The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-27
The Nort. c.rosss.t ta,. Earthguake.

Il nc " Ot'JSf CCSPCStts an E-tt1'tf1 IGEIitsS
1t is only reasonable TO surp,ise that tn,
earthquake by which the value of real cs
tate seems 20 have been so suddenly depre
ciatcd and the popularity OF the local cler
gyman to have been as suddenly enhanced
i'm q remote region of the "Old NORTH
State has lost nothing of it's force and
fury i'll travelling to us along the lines of the
telegraph. The Rev. Mr. Lumby would
naturally ana properly enough make the
most of it for the glory of GOD and the
reporters of the Associated Press, we hope,
know their business too well to hclittle so
rare an event as a serious earthquake in the
/ United States. But OFF interest in the
1 phenomenon would be notably increased
were we half as well assured of the altered
/ incipient volcanic of one OF the Allcgha-
! nian peaks rs we arc of the alleged earth
quake i'll its vicinity. Within the histori-
/ cal times of America no voicanic eruption
has occurred east Of the Rocky Mountains
Were one now to break forth in the ALE
ghenies we should be justified in regarding
the phenomenon not perhaps like the par
. ishoncrs of Mr. Lumby, as an argument
decisive of the superiority of virtue over
vice. bnt certainly rs most significant III
dicatiOn Of the possible approach of very
important changes in the conditions of the
Atlantic territory we inhabit. There is not
the slightest scientific ground for dOubtiuU
The possibility of such changes. nor can
anything like Il respectable conjecture even
of their possible scope and extent, should
they occur, be formed by us in the present
state of our knowledge of the great pro-
ccsses of which our geolOgists thus far
have only succeeded in forming to them
selves number of more or less satisfactory
theories. 1t is tolerably well established.
however, that volcanic eruptions and earth
quakes are but different manifestations of
similar or Identical forces. And the mo-
tons which expeud themselves in threats
OF volcanic eruption III North Carolina
may possibly enough give us in New York (
or Philadelphia as rude ''shakins-uD'' as F.
Boston experienced only century and a .
quarter ago, and but little more than /
fortnight after the awful destruction of .
Lisbon. The New England earthquake Of .
November IS, 1853, was also felt more or
less severely all through the Atlantic por-
on OF tie Middle States and of what we
now call the British Provinces. 1t was
hought no joke in Massachusetts and New
hampshire, where it shook down fences
ma orlck chlmneys stopped watches and
HOOKS, ana set the country people to pray
ny as devoutly as the pariShioners of Mr..
-nmby IN North Caroline are praying now.
John Winthrop, Esquire, iIc!lisian pro-
lessor OF the Mathematics and PhiIoso-
ply at Cambridge" who wrote the best
COUNT We nave OF TINS notable earth
uakc- and what Is more, read il in the !
haTcl Of Harvard College on the 2Gth
t November, tells us that had Boston !
cen built, as Lisbon was built. Of stone ,
M IN houses seven stories high DrOba
Giy rot ore stons of il would have been ,
lett standing upon another" And Pro .
'ssor John Winthrop was man cool and >
7Ietui OF statement. as became a HolIisian =
oleSsor, lie dwells but lightly in his ac- |
'uht on the panic terror of the people. i
la dI>danfutly annihilates 4 bcyyilderai ,.
eatuTe who had rushed into print pro,nnt- 7
win YIndIcatiOn of the ways Of Cop ;,
5ainst lightning rods to show that the true +,
use ot the calamity was the ''mutiDlicq :,
tlon OF iron points and the consequent /,
great increase OF elcctricity." Franklin =
'd not long before suatched the thunder +.
'lt from heaven. and was then PREPARING ;,
inseII more or less consciously to rob ty- a
nts oI their sccptTeS. >,
" are assured now that the NOrt, Caro- / -
Ia rumblings of to-day have been echoed i
1m Nova Scotia. \ despatch from Hail f.
Y seems to establish Chis Our HolIisian h.
otcSsor assigned very nearly the same re
nits 10 the earthquake of November. m
%. 81 have lately been informed" he r.,
Is, that 1T was felt at Annapolis Roval, Il;
N Nova Scotia, though in a much less W
iegree than with us. 1t shook off a few -
R Il
)ut was not perceived by vessels on the I've
water. 1t was felt also at Halifax. and of
rs far south as the eastern shore of ad
~
During the first century after the Eng
q settlement Of America our Atlantic
con was visited with these shocks pretty
eiely and pretty regularly. They occur an
1t intervals eff twenty wears down ar
.LIs 'crowEing mercy of 1855. After CO
V there was lnll, the next important ~,
oUce to quit" being the tremendous sI.
lvulsion Of 1911, in which eighty square ii,
eS OF the Mississippi Valley ''caved in. - ii,
I Tell from high, arabic land into dissi- va
ed laGoons and marshes. In that con l.,
sion Caracas perished, and its effects ell
ended far out into the Atlantic. II is i'm,
siole thai we are entering now upou 1 ta5
V cycle of subteTanean movements. IF ~,
5 be so the parish Of the Rev. Mr.. Lumbv Bi
be like to become an episcopate. and an,
ham itself, this great and wicked H..
:, may some fine day fall upon its knees a,,'
n the Crackers" OF Bald Mountain E,d
T. World. ie'