Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-09-04

saSiub as $50, GOO A day or two will determine
tAI T% %O. .,ssmer W W. Fry, and two schooners
- Jr;vsn ashore near Htchcock's Press. The
IT, rased steam and got off, but the schooners re-
- there. The steamer Swan Is Just reported to
49, beyn blown into the woods off Dog River, and
i probably lost. All the craft in port and the
wharves fronting the city. are more or less injured.
The Dry Dock is also injured, but we have not
learned to what extent.
The Telegraph posts are scattered in every d.
recton, and we are thus cut off from all means of
communication from without.
The lower part of the city was mostly under wa
ter and the people were driven for security to
their second floors. The same was true of the up
per portion of town. One Mile Creek was back
ed up to the foot of Shell Road and Broad street,
through which it runs with great force
LGter.-We have just learned from Capt. blak-
esly that the steamers Ambassador and Swan are
both blown high and dry in the woods OFT Dog
River, and that the Belle Gates SUNK 70 ner hur
ricane deck in Eight Mile Greek. He also reports
a pilotboat blown ashore near Walkers Press, and
another blown upon the wharf. The Jenny Bealle,
living at he wharf, rode out the gale finely she be-
ing the only craft in port which entirely escaped
damage Masts from seventy to eighty feet in
length are left high and dry in Cont street. and
timber and wood is scattered all over the city
The wind has now shifted to the west north
west, and the rain continues to fall moderately
Intelligence from the country as far as received
indicates great rains and high water all about US
1t will be sometime before things get into their &C
customed channels again.
Still Later.
Dreadful loss oflJe-FSve persons d,ouned at
ChOctaaO Point.
ELEVEN O'CLOCK P. M-Mournful accounts of
~ IF TIfa nd NJ
have Just learned of the destruction of the dwell
ing attached to Choctaw Point Lighthouse and the
loss of FIVE LIVES. About 10 O'Clock A. NJ
the building gave way and the inmates, consisting
of Mrs. Phillibert, (who attends the light her
Son-in-law, William E. Colgin and his wife, to-
gether with their two children and Mr.. Oscar
Phillibert, and negro boy, attempted to save
themselves upon RATS and floating pieces of tim
Der. Mrs. Philllbert and her two grandchildren,
boy and girl, aged FIVE and seven years, procur-
ed raft, and after being driven about by the
storm for some time, were finally washed off and
all three drowned. Mr. CoIgin and his wife were
rescued fir m a flo ting log safe. Mr.. Oscar
Phillibert and the negro boy are both doubtless
drowned, as they were heard last in the woods
hallowing for aid. The body Of Mrs. Phillbert
has been recovered by of her sons /; it was al
most literally crushed from the floating timber );
she is to be inferred this afternoon. The bodies
of the two children lost with her have not been
recovered.
FRIDAY, 10 O'Clock A M.-The sun rose clear
and bright this morning but the desolation it re-
vealed was sickening to behold.
On every hand are evidences of the dreadful
struggle with the tempest. Of course the excite
ment among our citizens is very great, as incidents
come in one after another swelling the already
fearful catalogue of disaster and ruin.
We are indebted to Capt Chambers of the Dan
lei Pratt, who came passenger on the florida from
New Orleans for the following intelligence
The Florida put into the Bay of st. Louis, where
she lay until the gale had subsidized.
The ship Abaellino and The British ship Mer-
sey--the latter having cleared two or three days
since for Liverpool, loaded with cotlon--but not
yet put out To sea-were both blown ashore and
dismasted near Cedar Point A schooner, name
unknown, was seen floating bottom upwards in the
bay.
The lighter Joseph B., loaded with timber for a
vessel lying in the bay, is also ashore.
The house occupied by Jack Grant, and situated
between Grants Pass and Cedar Point, has been
swept away and no traces of life were visible when
the Florida passed.
Our reporter informs US that the "Sea Drift
and mischief" boat club houses, situated in the
marsh opposite the city, have been carried Off
The houses of the Dutch settlers, numbering
several families, VINO were employed IN gardening
in the marsh are believed to be destroyed, with
their inmates Ono man, whose name we did moi
learn, foated out upon log and picked up
He states that his family were all drowned.
Brig Machigonne, lying at Government street
wharf, with freight, having large portion Of hel
cargo, consisting of twenty-seven bales of cotton
upwards of one hundred bbls. of turpentine and
ten tons of iron, on the wharf, was blown off, car
rying most of the wharf holding the freight, with
her. They remained together in the stream fol
about three hours, when they parted and the whar
and freight foated down and lodged upon Pinto's
Island, where it still remains. The vessel is no
seriously injured
The wharf-owners are the heaviest losers by
this calamity. Most of the wharves are seriously
injured, if not entirely destroyed. A large expen
diture will be required to replace them in thei
former condition. The work of pulling apart pre-
paratory to rebuilding, has already commenced
We hear that the bridges across Three Mil,
Greek have been carried off, There are also re
ports of serious loss of life in that quarter but thu
particulars have not reached u.s. Every hour in
creases the list of the dead and swells the amour
OF property destroyed
IOeLUe o'clock, i've have Just returned
from visit to the overlooked district, and tn
prospects, is even more gloomy than supposed
The water has entirely receded, and left pictur
OF desolation beyond the power of language to por
tray. Water and Commerce streets are filled wit
hogsheads, barrels, boxes, and bales of every de
scrlPton Damaged sugar, coffee, bacon, flour
indeed, goods of every disappointing the streets
and the stores bordering them are undergoing tn
process of publication.