Correspondence of the Pnlillo Ledger.
White Svi.fiidr Sprinusi, July 31, 1813.
Tlic first thin? that every ono (Ion, iifVor
picking Ills cabin, and following his bnggnge a
crns the green to his tenement, is to ask "for
the Springs," and start ofT down the slope to
wards it. Now there in but little need to ask
where is the Sprine, for if within a hundred
yards of it, only ''follow yew oc" and vmi
come to the snot. "First impressions are stron
gest," it is said. If so, mine were vrry strong;
when I brought up at the edge, and looked down
into the pure and limpid basin, 1 verily
thought I had trodden into n nest of addled
eggs ! Most portentiotis and diabolical of smells,
is sulphuretted hydrogen ! You have ridden,
however, four hundred tnilesto pet at this res
ervoir of sweet; and with grim desperation
you seize the rattan dipper with a tumbler in
the loop, and plunge it in the spring ; as you
bring up the tumbler to your month, the indig
nant nose curls upwards you force an agoni
zing grin there are half a dozen seasoned
boarders watching your foce you give one des
perate gnlpb, and down slides the water, rah!
( Jim barrel rinsings arc palatable to this ; "Some
civet, good apothecary." You feel like chew
ing a piece offmffaiJn to sweeten your breath,
and you pelt headlong up hill, in horrid con
sternation at your fate, of being doomed to
drink such "damnable decoctions." And this,
oh reader, is yourfrtt drink at the White Sul
phur. It comes to pass, however, and it is a refresh
ing illustration of that novel remark, "that
tastes dificr," that at your next trial, you find
under the dome a group of Indies. See ! abso
lutely, that delicate girl has a tumbler full at
her mouth, and with the crook of the elbow, in
passes, " 'twixt her pearly teeth," the sulphur
water. What, again! Even so ; another dip,
and another quaffing, and then a rich-ringing
voice peals in your ear "how refreshing it is!"
If every feminine hero be not a "Brimstone
Hess" there is no virtue in sulphur, and all
matches matrimonial, here made, are blessed
by Lucifer, past doubt. Strange as it may
reem, in some three days' time you take to the
water, or rather it takes you, and from thence,
henceforward, you suck iti the distilment like
mother's milk, to the rate of 6oine dozen half
pint tumblers per day.
Next to the water in strangeness, stands the
"band" what does the harmonies. As wind in
struments they are unsurpassed. All the bulls
of Buslian, with each his particular colic, could
not so roar and groan like that trombone and
horn. Banks blow up, so do steamboats, and
ditto locomotives; "bilers" have been known to
"bust," and history Tecords an exploded frog,
but that leader cannot blow out ! They play
you into dinner too for the express purpose, no
doubt, of setting your teeth on edge. I have
heard many melodies, but never, until of late,
did I hear Jim Crow, Hail Columbia, the Cra
eovienne and the Mnrseil'cs Hymn, mixed up
like chowder for an original melody.
Touching the table and fare the great re
source of this pleasurr-l.unter I am constrain
ed to say, it it vrry bail. This failure in eat
nbles Iirs always been the fault of this place,
and, so long as it remains in its present own
ership, will probably always continue. The old
Mr. Caldwell gives no attention, ami his seven
eons, having each his particular hubby, appear
to regard the Springs as established for the
purpose of finding them in company and pocket
money. The cooking is infamous nothing
well boiled, baked or roasted, that I have yet
found, and no variety. Wo have no venison ;
but plenty of hot bread, tough beef and mutton,
with potatoes, form the standing dishes. The
tables are clearly served, and thus far there has
been enough, sveh as it is. The pastry is hot
pies, of green apples and dried peaches, with
lar-formed chunks of stubborn paste, seared on
their top9 with a drop of sweetmeat ; and cal
led tartt. The crying evil", however, are the
private servants and private dishes-two shame
ful abuses at a public table. A wealthy inva
lid brings his servant with him at his chair back,
and the sole business of this harpy is to pillage
the tablo of its best viands for his master's ben
efit. Those who bring no servants soon disco
ver "this won't do," and bribe the waiter in their
vicinity, who runs oft' to the kitchen, selects
a dish, brings it before you, and the dish is your
"private property," being specially paid for
and you are justified in "kicking up a shindy"
with any interloper in your mess. Besides
these, there are a set of young pert, and impu
dent mulatto girls, who cater for tl.e various
inmates of the cabins who do not choose, or
cannot come to meals ; and these damsels race
about the dining loom, emptying a milk pitch
er here, carrying off a butter plate there, and
foraging in all quarters for their waiters, which
you soon perceive balanced on the head, and
crossing the green. Now if a man does not
bribe or behave like a wolf, and snatch and
growl while he is eating what becomes of him?
