Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-09-19

city, i'll letter dated Terre Haute, s1ih of An.
gus'. Mr.. Blake admits that he received doci-
nen support from many OF the friends Of General
Jack on Yet such was the sense OF duty on the
part OF majority of his constituents that Col.
Boone, who had been spoken of as the Jackson
Candidate Tor Governor, consented 20 become a
candidate III opposition to him. TJpGsh. I'c!.
Boone has majority OF 70or SO votes.
Mime cote not IOsii
20 lar as we Ia he tri, the fed raj ticket has
almost every where prevailed. We shall. publish
the official returns hereafter Tor future reference.
III t'is county the federal ticket has allied by
SINAI majority. The OF Minot, Bridstc1 Har-
rison, Oustleld Baldwin and Sebago in this county
40 nat belong to oar electoral district These towns
! AT inc present election have given majority Of
oettceen ftco and three hundred uOtcs against the
republican ticket. We no,c consider IL as about
cef0m That Cumberland tciH choose a Jackson
efs'T. Portland Argus IF !Spt. II.
GREAT FRESH. The late rains have done
| We extensive injury in the North and New Eng
Land States The Lenox (Mass.) Star s. Republi-
can says:
| Our meadows were covered with water on Fri
DAY last, IN consequence OF an immense quantity
OF rain that tell on THURSDAY and THURSDAY night
The water was so high in W'esttied river as To
aetain the mail several hours. Some damage
has been done. but we have not heard tn, extent
From The Daily Advertiser.]
FURTHER Port'cu'ars IF Damages caused by the
mentions tar the rain OF Thursday night of las,
week was no abundant AMI violent than at any
other PERIOD OF tie storm. Mil River which flows
through HE village, land which had dwindie
down to placid rill during the dry weather. was
sweiied 10 broad, deep s. irpetucus stream over
| flowing It's banks, and covering the road north OF
the bridge to the depth Of three feet--The ruins
iiohng on Its suilace Indicated that exsensNe raw
age had OeeD occa-ioncd 10y lis waters Que Of
son ple's erecting i'll this river for TIA, support Of
the Hampshire and Hanpden canal aqucduct was
considerably scatiercd.-About three miles west OF
the village, the dam connected with the oil. mill
o. hessrs White u Thompson carried away:
the room under the mill laid OPEN and bety zen
two and three hundred gallons OF oil were destroy
ed Al the Factory Village Qately Shepherd'sl
one story house was undermined, partly removed
from tS site and 'el; in leaning posture; bridge
was almost ruined, and some damage was done to
the new factory, the canal leading 10 it, and to 9th
Sr property"
On the upper parts of the stream, in Lower vii
hams5urg &c. seve al bridges were torn awav
wiki fences, SC. meadows overlooked, crops de.
stroyed, and several dwellings were surrounded
with water from which the habitants were o.
bilged TO escape in the night by watin..
The Connecticut continued to rise at Norhamp-
ton, until 10 or II O'Clock Sunday morning
when It's surface was within six feet OF the lower
moers oil the bridge, and niue from the plank floor
ing, being twenty-one feet from the common
height large part of Hadley meadow was O.
veriiown. More than 5000 acres OF the Norhamp-
'o'' 'hc"uo"s were un6cr water, with their crops
OF corn grass and potatoes That part of them
called the South Meadows, which contains abou.
2oO acres, appeared like lake, quite from the
edge oil the meadow South street TO Mount
ON broken only by the tops OF trees, stalks,
sc. &c. Two houses, recently erected were
surrounded: and al.er the water had remained a,
lis ieigh for sixteen eighteen hours, il began
to suhs,de, falling three feet Sunday, and three
| more on Monday. In some places il had been ten
feel deep. From 1000 to 1900 acres of corn and
! yar and H. 81.
r"wen, Ule second crop of grass.) Perhaps 5000
i",heis oil potatoes spoiled, and - 900 bushels
OF corn more or less injured. The grass may he
used as manure only: buta thick, rich sediment
deposited by the flood, will make amends Tor the
| loss Oh hay, by enriching the land.
| For two days, the river was strcwn with lloai
ing logs, boards, ruins Of mills bridges fences and
dains; hay, pumpkins, apples, sc. &C. part of
! bridge nearly 100 feet long, was towed ashore.
The great spring freshet in 1901 was two feet
higher in the meadows than tl,is; but the oldest ~
ha',ltans in the town. do rot rccocct one so high
as the later, when the crops were Oh the ground.
1t Is said that Mill River has not been so high IN
the western part OF the town for half a century.
Other losses were sustained in the town; and
. s1ockanlim ami Hatfield meadow were Oyeriiown
| In Amherst, Belchcitown, ieveret, Greenfield
south iiady, &c dams, bridges &c. were iniu-
red or destroyed; and there were similar reports
| from different quarters.
The Bellows Falls (ytJ futc!ligcDcer states
that the bridge the Connecticut at Westmore-
I ilnh, was swept away, and that the one in that
village was threatened. On Saxion's river there
were three bridges swept away, besides brick
factory ADD saw-mill.
The Springfield (Mass.J papers, mention that
the storm ro.ed the small streams and Connecticu;
River to height not before known for many years;
some Old persons do not recoiiect such flood since
The year 1911 IL is also out Of season for fresh
ct. On Saturday morning last, the river was at
least twenty feet above low water mark Tie
consequence Is, that immense puanuuGs OF pOta-
toes, co.J, sc. have been destroyed in the mea-
dows, W. have heard Of damage dOne 70 the
Harrington and Enfield canals but cannot learn
10 what extent. II must, however, I've considera-
bic. The impossible state OF the roads, occasion
ed by The loss OF bridges, sc. has delayed the ar
rivai oi the mails at this place from six 10 ten
| hours The bridge across Connecticut River, Of
Montague, we understand Is carried away"
Extract OF letter dated Hartford, Sept. H. 1928.
" We have had more violent fool IN this
vicinity than has been known here since the wear
! 1901. All the lands the Connecticut river and
| its tributary streams have been overlooked, and
the crops on them mostly ruined bridges carried
away, the improvements in the navigation OF the
Connecticut river al Enfield very much injured
The Harrington canal u said to have beeu exten
siveiy Affected. In travelling this frsriug be 10
! tween THIS place and Sprin. field we iourd the
roads some what worse fer tie Storm though
by no means 50 rough as VIC lad expected"
! From Ms BpFaio Jol,ry,ci Scpl. ..
fo'p9rt0Ht Army .N0pemc1its.--3 G understand
that Fort Niagara is immediately TO be garrisoucd
by four companies ofthc second regiment al Uni
ted states Infantry; and report says thattiis tort
will be made the head quarters Of the frontier line
I oi posts ~ the Detroit papers, we are ipl9gncd
OF several new arrangements iuads by the " ar
! Department arous which are TIE re-occupJncy
! Of For, Dearborn, (Chicego,) and Fort Grahoi.-
Eut the most iurOrfaut MEASURE Of tn. J.