The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1875, Page 7

THE WAR IN TURKEY. THE INSURRECTION STILL GROWING—RUMORS OF A GENERAL RISING IN BOSNIA. Viena, Sept, 19, 1875, Insurréction has broken out at Tiskovac, near Gra- chowo. The insurgents burned a Turkish guard house, the garrison of which fled, ‘The insurrection is said to be spreading in Western Bosnia, and it is rumored that preparations have been made for a general rising in Bosnia, BATTLE IN BOSNIA—THE INSURGENTS ROUTED— REPORTED FINDING OF DOCUMENTS IMPLI- CATING SERVIA—THE PORTE COMPLAINS OF AUSTRIAN PARTIALITY. Constanrixoris, Sept. 19, 1875. The Minister of War has received a despatch from Ali Pacha, dated Mostar, September 13, stating that the insurgents were attacked September 8 near Vibe- grad, Bosnia, defeated and put to flight. On the battle field were found passports and other documents which leave no longer any doubt that the Servians intended to declare against Turkey. COMPLAINTS AGAINST AUSTRIA, The Sublime Porte publishes the foregoing and calls attention to the fact that the insurgents who take refuge in Austria are not disarmed, notwithstanding Turkey's representations. SPAIN. THE PAPAL PRETENSIONS—THE NUNCIO’S CIR- CULAR AND THE CABINET—THREATENED DIPLOMATIC RUPTURE. Lonpow, Sept. 19, 1875. A Reuter telegram from Rome says the Nuncio at Madrid has received instructions to leave his post if the Spanish Cabinet's decision with regard to his circular be of an aggressive character or such as to compromise the dignity of the Holy See. Otherwise the Nuncio is to remain at Madrid until December, when he will come ‘to Rome to attend a consistory. CABINET MEBTING. ‘The Spanish Cabinet met on Saturday, but postponed discussion of the Nuncio’s circular, FRANCE. —— CONGRESS OF JOURNALISTS AT TROYES—ABOLI- TION OF THE STATE OF SIEGE AND THE PRESS LAW DEMANDED. Panis, Sept. 19, 1875. A congress of French journalists met at Troyes to-day. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the State of sicge be raised and the press laws be amended. ROME, MORE HONORS FOR CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY—AN- OTHER CONSISTORY TO RE HELD, Roux, Sept. 19, 1875. ‘The Pope has appointed Cardinal McCloskey a mem- ber of the Congregations on Index, Sacred Rites and Bishops and Regulars. ANOTHER CONSISTORY. Another consistory 1s to be held on the 23d inst, when twelve additional bishops will be appointed, BRAZIL. THE CHUBCH TO BE SUBSIDIZED. Rio Janumo, Sept. 19, 1875. An imperial decree granting annuities to bishops and governors of dioceses has been promulgated. WASHINGTON. Wasuixetox, Sept: 19, 1875, THE PRESIDENT ON SPECIE PAYMENTS, The President, it is reported, is not at all dismayed at the prospect of the rag baby party succeeding at the coming fall elections; nor does he fear that the Forty- fourth Congress will undo existing legislation in regard to specie resumption. That act, originated and passed as a republican measure, he understands to be the platform of the party, As it was wholly opposed by the democrats in both houses on political grounds, whatever attempt may be made in the next Congress to change financial legisla- tion will, if-it conflicts with the provisions of the specie resumption act, encounter the President’s veto, and he is confident no measure could secure the.two- thirds in both houses, and this would be necessary to (pass it over his veto, He does not, for that rea- son, consider that the people need have- any fear of a disturbed condition of financml leg- islation for at least two years to come, as jit is not at all probable the Forty-0fth Congress |Would assemble before December, 1877. Those who have conversed with him of late say that he is more than ‘ever resolute in is intention to carry into effect the pr visions of the act of January 14, 1875. Secretary Bristow recently, in couversation upon the subject of the tnulation of gold, said he had not yet announcer he should adopt, but of one thing the public might, Certain, to wit, that the views expressed on tha! qucs tion in his aunual report last December were in (otal) bia. Viows to-day. He did not mean as to the legisiation, for that report he had said:—“If Congress s))ould cow ilude, as he earnestly hopes it will, that | a rrived for the enactment of a law havins / bet the resumption of specie paymer's its 0 fom will supply the necessary mett Aut his subject it is understood the ¢ Then the time arrives, in the judgrs pnt and Secretary of the Treasury, ty wis | on a unit, » Presi. kvowt lans of the Administration it will be ».)lishod, regayede 8s of the result of the November e 18. WE PROBABLE TENOR OF 7 ep geloun | COMMISSION'S RF | It was stated to-day by parties to yiave relia ® information that the report») ih ‘ed ¢/ loud Com ion will unequivocally exon ato {! eretary of Interior and the Commissi of Indian PAffairs, and pose in detail of all the charges made thy Profess sh and others. To eac! rT bas evn giver portion of the report It wis by takir ® sense of the memberr the comm jom thatt animity was made knows | 7 Lil (cation of Jort will be delayed som» (ime, as it is oF {chairman to have the voluminous tes /Wmony now 4 {thhnds of tho public jrfutor ready yr dievr n bre the report is give. out. BOSTON's Yaw posTMAs? RR he Postmaster General refised to be! int | to- | respecting the change of Postme pater ton. m other sources, howover, it ia !)eer Mr. yard 8, Tobey is the oetmaster G ce for office, The change 's :cre imp: at} t first ared to be, It t# understood to ble & ‘of the dent hereafter, in {ling importa ’ offices, \tender tho positions to me tinction, | by inviting such to aocer/ a class | Mcials esteemed for somethin political tence may be induced to sey)» munity in | th they live, Mr. Tobey, (/ t 4, 8 one of | Most respected merebanty s © dit remains tim to say whether he uP will trast himself Collector Simmons, w}/408€ app it 80 severcly iked the ‘nity of Boston saristocre.y. The ques- | | thereto Tobey /or no: Tobmy. | } ‘rowry/ ITs” Ba | cial 1 Hale and of the Treasury | ‘time 4 for | New vork last «ight by order of | * \petars tow, oo Aged rain whe! obstacles there | a teat of the regulations respect. | 6 Mf tourims’ vagy go, They are in- | 4 5) tok, hers it i» aimed the regula. t ry eA or trouble to passen- rs ‘ Shei diderenee exists in the means | qo [ro cities, cs ON HARD MONEY. ‘ Couvenue, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1875, \or] Scharn will make nine speeches in Ohio sa campaign tn favor of a sound currency, The Orde made im Cineinvatl on Monday evening, Heplpe 27, m response to avitations from merchants ol My. if PIGEON 4HOOTING. pigeon sho-tera are tohave a carnival at | placoat Babylon, L. 1, on Saturday, the itak Ira oy The ever vu) be a sweepstakes, handicap nftwoaty: iets to be fired at by each contest. e entrance foe 4 $60, About thirty gentlemen ly enero, wad the affair promises to be the egeai) 6 Cond ever held in this vicinitm | bridge over White Oak Bayou, whore the greater part THE EQUINOCTIALS. Devastation in Texas by Wind and Water. AN INUNDATED CITY RBS RSES Particulars ofthe Great Gulf Storm. GALVESTON AT THE MERCY OF THE SEA. Many Lives Sacrificed----Great Loss of Property. Hovsron, Texas, Sept. 19, 1875. Yesterday morning, at twenty minutes past six, a train left on the Galveston Railroad with a corps for the repairing of the electric telegraph. The train made good time until it reached Clear Creek station, at which pointa break in the road prevented progress. ‘The telegraph party took a hand-car at this point and wont on, reaching Highland station at about twelve o'clock, A BRIDGE DAMAGED. Tho Galveston Railroad Bridge across the bay bas five or six large breaks in it, one beyond the draw of 150 feet, ‘Two largo schooners went through the bridge at this point and sunk, On the land above Virginia Point a number of vessels, largo and small, aro ashore. On the prairie the water is higher by three fect than it has been for twenty years, The railroad track is good for three miles beyond this station, but from thence to the bridge it is torn npand impassable, No news from Galveston has been received, but from appearances (as seen with glasses from Virginia Point), it seems all right, The shipping is safe in the harbor, The dam- age at and about Virginia Point is considerable, Houses have been blown down and washed away and some stock lost. The following despatch was sent by a special reporter, who pushed through to the city on a schooner, APTER THE STORM It the first reliable news since the storm began:—“I reached here about five o'cloeR this evening (18th), coming over in a schooner from Virginia Point, ‘The city shows but little In the business part of the town is from Galveston signs of the storm. the wharves are safe and sound, and the streets show but little sign of the forty-eight hours’ inundation. THE PEOPLE PREPARING. “Ag soon as the people saw the storm cOming they be- gan to prepare for it. All or nearly all the goods on the lower floors were hoisted to the-second and third stories, and thus saved. The damage to goods is very light. On the east end of the island visited the locality say it must be put down asa total toss. A great portion of the ten-foot brick wall enclosing the press is down, with an equal amount of the cotton sheds. Fears are entertained that the bayou water standing around the walls will undermine all the masonry and necessitate the rebuilding of the whole work. This loss at this season of the year, just when its business is commencing, is the cause of universal regret. ‘The Central Railroad track leading to the compress is broken and under water in several places. The office and warehouse of the Direct Navigation Company are under water, and the extent of the damago is not known. At Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Indianola and other coast towns the loss is estimated at $1,000,000, Captain Harry Caston, of the Houston direct naviga- tion tug Ontario, reached here last night at ten o’clock in possession of the following information:—He left Goose Creek, near Morgan’s Point, yesterday morning, where he bad been driven by the storm for safe an- chorage. At Morgan’s Point Thursday night two dredges and two barges were driven ashore, Commo- dore Morgan’s despatch tug Lama, after striking a pile, drifted in the bay and sunk, During Friday the boarding houso boat and the sleep were driven ashore, A dump scow flat, with an engine on board, and another flat with a pile driver aboard also went ashore. Three houses were swept away from Morgan’s Point, Captain Caston thinks the water was eight feet higher than the high tide mark, and four feet over the highest point of land at Hog Island, Three dwellings and a store were swept away and totally lost, No lives are reported lost at this point, At Spillman’s Island two houses were destroyed, but ing boat and no lives lost, At Baytown West’s store and dwelling house aro gone, Mr. West and family have not been heard from and are supposed to have been drowned. At Midway Davis? store is gone. No lives lost. At Adam’s Island Rev. Mr. Alexander and family are supposed to have been lost, as no tidings of them have yet been received. At Baron’s Island Baron’s dwelling is gone, and nothing is known of the proprietor’s fate. Lynchburg presented a scene of devastation such as is seldom witnessed. The whole place appeared to have been washed away. Every house in the business part of the town is gone. Dr. Chamberlin’s house is washed away and his wife drowned, Lilmill’s house is gone, but his mill was left standing. Across the river at San Jacinto almost the same sceno of is to be seen, About half the houses are washed Thomp-. son’s store, Moore’s dwelling and Handley’s store The houses left standing are damaged more Captain Passmore’s schooner was driven ruin away, are gone, or less. ashore. of the Direct Navigation Company’s barges were dam- aged. Captain Caston experienced heavy weather all Hugh Gibbs’ new tug is also ashore, and somo the storm was the and did most damage. All the houses down in what is known