The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1868, Page 4

4 a - four P. M., and altnouga very sharp did no damage BARTHOUAKES of any consequence, This was followed at about e half-past nine P. M, by a receding of the water inthe harbor, leaving the bed of the sea dry for some fifty yards from shore, returning in s wave that swept over the landing stage, inundating @ portion of the city. This was repeated some three or four times with decreasing violence, and, happily, as far as I am able to learn, with but the loss of two lives. The effect upon the ship was as if she had grounded, and ins St swinging with great velocity during the —- \ eee THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT MISTI: Phenomenon in the Havens s water she rode it out safely. Preceding the Shocks. irous fe occurred in this port, during the night of the 15th inst.; loss imated at over eee —— 1, , jocks burned down. few particuiars sent are perfectly true and re- Mable, and no doubt but that when all accounts are poops the destruction of life and property will be At the Chincas great damage was done to the ship- Ping. The following is a list of the vessels injured or destroyed:—British ship Resolute, partially de- stroyed; British ship Eastern Empi badly dam- condition The Sea Boils and Its Tem- perature Rises. Remarkable Earthquakes in Ancient | aged; eitisn ety Moral Oak a Henk condition: and Modern Times. aia) badly damaged; Prussian bark Leo- iy + pold IL, @ total wreck. Muny of the above vessels were loaded and were about to leave. Their cargoes have all been badly injured, All the launches and small vessels are totally destroyed. ‘The wharves and the mole are so injured unat fmmense sums will Taree be expended on them before they can be of In addition to the mortality at Iquique we have to record the death of Dr. pockeninaa Mr. Scott ana Mr. Kuerton. ‘The Peravian Mineral Company of London is totally destroyed. After months of labor and immense expenditure of money this mining com- : pan) a eae a work ee two a ane their ly washed away. Upwards of four hun- mage in Quito, Ibarra and Otavalo—The | “red tons of silver ore, heavy meninges bottles of Shock Took Place at One O'Clock in the Ceeaiiver Were all washed away like so much Morning—Terrible Loss of Life. c We extract the following from Los Andes of Augusi In Quito the chnrehes of San Francisco, of the Jesuits, the Carmehtes, Santa Clara, the Cathedral, St. Augustin—in fact, all the sacred edifices have kuffered terribly, Nothing but the grand altar of the Carmelite church is left. ‘The tower of the cathedral killed two sons of the bell ringer mits fall. The Archbishop's palace and the government houses are bai shaken and threaten to fall at any moment. Th 8 not a house in town that can be now con- sideres J sate to live in, t is believed here that the Shock came bea eae or Cotacaeh), a ae Dvery one has left town, and the place is det in the extreme, From ali we can ‘earn so far ine twen persons have perished here. We have had the shakes ever since the 14th. But our sufferings are nothing to compare with those of Ibarra, Otavalo and other cities, There 1s but one house standing in the former, and in the latter not a house. Among the killed we have to lament the deaths of Sefioras Francisco Salvador de Sanquirrico and Rosaria de Salvador Reboliedo, both sisters, together with thirty of their hands on the hacienda Pinsaqui. In Perucho fifty were killed. The Governor of [barra states that the destroying shock was felt there on Sunday morn- ing, August 16, at one o'clock, and that the Mount Ocampo was the point whence the shock propagated. About one-sixth of the population is left and they ‘are more or less wounded, By the arrival of the steamer Henry Chauncey, Captain Connor, from Aspinwall, Septemper 6, we have the following additional details of the terrible earthquakes that have devastated the southern coast of South America, THE CALAMITY IN ECUADOR. At Chancay, Casa and Huarney the same pheno- Mena of the tide took place. At the former port a large quantity of merchandise was destroyed. The captain of the Fransuto Sayre, from Talcabiana, says that on the 13th ult., while about thirty miles from Pisco, he experienced a great movement of the sea, In view of the great national calamity Congress adjourned for three days, and all places’ of amuse- nent were closed. addition to the list publisied in our last issue of cities and towns destroyed we have to add the foi- lowing:—Caparra, Charpa, Quicacha, Cabeccera, Pullo, Chumpe, Antiquipa and Coracora. The culti- Yated aud beautiful estates near Acari are all ruined. The Port of Las Lomas was united to the islands in the bay; that port is now no longer in existence. . The Estimated Losses in Peru=The Shocks Cover a Space of Two Hundred Leagues as Far as Yet Known—Boats Carried Inland Two MilesFresh Water Scarce. CALLAO, August 20, 1868, The losses at Arica are incalculable; only in mer- chandise deposited in the custom house, there were More than $4,000,000; the deaths amounted to more than five hundred. Almost the entire city of Iquique has been swept away by the waves. The valuable offices of saltpetre at Molle have suffered considerable loss, and Molle is completely destroyed. The ports of Pisagua and Mejiliones no longer exist. The important towns of Torata, Locumba oy Destruction of Arequipa—Heartrending gat Sone ae Bt as oqoliay ae hear and cenes=Some Facts About the City—The | P4ch!a have lost the greater part of their buiidings. Eruption of Mount Misti. tante Fave bad to. remove we fuintance of eight RUINS OF THE CrTy OF AREQUIPA, } leagues. A humber of towns in the Yesterday, August 13, at t key tes a ate the Saptial kesll be patbeed in the city fs bwation vee es ore strates severely, Counting only what is known up to nd to some | the present, the evil extends over more than business which took about four hours and a half, | two Ranared leagues in its greatest length. More then I went to the hotel to take dinner. About ten | ‘Mam three hundred thousand persons have remained minutes to five P. M. I sat down to dinner in com- pany with four other gentlemen. We had got about without shelter and without bread in consequence of this horrible catastrophe, and with dificulty shall half through dinner when we felt the first symptoms of the earthquake. We got up quickly from the we find in history an instance of a calamity which table and ran to the nearest street corner, a dis- has embraced such an immense extent of territory. tance of not more than one hundred feet. By the The Comercio says that in Tacna thirty or fo! houses and the alameda were destroyed. The eartl time we got there the foundation of the earth seemed to have given away and the noise beneath opened in several places, In Sama and Locumba our feet was perfectly horrible. The whole country, many came down, the crop of spirits and wines being lost. Lutd valley is rain i is re- together with the mighty mountains that surround this place, seemed to be afloat without anchor or ported from Palca and la Portada that immense stones were precipitated from the hills with an ex- buoy. Atthis stage of the scene it was heartrend- ing beyond description, the houses falling all over traordinary noise, killing three persons and wound- ing afew others. The amount of loss between Tacna the city, making terrible noise, like the roars of