Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-26
EARTHQUAKE AT MAcaIANDRNoDEs.

i EART41QgAKE AT TMACMANDRH0DEs.
from Malta announce succession Of earthquake.
which have besnk well at Malta town Of Natoa in
Assaic Turkey, SAMSON, seaport 10 the Black Sea-
with 10 hsssms province, and at the Island Of Rhodes su
the entrance Of the Gulf Of Maori attended At the frs,
Ai eas Pi.cv and ~ immediate vicinity with great destruc-
mon of life and property The first shock was felt on the
2Sh February, between Eve and halcpast Eve M when
Rho de 1.-THE upper part Of the caste which Is al the
unce .of the town, fsl with awful crash ovsswheine
the Off. Of the Ansian Lloyds Steam Navigation Com
pany, hilst the Tower Of Arrays Kue which commands
1.-The enin othe hbo and several eisr parts Of the for
daoOn sustained sgea injury did Likewise many dwell
bpus of which shaken to their foundations
on the ck others cracked throughost The oscillations
wse west 10 east Slightsr shocks succeeded almost
i daily up the 7titof March h9ga 0 dtR 4iasnts
Al Mac d. ON the main land. and is immediate neshbor-
the .coHseqpences have been Disastrous and heart
rsndps The whole Of the houses dwellings, and stores
lately 10 the town have been leveled to the ground
sues hsN been formed IN the very streets from which BIZ
tuineos ,pQrs eIuds continually, almost sqocang the
inhabaants many springs have dried up, whilst inard To-
caHies have gushed out changing the whole ea
tuges Of ihe ath h'ssurface. fns gsi e3f5 \
The town of hevissy, which contaiaed feen hundred
houses has OF one left standng and less than six hun
sd human engs reckone To be under the ruins which
number would have been awfoy augmented had the shock
been after nigh tall when the inhabitants retire thr homes
afterrthe iabon Of the day. s& S.
The village Of Chiotss has seary met with hssame fate
upper part Of huge mountain having fallen into and
blocked up the small port Of Ekengk, overwhelming al the
dwellings round about les base Another rvsge, in
and hes been buried fom the fall in opposite direenns Of
two haA betwe en- which il was situated. y, 4 I 4
The survivor. at Mec alarmed by the repeated shocks
which were still! occureg for five days after, though of
much sisher e had Aed for safety board snacraf
and fshingboa canying with them what property they
could from time to time dig from beneath the nns Of
she osehouses, most of which has been removed u Sm
Rhodes and otha islands. .
Al Ssmsoon smartshock felt the 25sh Of Pebru-
sS bot il caused damage. Our resders wil remember
that the famous colossus Of Rhodes, which in lis ay
reckoned one seven wonders Of the world washown
down by earth quake. 2A years before Christ, aA ffy
years after its erection, being Of the enoTmoy wdghtof
7zossOO lbs To soohch event nodoub als
the extensive magnificent ruins Of many cities Hhich exist
Eyca and the Valley of the Xanhus, Of wbth Msc 10 he
sRa s f:ss q: @ s saoaa ~ IN
more properly speak'ss recovered By Fsaoves, some
Trebzond, another Gy of Asiatic Tsey the ansent T-
Pesus, down to the 5of March, which make nsntoa oswo
shocks Of earthquake having ben experionced eat
Stove pipes got detacAsd iron the w of the hosses doors
dew OPEN and many old enements hssaened .oasabout
the Of the inmates bat no accident d consequence
suited Earthquakes Of very Occurrence ab this
seaport English Piper. In. l.lall-c -c. s.ril-. sy5
"A person in the city Of Roston has irng the past four
years, travelled BY rarosd ix thoYsa nsasa and
ye has attended ohs daily business in the city. working
about ten hours per day. During bis travels be hashad pro-
badly than million passeOgeT and yesnot the
slightest accident has happened any bns of them while in
the During the whole time s has been detained from
his business but upon three occaeps by Of
the and then fop than hour So puncuay
has the train ayed that for months there scarcely
aperceptble variation in the time os reaching the y The
road travelled wns e Worcester and the train the Newton
Special Bostorar Trsreler 4t3a 2 fl4is ai sfi
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REwAaD ron As IsvExrIos.--Ws easn that the Asri-
Horticultural Society Of Inda has offered tia Liberal prize OF
five thousand rupees (s2 5Oay fot an insossd cotton
cleaning machins, to be perfect IN tG action IN se-
pa.ing cotton wooff the sse4 such gus
iies o expedition and copPaase sseapne,s a
to render il likely to come pIacical The machine
is 10 spply 70 The ordinary short staple cotton grown in India
from The fsrenS will be remembered, from,
our cotton The common chutks used BY the natives,
not cost more than from csps one dola, The quantity
cleaned being about 30 lbs in twelve hanxs.,, n. H
Each competor is to dspcse. froaof chssgs full sized
working achiae in the sSc'sss rooms Ms.eas Hall Cal,
CUTIE together with sscrp.iseof the machine and
the mode Of working i. dsed TO the pnonry Secretary
Of the Society These nSs must be deposited there
before the first Of Januay Next RDson Dsy AdvstiaT
FLAX CorroS. use Of Asx cotton msnafactursd
cordng tothe prccea Of Chsvskar GAAussEs s aow in
progress up extensive scale A. Bradford, in Yorkshire,
having entered into contracts Tas principle Of the nven
by which fax adapted for spinning upon cot,sn, wool
and silk schiney consists in she destruction Of the cyn
dcal character Of the fibre by the expansive pouer Of
bonic acid gas The first procss howeve Is hs removal oS
the resino matter peculiar 70 Ne plant Thsn effected BY
boiling it for three hours In weer containing onehaf per
cent. Of common Soda after which Il Is dipped in uaer
slightly acidula,ed with sulpAHc acid TIE FAX is then
thoroughly saturated in solution of bicasbonae Of sods
and b ing subsequently imnssedin solution Of diluted sui
phuc acid liberation Of gas takes place. which causes the
tubes Of which the plant composed 10 split when the
rial instantly losing ito Ssidiy becomes light expansive
mass cottony texture increasing in size like eavenng
dough expanding SPONGE Lastly for the purpose Of
being beached il is plunged into hypochoie of mssnesa
when II instantly becomes white very general opinion
prevails that the invention win lead 70 rapid and extraordinary
results. Sixty tons Of the cotton ere being prepared for
the Manchester market. ~. Y. Gem, Advetser.
"A "SuRx Esousa" srAeK FisHr lat. Enalsh paper
gives the particulars Of sure enough fight which recently
came of on the stage Of the Chester rough
and ready knockdown snddfag to, and Of
the common theatrical cutsnd Aoorish ss Il that
this little episodca part Of the performance grew Of old
bitter srudge between the corps dramoiqa And not
the bills at all. The two actors in question commenced
making grmaces and mouths each other during the bus
OF the stage until Of them got savage that he
squsred off and pitched into his antagonist regular acer
This returned forthwith when at il they went rough
and tumble amid the cheers Of the sudsnc which happened
to be very lsc The fight continued until Of the
bruses gave his adversary such blow that be- knocked
heslsover head into the orchestra, carrying down double
basse uombopes, hau,boys and III. and making perfect
smash OF kettle drum OF two Amid the snlic cheers OF
the pit the disccmd hero Of the Sock atd bukh picked
hnsef up and snsshed or and hus snded combat ~hie