I advise no dispeptic to come here unless bis
pockets be full, and it is to me a serious ques
tion, if the benefit I derive from the water be
not counterbalanced by the errors of diet I must
commit, or else starve. Ureal is tho pity that
this beautiful place should be thus injured.
The bedding and rooms are excellent, and so
is the other attendance, but the "table has ever
been, 1 am told, bad and is the cause of the
gradual decay this place is undergoing. I hear
there is a prospect that the property will pass
into other hands; Heaven speed it, say I, it it
reforms the dining nom. Mr. King, the gen
eral manager of tit place is a courteous gen
tltman, civil and obliging, and well merits all
thi puibo lit ucti.ef, and 1 lay the tins of tha
VM W-l. '-'JLHB1" '!, .JJ."JL-'
dining room on other shoulders than his. Tho
fault is with the proprietors, for all the other
Springs have excellent tables ; they deserve to
be lsKbed.for they charge the highest, and have
been remonstrated with over and again, that
if they would not give a rich table, at least to
set a plain table of well cooked fix!. To which,
the answer is: "We sell you the tealcr and
true you tho enting!"
THE AMERICAN.
9 deletion unci Rritnfi
The N. Y. Courier says i
"On Thursday night, between ten and eleven
o'clock, a she re bent rowed by one man, and
containing a young female, came alongside the
U. S. ship Independence, lying ofT Ellis' Island,
and on being hailed, the female desired to know
if Midshipman , was on board. On being
answered in the affirmative, she insisted upon
seeing him, but the officer of the deck, told her
it was impossible, ns not only the regulations
of the ship, but the rules of the service forbade
it. She urged, implored and entreated, but the
officer, actuated by a stern sense of duty, was
still compelled to adhere to his original resolu
tion of refusing her admittance on board. Find
ing that he was inexorable, the young girl,
without a moment's thought, sprang from the
boat, in which she had been standing, and sunk.
A seaman who had been standing in the fore
chains, listening to the girl's conversation, saw
her make the spring, and as she touched the
water he sprang overboard after her, end a few
lusty strokes brought him to the spot ns she a
rose. He seized htr, and holding her up, the
shore bont dropped along side of them and took
in the unfortunate girl and her gallant pre
server.
The officer of the deck had her brought on
board, and surmising that something extraor
dinary must have occurred to induce the fe
male to attempt suicide, he summoned the first
lieutenant. When he reached the deck he
drew from her a history of the causes which
brought her out at that hour of the night in
such a place, and it was ono of love, confidence,
ruin, and subsequent desertion.
The Midshipman who was the cause of the
poor girl's troubles was cal'ed on deck, and
being confronted with her, was at once rceog
nized. What steps the first lieutenant then
took with the recreant officer we are ignorant
of as yet, but the young girl was sent on shore,
having first given her address, with the assur
ance that full and ample justice should be done
as soon as the Commodore arrives.
Saturday, August 1?, '.843.
djT Fom Sam:. A fresh supply of printing pa
per, viz: 100 rcims similar in size and quality to
the sheet on which this is printed. Also 60 roams
nf m per royal, 21 by 29 inches, all of which will
be ml J at the mill price.
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ruS Tilt AMiniCAV.
