row, and Laundry was endeavoring to get biin 
home, when the wound was inflicted. 
The Empress Augusta has addressed to the 
German ladles of New York and Brooklyn who 
were engaged in the German bazaars a communi¬ 
cation acknowledging their patriotic efforts in 
raising funds in aid of the victims of the war in 
Germany. The letter is in t he hands of a photo¬ 
grapher, who will prepare copies for deatri- 
bution. 
At Albany, March 8, Dr. Lemuel P. Van 
Hooscu, who is of iutemperate habits, had 
Norvili. Two of the mob seized Norvil), when 
the latter drew his knife and commenced to cut 
at them. He killed one instantly and mortally 
wounded another. He then made his escape into 
his house, where the mob could not get at him. 
A few hours later he was arrested. 
Kentucky. 
V> esley Cobell shot and fatally wounded a 
negro named Henry Clark, near Louisville, 
March 4, because lie would not submit to a search 
when he was suspected of stealing. 
Missouri. 
Tbe House has passed a bill providing for an 
election to determine whether a Constitutional 
Convention shall bo called, the election to he 
held the first Tuesday in May. The Senate has 
yet to act upon the bill. 
Arkansas. 
MAlton 4, the Chairman of the House Board of 
Impeachment Managers reported that they had 
failed to find information to enable them to 
prepare articles of impeachment against Gov. 
Clayton, and offered a resolution that further 
proceedings be dispensed with, which waaudopt- 
ed. Gov. Clayion has sent a message to the 
Legislature declining to accept the office of 
United States Senator to which he has been 
elected. 
Mississippi. 
A dispatch from Meridian dated March 7, 
saysYesterday, during a trial of three negroes, 
before Justice Bramlette, for riotous conduct, 
one of the prisoners, named Finely, alas Tylor, 
shot and instantly killed Justice Bramlette. An 
indiscriminate firing ensued, and two negroes 
were killed in tho Court-room. The negro who 
killed the Justice jumped from a second story i 
window, but was pursued and shot to death by 
the Sheriff and his posse. The citizens assembled 
one of the freight depots of the Ohio and Mis¬ 
sissippi Road, the freight and passenger depots 
of the Toledo and Wabash Road, and a number 
of dwelling houses in the vicinity. A portion 
of the roof of the Terre Haute and Indianapo¬ 
lis depot was blown off, and nearly all the der¬ 
ricks and other appliances used in the construc¬ 
tion of the Bridge were torn from their places 
and blown into the river. Everything, in fact, 
within a space of from 200 to 300 yards wide, was 
actually torn to pieces. 
A train of cars, including a 30-fon locomotive, 
was blown from the track and landed about 
forty feet into a slough. Another train of thir¬ 
teen cats, laden with grain, was overturned and 
smashed, and one cur was blown into the river. 
A train coming in on the Terre Haute Road, 
then at Brooklyn, three miles north of East St. 
Louis, was blown from the track, and about 
forty cars, standing on a side track of the To¬ 
ledo and Wabash and Chicago and Alton Road, 
' about nine miles out. were overthrown. The 
rouod-houso of the Chicago and Alton road, 
after being blown down, caught fire from an 
engine Inside, and was burned. Thecngiueerof 
the locomotive was burned to death. 
The scone is frightful. Houses are torn to 
fragments, others are unroofed or upset, am j 
still others are carried bodily from their foun¬ 
dations. Scarcely a building or tree, or any¬ 
thing else witliiu the Hack ol the storm is stand¬ 
ing. The wreck and ruin ate complete. The 
pecuniary losses are estimated as followsThe 
Chicago and Alton Railroad, $5u0,000; Ohio and 
Mississippi, $200,000; Toledo and Wabash. 8125,- 
000: .St. Louis and VumlnJia, $50,000; South East- 
nm. $30,000; Wiggins Ferry Company, $25,000. 
The steamboats lying on tbe eastern side of the 
river are also seriously damaged. 
