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The large increase Of business at Chambers Is
owing to the rule permitting rtigatcd motions 70
De heard at Ciambrs which we're formerly argued
as SATURDAY special terms
Judge Morris, ~ho from severe indispodtl,n was
unable 10 attend 70 business from May TO Septem.
ber il now perfecJy convaltscent
On Tho 10th al Jacnay last the court rooms
Known o. the New Cry Hau tthe old Almshouse)
tie business OF these ,ourts was greatly obs.ructcd
the only rooms accessible being two parors in
Chembers street, opposite tue ruins. In Apdl the
SupNme Court was acoo inundated with apart.
mtnis in The brown stone building, where toe va
fious bracelets OF lbc court scattered about that
lofty budding frtm the foundation TO the root.
g. me Ct Tie no ms are spacious, bat biing neAr
Chambers street. business l. very much retarded by
tic noise q vehicles.
The Counsel for the Cooperation has obtained
D. den Cor opening great many streets, which gives
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SUPERIOR COURT.

SUPERIOR COURT
JuHices-Hon. Thomas J. Oakley (Chief Justice)
Hon. John Duer, Hon. w. w. Campbell, Hon,
Joseph s. Bosworth, Hon. John Slosson, and Hon.
Murray Hoffman.
Clerk, George H. f. Lynch, Esq; Deputy Clerk
and Clerk of Trial Term (part frst) George 7.
Maxwell, Esq Assistant Clerk and Clerk of Trial
Term (part second), Fl. H Rice, ESQ.,; Office Clerk,
Jesse Oakley, Esq; recording Clerk, Augustine
Saow, Esq
TRIAL TKRMs.
The number Of causes tried, referred complaints
dismissed, inquests and cases settled, during the
last year in this branch of the Court, were "a fol-
laua
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MARINE COURT.

MARINE COURT.
Justi.es-Hcn. Alfred A. Philips, Hon. Florence
Mccarthy, and Hon. Albert A. Thompson.
Clerk-Moses d. Gale, Esq.
The whole number Of processes, Including sun.
monses, aliases, alta hments and warrants, Issued
BY the court from Iss January. 1854, 10 soth De.
cemssr, 1854, b.....................
Number Of judgments rendered .......3yAs
Settled, dismissed, or dis,ootinued by
tee pAftkes. ..,,.,,............... sS,Ssa
---s ,6Ts
Since the increased Jurisdiction Of this court 70
suiis involving. Eoo, the tuaesss hM augmented
ttariy f01l fcst
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~ motions heard-63 decided at Gene raj Term.
TIE NUMBER OF Juugmepts gntcrcu up IN the SUI
peror Court Clerks office for the year 1864, as ap
pears by the Docket book, kept by II. Il. Rice.
amount TO ,197 exclusive of equity judgments, de-
crees of divorce and foreclosures.
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IUIaI iIVJ
In the year 1853 this branch of the court disposed
Of S67 causes. The above statement furnished to
shows in crease Of 238 causes over last year.
The judges have been engaged curing tae last
term in trying several long and important causes, OF
which each occupied the attention of the court
several daye. The old actions Of Guion vs.. Alaire
Works, and Allsire Works w. Guion. which have
been on the calendar for 3 number of years, and
postponed by the parties, were eventually tried
and verdicts rendered before Justice Bosworth at
this term Of the court.
The Trial Calendar for January term contains
1900 causes.
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SUPERIOR C0UBP--NATURALI5ATI0 OFFICE.
Clerk, Peter Lemon, ESQ.
COURT or COMMON PLEAS.
COURT or COMMON PLEAS.
Judgs-Honi. d. P. Ingrshan (First Juige),
Charles p. DAILY and l.. B. Woodruff
rlcrk- Reniamin n Jarvis Ean. -E8.s.+s

