Star.
London, England, 1821-10-01 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 4.

Much rain fell in this city last afternoon.- It was
accompanied with violent gusts. Many trees and
fences were blown down. We have not heard of any
damage having been done at our wharfs. A boat, in
which were a number of coloured people, returning
from a camp meeting, near Woodbury (New Jersey),
was overset, and five of the people drowned.

The steam-boat which came down the Delaware
this morning, passed three market-boats, bottom up.
We apprehend there has been much injury sustained
and many lives lost on our rivers. Several pannels
of the sides, and a considerable part of the roof of
the upper ferry-bridge have been blown down. The
bridge itself has not, as we learn, beep injured. A

'brat, in which were some vrbite peop'e, sunk
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Kensington. It is said three white men were dronei
The north-east corner of Christ church, sustailli
some injury. A new house, in Second above Noble.
street, in which there were no windows, bad the Ahlt
end blown down on a•small frame baker's shop. The
shop was crushed to pieces, and the baker, who tee
in it, severely wounded, but not killed.

FROM TIIE NORFOLK (LT. S.) BEACON, SEPT. 4.
Yesterday, between the hours of ten, A.M. and ore
o'clock, P.M. our town was visited byre a hurrican;
accompanied with torrents of rain, commencing from
N.E. and terminating at N.N.W. which, for violence
and extent of damage, we are informed by many of
our oldest residents, has no parallel in their Teter
lections. So general and wide-spread is the deva,ta.
' tion, that it would be impossible, from the Alortti:a_
that has elapsed since its fury was stayed, ra zir,
even from hearsay, anything like a detail of its acia
consequences. Very few housekeepers have escap
injury, either in their inclosures or houses, lild nearly
all of the most highly improved lots in the 13nroii.,
have been despoiled of their attractions, by th pr 3.
stration of their walls or fences, the uprooting ci
trees, or the partial destruction of gardens.

Among the edifices which have sustained the gre:!!..
est damage is the Episcopal Church, part of the fts,:nt
of which, above the cornice, beio.r; blown in, the or:;Al
was entirely demolished, and much other darnar,t
done to the interior ; the Court House was alto pan!!
unroofed, and one of the chimnies blown down,
Tire new stone-bridge, in Granby-street, was muc4
injured by the dtifting of heavy timber against i:;
and the-bridge in Catherine-street was swept aw.ty
by the torrent.

The ground stories of all the warehouses on tie
wharfs, and as high up as Wide Water-street, were
elatirely overflowed ; and we learn that the damage
sustained in sugar, flour, and salt, is very grear,tlt
amount of which, as of other damage inflicted LT
this awful visitation, it is impossible at this time to
form even a conjecture. The drawbridge across Eli.
aabeth laver, next to Norfolk, was entirely swept away
in the early part of the hurricane, and will require
considerable time and expense to replace it.

The damage sustained among the shipping is iro•
manse. Our sister town, Portsmouth, we hear, has
participated largely in the destructive effects of this
unwelcome visitant. The United States fiigatesCot.
gress and Guerriere parted from their moorings, and
went ashore a little above the Navy Yind, on theep
posite side of the river. We have understood the
several lives were lost on this occasion, though noa
is mentioned by name but a negro woman, name/
Phebe, the property of Mrs. king, in coming frro
on board a vessel at the wharf, was struck by a piee
of plank that fell from the top of a warehouse, and
died immediately.