+----------------------------------------------------------------+ |End of each Week| 1st | 2d | 3d | 4th | 5th | 6th Rate.| Total. | |----------------|-----|----|----|-----|-----|----------|--------| | December 22 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 66 | 87 | | " 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 150 | 156 | | January 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 119 | 134 | | " 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 150 | 161 | | " 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 55 | 65 | | " 26 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 78 | 91 | | February 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 191 | 209 | | " 9 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 140 | 175 | | " 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 65 | 86 | | " 23 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 278 | 292 | | March 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 126 | 139 | | " 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 39 | 58 | | " 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 210 | 221 | |----------------|-----|----|----|-----|-----|----------|--------| | Total | 8 | 10 | 35 | 65 | 89 | 1667 | 1874 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ The good effect which, as before mentioned, was produced upon the morals of the town by this succession of dangers does not seem to have been of permanent value if we may credit a writer in the Bedford Pa. Gazette, in the year 1814, who makes himself very merry over what he is pleased to term the "devout paroxisms" of the good citizens of this place, as will appear by the following communication. He says: "At Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, a town about four times as large as Bedford, they have no church. When the earthquake gave them the first shock, they grew very devout in one night; and on the next day with long faces, they subscribed a thousand dollars to build a house of public worship. Thus the matter rested until the second shock came, when another devout paroxism produced another thousand dollars. It rested again till a third earthquake and devout fit produced another subscription to the same amount. There was no more of the matter. The earthquake did not return, and the Louisvillians concluded the devil would not send for them for a few years more, and in the mean time determined to be merry. They immediately built a theater, which cost them seven thousand dollars, and employed a company of actors, the offscourings of maratime city theaters. To this company they gave about five hundred dollars per week, till at length the actors, instead of raising the curtain, broke through it and broke each other's heads with sticks, and the heads of some of the auditors who interfered. The earthquakes have lately begun to shake Louisville again, but whether they laugh or pray I have not heard."