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Nov. 25. Captain Stephen Olney, a soldier and patriot of the re- volution, died at North Providence. R. I.
Nov. 27. The ship Dalmatia left New-York for Liverpool, with 160 emigr ants, who returned to England for want of employment Nov. 29. Grant dramatic benefit, given at the Park Theatre, New-York, to John Howard Payne, dramatist, &c. Gross re- ceipts, $4,200.
Dec. 2. The Court-House at Flatbush, New-York, destroyed by fire.
Dec. 3. Lucy Allen, a negro woman, died at Philadelphia, aged 106.
Dec. 3. The second session of the twenty-second Congress met.
Dec. 6. Treaty between the U. S. and Russia, concluded at St. Petersburgh, by James Buchanan and Count Nesselrode.
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1832. Dec. Imprisonment for debt, if not exceeding $30, abolished in Maryland.
Dec. 8. Battle of Puenta de Mexico, between the forces of Bus- tamente and Santa Anna, in which the former were defeated.
Dec. 8. Treaty of Pasto, between the republics of New Grenada and Escuador.
Dec. 10. The Convention of the Union and S. R. Party of South Carolina met at Columbia, and chose Thomas Taylor, President. Dec. 10. Proclamation of the President, announcing his determi-
nation to maintain the authority of the Union, and enforce the execution of the laws.
Dec. The railroad from Amboy to Bordentown completed.
Dec. 11. Suspension of hostilities agreed upon by Bustamente and Santa Anna.
Dec. 12. Lemuel Smith, tragedian, shot at Milledgeville. Geo., by William Flournoy.
Dec. 14. The S. C. Union and S. R. Convention adjourned, after passing a spirited remonstrance against the nullifying resolution of the 24th Nov.
Dec. 14. The S. C. Bank, at Charleston, entered by false keys, and bills to the amount of $156,000, with $300 in specie, ab- stracted.
Dec. 16. Robert C. Sands, author of many pieces of fugitive poetry, died near New-York, aged 34.
Dec. 16. Barton, one of the robbers of the S. C. Bank, arrested on suspicion, confessed his guilt, and restored his share of the plunder, amounting to $108,280.
Dec. 17. Great public meeting of the friends of the Union, held at Faneuil Hall, Boston.
Dec. 18. Philip Freneau, author of many pieces of fugitive poetry, died at Freehold, N. J., aged 80.
Dec. 19. A meeting held in New-York, and on the 24th at Boston, at which resolutions were passed approbatory of the President's proclamation.
Dec. 19. The Presbyterian Church, with several other buildings, at Livonia, New-York, were destroyed by fire.
Dec. 19. Gardiner Greene, merchant, died at Boston, leaving $3,000,000, aged 78.
Dec. 19. William James, merchant, died at Albany, leaving $3,000,000, aged 62.
Dec. 20. Promclamation of the Gov. of S. C., calling upon the people to disregard the President's Proclamation, and to be pre- pared to sustain, by resistance, the dignity of the State.
Dec. 20. An act passed the Legislature of S. C., prescribing the form of an oath to be taken by all persons holding office, to en- force the nullification ordinance of the 24th Nov.
Dec. 21. Sarah M. Cornell, for whose murder the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery was afterwards tried and acquitted, found suspended by a rope, at Tiverton, R. I.
Dec. 21. Villereal, commander of the Mexican brig Montezuma, tried, at New Orleans, on a charge of piracy, in capturing the schooner, William A. Turner, found guilty, and subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labour.
Dec. 23. Convention at Zavaleta, between Gen. Bustamente and Gen. Santa Anna, by which the civil war in Mexico was term !- nated
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1832. Dec. 24. Duff Green, editor of the Telegraph, assaulted in the streets of Washington, and severely beaten, by James Blair, of the House of Rep., from S. Carolina.
Dec. 24. Tbe steam-boat Superior, plying the Mississippi, from New Orleans to Cincinnati, collapsed a flue, by which 16 persons were scalded, of whom 3 died in consequence.
Dec. 25. Unusually severe cold and rainy weather at New Or- leans.
Dec. 26. The garrison of Mexico declared in favour of the con- vention of Zavaleta, entered into by Bustamente and Santa Anna.
Dec. (26.) The widow Deagon died at Awatara, Penn., aged 105.
