Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-24
LETTER FROM BEPPO.
The Rosecrans MfssiOn-AccOunts of
Earthquak es-The KnOw-Nothfng
MOvement-The Cruelty of En-
gIish POIicy-Dangers of
Religious War-BrfIliant
Future of Memphis.

PHILADELPHIA. September %.
The mission of Gen. Rosecrans is du
.fait accompli. What was its object?
Not to have repetition of conferences,
or reiterations of good intentions from
the late Confederate leaders the former
have been frequent, the latter constant,
until each child in the land is confident
that the South is for peace-not that
" Warsaw quiet, but the calm of 1859
Gen. Rosecrans is Minister to Mexico.
That distracted country also desires
peace; and, armed with the carte blanche
Of his Government, and the late card of
Robert E. Lee and others, he tells the
Mexicans "they can have peace through
his sympathies," but the North has
already too much territory South. She
desires soil like Alaska. She prefers arc
torial to equatorial possessions at present.
So Mexico cannot sell out to the United
States--that great power don't want her;
and, as all the Southern leaders are also
for peace, any hopes Of future alliance
Of the Gulf States and Mexico may as we'll
be buried, aud Mexican leaders must sub
NIT to the delay of a half century before
they can see new order Of things.
Mexico and the Gulf States in one alli-
apce, the Southern, Western and Middle
in another, and the New England and the
Cauadas in another. The Rosecrans
movement was simply political stroke,
to show to Mexico that peace reigned IN
the United States, and if they desire in
that unhappy country protectorate they
can have it--looking to future aDnexs-
ton but for the time no more annexation
South; and that the now United Qate
divided) States of America is able to pro-
tect her feeble neighbor from any more
Maximilian raids, French or English
domination.
There is much excitement in this city
| in relation to that terrible calamity, the
late earthquake in South America. It's
said that there 10 no record of greater
| calamity of similar character, but history
disproves the assertion. B. C. 427 they
had terrible quake and eruption at
mOuut i4tudt WHICH utboiatcu Cotoutas ~.
G. IA Hiera island rose from the Egean
Sea during an earthquake; B G. ll5
Antioch was destroyed by an earthquake;
1887 Csiania swallowed by an earth
quake; ll3S ninth eruption of Vesuvius,
after which it was quiescent one hum
dred and sixty eight years; 1902 Ischia
was rsvsged by an earthquake; 1888
Monte Nuavo, hill four hundred and
forty feet high, formed near Naples; 1873
island of little Xameni rose near Here
1881 eruption Of Vesuvius destroyed
| Torredell, Greece, and three thousand
lives lost; 1866, after au interval ofthirty-
| Eve years, Vesuvius again belched forth
lava, and from that time TO the present
she has been regularly discharging her
destructive ere, averaging ten years to
an eruption; 1863 eruption Of Mt Etna,
forming Mt Rossi four hundred and hIty
feet high. and destroying fourteen WI
lsees; 1897 Jamaica suffered = three
fourihs Of the houses Of Port Royal, With
the ground iaey cecnpied, sank With their
tenants under water; less, in Sicily,
Csisnia and forty-nine towns destroyed,
one hundred Thousand persons perisbedi !
lf0s remarkable eruption Of Tenerfs;