The Litchfield County post., 1826-11-14


these maranders at Trade Town is suf-
fered to take place and become perma-
nent %
g The purchase of Factory Island was
defnitively concluded early IN July.
T" The boats sent out by the government
promise TO be of inestimabIe utility to the
colony. Our establishment at the Ges-
tiers, although within FIVE miles of Trade
Town. is still sustained. Cultivation,
building. and trade, are still carried on
there. on small scale; but for want of
rainy season craft, little has been done to.
advance it since the month of May. Bas-
sa Factory is the source of very valuable
supplies to the colony. We keep up at this
Indictment season, an intercourse with this
place along the beach, but the transporta-
ton of goods or produce by this route is
expensive and laboriOus, and there is a
considerable amount of property remain
ing there, which we leave to the dry sea-
son.
8" cannot well express to the Board the
general qualification felt here in the estab-
lishment, at length, of a line Of packets be-
tween the U. S. and this colony, in which
dependence can be safely placed. The
entire cargo of the brig John, which arri-
we'd here July 32d, from Portland the 9th
April, was instantly purchased, and anoth-
er vessel is expected here early in Octo-
ber."
IS The great work at the moment in
hand, and in which we called upon all the
colonists to assist, is the construction of a
Battery at Thomsontown, on a Shelf 80
feet above the water, to overlook and COM
mand our roads. We are transporting the
heaviest of our guns there, and erecting a
rooted breastwork of tufted mason work,
which is intended to be shot proof Our
best gunners say, that from the position
chosen, the long guns will hull vessel ly-'
ing at the customary anchorage, oftener
than every second shot; and from repeat
ed trials / do not doubt it,
EARTHQUAKES IN, Cause.-The following
is an extract of letter from St. Jago de
Cuba, dated Sept. 2lst, 1926. .
We were visited on the morning of the
18th inst. between 3 and o'clock, with
one4of the most awful earthquakes that has
been felt here for so years past, at which
time nearly one half Of the town was des-
troyed. There were two shocks, the Sec
ond more severe than the first, and the du-
ration of each was about one minute. The
noise resembled the rumbling of heavy
loaded wagons, dragged over paved arch
way, and finished like the simultaneous
discharge of a number of cannon. The
confusion was accomplishment, women,
and children, suddenly leaving their beds,
and running in every direction; some with
little clothing on, many entirely naked.
The most pitiful cries and shrieks were
heard from these terrified people, who were
to be seen running to the Cathedral and of
fering up the hurried devotions of the mo-
ment; some were supplied with fear; some
crossing and beating themselves with great
zeal: others calling loudly on the priests
to assist them with their prayers and holy
water; indeed itseemed that most of them
thought of and asked the aid of their Gre
ator for the first time in their lives. TWAS
generally supposed from the weather being
SO close and sultry, that repetition of the
shock would take place. This, however,
did not occur, and the priests have attribu-
ted this special Providence to the efficacy
of their prayers. After the agitation had
in some measure subsidized, large tubs and
bathing vessels were filled with water, (which
being blessed by the priests, the supersti-
tious part Of the people Immediately got
into the consecrated element, and remain
ed for nearly an hour up to their necks in
holy water, surprising that it would protect
them from another shock. But few houses
were thrown down, no lives were lost, and
the damage was comparatively trifling.-
Numbers Of large fish were observed Jump
ing and playing about the vessels in the
harbor just before the shock"
N U. S., MILfTARY EsrABLIsHMENT.--Iti s
stated in note to one of the articles in the
last North American Review, that there are
now in the United States two National Armo-
ries, and eleven Arsenals. Arms and accou-
trements are manufactured at the two Armo-
ries--79, 259 Of the former having been made
in the course of the last three years. There
are no public boundaries for ordnance, the sup
ply being obtained by contracts from private
boundaries. The military force Of the United
States, at this time, is 5000 men. The same
article contains an interesting notice of the
Military Academy at West. Point. 1t is there
stated, that the whole number Of Cadets grad
uated at this Academy. since its first estab-
lIshment in 1909, up to July, 1895, is 4as.-