-
000. The ship Attila, 945 tons burthen, owned by
Messrs. John Treharne & Co.. of Cardilt, totally lost off
the coast ol Ireland m coming from Quebec, estimated
value of ship and cargo, $43,000. The ship JaUiet, 440
tons burthen, Captain Hitch, master, owned by Mr.
l^'raiicis Chambers, ot London, with a caroro ol sugar and
rum, bound from Demerara to London,- lost at Hell Bay,
Land's End, estimated loss of ship and cargo, $265,000.
The barque Jeanne, 312 tons burthen. Captain Jaques
Janssens, owned by Messrs. Chabot & Co , of Antwerp,
bound from Buenos Ayres to Queenstown, wrecked near
Maryport, estimated loss of ship and cargo, $170,000. The
barque Lucetta, 1 92 tons register, from Seaham to Eoches-
ter, with coals, lost on the Crunfleet Sand ; value of ship
and cargo, $ 18,500. The Diana, (barque) 261 tons register,
of Liveipool, and owned by Mr. Greorge Caldwell, ol Troon,
cargo coals, totally lost on the South point of Holy Island;
value of ship $2(i,000. The barque Norma, 650 tons bur-
then, Captain j'ohn Horstman, owned by Messrs. Konitsky
& Co., Thiermunn, ot Bremen, with a cargo of tobacco,
from Richmond for London, lost on the S. E. spit of the
(jroodwin; loss of «hip and cargo |7 1,500. Ihe barque
Lexington, 344 tons, owned by Messrs. James Milligan,
.Tun., of Liverpool, cargo coals and machinery, bound
from Liverpool to Havana ; totady lost one mile iiiom
Coral Poinr, N. W. of Islay, one man lost by remaining on
board ; value of ship and cargo |40.000. The barque

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Ariel, 365 tons, owned by Messrs. Robert Craffors and
Richards, and Richard Hall, of Stockton, with a caifro of
wheat from Odessa for Queenstown, abandoned thirty
7niles from Old Head ot Kinsale ; estimated loss of ship
and cargo $47,500. The ship Eugenie, 1,136 tons, bur-
then, owned by Messrs. John Martin & Sons, of Dublin,
ivith a general cargo, Irom Liverpool to St. John's New
Brunswick, totally lost off Ballymac Colter, County Cbrk,
captain and 12 men drowned ; estimated loss ol ship and
cargo ^176,000. The barque Ayrshire, 681 tons rec^ister,
Captain William Henry Terry, master, owned by ^V. E.
Corner, ol Leadenhall street, London, with a cargo of tim-
ber, bound from Quebec to Dundee, lost off Poor Island ;
estimated loss of ship and cargo, $30,000. The Palinurus,
1,082 tons. Captain Andrew Berry, owners Messrs R.
Allen & Co., of Liverpool, with a cargo of coals from that
port for New York, wrecked at Cymyran Bay, one life
lost; estimated loss of ship and cargo, $78,000. The above
is scarcely a tithe of the ships that have been lost ; they
number between three and four hundred. The gales
were very severe, and see what loss in this small item
alone, it IS $1,948,600.

Now my kmd reader, in overhauling those items, I do
it in love to truth, its Author, and my fellow traveller to
tne judgment. God, in giving you and me tokens, as well
as to the world, wants us all to take heed, hi he does
nothing in vain. What then does he say, see Jeremiah
XXX, 23, 24 ; heai: it : " Behold, the whirlwind of the
Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind, it
shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. The
fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have
done it, and until he have perforaied the interests, of his
heart ; in the latter days ye shall consider it." Does God
mean what he says ? if so, it is our exalted privilege, to
take heed. And whether or not reader, you can see by
causes and iheir effect that we are n earing the end of this
age I am satisfied ; but it shall be as it was in the days of
Noah and Lot. none of the wicked understood, and the
reason was, they would neither believe Noah or his preach-
ing, nor Lot or his solicitations. And Christ said in the
xxiv ot Matthew, that as it was in the days of Noah and
Lot, even thus shall it be when he comes, and I believe
it. We shall give a little f uither history of the hurricanes
before we come to the chapter on earthquakes.

Weekly Globe, July, 1866.— "The Hurricane in Halton.
— A correspondent inlorms us that on Friday eveninir 1 3th
inst, part of the County of Halton was visited with a
hurricane and hailstorm, that had no parallel in the
ni( aiory of the oldest inhabitant. The course ot the tem-
pest was about due South, perhaps varying' to the south-
east, and it carried a width of two miles, though its main
i'ury was poured out in the centre railei. It seems to have
mustered all its forces in the immediate vicinity of the
Hornbys. East and West, to the North of that its power
was but little felt, except in the woods of R. Howson and
J. Taylor ; but to the South of Hornby, for lour miles, it
has spread wreck and ruin all around, and I have heard
that it extends to the lake. It began raining about h;dl*
past eight o'clock in the evening, having, to my eye, the
look of an ordinary thunder storm, with a ^reat deal of
lightning, which continued for about 20 minates, -wjien
the rain poured down in torrents, accompanied by a fea|w
ful hail, and the wind rose to a pitch we have never
known before. The hurricane lasted onl^ twenty or
thirty minutes. No harm cune of the lightnmg, nor was
the thunder at all loud, I have heard it twice as loud.
The hail did considerable damage to the crops and win-
dows. It was of a dianiiond slmpe, three quarters of an
inch by one-third, or, say the size of a pigeon's e^rg.
Eobert Hall Esq., had 45 panes of glass broken ; half his
apples were knocked off, and so abundant was the hail,
that a large quantity could have been shovelled up by the
side of his buildings. About a mile from that, at Hornby,
I saw oats from the fields of Mr. Pickard quite destroyed.
The hurricane, in many places, partook of the natuie of
a whirl\sind, and its full force was exerted at i5 or 20
feet from the earth and vipw-ards. Its fury was terrific,
baras and sheds were crushed before it as you would
break an empty egg shell in your hand, their roofs scat-
tered to the winds. I saw rafters carried 300 yards. You
could see its power in the forest and among the fences on
every hand ; one-half the timber is in places thrown down.
The fine brick Wesleyan church at Hornby is in ])art un-
roofed and so scattered as to be unfit for repair. A con-
cession to the south-west of Hornby, and for a length of
two miles, has suffered most. Mr. *T. Chisholm had a new
frame barn just finished, completely demolished ; opposite,
Mr. Noakes had a baru and dwelhng house unroofed.

