The daily Panola star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1871-1872, 1871-11-04

tine considered q national curse. The
Duke OF Cumberland, who was known
TO have beena gambler, Is said to have
carried pack Of cards ln hts pocket;
end when he had won the famous tield,
he took out the nine Of diamond. aud
wrote his account Of the victory on It.
the GREAT FIRE.
ss The merchants OF the earth are wax
cd rich through the abundance Of her d lica-
| ciee.
Hew much the has glorihed herself, and liv-
| ed delic ously, SO much sorrow and torment
give her; for she saith in her heart, sit queen
and am no wid,w, and shall see no sorrow
- She shall be utterly burned with Ore
And the kings OF the earth shal bewal her,
aud lament for her when they shall see the
| smoke OF her burning.
Standing sfar Of Tor har of her torment and
| saying Alas, alas, tnat great citv, that
mighty city; for In one hour is thy judgment
| come.
- The merchants viii ch were
made rich by her shall stand af.r OIL
weeping and wai'ing.
,, And thy ~ 49,. cried, weeping and wall
wherein We're made rich all tbat % had ships Ain II
the sea by reason of her costliness, -ioe in one
hour is she made desolate.-BipLE.
Once in an age. Nay, once in CEN
tury great thing happens, by which
every other event is measured until a
greater thing occurs to blot 1t from the
memory Of man. This great calamity
marks an era in the worlds march.
Ofevery calamity, every blessing, and
every.visitation, it will be asked, How
long was 1t after Tor before) the Chicago
fire? Was 1t since the great fire? Moth
ing like 1t has occurred since Chicago's
calamity, and many such expressions
Of data.
Nothing less than the pen of divine in
spiration could outlinethe prefiguration
Of catastrophe SO grand as that which
has befallen Chicago, and nothing less
than the pen Of d.yi1e inspiration can do
justice to its occurrence.
Moscow, engulfed in maeistrom Of
flame, London, disappearing in the
whirlwinds of fire that swept for weeks
over Its plague.strickesareas Pompeii,
buried for seventeen hundred years be-
meath the rush Of molten waves and vol
canic ashes, to the accom- panimeat OF
the groans of an ocean that Ted away In
horror, the roar Of escaping gates, the
crash of falling columns, and tho retodl
ing Of nauseated earth, these were in
significant In the measure of their calam-
tiles when results are compared with
reference to their immensely, their sud-
denness, and their awful grandeur. The
contemplate saloon Of the first origin,
and the now abolished cow-barn of the
second, are both already forgotten, but
the widow and the fatherless; the home
less and the impoverished remain to
curse the origin Of their calamity. The
visitation upon Chicago in the past
should be lesson to other cities in the
future. Where Is the mind that can
measure the pecuniary loss, the millions
consumed, and the other millions just
blossoming, and VIII use frution was only
question Of tim. Where is the artist.
writer whose soul ca I take In and whose
hand can even ou line the vful horror,
the immeasurable sublimity Of the hur-
ricsne of destruction, who Is there, alas,
who can 60 below these material facts,
and comprehend and estimate the mass
Of hopes, of happiness, Of household ties,
of family loves that were shriyaled and
consumed like bits of TISSUE paper fung
into thrice heated furnace. 1t was a
fierce fire whose sinister tongues shot
Kissing into the future, and licked clean
the prosp .cts. the anticipatlons, the hap
piness OF myriads. 1t was visitation of
to-day that reached back and destroyed
the labors Of yesterday, and whose fires
will long be gnawing into tomorrow.
Not even those comprehend what they
saw who were chased by the on-rushing
waves Of flime, who battled against Its
pos.ess' "nv WIZ ,'un,eu ~ 'no
snanuel o. .amollng vans, wno were en-
a'a',p. ss,upsu = ~ sHo Il sOnore uep'ns y sluoAy
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were unscorched by the advancing
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