.. . . *2>. Whole No. 2440. I TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. OXE DOLLAR PER AlllirM, IN ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. tCf*All NEW subscriptions must be paid in sdrance. If the paper is continued, and net paid within the first month, $1,25 will be charg ed ; if not paid in three months, $1,50; if not paid ir. six months, ,75; and if not paid in | nine months, $2,00. All papers addressed to persons out of the I county will be discontinued at the expiration of I the time paid far, unless special request is made ■ to the contrary or payment guaranteed by some I responsible person here. ADVERTISING. I Ten lines of minion, or their equivalent, con ■ stitute a square. Thrpe insertions sl, and 25 ■ cents for each subsequent insertion. ■ The Wesf Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK UAVE\, PA., ■ T.VSURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- I chandise, Farm Property, and other Build- a nd their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. ■ lion. John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, ■John B. Hall, T. T. Abrams, ■Charles A. Mayer, D. K. Jackmun, Bcharles Crist. W. White, ■Peter Dickinson, Tlios. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. I Tkos. Kitchen , Sec'y. REFERENCES. ■Samuel 11. Floyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. ■A. A. Winegardner, VVm. Vanderbell. K* A. Mackey. Wm. Fearon. White, Dr. J. S. Crawford, ■James Quizgle, A. Updegrafl', ■John W. Maynard, James Armstrong, Hhn Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. ■ nT?* Agent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEVV ■aRT, Esq. _ ap23 ■ndmnity from Less ami Damage by Fire, ■ jfjike Peri!* tf Marine and [nlipd Transportation. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. by the Legislature of Pennsylca- ; via, tcilh a Perpetual Charier. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. ■Dffirr So. 61 Walnut St. nbou Second, Fliila. I Fire Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer chandise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to parts of the Union, on the most favorable pterins, consistent with security. J DIRECTORS. W. Colladay, William Bowers, At. Coleman, Joseph Oat, ESfiJurin V. .Maohette, Howard Hinchman, GEORGE W COLLADAY, President, r I GALEN WILSON, Secretary. I ■ 23* Agent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL KIOTT, Esq. fcbl9-ly | INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE. ■ 'rankiin Fire insurance Compa [ nv of Philadelphia. £ office 163.' Chestnut street, near Fifth, of Assets, $1,827,185 80 | January Ist, 1857. agreeably to an act of Assembly, be ll * ""S. Mortgages, amply secured, $1,519,932 73 P..tate, (present value, $109,- I 1 000,) cost, 89,114 18 (present value, $83.851 12,) II cost, 71,232 97 Kadi, dir., 64,121 56 I $1,827,185 80 I I Perpetual or Limited Insurance* made on every iption of property, in Town and Country. a low as are consistent with security. II Since their incorporation, a period of tweiity- j'?ars, they have paid over Three Millions Dollars' 10-scs by fire, thereby nlf.rding cv- of the advantages of Insurance, as well V the ability arid disposition to meet with ail liabilities. I Losses by D l "'' paid during the year 1836, $301,638 84 |- DIRECTORS. fHI-K.N' Itineker, | Mordecai D. Lewis, Wagner, i David S. Brown, Grant, j l*aae Lea, IMecb E.. Smith, 1 Edward C. D iui, IKea. W. Richards, George Pales. I I CHARLES X. BA.YCKER, President, j | HCtus. G. BANC EE*, See'y. § Hir^*Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL |:HF.itS, Esq., Lewistown. mar! 9 i I nxsim imm I I" ' AND IBnyder County Normal School, I , FREEBCRG, PA. J third semi-annual session of this Insti tution will commence on TUESDAY, July I and continue 22 weeks. Its location is iM* asant ar,<l health y. buildings new and coui -1 Btttfious, and terms low. It is the constant turn k ■ the teachers to impart sound instruction and H develop and direct the mental, mora! I physical energies of the student. The 1 ur? e of study will thoroughly prepare those i it f or college, the study of a profession I business pursuits. The NORMAL DEFART | oilers superior facilities to teachers, and i wishing to become such to acquire the 1 Hf es3!irjr .'judications. The County Superin will frequently review classes and lec on the practical duties of the school room. I are also delivered in connection with subjects of study, and every exertion made I B3" a fify applicants for the profession. Ar i M£?