Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-10-07

q scene Of destruction. The storm ex'.
perienesd on the night Of the 18th has
ruined this section Of the ceun'ry. The
destruction Of property is immense and
many lives lost.
Extract of another letter same date
ITO attempt to describe the effect OF
the gale with US, would be undertaking
a task which an, bold to cay no man
can do Justice TO. ! will not pretend TO
say any thing of it further than that il
has been with Us and has passed, desc.
latipg and making bare every thing in
its passage. The damage to property
10 beyond calculation, the loss of lives
immense suppose in our country not
short of one hundred persons have been
destroyed, some Of the most heart.
rending and melancholy cases-whoie
families separated and crushed amid
the ruins of tho buildings, or drowned
in the water thrown up from the sea-
| look upon il as death to oil our pros
poets. | do not know what is to be-
come of the country Georgian.
WASHINGTON, Oct. +.-The Board
Of Engineers of Internal improvement,
we understand, have fn'shed the exam
ination of the routes to connect the AL
leghsny and Susquehannah rivers, IN
conjunction with the commissioners OF
the State of Pennsylvania, Colonei ia.
cob Holgate and Mr.. james Clark.
On the western side Of the Allesha.
nv mountain, the board, with the Conn
missioners, assembled the valley of the
Allegheny river to Freeport, the valley
of the kiskimi mtas, Of the Conemaugh,
aod of the little Consmaugh, as far as
it heads.
On the eastern side of the Allegheny
mountains, they descended the valley
of BIair's Gap run, Frankstown branch,
the Juniata. and the Susquehannah, to
Harrisburg.
The best adapted summit level. ap.
pears to be, from the little Cone.
maugh to Blair's Gap run: as tho.e
streams are considered mnst convent
emily situated to pass, in that quarter,
from the western to the eastern side of
the Allegheny ridge, AT this place.
both deep cutting and tunnel will be
necessary; the former may, probably.
require two and half miles on the
west eide, aud one mile on the east, say
thirty.six feet deep; the tunnel, it is ap-
pretended. will not be less than four
miles in length. Joarna.
We found the other day, the follow
ing remarkable account Of the feats OF "a
spider, which though it was not voucb-
ed for by any signature, and though
tho handwriting was not known. we
concluded to insert. If it be true, it is
certainly worth notice. A spider is the
most ingenious rope. maker, the adven-
tuross sailor, the boldest fighter, and
the most independent proprietor Of his
own possessions, that we ever saw or
heard Of. Such mischeivous industry
and such venomous perseverance, 10
hardly to be matched BY any animal
from q mammoth TO bedbug.
Conn. Mirror.
One day last week, the workmen in
Mr.. Peck's machine factory, in South
ingsOn, discovered under one of the
work benches q black snake, of The
white throat species, and about six in.
ches long, suspended by the web of g
spider. The spider was Of the common
house sort, and not uncommonly large.
When first discovered, the little insect
had raised his victim about halls foot
from the floor, and had him hung by
single thread. The ingenuity and pow.
et of the spider were truly wonderful.
Passing rapidly down upon his line, he
would fssten his cordage around the
neck of the snake, pass back to his own
rest on the under surface of the bench.
then going again down, scast hitch
around the tail, and returning to his
pest would avail himself of the contor-
lions Of the snake, alternately hauling
up his lines 50 as to bring bis game
nearer home. In this manner he con.
tinusd until evening, leaving the snake
alive, but 80 completely exhausted and
secured as to be safe for the night; in
the morning be was dead.
MARYLAND.
WASHINGTON, Oct. give have as yet
only vsry martial yeturns nf the Elections