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one: Provided, howcvcr,Tnt such repeal shall not , affect any rights acquired, or punishments, penalties, or forfeitures incurred under either of the acts or parts of acts, nor impair or affect the intercourse act of eighteen hundred and two, so far as the same relates to or concerns Indian tribes residing east of the Mississippi : And provided, also, That such repeal shall not be construed to revive any acts or parts of acts repealed by either of the acts or sections herein described. Sec. 30. And be it further enacted. That until a Western Territory shall be established, the two agents for the Western Territory, as provided in the act for the organization of the Indian Department, this day approved by the President, shall execute the duties of agents for such tribes as may be directed by the President of the United States. And it shall be competent for the President to assign to one of the said agents, in addition to his proper duties, the duties of superintendent for such district of country or for such tribes, as the President may think fit. And the powers of the superintendent at St. Louis, over such district or tribes as may be assigned to such acting superintendent shall cease: Provided, That no additional compensation shall be allowed for such services. Approved, June 30th, 1S31. Public, Ko. 79.) AX ACT in addition to the "act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any criminal convicted of any offence against the United States shall be imprisoned, in pursuance of such conviction, and of the sentence thereupon, in the prison or the Penitentiary of any State or Territory, such criminal shall in all respects, be subject to the same discipline and treatment, as convicts sentenced by the Courts of the State or Territory, in which such prison or penitentiary is situated; and while so confined therein, shall also be exclusively under the control of the officers having charge ot the same, under the laws of the said State or Territory. Approved, June 30lh, 1831.

Public JVb. 80.) AX ACT increasing the salaries of the judges of the United States for the Territories of Michigan, Arkansas, and Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprcsentatives of the United States of Amcrca in Congress assembled, That there shall be allowed and paid annually, to each of thejudges of the United States for the Territories of Michigan, Arkansas, and Florida, the sum of three hundred dollars, in addition to the salaries now allowed by law to the said judges, respectively. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that the several suras authorized to be paid, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the increased salary allowed by this act shall only be paid lo such judges in the Territories of Florida and xirkansas, as are not now allowed the extra compensation under the act of May 1828 providing for the adjudication of land claims, and shall take effect as to the remainder when the extra pay aforesaid shall no longer be paid. ArpRovED June 30th, 1S31., Public, JVb. 81.) AX ACT making compensation for certain diplomatic services, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed and paid to W. II. D. C. Wright, to supply the deficiency of a former appropriation in payment of the balance found due to him in the adjustment of his accounts, and for his diplomatic services at the court of Brazil, after the death of Mr. Tudor, and before the arrival of Mr. Brown, the sum of five thousand and thirtyseven dollars. Also, to the State of Maine, to reimburse the expense of supporting certain American-citizens in prison at Frcdericton, in New Brunswick, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Also, to JohnAdam3 Smith, Nathaniel Niles, and J. C. Pickett, Secretaries of Legation, a compensation for their services as Charges (T Affaires, at the rate of four thousand fivo hundred dollars per annum, during the time that they were actually left in charge of the affiirs, of the Legations to which they were attached, deducting therefrom the amount already paid to them as Secretaries of Legation; the aforesaid sums to be paid out any money in tho Treasury not otherwise appropriated. To James C. Pickett, Secretary of Legation, left in charge of the affairs of the United States at Bogotaon the termination of the mission of Mr.Moore, one quarter's salary for the expense of his return to the United States, five hundred dollars. Approved, Juno 30th, 1834. Public JVb. 82.) AX ACT repealing certain acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That all such acts or parts of acts passed by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, as may impose a higher or greater tax on the slaves or other property of non-resident citizens than is imposed on the slaves or other property of resident citizens of said Territory, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and declared null and void. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall attempt lo enforce any of the acts or partsof acts passed by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida as aforesaid, by demanding or receiving any tax, imposition or assessment a thorized or prescribed thereby, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or cither or both of said punishments. Secv 3. And be it further enacted, That the county of Leon in the Territory of Florida shall be authorized to elect two additional members to the Legislative Council on the first Monday in September next,and it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council to designate by law the election districts in B uch manner as to ensure an equality of representation to each. Approved, Juno 30th, 1831. The following is indeed "a change of measures." Married, at Washington, on the 17th instant, Mr. Josiah Peck, to Miss Amelia Bushel. Adzookers, bobs, and wedding cakes! What change of Measures marriage makes' .Quick as a thought, at Hymen's beck, Jl Dvsuxl's changed into a Psck.