Dec. 26. Intelligence received at New-York that, on the 6th Nov, an embargo had been laid by France and England upon Dutch vessels,
Dec. 27. Fire at Natches, (Miss.) by which the U. S. branch bank, church, &c. were destroyed.
Dec. 27. Fire at Kingston, N. C., by which 19 buildings were destroyed.
Dec. 28. The navigation of the Hudson closed at Albany.
Dec. 29. James Hillhouse, a distinguished statesman and lawyer, died at New Haven, Con., aged 78.
Dec. 31. The gold transmitted to the mint, for coinage, in 1832, from Virginia, amounted to $34,000 ; N. Carolina, $458,000 ; S. Carolina, $15,000 ; Georgia, $140,000 ; Tennessee, $1,000. Dec. 31. U. S. treasury receipts, $31,865,561. Expences, $34, 356,698. Product of the customs, $28,465,237.
1833. Jan. 1. Amount of public debt, $7,001,698.
Jan. 1. Decree of the Republic of Bolivia, making the port of Lamar a free port from and after the 1st of July.
Jan. A resolution passed by the Legislature of Delaware, pro- posing that Accomack and Northampton Counties, in Virginia, and the eastern shore of Maryland, should be united to and form a part of the State of Delaware.
Jan. 2. Great meeting at New Orleans, denouncing nullification, and approving the President's proclamation.
Jan. 2. The contending armies of Mexico re-entered the city in harmony, under their respective chiefs.
Jan. 3. The British government interposed a claim to the Falkland Islands, by causing a formal possession to be taken by Captain Onslow, of the Clio, 18 guns, uninterrupted by the Buenos- Ayreans.
Jan. 4. The Legislature of New Hampshire, by joint resolu- tion, requested the Hon. Samuel Bell, a senator of that State, in the Congress of the U. S., to resign his office, on account of his mis-representing the will of a majority of his constituents.
Jan. 5. The ice dispersed at Albany, and the navigation of the Hudson reopened.
Jan. 6. Singularly mild weather-people sitting at New-York without fire, and the thermometer standing at 62 deg.
Jan. 7. Samuel Overton, a negro, died in Pasquotank County, N. C., aged 103.
Jan. 8. The imprisoned missionaries notified the attorney ge- neral of Georgia, that they had caused the proceedings in the S. C. of the U. S., on their behalf, to be stayed.
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1833. Jan. 9. The Legislature of Indiana passed sundry resolutions re- pudiating the doctrine of nullification.
Jan. 10. The Reform Convention of Maryland adjourned, after de- claring the State Constitution radically defective, and recom- mending the calling a Convention for its amendment.
Jan. 11. Extraordinary cold at Charleston, S. C., the thermometer standing at 18 deg.
Jan. 13. . The navigation of the Hudson again closed.
Jan. 14. Decree issued by the Government of New Grenada, re- gulating the trade on the Atlantic coast.
Jan. 14. The Rev. Samuel A. Worcester, and Elezur Butler, pardoned by the Gov. of Georgia, and released from confinement. Jan. 15. Major William Gamble, a soldier of the revolution, died at Washington, aged 78.
Jan. 16. Motion in the House of Delegates, of Maryland, to in- quire into the propriety and practicability of fixing a day, beyond which all slaves born in the state shall be free, upon arriving at a certain age, and removing from the U. S.
Jan. 16. A special message, transmitted by the President to Con- gress, with the nullifying ordinance of S. Carolina, &c.
Jan. 18. The Naval Court of Inquiry in the case of Lieut. Robert B. Randolph, closed the examination, and acquitted him of the charges as acting purser of the Java.
Jan. An association formed in Alabama, called the Slick Company, whose object was to check, by the summary punish- ment of flogging, the circulation of counterfeit money.
Jan. 19. Cold day-the thermometer at Quebec standing at 30 deg. below zero.
Jan. 21. Intelligence reached New-York, by the Liverpool packet ship, John Jay, that hostilities between the Dutch and French had commenced, on the 4th Dec., by the bombardment of Ant- werp.
Jan. 22. Protest of the Buenos Ayrean Government, against the possession by the British of the Malvina Islands.
Jan. 23. Destructive tornado in Montgomery, Alabama, that levelled many buildings in its course for ten miles distance.
