Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-09-27

A Mr.. Goodwin has just retired, at the age
of eighty years from the Connecticut Courant.
He has been connected with the Office as ap-
prentice, journeyman and proprietor for 10
years.
The population of Newark, N. J. has In
creased to 10000.
John SERGEANT and John M. Scott are the
Wing candidates for Congress in Philadelphia.
Health ofthe Torn.-We never before knew,
during our residence here ofmany years,
season In which there existed so many cases
OF bilious fever among the citizens of New
bern as at the present. There are but few fami.
lies in town who have escaped, and although
most OF the cases have been of a mtigated
character, many have been extremely severe
and protracted, and we grieve to add that sew
raj have proved fatal-Newbern Spectator.
The following the 24th ut, from the from
tiers Of Italy, is taken from the Augsburg Ga
zette The cholera, which, during the winter,
had ravaged Venice, has desolated these re-
gions during the spring, and ever since the
beginning of summer.
Capt. Taylor Of the Texian Navy, and for
merly of this town, left Mobile on the 9th inst.
on a Journey northward. His object is to
raise funds for the purchase and equipment of
of brig of war to operate in behalf of Texas
against the Mexican forces. The city of Mo-
bile has furnished him with about $4,000, and
we hope that the Carolinas and Virginia will,
by their cooperation, raise the amount neces-
sary to effect his laudible design. Capt. Taylor
will in tn, course of his tour, revisit Newbern,
where he will meet with the warmest good
wishes of his old friends for his success in the
cause which he has espoused, and for which by
his ability, zeal and bravery he is so well fitted.
Nerbern Sentinel.
New York, Sept. 12.
The Harlem Tunnel-Grea Achievement.
After severe and intense labor, night and
day, for nearly fourteen months, by three gangs
of miners, alternately relieving each other
every eight hours, the New York and Harlem
Railroad company have pierced the granite
rock at Observatory Place.
DEATH OF COL. BURR.
This extraordinary individual died on Tues
day afternoon, at the Richmond House, Mese-
reaus Ferry, on Staten Island, in the eighty
first year of his age. COL Burr has been con-
fined to his room for the last year, but has en-
joyed uncommon fine spirits, and was able not
only to discourse with his friends, but to az
rage his papers for publication. Few men
have made more conspicuous figure in
American history. He was born February 6,
1856; joined the American army under Gen.
Washington, then before Cambridge, as vol
unteer, in August, ITS. He marched from
Penobscot with Gen. Arnold, through the vii
derness to Quebec, one of the most fatiguing
marches ever recorded. The suffering endur-
ed by this band Of American troops has hardlya
parallel. He was aid to Gen. Montgomery,
on the ever-memorable night of the 3lst De-
cember, IT'S, when the assault was made on
the city of Quebec, and at which his distin-
guished commander fell. After serving with
fidelity and honor in the campaign of Canada
he returned to New York, and entered the
family of General Washington, at his (Gen.
WIS., request He was soon appointed Aid
to General Putnam, and fought bravely in the
battle of Long Island after which, he was
made Colonel, in ITS, and remained in the
Army, and was a conspicuous officer in the
battles of New Jersey. In 1850, he retired,
in consequence of i'll health, arising out of his
fatigues at the battle of Monmouth. As soon
as peace was declared, he was appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court of this State,
which honor he declined. He served as At
torney General until he was chosen United
States Senator, which he held from 1893 to-
1899. In 1901, he was chosen Vice President,
which office expired in 1905. The 4th Of
July, 1904, he killed General Hamilton in
duel which put final end to his political
career, and, in fact, drove him from his coun-
try. He then engaged in the celebrated
Burr's expedition destined to Mexico-was
taken, tried, and acquitted, at Richmond, In
1907. He soon left the country, and return
ed about 1911, and commenced his profession
as Councillor at Law. He has been engaged
in a number ofimportant causes which have
reached our highest courts.
Within the last few years, he has enjoyed
an annuity of about fourteen hundred dollars,
and pension of six hundred, in all about two
thousand, so that he has been comfortable IN
his circumstances. We are happy to learn
that he has left all his valuable papers to the
care of Matthaw L. Davis, Esq. Amore talen-
ted individual could not be found, and he has
now one volume of his life ready for the press.
Ne0 York Daily Advertiser.
Contents Of the So. Agriculurist, for Sept. 1886.