CIRCULAR To Registers and Receivers of the United States' Land Offices, by order of the Secretary of the Treasury. General Land Office, j July 22, 1831

Gentlemen: Annexed is a copy"of an act of Congress, approved 19th June, 1834, entitled "An act to revive the act entitled 'An act to grant preemption rights on the public lands,' approved May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty," together with a copy of the former act. 1st. The recent act provides "that every settler or occupant of the public lands, prior to the passage of this act, who is now in possessionand cultivated any part thereof in the year 1833, shall be entitled to ail the benefits and privileges provided by the act entitled 'An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved May 29th, 1830, and the said act is hereby revived and shall continue in force two yeaisfiom the passage of tin's act, and no longer, to-wit, to the 29lh June, 1S3G. 2d. The fact of cultivation in eighteen hundred and thirty-three and that of possession of the land applied for on the nineteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty four, must be established by the affidavit of the claimant, supported by such corroborative testimony of disinterested witnesses as shall be satisfactory to you both. The evidence must be taken by a Justice of the Peace, in the presence of the Register and Receiver, whenever convenient, and be in answer to such interrogatories, to be propounded by them, as may be best calculated to elicit the truth; and when not convenient for the witnesses to attend before the Register and Receiver, the evi dence is to be taken by a Justice of the Peace, and be in answer to such interrogatories to be propounded by him as shall be best calculated to elicit the truth. The credibility of the testimony is to be certified by the Justice of the Peace, and by such other persons of the neighborhood as can certify the same. 3d. Possession on the 19th June, 1S34, and cultivation in 1833, are both essentially necessary to the conferring of the pre-emption privilege, the absence of either of which requsiles will vitiate the claim. The building of a mill is a "possession? but without actual cultivation, it does not confer the privilege under the law. The extent and nature of the cultivation are points concerning which the law is silent. The cultivation of a crop of grain, esculent roots, or other vegetables of ordinary culture in the peculiar section of country, is to be regarded as sufficient as respects the requisite oft'cultivation? together with the ordinary fence or other suitable enclosure; or, when no crop or product has been taken from the land, and it shall appear to your satisfaction that the claimant has in good faith, made the usual preparations for aciopjas, when he shall have cleared ground and enclosed the field, and ploughed the soil preparatory to the ensuing seed-time, and with intent to sow or plant, such shall be regarded and taken as a sufficient cultivation to entitle him to the benefit of the act. The erection of a dwelling house for the purposes of habitation, will be regarded as a requisite of "possession." 4th. The provisions of the act are not available to any person or persons who shall fail to make the proof and payment required, before the day appointed forthe commencement of the sale of lands including the tract or tracts on which the right of pre-emption is claimed ; nor can the right of pre-emption extend to any land which is reserved from sale by act of Congress, or by order of the President, or which by law may have been appropriated for any purpose whatsoever. 5th. Should any tract of land, subject to private entry at the date of the act, be entered at ordinary private sale, and a pre-emption claim be duly established thereto within the term of two years from the date of the act, the former entry is null and void, and the Register and Receiver are hereby required to tmkcinonthly reports ofall such interfering sales, designating thejtract, date of sale, name of purchaser, quantity of acres, and purchase money; also, name of pre-emption &s date when satisfactory proof of pre-emption, was admitted. On such report?, or ders for? re-payment will be issued. 6th. Where a person inhabits one quarter section and cultivates another, he shall be permitted to enlerjthe one or the other, at his discretion, provided such occupant shall designate within six months from the passage of this act, (viz. from 19th June, 1834,) the quarter section of which he claims the pre-emption, and file in the office of the Register a relinquishment of the right of entry to the other: but in all cases where these six months will expire before the date of the public sale of the township including such claim, the designation and relinquishment must be made prior to the day of such sale. 7th. Where an improvement is situate in different quarter sections, the claimant is entitled to enler'such two adjacent legal sub-divisions, viz. the east and west half quarters as will include his improvement. 