The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-27

-1hs bn Cor The orgaaisatoa Of ths Territories q
Kansas and Nehraska, which called IL House BIN
that were in the law which was passed By the
Senate psssed tho House Of Representatives, BY vote
as-Tivs eslored msa were drowned near Philadelphia
BY the upsettiDg Of q small boat
25-1hs house bill for organizing the Territories Of
BY vote Of IS 10 a. powder mill blew up near
saueerties, Ulster county, N Y, killing men and
! blowing six houses in the vicinity to ruins.
26-in snnular eclipse of the visible in all
parts Of the United States There fugitive slave
excitement and riot in Boston, during which attempt
United States officers was shot and instantly killed.
31--A proclamation WAS issued by the President OF
the United States warning all against fitting out
fgunpowder amounting to about ave tons exploded
Wilmington. Del, killing seven persons and seriouay In
and seventy five houses or less injured OF
which, including the residence Of Bishop Lees, were
completely destroyed.
IA terrible murder committed ut Cutchyque, l.
I. An Irishman, named Nicholas Beehan, broke into
the house of James wiekhsm retired merchant from
New York. and beat out his brains and also killed his
wife, and beat small negro boy nearly TO death "A
fugitive slave, named Anthony Burns, delivered to
escorted board United States cutter for
the purpose of being carried back to Virginia. by nearly
enUre
measures being taken by the authorities through the
fear of an attempted rescae by the mob
SUNDAY, A serious riot occurred in Brooklyn be-
tween the Irish and number Of persons from New York
who styled Know Nothings. A great number OF
persons were severely injured and about fifty lrshmen
were arrested The riot was queed by the military who
| IA most disastrous fire ccuned in Worcester,
Mass which destroyed property to the value Of quar-
26-The ship Trade Wind came in contact with the
ship Olympus at II O'Clock p NJ, in lat Al So lon 81
TO- violent the collision that both vessels sunk
within hour after Three Of the passengers and three
OF the of the Olympus and eighteen OF the Of
the Trade W nd, persisted
A terrible collision occurred on the Susquehanna
Railroad, near Baltimore, by which twenty eight per
were instantly killed and from forty to fifty
verely wounded, some of whom afterwards died.
AUGUST
IAN election riot broke out in st.. Louis caused by
Irshman stabbng American, which continued for
three days. and in which ten persons lost their lives,
and several others were wounded.
containing kegs 500 lbs Of blasting and rife
powder exploded causing damage to property in the
100000. Several persons were seriously injured. and
one negro woman died from the shock received.
SUNDAY, 2o.-About twenty emgrants massacred
by the Snake Indians in Oregon Territory
22-Two large granite buildings the of Bat
terry march and Broad streets, Boston, fell with ire
mendous crash killing three persons and destroying
property to the value of S120, 900.
SUNDAY, 27-A terrible tornado passed the city
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buryng large portion Of the congregation in the ruins
and instantly killing twenty five persons and wouRdng
many others.
6-Durng the celebration and procession Of number
OF American Protestant societies In Newark n An
attack made upon them by crowd of Irish Catho
lies when the former retaated and destroyed the inside
of Catholic church. During the riot person
killed and number were seriously wounded on both
sides.
s-A disastrous hurricane swept over the cities Of
Charleston s. G., and Savannah, Ga and the adjacent
vi n
sells torn from their moorngs, plantations
srpped and tho streets Of both cities Inundated
the wind having caused the tide to rise to unprece
denied height The destruction of property could only
be estimated by millions,
u.-Terrible riots occurred In New Orleans between
the native American citizens and the Irish, during
which great many persons were shot, Of whom eight
died.
ia terrific storm occurred in Texas, which en-
tirely demolished the town Of Matagorda with the
cepon of three houses and destroyed number Of crops
of cotton and sugar cane. great many vessels and
number Of lives also lost
2o-The Reciprocity treaty was confirmed by the
2l-The cholera, which had been raging time in
Ptsburg Pa, this day carried of one hundred and nine
25News arrived in San Francisco the safety of the
missing British ship Enterprise which had been sent to
the Arctic region in search Of Sir John Franklin.
C. Luce, her passage from Liverpool to New York,
when about forty miles Cape Race, in thick fog
which hole was stove beneath the water line in the
bows Of the Arctic and she sunkin about four hours
alter the accident The propeller, although her bow
completely stove in managed to reach st. Johns,
~ f. The Arctic had on boaId two bundled and thirty
three passengers, Of whom eight were women ard
twenty two children not one Of either of whom
saved The crew numbered hundred and
venty two men and two women: OF the whole number
two passengers and sixty five of the saved
including Capt. Luce who heroically remained on the
OF the
Which broke loose from the vessel and after being two
days in that position was finally picked up by passing
2S-Two boat loads, numbering forty-six passengers
and Of the lost steamship Arctic, landed in safety
sO.-The French steamer vesta, the vessel which
IN collision with the steamship Arctic arrived a. ST.
thirteen Of her passengers by the accident.
SUNDAY, 1.-The Pacific steamship Yankee Blade, ON
the second day out San Francisco California; bound
became total loss She had board about nine
hundred passengers, thirty Of whom we're drowned
State Agricultural Fair was opened in New York
SUNDAY, s.-The steamer f. X. Collins. while her
passage from Saul Ste Marie, burned at the head
Of Lake Erie and twenty three persons perished The
steamer Princess burned the Mississippi river,
hatcher, by which accident twentythree persons
12-Eighteen passengers and of the lost steam
ship Arctic arrived at New York in the ship Lebanon
having been picked by the bark Huron and
ia ferry skif was upset in the Hudson river, at
Troy, by the waves Of steamboat and eleven out Of
seventeen persons in the boat we're drowned.
M-The bark Cambria arrived at Quebec with Captain
Luce Of the steamship Arctic and niue others from that
fated vessel having picked them up near where the
Arctic went down.
24.-sLocks of an earthquake were sensibly felt in
Keene, N. II.
2s-An awful catastrophe occurred on the Great
Western Railroad in Canada, occasioned by collision
between two trains OF cars BY which forty per-
sons were instantly killed and forty -one wounded,
2s.-A most destructive fire occurred in Cleveland,
Ohio by which upwards Of three hundred thousand dol
lars worth Of property was destroyed.
- rio n
which the United States Commissioner of Boston was
nearly killed by the abolitcnsts in consequence OF the
part the law required him to take in arestng fugitive
slaves.
3o-The Crystal Palace exhibition at New York closed
permanently.
NOVEMBER
IA shocking accident happened on the Rock Island