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THE EARTHQUAKES AT PoPAYAN.
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Translated for the Ne,o Fork Daily .aapertiser.
Extract Of private Letter. dated in November,
1927 On the 10th of the present month. one
of the strongest earthquakes ever known in South
America, was experienced in this city. Its motion
was undula,ing, in the direction of south west and
north east; and it lasted three or four minutes.
From precisely O'clock in the evening, the earth
continued in constant convulsion, interrupted ev
cry 40 or so minutes by shocks, more less volent
AT 8 in the morning. there shock so powerful
that, in the opinion OF some, it equal to that
which was felt in Bngota on the 18th June, 1895


The light shocks. however, still continued, with |
out ntermlssion, until quarter before twelve when
we had a more formidable one than any preceding, |
which produced the greatest destruction. The rv
er Cauca afterwards turned into channel new
er known before, which increased the terror of the
inhabitants, ,who had fed in fear from the ruins Of
their houses to take refuge in the small buildings
scattered along the river banks. Women and chill
dren, old people and persons OF all classes, fled pre-
cipitately to the tops OF the neighbourlng hills, to
save from the water those lives which had been Just
rescued from the fury Of the earthquake.


At this moment, another shock was perceived,
which altho less Violent was sufficient to increase
the universal CONSERVATION. At one O'Clock in the
lay, the Cauca began to fall but the trembling of
the earth continued until the third day. interrupted
only by the occurrence Of more violent shocks. one
Of which occurred at five in the evening of the day
above mentioned the l7h and the other at half past
four in the morning uf the 9Th.


La an article on the folly and the probable effects
of party violence, the Georgia Courier makes the
following sensible remarks:


'.Rest assured the temple of our liberty, founded
in the intelligence, and supported by the affection
Of the People is not to be shaken by petty blasts
And when the tempest comes which may be dread
ed, it will not blow from the quarter to which Ger
tain party politicians now look for their pprtenou
dangers. The General Government is aUeok. com


pared to the States, and of its organization, the Ez
ecutlve Department is the eebest branch Let VIII
will be President of the United States, his amb
tious views are opposed by barriers which lie cam,
transcend No, the tempest which is to number
with Tyre, Palmyra Greece, and Rome and q,
us an existence only in the ever-during page Of Iii


tory, will be raised by the States Here all the da


ger lies. So it was viewed BY the wisest of tho


who remedied the evils of the old Confederation


the formation of present consuton--so it h


been viewed by our greatest men, from that tin


to this and, we need not add, what is but too a


parent, that the truth Of this assertion is fearful


Illustrated in the present seditous and disorsan


ing doctrines Of several members ofthe Conlede,


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