8th. Where an improvement is situate on a fraction containing less than the quantity of a quarter section, such fraction must be taken in lieu of an entire quarter section. Should the fraction contain more than tho quantity of a quarter section, the claimant will be permitted to take according to the legal sub-divisions of such fraction, so as to include his improvements and obtain the quantity of one hundred and sixty acres as nearly as practicable, without any further sub-division. In cases where two or move persons are settled on the same quartersection the two first actual settlers who cultivated in 1S33, and had possession on 19th June, 1834, are entitled to the right of preemption. If an equal division of such quarter by a north and south, or east and west line will not secure to each party his improvements, they must become joint purchasers and patentees of the entire quarter section; if otherwise, it will be divided so as to secure to the parties, respectively, their improvements. In either case the said settlers shall each be entitled to a pre-emption of eighty acres of land, elsewhere, in said land district, so as not to interfere with other settlers having a right of preference. 10th. You are requested to make monthly reports of those cases where two persons obtain a preemption on the same quartersection. 11th. Transfers of pre-emption rights prior lo the issuing of patents, will not be recognised. 12lh. The act of 29th May, 1830, applied only to lands to which the Indian "title was extinguished at that date. Hence the right of pre-emption to lands to which the Indian title was extinguished subsequent to that date,can be claimed only in virtue of cultivation in 1S33, and possession on 19th June, 1S31. 13th. In making your usual returns to this office, you will in all cases of purchases under this act, designate them by marking on the returns, the certificate ofpurchasc and receipt thus,"Prc-emption, ActoflS'H." Separate returns and a distinct sericsof numbers for prc-cmption"rcceipts,, and "certificales1, are not admissible. 14th. Inasmuch as the ordinary private entry of

lands subject thereto at the date of the act, must be permitted to proceed at the hazard of interfering with the pre-emption claims which may be established within the two years allowed by the act, it is indispensably necessary, by way of precaution, to require each applicant at private sale, to file with his written "application," an affidavit to the following effect, to wit: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that since tho

hrst day of January, 1S34, viz. on or about the day of , I personally inspected the tract of land designated in the annexed application, viz. I he nnnrtPr nf section No. in imvnshin No. of Ranee No. , in the District of hnds subject to sale at -, and that there was not, at that time, any person residing thereon, or cultivating the same; and I do not believe that any pre-emption right exists thereto, either under the act of 29th May, 1S30, or that of 19th June 1831," In case the party applying to purchase did not

personally inspect the tract, he may be permitted to j place lately in New York. Many persons must have file, in the above form, the oath,or affirmation, of any! received serious injuries, which have not been person who alleges to have made such personal in-j Le-h provocation waa wa arc not inforincj. spect.on; and in all cases, you must be satisfied of; but vhaleve; it may have bcen, nothing can be urg. the credibility of such testimony. ; ed in justificalion of such tumults and outrages, and 15th. here the occupant alleges that he is una- j a severe example should be made of those convicted ble or unwilling to pay for a full quarter section, he j f any participation in them. A riotous spirit has may be permitted to enter the half quarter which ! been fostered in our cities which must be promptly shall include his improvements; to be eitherthe east j checked, or there is no excess to which it will not or west half of such quarter; the divisional line run-1 carry an excited populace. Heretofore the characnmrrrmrtli nnl nnih in mnrln , ti.n ! ter of Philadelphia has stood hrr for the decorous

