The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1822-10-23
OCTHtkN GALE.

SoD n chN YALE.
NEW YoRk, Oct. IS.
BY the President, arrived OF, thi. ci,y ca
Sunday, Charleston papers Of the 7th and s,h
instant were received. No mail had reached
Charleston from The northwar Of q cor se town
since The storm. A mail from Georgetown
arrived at Charleston on the z n, Ind Brought
a letter from The Contractor, dared at The 81
Mile House, 8 Ii lost. stating rs follows
The driver arrived FROM Pee Dee ON Sat.
urday q, Georgetown without q mail. lie
says that tho driver who went on with IN.
mail Cn Saturday, The 23h Of Sep,ember, hss
never been heard o!--and that the c has bean
no con- muoics'ion between Pee Dee and Fsy-r
etvihe since the siorR--ss tho road beyond
Pee Dee was wo'se there than on this side.
the stotm was very violent III that direction.
II will be TWO weeks get before The roads will
be clesred--'bey will begin 10 so,k IN tEis
neighbo'hood to'mor'ow, but in Chrhs
Church they canno, be cleared DC fore The iA h
inst"
The Post Master OF Charleston has given
notice that 90 mails wsli be dispatched for the
North oo the usasi root OF prescn', thinking
them safer there tban exposed on the wsy.
Lerets were TO be forwarded ,uicc a ws.k
by The route or 'he upper read.
Extract of letter from n. sancse.
The loss OF lives oa the river, as far %
has come within my knowledge, is, OF the es.
ts.e "i Ford, | Root. llugsias, 3; &. Hug.
g'ns, 2s ; Z. {. Pipckney 4 Mira. Horny, as;
MIR. Hume. 23 /; EI'. Henry Des. 8; NJ.
Middleton 8; Mr. Lynch lo,ry 4, and .
whites Wet This evening, while at Sou'h
River, n ocmter Of The hampton pe 5roes re
,ur ming from Mufphy's Island, who tot me
Thar they naH been dawn and bctied IS e
Mcs. Flo, 80 negroes
A letter from Combahee, OF the So,h oil.
'5kes no notice what. OF the late gale, b.,t
np~o,i"ns that they were busiy engaged III
ha,vesliDc.
FROM C",7drn, Der. 9 -" We have Rad
very destructive heshet end many of our
friends have suffered severely. Much corn
and cotton !. lost. The river i. now within
its banks. Between this and Pee Dee he
gale has been severe ihe fosd is so Ubs,, ur-
ted by trees that the s,ege has not bern able
20 &c, along snd We have now iwo IN all, du ,
from the north"
The late gale was not fe!, a, Washington,
NC.
An unprecedented freshe, was experienced
on the 9Th and Ssh ul,. by the inhabitants
Of the north cod south forks Of S,sun,on R,v.
es, lVir.) A psper of the 2YCh give, The fci-
lowing smoog c,be- particulars:
" The view ct women and children, and
men, shrieking eco crying. leaving their hou-
ses and properly 10 the reeistItss torrent, and
seek king ,eioge oD some emlnence in tho
mcun,sins, was calculated to prodoce tbs
mos, painful sensations. No pen can describe
il a! The tide, however, began 10 abate sboat
o'clock, PM the ash, aud by the mo, ming
OF the present doy tho farmer had presented
to hrs view, his lids IF corn, hemp and grain
Of every kind, one general waste, (unproiee,-
cd by fenccs.) with heart truly of sadGess
and despair one nsishto-, too seriously az
fec,ed (smos) 20 tell his fellow NEG hbors
bis situation. The consequences ere serious,
and swf1l-mii., nil, dams and dwelling
houses have shared the common io,."
from the Nalioaal intelligence of Oct II.
By q gentleman HON Msion c. Il. we
Learn that one Of his neighbo's VITO had te-
tuned from Gsofge,own to Marion {. RI. hy
water since the .torm, did not see . house
stsnd,os on the banks Of be river such had
been the destruction on the rice plantations.
Such Rad been The universal piosita,ion of
trees on wooded land, that conmupica, a,inn
We. ,o,sliy CD, OF by the roads, and sirost
entirely so between even Contiguous pisp,s.
iioos. Upwards OF thirty mtn employed ~
endesvos,cy TO clear the rosd OF ioips psdiments,
he'd, 10 several dsys, not been sbie ~ msk.
gtesier progress than . mile PEI day. Toe
rosds indeed wese sin,o., ob,i,c.ssed, md ut.
6cuk 20 be tounc. a sIoul msn with an ca