The New York herald., 1845-11-08
Harleties.

numerous. unless some check be devised there
Is no telling what their effect may be in the OF
very lew years The number oil people who destroy
ed Dy the hand oil violence who executed for the
commission Of crimes and who die from the various dis
eases that visit the country painful and calculated to
inspire unpleasant anticipatons for the future. What
thai number not the means of determinngwh
anything like accuracy but feel safe in estimating it,
within the last twelve months, at several hundreds
Cherokee .7droeate, Oct. 9th.
The steamboat Oceola arrived at Norfolk on Sun
day night from Washington with hund forty
coloTed persons, men, women and children, emi.
grants for Liberia These person. we're liberated by
will two estates in Virginia and to be conveyed
to their home in the ship Roanoke, which was to
sail on Tuesday.
The Hon Daniel Webster is at present on visit
hern Railroad goes through his farm at franklin in such
a way will render the removal of the old family man
sion necessary -Manchester (N H) american
MARINE DISASTERS on THE LAKEs.-The strong
northeaster OF Sunday and Monday, proved disas-
Captain Folger OF the Rochester and the officers Of the
Constitution learn that black looking brig resem-
bling the Owanungah is ashore at Madison, and fore
and aft schooner with white bottom and black bulwarks
and a mainmast, is beached at Chagrin, o. The
lower lake schooner Caledonia is ashore at Cleveland
and the schooner Smead also ashore somewhere in the
same vicinity. The brig +. Mills and schooner Aurora
Boreals at Huron PIER but to what extent these respec
tive vessels have been injured unable to say.
The steamer Franklin was roughly handled in attempt
ing to enter Cleveland The Herald says she struck
when making the habor, and the heavy lifted her
upon the west pier. One wheel entirely carried
away the wheel house and guards shattered and her
clear of the pier and work his craft ip The hull and
cargo unnjured It will take several days to repair
damages A man crowded jumped overheard of
the Franklin, but luckily washed upon the pier aud
saved The schooner Champion which cleared has put
10 ss espy pf b ehr the
New Orleans had made their appearance at Detroit
when the Constitution left The U s steamer Michi-
gan, which at Detroit Saturday left for the
lower end of the lake without much ceremony, in con-
sequence OF letters orders received from Washington
Some sixty vessels made the port OF Cleveland during
the blow. At Chicago the 29th ultimo, " there has
been arrivals from the lower lakes since my last
The following vessels will sail tonight brigs May
Flo err Preble and schooner Texas, for Buffalo and
brig Hampton, for Oswego. Brigd Emerald and Olive
gone to St Joseph to load schooner Roanoake charter
ed to load her arrival at Little Fort and brig Cumber
land contracted to load at ST. Josephs her arrival
Ward loads at southport also brig Odd Fellow; the brig
st Louis sailed this morning for Buffalo, with $50 bar
rels -four from 81 Joseph the brig New Orleans leaves
this evening" with part OF cargo OF -four from her ba
lance Of cargo from Southport and Milwaukee" The
schooner Clay is reported ashore at Erie. The A. Wins
low reached Cleveland with cargo of wheat from the
upper lakes, Saturday, and after dischargng the
same, took cargo of -four pot ashes and iron for
this port.
GREAT FREsHEr IN THE KENNEBEc slip from
the office OF the Maine Cultivator, published at
Hallowell, dated on Wednesday evening at o'clock
gives the following information: The rain storm that
commenced Saturday last, and continued Sunday
Monday and Tuesday, has caused almost unexampled
sudden rise Of water in the Kennebec river that this
morning at o'clock the bells ringing to the
people Of the village to the Importance of taking mea
to secure the property in the cellars OF stores on
the margin oil river. Inc water is already feet
above the level of high water mark and the rise ncrea
sing. Cellars fooded-wharves four or five feet
der waer-vesses in port making fast to posts in the
street and brick buildings with the mass within six feet
Of our Office windows. The logs running in thou
sands and booms, wood piles, and every movable OBJ
ect within twenty feet Of the shore, being carried
OFF by the swelling flood Wcter street in the lower part
of the village, is covered with water. Very little loss
however will be experiences here the people
the alert to every thing valuable from their cell
lars
10 O'Clock, A. M.-The water increases In height II
is up parallel with the front OF the stores Kenne
bee Row. and small vessel is fastened between the
stores OF Glazier Masters Smith and c. O. Bacheder
At the dam in Augusta, the unfinished saw mill put
up this and intended for running six saws, has
gone foundation tmbers and all, and floating down the
river large number Of men ut work on the west
ey end of the dam, for the purpose of preventing the
from forcing passage II was at this end that the
dam gave way few years ago and caused so much de-
mighty swollen river pour over this dam at the presen
time The water does not tall in beautiful sheet a.
usual but rolls in broad and mpetuous torrents
plunging huge logs in the boiling waters below, and
then causing them tn rise half their length perpendicular
in the air to be submerged again in the oaming abyss
The basement of the factory in Augusta is nearly
full of water, which may cause some damage to the
time, O'Clock, r. Nj the water has slightly abated
it is hoped damage will be caused Reports from
Sandy river state that great has been caused
by the reshet that river and that bridges &c &c
have been swept away This has been one Of the most
rain storms experienced here 1t has raned
almost constantly during two three days, and Tues
day evening the most thunder storm ofhe
was experienced.