The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1847-12-29
From the Baltimore American, 2Oth inst.
TIE FLOODsIN THE,WEsT


THE FLOODIN TIIEWEsT.
The papers received by last nights west
ern mail arc filled with accounts of the dis
sasterous. effects produced by the recent Sc.
we're freshet in the western Rivers. gThe
Scota River has overfowed its banks. wash
ing away the turnpike, bridges, culyerta. ca
On this as well as on the smaller streams
| emptyng it, vast amounts of hogs and other
| stock have been washed away. r..
The latest Cincinnati papers received ares
| those of Monday last, aud we are therefore
without any further accounts of the effects of
the freshet in thatcty than those received
| by telegraph.
The Pittsburgh Gazette of the 18th inst
contains the following notice of the flood in
the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers :-
| by the polteness of Capt. Gray, of ,lses
Cincinnati packet Pennsylvania, which arrii-.S
we'd at port last evening, we have further par.
ticulars Of the disastrous food of the slast
lew days; lie says that at no time since the
memorable flood of 1892, has the Ohio river
been SO high as at present The destruction
| Of property along the river and the distress
OF the inhabitants is truly appalling. In the
towns Of Guyandotte, Point Pleasant. Pome.
roy, Hockingport, Parkersburg, Point Har-
! mar, Marietta and Sun Fish, many families,
were COMPELLED toleave theikSdwellnge, and
others removed to the upper stories. 5T,
Most Of the Islands between Kanawha aud
Wheeling, are entirely coyerel. .asFe cs.
corn, wood and property of all kinds have
been carried away by the water.
All the people residing within the. low
lands have abandoned their dwellings, and Ia
ken refuge on the hills, leaving their proper
ty to the mercy Of the wate-, being satisfied
to escape with their lives.
| Nkor lo Donp,,l,,,,:, 4
mouth the river was rising at the rate of fur
inches per hour, and at Marietta the Mus
kingum river was found to have commenced
rising the second time, and moro rapidly than
before. Fears were entertained that tho
ships now on the stocks at that port, would
be carried off The late rains have been We.
ry heavy in tho valley Of the Muskingum
river. At different points OIL their way up.
they saw several houses aAoat, and innlner-
able quantities of corn, hay stacks, &c. On
many of the farms. the people were observed
gathering their corn in fiat boats. At GallKs
polls the >river lacked S feet Of being as high
as '32 and was fising rapidly. In mSsly pla-
COS it was difficult to toll where the main
channel of the river was. the low ground be-
ing ovcrilowed for several miles in width.
| The steamer passed. ncross fields on her
way up fully thirty feet higher than the cham
mel of the river at low water mark.
| Cabt Lucas. Of the steamboat Mary Ste.
vens, reports the distress occas:oned BY tho
flood below Marietta, as truly alarming.
| People deserving their dwellings, in such haste
as to be compelled to leave their property,
| others taking what they could in toats and
removing to the h lis. &
THREADED BANK NorEs.-Mcssrs.1
Crane s. Co., Of Dalton Massachusetts,
manufacturers of bink noic paper, have
invented n very simple and efficient
method Of preserving the denomination of
II bill from alterations. Threads of silk
or cotton arc arranged in parallel, lircs
lcngthwisc with tho note, and cnbo1icdin
the substance Of the paper during its man.
ufacturc. A ono dollar bill l,ns one thread,
and one added for each dnnon,inaticn uptn
five dollurs, then TIN dollar bill lns six
threads another is added for fifty, one hun
,lrcd, five hundred, and one tholls,lnd; tho
last having eleven threads. 1t must be
difficult, If not impossible, TO insert ano.
thcr thread alter the notc is finished, and as
tho threads marks its value distinctly ns
the figures, the cllanccs of n successful
alteration are ut least greatly diminished.
The Mechanics Banking Association Of
this city, and several of the banks in thi.
State and at the East, have ordered tho
threaded paper, and it will probubly}
como into general use.
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