Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

SUPERSTITIOUS FEARS.
A Calcutta paper of Dec. 11, relates an instance of this, on a conjunction of the planets!
"Is there a demon worse than fear itself?"
The Hindoo astronomers have predicted that on the 30th of March in the ensuing year, the six planets will be in the sign Pisces, and that on the 1st of April following, which will fall on the Sunday, the moon will also pass into the sign of April. This extraordinary conjunction of seven of the heavenly bodies, has not occurred within the last hundred years, beyond which our records of this kind exist,—and on this subject the shastras say—If all the seven planets happen to be in one sign, let it be called Gola Yago: famine of the monarch will then follow."
Hence from this unusual assemblage of the planets, the natives, apprehended extraordinary commotions and alterations in this our earth, and those among the rich who are acquainted with all these circumstances, are about to perform various sacrifices to avert the calamities which thus threaten the whole family of man.

Nor ought we to leave our readers ignorant how near this conjunction of the planets brings us according to the ideas of the Hindoos, to the annihilation of this globe itself. The greater part of these conjunctions of the planets which, according to them, render certain this awful event will be combined on this occasion. When all the planets shall assemble in the last sign, (Pisces,) on the last day of the week, of the moon, and of the solar year, then will ensue the Muha Profuga, the destruction of all created beings, gods as well as men, who will then lose all their individual existence, and be absorbed into the universal Spirit. Happily, it so falls out that about the beginning of April next Rahoo will keep at a distance from this assemblage of planets, that eight days will be wanting to complete the solar year, and that instead of happening on Saturday: the last day of the week, this conjunction of the seven planets will happen on Friday, which circumstances in the opinion of the Astronomers now prevent the premature dissolution of the universe. According to them however, the Kalee yuga has, at the moment of writing this, four hundred and twenty-seven thousand and eighty-eight years, five months and twenty-two days yet to run; so that believing in the transmigration of souls as they so firmly do, they feel that unless some future conjunction of the heavenly bodies shall cut short this period, they have a kind of eternity to count upon before any alteration will take place in the present system of mundane affairs.