Oa the ntext two farms, Mr. Cttnniiighara had all his oufci
buildings unroofed, and Mr. Irvine a shed levelled, thfli
tiext hirra escaped, the tmiklings being under range, but
On the next, Mr. Campbell had a barn and shed unroofed.
Mr. Hempstreet, on the next larm suffered most, fenced
ftnd trees scattered broad-cast ; about half his fine orchard
•Was uprooted, and his barn was at one end, carried bodily
40 feet, at the other. 36 ; a large addition to his barn was
)eveil<3d, and all his buildings destroyed, save one protect-
ffd by the rest. Jonathan Hows, on the 7th line in Trafal-
gar, had a new gravel house just erected, completely
crushed. Not a single house in which any one lived nas re-
ceived more than a trilling injury. I hoard of one narrow
escape. The wife and children of J. Anderson, on the 5th
line, were in their sitting-room, and they had no sooner
left it than the roof of a shed came crash through the
sitting-room, breaking the bureau, etc."

THB Convulsion of the Sandwich Islands —From
the New York Herdd, April, 18<58 :— •» The greatest vol-
eanic eruption recorded in modern times has occurred on
the Island of Hawaii, one of the group of Sandwich Is-
k^». For some time past it has been observed that the
crater of Kilanea was very active, and that a new volcano
had been formed. The volcano is the well known Manna
Loa, and it has an elevation of 13,758 feet. On the 27th
of March last the new eruption commenced and has con-
tinued up to the latest dates. During twelve days there
hAve been 2,000 shocks of earthquake, followed by fearful
tidal waves which have destroyed entire %illages, and
caused the death of 100 persons. ' For fourteen days the
district K<ma has been the centre of motion for the great
eruption. A gigantic stream of molten lava is flowing
from the summit of Manna Loa across the lands of Ka-
kuka and Poakini to the sea at Kaaluala landing. The
slope and part of the summit ofa mountain fifteen hundred
feet high have been lifted up bodily by the earthquake and
thrown o\^er the tops of trees for a distance of over 1,-
OOO feet. At Wahoinee a creek has opened, extending
from the sea. To as high as the eye can reach on the
slope of Manna Loa the lava is from one to seven feet in
width, and an eruption of moist clay was thrown from the
side of the mountain, between Lyman's and Richardson's,
a distance of two miles and three quarters, with a width
of one mile, in the short space of three minutes. Thi^

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ieiiible eruption oveiwhelmfd houses, pevsjons, and hurt*
dvcds of animals, and . scattered death and destruction
wherever the clay i'ell. A cohiuni ol" smoke beven and
four-iiltlis miles in altitude was thrown out oi* Manna Loa
obscurini* every thing for miles around, s*xve wherw the
brijiht spiral pillars of lire Hashed upwards from the mouth
of the volcano. The sight was one of the grandest but
most a])paling' ever witnessed and almost defies descJip-
tion. The inunense tidal waves rustling in with so ^eat
a height that tliey swepl ovor the tops ol' thw co^oa-
nut trees on tlie Kona coast. During the severe shock
of eaithquaUe, \\hich took place on the 2nd ot April, no
living creature could stand ibr a moment. Imuien««
bodies of earth v\ ere tossed about at great distance, as il
they were teathei's waved Ironi point to point by a storm
oi' wind. No niie stone stands upon another as before ill
this district. Immense precipices which hav« hitherto
b'^en a terror to all who have seen them, have been level-
ed to the earth, and where the ground was formerly smooth
and unbroken lor miles around, the earth has been rent
asunder and upheaved, lorming gigantic chasms and preci-
pices. The entire topegraphical appearance of the coun-
try has been so compk^tely changed that even th( 83 who
have lived in the desolated district all their lives, ciumot
recognize it, oi* point out localities with which they were
formerly familiar. Lucidly this part of the island is but
si)arsely poi)ulated, and the lands are not in general cuiti'
vation. The loss oi lile as lar as can be ascertained as ioi-
lows: In the village ol Pilinka, 33; at Mokaka, 13; at
Palalna, 4 ; at Hona, 27 ; at Vaniio, 3. This makes a toti\i
of 80 persons killed as reported up lo the present time.
There are rumors ihat the casualities considerably exceed
lOO. All ol tlie unlbrtunate persons who ha v« lost their
livei, were native Hawains, not a white person being
killed, or in any way injured. At the present moment the
entire group of islands is enveloped in a dense black smoke,
and the indications are that Manna Lou is still in active
volcanic eruption. A vesssel hasjust arrived from Hawaii,
bringing later accounts of the lava flow, and of the erui>
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

