The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-12
Phenomical and PrognostIcaI,


Phenomical and Pr0gnosticaI.
Some time since a celebrated astrou
omer predicted that the present woul,
be q most remarkable year, full o
: signs, and wonders, and calamities, sucl
as volcanic e%ruptions, earthquakes, in
undations, etc. He might have added
we think, Radical rule, unless it be tina
his prognostic and scientific brain fore
saw the downfall Of Radicalism ant
would consider 1t no wonder. But O
great calamity has its rule beer
thus far, beyond all question. And il
will be seen from an article on the out.
side Of the Home journal this week,
that about two years ago the Rev. DR..
Baldwin predicted, in a sermon at Mt.
Nebo church in Maury county, that this
year war would break out in the
North between political parties, fierce
and bloody it would be, but the Con.
stitutional party would prevails Docs
ii not seem that this prophecy is about
to be fulfilled? What is Tue President
doing but trying to ave the Constitu.
ton from the vandalism of Stevens and
Sumner, ct ais, who boldly assert that
they are acting outside Of that sacred
and once revered instrument bequeath.
ed US by our greatest and best men ?
DIR. Baldwin said he would not live to
see this war, and that much of his
prophecy has been fulfilled, for be Stun.
bers in the dust from whence We all
came.
But this astronomer VIC alluded to
said that about the 1st of March we
would have violent winds and earth.
quake commissions. Has not the re-.
pose of the atmosphere been disturbed
mostpowerfully o flate by fierce winds ?
And we have read in our exchanges of
volcanic eruptions, rumbling sounds,
and shakings of the earth in various
parts OF the United States and in Cana
There is something also the mat
Ter with the mountains east Of US. The
Virginian of the 2Sth ultimo
says:
"At about II o'clock. the morning of
asst Saturday week, many Of the citi.
'ens Of Washington and Smyth coun-
les, were startled by a loud report and
succeeding rumbling sound, some. =
What like distant thunder, which, in :
'ome localities, produced jars and rock, Z
ngs such as usually accompany earth.
We are informed that near
he base of the Iron Mountain, some
welye or fifteen miles southwest of Alb. ,
ngdon, the noise, as well as the appar. }
mt commotion Of the earth, was abso- g
ately alarming" !
And the Athens Glenn Post of the
tn inst, says: +.
We learn that about the same time, I
lmilar manifestations were noticed -
y persons living near Big Smokey in u
'orth Carolina and that occasionally l
trough the night something resemb- ',
ng large balls of fire could be seen r
footing upwards at different points a
.ong the summit of the mountain. II
hese, with the detonations which i'm e
ediatcly followed and the p%erceptiblc
ygitation of the earth. are said to have
artled the people in that region, moth ~
6 like it ever having occurred before ~:
thin the memory of the Oldest inhab- =
ant. W
In politics and nature both we OBJ. -,
rye indications that the astronomer in
ID the divine were right. This Grand in
of the Republic, the formation Of
'cret Societies all over the land-Pale G.
aces, Loyal Leagues, Kuklux, &C., dc
are ominous in politics as the barom-
er is, before the storm, to nautical VI
en-. Verify 1868 is big with "coming "
ents' that least their shadows be
re-" /,