COURT or COMMON PLEAS.
Judgs-H oni. D. P. Ingrshan (First Juige),
Charles P. DAILY and L. B. Woodruff
Clerk-Benjamin Fl. Jarvis, Esq.
By an act of the Legislature, passed April IL,
1854, change was made In the organization Of this
court, by which the appointment Of the clerk vas
conferred on the ju iges. This was an alteration
which the judges themselves, as well a. the bar, had
Icing desired, and Its pract oil operation has shown
the great propiiety OF IL, adoption, BenjAmin u.
Jarvis, Esq., Is the clerk appointed BIZ the judges,
and the duties of his tfce are now discharged en-
tiiely irrespective II the County Clerk. Mr.. Jarvis
has succeeded in not only having toe court rooms
Of this tribunal, but also the clerks Office fitted up
in such manner as at once TO promote the comfort
and command the res peot Of those VINO do business
in the Common Pleas In this country, the places
where justice is administered should have at al
times an appearance calculated TO excite, N least,
decent regard; and We hope that, ere long, all our
court rooms and heir adjunct ofhces may wear an
aspect rs appropriate ana tasteful ~ those occupied
by the C1mmoa Pleas. II Us due 70 the County
Clerk Or d. Connolly, Esq TO say .att he has lent
the law which Invested lis Office OF the oefkship OF
Common Pleas-iu the por ormsnce Of the duties OF
which Mr.. Jarvis Is fortunate IN having The aid OF
his geatlenanly aud attentive ASSISTANTS.
At Special Term for the trial OF issues OF
law and the hearing OF motions for new trials,
the number OF motions and issues OF law argusi
and determined, from January l, 1854, 50 Deoem
her 80, Ia ,433. 1ois does not iaclude the argu
menis ana decisions In proceedings under the in
solvent laws, nor the orders for examinations Ia
supplementary proceedings and arguments, and
orders thereupon, which greatly exceed in number
the other motors; nor the decisions or attach
ments, or proceedings on habeas corpus.
NATURALIZATION.
The number Of persons natufalized In this court
from January 1, 1864, {, December 80, Is. .S459
The number OF causes disposed Of in the Cous Of
Common Pleas for the trials Of issues Of fact, for
the year 1854 the whole number OF cases placed on
Inc calendar vs.
Tried BY 1855
Court without ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10T
Dismissed. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. o.
feered. %
Settled .........,..,. .,....,,...,.,..,...,.. as
Remaining on the caendsr. Observation-Disclosures. S52
Several heavy causes were tried in this court
during the past year, among witch were the Walk
or divorce Gaze, occupying se venteen days keeier
against Church for slatdsr, seven days, and Barr
against Erben for libel, seven days.
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UNITED STATES MARsHAL's OFFICE.

