Further accounts
of it are received by every mail. At present we
are unable to trace its extent, in a northern
direction (east of the mountains) beyond the city of
Washington, we find however, that on this side, it has
been felt in much higher latitudes. In our last
notice such information as had reached us by the
preceding mails. But since then several shocks
have been experienced in this town; indeed, there was
not a day for three weeks together in which one or
more were not perceived. — The Pittsburg Mercury, in
speaking of the phenomenon, as felt in different
places, has this observation; ‘but there is one thing
more curious (or at least more uncommon) that the
earthquake which is not mentioned in the papers of
other towns — it is the light that was perceived at
the time of the concussion.’ Now this light was
visible to some in Cincinnati, and likewise at
Knoxville, Tennessee where, it is said, ‘at the end of
the first & longest shock there were in a
direction due north, two flashes of light (an interval
of about a minute between them) much resembling
distant lightning.’ At Nashville
(Tenn.) the same earthquake was felt, succeeded,
within a few minutes of the first shock, by a
‘rumbling noise, like the rolling of a heavy body over
the floor of an adjacent room.’ It is stated to
have lasted between 5 and 6 minutes. Another
shock (says the same account) ‘did some injury, such
as displacing and knocking the tops off chimneys and
several houses were moved several inches.’ We
suppose the writer meant to say, the houses were rocked.
— From Vincennes
(I T) we learn that repeated shocks happened there on
different days by which ‘two or three brick chimnies
were cracked, and the roofs of several house
thrown off — so says this account! — By the
Pittsburgh Gazette it appears convulsions were
perceived at the same time far up the Allegheny River
at Meadville and Waterford, where three smart shocks
were felt on the 16th and 17th ult. —
Having now before
us some particulars of the earthquake, as felt at Marietta,
we shall barely notice as a fact corroborative of
various other statement, that by some an explosion was
heard, resembling the noise made by emptying loads of
small stones, or that of a carriage in rapid motion
on pavement. — Concussions were also felt at
Clarksburg, Va. But the account of them is too meager
to merit particular notice. We are yet
disappointed in hearing from the Missouri.