A telegram t he 9lh states that casualties re¬ 
sulting from the tornado, so far as known, arc 
as follows: 
NAMES OF THE KIJ.I.ED. 
John Ilulpm, employed on the bridge. John B. 
<) Neill, purchasing agent tor the Southeastern Hail- 
rnuu. John Vogel, Daniel colling Timothy Orumm, 
Isaac Lvuns. engineer of the Chicago and Alton 
Jtuitroiiil, bunted la the rouna-liouse. John Klslev 
a hrakrman on the Toledo uud Wabash Railroad. A 
leurnstor, name unknown. 
NAMES AND CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED. 
Of t ho wounded, the following are tho uiost 
seriously hurt; 
1 fonrr C. Crevcllng, Superintendent of tho Wiggins 
tony t out puny, right shoulder fractured and head 
etit by the chimney uf the lorry boat fulling across 
ins carriage. George Nrhonc, muster inechunlc on 
the t liiengo and Alton Road, terribly cut on the 
bead, and Ins legs badly crushed. Mtirgar. t Conway 
had bath legs broken. Michael Coltvny and two eliif- 
dvei, were badly cut about the head :.nd body. Louts 
i,Croat ahead was badlv cut. l„ .Mark,' uf Nashville, 
intnois. hud his head shockingly cut Charles Perry 
alio J lies. Hamilton were seriouHy ebt. Peter Flvnn 
no a log broken. Frank Do began and wile were 
badly hurt Milton McFarland was seriously Jvurt. 
Aaron Htuauus,agent ni Adams's Express, liud his 
bend badly cut. Hairy 'tookman. yard master Of 
tho loledo and Wabash Railroad, hud Ids head ter- 
Holy cut, '1 tmoMiy Dotioiiuc uf tho swiirjt* road liud 
«V, h badly cut. William Dennett, nreman on tne 
Wabuan Hoad, shoulder dislocated, William Hill. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
risen Lord Lyon s course as ungenerous and 
cowardly in deserting tbe British population in 
Paris during the siege, when he was entreated 
by the French Government to remain. lie ex¬ 
tolled l he courageous devotion of Mr. Wash- 
hiirne, the A m mi nun Minister. 
The following changes are announced in tho 
British Cabinet:-The liight Hon. George J. 
Goschr n succeeds the Right Hon. Hugh. C. E. 
Chtlder ns First Lord of the Admiralty. The 
Rigid Hon. James Stansfeld succeeds Mr. 
Gosebou as President of the Poor Law Board. 
W. E. Baxter, Esq., succeeds Mr. Stansfeld as 
one of the Joint Secretaries of the Treasury. 
George j. Shaw Lofevre, at present Secretary 
for I he Home Department, succeeds Mr. Baxter 
as Secretary to the Admiralty. 
The London Times says that England repudi¬ 
ates t he assumption of tier responsibility for the 
depreciations of the Alabama until it is decided 
by an impartial arbitrator. If a cession of terri¬ 
tory is mooted, the English Commissioners will 
lake care that it is not mentioned twice. Eng¬ 
land will only abandon her colonies upon tho 
expressed wish of the colonists or through war. 
The British Ballot Bill. 
The following is tho substance of the Ballot 
Bill inlroducod into the British House of Coin- 
lnons, and which, if adopted, will work radical 
changes in the system of voting: 
1. The bill shnll apply to municipal as well as parlia¬ 
mentary elections. 
2. No voting paper except the official paper shall bo 
used—that Is to say. Hit' object of the bulb I shall not 
be defeated by the use of u somewhat similar ixipcr, 
which would enable tt to be ascertained liow tho vote 
had boon given. 
angry 
words with his wife, and seizing an iron griddle, 
struck her with it on the back of the head, 
crushing in the skull, and causing her death 
almost instantaneously. 
in the Assembly, the WU making the 30th of 
May (Decoration Day) and the 17th of March 
(St. Patrick’s Day) public holidays, was reject¬ 
ed by a vote of 32 to 73. 
Massachusetts. 
