J I II HW1 M W MIIHIHmHi 1MT i)c 3cffcrsonian. THUDAYrJUNE8Tl854. WHIG STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR. .fast Pollock of Northumberland FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. Meorgc DarsiCj of Allegheny. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. Daniel JL Siuyscr, of Montgomery Installation. The installation of tbo Rev. J. E. Mil ler, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Stroudsburg, will take place on Tuc day nest, (tbo 13th). The Rev. Doctor "Wilson, Rev. Messrs. Magee, Davis, and Coble are expected to officiate on the occasion. Sad Accident. rDr. F. llollinskead informs us that three men working on the D. L. & West ern Railroad, at tbo Delaware Water Gap, were very seriously burnt, yester day morning, while ongaged in blasting. They had prepared a blast which failed to discharge, and while they were engaged in removing it, it ignited, burning them badly about the face and arms. One of (he men is injured to such an extent that hi life is despaired of. The other two. will probably be deprived of their sight. .M Glcason's Pictorial. This favorite illustrated journal, form ing sixteen octavo pages weekly, com mences a new volume July 1st, being the seventh volume of tho work. Tt comes to us regularly freighted with its foreign and home illustrations, and a fund of excellent original reading matter. It is edited by Maturiu M. Ballou, a gentleman long con nected with the Boston press, and pub lihed by F. Gleasou, Boston, at S3 00 nor annum, or SI 50 for six months. 'Clubs of ten subscribers taken at the rate of 22 00 per annum. J '1 he municipal election for Mayor and other city officors came oft" in Phila delphia, on Tuesday last. Judge Con rad, the Whig candidate for Mayor, is e- leiled by from 7 to 10,000 maj. Ilazle hurst, (Whig candidate for Solicitor) has about 12,000 maj. Theentire Whig Coun cil Ticket elected by a large majority. Convention of School Directors. This body met at the Court Douse, in thi.s place on Monday last, the 5th inst., and orgauized by electing Jeremy Mack cj, of 31. Smitbfield, President; and John Marsh, Esq., of Hamilton, Secretary. '1 he Directors fixed the salary of Super iritendant at 300 per annum. A bal lot was then taken for Superintendent, wbivh the Secretary of the board, announ t ! as follows : C.Burnet IS votes. Lewis Vail 17 " Rev. Mr. Davis .8 " Duiing a heavy rain,-one evening last week, at Alton, Illinois, the asmosphere in all directions was filled with illumiua tt d balls, resembling fire, which floated through the air, only a short distance a bove the earth. They varied in size from that of a man's double fist to that of a cummon-sized marble. They were not txtinguinhed by the rain, but were brigh- -t and most numerous when the storm vn.i the severest. Their appearance in tin black miduightia represented to have loon exceedingly beautiful. We pre sume they were electrical balls, but how g aerated or occasioned we do not pre tend to explain. Simjile Remedy. Dr. Negler, a French aurgeon, says that "the simple elevation of a person's arm will stop bleeding at the nose." In addition to tho above, it will Le necessary to keep the arm elevated until the bleeding ceases, which will gen erally take place in a few minutes. Freaks of Ligldning. A houso near Vicksburg, Mies., was struck by lightning on the 9th ult., and pretty much de molished. A loaded gun was fired off and broken to pieces, a flask containing powder exploded, a keg of powder had two hoops knocked off it, but did not ex plode. Six persons were sleeping in the house, none of whom were injured by the stroke. Six Monties of Hue Session of Congress has passed, and tho two Houses have re pealed tho Missouri Compromise. What else has been done, except for the Execu tive to attempt to lead Congress by the nose, and to force his leading measure u pon it, to the great detriment of the pub lic peace. It is now proposed to adjourn from J uly to October. Tie Good Time Coming A telegraph ic despatch to a member of Congress, an nounces the gratifying fact that a woman has been elected constable in Perry coun ty, Illinois. JKaWe publish below a copy of a let ter recently forwarded by Col. Charlton Burnett, to the Superintendent of Com mon Schools. AVe do not deem it out of place to give it publicity. S'rnounsDUUGune G, 1S54. Col. C. A. Black, Superintendent of Common Schools: Dr. Vr: At the recent convention of the School Directors of jfiis County, I w as de clared elected County Superintendent, in pur iuance of the recent Act of the Legislature relative thereto. .Upon being notified of my election, my attention was directed to the Act, when 1 discovered that the election was illegal and vojS ; the Directors through some inadvertence having overlooked the require ments of tho law. The friends of some of the candidates before the Convention, may in life pefuhnce of anticipated defeat, make representations to yon, reflecting upon tho members of the Convention and myself, and my apology for obtrudingLthis communication uponjyour attention at this time, is more par ticularly to define my .position in the premises. 