*' me nts 3re being made with directors to 1 Br eure schools for those who obtain creditable & I JJ TERMS I room > tuition, Ac. $52 to 60 alone, 8 to 16 ' " in Normal Departm't per qr., 6 extra. Hoarding in the village, $1 50 "0 per week. ji ■Get a catalogue containing further particu- Address GEO. F. Mr FARLAND, ''' Principal. |fRE BRICK! FIRE BRICK!—For R' | ""Me, r;iob.,<3irnrd. Flat Top, New World, Crys -I|B "' n y Forrester, and iSunme Cook Fioves, and for I V H ,' Room and Parlor Stoves, can be had at llie $ w rebouse of I M- tf F. G. FRANCISCUS. | pftELLEßS—hand and horse power, I V 'or sale by F G. FRANCISCUS. Asy® jpwxg&iisiiiiaiE) ©is@i&®'i£ IFlß^Tssnss , o&isisa £ > scnxwansy IP&O aiiaii.ifc&aßiowa. History of the West Branch. [We copy the following incidents, which transpired in the early settlement of Union county, from a History of the West Branch Valley,-recently published:] Captain James Thompson was an early i settler in Buffaloe. A'alley, and, during a I predatory incursion of savages, was taken ; and carried into captivity. Several incor ! rect publications of his sufferings have ' been made, but the following is believed to be correct, as it was taken down from his own lips, in 1832, by Sanies F. Linn, Esq., ot Lewisburg, and entered in his journal. Some time previous to his capture he had removed his wife and children to Penns Creek, for greater security against the Indians. In March, 1781, he was going from Lewisburg (then Derrstowu) to his farm, preparatory to moving down the country. On the road between the farms of John Linn and Col. John Kelly, he was suddenly surprised by four Indians, and compelled to go along with them. When they came to a hollow, half a mile from Kelly's house, they discovered a fresh track in the soft.clay. One of the Indi ans exclaimed, " Squaw." Two of them immediately set off on a run, and two re mained to guard him, one behind and one before. They soon heard a female scream, when the one behind struck him on the back with his gun and cried, " Waugh," (run.) They started oil on a run, and on coming to the top of a hill, saw the other two with a woman, when they pushed off immediatelyT>r an Indian town on Towan da creek. They crossed the White Deer and other mountains, north of Buffaloe Valley, and came to the river near the mouth of Lycoming ,creek, which they crossed in canoes. During the night thev © O tieu his urius behind him, and fastened the cord to grubs in the ground. One night, while encamped on Lycom ing creek, not being tied very securely, he succeeding in releasing his arms. Two of the Indians lay on one side of the fire with the girl—(Miry Young, the daughter of Matthew Young, who livetFon a farm ad joining Captain Thompson's)-—and two on the other side with him. lie first endea vored to get one of their tomahawks, but discovered that they were all lying on their arms. He then got a stone, which they had used for crushing corn, raised on his , knees, preparatory to giving one of them j a mortal stroke on the temple, and securing I a tomahawk. But on account of his head being wrapped in a blanket, he struck too high to effect his object. The Indian gave a yell, which awoke the other, lie now attempted to run. but the cord, with which he was tied, an 1 stretched between the two grubs, intercepted him, and as he stepped back to get around it, one of the savages caught him by the collar of the coat, and in the struggle tore it to the bottom. He drew his tomahawk to strike him on the head, but des's'e 1, and spoke to the one he hud wounded in his own language, and then drew it again, desisted, and spoke to the wounded Indian, and then drew it the third time. He expected to receive itthi time, and was resolved to try and catch it and wrest it from his hand. But they finally concluded not to kill him,reserving him for a more formal execution. They then tied a hollow gourd, containing shot, to his waist, telling him that was his death if tr rant. After this they tied him so tight that he lost all feeling in his hands and arms, j They continued on towards their place of j destination. One day they shot a wild i tu.".VV, and