manycannon, This, together with the terrific rumb- and Arica is calculated to a value of $14,000,000. In Moquega one hundred and fifty persons hed. In Igique the catastropLe has rained a third of the ling noise beneath, made us think that not only the lust day, but the last second had come and half gone. Every second we expected to feel the earth city and the inhabitants were saved by getting on open and swallow us into its dark abyss, Oh how the adjacent hills, Fresh water has led. The earthquake lasted five minutes. The sea increased we thought of the great powers of God and the un- known futare! I said feel the earth open, because thirty feet over its ordinary level and covered the town in an extension of 6,000 feet. dead bodies were found up to the 14th, although it is pre- sumed that there are more than 200 dead. The losses at this time nothing could be seen on account of the dust from the falling houses. The heavy shock lasted nearly seven minutes. Then there was a lull and apparently @ dull, rumbling noise underneath; are calculated at Kor oapele gs At Pisco the islands and their works were partially also the dust cleared away a little, Then a fresh scene was visibie, such Aone as I invaded, From forty-nine ships that were taking cargo in the Chincha islands only six did not suffer hope may never again be witnessed by this or any other people. The dutifal son might be seen with any damage. Paracas has been swallowed by the sea. The num- lis aged mother or helpless father on his back or in iis arms trying to take them to a place of safety, al- ber of victims is yet unknown. ‘The boats that were in the bay were carried away and left two miles in- land. The wells from which water was got for the though no such place was visible. The loving brother or sister might be seen with a little group of helpless children around crying for help and protec- islands were choked up. The Focus of the Earthquake—The Area ton, Al‘hough young in years all seemed to realize the terrible danger that surrounded them. The stout Covered in Peru. According to the Comercio of Lima all the data so Husband held tue fainting form of his dear wife in his arias, she, although apparently unconscious, having far gathered lead to the belief that the centre of this terrific convulsion was the voleanic zone between Arequipa and Tanna. In this zone are to be found the snow clad volcano of Cailloma, the Misti, the her little babe clasped iirmly to her breast. ‘All over the 8 and plazas hunianity could be seen in inable manners praying, crying, shouting, , Kueciing, failing and lying prostvate ou the THE EARTHQUAKE IN Ubinas, the Huainapatina, the Tutupaca and the Candarave. The dates on which the shocks were felt at the different places along the coast and in the Pacific islands would seem to bear this out, as the earliest shock felt was in the above volcanic zone on the afternoon of Thursday, August 13, the shock making itself felt at varying later dates both north and south of the said zone. It will be interesting to know in what direction the shock was felt at the different points en the coast. The area over which the phenomenon was noticed » shock commenced exactly at five o'clock P. M. and lasted between six and seven minutes. At same instant It was felt on the coast hundreds of miles from here, wh , | am toid, it did a great | in Peru covers 1,670 miles of latitude and 600 of deal of damage; but the particulars I have not yet | longitude. b ard. wove small number killed and wounded ts no RT doubt principally owing to the that nearly ail ‘ushingto: 4 7 the buildings were one story nigh and the streets — ms hr : ve npiseeell bear United States Steamer Wateree—Six of the pretty wide, Arequipa was one of the oldest cities in Peru. Fredonin’s Crew Washed Ashore—Position of the Wrecked Vessels. When the Spaniards firet came to the country they found quite a large Indian town where the kite ill- 4 fated city stood. The late city was built ina valley WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 1868. at be wy of pir on of the Cordilleras, and tm- Master ©. White, of the United States steamer Mediately at the foot of a volcanic mountain called ¥ peare! the Misti. Ite elevation above the sea is about | Wateree, arrived today as bearer of despatches eight thousand five hundred feet, The population of | fom Rear Admiral Turner, commanding the le ia me for being | South Paciic squadron, to the Navy Department, evolutions that ever were pac got up in Pern, and at the time of its destruction | &VD8 mrs “ae ae coreg “acs another revolution against. the newly elected Presi. | Cast of South America, already published. dent was strongly talked of. Mr. White left Arica, Peru, on August 16, The re- From the best information that 1 can get, it ts jast | port encloses others from Commander Gillis, of the Wateree, and Captain Doty; of the Fredonia. Com- one hundred and one years since there Was was @ mander Gillis reports that his vessel was forced heavy earthquake im this ple before, although sight shocks have been very frequent. At the me cl the haga sse who Weve outside the city saw | on shore at twenty minutes past seven P.M. But luge pleces of mountain, ys it were split off from " f the outside, and, together w ith heavy avalanches of | OD€ of the crew is known to have perished, though snow and ice, tumble dowv to the bottom, making a | several are missing, they having been sent ashore fearf to render assistance and not having returned. ‘The crew of the Wateree remain on board during the day time, but as there 1s a continued re- noise. The river tv atis fed by the snows of nountains has incre ased at least one-third in- © OF SLX hours. Jn thy. part of the country it rains ry littie, and then only in the months of De- | currence of shocks and the Peruvian corvette t, January and Pebruary; consequently the | America lies broadside almost directly in front of surden raise Inthe yer must be caused by the | her, if another heavy sea should occur the Wateree inelting of the snow 9 nd ice from the internal beat | would certainly be crashed, precantions are taken wo remove the officers and crew on shore for the night. "Admiral Turner’s report is dated Callao, Pera, on board. the Powhatay, August 20, He would sail next day for Ari id keep on 9 strong head of ‘a Che mountain. TF 13 mountain is about 20,100 feet above Lue love sea. The couutry from here to the coast 18 per ectly barren, without water or Vegetation of any’ cind, having all (he appearance of volcanic format satay ee ial Mr. Henry Met sys, the great Chilean railroad con- | steam while there, 80 a3 to be able to put to sea tractor, has abe ut three th nd men Working on | at @ moment's warning on the approach of any the Arequepa ? ad Islay Ratlroad. » work is pro- | danger, xreasing rapid jy, Two hundred me m the Pail. Admiral Tarner had an interview with the Presi- oad have OOF ay gent to the cliy to open the water | dent of the republic on the 20th and proiered his courses 4" relieve the suiterag services to take down provisions, stores aad nurses $a 3 to the extent of the capacity of his ship. There is a Fiw 4 Sy ” a ‘ bay not a vestige left of the Freon! p seen 0! he Fin a Symptoms of the Shock=The | Tor Ne was beng carried entirely around the Dead -The Plains Gyen and Water Ape | Island of Alassau, Where she must have beca pear ,, dashed to pieces on its shores. [t would