Stats IwrnovrMSiiTS uhited at Private
EsTinpnisr. Next to the Erie Railroad, we
know of no improvement which U of so much
importance to tho Southern and Western part of
New York as the completion of the Wilhamisport
and Eltnira Railroad. This road, 25 mites of
which are already completed and in operation,
unites the Chemung division of the Eric ('anal at
Elmira with the Pennsylvania Cmal at Williams,
port. The road passes through the iron and coal
region of Pennsylvania, and will afford altogether
the cheapest and best route for the conveyance ot
there articles i'lto the western nnd middle parts ul
New York ; while plnsti r and salt will find its way
from this Slate, over ihe samo Mail, into the hra t
of Pennsylvania. We are informed that it is in
contemplation to push the work n to completion
without del.iv. We will rerur to the subject a
gain in a day or two. .V. V. Tribune.
Bhitisii Eumonaijf. The New York Herald
fnys: -We have in our hand a cireu'ar of the
Euglith government, signed by Lord Aberdeen, and
addressed to all its eoninu'rci.d and other agent in
this country, requiring the most minute information
in relation to slaves and slavery in all its details
the physical force of the negroes their relations to
lluir masters their general treatment, general
character and propensities, Ac. A r with very foil
statement as to sources of informs ion, means of
judging, Ac. The end and object of all this espi
onage has not transpired; hut it is pregnant with
meaning, if we consider the many points in dispute
between the two countries. The circulars appear
to have been issued immediately on the promulga
tion of the threat in the I'nitcd State Senate in
rcla'ion to the Oregon question.
f V. fl. Palm, Esq,, at hi Real Estate and
roil office. No. .19 Pine Street. Philadelphia, is ati
lhoried to art as A cent, nnd to receive and receipt
for nil monies due this office, for subscription or ad
vertising. (EJ On nur first page will he found a number
of interesting articles. A mono; them H a letter
purporting to be written by Audubon, from the
Rocky Mountains, de-cubing a new species of ani
mal, which he discovered. The whole thing is of
course hoax, as glarirnr, nnd about as probable as
the celebrated moon stoiy.
flj Ghkat Ftoon. In another column we
publish an account of one of the most destructive
flo ds that has ever occurred in this state. The
ruin, though heavy in this neighborhood, did no
damngc that we have heard of, hut on tho contra
ry is exceedingly beneficial to the growing crops.
Great damage was done in Philadelphia by un
r ofing a numhirnf houses and demobi-hing others.
Forty or fifty vessel, lying in the harbor, were
more or lts injured. The greatest violence of
the tornado wa, however, spent in and about Chei
ter. Upward of fifty bridges were carried away,
and in some instances, bouses swept off by the flood
before the inmates could escape.
During the Sessions on Monday last, Judge
Donnel distinctly stated, while pis-big sentence in
a cae of Assault end Battery, that hereafter, in all
such crises when the person is convicted, he will
have meicd out to him, not only a fine, which has
been the usual punishment, hut an order, by which
fie will be enabled to t ike boirding and lodging in
the jail, and familiarize him-elf w'ph the rules and
reculatinns of li e Institution over which Shi riff
M.iurer, at present, presides.
dj Co son us. The democratic convention of
ilelegHtet to nomin.Ve a candidate fur Congress,
met at New Berlin, on Monday las'. The Hon.
Jonx Ssrnr.n was nominntrd by the large vote of
2C to 10 over Ids competitor, Gen. Abbot Greene.
The township delegates for this county will he e
lected this day, (Saturday.) and assemble in con
ventinn on Monday next, at the court house, in this
place.
j" Csios Cocstt. Cul. Reber was almost
unanintou-'y nominated by the delegate eonven
tion, for Assembly. Henry C. Eycr, E-q. was e-
lectt d the senatorial, and John dimming, jr, the re
presentalive Delegate to the convention, to be held
at II iirik'. uig un the fiih nf Scpteinlwr, to nominate
candidates for canol cnn.nrstioncrs. Wm. Canv ron
Esq and Cupl. John I'orster were appin'cd con
gressi nnl conferees, to meet the conferees nf No-.
thumht Hand, Lycoming and ITu.ton counties.
(Jj Usioi Stab. This p.iper, formerly con
ducted by Israel Gutelius, has passed ir.to the huud
nf. Michael H. Weaver, Esq Mr. Weaver is
shiewd und inti lligent observer of events, and will
no doubt conduct the Star with ability, and credit to
himself.