taking out the entrails, rolled them ro.tnd a stick without any cleaning, roasted them *n the fire, and gave them to the prisoners lo eat. Before this they had onlv a few grains of corn per day, and this change of diet, said .Mr. Thompson, was quite a delicacy ■ When they got to Towanda the Indians became less careful, thinking he would not J attempt to run away again. In the even- j ing thev made him gather woOd : he man aged to go further away for each load, till he got as far as he thought it was prudent to try, and watching an .pportunity when they were not observing him. darted off into the woods as fast as he could run, with twenty-too grab; of corn 'n his pocket, for provision, to travel a journey of many miles through the wilderness. He said he could have made his escape on several occasions before, but he could not think of leaving Mary Young a priso ner with them. She frequently told him to escape, and not try to rescue her, as it would defeat both. She was resigned to her fate. He took a different route at first from that toward home, to deceive the Indians in pursuit. In running he stepped on a rotten stick, which broke and made a noise; at the same time he heard two trees rub bing together which lie took to be the In dians in pursuit. Being terribly frighten ed he ran into a pond, and hid himself in the brush, with nothing out but his head, where he lay till he was satisfied they win not coming that way. He then proceeded on his journey, keeping along the moun tains, lest he might meet Indians in the valleys. One night he ran almost into an Indian encampment before seeing it. He went a little higher up the hill, where he THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1858. could plainly sec the Indians pass between him and the fire. At another time lie carue very near an encampment, when an Indian gave a yell. He supposed he was discov ered, but squatted down immediately and remained quiet in the bushes; in a short time one of the Indians commenced chop ping wood, when he kuew they had not seen him, and carefully passed around them. He struck the West Branch a few rods above where they had crossed it going out, and found one of the canoes on the bank, the river having fallen. Being so weak, he was unable to push it in, hut getting two round sticks under it for rollers, with the aid of a handspike, succeeded in launch ing it. On getting in, he discovered the other canoe sunk, when he worked and bailed it out, and lashing the two together, started with two paddles on his voyage.— He rowed to the middle of the river, so that if the Indians did pursue him and shoot, they would not be so likely to hit him. One of His paddles accidentally dropped out and floated off, which he regretted very much, but, on getting into an eddy, it came floating up to his canoe, and was re covered. When his craft got opposite to where Watsontowu now stands, he was discovered, and relieved by some friends. He was so weak that he lay in the canoe, and waved his hand to them on shore, which attracted their attention. When taken out, he was so weak that he could nut relate his adven tures, for several days, having to be nour ished with sweet milk till lu: gained strength sufficient to talk. After getting to walk, he went to his family, and removed to Chester county, where they remained j till the close of the war. The Indians took Mary to their towns, j and set her to hoeing corn. An old negro, | who was also a prisoner, told her to dig up | the beans that jvere planted with the corn, 1 and they would think her too dumb to J learn agriculture, and sell her to the Kug lish. .She took his advice, and was even tually sold to an English Captain, with whom she remained several years, when she was liberated and returned home. — Having been so much exposed during her captivity, her constitution was so shattered that she survived her return but a short time. On their way out, she was obliged to wade through deep creeks, and, as the weather was very cold, her clothes were often frozen into a solid mass of ice. She informed Captain Thompson that two of the Indians pursued him part of two days, but returned without success. — They regretted his escape very lunch, as they intended to torture him. The wound ed Indian left them soon after his escape, and she never heard of him after, but sup posed he died, as he was tiadly injured. At that time he saw a woman, a cousin ' to James Cornelias, who resided in Buffaloe township, that had been taken prisoner by j the Indians during the French war. When they had taken her a great distance from home she managed to effect her escape, and made her way through the woods alone. — The first day she came up with a marc and colt, and getting on her rode all day.