Dr. Joseph W. Palmer, whoso connection 
with the press of Boston extended farther back 
than that of any person now living, died March 
3, in that city. 
Miss Mary Hibbard of Norlh Ilndley drowned 
herself in tho Connecticut lliver, March 0, while 
temporarily Insane. 
March 7, Edwin 'Wheeler of Charlestown cut 
bis throat; Dante) Gregory of North Bridge- 
water shot himself. 
The Legislature has refused, by a vote of 17 to 
0, to Incorporate the Boston Base Bull Associa¬ 
tion, deeming the national game ridiculous and 
cruei, and unworthy tbe recognition of so digni¬ 
fied a body. 
New Jersey. 
Mrs. Sopiilv Fitzpatrick of New Brunswick 
left a will bequeathing $30,000 to the State for 
educationul purposes, and $ 10,000 to the College 
of New Jersey. 
John it. Dutcher and Mr. McKee have pur¬ 
chased 430 acres of laud near St, Louis for the 
establishment of mammoth stock yards. A hotel 
will be built for drovers and dealers, and a bank 
for the convenience of operators. 
Marchs, the Senate passed a bill establishing 
a State Reform School for girls, and the House 
passed the Geological Survey and Druiuago bill. 
Pennsylvania. 
At Mount Carmel, the night of March 4, a 
miner named Hoffman was shot in his bed, and, 
to conceal llie crime, the building was after¬ 
ward blown up with gunpowder. As he was 
working outside of the Union, ho is supposed to 
hate fallen by its order or instigation. 
March 7, Col. Whitley, Chief of the United 
States Secret Service, telegraphed from Harris¬ 
burg to Washington that he had succeeded iu 
arresting, in that city, John II. Teal)], grain 
dealer; Dr. David S. Hammache, Henry Hem- I 
perley and Cyrus Wnliner of Lebanon, all 
Hellion - - «uu muea mo 
*3t r Vr An b | ' r *on8 who being members or tho 
" ls which adopted the pretended 
ordinances of Secession, unit voted tn favor of ilte 
adoption of such ordinances. 
loJhdub»n XCOl>t0 ' 1 clilS6,JS uro reserved for future 
SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION. 
March 8, the President made the following ap¬ 
pointments of mouthers of t he Southern Claims 
Commission, to investigate the claims of South¬ 
ern loyalists; —Judge Airlis of Vermont., ex- 
Sonator Howell ol Iowa, and ex-Representative 
Ferris of New York. 
Congressional. 
UNSIGNED BILLS PASSED BY THE FORTY - FIRST 
CONGRESS. 
Tntc following named bills passed both Houses, 
but failed to receive the approval of the Presi¬ 
dent : 
An act for the relief of Anna M. Howard. 
An act for the relief of Joseph Ornisby. 
An act for tho relief of George \Vl ight. 
t £J^S relief of Mary M. Clurk, widow of 
Jj<K>nar<1 CJiirk, (loodiiBOd* 
A a act for the re]icf of purchasers of lands sold for 
direct taxes la lasurroellonary States. 
Au net to revive the grant of hinds to aid In tho 
e.aistrucli'j" of u railroad from Selma to Ihidsden In 
tin. State of Alabama, and to confirm the sumo to the 
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company. 
J'V," 1 ' reaolutlon relutlug to tin* rights of actual 
settiei# upon certain lands la Iowa. 
An act grant)tig a pension in Adam Oorrell. 
i of ii’ J Olographic communication be¬ 
tween tue United blrtes and lorciga countries. 
OFFICERS OF Ttfli HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OF THE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. 
Speaker, James G. Bluino of Maine; Clerk, 
Edward McPherson; Sergeant-at-Arms, N. G. 
Ordway; Doorkeeper, O.S. Buxton; Postmaster, 
W. S. Kiug; Chaplain, J. G. Butler. 
IMPORTATION OF WATCHES. 
March 3, the Ufruse passed a bill which pro¬ 
hibits the importation of watches, watch cases, 
watch movements, or parls of watcli move¬ 
ments of foreign manufacture, limt shall have 
copied or simulated the name or trade-mark of 
any domestic manufact urer, unless the domestic 
manufacturer is himself the Importer. 
