Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-03

a long and joyous spring.
Iscarce believe it can be so,-
It seems n dream to me,
That Hire and TDeRty years ago,
We started ON hfe's sea.
Ali many a storm has swept that sea,
And many a bark gone done,
But thou art left, my al TO me,
"a blessing and a crOwn."
Then here / plight my VOWS again,
And here let thine be given,
That, though we part on earth, or MAN,,
still be mine in Heaven"
MAY 10, lSZ J. J. &.
WINDY.
" Three Stars" after I" Astron "-As
tr0IOgers and Astronomers.
EDITORS APPEAL-The writer in YOU
issue of yesterday, signing himsel
"Astron," evidently desires to gain
disagreeable notOriety by predicting dir
misfortunes as about to befalI the earth
His eminent contemporaries, the Easr
Indian a~strologer and the European
astronomer, having failed in their pretty
little scheme for a grand meteoric col
lision in August next, by which we wert
to be annihilated, he comes to their res
cue with q new scare for the wicked one:
Of earth, viz: a general drying UP Of the
waters this summer. And this he be
lieves has already commenced, despite
the incessant rains of the past week.
The aforementioned worthless envel
oped their pet theories with a sort o
mystery, by divers dark illusions t
meteOric and cOmetary orbits, which
little problems ordinary mortals ar,
generally incapable of working out
for themselves. But our frienC
" Astron" boldly quotes science il
support of his views, which very
science positively declares in statement
SO plain and lucid that he who runs
may read that no such flood or drought
for the causes assigned has taken place
or can take place, the predictions o
Nr. DrOescher to the contrary, notwith.
standing.
II "Astron' had consulted any "child':
physical geography or the splendiC
writings of our own hOnored Maury be,
fore committing himself to DrOescher'.
vagaTies, he would have found that the
following impossible changes must take
place before his drought can come upon
US.
First, thatthe friendly trade and othel
well defined winds which have blown
with the utmost regularity, except as
affected locally by volcanic upheavals Of
the earth for several thousand years
not @I1r-11 arAfr,1r~ ar,I - a,Ua,
There, then, being no winds to drive
the moisture, ~evaporated from the South
ern seas, toward the continents of the
Northern hemisphere, the precipitation
would occur, in the great rainbelts OF
the tropical and temperate regions,
just where the evaporation took place;
and the land, except ear the coasts, be
deprived of rain.
But how are these trade-winds to be
in their circuits, so rs to prevent
a distribution of moisture to US, accord
ing to DTOescher's theory?
"NNinds are currents of air, counted
by the different degrees of temperature
to which it is subjected, and by the
movement Of the earth upon its axis."
Apparently, then, by checking the
moisture Of the earth on its axis, or by
equaliZing the temperature of the zones
lQ rCditctiO d0 dbsUrdUnl).
To DO the first would make q dark,
uninhabitable region of one hemis-
and a scorched, desolate region
of the other. AID, as we cannot equal
ize the temperature of the zones, moth
remains but to change the motive of
the eaIth upon its axis, or change the
direction of Ter axis. But to do
this, would l. dy reverse the
relative positions of land and water,
and we would have another food, in
stead Of the drought promised by Gas
trOn.n Now, as to the causes assigned
by "Astronn for the Noachean deluge.
Grant him that the earth did change
her axis at that time, and that the
change only affected the "winds in their
circuits" and not the relative positions
Of land and water. Grant that the winds
did blow for ~''several weeks" toward
the table lands Of Asia, without deposit
ing any moisture on the seas, by reason
of being reduced to the dew point, in
crossing cold ATTITUDES, and high noun
tain ranges, over which most of them
passed on their way to these table lands.
Grant that the winds 'frOm the North
Sea- did bring down, and deposit mOis-
in more southern IdtitU6eS, which it
is never guilty Of doing nowadays.
that some learned Droescher,
Of that day, pointed out to the winds a
means of disposing of their fearfully ac-
cumulated physical and electrical forces,
after they had precipitated their mOis-
upon the table lands of Asia-"As-
trOn' still fails to make out q case.
Evaporation and precipitation are ex-
pTopOrtiOned upon the earth's sur
face as a whole. The neal a~nnualrain-
of the globe is about five feet. The
mean fall of rain, then, for the seriptu-
raj forty DAYS, or "Astron's." 'fseveral
weeks" would, in rough numbers be
5CUa3 inches. Now the table lands of
Asia are, perhaps, about one twenty
seventh of the globes surface; and if
lie entire rainfall for the forty days had
Jeen precipitated upon the table lands
IF Asia tue accumulation would
have produced a uniform depth
Of, say, sixteen feet of water
m Insignificant deluge, compared
that narrated in the Scriptures, and
ar short of Draescher's estimate of an
Inch of rain fall in five minutes" for
Z several weeks.n Without the auxilia-
waters from the fountains of the great
leep, broken up by the Creators word,
he human race would not have been
lnnihilated by "Astron'sT flood.
MauTy, in his wonderful physical ge-
of the sea, asks, How is il,
hen, that this vapor gets from the SOUTH
m into the northern hemisphere, and
,omes with such regularity, that our
ivers never go dry, and our springs fail
lot? Its because of the beautiful ope-
,atiOns and the exquisite compensation of
his grand machine, the atmosphere. tits
,Xquisitely and wonderfully counter
Late in the autumn of the
throughout its winter, and in
,arly spring, the sun is pouring his rays
With the greatest intensity down upon
he seas of the Southern hemisphere,
md this powerful engine, which we are
contemplating, is pumping up the water
here for Our rivers with the greatest
+" Heat and cold, the early and the
ater rain, clouds and sunshine are not,
We may rely upOni il, distributed over the
.arth by chance; they are distributed in
,bedienee to laws that areas certain and
IS SURE III NhCH OpNldbiolE 40 bhS oCd
ons in their rounds. If it depended
lpon chance whether the dry air should
.ome out on this side or on that Of this
aim belt, or whether the moist air
hould return or not whence it came-if.
UGH were the case in nature, we per-
GIVE that, so far from any regularity a.
o seasons, we should have, OF
night have, years of droughts
he most excessive, and then again, sea-
ions of rains the most destructive; but,
% far from this, we find for each place a
mean annual proportion of both, and
hat so regulated, withal, that year after
year the quantity is preserved with re-
uaTkabie regularity
But / will close this already lengthy
and refer the curious to the
aforementioned work of Maury.
Having carefully read and compared
MS conclusive reasonings, 1 am sure
will sow and reaD in future. with