cost mor ARFOUIPA, August 16, 1868. than the origt vane the ef yee ete TPs vas completely de m P . | her, and the undertaking would probably be use- | Fe city was completely destroyed by an earth: | 122 A’ the ship is very much strained, though the ava! e On the 19th inst; nota chureh left standing, | pull is perfect NY a Loue habiiable, ‘The shock commenced at | — The bodies of Acting Master Organ and five of the tvyenty minutes past five P.M. and lasted six to | crew of the Fredonia have been washed ashore, aud lafeonend Se ee aeiliey ‘ | Capiam Gillis was making even minutes, The houses being solidly built and | Hurial.. The following only ¢ of one story resisted for about one minute, whieh | of the aig ge ae get € © fo! let an e mid Paymaster W. W. Williams, Passe 8 t gave time for the people to rush into the middle of geon F. 1. Dubois, Master mms Charles Seville ‘The Mreets; so the mortality, although considerable, fiormaster August Tunner. Captain Doty 18 not so great as might have been expected, 4 the Navy Department, under date of Angust If the earthquake had taken plac nigiit e thought it best to remain at Arica to look few eed would have been left to tell tie | ov © remalus of his crew and give them decent story it is, the prisoners inthe Carcel (public | buria ridon vad the sick in the hospital have perished. | : The eartiquake commenced with an undulating The Crew of the Fredonia, eT te he fet ce toe en WASHINGTON, Sept. Uy 1868. could keep hia feet; the houses rocked as @ ship | |, shen ry in the trough of the sea and caine crumbling down, | 1 appears from the official record that the erew of ‘The surieks of the women, the crush of falling ma. | the Fredonia consisted of thirteen petty omcers and sonry, the upheaving of the eart t ule Of | ¢¢ Sead nd none of them, were natives of binding dust made up a seer hot be] en Amen, and none of pi described, the Unwted States, They were originally from China, We had nineteen minor shocks the same night, | (erieny, Den ‘k, the British West fndia provinces, and the earth still continues in motion, Nothing | Hessla, Sweden and Prussia has a8 yet been done towards disinterring th J do not think any are buried alive, as certain dea : iB 2, must have been the fate of all those who were not THE BARTHQUIKE IN CHILE, able to get into the street. ‘ ‘ DITEG t The earth has ope ned in fil the plains around The Scene and the Damage at Taleninus and water has appeares in various pla coniwe teary ten’ Seecselin Wee The Shock as Felt on the Man-of-War Pow. | Bolle=tts Temperature Raised. hatan—The Loss in Cailno by Fire—Damage VALPARAIBC ugust 17, 1868, to the Shipping at the Chincha Islands. On August 14, at about a quarter to nine P. M., at UNITED STATES FLAGSHIY POWNATAN, | Talcatuana, the weather being fine, the sea calm BAY OF CALLAO, Angust 20, 1865. § | and the night clear and starlight, it was observed On the 14th inst, this coast was visited by 4 severe | that the water was ranning out so rapidly that ina shock of an earthquake, with great loss of life, a few | few minutes a large oxtent of the beach, covered but particulars of which I send you, no deals of which | & few minutes before, was iying bare, Alarm was ‘are yet received from many ports, immediately given, and tue intabitants, apprehen- In this vors the shook occurred at about half past | sive of au Gartiguake, Logan to mwke for te lille, NEW. YOR shrieking for mercy, About niné o'clock the retrn wave began to roll in @ huge sea some twentyor more feet deep, which’ scarcely allowed the msre careless or daring who had remained in the lower town time to escape before it arrived at tle beach and riging beymd it oyerfowed the town to a depth of @everal feet, reaching a8 far as the Plaza, Of the three moles formerly boasted by ‘al- Cahuana not one has escaped. The government mole has most sticka standing yet, but they consist only of @ few of the outermost series of piles, the Test being carried away, and all the flooring burst off and washed no one knows whither. The tvo Moles belonging to private inatviduals have be:n swept away bodily, “leaving not a wreck behind.” ‘There {a scarcely & boat or barge in the bay that has not either been knocked ent to pieces “or se- Flously dai ‘The first row of houses the beach of course had to bear the brant of the neaviest shock, and as the greater number of tnem consist of slightly built dwellings, chieny owned or inhabited by poor people, they suffered to eae or less extent, the crash of falling timbers and roofs adding its din to the hideous roar of the sea that echoea in the cars of the terror stricken, shrieking, fleeing Multitude, In about an hour afterwards the sea in a Rec ond time to recede, raising the fear of the itants to a still higher pitch than ever, if le; but the return wave which followed was lesa force, and as the chief part of the more slightly built dwellings hati already been destroyed less damage was effected by the second incursion of the sea than by the first. ‘The phenomenon was repeated for a third time at about two o'clock A. M., but with less force than ever, and it was s00n evident that tlie danger had assed, at all events for the time, and with the first break of day the unfortunate inhabitants came down from thetr elevated places of refuge and proceeded to investigate the extent of their losses, these in .| Many mstunces, especially in those least able to afford it, amounting to ruin; but the better class, living in more substantial dwellings, suffered com- paratively little, that effected being caused chiefly by the sea bursting in their doors and flooding and de- stroying furniture and goods. In round numbers, we understand, the loss may be set down at $100,000. On board the Guayaquil, which was anchored in the bay, the first intimation of the coming event was made known by a sound as if all the water in the bay was boiling, it bubbling up in every direction and with great force, the temperature of the sea be- ing at the same time much higher than ordinary. The lead was immediately cast, when it was found that instead of being in three and one-half fathoms she was in Jess than two, afterwards increasing to more than five. Every precantion was taken, and, thanks to the excellence of her ground tackle, she rode out the danger without accident, though she rolled and pitched in a most violent manner, as may be imagined, Another vessel, either Italian or French, but whose name we have not been able to ascertain, not being so well found im these particulars, went ashore on @ reef of rocks forming the pomt of Quirtquina island, and is now high and dry, ig abandoned by her master and crew on the following day. This is the only marine casualty that took place; on shore three children lost their lives by the sea invading their parents’ dwelling, which was situated on the road leading from Talcahuana to Concepcion, and there- fore lying in a rather low position, No shock of earthquake was felt either in Tomé or Concepcion. It is sup) to have taken place further to the south, as even so little more to the north as Tomé the agitation of the water was not nearly so marked, and the damage it effected is com- paratively inappreciable. When the Guayaquil left ORK HERALD, TURSDAY, SEPTEMBER | at the moment of aemoation: say slate of the asmcanbare to be taken into account os aeaeens tninutes; Ti of utes; Hye. 165, Sky clear and