UNITED sTATEs MAHSHALs UFFICE'
United States Marshal for the Southern district Of
ew York, Abraham I Hllyer, Esq; Deputy Uni
d States MazsaaIs, Joseph Thompson and c. A.
liilyer, Esqs. ..........
OFFICERS OF THs UNITED STATES CIRCUIT C0URr.
-~Crier John v. Kes fis appointed by the Judge;
officers. Luther Horton, VIM. Phillips Peter Miller,
John Stegner, Terence Quiu, appointed by the Mar
shal.
OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT C0URT.
---Cfer. VIM. E K.sffe appointed by the Judge;
officers, Lorenzo De Angels, Benjamin +. Ryer,
George Ntvins, Gilbert Weeks, John Helnes, ap-
pointed by the Marsha.
All criminal warrants for alleged crimes on the
high seas, are executed by the United States Mar
shal and his deputies. Also. al moniti0ns against
ships or vessels for violation Of the revenue aud
maritime laws.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.
District Judge. ........ Hon. Samuel K. Belts,
Clerk. Geo. w. Horton, Esq.
Deputy Clerk. ........ Joseph Brigham, Esq.
From the LIST OF Jsnaary, 1854, to the 3lst Of De
cembsr, 1854, five hundred and ninety.eight suits
were instituted on sbs admiralty side Of the District
Court.
These suits were on b2ttomry bonds, bills Of la
ding charter parties, marine hypothecation, sea-
meas wages, collisions, personal losses at sea, aud
salvage.
OF the above number instituted there have been
heard and finally disposed of one hundred and
eighty one; and there yet remaining on the dock
ct, and NOT brought 70 bearing, four hundred and
nine. t-sAA
During the past year, and owing to the accumu.
at0n and pre- ssure oil police business and tbs sit
tirg Of the Circuit corl, thn Hon. Nathan K. Hail.
OF the Northern District Of New York, aud the Hon.
Charles A. Ing ersoD, az Connecticut, was designa-
led to bold the terms n the District Court under
he acts of July, 1850, and April, 1852, the Hon.
Samuel r. Bsebe huidi1g tns Circuit Court, and
dsposAng OF the business during Judge Nelson's abb
On the Common Law SIDE OF the District Court
there were instituted orc hundred suits. or these
seven we're disposed q, and uinetythree are still
On tie criminal sds af the District Court there
were presented fortyniue indictments. or these
nineteen have been tried ana disposed Of and thirty
remain to be tried.
The Hon. Charles A. Ingerson will hold the JaDu-
airy term Of the Dsirict Court, and Hon. Nathan b.
Hall the February erui.
Judge Belts will continue toe business of the Cir
GtC0urt while ind G Nelson Is IN attend ance In
itSupreme Court d Washington
UNITED srATxs COMMISSIONERS COURT.
George W. Morton, ESD, and Joseph BRIGHAM,
So, United States CoT .ui .sioners.
Yhe Commissioners, MSS 8. Morton and Brdg.
ham, issued one hundred aud twenty five warrants
during the year.
These were on con- plants of murder, msnslaugh-
ter slave trace, Snug Cling, couatsrfeitag, assault
with dangerous w5spo-, cruel and unusual punish
ment endeavor 70 make revolt, larceny on the high
eeas, &C.
Many Of these cases were taken before the Grand
Jury in session at the inns o. Issuing the warrants
ard were disposed II ny indictments being found, or
the complaint Dismissed
OF those heard sp6 determined by the Commits
RoneIs, twenty two ssie committed for trial ard in
twenty cases, the evidence on the part of the
United States being deemed insufficient the com.
plants we're dismissed.
OMITTED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE.
Hon. John McKeoa, United States District At
forney; appointed Juy 20, 1854,
Philip ]. Joachimssen, Esq, Associate United
States Attorney; appointed September 5, 1854
II. Elmendorf, Jr, william 3. Ssilwell, Clerks.
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surnrxE couRr-aENEnAL TERN.

Judges.-Hon. YIN. Mitchell (presiding justice),
Hon. james j. Roosevelt, Hon. Robert H. Morris,
Hon. Thomas w. Clerke.
VIM. II. Dusenbeny, ESQ.,, acting Clerk at Gene
rsI Term. Crier OF the Supreme Court and Oyer
and Termner-Mr. Henry Bertholf.
The number Of causes argued and determined
during the year 1854 (u;luding non-enumerated
motions) were as fouows:-
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In the above incl uGed the slave trade cases,
smuggling cases, counterfeiters, Post Office rob
berries, laIcenies The nigh seas, murders at sea
and in foreign port, assaults aud batteries with
dangerous weapons, crre, and unusual punishments,
revots and mutioies, embezzle nent Of public
moneys and all other cases in wifi n the United
States are Interested or concerned.
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SUPREME COURT SPECIAL TERN.
Ths same judge.
George Il. Aloep, Esq, Clerk.


