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The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fifty dollars reward. (search)
The Freshet. --The river, though very high yesterday, did not rise within three feet of its greatest height in 1847. Communication was out off between Mayo's bridge and Vauxhall Island, and the latter could only be reached by boats. Haxall, Crenshaw & Co's flour mill, and the Manchester cotton and flour mills, were compelled to suspend work, owing to the flood. The stone embankment above the Danville depot was entirely submerged, and the water was nearly on a level with the stone embankment built to protect the lower end of Mayo's new warehouse; while a connection was formed between the Dock and river, some distance further down, on the line of 11th street. All the island and low ground below Rocketts, (as, indeed, a great part of that section of the city,) were covered with water. The companion to the "Virginia Dare," now building on the South side of the river, was introduced to her "natural element" before her builders would be willing to send her forth to "glide the water