, 1843-01-28

Mis-
tImony to their validity. as did III
Emperor Napoleon, in the Island {
81. Helena, yet no remedy has bee
provided.
We trust the period has at lengt
I arrived, when justice will no longe
: he withheld from the families Of III,
I original sufferers, most of whom ar
now beyond the reach of earthly LEG
lslat'on.-[New York Journal o
Commerce.
CELESTIAL PHENoMENA.-Just n
present. every unusual appearance
IN and about the atmosphere. seem tc
be regarded with superstilious horror
by the weak-minded and creduIous.
In some communities which we could
mention, a tolerabIe sized bonfire n,
night is sufficient to ,hrowa whole
neiehborhood into commotion: while
the light Of "A blazing barn or cow
house would be looked upon as the
sure precursor Of the last "conflagra-
i1on." The intelligent reader need
not be informed that remarkable phe-
nomena in the heavens have been
witnessed in every age Of the world
or that they have been a fruitful
source OF excitement and alarm. To-
norance is the mother of superstition
and consequently the cause of n large
share of the imaginary evil to which
"Poor human nature" has been sub
jected.
The venerable Noah Webster, of
New Haven, in a recent commune.
cation, makes mention of several
wonderful appearances which occur.
ed during the last century.
In the dark day, May ls, 1880, the
heavens were covered with dense
clouds for three or four hours; the
Legislature was in session at Hart
ford, and such was the darkness that
business could not be transacted with
out candles. During the time the
clouds were tinged with yellow or
faint red colors for hours. for which
no cause has been assigned.
In the evening Of March %, 1882,
IN extraordinary light spread over
whole hemisphere from horizon
10 horizon, north and south, east and
west. The light vas Of ayellowish
cast and wavy. The waving OF the
ight was visible, and some persons
heard or imagined they heard a light
'ustling sound. II
In the year 1885,, a great part Of
was for weeks o%verspread +.
With a haziness of atmosphere, which
:aused great CONSERVATION. The
churches were crowded with suppl !
ants. The astronomer Laland at. 5
empted TO aIlay the fright by en- |
'eavoring to account for the appear. $
nee, which he ascribed TO be an un. S
ommon exhaIation Of water parti. q
les. from the great rain Of the pre- a
eding year. But at last the cause
vas ascertained 10 be smoke from the
ruption of the volcano Hecla, 10 Ice
md, which covered more than three ,
lousand square miles with burning
IVA, in some places to the depth of
,riy feet.
In a late paper, published by the
liberties, was an article stating that u
he northern lights ~foretell something r
The writer seems not 10 o
now hal n the high northern lati- e
ldes, in the sixteenth degree and b
orlhward, northern lights are of s.
ally occurrence, and SO have been i
ON time immemorial. So illumina- n
ID are the heavens that persons may u
ten see TO read by the light. !"
These lights occasionally come so lc
South as to illuminate the sky in G
If latitude. Sometimes they do !,
1t appear for many years. At the Y
ose of the seventeenth and begin g
g Of the eighteenth century those VI
yhts were not seen for long period, m
I'd when they reappeared, about the lie
,ar 17I7. our ancestors, who had ST
1t seen or heard of them, were all III
and actually supposed the re
y Of judgment had come.-[Hart- OF
I'd Review. III
A NOBLE BEaUEsT.-An article in i;
e Louisville Journal of the 26th in i;
ant says: "The la,e John Bastard, "
uenerouslv haouaafbed IN tho =