cold; wind N. W,, motion oe aerolite was acciouns bya _ ragged over the ground. The =o have passed between Itajuba and G re gueta, and it remains order to ascertain its HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKES, now to find out where size. ‘The Regions They Traverse—The fities They Have Levelled and the Lives ‘They Have Destroyed. Although as a question of necessif, growing out of experience, scientific minds are greed upon some of the phenomena of earthquake, fey do not con- cur upon all of them, While m@y maintain that the tremblings or concussions ofthe earth, not un- frequently most disastrous to lig and property on its surface, are attributable to expimsion caused by in- tense sweeping and arene nd rolling in great and continuous fire waves within the heart of the globe, sometimes causing egitractions and then ex- pansions of a most fearful/ character, raising to the exaltation of mountains d¢ply depressed valleys and bringing to the level of tle lowest depths the aspir- ing heads of the loftiest puges of the higher lands, other inquirers in this 1d of knowledge advocate the theory that the ingrior of the sphere is stored with fixed or solid gags made so by great pressure, and that when, as fi¢ to gunpowder, intense heat is evolved, exploslo# follow, and if there be not safety valves throw which the suddenly expanded volume may escap, &8 steam escapes from the over- charged boiler, inernal and external violence, often culminating in déasters of the most dreadful charac- ter, follow. Either of hese theories would be accept- able to the ingirers were there notathird which utterly re the doctrines that the heart of this “great roun globe’? is a laboratory of gases, a region g ever expanding and ever con- tracting wes of flames which are persist- ently eat into or retiring from the inner side of the eart?’s shell, The exponents of this philoso- phy attenyt to explain the causes which find their effects in/le earthquake or the volcanic eruption by assumin/ ‘hat the gases and the substances thrown out of ‘ craters of the fire mountains are second- ary mfharacter, and have their origin within a short tance from the immediate surface of the lobe. - ‘Witput attempting to dispute with these theorists orsetupa doctrine as plausible, subject to alike criti@™, We may venture to say that while no part of t? sphere has been unvisited, the most terrific ex- at noon on the 14th the tide was still unsettled, | pre“ions of nature's anger are invariably in lines rising and falling frequently at very short intervals of time. THE TIDAL WAVES IN THE PACIFIC. The California Sea Bore—The Great Wave in the Polynesian Isles on August 14. from San Francisco to New York as having visited / the southern coast of California, and being sixty- four feet high, appears by our San Francisco ex-| changes to have dwindled down to the miserabl, small dimenstons of three or four feet, The S: Francisco Times, speaking of it, says:— / wats beastie f ight ane last, me 16th inst., bef: after day! a singular phenomenon occu at San Pedro, on t! x series of waves commenced fowing upon the coi causing the tide rise three or four above tts Cee g th water mark, w! were regularly follow: by a falling of the tide the same distance below its usual jow water mark. This agitation occurred regularly vice every half hour, and continued for several purs into the day. The mhabitants thereabouts me Much alarmed, spprehending some sudden cavul-, sion upon land, but nothing of the kind hapened. Large ponds were left by the receding waters. and Hoa was twice surrounded by water in our, disturbance causing the bottom of the sea to fall, and thus impelling the waves towardgthe sea cn ‘We do not learn that any damag hae re- sulted, The probability ia that the tide ran up t! distance of sixty-four feet further and ti receded a similar distance beyond low wéer mark but that thetidal fe Was sixty-lour f¢t high simply ridiculous. f The Effect iu the Sandwich Aslends. SAN FRANCISCO, Spt. 13, 1868. The steamer Idaho, from Honolulu, August 29, hes arrived. beach 9 The great tidal wave on the Pacific coast, to whi@ | some fall space of aday. reference has heretofore been msde, was expel- enced on the shores of the entire goup of istands a the 14th of August and for sevexl succeding day, the water in some piaces rising from ten to twelp feet above the usual high wyter mark, and dot considerable damage. Earthuakes occurred in sew eral of the islands, but they Were not of sutticies force to have cansed the tidal phenomenon, ruming, in a general way, from pole to pole. The ligtter earthquakes are usually from the northwest / the southwest, and the “tremblings” are, asa gle, found to run parallel to the equator. Thus the dreadful earthquake, resulting in the oss (estimated) of upwards of thirty-two thousand Hives and $300,000,000 worth of property, recently ex- The enormous wave reported by the telegraph |) rienced on the west coast of South America, which continued through seventy or eighty hours, had its lines longitudinally. Another peculiarity of the earthquake is that the most dreadful expressions of its character are to be found almost always in certain regions of the earth—along the southern borders of Europe paral- Jel to the Mediterranean and on the southwest coast e southern cost of California. A | of South America, while, on the other hand, it 1s be- leved that other places are never visited—that is, nh | we have no historical knowledge of the fact—by “earth spasms.’? Again, there are other regions of the ing. globe where these of these remarkable are unceas- One spots = is in the Atiantic Ocean, near the equator ana about midway between Guinea and Brazil. In passing over this track those on sailing and steam ships ex- if an | perience a tremor which is not noticed in other The incident ts sttributed to some suinarine, parts of the ocean. Frequent soundings show that there must be a vent or submerged volcano in the spot referred to, for while at times ground is touched at four hundred fathoms at others no lead line can t the sev | be found long enough to measure the profoundness of the depth. aside from the rapidity of its course. ‘This much as to the phenomena of the earthquake, ‘This is illus- trated by the fact that the tidal wave, at the time of the greatest violence of the recent terrible visita- tions in Ecuador, Peru and Chile, rose on the coast of Californin—a distance of four thousand miles— forty feet, continued every Tt has and that this rise and thirty minutes for the been ascertained that the shock consequent upon and following the line of the earthquake travels at the rate of ten thousand feet per second, even through the rocky crust of the earth. At this almost electric rapidity of movement itis not to be wondered if thousands of miles are traversed in exceedingly brief periods of time by those movements which may be regarded as reac- jonary. It will be seen by referis# to amap that trom the | HOt. on nas recorded up to the year 1858 some coast of Ecnador grows of volcanic tsiands rub along to the Potynesias Archipelago like stepping stones, From the abgve news it would vppear the shock and the tizal phenomena radiatet ‘n sha direction with more force and nearly one lay soone than it did northward to California, WETEORIC PHENOMENA. ric Light Accompanying the Shocks= Electric Effect Upon the Hair and Clothing= Facm for the Scientific. ‘fhe direction of the shock was noticed to be fron nortan to south, On the night of August 15a Dril liawt light was observed in the northeast. 