The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-26
Calls, SaettBes, 3aeeOotes, &-t.
Z WONDERFUL PHENOMENON.
ISLANDS or PLRE GEMS THROWN UP FROM
TIE BED Of THE PACIFIC OCEAN BIZ
THE LATE PARTICULARS.
To tie Editor Of the St. Louis Times:

To tie Editor of the St. Louis Times
One of the most extraordinary stories
ever read or written has since a late hour
last night been gaining ground in certain
quiet quarters of the city. 1t is so mar
yelous that one could scarcely believe it to
BE- anything but the chImera Of "A madruan's S
brain. if it were not confirmed by scientific
facts, and by vast number of the theo-
ries of modern philosophy. 1t is difficult
10 determine what amount of credlbilIty
we should attach to it, and it is best 10 let
every man who reads the following para
phs Judge for himself. IL will be re-
membered that the late catastrophe in
South America occurred simultaneously
with an extraordinary eclipse of the sun,
which astronomers affirm has not occur
red before for two thousand years and will
not occur again for two thousand years to
come.
No event of equal magnitude to the
late earthquake IN South America has oc>
CURED since the days of Herculaneum and
PompeII i; but the CONFUSION which over
whemed those two cities was nearly local
$50 far as is known), and of scarcely any
extent compared TO the late catastrophe,
which shook the entire continent of Amer
lea, from the river Sacramento to Cape
Horn, and which must have been felt with
Il thousand times more terrific force out in
the wide Pacific. 1t must be borne in
mind that ceologists affirm that the crust
Of the earth in that quarter Of the globe is
much thinner than at others and some
of them even 90 SO far as to say that the
q
ed continent. At all events, the great
majority of the islands of the Pacific archi-
pelago are Of volcanic formation, and
navigatOrs have been known to discover
islands in these latitudes which they knew
from their previous experience not TO have
| existed some years before 1t is now an
/ established fact that the entire center OF
the earth is filed with boiling ocean of
/ liquid fire, which horrible and enormous
! masses are liable to the same changes of
! ebb and flow as the mighty mass of waters
/ on the outside crust OF our globe. This
/ horrible reservoir has been described by
! Sir Charles Lyeie aud other profound
! thinkers as the great furnace of nature,
wherein are sInelted all the Metals
( gold, silver, lead, iron, platina, &c and
which are afterward pushed up to the
face by the volcanic action of the
seething ocean beneath. 1t is here a $50
that are produced the beautiful diamonds
! and crystalized stones, for it is now known
/ that they owe the form and brillancy
| they possess simply to the fact that they
have been exposed to the high tempera-
ture which exists in the center of the
earth. We could make diamonds cut OF
/ charcoal, could we reach the proper de-
/ gree of heat; but that can, perhaps,
never be reached by any artificial means
az the command of man AS we said
above the ocean of liquid fire is subject to
tidal motion, and it is to this fact must be
attributed the fearful events that have
desolated South America. The eclipse in
the East Indies, where the sun and moon
were in direct conjunction, must have
ere ated stronger tidal current than has