DESTINY OFNATIONS

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 148, 8 December 1870, Page 7

DESTINY OFNATIONS

A PROPHETIC DECLARATION". (From "The Banner of Light." Dr. P. B. Randolph, the clairvoyant, in his book " The Wonderful Story of Eavalette," written and published in 1861, first edition by Tousey, of New York, relates a seance held in Paris, where himself was the seer. We give the significant passages verbatim from this book, thus incontestably demonstrating that media and and clairvoyants do unmistakably foresee the shadows of coming events. This is one of the most astounding evidences of positive clairvoyance and prevision ever known. Let sceptics explain it away if possible. Deep was the silence, hushed were our breaths. Quick beat our hearts, teai'ful were our eyes, for a greater than even Deatli was in that room on the Boulevard do Luxembourg !

Seated in a large office-chair, his liinba stiff and cold with dissolution ; his face paler than the Genius of Consumption ; his heart aud pulses totally moveless ; his eyes wide open, and so upturned that not a speck of aught but the uncolored portions thereof were visible, was my friend. In previous years I had often seen him and hundreds of others in both the mesmeric and odyllic trance. Not such a trance was that we now were witnessing. In the course of five minutes there came a chauge in the sleeper's face, which became lighted up as if at that moment his soul beheld the ineffable glories of the great Beyond. He spoke : " Now !" As this one word escaped his lips, the door of the room was silently opened, and two men entered and were about taking seats, when the Commissary of Police suddenly rose, made a low obeisance, saluted one of them in military style, aud exclaimed, "The Emp " " Silence !" said the person addressed ; " all are strangers here !" And then turning to Dhoula Bel, with whom he appeared quite familiar, this person said to him, " At last ?" "At last!" echoed the latter; whereupon the two new comers helped themselves to seats.

The whole affair had gone thus far so directly opposite to all my calculations ; events had taken such sudden

and totally unexpected turns, that T ceased to marvel at this new game of cross-purposes, but determined to watch the results carefully, whatever they might be. Of course I expected that the new comer would now take the lead of affairs. But no ; for Dhoula Bel, as I shall henceforth call him, addressed the shorter of the two intruders :

" Why do you, too, seek to thwart me ? Many years ago I found you a student of magic in your lonely prison, whither you had been consigned because you had failed on two occasions. I rescued you, gave you liberty, influence, power, prestige, and seated you firmly on the proudest throne on earth ; I have made you famed and feared ; I have humbled Britain in your name ; for you I have broken the power of ages — the Papacy ; for you I have severed Austria, and built a new empire on the earth. For you I have fomented the most awful war the world has ever seen, and have divided a nation of brothers into two parties, each thirsting for the other's blood; and while you have been the silent automaton, I have prompted your speech and moved the wires that turn, and yet you are here to thwart me who have ever been your friend. Why is this?"

" I admit — nothing. I am a mau of Destiny !" " Shall I reveal it V " I care not." "Well, I forbear; but let this sleeper tell it."

"I am content. Interrogate him. This is the hour, and this the scene for which I long have waited. Let the oracle speak."

"Listen to me," said the taller of the two intruders. "Ye have both been proxies of a power beyond us all ; and even as I, the Stranger, have foiled each of ye, yet my action was decreed. The drama of ages may end to-day. Not one of us can read his own future ; there is but one hour in which it may be clone. That person is here ; that hour has come. Not with the magnetic afflatus of puling, babbling somnainbules; but with a vision, simple, pure and accurate, shall yonder sleeper sweep the horizon of the future, and reveal it. Therefore let there be quietude and peace, while the mystic scroll is being read."

Then turning to the slutnberer, he said: "What seest thou, oh Soul? Look ! investigate ! reveal ! What seesb thou concerning France and her ruler V

" France will experience another Revolution. It will begin in Water and end in Blood and Fi* c ! bxit the end will be delayed. Crown, Sceptre, Dynasty — all are swept away before the resistless title of Political Reformation, and the last noble and priest shares the fate of the last crowned head — exile and death."

" What of the other Nationalities ?" '* Prussia, under a new regime, becomes indeed a Fatherland to her people; Belgium, Holland, and other of the Germanic lands, become consolidated with empires now existing; Spain's night draws near — her colonies, erected into Black Republics, leave her to sink in loneliness, until at last she becomes, with Rome, an integral part of the great Italian Empire ; Austria becomes dismembered ; Hungary and Poland coalesce and form a new power on the earth, Turkey passes into Grecianhands; Syria into Russian; England losses Canada, India, Oregon and Ireland, which latter becomes a Republic ; the United States, rejoined, absorbs Canada, Mexico and all British America — her Black races found an empire which will extend from her southern borders to Brazil, under the rule of a series of Presidents ; China, Christianized by the Taepings, becomes a firstclass power in the East, blotting out Japan and a score of lesser kingdoms ; while India and Australia become respectively an Empire and a Republic ; and all this within sixty-three years from the seventh decade of the century !"