as the East End are destroyed or nearly so, The Ocean House is no more, The Texas and Gulf City cotton severest, presses aro destroyed and also tho factors’ press. Sorby’s new block of three story houses was badly damaged by the wind. The street car tracks in the East End are torn up and several cars haye beon demolished, The car buildings are also ruined. Some of the sowers of the city are badly damaged and some of the outer streets washed away, THE LOSS OF LIFE. A great many houses were unroofed, and a great num- ber of shade trees were blown down. The water has subsided at this time, except what may be standing in the low places, The destruction of life in the city was small, It cannot be truly estimated yet, but not more than adozen lives haye been lost *shed by the falling of her house. Dr, Peet, the City tlnn, was lost at the Quarantine station, together ‘yrandson, Willie Blunt. He moved his family city and then went back to the sta ich was destroyed, Sixty men at work yreakwater wore cut off from A woman was the city. A NINE MILB DRIFT. a) aved except four, One of these, Patrick drifted to Virginia Point on a plank (nine itruck the Santa Fe Bridge and hung to it, sels in port dragged their anchors. One of toe os. jown to be safe. The safe vessel is the M English brigantine. The steamer Diana we he storm nobly. *se dredge boats from Redfish is on the pr ar Virginia Point, T hooners drove through tho Galveston Railroad Br and their crews were lost, a houses were destroyed at Virginia Point, , storm was the flercest ever known here by any citizen, number of wrecks are reported on the island coast, | { nothing definite is known concerning them. LOSSES. It is supposed that not less than $5,000,000 will cover the losses sustained in the city. The people whose property was destroyed are being cared for by the city, Nothing has yet been heard from Redfish Bar. Private despatches from various points along the Ine of the Great Northern road represent the storm as causing great loss. The train from St, Louis, duo here yesterday morn- ing, is detained at Willis, being unable to cross the bridge at Spring Creek. The train due here this morning is detained at Pal tine. The Trinity River rose twenty feet, but the bridgo over it is uninjured, The broak in the bridge over Spring Creek cannot bo repaired until the water subsides, This morning a construction train will go up, and it is believed trains will be running as usual this evening. THE RANGE OF THE STORM, From specials at various points it is learned that the storm has extended to Austin, and that the crops have been seriously injured. In the city of Austin a great amount of damage was done to the buildings, “A PRAIRIE OCRAN, What is known as the Herkly prairio represents a perfect sea of water, and cattle were seen swimming in many places. Several times the train had to stop and stock be driven from the track, on which they sought to keep from drowning, At Hempstead three churches are said to be blown down and other damage done. Loss not known, Bayou City, with its shaded avenues and floral walks, presents a scene of devastation, Merchants and pro” fessional men have suffered very heavily, Between seven and eight o'clock Friday evening the | lower portion of the Houston Compross, including tho | office, was washed away and lodged against the railrond | of it remained, A gang of men wero engaged all day yesterday in hauling cotton, and at dark several hundred bales had boen saved, At the new compress the destruction is the time, and says the gale was the severest he ever experienced in thirty years of a seafaring life, In this city the destruction has been terrible. Reports are prevalent that tho cotton crop is severely damaged. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Sr. Lovts, Mo., Sept. 19, 1875, A Galveston special to the Globe-Democrat at a late hour last night, says the storm which commenced on Wednesday continued to rage with great violence until late on Friday night. The water from the Gulf of Mexico overflowed half of Galveston Island, knocking down some hundred small tene- ments, unrvofing several churches, presses and residences and knocking down signs, awnings and other hangings. The water on the principal streets and on the Strand Market was at several times two feet deep. Three large schooners lying in the harbor wero Swamped, and one steam boat and two tugs sunk, one beimg completely demolished. One of Morgan’s steamers was driven against the wharf, but only slightly damaged, One large English bark was forced from its moorings and driven ashore, and one schooner is forty feet on land. Some ten men working on the breakwater were drowned. The Health Officer, Dr. G. W. Pette, and his | grandson are drowned. His house was carried off. One negro woman was killed by her house falling after having floated fifty feet. ‘The railroad track is torn up in twenty places on the island. The bridge {s partially destroyed, culverts on both roads washed out, and the damages aro variously estimated at from $100,000 to $200,000, The storm was a regular cyclone, but the wind was not very heavy though the water was higher than during the great storms of 1867 and 1871. At eleven o'clock last night the wind got to the northwest and began to leave both the bay and streets | dry. To-day all is dry and pleasant in appearance, A committee has been organized for the relief of the sufferers, who were principally residents of the Gulf side and bay shore. All the telegraph lines were down until to-night, The storm extended to Hempstead, on the Texas Central, and Willis, on the Great Northern roads, doing damago along the entire route, including tho city of Houston. No mail arrived for three days, and there has been no telegraphic communication until this evening when one wire began to work. The loss by the storm will | not aggregate nearly so. large as was anticipated, the wind having been very steady. The shipping hag escaped damage. ONLY TWO LIVES Lost. New Ornkays, Sept. 19, 1875, The following was received here