New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-14

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the Commercial Advertiser, giving interesting p1t.
,iculars of the terrible desoaiion ehec'eu y sie
earthquake of the 9th ult- me ruthof "ii,'- -
reached US by way of Baltimore OF tle saa
ron Of life at Point Petre, will be seen to nave
hoe, b, eighty exaggerated. St. Croix paper
oe ,ha 18th saws that at Point Petre, IN Guada-
Ior,e 400 persons had disappeared, and that the
,.d;.s os 900 had been dug out of the ruins and
! ,aken GU, TO sea, 10 prevent peshence. VI oou
soldiers forming the regiment qnartered t're, only
40 survived Bright and successive volumes OF
fame were seen to issue from the island by vessel
| passing at the time of the earthquake; SO that ii
is supposed, with 0trong ground OF probability,
that the destruction Of the island had It's origin in
the eruption of a volcano. The forti6cations were
heap Of ruins, and the mouth of the harbor was
so completely choked up by rocks forced up from
the bottom Of the sea, that ii feared the ships
there could never be removed. The Captain OF
the schooner Ellen, arrived yesterday from ST.
| Thomas, reports that tho U. S. Consul at Point
Petre was so severely injured that nc survived but
| short time. The town and harbor had both been
put under martial law to prevent their being plum
| dered.
Ar Antigua the shock was very severe though
only tea lives were lost. Almost every windmill,
steam engine, sugar works, &c. were destroyed,
the churches, chapcls, custom houses, jals and
other public buildings were almost ruined, and the
loss Of property is supposed to amount to several
millions of pounds. The canes in the fields must
be sacrificed for want of mills to grind them, and
there is said to be scarcely building on the isl
and lief, uninlured. The catastrophe was preceded
BY rise of the tide to hight of four feet above
| its usual flow.
At ST, Bart's the church and several other build
| ings were thrown down, and the earth opened in
the middle of street to the width of a foot, the
assure extending 600 yards in length. At St. Eus-
tatia the damage was confined mainly to buildings,
some being very badly .ojsred. At St. Christie
piers several of the public buildings utterly
destroyed Only one person lost her life, but some
others were badly hurt. At Nevis and St. Bar
thoIomew's the earth opened and water with
sulphurous su ell issued from the crevices. No
thing farther had been heard from Montserat-
When last seen the Island was enveloped in dense
cloud of smoke or dust The sea around was vio-
'iAASS''S
felt but slightly.
LlEblG's ANIMAL CHEMIsTRY.-Mr. W1NcHEs-
TER, at 80 Ann street. having exhausted his first
edition of this work, which was over 10000, and
being unable to answer the many orders conunu-
ally received, has stereotyped the work, and just
issued new edition, in his uniform cheap octave
form. We regard this rs among the most imeor-
tant scientific works of the age. 1t embraces the
results of the original researches of one OF the pro-
foundest living chemists, and throws more light
than any previous work had ever doRe upon the
secret processes by which the mysterious principle
of animal vitality is preserved. Chemistry re-
ceives new importance from these investig
which are infinitely remoyrd- the cruda and
ignorant speculatlons which assume and disgrace
tho name of science In many quarters at the pre-
Il. suur uay. ney were conducted with the utmost
care the deductions from them have been made
with scientific precision and logical exactncss, and
tho results are of the most interesting and imper-
| tant character. We rejoice that the work has o5-
tanned circulation very wide and general. No
book Of the season so well deserves will better
reward close and diligent study. The price of
the book, in Mr.. Wholesalers edition, is very
low, that every person who wishes it may have it
in his hands.
~ There is to be great TYLER Mass MEET
ISG in the Tabernacle tomorrow evening, which
Messrs CUSHING and PRoFFIrT are expected to
address, (Wise will not be herc-he has bust
ness enough at horne.) AS all the oftice.seekers
will attend from interest, many Locos to foment
mischief, and some Wings from curiosity, we an
,icipate a fall house. Gushing will make an able
speech and Proflitt an amusing one. We try
to hear.
10 Rev. D. P. KlDDER will deliver Lecture
this evening at the Society Library upon the Moral
and Literary Condition of Brazil. MIR. Kiddcr has
spent year or two in Brazil in missionary labors
and thus enjoyed every opportunity for forming an
intimate and accurate acquaintance with the liter
airy and religious character of the people. He
gentleman of fine talents, most accomplished
scholar and earnestly devoted to the cause of moral
and religious culture His Lecture will be emin.
emily worthy of attention.
10 MIR. CLAY reached Frankfort on the evening
of the 9th, on his return home from the South
He looks much improved by his Southern trip.
10 We notice, by the last English papers, that
Greathead's English Life Boat, after taking the
crew from the wreck of the William s. Anne, lost
off the English coast on the 9th ult, swamped and
drowned every soul or board of her. We under
stand that Francis American Life Boat is of a to-
tally different construction