"What of Religious changes? Speak! Let us know !"

" All Religious systems iv the world, outside of the Christian, will gravitate toward, aud finally be wholly absorbed by it ; and while this is taking place, there will be a quiet revolution occurring iv that system itself; Catholicism, modified and divested of certain objectionable features, will become the right wing and conservative portion of the Religion of the entire world, while the radical portion of that Church, and of all other churches, will secede, rear the standard of Free Thought, proclaim the Religion of Reason, espouse the Reformatory men and principles of the age, declare itself a Positive, Eclectic, and Progressive Faith, abjuring the doctrines of Original (Sin, the Adamic, Mosaic, Hebraic Atonement theories, and everything affirmative of Miracle, Final Judgment and a Hell. This party will be in a minority, and the left wing of the grand religious system of the world ; it will constantly receive accession of recruits from the other and barbaric element of society ; but so rapid will be the human march, that the right flank of the grand army will constantly crowd the left and occupy its ground, while the latter will as constantly move on toward new fields, as new ideas are developed and seen." " Now, Prophet, what of tbyself ?" " Speedy death, relief from sorrow, a lot with other men, aud comparative

happiness — on the other side of tinio." .-\h the sleeping man gave utterance \o these inspired prophesies, the loss till of the two strangers appeared disturbed, and almost rising to his fool with excitement, he said : "Then the Coming Man's career will resemble my own ?" "As fire resembles ice. This mau's career will be peaceful ; his path will not be stained by one single drop of blood. No maimed men will curse, no widows weep, no orphans cry for vengeance, nor will the ignoronee of the people constitute the lever of his poAver, nor be the instrument by means of which he will vault into a throne." " Bat I am strong ! — Mexico !—Empire ! — The Latin race ! — The Church ! — Maximilian. What can break this chain, supposing I establish the last link, as I intend to ?" " Fate ! The United States will, in that case, soon find time to breathe upon France and the New Empire ! That breath will settle as a cloud, but,

when it rises, two dynasties will have disappeared yo?' eve)'!" "Damnation!" exclaimed the questioner, and ho stamped his feet and ground his teeth with rage almost demoniac. " There will be two damned nations, if that programme is carried out," said the sleeping man, in tones musical and calm, as if he was discussing the merits of a play rather than prophesying tbe fato and destinies of Empires.

Something like a Potato. — The following, on the American " Early Rose " potato, is from a Leeds paper received by lust mail : — The Yorkshire farmers, who have grown this new variet}' for two seasons, spoak in glowing terms of its extraordinary merits as a good user and immense cropper. Of the many reports, perhaps that of Mr. Rodwell, of York, is the most remarkable. In 18G9, he planted 1 ll>. and obtained 64 lbs. produce. This year he planted 27 lbs., and has obtained 110 stones of the new potato, all sound. In a subsequent issue of the same paper we find the following : — In our report given last Saturday of the growth of this potato we mentioned the case of Mr. Rodwell, of York, as being the most remarkable, as he produced 64 His. from 1 lb. in 1869, and this year 110 stones from 27 lbs., which would be at the rate of 57 lbs. from 1 lb. We have, however, to report the case of one more extraordinary still, as Mr. Green, of Ellwood Farm, Scarcroft, near Leedn, has produced this year 23 lbs. 2 ozs. from one potato which weighed a quarter of a pound ; this would be at the enormous rate of 92.j lbs. from 1 lb. The potatoes were all souud, and the largest one weighed exactly 1 lb.

New Wind Pump. — We have been permitted to inspect a new wind pump invented by Mr Lord, Waltham, who is about to make application for a patent. The principle is exceedingly simple, yet most effective, and promises to supply a greac want. The sails work horizontally, and are made in such a manner as only to be open when they come round to the windward side of the machine ; that is to say, when required to catch the wind, in order to work the pump, they open, and immediately they pass the point where the wind ceases to bear full upon them the} r close up in such v manner as to offer no counteracting influence in coming up to the wind again. All this is done by the action of the wind itself, Avhich is the distinguishing feature of the machine, and is effected in a .very simple manner. Tbe blades of each sail are made, as it were, like the cover of a book with the inside edges of the closing face bevelled off, and with two small balancing levers working on a small pulley on the outward face of the blades. By the balancing levers, the blades of each sail, which we should say, open up and down, are so beautifully equalised that the least touch on one of the blades either opens or closes the two, thus, when the sail

comes up to the wind closed, the wind playing upon the bevelled edges of thf> two blades forces them apart, and, after moving round, until the wind acts upon the back or outward face, no matter in how small a degree, the two blades are closed again. A locking apparatus is attached to each sail, so that the blades can be fastened securely together, when, of course, the wind cannot work them, and one or more tiers of sails can be fixed to the same machine, so as to increase its power to any desired extent. Mr Lord has had the machine working in a heavy gale of wind, and, though only put up in a very unfinished state, it jiumped in a most satisfactory manner. — '"Canterbury Times"