At I meeting of lbs members of the Oar of Nor
Ihumberland county, held in the court house in
Bunbury, August Oth, IR43, Hon. Chahi.s O.
Dor siei was called to the choir, and Jama Pol
lock, Esq. appointed Secretary. The object of the
mi eting having been stated, the following preaml le
and resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Whereae we have heard, with much regret, of the
death of Joscrit Evtnnn, Esq., a member of the
Dar of this county. Theref re
Resolved, That whilst wo deplore the sudden
nnd unexpected death of our late fellow member,
Joseph F.vcrard, I'nq., whne amiable and gentle
manly deportment endeared him t nil who knew
him, we would still bow in submission to the dis
pensations nf that Providence, whose ways, though
mysterious, are always just and wise.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathise with tho
lereaved widow of the deceased, and his aged and
widowed mother, and would commend them to the
protection nf that God who has promised to be the
husband of the widow, the orphan's stay and the i
stranger's guide.
Resolved, That the members of the liar be rc
quested, as a testimonial of respect to the memory
of tho deceased, to wear crape on the left arm for
thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings.
aigncd by ihe officers, be forwarded to the widow
and mother of the derea-ed. C. G. DONNEL.
James Pollock. Chairman.
Secretary.
A CnARi.rsTovsi flov. It happened at the
commencement of the late war, when the Kng-
lish held possession of Boston, that a garden of
c widow woman in Charlcttown, lying near
Charles River, was wont to he robbed at night
by some one who passed in a boa I. Her son,
a mere boy, nnd little of his age, asked lea ve for
finding out and securing the pilferer, in case
he should return, which being grantedi he con
ceoled himself with a gun among the weeds. A
British gf nndicr, a strapping highlandcr, came
and filled his large bag ; when he had it on his
shoulder, the boy left his covert, came softly be
hind him, cocked his gun and called out to the
fellow, "You ere my prisoner ; if you attempt
to throw down your bag, I will shout you dead ;
go forward in tlint road." the boy kept close to
him, threatened, and was always prepared to
execute bis threat. Thus the boy drove him
into the American camp; where ho wbs secur
ed. When the grenadier wasat liberty to throw
down the bag, and saw who had made him pri
soner, he was most horribly mortified, and ex
claimed "A JJritibh grenadier made prisoner
by such a btat ! by such a brut !
Girls who rat heartily love heartily also so
says lbs Aurora a fact which eUabli.he re
markable sympathy between the stomach and the
bean.
Two Pirates, named David Bulie and Geo.
Mathews, were arnstcd a few d.iys since in New
Yoik, by the marshal.
(jTh Boatmen on ihe Lehigh refuse to roine
to any terms whatever, except mic!) as lliey choose
to dictate. The employers have agreed to pay
them hereafter in par funds, but they refuse, un
less higher rates nf freight are also given. The
Boatmen have blocked up the navigation wi h
their h a's, and refuse to permit any one to pass.
The civil authorities are not ttrong enough to act
in the matter, and the military r fuse to take any
part. On Wednesday lust, ihe D. rectors of the
C'i inpany held a met ting, at which they resolved
that on Saturday they would ca-e to male any
luither attempt to conciliate the boatmen, but pro.
ceed al once to slop all business, by drawing ihe
waiei from the cunul, and discharging all the Illinois,
laborers, and lin k tender in tin ir employ.
(Jj Cloaks, il seems, are not la hiohable in Ire
land, except with the poor women, many of whom
have nothing hut a blanket to cover themselves
with.
Mr. Weed, the editor of the' AII'Bny Evening
Journal, who is now travelling in Eurn has writ
ten several entertaining letters from Irel.nd. In
his last letter, dated at Dublin, he furnishes the fols
lowing am rdole ;
"The uiU'rnoon was wet and cold. In going
out, I wore my cloak prised more from the
tact that it was a New Year's present (in lK!"i)
from much valued Whig friends, than tor its
intrinsic value. Finding myself an object of
that attention that proves any thing but agreea
ble, 1 returned to the Hotel, and asked the ci
vil porter who stands in the hull, what there
wnsutxiut mo that niaUe people stare ! 'its
your honor's cloak, sir. Sure, it is a very da
cent garment, but the giiitlemen have given
them up inlirely. Nobody wears cloaks now,
hut the ioor women creatures' So that in this
particular, at least, 1 shall havs to change my
habit."
