Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-11-25

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The late Earthquake i'm Mexico.
| Mr.. KENDALL thus writes from the city of Mex
leo concerning the earthquake of the Cd of Otober
which appears to have been much the severest o
three several shocks that were felt within two OF
three days of that time:
City Of Mexico, Oct. 3, l647.
An earthquake we have had an earthquake
| Between the hours Of seven and eigh yester.
day morning, and when all Nature was hushed
ia stiffness most profound, suddenly the earth
began TO rock with strange and mos. fearful
motion. | am living a. the house Of Psna y
Pena, the headquarters Of General Worth, i'm.
medately in front of the beautiful alameda, and
the first intimaion We had of the dread conyul-
sion was the violent slamming of the doors,
accompanied by a furious jingling OF The glass
pendants attached TO chandelier hanging and
swinging from the ceiling of The room. Soon
our beds commenced rocking, something after
the manner of a ship becalmed at the close of
a storm, and then came the shrieks Of immune
rable women and children, driven, hall. dressed,
afftgh,ed into the streets. The dreadful temb.
Tor, as the Mexicans call i, was upon US. Most
ohoaSO ouo tupfoSSSC WoS Suo OCSu0 QiSCiO6e
ed from the front windo rs, as reelng and stag.
gering We approached and opened them. To
walk steady was impossible, so violent were
the upheavings and oscillations of the mighty
earth. The tops of the large trees in the ala
media were swaying, the water in the reser.
voirs was billowing TO and fro,the walls around
us were cracking and gaping asunder, the wide
street in front was crowded with women and
children as well as men. screaming and pray.
ing and crossing themselves in the extremity
of their fright, while our own soldiers were
reelng unsreadily in their midst, astonished
and awe-stricken at The strange commotion.
The sentinels halted upon their rounds, uncer.
tain and not knowing what 10 do the callejons,
or narrow lanes, continued TO pour forth their
hundreds Of affrighed inhabitants, all seeking
the refuge Of the larger streets and open
squares, lest their own houses might ,ot,er and
tumble upon their heads, while on bended
knees they confessed their sins aloud. and ear.
nesliy pelilioned forgiveness ere it was yet too
lale. A wounded officer in our house, bed. rid.
den and apparently unable 10 move since the
hardfought battle Of Ell Moline, came hob.
bling hurriedly from his room, driven thence
by the cracking Of the walls and the strange
tumult from without. The stiffness of the morn.
ing, so profound had been the repose of Nature,
but added 10 the general feeling of wonder and
OF awe---of CONSERVATION, perhaps should term
II; lear caught from the actions and counte.
nances OF those "naiive here and TO The man
ner born" those Graded and rocked amid CON-
motions Of p kindred nature The domes and
sieeples of the innumerabEe churches and con-
vents reeled like drunken men; tho lakes har d
by rolled their sluggish waters as tho moved
BY an elemental strife from above instead OF the
earth in which they are nestled in her sore ira.
vail. An officer in the street, about 10 noun,
MS horse al The commencement, of the commo.
ion, suddenly found his animal receding from
him. Asionished. he inquired of a soldier close
BY The cause: but The man was as ignoran, an
himself. The puddles in the streets...for there
bad been severe shower the night before.
spread themselves and disappeared upon the
pavement, so great was the motion, while the
Trees IN The alameda coniiued TO lash their huge
loPs as II swayed by unseen yet all-powerfnl
hands. The shoek lasted over two minutes.
perhaps should say succession OF shocks. for
he oseiIlafory motion Of The earth al short in.
ervals became calm---whiIe The wkols scene
Impressed every one anew with The might. ma.
jesty. and the manifold power Of The Mos, Hiyb.
But, if the streets and open ways presented
spectacle most impressive, doubly awful was the
effect produced among the wounded men i'm the
different hospitals. Unconscious of the cause of
the strange comnetion, filled with apprehensions
which ever attack with ten fold force the disabled
and the inhrm, and dreading results from a phe-
nomenon they must have deemed akin to the su
pernafurai the poor fellows rose and hobbled from
their cots-trembling and stricken by deep awe
yet not knowing whittier to fly The armless hur-
ried hither and thiher. the legless hobbed about
in all directions, while the bed ridden, the pros
Irate, and the utter helpless, panic stricken and
responding earnestly prayed and petitioned not TO