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Irl't it, and reachod a |,oint ot sat< ty, the «'ntire road was
<M)vered with th(» liery stream. Th<> 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

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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.-<r
The eruption still continues with unabated violence, and
the scene is one of the most terribly grand that has eviJr
been witnessed. From the crater of Manna Loa the huge
column of smoke continues to ascend, hiding from view
the skies and clouds, and enveloping the entire country
in partial darkness. Every now and then thick streams
of lava shoot upwards from the midst of the smoke, illum-
inating everything around. Hundreds of jets of flames
burst from the lava and are thrown for a distance of «
thousand feet, the whole forming a pyrotechnic display of
surpassing magnificence. Shock alter shock of earth*
quake convulses the island, and ever and anon the low
rumbling sound whicii breaks out from amid the din and
noise of the eruption, indicates where the earth has been
violently torn asunder, or where the summits ot huge
hills and mountains have been hurled from their places
and sent rolling downwards to their base/' Reader I
must bring this chapter to a close, although I eoald writo
volumes on this mighty sign alone. The Prophet Isaiah,
in chapter xxiv, 1,7; " Behold the Lord maketh tho
«arth empty, and malreth it waste, and tuniith it upside
down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Th«
earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereotj because
they"' (the inhabitants) "have transgressed the laws,"
(the second and fourth commandments) ^ changed the
ordinance," (baptism) ^* broken the everlasting covenant,"
(the Sabbath.) Blessed are they that do his eottoam^
ments. See Bev. xxii, 14. , ,

How 8weet to reflect on ihoae joys that await hm)
In yon blessed regions, the heav'n of rest,
Where glorified beings with welcome 8hall£;re«t me,
And lead me to Mansions prepar'd for thfi bjew'd.

Emcurcled with Ii|^t and with glory en>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.

bout
mof^
renit
Th«
inds,

, and
evi5r
huge
view
iintry
reiuns
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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.

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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.

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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

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builtlirg wovo nnr.ovod to ». <lista!irc of i^ro t\nt^ HpIovv
thoir oriuinnl .sit«", and iUe iK'flfli clow by slnAvn with
iininv'nMt» bonlders and ruisinl to a hoialit <A 80 i'tu^t above*
it« ordinary level, while the uround all around ov«'r an
ttrei. of 13 acres, \vi\fi cut up with dee|» <m=*vicr8. The
telide coveretl over 12 acres in width by live in depth."

From the Weekly 0/(;/><f, .Tannarj^ 1866. — " An earth-
(piake occiired on the Jhd inst., in Mexico, doing con*
hiderable damaj^e at Onzana, Maltidia, and otiier places
in the interior with loss of life. In a j-ecent issue we stated
that a shock of earthquake had been lelt on Friday morn-
in^r, the lotli inst., at J^ake IVuuport, we since learn that,
lit precisely the same hour, the shock was felt at Cxrandw
Baie and Ua 11a l^ay, on the Sagueniiv. It appj^ars to
have ]x}ien a pretty lively concussion ana to have attl-cted
nearly the whole ot the ntnth shore, having been also
I'elt at l^aie JSt. Paul, 'i'hese shocks have not been uu-
Irequent lately in the Lamentide range." — Quebec ChionUie.

From the London Times.- ■ ** lllarthquake. Tenacity of
liile. At the Royal InstitiJion, London, Dr. i^aeaita re-
cently delivered a lecture on the earthquakes of Southern
Italy, and stated that during the last seventy -five years tho -
Kingdom of Naples had lo>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
<rf* the interior ruined towns, the ground still cracks and

iars, and trembles, and the shocks have been counted by
miidreds already with no setlled stillness so far. The
poor alirighted [wople are escaping by every steamer
coming to ( /'allao, and those remaniing in the mountains
or scattered ovei the jiampas, are afraid to re-build tno
ialien ruins, owing to the continued hf avin"- and upri^ini;
oi the ground. How much longer this will continue no
one can determine, but many think it is the indicatiou of
another fearittl outbreak." r .-r v. .<$

- From tlie Weekly Globe of Nov., 18C8.— •♦ We have had
of late a large number of earthquakes in ditierent parts of
the world, Varied by tempests of unusual severity, and
floods by which nmltitudes have perished. In the We»f
Indies and South America, as we all know, these eairth-
quakes have heen i)eculiarly disastrous, and since the
time ol their occurence news has reached us o'f some-
thing ol the same sort in ditierent quarters in both hem-
ispheres. The last accounts speak of destructire Winds
and storms which have swept over Northwestern Mexico.
One town in the State of Sonora in said to haVe been en-
tirely destroyed by floods and whirlwhids. Whole herds
of cattle have been, it is said, swept away, and dift'e: nt
crops totally ruined. It naturally rises, what may
have been tie reason lor all this unwonted elemental
activity V" A question, says the G/obcy much more easily
asked than answered. Reader, I shall allow Gods wori
to answer the above question- Kead Jeremiah xxx, 23,
24 ; Matthew xxiv, 7. I shall make no comment on these
texts, only ask my intelligLnt reader to reler to them.