They make neaily million and a quarter
yards ofcotion clolh at Lowell, per week ; employ
uhout 'JtidO operatives (C:)73 females) and use
j 434,000 II. of raw cotton per week. The annual
amount of raw cotton used is 2?.S6S,000 lb., e
noub to load SO hips of 350 Ions each, and of
Pretty Cn-dKu txchange papir asks, Why
U a chiiken pie like a gunsmith's shop 'and an
swns, Dicaue il con'ains fuul in piiees.
,ot Deud, Hut Mwried Msjor Nh's new j cotton minufactured, 70,375,910 yards 100 lbs.
paper bus been united with the Sunday Timet. i of cotton will product' (9 yard of cloth.
sisrELLm.
Rilltorlnl, Condensed and Selected,
The Locusts have entirely disappeared from
Virginia.
A canal boat arrived at Rochester, N. Y., from
Buffalo, with 3500 bushels of wheat.
Senator Tallmadgo and family are in Wiscon
sin, and think of settling near Mllwaukie.
Willis insists that D'Orsay nnj Dlessington are
in this country. Who killed Cock Robin 1
The editor of the New Haven Daily Herald, his
pears, taken from a tree full two hundred years old
Bountiful Thm nt ion. messenger, says the
Christian Watchman, enierd the rooma of ihe Ge.
neral Assembly's Board of Foreign Missiona in New
York, and counted out ten one thousand ditllitr
bank nntiis, saying it was for ihe mission to China,
and no questions were to be asked as to the donors.
The New York Express says that the owners
of the steamers Purt'and nnd Fairfield, are to re.
ceive J4000, for lowing the U. S. ship Franklin
from New York to Boston.
Lemonade Sugar. An establishment for Ihe
manufacture of thi article has been opened in New
York. This sugar, with which the acid juice of
the lemon is chemically combined, needs only lo
be put into water to make excellent lemonade.
A grocer of Cincinnati w as tecently mulcted in
fftO f .r kicking a man, named Uung, out of his
store. The defendant remarked thai he thought it
hard that he ehould be fined for using his foot us a
llungstarler.
Paying Dear. A leading member of the
French Chamber of Deputies, asserted in a late de
hate that the death of each Arab, in ihe war at Al
giers, had cost Fiance thiity-lhree men and one
bundled and fifty thousand fanes.
A beggar, CO years old, was recently arrested
near Paiis, on whom 14,000 francs in gold were
found.
Wooden clocks, manufactured in this country,
hove a ready site in England. Tien thousand
were taken to Liverpool in one vessel recently.
Every lime a beautiful woman looks into a mir
ror, she breaks ihe second commandment. She
makes a likeness of herself and worships it.
The oflicn of ihe V. S. ship Levant, have a
biilished the use of wine, and the crew hate slop
ped iheir grog. Excellent.
A flash of lightning fuel two gun and exploded
a powder flask, in the house of Mr. T. B. Dawson,
of Talbot county, Md.
Seventy. two of the crew of Ihe U. S. steamer
Missouri, have signed the pledge of total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors.
Mr. Cushing's Coat. The Washington cor-
respondent of the N. York True Sun, says that
coal did not cost f?00 $I0S was the price paid,
exactly.
Lady Blessington has said that "a love match
is an alliance formed by people who pay for a
month of honey with a life of vinegar." Yes,
doubtless, in her case.
The chip Berlin just loaded at Boston, for N.
Oileans, carries out the largest cargo which has
ever gone from lhat port during the past three
years! Estimated value, f 1.10.000.
Ttrond as it is lmg. Dixon H. Lewis, said to
I tho broadest man in Alabama, is now running
as a democratic candidate against Col. Henry C.
Lea, Ihe tallest man in the same state.
Among the new enterprise recently darted in
Cincinnati, are three establishment for the ma
nufacture oflinsed oil, which turn out 1500 gallons
per day.
London. The verage number of dcsih In Lon
don r week, is shout 900. Thi average Is ob
tained from the official report of lli three year
past.
