The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-05-09
AWFUL EARTHQUAKE-WHOLE CT.
TIES DESTROYED.

We clip the following item Of news from
The foreign advices brought by the Pacific:
Accounts from Malta announce success
sion of earthquakes which have been felt. as
well at Malta, town OF Natolia. in Asla,lc
Turkey, as at Samronn, n seaport in tn"
Black Sea, within the same province, ard at
the Island of Rhodes. situate at the ENTRANCE
of the Gulf of Macri, attended at the first
mentioned p!ace and its immediate vicinity
with great destruction of life mud property.
The first shock wns felt on the 18th of Feb
ruary, between FIVE and half past five, q.
I1.. when nt Rhodes, the upper part of the
castle. which is Mt the ENTRANCE of the town,
fell with M awfnl crash. overwhelming The
Offices Of The Austrian Lnyd'. Steam Nayi-
CATION Company, whilst the Tower Of Ar.
rnps Kule. which commands the entrance OF
the harbnr. md several other parts Of the
Qualifications, sustained grcut injury. us did
likewise many dwelling houses, some Of
which were shaken of their very foundations
on the rock, others cracked ,hroughout.-
The oscillations were from east 20 west.
At Maori. on the main land, and It's m>
mediate neighborhood, the consequences
have been most disastrous and heart rend
ing. The whole Of III" houses, dwellings
and stores. lately erected in the town. have
been IeveIed to the ground, isxmreS have
been formed in lh- very streets, from which
blumnuus vnpors exude continually. al
mos. sulfncaiing the inhabitants; many
springs have dried up, wills. in urid locale
ties new ones have gnshoI out, changing
the whole fpatures of the cnrtl,'s surfnc" -
10 r ii I
800 houses. has not one slnnJing. md no
less than GOO human beings are rec1oned TO
he under The ruins, whrh number would
have been awfully augmented had the shock
been after nighltall, when the inhabitants
retire to their homes after the lnbnrs uf the
day. The village of Ceiorge has renrv
met with the same fate. the upper pnrt of
Luge mountain having fallen int" and blocks
ed up the small sort Of Ekengik over,
whelmlng q II the dwellings round about its
base. Another village. more inland, has
been buried from the fall, N opposite direc.
tons, oflwo hills between which it was Sis
uated.
The survivors AZ Maori, alarmed by the
repeated shocks which were still occurring
for five DAYS aIicr though of muci, slight.
er nature, had fled for safety on brnrd small
crafts md fishing boats. carrying with them
what property they could from time to time
dig out from hencah the runs of the stores
houses. most of which has been removed to
SINH, Rhodes, and other Islands.
THE LATE PARKER II. FRENcH.-The
Louisville Courier gives the following
sketch Of Captain Parker II. French, whose
criminal career has been lately cut short al
the hands of ynchers in Mexico:
"But few short years since, we knew
French as lad, whose reputation was
without bemish or reproach, and whose
daily walk was such, as not only 10 win the
confidence and esteem Of his employer,
but of the entire community in which he
then resided. OF mild and amiable dis"
positlon; with business habits rarely met
with in one of his tender age; enjoying the
confidence of those, able and willing, TO as
sst him in mercantile pursuits, which but
few with limited means could command,
he commenced his commercial career IN
ST. Louis some three years since. under
prospects regarded The most na,tering and
promising. For season he apparently
was basking in the sunshine Of prosperity,
during which period he wooed and won
the accomplished daughter of one of the
most es,mable and distinguished citizens
of neigh hboring State.
ga revulsion in his affairs, however,
speedily following his marriage. We next
hear Of him in New-York, where he
sought to regain his shattered fortunes, as
the originator of an expedition across the
country for the transportation Of emigrants
10 California. He lett with upwards Of
TWO hundred passengers, and in Texas
commenced those depredations upon soce-
", which has resulted In his paying the
penalty of the violated laws, by death, as
isnominious as il was tragical. He seems
from the beginning 10 have thrown of all
moral restraint, and to have given up TO a
desperation that is seldom met with in the
most hardened criminal. much less IN one
who may be said TO have been bu, novice
IN crime. To the crime Of forgery he soon
added rha, Of robbery, and finally ended the
catalogue of his lransgressions by becom'
ing q murderer. There survives him wife
whose hopes on earth are crushed forever.
and lovely infant daughter. upon whom,
should she live, cold and hearlless world
will cast It's frowns, on account oil the sins
Of the father"
.. Il
WASHINGTON AN ENG OF
the papers. having no better amusement.
have been endeavoring TO show that Wash.
inglon was horn in England. That he is
native Of Westmoreland county. Va. is
probably known to every schoolboy IN the