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cTacKlng, ana great eHoftS are making to secure It with a strong chain. The ediice was Ill years in building.
 Ce"sus ef .Ne,o Fork. The population of the State of New York, according to the census just completed, is 2,6O0, 374; showing an increase of of l7O,93s since ls4o. The excess of males over females is 26,27l.
 o. MT. Cushing is preparing for publication History of the American Embassy to China. Correspondence of the Newark Daily Advertiser
 DEATH OF PROFESSOR DOD
 PRINCETON, Thursday Evening.
 Our worst fears are realized. Professor bod ex. pired at 4 o'clock this afternoon, in full possession of his senses-calm, firm, and well assured The funeral is appointed for ? l-2 o'clock on Saturday, at the Presbyterian Church. He was 40 years old on the 54th of March last, and was born at Mend- ham, in Morris county. His mind has been per. fectly composed during his whole illness He was week, after day of exposure and fatigue
 REV. DR. BEEcHER.-Sundav evening this ven. erable man met with serious accident While on his way to church, his horse ran ava, with him |; the buggy was dashed to pieces. and the Doctor plo he'd upon his back with great violence. He lay some three quarters of an hour sanseess. For some five hours he had great difficulty in breath. ing. His bruises are merely muscular, and the physicians, we hear. say there is no danger.
 Cincinnati Gazette 0f 7'aes1ov.
 DEATH ON DR PEYToN OF TENN-The Nash. vile Banner announces the death of Dr. Joseph H. Peyton. the member elect from that district % Congress. Dr. PevtOn had served in fhe,Sehate of the State Legislature with much ability. and was elected to Congress by the Wings in 1S43
 MISSISSIPPI U. $. SENA1oR.-The Hon. Joseph w. Chalmers, of Marshall county. Miss, has been A.I L.,
 uice Hon. Jacob Thompson, who declined the ap- pointment.
 SUDDEN DEArH.-Rev. George Bourne, who has for some time been employed in c1nnection with the Christian Int$llgencer entered the office ves- terdav as usual. though feeling rather unwell, and in short time after taking his seat expired prob ably. as is supposed, of affection of the heart- W: r. Tribune. ....
 MELANcHoLY.-We have the melancholy duty of announcing the death of Capt. c. Reed, of the U. s. Army, and late aid to General Gaines, which which took place at the United States Hotel in this City, about o'clock yesterday morning. He arr rived in the New Englard from Cincinnati on Monday, and stopped at the United States Hotel {; in the evening paid his bill and his fare to Pha- delphia. He appeared melancholy and somewhat deranged He went to his room but did not retire persons lodging in the adjoining rooms heard him walking the room from the time he entered until the hour above named. He then appears to have deliberately taken his holster p.stol from his trunk, locked it, and placing the muzzle of one at his right temple. snapped two caps, (as they were heard in the adjoining room, and mistaken for the snappng of coal in the fre.) A third time the pistol was discharged, the ball passing through the right to the left temple. and through the partition into the adjoining room. He fell instantly dead, without groan. , ..A A '.I
 He had letter in his possession of recent date, from Gen. Gaines. accepting his resignation one of his aids, and couched in the most fatterins terms. He had also sword presented to his fa- ther by the Legislature of New York; for honorable service in the last war, and by hs father presented to him in ls4l. He had about 80 dollars of money with him and some baggage He was aged about 35 years Wheeling Times. 19M
 SUICIDE BY DROWNING Mrs. Bushnell, wife of Jonathan Bushnell. who resides in the old War ren house at the junction of Union and Allen streets, was found this morning. floating in the river, near Backns A. Norton's wharf. From evil dcnce adduced at the Coroner's inquest this morn ing, no doubt is entertained that Mrs. Bushnell, who left her home last night, intentionally threw herself into the river, or fell in accidentally. She had been in state of menial derangennent for the last six months. and the probability is. that in one of the paroXisms ot her maladv she put an end to her own existence -.NTscich Courier.
 GOVERNOR OF TExAs.-The Hon. T. Pilsbury, who Is cantildate for the gubernatoriat chair ct Texas, is New Englander, native oi Maine, and emigrated to Texas in 1885 or '36. ...s
 A CURIOUS FAcT.-The workmen in sinking a we'll. which is now being excavated near the cor ner of Hanover and Henrietta streets, on the old brick yard property q" the late Christopher Hughes, after descending about thirty feet came upon lay CT of locust logs, some as thick as a mans body, which were perfectly solid and charred like coal, An investigation of this peculiar discovery may prove interesting to geologists. Some 6fiy years ago similar discovery was made in digging well in that vicinity BGltimore Pat. .s.,
 We mourn to day the loss of another honered Jerseyman in the death of our friend. the Hon. J.. P. B. Maxwell. who died at the residence of Judge R,beson. (his broiher-in lawl tn Belvidsre. on Friday evening, at Ia o'clock. after six weeks illness of Tyvhus fever. aged about 40 years.
 In the year ls?6 Mir Maxwell. was chosen a R.l