George Il. Aloep, Esq, Clerk.
tnuary-Trial of hEues Of law and equity casca, g.
Motions be ard and decided at Saturday
special terms .................. IS
- 1j3
Fehruary--No trials. Saturday motions........ lis
March--Trials and arguments. a1
Saturday motions. II
= los
Ap,l-Triais and arguments ....... ...... 50
Saturday motions. Observation-Disclosures l0
- lS
May--So trials. Saturday mo,ions........-... OF
- el
June-Trisls and arguments. 6s
Saturday motions. ............,..U.... 20
- 163
Juiy--No trials Saturday motions. ............ %
Augustine trials No Saturdry motions. GAN
motions being beard AZ CRANBERRY
Septenber--No trials Saturday motions. ...... 15T
October-Trals and arg sments .................12s
. SATURDAY motions Q3
= aoi
NNyember-No trials. Saturday motions. 81
JecSynber-Trals and arguments. ............. IS
Saturday motions ............-. 81
- 6i
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i45
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The principal portion Of this increase is caused BY the
resolution of predecessors which increased the sal
The expenses Of the city have also been considerably
increased BY relieving the policemen from various du
ss them 10 1 s
persons selected for the special duty BY the Of 1884,
(ehspter Stl " vH provided that captains Of police
within their respective Districts should be inspec
tors health wsrdehs arc wardens and dockmas and
in the Twelfth ward superintendent of roads and aided
by the police force, should perform all the duties pre-
vously performed BY the several officers named The
policeman wern ato to light the lamps, and ring the
alarm bells The Mayor had authority, also TO detail
policemen 70 attend the law courts.
The ordinance Of 1S49 relieved the policemen from the
task oflighng the lamps and created bureau to at
department TO employ eighty for this service at an
expense " tie city OF S33 600 From time to time laws
or ordinances were passed authorizing the courts and
civil courts and to relieve the detailed policemen from
this service This has added 30 attendants at an
expense of Some $50 600 There IL Gre wardens
aud clerk aud the estimate for them is 81 500 There
are % health wsrdeps at $3.50 eac equal TO SIG OGO
(psge ass Joint Proceedins volume 2i which declares
that the Mayor shall appoint three bell ringers for each
alarm district al 5000 year each There 90 and
Although the cleaning Of streets Is under contract
snd although the ordinance passed by the present
and captains police shall see that the contractors do
their duty yet the Commissioner Of Streets Lamps
TO suppose Chat resolu ton adopted by the common
Council authorizes him TO appoint and keep under pay
nineteen inspectors, at an annu expense TO the city
according 70 has estimates. Of s17,7si.
II Ii thus that while the police force has been
relieved from time TO time, OF duties which ii costs
the city 300 900 per year TO get DONE they have had
their own conpensstions increased 500 900 per
annum.
II Is ten years since the policemen we're subst
tutcd for the wstcbmcn II may not be for The best in
terests Of the inhabitants OF the city that all the duties
promised In the act Of s44 should be pc srmed by the
department. OF 1854. This statement Ia made Tor the
purpose Of calling attention the pecunary effect of
thssc changes and 10 shov how impercsptbly expcnd
lures increased by every change and hos rarely
changes sought for effected which produce A cur
sment Of expenditure.
The following are the officers OF the depart.
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STATEMENT OF rUMBER OF DEATHS Az TIE vARr0Us
PuRLIC INSTITUTIONS IN 1874

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sllInE~ssi -ea4as-ss~s""S4D~Ses
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glIl~s-sii Il ssss-Ssss.'"..rudv
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! Observation-Disclosures sssa...'.-.,ne
II sT.s-asI -sasg-s-ss.''""s~r
z sGGs.gs-i agses- 81 se''"'i',say
5 2asssaz | -SseE 81 o 2 'les~srfs
{ sl as-Sa ! -eseG assl 81" Aero
81 -el Ss | -s1s2s,.l o 9 ''l'au'aoE
: ! lea,asI | sssssg sss,ssg '0qas''G
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employment to vast number Of commissioners and
clerks.
SUPREME C0URT-oIRcur.

