Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-01-16

and several hundred were thrown down to the
stone heor below. Forty -four were killed and
suffocaled, aud about 100 others more or less
injured -. Storm and flood at New-York Civ.
Brooklyn, and Staten Island. The river streets
flooded.
Great snow-storm in Germany. In Baut2an,
Saxony, l5 men and horses perished in the
SNOW Weather very severe, aud consider
able number OF lives lost by the cold.
November 2l--The American steamship
Prometheus fired into by British brig-ot-war
at San Juan.
November 22-British ship Tyendenaga
wrecked on Caribou Island, in the ST. Law
renee, and II lives lost.
November 24--The trial ofthe fugitive slave
party commenced al Philadelphia for Treason.
November 27-ColIision between steamers
Die Vernon and Archer. on the Mississippi
river, near the mouth of the Illinois, "a lives
lost; the Archer cut in two and sunk.
November 29--Gen. Caravai4l attacks the
Mexican General JarTegu and takes Ceralvo.
November French feet bomhards Rabbat
and Salee, Morocco; great loss OF life to the
Moors, and seven Frenchmen killed.
DECEMBER.
December 2-Usurpalion of Louis Napoleon.
He dissolves the French Assembly, assumes
the reinsof Government, declares Paris in state
Of siege, and orders an election 10 Ike pace on
the 20th and 2lst Dec, in which he cffirs
himself as candidate Tor the Presidency forten
years. A new ministry formed. Two hun
dred of the deputies arrested. Napoleon pro-
claims universal suffrage. according to LAY of
3lst March, 1919; Gems. Cavag gnac, Changar-
ner, Leffo, Lamoriclere, Bedeau, Colonel
Charras, NJ. NJ. Roger Gu Nord and Bare sent
to the fortress of Ham.
December ,, ,3-No vessel from foreign port
arrived at NewIork for 4S hours--a cirum-
stance not known for 40 years.
December 3-PopuIar movement ia Paris
Atfrays between the soldiers and people Bar
ricades thrown up. Several hundred citizens
shot by the soldiers and great indlgnities to the
bodies
December 5-Kessuth arrives at Staten
Island, on board the Steamer Humboldt, at
O'clock, A. M....Lola Monies, Countess of
Landstcldt, arrives at New-York
December tx, ssuth publicly received in
New York, with great festivities
December S-Panama Railroad opened, and
first train of passengers and heigbt passed over |
as far as completed.
December Il-Great Municipal Banquet to
kossuth by the Corporation of New FORK, at /
the Irving House. /
December I2-The resolution of Hon. VIM. |
II. Seward, welcoming kossuth, passes the U. /
5. Senate, Neas 33. Nays 6--maiority 26. The .
trial Of Castner Hanaway for "TREAsON," on /
an indictment for participation in the Chris /
lana fugitive slave case, terminates The 1
Jury return a verdict of Not Glalty. The
prosecution abandoned, and the parties dis .
charged.
December l3--The splendid steamer May
flower, on Lake Erie, wrecked. The Captain .
and several others severely frost bitten. The .
driver Of the stage from Cleveland, Ohio, to .
Erie, Pa, froze 10 death in his seat Several
persons frozen to DEATH
December lj-House of Representatives Of
of the United States passes Hon. W. H. Sew
ards resoIu' ion Of Welcome to kossuth. Isl to
Is. All the negatives in both Houses were
from Slave States Great Banquet of the
New-York Press to kossuth.
December l~--At Savannah, Ga. the ther.
mometor at l6' above z.ro; storm OF snow and
slCet. Codcst weather for MANY wears.
December l9--Great Banquet Of the New
York Bar to Kossu,h.
December 2I--1hc Capitol at Washington,
d. C., on fife. The Congressional Library
burned. Several thousand volume :, and many
valuable manuscripts, maps, medals, works Of
art, &c, destroyed.
December 21--Destructlye fire in Phila-
deiphia, loss 500, 900: in Buffalo New-York,
loss Sl0UuU0; in Ncw-lork City, loss S15O,-
uOO...koSsuth arrives at Baltimore
December The French Usurper, Louis
Napoleon, tramp'es on lhe liberty OF the press;
% public ionrnas suppressed by his orders.
December ;5jt--kosSu,h arrives at Washing
ton, d. c., and Is received by Messrs, Shields
and Sewerd Of the Senate and Marshal Wa
lack in behalf Of the District.
IL The steamship City Of Pittsburgh, for
whose safety strong fears had been entertained,
arrived at Philadelphia a few days since, after
a Da-Sa re Of 10 J3ys--b9 vino lost the rranalIer