New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

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one Of the be gave evidence OF unosss. ~ =
He has preached seceptaby tor ~ o. 10 ye-,i 80
bore az lrrsprOa-hebls character ne soosuiulst1
come property and has leit worthy iamy zoe m an
ner OF his death has surprised ali vac kne" nm, n
10 attributed n sudden and unaccountsoie "
min5-of which symptoms were oos,ou, III - i ~
apparently owing To some sort OF nnzoe. 'hp.o.
sous He preached in the African Church In Academy
street last sabbath His regular charge vas snreNs
bury Monmouth County. vhere be was nucr ie, - -
The following paper was discovered ~ " A'- "'''
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"Tnder q deep conviction of the sruth CT expert
mental religion and It's divine influences ga me nssN
also Of the possibility Of that divine nns11eo oeD
los, and the soul driven n despair and the cause OF
God put u shame by ne, ! therefore coooss oes'I
rather than life for am undoue Ny dear enidren, !
leave you in this vide world, but hope you VII i've
vir.uous lives and die happy deaths ceAh 0''''e'
William you will please settle my sfhna
The sum of So % was found on his person
--' " Newark Advertiser, 9Th.
The RIvER-WEATHER.-At threatening iand
aide occurred on Saturday week last In front OF X H.
Cox's plantation. in Point Coupee, La but oy tue
timely interposton OF the planters In the neisnoor'
hood, the danger was overcome -,
The 8 FrancisriHf Chronicle Of the 2ith inst says
The eyees on the coas, between this and New
r,ust break with rise Of six inches more We learn
tia. The planters have ceased TO ndesvot to svGd
seems an inevitable consequence-s total inuodston -
TIE river still 81 tbs point from three
quarter, Of ar r,b 20 an inch every "a hours Many oil
ire inhabitants OF sister village, bayou sara VINO
had though themselves secure. from tee elevated POSI-
tons Of their dwellings have been cotnPeed 70 oeset'
their habitsions and seek sale retreat IN our town
MURDER AND SUIcIBE-On Sunday last, a
Young woman, named Hannah Cross, with her child
about months old, found dead near her residence
in West Bradford, Penn. about one and hall miles
from Downington had frat cut the throat OF her
child with rszsr and sttsrvard her own throat with
TIE same instrument In her house muslin Tor wind
ing and other grave clothes wa found inducing
the belief that the set had been for some time con
templatsd.
CHoLERA-The Corydoa lind Gazette says
We understand the Cholera has made Its appearance At
MsuckpOri In this (HarrsoD) County. and that Mrs
Carroll wife OF Mr. John w Carroll died ofthe disease
Saturday night, at thst place 1t 10 reported ou'
whether true or not cannot say that there have
been five six deaths from Cholera in the neigh
borhood OF Msuckport within week or two past
The WHEAT CRoP.-A gentleman. recently
on visit to the AlbemsIle District IN North Caro-
lima, informs us that the Wheat crop appears IN,
usually promising and that there Ia every indication OF
an sbundsnt harvest. We slso receive the most Ia
vorable account. Of the Wheat crop on James River
and the surrounding country Norfolk Herald, 9Th.
PENNSYLVANIA ASD OHIO CASAL.--Two boats
Of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland ne arrived yesterday
brin u gocs from the Lakes being the first boats
through from Cleveland this season. The Erie Exten
son (a) Canal Is also open to the Lake and boats are
clearing daily for Erie and Cleveland.
Pittsburgh Gazette, 4th
FIRE ASD Loss OF LITE.-The splendid -four
mil belonging to Mr. John Hays, 10 Frsnkford town
ship about three miles from Carlisle, was totally do
stsoyed by fire on Thursday night last young man
named Linsey employed In the MILL pertshed in the
fsmes Hls body, burned to crisp Was due rom tne
ruins early in the morning Carlisle pa Volun 5th
MrRDER.-An Irshlaborer on the Railroad near
LiichielJ CT found dead In the Nansatuck Rser
on Wednesday last with hi. skull broken. and other
evidences of having been murdered This 10 the second
murder and Of many attempts u kill on the same
road withR & short time.
