Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-07-23

ot o Tho / .ss ana t,.jtysbsf. ga! railroad, 'sl
p,neer attempted - sun locomotive across brijg' weak
ened Nv washing away OF the truses tni the engine
and tic bold man m through into The water, and were u.s.
rhc Convention ,h,, NE, =, West Union Dodddgc
~ on the lh inslan have selected Col Joseph Johnson
and Col J. Smith of Harrison, and John f. Sn"dg'asS
and Col L. f. Spencer al Wood as candidates l" fi'Se"
that district in ilo State Convention
An animated and exciting canvass IS GOING on in the
West There an host III candidates IN The Held among
Them some of her talented men In the Lewis district
Mr. Join $ Garlic Mr.. james Rennctt, w. u. Williams,
L. c. Rcccr Joseph Hart Col. Keller, d. ) Pinnel 'oc'
Yancey Col McMhor,cr, F.. Y. Witacrs and Mr.. paSlo
(ofl are announced Tie last Weston ews county, sen
tinel in speaking oi discussion al that pace says ID
John S. Garlic led oil in excellent speech oil about on"
hour in length advocating measures that evidently gave SD
,;s,c,;on y, ,h. sscnblaac He followed by Messrs.
Golf Keller PnncI Dlwor,h, Roger and Withers. Col.
McWhor,er waived Qor want oil tme Tie privilege "' aa
dressing the people Ia another day.
In the Marion d>c, the last Duly Court the people
of Marion were addressed by Wam g. Brown of Preston
DIR Kidwcl and Mr. Nceson of Marion, Mr. Wade, Mr..
Wiley md MIR Davis of Monongaa and Mr. Raymond.
Mortimer H. Johnson Esq OF Taylor (as we learn from
The Fairont Bannerl also addressed the people, but mag
unanimously declared his determination not 10 be candidate
In the course of remarks he said when he first declared
himself was until he had supposed there wonld be 10
other candidate his county Since lie HAD 1etd o'her
gentlemen from his county had concluded 10 stand poll,
and 10 preycnt distractions and divisions among friends
he had determined 10 be no longer candidate In the
views and sentiments 10 organization, 50 orcbly and
fully expressed BY Mr.. Johnson we have heretofore en-
pressed our fully and We need not say mat
wc heartily concur with him. Mr. Johnson warmly sustain
ed in the Legislature last Winter the Virginia resolutions and
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tanning the interests OF the West.
FLOOD
For an hour and half Is %. ~ NJ Yesterday morn
inc there of the most violent rams We nave ever
Witnessed The streets were flooded and The windows 81
The heavens seemed wide open. The immense volume oil
clnp water affected all the streams and Shockoe Creek
WIS swollen unprecedented height II rose rapidly
some fifteen feet and TOR distance the Valley above the
Obi Make, looked like broad river. Much damage
wa. done by the rising The brick houses
INST being erected by Mr. w. J. Parnel for Mrssrs
T;oldin and Crump in n line with the Civ JAIL fell Il
pcccs from the heavy pressure n the water and we rgre
To say negro boy in the employment o Mr. T. was LOST
This is the only life that lost-housh we heard OF M
mcrois escapes. MI B-dgcwater "a good name
hy the way for his expos) c!l into the Greek rom In
bridge on franklin street and was hurried by the creek ne
the arches three bridges amos, scraping them) into liz
-lyer whence he rescued. few wooden houses in Tho
WILEY were washed away and number completely snr
rounded and the and children, taken from
M; upper windows by citizens who calamity ihe
rescue IN bouts By swimming. very extensive brick
wall around I.umpkins Jail carried oil aud q heavy
s,un.. and brick wall supporting she'd attachc, I" Poi
,iux Robn.uns Tobacco Factory the intersection Of iii,
,fecn and Cary street, undermined aud fell IN Tn,
water owed through The lower part Of the Market and the
houses IN the rear and the cellars Main and Franaln
streets from the City Hotel down flooded and their
contents (s molasses suaao &c.,) seriously damaged
Last evening engines being used 10 clear the
cellars of wafer. The large stable OF Mr. Davis on Frank
lin street oyehanging the creek and sustained by wooden
pillars vas very near being carried oil
In the neiaborhood Col Carinton's Mill occupied
av Mr. Victor, much damage done The mill race bro
ken three bridges carried OIL and deep guey washed in
the New louisa Railroad
I'll. who. loss is c"nsiderableand many persons ar
made most uncomfortable by the rapidly swelling fresh II
! Fortunate tint no more lives were los.