The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

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and San Francisco. The mining intelligence was
of a very cheering character, and the crops
throughout the state most prolific. There is later
news from Nicaragua, which represent matters in
that quarter as remaining unsettled, and Walker's
position was becoming more and more precarious.
We should have observed, that the papers by the
Etna give us something like a fair idea of the
extent of the late storm in the United States, and
which appears to have reached from one end of the
Union to the other. We epitomise the particulars
as follows :

In Massachussetts there was a gale on—the Bth ult.,
which, for duration and intensity, exceeded anything
known there for a great many years.
Over forty buildings were struck by lightning, includ-
ing churches and others of a public nature. : In some
towns, the damage by the lightning, wind, and rain, was
very great, particularly in Wentworth, where property to
the value of near 20,000 dollars was destroyed.
Railroads in that state suffered most severely, by
having trees blown over their tracks, End bridges
washed away, travel was, in consequence, much im-
peded. In new Hampshire the storm was most severe,
blowing down barns and farm houses, and destroying vast
quantities of grain. The river rose to an extraordinary
height, particularly the Merrimac, which rose eleven feet
above its usual height. In New York and Pennsylvania,
the storm prevailed with more or less intensity. In Phil_
adelphia the lightning struck several buildings, electrify-
ing numbers of persons, but without fatal results. In Vir-
ginia they were visited by a violent storm and flood, which
completely submerged a large portion of the town of
Harrisonburg, sweeping away several houses and contents.
In Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware, more or less
damage was done to the growing crops, many houses
had all their window glasses blown out, or were
unroofed, and hail fell in large quantities. In Ten-
nessee, a storm also raged on the Bth, which
is described as having been terrific. Three trees in front
of a dwelling-house in Clarksville were struck by light-
ning, and set on fire. In Mississippi we learn that a
storm, which for severity has scarce ever been equalled,
commenced on Sunday, the 10th, and continued for three
days, doing immense damage to the cotton crop. In the
Northern parishes of Louisiana the same storm committed
universal havoc. Cotton and corn which, a few days
promised such ample harvest to planters, are
prostrate, so much damaged that the yield is

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reduced to at least one-third. Cane„where not flattened
to the ground, it is said, will not be much injured.
Turning to our Continental advices, we find
matters in France are devoid of any political signi-
ficance, and, according to the statement of our
well-informed Paris Correspondent, the Emperor
has intimated, through his diplomatic representa-
tive at Naples, that, in order to avoid a rupture,
King Bomba must, without delay, set about
some measures of reform to his ill-
governed and oppressed subjects. The Paris
papers are, for the most part, engaged in corn-
upon the late attempt at :Neufchatel,
various accounts of
The coronation of the
has taken place at Moscow. The only particulars
which have reached us will be found in another
part of this day's paper. Our last advices from
Lisbon state that Count de Sobral had been
appointed Civil Governor of that city, in the room
of De Ponta, which, it was expected, would be
attended with good results. According to our
Madrid letters all apprehensions :of a scarcity of
food had vanished, as large quantities of grain
continued to arrive in the ports of Spain. From
Turliey we learn that the Turkish Pasha, accused
of the murder of the young girl at Varna, had been
set at liberty, although the investigation of the
crime is not yet over

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In the case of the Isaac Webb, hence to New
York, for landing the crew after being passed by the
Emigration officer, a fine of 250/, has been inflicted,
which would have been much more severe but for
its being the first case in which the bond has been
enforced, and the captain admitting his liability.