BREVITIES. 
March 3, tbe House passed the Conference re¬ 
port granting to the Texas Pacific Railroad 
about 18,000,00(1 acres of laud. 
The House passed the Senate bill to provide 
for tbe redemption of copper and other token 
coins. 
REGULATING TELEGRAPH CABLES. 
March 3, tbe House concurred in the Senate 
amendments to the House bill relating to tele¬ 
graphic communication between the United 
States and foreign countries. The amendments 
make it unlawful for two or more companies to 
consolidate or unite their interests without the 
consent of the Postmaster-General of the Uni¬ 
ted States, and ou such terms ns he may deter¬ 
mine. If any two or more companies combine 
to fix tho rates of compensation for messages, 
the Postmaster-General, in tho absence of au 
international Convention, regulating the matter, 
shall determine the rates and establish such 
rules and regulations as he may Judge neces¬ 
sary. The exercise of those powers is to be sub¬ 
ject to the control of Congress, and to be appli¬ 
cable to existing cables, ns well us to those here- 
aiict established. Messages of ton words are 
not to be charged tn.iro than $5 in gold from 
shore to shore, no additional charge to be made 
for address or sign attire. 
New York. 
March 7, Rochester elected a Republican May¬ 
or, (Briggs,) nine Republican and five Demo¬ 
cratic Aldermen, and a Democratic City Treas¬ 
urer, (Williams.) Oswego ro-eleeled A, S. Page. 
(Democrat,) Mayor, and seven Republican and 
five Democratic Alder 
Si The voting paper altall not he given to tho voter 
until Be enters the voting booth- 
t The voter is not to be i rmitted to put any murk 
upon the voting paper except Hint which is necessary 
to show tor wlmirj the vote is given ; mid in tin- event 
of unit regulation being violated, the vote will bo 
canceled. 
5. The returning officer, as lie given out his paper to 
each Voter, shall impress It with a stamp, the rltarnc- 
tei of which ho shall he Imiuol to keep secret, and 
which shall not bo Used again uutd a oprfain fixed 
timu him)I have expired. Then, when Hie. boxes come 
to be opened, cacti unstamped voting paper shall be 
rejected as void. 
<i. When a voting paper has once been put Into the 
ballot-l.ox, the box shall noi pc opened except under 
such precautions as shall secure the inviolability of 
tbe vote. 
7. tv here in o case of re-opening the question of the 
number of vote--, it Is found a vote is l ad. it shall be 
struck off from the total of the candidate for whom 
it Jru- been tecorded; and also, where an . lector ten¬ 
dering his vole finds some one else has voted for him, 
the vote shall be kept aside, and under < crlaln cir¬ 
cumstances counted for the candidate in wliosolavor 
be had Intended to vote. 
K. The same penalt ies shall be attached to persona- 
tlon that now attach in bribery and treating. T ho 
Candidate shall lose his seal for procuring or attempt- 
lug to procure personation. 
"• Any candidate who does not Include all hi-, ex¬ 
penses In Ids election romm, orwtiu with his own 
hands has paid expenses which ought to have passed 
through the hands of his agent, shall lose his scat. 
Id. The use of public houses as committee rooms 
during the progress of elections is prohibited. 
11 T hr old pinnof noiuiuatlogcandldates.aMliuak- 
lng the final declaration of the poll, is abolished. 
BL The expenses of the returning officer shall bo 
paid out Of tho local rates. 
Prussia. 
It is officially proclaimed that (ho day of the 
Emperor’s return to Berlin shull be observed as 
a day of thanksgiving throughout the Father- 
kind. Tho exuct date has not yet been fixed by 
the Emperor. No period of mourning will bo 
appointed. The Emperor in person, will open 
the Reichstag on the 21st inst. 
Spain. 
The proffer of England’s mediation baa been 
accepted in the dispute between Egypt and 
Spain. 
