--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1839 to 1840. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 1 number: 7 published: 1840-05 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“From the Natchez Free Trader, of May 11,” *Times and Seasons* 1, no. 7 (May 1840): 105–106." printed_title: From the Natchez Free Trader, of May 11. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n07.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 start_page: 105 end_page: 106 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 publication_year: 1840 --- # From the Natchez Free Trader, of May 11 What we wrote on Friday, the day after the calamity, has since proved far to low a computation and far to faint a sketch of the ruin which has befallen our noble spirited, yet devoted City. The estimate of a little more than a million and a quarter of dollars for the damage done to the buildings merely may be nearly correct for the compact part of the city; but to cover the loss of merchandise, provisions, goods of various kinds and furniture destroyed there should, in the opinion of some of our practical and clear headed men, be at least, four millions more added-making the entire loss of property in the city of Natchez more than FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. This estimate, we believe to be Strictly within the bounds of moderation. The immence [immense] quantity of pork, bacon, butter, lard and vegetables lost at the landing, swept into the deep and oblivious river, would astonish any one not acquainted with the nature of our trade. Many of our large ware houses and furnishing stores, having lately been crippled and restricted in their operations, the most of the supplies for city, county and the adjacent counties have been derived from the Natchez Landing; these now, with a very few exceptions, are whelmed in the ruins, or lost in the waters.