Show current summary from a broken at fil a of the na N Y herald dec 18 to I 1 jan 18 in the herald of dec dee 31 we find the loss of property by fires in 04 the united 1854 to be only taking into account hie tile fires where the loss was and upwards the herald estimates that if the loss by lesser lesger fires wak wai was included the aggregate would reach twenty tw ltv rite five millions destroy destroyed pd by fire alone in onet year yean the rei ecton or the ilia still small email voice produces the present results and a continued rejection will bring retribution in an appallingly fearful ratio 1109 until thu tho consumption decreed upon the wicked is fully accomplished f in ili the tha same paper is found as full abi ani a list of murders and executions for 1854 as could be gleaned from the newspapers papers omitting all where tile the t billing was the tiie result of accident or where there wis wag the ilia least doubt about the having met death by vio violen ienco lenco cn from the hands of some designing individual total murders total executions ea then follows a list of steamboat accidents accidents for the tle years 1853 4 for 1853 accidents 31 killed wounded 1 for 1654 accidents 48 killed wounded 2251 it thus sums gums up its characteristic record I 1 this shows a frightful increase of all our figures and admonishes us to ask ash as where and when it will stop we will leave it for those most interested to think of and if if they an can to provide a remedy 13 19 IV we must say that this quotation from the most prominent paper in the union is rather rich it refrains from telling its numerous readers where and ind when irwill it will stop probably on account of the bible biblo not noi doeing on its list of exchanges ani and Tience not often consulted otherwise it could I 1 I 1 I 1 have gleaned from that reliable source and then informed its readers reader s most of whom are equally in the dark that tile the where is this ea earth rth I 1 and the ilia d wilen when is 13 when all manner of wickedness liess kiess tini and d abominations are aro swept from tile the earth together with those who love iove and commit them and ile he reigns whose right it is to reign then pl a 6 and truth ruth will prevail for fo a thou thousand a a n d ye years a r 8 after afo which the devil will be loosed for a little season pravio previous us to the judgment of the great griat day when hen eventually the earth having received its dipti in by water by fire and by the holy gh ch ost in n accordance willi the hw law to all accountable beings willbe coma as seen by john the alle revelator and be a fit residence for 11 sa saints ints cc I 1 from and after that period there is no record reve revealed aleli at this time which states that the de devil vil vii will have any further farther power over this earth or over who then inhabit it if the herald would but allow to that ancient record the same came credence that tint it does to a newspaper and really believes that it means what it reads then indeed would it know that the progress gressom gr essof of this thia earth iirth uld lite inhabitants nasto tto ito the winding 4 up scene will be a attended with alt many tiny fur far pr in liller events vents 6 than have ever ver y yet transi transpired ir cd upon this planet 4 the last sentence of tile the quotation if ig so apt an exposition of the prevailing spirit of the limes that wo we cannot pass it without a brier brief comment of course a paper with q a boasted circulation of hundreds of thousands and a of atall all ail interesting news cannot count itself among those most interested in the fulfillment fulfilment of prophecy il and ild rid ili in th the tho onward and increasing pro po gres of tl the ie scourges urges of gaty oil no that would not gratify the morbid tastes of the ilia minority mijo rity of of its readers alid its subscription lisl list would fall off so it back backs out of the field wh where ere TRUTH and ennor are arp each battling att lini ling arian manfully fully for the supremacy und calls call upon those most interested to think of or and if they cau can to provide a remedy tho the bible bibb nn answers til the questions it also points V out the remedy viz va cease to do eill evil an and d learn to degood do good rood 11 iove love righteousness and city in short love god end end and keep his coin coln corm corn mand ments 11 all other othir applications whether used internally or lar externally will vill fail of curing the disease at least ast short of f suba subjecting the patient patient to a ground sweat and divers other most unpleasant operations and doses the list of or i railroad accidents omits those that alre were unattended 1 1 by death it or personal persona I 1 injury and thos those e billed hilled or injured by getting on wi orloff oroff cars in motion olion ra or by being run overa over am and sums up for 1854 accidents killed wounded the tile closing list is headed lives lost by burning buildings in fit which 1854 again figures pretty I 1 argel y numbers of fires that were attended with loss of life 83 lives lost I 1 1 all the these thesa S a lists are for the united states tates alone and ilav have been madli made as luli full as the facilities of the herad would permit though doubtless a strictly full ml account would swell many if not all of bof the total totals sf especially in the murder list I 1 I 1 I 1 let every everi every saint in utah rejoice daily that he has I 1 been apri privileged to escape escapa to tile mou mountains and aud constantly strive to accomplish the purposes 4 of our being in our present location for fir we vie cannot not be too soon nor too wel prepared hor for those events which are shortly to come to pass the washington correspondent of thel the lerald herald under date jan 1 states that tila tile the ilia navy department has given up a al hopes for the safety of the U UScio S sloop op of war aiba alba albany ny it being believed that she us has gone to to the bottom and add no one escaped to tuli lell the tale her list on the of june 1854 comprised 18 16 officers 76 seamen and 12 marines her cost and repairs up to 1850 amounted to |