The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-05-30
Onward Stroke of lightning.

Be the nature of the agent electricity what 1t
| NAV, its effects on Substances exposed to its
| action, often present marks Of a transfer in 4
determipate direction. This transfer in case
of strokes of lightning, sometimes, though per-
haps rarely, appears to be upward, or from the
ground to the clouds. \ building at Stlliwa-
ter, Minnesota, was stricken by an upward
stroke of lightning Gf we may use the express
sion) on the morning Of the Goth of July, 1882
which had the opportunity of examining with
i'm "A few minutes Of the occurrence. It waS 4
store, standing nearly alone by the shore OF the
lake upon which the town is situated, and sur
rounded by bed Of coarse gravelly sand: well
moistened at the time, which had been deposi-
It'd there few weeks previously by disrupt
ing flood of water. Regarding it as an ascend
ing current, the electricity escaped from the
sand close to the side of the building, passed
beneath the siding and along up scantng,
pressed the siding which was nailed to the
scantng outwards convcXly and throwing the
wall of the room inwards in a similar manner,
pierced the plastercd wall of the chamber near
its floors, proceeded along the floor Of this
apartment to plate Of sheet iron, upon which
sat stove, and thence up the stove pipe and
chimney parting the bricks asundcr along the
side of the chimney, throwing its top-whIh h
was capped or archcd over-into the street.
The point of its path which more particularly
denoted an up Yard course, was its passage
through the plastered wall into the chamber.
| 1t passed through the middle of Il lath into the
room, making an aperture somewhat more
than half an inch in diameter, with ragged
| contour, and protuberant.
The shattered splinters of the lath were pro-
truded into the apartment, just as if bullet
had been fired in from below. The dry plas
tering was likewise projected almost to The
iron plate, along either side Of the electric path
on the floor distance of nearly three feet. -
| This clearly showed that the electric disturb.
ance proceeded from the ground upwards into
the ROOM Also the bricks were thrown from
the top of the chimney, in precisely the manner
that We should suppose they would have been
| by force acting upward.
Two windows in the hall leading to the cham
Der room were remarkably shattered, the glass
being projected into the hall, evidently from
an inward pressure Of the external air. Two
circular apertures, each about two inches in
diameter, were made in the glass of the upper
part of one window, and what was remarkable
the lower part of the window was raised mp at
the time, so that the broken panes were cover
ed by it on the side next the room, and those
panes coming against the broken ones, were
left entire The pieces Of glass were lodged
between the sashes. Two other windows
opening into the chamber, having their sashes
raised up at the time were not harmed.
Several gentlemen examined the building
soon after the occurrence, and all were Of opin'
ion that the shock was upward.
STATE RIGHrs IN CoNNEcrIcUT.-The Con
necticut Senate on Tuesday afternoon last, by
a vote of l6 to -four members being absent.
adopted series of resolutions against the Ne
braska bill, Of which the following are part
Resolued, That we declare our fixed purpose
never to consent to the legal or actual admls
sion of Slavery into the Territory from which
it was excluded by the Act of 1920, or to tht
admission of slaveholding States from any por
tion of the same.
Resolued, That this General Assembly here
by declares itself ready to CO operate with 9th
er States in any legal and constitutional mea
sures, which the existing crisis or its conse
quences shall demand. for the preservation
our rights, and in defence of liberty.