ill] —The trial of John H. Barrett was concluded Friday, ind the prisoner dis charged. Ills counsel entered a new Om. in which: advantage was 'takes of tie old statute of limitations now 111 forte, provi ding that an indictment must be found, within . two years after the alleged offence ' was committed. Judge Wylie quoted the law in the matter, and concluded that jiniginent must be given for the prisoner.— Mr. Merrick asked that the prisoner be dis charged, and his request was granted.. —The programme for the great mass Convention of war veterans, to be held in Philadelphia Oct. 1 and 2, has been sr ranged as follows : Oct. 4, at 3P. 31-1 re ceptign of delegates by the Mayor in Inde pendence-square; at V P. M., mass Conven tion in Independence-square ; Oct; 2, at 9 A. M., grand street parade; 9P. IL, miss meeting in front of the Union League House, and a torchlight procession. —Within the past week from twen ty to twenty-five valuable roiach cows haw died from the cattle disease in New-Albany, Lad. -- Mrs. Lyman Locke,bf South Bos ton, idass.,ins burned to desth on Wednes day night, through the ignition of kerosene, with which , she was lighting a fire. —Orlando Sheldon, of Somers, Cohn., was found nearly insensible in his room at the /ifassasoit House, : Springfield Mass., on Wednesday morning,- from inha ling gas which had escaped during the night He had probably failed to turn off the gas on retiring. He is expected to re cover. - —An cutire family in Dnlongue, lowa, consisting of a widow and her five children, were poisoned, on Sunday lest,by eating cake containing poisoned ginger.— Though dangerously , ill for a time, all have recovered. --Au aged couple, 67 .yeara old, arrived at Detroit, on Tuesday night, on their way to their daughter's home, at Bat tle Creek, having walked all the way from Pittsburg. --The Washington Mill Corpora tion in Lawrence, Mass., are about to erect a nor mill for the manufacture of worsted goods: It will be 200 feet in length, 75 in width and will - be throe stories high. —An attempt was recently made to poison an eatira family by the name of lloffecker, near- Rees Corner, Md., by a hired negro girl who had been refused per ruisNicn to attend h holiday festival. She placed the poison in the coffee for thwfam ily, but.failed to do any serious injury by uriking the dose too powerful, —The disease known as the blind staggers, which has been so fatal to horses iu Dorchester County, 11d- for the past five weeks, seems to be abating. Nearly three hundred valuable borers have died from its ifec:ts. • —The Ilruinatd Donee, at Dela ware Water Cray, Fenn., was robbed Fridoy morning. Soon after the robbers had left, their work was discovered,and kfr.iThomas Broadhead, the proprietor, and Theodore Broadhead, his brother, started in pursuit They soon caught up with teem, and, in attempting to arrest them, were shot. Mr. Theodore Broadhead was instantly killed, and Mr. Thomas Broadhead seriously wounded. no murderers fled, but were captured in the afternoon by a large band of the inhabitants of the place, who had been searching for them. An excited crowd accompanied the prisoners to the jail, and were prevented from lynching them by a number of armed men whom the Sheriff had requested to act as a guard. -11011. JaRICH Rogers, the43ldeat rmber of the Delaware Bar, died on Tues day at his residence near New-Castle. He was an able lawyer, and served two or three terms as Attorney for the State, and also as United States District Attorney. —The 27th of October has been taxed upon for the- inauguration of Dr. 11cCosh, of Princeton College, who suc ceeds Dr. Maclean, for fifty pars connected uith that eminent institution, Gov. Pol lock, Senator Stockton and others will make addresses The occasion will be-one of un lintercs --Thirteen boxes of muskets and one of swords have been sent to the Vir ginia Military Institute—the first arms that hist itation has been permitted to have since the war. —Mr. liriaac C. Cohen, on his way from riederieksburg, Va., to Marquette, Mich on the Ceuta Railroad, was robbed of $1.124 on Thursday. William F. Foster, a colored 11:All, convicted of murdering Joseahine Par ; Ler. U colored imman, in Baltimore, is to be hanged on Friday, the 4th OT December next. atid,Charles T. James, who murdered Joseph Clark in Worcestel , Mass., in February last, were executed in that city Friday forenoon. The scaffold used was that upon which ProL Webster and Green, the Malden marderer, were hung. Both wade speechs on the drop,and Charles eon, t