Jan. 26. The Legislature of Virginia appointed Benj. Watkins Leigh, a Commissioner to S. Carolina, to procure a revocation of the nullifying ordinance.
Jan. 26. Great excitement in Jamaica, W. I., by the publication of the King's proclamation, prohibiting an organized opposition to the sectarian preachers.
Jan. 28. The navigation of the Hudson open to Albany, and of the Delaware to Bordentown.
Jan. 28. Charles G. Dewitt, of New-York, appointed Charge des Affaires to Guatemala.
Jan. 29. Extraordinary cold at Miramichi, the thermometer stand- ing at 41 deg. below zero.
Jan. 30. The steam-boat, Paul Clifford, plying the Mississippi, between New Orleans and Opelousas, burst her boiler near the India Village, by which eight 'persons were killed, and 5 badly sca'ded.
Jan. 30. Jos. Blydenburgh, died at Smithtown, N. Y., aged 101. Feb. 6. The Hudson River again closed.
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1833. Feb. 6. The Gallego Mills at Richmond, V., destroyed by fire .. Loss $100,000.
Feb. 6. Fire at Buffalo, N. Y. on Ellicott-square. Loss $10,000.
Feb. 7. Fire at Watertown, New-York, by which several factories were destroyed. Loss $40,000.
Feb. 8. Earthquake at Nevis, St. Kitts, and other West India Islands, which continued, at intervals, until the 15th, and by which a number of wall and stone buildings were demolished, and deep excavations left in various parts.
Feb. 11. The steam-boat Superior, plying the Mississippi, col- lapsed a flue when near Point Checo, by which 13 persons were scalded, of whom 2 died.
Feb. 12. The centennial celebration of the settlement of Georgia took place at Savannah.
Feb. 14. R. R. Bernard Claude Panet, Catholic Bishop of Quebec, died at Quebec, aged 80.
Feb. 14. A party of traders to the Rocky Mountains attacked by the Black Feet Indians, in which Vandenbourgh and Pillon were killed.
Feb. 14. Eliphalet Holmes, a soldier and patriot of the revolution, dicd at Hadlyme, aged 85.
Feb. 15. Violent snow storm-in many places from 3 to 5 feet upon a level.
Feb. 16. General Hezekiah Foard, a soldier of the revolution, died at Bohemia Manor, Del., aged 82.
Feb. 16. Fire at Charleston, S. C., by which 40 buildings were destroyed, and the damage sustained estimated at $80,000.
Feb. 18. Fire at Bangor, Me., by which the new Theological Se- minary was destroyed.
Feb. 21. James Lent, jr., of the House of Rep. from New-York, died at Washington.
Feb. 21. Fire at Kingston, U. C., on Market-square.
Feb. 21. Alvah Beebee, for an attempt to bribe a Member of the Legislature of New-York, declared by the assembly guilty of a breach of its privileges, and reprimanded at the bar by the speaker.
Feb. 22. The corner stone of a monument to Washington laid in Philadelphia.
Feb. 23. A severe snow storm.
Feb. 25. Fire at Columbia, S. C.
Feb. 26. Act of the Legislature for appointing commissioners in relation to supplying the City of New-York with pure and whole- some water.
Feb. 28. A grand complimentary benefit given at the Park Theatre, New-York, to William Dunlap, author, &c., at which $3194 50 were received, yielding a benefit of $2517 54.
March 1. The cholera breke out at Havana, and continued its ravages until the 13th of April-number of deaths, 6831.
March 1. Hurricane in Macon and Monticello, Geo., by which houses were unroofed, chimneys blown down, and several per- sons killed.
March 2. Unseasonably cold. The thermometer at Worcester, M., stood at 7 deg. below zero.
March 2. Act passed by Congress further to provide for the col- lection of duties on imports.
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1833. March 2. An acrimonious rencontre between Mr. Pointdexter and Mr. Webster, amicably adjusted in the Senate by the happy in- terposition of Mr. Clay.
March 2. A resolution passed the House of Rep. declaring its opinion that the government deposites may be safely continued in the Bank of the U. S. Yeas, 110-navs, 46.
March 2. Robert A. McAffee, of Ky., appointed Charge des Af- faires to New Grenada.
March 2. Leavitt Harris, of New Jersey, appointed Charge des Affaires to France.
