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. i im. li ... 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
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