Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-11-25

| EARTHQUAKE IN CANADA. We have published
met notices, from Montreal papers, of an earth
quake which occurred on the 3d inst, in Canada.
The following fuller description is from letter
III The Cdnddiun of the 9l dated at Three kv-
crs:-
"'rhis morning, about 10 o'clock, we expert
rhce' violent snOck of an earthquake. was
present At marriage, 1--WE omit the names Of the
parlles,) and The Grand Vudr, Mr.. Cook, had
rcnchrd the .AgiluS Del, when, on sudden, n
sound was heard resembling the rolling Of n cart
over the frozen ground this noise continued, per
hals, four secOnds, and was followed 10y an expO-
sion resembling that of "a. FOUNDER; the ITEM
bling Of the eurth then commenced, shaking the
walls OF tie church, aud making its arched roof
crack IN a fearful aud surprising manner.
thought the building, which was crowded with
people, would have crumhled over our heals.
The scene which eusued bafiles description the
piercing lamentations OF the females, and cries of
terror OF the men, with the pieous, despairing
shricks of the children, were truly awful. A gem
eral rush was made to the door by the congrega-
uon, Tie reverend pastor aud the ntliunred couple
alone REFINING their posilion not, however, with
out feelings OF great apprehension TO what
nigh; happrn.. The weather-cock OIL the steeple
! spun, us IN II high wind. This trembling lHsled
for live or six seconds had it endured beyond the
church mus have fallen, AID many would have
persisted. Discerning the steps, i raised three
females whom the crowd in The rush of their es-
cape had thrown 10 the ground. but they were so
SUrighted rs IN he incapable OF stnnding. The
shock was violent throughout the town. Glass
ware was destroyed, stones detached from the
Glilnules, aud window. pines broken in many
houses; universal terror regned. IL was strongly
leli at the 81. Maurice iurges ut Yamachche, and
Polnt du Lac, aud still more so AT Becaucour, Nj
cOei, aud ST. Gregoie. The waters of The Saint
Lawrence were seen Ivy many to be violently agi-
tatcd"
The following is from another letter of the
same date:
" Precisely at O'Clock, A. NJ. on Monday, the
Tth instant was sitting at break fast IN Bernad's
hotel, on the steamboat wharf, ut Three Rivers,
when sudden shock, roncus>inn, was ieli, so
severe as 10 cause my compdgnon du dcjeuHer aud
sell 10 stare at euch other perfectly aghast the
house actually seemed To reel TO and fro, like u
drunken men-ihe floor trpmhlcd beneath us, the
table shook as though suddenly grnsped 10y some
one IN the net Of falling, and all tie breakfast APP
lpnralns lngled again, from The violence of inc
shock My own impression was, that some large
Steamer, IN coming into port having suddenly lost
iher helm, had come crashing against and destroy
ing the wharf. DR.. Giimuur, who was in the act
l0f passing across the street to visit The hotel
Idescrihts his sensation to have been though
suddenly electrified, his legs tOllering under hin,
III most un"ccountable manner | have expert
enced two earthquakes IN the West Indies hnrh
lasted considerably longer than this but the latter
was much more violent than either of the former.
/ have no doubt but that we shall fluid hereafter
That some terrible commoliOn has taken place far
/ tler South"