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11. Eleven cases of cholera, one fatal. Three deaths of previous cases. A marked change was now observable in the progress of the disease ....... A salmon weighing 12 pounds was caught in the river above Bath, said to be the first known to have been taken in the Hudson. It was served up at the Mansion House.
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12. Fire in Orange street ; burnt a shed ....... Rev. William W. Hal- loway was installed pastor of the Third Reformed Protestant Church, corner of Ferry and Green streets.
13. Twenty-six cases of cholera ; seven fatal, in last 48 hours ; and four deaths of cases previously reported. ..... . Johannah Durrie, widow of the late Horace Durrie, and daughter of the late Daniel Steele, of this city, died at Aurora, Cayuga county ....... The Albany Republican Artillery made a pleasure excursion to Hudson by steam boat.
14. Seven cases of cholera ; three fatal within the last 24 hours, with two deaths from cases of a former report.
15. Eleven cases of cholera, two fatal ..... Anna, wife of E. Wickes, Jr., died aged 29.
16. Cholera, eleven cases, two fatal; five deaths of previous cases. Mrs. Ralph Pratt died ....... Francis McCaler arrested for burglary in entering the house of Mr. Thorn in North Pearl street, and taking there- from six watches valued at $30.
17. Anniversary of the great fire of 1848. . .. . Seven cases of cholera, three fatal, and three deaths of previous cases. Abby, wife of John Townsend, and daughter of the late Ambrose Spencer, died, aged 60 ..... Alarm of fire proceeding from a gunsmith's shop in Beaver street.
18. Eight cases of cholera, two fatal; two deaths of previous cases. Samuel Gross died, aged 72 Harriet L., wife of John Dixon, died, aged 50. Isabella, wife of Neil McCotter died, aged 54 . .. . An agreement was effected between the Albany and Schoharie Plank Road Company, and the Turnpike Company, by which the two roads would be made to in- tersect, and arrangements.made to prosecute the plank road to its com- pletion.
20. Twelve cases of cholera in last forty-eight hours, three fatal; and two fatal of previous cases. Lucretia Shaver died, aged 83.
21. Eight new cases of cholera, three fatal; four cases fatal of those before reported. Nathaniel White died, of cholera, aged 57 ....... He came to this city from Hartford, Connecticut, in 1808, at the age of 16, and was apprenticed as a bookbinder to the late Mr. Daniel Steele. It is not an uninteresting fact that Mr. White began his apprenticeship in the same establishment with two prominent and highly valued citizens now living, Mr. Lemuel Steele and Mr. Isaac Newton, and one now deceased, the late Mr. O. R. Van Benthuysen. And he has remained in the same establishment, from that day to the present, without inter- ruption, a period of nearly forty-one years, under the successive firms which have conducted it with eminent and deserved success, viz: Messrs. D. Steele, Packard & Van Benthuysen, and C. Van Benthuysen.
22. Seven new cases of cholera were reported ; six at the hospital and one in the city-two deaths of those formerly reported. Mr. Leoline Jenkins, son of Lemuel Jenkins, Esq., of this city, died while on a visit to Greeneville, Greene county, N. Y.
23. One case of cholera reported fatal, and three deaths of cases for- merly reported. At 9 A. M. Isaac Whitney died, aged 34 ....... Severe rain most of the day; wind north east ....... Owen Tierney died, aged 35. Isaac L. Whitney died; aged 34. Elias Fink, formerly of Albany, died at Danube. Herkimer county, aged 42.
24. Ten new cases of cholera reported; no death. One of a former report proved fatal. At noon Caroline Enz died, aged 18. John Cahill died, aged Canal Receipts-Flour 4244 barrels .; ashes 62 do
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whiskey 24 do .; corn 11,149 bushels; oats 83 do .; wheat 2655 do .; peas 50 do .; butter 10,129 pounds; cheese 17,057; lard 150 do .; Wool 61,054 do; hams and bacon 3588 do.