1 did not solicit the office, and never aslial a single Director iii the County of Monroe, to vote for me in (he Convention. I was re peatenly urged, to accept tltc ofiice, and my reply was, that I would not electioneer for ihe ofiice, but if it should be voluntarily con ferred upon me, I should not decline, as 1 could not prove recreant, to so flattering it testimonial of the confidence and etleem of my fellow citizens. "if the election had teen valid, I presume, by a regulation of the Department, I would not fiate been honored by a commission, as i have not been engaged in teaching for some years. I therefore withdraw my name from the contest. 1 remain truly, CI I A U LTO N BURNETT, The Dead Come to Life. The St. Louis Republican says that a man named Cordell, who disappeared mysteriously from Jefferson City some ten years ago, has lately returned. lie left Jefferson City at the time stated, for Boonville; and as he had money with him for the purchase of land, and nothing was ever heard of him, it was supposed he had been murdered and robbed. Large rewards were offered for the dis eovcry of the murderer. Mr. Cordell's estate was administered upon and settled up, and his wife, with her children, re turned, to her father's hou?c, where they have ever siucc resided. Mr. Cordell ac counts for his leaving home, by suppos ing that it was during a period of mental alienation; he has been in Mexico, and from thence went to New York, and now has returned to Missouri. European War Sews. The steamship Asia arrived at New York on Thursday, bringing news from Europe a week later than tho previous accounts. The intelligence in brief is as follows : The allied fleet has bombard ed the Russian stronghold, Sobastopol,for four daj-s, but the telegraphic despatch does net state the result. An English war steamer, of sixteen gun?, got strand ed near Odessa, and was obliged td sur render to the Russians. Two other steamcr3 went to her assistance and bombarded the Russian works, but with little effect. The allied fleet in tho Bal tic has al.-:o bombarded Bevel, on the Gulf of Finland, but no particulars are known. The Emperor of Russia has been taken with a relapse of -his sickness. The Russian government has insured to the (J reek Government a subvention of one million drachms per month, and the latter has granted letters of marque to the pirates of tho Levant. .The Turks have gained two more victories on the Danube. Austria has called out 100.000 men to defend her Eastern frontier from Russia. The allies are said to have planned an invasion of Russia proper during litis cathpaign. The Russian fleet at Helcington had sailed thence to join the. Cronstadt fleet, and Sir Charles Na pier had sailed to intercept it. The Spanish difficulty with the United States attracts much attention, and a snecial A. messenger from Mr. Soulc ha3 come by the Asia. We had a report of the safety of the passengers of the City of Glasgow, but it proves to be unfounded. The U. S corvette Germantown has had a singu lar difficulty at the Falklanda with the Brig Express, and went so far us to threaten an assault and clear for action, but apparently without effect. CcuUio7i to Whiskey Drinkers. Three persons in Zanesville, O., one Saturday eveuing, a few weeks ago, bought some whiskey, and were all found dead on Mon day morning. Some of the whiskey that remained was analyaed and found to con tain a large portion of strychnine which deadly poisoii a said to be used by dis tillers, iu order to iucrease the yield. ..... . , - 4 Caution to Smokers. There arc ten or twelve frightful cases of lip and tongue cancers in the Loudon Cancer Hospital, all resulting from excessive smokeng. A town meeting in Wareham recently took action upon the dog question, and according to the town records, it was vo ted, "That all persons within the town owning dogsshall be muzzled." A Terrible Earthquake has recently oc curred in the southwestern portion of the North American continent. At Mexico, the shock fas terifie, while San Salvador was destroyed, and GOO fumilies hurried in the ruins. 