Italy. 
A telegram dated Rome, March 7, says:— 
“ The Pope has held a secret consistory, in which 
lie delivered an allocution of considerable 
length. The Holy Father, iu his address to the 
during last night. The total number uf persons 
killed, as fur us positively known, is seven. Six 
negroes and Judge Bramlette, (white.) Tne 
Mayor, Mm. Slurgiss, was,oil his own request 
this morning, alter tendering Ids resignation, 
given safe conduct to the cars by citizens,on Ids 
pledge to go North and never return. 
South Carolina. 
Gov. Scott has culled upon the President for 
United States troops to suppress outrages iu the 
counties of L uiou and York, where, he reports, 
that men are murdered or driven from their 
homes nightly, because ot their political opin¬ 
ion. Gov. Scott Informs the President that 
there is no sufficiently armed and equiped 
militia to give the needed protection, and that if 
he had at his disposal a competent militia force, 
there are no funds in the State Treasury to 
t ransport and subsist them. As evidence of the 
condition ol’ affairs in this State, the fuels are 
stated that, on Monday, Feb. 27,a company of 
Uuited States troops, that left Columbia for 
York, had the railroad track torn up in their 
front by a body of armed men, and were obliged 
to march by the road. Ott Friday, March 3. the 
Republican members or the Legislature, now 
sitting, paid men to picket theroad leading from 
the Capital, because of well-grounded fears of a 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
France. 
March 3, the Germans evacuated Paris and 
retired behind the Seine. 
M. Fuvre notified to Count Von Bismarck the 
vote of the National Assembly ratifying the pre¬ 
liminaries of peace. Count You Bismarck at 
unco replied that he was ready to exchange for¬ 
mal ratifications, aud that the Emperor had al¬ 
ready signed the treaty. M. Favre immediately 
proceeded to Versailles, when tbe ratifications 
were exchanged. 
A dispatch from Versailles says the French in¬ 
demnity is payable in three installments, viz.: 
One milliard or thalers iu 1871, two milliards in 
1872, and two milliards in 1873. Interest is only 
payable on the last installment, from wlucli the 
proportion of the debt appertaining to Alsace 
and Lorraine, estimated at one-halt milliard of 
thalers, and the cost of the railways iu Eastern 
France is to be deducted. 
The Germans are rapidly evacuating the pre¬ 
scribed limits of France, the movement being 
conducted quietly and with admirable order. 
President Thiers has publicly announced that 
the negotiant me looking to the restoration to 
power of the Orleanist-Lcgitimists are without 
Itis sanction. He declares that he acknowledges 
only Ihe national sovereignty, and will only bow 
to tho decision or the French people. 
M. Fuvre 1ms telegraphed to the Bordeaux 
Government, desiring the immediate removal of 
organizations. On Wednesday, Capt. Williams, 
a mulatto, commanding a company of the 
militia, was taken and hanged near Carmel Hill, 
and a number of his men were inhumanly 
whipped. The negroes retaliated, and since 
then fighting has been continuous. Major White- 
head reports that tho negro militia company 
commanded by Williams were defeated on Mon¬ 
day night, and fled to his camp at Yorkvillo. He 
1 disarmed them, and flow reports to the Gov¬ 
ernor for orders. Gov. Scott will to-day pro¬ 
claim martial law in York ami Chester con ntaes, 
and has telegraphed to President Grant and Gen. 
Terry at Louisville, asking for troops. 
Tennessee. 
A DISPATCH from Nashville. March 9, says: 
On Saturday night tt number <>I men, in disguise, 
went to a cabin in the Eighth District of Ruther¬ 
ford county, in which Willey and Wm. Kimbros, 
colored, resided. After discharging their fire¬ 
arms, they demanded admittance, which was re¬ 
fused. Tho windowwas then broken, through 
which one of the party cm c-ihpted to outer the 
cabiu, and was shot dead by one ol the colored 
men. The rest of the gang then went off, leav ¬ 
ing behind their dead comrade, and the body was 
identified next day as that of Put Herman, the 
constable of the district. Tito Kimbros were ar¬ 
rested, but wore discharged after an examina¬ 
tion-. Lost night Deputy United States Marshal 
Bentley, with seine soldiers, wcut to Murfrees¬ 
boro and arrested Ed. Arnold, the Sheriff of Hie 
county, and J. P. Berong, ou whose land the 
Kimbrus resided, on a charge of beiug members 
of the gang that attacked the cabin. 