From the Weekly G7o6e, Nov., 1868.— Naples, Nov.
20th. The eruption ol Mount Vesuvius is still very
threatening ; all the cones of the volcano emit rumbling-

«oundf<, and eject largo quantities of lava. Tho liiva has
set a whole forest of chestnut trees on fire, causing im-
mense devastation. Houses, larms and lands are over*
whelmed with ruin, and the population of the neater vil-
lages are le^iving their houses in great destitution."

Naples, Nov., 2i.— •♦ The erupticn ol Mount VesnntM
is increasing in violence. Many houses and farms in thcr
ricinity have been utterly destroyed. The market town
of San Giorgo is in imminent danger. The ship Imperial
from Kodiac, reports a violent shock of an earthquake ai
Uiat place at 8 p. m., of September 5th. Three hottsen
and nearly all the chimneys in town were shaken down*
The sensation on the ship was terrific. She seemed aif
though passing over the rocks at great speed, While
•articles were sluiken down which the most violent gale
had not disturbed. In the southern parts of the island
large rocks were torn up and thrown down the molm«
tain. The shock lasted forty seconds."

The Paris correspondent of the London Tifnes^ 1867.-—'
" At about a quarter past five yesterday mpming a nttotk
of an earthciuake was felt in Paris and its neighborhood,
especially in the direction of Versailles, in which tWo
persons say they were awakened by a motion, they heard
a crocking of the walls and floors, and that the first shock
was followed by several others. Persons in Paris have
told me they awoke about the time the shock took placey
but went asleep again without being a>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-

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 80<m, but
none of the wicked shall understand. " It is stated that
two distinct shocks -N^'ere felt in Devonshire^ England, a
few hours before that in Paris."

From the Weekly Globe, Oct., 1868.— -San FVftftcisc^v
Oct. 21. — "A heavy shock of eartiitjuake Ivas felt here at
7;50 a. m. Several buildings on Pine, Battery^ and San-
son streets werd thrown down and a considerablB num-
ber badly dam£(ged. The ground settled, whieh 'hrew
buildings out of line, and at present, 9 a.^m , no estimate
can be made. Severai shocks have followed at intervals
since, creating? a general alarm/ A shock was felt with
great severity at San Josey where a number of building
are considerably injured. A survey of the city shows that
the principal damage by the earthquake is coitimed to tho
lower portion below Montgomci7 and among the old
buildings on the Made Ground. MumeroKs houses in
that portion of the city have been abandoned and pulled
down. Tho Customrhouse is considered unsafe^ the offio
ciala have removed from it ; business ni the lower part of
the eity is suspended, the parapets have been throwir
down, walls and chimneys^ causing loss of life. At Oak-
land the shock was very severe ; the ground opened in
several places and a strong sulphurous smell w^a» noticed-
after the shock. The Court House at San Leandro,.wa8
demolished and one life lost. From various jTortionjs of
the country and in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay, the
shocks are rejwrted as severe, and in many places the
earth opened and water gushed forth. Twelve shocks
were felt during the day. The greatest damage exists cm
a hill several hundred feet wide, running about north-
west and southeast, commencing near the Custom-house
and ending at Falsom street wharl, injurmgand demoliah-
ing abotit twelve buildings in its course. At the comer
of Market and First streets the ground opened several
inches wide and about fifty Icet long ; in other places the

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ground oix'nod and water was lorced above the nurtace.-^
The City Hall is a perfect wreck. The courts have ail
adjourned. The Uiuted States Marine Hcwpital, United
States mint. Lincoln school house, Snn Francisco gas-
works and ceaf and dumb a«yhim are ail damaged. The
shock was felt about tlie shipping in the harbov as if ves*
sels had stntck upon a rock, although the water was per*
fectly smooth at the time of the shock, iShocks were felt
at Sacramento and Stockton, The Central CSoRst and
Almeda Companies' bvitdin^ was thrown down and some
lives lost. At Red "Wood City the large bri«k court house
it demolished. Another shock has just been felt. Private
despatches from San braneisca say the* loBb thtis far will
exceed $300,000. A number ol buildings' have stihk
several inches, and streets betore level are uneven in
many f^aees. A ship anchored fifteen miles outside felt
the shock very heavily, and it was the same trith resftels
on the bay. Many casualties ocimred from frantic ftfforts
to get out of the builduigs ; some persons' jumped out of
the window* in the second story. This ticinity afppears
to have be«u about the centre of the convulsion. South
and east, persons in the country noticed an upheaving
and opening of the earth in several places. Large masses
of rocks, several tons in weight, were detached arid rolled
down the hill and mountain side. Persons here wha
were in Peru duruifl^ the late earthquake, state the idh<)^k
yesterday to have been as strong as some oi those that de«
stroyed so much life and property thore, and say that a
recurrence of the shock was all that wa^ required to make
the disabcer ps great. $3,000,000 will not cover the k)ss
by damage to the buildings alone. There are six killed
and ^lany wounded." . . jiiw^-»>f 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<?s m the old mission of San Jose are a