11 was a flash light and caused the observers suspect a large conflagration at a great dis- tance. It filled the space for about om says half mile. We afterwards thought it might be due | these calamitous events have to the activity of some volcano, but thus far we haw no knowledge of any neighboring volcano being | timan. Each year is marked by the re; eruption, but judging from the nature of the dan- MT upaca or some of the peaks around Car darave are at work. Some of my neighbors think, the light was due entirely to electric causes, A letter from Tana asserts that during the earth-| quake the light was visibie there. The Governor of Moquequa confirms the same, A letter from the latter place adds this fact—that an enormous develop- ment of electric Muid filled the atmosphere, and that | The water, on passing the hands six thousand distinct visitations of earthquake. or course the number can only be an approximation to those which have really happened. Among the most noted of these may be mentioned that of visited by terrific earthquakes, In the year 114 it was al ror Tre ANTIOCH IN 526 A. D This ancient city of Syria has been frequently A. D. ost destroyed from this cause. The , Who was at the time within the city, was seriously hurt while passing a falling building. Three hundred and forty-three years subsequently it was again visited by most disastrous visi @ million of earthquake, but in 526 the ion on record occurred in its In his “Rise and Fall of the Roman Em- n refers at length to this earthquake, that upward of a quarter of persona are said to have rished, a condux of strangers to the festival of e Ascension swelling the multitudes belonging to Commenting upon thie dreadful event he History will distinguish the periods in whicit been rare or frequent and will observe that the fever of the earth rag with uncommon violence during the reign of Jus- etition of earthquakes of such duration that Constantinople done at Hocumba we are Incliued t think thet | has been shaken above orty days; of such extent that the shock haa been communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or at least the Roman empire.” HERCULA Tm the year 79 A. M AND POMPEII. an earthquake of a familiar character Visited the northern shore of the Mediter- ranean, but its most terrible manifestations were in the immediate vicinity of the volcano Vesuvius. through one's hair or on} am while the earth trembied and moved to i fro like the waves of the ocean, belched forth ne’s coat electric spark e lava, huge stones and ashes, and soon—in a night— shaking one’s coat electric sparks were struck off in} HM ies of Herculancum and Pompell wers over- wheimed, as was the surrounding country, with abundance. ‘The crater of Mount Apo broke and a_ portion feli outs th me Was the case with Moaut Orqueta and some othery of the Chachani. An Extraordinary Meteor--it netic Instemments=Curious and Detuils from an Eye Witness, Rio JaNemo, August 8, 1868, A meteor, or wrolite, was observed at early morn Affects Mage Valuable | of the oth of July passing ina southwest direction . inthe south of the province of Rio . into San Paulo, A scientific gentieman named Dr. Franklin Massena chanced to be looking } at the horizon from the observatory at Itataya, and has communteated his ¢ ations, whieh are ine teresting from the fact that the mete xerted great induence on the magnetic instruments as it passed. ire | The following is his communication: | Suddenly, towards the east, at the merdian, Csaw an im se and beautiful aero- scoria and asies, Thousands of lives were lost and the cities themselves disappeared, and for centuries existed only in tradition. to this dreadful eveat both earthquake, without the voleano becoming particu. larly excited, and seriously injured struction to the buildings was so severe that it was many years before they presented a perfect appear- mark the history of the earth previous to ti th viinost 30 deg. of | artillery. which threw the greater part of the town to the Sixteen years anterior laces were Visited by an indeed, the de- nd then only by another calauity to pass away for- ever as inhabited towns, MODERN VISITATION. Passing over the hundreds of visitations which teenth century, of which, however, none w wo calamitous as those that all but destroyed Antioch and the cities of Pompeii and Herenianeum and the villages near them at the foot of Vesuvius, we cone to the terrible disasters of LISBON. ans greet earthquake commenced on November 1, 1795 he inhabitants heard a rumbling beneath m just like tie roll over hard ground of heavy This was immediately followed by a shoc lite crossing to the south: 1 1 called Messra, | earth, in vast fh mf of debris, burying bi th the Arsenio and Veja and r we watched the | ruins thousands of people. The shock, or rather the | disappearance of the I@ninons body and its remnants, lasted about six minutes, and in this | form and motion. Its form was that of a | brief period of time it is believed sixty thousand | giobe, having an apparent diameter of about | persons perished. The sea retired, leaving the j 43 min, and a fail of 9 deg. In an ellipti- | harbor dry, and immediately after a great wail | cal curve, extending into space with an Incli- | of water upward of fifty feet im hight } nation of about 89 degrees The tail was of an | rolled with terrife force’ upon the land, | oval form and vory divergent towards the part away | The mountains around were shaken with great vio- | from the nucleus. The motion was made by the lence, and were even reat and thrown in fragments | muclens, ihe tail following ite track. Roth the tail | into the valleys below, Multitudes of people sought } and the micteus were as brisant as trical light | safety from the falling bulldings by crowding upon and emitted some tun is drop or tear-like part. } the marble quay, which had jast been constructed at cles Which threw out #1) sparkles with inereds | great expense. This quay suddenly sank with the ble rapidity. terrified people standing upon it, as founders a ship minutes aftor Its meridian passage the body | im mid-ocean while the crew are reposing in fancied exploded towards the southwest. security, When the waters closed over the place no Such was the rapidity with which it moved that in | fragments of the vast human wreck were to be seen. seventeen seconds it traversed a celestial area of 77 | None of the boats and vessels near by that were degrees, 41 mintites, losing itself belind a hill atS | drawn into the whirlpool and not one of the hours, 65 minutes, 50 seconds, or 17 hours, 66 | thousands of bodies carried down reappeared upon minutes, 50 seconds of trne solar time, the surface, Over the spot the water stood six hun- This aerolite 80 Cisiurbed the magnetic ingtra- | dred feet deep, and beneath this, locked in the fis- | ments that the declinometer turned its pole from | sured rocks, In chasis of unknown depth, lie the the north towards the west and stuck itscif inthe | relics of what was tle life and wealth of this portion box where tt found resistance; the horizontal mag- of the earth's surface. When in some future period } nometer turned towards the weat eight divisions of | they are raised again to (he surface by @ convulsion | the scale; the vertical magnometer fell in its cen- | tre of gravity; and, (nally, the compass oseiliated 15 degress from north to west. I showed Sefor At+ senio the disturbed stave of the declinometer, It is, therefore, demonstrated for physics that an aerolite has an intense action upon the North Pole of mag- nets, powerfally attracting them. The following are some iatuemeten ements of the same nature with that which engulfed them the vestiges they contain may reappear converted in part or wholly into stone, like fossils entombed when the strata were deposited. Humboldt, refer- ring to this remarkable convulsion of nawure, remarks that an area equal to four times the surface of Europe was affected by it. Not only were the va- rious graad divisions Of Kurope Crom the Mediterra- nean fo the Aretic Cirele participators earth waves, but tielr omeota tier eer, ue caret atric Were seen on the shores of and Antigua, where the tide rose twenty Martin’ Dincknens. "The waters ‘of anton ences wes sensibly felt Bong the coast of great fissures, from which thrown many feet. During of these convulsions the inhabitant says two which an encyclopwdiac writer, disti Movement was verdcal aud’ tewe 1 ras was vertic: those in which it was horizontal, the latter being regarded as ? ‘more desolating than the former. These concussions con- tion ot the city" of Caracas ech ee tae, city of Caracas, lace March 26, 1812. In His ruins 12,000 inhabitants were buried. THE CHILRAN RARTHQUAKE OF 1822, Our readers are not ignorant of the fact that the countries of South America recently and so disaa- trously visited, are not strangers to earthquakes, In 1822 Chile was visited by one which, between the Andes and the sea, raised an area of land equal to a Square miles to a height of from two to seven Chite has frequently been visited by terrible earth- quakes. Quito, in Hucador, as well as other large vowns on the east coast of South America, has more than once been pactially destroyed, and In'those vast regions which skirt the Andes on the east and the ia the earthquake may at any time be antici- MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA are not unireqnently the scenes of the earth fever, und the northeastern coast of South America, Vene- zuela, in which is Caracas, is not less subject to it than are other lines of the southern division of the Continent. In January 19, 1858, Mexico was visited by an earthquake Which extended throughout the valley, and, destroying many houses in the city, also the aqueduct which supplied it with water. In all property to the value of several millions of dollars was lost. At the same time the Valifornias were visited by the wave, as were Guadalajara, Jalapa, San Luis Potosi, ‘Taluca and other districts, Although many places were se- riously damaged, Mexico particularly so, the loss of life was not large. THE CITY OF QUITO. On the 22d of March, 1859, Quito, in Ecuador, was entirely destroyed by an earthquake and many thou- sands of lives were reported to have been lost. Several small towns in the vicinity were also thrown down at the same time. Not only were thousands of lives lost, but millions of dollars’ worth of property. Business was utterly prostrated, and this last visita- ae in August will probably prove its death war- rant. ‘THE EARTHQUAKE OF NAPLES. On the 16th of December, 1867, the kingdom (now province) of Naples was visited by an earthquake, which continued at intervals through the eariy part of January. In the city of Naples repeated shocks were felt, greatly alarming the inhabitants, who often left their houses in the middie of the night and sought the more open spaces. The city was more or less sauna, but the people were poms pro- tected. This exception is supposed to be owing to the proximity of Vesuvius, which continued in ernp- tion, discharging clouds of smoke and ashes. From these later dates we have no earthquakes of moment to record until the visitation of MENDOZA. On the night of the 20th of March, 1861, a terrible earthquake occurred at Mendoza, in the western section of the Argentine Confeder..tion, eoey de- stroying the city and killing twelve thousand of the inhabitants. Not a single house or building of any kind was left standing. In proportion to extent and pulation the city of Mendoza suffered more by ‘his calamity than ‘any other city visited in modern times. Inthe remarkable earthquakes of Lima, in 1748, Lisbon, 1755, Rio Bamba, in Ecuador, 1797, and Caracas, Meu 1812, not more than a third of the inhabitants were killed, while at Mendoza, out ofa population of fifteen thousand, but three thau- sand escaped destruction. The most le fact connected with this earthquake was that the rovince of Buenos Ayres, or rather all the country tween latitude 26 and 37 and from the Andes to the Atlantic, was shaken for the first time. The streets being narrow and the buildings high, the inhabitants, who were totally un- used to such phenomena, were paralyzed with fe in the open terror and neglected to seek courts of their houses until toolate. ‘The aspect pre- sented by the city after the first shock was terrific. Hoarse subterranean thunders deafened the air, ani- mals of all kinds rushed frantically through the open spaces, howling; the earth opened and vomited forth floods of water, while to crown the scene of horror flames burst from the ruins and consumed near! the entire business portion of the city, with its dead, its dying and its wounded. Out of one hundred in- mates of the on but eight escaped alive. Service was being held in the Jesuit church when the shock came, the wails fell inward with a crash, and priest and penitent together were hurled into eternity. ‘The earth in some places burst open like a bom! shell, killing hundreas of the fleeing populace ; volumes of water ished forth from the wide fissures and sp) toa at distance, and huge rocks were dashed m one mountain to another with great force, making a report like heavy ordnance. San Juan‘and San Luis, two other populous towns in the Argentine Confedera- tion, shared a like fate; the San Juan river, having left its bed after the first shock, swept over the town, utterly destroying what the earthquake had spared. ‘The wildest terror prevailed in the district visited by the phenomena and the inhabitants suffered terrible hae Famine prevailed for some time, and ds of desperadoes roamed through the ruined cities, robbing and murdering all whom they en- countered. A sickening odor of burning and decom- Ing bodies filled the air and contributed to the orror of the situation. Profound gloom predailed throughout the Confederation and in the neighboring republics for a long time after the survivors of this terrible calamity had begun to rebuild on the sites of their former dwellings. MANILA, On the 84 of June, 1863, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, the city of Manila, in the island of Luzon, was visited by a very destructive earthquake. Without any previous premonition, but instantaneons as the lightning’s fash, the city was shaken to its foundation, and in less than @ minute, the whole term of its duration, the greater portion of the stone structures of the city and suburbs: were in ruins. Such of the houses as were left stand- ing were so shattered by the shock as to be untena- ble. A large number of' people were killed, but the actual loss conld never be ascertained. The