The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-31

san,,n amos .o an the s,1es ficaltra colleges.
SUNDAY a7-Hcu Daniel sicslc. nemher q .oa,
,ross from the Third district In Sew YORK city, shol auu
x,led m Washington Philip Barton Key, United states is
ct Attorney IN the District oil loumoa ior ths aosca
seduction q sicsies VIE me sha'asr pr mnss la
About che hundred persons, as near as coaio DC 49,
aineA ~, their lives b. he accident, and seventy h''
were more loss injured.
MARCEL.
2Yavrs,.on opened on Lake Ere... Congress pa ."
ar act making Com stewart che seoior tag oc'r u '''
Naey as recognition Of Lis distinguished services.
s--Gen William walker, the niousser, 'eH NJ" "
leans fer California.
ayn. Tb,fts.ath United states Cn'ress ci'ssd at
noon TO- day The Post onice Appropriation bills, amount
ing TO over twenty millions OF dollars, tal9d to pass.
During the session twenty niue public acts, sixty
private Ds and sixteen public ana private joint resou-
tions were passed Among the miscellaneous anpropfla
ton bills ysS providing tor the reissue Of twenty MIL
Ions Of dollars IN treasury notes
ga severe shock Of al earthquake was ieit at San
Jose, California
le--qhc nav cation q the Hudson river oy.nes t, Al.
hsry The extra session of the United spes scnae ad-
l2-The yacrt Wan ierer having been condemned by
the united s,a,es authorizes sayer was sold IN Sa-
l5.--lrs Gfand Jury Of Washington City found bill
q ndcinen, against nans I, ScSies memeer OF Con
gress frem New York, for the murder CT Philip B. Key
vlo Va.
y "A man named Foster WAS hang in Charleston, ).
c. Tor burglary.
SUNDAY PA collision occurred the Ohio river be-
tween the steamers Nat Holmes aud David Gibson Botn
boats sunk On board the Holmes eighty six pas-
feogers, mostly enigrants for Pixies Peak gold mines
lorty three Of whom were drowned Three hundred
thousand dollars worth Of property was lost
APRII.
4-The triai Of Hon Daniel F. Sickles for the murder
II Philip Key, commenced in Washington City.
5-A special messenger despatched by tie Presi-
IN
Gems Of United that country and orders
the different navy yards To get ready for i'm
.aedate service number of vessels OF The Nsw
YoRE HERALD of this thirty eight columns
Of advertisements, numbering in all fourteen hundred and
one
6--News received and published exclusively in the
Herald Of the final settlement the difficulties between
the governments Of the United States and Paraguay.
Daniel Webster an alleged fugitive slave whose case nai
created derabe eaoit eut in Philadelphia for three
four days, was discharged
s--Foar were executed on scaAod Cor murder
IN Baltimore
1.-the several cases involving the Var Rensselaer,
claim from lands conveyed in fec in Albany
", n. " decided by the Court Of Appeals The ceccn
adverse 70 the tenants All the Judges concurred IA
The oltncn mat the rents and arrears must be paid This
action the court of last necessarily na.
l5--The New York canals opened
16.Tbe crew Of the captured slave brig Putnam were
after short trial, acquitted in Charleston, : 2
l9.-The Legislature Of the state OF New York ad-
journed sire DIE after passing 5l2 acts
SUNDAY, @-The steamboat ;; N;cholas, while her
way Louis - New Orleans exploded her boilers
near Helena Arkansas by which sccijert fcrrynne per-
lost their lives and about tweny were more less
injured.
.5-The steamship s., Louis arrived at New York.
bringing the California from San Francesca OF the
5tt Of April The Tip, which occupied in IL performance
twenty days aud eight aosrs. The quickest ever per
formed Oy the Panama route.
26-rle case OF hon. Daniel L. sokes who was
charged in Washington City with the MURDER 2Ttb
Of February Painp Barton Key who was at the time
The District Attorney Of Washington was brought to
close after having occcpiei twenty days ls Ilry
took the and alter absence Of and
minutes, returned with verdict OF Not guilty. The
Of the killing was knowledge on the part Of
wl The forieth anniversary of the introduction Of
Tho order Of ODD Fellowship into ibis county was cee
traed by processols aud other demonstrations
2s-Masnidccnt celebration in Brooklyn in comYnemo-.
ration Of the Introduction the Rugewood water
city for general use
TEN steamboats, were destroyed By fire at Pts--
burg, entang Ices of hundred aud forty thousands
dollars.
9The Pixies Peak gold mines in Kansas turned out
be considerable Of humbug, and thousands OF the de-.
uei egrahts ned in distressed and soon sola>
condition.
lG.A most disastrous FIRE occurred in Key wes', Flo,
nda Eighteen of the business part Of the city,
destroyed
soSfn d jacksonville, nj Houses, barns sc, were orns
10 atGnis, and~lxteen persons were Killed.
JUNE.
"A heavy frost occurred in the western part of New
York and in the northern parts of Ohio and Pennsylva
ME which occasioned considerable damage the fruit
ana other crops.
SUNDAY, oe.-The steamship Moses Taylor arrived at
New York bringing the California mails, by the Panama
route in nineteen days and twenty-five hours from San
Francisco.
GA passenger train Of cars ran of the track OF the
Michigan Southern Rarosd In consequences Of the wash
ing away of a cuvert, South Bend, by which acc
dent forty persons were killed and sixty injured
3o-A mao named Boedin walked across Niagara Tails
On tight rope.
IA monster balloon started from s. Louis With four
persons on a voyage for the Atlantic coast
SUNDAY, 3-The balloon which left st. louis tie lst
landed safe with passengers Henderson townhip,
Jefferson county, New Yok, the east shore OF Lake
Ontario.
4-Tbe day was celebrated in a most satisfactory ran
ner n all parts OF the country Weather mild aud
clear ss,lboat containing twenty eight persons,
Clear Lake Indiana capsizcd Eighteen persons os;ly
ladies and children, were drowned.
August.
2-The corner stone for monument 70 commemorate
the landing of the Pilgrims laid at Plymouth, Mass
train OF the Northern Railroad precpitatsd
into 1oznlannock creek Schaghtcoke, Rensselaer,
county \. Y. by the giving way OF bridge, aud nine
persons were instantly Killed and twenty others wounded
ia shocE Of earthquake, accompanied with
loud explosion, felt in Rensselaer, albany
ties, n. y.
SEPTEMBER.
o-The Harmonic Hotel, in Hoboken, " j.. was de-
soyea by fire, and Mr. Charles Baese proprietor Of
the hotel and three of his daughters, persisted in the
ruins.
10 "A duel ocS place near San Francisco between
Hon David C. Brocerick California United States Senator
and Hon David s. Terry Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court OF California, in which Mr. Bfoaerck was pierced
through tho lungs AZ the first fire. and died from the cf
ecs OF the WONT on the third dsy after irrence
16A riot occnilsd among the aborcrs on the Bergen
tunnel a the Ere Ralroaa, ia New jersey, which re.
quircd inc aid Of the military que Some forty or nftv
Of th. rioters were arrested.
IA statue of Daniel Webster located on the grounds
IN front 81 the state Uose, Boston, nauggrated in
that city. Tie grafton was delivered by Hon. Edward
Everett Tie ,quGoc.sal storm RACED for twenty onr
hours Hith unuseal Fury Going considerable damage 10
shppng along ibe coast
-f..p Wfr1es Scott cn Eau-N Vet