Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-04-28

Several houses in Northampton have been dam.
aged by the overflow, and are deserted by their
inhabitants. The Northampton, tludley, and Hat
fed meadows present an almost entire unbroken
expanso Of water, extending for several miles up
and down the river In tladley the whole OF West
street was Under water on Monday night. The
people were nj work all night endeavorlDg to stop
the current OF the river from pouring into the
street, aud in removing the contents Of such barns
and tICuses as wero most exposed To the food
Hockanur and oil that region under the base Of
the mountain is under water, and Cooks Hill road
"A new and very expensive road on the bank of
the river in South Hadley, 10 almost totally des-
troyed.
Flood al Tona,6andd Breach in The Erie Canal
--Rulrodd Bridge carried atcay. We are indebt
ell 10 Mr. w. \. Sutton, Caual Superintendent
Tor the Intelligence OF a serious accident at iona-
waIIa creek. The Superintendent, with his as
sistants, have been tire SPOT for the last three
days and nights making every effort TO project the
property OF individuals and Ut the State from the
danger which threatened; The prospect in the
mean while becoming more alarming, until now
the water has made Il wide breach ia the cara,
which there is no means Of stopping, and which
is carrying every thing before it, The passage
made is Iust below the Tonuwsnda Dam, between
fl aud he guard lock. In a short lime after the
breach was made the railroad bridge and the ca
nal bridge were carried away. house standing on
the neck OF laud between the canal and river was
also carried uway. Families living on this land,
further down the river, are leaving, seeing 10
means Of preventing the water from carrying il
all away. The dyKing on the creek above, is all
carried away, aud tie farms are Inundated So
serious food has not occHrred on shat stream be-
fore. Mr.. Sutton continues on tte spot dong all
that he can.--Bt6dio M " Courier.
The Late Freshet.--We learn that three breaks
have been nude in the Pennsylvania State Canal,
II short distance below EastOn- ore of them is of
considerable extent, and viii take from ten DAYS to
three weeks to repair il. at EastUn the Delaware
river on Sunday last twenty one feet above
low water mark, and in many places the banks of
the canul were suhIe feet under WATER Phil Gaz.
Great Freshet in James River-The Richmond
Compiler states that The great ireshet-muro
properly speaking 6ood--n the James, which has
Just subsidized, WAS the greatest which had occurred
since 1885 according to the testimony Of The old.
est lnhablens,'" The wheat crop along the coast
has sustained much injury by beng washed OUT,
and buried beneath sand and dirt,
IN american Captain sentenced 10 tie Galleus
The W IImIEglUn IN. CT Chronicle says: Capt.
Leighton, OF the brig Abigail Richmond, from St.
Thomas, informs tbsi before he let there intel
ligence was received that Capt Cozzens, of the
brig Pilgrim, OF Baltimore, had been Tried in Gnu
dsloupe on the charge Of robbIng a house at Point
Petre oil $4,000 NJ the time Of the earthquake
there, convicted, and sentenced 10 ten years labor
~ The galleysin France whittier he was to be sent
Capt CozzenS belongs TO the State of Muine.
The "horrbo story" of the starvation of
mother and child at Florence, Oneida CO., copied
into this paper from The Rome Citizen, is without
foundation,