25. Fifteen cases of cholera reported. Seven of which were fatal. Also two death's of cases previously reported. Almira, wife of Alexan- der Nichols, died. Mrs. Hennessy died, aged 60 Elizabeth, wife of Gerrit Yates, died, aged 74.
26. Sabbath-No cholera report; but the interments were numerous. Ann Moran died, aged 193 years. Mrs. Elizabeth Wagoner died.
27. Seventy six cases of cholera reported for the last forty eight hours; eleven of which were fatal. Charles Quinn died. Mrs. Rhoda Dean, formerly of Barnard, died at the residence of her son Amos Dean in this city, aged 80. Catherine, daughter of Peter Johnson, died, aged 19. Wife of Robert C. Russell died. Bridget O'Connor died, aged 39. Tivoli flour from new Genesee wheat sold 6.371; western 5.25 to 5.75 ; corn 58 cents; wheat 1.25 to $1.31.
23. Twenty cases of cholera reported since yesterday's report ; ten fatal. This high proportion of fatal cases is probably rightly ascribed to an indiscreet use of unripe fruits. William McLaughlin died, aged 55 ....... John G. Stewart, a colored barber, known as a man of consi- derable talent, and as the editor of several papers, was found dead in his chair, by a customer who entered his shop at the Little Basin.
29. The Jersey Blue, a three masted steam-propeller, Captain Daniel Van Buskirk, made her first appearance at the dock with a cargo of coal and iron. She is rated at 222 tons, was built at Newark, and made the trip from that city in less than twenty-four hours.
30. Twelve cases cholera ; eight fatal. One death of previous cases. . Michael Mc Auley died, aged 43. Aaron Williams died, aged 48. Mrs. Amelia Fosket, lately of this city, died at the residence of her son at Blue House, Cobleton District, S. C., aged 62 years.
31. Nineteen cases cholera; seven fatal. Robert H. Burgess died, aged 50. Mary Ann Williams died, aged 54. William Hillman died. · . Total number of cholera cases for August, 345; deaths 150; as otherwise reported 343 cases and 154 deaths ....... Fire at 124 Broad street ; a two story frame building, brick front, belonging to George Stanwix, which was burnt down, together with the two story frame buildings, Nos. 126 and 128, owned by Alexander Sampson, and occu- pied by Michael Barnot and Duncan Livingston .. ..... Almshouse phy- sician reported 211 cases for month of August, requiring aid ; 122 cured, 52 died, and 37 under treatment.
SEPTEMBER, 1849.
1. Six cases cholera ; two deaths. and three deaths of previous cases. .. Cornelius D. R. Lansing died, aged 63. . ..... Albany and Sand- lake Plank Road Company elected their officers for the ensuing year.
2. Julia L., wife of Dr. John Van Buren died. C. P. Allen died. Robert Malloy died. Thomas Wallace, formerly of this city, died at Detroit, aged 86.
3. Twenty-two new cases, thirteen deaths, for 48 hours last past ..... Louisa W., wife of Rev. T. R. Rawson, died. Benjamin Wilson died, aged 83. Neil McCotter died, aged 57. James B. Van Huysen died, aged 49 ... .. Burgesses Corps made an excursion to Saratoga Springs.
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. A man named Sheridan, a mason, fell from the scaffolding of a building, corner of Patroon and Ten Broeck streets, and was killed ; his age 56.
4. Three cases cholera, one death. Three deaths of previous cases. . Wiliam Sanford, son of Giles Sanford of this city, died at Astoria, N. Y., aged 26.
5. Six cases cholera, four deaths. The physicians were united in the opinion that the disease as an epidemic, had in a great measure left the city ; that where it now occurred it was invited by imprudence or by a pe- culiarly unfavorable locality ; wherefore the board determined to dis- continue their daily reports ....... Eleanor, widow of the late Milo Shaw died. Clara, wife of George H. Cogswell died, aged 31. John C. Brown died, aged 43.
6. The president, Zachary Taylor, arrived from the west, and took the steam boat for New York ..... Betsey. wife of Nicholas Brate died, aged 38 ....... The wholesale grocery store of G. N. Tarbell, on the dock, was entered by a burglar, who made an unsuccessful attempt at the safe, and retired bootless.