10s5 The BostbnrTradegy, says the Norristown Herald, is the first response from the North on the passage of the Ne braska Bill, aud the responsibility of the act should be placed upon the South, where it justly belongs. The manhood of the North has began to recover from the indignity and injury inflicted upon it by tho passage of the fugitive slave Act, and its provisions were being quietly ac quiesced in, when the blavcry propagand ists entered upon a new crusade to subju gate territory consecrated to .Freedom to the dominion of their "peculiar institu tion." In opposition to the earnest pro test of the North, and in contempt of tho decencies aud eulightmcut of the age, they carried through their nefarious purpose by the aid of subservient dough faces, thus establishing tho apparent fact that the only mission which belongs to us as a nation is to buuu up n nation ot Slaves, and to establish around the Free States a cordon of sJave States which sbnli slowly, though surely, work out the 'mani fest destiny" of tyranny and oppression. The result of this is be fore us iu the Bos ton tragedy, aud in it we see but the be gining of the end. Tho conflict betweon Liberty and Slavery must come, and if the authorities and the laws interpose themselves on the side of the latter in the struggle lha 2jeopk wiN right themselves in despite of them. Brewing in Eas'on. Our attention has just been called to the Bottling Establishment of Seitz & Brother's iu this Borough. It would seem from the data furnished us by their gentlemanly look keeper, Mr. Henry A. Sage, that the manufacture and sale of malt liquors has grown to be a very exteusive business here. On one niorn iug of last week, Seits & Brother sent out the following procession from their Establishment : 4 four horse teams three of them carrying 210 dozens each, and one 230 dozen ; 4 two horse teams two of them carrying 120 dozen each, one 91 dozen, aud one 6-1 dozen. One 1 horse team went to Ilacketlstown and German Valley, one to White House, N. J., one to Quakertown aud Zellersville, Pa., one to Stroudsburg, Pa., one 2 horse team to Bethlehen, Pa., one to Nazareth, one to South Easton and Glcndon, and one supplies Easton. On Thursday these teams go on different routes one below llellertown, Pa., one to Hampton and Asbury, N. J., and the others to other towns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The busincs? is carried on with system and the liquors are well made. It is one of the largest bottling establishments in the country. What a drinking people we arc ! Hastonian. Fatal Explosion. he powder mills of Lofilin & Smith, located about three miles back of Saug ertie?, Ulster County, N. Y., blew up on Thursday morning, killing seven men and blowing sis houses in the vicinity to pieces. The principal less will be from the destruction of stock and interruption of the works. The latter los3 will be pretty serious, as this is the largest mill in the State, and next to the largest in the United States. Hammer and Forbes' powder-mill at Ea?t Hartford, also blew up on Friday, killing two men. JKarA terrible explosion of gunpow der took place at "Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday last, by which eight or ten lives were lost, fifteen horses killed, seven dwelling houses and six stables blown to pieces, and fifty other houses more or less damaged. f"0ur Slavery-loving administration at Washington is favorably disposed to wards Russia, and looks upon the insti tutions of that gigantic and grasping De spotism with ill-concealed admiration. As a "feeler," and with a view of com i. mending the Emperor Nicholas to the warm regards of the Sham Democracy, the "Washington Union publishes a com munication, five columns in length, aim ing to show that sympathy with Turkey in the present war is misplaced, and ex pressing the ardent hopo that Russian arms may prove triumphant over Eng land and France. Matt. F. Ward, returned to Louis ville on the steamboat R. J. Ward, on the 22d. He left the city again the next day, in consequence, probably, of the threatening manner in which his return was noticed by the city papers of that morning, and a call for a public meeting on the subject, which was prepared dur ing the day. The Eclipse. A. M. Root, of New York, took twenty-eight daguerreotype views of the uun during the progress of tho eelipse. We have already heard