The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-18
WESTERN NEWS.
The yellow fever has become an epidemic /,
Mobile, and is on the increase.

| The yellow fever has become an endemic In
Mobile, and is on the increase.
| Loss OF THE STEAMBOAT SEvATy.-We learn
that this boat, which left here a few DAVIS since
full freighted with dry goods, groceries, &c; fol
merchants of the South and West. and got
snagged short distance from Brande nburg. will
put heavy loss upon our insurance offices, the
boat and cargo being insured to the amount Of
$20,0O0.
WELLsvILLE o., Sept. 9TH, 2P. NJ
On Friday last, the body Of a pedIar, a stYan-
ger and whose name is unknown, was found AT
Steubenville. He had been missing for some
days, and was last seen walking with one Will
liam Birch, who absconded from SteubcnviIle
the day the body was found. lie is the suspect.
ed murderer. Money aud other articles belong
ing TO the deceased have been traced 10 the fi-
gitivc. Birch left wife and family at Steuben-
willie Some money was known TO be in posses
sion Of the pedlar. His throat was cat by an
instrument supposed TO be a large knife. Birch
is man about five feet nine inches in height,
sandy hair, and red complexion; a blacksmith
by trade, and about twenty three years of age.
There were ~ deaths at st. Louis during the
week ending on the Both ult. or this number,
forty-five were under five years Of age.
The Mexican Gulf Railroad, which is to con-
meet New Orleans with the gulf, has been COM
pleted as far as Lake Borgne, distance Of -
miles.
MuRDER.-On Saturday evening last, in Gov.
ington, KY, Mr.. James Wilson was shot by T..
Phelps, and died soon after. The difficulty
grew out Of military affairs. Phelps was ar
rested and confined Wilson WAS Captain and
Phelps Lieutenant Of the Kenton Rangers.
LAKE Commemorative underst that the
boats running on the Upper Lake route have
formed a combination, at last. Their fare is
fixed at $40 for cabin, and S. for Storage pas
sage to any port on Lake Michigan-to Detroit
81 and S2-to Cleveland 81 and 81 50-to Erie
s. and 81. Freight to be rated at 80 cents per
100 lbs, and 81 per Dbl. bulk.-Bnfaio Courier.
SYNOD OF PITTsBURGH.-The annual meeting
will commence on next Wednesday, this day
week, the 18th inst. Agreeably to usage, the
opening sermon by the Rev. Mr.. Nc Masters,
Moderator of last year, will be preached in the
evening, at the place of meeting. viz the First
Presbyterian Church, Allegheny City.
Fourteen hundred Hollanders are settling in
Marion county, Wisconsin.
We learn that Professor McClintock declines
the appointment of Principal of the Gennessee
Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, to which station
he was recently elected.
The Telegraph was put into complete opera
ton at Dayton a few days since. Messages
were exchanged with this city, to Columbus and
New York.
DIR. George McCook, of New Lisbon, o., has
been appointed Professor Of Surgery in the Uni
versity Of Baltimore, in the place Of DIR. Gibson
resigned This is an excellent appointment
A. al.
canoe, have subscribed $4,000 TO the stock
of the Railway TO Indianapolis. That is right.
COMMERCE OF BuFFALo.-We gave, day or
two since, an account of the arrivals at Boston
in one day, but, says the Buffalo Advertiser, il
can be parallelled:
"We have known TO arrive at this port, one
day, one hundred and thirty one vessels, inclu-
ding steamboats,, propellers, briggs and schooners,
with an aggregate amount of cargoes of more
than twenty -siN thousand tons. All these YES
sells, with two or three exceptions, were entered
at the Custom House. This was last year. We
expect this fall to be still greater aggregate"
Hon. Geo. II. Profit, of Indiana, formerly a
member Of Congress from the Evansville dis
uict. and more recently minister 10 Brazil, died
in this city few days since.
lNDIANA.--The Indiana Legislature, as appears
from the official returns, stands follows: SEN
ate, % Wings and - Democrats; House, 81
Wings and 10 Democrats.
The Teegrsphic wires have reached the hank of the
river opposite this city. Efforts Ill lie made
the wires the river today and will probably
he able TO furnish readers with dispatches fresh from
the eastern cities To morrow or next day.-Ls" Cos
risr l6tk inst.
Health report the I'd inst. deaths by the fever In
the city. and u at Lsisystic