, 1843-01-14
FER the RADICAL

the earthquake last week, language wal
employed which will convey a false i'm.
pression to minds Of your distant rea.
ders. No report whatever was heard
Had that been the case, it would have
indicated that that terrible agent Of na-
ture was in fearful proximity to us-6r
| an not aware that The sound produced
by an earthquake exceeds that Ofheavy
thunder, or artillery, in intensity; but II
is of a different character; resembling the
noise made by numerous heavy carriages
moving rapidly on frozen ground, or the
boiling of fluid in SOM immense caldron,
deep in the bowels of the earth, followed
by heavy Earring reports at the seat of
he ell eruption.
The shock or agitation ofthe cath, ex-
perienced in this region, could not have
continued ~"several minutes" as stated;
and we have the authority of eye wit
nesses of some of the most destructive of
those awful visitations, for believing that
no one shock, although it may be power
full enough to ingnlf whole cities, and
PROSTATE most of the buildings within
twenty or thirty miles Of its seat, lasts
longer than one minute. But these
shocks are sometimes repeated in more
or less rapid succession.
Among the phenomena of earthquakes
no one perhaps is SO remarkable as the
great distance to which the earth is thrown
into undulations or wave-likc motion.
The one which occurred at Lisbon, in
1855, destroying $4,000 persons in six
minutes of time, impaired this motion 10
the eastern portion of South America,
and necessary TO the whole bottom ofthe
ocean between the two,continents. Ships
1000 miles from the European shore, re-
ceived such a jar. or conclusion, as to
lead those on board to suppose their YES
sci had struck upon rocks. The earth
quakes at New Madrid, in this State, in
1871, occasioned this rocking motion Of
the earth at the Yellow Banks, on the
Ohio, 10 a remarkable degree. Tall trees
were seer waving back and forth as if
they had been agitated by a violent wind,
although the atmosphere was in a state
of most perfect calm, dry and smoky.
This, together with the tumbling down
of large portions of the bank ofihe river
was the first intimation which the peo-
pie in that vicinity had of any thing ex-
traordinary.
1t is worthy of note that those vibra-
tions in the surface of the earth do not
from the chasms or centre Of the
eruption over a circular area, but often
extend much farther in one direction than
another.
AS might naturally be supposed, the
ingenuity of philosophers in all ages Of
the world has been taxed 10 explain the
cause Of these dread c~onvulsons of IA
ture by w;iichthe sites Of large cities are
converted into stagnant lakes; whole ma
lions laid waste; level counties convert
ed into mountainous regions, and islands
and continents made to emerge from the
abyss Of the ocean.
However insorutible 10 the ancients
modern geological research which dem
onstrates the correctness of the Platonic
Of the earth, renders the explana-
lion Of the cause of Earthquakes, which
is identical with that of Volcanoes, of
easy solution. C. B. C.
Bowling Green, Jan. 10th.
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Correspondence Of the Evening Gazeite.l
January ., l843.
This morning when | closed my
Il furious detale was raging us
To the propriety of reading the evil
dence upon which the Leland com
founded their report. As all
things must come 10 an end, So did
This deba,e-lEe reading of the evil
ience was disposed wilt-,he report
10, and the whole matter sent
10 the Senate, where if the action OF
The House is concurred in, Il day will
be set for trial and the Judge notified
thereof.
January 8, lS43.
Mr.. Moss presented a petition
rom 60 physicians, praying the pas
'age OF ii Law 10 regulate the prac-
ice Of medicine. Mr.. McMnn pre-
'enled a petition from citizens Of
.ade and Polk counties, praying for
he establishment Of the fourth Branch
the Bank in Bolivar, Polk ciuntv. A,
MIR. Shelly from the committee en-
he Bank, presented several reports
rom that commitiee-unfavOrabIe to {
he petition from Marion county, in. f..
itrucling the committee of Wavs /
ind Means to enquire into the expe- 1
lIency of the immediate payment Of /
he debt due the Bank by the State 6
md a resolution fixing the salaries of s
he officers of the Bank and branch. /,
's-allows to the President and Cash. =
er OF the Bank at ST. Louis, $500 for |
he former, and $4,000 to the latter,
Mr.. Quinn moved to take up the S
eport Of the minority of the conn., =