— When night came she turned her out to pasture, laid herself down by a log for the night, and never expected to see her again, j When she awoke in the morning the mare and colt stood by her side ! .She rode her all that day, and turned her out to graze , whilst she slept, but the next morning the faithful animal was there, as before, to re ceive her rider. She rode her each day till she arrived at the fort. By some, this particular circumstance would be termed an interposition of Divine l'rovidence, to preserve the life of the woman. It is also stated that when she came to the fort the mare would allow no other person to ap proach, and when she was turned out to graze that night, made her escape, and was never heard of again. About this time there lived near where the town of New Berlin now stands, a fam ily named Klinesmitli. A small party of Indians coming upon their dwelling, whilst the males of the family were busy in the harvest field of a neighbor, plundered the house and carried away two ot Klinesmitli s daughters, one sixteen, the other fourteen years old. The party retreated to a.spring north of New Berlin—now called the Still House Spring—where they halted, and, not satisfied with the trifling mischief they had done, left their prisoners and booty in the care of the oldest man of the party, whilst the main body proceeded to the harvest field, in the hope of getting some scalps to carry home as trophies of their success. The old man lighted his pipe and sat down at the foot of a tree, keeping an eye upon his prisoners. After some tirtic the rain began to fall, when Betsey, the eldest girl, intimated to the sentinel that she meant to cut down some branches from the trees, and cover a small bag of flour which the Indians had brought from her father's house. The Indian, little suspecting her real intention, assented, and permitted her to take one of the axes or tomahawks. Hhe pretended to be very busily occupied with her task, but contrived to get behind the old man, and buried the axe in his heacU By this time the scalping party, finding the harvesters too numerous and well armed for their purposes, were on their return, and already approached near enough to hear the groan or cry of the old Indian as he fell. The girls fled—the savages pur sued and fired. The younger girl, just as she was in the act of springing over a ftillen tree, was pierced with a bullet, which en tered below the shoulder blade, and came out at the breast. She fell and immediate ly rolled herself under the log, which at that point was raised a little from the ground. The savages sprang over the log in chase of her sister, without observing that any one lay under it. Betsey being a strong and active lass, gave them a hard run, so that the harvest ers, alarmed by the firing, came to the res cue in time to save her, and change the pursuers into Fugitives. They found the little girl under the fallen tree, much ter rified and weakened by loss of blood, but fortunately not dangerously wounded, the ball having passed through her body with out touching any vital organ. She recov ered, and afterwards married a man named Campbell. Becoming a widow she mar ried again. Her last husband's name was Chambers. Betsy also married, and, with her husband, removed to one of the Wes tern States. "FLORA McFLTMSEY" IN BANK RUPTCY. (Froui the Lomlou Morniux Post. j We have never been more forcibly struck by the prevalence of the abuse of the credit system than while perusing the re port of a case brought 011 Monday last be fore the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The circumstances are doubtless common-place enough, though but seldom brought into such prominence Miss Kate Elizabeth Verity, described as " fashionable young lady," has been living with her mother in Rifle-terrace, Bayswater. Her mother en joys au income of £2OO a year, and the young lady receives annually from her friends a sum