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and Litchfeld shows less population in
each than there was in 1850 The census
Of Nashau shows the present population to
be l0,0G4. being an increase of |, l22 since
1850. The Manchester american says
Three-fourths Of the purely agricultu'
raj towns of New Hampshire will show a
diminution in population since 1850. War
ner is fair illustration Of this, the popula-
ton being l,97l, showing a decrease of
about GO since 1850 The Most marked
neighhorhood is that portion known as
Kearsage Gore, which forty years ago,
had over $50 inhabitants hut now only Al
The old cellar walls tell the story Bosca-
wen had gained over 200 since 1850 or
the 1900 people in Baskerville, two-ifthS
are Irish.
The Keene Sentinel says:
eve hear that there is likely to be a
falling off of from 1000 to 1000 in all the
county. The largest falling off is in Win
chester, where the population is some 1000
less than iu.lS50, aud in Hinsdalc there is
loss Of 500.
A NOTABLE OLD DARKEY.
One Of the Assistant Marshals for Wash
iDgton county, Ohio, in taking the census
Of Watertown township, made the ac-
quaintance of famous individual known
in all southeastern Ohio as the oldest in-
habitant"IIe is black man. Que hundred
and fifteen years old, named Micajah
Phillips. He served in Virginia as preach
err, and even now, at such an advanced
age, occasionally breaches to the coored
citizens Of his neighborhood. Both physi-
calIy aud mentally he is quite active. His
home was near Yorktown, Va, when Corn.
wallis surrendered, and he remembers well
that event. He says he had been going
to see the gals long time when the Revo-
luton broke out" lie invariably calls
that famous war the Revolutionary war
Another Interesting fact connected with
his history is, that he was bought in Rich
mond, Va, near the close of the last ecu
tury, and brought to the island just below
Parkersburg by the celebrated Blannerhas-
set. He is without doubt the oldest per-
son in the Southern district Of Ohio, and
probably in any western State.
The GREAr. EAsrERS-A BLIND Man
TRAyEEs 1000 M1LEs TO FEEL uER The
Great Eastern was visited on the Sd o
August, at New York, by nearly $4,000
persons. Among the visitors was blind
man, who had come Epm GAINESVILLE, Wis
consin, for the sole purpose Of being able to
say to his friends at home that he had been
on board the leviathan Of the sea- He
bore with him certificate of this fact
from his parish clergyman, and it was said
to be very interesting to watch his move
ments, as, attended from one point to an.
other, he felt his way along with the gentle
precision characteristic of those afflicted
with the loss of sight. Every object that
could be reached with his hands was exam.
ined with minutest care, and perhaps few
visitors OH board the Great Eastern, with
all their senses about them, carried away a
more correct idea, as far as it extends, than
this poor man, deprived of vision, will re-
count to listening friends in the backwoods
of the Northwest
The big ship is now at Annapolis, Nd
Most of the people of Washington, D. G.,
had gone off to see her. On the 9Th the
President aud suit were to visit her.
From BRAzII.-Filcs of Rio de Janeiro
papers TO June 18th have been received.
Some excitement was caused by the
preaching of some foreign Capuchins in the
capital, who were handled by portion Of
the press in pretty rough manner.
Accounts from Bahia, and other prov
inces where the famine is prevailing, are
positively sickening. A case is mentioned
| Of poor woman, who, having become
frenzied at seeing her children dying of
starvation, actually killed one, in the hopes
that her arrest might be the means Of say.
ing the lives of the others.
TERRIBLE INDIAN FIGHr.-The Topeka
4 (Kansas) Ree0rd Of the 4th August says:
We learn from Mr.. Davidson Of Indian,
ola that painful rumor was brought TO
! that place on Saturday last, by a returned
Pixies Peaker, Of q severe Indian fight,
some three weeks since, on the Solomon,
about 100 miles above Fort Riley, in which
about 800 Pottowatomies and Delawares
were killed The informant says he passed
directly through the scene of the fight
that the dead were all scalped, and suppos-
ed the other party TO have been Cheyenues,
Arapahoos, &C., who were known to have
been in that vicinity at that time. The
murdered Indians are supposed to have
been porty of some 800 or 400 Potto.
watomies, half breeds and Delawares that
went from this vicinity short time pre-.
viouS to the rumored battle, for the pur.
pose of hunting buffalo. Among them
were L'Flumbeau, Beaubien, Ogee, Dar.
ling and several other prominent Indians,
well known in this vicinity, who accompan.
led the expedition for the sake of the ex.
citement aud pleasure which it promised.
Mr. Davidson himself had u very narrow
escape from the hostile Indians, being with
another party hunting buffalo, and on the
day of the rumored light were only fifteen
miles distant, on the identical spot, on Salt
creek, tributary of the Republican fork,
where battle had been fought only four
days previous, between the Cheyennes
Arapahoes, &c, and the Pawnecs. Hi:
Ipartv had advanced Int few miles beyoDd