city presented an awful picture of desolation and ruin. All the principal buildings of the government, all the churches, barracks, &¢., were overthrown in the general wreck, RNGLAND. A severe shock was felt all over England on the 7th In some places a low, The sound at first in- @ gradual crescendo for two or three seconds, until the crash was felt, which lasted for one second and a half and then subsided. Mr. Charles Dickens described the sensation he ex- perienced as if some great beast had been crouching asleep under his bed aud was shaking itself and try- ing to rise, SHOCKS IN CANADA. In the same month a severe shock was felt at Mon- treal, Prescott and Coburg, Canada, and at Ottawa some buildings were shattered and chimneys thrown: down. Three distinct shocks occurred at St. Louis, Mo., on the night of the 28th of September, 1863, each shock continuing six or seven seconds, accom: panied by a rambling noise like distant thunder. Although many houses were badly shaken and the people were greatly frightened the mysterious visitor descended into the depths without inflicting ee further damage. n exceedingly strong earthquake occurred in Mexico on the dd of Octover, 1864 In Orizaba seve- ral persons were killed, and churches and houses were demolished. The oscilations were sometimes from north to south, and as often from east to west. A deep and prolonged subterranean noise was heard, which appeared to take an easterly course, proceed ing probably from voleano of Citalepet. in Acultzingo the atmosphere was filled with a conti- nuous detonation, The shock was felt at Vera Craz | and Mexico city very distinctly for about forty-five seconds, CALIFORNIA. The cities of San Francisco and Sacramento, Cal., have long been threatened with destruction by earth. Scarcely a month passes without a shock of or less severity being felt in some part of State. The years 1964-6 were prolific tn these ling phenomena. Two severe shocks were ali over the State in the month of Oc- tober, 1864, and again in May of the follow. On the sth of October San Francisco | to ita foundation; several buildings were | ed, large fissures were made in the ground, # bell in 4 churet tower rang and several lives were lost. The town of Santa Clara, Cal., experienced @ Slight shock on the 28th of December, and on the 26th of March the usual symptoms of Incipient earth- uake were felt from San Francisco to Monterey. tn duty of the same year Sacramento was again visited, ‘but no serious damage was done. San Francisco was the scene of @ very alarming earthquake on the 8th of October, 1865. “Most of the ublic buildings were damaged, and many private ouses were shattered by the frequent shocks. The ground opened in some places several feet. The damage done property amounted to $250,000. The number of houses levelled to the ground was very small. In otier parta of the State severe shocks si Nd but the damage to property was very slight, ALASKA, The earthquake current that shook the snrface of the earth in so many places in the year 1866, ex- tended to Alaska, The town of Kodiak was visited on the 5th of September. Many houses were thrown down and a few lives were lost, On the 20th of the same month Antioch, Cal., experienced a rather se- vere shock, but otherwise suffered no serious damage. At Porto Rico, on the 6th of April, several lives were lost by earthquake and a number of buildings were destroyed. On the 20th of August San geivados, Central America, was visited by a slight stock, but no material damage was sustained. A very destructive earthquake occurred in Algeria in the month of January, 1867, which destroyed seve- ral villages and many lives. THR CONVULSIONS IN THR WEST INDIRA. The middie of last November witnessed the Waug- ration of fhe terrific serice gershaua hye joaieg oe a the ae ine island of Tortola, the destruction wr of lose dogroe of serious zine or fiends of St, Martins, Porto Rico, ‘Antigua, Seber tholomew, St. Croix and Jamaica. Jamaica was the first that experienced the perturbation of the Ca bled earth. About noon of the 11th and 12th of hocks were i vember several severe 6 the partial destruction of a house and an estfite. On the 18th of the same month two appalling iz shocks: were felt at Porto Rico, soteems Genesee from end to end of the island. At the sameétime a laces, At St. Domingo the lighthouse was damaged, whole parishes ‘desolated and many Dullainge ts laid ia ins. St. Johns was visited on the next day, the 19th, Five distinct ahooks were felt, the severest known, seventy-seven years. The principal river in island rose and fell three feet. St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Peters, Tortola and Little Saba were struck the same day. ‘The sea was raised fifty feet, and its retrocession swept off human lives and a rent deat of valuable property. Little Saba was divided in consequence of the b gtd and a volcano at the same moment sprang into active life, St. Thomas was visited by forty-seven almost continuous shocks. ‘The seu rose sixty feet and the cits almost. en- tirely subm . e Unit Pp Monongahela was left high and dry on shore and the De Soto was badly damaged island of Santa Cruz. Ail the edifices in St, Johns were sert- ously injured, and St. Martins, for the time being, nearly disappeared from the face of creation, Competent scientitic men on the spot reported the current of undulations to run from north to east. wky during the prevalence of these earthquakes pre- sented its ordinary appearance, The trade wind clouds hung listiess!y overhead; the weather was calm and suitry, and nothing unusual was observed: in the vibrations of the compass, A volcanic erup- tion occurred at St. Bartholomew, but no damage of any moment resnited. St. Kitts was also included in the list of islands that this strangety-troubled dis- position of terra firma enfbraced, ‘The fury of this widely-extended series of earthquakes seemed to expend itself on the unfortunate island of St. Thomas, and the symptoms there exhibited were peritaps more appalling than have been noticed elsewhere. ‘The sun appeared as if under an eclipse, and only resumed its normal aspect after the lapse of soverat days. The ocean, which shortly before the first shock receded several hundred feet from the lant, rose like one huge wave aud moved towards the harbor, It stood up like a huge wall, erect and straight, like solid white masonry, and then ad- vanced on the devoted town, carrying great, heavy ships along with it a3 thougl! they were meré corks. The 3d of December more shocks were felt at St. Thomas, unaccompanied py any damage. December 29 one of fifteen seconds’ duration was experienced at St. Johns. On the 18th and 19th of the same month St. Domingo city was slightly shaken. Shocks of earthquake continued to be felt at St. Thomas, St. Kitts and Antigua up to a late period of the present year. St, Kitis and Antigua were visited by a final tremor on the night of the 3d of April. At the former Biase lumps of sulphur were thrown upon the tsiand, and as late as the 13th of <8 three severe shocks were experienced at Porto CO. THE UPHEAVING OF THR HAWAITAN ISLANDS. The theory of earthquake manifestations travet- ling in certain well defined lines receives strong color of support from the eruptions in the Hiwaliaa islands, almos immediately following the outbreak in the West Indies and in a line west by south from