The Port Gibson Correspondent

Rain Storm in New York.—The city of New York has been visited by a tremendous storm of rain. It commenced falling on Monday night, the 21st ult., and continued until mid-day Tuesday. The Journal of Commerce thus discourses of it:

"Since the days of old Noah senior, we know not when our city was visited with such a deluge of rain as poured down between midnight last night and eight o'clock this morning. During the whole period the rain was unceasing, and the greater part of the time it fell in torrents. Three tubs which stood on a pier extending into North river were filled to the depth of eleven inches and a quarter: nearly all of which fell in the course of eight hours."

Our streets presented the appearance of rivers. Hundreds of cellars were filled or partly filled with water; but the damage occasioned thereby is less than might be supposed, from the fact that most of the goods had been removed. In the upper part of the city several houses were partially undermined, and considerable injury was occasioned by gullying. In various places the fire engines are employed in clearing the basement rooms and cellars of water. We fear we shall hear of extensive damage in the country."

The following additional particulars are copied from the Commercial Advertiser:

"The train of cars of the Long Island Rail road Company, which left Jamaica at eight o'clock this morning, did not arrive at South Brooklyn till ten minutes past ten. The track the whole distance was covered with water, which in some places was so high as to come within 3 inches of the boilers of the locomotive. The borders of the road are considerably washed, but the railway itself does not seem to be damaged.

The houses along the road all appear to be more or less under water, and in some of them the inhabitants were obliged to take refuge in the second stories. One small house in the neighborhood of Brooklyn, near the rail road, was entirely washed away.

On Staten Island the destruction of property has been great, attended, we are pained to add with a loss of life and other personal injury. At the quarantine ground this morning the cellars generally were four feet deep with water, and the inhabitants, young and old, busily employed in bailing. The roads were completely washed away, and all the small bridges which cross them destroyed.

Gentlemen residing at Newark, came to the city this morning in their own conveyances, the cars being unable to pass over the rail road. The 7 o'clock train came as far as the deep cut at Bergen, and was compelled to return, in consequence of the embankment there being washed away. Some damage was also done just beyond, at the junction of the Paterson and New Jersey roads. The nine o'clock Philadelphia train did not go out this morning."