Two jet black dogs, without a particle of hair re
cently ariived at N. York, from Canton, and are
spoken of a great curiosiliea.
The drought ha been so severe in the Connect!
cut Valley, lhat some of the farmer have been o-
bliged to feed out hay to their cattle, there being
no grass in the field.
The Scottinh s ceding clergyman cannot be ac
cused of interested motives, It la dated lhat tha
value of the revenues they resign is a.timstod at
million and a half sterling annually.
Financial. Tbe specie hi tha vault of the
Binki in Baltimore, exceed two millions of dollar.
Tbe circulation is about one million the whole
banking capital being f 7.500,000.
The lamp-posts in Cincinnati are all to be ta
ken down, and the city is hereafter to be lighted
with live pigtails. The pigsaqueet at one end, and
give light at the other. We alway expected to
see a great light In Ihe West, but we never thought
it would come from such a source.
Killed. John H. Rce, of Ashhy, Mass, had
his brains blown out on the 29th, by undertaking
to blow the smoke out of the just discharged bar
rel of a double-barreled gun, while the other barrel
remained loaded. This was somehow discharged,
killing him instantly.
Safe Seal. A letter closed with the while of an
egg, cannot be opened by the steam of boiling wa
ter, like a wafer, as tha heat only adds to its firm
ness. We select for the benefit of Indies the following
directions for the removing fiuit stains and iron
mould from linen and cotton. Moisten the part
stained with cold water, then hold it over the smoke
of burning brimstone and tha stain will disappear.
Yanheeism beat out. A fellow has been arres
ted at Oswego, N. Y. for counterfeiting fresh Perch j
by sewing tbe heads of those fish to the bodies of !
suckers. i
The Mississippi river i rapidly falling off, nnd
wo fear will not only le confined to its bed. but
also extremely low before the close of the sickly '
season.
Chelsea Hulking Match. The Boston Tran.
script says, Elwnrth and Fogg have nearly nccom
plished their first 100 miles, both in good condition
and health.
The Talluhatsee Firr A man of tbe name nf
John Dily, who was cook at the Washington Ho
tel at the time of ihe great fire in Tallaha-se, has
been arrested and committed to jail, chargej with
having confessed, on different occasions, that he
set fire to the town.
Quiehsilrer Mine mi Franre. M. Arago recent
ly imparted lo the Academy of Science informa
tion of the discovery of quicksilver mine in the
neighborhood of Toulouse. The announcement is
said to have created some sensation in the public
mind.
The ue of opium is slid to be fast gaining
ground in the manufacturing district of England,
to allay the pangs of huneer.
A Pnosxn ash IiCiiiitist Decision. A
London paper says : '-Sir J. K. Bruce gave judg
ment in ihe Vice Chancellor's Court last week on
a point respecting wills. A testator in 181J made
a will, by which be gave a share of his estate to his
daughter and her issue; but by a codicil, added
in 163R, he piovidcd that hi proerty should pass
over to other persons if his dsuubter should ever
marry. The daughter did marry, and the other
AWFl l CALAMITY I
Great Flood sit Chester, nnd Loss of 1. 1 re and
Property I
The storm of Saturday last prevented the South,
em mail from reaching this city by tbe tegular
route. The following letter, which we have re
ceived from Chester, by a private hand, gives a full
account of tho terrible disasters in that neighbor
hood. It bears the dato nf Sunday, and comes
from a gentleman who was In the vicinity at the
time
'Chester and its vicinity are bowed down be
neath the chastning hand of Providence. The bo
rough and its neighborhood present scenes of deso
lation, such as the absence of the terrors of war,
have never been witnessed In this Stste. Our
shores are strewn with wrecks, our streets filled
with ruin", and from every aectlon we hear tales of
ter'or and desolation and death, SNfTic'ent to appil
the stoniest heart. The recent nin had fully sat
urated iho soil, and that of yesterday flowed from
the surface. In the afternoon the lain began heavy
beyond description. It fell as if in amass. The
very hills wer. shee'ed with water ; and in Iho
valleys, runlets became creeks and creeks were swob
len inlo rivers. A freshet was, of course, anticipa
ted ; but a flimd, such as ensued, could not have
ipeen apprehended, ft is said that the passengers
in the afternoon boats saw a water-spout burst upon
the heights between Ridley nnd Chester Creek' ;
hut, though any nrdinaty fall of rain, however co
pious, seems inadequate to have produced the sub
sequent flood, there U no satisfactoiy evidence of the
existence of a water-spoui. About six o'clock, it
was found lhat Chester Creek was rapidly rising.