at one o'clock last night:— Gazyzstoy, Sept, 18, 1875, Storm has prevailed here since the 15th. The water ts high, but very little damage has been done to property or shipping. Only two lives were lost, and these were at the extreme eastern point of the island exposed to the full force of the storm. The railroads | are only slightly damaged, and it is expected trains will be running in a day or two. FEARS IN WASHINGTON REGARDING THE RIO BRAVO AT GALVESTON. Wasurnatox, Sept, 19, 1875, There is great anxiety felt here for particulars of the flood in Galveston, It is feared that the breakwater has béon destroyed. Tho United States steamer Bravo was | anchored off Galveston awaiting supplies, and, having Just been ropaired after encountering a gale in the Gulf, it is possible she will now be further detained from pro- ceoding to the Rio Grando, “CROSSING THE LINE.” A TIGHT-ROPE FEAT BY OLD SOL TO-DAY—THE | EQUINOX AND THE WEATHER—PRocREsS OF | THE GREAT CYCLONE NORTHWARD FROM GAL- ‘VESTON. To-day we have the autumnal equinox—that is, the | second time in the year when the day and the night are of equal length. According to exact time the sun rises at six o'clock A. M. and sets at six o’clock P.M. This momentary truce between day and night occurs when the sun’s centre crosses the colestial Equator. It oo- curs in spring about the 20th of March and in autumn about the 20th of September, The oquinoctial pointe are those points in the celestial Equator at which the sun’s path crosses the Equator or line. The equinoxes move on the ecliptic (the great circle in the heavens in the ofreamference of which the sun appears to move | during the annual revolution of the earth) at the rate of | about 50,22 deg. a year, which is called the precession of the equinoxes, The obliquity of the ecliptic suffers a | monthly variation, but so slight that it has not materi- ally altered since creation, This is proved by the fact that the chief coast ines and mountain ranges eithor coincide with or are perpendicular to the line separat. ing light and darkness when the eun is at the solstices, The season of equinoctial storms is at hand, and, from now until the middle of October we.may look for Much greater than at fret wanavtad and thas wha’ fearful gales on land and sea, A cyclone has already “ssa am ie travels over tho usual path #0 accurately. | west wind ts going to succeed a northeast than when EW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. 7 laid down by the Meteorological Department of aA Weather Signal Service. The science of meteorology has, within the past twenty years, been brought to a | high pitch of perfection, and its study, ag illustrating | the wonderful and unalterable lawe that govers tho | physical system of the universe, possesses as great an | interest as any within the range of human knowledge. At this momenta hundred stations of the Weather Signal Service are watching the vagaries and prog- ress of the formidable cyclone that, starting from the southern coast of Cuba nine or ten days ago, struck and almost overwhelmed the city of Galveston, in Texas, Inst Wednesday morn. ing. The first knowledge that this dangerous visitor was on its peregrinations came in a despatch from San- tiago de Cuba, published several days ago in the Her dp, and relating its mischievous pranks in that quarter of | the West Indies. The meteorological eye was atonce | directed to its course, and the score of maps that have | since been issued illustrating its journey and locating | its daily whereabouts, make an intensely interesting | study. When properly explained it is as simple as | marvellous, At this moment, in the Gulf of Mexico, | the barometer indicates a low pressure. When that | is the case there is a movement of the wind south from north to fill the vacuum, By the admirable assistanco of the telegraph it can be found instantly where the northerly wind is in contact with the OUTER RIM OF THE CYCLONE. The latter pushed northeast, The other day alow | thermometer was found at Mobile, but the warm breath | of the cyclone was advancing and the cold breath of tho northeast wind was forced to withdraw, Unfil yester- | day it had retraced its steps as far back as a point in | southeastern Pennsylvania, showing the speedy en- | croachment of the precursor of tho cyclone, Friday | last the HnaLD published a despatch from Houston, | Texas, saying:—‘A fearful gale has been blowing at | Galveston since yesterday morning. The city is par- | tially under-water, The gule is increasing and tho | barometer is falling. The bay 1s so full of water that if the wind changes to the north the whole island will bo lost.”” i | | | | | | THE STORM’S DIRECTION. This was the identical cyclone reported afew days before as prevailing on the southern coast of Cuba, Its | regular course now would be to sweep diagonally over the South and impinge on the Gulf Stream at Cape Hatteras, It might take eight or ten days t» come abroast of the Jersey coast, but that it will turn outa fearful traveller to meet on the North Atlantic may bo judged from its doings at Galveston, It is possible, however, it may make a wider sweep than usual over the land on its way to meet the warm, humid company of the Gulf Stream. WHAT IS A CYCLONE. To learn something for September reading of these singular bodies of air called cyclones and equinoctial gales, a Hinaxp reporter called yesterday at THE WEATHER SIGNAL STATION on top of the Equitable Building, Broadway, and through the courtesy of the gentleman in charge, Dr. Hiram J. Penrod, who was four years in charge of tho station at Baltimore, learned many things that were new and of tnterest. The bulletin for the afternoon nad just been printed, and indicated that the cyclone was moving in a northeast direction, the words being “prisk and high winds and stormy weather havo pre- vailed on the Middle Atlantic coast, and an area of un- usually low barometer is central near Eastport. Heavy rains have prevailed in the Gulf States and heavy gales have prevailed in the Gulf.” On the