Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-14
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TIE OCTOBER STORMS.
There are other people than those Of
the United States who are exercised
just now on the subject Of everlows
aud foundations, and some Of them are
in fear Of greater calamities than the
food which recently swept the valleys
and water-courses of the Middle and
Eastern States. A Captain Saxby, of
the British navy, many mouths ago
warned the English people that the pc
riod from the 9Th to the 7th Of October,
this year, would be marked BY extreme
ly high tides. And again, as late as the
goth of September, in a letter to the
London Tines, he admonishes them to
look to the condition Of their "ssa-
walls, river banks, bridges and cellars"
as q precautiou against damage and loss
from the heavy tides predicted. This
has caused quite an alarm along the
coast, and the Astronomer Royal has
been appealed to for information. In
his response, he admits that the position
of tho sun and moon in relation to the
earth, at the time referred to, will cause
high tides, but all these extraordinary
influences are taken into account in cal.
culating the tide tables for the Nautical
Almanac, and by reference to these ia
bles, he finds that while the tide Of the
9Th Of October will be the highest this
year, it will be only one inch higher than
that Of the 2sth of February last, which
did no damage, and thus the perturba.
ton in the British mind, so far al this
high tide alarm is concerned, was set at
rest.
The people in another quarter Of the
globe, however, have been msnaced BY q
moro alarming prediction. Some time
subsequently, to the great earthquakes
on the western coast Of South America
last year., a German scientist predicted
great damage, if not destruction, to
many of the exposed towns and cities
on the same coast, from terrestrial and
atmospheric disturbances, to occur
some time between the oath Of Septem.
Der aud the 9Th Of October this year. It
will be observed that the SANE date os.
ours in this prophecy that figures in the
warning Of Captain Sa1by to the Eng
lish people, and there are two facts
that make il extremely interesting. The
frat is the near coincidence of the date
with that Of the great storm which re.
suited in so much damage in the Allan.
tic States on the 4th Of October; and
the next is that a recent arrival from
the western coast Of South America
brings intelligence that severe earth.
quake shocks have already been erpe.
rienced along the line Of the coast. 0ne
Of these, felt by the steamer Pita, when
a short distance north Of Callao, was SC
severe as to PROSTATE the passengers or
the deck. The steamer Alaska, which
brings this news from Aspinwall, and
arrived ut New York, October 9Th, also
encountered heavy gales on her passage
These events may be more accidental
Condolences, but they may very nat
urally be claimed Is ful6llments Of pre-
dietions, and hence it becomes interest
ing 10 know upon what data Captain
Saxby and the German Professor base
their calculations. Referring to the heavy
tides predicted in England, the case il
plain enough, for these are caused By
the peculiar conjunction of the sun.
moon and earth, all being at the date
mentioned in the same place, and the
moon being at her nearest point of ap'
proach to the earth. But it takes more
than such a tide to mako q food, as The
letter of Mr.. Airy, the British Astrono'
msr Royal, shows. Destructive food.
are produced BY high tides when accom-
panied by adverse winds and heavy
rains. Nothing, however, is said in th,
correspondence about the atmospheric
disturbances that may be and probably
are caused by such a conjunction Of The
two bodies which have the most power
full influence on the globe We inhabit
Extraordinary tides may DO produced in
tho atmosphere as well as in the vas
body Of water that covers so much o.
the surface of the earth. Tho science
of meteorology has to some extent &C
counted for the great mir currents known
as the "trade winds" and "monsoons,'
as being the combined results Of the
unequal effects of the heat Of the SUI
on the earth, and the rotation Of the
earth on its axis. The laws which gov.
ern the prevailing winds 10 different
quarters of the earth have been made
sufficiently we'll known to mariners to
enable them to make use Of them when
they can be utilized, and to some extent
to avoid them when they are adverse.
But there are exceptional and ftful
winds that produce heavy storms, and
how far these are the results Of the
same influences that cause extraordi-
nary high tides is a subject that the
msteorologists have not thrown much
light upon, although it is one in every
way worthy Of their attention.
DErnAvsp GIRLs.-What can be moro
heartrending than the realization Of the
fact of the depravity of a young girl?
Yet there are many such in this commu-
nifty. A girl named Katy Walker, aged
between IA and Is, was reported to the
Chief Of Police yesterday by her lawful
protectors as totally unmaungeable by
them. She had spent the night previous
in the company Of n Lizzie Burns