New-York tribune., 1842-02-08
m ADVANCE OF THE MAIL.

! Usher Of The New W oIlc, VINO esH!e o"" u -!
n. rnboat Telegraph last night from trip 70
,hc interior Of the Stap, for the following items Of
;n,.ycnc1. which VIZ have made room for at u
yery la,e hour. Owing to the boat having broken
her wheel coming down she did not arrive in the
| city til l2 o'clock:
GREAT FREsHET IL THE MogAwK.-Ow;ng to
continued and heavy rains in the middle aud
northern portions of the State on Wednesday,.
Thursday and Friday nights the Mohawk and is
tributaries were swollen to an unprecedented nigh:
on F,-day, AID in its course carried avyay grea;
number Of bridges both across The Mohawk and
the streams crossed by tie railroad which almost
entirely suspended travel :or two da:s,
The passengers vino left Syracuse on Sunda!y
morning found no obstruction Until they reached
Utica, although the streams were ali unusually
high, and most Of the road had been under water.
At Utica they found stages in readiness 10 take
them East, the railroad bridge three miles bclo.
having been carried away. The roads were terri
bis cut up and the stages had TO ford several
streams before reaching Hcrkimcr where they
found the bridges ovcr the Wcs. Canada creek all
gone Below Herkimcr, after crossing the creek,
the stages met an upward train which had come
up from the break in the road above ST. Johns
vile. and an exchange of conveyance was made.
On arriving at the East Canada creek, the most
striking evidences of the ravages OF the flood were
the demolition of the railroad bridge and the in
Vulnerable masses OF ice stro"n Owe! the meadows
and high up on the bunks. Here the passengers
t-,l,
each carving his own baggage for nearly TIVE
nilcs. following the track and crossing over the
turbulent creek the string pieces OF Il remaining
bridge and paaks across the abrtments OF another:
There we're several ladies among them, who GER
tainv deserved great praise for their resolution
and courage.
Here was waiting the train which left Schcncc-
,ady at II p. NJ. on Saturday which took up the
passengers at 6 o'clock, 7. NJ, and brought them
through at 10 o'clock. The waters had fallen
submerged.
a; Little FAILS papcrmill carried away,
and portion Of . large stone factory knocked out
bv the ice. At Fort Plain and Amsterdam the
bridges the Mohawk are gone, und it was
said at Schenectady on Sunday night ,hattwo men
had been carried down on the ice, and o.t. An
immense amount of wood, lumber. fences, &c.
were carried down stream, and the valley of the
Mohawk for miles was covered TO u great depth.
The riYcr rose twenty feet above the ordinary
level
FIRE AT SKAXEArELEs-A large fire took place
in the village Of Skanca,ccs, Onondagu County,
on FRIDAY night last. 1t broke out in q wooden
building connected with the woolcn factory of Mr..
Kellogg, and communicated with ;hc principal
cdihcc. (. large brick building, which. together
with the extensive Touring mill adjoining was to-
iallv cons,lmed.. The loss is estimated at $50
600. on which was an insurance of 100000. This
severe loss to this beautiful village as wr n.
to the proprctors Of the factory and mill, in the
furmcrof which one hundred hands wcrccmplovcd.
Mr.. Kellogg was abscn, in this cityat the time Of
the fire.
THusDER-SToRM.-Atre tremendous stormoft thun-
der and lightning occurred in Syracuse and the
adjoining towns on Friday night, with heavy and
continued rain We note this as Il rather un,ltual
exhibition, and as showing the remarkable charac-
ter of our present winter.
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70 We disappointed in the selection Of
Attorney General GEORGE F. BARKER of Buffalo,
who is pretty much SUCH a Loco-Foco as Nicholas
Bid,llc would be if his interest Law that way, has
secured the nomination, though Morr;5 and Boards
les pressed him pretty close ntwo ballots. Pack
cr was no where. All the other candidates for
State Officers have have been taken a. we had
them on our slate.
10 The Office of Commissary General has
fallen to Gen. Henry STORMS, though Jonathan
d. .Stercnson was ahead on the two first ballots.
Our friend J sMEs CONNER, who deserved most Of
his party, had over twenty promises and obtained
seren votes Put not Your trust in princes
q The defeat of Mayor Morris for Attorney
Gcgcral and Stevenson for Commissary General
shows the estimation in which the pipc-layins ;
conspi,.ltors are held nt Albany. The Regency
Members of the Legislature deserve thanks for
their consideration in not surrounding Gov SEW
Al,D with these, his wan,on and atrocious de-
farmers.
u w. have received several communications, both for
anu against rev MI ciloultS LtctuIe- We s'e idse
the following note, which all upon this subject for which
afford room. Our columns not the appropriate
channel for controversy of this kind.
Monday afternoon.
Mr.. EDITOR: Your correspondent . Coun-
banus has seen fit to call in question the accuracy
of my representations respecting the massacre at
Paris in 1872
All who heard me know that cautiously ab-
stained from, unkind remarks, and especially dis