The Earthquakes in America.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1882, 10 September 1886, Page 3

The Earthquakes in America.

Virginia, North aid South Carolina and Georgia, iba States which teem to have ■offered moat from the severe earthquake, ate inelnded among what are known at the Atlanta State* of the American Onion, and are renowned ae the too net of some of the fiercest straggles of the Great American Ciril War of 1861-3. Their united area it about 161,000 square miles. The population of the four states is about fire and a half millions, that of South Carolina, which seems to hare suffered the most severely from the earthquake, being about one million. Charleston, thiee fourths of which the telegrams state to have been destroyed, is one of the principal in the State, the eepitel, however, being Colombia. Charleston is situated on the fork of the Cooper and Ashley rivers, about seven miles from the sea. The city was founded in 1672, and its present population is upwards of 30,000 souls. It is the seat of a large trade, especially in the exportation of cotton and rice. Summerville, which is also stated to have been nearly destroyed, is situated on the Charleston and Augusta railroad, about If miles in a north westerly direction from the former eity. In Virginia the earthquakes seems to have manifested great violence at Richmond, the capital of the State, and the capital also of the Confederate States daring the civil war. It is situated on the left bank of the James River, 130 miles from its month. Richmond is a more modern city than Charleston, having been founded in 1712. The popula tan is eboat 63,000. It is (be seat of eiten■ve trade and manufactures, the principal •rtielee cl npoit being tobacco and floor. Both Richmond and Charlestown suffered Mwniy horn the ravage* of war in 1865, bat hev* now leeovcred from the injuries to their praspsiity then inflicted.