ace. —
ire all
United

, The
if ves-
as pcx"'
ure felt
]»t aiid
dsome
t house
Privaic
far will
e stii^k
ivtn in
ddc felt
t resftelfi
5 efforts
I out of
arppears
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shearing
3 masses
id tolled
ere-Wha
le sh(>*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
<idial wave seen otan altitude of fifty feet. One of the most
av^tul incidents of this earthquake was the sinking of the
city quay. 'Jliis had just been constructed of mar We at an
immehse expense, and to it as to a last refuge, fled thou-
sand o£ the hapless inhabitants. Without a moments
wammg, the earth suddenly opt»ned to receive it, aud
after jsucking in the mass must have closed over it, as uoi
a single bocfy of all the thousands that went down, nor
the least spar or ark from any ot the sliips nea* by that
were trucked into the chasm ever can^e to top. The w^ter
therfe is nearly 600 fathoms deep, and at an unknown dis-
tance beneath the bottom repose the helpless JJsbon 'se.
This Lisbon Kaithquake Humboldt estimates effected a
portion of the earth four thnes as largo as Europe, and was
felt ih the Alps, on the coast of 8weden, in the West In-
dies, on Lake Ontario, and along the coast of the Massa-
chusetts. In 1811 the earthquake on the Mississippi,
severest at New Madrid, Mo., shook the ground ior many
daj's, and alternately raised and depressed it here and there,
the latter sections forming a section called the Sunken
country to this day. On the 26th of March, 1842, a

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violejit thunderstorm, with incessant flashes, was ob.
served by the people ol' JNew Madrid, and at the same time
the city ot Caracus, in South America, was laid in ruins,
12,000 ol its people perishini?. The great eruption in
Vesuvius in 1857, with accompanying earthquakes, will
also be remembered as leading to on immense destruction
oi human lite, variously estimated at I'rom 3^,000 to 40,000
souls. In 1858, June 19, the valley of Mexico was also
devested by one of these visitations, demolishing houseii
throughout its length. &nd destroying tlie costly aqueduct
jsupplying the city with water, Af arch 22, 1869, Quito, in
Ecuador, was nearly destroyed by an earthquake and
thousand/s of lives lost." •

From the Weekly Globe, September 18th, 1868.— ♦♦ The
most terrible earthquake that ever occurred on the coast
of South America took place on the 13th ult. At first but
little was known ol the dre0diul catastrophe that had visit-
ed with deadly eftect nearly every city on the coast The
events of the 18th and 14th ult., at Callao, of which you
have been already informed, was but the premonitery re-
velations jn the great disaster that had occurred The sea
it was known, had been greatly a^tated, and risen to
a great height, and inundated part ol the city, but, beyond
dnving many persons from their homes in the terror which
the fnrv of tne elements is well calculated to inspire, it
was believed no serious disaster had occurred ; but it wau
found that the whole western coast of South America had
been visited by the most terrible earthquake that has ever
occurred, and that eight cities, among the most important
on the coast had ceased to exist. Many more cities are re-
ported to have been more or less effected, and its effects
were experienced at many points northward from Arica
to Callao, a distance ot 650 miles, and southward to
Cobija, a distance of 280 miles. Arica is the central point
from which the effects of this disaster must be traced It
is a seaport town of Peru, with a population of about 30,-
OOO ; but, though a better landing place than most of the
contiguous ports, owing to the heavy surf it has always
been difficult and hazardous for shipping. About 5 o'clock
in the afternoon, in the most mountainous part ol the
country back of Arica, a sensation was experienced like
the collision of two heavy masses, and from this point
radiated North and South lo the distance I have already

i ob*
I time
ruins,
m in
3, will
dction
10,000
s also
Doitseii
leduct
lito, in
B and

-»»The
e coast
iTst but
id vjsit-
st. The
3h you
tery re-
rhesea
isen to
Ibcyond
: which
spire, it
t it wa*
-ica had
las ever
iportant
8 are re-
8 effects
a Arica
yrard to
al point
ced. It
)out 30,-
st oi the
always
o'clock
ol the
ced like
s point
already

indicated* with consequeueos as terrible as ihcy were im-
mediate Three undulations of the earth followed this un«
3een convulsion ot nature, and each undulation was ac«
companies by a tidal wave, the second oi greater lateral
extent than the lirst, and the third greater than the second,
Belbre proceeding to give any account of the disaster in
other places, it may be well to relate all that I haye seen,
or have been able to gather ot the character and extent
of the catastrophe at Arica. A gentleman who was at
that place when the disaster occurred gives a vivid des-
cription of the scene. He says, the hour was that when
by custom most of the inhabitants had just closed their la<.
bors and at their homes, the instant the startling indications
of an earthquake were felt, there wa^ a genera! n\bh for
uncovered spaces, which were reached by many uninjured,
but not by all. The streets became a scene o, ^erP»r; all
the houses in the city trembled like a leat, then they
surged, and some of them fell to pieces with crash alter
crash. At this juncture, when the undulations Wi.re active,
the earth opened in several places in long and almoei
regular lines. The fissures were from one to three inches
in width. The sensation was distmct as though some'<
thin^ was rolling underneath. From every fissure there
belched iorth dry earth like dust, which was followed by
stifling gas, Owin^ to the demolition ol buildings and
the general destruction of all kinds ot property, and the
dust belched Iorth as well as that set in motion by the
R-eneral tumult, a dense cloud was formed over the city that
obscured the light. Beneath the cloud was the gas. which
severely oppressed every living creature, and would have
suflbcated all these if it had lingered longer stationary
than it did which was only about 90 seconds. The un-
dulationu vvere three in number. Each succeeding one
was of greater magnitude tlian the former. When the
undulations ceased, the cloud of dust ascended and dis-
persed, and light was restored, then quakes at short inter*
\als succeeded, ay though subterranean explosions or col"
lisions were t;akjn^ place ; at this time people from all
parts ol the city fled to hills, amid falling 'stones and tim»
bers, which dej><;««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<ate oi intoxication. Many of both

