The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-19
,RESIET.


The heavy rains ofas week swelled all the streams
in this neighborhood to unusual height. Nearly
all the bridges have been either washed away or so
damaged to render them mpassable IN consequence
of which two mails from Nashville now in arrears.
Wolfriver is said to have been higher on Saturday
than she has been at any previous time for ten years
AT Raleigh we are informed by Col. Mason, the bot
tom land extending from his residence to the river,
sub merged to the depth of 10 or II feet carrying
away the abument of the bridge, on this side, ms
fences, a haystack, &c. The bridge crossing Wolf,
two miles from Memphis the Randolph road, we
informed, was entirely swept away on Friday
night, producingi in lis passage down degree OF con-
sternaon and loss ofproperty among the flat boats
quartered at its juncture with the Mississippi,
equaed by any thing that has ever occurred at this
place. We have made many inquiries with view OF
ascertainng the probable of damage sustained
but without being able to arrive at any hing like an
accurate conclusion. 1t is knnwn that there were
from 80 TO 40 boats lying that point the evening
preceding, and that but six eight of that number
are now remaining at the landing, the balance having
been broken loose and drifted down the current or
were almost instantly eapszed by the floating tlmbers
from the bridge and entirely destroyed with all their
contents. Several are known to have suffered the
latter fate but what number have OF as
certaining The loss Of life is involved in equal un-
certainty.
| THE article appended below from the New York
Sun, speaks the sentiments Of the President in re-
lation to the "Tyer Party, The party raliying
around the President is the Administration party,
party having in view the good Of NE country, and
not formed for the special benefit ofan individual The
President looks to poSterity for personal perty--a
party that will do full justice to his motives and acts.
While living he can only desire to see the measures
he recommends approved and adopted for the sake OF
his country and for this purpose the Administration
| party is instituted and it will be riumphant.]
PRESIDENT Tyler
| Gle would not hattcr Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for his power to thunder
| The present Chief Magistrate of the nation occu
pies position regards political parties altogether
| original He is the first President who has sooc
alone and Independent ofthe two great parties that
fercely struggling for ascendancy in the country
Dsdaining to fatter the one, submit to the bully
ing threats OF the other, he boldly and voluntarily
| chose his own position between them both. The i'm
mediate consequences are such must have beer
| foreseen by him. lie is neglected side, ant
| bitterly reved the other Notwithstanding al
this we are inclined to believe that his course will
hereafter be looked upon of the most crafty
ing passages in history II will be referred to
conclusive proof that the country is not ruled b,
faction-that our public not all slaves of part
| spirit-and that American statesmen have noby re
solved under the most trying circumstances, to seve
all party ties and sacrifice every prospect of crsona
benefit rather than swerve single hairs bi ead
from the line ofduy and the path marked out ioi then
in the Constitution