Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-24

I725 volcano Of Lierhukur, in Iceland,
during which tract of high land rose
from the bed Of lake, aud another lake
was formed from the fall Of an immense
area of land; l730-36 five years convul.
sions OF Lomcerote-the earth was rent
and discharged pestilential vapors--
smoke and flames rose from the sea with
loud explosious--lava choked up rivers,
thirty cones formed from three to six
hundred feet in hight; 1746 earthquake
in Peru-two hundred shocks in twenty
four hours, Lima destroyed, several new
bays formed, nineteen ships sunk ana
four carried far inland; 1855 the dread
full earthquake that destroyed Lisbon on
the first of November, in which sixty
thousand perished in six minutes. the
sea retired and rolled back fifty feet above
its level-the largest mountains in For
tupsl were split ssunder. This shock was
felt through Europe, in the north Of AT.
RIGA and in the West Indies. A vast tidal
wave, sixty feet in hight, swept over the
coast of Spain and near Morocco--the
earth opening in an instant swallowed up
ten thousand people, their docks aud
homes. and then as suddenly closed over
them, leaving nothing but few assures
to show where but ten minutes before had
been life and industry; 1853 the volcano
of Jorullo, in Mexico, rose during an
earthquake from the plain OF Malpais,
forming hill sixteen hundred feet high I;
1856 heavy shocks occurred inVenezuela;
l772. eruption of the volcano Papanda-
gang. in Jaya--a tract of country fifteen
miles long by six wide was engulphed,
forty villages swallowed up, and the cone
of the volcano reduced four thousand
feet l777, during the eruption of the vol.
cauo. on the side of which the city OF
Guatemala was built, the ground gape,i
open and swallowed the whole city, with
it's eight thousand families, not one being
left to tell the tale; 1888, earthquake In
Cslabria, four thousand persons per-
ished; same year, eruption OF Asam-
aysma, in Niphon, many towns swal
lowed up; 1897, in Quito, many towns
and villages destroyed; 1906, an island,
sixty miles in circumference. rose from
the sea among the Aleutian Isles; 1911,
in South Carolina and on the Misslssippi
felt the most seDsibly at New Madrid,
Missouri-saDd and coal we're thrown up
seventy feet, Reelfoot Lake was formed,
and the sink lands; 1872, the city OF
Caracas destroyed, and ten thousand
persons perished 1916, eruption. OF
Tomboro, in Sinpbava-ot twelve thou
sand inhabitants only twenty. six sur
vived; 1918, earthquake in Clutch, de-
stroyed many towns and villages, deep
eoed the eastern arm of the Indies from
one to eighteen feet; 1922, Aleppo de-
stroyed; in Chill the shock was felt
twelve hundred miles, the coast near
VALPARAISO, for one hundred miles, was
raised above its former level from two to
eight feet--the tract thus raised had an
area of one hundred thousand square
miles; 1927, earthquake committed great
ravage at Bogota; 1881, the island OF
Sciaeca rose from the sea near the south
ern coast of Siely-the depth of the sea
at this spot was six hundred feet, and the
island rose one hundred feet above the
surface-circuit, three thousand two hum
dred and forty feet in the winter OF 1881,
the island was swept away by the waves
leaving nothing but shoal. Then we
have had the late convulsions In the
Sandwich Islands, the West Indies, and
the more recent calamity IN south
America. Yet, in the latter, with all Its
horrors, there is the solace that some
were left; whereas in many instances we
have cited, not q soul was saved. We
could add the destruction Of Herculaneum
Pompeii, and others, all Of which lead us
to hone that the present convulsed con-
dition of the bowels of the earth has no
connection with system of shocks that
is to destroy the world, but is merely one
of those outbursts of nature that must
find its level in molten lava and yswning
abys6es.
The Know-Nothing movement is grow
ing stronger and stronger in this region,
and you may soon see the same scenes
re-enacted that disgrsced our land a few
years back. 1t is wonderful how the
Radicals hate the negro and the foreigner
They used the one to build up their for
tunes, the other to fight their battles,
and now would send them all to Tophet,
having so use for their services. The
following extract from that lying sheet,
the Tribune, is q sample of the dirty
fiings at the gallant Irishmen OF the
country: n.4 aig
zone reason why the intelligent Irish
man who landed yesterday at Castle
Garden will vote for Seymour aud Blair
is because the Government has spent so
many millions of dollars on Bureaus for
Freedmen. 'Divil bureau did they
give me, says Pat = r $50 sH
They know that every decent Irish.
man will vote the Democratic ticket, and
thus they war upon them in dirty jokes,
inuendoes and malicious attacks. Know
Nothingism, as il now rears its hideous
front, Is the creation Of England, who
uses this method Of attacking the Catho-
lie Church, whose champions have struck
her 80 fatal g blow in the late Church
issues in Parliament. She knows that
the great body Of Irishmen are
Catholics there are exceptions),
and she arrays brother sgains, brother in
the attempt TO establish a church aris-
tocracy through State union. This ma
levolent political monster must be oblit-
Grated from the family Of nations. and
the humane policies Of the Old World
must be purEed Of this disiemper, this
Eoglish cancer. upon the vitals Of leeis-
isiioB. She sent Give 70 The Esst Who
plund~rd the territory. He stole. and
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