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«nMos caTri«*<l chiWren in their arms, and ihosct who had
H*^t these, articles of value ; the avarice ot some was stronger
than tear, even anM this teriible coiirulsion, and hence
there were ihose who dallied to collect valuables, immy of
them who suffered for temerity, either by the sacriiice of
their lives, or otherwise. As the rush tor the hills con-
tinuedf and stones and materialb^ of all kinds were tailing
and the h<tmses crashing, the people were struck down,
and either killed or dangerously hurt The water in the
harbour was now receding Ironi the shore, bearing with it
all the shipping at rapid si)eed, then the current changed,
and beiore an almost overhanging, tremenduus wave, the
vessels came back, tossed one way and then another, or
whirled about as though they were only floating k)gs, and
on the very summit of this immense volume ol water
lode the United JStates steamer Wateree. The huge wave
dat^d against the stone moles or pier, and shattered it all
to ^)lk;ces, then swept from its path what was standing of
the custom house, and almost every vestige of the ruins of
other building-s; it rolled over the already destroyed
houses of the city, and set a myriad of articles afloat which
(Rldbd in every direction, while at the saitie time the
vesit^s aiiicl iloatiug materials were lorced ahead of the
wav«s at this time curhng and tbaming summit, every
ihiug which it encountered in its course wais swept away
in aa instant ; even great masses ot stones were rolled over
and over. Whtsn the force of the waves were spent, it re-
tired, and in a short time the equilibrium of the water
waa restored, and then it occupied about the same time
and presented nearly the same appearance as it did betore
the owrthquake. The vessels carried inland were a tei«
i^c sight. The most of them were bottom upward.
Their masts had been snapped like sticks. All this dread-
ful picture the refugees on the hills were now beholding.
Many of them did so with the most marked evidences of
fear, because quakes ot the earth were still iielt at short
iatervals. The Wateree was grounded inland at a quarter
of a mile from the beach, on the line of a railroad. Near
tte Wateree a l:*eruvian war vessel was also grounded and
so g«itly that none of its rigging nor any of its timbers
were impaired. On board the Teruvian war steamer 81)
Uvea were reported to have been lost. The United States
storeship Fredonia was upset, and all her crew were
drowned accowling *o report. Those who escaped were

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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

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-

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

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.,

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."

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(-**(' 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<^<k1r««r\«w *

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Be watching, praying, aeekiiig,

For soon the " Trump will sound."

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3. Awake ye ilumbeidng virguu,

Send forth the solemn ory ;
Let .all the saints repeat xt^
The BcidegMom draweth nigh.

4. Let all your lamps be iMiniing,

Your loins well guarded be ;
"• * Each longing heart preparing,
1 i i ' : With Joy thy face io see.

Brethren, while we sojourn bene,
Fight we must, hut shauld not fear ;
Foes we have, but weVe », friend, w .
One who loves us to tlie end. . <

Forward then, with courage go,
Long we shall not dwell below ;
Soon the joyful news will come :
Child, your father calk — Come home. 1

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The ways of religion tme pleasure afford.

No pleaaures can ibqiial the joys of the Lord ; '^\f

Foraake then, the world and escape for thy life.

And look not behind you, remember Lot's wile. .14

Our next chapter, leader, will give a brief account of
some oi Up^e greatest fires of the last three yeanife i

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CHAPTER VIII.

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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

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.

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•New York, Jan. 21st, ^807. — "The storas^t* ware-
house of Miller &; Coupler, wasdestroyod by tire last m<j>;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/<?.

New York, Feb., 1866.— -Last night 'the Bleeker Street
and Fulton Ferry Railroad Companies stables were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $40,OUO,— f/^raW. ,

Albany, Feb., 1S66. — A fire this morning destroyed on
First Street, property to the amount ol $45,000.

Burning of a Ship at Ska, Feb. 1860.— London Times :
The Maggie Atkinson, of Shields, Irom Tuticorin, with a
cargo ol cotton valued at $250,000, was tqtally burned on
the 13th, in lat. 25 N., Ion. 39 W. The following table
gives the losses by fire in the United States, from 1856 to
1864, inclusive, at $171,449,000. , .,. .v

G^REAT Fire at Valpariso, Nov. 1866 — Destruction
of projjerty by tire to the amount of 83,000,000, Th^ vil-
lage of Lima was visited by a destructive fire on Friday
morning -, three blocks burned. Loss $20,000. The City
Hotel, Madison, Wis., was burned, Dec. 14th, Loss, $25,-
000.— Tribune. »^-»

Racine. Wis., Jap., 1866. — A fire this morning destroy-
ed the Racine Hous^ block, the Titus block, the Telegraph
Office, and other buildings. — Loss 1 100,000. *-•*-:

New York, March, 1867. — A fire broke out this morn-
ing in the cotton storage of E. C, Johni-on, Ko. 4 Bridge
St., and destroyed property to the value ol $300,000.

St Louis, Oct, 1867. — Lewis Leith's vinegar factory, on
the comer of Washington street and Franklin Avenue,
was bunded this morning. Loss ^40,000. o an ^-jjmuiL

Battle Creek Heraidy March, 1866.— The losses by fire
throughout the United States for the six months just end-
ed, exceed those of the whole ot any previous year.
ReckouedatJ«,00.0,OpO., ,,,,,,_,,,„,., ^^ ,,^,,

Dareupori« Iowa, Dec, |867. — A lire 1^91 night de-
stroyed property to the amount of $60,000. »/

N. y., TribuMe^ 1860. — An eitensiTo fir© oc(mred on
Saturday night on the corner of St. Charles and Canal
streets, and destroyed property to the amount of $60,000.