March 3. Fire at Lockport, New-York.
March 3. Col. John Neilson, a soldier of the revolution, died at Brunswick, N. J., aged 88.
March 3. Act to modify the Tariff Law of July 14, 1832, (gene- rally known as Mr. Clay's compromise bill,) passed.
March 3. The Methodist Episcopal Meeting House at Square Pond, in the town of Ellington. Me., destroyed by fire.
March 4 Andrew Jackson having been re-elected President of the U. S. took the oaths of office. [7 p. 12 term. ]
March 6. Gen. William Wadsworth died at Geneseo. N. Y.
March 8. Jemima Stewart died at St. Davids, U. C., aged 109.
March 9. Mary Andrews died at Philadelphia, aged 107.
March 10. Capt. Samuel Tucker, of the revolutionary navy, died at Bremen, Me .. aged 86.
March 11. Second meeting of the South Carolina nullifying con- vention at Columbia, when, on the resignation of James Hamil- ton, jun., Robert Y. Hayne was elected President.
March 18. The nullifying convention of South Carolina adjourned sine die, having repealed the ordinance nullifying the tariff, and by a new ordinance nullifying the act of Congress of 2d March, 1838, " further to provide for the collection of duties on im- ports."
March 22. The draft drawn by the U. S. on the government of France for 4,000,000 francs, being the first instalment, under the treaty of indemnity, protested for non-acceptance.
March 23. The navigation of the Hudson open to Albany.
March 23. Lotteries abolished in Massachusetts.
March 26. Great freshet and rise of the Tombigbee River, Ala- bama, being 60 or 70 feet at Demopolis and other places.
March 26. Captain Back, of the British navy, arrived at New- York, on his way to the North Pole, in search of Capt. Ross.
March 28. Extraordinary freshet in the Southern States. At Cahawba, Al., the water undermined the Court House, which fell, and buried beneath it all the public records.
March 31. Fire at Washington, by which the public building, oc- cupied as the U. S. Treasury Department, was consumed, and many of the documents destroyed.
April 1. Commercial treaty between the U. S. and Cochin China, concluded at Bankok, by Edward Roberts and the Praklang.
April 6. Don Augustine Yturbide, Charge des Affaires from Moxico, presented to the President, and Don Jose Maria Mon- taya took leave."
April 6. Mrs. Mary A. Hamilton, of Bordentown, N. J., murdered by Joel Clough, a rejected lover.
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1833. April 8. Sir Charles R. Vaughan, the British Ambassador, pre- sented to the President upon his return from England.
April 8. Remarkable freshet at Augusta, Geo., the rise of the river being 323 feet above low water mark.
April 9. Imprisonment for debt abolished in Pennsylvania.
April 9. Affray at New-York, and assault by William Leggett, editor of the Evening Post, upon James Watson Webb, editor of the Courier and Enquirer.
April In an action of slander, brought in the Court, at New- York, by a widow lady, against Joseph W. Parkins, ex-sheriff of London, an award was made of $6,500 damages and costs.
April 10. Destructive freshet at Ellsworth, Me., by which injuries were sustained estimated at $65,000.
April 11. Violent tornado in Ohio, which, in its course of near 30 miles, prostrated houses, trees, and fences, and buried many persons, and quantities of cattle, in the ruins.
April 13. Fire at Portsmouth, O., by which one of the most va- luable squares in the place was consumed.
April 13. The President disapproved of the opinion expressed by the Naval Court of Enquiry, in the case of Rob. B. Randolph, and dismissed him from the service.
April 13. The Merchants and Pianters Bank of Augusta, Geo., stopped payment.
April 13. The Texas Convention agreed upon a form of Con- stitution.
April 14. Destructive fire at Cumberland, Md., by which 75 houses were destroyed, and loss estimated at $262,000.
April 16. Baron Krudener, Russian Ambassador, presented to the President on his return to the U. S.
April 16. Insurrection at Para, Brazil, in which nearly 100 Por- tuguese were killed.
April 18. The R. C. Cathedral at Baltimore entered by robbers, and articles abstracted worth 2 or 300 dollars.
April 19. Fire at Batavia, New-York.
April 20. Peter Jessaine, a coloured man, died at Boston, ag d 105.
