The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-10-30
RI. Ealb and his Astronomical
 Predictions.

Most or the news rom the OOuln Oy Luc 4Set mail, came mingled with fears and anxieties excited by the predictions of Astronomer Falb. Certainly, fit is any satisfaction and honor to a scientific man to have his deductions read and attended to wherever the voice of the Press can be heard, Mr. r. has little reason to complain. Along the coast of Peru, many of the most intelligent families have removed away from the sea. until the period of the pcs sible fuIGlment of the prediction shall have passed over During the middle ages the ap- psarancs of a comet and other common celes-- tial phenomena were sufficient to disturb the tranquility of entire nations. They looked to heaven and tue ceremonies of the church to pro- tect them. The voice of science was neither heard nor sought for. Nowadays science has ascertaned for us how even the most distant planets effect our moral and physical welfare.
 ven the spots on the suns disc, though go, 00O,O00 miles off, effect our magnetic instru mentg; showing how our terrestrial and aerial electricity are obedient to the solar influence,
 
 the state ol mans mind, may make him enthue siastic, reckless or dispirited, As to earth quakes, here we seem to enjoy 8 not easily ex plained immunity from such events somehow or other this part of the isthmus seems to lie outside of the line of direction of both northern and southern volcanic disturbances In Cher iqui. to the north of us, they are yearly felt more or less becoming more severe as we 9 n citrate into the Central American States There is uot in the history of Panama, since its eso any evidence or record of severe earthquakes. The towers Of the cathedral and the saints in its niches seem never to have stirred from heir rigid contem p!ative attitudes since it was bnit All this, we admit, affords but u;tIe consolation 10 our friends whose dwell ingS rest above the volcanic subterranean re- zion of South America. However we often suffer real evils by too keenly antcpa ting events whose recurrence certainly falls within the circle of possibility; but still does not ad- nit of absolute certainty. How often has the end of lhe world been predicted, founded, it is true, only on moral calculations which cannot claim anything like mathematical certainty IL is said of Rev. Dr. Cummings, who has also had his share of such gloomy vaticinations that in making new contract fer renting 8 house, he wished to have it at much lower price, seeing that the end of all things was so near.
 It must be admitted that our friends both at Calloa and Atica have abundant reason to be uneasy. The lesson taught both places, espe- cially the latter, has been too terrible to be forgotten. To stranger arriving for the first time at Calloa, the form ation of the shingly soil and point upon which it Is built is very striking. As he walks through the recently made streets, running over the site of old CAL lac, and sees upturned human skulls and bones the relics of the former city on the one hand and the small elevation above the sea on the other, he can scarcely help saying to himself what a slight oscellation of the land would be sufficient to sweep az ain the present inhabitants and buildings into the 'mar brava." Neverlhe- less we have the overwhelming earthquakes of Lisbon, Port Royal, Caracas and other places which have never been repeated,
 We translate for our readers part of letter written from Taona to the Comercio of Lima, under date of August 10th :
 "The days have passed when, according to MT. FGlb, we ought to have had violent ter rsstrial movements. However, aboat g. n. of the 14th inst, some noise was heard, put without any further results. But as it might be prelude to the terrible earthquake which is expected to occur about the end of Septem Der, or beginning of October, everybody feels anx ious and dispirited from the mere idea that the cataclyism of the 18th of August, last ear might be repeated. Many families still remain