SUPREME coURT-cRCur.
The same Judges.
Charles Graham, Esq, Clerk.
The number Of causes tried in the Circui. Court,
including inquests and dsmissals Of comp iaints,
were as follovs:-
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Several heavy causes we're tried in this court
during the past year. among which were the Walk
or divorce Gaze, occupying se venteen days; Kecler
against Church for slstder, seven days, AID Barr
against Erben for libel, seven days.
Number Of causes decided, submitted and argued
a. General Term, Observation-Disclosures. 463
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SUPERIOR CoURT-GENERAL TERN
The same Judges.
Clerk, Robert D. Livingston, Esq. The follow
ing is the amount Of business transacted in this
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larceny, revolt, assault with dangerous weapon,
cruel and unusual punishment. For having an ex.
cess OF passengers, aud resisting United States on
GERS In serving process.
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FlkST SEfttV rvhbH oVufet-IVNhs-
Zhs coat, wtlOa y presided over By Justices
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE.
Hon. John McKeoa, United States District At
forney; appointed Juy 20, 1854,
Philip J. Joachimssen, Esq, Associate United
States Attorney; appointed September 5, 1854.
II. Elmendoff, Jr., liam 3. Sswel, Clerks.
Washington telegraph., 1855-06-06
Awful Case Of sllipxyrec:s.

SEVEN MEN LIVING ON CAMPHENE AND
SHARK oIL--INHUMAN CONDUCT OF THE
CREW OF AN UNKNOWN SCHOONER.
On the outward passage of the bark Cia.
m, Windsor master. March 10, latitude $50
longitude CO so fresh breeze from S.
" W., cav ~raok To laeward. with two
men standing on the bow and waving their
hats The bark hove to. got out a boat and
succeeded in taking them off The wreck
proved to be the schooner John Clark
Captain McRay, hence for Jackmel The
men stated :hat they were all that were left
cut of seven men that sailed in the above
schooner from New York on the Sd day of
March. Nine o'clock, p. NJ, while under
double-reefed sails. wind W S. W, a squall
struck the schooner from W n. W. and
threw her on her beam ends, and it was an
hour before they succeeded in cutting away
the weather-rlgging, when the mainmast
and foremast went close by the deck, then
she righ;ed. The hatches had bursted and
the vessel was full of water. They we're
left without food or water, but on the next
day obtained a keg of crackers that were
vet with salt water. After which they got
q bucket OF vinegar, some shark liver oil,
and some camphene; the latter made them
stupid. and feel as if the were on fire. The
fifth day after the catastrophe. the captain,
mate, steward and two men died, and they,
the two remaining men. had nothing to cat
for eight days previous to being taken off.
Those that died went crazy previous to
death. They also state that they saw two
different vessels one Of which, fishing
schooner-came close to them, SO that they
could see the man at the helm They hal
looed to them, and she hove to and came
close up under their lee, and after surveying
them. put their helm hard up and bore
away without Offering any assistance. All
we're living at that time, and but for it being
before daylight, could have read her name,
as her letters then were indistinctly visible.
The weather vas good, and nothing to him
der then. from saving all hands. The names
Of the two saved were Robert McRay, (cap-
tain's SON. and Charles Lowell
y. Y Times, 8th uzt.
Washington telegraph., 1855-06-06

My NAMES HAYNE. Every body re-
members the story told Of Virginian who
was riding through the Old Dominion du-
ring the election canvass Of 1904, when par
ty spirit was running so high. jefferson
was the democratic candidate for President,
and the way he was handled by the federal
lists was spectacle for everybody who has
dabbled in the pool Of politics. Our Vir-
ginian was ranked among the most virulcnt
of JefEersoa's opponents, although hailing
from the same State Is he rode along,
he fell in with common looking individu-
al, also on horse back. and after the usual
salutat;ons. the conversation naturally turn
ed upon the engrossing topic Of the period
politics, The Firginian was parti cular-
ly denunciatory of Jefferson
Why" said he, '.iust think of man
ike Tom Jefferson running for President.
Hes Id old fool. besides being an inf
del and Bibeburner. The country is sure
to 60 to HI If such an internal old Sound
rel is elected President"
The companion Of our candid friend nod.
dcd acquiescence in all he was listening to.
Finally the denounccr of j eiferson observed,
as they reached portion Of the road where
they were to separate Now, stranger. I've
given you my opinion of the old cuss, and
I'm glad you agree with me- May | be 50
bold as TO ask yGur name !''
My name? Oh, that's OF no account
but if it will afford you any qualification.
| will tell you. 1t is Thomas JErFER-
SON 10
What. Tom Jefferson, the democratic
candidate for Presiden: ?" shrieked The
other,
The same unfortunate Individual"
Then. my names Hay,ae :" and plum e
ing spurs into his steed, he shot off Ike a
streak Of lightning among the Blue Noun
tains, and has not been heard of from tina.
day to this,
Washington telegraph., 1855-06-06
Less oe tI,c EseIgigerents in the
CriElca,

