The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-09-04
Graniteville.


ten by, the Presijent, of the Graniteville
Company TO "A stockholder. contains the full
particulars Of the extent of the damage
done by the late freshet:
y AUGusr 10, 1867.
DEAR SIR: We had the most disastrous
freshet last week, that was ever known in
Horse Creek All the mill dams above
here, and In the vicinity, have been swept
away. was absent in Columbia, attend
ing to the business OF the Psnitentiary, and
Yas,tsiegraphedr to retarn Immediately, as
our dam was badly broken. which found
to be the case. The rsin during wednes-
day was inoeseant, and my son James was
up all night in the rain, with ali the avail.
able, working force,on the dams. At two
o'clock, they conclpded that. all was safe:
but soon after the water, from dams which
gave way, above, came down and raised tho
water until It covered, the stone wall on the
canal bank from end TO end, ran over the
lower end and washed holes on both sides
Of the shore, went through the iron gate
middle Of picket fenoe ON canal bank, in a
stream six inches deep for an hour, was ON
the dam in fifty places. and running over
eighty before q o'clock but when the
rush came, II was thought advisable to cut
the dam in % cafe place, bpt that precautions
did not prevent its breaking in vital
point causing great damage, and which
will take two weeks or more 10 repair.
The cost to the company win probably
reach $4,000 or $6,oO0s Included in this
estimate Is the cost Of fine covered bridge
across the canal. WHICH was swept away
The large, public bridge just above the fac
tory In the Village was carried. away, ss
we'll as all our private BRIDGE about the
mill. Our lumber yard was swept clean Of
5000 or 5000 feet Of lumber. You ore
aware of our having q gate in the stone
dam of four feet diameter under twenty
feet head. which will discharge more thsn
ten times the volume of the creek at its or
dinaryi stage. The stone dam, le0 feet
wide where the water pours over, had four
feet depth of water on it.. AS coon as the
dam gave way, an expresswas sent t. inform
them at Kalmia. Mills and Bath Paper Mills.
The water was seven hours in ns progress
TO the latter point, so' that there was suf-
fcient time 70 draw down the pond and
save them, from disaster. The dam at Kali
mia Mile was not built acioss the creek
therefore they sustaiped but little damage.
AT Vauclpse. above Grsnitevilie, the, water
was higher by. three or four feet than ever
known before, even when their former, i'm
rhense pond was emptied by a breek in that
dam. The blacksmith chop and oil house,
alro the fine bridge there over Horse Greek.
were carried away, "A, fine new buggy.
which was, in the yauGluss iron. and wood
shop for repairs, was taken off by the flood.
and NOT yet found. Il may add, too. that
great 'amage %ss done 10 the Columbia
and Augusta, Railroad by the washing
away of a quantity of enrth.work, and
damage 70. bridges which had been COM
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| "WnAREAGE, DRAYAov,p &c.-A friepd in
the city,. a few days ago. handed us a bill
of charges sent him ly q Columbia mel :
ehapt,. The goods in question were tep do-
zen brooms. brought here by the Sea Gull
from Baltimore. and forwarded by the
South Caroline Railroad Company. From
the bill, we learn that the Baltimore whar:
age on these ten packages Was ten cents.
The Charleston wharfage ninety cents, and
the draxage sixty, five cents The Columbis
msrchs s6t complains Of these chargss, and we
were asked 10 look into the matter. We did
so and found the ninety eents charged for the
wharfage, 20 pc the ular rate--oniy nine
times rs much as In Baltimore, and three
times as much as In Savannah. A very
nice arrangements, certainly, for the whal
owners, but Il would seem 10 us, not one
calculated to attract trade to our city. The
clipper AYERS that he can even now get bis
goods from the North to Columbia. via sa.
vannah, Mt less expense than via Charleston
Notwithstanding the circuituusness Of The
routa. The drayage, We are Informed
should have been twenty-five and not sixty
five cent?. having been inadvertently charg
ed as full dray load. -.
We regret exceedingly that there shonlt
be any eause for complaints like these. tn,
trade Of this city ts threatened and tappe,
In SO many different directions, that the ut
most efforts, are necessary. on the par, o
our merchants, 10 correct abutes Of al
kinds; 80 ms 10 hold out inducements {
merchants to come here, instead Of rer eli
! ing them, and driving them off to otle
, markets and other ports. Charisston Nt,o.
Tnr following is letter from Hamiito,,
College Observatory. Clinton. N. Y, dates
, the 9th: - in.,i
Yesterday morning early, July Z. as
r tronopical date. new rtember Of The grouI
Of asteroids wss discovered here, In twenty