The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

We have r zeeived by the Mediator, Captain Champlin,
Montreal pagers to the Ist, and New York papers to the sth
inst. inclusiv e. The Mediator sailed from New York on the
sth, and arrived off the Mother-hank on the 25th, having
completed the passage in 19 days. ! tinted States Bank
Shares weee, on the sth, at 73. The folbwing are extracts
from the y apers
" NEW YORK, May 28.—From Centrtl America there is
important news. Morazan had been debated, and driven
out of the country. By the last accounts, received a few
days since, he had taken Guatemala, where he was driven
out by General Carrera, and completely roated with his army.
He embarked at Port Libertad on the sth instant, and is now
in retirement at Sousonate. Carrera was in quiet possession
of the government, and everything bore an appearance of
tranquillity.
" Exchange on England is selling brisk:y at 7 to 8, which
may be considered the rate fur the British Queen, which
! sails on Monday. It is stated she has 260 passengers en-
gaged. Five per cent. Tteasury notes of the new emission
have been sold here at par. They will be readily taken at
banks, who have more unemployed capital just now than is
desirable.

" The small-pox is committing great ravages among the
emigrants arriving at Quebec. Nearly every ship that arrived
last week had the disease on board. On board one ship from
Belfast, Ireland, there were 16 deaths and 20 on the sick list."
—New York Courier.

(From our Second Edition of Friday.)
EXTRAORDINARY FLOOD IN THE UNITED

STATES.
The Georgian, of June 3, contains a long account of a great
flood which visited the neighbourhood of Augusta and Ham-
burg.
The rain which fell on Sunday swelled the river Savannah
several feet, and the earth having been completely saturated
by the many rains which had fallen during the last few weeks,
both of its banks were torn up. The Augusta side was swept
clear of its wharfs, only fragments of one or two of them re-
maining. The upper bridge was totally destroyed with the
exception of two piers.
The whole face of the country has been torn up ; bridges
and fences all swept away, gardens and crops destroyed, and
great numbers of cattle and hogs drowned.
The total loss in Hamburg will amount to at least half a
million of dollars.

The damage done to the Georgian railroad would for a time
prevent the carriages coming to the depot.
Not one life was lost in this unparalleled calamity.
The rise in the river was 35 feet above low water mark.
(From the Charleston Courier of May 29.)
The cars from Hamburgh brought intelligence that a ter-
rible freshet had caused a rise in the Savannah river, to such
an extent as completely to submerge the town of Hamburgh.
The two bridges were carried away on Wednesday. There
had been no communication with Augusta after the same
date. The cars frnm Charleston could not reach within two
or three miles of Hamburgh. The rail-road had sustained
considerable injury. Horses, cattle, cotton, and every kind
of goods were floating in all directions. During the night of
Wednesday the cries and supplications of the inhabitants
were heard from the hill, and fears were entertained that
many lives would be lost. Disastrous accounts are looked
for from the plantations below, particularly from the rice
fields above Savannah.
The goods from the stores at Hamburg were floating in all
directions. The water rose in a few hours, on the 27th of
May, nearly 8 feet perpendicular. The scene is described as
most awful. The Savannah river has never been so high
since the Great Yazoo freshet of 179 G.
(From the Augusta Chronicle of May 28.)
The rains which have fallen in the Savannah in the early
' part of this week up to Wednesday, have produced the great-
est rise in the Savannah since 1796, and those of our citizens
who saw that flood say that the body of water is much
greater than at that time. The damage produced on planta-
tions, both above and below this city will be immense,
and the destruction of property incalculable. The grow-
in7 crops have, no doubt, been entirely destroyed.. The
damage done in this city cannot be ascertained for some
days. Our city is now an island, and the waiter on the back
commons is from two to six hundred ywd,s wide, cutting off
all communication with the adiaceok country in every direc-
tion. A six-oared boat Gad Ais without difficulty through
several of our stre.e.ta, Many families have been obliged to
retire to t 4 upper stories of their dwellings, and several
houses have fallen down, having been undermined by the
water.

(From the Augusta Chronicle of May 30.)
The river has continued to rise at a fearful rate. Ton ut-
'.empt a description of a calamity so awful would, be worse
,han vain. About 12 o'clock on Wedneskt night the city
was completely submerged, and the river continuing to rise.
The scene was a painful oy,c. Many families were still in
their houses, entiTcly surrounde[l by a current to them im-
passable without aid, and the water makes rapid inroads
upon them. From this fearful and alarming situation they
were relieved by boats and horsemen, not, however, in
some instances, until they were up to their necks in water.
When the day dawned our city appeared as if standing intlke.
midst of a vast sea of water, which extended as Ps as the eye
could reach from the highest eminence, Boats capable of
carrying forty bales of eottan were floating through the streets.
Our beautiful Broad-street was two to ten feet deep. This
morning the water has fallen so as not to flood the city, ex-
cept in one or two instances.
The destruction of private property is great ; many wooden
buildings have been entirely swept away, and several brick
buildings have fallen. The cellars are nearly all filled with
water.

(From the Charleston Patriot.of 11$(134 *..);
The Columbia canal of seyeß rn*.s. ku.ppoyseil
to be entirely degypyciti! 411 th.e, large.*ntations below us,
are covipre4 wit.h water., anclOie elo,ppa tamed. col. namß,-,
ton's large plauWion,. which is the highest of any on the. Kt-
ver, is One sheet of water ; the aeitructio4 must be imlnense..
Cotton Wbich. had been. stowed on kigh ground was floating
down the canal.