Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-07-21
DESTRUCTIVE FRESH.


1--WE regret to learn that there was very
serious and destructive fresh, produced by the
heavy rains which fell last week. in tho upper
part Of this Valley, and West of US, beyond tho
mountains. We have as yet, however, few par.
,icdars, but will give such as have reached rs.
The Bridge over the James river at buchanan.
we learn, was entirely swept away, the town
inundated, and great damage done to the low
grounds along the river, in the destruction Of
crops and fences and the washing away of the
soil. The loss Of Chas. b. Penn, esq. VIC have
heard spoken Of as being very heavy, whose lands
were swept for distance Of near two miles Of
every thing upon them, including his grain in
the shock. Ii is said the water rose higher than
was ever known there before.
The injury done along the waterscourses in
Rockbridge we understand has likewise been We.
ry serious.
We had very heavy rain hero on Wednesday
evening, but il did no serious injury.
A letter from the Warm Springs, to a gentle.
man Of this place, gives the following account Of
the destruction caused by the flood in that quar-.
ter.
We had one of the greatest floods here ever
v
nesday about o'clock, and poured down until
hive or six next morning. Every fence, garden,
and meadow, from the Warm Springs to the riy-
er, was laid PROSTATE. The road from tho Hot
Springs to Callaghan's is all torn to pieces. The
point of the mountain at DIR. Goodies slint down
into the road-and the turnpike cannot be travell-
ed except on horseback. Jackson's river was
twenty feet above low water mark, at Covington
The Bridge at Cameron's, the one at Paris's, and
the one at Covington, and every one that we can
from &c ct,A.. Al
lars will not com pensate Mr.. Peyton for the loss
on his farm. Mrs. Pitzer lost all the wheat that
was out on her farm, about 1900 bushels, all her
corn and tobacco, large quantity of fencing, and
her Mill is very much injured.-Her loss will be-
three or four thousand dollars. ]. Warwick lost
about 200 bushels Of wheat, and nearly everv FAR
mer along the river has lost all his grain 1t will
make grain scarce in the country. Several fami-
lies had 10 leave their houses at IL o'clock at
night in Covington.
MIR. Henry Miller's loss ION Cedar Creek) is
great-not less than two thousand dollars
The Calf Pasture river was not so biob-,ba
rain on the East side of the mountain not being so
severe.
We have not heard from the State turnpike, but
II Is no doubt very much injured. 1t is very UNI ,
certain when they can get with stage from here
to Lewisburg.
[P. S.-A letter from the Hot Springs re-
quests us to state that every effort is making
to repair the roads in that quarter, and that
persons desiring to visit the Springs, west of
that place, need apprehend no serious ,leten-
hon The road this side of the Warm Springs
was not injured, so that visitors can get with
out difficulty to Col. Fry's or DIR. Goodies
we have not heard from the Canal, but there
is great reason TO fear it has been seriously dam
aged. According to report, Scottsville, the Ca
nal and the River, were embraced in one wide
sheet of water.
The Richmond Wing of Saturday morning
mentions great rise in the river, but we presume
at the time ofclosing the paper, (Frday evening.)
1t had not reached its height. The first flood
came down there on Thursday afternoon about 3
o'clock, and was so sudden that boys who were
bathing had not time to their clothes. One
oil them was caught on rnrk in tho river, and
was ex;rcnted with great peril.
LATER.-Thc Richmond Wing OF MONDAY cove
ne LynchDurg mail due Saturday arrived last evening
~ us neither letters nor papcrs-but we learn
from the driver, generally, that the destruction fo
upper end of Buckingham to Lynchburg, and Sonth ~,
Dan rivcr is as great worst fears pOrtcndcd
the crops on the tributaries of the Appomatox aud 81,
James are swept-as also the bridges, mill dams
The Canal near Lynchburg is wreck. ltcvcr W. -
great fall OF water in short time (somc zen bonS
known. hoHs)
Ii is reported that numerous very bad brcacht, H..
been made in the canal above Coumbia--n some pac
the locks as well as the cmbankmcnt being swept avs
he line OF the canal in great many places loodS
from the river.
1t is calculated that the loss of Wheat by the fresh
between Lynchburg and Richmond alone amounts TO
three hundred thousand bushels.
Several Mills destroyed in the ncighborhood of
Lynchburg, and the whole Tobacco crop on the James
and Roanoke has been annhilatcd.