Richmond Enquirer

GREAT FRESHET.

New York, February 20.-From the papers received by the last Eastern mail, it appears that the June rains has been very destructive to bridges on the Connecticut river, and tributary streams. The Bellows Falls Intelligencer, says, that so rapid a rise of the river, is not within the recollection of the oldest inhabitants of that place. At Bellows Falls the water was thirty-five feet above low water mark. At Windsor, it raised fifteen feet above the level of the preceding day. The river at this time exhibited an imposing spectacle, bearing along with its icy crown, immense quantities of lumber, fragments of bridges, logs, and in some instances whole rafts of boards and shingles.

Bridges, &c. destroyed on the Connecticut river:

The Bridge between Walpole and Westminster; Westmoreland Bridge, between Westmoreland and Putney; Cornish bridge, between Windsor and Cornish; Cheshire bridge, between Charlestown and Springfield; Lyman's bridge, between Hartford & Lebanon; Brattleborough bridge over the east Branch; Northampton bridge; the bridge at Montague, opposite Greenfield; five bridges on William's river, viz. two in Rockingham and three in Chester; a bridge on Waterquechy river; several bridges on the Ashuelot; three bridges in Acworth on Cold river, and a fourth much injured; Republican bridge, at Salisbury, on the Merrimac; Federal bridge at Concord, on do.; bridge over Mill river, near Windsor: bridge near Hartland Village, and part of the new woolen factory, erected a little below on the same stream, occupied by Mr. Surtevant, together with a considerable amount in machinery, is destroyed; the two lower bridges across Quechee river were carried away, and the bridge at White River village is damaged to the amount of 4 or 500; White's woolen factory, on Black River, in Cavendish, Vt. is also swept off and all the bridges, except two, in Springfield, Vt. and all the mill-dams, except one, from that to the mouth of the river, shared the same fate; all the bridges across White's and Sexton's rivers, in Rockingham, are carried away; the dam on the Connecticut, at the mouth of Miller's River, and the locks at that place are almost wholly destroyed—the great dam, connected with the locks below, is materially injured We also learn, that the great dam at South Hadley Falls, is carried off—loss estimated at 25,000 dollars.

Since the above was in type, we have received the following additional particulars: On Contoocook River, four bridges in Henniker, and a number of mills, among them one lately erected by R. M. Wallace, Esq. at an expense of 3000, were carried away. On Winnipissiogee river, two bridges near Smithville, and one at Sanbornton village, together with dams and mills carried away. Besides which, the bridges at Newbury, Vt. at Newport, at Warner, four bridges in Weare, and two at Bradford, are either carried away, or rendered impassable. The upper Presumpscot bridge, in Maine, was swept away, and the lower has lost one pier. A bridge and grist- mill on the new road to Scarborough, and a tolling mill on the road from Saccarappa bridge to Broad- rivern, were also carried away by the sudden rise of the streams, and violence of the wind. [Com. Adv.