wall hung a weather map, just printed, showing the barometrical conditions all over the Union. This was worth a full hour’s study. ‘THE COMING CYCLONE has originated in the southern region of the zone of easterly trade winds east of the Windward Islands, pos- sibly in the meteorological torrid zone or equatorial! belt of calms and rains, A Jow pressure and large humidity in its central region. Toward this the wind blows from all pointa, and, deflecting to the right, pursues its spiral course upward and inward. The molsture brought by this wind condenses as the pressure is reduced and clouds are formed, with heavy rain. In tho centre of the cyclone an upward gurrent is supposed to exist, and high above are formed tho cirrus clouds which stream for away Ya advance on the upper tS of air. This cydione is carried to the north and west wie! passes into the meteorological temperate zone, where the pre- vailing south and west winds control its motion. The cyclone is now supposed to pursue a course northward, parallel to the Gull Stream with its attendant band of warm, moist air, It will produce heavy — east- erly gales on our East Atlantic coast, and will finally «lost in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, or it may reach shipping. A despatch from New Orleans yestorday stated that the ship Marcia Greenleaf, from Reval, re- fare encountering a terrific hurricane in latitude deg. 28 min., longitude 84 deg. 40 min. The signal station is at a high elevation above Broad- way. The instrument shelter isan iron copy of the observatory on the central office in Washington, and is sufficiently elevated from the roof to guard against the effects of radiation from the flat roof of the building. The wind vane, anemometer and rain gauge are fixed upon the roof of the observatory, and the two first named are | made to register inside the former by a shaft running into the building and. the latter by means of electricity. Two large flagstaff for the display of signals have been erected upon the roof of the main building and are in | full view of a greater part of the harbor. Reports from | the east, west and south are here transferred and interchanged, and the routine work is Jaborious and exacting. Full reports from all ‘stations are feceived. Twenty bulletins of the morn- | ing aud eleven of the afternoon and seven of the | midnight reports are issued and distributed. All | the papers that publish them are supplied with bulletins. . The office has a printing press for maps, _It issues daily 279, and has another press that strikes off what is called ‘the farmers’ bulletin,” about 700, and one copy is | sent to each postmaster, designed to reach him tho same day of issue, and for the benefit of all interested. THR STORM SIGNALS. There is much complaint that the Equitablo Company, refuse to give the department more room over tho Cedar street entrance of the building. A night signal light has been placed at a gat elevation, and is in view | of ailof partsthe harbor. it may be seen ata distance of twenty-five miles, CHARACTER OF CYCLONES, | Cyclones extend over a circle from 100 to 500 miles in | diameter, and sometimes a thousand miles) The ap- proach of a cyclone is generally announced by a swell of | the ocean, resulting from the action of the wind upon a | neighboring sea, while the waves thus agitated advance more oie. than the storm. The char- acter of the weather at any time is affected by so many circumstances that it is of course impossible to | predict what weather may be expected at a given me | and place. ‘To some extent, however, such predictions | are possible, When telegraphic reports can be easily ~| received from the Mississippi Valley it is possible to predict the approach of a storm twenty-four hours | ahead of its coming. Along the Atlantic coast of the | United States rain occurs most frequently with the | wind from the northeast. It has been noted at New | Haven that storms begin with an easterly wind and end | with a westerly one, 80 that the same storm is attended by both winds; but, as the rain or snow with the first | wind generally continues longest, the easterly wind is recorded as. pene cy ie rain at @ greater number of the regular hours of observation. Throughout most of the interior of the United States the principal part of the rain comes with a westerly wind, HOW THE BAKOMETER WORKS, The instruments used by the Signal Office are affected before the wind actually ins to blow, or the rain to | fall, The length of time which passes between the first | appearance of a change of weather and its actual setting in is not the same. It is much greater when a south- the Bie change {s about to take place. The wind usually shifts with the sun, from left to right, in the northern hemisphere, change in this direction is called veering. Thus an east wind shifts to west through southeast, south and southwest, and a west wind shi: to east through northwest, north and northeast, If the wind shifts the opposite way—viz, from west to south- west, south and southeast, the change is called backing, and itseldom occurs unless when she weather is un- settled, If the barometer be high (above 30.5) and re- main steady for some days it is because there is, so to speak, A SURPLUS OF AIR atthe place. The wind will be light and the weather probably dry. A gale can only set in when the air flows away, and it will not at first be severe at the place. The wind will be light also, but the weather will probably be cloudy and wet. If the barometer rises slowly from a low level the weather may ‘become drier and the wind lighter, or perhaps die away. If the barometer falls gradually from a high level the weather may become wetter and more unpleasant, In general, whenever the mercury remains steady woimay expect settled weather, but when it is unsteady we must look for achange, and perhaps a severe gale, Ln an ordi- nary gale the wind often blows hardest when the barometer is just beginning to rise, directly after being | very low. Whenever barometrical readings are lower | over any area than over those adjacent, the air will | sweep round that area as a cenire, and the direction of the motion will be opposite to that of the hands of a watch, Conversely the air will sweep round an area of relatively high barometrical readings in the direc- tion in which the hands of a watch move. ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. The existence of a deficiency of atmospherical press- ure, or what is termed a baromotrical depression, over avy district is accompanied by the movement of the air in the neighboring districts. The velocity of the air depends—at ieast in agreat measure, though not abso- lutely—on the difference of barometrical readings over a given distance, or on what is termed the baro- metrical “gradient.” The gradients are expressed in hundredths of an inch of mercury fifty geographical miles. Among observations that have ed into proverbs in the Meteoro- logical Department are that when the barometer falls suddenly in the western Va of New England it rises at the same time in the Valley of the Mississippi and also at St. John’s, Newfonndland. In great storms the wind for several hundred miles on both sides of the line of minimum pressure blows toward that line directly or obliquely. The force of the wind is {n proportion to suddenuoss and greatness of the depression of barometer. In all great and sudden depressions of the barometer there is much rain or snow. Most storms commence in tho ‘far west,’ but some commence in the coast-of Great Britain and cause damage among the | are generally greater In the eastern than m the western parts of the United States, During the passage of storms the wind generally changes from the eastward to the westward by the south, The northern part of the storm generaily travels more rapidly toward the east than the southern part. During the high barom- eter on the day preceding the storm it is generally clear and mild in temperature, especially if very cold weather preceded. ‘The temperature generally falls suddenly on the passage of the centre of great storms; So that sometimes, when a storm is in the middle of the United States, the lowest temperature of the month will be in the weston the same day that the highest temperature is in the east, A POPULAR MISTAKE. People imagine when we have « northeasterly wind that we are to have a storm from the northeast, whereas the storm must necessarily come from the southwest, or the very opposite direction, by reason of a low barometer being there. In the Weet Indies the cyclone season is from July to October. They originate near the equatorial limit of the trade winds, where these winds are irregular and travel west. The air im eyelones has not merely a movement of translation, but also a gyratory motion about the centre of the storm, The motion of the air is spirally inward, as has been | shown in the storms of the United States; but over the ocean the whirling motion is usually more decided than it is over the land. NORTH OF THE EQUATOR this gyratory motion is from right to left, or in a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch; south of the equator the motion is from left to right, or in the same direction as thatof the hands of a watch. Near the centre of the hurricane there 1s generally a great fall of rain, Storms are caused by a strong and ex- tensive upward motion of the air, by which means its vapor is condensed by the cold elevation, A visit to the signal office on Broadway will well re- pay the trouble of climbing up. At seven P. M. orders were received from the chief Signal Office at Washing- ton, todispley ared light on the Equitable Building. ‘This red light signal signifies ;— First—That, ‘from the information had at the central oflice in Washington, a probability of stormy or danger- ous weather has been deduced for the port or place at which the cautionary signal is displayed or in that vicinity. Second—That the danger appears to be so great as to demand precaution on the part of navigators and others interested—such as an examination of vessels or other structures to be endangered by @ storm—the in- Spection of crews, rigging, &c., and general prepara- tion for rough weather, Third—It calis for frequent examination of local barometers and other instruments by ship captains or others interesied, and the study of local signs of the weather, us clouds, &c. By these means those who are expert may often be confirmed as to the need of the precaution to which the cautionary signal calls atten- tion, or may determine that the danger is overestimated or past CENTRAL PARK METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY, The following is an abstract of the report for the week ending one P, M. on Saturday of the weather observations at the Central Park Observatory :— Barometer—Mcan, 29.983 inches; maximum at 9 A. M. September 12, 30.259 inches; minimum at 2 A. M. September 17, 29.491 inches; range, 0.768 inch, ‘Thermometer—Mvan, 63.3 degrees; maximum at 8 P. M. September 15, 73 degrees; minimum at 6A. M. September 18, 46 degrees; range, 27 degrees. EMARKS.—September 18 rain from 2:15 Al M, to 11:15 A. M.; amount of water, 0.37 inch, Sep- tember 15, rain from 7 P. M. to 10:30 P. M.; amount of water, 0.08 inch. September 16, rain’ from 3:30 P. M.'to 12 P. M.; amount of water, 0.22 inch, Total amount of water for:the week, 0.65 inch, The distance travelled by the wind during the week was 878 miles, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record wil} show, the changes in the temperature for the past. twenty-four hours, in com- | parison with the corresponding dato of last year, as in- | dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Hewaup Building:— 1874, 1875. 