Litchfield enquirer., 1838-07-12

Mr Strange opposed the amendment He made a strong appeal to the party to rally, contending that they had divided, and been beaten on almost every question in coTlse- quence of those divisions. He said it was now near the close of the session, and the opposition was about to triumph over them. The result presented to his mind, by the vote of yesterday, was very favorable. He hoped the amendment would be defeated. Our position, said he, is already sufficiently dis advantageous. Let us not make it worse by repeating these restrictions.
 MT. Wright was utterly opposed to resto- ring the old deposit system. The amend ment of the Senator from Massachusetts lWebster) would revive it.
 Mir. Webster said the deposit act was now the law of the land. But without his amend 4ment it would not operate equally on all.
 MT. Talmadge made few remarks con- curing in the views taken by MT. Webster.
 MT. Rives wished to establish uniformity among the Banks. He was for repeating that section (and would offer an amendment at the proper time 10 that effecO which re- quired the Banks, in certain cases, to pay interest on Government deposites. He would expunge it.
 Mr. Wright moved to strike out Mir. Web ster's proposition, and insert one which he offered, and which would repeal the whole deposte law, except such sections as applied 10 the distribution of the surplus.
 MT. Clay said there was something manly in this proposition. He was glad it was made. It comes out and proposes that the whole of the public money shall be placed iat the discretion and under the control of the Executive He said it would now be seen whether there was any disposition to have a Legislative control over the peoples money.
 MT. Niles said he was willing to stand on the act of 1799. He was for arresting the in- fuence of the Banks. They were warning against the Government.
 Mir. Sevier said, that the Deposite Bill pro- vided that the public money should be placed in banks for safe keeping. The re- peal of that bill would place it under the control of Executive agents. He should not, therefore, vote forthe repeal.
 Mir. Talmadge spoke at some length. He demonstrated that the Opposite Bill was a favorite measure of the late administration, and brought forward by their friends in Con- gress, of which he was ono. It was intended to limit the exercises of Executive power over the public money, and place it under the safe keeping of the law. That for the same gentleman to advocate its repeal was not only inconsistent, but wrong in principle.
 The debate was continued by MT. Rives, MT. Wright, MT. Clay, MT. Talmadge, MT. Young and others, until near 5 o'clock, when the question was taken on Mir. Wright's pro- position to repealthe Deposite Law, and car ried-Ayes 26: Noes 21.
 The Bill was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. without division.-Ib.
 The JuniatG Deluge, as it may be called, is still the absorbing theme in the Philadelphia RtRfn o<c England they would be rivers,) have since had their flood also. The Bushklin, accord ing to the Easton. Pa.) Whig, rose to tor rent Sunday night, sweeping away three dams, and fences, bridges, sc. in every di- rectioR, emptying distillery yards of their pig pens, and in one instance taking up a stable bodily with three COWS in it, and lan- ding the whole concern safely on an island about 400 yards distant. The Holidays burg Register gives fearful and almost sub lime description of the great inunda:ion which overwhelmed Gaysport, on the Junia- ta on the 18th:
 The clouds which had been floating about the ridges of the Alleghany for some days, dispersed in the early part of that evening, but seem to have collected again, and about midnight visited our country with storm, which for violence and destructive effects. is without u parallel in the recollection of our inhabitants.
 It rained as though the flood gates of the skies had been drawn, and the waters of the great deep were poured out upon our devo- ted country. The scene was terrific. The horizon was blazing with deep red flames of sheeted lightning, and the crashing peals of thunder reverberated in awful grandeur among the mountains. Within the short space of half an hour the torrent had swol- len to such immense volume that Gaysport and its inhabitants must have been involved in one common vortex of destruction, but for the breaches which were fortunately made at several points in the embankment of the rail road, which gave the water space to spread.
 Ono store was crushed to atoms against the viaduct. The water suddenly rose IA feet, reaching above the door up to the 2d stories, and here many fled and were saved. The neighbors at Hollidaysburg, the other side of the river, looked on the frightful torrent, but could not stretch the hand of relief.
 All seemed terror and alarm. Cries and shouts, and exclamations, and ringing of bells. might now and then be heard on the wind. mingled with the roaring of the furi- ous flood, and the crashing of the deep ton- ed thunder. Three persons perished.
 The inhabitants in despair silently looked on the ravages of the raging flood, as it rush. ed and forced in its wild fury, sweeping trees, wharfs, boats, horses and men, in needless and indiscriminate confusion. until about six m the morning,-about that hour the wind shifted to the north, and soon after the rain, which for three or four hours had descended from the North in sheets, abated, and not long after ceased altogether. The flood at fained its greatest height about o'clock in the morning, and very soon began to subside. and fell as rapidly as it had risen.
 The loss of property and houses is not so extensive as might have been imagined from the fury of the flood. The rail road, how ever. is greatly damaged but the travel from