Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-03-02
From hs FSodsriek,Surg Mes.

From the FSedsriek,burg Nsw.
The Great May Fresh OF III.
We subjoin for tho OBLIGATION OF such of nm, rad.
interested In the subject the following .ceou,,
Of this awful visitation. II Is taken from tho yi,,i,i.
Gazette, published at Williamsburg by Dixon and Puddle
viii be seen ina, .ne writer uses tho word F,e1 every
Il was not italieissd in tho printed copy.
Virginia Gazette f'undie and Diron') June Oh
l77l. Published at WiLiam,Juro
| From Richmond. NO learn that they receive daily ac
casioned by tho late hoods From the 10 m.
valuable; and the soil Is much injured that Il though
not to TO OF half its former value and great pa IA en-
u,ey ruined. Ono instance may suffice: tract oil land
wh,rc tho river forks which before tho Frsh was Judged
10 DO richly worth thousand hounds Ia NOT nov r,od
80 many hundreds Fourteen negroes belonging To that
uh.S' we're drowned aud one house left out OF forty,
'n were SIXTY by forty feet. or ELK Island bet cen
h a"u seven hundred head OF cattle hogs horse. and
sceP have been lost, and hundred houses besdcs
W" uooaceo, Nc AZ Frrars Island which the hiphtst
r'e' never before affected above eighty acres oi Gne
and are rendered forever of cSlyat;on Tho I
o.'g gone anu ~ Its stead ten twelve feet dstp II
o , upon m"'sn layer Of stones as paved Many
o'h'r ishhus nave been torn pieces hills of a,nd
throNn up. channels stopped and their courscs aI,c.d
ana IN short the face OF Nature almost cbanveI OJ
S n"nSsa anu wei knosn negro fellow, the Fall,
o' James h'yer, wac l. intimately acquainted with tho
rrinans OF an Indian Nation that has resided tbcr. ,r
says that hc was shown by their old tho marks of ,Sn
greatest Fresh handed down to them by tr,dtion
and that upon his carefully measuring II wan,.d n... ~
teen feet oil the late ,Ir,,;h,I am. IL -. eur VI
sounded from the beginning of ,b, nercsyshi ,n",..s
In the rise of th, river ,n,, c,,n Increase,
highest upwards OF forty feet higher th, H. ~ n'
mon tides. Tie csscncd value of land, ioss oI s,L,
house. tobacco wheat and corn bo,s. LII y, oeh
crops on the groud baGlc all Dissertation Drrd's shol
E'cNruond, Rocky Ridge aud Warwick have sna rod ~
ma%'nSly, IN the loss OF merchandise aud tobacco be
sides houses &c. Between five aud six thousand Iogs
heidS oi tobacco are gone from these places Tho a.,
ueSs oi the people III Albrmarlc and those pas of Tho
couh'ty In the reach Of Feh are not TO Le described
most OF them being lett without bread TO eat or lveny
anu lnef stocks gone The trading part of ia, counI,~
haS likewise suffered extremely in European and Other
boou' as well Imports exports. The losses and y.,v
6' use.s OF Tue numerous sufferers call loudly for t,
'S'uoh aEd assistance Of tho Legislature; which no
'at respectable body will take into as early CON
as may be, and grant the immediate aud eee.
,ua 'e'e Nn'en Is SO much wanted. In some places
tce' cncascs &c are matted together from 10 m ou
e' III n.'St ahd from their horrd STENCIL there is
up vo''is near enough to separate them
@ .,, ~ v us season. VIC escape some coulagi.
Gus ulsorGcr. Miles IN LENGTH OF and LOGS cana
ss ro"n 'e rser anu nothing could Withstand their
rue 'oe' we're almost up to the bospus Of many
80 .,nt 'ner anchors could not avail them aud
were chiefly lost. There Tdims TO sneak Of Ar
enonu anu Whereabouts, so that they have ialen
n ',e mountains 70 about thirty or forty miles above
'' s. FROM the INST erceivable rise OF tho river at