DREADFUL TORNADO AT NATCHZE.
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This devoted city is now mourning over, and
groanng under, one of the most dreadful casual
ties, by which any city ever visited. On
the 7th inst, tornado such as cannot be describ-
ed, passed over the city, laying it waste
Houses were blown down, trees uprooted, boats
in the river sunk, and lives, Gncluding that of
Judge Keeton,) to the number of probably Ave
hundred, lost. Property to the amount of nearly
two millions is said to have been DESTROYED
"Natchez under the Hill," is entirely desoa-
ted, with the exception Of five or six buildings
and on ''the hill" the two large hotels and three
churches are the most prominent buildings de-
stroyed, though scarcely house escaped injury.
We cannot even give outline of the vast
damage done. The tornado passed along, and
in its course destruction was visible. Such NOR
taity and waste of property, probably was never
known before, caused by the agency. The
citizens by the aid of the slaves of the neighbor-
ing planters, are busIy engaged in burying the
dead, iii digging from the ruins the killed and
dying, the wounded and disconsolate, the widow
and the orphan, the houseless and the ruined.
The Natchez Courier well remarks, 8" IF ever a
community deserved the sympathy of the coun-
try, and the bounty of the Government, it is
desoated, ruined Natchez."