Litchfield enquirer., 1842-07-28
GREAT FREsrEr IN THE JAMES RIVER.

We learn from the Richmond papers that a great trshct occurred in the James River at Richmond, on Friday last. The water was four inches higher than it has been for up- wards of forty years. The cellars on Main street, for some distance on each side of Mar kct bridge were filled with water, but little damage was sustained.
 under water. The damage to Mayo's bridge was considcrnble.-Ha,t.C Courant.
 The Richmond Compiler states that losses amounting to a million of dollars arc already heard from.
 The Richmond Whig has tho following postscript :-Thc Lynchburg mail due Satur. day arrived last evening. It brought neither letters nor papers, but we learn from the driver, that generally the destruction from the upper end of Buckingham to Iynchburg, and south to Dan River is as great as our wors, fears portended. All tho crops on the tributaries of the Appomattox md the James arc swcpt-as are also the bridges, mill-dams, &c. The canal near Lynchburg is wreck. Never was so great fall of water in so short a time (some 10 hours) known.
 It is reported that numerous very bad breaches have been made in the canal above Columbia-in some places, the locks as well as the embankment being swept away. The line of tie canal in great many places was flooded from tho river.
 U' There was tho other day at ono of the principal hotels of Boston, tailor from the state of Maine, who was in pursuit of his wife, who, he said, had cloped about n week since, with a young Englishman who had been in his employ. This we think is car rying the cabbage business "leetle to far"
 N Y. Sun.
 WASHINGTON, July ls.
 There is much anxiety here of course 10 learn what will be the fate of the Revenue Bill when it passes the two Houses ot Con- gress. No one can speak positively for the President. His hostility to the Land bill is of course we'll known, but it is very doubtful whether, when Congress insists, the Presi- dent will not recedc upon question of mere expediercy, and consent to throw inc chan ces of repeating the Land bill into the next Congress- Many intelligent men believe there will be no veto. The omission of the peculiar friends of the President to take part in the depatc upon the Revenue bill, was in- dicative of the same result. Mir. Cushing, too, much the the ablest defender of the Pre- sident, voted for the bill. So did M. Irwin, of Penn. Two of the so-called guard" 1t is true, Messrs. Gilmer and Mallory, voted
  those gentlemen were never more than ab- straction, transcende,aGl Wings, and who are not more than the distance of the hundredth part of hair from unsophisticated Loco Fo- coism. MT. Mallory would go clean over ii the Loco Foco party would receive him, and Mir. Gilmer, believe, has all the zeal of "new disciple" in tho hope of being can didate of that party tor reelection. If, there fore, the votes of the party mean any thing, they are ominous of good. and so indeed of ali the signs of the day. Should coming events cast their shadows before, we may vet have the Revenue bill and the Land bill saved.
 If not, the eaec; will be the distribution without fail, for that is the law of tho land, and either DO revenue at all. or as much re- venue us may be collected by an imposition of duties at twenty per cent. Congress will not butge au inch, but throw tho Tesponsi5l. li'y upon ,he ExcCui've.-N- Y ErPyes'