The New York herald., 1875-09-22


of the 22d which caused the main damage to coast,
rlver town and plantation.
SCIENCE AND THE STORMS.
The enormous strides made by modern science seem
to have the great result of showing US how little we
know. This weIghty gain The capabilities OF
electricity the wonders of the solar spectrum the dy
manic force of heat all waiting for great mind
TO apply the nductve process in their special cases and
carry forward, who knows where? Although the
human is supposed by its ultra advocates to be
some millions Of years old still the discoveries of mod
science prove that only in the infancy of
knowledge
From the "e pur 81 mtSore'' Of Calico TO the pres
day the world has little than completed three
centuries. Where shall we be three centuries hence2
Professor Tce contributes his mite toward the solution
of one small portion Of this question in the ingenious
but quite novel theory that extraordinary
trial phenomena very largely attributable to tho
action of the other planets the earth. The late
cyclone has given him opportunity of putting for
the result OF comparison of all the remarkable
phenomena which have occurred during the pergee Of
Jupiter for the last $500 years His investga-
ton would go to prove that of 200 well marked terres
trial perturbations such the just passing
through but three of the strongly marked did not
coincide with the Jovian cycle Whether this be abso-
utely true not it is well to that scientific men
going beyond their to account for what has
hitherto appeared unaccountable. Every step thus
maze in advance is gain to scence-that is, to hu-
manty. 1t may be WELL in this connection, briefly
advert vsitaons similar to that from which Calves
ton has suffered.
THE LATE CYCLoNE-ITs ORIGIN, PROGRESS
AND DEPARTURE--FACrs AND FIGURES FROM
THE SIGNAL STATIONS
The efficiency of the United States Signal Service De-
partment clearly displayed the occasion of tho
great storm which has so recently devastated the
southern portion of Texas The history OF this storm,
besides illustrating the vigilance of the signal bureau,
presents several curious anomalies in meteorological
phenomena
Commencing with the day before the FIRST notice OF
the Storm September II, at II 10 P. NJ, New York
time, find the weather generally clear in Florida,
| and partly cloudy through South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi. northeast wind, moving
five to miles hour, generally prevailng the
average temperature about rs degrees and the bar
ometer from 30 03 80 10 inches Telegraphio
reports showed that storm had passed somewhere TO
the southwark of Santiago de Cuba The next report
September IS, AT AM showed the barometer to have
fallen .O5 inch and stand 20 SO at Key West The
wind was a little fresher and clear or
cloudy weather prevailed In the next mid
night report the data from Key West
missing. The barometer was Zy94, with threatening
weather and a northeast wind moving the rate OF
twenty miles hour. The regular gradation of the
iso lines, 80 80 through Virginia and Ohio
80 20 through Georgia. Tennessee, Northern Alabama
and Mississippi so 10 through Northern Florida all
around the Gulf coast 80 inches about half way down
the coast Florida and 90 90 below Punta Rassa led
to the conclusion that area of much lower barometer
existed south of the island of Cuba This coupled with
the fact that northeast wind prevailed all along tho
coast Indicated the existence of cyclone somewhere
in the caribbean Sea. The signal station at Key West
having been damaged by the skirts of the storm
combined with other indications TO locate it near
Havana Cuba The usual track of these storms is
around the island Of Cuba, going Off the coast in the
direction of the Gulf Stream. Danger signals were,
therefore, ordered up from Key Cape Hatteras
In the afternoon of September IA details
were wanting from Punta Rassa and St Marks
The area Of low barometer still continued in
the Gulf showing that instead of going by the usual
track the storm had proceeded westward and was
about to spend its fury upon the Texan Gulf coast Tho
signals from Key West to Hatteras therefore
lowered and those at New Orleans and Mobile ordered
to be raised Galveston and Indanola not being eau
tionary stations, signals displayed
The next day, Wednesday, September Is, the storm
burst on the coast of Texas with terrific violence The
previous midnight report stated that the cyclone had
Galveston The curious gradation of the barometrc
lines in concentric circles shown on the map in the
United States Signal Office indicates with mathernati-
cal precision the of the cyclone The centre of
all the concentric circles will be that part where the
storm RACES fercest. At this time the reports from
Galveston showed the barometer TO be 20 67 inches
high, with q northeast wind moving the
rate of thrtysix miles ar hour. At Indanola
the wind moving souNlward hnysix
miles an hour, with the barometer at 2964
The wind hero amounted to a perfect hurricane
the speed nty-six miles hour corresponding to
pressure of Is 6s pounds to the square foot man
standing presents surface of about ten square feet
and would therefore, in such wind receive pressure Of
about 167 pounds. This fact gives faint idea of tho
force of this storm. The cyclone remained near Gal
weston all that day, passing little to the north near
midnight The report that nearest to the scene
of the disaster that from New Orleans where the
wind blowing the southeast the direction of the
of the disturbances at the rate OF nocn miles
an hour
BY midnight Of the 18th inst its forco was partlv
spent, the Of lowest barometer 20 &C in New Or
leans being that city, Tho wind there at that time
was moving twenty miles an hour The next day tho
storm area passed to the northwest with light rain
At Knoxville the barometer marked height of 90 So
inches Sunday, tho 10th, the cyclone took leave OF
the signal officers passing nortcastward or the Middle
Atlantic coast giving fow parting 1ourshes in tho way
Of heavy gales during the day.
HELP FOR rHE. TEXANS.
The HERALD has received from "a Stranger" 81 fol-
the sufferers by the late storm at Galveston
pAvTNc OFF