till'- v w-V'vwi t tAV lilUU W I'l . k?!-,! iU. Li LJ I 11V, I act of 24th April, 1S20; but in such casa he will be required to file a relinquishment of his further right j of pre-emption for the quantity authorized by the act. 16th. You are each entitled by law to receive from the party interested a fee of fifty cents on each case of pre-emption admitted under the act. lth. The evidences adduced in support of pre emption lights aumitteu unuertnis act, anu also the oaths required of purchasers at ordinary private sale, are to be carefully enclosed in the appropriate ccr - tificates of purchase, and transmitted therewith to this office, accompanied by your joint certificate as to the credibility of the witnesses. 1 he cvidenccsadduced in support of cases not admitted, are to be carefully filled in the Register's office with suitable endorsements thereon. . ISth, By the third section of the act of the 19ih June, 1834, persons residing on the public lands, and cultivating the same, prior to the year 1829, but who were deprived of the advantage of the act of 29th May, 1830, by reason of tho construction given to the same by the Secretary of the Treasury, are authorized to enter, at the minimum price, one quarter section of the public lands within said land district. This provision can bo available onlv to those whose right to a pre-emption in virtue of cultivation and possession prior to 1829, shall be established by satisfactory proof; and who, from any cause originating in the restrictions and limitations imposed by the Secretary of the Treasury, which have not had a remedy by tho act of 14th July, 1832, or that of 2d March, 1833, have been deprived of the advantages of the act of 1830. When such cases shall be presented, you will specially report them, with all the testimony, for the decision of the Department. 19th. Where floating rights to eighty acres are granted under this act, they must be located and paid for at the time of entry of the tracts on which such floating rights accrue. In the execution of the act, the utmost vigilance and diligence on your part, are requisite to delect fraud, and determine the character and crcd ibility of the testimony. A faithful and impartial ; discharge of your duty are alike essential to protect the government from imposition, and the honest claimant in his right. I am, very respectfully, gentlemen, your obedient servant. ELIJAH HAY WARD. Commissioner. "Indiana Five ter cent Loan. This Loan of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, for which proposals were received at the Merchants' Bank in this city yesterday, was taken by Messrs. Prime, Ward and King, atjone hundred and one dollars 5-100ths, for each hundred dollars principal and interest payable in New York." The above paragraph is from the New York Evening Post of tho 7lh inst. What a "humbugged" set of men tho mechanics of Louisville arc! They wanted a State Bank to supply a sound local currency, but were assured that it could not be put into operation that neither the stock nor the scrip of the State could be sold. Similar assertions were made in relation to the sale of the scrip of the State of Indiana. We announced last week, the sale of the latter; and the Journal contradicted our statement, and repeated the opinion that it never would be sold ! Now what is the fiict? The State scrip is sold; nay, was sold, as we have stated. Indiana will soon have her State Bank but Kentucky cannot! The Clay party have discredited the State, with a view to prevent a sound local Bank from going into operation, which might diminish the power and influence of the Bank of the U. S. If our business men have not been "humbugged," they arc, perhaps, the most self-denying community of christians within the limits of what the Nullifies term 'these twenty-four sovereignties.1 Bo this as it may, Mr. Clay did'nt want the Bank, and we shall probably never have it. Louisville Adv. Riuts in Philadelphia. On Tuesday evening the 12th instant, in the southern part of the town, we regret to learn that very serious disturbances took place, in which a number of persons were seriously injured, and some damage done to property. The cause is variously stated; but the true provocation we have not bcen able to ascertain. Early in the evening, a detachment of boys and very young men, amounting perhaps to several hundreds, armed with clubs, marched down Seventh street to the open lot adjoining the hospital, where they were joined by others. After remaining on the lot a short time, as if to concert their plan of operations, they proceeded to a notorious spot in South street, near Eighth, where the illegal amusement of flying horses is carried on. The building was attacked and speedily demolished; and from the statement of our informant, it seems that a battle immediately took place between tiie rioters and the blacks who live in the vicinity. At one time it is supposed that four or five hundred persons were engaged in the conflict, with clubs, brickbats, paving stones, and the materials of the shed in which the flying horses were kept. The mob then marched down South street, tore down the pailings of a house occupied by a black family, burst open the doors and obliged the inmates to lly for their lives. In a similar style they paraded through the various streets, Bedford, Mary, and others, in which the blacks are chiefly congregated, committing violence of every kind. The police having, about nine o'clock, become sufficiently strong for confidence, made an attempt to rout the rioters and capture the ringleaders, and the tumult became still more appalling. "Down with the Police!" was the general cry, nnd many of the city and county ofiicers were severely, some of them dangerously, hurt. McLane, of the county, McLane, Manderfield, Danenhowcr, and others, received much injury. Ilerren, one of the city police, was so dangerously wounded, that on

