The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1847-12-25
bridge. The mails cannot get east or
west Of that point. Yours. &c,
I'll ORNnOpE I'D

WCob vi blAt POiAts
I'll. ORNDORF."
"DEAR SiR-More trouble. The pike
is covered with water in many places
and the mai, it seems, lost the track If
crossing through water, and It tippet
over-Wet the mail, but hurt nothing
Ii is certainly very dangerous 10 cross
those places. This was on the bottom
east of Cambridge, one mile; the water
is three feet deep on the pike, and a
mile in width. There are nine such
places between this and Wheeling
There has been a bad slip down near
Washington, which. has taken all the
pike for some twenty or thirty yards
and various other places are perfectly
used up. ] dc not know how long this
state Of things will exist; ! hope moi
long. .ta Yours,Io si@uq Y.G'5im
"Dec. Is. w. ID. TERRY"
"P. S, | hope the mails will reach
Wheeling, but | fear they will not for
some days 10 come. | am going right
to the worst place and do my best"
A stage passenger from the east re-
ports the water three ieel deep on the
floor OF Lewis Hotel, in Marietta
This would place The whole lower town
under water. The Ohio, when our in
formant left, was within six feetas high
as in 1882, when many of the citizens,
driven from the second stories of their
dwellings, had 10 move 10 the high
grounds Tor safety.
The GAINESVILLE Aurora of Yesterday,
says: 49, 7!'s =.
"Below the dam, The Muskingum has
been higher, it IS stated, by those who.
have good memories, than at any time
since 1928, and within fifteen inches Of
the mark Of that year. The flood Of
1928 was the highest flood ever known
on this river. Above the dam. the
Muskingum attained very nearly the
same height as in January last."j .oe
Travel was entirely suspended be-
tween GAINESVILLE and Marietta, and
what damage, if any, was done, was
not known. The Wheeling Times
says: -alt a sraa >,H gif.i. at5 50.
"We have an immense river and 1t
will still be higher. The Monongahela,
as we learn by the stage passengers
last night, had risen t~hirtv-6ve feet at
Brownsville. 1t was nearly up to the
bridge. The Pittsburgh boats were
the bridge and could not get up.p
The heavy rains this side of Zanes.
VILE, and especially west Of Columbus,
were generally south Of the National
.oad-hence the Scioto at this place.
Ind Miami at Dayton, have not been
out of their banks. ,,.r, t, ..ocr3
The Statesman of Monday SAYS.
By the mail Of Yesterday, (Sunday,)
received our Cincinnati papers OF
from Monday to Saturday, incIu.
The loss of property, caused by
waters, and the individual suffer
ne Of thousands, forced at an inclement
eason Of the year to abandon their
cannot we'll be eslimated-it
nay be conceived, but never can be
described. They lost their all. 5mlU
At the slaughter-house of Joha Bates,
n Mill Creek Bottom, the back water
anne up so suddenly that between Two
nd three hundred hogs were drowned
'efore they could be removed.
The Enquirer says that, "a large
warehouse filled with baled hay, in the
PIPER part Of the town was foated off;
pen, in which there were upwards Of
me thousand head Of hogs, was over
brown, and The only way 10 save them
drowning was to shoot them.
which wa done. The bodies were
ecured, and will be brought up here !
o-day for cleaning" +,
The Atlas says that some idea of the !
resent inundation may be had, when .
fact is known that onc-third of the :,
round occupied by the city, is under
'ater, and that at least twenty thous- :
nd persons have been dri, en- from !
leir homes and places OF business. >
During the morning Of Friday, the !
confined to rise slowly. BY A !:
clock IN the afternoon, it had fallen 7
1oul an inch, and was, at the last ac- ;
cunts, receding slowly. AT its high u
It point it lacked two or three inches i,
being as high as in 1882. No just i
'nceptionl OF The loss Of property, or d
The individual suffering, can be form, u
At Wheeling and Pittsburgh, the y
iio has not been as high as in '39, by !,
or 8 feet. The food scommenced "
low those points, and on this side OF
g Ohio confined itself measurably. !,
nth of the National Road Wills y
eek Gro sses the National Road from y
nth to north, neat Cambridge, and !;
tiers the Muskingum above Zanes- y,
4fudsfaI o From the Ohio Statesman. h.