April 22. The van of the army, (350 men,) under Gen. Filisola, destined to keep the Texans under control, arrived at Metamoras. April 23. Black Hawk, with the Prophet and other hostages, arrived at Washington.
April 24. A lot of ground in New-York, in Wall, corner of Wil- liam-streets, 29 by 42, was sold at auction for $40,750-it had been bought 16 years before for $16,500.
April 25. John Cowart, and others, convicted before the Court at Huntsville Cy., A., of having inflicted Slick Law upon Wm. Hall, by giving him fifty lashes, adjudged to pay $100.
April 23. Fire at New-York, by which the City Hotel was par- tially burnt.
April 25. Fire at Montreal, by which the British American Hotel was destroyed, and the lives of the inmates preserved by means of ladders from the windows.
April 26. A " Nott's stove" reached Mount St. Bernard Con- vent, sent from New-York, for the purpose of enabling its reli- gious inhabitants to burn a species of anthracite coal found in its vicinity.
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1833. April 27. An act passed by the Legislature of New-York, sub- jecting certain debts owing to non-residents to taxation
April 27. The Naragansist Bank at Wickford, R. I., entered in the night by false keys, and robbed of $5,671.
April 27. Fire at New-York, (Gold-street.)
April 29. Extraordinary heat for the season, the thermometer, in Vermont and L. Canada, standing at 85 degrees
April Insurrection at Peru, and deposition of the President, Gamarra.
April 29. An act passed by the Legislature of New-York pro- hibiting the transacting of business under fictitious firms.
April Statement of Gonzales, Mexican Secretary of State,
charging T. Grothea, Chargé des Affaires from the Nether- lands, with having abandoned his mission without the form of taking leave, and leaving debts unpaid to the amount of $30,000. April 30. Fire broke out in the stables of Kipp and Brown, New- York, by which, from 130 to 150 buildings, and 41 horses, were destroyed-loss estimated at $250.000.
May 2. Riot in New-York, by which Samuel L. Divine was killed by a party of Irish labourers.
May 6. Gross assault upon the President, by Robert B. Randolph, a dismissed Lieut. of the U. S. Navy.
May 6. A Convention, to amend the Constitution of Georgia, met at Milledgeville.
May. 7. Ceremony of laying the corner stone of a Monument to the memory of " MARY THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON," at Fredericksburgh, V., performed by the President.
May 8. Ephraim K. Avery, a Minister of the Methodist Church, arraigned at Providence, R. I., on a charge of murder of Sarah M. Cornell, and, after a trial that lasted 24 days, acquitted, contrary to the general opinion of his guilt.
May 10. Fire at Troy, New-York, by which six buildings were destroyed and several others injured.
May 11. President's proclamation announcing the ratification of the treaty with Russia.
May 11. Heavy rains commenced, and continued until the 15th, producing a great rise of the Hudson and other rivers, and fol- lowed by most destructive inundations in all the middle and eastern States.
May 12. Samuel S. Sayre and wife, of Morristown, N. J., barba- rously murdered by Antoine le Blanc, a Frenchman, employed as a gardener.
May 13. The Cherokee Council met at Red Hill, to consider the propriety of accepting the terms proposed by the U. S. ; but, after several days sitting, adjourned without coming to any de- cision.
May 14. The Georgia Convention adjourned sine die.
May 16. Edward Livingston, of New-York, appointed Ambas- sador to France.
May 16. Louis McLane, of Delaware, appointed Sec. of State, vice Livingston.
Mav 16. Win. J. Duane, of P., appointed Sec. of Treasury, vice McLane.
Mav 19. The steamboat Lioness, plying the Mississippi, sct on fire, by an explosion of gunpowder, whereby the honourable
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1833. Josiah S. Johnson, U. S. Senator, from Louisiana, and 14 others, were killed, and 14 persons wounded, and the vessel destroyed. May 23. Richard Skinner, ex-Governor of Vermont, died at Man- chester, Vermont,
May 25. John Rando ph, of Roanoke, Va., a distinguished States- man and orator, died at Philadelphia, aged 61.
May 26. Revolutionary movement at Morelia, in Mexico, under Gen. Arista, on pretence that the religion of the country was in danger.
May 26. The British steamboat, Queen Adelaide, from Malden to Niagara, burst her boiler, by which 1 man was killed and 2 wounded.