of about £OO. In August, 1852, however, when only three-and-twen ty years of age, she appeared before the Insolvent Court indebted to the amount of £233. On this occasion she was dischar ged. This circumstance, as was well ob served by Commissioner Phillips, should, have been enough to restrain her extrava gance. But Miss Kate Elizabeth Verity did not profit by the lesson Once more she appears before the Insolvent Court; thi* time, however, with less good fortune. The case was adjourned sine die, and the protection of the Court ceases lor Miss Verity. The career of this young .lady, though really marvellous, is only au addi tional instance of the carelessness with which credit is allowed by London trades men. During the examination of the in solvent it was proved that by the mention of a lady's name to Mrs. States, "amilliner to the aristocracy," Miss Verity received credit to the amount of £B4. One ball dress was charged eight guineas. Fifteen guineas was the price of another garment. In fact, Mr. Commissioner Phillips, with that jocularity which sits so well on a judge, " afforded some amusement to the specta tors, by reading the items, including a crinoline slip." With another tradesman a cash payment and a promise to pay quar terly was considered a sufficient guarantee. The security was enhanced by the young lady's appearance in a Brougham, and she obtained credit to the amount of £2O Ds Bd. " No money," gloomily observed Mr. Buck, the creditor; "110 money had been paid since he gave credit." Mr. Commissioner Pl ( illips thought Mr. Buck should have stopped hjs hand .wficn the first quarter was not paid. But Mr. Buck propounds a different theory. "If he adopted such a system with ladies who appeared respec table he could not, nor could ether trades men, go 011." Thus, young ladies with £t)o a year for an income may "go 011" as long as they choose, and tradesmen arc bound to abet them under the penalty of forfeiting a similar privilege. Such is the morality of a system of credit. A young lady—first at tbrec-and twenty, then at eight-and-twenty —under- goes an ordeal which is generally consider ed in a man as a disqualification from the society of his equals. Ever since she has arrived at the age of discretion she has obtained articles of dress beyond the reach of many persons with respectable revenues, without capital, without any income be yond a pittance allowed by her friends, and apparently without expectations. A good marriage must have been for the young lady, though vague, the only possible prospect of relief. A brougham and the mention of a lady's name were sufficient with the tradesmen to vouch for respecta bility, solvency and profits. Why Not Successful? —The young me chanic or clerk marries and takes a house, which he proceeds to furnish twice as ex pensively as he can afford. And then his wife, instead of taking care to help him to earn a livelihood, by doing her own work, must Have a hired servant to help her spend her limited earnings. Ton years afterwards you will find him struggling on under a double load of debts and children, wondering why the luck was always agaiust. him, while his friends re "•ret hi* unhappy destitution of financial ability. Had they from the first been frank and honest, he need not have been so un lucky. The world is full of people who can t imagine why they don't prosper like their neighbors, when the real obstacle is in their c-wn extravagance and heedless (Mentation. DoctoTy He Has Done it. —A physician tells the following story, not without some i regret on his part for the advice given.;— "A hard working woman had a drunken husband, who, when partly sober, would get the blues and endeavor to destroy him self by taking laudanum. Twice did the wife ascertain that he had swallowed the destructive drug, and twice did the Doctor , restore hiiu. Upon the second restoration the Doctor addressed him as follows : 'You good-for-nothing scoundrel, you don't want to kill yourself, you merely want to annoy your wife and" me. If you want to kill i yourself, why don't you cut your throat and I put an end to the matter?' Well, away j went the Doctor, and thought no more of ; his patient until, some two weeks after, he was awakened from a sound nap by the tinkling of his night bell. He put his head out of the window and inquired, j ' What is the matter?' 