Tuesday night it was supposed no would not uriva until morning. A number of special constables

1 were sworn in by Squire Longhead, who displayed great courage and activity, rushing into the centre of the rioters and capturing about eighteen of the most conspicuous. They sutfered, however, severely, being obliged to light their way through the mob to and from the office. Mr. Longhead was enabled alone to detain the captives by a judicious hint of nieans more effectual than clubs or maces. The sight of the weapons was sufficiently alarming to j keep eighteen men quiet before him. They were commmcu, ueing unaoic 10 procure u u uau, umuu sd dollars each, which was required U was as certained, that with one or two exceptions, the prisoners were from a distant part of the town. Several negroes were taken on the city side, and committed next morning by the Mayor. " At about 11 o'clock ! quictne i Anc ess was restored. neye witness to the whole affair assures us that j its aspect was terrific for some time, and threaten l cd results fully as extensive as those which tool k behaviour ot us inhabitants: but it seems mat the example of our neighbors, in resorting, in a government of laws, to settling their grievances by vio lence, has had its effect even here. The first fruits were visible on Tuesday night, and a repetition should be met sharply and decisively. Pennsylcanian. Disgraceful outrage. A most infamous and j wanton violation ot tnc peace anu uesiiuction in ! property was perpetrated at Charlcstown, .Mass on ; Monday night lllh inst. which we could hardly j deem possible in New-England. The causes which ' led to this outrage are briefly a3 follows: For some weeks past, a rumour has been indus- ! triously circulated that a young lady who had bcen induced to enter the uatiioiic convent near Shanestown, ns a nun, had escaped, been retaken and induced to remain for a week or two under a pledge that she should then be honorably dismissed, but at the expiration of the period she was no where to be found, and tho interencc was deemed irresistible that she must have been either immured in a dungeon or inhumanly murdered; and tho story very naturally laid the foundation of a prodigious excitement. There was just enough truth in it to hold together. A young lady had eloped from the j nunnery, but returned of her own free will and dc clared that she escaped under the influence of men tal alienation, and did not wish to abandon her seclusion. However, on Monday, groups began to collect in the neighborhood of the convent, and early in the evening a disposition was evinced to proceed to riotous and lawless measures. At 11 o clock several tar-barrels were burned lo collect the hopeful devotees of anarchy, and to attract tho attention of their compatriots in Boston, who flocked to the scene of action in gteat numbers. The inmates of the convent and the buildings connected with it were then aroused and ordered to tako care of themselves forthwith; and so furious was tho mob that the attack was actually commenced before the females, (mostly children,) had fairly effected their escape, and it is even said that the Abbess was rude ly treated lo compel her to accelerate her retreat rhe building was then set on firo in the second story, and, together with the Chapel, the Bishop's Lodge, and other buildings, entirely consumed. The los3 is estimated at $80,000, as tho whole of the cosily and valuable furniture was destroyed; and tho insurance, which was but $12,000, will not apply to losses of this kind. The rufiians broke open the cemetery, and inspected the contents of one coffin, but did not seem inclined to continue their investigations in that quarter. Tho fire-engines were on the ground in ample season, but declined to interfere for the preservation of the nunnery. The mob dispersed at day-light on the following morning. A meeting was called on Tuesday afternoon at Faneuil Hall, Boston, at which f,000 persons attended, and resolved at all hazards to protect the Catholics in the full enjoyment of their lights, expressed their utter abhorrence of the outrage, appointed