May 26. Fire at New-York, on Bedford-street, loss $20,000.
May 28. The steamboat Forester, plying the Mississippi, destroyed by fire a few miles below Clarkesville.
May The ship Tuscany, Capt. Littlefield, with a cargo of ice, destined for Calcutta, in the East Indies, sailed from Boston.
May 28. The cholera reappeared at Nashville.
May 29. The foundation stone of a Roman Catholic College, at Nyack, New-York, laid by the Right Rev. Bishop Dubois.
May 29. Durant, the æronaut, made an ascension from Castle Garden, New-York.
May 30. Attempted revolution in Mexico, and detention of Santa Anna by the rebels.
May 31. The trial of Joel Clough for the murder of Mary A. Hamilton, commenced at Mt. Holly, N. J., and continued until the 8th of June, when he was found guilty, and executed on the 26th of July.
June 1. Dreadful tornado in Illinois, by which houses were un- roofed, trees torn up by the roots, &c. &c., hailstones fell as large as hens eggs.
June 1. Oliver Wolcott, LL. D. ex-Secretary of the Treasury, ex-Governor of Connecticut, &c. &c., died at N. Y., aged 74.
June 2. The cholera appeared at Lexington, K.
June 2. Violent Tornado at Red Hook, New-York, and various other places.
June 3. The Rhadamanthus steamer, mounting 2 heavy 32 pounders, and 2 brass 6 pounders, arrived at the Island of Ja- maica, from England-her consumption of coal was 20 tons per day.
June 4. Fire at Albany, on State-street-loss $30,000.
June 5. Tue cholera reappeared in New Orleans.
June 6. The President commenced a tour of vititation to the northern States.
June 9, 10, and 11. Unusual cold weather-the ground in Vermont covered with snow-ice formed the eighth of an inch thick, and fire was found indispensable to comfort.
June 11. The Methodist Conference assembled at Boston, de- clared their perfect conviction of the innocence of Ephraim K. Avery, both as to the murder of Sarah M. Cornell, and as to any criminal intercourse.
June Edward Harford, Cashier of the Darien Bank at Macon, Geo., tried and convicted on a charge of embezzlement, and seń- tenced to the Penitentiary for 6 years.
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1833. Jane (12.) Benson Card died at Raleigh, N. C., aged 100.
June 13. Destructive tornado in Del. Cy., New-York, by which houses were unroofed and demolished, trees torn up by the roots and carried into the adjoining fields, and papers blown a distance of 16 miles.
June 14. Abraham Bogard, a pauper, died, in Maury Cy., Ten., aged 118.
June 14. Extraordinary rise of the Arkansas River, and destruc- tive overflow of its banks.
June 15. Robert J. Turnbull, a distinguished writer in favour of Nullification, died at Charleston, S. C.
June 16. Fire at Raleigh, N. C., on Fayettville-street, by which 5 or 6 buildings were destroyed.
June 16. Santa Anna re-entered Mexico, upon the retreat of Arista and the rebel party.
June 17. The U. S. Dry Dock, at Gosport, V. completed. [See Dec. 1, 1822 ]
June 17. The British steam ship, Royal William, from Quebec, 1 via Halifax, arrived at Boston.
June 18. The corner stone of a monument at Norwich, Ct., to the memory of Uncas, the celebrated Indian chief, laid by the Pre- sident.
June 20. A very sensible shock of an earthquake felt, and a breach made in the earth at Java, Genessee Cy., New-York.
June 20. Heavy rain and destructive freshet in N. J .- the Raritan was swollen to a height which inundated all the farms along its banks.
June 20. Col. Nicholas Fish, a soldier of the revolution, died at New-York, aged 75.
June 21. Three steamboats, lying at the wharf at Louisville, K., took fire and were destroyed.
June 22. William Thompson died in Baltimore Cy., aged 111.
June 22. A part of the deck of the steamboat Canada, while on her way to Quebec, with about 500 passengers, gave way, and precipitated 200 individuals on the under-deck, 2 of whom only were seriously injured.
June 24. 'The U. S. Dry Dock at Charlestown, M. completed, and the frigate Constitution taken in.
June 24. Capt. Isaac Chauncey appointed Commissioner of the Navy Board.
June 26. Visit of the President to Harvard University, upon which occasion the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him.
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