The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-26
Gales, ShetcBes, 5aeeootes, &t.
3 WONDERFUL PHENOMENON.
ISLANDS or PURE GEMS THROWN Up FROM
TIE BID OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN By
TIE LATE EARTHQUAKE.

( To the 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 bslIeve it to
BE- anything but the chlmera of ii madman's S
brain. if it were not confirmed by scientific
facts, and by vast number of the tbeo-
ries of modern philosophy. 1t is difficult
10 determine what amount of credibihty
we should attach to it, and it is best TO let
every man who reads the following para
graphs judge for himself II 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 Ia South America has oc~
CURED since the days of Herculaneum and
Pompeii ; but the CONFUSION which over
whelmed 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 geologists 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
lDal Dft ba ID. = e.
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 a boiling ocean of
/ liquid fire, which horrible and enormous
/ masses are liable 10 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,-
1 gold, silver, lead, iron, platina, &c. and
which are afterward pushed up to the
SUI face by the volcanic action of the
! seething ocean beneath. 1t is here also
that are produced the beautiful diamonds
and crystalized stones, for it is now known
/ that they owe the form and brilliancy
4 they possess simply 10 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
at the command of man AS we said
above the ocean of liquid fire is subject TO
tidal motion, and 1t 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