The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-04-08

'ioi. wv. l.. MARCY, Secretary OF state Of
tic L. s., Washington.
GREAT FLOOD IL LICKING RIyER-S1 COO. 900
WORTH OF PROPERTY DEsTRoYED-On Thurs
day morning last. about o'clock. the rain
commenced to fall, and for thirty-six hours in
unbroken succession it came down in perfect
torrents: raising Licking river TO an unprcce-
denied height, which swept every thing in its
course, destroying. to an amount which, We
have reason to believe. will reach one million
dollars in the Licking valley
SCUM Llcklng at this place, was at least fiye
icct higher than 1t has ever before been known,
and from its source to its mouth there is not a
bottom but was entirely submerged, nor farm
on Its banks but what was more or less injured.
ny the loss OF fencing or crops. which were still
left standing in the fields. During the entire
day on Friday immense quantities of fencing,
inmber, corn shocks. hay stacks. &c, were seen
floating down at the mercy of the torrent of
waters; and accounts have reached us from
every direction of the heavy losses sustained
by our farmers. We hear of one gentleman in
Bourbon county, who lost forty barrels of whis-
key, besides large quantity of corn and other
grain, by the sudden rise of the waters upon
his premises. and scarcely farmer within the
influence Of the food can count his loss at less
than from iiTc hundred to one thousand dollars,
and ndmhe-s ":ll greatly exceed the latter sum-
We learn that the railroad bridge at Fal-
mouth was entirely submerged. but We are hap
py to learn it sustained no injury.
From the accounts that have reached us from
Main Licking. the flood there was even more
terrible and devastating in its consequences
than here, it having reached point at least
eight feet higher than was ever before known,
sweeping with 1t a tremendous quantity of fenc-
ing and produce lumber, &C., which came in its
way, submcrging entire farms, and even sweep
ing OIL numbers of houses of every description,
which were seen to pass down during the height
OF the flood. From Claysville we learn that all
the buildings on Tie street fronting the river,
were from three to five feet deep in water and
that only two or three buildings on the high
ground in that village were above the water.
The rise there WAS sudden and unexpected
having come in the night after the inhabitants
had retired to bed, and were awakened before
morning by the sound of the waters in their
houses, far above where it had ever reached at
any former rise. and in the morning the river
presented the spectacle of one vast sheet of
water. covering the entire bottom on which the
town is situated. and during the day immense
quantities of valuable lumber saw logs fenc-
ing, and produce of every kind, with OCCASION
ally house, passed down the stream.
The loss in the Licking valley, cannot fall
short of Sl,000,0OO, and when full accounts
have reached us, we would not be surprised to
find it exceeded that sum.
The water commenced subsiding on Satur-
day, and is now again down to its proper level.
--Cynfhidna .Ners.
JOHN N. Borrs.-Thc following is an extract
from letter of Hon. John NJ. Bolts, in the Ma
tional Inteligencer:
AS Southern man. raise my voice against
the Nebraska scheme. l oppose it because it
involves breach on the part of the South,
who for thirty odd years enjoyed the advanta-
ges obtained by them in the formation of the
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because it necessarily and unav oidably begets
another angry sectional controversy, which
there are none left among us strong enough in
the confidence of the people to allay. oppose
1t, because it uproots and destroys the Compro-
mise measures of 1850, to which the North is
no more pledged than the South, to the COM
promise now proposed to be abrogated. l op-
pcsc it, because it would be an act Of infatuat-
cd madness on the part of the South to accept
it. oppose it, because it will be impossible
ever again to obtain as favorable terms from
the North, with their seven millions majority
of white population. as when they more nearly
approxinated equality.
BENroN's OPINIoN-It is reported of Mr.. Ben
ton, that he says the Nebraska bill will be de-
feated. He declares he does not know how, but
that it will be. he is certain. He will speak.
but says he shall not speak out of order or over
his time. He wants but an hour to destroy it
before the people, and that hour he says he in
tends to occupy, for he says he will kill tho bill
and write its epitaph.
DEATH OF THE RHINocERos.-The large Rhin-
oceros, which has been exhibited for some time
at Driesbach's Menagerie, N. Y. died few days
ago. He had been eating hay all night, and
laid down and expired in dve minutes. He was
the only animal Of the kind in the the country, and
his owners valued him at $4,000.
DECREASE OF HE GOLD CROP.-The San Fran
cisco Herald compares the exports Of gold from
that mort for the months Of January and Feb.
nary. 1854, with the same months of 1858. and
shows a falling off of three millions six hundred
.Lo,.and dollars The cause of this decrease