3A. M. 6A. M. 9A M. 12M... Average Average temperature for correspo! year. SNOW STORM IN QUEBEQ, River Du Love, Quebec, Sept, 19, 1875. During tho snow storm yesterday twelvo inches of snow fell, and much damage was done to fruit and or- namental trees in this vicinity. FIRE IN CINCINNATI, Loss ABOUT FIkv¥ THOUSAND DOLLARS. Civemwatt, Ohio, Sept 19, 1875. A destructive fire was discovered at half-past six o'clock this morning in the Ofth story of Barber & Stout’s tobacco manufactory, Nos. 82 and 34 Main street, which entirely destroyed that building and contents. Freiburg & Workum’s distillery, | adjoining on the south side, was partially | destroyed by fire in the upper story to the extent of probably $1,000, which is covered by insurance. The stock of whiskey on that floor was considerably damaged by water, us the bungs were out of the barrels. Tho wall between their building and Barber & Stout’s being deemed unsafe, the former firm endeavored to remove the stock in the upper stories, Chiof Engineer Megrue afterward ordered the men away from it. The wall is gradually bulging out and may fall at any moment, and thus materially in- creaso the loss of reiburg & Workum. Tho store next Barber & Stout’s, on the north side, is oc- cupied by Galway, Semple & Co., stoves and castings. The stock is damaged probably "$5,000 by water; in- sured. A portion of the division wall of this building fell into the ruins of the tobacco factory and their build- ing is now deemed insecure. The building is owned by R. RB. Springer, whose loss is estimated at $10,000 to $12,000, which is covered by insurance, Barber & Stout lose on building, stock and machinery $75,000 to $80,000, on which they had insurance to the amount of $45,000, FIRE AT LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Litre Rock, Sept. 19, 1875. At about three A. M. to-day a flro broke out in the book store of George H. Gibbs, occupying the building adjoining the Anthony House, on the west. Before the fire was discovered nearly the entire interior of tho store was enveloped in flames, which soon penctrated the roof and spread to the adjoining stores, between that and the Anthony House, In a short time the jewelry store of Bernays & Poeck, the wholesale drug house of Lincoln & Co., and French John’s res- taurant were in flames, The entire block from Pollock & Co.'s store, ad- Joining the Stoddard Bank building on Swain street, to the intersection of Scott street on the cast, with the — exception of a small brick house, is now a mass of ruins, It is impossible to estimate the loss at the present timo, ‘There was no insurance on any of the buildings Very little furniture of the Anthony House was saved. The loss of the proprietors of the hotel, Messrs. Clendinin & Pray, is estimated at $30,000, with no insurance. The losses of Lincoln & Co., who saved most of their drugs, George H. Gibbs and others are not yet known, FIRE AT NEW HAVEN. New Haves, Conn., Sept, 19, 1875. This morning the barn of the widow of Admiral Grog- ory, at Morris Cove, was burned, The loss is $5,000, and the insurance $1,500, The fire was probably of incendiary origin. A “BONE” FIRE. Boston, Sept. 19, 1875. The bone boiling establishment of J. P. Rush, at Peabody, was on tan by fire this morning. The loss 1s pena partially insured. The fire ts supposed to be in y ENGLISH BETTING MEN IN PARIS, RELEASE OF VALENTINE-—BETTING CARRIED ON AS USUAL. Pars, Sept. 4, 1875, By last mail I gave you details of the trial and con- viction of a band of English betting men in Paris, and stated that one of the lot had, in addition to being heavily fined, been sentenced to one year’s imprison- ment, The man was George Valentine, the well known bookmaker, Hoe was incarcerated in the prison of Mazas, and was quietly settling himself down to die, for he knew that the imprisonment would kill him, Bat, strange as it may seem, Valen- tine is now out of prison. To-day I saw him atthe American bar on the Rue Scribe and got from bis own lips an account of his experiences in Mazas, But bow did he get out? you naturally ask; for, as an American remarked to me a few minutes ago, “It is an easy matter to get into a French prison, but it takes the devil him- self or Marshal Bazaino to bas out before his time has expired.” Well, strong influence was brought to bear on Valentine’s case, The most prominent criminal law- er in France was engaged, no @ personage than M. haud, who, it will be remembered, defended Prince Pierre Bonaparte, and more recently Marshal Bazaine himself. M. Lachaud soon found flaws in the indict ment and errors in tho Rall aud within twenty- four hours of the application hai © hve made to that eminent advocate Valentine was a man Of a new trial will take place, and there can be no donbt that when it does take place there will be a deal of dirty turf linen washed. Valentine declares that, although only five days tn prison, he would have been in “kingdom come" jn an- other hve, Not that he was ill-treated, for he was per- mitted to purchase his own food and drink, and did not ‘wear prison livery, Dut that the sudden censnement— acting ona man who has been most of bis time for twenty years in the open air—began to tell severely on his constitution, the United States. Tha Guctuations af the baromoter Meanwhile the merry little game of “punting” on Dorse races goes op ag priskly as aver. ‘ EQUINE INFLUENZA. Ten Thousand Horses Sick New York City. SYMPTOMS OF THE DISTEMPER. Within a few days a serious disease nas broken ov among the horses in the many public and private sta» bles throughout the city, It borders on the nature of THE FAMOUS EPIZOOTIO, which two years ago carried off so many valuable ant mals. It is calculated that there are 10,000 horses suff fering in some degree from colds and sore throats at thé present time in New York, the symptoms being prev cisely those manifested when the epizootic first showed itself. The leading feature of the present attack is a constant hacking and coughing, with sore throat and a slight running at the nostrils. Not a single ear line in thé city but has suffered from the malady in some dogroa, In fact during the past two weeks many of the superin« tendents of public stables became considerably alarmed. Most of the private stable proprietors acknowledge that their horses are also affected. As near as can be ascer- tained there are now laid ap