The Kentucky Gazette

EDENTON, August 20.

Extract of a letter from Washington dated August 13.

"The accounts you have had of our distress may have been exaggerated, but that is scarcely probable. The following are the particulars:—The wind blew fresh at E. and N. E. all Saturday, with showers of rain. At 12 o'clock at night it began to blow violently, and at day light the tide was above four feet above common tide, and continued to rise until 12 o'clock, by which time it was from eleven to twelve feet above common tide, & covered the whole town, a very few spots excepted—swept off all the ware houses, and stores from the wharves—and herrings and other articles which went off with them, has been found sixteen miles up the river, where the tide rose seven feet and ran up with great rapidity. Seven vessels were drove on shore, one of them lost and several of the others will cost as much as they are worth to get them off.

"I think the losses at this place cannot be estimated at less than 40,000 dollars; and I much fear that sickness will make worse havoc than the storm, for the stench from the wet corn, peas, tobacco &c. added to the pools of stagnant water and drowned stock, is intolerable."