7. Ann Eliza, wife of Henry K. Duncan, died at West Point, aged 25. .. The store of G. A. Wolverton entered by burglars .. ..... The office of C. Cooley & Co., lumber dealers, was also broken open.
8. Hon. Henry Clay arrived in the city from Kinderhook, where he had been to visit Mr. Van Buren. He departed in the afternoon for the west.
9. An alarm of fire, caused by the burning of a chimney in Maiden lane.
10. John Slack, aged 66, formerly of Albany, died at Guilderland, of a fall from a hay mow.
11. Frederick A. Fargo, aged 33, was killed by being run over by the train at Rome ....... Nancy A., wife of John Henry, formerly of Albany, died in New York, aged 25 ....... The St. Charles refectory robbed of its sub-treasury by Jeremiah Buckley, who was arrested and confessed the deed.
12. Splendid display of aurora borealis towards midnight.
13. An immense kettle cast at Townsend's Furnace, for the purpose of manufacturing salt at Syracuse. Its dimensions were 9 feet across the brim, 9 feet deep. and 7 feet across the bottom ; weight 12 tons.
14. Amey Mott, late of this city, died at Battle Creek, Mich., in the 82d year of her age.
15. At 4 o'clock A. M., Catharine Tracey died .. .... A collection of $800 taken at St. John's Church in Ferry street, in aid of the erection of the Cathedral ; making over $5000 collected in that church altogether, for that purpose.
16. A fire was discovered about 9 A. M. in the loft of Tracy & Edson's liquor store, corner of Dean and Exchange streets, and extinguished with little damage ....... Jane Madison, wife of Jasper Latham and daughter of the late H. E. G. Mclaughlin, esquire, of Chelsea, Vt. died, aged 40. Ann Hardy, daughter of James Freeman died, aged 29. years. Timothy Ensign, late of the firm of Ensign & Thayer, in this city, died at Windsor, Con.
18. The Hose Depot, so long a source of contention as to where it should be located, was commenced on the site of the old hay market lots,
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corner of Plain and Philip streets ....... Mary, wife of George Geary died, aged 50. Sarah, wife of Andrew McKnight died ....... Baron Hecker, the German exiled patriot, came up the river in company with some 50 of his countrymen, en route for his farm on the banks of the Mississippi, in Illinois.
19. James Robinson died, aged 60. ...... The common council held a special meeting to settle the pier question. &c. Mr. O'Reilley was granted permission to erect telegraph posts within the bounds of the city under the supervision of the street committee. The chamberlin ordered to borrow $30.000 to meet the pier settlement ....... First trip on the Hudson river rail road with passenger cars from New York to Peekskill.
20. Fire was discovered about 94 p. M. in some combustible materials in the shoe shop of Cluett & Co., corner of State and Lodge streets ; ex- tinguished without damage .. ..... Mr. Ralph Clark, formerly of Albion, Wis., died, aged 25 .. ..... The Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural So- ciety's annual exhibition closed to-day.
21. Joseph Hogeboom died, aged 324 years. Elizabeth, daughter of the late Nathaniel R. Packard died, aged 19 ... .. Peter Cluett charged with and committed for arson in causing the fire last evening, corner of Lodge and State streets ....... The city and pier company closed their ne- gotiations and came to terms with regard to the Basin-the city paying the pier company $30,000-the latter to maintain the bridge.
22. An unusually strong south wind prevailed the whole day, accom- panied in the evening with rain ....... " On Saturday evening at seven- teen minutes past 1I o'clock, the Sun rode calmly and mildly over the autumnal equinox, and cast his golden anchor on the wintry coast of Autumn. But as yet, the vast ocean of air through which he sails, is glowing and transparent with the memory of the long Summer days that have passed over it, darting their rich beams to its very depths. Even as we write, however, the remembrance fades, like the sky's blanching souvenirs of sunset ; and in the gray distance the cold ghosts of Winter glare and wave their frozen wings, which creak on icy hinges-while in the silence of midnight a prophetic voice of wailing and desolation moans fitfully at the casement."-Tribune.
