Delaware Gazette And Peninsula Advertiser

Since our last, all the Southern mails, (of which seven were due from the south of Richmond, and four only from that place) have been received, as well as the regular mail of yesterday. Their failure is but too well accounted for by the information they bring of the desolating effects of the late deluge. We learn, by letters from North-Carolina, that the great rain of the 8th and 9th, was as overwhelming and as injurious to mills, low-land crops, &c. in the middle region of that state, as it was north of it; and it appears—that the states further south, had also suffered considerably by previous excessive rains.

Instead of being surprised at the interruption of the mails, after leaving the general destruction of bridges, and the inundations of the numerous large water-courses for five hundred miles on the southern line, we should rather feel surprise that they were so soon restored to regularity, were we not well acquainted with the prompt activity of the Post Office Department on such occasions.

Nat. Int.