Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1870-10-06

AL the teams in the city were impress
sed to save the Tobacco much of which was
for the French and German governments.
With the exception of about $50 hogsheads
the tobacco was saved. inst here it was
found that the upper portion of the city
was in danger from the overflow of the can
al dam which immense body of water was
rushing and spreading above the banks.
The canal was cut two miles above the city
and the danger abated. In some portions
of the city the street lamps are under wa
ter. The city is in darkness tonight, the
gas works being submerged. ~
The loss of the merchants is greater
than it would have been if the tele grams
from Richmond announcing the flood had
been needed. 1t is probably 100000.
Persons well acquainted with the flooded
sections of the State then, including the
railroad losses, say the loss in the State is
four millions. Tonight the bridge on the
Richmond and Danville railroad still
stands, bus as the river is now still 20
o'clock) rising it is hardly believed it can
stand much longer. At Morris, large SUI
gar refinery the water bursted up the floors.
dropping all of the machinery intothe base
ment.
Ali the large cotton iron and Touring
mills employing 10000 hands have been
forced to stop operations. The city water
works have also been stopped being so
damaged hat they cannot be reached in
two weeks. The reservoir only contains
five days, supply for the city. All the ice
houses in the city are under the river
bank, and are twenty feet under water
The water is seven feet higher than ever
known before.
A dispatch from L~ynchburg says the
river is rising again.
RICHMOND, October 3.-The lexington
Gazette painfully announces that Gen. Lee
was stricken with paralysis on the 2Sth ult.,
since which time he has been altogether
speechless. The entire community are bo-
wed with sorrow at this afhiction to the old
hero, which they regard as a mournful
event to the State.
The weather is cold, with an occasional
rain. q. .
The food has gone down, and the mer-
chants are calculating their losses. 1t is
thought this morning that half a million
will cover the loss in the city. but not in
the towns above here.
The Legislature will adjourn from day to
day until a quorum can be obtained.
GREENWOOD, October 3.-Accounts are
coming in from this county. Albcmarle
represents the destruction of property as
immense. and many lives are lost. The
food in some instances swept away entire
families. The number of lives lost in AL
bemarle county, so far as heard FROM. are
fourteen. The amount of destruction of
grain tobacco barns fences cattle, hogs.
houses and mills is incalculable. The
number of mills and dams destroyed with
in the range of the food are about fifty.
The freshet was confined within the bor-
ders of the upper valley of Virginia. The
food was so great that it carried COWS and
pigs before it like so many chips of wood.
1t was particularly severe along the Oh esa-
peake and Ohio Railroad. At Shadewell
about a mile of the track was washed
There are some dozen land slides
between Gotham and Milboro and eight
or ten bridges swept away, The road is
damaged to the extent of 100000. At
the Mountain Top House on the summit
of the Blue Ridge Mountains the kitchen
was flooded with water.