Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-03-23

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a calm succeeded states Captain Newly,
Tor about ten minutes and then, in the most
tremendous, unearthy screech ever heard il,
recommended from the South and Southwest y
The third hurricane of the year was met with by
rawlings, about midnight of the 18th of Au-
gust when, after blowing violently for twelve
hours from the North, in an instant a perfect
calm cnsued for an hour, and then, quick as
thought, the wind sprung up with tremendous
lorce from the Southwest, no swell whatever
preceding the convulson. During this hurricane,
an extraordinary phenomenon presented itself, re-
semblng solid, back, perpendicular wall about
fifteen Or twenty degrees above the horizon
which disappeared and became visible again sey-
eral times, scrbed by one of the observers, as
" the most appalling sight he had ever seen du
ring his life al sea-" A similar spectacle is de-
scrlbed by an officer on board the ship Tar,arus,
during q hurricane on the American coast in the
year 1911; - No horizon appeared, but only a
something resembling an immense wall within
ten yards of the ship
The power of the wind was remarkably excm-
pihed during the great hu ricane of 1880 which
at barbadoes forced its way into every pert of the
Government house, and tore of most of the roof
though the wal were three feet thick and the
doors and windows had been we'll barricaded. --
Obliged to retreat from thence, the governor
and his family fled 10 the ruins Of the foundation
of the flag staff, and, compelled to re|inquish that
station, they with difficulty reached the cannon of
the Notifications, under the carriages Of which
they took shelter. But here they were not safe,
for the cannons were moved by the fury of the
wind and they dreaded every moment that the
guns would be dismounted, and crush them by
their fall,
From the preceding accounts ,appears that the
agency of electricity is frequently extensively
developed in hurricanes; that they have pro-
gressye motion that calms of short duration
occur during their continuance after which the
wind bursts forth from quarter different to that
from which it has been blowing pccuarlties
which have led to theory respecting sroms
which may be considered as established in its
leading principles.
Down to very recent date hurricane was
generally deemed to be simply gale Of wind
pursuing with immense velocity rectilincar d.
rection. Co'onel Capper departed from this idea
after investigating the storms of the Indian Ocean,
onl Dpl1uhnI ,b,, IN +ho
that the hurricanes he had exam ned in that re
gion were real whir winds Of varying diameter,
having a progressive as well as a1otatory mo-
ton The evidence collected from the records
of an immense number of storms in the Atlantic
BY Mr. neAfa,dtof New Work .aad in the Indian
Ocean, by Colonel Reid, seems to place beyond
all dispute, the fact hat they occur in the form
of a ring, having an outer circle, where the all
revolyts with intense velocity, and an interior
space, the diameter of which is sometimes equa
to several hundred mics the vortex of the whiil
wind, which is the Gene OF gusts and luils, {
comparatively slow progressive motion On the
surface of land and sea distinguishing the whole
A hurricane which occurred at New Brunswick
in the year 1885 strikingly exhibited the charac
ter of revolving stolm for, while about the
centre bodies were carried upward at the eAtrem
tiles the tre' were thrown in opposite directions
The same circumstance was observed at Darba
does in 1881 neal the no thern coast; the tree.
which the hurricane had uplooted, lay from N
N VI. toS. S. E., having been thrown dow
by nortArrly wind while in soine other parts O
the island they lay from S. to n, having beel
Frustrated by southerly wind 1t is evident
therefore that the direction of the " ind at par
ticuar point affords no indication of the course il
which the whole revolving mass Of the atmos
phcre is advancing. Another singular conclu
sion. respecting Storms which the American am
Anglican philosophers, along with Proiesso
Dove, of Berlin, have arrived at by indept nder
Investigations, is, that the hurricanes in the south
ern hemisphere revolve in a counter direction
. those in the northern and while the axis of
storm in the North Atlantic has progressive m,
5 ion from the equator nbquely toward the mort
pole, that of one in the Indian Ocean process
! obl;queiy fonl the equator, toward the sout
pole. In The Pacific Ocean, region Of hur,
e canes, their revolving motion appears 10 be san
g toned by The evidence which has been obtaint
: respecting them. Mr.. Williams, the missionar
= describes hurricane at Rarna,onga, one of Il
. tIervev Islands, during which the rain descend,
A in d luging torrents, the lightning dared in fe
e streams among the dense, back Clouds the thu
3 der rolled deep and loud through the heaven
and the island trembled to its very centre as ii
1 war of the elements ragged over it, Scarcely
, b'nanna or pIantan tree was left, either on Il
{ plains or in the valleys, or upon the mountains
hundreds of thousands of which on the precee,
a ing day, covered ard adorned the land with the
: foliage and fruit and immense chesnuts whlC
. had wilhstood the storms of ages, were la
PROSTATE on the ground, while those that rema
8 ed erect had scarcely branch, and were a
4. eafess 1t was observed that when the ga
e ended, the wind was in the West, whereas
q the rly part of its action the east end of Il
E chapel had been blown in, which shows the viii
. then to have been in the East. The hurrican
q of the New South Wales have been known
4 develop the same peculiarly. Mr.. Meredi
= traced the path of one in the centre, and fou
=, at the termination circle plainly shown,
', which the trees lay all ways.
II CONNECTING HUBS WITH AxLEs.-W. NJ. Ne
e comb, Of Eden, Vermont, has applied for
d tent upon an improved mode of connecting a
& dsconnecting the hubs of carriages, &c, wi
W their axles, which consists in key hole form
a, in the side and near the end of the cap of t
le hub, and covered by horizontal spring slide
r combination with an omen slot formed in I