Every pflort was instantly made to place uch pro
perty n was moveable out of the reach of danger ;
hnt s instantaneous was ihe swell of water, lhat
the next moment left no feeling but the instinct of
self preservation. The stream rose, it is said by
some, six feet in five minutes; others aver that it
rose six feet in one minute. The water poured
down as if a wave of the sea hid been swept on
ward by an earthquake. In about two hours it had
risen twenty-three feet. The neighboring creeks
were swollen in the same proportion ; and ihe roar
f the impetuous torrents rang for miles through
the country. The fl u). Is swept irresistibly onward.
The dams built for its restraint were as neds be
fore the ocean t'lat rushed by : ihe channels were
lost, nnd ihe vast volume of water spre id over ihn
i pi tin, tearing up the largest trees, and s.veejiim;
! factories and buildings, like hubbies, upon its sur-
fai-e.
Fortunately this took place bef.ire dark, or the
scene would have been even more terrible than it
wa. In Cheter, the torrent rose a if by magic,
and swept angrily ihiough the BlrccK The build
ings w hich were moht frail were swept aw ly ; and
fiosn others, feindes were borne thrnneh the angry
and ru-h;ng wate-, half deid with affright. Hou
ses, dams, bridges, b .a s and an iminen-e ina-s of
i f . e - Ti ,
persons Mepu rorwnro 10 nam, money.- , r ( fumi(urei mi.wheels. Ac , shot by Upon
Judge said that all such restraints upon m .rriages ,; . . . .. , . . . .. ....
expense, w is I fed from its foundations and filing
d iwn the stream. The next to follow was the
were void by the English law; and the declaration
of the Court was that the lady should kerp the
monev.
Fiom the Fhiladtlphia ledger.
TF.ItIUI!L,K STORM AT PIl I f. A IK I.PI11 A.
On Saturday, thi section ofcoutitiy was visited
by the most terrific storm that has lieen witnessed
for many years. The rain commenced falling a
'out S o'clock in the moming, and continued, with
but little intermission, throughout the day. About
7 o'ebick in the evening, however, it was at its
height, pouring down in torrents, overfl .win.? the
streets in every direction, and flooding the cellars
of houses in various portions of the city. The rain
was accompanied with lightning and heavy claps
of thunder. Dock street, from Third to the river,
suspension bridge. Thi- structure was one of which
every enlightened American was proud, as it was
ihe fi'-t chain-bridg. built in the n,r. Europe
his sinre claimed the invention ; but here stml
'a ! il stands no loner ! the p-o f, erected thir
tv years ago, that lo A ueilea belongs the credit of
having invented and constructed the first suspen
sion bridje. When the mas-i of matter, which
shol upon the gtnrmv and roiling torrent, struck
the bridge, il swayed and groaned, and at length af
ter a moment's resistance, its vast iron fastening
gave way with a crash, nnd the rh lins, as they gra
ted upn eich other, spirkled nnd flished like
ligh'ning It swung heivily for a moment and
was one heet of water, alinut four feet deep, filling j fell inlo the fl i.l. . The water now swept through
the cellars along the whole line, and destroying a
large amount of property. The basement at the
corner of Third and Dock streets, occupied by Mr.
Henry Jordan, as a publication office, was over
flowrd, and the hooka nnd paper were floating a
bout. We understand lhat Mr. J.' loss amounts
to about $200. Among tho aufferers were Messrs.
