The New York herald., 1845-11-27
Price Two Cents.
miscellaneous.


Miss Ann Blanchard, OF Weymouth, ami able
and accomplished young lady daughter Of the late Mr.
Blanonaid q Una. place closed her exs ence
at Weymouth Landing The Quincy Patriot say she
had been teaching school in Brantree but renqu shed
it few weeks since account OF i'll health.
A new invention for making bricks, learn
from the Ledger, has been planned by Mr. Samuel
Lowry of Southwark 1t consists OF an inclined plane,
upon which travel a down train loaded with clay and
pass under cutters and rollers which throw of surplus
clay and press the brick 1t is not stated whether the
clay is untrod or made into mortar
A butchers boy in Oxford Market, London, was
employed in sorting waste paper, which had been
Of useless circulars discovered an envelope directed
Lord Ashby, containing hundred pound note The boy
gave it his mistress who Immediately carried it to
Lord Ashby. The :" noble lordn instantly turned the
out of his house and the next day entered
secuon against both her and the boy TOR the elonous
OF breaking open the letter The above facts are
stated in the London Times.
James McCaffrey, who murdered DAVID Hessler,
passsd n on Sm who shot Robert Head
den Greenville S. c., is to be hanged the third
Friday in February next.
Mr. Bonney, the man through whose agency the
murderers of Col Davenport have been punished, has
surrendered himself to be tried on the indictments found
against him in Lee county Iowa, for murder, perjury
and counterfeitiDg.
All the planets, save Mercury, are now above the
horizon att o'clock p NJ, the ST. Louis Gazette Of
the 18th instant and four Of them seen with the naked
eye not to be mistaken Jupiter in the east, Mars IN
east Saturn few degrees west and nearer the
zenith, and Venus in the south west Herschei y at
point between Jupiter and Mars but not dstnguhaois
at present
A duel was broken off, suddenly, in ST. Louis, OH
the 4th instant by the intervention OF warrant from
the Judge of the Criminal Court
The synod of North Carolina met at Norfolk
the l4th instant The opening sermon was preached
by the last moderator the Rev Simeon Cotton, of Fay
of the Rev Samuel williamson Of Davidson College,
moderator The Rev. Colin McIver Of Fayetteville is
the stated clerk The meeting Of unusual harmony
and good feeling and the session shorter than usual
The next meeting of the synod will be hold at Green's
boro', in September, ls46
Joseph Ghormley lost his life at the late fire at
Chilicothc Ohio.
The town of Mauch Chunk has been thrown into
a state of excitement by the discovery OF human ske
ID place The bones are supposed to be those Of ped
lar named segson, who resided in this city, and mys-
occurrence tavern keeper at whose house segson
was last SEEN was arrested on suspicion OF having muir
aersd him but as mo % p.o0 ss S9oS % De 1s
moved since to New York, apd what before wss but
suspicion, is now regarded by tie excited innaoants
I as q certainty.
The Kanawha (Va) Republican says t1at gang
of robbers operating successfully in ths noun
tain counties Among others Mr.. Robert Campbell, oi
tered his bed room-while one held him in his bed, the
others absracted from drawer $500 IN gold and silver
and So, in bank notes, together with bundle oil
bonds amounting to $780, 900.
About $25 600 had been paid in, at the Dubuque
land Office for land mostly by actual settlers during the
nrsttWelve Gays OF the present monn, IhSre CON
tinual stream of immigration to and through Dubuque,
Eastern and other States which terminates the
fertile vacant lands of Dubuque and the adjoining corn
ties.
OREGoN-This distant and delightful country Is
destined to be the theatre of great events-the
Flanders perhaps of another mighty struggle between
monarchy and republicansm. Factions and difficulties
are already sprnging existence there between the
branches Of the Anglo Saxon family which may soon
convulse the world and rob the GRIT Isle OF her last
foot hold on the American continent The Hudson Bay
Company opposing obstacle in their powert to
American settlement in Oregon-more especially on
the north side Of the Columbia Yet expect to at
least 900 brave the coming cross the
great prares and make Oregon their home, and make
too the home of liberty and haPpiness-Wesfon (moo
Democrat.