of a few good jokes played upon spectators. A cute doctor, in New York, made himself very agreeable in exhibiting the eclipse to a crowd at the corner of Cort landt and Greenwich streets, ne lent them his smoked glass freely, and kindly placed each spectator where he could see a dark lino dividing the uneclipscd por tion of the sun. Many speculations as to its causo were indulged in, but at length tho waggish doctor solved the mys tery by pointing to the intervening tele graph wire. The printers of the Miners' Journal, (Pottsville,) hoisted a large copper roller mould on a temporary tripod in tho street and soon collecting a crowd, spectators were invited to take an observation; but the only thing visible was at the other end of this pseudo telescope, in plain printed characters, the word JGSOLD! .. ..... - ,-- --o- ..... ST Hay is selling at Columbu, Ohio at $15 per ton, Price of Provisions. Beef cattle sold yesterday at Bull's Head, in Forty-fourth-st., higher upon the average than at-any time since the spring of 1839, when Steinberger, the great cat tle speculator, obtained control over all the beeves in the country, having for a time the power to regulate every market in the United States, and then failed for a million aud a half of dollars. At pres ent there is no great speculator on com bination of speculators, further than a sort of mutual understanding among the cattle brokers at this market for the gen eral regulation of trade. There is a great relunctance on the part of butchers to pay the high prices, and one of the heaviest of them failed the other day for some g30,000 ; and the whole fraternity seem to have been strug gling hard to keep going for a year past, being all the time hi hopes that "thingf. would take a turn." They have; but, unfortunately, tho turn has been the wrong wav, Tho prospect now looks worse than over. Cattle grow higher and higher. Y holo droves sold yester day at prices estimated equal to a shilling a pound for the beet in the quarters. The profit of the hide and tallow, after deducting expenses, is but small, Jeavmg tho quarters upon the stall at 12-i cents a pound. How the lover of roast beef can expect to got a choice cut lor less than lb' or 20 cents a pouud is beyond our calculation ; and how the majority or them can aft'ord to pay that is beyond their own calculation. If they resolve that beef is too dear and determine to fall back upon mutton, they will find themselves in equal difficulty. You can hardly get soup bones for a shilling a pound. As for lamb, that is quite out of tho reach of every body that has to work to eat. Think of small lambs sel ling for 83 to 84 each, or about 20c. a pound for the meat. The price of a fair quarter of lamb is 82 ; that is "very fine, weighing six pounds. Nothing is cheap but pork, and no body of common sense will eat fresh, pork m warm weather, if ever. But it may be asked why not eat more vegetablcs?- Simply because they, too, are very dear. It is more economical to buy meat at the high prices than any kind of esculents at present rates. With a whole world's abundant pro ductions flowing towards this great em porium, the poor here arc pinched for food, and the midding class find great difficulty in providing their usual supply of such eatables as they have long been accustomed to use in their families. "We have in fact, no reason to expect that the price of beef will be materially reduced till after the arrival of grass-fed cattle from the western prairies. N. Y. Tri- biaic. Elood Baths. According to a dark tradition, which isincidentally mentioned by Pliny, the an cient kings of Egypt used to bathe in hu man blood when they were seized with leprosy. A similar story is told of the Emperor Constantino; but he seems to have been restrained from employing this revolting remedy in consequence of a vis ion; and he is said to have been cured by baptisim. No great weight can be at tached to these ill authenticated stories, yet it is but too true that, both in ancient times and m middle ages, decided heal ing virtues for the cure of leprosy were supposed to exist m the blood of innocent children and virgins, and that occasion was given thereby for numberless cruel ties. It is needless to refer to the remo ter traces of the belief in the expiatory or healing properties of pure blood: thev ramify far and pass into the most ancient times. Cures of leprous people by the blood of animals, in employing of whicl certain symbolical customs were observed are mentioned in the books of Moses: and it might