23. John Simons died .. . .. . A riot caused by some evil disposed per- sons throwing stones at a canal boat loaded with immigrants, occurred at the Little Basin ....... The accidental burning of a bed in house No. 16 Dallius street, caused an alarm of fire ... .. Ann K. Fitch, formerly of Greenwich, Conn., died.
24. Weather cloudy and cold ....... Edward Thomas died, aged 24. ... .. Premium articles at the late State Fair, of Albany manufacture, were exhibited in Kidd's Buildings ....... Joseph Curdy, a laborer, com- mitted suicide by cutting the arteries of both arms with a razor, and died sitting in a chair.
25. The body of John Donahue was found in the river at the foot of Bleecker street-supposed to have been drowned on Saturday night- age 40.
26. The A. R. Artillery annual target excursion-the cup awarded to W. A. Davis for the best shot, and the gold medal to James H. Chad- wick, for 2d best ....... The first quinquennial meeting of the State Normal graduates was held in the lecture room of the new building ..... John Crippin died, aged 28. Patrick Murray died in his 65th year. Hannah B., wife of Amos P. Palmer, died at Newton's Corners.
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27. Closing exercises of the Normal School took place to-day ...... The spike factory belonging to the Albany Nail Works, near Troy, and owned by Corning, Winslow & Co. of this city, was destroyed by fre, loss $40,000 above insurance ....... John York died, aged 26.
23. George W. Worcester, formerly of this city, died at the hospital, New York, aged 30.
29. The travel between this city and Albany, says the Troy Whig, is immense. The cars, which run hourly, carry a large number of pas- sengers : while the stages which rnn half-hourly, are crammed full nearly every trip. The number of persons going to and coming from Albany daily is probably in the neighborhood of two thousand. This would be equal to 60,833 per calendar month, and 730,000 a year ! This estimate does not, we think, fall short of the mark.
OCTOBER 1849.
1. A rain storm during the whole day refreshed the earth which had sustained a long drouth ....... The military encampment appointed to be held this day was postponed one week ... ... Henry Holmes, died. Casper Walter died.
2. Albany Medical College opened with a lecture by Dr. T. R. Beck. . Capt. Henry Terbush, of the steam boat A. L. Lawrence killed · by the machinery of the boat ....... James Carroll died, aged 57.
3 Working Men's State Convention assembled ....... The flags of shipping were displayed at half' mast on account of the death of Henry Terbush, captain of the steamer A. L. Lawrence .. ..... Henry A. New- man died, aged 23 ....... Attempt by burglars to enter the house of D. Cox, corner Green and Lydius streets.
4. Severe rain storm. ..... The O'Reily Telegraphery reported from Catskill, though fully connected to Newburgh .. ..... Nathan O. Banks, junior, of Putnam county, in going aboard the Isaac Newton walked off the plank and was drowned.
5. Moses Wallace died ....... Rain in the morning and at intervals through the day.
6. Rain again this morning. Telegraphery announced at 3 p. M. rain in New York and Buffalo ; very rainy in Albany ....... The union de. mocrats nominated county officers.
7. Still the rain fell. A strong northerly wind prevailed. The fourth day without sunshine or even at night star light ....... Patrick O'Brien died, aged 25.
8. Stars were visible at 5 A. M. At 6 rain again commenced, but cleared away at S A. M., when the sun for the first time in four days was visible ....... George Mossop, a native of Dublin, in connection with the Albany Museum died, aged 35 ....... T. D. Sprague, editor of the American Literary Magazine of this city, died at Andover, Conn., aged 30.
9. Frost and a thick fog overspread the city. The mail and other New York steamers were accordingly delayed till noon ....... The Sy- nod of Albany (O. S ) met in the First Presbyterian Church. The 25th regiment of N. Y. Militia. Col. Frisbie, went into encampment for three days ....... George H. Welch, of the firm of Adams and Welch died, aged 28. .
