Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-03-21
THEaBREAKING UP OF WINTER.

GREAT FREsHErWe regret 10 learn that there has been
unprecedented food in the Susquehanna river occasoned
mainly by the melting of the Of with which the
upper valleys Of that and it, various butarey were
covered The gave indications of rise Saturday
last and Sunday Havrede Grace they high and
rapid that the Railroad Companys steamboat with great diff
Guilty made her way the river. gentleman who
cended the valley of the Susquehanna Sunday morning from
Havs Grace for about nine miles, states that the Tide
Water canal embankments and owpah entirely under
water and that the people gathered Mt points
both sides Of the river gazing in dismay upon the angry
aood of waters which far exceeded in volume and aulness
any thing that they had ever before behed.
The Conowngo bridge had been carried away, and the
Port Deposte bridge presented indications Of having been
riousy injured.
Passengers who left Harrisburg Sunday morning
that the bridge Cas Ferry, at the confluence of the Ju
niaa with the Susquehanna, has been swept Also
the old upper bridge over the Susquehanna Harrisburg by
the combined action Of the water and ice and that the railroad
bridge below has received damage from the mbe of
the other being dashed against IT, Two hundred feet OF the
wall Of canal above Columbia, have been washed
away The turnpike and railroad between Harrisburg and
Highsp, distance Of six miles, six feet under water
The floods the Delaware and Schuyki rivers have also
been very great
FLoop IN THE Ouo-Our Ptsburg correspondent writes.
under date of the 18th instant that sudden rise had taken
place the Ohio river, there Icing at that time upwards OF
twenty-five feet of in the channel and still rising
Nothing serious had yet occurred and was hoped c wa
iers would soon begin subside baltimore Ansrc1R
The Albany Knckerbocker Of Monday says We ars n
the midst of one Of the greatest and most destructive ets
that city. The great rans which have con-
tnued to fall since Thursday caused the water 10 FIRE.
day night and it continued rise and fall till yesterday MORN
ing The water the pier Saturday, and at IL
o'clock the ice started and moved for about quarter OF mile
down. when stopped The ice banked up the pier In
piles mountains high and caused considerable desruc
ton Of property. The Columbia street bridge nearly de-
sroyed by the ice which banked up against and carried
partly away, and the State bridge Is badly dams red
that shall require The water is ITO base
ents high up Pearl street. where was never seen De
FORE Grcenbush the opposite side Of the river is entirely
under water"
The Journal Of Commerce that the overflow OF the
Delaware river i'm the neighborhood Of Bordenown IN J)
offers serious obstruction to tho Of the railway. The
water the track places three feet deep, aid
next to impossible for tho engines run through in conse
quence Of the fires becoming exnguished This doubt
the Of the failure to carry fully into effect the new ar
rangement of the mails, since Monday last
letter dated Mt Columbia pa on Tuesday From
appearances will take from four five weeks to re-
pair the damages the Pennsylvania canal has sustained by
The late disastrous feshe i'm the Susquehanna The canal
part of be used for at least three four weeks Inc
Iuniaa division, it is believed is much injured not more
han be repaired in few days. The river was higher
believe, than known be before. The bridge at
Columbia not injured and many of the minor bridges
ire gone.
There serious freshet at Haverh, Massachusetts,
Sunday night and the Of the Mermack and Little
great height flooding Streets filling the lower stories Of
houses carrying off workshops, and floating away the Little
river bridge, which completely demolished
The Georgetown Advocate of Tuesday evening has Inc Io
lowing remark "There has been heavy reset IN inc
during the last few days. and we hear OF some INJURY
done the canal above but not sufficient 10 check
large arrival Of boats at this town during and nce sao''