Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-09-10
EFFECTS OF TIE LATE STORM.

disastrous effects of the Storm on Sunday the
3lst August. We append below several en-
tracts from our exchanges, giving accounts Of
the, rain and storm.
The Augusta Coasthutionalist, of the Cd inst,
says:
In every portion of the country we have
heard from. the storm has been very disastrous.
Every mill dam on Buffers, Spirit, and Rocky
creeks, have given way before the angry floods
The bridges on the common lhorougillares
through the country, even over small streams,
have been either damaged or swept away. The
canal Mt Bclville Cotton Factory brnke, and
carried off the Machine aud Blacksmith Shops
the dam at Richmond Cotton Factory Was
broke; and the bridge on the Plank road, below
the Factory, was hoated off, and also several
bridges on the line of the Plank road.
The Georgia Railroad elnbankment, in TWO
or three places, was injured by the swollen
streams, and detained the trains several hours,
but the damage was soon repaired, and the
trains are now running regularly.
AS high up the Georgia railroad, as we have
any intelligence frcm, the rains, on Sunday.
wero very severe.
We understand thai the dams at Vaucluse
Cotton Factory, canal 1t Granlterllle Factory,
and all the dams of al! the Saw Mills on HORSE
creek ore broke. The creek is said 10 have
been higher than ever before known.
We have heard that the destruction to crops
in Beach Island is considerable.
BY passengers from Savannah, we understand
the storm was yer" severe ,hcre-and up at
Macon also. Tie greeks on the Central rail.
road are very full, md some arrangements on
the Wayncsboro' ra!lrcad:
MicoS, September 2.-1'here has been 4
great deal Of Sain in this vicinity during the
past week, ard the weather is now quite cool
On Sunday i; rained without intprmissicn for
thu whole day, accompanied by very severe
wind that did considerable damaged in blowing
down trees, fences, walls, &r.
The crops about here are almost entirely ruin.
ed by it. The river is very tul'.-TelegTsrn
THE WEATHER, &c.-Since Saturday We
have had fall and falling weather, accompanied
by heavy Northeast gale. On Sunday evening
the thermometer fell tc 65 degrees, and fires
have been comfortable.
Sauda River rose within four feet of The
great freshet of 1852, but the Congaree has not
been so high.
On the South Carolina Raiiroad, The sand
washed down and covered the road at Single
tons True Blue place, which caused the dcien.
,ion of the Charleston trains yesterday 10 a
late hour. There was no connection of the
night train from Augusta, or The morning train
from Camden.
On the Grcenvile road, We learn that about
eighty fee, uf trcssel work and two bridges be-
tween Aston and Hnpo Station have been car
riej away. Between hs latter point We hav.
no MISUNDERSTANDING.
ORAxGEEuEc, Sept. 3.-From Thursday to
Monday, a severe Storm Of wiTd and rain pre-
vailed throughout our District, which we learn
has occaSiuned much injury to the crops. Cot
ton has been damaged 10 Il serious extent by the
wind. which, ut ore time equallcd III severity, an
cqunoc,ial gale, and those planters who have
deferred pulling fodder TO tho present season
will lose large portion of their crop.-South-
ron.
EQuMocrHL GALE-Sa,urdny night about
II o'clock lbe wind began TO blow from the
northeast, and in short time it was acconlI'a-
nicd with slight rain, which continued moderate
ly ill about daylight Sunday morning, when
the wind became stronger, and the rain began
10 fall with soaking force, which had not abatcd
when our paper wen; to press ut five o'clock
yesterday evening. During the day much dam
ane was done 10 the shade trees throug Iout the
city, many being blown down and others much
mulli!ated. Columbus Sun, Sept /.
MACON. Sept. 3.-On Sunday last we were
visited with one of the most violent storms OF
rain and wind that we have Witnessed for many
years. 1t commenced early in the morning and
continued about fourteen hours. during MOS, o!
which time the rain fell in torrents, and the wind
blowing Il Violent gale. Many of The shade
trees in our streets and yards were prostialed,
or their limbs broken and foliage stripped of.
Many fences were blown down aud some dam
age done 10 buildings. Both corn and cotton
crops are seriously injured and in the river and
low grounds they have been submerged TO Il
great extent.
THE FLOOD 1T AIKEN-The following letter
(says the Charleston Courier,) from the agent
of the Bath paper mills, near Aiken. s. c.. gives
soma account of the disastrous effects of Tie
late freshet aud storm on the milling and manu-
featuring interests Of that vicinity:
AIKEN, ). G., September 2, 1856.
81 xm sorry TO have to inform yon of the
effects of the storm of Saturday and Sunday.
TIE rains so swelied The CREEKS as to carry away
every dam on the streams around here except
ours, which left standing last night and all
safe Mt 4 o'clock, although we had hard fight
for it ali day; we had To cut u breach in our
canal bank To help vent the water to save W..
which viii stop Us about ten days. have for
tunatey paper enough to fiji! our orders abroad.
sOur dam stood all the hard rain with perfect
safety, but the breaking of all the dams above
us-VaucIuse, Granville, and several SAW mills
the waters of which being 80 suddenly thrown
upon us. was as much az We could stand. The
damage at Grani,evillc is very great, every
bridge in the town carried away, and other se-
rious damages"
DISH ARD Or DEATH II, is curious to watch.
as have done. the utter contempt Of death with
which the Turkish soldier marrhes 10 meet tho
foe; be knows that his destiny has been fixed
since the day Of his birth; he knows that he
must die whenever his lime comes, and that
whole park of artillery would miss him, if his
destiny so decrees it; finally, he knows that if
he fall in battle, he will go sraig aightway TO Para
dise-and won't he be better off there than in
this world of cares? The same feeling, indeed,
predominaes with the Turks whenever the ap-
proach of death is felt have seen them dying
here in the hospitals, and the ealmness of their
de,neanor would shame many 4 Christian; let
them vnce be persuaded that they are booked
for another world, and the surgeon may lock up
his nedicaments again-no persuasion will IN
duce the Turk to attempt to Illustrate the designs
of Providence.
~ TIE Chinese seem to think dancing useless
fatigue When Commodore Anson was at Canton,
the officers Of the Centurion had ball upon some
u. u ~. A. L.