City from Pert AL Prince TO the l7ib ul' which make
no mention of the Presidents having marched with a
large body Of troops agans, the Spanish part OF the
Island as was reported BY an arrival at New'fors
Boston Journal, 9th.
SHIP FfvER.-The Boston Transcript says the
ship Fever made its appearance In the Aims House
OF Robxury ass) aud other I'd AGENT cities. having
been brought: there by newly arrived immigrants. j.
Is OF very malignant type, and has thus lar proved
unusually fatal
decrease OF WAGES AT LowELL.-The LOrdi
C0Hyiv ssys tina, tho hrs, of the pressnt month the
wages OF the operatives the corporations OF tina!
city, raised from twenty 10 twenty five per cent
having been restored 10 what they were six months ago
CHIEF JUSTICE Observation-Disclosures from Car
Isle states that Judge Gibbons health quite
stored and that he would be 10 Philadelphia shortly.
Phil Bulletin.
RAILROAD BRIDGE BURSED.--The bridge about
els ht miles east Of Auburn burned down on Tues
dag night
70 They had a terrible smash-up of freight on
the Northern Road. At Canaan ~ II. on Monday OF
last week Damage reported at 10000 Two freight
trains were the way up. TIE first was delayed by
this sn0W and backed 10 stoppingplace below, fear
Ing interference with an expected up train The two
trains at scuryo came together one at the rate OF ten
miles the hour, the other five. The engine OF the I'D
vabclng train and scattered 10 glorious con
fusion. One man only iujured-a broken ankle
N II Sentinel.
.y' The heaviest fall of snow, this Winter fell
from Sunday until yesterday evening necessarily
adding 10 the existing supply surface OF about two
feet where IL Grifted by the wind which blew
gale from the Eastward the whole of Saturday night
and sunday until yesterday moraing.
foaebec Mercury 27th ult.
-, A Geographic dispatch received from
Charleston states that the steam propeller Endora
(Which put into hey West some time since, on her voy
age from New Orleans TO New YORK; had put into that
port the ID met with rnsinmsst badly sprung &c
On the 9Th sac was wsiog orders from her owners ID
New York.
~ Rats of round logs, timber and lumber,
says Pittsburgh paper, every eddy of the Ale
gheDy and Ohio in this vicinity. The quantity of pine
products 10 inconceivaoly great The eddy below
smoky Island and indeed the whole shore h. the head
of Glass House Ripple, has been covered during v
ersl days Cor acres.
~ In the Philadelphia Methodist Conference
there Al 0i white members and probsioners and
Slc local preachers yJuI colOred members tnd pro
osoners, and 50 colored local preachers Increase Of
whites over last year SIS; of eolored 3l5.
Tg- The Massachusetts, Legislature has re-
ected the bill reported weeks siucs to appropri
ate 500 coo toward the erection OF second Hospital
for the Insane and the bill for the re6rg aniza alton Of
| the Militia Of the Commonwealth.
RI II is stated that there were five gentlemen
| IN the U. = Senate. who members OF the
same Clsss in Transylvsnis University, viz Messrs
Downs OF La. Jefferson Davis Of Miss. ID. x. AIchi
son, Of Mo-; Hannegan of Ind; and Jones OF 10.
| " Hon. DAsIEL DUNCAN, a Member Of the
House Of Representatives from Ohio has been detained
In Washington since the adjournment Of Congress by
| severe pulmonary attack.
| ~ Daring the past month petitions from .
towns, signed W O69 person. praying for the aboli
ton Of Capital Punishment have been presented TO The
Massachusetts Legislature BY }. NJ Spear.
| Cf> The Ner- Brunswick Union mentions IA
NOR that Or Hssbrodck intends to resign the Presi
dency of Rutgers College after the next Commence
| ment.
| " The Bostonians have an establishment OF
Deer Island where sick emigrsnts taken OF
| There nov about 400 there, mostly Irish Ths
school connected with the establishment has 80 pupils
| n \ union Of the Benevolent Societies o
Boston 70 In contemplstoB-in order, By united
and and systematic action TO meet the increasng claim
| for assistance and to proven, imposition
| r. Major Benjamin X. Andrews, late Of tn,
Massachusetts volunteers died In Boston on Tuesday