American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-03


Damage TO The CanaL-GI eat Destruction Of Pro
psrty! We learn from the Georgetown Advo-
cate of yesterday, that the rain of Tuesday
night, proved very destructive in that town
and vicinity, delugiug the streets and overflow
ing stores and cellars. The Advocate says:
But by far the greatest injury done is that to
the public works connecting with the town.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is supposed
to be seriously damaged it is rumored greatly,
and certainly to some cXtent,--and from the
fact that barrels offiour and whiskey have been
caught in numbers rushing down in the current|
of the river, it is presumed that boats above
were washed over or swept away with the en-
bankment 1t is ascertained that a breach has
been made about seven miles from here, near
Cabin-J John mills, land another on the Nine Mile
Level, short distance above Seneca. This
extends about so feet only, and will require but
some three days to repair it,
By the brands of the flour which has float
ed down, it is recognised as belonging to the
cargo of boat Charles, which was to have left
Williamspolt on Monday, for this market, con-
signed to Mr.. Geo. Watersand Mr. Z. Lyons.
There is little or no doubt that she was swept
over with the embankment-it is believed, at
the break above Seneca. We learn the hands
on board escaped with difficulty. The flour
and whlskey are strewn along the shore of the
Potomac near the Chain Bridge.
The Alexandria Canal, leading thence from
| this town, we are informed, is also broken in
two places. One breach is in the rear of the
Island, opposite this town, where the embank-
ment has given way; the other short distance
beyond the Washington bridge. This we are
sorry to say, is serious breach, a stone cul-
vert and the adjoining embankment having
been swept away.
Rock Creek also is the scene of very consid-
cradle damage Early in the evening it began
to rise, and by l ] O'Clock had completely over
flown the banks which SURF ound the basin ad-
joining the river, which at length gave way
under the immense pressure, and preciptated
the whole body of raging water into the Poto-
mac below. The scene at this point yesterday
morning, gave fearful evidence Of the force of
the current The bank for some forty or fifty
feet was completely broken through, and the
bed of the creek changed, and it flowing with
threatening velocity through the breach. One
damage here, is caused by leaving tho wood
yard of our estimable fellow-citizen, Captain
Travers, in lonely grandeur upon one of the
islands of our new archipelago. MIR. Lyons
mlldam was swept away above, and boats, bro
ken and splintered and old timber, are now
wedged in sublime confusion against the bridge
at the (late) basin.
The cost of repairing the breach in the EN-
bankment or causeway which forms the basin,
Jointly of the Canal and Rock Creek, near the
river, we learn will mainly fall on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company, but in some
part also upon the Corporation Of Georgetown,
as the portion which formed the street is town
property.
There could be no reasonable estimates made
of what it will cost to repair all this at present,
4 though it will be, of course, considerable.
ADDITIONAL. We learn that the rain has
been general for twenty or thirty miles round,
and that the different streams above, tributary
to the Potomac, are all very high. In the vci-
nifty Of Leesburg we learn that the lands, SC.
have been much washed. On Goose Creek we
dear of considerable damage.
The Potomac, which had fallen somewhat
during the day yesterday, commenced rGsing
again in the afternoon, and the merchants on
the wharves were securing themselves against
damage, by removing the goods from the low
er stories of their warehouses. We have hopes,
however, that without further damage the wa
ter, by this morning, will have subsidized, and
the danger be over.
SUSPICIOUS VESSEL. The New Orleans Bull
letn of the 25th ult says 10
"The brig Delfna, which cleared hence on
Monday last, ostensbly for Belize (Honduras)
under Persian colors, was Manned as we I'M
derstand, almost exclusively by Mexicans, and
some suspicious having attached to her move
ments, we learn that the Collector of the port
has sent To the Southwest Pass directions for n