'Doctor, lie has done it,' was the reply. 'Done what?'— I ' John has taken your advice.' ' What ad i vice ?' ' Why, you told him to cut his : throat, and he has done it, and he is nn | common dead this time.' Imagine the Doctor's feelings. He has since ceased j giving such rutting advice. Not Bad. —' First class in Oriental Phi losophy, stand up. Thibbetts, what is life?' ' Lite consists of money, a boss, and a fashionable wife.' ' Next. What is death ?' ' A -paymaster, who settles everybody's debts, and gives the tombstones as receipts in full of all demands.' ' What is poverty ?' ' A reward of merit genius generally re ceives from a discriminating public.' * What is religion ?' ' Doing unto others sis you please, with out allowing a return of the compliment.' ' What is fame ?' ' A six line puff in a newspaper while living, and your fortune to your enemies when dead.' ftajfAn action for debt by a wife against her husband, to recover money loaned by her husband, being properly acquired after marriage, was tried in the Common Pleas of Perry county, Pa., a short time since,* Judge Graham presiding. The question was whether a wife could maintain a suit against her husband. The court decided that she could, and delivered a verdict for the plaintiff of §2,508. A Family not Acquainted. —The Jour nal of Commerce tells the following reply of a boy to his mother: —The father was of the ' keep your children at a distance' class, and the boy wanting a new suit, very naturally asked his mother to intercede for him. ' Why don't you ask your father yourself, my son?' said the mother. 'Why mother, 1 would ask hiui, only I don't feel well enough acquainted with him,' was the reply. SPLENDID CrIPTS AT 439 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. The Original Gift Book Store. G1 G. EVANS would inform his friends and I", the public that he has removed his Star Gilt Book Store and Publishing House to the splendid store in Brrwn's Iron Building, 439 Chestnut street, two doors below Fifth, where the purchaser of each book will receive one of the following gifts, valued at from 25 cents to SIOO, consisting of Gold Watches, Jewelry, &c. WORTH 550 Pat. Eng. Lev. Gold Watches, SIOO 00 each 550 Patent Anchor do 50 00 " 400 Ladies' Gold Watches, 18k case,3s 00 " 600 Silver Lev. 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A complete catalogue of books sent free, by application through the mail, by addressing G. G. EVANS, 439 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Agents wanted in every town in the United States Those desiring so to act can obtain full particulars by addressing as above. jj. B.—ln consequence of the money crisis and numerous failures, the subscriber ha 9 been enabled to purchase from an immense stock of books, embracing every department of literature, at prices which will enable him to give SSOO worth of the above gifts on every SIOOO worth of books sold- An extra book, with a gift, will be sent to each person ordering TEN books to be sent to one address, by Express. JCf?SEND FOR A CATALOGUE. November 5, 1857. NOTICE. I SHALL close up the Books, Notes, Jfcc. of A. Marks, assigned to Humphreys, Hoff man & Wright, in a few days by suit in ail oases. GEO. Njy. ELDER, Nov. 19, 1857. Attorney. Ac. New Series—Vol. 111, No. 8. [From the Plitlaffetphls )hi!letln.} Principal Events of General tain' Local Interest During the Ye stir 1857. Jannar3. Ist. (ten. W. Walker at Rivas, Nicaragua: San Juan river in possession of the allies, who hold San Carlos.—Twenty buildings burned at Halifax, N. S. Lose SIOO,OOO. sth. Neapolitan frigate Charles 111. blew up, killing crew and contingent of troops on board, bdiknd for Sicily. 6th- Battle between Mexican Gorerum.ent and Revolutionists under Gen. Garcia; Gov ernment victorious, with heavy loss.—Ver mont State Capitol, with splendid library and cabinet, burned. Bth. Gen. Ileuningsen besieged ijo achivreh at Granada, breaks through lines of allies, and makes his way to Rivas. Loss 200 men; allies lost severely. 9th. Severe earthquake in California; hou ses thrown down, at San Diege and Fort Tr jon ; two persons killed. 12th. Suburbs of Canton destroyed "by_ English fleet; steamer Samson fuughEl fleet of junks in Canton river. 13th. Gen. Simon Cameron, of Pa., U. S. Senator from March 4, 1857. 