Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-10-11

.lUd- Jordan = reelected. j. " ouI~
Brown bonn l. elected to the Lc-i-la-
mur from Northumberland county, and it
!, probable the whole Dem Ticket.
.C1rr--foH !ru.-. Of The Star 4 Chronicle
From Western Ney York.
FRIEHDSuiP, Alicgy. Co, Oct ;.
As your ciuz,ps stood upon the bank OF
the swollen Susquchanus i week agl did
one Of them reaiz, how portcutous to the
people a. its sources and else" here, was
us condition? doubt it, for | have not
,,cn in any paper an adequate account Of
the immense damage done By the heavy
rains OF Sept. .1rh. Ga my way hither-
ward from E.mira their effect was painful
~ apparent in prostratcd fences, and
crops, in dismanticd mills aud bridges
carried many roods by the remorscless
4 ,ad. Arriving at liorncli>ville on Tues
day afternoon last, | learned that for
thirty miles ives ward on the line of our
lN. Y. * + railroad brid gc> and culycris
had been swept away by wholesale, The
running If trains over the VI c>t,ru GIvIs.
ion was not resumed until Thursday last,
when arrived here via Buiilioe aud
Duukirk Daily We receive Intelligence
from the Gcnrsee country and the region
watered bv the Al.crany aud kauawha
rivers of the same tenor as the above.
The Geuesee Valley Canal connecting
south western New York with Rochester,
will be useless until next spring. Along
the Gencscc, farm stock, crops and bridges
were DESTROYED to an extent uuascertaIna-
bic in money value. From the great ium-
boring sections of Western Pennsylvania,
almost bankrupt by reason of Its depend
euce on a Southern market, come well au-
,henticated accounts Of the destruction OF
many NUMBERING mills, and waste of sawed
and unsawcd timber. That you may not
think these are exaggerated, it is sufficient
to relate that a large house in cur village,
which | saw ten days ago stlndirg on
hirh bank hundred feet from the ''ruu ~
AS you would say-was utterly swept
AWAY. and that a number Of mil owners
aud farmers in our town (townshiP) rea-
sonobly estimate their aggregate losses at
$4,000.
The night express train from DunkiEk
Of Sept 9th. plunged into a gap made
by the unusual rain, at Scio, about 10
miles ives, Of here, instantly killing the
engineer, fireman and an ex-engineer II
ding on the engine, and rendering 1t
shapeless wreck.
\ flying visit to BuCa'o and Dunk'rk,
afforded ocular assurance OK au ex'raordI-
nary rush Of freight eastward, aud hence
the prosperity of the carrying trade.
Wharves are lined with vessels Of every
class receiving and discharging cargoes,
and storehouses are full to oyerilowing
Indeed the grand trunk lines refused to
receive freigh,s from all but their imme-
dia;cly connecting roads, these exhaustins
their means o. transportation.
Cheese, ) to cts. per pound. Butter,
5 to l2 Apples, not enough for home
use. Democracy" heavy, aud no quota
tious. For figures, l must refer you to
the next election, when it is expected this
stock will for ever disappear from the
market. l.
THE GREAT EASTERN left England for
her third voyage to America, 10Th Sept.
Two days afterwards, the ruddcr-pN broke,
the helm became useless, storm came on,
and the huge hulk lay at its mercy-its
inmates, with all the loose furniture and
stores crashing from side to side SO as to
break the bones and bruise the persons of
Is or 20 individuals, while much of the
stores &c was smashed into minute frag-
mcnts. by Saturday, the storm abatiDg'
and temporary helm being made, the
rroud Eastern turned back and reached
Cork harbor, a mammoth floating wreck
s-s-Wc call special attention to the aa-
yerriscmen, for the new National loan,
Liberal interest is oTlrcd-aud if Nation
al Bond is not safe, what paper security
can be safe? Let our people talk 1t over,
and by Investing aid thus IN saving our
land from the horrors OF long civil war.
ssyWe have letter from pr' a l.
Meyler,, Army Surgeon at LOUISVILLE
XIV on fiie fJr next WIZ.