American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-02-01

:, n those OYER canals, We're destroyed or seri.
III, damaged. Boats laden with provisions and
soJs ,y.rc carried over the quays and wrecked even
III the heart of the city.
rho new nier prepared for the bridge OF the sum.
~ Garden which had been finished at a great ex-
nsnse. was thrown down and the garden laid waste,
trees even having been torn up by the roots.
All The cattle in the markets OF ST. Pctersburgh
yere drowned and the horses could only be saved BY
h;Ginp them by main force to the first stories OF the
Ehouses.
A letter from ST. Peersburgh states, that the ell
&c The hurricane was awfuliy felt at Catharencof,
where nothing remained but the fragments of some
Country houses, from which the inhabitants escaped
&vith great difficulty. Many persons in that town
Most their lives.
4 Il i said that nearly fifty thousand families have
h frered by the OVERLOOKING OF the rivers IN Germa-
4 Through whole districts the waters swept off
VERY description OF property and all their little far
&n;np stock. The sufferers have appealed to the
British nation for relief.
a letter from ST. Petersburg OF the Goth Nov.
SAYS the principal scene OF distress was at the
tImneriaI Foundry. on the Petterhoff road.-The
works were stopped, and the men ordered to go to
IN assistance of their families. 1t was impossible
10 reach them, and they only enabled TO save
themselves by regaining the roof OF the works,
from whence they had the misery CT seeing their
houses, with their wives and children, carried away
H. The nood-106 ladies' have been found and 81
men have been missing. The Botanic Garden, en-
<riched with plants from every part OF the world,
was destroyed-the principal director, Dr. Fischer,
saved himself in the garnet OF his house.
observation-disclosures from st. Petersburg state that
#larpe subscriptions continue to be received Tor the
#suaerers BY the inundaton. The Emperor has al
ready given million of rubles, the Empress Maria,
the Commercial fund OF the Colonies, one
&milon Count ScheremeieH. $4,000; nj Meche-
Def. $4,000. The Prince of Orange has given Co.
#O0O rubles the young Count Scheremctjen, 10000;
IN great many officers of the Guards S, s. or 10000;
@ahe clergy too have subscribed very largely
n In November several shocks OF an earthquake
were felt at Niberg and Odensee, in Denmark, an
event Of very rare occurrence in that country
81 Professor Gruithuison, OF Munich, attempts to
account for the extraordinary weather, by new spots
Non the disk Of the sun.
n Private letters received here from Hamburger,
#Amsterdann sc. confirm the particulars OF most
eadru calamity at ST. Petersburgh and other places
8n the no tn of Europe by an extraordinary swell oil
the sea, and represent that the damages have been
bncalcuabe Subscriptions for the Sufferers at St.
@etersburgh, were opened at Paris
M Some of the great astronomers Of Europe, attri-
butte the phenomena of the extraordinary seasons,
Is he numerous tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes
Be- recently experienced in various parts OF the
vord, to the present approximation OF the Moon tc
8he Earth, which, they state, is nearer than u mas
approached for 300 years. They add that the Moon
will not commence retrograde course tor some
on,hs TO come and that it will not again attain its
present proximity to the Earth for several centuries
# ". Z. .Ner. .1dr.