not bo difficult to discover simi lar forms among all the nations in the world. ' During the middle ages tho delusion a bout the healing virtues of human blood, which must have had horriblo effects in the plague of leprosy, received a cheek from the impression that only tho blood of those children and virgins would prove efficacious who offered themselves freely and voluntarily for a beloved sufferer. This idea is particularly expressed in the touching story of "Poor Henry," which forms the subject of one of the most beau tiful poems of tho thirteenth century. A Saubian knight who sit3 in tho lap of happiness, is seized with tho leprosy. In order to escape death, he seeks through the world for help. The physicians of Montpelier can give no assistance; he has tens to Salcrnum. Here one of tho mas ters makes him acquainted with tho ap parently hopeless means of cure. Sad at heart, ho returns humc, and prepares himself to sorrow out tho remainder of his days in solitude. A girl of twelve years of age, thoaughter of a country mau, conceives a -passion for tho unfortunate knight, attends him affectionately and, u pon accidentally hearing the free will of fering, cannot be dissuaded from her res olution to purchase the recovery of her master with her life. Both arc set out for Salernum, but the catastrophe is not fatal; Henry gets rid of tho leprosy, and rewards his generous benefactors with marriage. German Medical Gazette. Death of "Fanny Forester." Hamilton, Canada West, June 2. Mrs. Judson, better known as "Fanny B'orrestcr," widow of the late Dr. Judson, Missionary to Birmah, died at this placo; last evening, of consumption, Heavy Ordnance Great Guns. Messrs. Alegar & Co., of South Boston, are engaged manufacturing for govern ment, twenty, ten ana eight inch "Colum bians" (cannon) to be taken to California. The ten inch guns weigh about sixteen thousand pounds, and are the heaviest in use in any service. About twelve tons of iron are melted from the pouring of each, the guns being cast solid, and then bor red out. The process of boring and fin ishing occupies about three weeks for each gun. Trial of Henrietta Kobinson. The Trov paner3 are filled with the pro ceedings of the trial there of Mrs. Henri etta Robinson, for the murder of Timo- thy Lannigan and Catharine Lubee Dy administering poison on the 25th of May, 1S53. We gather from the 'Times the following facts: The prisoner was ar rested on the evening of the same day the murder was committed. The murdered man was twenty-five years of age, and had a wife and four children. The mur dered girl was twenty-five years of age was unmarried. Ihe prisoner is about thirty-five years of age, is rather good looking in the face, possesses a fine form and has a foreign air. In Uourt sb.e wore a black silk dress and white bonnet trimmed with colored flowers. Her face was covered with a blue veil, perfectly impenetrable. She appeared to be quite easy. Mrs. Robinson had resided for a bout a year beforo the murder alone in a house in tho upper part of Troy. Lanni gan kept a grocery opposite, where she traded. She visited in his family, but a quarrel arose, and she was forbidden to come there. Friendly relations were, however, subsequently established. On the day of the murder she came to the house of L. and took a seat at tho dinner table. She called for some beer to drink and a pitcher of the same was brought. She wanted sugar to put m it; tins was also furnished. She poured out the beer and it is alledged put arsnic in it, which she purchased on the luth inst., and a portion of which was found under the car pet of her house. L. drank tue beer pre pared by Mrs. R., as did also Miss Lubec w no was visiiintr acme nouse. xuiu uicu the same evening from the effects of poi son. Troy. May 28, 1854. Tho Jury in the case of Henrietta Rob inson, charged with murder, being out nearly three hours, returned with a ver dict of -'Guilty." She received the ver diet with great boldness, and exclaimed, "Shame on you, Judge! you are preju diced against me." She also charged the Jurv with bcinc bribed. Sentence was defered until Monday morning, to allow her counsel to bring iu a bill of ex ceptions. The priaoner's manner, after tho rendition of the verdict, wa3 strange and her languago incoherent. jggf Mrs. R., was brought into Court on Monday morning to receive her sentence She was in high spirits, and kept laugh ing all tho time. There was a large crowd present. W. A. Beach moved, in behalf of the prisoner, for a suspension of sentence until tho defendant's counse could take proper steps for a review of the case. The motion was opposed b H. Ilogeboom for the people. After some deliberation the Court granted a suspen sion of tho sentence until the further or der of the Court. Fearful Riot in Brooklyn. American Procession attacked in Brooklyn From six to eight Killed Thirty to sixty Wounded Great cxccitcmcnt in jSeiv York, Sec.. New York, Jnne 4, S o'clock, P. M An American procession in Brooklyn escorting a street pracher to the ferry while passing down Gay street near Main, between G and 7 o'clock on their way to Catharine Street Ferry were saluted by groans.