there. In this instance at Hiwail (one of the Sand- wich Islands) fearful volcanic eruptions preceded the éarthquake. On the 27th of March last the first eruption took place, followed by two thousaud shocks of earthquakes, Entire villages were de- stroyed and hundreds of persons kill The slope and part of the summit of a mountain fifteen hun- dred : feet ue were lifted UP bodily by am earthquake and thrown over the tops of trees for a distance of over one thousand The immense tidal waves came eae at so great a height that they swept over the tops of the cocoanut trees on the Kona coast. During the severest shock, which occurred on the 2d of April. no living creature. could stand up fora moment. Immense precipices were levelled tothe earth. The eruption whic! companied the shocks was of a character terribly grand. Jets of fame rose to a height of one thou- sand feet. Huge rocks were hurled up among the clouds and the rivers of lava rushed out into the sea ‘8 distance of six miles. Shock after shock convulsed the island. The effects were felt in all the groups, but were most disastrous at Hawaii, The shocks had three distinct characteristics—the keting ee? with the motion generally from the northwest to soul theast, the sudden, short, Gee ierming shock ee tp 9 hardly two seconds, and lastly a Supine e 8 boulder of rock thrown suddenly against the crust of theearth. Each kind was reineeny, accompanied with a npr esse like distant thunder of artillery, more or less distinct. The lighter shocks general had no accompanying noise. At Kapapala, one of the group, the shock was so great as to rend in twaim the framework of a mountain side and hurl down om the plain a portion of its flank. Fissures large eno to engulf a horse and rider were created in the ground. Not a single stone fence was left standing. At the town of Punalua tho mo- ment the first shock took place it seemed asif anim- mense quantity of lava had been discharged into the sea some distance from the shore, as almost in- stantly a terrible commotion arose in the sea, the water boiling and tossing furiously. Shortly after- wards a tremendous wave swept in, and when it receded there was nothing left of Punaluu. Every house was washed away, and the number of lives lost was never ascertained. A big chasm opened in the mountain side and admitted the sea. For three days the earth constantly rocked and swayed, and the hills seemed to alternately approach and recede. Most people became seasick. Strange roaring and surging noises were heard under the ground, an@ when the ear was applied to the earth a distinct m- pression was received, as if a huge subterranean wave had struck the earth’s crust. THE COURSE OF THE EARTAQUAKE CURRENT AROUND THE KARTH. While St. Thomas and other West Indian islands were still trembling from the earth’s convulsions an earthquake took place in that remote region of the globe, Formosa, in the China Sea. The shock was of unprecedented violence and was attended with a lamentable loss of life, The harbor of Kee- Inng was left completely dry for a moment, and the returning wave swept everything before it. A chaam several yards wide opened in the earth's surface, of which no human eye could penerate the depth. Shocks were also felt at Shanghae, Ningpo and other places in China. No destruction of property or loss of life oceurred there, but the phenomenon was 80 new to the Chinese that the greatest consternation prevailed. March 1, a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Augusta, Me., and the same day, the same hour, @ similar shock was experienced on the opposite side of the continent, at Vancouver's Island. On the 7th of March @ serious shock, which de- Stroyed several large public edifices and numerous lives, occurred at Venezuela. On the Sist of the same month afew slight shocks were felt in San Francisco, Several smart shocks of earthquake were feit at Huatemala on the sth of Apel ios & week after the outbreak in the Hawaiian islands, On May 7, just about the period of the outbreak in the Hawaiian islands, an earthquake made itself understood at Healdsburg, California. On the 29th of May four heavy shocks occurred at Fort Charchill and Virginia City, Nevada, and ex- tended across to Sacramento City. Several |i buildings were shaken and the pumps in the mines stopped working. BARTHQUAKE MUTTERINGS IN NORTHERN NEW YORK, VERMONT AND CANADA. On the morning of the 1sth of last December a vio- lent shock of earthquake occurred at Ogdensburg, shaking the firmest buiidings and knocking over light articles of furniture. At the same time shocks were felt at Watertown, Rome, Port Leyden and other places north and west. Auburn and Syracuse also remember the visitation, It was feit throughout Canada, from Belleville to Sackville, N. B. In Montreal 1e were aroused from bed and made to wonder at what could be transpiring. On tne 14th of January a sharp shock occurred near Montreal. No damage was done in any of these tusiances, except to the nerves: of the timid. ALLEGED NOTE FORGER: HS A Lawyer and Commission Merchant Are rested=Exnmination at the Tombs. Yestorday afiernoon detectives McCord and Rad- ford, of the Central OMice, brought before Justice Dor ig, at the Tombs, William J. Rae, a commis- sion merchant, doing business at No. 50 Broad street, and Mr. Win. M. Martine, a member of the legal fra ternity, having an oiice at No. 76 Nassan stre whom they had arrested on suspicion of being one cerned in the forgery of one or more promis. sory notes. From the deposition of Mr Samue! K. Jacobs, a note broker, of No. 1 New street, it appears (hat on the 1ith instant Martine called upon him and wished to sell a promissory note for $2,985, date June 1, 1868, purporting to have been drawn by Messrs. Hurt, Hellmers & Voorhies, a @ St. Louis firm, and made payabie to Messrs, Garrett, Clark & Co. a firm doing business at 116 Charch atreet, at the Ninth National Bank of tniseity. Martine rep resented that the note was a good one; that a client of hia wished to make @ settiement and that he of- fered the note in payment. Mr. Jacobs believing the note to be ail right discounted it and gave to Mar- tine his check on the Bank of New York for $2,904, and by request of Martive made it payabie to W. J. Reynolds. Mr. Jacobs ‘was subsequently formed by Mr. Charlies ©, Helle mers, of the firm of Hurt, Heilrners & Voorhies, that the promissory note is a forgery and of no value. Mr. Jacobs is further informed that the defendant Rae bought from Orlando M. Bogert an original promissory note of whieh the for, note is a copy. Mr. Henry W. Lansing, assistant note teller of the American Exchange National Bank, 4) Lote that on the 12th instant Rae and a man whom he re. presente to be Martine, presented themselves at the nk and desired him to cash the check, Rae, with whom Lansing is well acquainted, representing that the person with him was the Martine whose name was on the back of the check, Lansing the mone 2,004) to Rae, who handed the same to the man wit! im who claimed to be Martine, It is therefore chai that Martine and Rae did obtain the sata check and by tts means the sum of $2,904, by meana of the faise and forged Promissory note, with intent to cheat and defraud. Owing to the absence of important witnesses the farther investigation of the ease was adjourned till to-day. In the meantime the qomumitted 49 the defeudants were Tomve. »