10. The Albany, Rensselaerville and Schoharie Plank Road Co. was
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Organized. Lansing Pruyn as president, David H. Cary, treasurer, and Charles M. Jenkins, secretary ....... Iron fence around the State Hall grounds completed.
11. A heavy and drenching rain which commenced on the evening of the 10th, continued till midnight .. .... Mrs. M. A. Record died, aged 44. Peter Wall died, aged 41 .. .A Multitude of Fishes .- Mr. T. Carman of this city, in company with another, took on Thursday night at the Troy dam, no less than 7000 fish, of the sucker tribe! They were all towed down in large floating cars, alive and kicking, and were in the market in good order. They were brought down by the freshet which has swollen the river. and in this instance no doubt, the pockets of enterprising and experienced fish rmen.
12. Mrs. Rebecca Bolles, wife of Jeremiah Wallace died, aged 30 years ....... The water in the river was over the docks in many places.
13. Thomas I. Morgan died, aged 38. Mary E. Hoffman, daughter of the late Levi S Hoffman, aged 14, died. Mrs. Kaesel died .. ..... An alarm of fire from a house in North Ferry street called out some fire companies, but did no other damage .. . Specimens of coal exhibited in the city, obtained by boring at Coeymans. Half a million.of dollars have been spent in this neighborhood in searching for coal, without any success, and the geologists have decided that there can be none.
14. The house of Edward Thies, in North Ferry street, entered by burglars and robbed of various articles.
15. Stephen C. Keeler died.
16. Elizabeth, widow of the late Robert Lottridge died, aged 65.
17 Plank road on the old Cherry Valley turnpike completed to Guil- derland.
18. Anti Rent Convention ; said to have been attended with small effect.
19. Barley Trade of Albany .-- The city of Albany is known far and wide as the barley market of the Union. At this market, five sixths of the barley received every year at tide-water from the barley growing counties of the west is bought and sold. The trade lasts about two months, and during that time a very brisk business is done. As an evidence of the increasing demand for this article, we would mention that in 1844 the whole quantity of barley received at tide water from the canals did not exceed 820,000 bushels, while the quantity of the new crop of the present year which had reached tide-water on the 22d inst., was 650,101 bushels. Of this new crop, 498,000 bushels have been re- ported as sold here, in the daily reports of the Argus. This is about five-sixths of the whole receipts, and if to this we add the lots which were sold here to arrive and which do not enter into the reports of the daily sales, the proportion of sales to receipts is more than five- sixths. The sales here may be thus classified : Two rowed barley, 252,400 bush- els ; four rowed, 201,900 ; mixed, 43,700. Total, 498,000 bushels.
20. Peter Donelly, a member of the Albany Artillery died . ..... A company of nearly 300 Portuguese refugees under the charge of the American and Foreign Christian Union, arrived from New York in the steam boat, to spend the Sabbath, on their way to Illinois.
21. Christopher Joselyn alias Lillie was killed in South Broadway, near the steam boat landing ....... Jane Moore, wife of M. D. Moore, died at East Albany, aged 35. David B. Douglass, LL. D. died at Ge-
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neva College, where he was professor of mathematics and natural phi- losophy ; he laid out the grounds of the Albany Rural Cemetery.
22. Griffin's eating house entered by burglars and robbed of money and segars.
23. John Martin died, aged 32 ....... Great storm of wind and rain with heavy thunder, in the evening, destroying the circus tent and doing other damage.
24. Robert C. Russell died, aged 51.
25. The common conncil resolved to submit the water question to the people at the ballot box, where they might decide which of the projects for supplying the city they would choose, or decline, to have water ..... Mary Elizabeth Norton died, aged 18. Anna Layton died, aged 16. Sartelle Prentice died, aged 83. David Sheridan died, aged 22, Ro- sanna McDonald died, aged 19.