-hisses, tec. The Americans paid no attention to the insult, but not pro ceeded far beforo they received a deadly fire from fire arms, from windows, house tups and alleys, (from members of the Shields Guards an Irish Company,) viti rol and missiles of every description were thrown in the procession. Only a portion of the Americans were enabled to get on board the ferry boat. Those that did, after crossing, called a meeting in the park at 8 o'clock. At the meeting it was stated that from six to eight had been killed, and from thirty to sixty wounded. Those who were left o ver in Brooklyn, were penned up in the ferry house and any other place where they could obtain shelter. The meeting resolved to go to the rescue of their broth ers. They crossed at Grand street ferr A gentleman who passed along Main street about G,. o'clock, before the Amer ican procession carao along, says: The street was then filled with Irishmen, with stones, clubs, vitriol bottles and other misels, awaiting tho approach of tho A mericans. All tho rumors concur in the statement that the Americans were marching quiet ly along the street arm-in-arm, and pay ing no attention to tho groans and hisses with which they wero received when first assailed. second despatch The first reports of tho disturbance at Brooklyn prove to bo, as was expected, greatly exaggertaed. As far as known only two were killed one a policemen and tho other a boy, who was shot in the forehead and died instantly. Many are terribly injured, especially tho assailants who resisted tho police. A large number of Irish aro under arrest. The Shield's Guards did not fire, as was reported, and it 13 now said they were not upon the ground. A regiment of troops have been order ed out, four companies of Americans are on tho ground, and the rest aro in the ar mory. Five of the Irish companies took their arms from the armory and marched out without orders, going over to South Brooklyn, away from the scene of tho ri ot, A collision is feared, as tho remaining companies say that tho Irish troops shall not re-enter the Armory again. Tho Americans that were shut up the ferry houso all got over to tho city in safety- At the present time, elovou o'clock, all is quiet, and it is hoped will continue so. JTJpWhoatwaa harvested near Augus ta, Geo., on Thursday last. "Gently the dews are o'er me stealing," as the follow ,;said when he had' five due bills presented to him at ono time, A Terribl9 Tornado in Illinois. Tho Belleville fDliuois) Tribune con tains the particulars of a. very destructive tornado which visited that county on the 16th May. An immense amount of val uable property was destroyed. The storm originated in Missouri and crossed over the Illinois side several miles below' St. Louis. In Waterloo, Monroe county, a brick house was blown down, as well as'four or five other houses, together with largo quantities of standing timber and orchards. The storm next passed over the farm of Frederick Merrell, where it was terrific beyond description, destroy ing everything within its reach for a great distance. The house was a two story brick building, comparatively new with 13 inch walls, stout and substantial m every respect, which was almost entirely destroyed. At the time of the catastro phe, Mr. Merrill's wife was standing and t it i it 1 1 . - T. tw Iioiuing on to me mamicj icce, wuuu uuu of tho walls was blown down, and she fell with it to tho ground, a distance ot four feet, and was covered up with tho bricks and falling timbers. She received' severe bruises and contusions, but nonce of a very serious nature. A child three months old, lying in a cradle, received no injury whatever, although surrounded by falling brick, timber, &c, large quant ties of which fell on and in the cradle,, broaking it to a very considerable extent. A small dog a few feet from the cradle was killed. Tho barn which was a large one, heavy and well