New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-22
Life in the est.

Life in the West
4 COT espondent of the Buffalo Commercial
writes from Maumce City, western OHIO under
dzte OF the ll.h inst that the Maurnee has broken
m with q great freshet, which carried on the
fences from the fats and left huge blocks OF zee
IN Their stead and that several blocks OF stone
belonging TO one OF the piers at the mouth OF The
Maunce Canal, mistaking themselves Tor cakes
of ice had tioated OF III the food toward Lake
Ere. The bridge over the Malunee was swept or
b,t was poor affair and Is not regretted rs the
owners viii now build a good one, and then stock
ba. not fallen Some OF the ples Of the long wharf
at Manhattan, kmouthof the Maumec, wereSawed
off By the ice. which did not appear TO coTnpre-
bend the difference between white oak timber and
rye straws. The steamboat Perry had come up
from Manhattan. and one from Detroit was daily
expected. The Canal was also open, but not YET
quite in order and It's fixing up was delayed BY
feud between the Commissioners and the Resident
Engineer: the former having undertaken TO turn
the latter out Of Office for beng Wing, bur made
= failure of it. as he would not 20 without his
pay. and they couldn't raise the needfu!. \ new
Propeller Is being built there by Mr. Pratt, who
VIII have her ready in June. The writer con-
cludes:
The weather is very fine. the roads are drying
verv fast-the grass begins to look grcen-the
frogs have found Their notes.-the mapl trees are
all tapped, and the prospect for sugar IS great;
and immense are the ;nticipations of fun by the
bows and girls in their visits TO the sugar-hush, 10
ret their FIJI of lasses and have general sugar
ING off, The fishermen are furnishing up Their
tackle and soaking their boats in the cutters, pre-
liminarr to haul, and the way we are all licking
our lips for taste Of that classic dainty, suckers
and milk, would do credit TO an old resident upon
the banks of the Tonawanda or Buffalo. All the
the old guns are III rcqulslton for the enterprise
OF shooting pickcrcl m the grassy creeks on either
SIDE OF our river. and have just borrowed pltcl-
fork To be used IN default OF 4 better implement,
TO try nv luck at spearlng mullet from the break
, water; III consideration thereof BID you good
day. III.
TIE FLooD.-The Northampton Courier Of the
10th reports the recent food of the Connecticut
in that vicinity without parallel for many
wears. The meadows are all covered with water,
the houses IN that village below Pleasant ST. are
all surrounded. many of them orsakcn. and on
the south side of the town much damage has been
done Cellar walls caved in, property was IN
iured and one or two houses were so badly under
mined that their fall was inevitable. At Hadey
and Hockanumt the same disaster was experienced.
Cooks Hill road-one of the best and most eS-
pcnsivc IN the vlcmity-was completely destroyed.
At Springfield, Mass. the water was very high
and much injury was sustained. At Hartford,
CT. the canal of the Connecticut River Go. was
badly injured.
In the Delaware river ii is said three breaks
have been made by the freshct in the Pennsyya-
mo State canal a short distance below Easton ;
one of them is OF considerable extent, and Will
take from ten days to three weeks to repair 1t.
The wharyes at Bordentown were covered with
water. The Woodbury. creek and Timber creek
in Gloucester county ovcrtlowcd their banks, IN
consequence of the late rams, and made breaches
IN the meadow banks
The SusGuehenna at Harrisburgh is higher than
it has been known to be for many years. The
canal and railroad are entirely overlooked at many
places.
The Superintendent of Repairs for the James
River canal states thatthc injury done to the canal
by the late ircshct is not very extensive, and that
the cost of repairs between Richmond and Scots
vile viii not exceed eight hundred dollars.
Il The Buffalo Courier states that the food
at Tonawanda has produced vide breach IN
the Erie Canal at that place, which was con-
stanuy growing wider in spite OF all exertlons TO
close it. Both the railroad and canal bridges
were carried away, and the families living in the
immediate vicinity were forced TO quit their
houses. The farms were Likewise overlooked,
and great damage had been sustained.
DEArlI BY DRowNlSc.-T young men, Chas.
Bates, son of Alison Bates, and Morris X. Whit
lock, son Of the late Joseph Whitock, l6 and Is
wears of age, were drowned on the 18th INST. IN u
small pond three and hall miles northeast Of the
village OF Ridgetield, CT, near the Danbury road
They went out in small boat in pursuit OF a
hcl.diycr," while another young man remained
upon the shore with his gun to shoot the bird
when II should be driven sufficiently near The
wind blowing hard. Bates became alarmed and
pressed of a board from the boats bottom, when
it instantly filed and all went down together N
twelve feet water Their bodies were = hooked
up the next day about noon, having been IN the
water IL hours Bates had carried the MA! from
Rdgefeld to Stamford the past year.
DgArH OF Mas SuELTox.-The Vlcksburg
Sentinel announces the death OF Mrs Shelton
whose husband lately committed suicide. The