26. Dense fog, detaining the steam boats from New York till nearly 11 o'clock A. M.
27. Delia Adams, wife of Sherman Croswell died, aged 39. Anna Eliza, wife of William B. Winne died, aged 37.'
29. Peter Wendell, M. D., died, aged 64. He was the longest resi- dent practitioner of medicine in the city, and next to Dr. Bay the oldest. Dr. Wendell was a native of this city-born in 1786. He received the best education that the city afforded, and at the usual time entered the office of the late Dr. Wm. McLellan, then one of the principal physi- cians here During his course of study, he attended two courses of lec- tures at the University of Pennsylvania. On his return he commenced the practice of medicine. This was in 1807, and we need scarcely add how extensive and lucrative this proved during the long period of 42 years .* Dr. Wendell received the honorary degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania some 15 years or more after he had attended it as a student. In 1823, he was chosen by the legislature a regent of the university, of which body he became chancellor in 1842, and to which last office he has since been annually reappointed ... Great storm in the evening. The wind blew a hurricane, and the rain fell in torrents. The streets descending from the hill became rivers, washing down great quantities of stones, clay and sand ; the sewers in some instances became clogged, and the turbid streams overflowing the side walks, poured a torrent into the basements. The telegraph wires were blown down in all directions. The Isaac Newton gallantly breasted the storm, and reached her landing place at the usual hour. The tide in the river was higher than had been known for several years .. . Statement of the amount of freight started from the depot at East Al- bany :- 10,0532 barrels of flour : 942 barrels of apples ; 1,405 boxes of cheese ; 75 bales of wool; 1,159 firkins of butter ; 958 barrels of beef. Eight trains, with 361 cars, were sent east ; the receipts for freight were $5,423.
30. Margaret Matilda, wife of Amasa Bates died, aged 30.
31. Ellen, wife of Smith T. Van Buren, and youngest daughter of the late Wm. James died. aged 27. Mary, wife of John Griffin died, aged 62. Henry Blake died, aged 70. . . .... A slight fall of snow in the morn. ing ....... The aggregate of all assessments approved and confirmed during the year to this date was $66,482 50; on account of which there has been received during the same time $36,952 93, leaving a balance of $29,529.51 due the city ...... The earnings of the Albany and Schenec-
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tady rail road for the month of October were $19,276 ; same time last year, $14,732; excess in 1849, (equal to 31 per cent.) $4,544. The re- ceipts of this road will reach $183,000 to $185,000 against $175,000 in 1848.
NOVEMBER, 1849.
1. Ice made in the open cisterns of the city for the first time this sea- son, which had thus far been remarkably free from frosts .. ..... Mrs. Amanda Emerson died, aged 52 .. Michal Querk, an Irish laborer, crushed to death by a canal boat.
2. There are five flouring mills in successful operation in or near this city, four of them are worked by water and one by steam power. They have each four run of stones, and consume annually about 400,000 bushels of wheat. The millers supply themselves in a great measure with grain from the market, and these mills are now turning out a goodly quantity of flour which forms a small addition to our daily supply. Mr. C. N. Bement, has also a small steam mill in Hudson street, for flour- ing various kinds of grain for family use.
3. Eliza, wife of G. G. Vandenburgh of this city, died at Burdett, Tompkins co., aged 60.
4. A fire on the corner of Broad and Nucella streets consumed two buildings, one of them owned and occupied by Mr. Thomas Fisher, who some time since lost his eye sight at a fire in Green street, since which he had been allowed the privilege of selling coffee and cakes from a wagon in State street for a subsistence. The fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary. While the fire was at its height, and Mr. Fisher and his family had escaped from the house, and the excitement some- what subsided, he made known to several friends that a trunk, which was on the first floor under his bed, contained, besides valuable papers, over $100 in money. Mr. William Bradt, a courageous and daring young man, volunteered to attempt its rescue, and the next moment was in the room. The bed and a portion of the floor was on fire, and the room filled with smoke. The young man secured the trunk, but was so near suffocated as to be unable to regain the street with it, and was drawn from the building with the trunk in his arms, by one of the hooks of a hook and ladder company, completely exhausted. His hands, eye- brows and clothes were much singed. An offer from Mr. Fisher of $100 as a reward for his intrepidity, was promptly declined by him.
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