over 2,000 suffering from the disease and unfit for duty. The cag companies say that with but a few excep; tions they have worked their horses right along, but they have had to watch them very closely and sea that they were well taken care of as soon as they came in from a trip. Strange to say, the disease seems to be found more prevalent on the west side of the city than. ‘on tho east, One of our reporters paid a visit to the railroa® stables yesterday and gleaned the following facts :— THE BLEECKER STREET LINK. ‘The men in charge (Mr. Rourke, the superintendent of the stables, being absent) stated that for the past four or five days they had noticed a continual cough on tho horses, and in one or two cases it settled on thoir lungs. The horses seemed to, be affected just as they were when the epizootic broke out among thom two years ago. Still, they were all working, with the exception of about twenty. The men were of the opinion that yesterday they were worse than upon any day previously. No serious running at the nose wag yet apparent, yet they kept those that were ailing welt blanketed, so that if anything serious should result from it, no fault would befall them for not having been taken good care of. THR NINTH AVENUB LINE. Mr. Wallace, the superintendent of the Ninth aveuue stables, said that he first noticed the disease on the 14th inst. among his horses, and for several days had very serious doubts whether or not it was the epizootic. His horses were fearfully attacked with coughing and sore throats. He imme- diately gave them medicine, and applied mustard applications externally, from which they found great relief Out of over two hundred horses he had about forty or fifty at present suffering with the dis- ease. About twenty horses were in the hospital, and Mr. Wallace was attending them when our reporter called. He said that they all seemed to eat about as usual. Hoe attributes it to the great change in the weather. Some of them cough worse than others, and on Thursday night last he said it was painful to be in the stable; several of the horses coughed sa heavy that it seemed as if tho would burst their sides. He could compare the disease at present to nothing more than influenza Ho stated that four weeks ago the horses in his stable were all at- tacked with inflammation of the bowels, and he was then more alarmed than at present. le believed that as soon as the weathor changed they would get over it, THR RIGHTH AVENUK LINK, None of the officers of this company were to be found atthe depot, Even the superintendent of the stables, Mr, Benjamin Everett, was away; but the stablemen stated that ee ae 10 ee been affocted by a heavy cq uring the past fow days, several beiug re- eves ee pire t me Acide fs: Nay AND BROADWAY eye ue £ Luv On gF the ve posppanigs | ho gene romark that it was eaceg tat the Si eonds the epizootic—would soon make itg fvappearance, as the symptoms among their horses were the same4 all had suffered more or less from a severe ough, and as yet, showed little improvement for the better™ . Gas Or peng ee ; Superintendent Bidgood ws at the depot, and had just finished a tour around the stables. He stated that all the company’s horses had been suifering front the cough, and at one time he felt quite alarmed, “but has no serious fears at pros ent Ho had an idea at first that was.(ie epizootic, but now is of the impression that is nut «He says that he thinks he has seen one real case of epizootic, and that was a horse belong ing to a gentleman who was driving him down Twenty. eighth street last Friday, He believes that the present cause of the disease is in the air, and that they will all get better just so soon as the weather clears up. THR FOURTH AVENUE LINK. Very few of the horses on this line have been affected, On Friday last quite a number of them coughed com tinually, but very few of them were affected with it yesterday. THR THIRD AVENUE LINK, Mr. George Fields, superintendent of the Third ave ‘nue line, stated he had noticed nothing very serious it the cough. He admitted that the horses had bees somewhat troubled by a cold, but it did not worry him, ‘He hada cold himself, and horses were just af likely to get acold as he was The stablemen, how. ever, gave avery different story, and stated that the horses did nothing but cough all day long. In tact they have never seen anything like it before, THE SECOND AVENUR LINK, Mr. Murphy, the superintendent of the Second Ave nue Railroad depot, uiformed our reporter that he had noticed but very few cases. His attention was first called to the matter by Mr. MeNeil, of the Third Avenug stables, but he was happy to say that nothing of a sert ous nature had as yet presented itself. He was in great hopes that the epizootic would not visit the poor beasté again, THE BELT LIN® and all the cross line car companies made about the same statement. Mr. Philip Bodine, on Seventh avenue, states that he has had two real cases of a ie both of his horses are now much improved. ir, E. Van Ran: who runs the coaches at the Astor H Earle’s Hotel and Brandreth House, states that several of his horses were taken with severe coughing yesterday, and so bad were they that he had to lay them up. Many other stable keepers make the same statemen' and are of opinion, unless the weather changes, thi something more serious will follow, MEDICAL MEN WHO HAVE WITNESSED THE healing and purifying action of Gieny’s Subruur Soap upon the sain pronounce it an excellent specific for scorb tions, and one of the most effieacions deedorizers a Gistnfectants in use. Depot, CRITTENTON'S, No. 7 Sixth avenue. A.—GENTLEMEN’S HATS, FALL STYLE FOR 1875, are ready for inspeetion aud sale. ESPENSCHELD, Mannfacturer, 118 Nassan streets, ALL KINDS WIRE SIGNS, WATERPROOF SHOW caps and ENGRAVED Mural SiGxs. HOJER & GRAHAM, 97 Duane street, A REGULAR $3 HAT, $1 90; SILK HATS, $3 80; sold elsewhere $9 und $6. '15 New Church street, ap stairs, Al FURNITURE BARGAINS.—SEE KELTY & CO.'S advertisement. 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