New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-16
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z The Savannah has b etter dated
3sse, August rom xtgact HE
sin regard 70 tIe storm
Quite gae isj just sulsiding feYe IT, commenced
yesterday evening absat and bIe
hard during Che viii heavy rim Isfi3 Iiiolg
ming the wind Increased I'll yioIefee sS blew al
heavy gats. l2 began ID lult, and
il pretty well The streets III Pa
lahaasee present melancholy appearing garss aTd
beautiful shade trees are several tin
age torl ~ 5he gaoie of one end of
10, some OF the windows snas1ed and MistsY osner
buildings are slightly damaged. The most serious
DANA however, is done to the beaati ifnE Shade fsf
very few Of which has escaped Beng fotassY des
mofshed. No person IbeIfeye has beer hdrt il I'M
supposed that much damage has been .done To ltfe
crops, and the result upon coast IT ii lY
has been disastrous.
The aATahulla Times, which ID pah lialled at New
port town on HE st. Marks river, few miles from
the village Of So. Marks has tho ID regard
to the gaIe in that vicinity $Ssl3
were visited on Saturday night last by Il 1leayy
gale The Wind blew fresh oil Saturday and HAT
night, from east and southeast, Until Sunday morning
about when it came i from the South alsi
continued from tat iYestiam until abofs Gpaat
when it Veered to- the southwest. During thu whole
Of that time the water blown from tie Gulf to
the Apaacheo Buy; and from thence into the sc.
Marks and Wakna rivers, overrunning their banks
and aiding over the surrounding coantf IA until
it had risen about nine feet above high water mark
and within about ten Inches of the hefgh reached
in the gale of 1851. Z ,js sSSs S8
The weather for two days previous indicated als
approaching storm onr citizens had Iiaele
preparation for auently but little damage has
been sustained by the goods I'M our stores aud
houses. The Wliaryes have silstained damage
fbus can be easily and speedily s&
AT st. Marks the wharves and one Of the cotton
sheds were injured and some small fences
ete., carried away. About 800 yards of the raroad
washed up. &
The schooner Halleck, at SO. Marks. went ashore,
and is now lying across the mouth Of the hayos.
The steamer New Boston, about . nile above
ST Marks, was not injured. 8i
We learn that there WIS no damage sustained }by
the st. Marks liz
From Shell Point We learn that consde injury
has been done the otton crop, and the blowing
down OF fences. ss s5
we published. some days since Az the
effects Of the gale at 81 Andrews Bay, which was
furnished Us by d seaman ofs tie schooner
That account, AS d matter off course, vas quite
vague and Imperfect. From d letter which w III
the Mariana Patrio ot dated ST. andrews Bay, Sept
/ findall the particulars ]: M gi
On the night Of the Both and morning Of the slst
We visited by the sevefest storm ever known in
/ the annals of this place s.#
f. The wind blew i'll gilt and untiI abont D o'clock
in the morning, Weeping during the time from north
day breaking ten feet above some Tie hiils
visible from the town Of these iilsaTe moi
less than twenty-five feet high. In many places ttle
j wateE came rolling in over the narrow Of land
which separates the Bay and Gulf great volumes
\ The tide rose about nine feet above the ordinary
height. II has cut away the bluff within eNtsei
of many of the houses-caTred away every boat and
4 fisrhouse bath.house and wharf from the beach
1 broken and ruined many boats 3sss
Among the wrecked are the Black Sal Bette Han
ter and Pete, belcngi to Capt. Old
4 aud Dog Fish, belonging to 6s. Bakef:: Sinof
Il Peter, T. Goodwin, Fish Hawk, Duke Dickson, and
\ others. Among the INJURED are the Pelican phgr
Fashion and atsey Honey the missing are the Clip
II sey, Eula and sloop Mary aWTence, The sehoonei
Visitor belonging TO Messrs. Yonge, Wondfn b co.
parted her cable near the Hentz Mills, and now He
about one hundred and fifty yards up in the PIN
woods, on the west side Of the Bay, about two mile
fronlthe ls.s The Hills are but little damaged
the stack and roof being blown off abont fee
8. of lumber and some stocks have dEifted away. N
lives have been lost, nor has any one been hurt.
q have not heard from East Bay: 4g
\ The Madison Messenger says ~ & s5
|s a very severe storm occurred on Saturday nigh
q and continued until noon Sunday, With the excep
tion OF one chimney fences and trees being blowi
down, no damage was sustained in olll town. th
a country, however, we believe, much dnmag Was done
Il. Whitlock Esq, we learn, had his gin house anl
i other property destroyed to the amount Of abotl
\ $1,000. n: g q.