The New York herald., 1844-12-18

F,Rx, &c The large building erected BY the
Burlington Mill Company, at Wipooski city, for
machine shop, was destroyed by FIRE on Thursday
evening Of last week Such the rapidy Of its pro-
gressthat not solitary article was saved from the build
The loss is probably some ssooo with insurs ce Of
$1,000: The occupants were Edwards Z Co., n chime
shop, loss $500, and insurance; Mr. Chase
ry, loss $780, insurance $500; Messrs Ieweys'
chine loss 5000; Mr. Sinclair. pail factory oss 500;
Lyman & Marsh, j. j. X Peck Co John wheeler and
David Read worth sa0eO and insured for 5000
dependant upon this building for its blast also ar
rested by this calamy large number Of thrown
out Of employment at an inclsment season.
Bold THIEF On Sunday night, some one en-
tered the bndery OF G. Goodrich, and took seve-
raj books but not satisfied with them. he went into the
with 6s twG ana
and small trunk. when one Of them, j.mes Horton,
about twenty years Of sge being awakened By slight
and missing his Clothes called upon his companion and
rushed st the fellow who gave him blow the ace that
He Immediately gathered and with the hrspoker gavo
the retreatng gentle man few blsws when they grap
young Horton coming uppermost at the landing Here he
attempted to bold him until the other young man could
get g ht and come to his assistance. But the villain
too powerful Tor him, and after struggle effected
bis escape leaving the stairs srewn with books coats
pants boots, &c., and stained with the blood OF the CON-
batants Horton found himscls perfectly Naked having
lost his shirt in the melee and slightly bruised and
scratched, but net otherw ise injured.
MaCk6On formerly
Of this town put an end to his existence Tuesday last
by hanging himself in his fathers barn. at Westford He
was % years Of aga young man Of good habits and
business, and purchased few months since. quantity
Of goods in New York But his business had proved less
successful than he had anticipated and he found paper
falling due without the means to meet it. II does not ap-
that he had squandered misappled the property
but had assets show for all he had received Blns.
Ton (Yt) Free Press. Dec l.
ScIENrlFrc.- would remind our readers Of
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Niblo's Theatre, this night. The experiments
performed on light and color, by means of the
crystals and polarization, are beautiful, and Gre
ated much interest amongst our scientific men,
The lecture last night on Astronomy, was illustra.
ted by the immense Panetarium, showing, at
one view, the motions of the planets. Their ap-
pearaAce, as though they were suspended in space,
had a grand and imposing effect. The Dioramic
views are the best we have ever seen.
MORMON AND INDIAN OUTRAGE The Warsaw
Signal, Of the 4th inst, confirms rumor, put forth
and his band Of Mormons in fight at trading station,
about ninety miles sbove Proire du CHEN. appears
be SouS for The want Of
country to find employment In order to relieve them,
he went TO- the traders, and finding that they had
then took thirty men, and told the traders that they did
not let him have the flour, he wouldts it, He de-
Indians fired his men, and killed four on the spot and
it Is supposed that nearly all fell in the retreat.
KHANDsoME SrEcuLATIoN.-Iti is stated that with
III forty years the United States have extinguished
the Indian title to four hundred and thirty million
Of land for sightywo mions Of dollars At this rate
they paid the Indians average Of less than twenty
cents per Now, if the United States disposed Of
those lands to their citizens at the present low
received into their treasury the Of four hundred
fifty five millions Eve hundred thousand dollars above the
original cost Cherokee .6dpocafe.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ELLSWORTH The Ban
gor Wing Of Saturday, gives account from Ellis
worth Of serious conAagation at that place the pre-
$4,000 were destroyed The Gre was occasioned sbout
noon, by the accidental breaking Of demohn Of spirits
Of Main street. occupied BY several mechanics.
Clarion states that the starch factory at Bloom
field owned by Fletcher, Cobrrns Co, finished
turday: ready to set in motion Monday,
ed by re on Sunday, from defect In the furnace
nected with the drying Loss $400o-no insurance.
Joiners tools worth $780, were consumed with the mill
and other articles were consumed Il the same time
The wrist of Capt. VIM Dyer broken while mana
ging of the fire hooks. The Of the factory
1t Is said, will proceed at once to rebuild.
NAyAL--The U S. soop Of war st. Mary's left
the washington Navy Yard on yriday, for Nor
er, John L. Saunders first Lieutenant, c. H. Kennedy
second do, VIM. r.. X. Taylor third do, Charles R.
Todd Surgeon, J. c. Palmer Purser, L. L. N waller
Professor OF Mathematics McDnfe Assistant Surgeon
w. Harris Mdshipmen, Robert selden J. II Russell
w. Van Wyck, w. v. Gilless j. II. Sharpe N. Upshur,
GREAT SPORTING IN THE WKsT.-The Louisville
Journal OF the 7th inst, says:-Wm. G. Bakewell,
and Henry Clay r have just returned from excursion
to the prairies bringing with them six dozen prairie hens
They were absent little less than two weeks We
knowledge present from them of four brace Of fat
grouse as ever whrred prairie Deer stalking has
been remarkably fine this season Several parties have
gone from this city to Davies county One of them
ssng of Mr. Lock, and two famous hunters of Indiana
the Ailans. killed forty two deer Quail shooting
was finer around Louisville than during tho press mt
Thousands and tens Of thousands have baen bagged
within few miles Of this city.
MAIL BAG.-A U. S. mail bag from the North
broken open, foaed ashore the Hudson Hastings
go miles from New York; on Thanksgiving morning.
good many Northern newspapers ashore at the
time.
VERDICT IN A BREACH OF PROMISE CAsE.-The
County Court Wednesday last Miss Susan Startzman
IN an action for breach OF PROMISE brought against Mr.
Conrad Smith, ceived verdict in her favor the full
amount Of damages claimed-two thousand dollars.
Meals Gazette for the H0lidays-A Double
NUMBER-Great Literary AttractonThc nsxt number of
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b twice the size Of usual publications. and printed in the
This splendid number will contain in addition other
ystes the whole Of the London Forget Me Not 1852
furnishing the reader with entire Annual Of the bril-
number win have an appropriate Charcoal skecb"by
the editor admirably Illustrated by barley and Croome;
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