, 1853-08-20

damage. The storm which was 50 power
full last night in New York, passed to the
north Of this place and but little rain FELL
Advertiser, July ,.
NoRrHUMBERLAD, Pa, July l, 1853
/ Aterrilic hail storm passed over this place
/ from the west, about three o'clock this af
trrnoon, extending some five miles in width.
Nearly every farmer has lost almost his en-
tire harvest, aud the fruits Of all kinds have
suffered much. Several thousand window
lights were broken in this place, and there
is no estimating the extent Of the damage.
Hail stones measuring seven and three-quar-
Her inches in circumference were picked up
: on our streets.
PmLADELPHrA, July ,, 1853.
The storm yesterday was not felt severely
in the centre Of this city, but caused much
damage in the upper part of this county,
unroOfing houses, tearing down trees and
leveling crops. The hail storm broke in
Vulnerable windows.
The Episcopal church at Beverly, New
Jersey, was struck by lightning and nearly
demolished. Perkins hotel was unrooled.
A correspondent of the Herald says:
AT about 4 40 P. NJ. we met a lightning
storm as we were passing up the Hudson
River Railroad, near Peekskill, moving rap
idle towards the ocean. II was a terrific
storm, and possessed intense electric ener-
gies, which it exertcd upon the surface it
passed over On arriving near Albany we
saw 10 the west, or a little south of that
point, an electric current of great intensity
passing through the high atmosphere, in di-
verging lines, from a nucleus beyond the
horizon. This must have resulted from
powerful struggle of the earth within its own
bosom. Between and P. NJ. the storm
passed Brooklyn Heights, the temperature
north and south being equal, and at So de-
grees. At s P. NJ. it had fallen TO 70 de-
grees north, "a south. The lightning and
the hail descended from the clouds of this
storm in fearful excess. 1t is deeply to be
regretted that the protection against light
ming, hail, and wind, by the use of metallic
conductors, is so much neglected the cost
of metallic conductors is trilling-ncxt TO
nothing-the protection absolute.
Such a state Of atmosphere as that Of
Thursday affects steam boilers within the
sange of the magnetic current. We have
ruch abundant evidences Of this in our hour
ly records which we have made for a series
of years that we do not hesitate 10 state the
fact thus arrived at, and as soon as the op-
portunitv Of leisure affords the means Of
placing the facts we have collected together
10 a connected form, it is our intention 10
give them 10 the public. and they may be
The means Of saving individuals having
charge of steam boilers that explode from
censure, now too frequently and suddenly
heaped upon them.
The corner. stone Of the monument to the
memory of the captors of Maj,r Andre was
laid on the 4th ult., by Col. James Hamil-
ton, son Of Gen. Hamilton, Washington's
favoritc aid, at about half a mile from larry
town, Westchester Co., N. Y, the spot
where the spy was arrested
The Albany steamboat New WorlJ,'
while lying at the wharf at New Y York, col
lapsed one Of her aues, killing FIVE persons
aud badly scalding two others. Report
says a number Of passengers jumped over
board and were drowned.
A fire occurred in a bake house in New
York. A man named Gushing pershed in
the flames, and an Irish woman named
Healy, aged sixty years, jumped out of a
4th story window and was killed.
Letters have been received at the State
Department relative 10 the seeming aban-
donment of our fishery interests on the
IwaDr k..a - - i.
naval protection-there is not yet ship
upon the banks.
The 4th of July in New York was at
tended with the usual accidents and losses
of life from the use Of gunpowper. They
had three fires, one row between fire COM
pany No. Al and the riotous gang known as
the killers" and an Outrageous riot and
CONFLICT between the Ilibernian societies,
the omnibus drivers and the police.
AtNew York on the afternoon ofthc 18th
June, pier No 6, North River, gave way,
under the weight Of iron and other mer-
chandise, carrying men, horses and carts
with il. The goods were chiefly from the
ships Western World and Union One
horse was taken out alive, but others went
down, and it is lcaTed some men were bu-
led beneath the wreck, in the water.
The New York Express complains that
bogus lists Of passengers are made out by
the California steamships leaving that port,
for the purpose of making show.
The Washington Republic enumerates a
number of spacious and elegant dwelling
houses now in course Of erection in that
city. Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, the banker, is
building eight, each to cost $40, 900 exclu-
sive of the ground.
1t IS estimated that there are in New York
city, three thousand cabinet makers, three
hundred carvers, four hundred upholsterers,
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