built, was twisted out of shape ono end blown out from top to bottom roof off of main building, and all of tho shingles removed from tho sheeting on the shed part. Some of the rafters, sixteen to eighteen feet in length, were blown a distance of about three hun dred yards and forced into the ground. A choice orchard, containing from ono hundred and fifty to two hundred treee, was entiroly destroyed; all of the trees, with tho exception of probably two or three, were uprooted, and some of them carried a distance of two hundred yards or more. Tho shado and ornamental trees in tho yard shared a similar fate. The smoke house, which was full of ba con at the time, was Taised from its found ation and removed a distance of about ono hundred feet, and remains whole. The dairy house was blown into the air, turned over, and dashed into pieces. The fences were nearly all blown down, not forty rods remaining, standing on the farm. Mr. Merrill's loss ia near ten thousand dollars. The storm then pas sed over to an adjoining farm belonging to the Merrill estate, and occupied by Mr. Henderlighte, The house was a good feized oner built of largo and heavy logs, which was leveled to the ground. Mr, H., at tho approach of the storm, was at the front door endeavoring to olose itr and was blown through the houso and out at the opposite door, thence through the yard into the orchard, where ho seiz ed hold of an apple tree which was soon blown down, and carried by the wind a distance of 200 yards, Mr. H. still cling ing to it. He was considerably bruisad and mangled, but not seriously injured. A great deal .of damage was done to the orchards, fences, timber, and houses of other fartn3. The loss of David Mooro is set down at from two to three thousand dollars. " Ho had a brick house iu pro cess of erection, which was entirely de stroyed. On. a farm belonging to the brothers Pearce, an orchard of ono hun dred choice trees, one of the oldest in tho State, w.a3 destroyed, and three miles of fence were blown down. The trees, tho some of them were nearly two feet and a half in diameter,, were pulled up by the roots, and carried along by the storm. Shingles were found on a farm 3 miles distant from the above. The double log house of Aaron Tickers, in which were Mr. Tickers, his wife and child, and three other persons, was destroyed. The room they occupied was torn away to tha foundation, and yet, marvellous as it ap pears, they all escaped without injury. It appeared to tho inmates that the house was lifted up over their heads, torn iu pieces in the air, and tho fragments strewed in every direction. It lifted the roof from the log house of Mr. Hall into their air, and carried it, no one knew where, for its fragments could not bo found. Tho new buggy of the Rev. Mr. Ely, was blown several hundred yards. and broken and torn into a hundredpie ces. A singular feature of this storm is iu tho zigzag direction of its track, mak ing, in somo instances, direct angles in its general course. Persons within or near its track speak of tho sudden- ap pcaranco of a dense smoke or mist, aud the darkness almost equal to night; that camo suddenly and departed in a few moments. The Momentuous Question. 'Well, Charlotte, now that you have decided on the brocade what lace do you mean to trim it with?' 'Why, Amelia, I really don't know; what do you think?' 'Oh, Charlotte, dear, howshoull I tell? What do you say to 'point?' I saw some in Broadway, to day at 20 the yard!' 'That's just the thing. Let's sec takes twenty yards, don't it?' 'Yes, love; and if you have anything o yer, you can give it to me; if ther's any thing I admire, it's 'point' lace. George says it is extravagant, but I see no fun in. stinting one's self; do you, dear?' Perils of Gold Digging. At Baalarat, (Australia,) where the holes are very deep. aeniJohts aro com mon ono occurrod lately. A man dig ging, found the bottom growing soft, but paid little attention to it until his legs sunk in so that he could not pull them out; ho shouted for his mates to let tho rope down,and fastened it around his waist, but they could not pull hira up; help camo and twisted off tho crank of the windlass, then seized tho rope in their hands, but it was of no avail the water bubbled up a round the man in the hole, the quicksand rushed in, hurried him to his waist and neck, stifled s cries, and rose thirty feet above his head. To dig him out.was.im possiblb, Tho ropo was out, and" its' end pushed beneath the rjitiok-sand,
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