a strong committeo of which Harrison Gray Otis is chairman, to ferret out tho ringleaders in this dastardly affair, and bring them to condign punishment. A similar meeting was held in Charlcstown, and a reward of $1,000 offered for the detection of the miscreants. This is rendered diflicult by the fact that they appeared in disguise and with paintca faces. We have already intimated on a similar occasion, and we will now assert most emphatically, tint in outrages of this kind no one is so deeply to bo blamed as the civil authorities. In all communities there are wretches who would gladly rush forward to scenes of riot and rapine if the mere fact that they are congrcgrated together is to insure them immunity and even countenance. Wo hesitate not to say that ten resolute conservators of the public peace might have prevented the consummation of this act of atrocity and baseness; but, if the public guardians were tender of their precious perI sons, they might have easily commanded the services oi an aounuini military iorcc in ample season. Two efficient volunteer companies from Boston! would have settled the business. Hereafter, let there be no miserable tampering with anarchy and tumult afier this fashion. Let all tho military, force in the vicinity of an attempt of this kind be immediately brought to the ground; and then let no more time he wasted in reading Riot Acts or the like than will suffice to charge all ihe fire-arms with substantial metal. Rely on it, the first firo! would leave no necessity for "Charge Bayonet!") a measure which should otherwise be instantly executed. A few mobs treated in this way, and we might hope for a general restoration of order, security and respect for the laws. Neva Yorker. Disgraceful Trajjic. The Albany Recorder says, "that in a present report before the House of Representatives, by the Committee on Indian Affiirs, it is stated tint whiskey, which cost at St. Louis 25 cents per gallon, is commonly sold to the Indians on the navigable waters of tho Missouri, at Twenty-five dollars per gallon; also that an extensive distillery is in operation at tho mouth of the Yellow stone, where alcohol diluted to proof, is exchanged with the Indians at Sixty-four doll irs per .mllon. and when Carried into thn intrimr -it IIJUUll lllUtl J'llV... . . I . I, i h-tw t-triAn An Irishman had just landed upon our shores when he was set upon by a dog. Paddy looked over the pavement and tried to get up a stone wherewithjo defend himself, but in vain. "What a country is this," he exclaimed "where the dogs arc all let loose, and tho stones all fastened down."

Latttt from Texau 'i'U pcoph; of 'lexis arji in motion respecting tho incarceration of Col. Austin, by tho Mexican government. Wo copy to-day an address delivered by the presiding ofliccr of tho Ayuntamicnto of Austin, and lnll publish the memorial of tho people to the General Congress of the United States of Mexico to-morrow. Tho present position of Texas makes any general movement among that people important end intcii sting. The following paragraph is published as a postscript iu the Brazoria Republican, of tho rth July. After our paper had gone to press a friend of ours put us in possession of the following information relative to Col. Austin's imprisonment, which was received in a letter, dated Mexico, May 11, 18iU. That he is still confined in ono of tho prisons of the Inquisition, and until a week previous ho was emcrsed in tho dungeon. Santa Anna has enlarged the limits of his confinement; and tho writer thinks in a week more he will be sot ut liberty. Wo sincerely hope this may bu the case, though wo oro inclined to doubt. The treatment this gentleman has received at Mexico, taking into consideration all the circumstances, in our humble opinion merit the consideration of the whole pec pic of Texas. yew Orleans Bulletin t Texas. A letter published in the Southern Banner, from a gentleman "well known to many of the citizens of (ieorgia and Alabama, as one upon tho correctness of whoso statements tho utmost reliance can bo placet!," speaks in glowing language of the prospects of Texas. The emigration during this year has been unbounded gicater, indeed, than the rt sources of the country would admit of. The crops of corn were insufficient to supply the emigrants. The ideas entertained generally in tl.o United Slates of tho society in 'lYxas, he rcpic sents as rrronrous. There arc, he says, few Spaniards or Mexicans, tho population being exclusively Americans, and "honest, industrious, i nterprizing Americans." A man committing a breath against the laws of society, is as readily and t-cvcic-ly punished as in the I'uited State?. A new mode of dying has been discovered lately in some of our eastern stalea. It is by lying flat upon a mill btonc, while performing its evolutions; sleep is soon produced, and death without a pain would bo tho result if tho experiment weio greatly protracted. Patal Rfftct of Lightning. At tho village of Newport in this county, on the evening of the Kith instant, two women were hilled by lightning, ami a number of other persons severely shocked. Tho particulars of this distressing occurrence uro given in tho following extract of a letter from a respectable citizen of that place, to his friend in Richmond. 