AN EVENTFUL SEVEN YEARS TO COME.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 348, 7 April 1868, Page 3

AN EVENTFUL SEVEN YEARS TO COME.

(From the New York 12 veiling Post.) We have received a copy of a book which ought to interest journalists, inasmuch as it tells them beforehand of a very eventful, or in vulgar phrase "lively" seven years, to begin, as nearly as we can understand the author, with the ciose of the present year. It is entitled " Coming Wonders, expected between 18G7 and 1875. " For the information of the curious we set down here a list of the events which are to "come off" in racing slang, between now and 1875. The first year, soon to begin, is to witness the "National Restoration of the Jews to Palestine by a Seven Years' Covenant or League, to be made between many of them and the Emperor Napoleon." About the same time there is to Le a "Congress of the Heads of European Nations, under Napoleon's auspices, and ensuring rapid progress of the Roman Imperial world toward its final ten-king-domed division, involving a complete reconstruction of the map of Europe." This is perhaps the conference which Napoleon is now trying to get up. These events will bo followed by " a great agitation throughout the church militant ;" a " restoration of the sacrifices and oblations in the Jewish Temple ;" a spread, in the second year, of "infidelity, democratic despotism and Jesuitical propagandism ;" and next upon the catalogue comes a "great war " by Napoleou upon the Pacha of Egypt, in which the Egyptian army will be defeated. The Turkish Empire will be set .up independently, as also Greece, Egypt, and Thrace. These events complete the second year. The third year is to begin with the ascension to heaven of "144.000 living, watchful Christians ;" to be followed by "an unparalleled religious revival ;" and this in turn by showers of hail, fire and blood, which will burn up a third part of the trees and grass,— -causing, it may be supposed, a general scarcity of fruit and milk. It may be useless to add that "a few days" previous to the shower there will be an earthquake, caused probably by a new purchase of territory by Mr Seward. Next will come a gretit war, this time between Satan and the Archangel Michael, which will cause "many Christians" to fly into the wilderness. This war is to spread so that all the earth will get to lighting "for about eight months" — in which case West Point men and Spencer rifles will be in uncommon demand. This hot period is to be followed by " four years' fiery orJeal of Great Britain and Anglo-Saxon America," out of which we are to come better off than we were at the beginning. But in the meantime a volcano is to tumble into the sea, and a tremendous meteor is to fall upon the earth, both causing, as may be supposed, great hissing «md spluttering, aud a good deal of damage. Next we are told will follow the reconstruction of Europe into ten States, including Great Britain, all to <be ruled by Napoleon, who will be supreme head of Europe, and thus avenge the day of Waterloo. He will capture Jerusalem, persecute the Christians, confiscate the Roman Cliufch property, and cause his image to set up for worship. Then follows, or will follow, a famine lasting eighteen months, on the heels of which will come an apparition of "demon locusts," and " supernatural horsemen," lasting a year ; a season of war and pestilence lasting another year ; a great c. r hquake and eclipse ; and at this moment the good people who remain alive are to be removed out of the way, and a succession of plagues will fall upon the unlucky fellows who form the "Cant-geta-way Club" of the period. AH this, we are soberly assured in a printed book, will happen within the next seven years — before General Grant is through with the second term of his Presidency. It is to be noticed that most of the plagues, wars, earthquakes and other troubles are to happen in Europe. Indeed, we have great faith in General Grant's ability to keep the peace oa our side of the water. He recently remarked that the country needs repose, andjie is not the kind of man to let demon-horse-men or any other kind of vagrant chivalry go about making a disturbance while our beloved eagle wants to sleep. It may be a satisfaction to newspaper readers to learn that the book from which we have taken the above predictions is printed in Philadelphia, the great depot of false war news from 1861 to 1865. It has for frontispiece a portrait of the Emperor Napoleon, who looks as though his breakfast had not agreed with him. Speaking after the manner of profane journalists, we should say that if the author has correctly foretold events, the newspapers will have lively times during the next seven years ; the illustrated weeklies will be worth binding up for future reference ; and the Atlantic Cable will no doubt tell us what the London Times thinks of passing events.