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Show A BEIHOSPECflVE GLAIJCE. The last twelve months have been bo full of remarkable and startling events that we can scarcely bury them silently and without a word of comment. com-ment. Opening with the commencing commenc-ing scenes of the Modoc troubles, which finally became an affair of so great moment and bloody results, the past year has continued full of excitement excite-ment every month, every week, and almost every day, until the scene has apparently closed with the horrible butchery of Santiago de Cuba and 'he sinking of the steamer Virginias. There have been more than the uual number of fatal wrecks at sea and railway accidents during the year 1873;Uhere have been riots and revolutions, revo-lutions, wars and rumors of wars, terrible ter-rible storms, dreadful tornadoes, destructive de-structive fired, and fearful earthquakes; and scarcely has one sensation been recorded and commented upon ere its successor lias come with quick, 6hrp, and equally alarming and fatal effect. To enumerate the leading lead-ing events of the year would more than fill the columns of the Hkrald. Beginning with the Modoc war, there has followed the abdication of Amadous, Ama-dous, King of Spam, and the Carlist outbreak; tho Kussia-Khivan war; the Acheen, and Ashantee troubles, and the chronic and uncivil civil disturbances dis-turbances in Mf sic-1, the West Indies and CvihrJcg v.d txiuth America. 'r' NapOieon the JL:iird. has taken farewell fare-well of .his earthly .heritage, and France ha set ik-d down4- in apparenjt peace and qui ft under the rule of MacMahon. The sad and sudden ending of XtJ-'lans - An-tic' exploration, explora-tion, with the death of Captain Hall and all its minute details, has been duly rehearsed. There have been the KuUey and the Guoa.-ich murders and raystt-ries; the death of Lord Lytton; the trial of Ba.une; the Vienna Exposition; the San Salvador and Valparaiso earthquakes ; the Shah's European visit, and the Grand Duke Alexis' visit to America; the Atlantic wreck, with the loss of over five hundred lives; the Northflcet disaster, dis-aster, with the loss of four hundrcd;the 6myrna cafe- calamity, with the drowning drown-ing of two hundred persons, and the ViUe tftiZiiLv-c with the loss of two hundred hun-dred and twenty -six more. We have had the terrible fire in Portland, Oregon ; the Bccond conflagration in Boston ; aud the Baltimore and other large fires ; the Louisiana outrages; the Bender murders ; the Iowa railway rail-way robbery ; the Viuksburg wv Memphis yellow fever plague; the Tweed conviction ; the death of Agaesiz ; the Jay Cuoke failure. And the consequent financial panic ; and, finally, the Vii'j'nius aliair, bringing this eventful year to a cluse in a manner man-ner befitting U opening, and completing com-pleting the reconl of it hom- uf excitement ex-citement and pain. There might be enumerated many more of the startling occurrence that have marked I hi period, which a lew moment's thought will bring to mind toereryone who has not.-.-d the news of each succeeding day ; and it will be with something very nearly akin to gladness that the puLIic will bury, at last, the old year with its weight of horrors and bloodshed, and wuleomu the new with the earnest hopes that it may bring with it inure oi" peace ant prosperity. |