Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-26

the expiration Of two years from the final adjudication OF
claim, and notice thereof to the applicant or his agent Aer
that time the party will be left seek redress by an appeal to
Congress. 0 j. E. HEATH,
Commissioner Of Pensions ~
MORE OF THE STORM AT THE EAST.
The Boston papers continue to record the de-
structve effects of the terrific tempest which pre-
vailed in that quarter during two three days of
last week. aa8a45z7 4co 81 .4aisatg J. .s
The serious calamity 70. reported in the neshborhOod
Of Boston is the destruction Of the Mnot Ledge Lighthouse
in the outer hsrbo with the loss Of the lives Of the two a.
sstant keepers This event is believed to have occurred
about twelve o'clock Thursday night The last time that
the light standing was about ten o'clock on We'd
nesday night No light appeared Wednesday night. Mr.
BEssET, the keeper Of the light absent in the city,
having been ordered by Collector GREsLr purchase
boat He endeavored to return Tuesday afternoon but
the high prevented him doing SO. W al1@fL& t
The Lighthouse iron structure Of about eighty feet
10 height built piles sunk i've feet in the rock On these
piles were nine iron pillars sustaining the keepers house, the
floor Of which sixty feet from the foundation The breadth
Of the base Of the structure was twenty five feet. a'
The Government sea-wa Deer Island has been swept
away The water made complete breach the Island
About ten o'clock Wednesday morning boat was seen
in the breakers at the back sde Of the Island containing
eight men, and it impossible for them to land the
boat was undoubtedly swamped with all on board.
Three buildings carried to sea from Deer Island one
Of which the school house, the children in which had
narrow escape letter from Dr. j. NJ Moriary dated at
the Island on the 10th, says: 5'it4eh tg1ts3ts
80 About ten o'clock Tuesday, the teacher found his
be oblgedto to wade up his middle He had them all
dressed and made ready for any emergency There was no
escape from the building, the water being Eve feet deep
About IL o'clock the roof parted and the house was tossed
about BY the AT daylight Mr. Goss succeeded in getting
out and reporting the condition of the boys We immediate
" sent down teams and with great difficulty brought the
boys TO the new building Az 10 O'Clock a. M both houses
with their contents were carried off, including all the bedding
belonging to the boys department. Mr. Goss lost every thing
except what be stood in, bis whole attention being given TO
the boys The upper houses left but damaged The
sea-wall IS damaged seriously in two places"
The shores Of Deer Island well the beaches in the
vicinity, covered with wood lumber spas and other
wrecked matter.
The destruction property and damage to goods stored in
the cellars along the whaves at Boston very great In
many Of the dwellings situated in the lower parts Of the city,
families were obliged to vacate the premises and wait the
subsdence to the waters All the railroads are more Or less
damaged and the trains dsaanged The Daily Advertiser says
large portion Of the track Of the Old Colony Railroad
between Boston and Neponset is gone and the railroad bridge
at the latter place has been swept away The road n 90 badly
damaged that trains will run from the cty before next
week. The Dorchester and Milton Branch road is not yery
materially damaged The damage the Eastern Railroad Is
very great at different points between East Boston and New
buypo About two bundled feet Of the Gloucester Branch
road has been carried away, badly quilted The track on
the Boston and Maine road far repaired that the trains run
at their regular hours Some parts Of the Bookne Branch
road badly undermined The track Of the Worcester rosd
s not sufficiently quilted to impede the tfans The force Of
the current made breach from to twenty feet in width
and eight ten feet in depth through the Mill Dam road near
Brookne crossing The elegraphc poles between this city
and Newton are prostrated.
The principal damage done in the country was by the wind
which prossed chimneys, trees fences and outbudnes
In Wathsm, house nearly finished owned by Mr. Ho-
brook; frame building owned by the Chemical company
dyshed attached to the Beache and two or three other
buildings were blown down. About 200 feet Of the dry
house connected with the Lowell Bleschery Lowell,
blown down. Two or three barns in Tewksbury, and the
station house Wilmington junction. shared the same fate
The whole superstuctue of Commercial street wharf, in
Dorchester, owned by Charles Emery & Co.. foated off
carrying with !: about 900 feet Of valuable seasoned um
ber The Railroad between Harrison Square and Neponset
Is covered with lumber and fire. wood The same may be
stated OF Tennean road from the bridge to the grove Com
merca Point wharf was very badly damaged and nuch coal
stored thereon was lost Ransead and Desrbos and other
wharves IN the same vicinity also damsgs and large
amount Of coal and other property lost 5 'I rs
The steamboat wharf, and other whaves bingham, were
wholly destroyed, and large quantities Of wood and lumber
washed away. t7l I h &tQ tf& A
The "Neptune and Roboson Crusoe- houses on Chel
sea Beach were considerably damaged from the surf breaking
against them. Large quantities Of lumber the whaves
Chesea were aoated off and several buildings IN that town
were damaged by falling chmneys and other causes
Large quantities of coal and lumber foated from the
wharves at South Boston, and two three buildings, were
moved from their foundations In the vicinity Of the city
institutions much damage done The sea broke through
the stockade the Shore and washed twelve fifteen bodies
from deposte n the burial ground They were
all secured and re-interred. lig
The papers from Newburypor Gloucester, Salem, and
other places are filed with accounts Of destruction property
caused by the storm did at Portland, Maine
until Wednesday evening, and Is represented as one Of
verify unequaed Tor years. and very destructive to property
The vhsrves were much broken up, and the track Of the
Montreal railroad was 80 much washed to discontinue its
trips for day --.--
4 FrAnyuL Accupxsr ON THE RAILROAD AT GKSEvA-A