Webb ct Pool, grocers at the corner of Second and
Dock streets, their cellar being full of watr, and
a quantity of sugars, Ac , were injured. The c lla's
in lhat ncighorhood were filled, and the lower
fljurs of ihe houses had about two feet and a half
of water in them.
several nf the lower street. I saw this miming a
house in ihe middle of one s'ree', an I a shallop in
another, left iherii by the receding stream. The na
ture and ex'ent of the injury done could not then
be estimated ; but it was with a dismay whii h ap.
proiched despair that citizens saw the flmd roll in
to the sliiehouses and sweep their hard earnings a
wsy. Thi morning, however, di-clos. d in part
the extent of tho ruin. It was lound that the
wharves tan-yards, midline shops, storehouses,
tumlier nnd coal yards, Ac, had been carried ofT
by the fl iod or ruined by thi" inundation. Messrs.
Eyres, Kitts, Brobs on, Paxton, Ac are severe suf-
The basement store at the corner of Fourth and ' ferers. But the c msequences in Chester are trivial
Market stnels, to which so much injury was done
last yt ar, were again inundated. Mr, Fritz, who
occupies the basement, No. 6, as a whip store, had,
as he thought, secured his premises from intrusion,
but the water entering the tore No 8, filled it,
and the pressure wa so great that the partition
walls, which separated it from Mr. Frits', were
burst in and the inundation be.-ame general. A
large amount of prnjierly was destroyed in these
cellars, consisting of silks, Ac , under the store ef
Messrs. Wood A Inskeep, whips, Ac., in the tore
of Mr. Fritz, and hat and cap in the store of Mr.
Oliver Thatcher.
At the corner of Eighth and Market the celUni
wete overflowed. AIo tha cellar at the corner of
Six and Race street. At Fourth and South atreeta
ihe water rose to a ronsideiable height, overflow,
ing the pavement, and the cellar in the neighbor
hood have ahout eight feet of water in tUem. The
cellar of a row of brick house in Spruce ireet,
below Twelfth, weie also filled, and in several
placea lha arche of the pavement have caved in
The trick work of the area ha also giv.,, way.
The water rushed down the street ;-o torren', and
when the current intersect, arose to an enor.
mo us height. In S:lXlrl street, near Catharine, the
flood lushe-jinto tha doors of Ihe poor people in
b'i neighborhood, setting the furniture, Ac, com-
plelly afloat, The house of Mr. Hanly, on Paasa
yunk road, a abort distance above Chiislian street,
waa unroofed for the purpose of adding another sto
ry to il, and tha result wa that the lain broke
through the awning which had been hoisted over it
a a protection, ai d flooded tbe whole house, in
juring hi furniture, and doing ahout flOOO woilh
of damige to silks, Ac. which be had in hi store.
in comparism with those wh:ch have occurred
highei up on the (Mu ster and Ridley creaks. Every
bridge, or nearly every one on those two streams,
have been catried away. Many of these were costly
and substantial structures, and it will cost an im
mense sum to replace thi m. Most of the mills and
factories upon thoso ttrearas have shared the same
fate.
The factory of Mr. Crozer, of Mr. Dieks n, of
Mr. Riddle, and others, have been swept away. Im
mense number of hale of colt in, boxes of goods,
barrels of dyewood and barrels of flour, have been
carried down to the Delaware, oreattered upon the
meadows inlo which ihe flood, in its fury, broke and
deposited its spoils. It is believed lhat all the dams
are gone. The pecuniary loss lo individuals is
frightfully great ; a id lhat which has fallen upon
Ihe county is not less appalling. Tua lowest esti
mate of loss i f 250,000 ; 'out (hi is made up, to
a great extent, ii.n conjecture. The county will
probably constrained to raise, by loan, the means
ol reconstructing her bridges, a all intercourse be
tween Ihe dilV rent rclion of ihe coun'ry is now
cut off.
But Ihe lot of proirerly. terrib'e aa it is, is in
considerable lo the loss of life with which ibis afflic
tion of Providence has been attended. It i belicv
ed lhat not less than twenty, and probably a many
more, person have been drownej. At one placs
on the Chester creek, an entire family, that of Mr
Rhoads, consisting of himself, wifo andtwosmal
children, found il impossible, ao instantaneous wi
the rise and rush of the torrent, to escape the house
and all perished. At the Flower Mills, a devotes
mulatto woman, finding that Mr. Flower wa it
J great dinger, attempted to rescue hint, but the ud