, 1875-06-25


F.. We fancy that most of our readers will
agree with US It is time TINT Old Probabili-
ties management Of tho weather should DO
criticised. He has not fulfilled the popular
expectation in any regard With all his sig-
nails and stations, Lis wInd~currents and
water-measurors, hiH areas Of low barometers
and high Thermometers, ho has not succeeded
In establishing satisfactory relations with
Jupiter Pluvius, nor regulated tho weather
with any degree Of system. On the other
hand, the land, tho sea, tie heavens, the
lightnings, the winds, and tho boroal pole,
have made sport Of him, and combined to do
NIL possible havoc, Their Efforts have boon
crowned with tho most complete succees.
Both the exterior and tho interior Of tho earth,
ha well ga the upper mir, have been so shaken
and mixed up that they have exhibited
every phenomenon possible to them, and seem
to havo inextsicably confoundod and confused
the four Seasons. An unusually cold winter
has been followed by an unusually lato
spring, destitute Of anything like q zephyr
or May flower. When 1t has not been cold
1t hns been foggy; when 1t has not been
foggy 1t has been raining Of your
sweet, soft summer rains, but rains which
havo descended in solid sheets and with tor
ritio force, accompanied with bolts which
have shattered dwellings aud killed human
beings all over the country. Ono day st.
Louis finds itsoH under water several foet
deep. Another day Jacksonville Is flooded,
md finds itsek waist deep in water. Tho
next day Kanaas City gets dose Of rain,
hail, thunder, and lightning, and tho result is,
houses are blown down, fields and crops nro
submerged, bridges aro washed away, and
even tho grasshoppers surrender to the
forcos Of naturo. Little crooks few feet
across aro Hwollen into rushing rivers,
which lood tho lowlanda and sweep
OF every growing thing. In The carly
aoason, tho foods came and devastated tho
South, the Eaat, and the West, submerging
villages In single night, sweeping of mills
and dams, turning Thousands ont Of their
homes, and paralydng the great industries OF
the country. What the water failed to wash
away, the great ice-gorges crushed away, and
human effort to check their destruction was
powefless, The tornado aud the cyclone
have added their fury to the other disturbing
agencies. There has not been y month since
January In which BONE part Of the country
has not been exposed to tho wrath Of the hur-
ricans. Thousands OF dollars worth OF prop
arty have been destroyed and hundreds Of
lives hays boon lost by these murdesous
agencies. They have been quito impartially
distributed. First, one swept over tue
Town Of Houstonia, No., leyeling
twenty buildings, killing six peop!e,
and injuEing many others. Rienxi, Alisa.,
was nearly destroyed, and nix people woro
killed At Riehland, s. O., many houses vero
lev*led and wopeople killed. The northern
part Of GoorgiR was swept aa 1t with bosom,
and 800 people wora killed and property was
destroyed to tie amount OF several huntlrods
OF thousAnda OF dollars. In Louisiana, sew
eral people have been killed. In Misaiesippi,
five were killed. InArkanaas, Illinois, North
Carolina, Ohio. and MlnnesoA, numerous
lives have been lost, and great amount Of
property has been destroyed. While these
messengers Of wrath have beon speeding on
their way, the earth itself seems to have boen
shaken to it, foundations. The Philippine
Islands have been cracked aud rent with
earthquakes, and hundreds Of lives have been
lost. Asia Minor has been zayaged.
Several villages have boen Destroy
Cd and over thousand victims
wess buried. Nsw Grenada has suffered tho
most terrible fatality, over 1900 persons
having periIhsa. Even Iceland, that fsr-away
land Of cold And frost, has been devastated
In ths moat tssnbls manner. Even before
Christmas the people hard thu subtanAnssn
Yumbliurs In Jsnunxy \ lonp~ailent xnloaun