The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-01-17

: the child of the ,ohitc tlo,oerohe old Bour.
bon dynasty on his throne.'' The re.
mainder ofthe provisions are somewha,
tremendous, but moro Obscure terrinn
to the Church as we'll as 10 secular affairs
So much for the Solitary Of Orval!
The next French prophecy is ascribed
to Jesuit priest Of Poitiers, who died a,
Bordeaux towards the close Of the last
century. Twas made prior to the frs,
French revolution, which it predicted, and
other events, Gas in the case Of Orval) 10
tho present time. Hence it is popularity
depended on for the tuturc.-lt predicts,
among other things, nterriblc n conyulsion
the formation two parties in France
that convulsion shall extend TO other
lands (it has done so)--end that Paris
shall be $50 utterly destroyed, tha, when
twenty years afterwards, fnrlhers shall
walk with sheir children, and the children
shall ask--why is thu, dcsolate spot?'-
they shall answer-My children, here
once stood a great city, which God des-
troyed for its crimes After this fearful!
convulsion, all will return 10 order, and
the counter revolution sIlall be- made.
Then shall the triumph ofthe Church be
such, that nothing like it shall ever he
seen again, for it shall be the last triumph
OF the Church on earth" Tho commen-
,ator says that the :" events foretold ought
to receive their fulfilment Calculation
giycn) before 1850. And SO much for
the prophecy OF Poiliers.
Then comes the prediction Of Bug de
Thilas, Of the pyrenees, in The sixteenth
century, who predicted the utter dcstruc-
tion ofPuris, entering into details of the
grent fire, and fixing the epoch for The
disaster in the nineteenth century.
The" Prophetic Lorraninc" in verse,
foretclls The same event, with minute des.
criPtions and details, warning the Paris.
ian (" that he will perish entirely by his
own fault"
But when is this tremendous connagra.
tion TO occur?
An alphabetico-numerai calculation is
given, which places it in tho year ls49!
The Rev. Robert Fleming's minister
ofthe Scottish Church) predictions, pub
lished in 1704, are then dwelt upon at
great length in which he foreshadows
events TO 1904 Us tho opening Of the
Fourth Vial ofthe Revclations--and that
athe opening of,he Fifth Vial of,he Apoca.
slypse, (under the wrath ofwhich the world
rs now, OF course, supposed to be suffering,
5.fefcrs 10 the period hetwe cen 4794 vand
SladS. d 8 ~. ~ .es 4
i tse have thus endeovored 10 gsyes the
Us. sss.s 81;
s.'ang fssSosIl 81 ran Sc iiats
SeeTs ofthe Future did moi foreteil he in in. /
yention ofthe steam engine, Of railway
locomotives, the adoption Of steam navi.
CATION on the ocean-and more wonderful
still, the discovery OF The Magnetic Tel. |
egraPh-as being all und each, Of more
Importance TO mankind al large than tho
burning of Paris, or even French revo-
lution! However, We will not quarrel
with the Projectors ofthe dark future or
their eKpounders-ns it is probable that
they could not see erery thing in the time
10 come. Besides, n thought strikes our
mind--and that is, ,ha, Paris with its solid
walls OF masonry, its tile and brick
floors and stairs. cases, would not prove
prove sufficiently combusiible to produce
general conlugru,ion. BY fire, nj
lenst, it could never be more thun par.
TALLY destroyed.
DROLL FUNERAL PROCESSION.
MIR. Kendall, writing from Hamburg
says: Lest some Of my readers may think
that the term jroll, us applied to funeral
procession, mny appear strange, let me tell
them that in Hamburg tho friends and re-
lativcs OF the dead do not follow the re-
mains to the grave, but in their stead
march along some twelve or sixteen hired
monrners, with curled and powdered wigs
upon their heads, short cloaks upon their
shoulders, and swords at their sides, while
the very quantness Of their costumes, and
species Of mock gravity upon the coun.
tcnance Of those whose trade it is 10 mourn
for pay, combine to give anything but that
soIcmnity to scene which the stranger
meets in other lands. ~
ARKANSAS CoURTs.-TME WAY THEY
DO IA correspondent Of the New
York Spirit Of the Times. writing from
El-Dorudo, relates tho following "good
un."
K. II. NJ, an Attorney Of high stand
ing at our Bar, being counsel in case
then pending, was called by the Sheriff
from The Court House door three times,
distinctly--R. II. NJ, Esquire! r. II.
NJ, Esquire! but no answer to either call,
and it wns impossible 10 proceed with the
case, without him; some inquiry was
made by tho court "in person." when one
OF the crowd walked up to the bench, say.
ing:--"Ef you want him prc,ickeler,
Judge, he's over at BIS, playjnp pokcr.n