7i ieh m oral Valla d i u m . "NuwrouT, Nib tno. 1S.11. "Hear Friend Last evening between eight and nine o'clock, we were called upon to witness tho most appalling sceno that cveroccuncl within my knowledge. A stroke of lightning fell on tho house occupied by Jehiel Hull, (bricktnakcr) recently from Cincinnati, w hose wifo lay sick of a fever, and many of the citizens were there waiting to sec her expire; and painful to relate, the electric fluid struck two of tho number down to riso no more; and in something less than one hour, J. Hull'j wifo expired, making three persons in tho samo houso corpses. Tho two women struck with lightning were sisters to J. Hull, ono of them wifo to Nelson B ill and mother of three children; the other a single woman 17 years ofngo. Tho lightning entered at tho comb of the house next tho chimney, over tho gable end and passed down a stud, splitting it to atoms without moving the weather boards, but when in the bed room below tho garret, it thrust off tho ceiling and seemed to pasj between tho chimney breast and mantle board, broke things on the mantle shelf and shattered tho

chimney piece very much. Ono of tho women was sitting near tho door in a chair, the other near tho fire place; tho ono next the door (which stood open) was much bruised, her skull thought to bo broken in several places, iho tslincut through in various places, perhaps duno by the broken boards. The skin of the other not broken, but both struck lifeless. "There were several in tho same rootn though not injured more th in a snvcro shock, except John Hull, their brother, who had the skin broken in his ancle, probably done by a splinter. One mini was sitting near tlicm iu a chair nnd thiown our and much shocked, though he soon ir covered. Iu tho edjoiuing room where tho dying woman lay, were also a considerable number who wcro severely shocked. On the upper floor a small gill lay on a pallet with her head near the chattered ceiling, also two or three other children on a bedstead, closo to the same ceiling, and marvellous to relate none hurt, tho1 tho bedstead was thrown some two feet from the wall. The clothes on the two wemeu wcro burnt before they could get water thrown ou the in, so that the skin on their breasts and ormt camo elf. It is truly a distressed family." The Pittsburgh Democrat ot the HUh hut. contains tho following paragraph; Cholciu. Wo nreiiippy tostutr, that this dipeas? has considerably abated. But a few deaths have occurred from it since our last. By altentioa to cleanliness and safo diet, much will bo done to avcitit. The cholera has never yet been an epidemic in this city. It has been invited only by gross neglect, filth, or constitutional debility." itiiiBW I' 1 1 iii hi umm CinusLn, Pa. August 'A. Melancholy effect of Lightning. h is our pair.ful task to record this week one of iho most distressing and fatal occurrences that has taken place in this county for many years. Tho paiticulars aa near as we can learn, are as follows. On Saturday evening last, about early candlelight, tho house of Mr. Poorman, in the village of Mechauiesburgb, J miles cast of this place, wa?, during a violent thunder storm struck by lightning. The lluid, it eppears, descended the gable end of the house somo short distance, then divided, a portion unfortunately forcing its way into a room where Mr. Poorman and fumily'wcro seated, when awful to rclato Miss Mary Poorman, aged X'J, and Mr. (Jeorgo Poorman, aged 17 years, were both instantaneously deprived of existence by the stroke. They h-ul been sitting very near each other when they wore struck by the fluid, and both wero found still silting on their chair in nearly the samo position afker lifa was wholly extinct, tho young man's head slightly reclining against tho siioulder of his unfortunate sister. What an awful sight, what & moment ofagcny! it must have been to their distracted parent?, brothers and sisters who wero all in the same room at the time ofthe necident, but not the least injured, except a brother to tho deceased who was prostrated by tho shock; but whoso life wjs happilj preserved. CIIOLO A IN CINCINNATI. To the best of our knowledge there i iww r.o Ionger any cholera in this city: at all cverta we hear of none. Sporadic cases may occasionally aprcar, tut it no longer prevails s tn epidc:3:c. Ci.t. Jtcp.