The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-10-08
1 NUMBER ~.
Distressing aTrAsIset.

TIE moon is out Of lis piece, aud
SO IL its satellite the earth. We hate
made ~ o''t mind to be surprised and
taken abatk by nothing that can poe.
sibly come out The mouth Of the tnnn
strous times-nohhg short Of IN
earthquake to shake things to pieces,
and land the wreck on I'll. other side
"ob jordan" could disturb our pre-
sent e1uanilnity, which is the offspring
of resignation. Was ever 80 much
fire, fatnne, ,4estilence and other ills,
heard Of, IN so brief n period We
think not. There's wars in the East.
lawlassness in the West nadness nnj
folly in the North. and in the South
whi,lwiods taking off the tops oi
things and fresheis to drown tho
wreck parton Miller is right. The
world is burning up, is wearing out,
and drowning out, and it is useless.
perfectly useless to deny the fact
The True Delta furnishes us with
an account Of distressing freshet
i,nmediatel y east Of us and We expect
to wake up Tomorrow morning, aud
find the people Of that region all fright
side up and floating in upon us, by
way Of the Amte.
A gentleman from Pike County,
Miss, comes by way Of Covingtoh to
New Orleans and says: "tbat Wash
'ngtoo, 81. Tammany aud the nd
joining parishes have been visited by
one OF the most destructive freshets
that lever occurred in the Southern
country The rain commenced OH
Wednesday. the Goth nlto, and cor.
tinued without interrnission for six
days For the first three. days it
seemed rs If the food gates of heaven
were opened. and that a second deluge
was approaching. On Thursday, the
2lst inst, the Topasaw, Bouchitta
and McGee's Creek, and all tile pribs
cipal streams in That section Of the
country, rose eleven feet in seven
hours. st #
Several planters, with their wagons,
on their way to Covington were caught
il the storm and barely escaped with
their lives, leaving their teams TN tho
and when the rain ceased
the tops Of tho wagons only could be
seen The bridges on MI the prinei-
pal streams arc carried away, and
many mills destroyed. The only mill
left standing on any stream in the sec
tion Of country visited by tho storm is
that of Brasfeld, on Pearl river, and
that was only saved by the promptnoss
Of the proprietor in cutting away The
dams that supply the water power,
IN he saw the rapid rise Of the ada
cent creeks. At Covington the river
rose SO high that passengers could step
from the steamboat to the top Of tho
principal receiving warehouse in the
city.
The destruction Of The crops is i'm
mense. scarcely stalk of corn or cot.
ton left standing, and in many places
where the corn was gathered in the
farm yards, it was swept away. One
farmer had a large number Of beef cat
tle penned up in tho field, preparatory
o sending them to New Orleans, and
IN the second day of the storm the
water rose so high that they were all
lrowned. Our informant states that
he roads for seven days we're impassa-
Die, and that On one portion Of the
'oad between Holmesville and Coving-
on, he had to engage two pilots at
he rate of three dollars and half
nile, to steer him and bis horse over
he right path
The mail carrier, person named
Alexander Jones, who carried the
nail between IIolmesville and Covipg-
on woa ki1Icd hv toht,;no, IN A.