Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-01-26
AMERICAN
Ellsworth, Friday, Jan. 26, 1855.
TIE HIGH TIDE: THE WEATHER;
T6E STORM.


! Friday, the 10Th day OF January, will
long be remembered for Its high tide
the highest ever before known in this
section of the country. This singular
phenomina We should like to hear &C.
counted for upon philosophical princi-
PIES. VIII not some Of onr readers at
tempt the soiution' We have puzzled
over il for a week, and arrived only at
this conclusion; the heavy North East
wind might have forced the waters on, of
the Bay Of Fuadv TO such an extent as
20 produce il. \ scientific friend has
suggested that The North East wind So
damned up the Bay Of Fundy as TO pre-
vent The tide from flowing in, and conse-
1uen;ly all the water which nature in.
tended for Down Fast" s:opt along the
coast oil Frenchman's bay. But neither
oil these causes seem to account salts
fsctorily for tide some six or eight feet
higher than usual.
In his region no serious damage was
done. beyoad drying the vessels ashore,
where they were LETT higa and dry
Messrs Austin & Chute had .chr. driven
" and landed between two rocks, either
OF which woall weigh some seven or
eight toas. These rocks had to be blast,
ed aud taken away in pieces before she
could be got Of. AT Long Island and
Bass Ha,bors, the wharves were broken
up and seriously injured. Esq. Lunt es-
Inmates his damage a, one thousand dol.
lars,
At Long Island harbor, the brig Ceylon,
Of Cornwal!is, Capt Coffin, was compel
led to cut away her masts to keep from
icing driven ashore. A sehr. in S. W.
narbor, ditto. Three schrs. were driven
ashore at Bass Harbor.
Steamer I. F. Secor was out in ii, los,
an anchor, drilted aoout two or three
hours ami was finally beached near Owls
Head. Hayins been unable to learn any
thing further in reference TO the Secor,
the inference is. that she came off and
continued her trip to Portland, where
she was advertised to sail Tuesday. A,
Rockland, the damage BY the gale, in
GLIDING lime los t, is estimated a, $50, o o,
The Bangor Wing of Saturday has
the following:
tbs SToRm,-The storm OF yesterday
and the day before was the NEST violent
We have had for lohg time. |, rained
and showed alterna,eIy-the wind blew
continually, and under foot the condition
Of things was terrible We never knew
slosh SO deep and disagreeable. The
ude rose TO an unusal height, flooding |
the cellars in Commercial street. We
have not heard of any disaster to ship.
Plug in the harbor The trains on all
the railroads were delayed-and up to 9
o'clock las, evening, no mail from the
South had reached the city. The tele-
graph lines are all down: so that we are
almost in state of complete isolation
from all the world and the res, Of man.
kind" We have, however, communica.
ton with our Canadian and kennebec
neighbors.
Taking al together, we have had a
strange winter. In December came as
cold weather as we often experience in
this latitude. January has been much
Ike an old iashionedApr. Union river bay
is entirely clear Of ice, with but little in
the river. The ground is bare, and
everybody is moving about on wheels
Whether this singular weather and the
war in Europe; the high tide and siege
Of Seyastopol; the fresh South wind of
Monday and destruction OF Grey,own in
July, have anything to do with the final
closing Up Of the books in May next, as
expected BY the Milleri,es, remains to be
seen.
Since the above was in type, we in.
quired Of Rev. D. NJ. Knapen his opin.
ion as TO the cause of the high tide. He |
accounts Tor it upon the supposi,ion that
there had been some internal CONFUSION |
OF the earth. We then remembered that
our exchanges have been speaking of an
earthquake having been plainly fel, re
Gently in various parts OF the State. A
few lines upon this subject from Mr.. X.
would be very acceptable for the mex,
number of our paper