15th. Foreign residents in China discover plot to murder them with poisoned bread and oranges; 5000 poisoned oranges discoveraP®? 16th. Cold weather. At Philadelphia, above zo%q ; Woodstock, Me., 25° below zei^k>|aa| Riot at' Albion, N, Y., between antl Irish canallers; two killed, six wounded>"ffi|| —Heavy shocks of an earthquake at Panama. j||§ —S. T. Norcross, of Mass., killed by D. S.~E|la MeKim near Altoona, Blair county. Pa. 17th. \ erger, a French priest, sentenced to death for attempted assassination of Arch- ' 5 bishop of Paris.—Royalist prisoners, on whose account the Neufchatel difficulties were cansed, released and sent from Switzerland. - 18th. Great snow storms and obstruction' to travel about Philadelphia; Tabe' Methodist Episcopal Church burned cold weather over Middle and Southern .. with gale at sea; steamer Black W; drifted before it fifty-two hours. 20th. Bombardment of Canton by 1 Admiral Seymour ceased ; having cot. since October 28th, during which time?u,oou lives reported lost. 22d. Dwellings belonging to Washington Manufacturing Company, at Gloucester, New Jersey, burned; twenty families rendered houseless. 21th. Dr. Harvey Burdell found murdered in his office. 31 Bond street; New York, hav ing received fifteen stabs. Intenseexcitemeo* created by mystery surrounding inurdt - J. Eckel and Mrs. E. A. Cunningham,, ed on suspicion.—Gen. Ilenningsen retire from Obraje by Costa Ricans loss on both sides. 25th. Hon. Andrew Stevenson, in . Minister to England, died, aged se* in Albemarle county, Virginia. 26th. Captain and fourteer^^^ British barque Sir C. ar.<! other their sinking vessel by Am?. The effect pole and brought to Cape TVhether casual 27th. Preston S. Brooks, i f" l|owl| e Carolina, died, at Washing! " se,of bow< ' l 28th. Fire at Girard buii Chestnut street, Philadelp SIOO,OOO. —Battle of San Geo.* are ,he " ningseff made an unsuccessful l^' w l drive off Costa Ricans. Gen. H. Walker at Rivas. February. 2d. Nathaniel West Sentenced to deafci murder of Arabella, his wife, at Philadelphia —Saw mill and fifteen dwellings on Peg and other streets, Philadelphia, burned down. Gth. Col. Lockridge defeated on San Juan river by Costa Ricans.—Block of houses'on Chestnut street, St. Louis, Mo., fell, killing three persons; the ruins caught fire. . y Btli. Great freshet in Delaware, Schuylkill, / Susquehanna, CJbio, Hudson, Oswego and other rivers; much pronerty destroyed'; about w Albany, New York, loss estimated at s2oo,Qfcdk English Gen. Outrnm obtained signal vie- \ tnry over Persians, at Persian loss \ 700; English loss 70. ( 9th. 120,000 bales of cotton in warehouse Mobile, Ala., burned ; loss $730,000. f -10th. Perceptible earthquake at Philadl phia and in New Jersey.—Bosch's dwelli/ and cabinet warehouse, New York, burn down ; Mr. B. and wife burned to death/ Twelve Mexicau robbers hung by California at San Diego. / 11th. Freshet in Delaware river; sw. damage done on Jersey side, above Philai phia 550,000 worth of property destrq by fire in Broad street, Newark, N. J. j 13th. Inquest on Dr. Burdell finished New York; bills brought against Mrs. I ningham and Eckel. 14th. Serious riot among laborers at! gen tunnel; two killed, twenty-five won and seyenty captured by military. I 10th. Dr. 15. K. Kahe died at Hal his remains were brought home via N leans, honors being paid by principal along the route. 17th. Freshet, with destruction of m ty, in New England rivers.—Massal Europeans by Chinese in Sarawak arj neo; Sir. J. Brooke (Rajah) narrowly el 18th. Ship Cathedral, from Philal for San Francisco, lost offi Cape Horn nine lives. 19th. Print Works in Dutchess coaaf' Y., burned ; 2500 men thrown eut o| loss $125,000. —Report brought intoj at Washington in favor of the expuQ four Representatives for bribery and I tion.— Man named Slierwood shot dei fight at a meeting of Gov. Walker's fri Leavenworth, Kansas. 21st. Steamers Belfast and Ilumbol ded at Napoleon, Ark.: 25 lives lost s sunk and became a total loss, f i 24th. Fire at Erie, Pa., destroyed stores and offices. J , 25th. Grand opening perforaanw adelphia Academy of Mpsio-*-.# Trf> opera. 26th. Ifop. James Buchanan at} mysterious National Hotel Eptdtu 27 th. Exeiting scene in House j ton; two members resigned, (Gilbi teson,) declaring their innocencf tion.
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