New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-25
" A lake about two miles and half

u A lake about two miles and half
lop, and located about eight miles from the village Of
Brighton bust its banks the 2t ut- and com
bank through which the broke about forty feet In
hight The rush Of water dug channel twenty five feet
deep and one hundred feet vide for length Of miles
uprcotinr forest trees carrying away mdaa and
ing two men Thus occurred the singular phenomenon of
lake being dried in q few days
ty Ii is stated that Mr.. Scudder, NJ. G.
firm, the New District intends introduce bill In
the u House of Representatives granting the State Of
hundred thousand acres OF public lands
to aid in the extension Of ne Cape Cod Branch Railroad
from Sandwich to Cape Cod HerbOr and the establishment
ofstesm from point on said road to the
island OF NJ ntucket.
r The building of railroad from
Halifax 10 Quebec wholly within the British Provinces has
ton would not cost less sS COCO and its whole in
nay the running expenses Inc roae Eng
sh Canada be through Portland 70 Montreal as the
best and most direct
II Several persons died on board a
steamer on the Mississippi few days since with disease
which bore strong mbance TO cholera ont was c1arac-
terzed by symptoms sonew hal different one singular "a
ofthe malay the absence OF all bodily pam duns
sickness up 10 Of dissolution In other respects
il had the most prominent features OF cholera
~ The Halitdr Sun states that Rev.
Robert Mullen Missionary TO the United States on behalf OF
the Catholic University endoTs uninientouaiy state
ment that the number Of Irish Catholics emigrag 70 the
Caboic church" He thinks the number who have been
lost Catholic church since 1925 is IN round numbers
two millions
r. Two merchants reached st. Louis
on the i4th from Chihuahua, by way of St Joseph with
SEQ 600 in TO lay supplies OF goods for the ensuing
wear Full $50 600 # Mexican dollars ed up In
hide sacks containing 5000 TO $500 each T balance
bullion. The arrivals OF coin from New-MeXlc1 nave
been unusually large this season.
Il The Missouri River is said to be
ee from snag and sandbas than for previous which
accounted tor by the immense masses OF ice WIN "a run Tor
weeks after: breaking up of the nverIa the spnns
ry- A petition has been presented to the
General Conference of the NJ T. Church praying that the
Conference will quire all the editors of the Methodist pa
pers conform to Bible othoEraPhy and not to that oil
Noah Webster.
TThe Natcte. Free Trader states that
Jefferson College, Washington in Adams Corr ty, Miss
il about 70 Law claim 70 very valuable property
sne twenty Of ground in the center OF the bu
ness portion OF Mobile.
ly The County Court of London Co.,
Va has ordered the Sheriff sell for public hire, about one
hundred free negroes who have neglected 20 pay their taxes
They be hired out at not less than ten cents day.
until the debt is hquida;ed
r. The Utica and Schenectady Railroad,
sevenyeght miles long, costing for its construction sl5c
OO for fourteen years cleared S cent per anndm over
the total expenses besides reimburDg the crsnal cost
e. The complimentary benefit to Mrs.
Mowatt in Boston very successful The house was
crowded and the beneficiary made Speech which Vas well
received.
IL The Blthdale Romance" is the
title Of Hawthornes work in press by Tcknor Co
The scene is laid West Roxbury the Associatonss
70 One day last week thirty-six rail-
road cars in train into Rochester, westward
bound, all filed with emigants.
r. 1t is said that the tobacco crop OF
this season in Kentucky will be very light The osts and
fly have nearly destroyed the plants.
T The fifth annual fair of the Chicago
Mechanics Institute will take place in the City Of Chicago
during the first and second weeks Of October.
~ A grand tournament will take place
at St Louis during the Summer. Who VIII be Queen OF
Beauty!