■ | railroads. The Senate sustained the veto by a 
vote of 13 to 10. 
Kansas. 
The Legislature bus passed a bill staying exe¬ 
cution on persons convicted Of murder until the 
Governor issues the death warrant. This will 
virtually abolish capital punishment. 
Reports from Southern Kansas state that there 
is likely to he n repetition of the reign of terror 
that existed there Just full, and which culminat¬ 
ed in tho hanging of six or eight alleged horse 
thieves. 
California. 
Disappointed Magdalena Bay colonists con¬ 
tinue to arrive at Sail Francisco. They report 
that no progress whatever has been made to¬ 
ward actual settlement at that place, and that 
unless provision be made for the immediate de¬ 
parture of the colonists ou their arrival in New 
York, they wii! suffer terribly. The Company 
employ the most desperate means to gei 1,000 
men landed there before Slay, to enable them to 
claim damages from Mexico for uon-fulfiillntenL 
of the contract. 
J. H. Purkuian and wife have instituted a libel 
suit against The Pacific Medical Journal of Suu 
Francisco, claiming $50,000 damages. 
Nevada. 
William Smith, an English miner and pros¬ 
pector, was shot dead by Arthur Perkins Ilef- 
nan, a pianist, nt Virginia, March 6. after n dis¬ 
cussion ou the Franeo-PrUssian war. Hefnan 
narrowly escaped lynching on the spot, and a 
crowd gathered around the jail that uight, 
threatening to take him out and hang him, but 
he was secretly removed to the State prison at 
CBrson. 
Nebraska. 
Gov. David Butler has been impeached by 
the House of Representatives, by a vote of 33 to 
0, upon the charge of having attempted to ex¬ 
tort money from contractors and workmen be¬ 
fore allowing their accounts against the State; 
with misappropriating the funds of the State, 
and otlieJ misdemeanors in office. He has beeu 
suspended from office until after trial, and Hon. 
W. II. James. Secretary of State, discharges tbe 
duties of Chief Executive. 
Virginia, 
At Buffalo Gap, March 7, about twenty-five 
negroes attempted to mob another named J i 
NEWS AND NOVELTIES. 
Captain Peter S. 
■LJL_ _ Michie of the United 
Much feeling is manifested bore regarding the Statas Ariu >% has been appointed Professor of 
continued sittings of the Assembly at .Bordeaux. ” alU11 ' 1 iUK * Experimental Philosophy at i tie 
The people are clamorous for a removal of all " t ’ 5t Point Military Academy, to succeed Dr. 
departments of the new Government to this city. " ’ N.C. Bartlett. Captain Michie is still a young 
M. Thiers declines to make a treaty ot' com- lllan ‘ graduated at the Academy iu 1803, 
inerce with Germany on the ground that it is l j lou fc r|1 ho had previously served in the field, as 
necessary for France to imitate the United ,, e lack oft. mined officers led to the assignment 
Slates, and restore the equilibrium by high ol , h,tfhel ' Ctulets 10 active service before 
tariffs. regular graduation. He was breveted Lieuten- 
Gen. D. Aurelle de Paladines has assumed t-coloiiel in 1805, and still holds that rank, 
command of the National Guard of Paris. In “ in ~ e the close of the wur he lias served on tho 
liis first order of the day he in voices the co-ope- (J 1 tne Academy as “Instructor of Practi- 
ratlon of the Guards In the work of maintain- S 1 *, -‘Hlitaij Engineering, Military Signals and 
ing order, and declares that tranquillity alone -Hiegrapliiijg. 