New Haven, Conn., Jan., 1867. — A fire broke out here
thit< morning in Wenhall's extensive carriage and car fac-
tory. Loss $50,000. <

N. Y. Tribune^ Feb., 1867. — A fire this morning destroy-
ed the City Assembly Rooms, the American Theatre, and
several stores in Broadway. Loss $200,000.

St Louis, Mo., 1867. — The tobacco factory of Migers &
Drummond, Alton, HI., and one or two adjoining stores,
were burned last iiaturday. Loss $30,000.

From the Battle Creek Herald, 1866.— The past two
years have been marked by a greater number uf serious
conflagrations in every part of the country than had over
been Known beibre. Scarce a town ot any considerable
size has escaped, but none has suffered so tremendously as
the beautif"! city oi Portland, the second maritime town
of New i igland. More than one- half of its biddings
were destroyed. Among them were five churches, its
beautiful City Hall, all its bank and newspaper offices, its
manulactories and stores, audits great hotels: The loss
is said to exceed in value $10,000,000, and there are losses
in such cases which oannotbe estimated at a money co(n>
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

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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

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St. Louis, Feb. 12, 1867. — The car-house and repair
shqp oi the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, opposite this
city; was burned this morning together with sixteen cars.
Loss About $40,000. v ,'^?aiiK ^ ir^i h *w/'*v

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From the Globe^ 1866. — "We have received intelligence
Irom a correspondent at Elora, that at the early hour of
three o'clock on Saturday morning a fire baoke out at the
Elora Mills and Distillery, owned by J. M. Frazer, Esq.,

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completely destroyed. The loss is 1(^20,000.

Iribune^ 1867. — The tliiited States bonded warehouse
on IJickerson street wharf, containing 4,000 barrels of coal
oil, belonguig to various parties. Loss $96,000

Pithole, Oct. 9th, 1866.— The most destructive con-
flagration that ever took place in the oil regions occurred
here atone o'clock this mornin*:^, which terminated with-
out loss of life. The tanks of the largest ilovving well in
Pithole, known as Grant's, containing 4,000 bbls. of oil
caught tire, spreading destruction in all directions. Thir-
teen derricks and engine houses on the following leases
were destroyed : No's. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 28, and
on Hormder farm, and No's. 24 and 25 on the Morris farm,
covering a surface of five acres. The total loss will leach
$160,000.

Destructive Fire at Ottawa.— From the Ottawa
Citizen, Oct. 15, 1868. — We had a large fire in this city
last Sunday morning, destroying property belonging to
various parties, to the amount of from $20,000 to $50,000.

Tribune, 1866.— N. Y. Aug. 20.— A fire at Jersey City
yesterday, was one of the most disastrous that ever oc-
curred in this vicinity. It burned from eight a. m. till
nightfall. It broke out on the schooner Alfred Barrett,
lying at the oil pier on Jersey shore She was laden with
oil, and was to have started for Boston this morning. On
her catching hre she blew up, and the flames spread with
great rapidity to the adjoining piers and vessels. Two
piers were totally destroyed and one partially. Thirteen
lives lost and several persons injured. The loss of the
property was estimated at about $2,000,000.

Tremendous Fire in (Jariboo. — The principid town
in ashes. One hundred houses burnt. 1/Oss over one
million dollars, ($ 1 ,000,000.)

From the British Columbian, New Westminster, Sept.
23, 1868. — It becomes our painful duty to chronicle a fire
in comparison with which all that have previously hap-
pened In this Colony are as a drop to the bucket. On
Wednesday, the 16tn inst., about 2 p. m , a fire broke out
in Barry's saloon, Barkerville, and before 5 o'clock the
entire town was one mass of smouldering ashes. When it
is understood that Barkerville was the i)rinci]>al io\\a in.

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
<lovvn in tiie burnuig ship Nelson, 250 with the Brother
Jonathan, and 100 in the l*"wabic, 8,000 lives, it may be
reckoned, have been lost between April and September.'
In addition, may be added, a gn^at vari»»ty of miscellane-
ous casual tie? from mcavations, burnings, crushings, shoot-
ings, cuttings, and iHuticularly exj)losions, from which latter
cause an enumeration of only five cases gives a list ol kill-
ed and wounded, reaching lieaily 2,000. The same writer
baya :— Wo suU hear the most heartrending uccoimts ol

<lis,vslpr> 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. ♦

0 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.

'tit i

I.
«

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? o<l is not partial, and surely he is
not ; then, they got iiotilied ol the flood, why not we of
the end of time ? And very beautifully this is illustrated
by our Saviour in Matthew xxiv, 37,38. Where Christ
8ays, that as it wajs in the days ol Noah, so should it be in
his coming. Reader — Yes, but Christ said " of that day and
hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but
the Father only." Writer — Christ said, 1 believe the very
words a})out IhuO years ngo ; but, Chiistdid not sav that

reduce

tilence,
le com-
; Mark

neutioii
linj^ ol"
dt^tmite
rue that
lay and
Aiwstle
5, callN
auk the
was in-
a flood
among,
I would
lat wen^
ified ill
r— This
to you V
an agf
we are,
?ly he is
)t we ot
ustrated
5 (Christ
it be in
day and
A'en, but
the very
sav that