/ The ConstamtlnOp!e correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes thus to that journal
''Since the commencement of hostlites
the losses Of the Turks and their allies
have been enormous. To the army Of Rou-
melia, under Omer Pasha, the government
has sent, altogether, IS3, 700 men, of which
! there scarcely remain at present, S3 ,000 ;
the rest have either been killed in battle or
died from disease. Thirty thousand are at
Eupatoria, and the remainder are scattered
among the various Qualifications along the
Danube and in the Drobuja The army of
Anatolia amounted TO l25 600 men, but the
battle of kurukdere was its death blow
and now, according to accounts from Gene
raj Williams, who has been sent up as a
military commissioner, to recognize it. to
apply the term Of army would be abuse of
words. as bat thirty thousand half starved
and ill-clad wretchcs. who are dispersed in
the military barrack at kars and Erzroum,
are all that remain of the original number
OF the 10000 sent TO Batoum, upon the
Georgian expedition, learn from a letter
written by the only surgeon with it, and
who has left in disgust, but two thousand
remain, aud, more than one half of these
are unfit for duty. These losses which the
Turks have sustained, are independent of
those in the Crimea, and in endeavoring to
quell the insurrection in Alabama and the
Epirus, which would probably amount to 25,-
coo more.
by the statements of The English Min
istry. Of the $1,000 soldiers Great Britain
has sent to the East, 10000 have disappear
ed, and l am sure, from the mortality here
and in the Crimea, they are correct. The
French, though silent, have not the less suf.
cred. From the most reliable sources,
learn that their losses have amounted to 68,-
OO0 men. while the greatly increasing sick
ness and mortality adds dai ily to that number.
These estimates do not include their losses
in the Baltic, or in the fleets and transports
in the Black Sea. yet We have a total loss
of over 10000 men, without the slightest
advantage being gained Nor have the
Russians suffered less in proportion, and
with the commencement Of active operations
in the spring the losses Of all the bellieer-
ents will have swelled to the enormous sum
Of 100000 men,
Washington telegraph., 1855-06-06
Singular Accident.

4 correspondent of the Cleveland Her
aid, writing from Addison, Steuben county,
on the 2lS5, gives an account Of singular
accident which occurred to the train on the
New York & Erie Railroad on that MORN
ing, As the train was approaching Addi-
son, when opposite the mountain gorge
made by Goodhue Creek, mass of water,
one-fourth Of mile in width, and seven
feet high, instantly breaking away, rushed
down with the velocity of so miles per hour.
and striking the front of the train, demol-
lshed the engine and baggage car, and near
iy capslZed the entire train
The engineer and fireman saved their
lives by jumping, barely escaping being
drowned. The passengers received a few
bnsises. The fog was SO dense as to prevent
the engineer from seeing the coming of this
flood Of waters. and had the train been its
length farther ahead. it and its freight of
humanity would have been swept away by
the food
The volume OF water was the contents of
nine large mill ponds. which, in bursting
their bonds, carried away nine mills, FIVE
houses, and sundry trees and rocks. I'm
happily, mother and her child were drown
ed, and the dead body Of the infant was ta-
ken from, the water by the passengers.