Will restore the prosperity of France. Mean- The present British Minister at Madrid is the 
while, all disturbances will be promptly repress- Ht. Hon. Austin Layard, notable lor bis Nineveh 
ed, aud their promoters sternly dealt with. The discoveries, and books thcreanent. He married 
press approve of the general order, and say af- 11 daughter of the late Sir John Guest, Bart, M. 
lairs already show improvement. F., proprietor of the vast Do win is irun works in 
Emperor William aud Staff have left Versailles, 'Yales, by Lady Charlotte, daughter ol the Earl 
and will not return. of Lindsey, a lady of renmikubie ability. Mrs. 
Napoleon has addressed the President of the Layard's is at present one of the most fashion- 
1 •Ye neb Assembly, protesting against the legality able S“hms ot the Spanish capital, 
of the Vote by Which that body declared that bis Anna Dickinson, according to a Washington 
dynasty bad forfeited the throne. TbeAssem- correspondent, has recently attended several re- 
bly, be says, was created only to make peace, ceptions there in a black velvet costume; the 
mid lias exceeded its powers. The foundation ol underskirt plain, the jacket close-fitting, and 
all public right is the plcbiseitum ; to that he is overlaid along the seams and shoulders aud 
ready to bow, and to that alone. round tho edges with ermine, a tiny ermine boa 
Imperial Announcement of Peace. £,! >d muff, and a round bat ol black velvet, com- 
A dispatch from Berlin, March 3, gives the pitted a lather unique appearance, 
following telegram from Emperor William to Spurgeon began life as usher iu a school at 
Empress Augusta, dated Versailles, March 3. Newmarket, delivered sermons at the early age 
'* 1 have just rati Beil the cmwtiUons of peace, which of seventeen, and gained quite a reputation as 
Hie Bordeaux Assembly have acceptmi. Thus far the *' Boy Preacher.” For u number of mouths 
months of battles to bo achieved, thanks to ihe he pieae.ted in a bain at t\ aterbeaeh, and drew 
valor devotion, and endurance of our ineompsruMe such crowds that numbers could not get inside, 
army, and the sacrifices of the whole Fatherland, bur ainor) under the Akv ,,, ,i,p, n „„,t -a 
The la *rd of Hosts has everywhere visibly blessed '-Ui stood unuvl IRC 6h.J to uucu the sound of 
car enterprises, aud by His mercy bus permitted aa 1 his voice. 
tnon. Yonkers elected 
Robot't O. Getty. (Rep.,) President of the village. 
Auburn elected Thomas Kirkpatric, (Rep.,) .May¬ 
or. and the whole Republican city ticket, five 
Republican and threo Democratic Aldermen. 
Utica elected Miles C. Comstock, (Oem.,) .Mayor, 
and the rest of the Democratic ticket. Pough¬ 
keepsie elected Prof. H. G. Eastman, (Rep.,) 
Mayor, by 900 majority over the Democratic 
candidate. Troy elected a Democrat (Carroll) 
Mayor, by 2,073 majority over tbe Republican 
candidate. Ten Democratic nnd three Republi¬ 
can Aldermen, and ten Democratic aud three 
Republican Supervisors were elected. 
It is proposed to insert a Memorial Window 
for Alice Ciuy in the “Church of the St rangers” 
in New York city. From this church Miss Cary 
A WESTERN TORNADO, 
si. louis tins afternoon. The wmu nisi taint 
from the southeast, accompanied by a brisk 
shower, but suddenly veered to the southwest, 
aud eatne with a lury and force never before 
witnessed in ibis latitude. It first struck the 
elevator on the bunk of the river, and took part 
of its roof off, and passing iu ft duo northeast¬ 
erly direction, it totally demolished the freight 
depot of the St. Louis and Vaudalia Railroad, 
800 l’eet long by 100 feet high, the freight and 
passenger depot of the Northeastern Railroad, 
two freight depots, a portion of the passenger 
depot and ticket office, aud the large round 
house of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, the 
car-house, scale office, freight office and part of 