no man, ^^orAni^els, nor Fie hiinsi^H", over should know the
day and hour, tor, if Crod is not chaniyed, them olhis iK»oi>le
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<r V" Now,
in all earnestness, 1 would ask the reader how could the
scoffer speak thus it there was no one settinj^ forth the
promise ot His, Christ's comini^ ; it would be a p(»rversion
of terms, whicli I shall not admit to be existinji^ in God's
word. And aijnin, hear what our Saviour says in Matthew
xiiv, 45. •• Who then is a faithful and wise servant,
whom his lord hath nnule ruler over his household, to
^ive them meat," (the truth of the siffiis that 1 gave in the
preceeding verses) " in due season ?" '• But and if that
evil servant shall say in his heart, my l^ord deluyetti his
coming ; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants,"
here is one class preaching the truth of the coming of
Christ, the other class is smitinsr those, not, I presume,
by the fist, but by a slandering tongue ; f)Ut yet the time
ol Christ's coming was to be preach»'d i)rior to his com-
ing, or the lollowing scripture would be without mean-
ing. See Matthew XXV, 5, ♦• While the bridegroom" (Christ)
*' tarried, they all slumbered and slept " iieader — VViio
slumbered and slept V Writer— Simply those that were
aroused by the preaching ol time in IK4M and 1844.
Mothing can be said to lurry, except a set time is given
first, then, that is passed and goiu?, comes the slei'ping
and slumbering spoken of in the quolution above, Jvistt?n
what Paul says in Jlehrews x, 35, ^36, .'iT, 38, and 3l> 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

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<jhtthatshineth
in a dark place," and this is my motive reacfer, in bringing
those blessed testimonies to your notice. The Reader — All
very wed, but we should hnive Uio prophetic periods al-
together alone. Let us, in answer to this, your opinion,*
see what says the scripture, see Matthew xxiv, 15. Here
comes the language of <iur bleissed Redeemer, hearken,
" When ye therelbre shall see the abomination of desola-
tion sxx)ken oi by Dmiiel the piophet, stand in the holy
place, whoso rciultdh let him understand." This lan-
guage, my kind reader is rather opposed to your idea of
those things, lor Christ wants us both to read, and under-
stand what we do read. And suppose we would admit
ibr a naoment, that time, as given in the word of God, is a
secret ; hear the Psjdmest in ihe xxv Psalm aud 14 verse,
who says, •'Ihe secret of the J^ord is with them that fear
him ; and he will show them" (that fear him) " his coven-
ant" (the truth.) Proverl ii, 32, " For the froward is
abomination to the ^oid ; mu his secret is with tiie righte-
ous.'' Chapter iv, 1 8, " liut the path of the just is as a
shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day." Chapter vi, 23, '* For the commandment is a lamp ;
aii'l the law is light ; and reprools of instruction are the
way ot life." Chapter xxvin, 4, ,), " Evil men understand
not judgment : but they that seek the Lord understand all
thinas," time, iik«' every tiling else, as that is on record.
A^-an^see Kccles. viii, 5, " \Vhoso keepeth the command-
ment shall feel no evil thing : and a wise man s heart dis-
cemeth both time and judgment." See Paul, in Acts xvii,
31, "Because he" (that is God) "appointed a day, m the
which he will judgt; the world in righteousness." Daniel
xii, 10, *' Many shall be purilied, and made while, and
tried ; but the wicked shall do vvickedly : and none of
the wickv'd shall understand ; but the wise shall under-
stand.'' Settle upon th:^. re;ul^ , a« the yea and artien.
Heaj again, and uiideiiitun U whai tho Prophet Haliakkuk

lift ro-
cver."
scrip-
1 says,
ture is
ito us,
irnqny

t«ays,
hineth
inging
r— All
ods al-
linjon,*

Here
»arken,
desola-
le holy
is lan-
dea ot*
under-

admit
rod, is a

verse,
lat fear

covon-
,'ard is
righte-

is as a
perfect
I lamp ;
are the
erst ail d
and all
record,
ninand-
art dis-

ts xvii,

111 the

Daniel
10, and
M)nc of

iiiidcr-

artieii.

hakkvik

saith chapter se((>::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, 0 rebellious house, will I say the word,
aii(l will pori'oi-r. it ijuilh the Lord God, The veto, isnii

f^f

'<<

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<Mne, cume away.

Come, come, where Jesns' love will be.

Who says, 1 meet with two or three ;

Sweet promise made to thee ; O, come, come away.

3. With joy I accept the gracious invitation ;

y,.j heart exults with raptruous hope ; U, come, come away ;

When Jesus comeH, 0 may we meet

A happy throng at his dear feet ;

Our joy will be complete ; O come, come away.

> 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 ; 0 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

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 ' *

?. t<vij:*(v setaheaa brings us unto the year

of our Lord 1873a.d.

full time, or tlie beginnini^ of 1873. Spring Eauox, or
Exodus. This is the way I view those j>eriods, 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

0 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,

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 <il ihe 2,800 years,
it there is any ; I soli<'it the world to show it, until tliis ift
done I am iorced to ailopt my own rule ;

This is it ....*. 2,300 years

Commenced in the year before Christ 43*i

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which \vill brin<^ u« to the year 1872, lull y*'ars, or to Iho
Exodus ori873 in the }»j)ring; this is my foot-hold. h«>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-

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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
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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

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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

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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

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."
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/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, .,., .

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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.

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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.

itario.

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