Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-16

~ ~ NEAA VI htAC hSAb U tIt HAS VI, as dpoNt,
and that is always the case with all the cycles
Therefore. as the year 1880 A D. was the fifth
fifty of the cycle, it did have and was necessi-
tated TO have + for its Dominica letter, else
something would have been wrong. This be
ing the case, land there is no mistake in it,
If you commence your count four years ear
lier, that is 1904 B. c., as USHER did. do YOU
not see that there would have run out so ma
ny cycles and four years over before the CON-
mencement Of the Christian Era? And if so
could the Christian Era have commenced IN
der the Dominica letter G ? | say it could
not &; for if the fourth year before the Chris
tian Era was the last wear of the cycle, with
the Dominica letters B, A, the fourth wear
thereafter, the first wear Of the Christian
could not have had G for its Dominica letter
- and moreover the year 1916 would have
been fiftieth year of the cycle, with the Do
minical letter +, entirely destroying the pres
ent arrangement Of the Dominica letters.
You certainly can see this; but for fear
that some who read cannot understand, let
me illucidate little farther by the following
hypothesis Suppose you establish post
route from the city of Washington to San
Francisco, and at every fiftieth mile-post
5 age Office. You employ stage drivers to go
each fifty miles day that Is from one stage
Office to another, until he goes four hundred
miles and return; no one IS TO go any farther.
You designate the stage offices by the Do
mIuical letters The office at the first fifty
mile-post fom Washington il designated B
the second one, . ; and 80 on 10 the four
hundred mile station, which VIII be dcsjgna-
ted B, \ and that is as far as any one stage
driver is allowed to 60. Now, if it be just
four thousand miles 10 San Francisco. how
many stage drivers VIII you have to employ
to take the mail through? Ten, OF course
But suppose it be four thousand and four
miles to San Francisco, viii not the last one
Of the ten have to stop four miles short Of the
city, or transcend his Instructions You see
short of San Francisco as the tenth cycle of
four hundred wears would have TO stop short
Of the Christian Era if the cycles were start
ed at 1904 B. &. Bat suppose your post
route took another direction at San Francis
co, and extended two thousand miles from
there to some other place, the stage offices ar
ranged and designated as aforesaid from San
Francisco how near TO the l,S50th mile post,
or fifth station. in the last drivers four hun
dred miles would the driver arrive on the
fifth day. provided the driver started tour
miles short of San Francisco, and travelled but
fifty miles day? Would he not stop at post
I,S46 from San Francisco Certainly he
would
Then if the year 1876 was one of the ffties
from creation, and the fifth fifty from the
commencement Of the cycle, ought it not to
have had for its Dominical letter, instead of
D, which It did have? This all looks so
plain to me that cann..t see how any one
who reads can misunderstood 1t. l will next
adduce Fergusons Tables to prove that B. c.
1000 was the creation year. His y 5. Table,
No. 3, .. sos. is calculated for 1000 \. D
but it will serve Just as well for 1000 A. NJ,
if we reckon the Christian Era to commence
At she close of that period, Fo, example,
let Us Try tile era of Nabonassar Il being
the faith year B. c, if we subtract that num-
Der from 40Ol, (the one has to be added 10
connect the two eras,) we viii have remain
der of 1884 for the A VI. Now find the Do
minical letter for 1924 in the table, and YOU
lind it to be D, which, though aimed for that
year A. D., answers just we'll for the paral-
lei wear \ NJ And 50 with all the other
dates. which would not be the case if time
was not measured by whole cycles. Each
cycle contains POST weeks; if, therefore, We
subtract one week from any cycle, or add to
it one week, it will destroy the whole
r-4asement of the DominicaI letters. Is not
this another proof that the cycles, be they
many or few, started at creation Bot Mr.
Bis, has stated OF a former occasion that
3. c. 747 THE Era OF Nabonassar) 4" had Z
for is Dominica letter, which brings
the 18th Of February on Tuesday = the COM
putur who made il Wednesday being in error"
This being said in reply to what had quoted
from the Wing Almanac, in which the stvle
was indicated n s, shows that Mr. B. either
did not rightly comprehend the subject, or
something else which shall leave him to ex-